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A Short History of (Nearly) Everything Paranormal

Our Secret Powers – Telepathy, Clairvoyance & Precognition

Terje G Simonsen

Watkins Books 2020

Pb, 530pp, £20, ISBN 9781786783578

This “travelogue from the twilight zone” is hyped as “the most in-depth paranormal survey ever made”. If so, the most in-depth paranormal study before this one must have set the standard rather low seeing how the present work is founded on the “Big Five” of parapsychology: telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, telekinesis, and healing (with limited delves into related areas). That is not a

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