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Guy Lyon Playfair
GUY LYON PLAYFAIR became interested in psychical research in 1972 while
living in Rio de Janeiro and working as a freelance writer and
photographer (The Economist, Time, Associated Press,
McGraw-Hill World News etc.). A friend invited him to attend a
session of 'psychic surgery' given by Edivaldo Oliveira Silva, as
described in his first book The Flying Cow (1975) (The Unknown
Power in U.S. and paperback editions) together with his subsequent
research into poltergeists, reincarnation, mediumship. His second book
The Indefinite Boundary (1976) also dealt with psychic phenomena
in Brazil. In 1973 he moved to São Paulo to work with Brazil's
pioneering parapsychologist Hernani Guimarães
Andrade.
Returning to the UK he wrote The Cycles of Heaven (1978) and
then spent a year investigating, with Maurice Grosse, the Enfield
poltergeist as documented in This House is Haunted (1980).
Further research in two somewhat different fields led to The Haunted
Pub Guide and If This Be Magic, an inquiry into hypnotism
(both 1985). He then collaborated with Uri Geller on The Geller
Effect (1986). After publishing two other books on non-psychic
subjects he returned to the field in 2002 with Twin Telepathy,
which led to successful experiments shown on television (Richard and
Judy, Channel 4, January 10th 2003; also on Discovery's Miracle Hunters
and National Geographic's Naked Science). His most recent book New
Clothes for Old Souls - Worldwide Evidence for Reincarnation,
commissioned by the Druze Heritage Foundation, is to be published in
2006.
His books have been translated into about 15 languages. He has also
written numerous articles for magazines in several countries, and has
worked as researcher and consultant on numerous radio and television
programmes. He has been a member of the Society for Psychical Research
since 1973 and was elected to its council in 2004. He has contributed
several articles and book reviews to its journal and newsletter.
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