Sheila Ostrander, Lynn Schroeder - Psychic Disc... Today
Sheila nodded, turning over a grainy photograph of a woman sitting in a chair, her head surrounded by a complex halo of metal sensors. "And the Kirlian effect. Semyon Kirlian and his wife Valentina. Capturing the glowing energy fields around living things on photographic plates. The West thinks a leaf is just a leaf. The Soviets are proving that every living thing radiates a bio-plasmic field."
Sheila tapped a translated file from a laboratory in Leningrad. "But this is what terrifies me. This is what the CIA is going to ignore until it's too late. The research into long-distance telepathic hypnosis. They aren't just trying to read minds, Lynn. They are trying to control them from thousands of miles away." Sheila Ostrander, Lynn Schroeder - Psychic Disc...
Sheila looked at the mountain of papers. It was a monumental task. They would have to synthesize quantum physics, biology, psychology, and the raw, unrefined data of psychic testing into a narrative that the public could understand and that scientists couldn't easily dismiss. Sheila nodded, turning over a grainy photograph of
Lynn stopped pacing and leaned over the table. "They call it 'psychotronics.' It sounds like science fiction, but the data is right there. They aren't treating ESP like a parlor trick or a spiritualist séance. They are treating it like physics." Capturing the glowing energy fields around living things
"We have to write the book," Lynn said firmly, sitting down opposite Sheila. "Not a sensationalized tabloid piece, but a serious, documented account of what we saw. We lay out the science. We name the researchers. We show the West that while we are building bigger missiles, the East is unlocking the untapped power of the human brain."
It had started as a simple, albeit ambitious, journalistic endeavor. Sheila and Lynn, two independent American writers with a keen interest in the fringe sciences, had decided to venture behind the Iron Curtain. At a time when Western academia laughed off the concept of psychic phenomena as superstitious nonsense, rumors suggested that the Soviet Union was pouring millions of rubles into top-secret parapsychological research.
