FATE v14 n3 Mar 1961
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March 196i 35c TRUE STORIES OF THE STRANGE AND THE UNKNOWN ~ a] x _ o on ~~ i ~t _... Space Science Is Revolutionizing Your Life BINS oe Chester S. Geier -......---2--..-..2----- 25 “Using” To Heal In South Carolina leaks; Ganda se sain eas 34 The November 23 UFO GUMMIS: FUN OG ee ene ae 46 Rosaries Through The Ages Ernestsl: Crosley.c- ac -aceneelees 58 A Genetic Theory Of Reincarnation Volney G. Mathison .............---- eed O The World’s Changing Climate ging Rachel bs COnmoni eas. acs ee es 84 Guilty: The Mystery Ray That Kills “ART TAL UNV JZINVGLS JAL JU sIIGULS Ailal Paulhoghts so ee apt ce es 31 Yeats, A Poet Taught By Spirits £555 Virginia Stumbough ___...........- 40 My Mind Travels In Time And Space Louise Justice: 82 ee 65 My Experience With Eusapia Palladino CRGIO ee ee ee 80 Links Between Man And Wolf... Latest News... ~& be Death Came With Lincoln’s Son... My Proof Of - (J FEATURES Survival... Predicted By The Cards ... New Books
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MARCH Vol. 14—No. 3 Publisher: CURTIS FULLER Editor: MARY FULLER Managing Editor: CHESTER S. GEIER CO Foreign Editor: MIR BASHIR Art Director: SYDNEY BARKER { ARTICLES ~~~ TRUE REPORTS ON THE STRANGE AND UNKNOWN Space Science Is Revolutionizing Your Life —...............-.. Chester 8. Geier 25 “Using” To Heal In South Carolina 02u....ccteccecsesseseseeee Lee R. Gandee 34 pltee No member 23 UE Os .- ais ie sear areca ee Curtis Fuller 46 Rosaries Dhrough “Che sAges: .2..cicctsecsas-sccnlsotcee Ernest L. Crosley 58 A Genetic Theory Of Reincarnation 0.0... Volney G. Mathison 70 The World’s Changing Climate Rachel L. Carson 84 STORIES...» povertra ACCOUNTS OF ACTUAL EXPERIENCES Guilty: The Mystery Ray That Kills 20. cesses Paul Foght 31 Yeats, A Poet Taught By Spirits 0.2.0... Virginia Stumbough 40 My Mind Travels In Time And Space -...----..-.::scsssesesee-- Louise Justice 65 My Experience With Eusapia Palladino 02... ceecccesecceseceeeeeeee Cheiro 80 EUS SS News AND NOTES ON UNUSUAL TOPICS L SéeS Ryne PAPEL S, 95ieck nn pe ene rcs vee Curtis Fuller 6 Mpreks = Betyy- eee Ma aare A Nf aw no cash Sassari 51 ‘bhe= VW DeelOtesh ort titlen>...tas- =e ee ee Paul Steiner 52 pb riemylystie expertentes: «ss 2 ee ere a eee The Readers 53 IPredreted— bye te kG AGC St al oe ass ns ceac sn coast ec a auanssene aemoraae 69 Death Came With Lincoln’s Son ... Raymond C. Otto 83 sa Dy eVsagt ECA a aya 2 UO p Oe K EL ped 9 9] CS eet ar ieee te na Sipe De ee Se ete pele 94 Published every month by CLARK PUBLISHING COMPANY, 845 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, Illi- nois. Second class postage paid at Evanston, Illinois, and at additional mailing offices. We do not accept responsibility for the return of unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or artwork. Subseribers should notify us of address changes 30 days in advance, giving both old and new address. Copyright @ 1961, CLARK PUBLISHING COMPANY 4
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, “ey by the Mapers.e. QUOTE OF THE MONTH We are now in a position of hav- ‘ng a real and compelling reason to explore space — but the space ships we can build cannot possibly take us where we want to go. The space _ ship, in a word, is obsolete before i?’s launched.— Joseph Gies in This Week. io a) FRUSTRATION? HE ABOVE conviction represents a summary of the conclusions of leading space scientists and is based on the following reasoning: The planets of our own solar system probably do not have in- telligent life, and while intelligent life almost certainly exists on mil- lions of planets in our own Milky Way galaxy, the mathematical chances are against it existing on the planets of nearby stars... . .... Even if we might some day build space ships capable of flying at the speed of light, even such ships flying for 100 years, could reach only a small number of near- by stars. “In the vast reaches of the Uni- verse,” says Joseph Gies in This Week, “that’s like having an auto- mobile that can barely get out of your driveway.” BREAKTHROUGH? UT WAIT a minute. The above beliefs of space scientists are themselves based upon convictions and premises which may not be true. One such conviction, for example, is the idea that the swiftest space ship conceivable is limited in speed by the speed of light. Maybe not! Another misconception is that space ships would travel in a straight line. Maybe not! Maybe they could cut across a warp. Cer- tainly, space is far different than we have imagined it to be. So are electromagnetic energy, in- ertia, and many other physical “constants.”
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HERE’S PROOF? dl ge MosT exciting piece of news we have to report to you in many months is preliminary evi- dence that objects in space may be- come weightless. In November the U.S. Air Force reported, without any amplification, that the capsule of its Discoverer XVII satellite, which was recover- ed in mid-air over the Pacific Ocean, had lost 175 pounds in weight while in orbit. When fired into orbit the cap- sule weighed 300 pounds. When it was recovered it weighed only 125 pounds. The story behind this story —as much as can be told according to an exclusive story in the New Haven, Conn. Evening Register, — begins on Labor Day of 1960. The source is Prof. Robert L. Brown, head of the science department at Southern Connecticut State College. On that Labor Day, a wooden shed behind an apartment house in Hartford caught fire. In the debris, after the fire was extinguished, were found fused metallic fragments that appeared to have been subjected to tremendous heat. The fragments were light in weight and partially coated with an alloy. The fragments were sent to Pro- fessor Brown who declared they ‘were from the Soviet satellite Sput- nik IV, which apparently exploded in orbit when a retro-rocket that FATE was to return it to earth failed to work properly and blew up. On September 14, more metallic fragments fell onto the driveway at the home of Mrs. Edward G. Kust- erer on Oak Hill Lane in Wood- bridge. The fragments were in a circle about 5% inches in diameter and were of a fine metallic material. In the center of the circle was a fragment about as big as a man’s forefinger. Professor Brown also obtained these fragments for tests. One of the men Professor Brown consulted was Townsend Brown, reputedly an anti-gravity researcher of Washington, D.C. The results of their studies, ac- cording to Professor Brown, are that the fragments which presumably had been exposed to high radiation in space, “lost weight and continu- ed to lose weight” while retaining the same bulk. In addition, Townsend Brown re- ported, a glass container in which the fragments were placed lost and continues to lose weight. The studies suggest that the loss of weight is rapid at first and then tapers off. The importance of these claims, if they can be verified, is obvious. For if a space ship, containing strength and bulk, could be made weightless, the enormous problems of power plants, fuels, landing and take-off, and other problems of ac- celeration and deceleration would
