Voyage to the Rainbow

About the Book

The Author (an internationally known parapsychologist) describes his life of research in parapsychology on training of extra sensory perception (ESP) in hypnosis.

In the first popular part of the book, he describes his experiences with testing professional psychics in many countries (from Russia, Europe, or USA) many of whom turned out to be fraudulent. The description of these trips sounds almost like a travel guide where he speaks of memorable observations of beauties of entire and customs of various nations, and comment on their political systems.

In a dramatic segment of his book he describes his illegal escape (with his whole family) from his communist native country, where the government wanted to use his Para psychological expertise and tried to recruit him as a spy. This segment, reminding the reader of novels about James Bond, the 007 agent, describes how many details of his escaped were predicted, many years before the event, by private (non-professional) clairvoyant. After his escape he took residence in USA and taught parapsychology at America universities, and also for private audiences in Europe.

In the second, more professional, part he describes in more detail special chapters from Para psychological research, such as his method of training ESP in university students, but also in students of the Institute for the Blind where he made experiments which demonstrated that ESP can be used as a replacement of lost vision in blinds.

He discusses also practical uses of ESP, like use in reliable communication, his discovery of "mental Impregnation" (a first discovery in the history of science made first by ESP, and then confirmed in laboratory experiments). Author also extensively describes his findings about the relevance of ESP research for religion, and how research in parapsychology can explain the origin of religious teachings.

As concerns the role of ESP in the future society, he predicts that it will be widely applied in technology, and also improves the understanding among people and among nations. It will then be taught in schools, just as today reading and writing.

Potential readers: psychologists, journalists, people interested in "New Age" religions, and fortune telling, students of mysticism and early Christianity, non- dogmatic adherents to religions.

About the Author

Pioneering psychic researcher Dr. Milan Ryzl (pronounced Reezal) holds a doctorate in natural sciences (physics and chemistry) from the university of Prague, Czechoslovakia.

Formerly associated with the Institute of biology if the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague, he left his native Czechoslovakia in 1967 for political reasons, and took up residence in the United States.

His research of techniques for training extrasensory perception has attracted international attention. While still living in Prague, he became, in 1963, a Corresponding Research Associate of the Parapsychology Laboratory at Duke University (Durham, N.C.). In 1963 he was also awarded the McDougall Award for the Distinguished Work in parapsychology.

Dr. Ryzl is credited with a number of 'first' he was the first to publish scientific materials on modern parapsychology in Communist countries. The first to show that ESP can be repeatedly produced in the laboratory under strict control conditions; the first the show experimentally that ESP can be used as a replacement of lost vision; the first to perform a successful experiment which showed that ESP can be used as a dependable means of communication.

A linguist fluently proficient in 4 languages, he has extensively traveled lecturing and teaching at numerous universities, such as in Prague, Moscow Leningrad, Vienna and others in Europe and Asian, including about 70 universities and colleges in the USA.

His courses taught shortly after his arrival to the USA stated the growing series on courses on parapsychology which are being offered at different colleges and universities all over r the USA.

He is the author of more that 100 research papers and books on Parapsychology (including 3 textbooks), which have been published in 17 languages. He is listed in Who's Who in the West.

A popular description of his research appeared in the bestseller Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain by S. Ostrander and L. Schroeder (1970)

In all his writings and courses. Milan Ryzl emphasizes the need for experimental evidence and for critical evaluation of data - a down to earth approach which shows the way how the facts of parapsychology can be integrated into the scientific picture of the world.