Foreword by Mikita Brottman 1
Introduction 5
- Psi Phenomena in Western Literature
One • Hamlet: The Tragedy of a Parapsychologist 13
Two • Psi Phenomena and Tolstoy 23
Three • E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India: Psi, Culture and Causality 35
Four • G.K. Chesterton and Ingmar Bergman: Artists of Magic and Psi Whose Intimations Proved Too Real 43
Five • Telepathy and Psychic Connections in James Joyce’s Ulysses: A Window into the Psychoanalyst’s World 60
- Psi Phenomena and Psychoanalysis
Six • Psi and Psychoanalysis I: Rescuing Sisyphus 73
Seven • Psi and Psychoanalysis II: Rescuing Sisyphus Today 133
III. Psi Phenomena and Culture
Eight • The Navajo Hand Trembler: Multiple Roles of the Psychic in Traditional Navajo Society 163
Nine • Magic and Psi: Some Speculations on Their Relationship 175
Ten • Western Law and Parapsychology 192
Conclusion 201
Afterword by Michael Prescott 203
Appendix A: Jule Eisenbud: Explorer 209
Appendix B: Correspondence with Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer 213
Appendix C: A Cloak and Dagger Psi Mystery Story 218
Glossary 221
Index 225