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    This document provides a summary of the book "Psi Development Systems" by Jeffrey Mishlove. It summarizes that the book reviews methods for developing psychic abilities described in spiritual traditions and contemporary systems. It analyzes factors underlying different approaches to psi development based on Mishlove's PhD dissertation. The reviewer recommends the book as a stimulating work for parapsychologists and those interested in psi phenomena like telepathy and psychokinesis.

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    This document provides a summary of the book "Psi Development Systems" by Jeffrey Mishlove. It summarizes that the book reviews methods for developing psychic abilities described in spiritual traditions and contemporary systems. It analyzes factors underlying different approaches to psi development based on Mishlove's PhD dissertation. The reviewer recommends the book as a stimulating work for parapsychologists and those interested in psi phenomena like telepathy and psychokinesis.

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    PSI DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS

    Jeffrey Mishlove, Psi Development Systems.


    Jefferson, North Carolina: i4cF'arland & Co., 1983.

    Those interested in psi will be fascinated by a book that has


    just appeared, "Psi Development S y ~ t e m s ,by~ Jeffrey Mishlove.
    It is not aimed at a popular audience, so I doubt that it will
    appear in your local bookstore, but it is well worth ordering.
    The book is based on Mishlovels PhD dissertation at the
    University of California, Berkeley. As one of Mishlovels
    committee members, I watched the dissertation develop through
    several stages. You would not know the book is based on a
    dissertation from its style, however. ESishlove knows how to
    write!
    Modern parapsychology knows it has phenomena like telepathy
    and psychokinesis to investigate, but it can't investigate them
    very efficiently: Psi manifests too unreliably and weakly in
    the laboratory. Mishlove recognized that people have been trying
    to produce "magicalll (psi) effects strongly and reliably all
    e through history. The vast mass of writings they have produced
    were not written from a scientific point of view, and probably
    contain a lot of just plain nonsense and/or material now
    explainable in more conventional ways, but there may be a lot of
    useful leads in it for developing psychic abilities. The book is
    thus a major source of fascinating possibilities. I use it for
    reference, and it's also good reading.
    After an introductory section outlining psi and his approach
    to it, l+lishlove reviews both the teachings of major spiritual
    traditions about psi developnent (shamanisn, divination, yoga,
    Buddhism, Sufism, Judaism, and ceremonial magic) and sone two
    dozen more contemporary systems, such as spiritualism, Theosophy,
    the Rosicrucian Order, Scientology, Sylva Mind Control,
    Transcendental Meditation, and Annette Martin training. Many of
    the ideas reviewed in this section will be new and stimulating to
    contemporary parapsychologists. Sixty pages are devoted to
    reviewing modern scientific literature on psi developnent, and
    then another 50 pages to a systematic analysis of important
    factors underlying all of the approaches. The review of the
    scientific literature includes assessment of the quantitativ~
    stren~th of psi results, rather than just their statistical
    significance, which makes it especially useful. I don't agree
    with all of Mishlovels conclusions, but I think he has produced a
    very stimulating work that I recommend to all serious
    parapsychologists, as well as to anyone interested in psi.
    Charles T. Tart
    Department of Psychology
    University of California
    Davis, CA 95616

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