ABSTRACT
In the late 1950s, as Henry Belk and Andre Puharich drove from São Paulo to Congonhas do Campo in the state of Minas Gerais to meet the already well-known Spiritist medium Zé Arigó for the first time, Puharich, who recently had completed training in medicine, turned to Belk and asked almost whimsically, “Henry, what if it’s real?” Neither the medicine he had studied nor the sciences in which that medicine was grounded could explain what they, this author, and so many others were to observe that day and in the years following. Puharich and Belk were to look to parapsychology in their lifelong search for alternative explanations of the unusual events they experienced.