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I SEE BY THE PAPERS through the town but the town is on a river delta of sand and gravel which is not volcanic material. The scientists, according to the authoritative technical journal Na- ture, are convinced that the tremors are not of volcanic origin but they say “We cannot put forward an al- ternate explanation.” CO ONE STEP BEYOND OST OF our readers are familiar ‘with the Alcoa TV series One Step Beyond and its director John Newland. Recently Newland told the Pitts- burgh Advertising Club of an experi- ment he made with a “sacred mush- room” grown by the Chitino Indians of Mexico. Newland said he ate the mush- room, called “Amah,” in a test. Then Dr. Andrija Puharich, who is conducting ESP tests for the U.S. Army, blindfolded him and con- cealed 10 pictures behind a lead shield. “T had an awareness of images that had nothing to do with sight,” Newland declared. “I described six of the 10 with total accuracy and could not describe four,” Newland said. Newland went to Mexico with Puharich, Dr. Jeffrey Smith, a pro- fessor of philosophy at Stanford; William Upson, a missionary; and Barbara Brown, who is a neuro- II STUDY OCCULT SCIENCES AT HOME! @ READ HOROSCOPES The most complete course ever written. Many _ test horoscopes wit h instructions showing how you can use astrology oes $6.50 @ ANALYZE HAND- WRITING—step - by - step, simple method, based on latest scien- tific research inte man’s most expressive gesture. Learn to read between the lines. $5.00 @ READ THE TAROT —VFullest, most prac- tical exposition ever made of the uncanny Tarot and how to use it to foresee events in everyday life. Includes 78 authentic Tarot Cards....$7.50 @ READ HANDS—Ancient science of palmistry brought up to date and presented in a sensible, verifiable way that anyone can master . . . $5.00 @ DEVELOP PSYCHIC POWERS—How clair- voyance, psychometry, telepathy, etc., can be developed under your complete control, Most comprehensive training ever perfected. Along safe, positive Jines—student can switch “‘on’’ and “off’’ the psychic plane when he chooses, $5.00 @ EACH COURSE SENT TO YOU COMPLETE including full set of lessons, charts, examples, numerous self-tests and full model angwers. You need no special advance training. Every course supplies everything required. ORDER TODAY! Te SSS ee Se | INSIGHT INSTITUTE 845 Chicago Ave., Evanston, Il. Pearce send me the courses aneonee | below. TI enclose $------------. Check, Jcash, or money order for | I¢ ) CAST HOROSCOPES 1 ) THE TAR | I | ) READ ( IC ) ANALYZE OANDWRITING 1¢ HANDS |‘ ) DEVELOP PSYCHIC POWERS I city and State H
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I2 pharmacist at UCLA. Among the pictures described by Newland in his trance were a photo- graph of Yosemite falls and the Madonna and Child. oo) OUR BUILT-IN CLOCKS PPARENTLY, we all have built- in clocks that keep time in units ranging from 12 hours to several years. This long-suspected human pos- session recently was pointed up by Dr. Curt P. Richter in the Proceed- ings of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Richter believes that the vari- ous clocks in the body operate in- dependently of one another so that their effects are unnoticed under “normal conditions.” But in illness, all the clocks in a given bodily organ are put in phase and the in- herent cycle characteristic of the organ is revealed. The clocks may make themselves known through mental and emo- tional symptoms or through physical symptoms. One 19-year-old girl, for instance, had a temperature chart that reach- ed peaks every 12 hours — but her fever could not be explained. An- other 18-year-old girl with a food allergy operated on a 24-hour tem- perature cycle. Here are other ex- amples: @ An eight-year-old boy had tem- FATE perature and pulse rates on a 48- hour cycle, @ A 43-year-old man had regular swellings in his right knee every nine days. @ Another man had knees that swelled every seven days — but unfortunately each on a different day. ® One man had duodenal ulcer at- tacks every four-and-a-half months over an eight-year period. Nearly every function and organ of the body has its own clock, Dr. Richter reports. He believes there are at least three different biologi- cal clocks, of which the 24-hour clock is the most primitive and widespread. It is found not only in man but in other animals, birds, insects and plants. “Flow and when the other clocks appeared in different animals, what significance and selective value they had in the life of animals, remains unknown.” oo) RARE AVIS E ARE ALL rare birds to a greater or lesser extent but the gallinaceous megapode is a par- ticularly rare type bird. The mega- pode is a three-pound creature that lives in Australia and other south- west Pacific islands and is well worth studying. One reason is that the papa mega- pode may not have a built-in clock 5
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14 but he has a built-in thermometer. About 35 times a year, Mamma megapode lays an egg the size of a grapefruit. This is quite an accomp- lishment for a three-pound bird and eggsperts theorize that the egg must be somewhat resilient on emerging into the world and then snaps into the traditional shape. Promptly upon laying the egg Mamma deserts it. But Papa is lurking nearby and rushes to the rescue. He builds a mound of vege- table” material over the egg and the decay of this stuff creates warmth and keeps the egg incubat- ing. But here is another mystery. If the temperature in the nest goes over 92 degrees Papa races up and pulls off some vegetation. It it falls under 92 degrees Papa throws more vegetation on his primitive incuba- tor. How does he know when to do either? Yale University scientists think the megapode is so unusual they’re sending Ornithologist George A. Clark down under to pry into its secrets — especially the thermome- ter secret. But the megapode (the name means “big feet”) has other secrets. One is how the embryonic birds re- ceive oxygen when they’re buried under two feet of rotting vegeta- tion. Incidentally, when the young megapode hatches it is fully feather- FATE ed, able to fly and take care of it- self. Papa’s supersensory equip- ment extends only to temperature control. When the young bird is hatched it has to fight its own way out of the rotting vegetation. oo) FATE L& SUMMER Frank Ziegler of Oakland, Calif., won $140,000 in the Irish sweepstakes. Ziegler, a 62-year-old janitor, determined not to make the mistake that other big winners have made. He went into court and asked for protection. He explained to the judge that he had little education and was addicted to liquor so that he was unable to manage his money and might fall victim to swindlers. A judge appointed a bank to guard Ziegler’s savings. The money was still there when Ziegler stumbled in front of his home on September 9, suffered a skull fracture, and died a few days later. io a) THEORY OF THE SNOWMAN N THE INTEREST of fair and com- plete reporting of all sides in the Abominable Snowman contro- versy, especially since the Hillary expedition is so well-financed and well-publicized, we feel duty-bound to mention the theory of. Jeffery Douglas, a British explorer who says he spent four months trying to
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I SEE BY THE PAPERS track down the snowman in the Himalayas. “The tracks are merely those of a leaping ibex or bounding marmot,” Jeffrey asserts. “Both types of foot- print could have given rise to the opinion that some large-footed biped had passed.” Meanwhile, the Hillary expedi- tion, sending out daily dispatches with few new facts to work on, re- ports that most Tibetans and some Sherpas differentiate between the Chuteh, a large ape-like bear; the Mitheh, a small apelike creature; and Mighyu, the real genuine ar- ticle. 15 LOVELY ANIMALS HE PLAY “J. B.” —an adapta- tion of the Biblical story of Job — was in progress on the cam- pus of Michigan State University on Friday, November 11, when a bat flew over the stage and circled ac- _tor John. Carradine as he was im- personating Satan. The bat, with a 10-inch wingspread, flew into Car- radine’s dressing room and then back into the wings. No sooner had it hidden in the draperies there when another un- looked-for winged messenger ap- peared. A dove flew over the head of Actor Shepperd Strudwick as he PROPHETIC VERSES OF ANCIENT SEER OPEN THE DOOR OF THE FUTURE! Now, In one volume... THE COMPLETE PROPHECIES OF NOSTRADAMUS . contains every word of the more than 1,000 prophecies dating to the year 3797 foremost authority on Nostradamus. The secret of Nostradamus’ power to foresee the future has never been fully explained, With this book you can see for yourself the scope of the power and relate his mystic visions to actual events, past and future. Nostradamus’ forecasts of past events have come true with uncanny accuracy. NOW SEE WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS! End of the world — date and circumstances — Atomic warfare -—date of the next world war Return of Hitler — actual time when he re- turns alive. Fate of the Jews, capitalism, trade unionism, Blue buckram binding, gold lettering, ORDER TODAY! ONLY $5.00 350 pages. A.D. translated, edited, and interpreted by Henry C, Roberts Pg act a a ll eh § VENTURE BOOKSHOP i i P.O. Sox 671 5 @ Evanston, I!linois 8 E L | — Please send me my copy of THE COMPLETE @ H PROPHECIES OF NOSTRADAMUS at once. & 1 enclose [-} cash, [-] check, [} money order 9 Ufor $5.00. i t 1 : NAME occ ccc ccc scccvesercccccenseseenstss . WKddrosé? >.s2a5 ces ctr ccceessepsasses ce oee barons : WGI aio ccrcmjetientav vie tle e's" State Wiienne veslely i i Ny
