Amazon.com: Mental Radio (Studies in Consciousness): 9781571742353: Sinclair, Upton: Books

Available instantly

Hardcover
from $43.28

Paperback
$15.23

List Price: $16.95 Details

Save: $1.72 (10%)

FREE Returns

No Import Fees Deposit & $8.46 Shipping to Canada Details

Delivery Tuesday, April 16. Order within 6 hrs 56 mins

Deliver to Canada

Only 8 left in stock (more on the way).

$$15.23 () Includes selected options. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. Details

Ships from

Amazon.com

Ships from

Amazon.com

Sold by

Amazon.com

Sold by

Amazon.com

Returns

Eligible for Return, Refund or Replacement within 30 days of receipt

Returns

Eligible for Return, Refund or Replacement within 30 days of receipt

This item can be returned in its original condition for a full refund or replacement within 30 days of receipt.

Read full return policy

Payment

Secure transaction

Payment

Secure transaction

We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Learn more

Details

Add a gift receipt for easy returns

$8.39 delivery May 3 - 28. Details

Deliver to Canada

Used: Acceptable | Details

Sold by ThriftBooks-Atlanta

Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

Added to

Unable to add item to List. Please try again.

Image Unavailable

Image not available for
Color:

To view this video download Flash Player

Follow the author

Mental Radio (Studies in Consciousness) Paperback – February 1, 2001

by Upton Sinclair (Author)

42

Part of: Studies in Consciousness (3 books)

See all formats and editions

{"desktop_buybox_group_1":[{"displayPrice":"$15.23","priceAmount":15.23,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"15","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"23","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"h%2ByhXE3CXahcxrDxDEeDrh4twa39oo1xNHJ4TpDUx6IMQmUzNH4PSacvpEhmAfw8kZplEpVCpFT%2BefN8OVRiq%2FqT%2BcYj5nYqugG7G35iabqli3ZLAzzi%2B4h8ihW%2Fbncs9NOmJ7s9atw%3D","locale":"en-US","buyingOptionType":"NEW","aapiBuyingOptionIndex":0}, {"displayPrice":"$13.58","priceAmount":13.58,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"13","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"58","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"h%2ByhXE3CXahcxrDxDEeDrh4twa39oo1xQK4nwQJuh7X%2Fub124VjBUtN5zWofGu9HsoaFHln1LiNo0zc5UK7yk%2BdgtThj2hUJ8NhTNZ8d6ZypTTPPSEqArnOTqAHX2WfmfgkvGjI02HS73YZVsUOtPTFk0xAFx5uclEaZzOvACHw%3D","locale":"en-US","buyingOptionType":"USED","aapiBuyingOptionIndex":1}]}

Purchase options and add-ons

Upton Sinclair is primarily known as the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Jungle, Oil, and Dragon's Teeth, and as a fiery advocate of social justice and reform. Few know, however, of Sinclair's deep interest in, and connection to, psychic research.

Sinclair's own wife, Mary Craig Kimbrough, claimed to have "mind reading" or telepathic abilities, and asked Sinclair to help her better understand these abilities. He devised a fascinating series of 300 tests that incontrovertibly proved the reality of telepathy while revealing the vast, untold powers of the mind.

In one room, Sinclair would make a drawing and place it into a sealed envelope, while in another, Mary would "tune in," retrieve the image, and make her own copy. Or she would record a telepathic message sent from someone far away. Her accuracy rate was astonishing, leaving no room for random chance as an explanation, as they continued to collect scientific data over three years.

In Mental Radio, Sinclair describes remarkable experiments, comparing telepathy to radio broadcasting, with one brain sending out a "vibration" and another picking it up. The results convinced Sinclair that telepathy is real, that it is unaffected by distance, that it can be cultivated, trained and--most importantly--can be verified and studied scientifically.

For the first time in many years, here is the complete text of Mental Radio, including Mary Craig Kimbrough's well-tested instructions on how to learn the "art of conscious mind-reading." Here is the classic book that impressed Albert Einstein who, in his preface to Mental Radio, praises Sinclair for being a conscientious observer and writer and for his good faith and dependability in reporting paranormal research. William McDougall, known as the "Dean of American Psychology" at the time, was so inspired by Sinclairs' work that he established the parapsychology department at Duke University, which went on to become, for a time, the country's premier paranormal research institution.

Report an issue with this product or seller

Part of series

Studies in Consciousness
Print length

224 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Hampton Roads Publishing
Publication date

February 1, 2001
Dimensions

6.15 x 0.67 x 8.98 inches
ISBN-10

1571742352
ISBN-13

978-1571742353
See all details

Frequently bought together

Mental Radio (Studies in Consciousness)

$15.23

Only 8 left in stock (more on the way).

Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.

+

Mind-Reach: Scientists Look at Psychic Abilities (Studies in Consciousness)

$20.48

In Stock

Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.

