Alexander, John B. “The New Mental Battlefield.” Military Review. Vol. 60, No 12. (December 1980) 47-54.
Abstract: A well known and highly controversial article that describes how psychic warfare might be employed on the battlefield and the need for potential countermeasures. This work is also referenced in numerous governmental conspiracy websites.

Baldwin, Dan, ed. Find Me. Woonsocket, RI: New River Press, 2007. Call Number: HV 6762 .U5 F56 2007
Abstract: Focuses on experiences and skill development of members of Find Me, a volunteer organization of twenty individuals from the U.S., Britain, Italy, Canada, and Australia who employ a variety of psychic techniques to help find missing persons and locate evidence. Geared primarily towards those interested in developing their psychic abilities, this work nonetheless offers an interesting introduction to a variety of psychic techniques and case studies where these have been utilized to help law enforcement.

Hansel, C.E.M. ESP and Parapsychology: A Critical Reevaluation. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1980. Call Number: BF 1042 .H23
Abstract: This academic work is a follow on to the 1966 work ESP: A Scientific Evaluation. It seeks to analyze new experiments and the feats of psychics such as Uri Geller. The work is broken down into sections which provide an overview of psychical research, a summary of past and present psychic experiments and testing, and a conclusion which asks if ESP is possible and gives future potentials for this line of research.

Hibbard, Whitney S., Raymond W. Worring and Richard Brennan. Psychic Criminology: a guide for using psychics in investigations. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas Publisher, Ltd., 2002.
Call Number: BF 1045.C7 H5 2002
Abstract: Originally published in 1982 by Hibbard, a criminal justice planner and special program developer, and Worring, a psychologist and parapsychology researcher who helped pioneer the field of psychic criminology, with the intent to promote the use of psychics in criminal investigations. This second edition, with co-author Brennan who, after Worring’s death, provided his own expertise as a criminologist and private investigator with experience in the use of psychics, continues the unapologetic support of psychics as investigative aides “as long as they are used in a disciplined, efficient, and professional manner.” To that end, they provide guidelines for the testing of potential psychics and offer insight into factors that can contribute or detract from their use in a particular case along with procedures to help ensure successful outcomes.

Holzer, Hans. Psychic Investigator. New York, NY: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1968.
Call Number: BF 1461 .H639
Abstract: This work was written from the investigations of a ‘Ghost Hunter’ and contains no academic references or works cited. The author, who has written quite a few earlier works on ghosts and hauntings, continues in this tradition with this book which touches upon clairvoyance, and specific instances of haunted buildings, strange deaths, and reports of ghosts.

King, Clyde S. Psychic and Religious Phenomena Limited. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1978.
Call Number: BF 1029 .K55
Abstract: A comprehensive, yet dated, bibliography of visions and manifestations connected with death, astral projections, mystical experiences stemming from numerous variables, psychic music, and psychic voices. The sources catalogued are from books, newspapers, and periodicals.

Kovach, Sue. Hidden Files: Law Enforcement’s True Case Stories of the Unexplained and Paranormal. Chicago, IL: Contemporary Books, 1976. Call Number: BF 1040 .K68 1998
Abstract: An account of stories, from primarily active duty law enforcement officers from the United States and Canada, which concern unexplained phenomena mostly encountered during actual police cases. These phenomena include ghosts, psychic experiences, UFOs and related events, the occult and black magic, and other unexplained occurrences. Easy to read work with the biographies of the police officers who encountered the events provided in the concluding section.

Leeds, Morton and Gardner Murphy. The Paranormal and the Normal: A Historical, Philosophical and Theoretical Perspective. Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1980.
Call Number: BF 1031 .L39
Abstract: A fairly complicated work, with quite a few diagrams and tables, that covers psychic history, philosophy, and theory. Areas of specific interest include clairvoyance, telepathy, psychokinesis, poltergeists, crisis apparitions, ghosts, dowsing, psychometry, healing of others, and motor automatisms.

Lieber, Arnold L. The Lunar Effect: Biological Tides and Human Emotions. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1978. Call Number: BF 1723 .L53
Abstract: Covers the moon’s influence on human aggression, homicide, evolution, and civilization. Discusses the concepts of the moon and natural cycles, cosmic continuity, geophysical environment, and the biological tides theory. The biological tides theory represents a component of cosmobiology—this theory posits that gravitational and electromagnetic tides are generated on the water mass of the human body and ebb and flow depending on different stages of the moon.

Lyons, Arthur and Marcello Truzzi, Ph.D. The Blue Sense. New York, NY: Mysterious Press, 1991. Call Number: BF 1045 .C7 L96 1991
Abstract: One of the premiere works taking a serious look at the use of psychic detectives in solving crimes. The “blue sense,” an allusion to the common blue color of police uniforms, refers to the heightened intuition possessed by many police officers. The authors expand this to include the use of psychic input on cases by those outside law enforcement. After a look at the history of psychic investigators and a couple of case studies of individuals, the work highlights the practical usefulness of psychics including comfort to families, new perspective on dead-end cases, increased psychological pressure on suspects, and their ability as highly proficient “readers” of people. Some mention is given of problems of converting psychic leads into something substantial to take to court.

MacKenzie, Andrew. The Unexplained: Some Strange Cases in Psychical Research. London: Abelard-Schuman, 1970. Call Number: BF 1411 .M17 1970
Abstract: An overview of spontaneous cases of ‘mental’ (i.e. precognitive dreams and apparitions) and ‘physical’ (i.e. objects being thrown about and the materializing of figures) psychic phenomena. Many of these cases were investigated by the author while others came from the files of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR).