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16 was on his knees blessing the name of the Lord. CoO STILL WITH US ARWooD THOMPSON is a re- tired Welsh banker who has taken up residence in New West- minster, Canada. Thompson has spent nearly 30 years investigating supernatural phenomena as a hob- by, and recently reported to the Royal City Kiwanis Club on the current status of witchcraft. It’s still with us, but it’s gone underground, reports Mr. Thomp- son. Of course, witchcraft had it’s evil side but it also had its good side, he declared — including meth- ods of effecting cures and the dis- covery of healing herbs. The song He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands is not a Chris- tian song, Mr. Thompson declares. “Tt is part of a death dance of a secret occult order. The high priest- ess is brought into the gathering in a coffin. She rises from the coffin, dances and sings. “The ‘He’ is not the Christian God but the god of witchcraft.” CoO IS IT A JOKE? H™ von Foerster is a physi- cist and professor of electrical engineering at the University of Illinois. Professor von Foerster and two students, Patricia M. Mora and FATE Lawrence E. Amiot, collaborated on an article that appeared in the November 4 issue of Science. Certainly more than half in jest, the three calculated that Dooms- day will come on Friday, Nov. 13, 2026. ; On that date, or thereabouts, the human population will have ex- panded to approach infinity and thus will automatically annihilate itself. The idea that technology will im- prove to meet human needs has worked well for over 100 genera- tions, the article points out. The “optimists” say that no matter how fast the population is growing, food technology and the industrial sci- ences will keep pace. So far, his- tory has proved the “optimists” to be correct. However, the population of the earth is now increasing so rapidly, and the rate of increase is rising so sharply, that in the year A.D. 2026.87 plus or minus 5% years, it will reach infinity, the article notes. “Fortunately, there is no need to strain the theory by undue further extrapolation,” declared the au- thors. “Our great-great grandchil- dren will not starve to death. They will be squeezed to death.” Professor von Foerster hopes his calculations will add fuel to the heated controversy about popula- tion growth control. He divides the
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I SEE BY THE PAPERS One day late in October of 1960 —a year after the cat’s burial — Mrs. Myers was again hanging up clothes in her yard when she saw a cat resembling Tubby. She called his name and the cat came running and jumped into her arms. He ran into the house without hesitation, ran upstairs and jumped onto a lower corner of the bed — just as the old Tubby used to do. The new cat shared another habit with the old Tubby. He would jump in- to a certain chair in the Myers home and come to a human-like upright sitting position in a corner of the chair. His markings also are the same as those of the old Tubby’s. ig The neighbor who had buried Tubby dug up the old grave and found it empty. A veterinarian, checked by the Richmond Times- Dispatch, confirmed that a cat with a kidney affliction is likely to go into a convulsion and become stiff. This is all very well; it seems pretty obvious that the new Tubby and the old Tubby are one and the same. But where was he during the previous year? CO BACK TO SIBERIA E WANT To bring you up to date with the latest Soviet research on the gigantic meteorite that destroyed a huge area in Si- Tiffany Thayer of the Fortean Society said: “Twice As Good As Ouija!” THOUGHT DIAL: "Ps Book That Stoppee ° The Art Linkietter Show! lt happened January 20, 1960. And it was Sydney Omarr’s sensational THOUGHT DIAL that did it—stopped the famed Art Linkletter House Party show! Linkletter, an admitted sceptic, challenged Omarr to demonstrate THOUGHT DIAL. Omarr did, whereupon an amazed Linkletter muttered before a TV-Radio audience of millions, “Fantastic, simply fantastic!’ In THOUGHT DIAL, which includes an actual “Thought Dial,“ Omarr has combined astrology, numerology and Jungian depth psychology. THOUGHT DIAL helps you tap the subcon- scious, answer direct questions; it is of aid in locating lost articles . . . and contains a section on “picking winners!” Col. A. E. Powell, FATE Magazine book reviewer, terms THOUGHT DIAL, “a fandmark in psychic research.” YOU WILL WANT TO BEGIN YOUR EXPERIMENTS IMMEDIATELY! Now eee oes eet sees ee ne cee wees Ge ST OS ro ee ] ORDER TODAY FROM: { | 9th House Publishing Co. 1 | Box 1092 I [Hollywood 28, Calif, I [Please send immediately Sydney Omarr's | THOUGHT DIAL, for whieh enelosed find $8.00. | | ASZ Shee RAP Se ates ncareaantere Neyo er I [appREss:.2..,;a0s ees Aecseepesenenk
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20 _ beria 52 years ago (see Did a Space Ship Explode Over Siberia? by Frank Edwards in the -October, 1959, issue of Fate). The Tunguska meteorite has be- come increasingly a subject of Soviet speculation. Recently Dr. Vassily G. Fesenkov, chairman of the Committee on Meteorites of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., provided the New York Times with a summary of his con- clusions on the Tunguska disaster. Early this year, following wide publicity of the theory that the dis- aster was really not caused by a meteor but by the explosion of an atomic-powered interplanetary space ship, Dr. Fesenkov’s committee cir- culated a questionnaire to scien- tists throughout the world concern- ing records kept at the time of the blast — June 30 and July 1, 1908. Apparently, there was no night on those dates over a wide area of the earth. The phenomenon aroused discussion within the French Acad- emy of Sciences at the time but no one then related it to the Tunguska explosion. As a result of his investigation, Dr. Fesenkov has arrived at the following conclusions: ® The light in the night sky came from the arrival of a comet’s tail in the vicinity of Earth. @ The head of the comet (a “small” one) consisted of dust and frozen gas in one or more dense é FATE clouds several miles in diameter. The total weight is estimated at 1,000,000 tons. They hit the earth with an explosion comparable to the force of an equal amount of TNT. The blasts seem to have been con- centrated over three centers. ® Careful analysis of the explo- sion area has disclosed only the presence of microscopic globules, often hollow, of magnetic and sili- cate compounds — clearly of “sec- ondary origin.” @ The object’s speed has been cal- culated at about 25 miles a second, which indicates it was not orbiting the sun in the direction character- istic of planets and meteorites. The only reason Dr. Fesenkov offers against the space ship hy- pothesis is that “there are no planets with highly organized life from which such a ship could descend.” Dr. Fesenkov’s objection may well be valid— but how does he know? io 2) MORE ON SIBERIA A Soviet engineer who also par- ticipated in the Siberian “me- teor” investigation has been report- ed by Tass, the official Soviet news agency, as stating that radioactivi- ty or unknown chemicals from the explosion speeded up growth of vegetation in the area. He is A. Zolotov. Tass summar- ized Zolotov’s statement as follows:
