The medium, the mystic, and the physicist

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1. eth0upAug 2026
   Are these references to things such as:

   0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Project_(U.S._Army_un...

   1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_viewing

   2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McMoneagle

   3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parapsychology_research_at_SRI

   I was researching related subject areas ~1.5 decade ago and had the chance to present some of the resulting thoughts to Dr Lawrence LeShan. He was already in his 80s by that time and didn't seem to agree with my angle. I didn't have the chance to follow up, and unfortunately he died not too long after.

   From everything I have seen on the general subject of PSI, his work seemed the best of all, specifically the appendix work in The Medium, The Mystic, And The Physicist from the unabridged edition.

   But your description reminds me more of the Arhcons[*] from gnosticism, which is astonishingly wild for ancient historical text.

   Edit: If you consider some of the soldiers who've documented their struggles with suicidal tendencies, eg Shawn Ryan, their descriptions seem a bit otherwise, but that does not discount your considerations. However, Ryan (and others) do attribute their recovery to DMT experiences, which seems more in the direction of what you seem to be describing vs away.

   *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archon_(Gnosticism)

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2. eth0upMay 2017
   Please also see and consider: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_LeShan

   A particularly excellent work by Dr LeShan is: The Medium, the Mystic, and the Physicist: Toward a General Theory of the Paranormal (1974) - The appendix is excellent, if the unabridged version.

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3. eth0upOct 2016
   I appreciate the links and have archived them. Here's one for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_LeShan

   Of Dr LeShan's works, The Medium, the Mystic, and the Physicist I highly recommend, specifically the unabridged version. He worked a bit with Eileen J Garrett[1], the tales of which are quite intriguing. This guy was (and still is @96) 100% sincere. No quackery, no nonsense. I had the privilege of acquaintance with his close friend, Dr Hauser, who I'll always fondly remember. LeShan and Hauser met in the Army as young men and remained friends for life. They were both psychologists, but their focuses diverged.

   1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen_J._Garrett

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4. disposable0E59FNov 2016
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_LeShan [1]

   See:

   1. The Medium, the Mystic, and the Physicist: Toward a General Theory of the Paranormal (1974)

   and much less intriguingly:

   2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Bem

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