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This book is a collection of various articles written over the past twenty years, mainly for small circulation specialist journals. The main purpose of the book is to alert fellow psychiatrists and psychotherapists to the possible presence of psi-related experiences in their practice, but it is unlikely to win any converts from amongst those sceptical of either psi, or the postulates of psychoanalysis. Those with an open mind, however, will second Dr Schwarz's argument in many of the papers "that one does not need to ask the government for largess , nor travel to the far corners of the Earth to study psi, for the best examples are usually found in one 's own back-yard", and his plea for an open-minded examination of all claims, however bizarre.
For the non-specialist, chapter three, which provides examples of telepathy by the doctor's infant daughter, should be of the most interest. Your reviewer found the first chapter - a study of fundamentalist sects engaged in snake-handling , fire mastery and strychnine drinking , the most interesting. Schwarz sees these feats as symbolic means by which people living in a precarious environment are able to proclaim their dominion over nature, both external and internal. – Peter Rogerson, from Magonia 6, 1981
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