+

Distant Mental Influence: Its Contributions to Science, Healing, and Human Interactions (Studies in Consciousness)

$15.33

Only 16 left in stock - order soon.

Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.

Total price:

To see our price, add these items to your cart.

Try again!

Added to Cart

Some of these items ship sooner than the others.

Show details Hide details

Choose items to buy together.

Russell Targ
217
Paperback
$20.48
$8.58 shipping
William Braud
37
Paperback
$15.33
$8.61 shipping
Only 16 left in stock - order soon.
Charles T. Tart
15
Paperback
$21.01
$8.58 shipping
Only 7 left in stock (more on the way).
Sir Hubert Wilkins
19
Paperback
$11.30
$8.54 shipping
Only 18 left in stock - order soon.
Rene Warcollier
35
Paperback
$21.95
$8.41 shipping
Only 14 left in stock (more on the way).
L.L. Vasiliev
15
Paperback
$18.54
$8.58 shipping
Only 9 left in stock (more on the way).

Editorial Reviews

From the Inside Flap

Upton Sinclair is primiarily known as the Pulitzer Prize- winning author of "The Jungle," "Oil," and "Dragon's Teeth," and as a fiery advocate of social justice and reform. Few know, however, of Sinclair's deep interest in, and connection to, psychic research.

Sinclair's own wife, Mary Craig Kimbrough, claimed to have "mind reading" or telepathic abilities, and asked Sinclair to help her better understand these abilities. He devised a fascinating series of 300 tests that incontrovertibly proved the reality of telepathy while revealing the vast, untold powers of the mind.

In one room, Sinclair would make a drawing and place it into a sealed enevelope, while in another, Mary would "tune in," retrieve the image, and make her own copy. Or she would record a telepathic message sent from someone far away. Her accuracy rate was astonishing, leaving no room for random chance as an explanation, as they continued to collect scientific data over three years.

In "Mental Radio," Sinclair describes remarkable experiments, comparing telepathy to radio broadcasting, with one brain sending out a "virbration" and another picking it up. The results convinced Sinclair that telepathy is real, that it is unaffected by distance, that it can be culitvated, trained and - most importantly - can be verified and studied scientifically.

For the first time in many years, here is the complete text of "Mental Radio," including Mary Craig Kimbrough's well tested instructions on how to learn the "art of conscious mind-reading." Here is the classic book that impressed Albert Einstein who, in his preface to "Mental Radio," praises Sinclair for being a conscientious observer and writer and for his good faith and dependability in reporting paranormal research. William McDougall, known as the "Dean of American Psychology" at the time, was so inspired by the Sinclair's work that he established the parapsychology department at Duke University, which went on to become, for a time, the country's premier paranormal research institution.

Upton Sinclairs "Mental Radio" is the first release in Hampton Roads' new "Classic in Consciouness Series."

About the Author

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, to an impoverished family, Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) was a journalist, editor, political activist, politician, and Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist. At the age of fourteen he enrolled at the City College of New York where, to pay for his education, he began his writing career. It was also during his college years that Sinclair discovered, and embraced, the philosophy that would inform his work, his life, and his political career as a formidable and progressive member of the Democratic Party during the Great Depression. But it was for his novel The Jungle—an unsparing indictment of the meatpacking industry—that Sinclair gained national prominence as one of the most influential muckrakers of the twentieth century.

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hampton Roads Publishing; Russell Targ Editions ed. (February 1, 2001)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1571742352
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1571742353
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.9 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.15 x 0.67 x 8.98 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,668,137 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,234 in ESP (Books)
- #47,783 in Memoirs (Books)

Customer Reviews:
42

About the author

Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations.

Upton Sinclair

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.

Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American author who wrote nearly 100 books and other works across a number of genres. Sinclair's work was well-known and popular in the first half of the twentieth century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943.

In 1906, Sinclair acquired particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle, which exposed conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. In 1919, he published The Brass Check, a muckraking exposé of American journalism that publicized the issue of yellow journalism and the limitations of the “free press” in the United States. Four years after publication of The Brass Check, the first code of ethics for journalists was created. Time magazine called him "a man with every gift except humor and silence." He is remembered for writing the famous line: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon him not understanding it."

Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Customer reviews

4.3 out of 5

42 global ratings

How customer reviews and ratings work

Sort reviews by

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Stepping Out On A Limb For The Sake Of Truth

Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2002

Verified Purchase

Upton Sinclair took a considerable gamble by writing this book and had to withstand a good deal of criticism as a consequence of it. It was obvious, though, that he felt this was a story that needed to be told, and we should be glad he went through with his hunch.
The book is essentially a description of a large number of experiments done in the areas of mental telepathy and remote reviewing, broken down into sets or groups of sessions. The author tends to bend over backwards to convince the public of the sincere intentions of all involved in these tests - mostly his wife, himself, his secretary, brother-in-law and several friends and associates.
The information is presented in a very frank and accessible manner, without a lot of protocol and formality, because the tests were being carried out by non-scientists who were just trying to be as diligent as possible. This in turn makes for easy reading by the layman.
Chapter 21 is a verbatim account by Sinclair's wife (whom he calls by her middle name, Craig). It is both a handbook of her methodologies and a fascinating insight into the way she theorizes the workings of the mind. This is very useful information for anyone wanting a "how to" for remote viewing or telepathic research and is a very simple sequence of instructions. Of course a great deal of practice would be necessary to achieve the necessary level of concentration required. But at least one can have a distinct roadmap to follow as opposed to a lot of vague references.

