Sheila Ostrander, Lynn Schroeder - Psychic Disc... -

Spurred directly by the revelations in Sheila and Lynn's book, the US government quietly initiated its own top-secret research programs. This frantic catch-up effort would eventually evolve into the famous Stargate Project, where the military spent decades researching remote viewing and psychic espionage.

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. 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. Spurred directly by the revelations in Sheila and

The small, dimly lit apartment in New York City was thick with the scent of strong black tea and cigarette smoke. It was the autumn of 1968, and the world outside was fractured by political unrest, student protests, and the freezing winds of the Cold War. But inside this room, Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder were focused on a different kind of battlefield—one that existed entirely within the human mind. Sheila and Lynn, two independent American writers with