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PYUQLUOUOUUUUUUU EAA Be “EARTHLUBBERS” realize that the assault on space is revolu- tionizing their lives. The by-prod- ucts of space exploration in many ways are as important and signifi- cant as is hitting the Moon or cir- cumnavigating the Sun. They in- clude everything from new industrial materials, home appliances, control- led weather and medical advances. Current space research is ac- complishing much more than just the shedding of light on the mys- teries which lie beyond the blanket of atmosphere around our planet. The launching of larger and ever more complicated satellites, with the intention of sending a human explorer into space, is furnishing knowledge which will change the lives of everyone on Earth. Already the average person, look- ing beyond present space explor- ation by instrumented probes, is re- garding as possible human travel through space to the Moon and other planets. Although tourist travel to Mars and Venus is actual- ly far in the future, manned flight in orbit is very close. Such space efforts as Project Mercury now have | SPACE SCIENCBIilllifit{liIII0IHII0IHiNINAtttinentiitnitttitieS is Revolutionizing YOUR LIFE The effort to reach new worlds in space is creating new world right here on old Earth. Sea UUULUUDUCUAUUUUAUOGAASEGAAACEATLAGTUAUAAUUUHAAAAAA AAA HUNAN By Chester S. Ga the highest national priority. Project Mercury represents an attempt to solve the most immedi- ate space flight problems of the United States. An effort in what space authorities call “short dura- tion manned orbital flight,” it originally was planned for the end of 1960 and may already have been made when this article sees print. The aim of Project Mercury is to give one of the seven “Mercury astronauts” a short ballistic flight from Cape Canaveral in a Mercury capsule boosted by a Redstone mis- sile. A preliminary to orbital flight, the test will allow a check-out of the Mercury system, and also provide vital data about such problems as acceleration, re-entry, weightless- ness, communications, controls, ob- servation and recovery. With this data available, plans will be made to launch a manned Mercury capsule into orbit with an Atlas missile before the end of 1961. It will be one of the most ambitious scientific and technical undertakings of all time. The flight program involves three passes around the earth in about four and 25
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26 a half hours, with recovery of the capsule in the Atlantic near Antigua. The next stop after Mercury is Project Dyna-Soar. Also intended to furnish information about short- duration manned orbital flight, it will differ from Mercury in that the re-entry technique will involve glid- ing and skipping rather than blunt- nose ballistic return. In other words, the planners of the flight expect the Dyna-Soar pilot to be able to land at an airport in a specific geo- graphic region, while the Mercury astronaut will fire a retrorocket in an effort to drop within a fairly long strip of water in the Atlantic. Longer flights will introduce ‘many new problems, as well as make more acute such current prob- lems as those of air supply, food and water, radiation hazards, guid- ance and orientation, and psycho- logical reactions. Additional new problems will arise as circumlunar and planet observation flights are followed by landings on alien terri- tory, and will include successful survival outside the space ship. The problems presented by the different kinds of hostile environ- ment spacemen will encounter will require advance study and special solutions. The Moon, for example, is believed to be airless for all practical purposes, with extreme variations in temperature between sunlight and shadow on the surface. Except for large topographical fea- FATE tures, little is known about moon surface conditions. There is good indirect evidence that the Moon is covered with a layer of dust, but how deep this is remains to be seen. Mars and Venus will present other problems. The atmosphere of Mars is thinner than that of Earth, with daytime summer temperatures which are believed to be bearable. Some scientists expect to find water at the poles in the form of hoar- frost and also the equivalent of lichens growing in some areas. Other scientists believe that the data afforded by our instruments has been misinterpreted and that, instead of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and chlorophyl and frozen water on the surface, ex- plorers are likely to find various nitrogen compounds, mostly poison- ous to man. Even greater uncertainty exists concerning conditions on Venus, which is eternally hidden by clouds. Recent observations of the planet indicate a surface temperature hot enough to melt lead. As yet there is no definite evidence to indicate whether Venus is desert-like and arid or whether it is blanketed in steam. Of course, if the tempera- ture estimates are accurate, water on the surface is impossible. As rocket designers run up against new problems, chemists, physicists, metallurgists and electronics engi- neers start working to solve them.
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SPACE SCIENCE IS REVOLUTIONIZING YOUR LIFE 27 They search for lightweight plastics and metal alloys that can be made into extremely thin, strong shells for rockets. They search for elec- tronic “micromodules” — extremely tiny switches, coils and relays which are necessary for compact rocket- borne radios and guidance systems. Almost as fast as new discoveries in research laboratories are an- nounced, researchers in other lab- oratories begin looking for practical civilian applications. One of the needs of space researchers, for ex- ample, was glass that could with- stand extremes of temperature with- out melting or cracking. Corning Glass Works produced Pyroceram. The space researchers got their special glass — and housewives got temperature-resistant skillets. and pans which could be moved from a refrigerator to a hot oven. Such civilian applications of space research constitute your blast-off to the world of tomorrow. Here is a prophetic picture of the wonders this new world holds for you: In your home you will use glass that stays permanently sterile, air conditioners and refrigerators with no moving parts, toasters that are virtually indestructible, a house paint that never needs to be re- newed, cheaper and truly portable TV sets, hi-fi truer in tone than anything you yet have heard. You will drive a car and live in a house made of materials far stronger and lighter than anything now available. Your car also will be safer. Cur- rent research in acceleration stress- es, particularly the sudden ones as- sociated with emergencies, will lead to automobiles of improved design to reduce serious injuries in acci- dents. Automobiles also will have electronic senses to detect trouble before is becomes serious. Seated before your TV screen, you will watch programs broadcast from London, Paris, Rome, Mos- cow —all parts of the world. Sig- nals will be beamed to your set by a satellite packed with electronic equipment, circling the equator at exactly the earth’s speed at a height of 22,000 miles. The groundwork for such a satel- lite, which will be capable of re- ceiving and transmitting TV pro- grams on an instantaneous basis, was laid by a Project Score “pack- age” sent into orbit by the Army in December, 1958. Score made pos- sible for the first time the transmis- sion of voice, teletypewriter and other electronic signals from a sat- ellite to stations on earth. While you are watching instant- aneous, world-wide TV, your mail will be delivered by rockets to all parts of the world in far less time than now afforded by airmail de- livery. If you are in a particular hurry, you will be able to type a letter on a special form for prac- tically instantaneous transmission
