Sally Rhine Feather - The Gift: The Extraordinary Experiences of Ordinary People

Praise for

THE GIFT

ESP, the Extraordinary Experiences of Ordinary People

The authors take us through some amazing anecdotal evidence of ESP in this very readable account.

Fred Alan Wolf, PhD, American Book Awardwinning
author of Taking the Quantum Leap and
Parallel Universes: The Search for Other Worlds

The Gift is a collection of insights and experiences that we all may experience, but which are not often shared with others.

John Edward, author of the New York Times bestseller
Crossing Over and One Last Time: A Psychic Medium
Speaks to Those We Have Loved and Lost

The Gift speaks directly to the needs of millions of people who are concerned with the personal meaning of their ESP experiences.

Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, President of Intuition Network
and author of The PK Man

The Gift presents an astounding array of spontaneous psychic experiences that stretch the human definition of reality. It should be read by anyone interested in understanding the limits of the human mind and consciousness.

Joe McMoneagle, author of The Stargate Chronicles:
Memoirs of a Psychic Spy

In my work with couples, I am very familiar with partners reporting connection and communication that seems outside the bounds of the normal transmission of information. ESP offers an explanation. The Gift is clearly written, with credible examples and solid research. Anyone interested in the subject will be well informed, and anyone skeptical of ESP will be challenged to disprove the phenomena.

Harville Hendrix, PhD, author of the New York Times
bestseller Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples

A wonderful book, filled with fascinating stories from the worlds largest collection of ESP cases.

Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D., author of Dogs That Know
When Their Owners Are Coming Home and Other
Unexplained Powers of Animals
and The Sense of Being Stared At

A great readsuspense, drama, a sense of wonder, and any number of surprises. Youll find no better introduction to the world of ESP.

Stanley Krippner, Ph.D, co-editor of Varieties of
Anomalous Experience: Examining the Scientific Evidence

The Gift is an extraordinary book that brings together many different kinds of ESP experiences with numerous case histories from ordinary people.... A great resource for those interested in paranormal experiences.

The International Association for Near-Death Studies
(IANDS)

The Gift is truly a gift to all of us, illuminating an extraordinary psychological ability we all share.

C. Norman Shealy, MD, Founder,
American Holistic Medical Association

The greatest mystery in the universe is human consciousness, and these extraordinary human experiences reveal the reach of the human mind is awesome indeed. Highly recommended.

Larry Dossey, MD, New York Times bestselling author
of Reinventing Medicine

A fascinating and readable book, reminding us in this age of rampant materialism and consumerism that our greatest treasure is not things but the human mind.

Charles Tart, PhD, author
of Altered States of Consciousness

Readers will be riveted by the amazing, true accounts of ESP found in these pages.

Leslie Rule, author of Ghosts Among Us: True Stories
of Spirit Encounters and Coast to Coast Ghosts

The Gift belongs at the top of the list of books on psychic experiences that are educational as well as stimulating.

Rhea A. White, founder,
Exceptional Human Experience Network

ESP, the Extraordinary Experiences
of Ordinary People

DR. SALLY RHINE FEATHER
WITH MICHAEL SCHMICKER

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THE GIFT: ESP, THE EXTRAORDINARY EXPERIENCES OF ORDINARY PEOPLE

Copyright 2005 by Dr. Sally Rhine Feather and Michael Schmicker.

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F irst and foremost, I would like to thank those countless individuals who have sent accounts of their paranormal experiences to the Rhine Research Center over the years. And to my co-author, Mike, who first conceived the idea of this book and then worked so steadily to bring it to fruition. Last but not least, my husband, Bill Hendrickson, who cooked many a dinner while this book was under way.

Dr. Sally Rhine Feather

I would like to thank two fellow writers with ink in their blood for their encouragement and support in seeing this book to completion: my wife, Patricia, and my son, Christopher. My gratitude also goes out to Nat Sobel, our bulldog agent, to Diane Reverand, our passionate editor, to Regina Scarpa, our communications lifeline, and most of all to my co-author, Dr. Sally, whose wonderful stories and psychological insights brighten these pages.

Michael Schmicker

C an some people really see the future? Read other peoples minds? Observe events unfold, as they happen, even when they take place hundreds or thousands of miles away from them?

Indeed they can.

This unusual, unpredictable but natural human ability is popularly called ESP, or extrasensory perception. ESP is the ability of the human mind to perceive or experience without the help of the five senses. The community of scientists studying ESP prefer the more neutral term psi, which carries less historical and emotional baggage than ESP. But both describe the same thinga sixth senseunlike our normal five senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch, that operates outside the limits of space and time.

A 2001 Gallup Poll found that half of all Americans believe ESP is real, and 65 million Americans have personally experienced ESP. Skeptics still try to dismiss ESP, but the scientific evidence is substantial and continually growing.

I know, because I am a director of the Rhine Research Center and a parapsychologistsomeone professionally trained in the scientific study of ESP experiences. The Center is named after my father, the late Dr. J.B. Rhine, who, with my mother, Dr. Louisa Rhine, pioneered the scientific study of ESP in the United States starting in the 1930s at Duke University. My father took ESP into the laboratory and applied statistics, controlled experiments, and other scientific methods to establish the reality of ESP.

My fathers work has since been duplicated and further developed by other scientists working at the Rhine Research Center and at other institutions in the United States and Europe. The list includes Princeton University and universities in Germany, Sweden, Holland, England, and Scotland. Psychic phenomena have been studied by the Parapsychological Association, the Parapsychology Foundation, and the American Society for Psychical Research, which counts among its founders the renowned Harvard psychologist and professor of philosophy, William James. Respected private think tanks like the Stanford Research Institute and Science Applications International Corporation have studied ESP, and the U.S. Department of Defense has conducted significant research on an ESP technique called remote viewing.