Memories of a Maverick

This book is about the richness, the excitement, the ecstasies and the agonies of the life of Dr. Andrija Puharich (1918 - 1995)


Hampered by poverty, scarred by personal tragedies, he etched his way doggedly from football star, and outstanding student through medical school, on to establish The Round Table Foundation in Maine for parapsychological research, to medical discoveries, resulting in over 75 patents.

A maverick, a dedicated researcher, a rebel scientist, Andrija Puharich was both scorned by colleagues, and revered and encouraged by those gifted with foresightedness, including Aldous Huxley.

His research expeditions ran the full gamut from initial experiments with Eileen Garrett and Peter Hurkos in the Faraday Cage, to filmed forays into the secrets of the sacred mushroom rites of the Chatino Indians of Mexico, to Brazil to do investigative research on the healer Pachita and Arigo, the famous "surgeon of the rusty knife", to the Kahuna priests of Hawaii, to Israel to study Uri Geller, and the long lasting investigation into the mysteries of UFO's.

Andrija Puharich was never satisfied with one-dimensional observation. He participated in the secret rites, partook of the sacred mushroom, and let himself be operated on by Arigo and Pachita.

He was a foremost authority on ELF (extremely low frequency magnetic fields) pollution, and its effects on human organisms.

As a medical doctor, physicist and inventor, he is in every "Who's Who" of noteworthy scientists.

He conducted scientific research of Nobelprize quality, and published numerous scientific papers.

During his final years, Dr. Puharich dedicated all his time developing countermeasures against the genetic damage of ELF signals.

He developed a comprehensive theory of the state of well being based on a central frequency of near-8Hz for the homeostatic control of cell division.

He was probably the first to detail the scope for further research with dolphins involving novel electromagnetic mechanisms (including scalars), since then followed by top researchers worldwide.

He described, on the basis of experimental research, an advanced theory of subatomic physics. He successfully conducted reversal of tumors with superoxide anions and ozone.

Being considered too far out, or too ahead of his time, he was by then largely ignored by Academia and earlier colleagues.