THE WORLD OF TED SERIOS - "THOUGHTOGRAPHIC" STUDIES OF AN EXTRAORDINARY MIND

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THE WORLD OF TED SERIOS is a unique document. . . . It represents the most significant contribution to our knowledge of mental process since Freuds discovery of psychoanalysis and its revolutionary implications call for a searching reexamination of the conceptual foundations of science." - MARIE COLEMAN NELSON Editor The Psychoanalytic Review. ... A doctors own brilliant report on an exciting series of experiments in psychical phenomenathe subject an "unemployed Chicago bellhop" with the uncanny ability to project his mental images directly onto photographic lm. . . With over 140 illustrations 80 of them the most remarkable pictures ever publishedTed Serioss own mental projections on lm. - When the reports rst reached him from Chicago Dr. Eisenbud well-known psychiatrist and psychoanalyst was decidedly skeptical. But for twenty-ve years he had been interested in psi phenomena and extrasensory as it might be applied to the study of human behavior and nally there was the evidence of his own eyes. In a normally lighted Chicago hotel room with two other witnesses present he watched Ted Serios holding a freshly loaded Polaroid Land camera pointed toward himself (Dr. Eisenbud had supplied both lm and camera) stare intently into the lens trip the shutter and produce a distinguishable photograph of a building with the illuminated sign STEVENS over the marquee. Thereafter Ted Serios moved to Denver and there began with Dr. Eisenbud two years of well-controlled experimentation. From the rst not only was every safeguard taken against the possibility of deception conscious or unconscious but also the participation of the scientic community of that university city was actively sought. In the end over twenty-ve doctors of science-medicine physics chemistry psychology for example-signed statements attesting to the validity of the experiments in which they took ...