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created: 2025-07-22
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title: Sheila Ostrander
tags:
- person
- author
- parapsychology
description: Sheila Ostrander is an American author known for co-authoring "Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain," a book that popularized Soviet and Eastern European psi research in the West.
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[[Sheila Ostrander]] is an American author who, along with [[Lynn Schroeder]], co-authored the 1970 book *Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain*. This book played a significant role in popularizing Soviet and Eastern European [[Parapsychology|psi]] research in the West. The book portrayed a "veritable frenzy of psychic research" going on in the [[Soviet Union|USSR]], with investigators uncovering powerful natural clairvoyants, psychokinetic prodigies, and dowsers whose talents could potentially be employed against the West.[^1]
Ostrander and Schroeder's work, which included accounts from figures like [[Eduard Naumov]], contributed to the growing awareness and concern within the U.S. intelligence community about a potential "psi gap" with the Soviet Union, ultimately influencing the decision to fund and initiate programs like the [[STARGATE PROJECT|Stargate Project]].[^1]
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[^1]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers*. Dell, 1997.