EXTRAORDINARY KNOWING: SCIENCE, SKEPTICISM, AND THE INEXPLICABLE POWERS OF THE HUMAN MIND by Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer. New York, NY: Bantam Dell, 2007. Pp. xiii + 302. $17.16 (hardcover). ISBN 978-0-553-80335-8.
Elizabeth Mayer, who died shortly after completing this book, was an internationally known psychoanalyst and professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her book is essentially a personal account of her journey of discovery as she attempts to make sense of an anomalous personal experience: the accurate location of a stolen harp by a dowser. It is mostly written in a first-person autobiographical style, with ideas and evidence presented in the ...