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“I think Ted Owens was a most remarkable man, and although
I’m damned if I know whether he was really in touch with
'Space Intelligences,' I think there seems to be no reasonable doubt
that he had an astonishing capacity for causing changes in the weather…”
—Colin Wilson, author of over 80 books, including The Outsider and Rogue Messiahs

     Before The X-men, or Close Encounters of the Third Kind, there was Ted Owens. A brilliant, if not difficult, man Owens claimed he was a psychokinetic master with powers that allowed him to move matter with his mind, control the weather, and cause civil unrest. Even more outrageous, Owens said he had acquired his powers, and directions for its use, from his contact with extraterrestrial entities. Was Owens sadly delusional or was he one of the most powerful psychics in the history of paranormal research?  In his new book The PK Man: A True Story of Mind-Over-Matter, author Jeffrey Mishlove Ph.D. uncovers the startling and even shocking story of the life and times of Ted Owens.

     Mishlove, who received his doctoral degree in parapsychology from the University of California at Berkeley and is the host of the public television program Thinking Allowed, began investigating Ted Owens’ astounding claims to have been involved with such events as the Challenger disaster, the eruption of Mount Saint Helens, and dozens of other dramatic events. He has recorded over a hundred demonstrations, with documentation of eyewitness interviews, affidavits, and newspaper clipping of events that transpired over a twenty-year period. Mishlove also uncovers Owens’ troubling behavior including his propensity for petty acts of revenge against those he imagines to have slighted him, revealing a man who may have had remarkable powers but was emotionally incapable of handling them in a responsible way. Owens often attacked those he felt were his enemies—including a “psychic attack” against the author. Ultimately, however,  Mishlove concludes that the redeeming value of Ted Owens’ experiences, including the darker aspects, is that they point to powers of psychic ability potentially available to many of us.  The Pk Man is both an investigative report on those phenomenal powers and a cautionary tale of using them without the necessary moral and spiritual development. As Harvard University psychiatrist John Mack M.D., says in his foreword, Ted Owens’ “purpose, of course, is to liberate, to awaken us from a slumbering ignorance…to recognize the power we possess to change our fate.”

October, 2000, ISBN, 1-57174-183-6, Trade paper, 5½ x 8½,  308 pages, $14.95