Ostrander Sheila | Schroeder Lynn: S onu stranu zavjese

Sheila Ostrander, Lynn Schroeder: Beyond the Curtain

This book by two American journalists Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder, Beyond the Curtain... resonated like a bomb among the American professional public.

Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder showed that in the East great attention is paid to paranormal investigations... and that their continuity is financially ensured. The basis of such an attitude in the Soviet Union, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia is the belief that parapsychological phenomena can very well be used for military-technical purposes.

The book introduces us to parapsychological institutes and laboratories... meetings with famous paranormal researchers such as Dr. Rejdak, M. Ryzl, Nelija Mihajlova, Karel Drbal and many others. The scope of the author's research includes telepathy, psychic energy treatment, reincarnation research, pyramid energy... and the improvement of human abilities using supernormal interventions, Kirlian imaging, acupuncture, psychokinesis, flying saucer phenomena, astral travel... ``Beyond the curtain'' reveals the real chances of parapsychology as an applied science.

The great future of parapsychology is already visible in the treatment of mental disorders, and Kirlian photography can serve as a reliable method diagnosis. But at the same time, the authors also warn of possible abuses and dangers of this science of the future.

From the introduction

It seems that when writing an introduction, the most inconvenient thing for both authors and readers is that the introduction is expected to be a criticism. The preface is the place where the authors answer the editors' unpleasant questions. Afterword a place where I can still fire a final unsportsmanlike shot at the reader. Critics should not get involved in this mess, they should publish their reviews elsewhere. In the introduction, especially if it is written by the author or authors, the main topic of the work should be expanded, perhaps pointing out one of the consequences of the premise or some related topics. Much of what the authors could not or should not say in the work can be said in the introduction. Therefore, for the intellectual edification of the reader, I will try to present some of my complementary observations, although some of them are not directly related to the subject of research.

1. PART – Soviet Union
2. PART – Bulgaria
3. PART – Czechoslovakia