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we are discussing. Einstein's theory of relativity didn't make Newton wrong. It just showed that more is going on than is described by Newton's formulation. There is far more in heaven and earth than was dreamt of in his philosophy  and, I suspect, in our philosophy and science as well.
We Do Not Believe in ESP
I (Russell) am a physicist, and have worked in the field of laser research for more than thirty years. People do not ask me if I "believe" in lasers, even though they may never have seen one for themselves. Before there were any lasers, some physicists believed they could be built, and others felt that there were theoretical reasons why one could never be constructed. This latter group was, of course, wrong.
Still, I would not say today that I believe in lasers. I would say I have data that show their behavior and properties. Similarly, I would not say I believe in ESP. I would say that there are strong and consistent data from more than fifty years of research that demonstrate the existence of the phenomena that we have classified as "psi" or "psychic." In this chapter we will outline some of these experiments that have endured the test of time and critical scientific scrutiny, and that inform us of the range and power of psychic abilities.
In 1972, just before Bobby Fischer decisively won the World Chess Championship in Reykjavík, Iceland, he was asked by an interviewer what psychological strategies he thought his Russian opponent, Boris Spasky, might use in the match. Fischer, never one to mince words, said, "I don't believe in psychology. I only believe in good moves." As a physicist, I like to think that I don't believe in psi; I only believe in good experiments, and my own experience.
The Golden Experiments
In this book we are concerned with a wide variety of psi abilities that are available to us. The groundbreaking experiments that we describe here present data that have brought reliability and respectability to a

 
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