On My Radar (Tuesday Edition)

I recently received a pitch from someone wanting me to review John Edward's (the psychic, not the philandering former Senator) new book. I didn't respond. I don't believe in psychic ability...not the kind he or people like him espouse anyway. It's like religion -- I don't know what I believe, but I know what I don't believe.

However, when I read about TELL ME WHAT YOU SEE: Remote Viewing Cases from the World's Premier Psychic Spy, well, despite myself, I was intrigued. Written by Major Ed Dames, U.S. Army, (retired) and Joe Harry Newman, the book has been described as "scary truth that reads better than fiction," by the Los Angeles Times.

Here's the book publicity:

Decorated army officer Major Ed Dames tells the shocking true story of his time as operations and training officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency's top-secret Psychic Intelligence Unit. Together with his Psi Spy team, Dames used the practice of remote viewing to uncover accurate and verifiable military intelligence by going where no intel operatives on the ground could go -- into the very mind of the enemy. After retiring from the military, he turned his paranormal detective skills to finding missing persons such as millionaire pilot Steve Fossett, whose plane vanished in Nevada, and a young Colorado girl named Christina White, who disappeared seemingly without a trace. He has even located one of the most legendary missing objects in history, the Ark of the Covenant. In Tell Me What You See, cosmic Columbo Major Ed Dames takes you behind the scenes of some of his most mind-bending cases.

• Reveals true stories and fascinating secrets uncovered by the military's remote viewing teams--from intelligence on Soviet missile sites to the whereabouts of missing POWs in Vietnam to the location of the Ark of the Covenant
• Maj. Dames is the most popular guest on George Noory's exceedingly popular radio show Coast to Coast AM

For anyone fascinated by the intersection of the military and the mysterious, Tell Me What You See is an amazing and completely absorbing must-read.

Well, I'm not gonna lie, it sounds interesting. Who knows, maybe after reading it, I'll be a believer. Or perhaps, Major Danes already knows. Otherwise, I'm testing the boundaries of "non-fiction".

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