Psychic world of Peter Hurkos

250 Pages·1970·1.596 MB·English

by  Browning, Norma Lee

The Boston Strangler
“He is not too big, maybe five feet
seven, eight . . . high hair line, with a
mark or spot on his left arm, something
wrong with his thumb. He has an accent
. . . a French accent . . . he has to do with
a hospital . . . he is a homosexual and a
woman-hater. He is taking blood and
washing his hands in blood . . . he does
not do normal work, he is not normal
himself . . .”
That was the description which Peter
Hurkos gave to the Boston police during
their search for the famed Boston Stran-
gler. With uncanny accuracy he revealed
details of the bizarre murders which only
the top investigators could have known.
Yet the man Peter Hurkos de-
scribed was not Albert DeSalvo, the
accused Strangler. He is the man
Hurkos still claims is the real killer.
The Psychic World
of
Peter Hurkos
Norma Lee Browning
A SIGNET BOOK from
NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY
TIMES MIRROR
Copyright © 1970 by Peter Hurkos and
Norma Lee Browning
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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 76-114751
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Contents
foreword vii
The Beginning 11
one
two Show Me 24
three The Accident 37
Psychic Detective 55
four
Testing, Testing 64
five
six Odic Force 77
seven The Boston Strangler Case 96
eight The Jim Thompson Case 133
vi Contents
nine Hurkos in Hollywood 144
Strictly Personal 167
ten
Of Death and Disaster 190
eleven
The Ann Arbor Murder 200
twelve
The Challenge 207
thirteen
Conclusions 231
fourteen
Foreword
Psychic phenomena have probably existed as long as man
himself. As cofounder of the Mind Science Foundation, I
have been associated with research projects for many
years which have delved into almost the entire spectrum of
these most unusual occurrences, which many people never
experience, some experience one or more times during
their lifetime, and others, such as Peter Hurkos, are able
to experience almost at will. I have known Peter for more
than ten years, both as a personal friend and as a man
who has always been willing to subject himself to all types
of research study programs. In the many tests I have seen
conducted with Peter, he has always been much more
accurate than would be possible under the laws of proba-
bility. Time after time I have seen him perform feats such
as those recounted in this book, feats for which there is no
known explanation of how such clear mental pictures of
the past, present, and future could be developed within his
mind.
The author has done an excellent job in selecting some
of the most interesting situations with which Peter has
been associated, and in this book the reader will find full
documented descriptions of the fascinating accounts of
Peter Hurkos’ psychic ability. I don’t think there is any
question that this ability developed within Peter’s mind as
a result of his fall from a ladder in his native Holland.
Within the Mind Science Foundation we have studied
many persons who have had certain psychic abilities, and
in almost all cases the ability developed after either ex-
periencing a fall or being hit on the head, or after having
an extremely high fever. This seems to imply that sudden-
ly a person is able to use another part of the brain—more
or less the same as suddenly fusing two wires—because of
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either the pressure from the blow on the head or the heat
of the high temperature.
I think it is obviously only a matter of time until the
scientific world will discover how such a phenomenon is
achieved, and perhaps it will then be possible for anyone
to have this added “sixth sense”.
The Psychic World of Peter Hurkos explores the many
achievements of Peter Hurkos and the famed Edgar
Cayce in dimensions of the past, present, and future. It
offers a challenge to us better to understand psychic
phenomena, and it deserves the attention of everyone who
is concerned with the better understanding of the human
mind. For whether or not one agrees with the views it
presents, The Psychic World of Peter Hurkos offers the
kind of stimulation that is germane to any serious thought
of our future involvement in the areas of psychic phenom-
ena, and that is a large achievement for any book.
C. V. Wood, Jr.
. . . He had never heard such music as this, never
dreamt such music was possible. He was conscious, while
it lasted, that he saw deeper into beauty, the sadness of
things, the very heart of them, and their pathetic evanes-
cence, as with a new inner eye—even into eternity itself,
beyond the veil.
Trilby, Part I
—George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier
(1834-1896)