MIND over MATTER

Walter and Mary Jo Uphoff

ISBN 0-86140-062-3

CONTENTS

Foreword.

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

I Introduction.

II Alan Neuman Films Masuaki.

Croiset locates a missing body

Nengraphy experiments

NBC-TV program which includes Masuaki Kiyota

Masuaki's mysterious disappearance.

III Continuing Correspondence

Excerpts from Masuaki's and Yoshinori Kiyota's letters

The guide Zenefu

The National Enquirer 's story on Masuaki

Masuaki's sketches and diagrams for reaching the Kiyota home

Twisted spoons and metal.

IV Tests with Twisted Spoons.

Torque tests at the University of Wisconsin

Comparisons of paranormally and mechanically twisted spoons

Opinions from L. J. Venne at ESCO Steel Co.

The "Geller effect" article in Metals and Materials

Bent files and twisted bimetal strips.

V Six Days in Tokyo

Mary Jo's diary

A Northwest-Orient Airlines' fork falls apart

Masuaki projects images on Polaroid and movie film

A double Statue of Liberty

27 seconds of images on super-8 movie film.

VI The Nippon TV Documentary

Excerpts from commentary

Dr. M. Suzuki and H. Yamaguchi conduct experiments

Masuaki influences film in camera box without a lens

Electrical waves discovered to emanate from brain

Fluorescent light produced by Hiroto Yamashita.

VII Conversations with Prof. Hasted in London

Young psychic twists paper clips inside a glass sphere

Symbolism role in PK

Strong psychics influence electrical components, resistors, diodes, magnetic tapes, bits of wire, etc.

VIII Masuaki and Hiroto Invited to the US.

Our Japanese "grandsons"

Communicating without an interpreter

The boys' families

Did "mind waves" open a garage door?

At the Mayo Clinic

Prof. Hasted comes to U.S. for workshops

Masuaki influences a whole film pack at one time

The "statistically impossible" occurs

Skepticism stimulates Masuaki's PK

Twisted cutlery galore

Experiments at Washington Research Center in San Francisco

W. E. Cox impressed with boys' abilities

Comments on phenomenology and PK by Jean Millay.

IX The Media and Psychic Phenomena

Japan press gives extensive coverage

National Enquirer carries feature on Masuaki

Feature stories in Capital Times and Wisconsin State Journal

Pressures and biases interfere with accurate reporting

The media in general

Stories about Uri Geller.

X Those Who Say It's All Trickery

The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal

Paul Kurtz says, "spoon bending is a hoax"

The Skeptical Inquirer questions Masuaki's PK abilities

Accusations of fakery and a reply

Curtis Fuller comments on the "debunkers."

XI Additional Documentation and Evidence

Excerpts from Tomorrow's Children-Today

Dr. Robert Cantor's observations about metal-bending PK children

Sasaki's, Miyauchi's and Fukuda's experiments in Japan.

XII Other Investigators and Psychics.

Psychics: Geller, Manning, Jean-Pierre Girard, Silvio, Serios, the Italian "Gellerini," Nina Kulagina, Alla Vinogradova

Some investigators in ten countries.

XIII Implications for Society.

Views of Dr. Hans Bender, Uri Geller, Marshall Gilula, M.D., Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., Fred Mansbridge, M. J. Martin, M.D., Dr. Tsutomu Miyauchi, Jeffrey Mishlove, Ph.D., Dr. med. Hans Naegeli, Prof. Werner Schiebeler, Prof. Alex Schneider, Mark G. Shafer, Prof. Mulford Q. Sibley, Prof. Alfred Stelter and Prof. William Tiller

Report states that Manning influenced cancer cells by PK

Implications for war and peace

Pentagon researches psychic "defense"

U.S. military officers with cameras reported at Kiyota experiments in Tokyo.

Appendix

Larissa Vilenskaya: "PK in the U.S.S.R."

W. E. Cox: Report on Kiyota and Yamashita.

Mark G. Shafer: "Paranormal Metal Bending"

Psychic News (June 21, 1980) "I Don't Believe in Psychics Anymore" (Prof. John Taylor).

Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal: Objectives, Fellows and Consultants.

J. B. Hasted and D. Robertson: "Paranormal Action in Metal and Its Surroundings.

Barbara Ivanova: "Cosmic Irradiations (in mass healing processes)".

Suggested Reading.

Index.


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