Mental Radio
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| Author | Upton Sinclair |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject(s) | Psychic research |
| Genre(s) | Nonfiction |
| Publisher | T. Werner Laurie |
| Released | 1930 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| ISBN | ASBN:B00085S428 |
Mental Radio: Does it work, and how? (1930) was written by the American author Upton Sinclair. This book documents the efforts of Sinclair to explain the claimed psychic abilities of Mary Craig Kimbrough, his wife, after much research and more than 300 experiments.
The preface was written by Albert Einstein who praised Sinclair's observation and writing abilities as well as good faith and reliability. Einstein writes "The results of the telepathic experiments carefully and plainly set forth in this book stand surely beyond that which a nature investigator holds to be thinkable. On the other hand, it is out of the question in the case of so conscientious an observer and writer as Upton Sinclair that he is carrying on a conscious deception of the reading world; his good faith and dependability are not to be doubted." William McDougall was influenced by the book to establish the parapsychology department at Duke University.
Dr. Walter Prince of the Boston Society for Psychical Research conducted an independent analysis of the results in 1932. He reanalyzed the data, seeing if there were other ways to reinterpret the findings that more easily fit into current accepted theories of consciousness. He was able to demonstrate that chance, educated guessing, or conscious or subconscious fraud were not sufficient in explaining the data. He asserted that telepathy had been demonstrated most in the data between Mr and Mrs Upton Sinclair, the author and his wife.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Fads and Fallacies: In the Name of Science by Martin Gardner, New American Library, 1986
Radin, D. (1997). The conscious universe. NYC: HarperCollins Publishers.
