Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain, Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder's 1970 popular book from Bantam Books, is the work that carried Soviet Kirlian photography and Victor Inyushin's bioplasma theory to a wide Western readership. Its strength is documentary: it is the actual vehicle by which these claims entered popular Western awareness, useful for tracing that transmission. Its limit, stated plainly, is that it is a credulous popularization rather than an evaluation of the claims, cited here only as that transmission vehicle and never as evidence that Kirlian photography or bioplasma theory is itself correct.
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Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder's Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain, Bantam Books, 1970, the lower tier reflecting a credulous popular book rather than an evaluation of the claims it carries, useful only as the documented vehicle that brought Soviet Kirlian photography and bioplasma theory to a wide Western readership, never as evidence those claims are themselves correct. NotesThe 1970 popular book that carried Soviet Kirlian photography and Victor Inyushin's bioplasma theory to a Western readership. A credulous popularization, cited here only as the transmission vehicle, not as evidence the theory is correct.
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AuthorSheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder
PublisherBantam Books
Publication Year1970
Source TypeBook (popular)
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This source backs 10 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Subtle Energies, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Articles, 1 claims: 1 well-attested.
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