Extraordinary Knowing by Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer

"Science, Skepticism, and the Inexplicable Powers of the Human Mind" is the subtitle of this first person account of a highly credentialed (Harvard, Stanford) psychotherapist whose view of reality was upset, midlife, by a freaky experience with a dowser. Her response was a skeptical and intellectual inquiry into psychic phenomena in the course of which she became acquainted with Freud's writings on telepathy, CIA experiments with remote viewing, cutting-edge neuroscience, and quantum mechanics. Mayer focuses on why we humans want to reject the reality of these phenomena which are experienced frequently enough to warrant serious consideration. Mostly she chalks it up to our fear of losing the firmly logical and rational grasp of reality provided by a certain portion of our brains.