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Chapter Twelve
The Physics of Miracles and the Magic of Mind
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The great strength of science is that it is rooted in actual experience. The great weakness of contemporary science is that it admits only certain types of experience as legitimate.
 
David Bohm
We have now reached the end of our story. What have we learned? As scientists, the data have convinced us unequivocally of the reality of psi abilities. After twenty years of research, supported by the Army, the Navy, NASA, the CIA, and others, it is clear to us that the Indian sage Patanjali had it right when he wrote his famous sutras twenty-four hundred years ago. 1 Patanjali said that one obtains psi data by accessing the akashic records, which in the Hindu tradition contain all information past, present, and future. He taught that we can see into the distance and know the future by becoming what we wish to see, and creating a single-pointed focus of attention on our desired objective.
It is now clear that this is a goal ordinary people can achieve. We have seen remarkable results in hundreds of remote-viewing trials with dozens of viewers. Without a doubt, people can learn to use their intuitive consciousness in a way that transcends conventional understanding of space and time, to describe and experience places and events that are blocked from ordinary perception. The whole force of the data in this book shows this to be true. So, the phenomenon exists, but how does it work?
We, of course, don't know the complete answer to that question,

 
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