Mandelbaum, W. Adam. The Psychic Battlefield: A History of the Military-Occult Complex. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. Call Number: BF 1045 .M55 M26 2000
Abstract: Author is an attorney, psychic, and former intelligence officer who here attempts to cover a five thousand year history of what he calls the “symbiotic relationship between the paranormal and the military.” A large part of the work is dedicated to twentieth-century government programs on which multi-millions have been spent towards the end of psychic spying.

McMoneagle, Joseph. Remote Viewing Secrets: A Handbook. Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Publishing Company, 2000. Call Number: BF1389.R45 M375 2000
Abstract: The author was Remote Viewer #001 in the Army’s Stargate Program and a fifteen year research associate and subject at the Cognitive sciences Lab (CSL) at SRI-International. This handbook covers what remote viewing is, the training of remote viewers, protocols and methodologies, and the applications of this ability. A useful glossary and index are provided.

Nickell, Joe. Real-Life X-Files: investigating the paranormal. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2001. Call Number: BF 1031 .N52 2001
Abstract: Investigations by a former private investigator and forensic writer into over forty “unexplainable” activities. Using a hands-on approach, he employs the major techniques of forensic science in order to prove that the simplest tenable explanations
are the most likely ones.

Psychic Detectives. DVD: 52 minutes, Color. ABC Prime Time Special. Virginia Beach, VA: Nemoseen Media, 2004. Call Number: BF 1045 .C7 P491 2006
Abstract: Provides examples from five cases, ranging from robbery to a missing child to murder, where psychics availed themselves to help law enforcement. While not all of the psychics’ clues pan out, the narrator makes the case that, in each instance, heeding the psychic’s vital impressions from the outset would have allowed the case to close more quickly.

Radin, Dean. The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Proof of Psychic Phenomena.
San Francisco, CA: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc, 1997 Call Number: BF 1031 .R18 1997
Abstract: Radin, a Ph.D. from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, cites results from governmental studies as offering proof that psychic phenomenon perform far beyond what is expected by chance. Linking such phenomenon to the precepts of quantum mechanics rather than the laws of classics physics, he goes on to project their applications and implications for the future.

Randles, Jenny and Peter Hough. Psychic Detectives: The Mysterious Use of Paranormal Phenomena in Solving True Crimes. Pleasantville, NY: The Reader’s Digest Association, Inc., 2001.
Call Number: BF 1045 .C7 R36 2001
Abstract: Coffee table book format. This book covers a lot of ground regarding the topic including sections on history, tools of the trade, case studies of events and profiles of individual psychics. Probably the most useful sections are those concerning the police view of psychics in an investigation and the problem of incorporating information gleaned through psychics into presentation of evidence in court cases. Interesting mention is made of the use of psychics to train officers to tap into their own intuition.

Schmeidler, Gertrude. ExtraSensory Perception. New York, NY: Lieber-Atherton, 1974.
Call Number: BF 1321 .S3
Abstract: An academic work in which an introduction to the topic of ESP is provided and then eight important articles from various scientific and psychology journals have been reprinted for this work spanning the 1956–1966 period. Articles range from a scientific critique of parapsychology to ESP experiments and tests which are expressed in quantitative findings.

Smith, Paul H. Reading the Enemy’s Mind: Inside Star Gate—America’s Psychic Espionage Program. New York, NY: Tom Doherty Associates, 2005. Call Number: BF 1389 .R45 S65 2005
Abstract: The author is a retired Army intelligence officer and former operational remote viewer and trainer. This work is about Star Gate which was a classified CIA program that existed for 23 years and was closed down in 1995. It trained soldier and civilian spies in ‘remote viewing,’ a form of extrasensory perception, with the goal of spying on our Cold War enemies. This authoritative work is five-hundred pages in length and derived from hundreds of interviews of those involved with the program and thousands of documents pertaining to it.

Sweat, Jane Ayers and Mark W. Durm. “Psychics: Do Police Departments Really Use Them?’ Skeptical Enquirer. Vol. 17, No. 2. (Winter 1993) 148-158.
Abstract: Avowed skeptics critically examine whether police departments really use psychics. The results of a survey of departments in the 50 largest cities in America were said to indicate that 65 percent did not at that time and had never used psychics. The authors concede that there may possibly be an “under-rater bias” since identification with psychics could have negative connotations for police departments and the public.

The Unexplained: Psychic Detectives. VHS: 50 minutes, Color. A&E Home Video. New York, NY: New Video, 1996. Call Number: A-V BF 1045 .C7 P49 1997
Abstract: Provides an overview of cases in which law enforcement has either used psychics or where psychics have contacted law enforcement concerning crimes (murders) that have been committed. One instance of pre-cognition (a future murder that would be committed) is also discussed. The documentary is balanced with interviews with skeptics who argue that the psychics in the cases highlighted are so vague in their visions that the information that they provided law enforcement officers is useless.

Van Over, Raymond. ESP and the Clairvoyants. New York, NY: Award Books, 1970.
Call Number: BF 1042 .02 1970
Abstract: The author taught parapsychology at the university level. This book provides an overview of the history of clairvoyance, which is the gaining of knowledge about an object or event without using the physical senses, and highlights famous clairvoyants of the past.

Wolman, ed., Benjamin B. Handbook of Parapsychology. New York, NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1977. Call Number: BF 1031 .H254 Co.2
Abstract: A massive and heavily referenced, yet dated, work of over nine-hundred pages that provides a comprehensive treatment of the study of parapsychology. This academic tome has over thirty contributing authors, the vast majority of which have doctoral level credentials. Major parts of this work include history and research methods, altered states of consciousness, healing, survival of bodily death, and Soviet research into the field. Contains a useful glossary of terms.

Compiled by Dr. Robert J. Bunker and Pamela L. Bunker, 9/07