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Guy Lyon Playfair has worked as a freelance writer and translator for several U.S., British and Brazilian magazine, newspapers and publishing houses. From 1967 to 1971 he worked in the press section of the U.S. Agency for International Development in Rio de Janeiro. Widely travelled, he has lived in Brazil for several years.

For two years, Guy Playfair worked with IBPP, Brazil's first and only serious psychical research organization, helping the investigate and record those mysterious phenomena.[1]. Guy Playfair was sceptical when he began his investigations but time and again, he came across hard evidence for reincarnation, communication from the dead, paranormal healing and practically every other phenomena known to parapaychologists. He has been a member of the British Society for Psychical Research since 1973 and was elected to its council in 2004. He has contributed several articles and book reviews to its journal and newsletter.

In his first book, The Unknown Power [first published as The Flying Cow by Souvenir Press Ltd., U.K. 1975] he brings a wide reading in the literature of psychical research to bear on Brazilian paranormal phenomena, including those events connected with Francisco Candido 'Chico' Xavier, Arigo and others. In The Indefinate Boundary [first published by Souvenir Press Ltd., U.K. 1976], Guy Playfair reviews evidence for the existence of psychic phenomena. The book has an appendix by Hernani Guimarães Andrade [1][2]

He wrote a study of time cycles in connection with paranormal phenomena in The Cycles of Heaven (1978). With Maurice Grosse he investigated the Enfield poltergeist over one year, as recorded in This House is Haunted (1980). If This Be Magic, an inquiry into hypnotism (both 1985). He then collaborated with Uri Geller on The Geller Effect (1986) [3]. Twin Telepathy appeared in 2002, which led to successful experiments shown on television (Richard and Judy, Channel 4, January 10th 2003; also on Discovery's Miracle Hunters and National Geographic's Naked Science). His books have been translated into about 15 languages. He has also written numerous articles for magazines in several countries, and has worked as researcher and consultant on numerous radio and television programmes.

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The Unknown Power, Publisher: Panther Books, St. Albans - 1977 ISBN: 0586042350
The Indefinite Boundary, Publisher: Panther - 1977 ISBN: 0586046380
This House is Haunted - 1980. Stein & Day, 1980. ISBN: 0812827325
The Haunted Pub Guide - 1985 ISBN: 0245542558)
If This be Magic - Jonathan Cape. 1985 ISBN-10: 0224023381 and ISBN-13: 978-0224023382
The Geller Effect Johnathan Cape, 1986 ISBN: 0586074309 ISBN: 978-0586074305
Twin Telepathy - 2002 Sterling Publishing 2003 ISBN-10: 1843336863 and ISBN-13: 978-1843336860
New Clothes for Old Souls - Druze Heritage Foundation - Oct 2006. ISBN-10: 190485009X and ISBN-13: 978-1904850090

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Skeptical Investigations [4]
Survival After Death [5]
Fortean Times [6]

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