Harary, Keith (1953-)

Parapsychologist, born February 9, 1953, best known as a subject in parapsychological experiments in out-of-body experiences. During the early 1970s, under the name Stuart Blue Harary, he worked with the Psychical Research Foundation on experiments during which he seemed to interact with a kitten while out of his body. During these same years, he was research consultant with the American Society for Psychical Research (1970-71) and was a research consultant with the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man (1972). He graduated magna cum laude from Duke University (B.A., 1975) and completed his doctorate at the graduate school of the Union Institute (1986).

Since 1982, when he changed his name to Keith Harary, he has had a dual role as a trained psychologist and a subject of parapsychological research. Following graduation he became a writer and lecturer on parapsychological topics. It has been his hope to promote the practical applications of psi. In the early 1980s he worked with Russell Targ and became known for his predictions concerning silver futures for one of Targ's clients. In 1985 he cowrote The Mind Race with Targ. Through the 1980s he worked to popularize parapsychology and to educate people about their individual abilities to experience psychic events of an uplifting and expansive nature. He believed that if a "higher perceptual, communicative, and thinking capability exists within us, then it cannot be consigned to the psychic and paranormal. It must be understood within the context of normal experience and achievable human potential and considered within the emerging framework of mainstream science." In this endeavor he wrote a series of popular texts with Patricia Weintraub. He has written widely for parapsychological journals as well as for more popular mass-circulation periodicals. In 1984 he was chairman and organizer of the first national "Psychology of Extended Abilities" conference at the Esalen Institute.

Sources:

Harary, Keith, and Patricia Weintraub. The Creative Sleep Program. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989.

——. The Erotic Fulfillment Program. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990.

——. The Free Flight Program. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989.

——. Have an Out-of-Body Experience in 30 Days. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990.

Harary, Stuart Blue [Keith Harary]. "A Personal Perspective on Out-of-Body Experiences." In Mind Beyond the Body: The Mystery of ESP Projection, edited by D. Scott Rogo. New York: Penguin Books, 1978.

Targ, Russell, and Keith Harary. The Mind Race: Understanding and Using Psychic Abilities. New York: Villard Books, 1984.