UNBELIEVABLE: INVESTIGATIONS INTO GHOSTS, POLTERGEISTS, TELEPATHY, AND OTHER UNSEEN PHENOMENA, FROM THE DUKE PARAPSYCHOLOGY LABORATORY

摘要

The celebrity of the parapsychology laboratory at Duke made it the natural place for perplexed or alarmed observers of paranormal activities to seek elucidation and help; Rhine's major financial backers were more interested in the demonstration of postmortem survival than in experimental ESP; finally, the extension of study at Duke to spontaneous cases brought some of the work of the laboratory into liaison with paranormal activities. [...] cultural luminaries such as Aldous Huxley and Timothy Leary sought out Rhine for reasons other than the statistical success of his ESP experiments.