Sheila Ostrander, Lynn Schroeder - Psychic Disc... -
Spurred directly by the revelations in Sheila and Lynn's book, the US government quietly initiated its own top-secret research programs. This frantic catch-up effort would eventually evolve into the famous Stargate Project, where the military spent decades researching remote viewing and psychic espionage.
"Remember Dr. Lozanov in Bulgaria?" Lynn asked, her eyes shining with the memory. "The suggestology experiments? He was teaching students entire foreign languages in a matter of weeks just by putting them into a state of deep relaxation and reading to them. No conscious effort. The brain just... absorbed it." Sheila Ostrander, Lynn Schroeder - Psychic Disc...
Years later, Sheila and Lynn would sit in that same apartment, looking at a newer, much neater stack of letters from readers all over the world. They had started a global conversation and forced the military-industrial complex to take the invisible realms of the mind seriously. Spurred directly by the revelations in Sheila and
The atmosphere in the room shifted, growing heavier. They both knew they were playing a dangerous game. During their travels, they had been followed by grim men in gray trench coats. Their hotel rooms had been searched, and several of their local contacts had suddenly become unavailable or outright terrified to speak to them. They had carried their notes across borders hidden in the linings of their suitcases and encoded in innocuous-looking travel journals. Lozanov in Bulgaria
Within the sterile, windowless offices of the Pentagon and the CIA, Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain was not dismissed. It was read with intense, paranoid scrutiny. Intelligence analysts realized that if the Soviets were indeed mastering the mechanics of the human mind, the United States was facing a massive "psychic gap."
For the next year, the apartment became a sanctuary of frantic creation. The typewriter keys clacked late into the night, a rhythmic staccato against the backdrop of the city's ambient roar. They argued over translations, agonized over the structure, and meticulously cross-referenced every claim. They drank endless pots of tea and slept in shifts.
