The Gold Leaf Lady
and Other Parapsychological Investigations
Stephen E. Braude
For over thirty years, Stephen Braude has studied the paranormal in everyday life, from extrasensory perception and psychokinesis to mediumship and
materialization. The Gold Leaf Lady and Other Parapsychological Investigations is
a highly readable and often amusing account of his most memorable encounters
with such phenomena. Here Braude recounts in fascinating detail five particular
cases—some that challenge our most fundamental scientific beliefs and others
that expose our own credulousness.
Braude begins with a south Florida woman who can make thin goldcolored foil appear spontaneously on her skin. He then travels to New York and
California to test psychokinetic superstars—and frauds—like Joe Nuzum, who
claim to move objects using only their minds. Along the way, Braude also investigates the startling allegations of K.R., a policeman in Annapolis who believes
he can transfer images from photographs onto other objects—including his own
body—and Ted Serios, a deceased Chicago elevator operator who could make a
variety of different images appear on Polaroid film. Ultimately, Braude considers
his wife’s surprisingly fruitful experiments with astrology, which she has used
to guide professional soccer teams to the top of their leagues, as well as his own
personal experiences with synchronicity—a phenomenon, he argues, that may
need to be explained in terms of a refined, extensive, and dramatic form of psychokinesis.
Heady, provocative, and brimming with eye-opening details and suggestions, The Gold Leaf Lady and Other Parapsychological Investigations will intrigue
both adherents and detractors of its controversial subject matter alike.
“This book isn’t just good, it’s excellent. Stephen Braude is at the top of the intellectual food chain in the study of
paranormal phenomena, an accomplished philosopher of science who brings his first-rate intellect to bear in a fair
and deep treatment of the supernatural. Replete with personal accounts and anecdotes from his many investigations,
The Gold Leaf Lady is a riveting read, a tour through the paranormal that both enchants and instructs us.”—Fred
Frohock, author of Lives of the Psychics: The Shared Worlds of Science and Mysticism
Stephen Braude is professor of philosophy at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He is the author of some sixty journal
articles and four previous books, including The Limits of Influence: Psychokinesis and the Philosophy of Science and, most recently, Immortal
Remains: The Evidence for Life after Death.
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