A World in a Grain of Sand: The Clairvoyance of Stefan Ossowiecki.(Book review)

From: The Journal of Parapsychology | Date: March 22, 2005| Author: Alvarado, Carlos S. | Copyright information

A WORLD IN A GRAIN OF SAND: THE CLAIRVOYANCE OF STEFAN OSSOWIECKI by Mary Rose Barrington, Ian Stevenson, and Zofia Weaver. Jefferson, NC, and London: McFarland, 2005. Pp. 189, $39.95. ISBN 0-7864-2112-6.

Writing in the late 1920s, Nobel Prize winner and physiologist Charles Richet said that experiments with a Polish psychic convinced him there was no doubt about the existence of the sixth sense. In fact, he argued that even if those experiments were the only ones availab...

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