Jeffrey Mishlove - The PK Man: A True Story of Mind Over Matter

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Known since 1986 to millions of viewers as the thoughtful, inquiring host of Thinking Allowed, a talk show aired on national public television every week, Jeffrey Mishlove, Ph.D., has earned the reputation as a deep and authentic investigator of health, spirituality, and parapsychology. Mishlove is director of the Intuition Network, an organization of thousands of professionals interested in cultivating and applying intuitive skills. The first American to receive a Ph.D. in parapsychology from a major university, he is the author of the classic Roots of Consciousness, which recounts the history of parapsychology and served as the basis for his Psi Development Systems, a textbook which teaches ways of developing extrasensory abilities. Based in San Rafael, California, Mishlove serves as president of the Intuition Network. He welcomes visitors to his website: www.mishlove.com.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thanks, of course, are due to Ted Owens (1920-1987), the UFO Prophet and PK Man, who gladly provided material needed to complete this study. Special thanks are due to D. Scott Rogo (1950-1990) who collaborated with me in 1979 on an unpublished manuscript called Earth's Ambassador, about the Ted Owens case. The present volume represents a revision and further digestion of that original workand many of Scott Rogo's thoughts appear in this book. Thanks are due to Jack and Winifred Rogo for thier assistance and permission regarding the 1979 manuscript.

Thanks are also extended to those researchers who supplied their files on the Owens case. These include Dr. Leo Sprinkle of the University of Wyoming; Dr. Harold Puthoff and Mr. Russell Targ of the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) International in Menlo Park, California; Dr. Berthold Schwarz; and Mr. Wayne Grover. I am particularly indebted to those researchers who contributed to a special February 1978 meeting about Ted Owens, including Dr. Elizabeth Rauscher, Dr. J. Allen Hynek, and Dr. James Harder and to the Washington Research Center in San Francisco that sponsored this meeting.

Although the material incorporated into this volume has been collated from the files of several researchers and writers, full responsibility for the views and data rest with the author. These views do not reflect those of the researchers whose work is cited. Although Mr. Owens read through the 1979 manuscript for factual accuracy, this does not mean that he endorsed either the conclusions or evaluations.

Finally, I would like to thank and acknowledge all of the individuals who have helped me with the revision of the various manuscripts of this book, including my beloved wife Janelle M. Barlow, Dean Brown, Jim Driscoll, Uri Geller, James Harder, Obadiah Harris, Jean Houston, John Mack, Ted Mann, Robert Masters, Michael Miley, Edgar Mitchell, Henry Monteith, James Mullaney, Brian O'Leary, Judith Orloff, Lee Pulos, Robert Reussig, John Rossner, Stephen Roulac, Jack Sarfatti, Stephan Schwartz, Lars Spivock, Russell Targ and Marcello Truzzi.

Physicist Saul-Paul Sirag deserves special acknowledgment for writing the section tided A Brief History of Hyperspace that appears in .

A five-hour conversatoin with Kevin Ryerson in January 1998 inspired me to revise the dusty manuscript originally written two decades earlier.

Special thanks are also due to my agent, Rita Rosenkranz, and my editor, Richard Leviton, who both played important roles in midwifing the long-delayed birth of this book.

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