Supernormal: Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for Extraordinary Psychic Abilities

Today, it is widely accepted that yoga and meditation are effective ways of reducing mental and physical stress, and millions of Westerners are involved in these practices. Few remember that just 40 years ago such practices were regarded as suspiciously esoteric or laughably crazy by mainstream academia. But the new societal openness to the elementary aspects of yoga have begun to stimulate interest in more advanced and esoteric consequences of yogic practice: Can meditation help us to read minds? Move objects? Envision future events? The answers will surprise you.