During his research for his major study of THEOCCULT, Colin Wilson became fascinated by three people whom heinterviewed extensively. STRANGE POWERS compiles and analyzes thecompelling stories of Robert Leftwich, a retired sales manager in Sussexwith proven powers as a dowser who also is able to take journeys out ofhis physical body; Mrs. Eunice Beattie, a hospital nurse, who haswritten hundreds of pages of predictions dictated to her by "spirits";and Dr. Arthur Guirdham, a respected British physician, who is convincedthat he is a reincarnated member of a 13th-century religious sect,about which he has written voluminously and accurately.Allthree consider their powers to be perfectly normal. If this is so, arethe rest of us abnormal? Or subnormal? Colin Wilson challenges us toconsider these questions, as well as the problem of how to gainscientific recognition for those vistas of reality that lie outside theexperience of most of us but that almost certainly exist.