Eileen Garrett and the World Beyond the Senses

This is the biography of the famed twentieth-century psychic, Eileen J. Garrett, written by her long-time colleague & friend Allan Angoff. Spanning an association of over twenty-five years, Angoff tells both the public & private story of a remarkable woman with psychic gifts. These gifts led her from a young girl in Ireland grappling with the burden of psychic visions, to the global stage & the founding of the Parapsychology Foundation in l951, a world-wide forum supporting scientific exploration of psychic phenomena. This is an absorbing account of her work & associations with many international notables, including, Aldous Huxley, Arthur Conan Doyle, & Dr J.B. Rhine, as she sought to make sense of psychic functioning for herself & humankind. Eileen Garrett was a woman ahead of her time & comfortable in a world beyond the senses.