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28 thousands of miles away. The mes- sage will be converted into electronic signals and bounced against a “nostoffice satellite” in orbit hun- dreds of miles above the earth. Picked up by a receiver, an elec- tronic printer will convert the mes- sage into typed form for delivery. New medicines, devices and tech- niques —all products of space re- search —will enable doctors to keep you in better health. Scien- tists working to perfect a liquid fuel for rockets already have de- veloped, as a by-product of their work, new chemical derivatives which now form the basis of new drugs for treating mental illness and tuberculosis. Defective human hearts soon may be repaired with new long-life, efficient valves developed for rocket mechanisms. Tn the search for candidates phys- ically and psychologically equipped to be spacemen, medical researchers have developed new techniques for examinations. They now are able to better appraise visual and hear- ing ability, cardiovascular, meta- _ bolic and neurological systems. Devices and tools used by your doctor will be smaller, lighter, easier to handle, more precise and reliable. Tiny instruments for tele- metering human physiological re- actions will report quickly and ac- curately on your blood pressure, metabolism, temperature. Even your dentist will do a faster, less painful ~ FATE job on your teeth with a new air- turbine dental drill using micro- scopic-sized bearings developed in rocket research. Space researchers visualize that very long voyages may be made by astronauts in some form of hiber- nation, such as deep-sleep and hypo- thermia or quick-freezing of the whole body. On earth the tech- niques will be used to cure some illnesses, or to handle patients in long and complicated operations. Some of the current space research techniques for lowering body temp- erature rapidly already are being used by surgeons, who find they make new operations possible. Hospitals will handle many pa- tients in a state of hibernation, or suspended animation, as a means to quicker convalescence and to avoid the monotony of a long hospitaliza- tion, as well as to reduce hospital operating costs and expense to the patient. In the hospital of tomor- row hibernating patients will be kept in small compartments instead of rooms and their needs will be at- tended to by electronic devices. It is suggested that aging in human beings may be delayed by periods spent in suspended animation. Space medicine researchers vis- ualize mechanical organs to sub- stitute in space for normal human ones. Space explorers of the future may overcome the rigors of alien environments by having their breath-
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SPACE SCIENCE IS REVOLUTIONIZING YOUR LIFE 29 ing and digestive systems replaced by mechanical devices. This would create a man-machine for which the term “cyborg” has been coined —a combination of “cybernetics” and “organism.” If “cyborgs” can be created for space travel and ex- ploration, death in earthbound men by massive failure of vital organs could be overcome by use of me- chanical substitutes. Research aimed at protecting men against radiation hazards in space may lead to a better under- standing of the problems of back- ground radiation on earth, and also produce drugs to reduce harmful ef- fects of radioactive fall-out from nuclear weapons. Promising results have been reported in connection with such drugs. . Another possibility is that astro- nauts may use marrow from their own bones to fight lethal effects of radiation in space. At a recent conference on space medicine at Brooks Air Base, San Antonio, Tex., Dr. John F. Thompson and Dr. Harvey M. Pratt of Argonne Na- tional Laboratory reported that the use of bone marrow injections has proved to be by far the most suc- cessful approach to the problem of recovery in animals exposed to ra- diation. Bone marrow, they stated, is valuable in overcoming radiation effects because of its cell building functions. They suggested that be- fore an individual was exposed to radiation, bone marrow could be removed from him, stored until after he had been exposed and then re-injected into him. A new science called magneto- hydrodynamics indicates that the electricity you use in the new world of tomorrow will be created with- out a mechanical generator. The applications of rocket re- search to industry already are nu- merous and promise to be limitless. Among them are new resins used in laminating, metal-bonding and metal-casting; temperature sensors which give more accurate heat measurements; tunnel diodes which are no larger than thumbtacks and do the same job as vacuum tubes; a special heat-enduring tire which was developed for rocket recovery vehicles and is being used for com- mercial jet planes; and lightweight hydraulic pumps, developed for rocket motors, have industrial uses. Along with benefits to industry, rocket research is creating oppor- tunities in new and unusual ca- reers, such as plasma physics, the- oretical gasdynamics, electromag- netic propagation, hypersonics and shock phenomena, thermodynam- ics, hydromagnetics, and micromin- _ jiaturization. As research continues further opportunities will arise in fields so new that at present they can be imagined only by a kind of science-fictional extrapolation. A new era in meteorology was
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30 ushered in with the launching, in November, 1960, of Tiros II, the second U.S.A. weather-eye satellite. The 280-pound spacecraft has sent back excellent TV pictures of cloud patterns taken 400 miles in space. Tiros II is the forerunner of a revolutionary weather-predicting system which will aid you in your business and even advise you on what to wear tomorrow or a month in the future. Within a decade or a little more it is expected that a dozen or so weather-eye satellites will circle the earth at heights of 500 to 20,000 miles. Peering down on earth with their TV cameras, they will record world tempera- tures; rain, snow and thunderstorm areas; atmospheric pressures; cloud density and distribution; changes in the sun and its radiation. Using this information, meteor- ologists will be able to spot storms and hurricanes long before they do any damage. They will be able to evolve more accurate weather fore- casts and extend them to cover periods of months in advance. Accurate knowledge of future weather conditions will make pos- sible weather control. Meteorolo- gists will be able to decide when and how weather changes can be brought about. By such techniques as “cloud seeding,” they will be able to route weather and literally make deserts green. Among other wonders of tomor- FATE row’s new world will be Transit navigation satellites which will make possible air and sea travel on the most precise—and therefore the safest — courses that ever have been charted. To get a “fix” on their position, navigators on ships and planes no longer will need sex- tants or radio beam finders. In- stead they will “tune in” on Transit satellites some 400 miles out in space. Navigational data from the satellites, fed into small automatic computers of advanced design, will pinpoint their position. The new world of tomorrow is closer than you may think. Late in October, 1960, the National Aero- nautics and Space Administration announced a program to send a three-man space craft on a recon- naissance trip around the Moon by 1970. Three large rocket research firms currently are making feasi- bility studies of an advanced space ship known as Apollo. The suc- cessor to Project Mercury, the Apollo will undergo flight tests. in 1962. It should make an earth- orbiting manned space flight in 1966, followed by a trip to the vicinity of the Moon about 1968. It is unlikely that you will em- bark on any of the tourist trips that eventually will follow and that you will ever step forth on the Moon or on Mars—but you will without doubt walk a marvel-filled, new world.
