Guy Lyon Playfair is a first rate paranormal investigator who's work extends back over the last several decades. Playfair has never really been given the recognition he deserves in the field. He has been a member of the Psychical Research Society since 1973 and was elected to its Council in 2004.
White Crow books is to be commended for bringing back this fascinating look at the Spiritist/paranormal landscape of Brazil in the early 1970's. Playfair is an excellent writer bringing in-depth and well rounded accounts of his experiences there. I first read his "This House is Haunted: The investigation of the Enfield Poltergeist" in 1980, which remains one of the most comprehensive first hand accounts of the poltergeist phenomena to date.
In "The Flying Cow" his parapsychological survey of Brazil covers such topics as the influence of Alan Kardec's Spiritism on Brazil and the three primarily derived sects from Spiritism there. Profiles of well known Brazilian mediums, including the legendary Carlos Mirabelli, and Chico Xavier among others. As well as case studies on psychic surgery, a topic which became international news headlines in the early/mid-1970's. It's a rich, heady and remarkably contemporary study that belies it's 1975 origins. Plus this White Crown edition allows the author to provide updates on some of the events and personalities discussed.
This book will make the most hesitant field or armchair psychic investigator yearn for a flight to Brazil and the psychic wonders therein. Highly recommended.
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