Lost Powers

Reclaiming our Inner Connection J Douglas Kenyon, ed. Atlantis Rising 2016 Pb, 247pp, illus, $16.95, ISBN 9780990690436

This anthology of 32 articles from the pages of Atlantis Rising magazine, selected by its editor J D Kenyon, covers a very wide range of subjects, divided into five sections, dealing generally with ‘Restoring the Body’, ‘Beyond the Senses’, ‘Super Powers’, ‘Life after Death’, and ‘Meta-Dimensions’. A few of the papers seem like typical New Age waffle – such as ‘Mysteries of Body Wisdom’ and another discussing whether the human aura is “real or imaginary”. But the majority of the topics will interest

all manner of forteans as they debate time travel, alchemy, longevity among yogis, reports of reincarnation following wars, the death of Houdini, Conan Doyle’s interest in investigation of crimes with clairvoyance, Abraham Lincoln’s interest in the Afterlife, seemingly alternative realities, the earliest experiments in human flight, both Mark Twain’s and Mary Shelley’s interest in the supernatural, immortality and how spiritualism copes with the problem of suicide.

Some of the authors will be familiar to FT readers, including Frank Joseph, David Childress, and Robert M Schoch (who contributes interesting discussions of telepathy, psychokinesis, and ‘Religion and the Paranormal’).

Nothing world-shattering here, but an enjoyable read all the same.