Magic & Mystery in Tibet by Alexandra David-Neel Vintage Penguin Paperback

Here is an objective account of supernatural experiences in a mysterious and forbidden land.

... Ever since her precocious childhood, Alexandra David-Neel wanted "to go beyond the garden gate in search of the Unknown." She wandered through the icy fastnesses of Tibet for fourteen years in pursuit of this elusive ideal, and she finally found it. Magic and Mystery in Tibet reveals, among much else, how Tibetan mystics acquire the ability to live naked in zero tempera-tures, how they talk to each other over vast distances by telepathy, how they learn to float in air and walk on water, how they create animate objects by thinking them into existence, and how, by a secret ceremony, they cause corpses to move. It was Madame David-Neel's hope that psychic research in Tibet might be guided by the spirit of scientific inquiry. If it is, she promised,

"such research may help elucidate the mechanism of so-called miracles, and once explained, the miracle is no more a miracle."