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path Billy Peterson's weird death is == The Detroit Sore Press Ee pic JRE SEE TSE seoay. sermenee 1 em Oe Guard far 338 Youry Vat MAN’ S$ BURNED BODY IN CAR | MYSTIFIES PONTIAC POLICE|| Ye tHe Td ge Bete Cmte baffling enough — but the one logical answer creates an even greater puzzle. | Biss TuoMAs PETERSON is dead at the age of 27. He died at Pontiac, Mich., on December 13, 1959, These are the only facts about Billy Peterson’s death which are true beyond any doubt. Authori- ties agree to these facts, but on the other circumstances of Billy’s death they remain in complete disagree- ment. Police Detective Robert Wachal who first suspected murder, now says Billy died a suicide. 31 Pontiac General Hospital’s chief pathologist says carbon monoxide poisoning killed Billy. Deputy Coroner Dr. John Marra has ruled that Billy died accident- ally. And Oakland County Prosecutor George F. Taylor says, “We haven’t closed the case yet.” This confusion of competent pub- lic officials is understandable in view of the circumstances of Billy’s death. At 7:00 P.M. on a Sunday eve-
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32 ning, Billy left his mother at his uncle’s home and drove one mile to his own house. Forty minutes later police and firemen found Billy dead in his smoldering automobile parked in his own garage. When rescuers took Billy’s body ~ from the car they were amazed to find that his face and arms were badly burned although there was no fire in the car. The car was hot, hot enough to melt a religious statue on the dashboard and the back seat was smoking. But noth- ing had been burned. Nothing but Billy’s body. The law officers rushed Billy’s body to Pontiac General Hospital _ for an autopsy. Here, doctors are reported as saying, “It’s the strang- est thing we ever saw.” Although Billy’s body was cover- ed with burns, his clothes were not even singed — not even his under- wear. Also completely untouched was the hair on his face and body. Whatever burned young Bill de- stroyed his skin and his flesh, but left his clothing and his hair en- tirely intact. The burns were extensive. His ears and nose were burned, but his eyebrows were unsinged. His left arm was burned so badly that the skin rolled off. His chest, back and both legs were covered with second and third degree burns. The ultimate cause of Billy’s death was quickly discovered by FATE pathologists at the Pontiac hospital. He died of carbon monoxide poison- ing. The test used to identify car- bon monoxide poisoning is quick and positive. It leaves little room for dispute. While the doctors were observing the tell-tale violent red color of Billy’s blood, the police were find- ing other evidence that made the case look like an easily understood suicide or murder. The tailpipe of Billy’s car had been shortened and a flexible pipe had been hooked to it and run through the trunk and into the interior of the car. The missing section of tailpipe, and another piece of the flexible pipe were found in the garage at his uncle’s where Billy had worked while his mother watched television. If Billy was despondent over ill health, this evidence may establish that he committed suicide. He had been on sick leave for two months, apparently because of a kidney ail- ment. Of course, he was due to re- turn to work the day after he died, and was “as jolly as could be” when he left his mother minutes before his death. Police do not appear to have pursued the idea of murder for very long after doctors began marveling at the strange nature of the burns on Billy’s body. Police first thought that he might have been undressed, tortured by burning, and then re- dressed. If this had been done his
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GUILTY: THE MYSTERY RAY THAT KILLS 33 clothing obviously would have re- mained undamaged. Then he could have been placed, still living, into his car to die three minutes later, an apparent suicide. However, the condition of Billy’s skin and flesh as observed by the doctors made it difficult for police to see how he could have been re- dressed after being burned. So Billy went into the records not as a suicide, not as a murder- er’s victim, but as an accident. That, of course, is much easier than trying to explain his strange burns, “the strangest thing” the doctors ever saw. One expert, in looking over the story of Billy Thomas Peterson, re- marked that if Billy’s burns were the “strangest thing” the Pontiac doctors ever saw, they never have seen the victim of nuclear radiation burns. Nuclear energy is the only form of energy that can destroy the flesh without damaging the body hair. Atomic radiation goes through the clothing and through the skin without damaging either. Then the radiation begins to burn the flesh from the inside out. This fact, of course, brings us to an even greater mystery. Where was Billy exposed to radiation? In the 40 minutes, from the time he left his mother until his dead body was found, could he have been taken into a hospital or lab- oratory where there might have been an x-ray machine, betatron or other radioactive source? Such in- Sstallations are always guarded and protected against misuse. It is un- likely that a murderer could have abducted Billy and taken him un- noticed into such an installation, Would Billy, a welder by trade, have an opportunity to use such equipment to do away with him- self? Where then did Billy encounter the all-consuming radiation that destroyed his flesh? Perhaps he encountered radio- activity in some natural state. Per- haps even in some natural form un- known to science. Meteorites and other celestial objects are radio- active. Some observers have also attributed radioactivity to fiying saucers. To explain Billy’s burns, does not explain his death by carbon monoxide poisoning. Ironically he may have been attempting suicide when a scornful heaven spit out a vengeful searing atom.
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to heal in South Carolina by cy hs R Gandee It's “Hex” in Pennsylvania, “Using” in South Carolina and German tradition works cures either way! a N THE HEART of South Carolina is an area of some 1200 square miles, including all of Lexington, and parts of Newberry and Saluda Counties, where the majority of the population is of German or Swiss descent. It is an area of good farms, of hardworking, thrifty, re- ligious folk, of good eating and wholesome living, and for over 100 years it was a German-speaking cultural entity having little in com- mon with the English plantation society surrounding it. Just after 1760 the Dutch Fork, | between the Broad and Saluda Rivers, which is the heartland of the Germanic area, saw the rise of a bizarre sect called “the Church of the Gifted Brethren.” Its practices included excesses, culminating in ritual murder and human sacrifice. It also taught its adherents tech- niques for inducing hypnotic 34 trances, for post-hypnotic sugges- tion, and for clairvoyance. Its leader was hanged by the outraged Colunial authorities and his chief disciples were banished to Georgia on pain of death. However, lesser figures in the sect scattered and continued to practice their arts, so that even three generations later witchcraft was common in South Carolina, appearing in legal cases as late as 1825. Presumably, much of the lore of the sect was of the sort called Hex in Pennsylvania, but it also included healing. The churches, both the Swiss Reformed and the German Lutheran, made a mighty effort to stamp out the practice of the black arts, and suc- ceeded. There are no witches in the Dutch Fork today. Nevertheless, the healers claimed that their acts were beneficial, that using magic to heal did not consti-
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tute sin. Since the people supported them the churches made no great attempt to suppress the use of in- cantations and rituals of healing. As the German language died out and English came to be the common language, the practice came to be known as Using. It is not difficult to find Users today, and they Use for many purposes. Almost every community in the Dutch Fork and the surrounding German area has some man or wo- man who can “use to stop blood,” and “use to draw fire” (heal burns). There have been famous Users who were conceded to have the power to cure goitre, diseases of the throat, of the eyes, even cancer. I do not know what ritual or formula is used to stop bleeding by these Users, but my own grand- mother in West Virginia “had the power,” and I know her method. She would be called at any hour when a neighbor had cut himself, or was undergoing an operation, or when livestock was injured or de- horned. She would turn from the telephone and mutter words, and very often, a little later, the phone would ring, and the person who had called her before would now thank her, saying that the bleeding had stopped. She did not speak the dia- lect, being a Scotch-Irish woman who married my Pennsylvania Dutch grandfather after his family had moved to West Virginia. Neverthe- 35 less, by the time I was grown, she was as Dutch as any of her hus- band’s kinfolk in her attitudes. She had, I think, learned the “power” from her own family, as her father also had it, and in her old age she confided it to me, saying that only a woman can teach a man, or a man a woman, and that in all one’s life, if one teaches more than three per- sons, he will forever lose the power himself. Her incantation worked. Until I explained the process in a mixed class of psychology students when we were studying folk-beliefs, I could stop bleeding. Thereafter, I could not. I had broken the taboo, and as belief must be the essence of the cure, the belief in the taboo cancelled the belief that effected the cure. Having lost the power al- ready, it can do no further harm to give here the words of the incanta- tion: “Angels three that never fail, Michael, Gabriel, Azrael, Azrael dark, Gabriel light, Michael altogether bright! Thou, (the name of the per- son) Born the (day, month, and year) . . . When I passed by thee, And saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou
