The Men on Magic Carpets
Searching for the Superhuman Sports Star
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2020
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Verlag)
978-1-4729-4261-6 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Verlag)
978-1-4729-4261-6 (ISBN)
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The bizarre true story about the cosmic side of sports.
In the 1970s the US military believed they could create a '"super soldier"--one who could use psychic powers to walk through walls, disarm the enemy through telepathy, or kill a goat by staring at it. The brain behind these techniques was Michael Murphy, one of the founders of "New Age" spiritualism in the hippy enclaves of San Francisco. But Murphy's primary goal was to use these powers to create a supreme athlete capable of extraordinary sporting feats.
Murphy and his proteges have dedicated their lives to teaching athletes and coaches to use his methods. Runners locked in huts until they believed they were dead saints, spies using mind control to win chess matches, Russian Olympians "shape shifting," and golfers imagining they were Darth Vader--coaches and athletes soon began to trust in very weird things.
So weird, in fact, that sport's burgeoning obsession with money and image meant the hippies went underground and the superhuman powers became mythical. But the trailblazers are making a comeback, influencing some of the world's top teams.
Award-winning investigative journalist Ed Hawkins meets Murphy and his proteges as well as a cast of athletes and coaches convinced by their methods as he immerses himself in a world shrouded in secrecy and weirdness. In a simultaneously hilarious and unsettling tale, he experiences first-hand the techniques as he endeavors to reveal the truth about sports psychology.
In the 1970s the US military believed they could create a '"super soldier"--one who could use psychic powers to walk through walls, disarm the enemy through telepathy, or kill a goat by staring at it. The brain behind these techniques was Michael Murphy, one of the founders of "New Age" spiritualism in the hippy enclaves of San Francisco. But Murphy's primary goal was to use these powers to create a supreme athlete capable of extraordinary sporting feats.
Murphy and his proteges have dedicated their lives to teaching athletes and coaches to use his methods. Runners locked in huts until they believed they were dead saints, spies using mind control to win chess matches, Russian Olympians "shape shifting," and golfers imagining they were Darth Vader--coaches and athletes soon began to trust in very weird things.
So weird, in fact, that sport's burgeoning obsession with money and image meant the hippies went underground and the superhuman powers became mythical. But the trailblazers are making a comeback, influencing some of the world's top teams.
Award-winning investigative journalist Ed Hawkins meets Murphy and his proteges as well as a cast of athletes and coaches convinced by their methods as he immerses himself in a world shrouded in secrecy and weirdness. In a simultaneously hilarious and unsettling tale, he experiences first-hand the techniques as he endeavors to reveal the truth about sports psychology.
Ed Hawkins is an award-winning author and investigative journalist. He has written several books including the critically acclaimed The Lost Boys: Inside football's slave trade and Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy, which was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year. He has won three Sports Journalist Association awards. He lives in Kent.
| Verlagsort | London |
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4729-4261-2 / 1472942612 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4729-4261-6 / 9781472942616 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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