Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer
Author, Extraordinary Knowing
This video introduces Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, an internationally-known psychoanalyst and author of Extraordinary Knowing: Science, Skepticism, and the Inexplicable Powers of the Human Mind.
In 1991, when her daughter’s rare, hand-carved harp was stolen, Lisby Mayer’s familiar world of science and rational thinking turned upside down. After the police failed to turn up any leads, a friend suggested she call a dowser—a man who specialized in finding lost objects. With nothing to lose—and almost as a joke—Dr. Mayer agreed. Within two days, and without leaving his Arkansas home, the dowser located the exact California street coordinates where the harp was found....