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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 protgs 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.



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