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36 was in thy blood, Live; Yea, I said unto thee when thou was in thy blood, Live. Thus sayeth the Lord God unto Jerusalem: Thus say I unto thee. Haste, ye three blessed an- gels! Haste, Thou blessed Trin- ity!” Bible students will recognize the main part of the incantation as coming from the 16th Chapter of Ezekiel. It is said that all the in- cantations for this sort of treat- ment derive from Holy Scripture, or call upon the angels, the Lord God, or the Trinity. Probably all of them arose during the middle ages when superstitution was in- separable from Christian faith. IT have never heard the incanta- tion for “drawing fire” in English, and my knowledge of the dialect is so meager that I can say only that it is a long one, calling upon four angels, one from each of the four directions, the one from the North being charged to “draw out fire and put in frost.” It is said to be very efficacious. My next-door neighbor in Lexing- ton, S.C., exhibits scars on her arms which she says resulted from ter- rible burns she received as a child. “When she saw how I was burn- ed,” she relates, “Mother ran to FATE old Mrs. Schumpert’s house, who could use. She “used for fire” for me and the burns healed right up. They hardly hurt after she did it and you’d never know, looking at the marks it left, how bad that burn was. There was a turn of old people then that used, and a right good many still can do it.” Pressed for more detail, this wo- man becomes somewhat reluctant. It is clear that there is a feeling that the “power” is taboo, that it is better to say little about it. Still, she will name men who used for cancer, and state that they were visited by sufferers from far and near, some coming from distant states, later returning with friends who suffered the same disease. From all that can be gathered locally, the cure for cancer was dramatic and impressive enough to cause strong emotional reaction on the part of the sufferer. It is said that the user arose before dawn on seven successive days, walked to the nearest stream without speak- ing, undressed, and bathed in the running water, meanwhile repeat- ing his incantation three times. During the treatment the cancer sufferer was compelled to fast, drinking only water and eating only unsalted bread. From sundown un- til after sunrise, he could speak to no one, and while the ritual bath- ing was in progress, he was to kneel facing the rising sun, praying
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“USING” TO HEAL IN SOUTH CAROLINA | 37 for his cure. Reputedly, many per- sons who did this were cured. It would require utter simplicity to’ suppose that the ritual or the incantations effected these cures. Something else operated, and that force has been known to healers of all ages and of many religions. It is known to psychiatrists and to parapsychologists. The user who bathes seven times in a flowing stream is doing much the same thing, vicariously, as the pilgrim who bathes in the waters at Lourdes. Both acts awaken something un- known in the innermost reaches of a man’s being that heals. In discussing the cure of goitre, one of my neighbors said, “Well, now, this woman (a near relative of his) had a goitre, with her neck all swelled like it gets, you know, and she went to him toe use to cure it for her. I can’t say whether he cured it or not. You know, they say that if you happen onto a bone, say if you are walking in the woods or in a field and come onto where a cow or horse has died, and pick up the bone and rub it on the goi- tre and then lay it back down, in the same spot and leave it there, then hurry away and not look back, nor ever go by that place again, that will cure it. While she was going to him to have him use for her, she happened onto a bone that way, and that might be what cured her, but I do know this; him or the bone cured her, for soon after that the goitre just went away, and she never had it any more.” With a choice between a cow bone discovered by chance, and a man muttering incantations, it is hard to say which is the more likely to cause a goitre to disappear. The point is, the witness knew the woman who had it; he knew that she tried both treatments, and that the condition was cured. Ob- viously the woman had faith in one or both of the treatments. The real choice is between faith in the cow bone and faith in the user. It may seem irreverent to many to say this, but Jesus said once, “All things. are possible to him that believeth.” We tend to add, “in God,” or “in Me.” However Jesus did not say that. He said“... to him that believeth,” and left it at that. That is the secret of all magic and all healing. Perhaps the woman picked up the bone and laid it back, awed by the unspoken suggestion that some- thing dire might be seen if she dared look back where she had put the bone, and the emotion triggered her sluggish thyroid glands to new activity. All healing results from chemical changes in the body, with resulting alteration of bioelectrical processes and sub-atomic arrange- ment, and the endocrine glands are prime sources of secretions which alter body chemistry. Fear of the
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38 unseen watcher of the bone, the companion of death, who waits in waste places where bones lie, the unknowable from which one must flee, in dread of which one must haste and not look back —TI say, fear could have cured that woman! Fear is a tremendous force. Afri- can witch doctors have proved that it can kill. It might as easily heal. It would be interesting to observe how a goitre would respond to treatment by fear in a clinic, if real fear could be induced clinically, and if the sufferer were not unfavorably influenced by the expectations of the experimenters. They would have to expect fear to heal in order for the subject to receive the maxi- mum healing effect. On the other hand, fear might not be the agent, but rather simple faith. In nine years of living among the South Carolina Germans I have found only one of the formulae used by the healers in their own language. It was printed many years ago in the Newberry paper by Dr. John B. Mayer, a descendant of Hans Adam Sommer who gradu- ated from the South Carolina Medi- cal College, and pursued his studies further at the Sorbonne, and in Bonn and Heidelburg. He became a great doctor, but never ceased be- ing a Dutch Fork German, keenly interested in the lore of his people. Telling of a Dutch Fork woman he FATE said, “She was a wsey—one who cured many diseases, especially dis- eases of the eye, by a species of sorcery called using. Her manner of proceeding for the relief of the affliction just mentioned, was to trace the point of the finger around the eye, while she repeated in a low tone some words in the Ger- man language ... This practice is still in vogue in Dutch Fork. To give the reader an idea of what it is, I will here describe the manipu- lations, and give the words, by which the Slear is cured. The Slear is the name given to an inflam- atory enlargement of the glands about the angle of the jaw of a child. Early in the morning the child is taken to a small stream and the user, dipping up some water bathes its neck; at the same time muttering these German words: “Der Schlear und der Drach Gingen mit einander ueber’m Bach; Der Schlear sich verdrank, Und der Der Drach versch- wand; Gott der Vater, Gott der Sohn; Und Gott der Heilige Geist. Amen. “A literal translation of this runs thus: “The Slear and the dragon
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“USING” TO HEAL IN SOUTH CAROLINA 39 Went together over the brook; The Slear was drowned, And the Dragon disappear- ed; God the Father, God the Son, And God the Holy Ghost. Amen.” It is hard to consider this little jingle as more than a naive bit of folklore, but then it is not easy to put oneself in the frame of mind of a child. One must see the child as having been brought up to be- lieve that the user is a person with the power to work magic. It is not the parent who bathes the jaw, but the wonder-worker, the user. Such a person, to such a child, might well know about dragons, and his trip to the brook might be frought with the half-fear, half-anticipation of a glimpse of one; the very one who with the Slear is causing him his pain. As the cold water touches his skin, and the reassuring statement is given that the Slear is drowned and that the dragon has disappear- ed, and that the Three of the Trin- ity now make everyhing right, the child is bound to experience an emotional climax which brings fear to an acute stage, to be replaced by reassurance. In effect it causes a direct change of mind. Healing is brought about by a change of mind. Only very wise men realize that a reversal of a state of mind is best accomplished by the performance of some art, in which the subject participates, but in which his per- formance is assisted by someone who holds his confidence. Jesus spat on clay and told a blind man to anoint his eyes with it. The woman with the issiie of blood laid hold of His garment. Naaman the Leper bathed three times in the River Jordan. In Lexington and Newberry Counties there are still men who bathe in running brooks before the sun rises, and though they no longer mutter German words, their state of mind is that of the user who leads the child to the brook and there mutters magical words. And if we were to come to under- stand exactly why using will heal, then, I suppose, magic and miracul- ous are words which would no longer apply. Since magic and miracle apply only to what we do not understand. ee FIERY DESTINY N OUTBREAK of fire in a cottage at Tiburon, Calif., took the life of Dr. Elizabeth Hicks, a San Francisco surgeon. She had rented the cottage to recuperate from burns suffered two weeks before when a fire destroyed her home in San Francisco.
