An End to Upside Down Thinking: Dispelling the Myth That the Brain Produces Consciousness, and the Implications for Everyday Life

Dr. Utts has shown that the statistical evidence for psychic phenomena is “much stronger” than the evidence that aspirin prevents heart attacks31 [emphasis in original].

He was able to see Jupiter “with his mind”…while in California?! How is that possible? Can anyone else do this?

Researchers often report that remote viewers go into a meditative trance while remote viewing. Taken in the context of chapter 2, this might make sense: If, in the trance, they are reducing brain activity through a calming of the mind, perhaps they are eliminating noise that ordinarily prevents access to the broader stream.

My education, as well as the influence of the media, caused me to be skeptical about all claims involving the paranormal, psychics, and other unconventional phenomena. The media had presented all these topics as being due to hoaxes and hallucinations. But as I investigated more deeply, I was amazed at how many top-quality researchers, M.D.s and Ph.

revolution in physics if it were true. It meant a new theory was needed. I followed this up with further research to verify what I had heard. I discovered that there were published papers on this subject, in fact there was a great deal of confirming research, but I had never known to look for it before. Probably I wouldn’t have believed it before.

information, and yet it violated everything I had been taught about physics. The experiments had been conducted in a heavily shielded room.…There was no known force which could explain these experiments. Even more disturbing was the way it was done. The remote viewer did not simply receive a signal from someone outside. He described the experiment

The scientists telling me this were people I knew and respected. This was not some rumor they were passing on. It was a project they had direct knowledge of. I could not dismiss this

riding in a car with a couple of scientists from Washington, D.C. They were talking about something I had never heard of before. It was called “remote viewing.” They told me about a man who could go into a trance in a shielded room, and send his mind out into the world. They mentioned experiments where he could look into locked rooms, peer into loc

Chaos theory was uncovered by meteorologist Edward Lorenz in 1961. While predicting weather patterns, he rounded one of the numbers in his mathematical equations from 0.506127 to 0.506. No big deal, right? The numbers are close enough. However, simply by rounding the number by a tiny amount, the weather predictions his equations yielded were wildly