In 1991, when her daughter&#8217;s rare, hand-carved harp was stolen, Lisby Mayer&#8217;s familiar world of science and rational thinking turned upside down. After the police failed to turn up any leads, a friend suggested she call a dowser&#8212;a man who specialized in finding lost objects. With nothing to lose&#8212;and almost as a joke&#8212;Dr. Mayer agreed. Within two days, and without leaving his Arkansas home, the dowser located the exact California street coordinates where the harp was found.<br><br>Deeply shaken, yet driven to understand what had happened, Mayer began the fourteen-year journey of discovery that she recounts in this mind-opening, brilliantly readable book. Her first surprise: the dozens of colleagues who&#8217;d been keeping similar experiences secret for years, fearful of being labeled credulous or crazy.<br><br>Extraordinary Knowing is an attempt to break through the silence imposed by fear and to explore what science has to say about these and countless other &#8220;inexplicable&#8221; phenomena. From Sigmund Freud&#8217;s writings on telepathy to secret CIA experiments on remote viewing, from leading-edge neuroscience to the strange world of quantum physics, Dr. Mayer reveals a wealth of credible and fascinating research into the realm where the mind seems to trump the laws of nature.<br><br>She does not ask us to believe. Rather she brings us a book of profound intrigue and optimism, with far-reaching implications not just for scientific inquiry but also for the ways we go about living in the world.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>