Dale E. Graff

This was an interesting read about the government's project Stargate, which investigated the concept of remote viewing, and other psychic (psi) phenomena that the author has experienced and studied. Though a little dry at times (this coming from someone who almost never reads non-fiction for fun), most of the book is spent telling anecdotes about different successful experiments and experiences with psi phenomena. I will say that I was a little disappointed by how easily everyone described in this book seemed to excel on their first try. About halfway through reading this, I tried a psi dreaming experiment of my own and came nowhere near my target with any of the many components of my dream. Additionally, most of what is reported in this book is personal stories, which are difficult to back up by doing further research. I do want to believe in what he is writing, although I did do a quick google search of Project Stargate and the Wikipedia article indicated suspicions of falsified results. I like to believe the author would have no motivation to write this book if he were simply filling it with falsified stories, but I also learned from my reading of the book Sybil last year that not all books presented as non-fiction actually offer realistic portrayals of events. Therefore, I must take this with a grain of salt, though I do hope that the described phenomena are real and that I may have better luck in experiencing them someday.… (altro)