Forbidden Science

Introduction

Part ONE • Stacking the Deck

1. Debunking the Debunkers: Do the So-called Skeptics Have a Secret Agenda?
• David Lewis

2. “Voodoo Science” on Trial: Challenging the Establishment’s Kangaroo Court of Alternative Science
• Eugene Mallove, Ph.D.

3. The Establishment Strikes Back: Never Mind the Evidence, The Learning Channel Wants to Eradicate the Looming Atlantis Heresy
• Frank Joseph

4. Inquisition--The Trial of Immanuel Velikovsky: Velikovsky’s Battle to Get His Seminal Book, Worlds in Collision, Published
• Peter Bros

Part TWO • The Past Reconsidered

5. The High Technology of the Ancients: Have We Forgotten Secrets We Once Knew?
• Frank Joseph

6. A Scientist Looks at the Great Pyramid: In a New Book, the Geologist Who Stunned the World by Redating the Sphinx Turns His Attention to Another Enigma Nearby
• Robert M. Schoch, Ph.D.

7. Precession Paradox: Was Newton Wrong? The Author of a Startling New Book Reexamines the Evidence
• Walter Cruttenden

8. The Dogon as Physicists: Do the Symbols of This Enigmatic African People Show Knowledge of Theoretical Physics?
• Laird Scranton

9. The Astronomers of Nabta Playa: New Discoveries Reveal Astonishing Prehistoric Knowledge
• Mark H. Gaffney

Part THREE • Challenges to Traditional Physics

10. Tesla, a Man for Three Centuries: Our Debt to the Eccentric Croatian Inventor Continues to Grow
• Eugene Mallove, Ph.D.

11. Tom Bearden Fights for Revolutionary Science: A New Energy Pioneer Lays the Groundwork for Coming Discoveries
• William P. Eigles

12. Sonofusion: Can the Energy of the Sun Be Captured in a Bottle--Like an Ancient Genie--and Provide Us with a Future of Limitless Energy?
• John Kettler

13. Escape from Gravity: Is the Ancient Promise of Freedom from the Pull of Earth Alive and Well at NASA and Elsewhere?
• Jeane Manning

14. Power from the Nightside: Could Earth Itself Be Trying to Provide the Clean Abundant Energy We Need?
• Susan B. Martinez, Ph.D.

15. Techno Invisibility: Can Newly Emerging Technology Make Solid Objects Vanish?
• John Kettler

16. Weather Wars: Is There an Unnatural Side to Natural Disasters?
• John Kettler

Part FOUR • Spiritual Science

17. The Sensitivities of Water: Startling New Evidence That Water Can Reflect Thought and More
• Jeane Manning

18. The Power of Water: Are Its Secrets the Keys to Solving Today’s Most Vexing Problems?
• Jeane Manning

19. Madame Curie and the Spirits: What Are We to Make of the Strange Alliance between a Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist and a Notorious Medium?
• John Chambers

20. India’s Mystic Military: Are Fleeing Tibetan Monks Changing the Balance of Power on the Indian Subcontinent?
• John Kettler

Part FIVE • Astronomy Farther Out

21. Is the Big Bang Dead? A Maverick Astronomer Challenges Reigning Theory on the Origins of the Universe
• Amy Acheson

22. The Cycles of Danger: Does New Research Mean We Are Headed for Trouble?
• William Hamilton III

Part SIX • Medicine of Another Kind

23. Healing Vibes: Dr. Richard Gerber Is Still Convinced There’s More to Getting Well than the Medical Establishment Can Comprehend
• Cynthia Logan

24. The Malady in Heart Medicine: A Doctor Shatters the Myths behind Popular Treatments for Heart Disease
• Cynthia Logan

25. Energy Medicine in the Operating Room: A New Age Pioneer Takes Her Intuition Where Few Have Dared to Go
• Cynthia Logan

26. Getting Left and Right Brains Together: Author and Doctor Leonard Shlain Believes the Future Is Where Art and Physics Intersect
• Cynthia Logan

27. X-Ray Vision and Far Beyond: Troy Hurtubise’s Amazing Lights Are Said to See through Walls and to Heal as Well
• John Kettler

28. The Biology of Transcendence: Do Newly Discovered Retrotransposons Hold the Key to Our Liberation?
• John Kettler

Part SEVEN • Paranormal Possibilities

29. Paranormal Paratrooper: For David Morehouse, the Military’s Psychic Warfare Program Was Much More Than an Exotic Experiment. It Was His Mission, yet It Nearly Destroyed Him
• J. Douglas Kenyon

30. Psychic Discoveries since the Cold War: Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder Revisit the Revolutionary Research of Their Classic Study
• Len Kasten

31. When Science Meets the Psychics: New Research Buttresses the Challenge of Mind to Matter
• Patrick Marsolek

32. Rupert Sheldrake’s Seven Senses: A Candid Conversation with a Scientific Iconoclast
• Cynthia Logan

33. Telephone Telepathy: Skeptical Outrage Notwithstanding, Rupert Sheldrake Seems to Be Winning the Argument for ESP
• John Kettler

Part EIGHT • The ET Factor

34. Back-Engineering Roswell: An American Computer Maker Fights for Its Right to Exploit Alien Technology
• John Kettler

35. The Fight for Alien Technology: Jack Shulman Remains Undaunted by Mounting Threat
• John Kettler

Part NINE • Other Dimensions

36. Altered States: Recent Research Sheds New Light on the Inner Reaches of Human Consciousness
• Patrick Marsolek

37. Searching for the Unifying Field: Author Lynne McTaggart Is Tracking the World’s Most Exotic Research toward Discovery of a Secret Force
• Cynthia Logan

38. The Mind-Matter Connection: Did the Long-Sought Smoking Gun of Scientific Proof Finally Appear on September 11, 2001?
• John Kettler

39. Dr. Quantum’s Big Ideas: Fred Alan Wolf Searches for Concrete Answers to Ephemeral Questions
• Cynthia Logan

Part TEN • The Future

40. Further Explorations of the Crack in the Cosmic Egg: Joseph Chilton Pearce’s New Book Probes the Biology of Transcendence
• Cynthia Logan

41. Challenging the Reality Consensus: A Popular New Movie Has People Thinking about the Unthinkable
• Patrick Marsolek

42. From Apollo to Zero Point: When Is a Walk on the Moon Not the Highest Point in Life?
• J. Douglas Kenyon

Selected Bibliography

Contributors