Extraordinary Knowing, Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, PhD
Extraordinary Knowing, Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, PhD
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Extraordinary Knowing
Science, Skepticism, and the Inexplicable Powers of the Human Mind

Author: Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, PhD

Narrator: Leslie Howard

Unabridged: 10 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/13/2020

Synopsis

In 1991, when her daughter's rare, hand-carved harp was stolen, Lisby Mayer's familiar world of science and rational thinking turned upside down. After the police failed to turn up any leads, a friend suggested she call a dowser—a man who specialized in finding lost objects. With nothing to lose—and almost as a joke—Dr. Mayer agreed. Within two days, and without leaving his Arkansas home, the dowser located the exact California street coordinates where the harp was found.

Deeply shaken, yet driven to understand what had happened, Mayer began the fourteen-year journey of discovery that she recounts in this mind-opening, brilliant must-listen book. Her first surprise: the dozens of colleagues who'd been keeping similar experiences secret for years, fearful of being labeled credulous or crazy.

Extraordinary Knowing is an attempt to break through the silence imposed by fear and to explore what science has to say about these and countless other "inexplicable" phenomena. From Sigmund Freud’s writings on telepathy to secret CIA experiments on remote viewing, from leading-edge neuroscience to the strange world of quantum physics, Dr. Mayer reveals a wealth of credible and fascinating research into the realm where the mind seems to trump the laws of nature.

About Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, PhD

Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, PhD, was an internationally known psychoanalyst, researcher, and clinician, the author of groundbreaking papers on female development, the nature of science, and intuition, and a contributor to Consciousness and Healing. In addition to her private practice, she was associate clinical professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and also taught at UC Medical Center, San Francisco. She died just after completing Extraordinary Knowing.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Hoại on November 10, 2016

This book is intriguing as well as challenging, although my professor could be upset if she knows I only give it 4 stars. Don't take me wrong, I love this books since I went through the very first pages. It's mind bending, but worth to consider, but I feel it's just not enough for me. I need more pr......more

Goodreads review by Sally on January 17, 2011

I gave it a 3 because it seemed a bit repetitive and catty. I also question some of the statistics from various studies: a certain study reveals that, say, 60% of participants beat random odds of stating a color someone in another room is thinking of - but there are only 12 people in the study! Not......more

Goodreads review by Heidi on October 01, 2014

I thought that the most amazing part of this book was that, if the author found someone's research to be intriguing, she would set up a meeting and go talk to that scientist/biologist/physicist/professor. Dr. Mayer was given access to the minds and private thoughts of leading researchers from all ov......more

Goodreads review by Douglas on January 22, 2020

Informative research from an energetic soul, eager to seek out truth for her own self.......more

Goodreads review by Deborah on May 13, 2022

This book contains fantastic and compelling subject matter, and I'm glad to have read it. I am convinced that telepathy, remote viewing, dowsing, answered prayer, and more are real phenomena and not just anomalies in our universe. However, this book was written not to educate general readers, but to......more

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