Discusses various unexplained events and enigmas that remain unsolved mysteries, including dowsing, UFOs, jinxes, and the strange disappearances of people, ships, and planes in such areas as the Bermuda Triangle.
Rationalizes the psychological dislocation characteristics of western creative thinking into a coherent theory of alienation, and defined those affected by it as a type known as the outsider. A classic study of alienation, creativity, and the modern mind, whose impact and relativity to today has not been dimmed by the decades since it was first published.