49 people found this helpful

A small gem in the paranormal field.

Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2020

Verified Purchase

Whenever I read an intelligently written book about telepathy - a less 'fight worthy' topic within the field of the 'paranormal' - it's with the hope that its contents are enough to contribute to an already impressive body of literature affirming its reality. Amid the hoaxers, frauds or, as Sinclair himself describes in these pages, well-intentioned folks using gifts unwisely, skeptics jostled for position to decry such beliefs. This book has its own Wikipedia entry making sure that the reader is aware these 'experiments' weren't conducted in lab settings. We don't feel dismayed at all about this information, which makes us right brained and/or credulous. (Since telepathy is often attributed to claims of 'evidence' from mediums professing to bring messages from the afterlife, the subjects are often mentioned interchangeably, even if we find them to be different ends of the same playing field, so to speak.)

It bears mentioning that Sinclair was past the age of fifty when he and his wife Mary Craig Sinclair - the 'sensitive' who made the experiments possible - began the series of experiments. This was also decades before the acronym ESP was used to describe extrasensory perception: In this sense, the title 'Mental Radio' was apt. Due to a siege of bad health that required her to rest frequently, Upton's wife had been increasingly able to gather her focus via a meditative state during which she was often able to describe, over time and distance, the actions of both friends and strangers over the course of years. Too, the author provides enough separate testimony to convince at least open-minded skeptics of events that challenge the notion of 'sheer coincidence'. For those of us already certain that such stellar synchronicities exist, the accounts are more entertaining.

To their credit, both Mary and Upton were diligent about the methodology utilized to preclude charges that they somehow manipulated results. Since comparative drawings are the chief examples used, it's easy enough for the reader to make his own judgement as to 'hits' and 'misses'.

ESP, although still thought of as new age in 1930, was considered more tame than claims of soul survival, so it was surprising to read the degree of defensiveness Sinclair employed to explain his involvement in said work. Perhaps seeing his explanations as simple dialectics is a better description.

In all, the Kindle version of 'Mental Radio' is only $2.50, less than a hundred pages long and an enjoyable look into events that were rightly fascinating enough for a novelist to tell about though it risked, he frets throughout the book, threats to his professional reputation. Lastly, for those of us who have read and greatly enjoyed several of his excellent books already, it's also an interesting look at a brilliant artist's personal life.

7 people found this helpful

A remarkable classic.

Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2011

Verified Purchase

This book had a huge impact when it was first published, and it is easy to see why. It is lucid, straightforward, brave and honest, and it tells a fascinating story of one woman's explorations in developing control over her own telepathy and clairvoyance -- her ability to gain information without using the normal senses. There is a foreword by Einstein, and the fine prose of Upton Sinclair, as he tells of his wife's adventures. For those who like the implicit romance in things, it is clear that he loved and admired her in equal measure -- hugely. Perhaps best, Mary Craig Sinclair reflects very clearly on how she does what she does, and gives any aspiring explorers a wonderful roadmap for the territory.

2 people found this helpful

Amazon Customer

The reader feels like a scientist themself

Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2016

Verified Purchase

This book is unlike no other. You won't be able to put it down. Upton's stimulating approach tonpresenting his case is highly entertaining and effective. The reader feels like a scientist themself, overseeing the study and results. These are the first studies of its kind. There are certainly more to our senses and brain function than we are willing to recognize. Rupert Sheldrake, Nikola Tesla and Einsteen would all agree!

2 people found this helpful

False advertising

Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2013

Verified Purchase

This book...more of a pamphlet, actually, is a listing of experiments in telepathy, yet the book claims to be an anthology of modern classics by several different authors. It repeatedly refers to "figures" , presumably pictures to illustrate the example previously given, and then doesn't show a picture, just the word "fig. 1" and so on. Whomever published this was seriously impaired at the time, as it is nothing more than some notes gathered into a slim volume of nothing.
Returning it and requesting a refund as it was literally worthless.

4 people found this helpful

Top reviews from other countries

David Esp

Illustrates crucial subtleties of the enigma

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 25, 2021

Verified Purchase

I was drawn to this book as a reference from another book on the same subject, by Dr. Hal Puthoff, a subject whose possibilities and proposed underlying mechanisms intrigues me.

See more reviews

Get to Know Us

Make Money with Us

Amazon Payment Products

Let Us Help You

English $USD - U.S. Dollar United States

© 1996-2024, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates