Sheila Ostrander, Lynn Schroeder - Psychic Disc... May 2026

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Sheila tapped a translated file from a laboratory in Leningrad. "But this is what terrifies me. This is what the CIA is going to ignore until it's too late. The research into long-distance telepathic hypnosis. They aren't just trying to read minds, Lynn. They are trying to control them from thousands of miles away." Sheila Ostrander, Lynn Schroeder - Psychic Disc...

It had started as a simple, albeit ambitious, journalistic endeavor. Sheila and Lynn, two independent American writers with a keen interest in the fringe sciences, had decided to venture behind the Iron Curtain. At a time when Western academia laughed off the concept of psychic phenomena as superstitious nonsense, rumors suggested that the Soviet Union was pouring millions of rubles into top-secret parapsychological research. If you want to focus on a mentioned

"Remember Dr. Lozanov in Bulgaria?" Lynn asked, her eyes shining with the memory. "The suggestology experiments? He was teaching students entire foreign languages in a matter of weeks just by putting them into a state of deep relaxation and reading to them. No conscious effort. The brain just... absorbed it." The research into long-distance telepathic hypnosis

"We have to write the book," Lynn said firmly, sitting down opposite Sheila. "Not a sensationalized tabloid piece, but a serious, documented account of what we saw. We lay out the science. We name the researchers. We show the West that while we are building bigger missiles, the East is unlocking the untapped power of the human brain."

When the book was finally published in 1970, the reaction was explosive.