... one of the most astounding manifestations of psychokinesis, and one of the most remarkable displays of miraculous events ever recorded, took place in Paris in the first half of the eighteenth century. The events centered around a puritanical sect of Dutch-influenced Catholics known as the Jansenists, and were precipitated by the death of a saintly and revered Jansenist deacon named Francois de Paris. Although few people living today have even heard of the Jansenist miracles, they were one of the most talked about events in Europe for the better part of a century.
I found a book on the Internet Archive titled "The Jansenists: their rise, persecutions by the Jesuits, and existing remnant: a chapter in church history" by Samuel Prideaux Tregelles, (1813-1875). It was published in 1851. This too should be an interesting read. Interestingly it's available on Amazon who have the cheek to charge $0.99 for it, presumably because it's taking up such a large amount of space on its servers.
Talbot's book also contains an interesting little anecdote about Wolfgang Pauli (Robert Jahn is aerospace scientist and Brenda Dunne, a clinical psychologist, was his associate in a number of ESP experiments that they worked on together) :
Jahn and Dunne think their findings may explain the propensity some individuals seem to have for jinxing machinery and causing equipment to malfunction. One such individual was physicist Wolfgang Pauli, whose talents in this area are so legendary that physicists have jokingly dubbed it the “Pauli effect” It is said that Pauli's mere presence in a laboratory would cause a glass apparatus to explode, or a sensitive measuring device to crack in half. In one particularly famous incident a physicist wrote Pauli to say that at least he couldn't blame Pauli for the recent and mysterious disintegration of a complicated piece of equipment since Pauli had not been present only to find that Pauli had been passing by the laboratory in a train at the precise moment of the mishap! Jahn and Dunne think the famous “Gremlin effect,” the tendency of carefully tested pieces of equipment to undergo inexplicable malfunctions at the most absurdly inopportune moments, often reported by pilots, aircrew, and military operators, may also be an example of unconscious PK activity.
Before "Wholeness and the Implicate Order", "The Holographic Universe", Therese Neumann, the Jansenists and Wolfgang Pauli, there was this video that first introduced me to the ideas of David Bohm. However, it is now private so I can no longer link to it.