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Yeats, A Poet Taught by Spirits By Urge Stumbough ears tHincs had happened to me when alone in my room which convinced me that there are spiritual intelligences which can warn us and advise us,” wrote Wil- liam Butler Yeats. Joseph Warren Beach, the critic, at one time called Yeats “the fin- est of British poets of his time.” From his earliest years Yeats studied theosophy, magic and Caba- lism. He believed in occultism, fairies, banshees, revenants, astrol- ogy, automatic writing, thought 40
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\ transference, second sight, pro- phetic dreams. His poetry and prose were permeated with visions and symbols, many of which came to him in dreams, through mediums and automatic writing. But, at the same time, he had a questioning mind and often laughed at himself for believing. He took a great deal of convincing as to the truth of most paranormal phenom- ena, yet he was willing to believe, and he was often fully convinced. He was willing to go on lecture tours stating his belief in spirits publicly, thus laying himself open to ridicule. He spent many years of his life compiling, writing and re- writing and publishing, A Vision, based on automatic writing and di- rect spirit dictation, only to have it create scarcely a ripple on the pub- lic’s consciousness. Most critics agree that Yeats’ study of magic was an attempt to round out his ideal man. He felt that deeper truths could be learned through the spirit and imagination than through logic, or through prac- tical or philosophical wisdom. To be a “whole” man was his goal, and to this end he tried to fill every part of his life with both occultism and naturalism. As Ellmann put it, in The Man And The Mask, “he worked always to bring together _ myth and fact into a new religion, the Unity of Being.” He also wanted proof of immortality which 4I would be understood by everyone. William Butler Yeats was tall, with dark hair hanging down over his forehead. He had a sight defect which sometimes caused discomfort in conversation because of his queer way of focusing as he looked at his conversant. His appearance was poetic but he spoke pontifically, al- ways as if addressing a large audi- ence rather than a single person. He was never familiar or easy-going even with his closest friends. As leader of the Irish renaissance in literature, Yeats’ accomplish- ments and honors were many. He published over 35 books of poetry, plays, essays, stories, criticism and autobiography, helped to found the Trish Literary Society of London and Dublin, the Irish Literary The- atre which grew into the famed Ab- bey Theatre still in existance, was a senator of the Irish Free State, winner of the Nobel Prize for Lit- erature in 1923. All this, while he was characterized as “eccentric, foppish, dreamy, melancholy and absent-minded.” He died in 1939 at the age of 74, When he was young his mother taught him to love fairy and folk tales. His father, a Pre-Raphaelite painter, gave him an education as an artist and led him to read Ros- setti and Blake. Eventually, in an attempt to break away from his father’s skepticism, he turned to
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42 George Russell (A. E.) and began to study the occult, European and Eastern magic, and mysticism. With friends he formed the Dublin Her- metic Society in 1885. In Ireland Russell lived in a house Yeats often visited, with a group of young men called Theo- sophists much given to discussion about philosophy and the arts. They included a hashish eater, a hypno- tist, visionaries of all kinds, and Yeats shared their discussions and experiments. Once he attended a magic session where a black cock was killed and herbs burned in a big bowl, and he felt “something very evil in the room.” He often visited an uncle who believed in the supernatural, and who had a maid whose dreams came true. They all shared symbolic vi- sions, and also an interest in Yeats’ proposed Castle on the Rock for fellow visionaries. Yeats helped de- velop a system of cards with sym- bols which many would look at simultaneously, then have similiar or complimentary dreams or visions having nothing to do with the orig- inal symbols. He once brought his sick uncle out of a delirium by thinking of the symbol of water, which soothed his uncle. However, the doctor called it a form of hyp- notism. A few weeks before Spengler’s book Decline of the West was pub- lished in 1925, Yeats was given by FATE his spirit leaders, dates and symbols almost identical with those in Spengler’s book. Yeats used sym- bols to evoke “states of reverie in himself and sometimes trance states in others,” but eventually stopped using them as potentially danger- ous. Once Yeats made an invocation to the moon for eight or nine nights in succession, and finally saw a vi- sion of a centaur and a woman shooting at a star. Several other persons at some distance saw this same vision, among them Arthur Symons, who wrote a poem about it; Fiona MacLeod who wrote a story about it; the child of another student of his group of visionaries who reported seeing it as a real event. A few months later another child also told of seeing it. The symbol appeared several times in Yeats’ verse. This group of vision- aties, ritualistic and psychic, were Christian Cabalists called the Or- der of the Golden Dawn. McGregor Mathers initiated Yeats into this group. Yeats thought that symbols were the “greatest of all powers whether they are used consciously by the masters of magic or half consciously by their successors, the poet, the musician and the artist . . . What- ever the passions of men have gath- ered about, become the symbol of wonders, a caller up of angels or of devils
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YEATS, A POET TAUGHT BY SPIRITS 43 “Our most elaborate thoughts,” he wrote, “elaborate purposes, pre- cise emotions are often, as I think, not really ours, but have on a sud- den come up, as it were, out of hell or down out of heaven.” Yeats believed in a cyclic or re- peating pattern in history as shown in the recurrance of symbols or em- blems in human minds through the ages; a universal mind, or great memory, on which all can draw either unconsciously or by control- led dream or vision. “T know now,” he said, “that revelation is from the self, but from that age-long memorial self . . . and that genius is a crisis that joins that buried self for certain moments to our trivial daily mind.” To him seances were the short cut that those who couldn’t have visions could take to a better world. He began attending seances at an early age; before he was 20 he be- came so upset at one seance that he banged his head against the table and cried out, and wouldn’t go to another for years. In 1910 he met a remarkable medium on his lecture tour in America, Mrs. Margery Crandon the wife of his Boston doctor. Fol- lowing this meeting he once more took up spiritualism. In May, 1914, Yeats, Fielding and Maude Gonne the famous Irish beauty with whom Yeats was in love for years, went to Mirabeau, near Poiteirs, France, to see a pic- ture of Christ which had begun to bleed. He was convinced it was au- thentic, and wrote a report which never was published. Four days after he was married in 1917 his wife tried automatic writing, and to her surprise was successful at it. At her husband’s urging she spent an hour or two a day writing messages from his spirit guides. One of these was Leo Afri- canus, who actually lived in the early 16th Century, an Italian geog- rapher, traveler and Moorish poet, who said he had been Yeats’ guide for years. Partly because both Yeats and his wife were interested in psychical research, their’s was a happy and successful marriage. The automatic writing tired Mrs. Yeats so much, however, that after a few years Yeats’ spirit writers changed to spoken words, talking to Yeats while his wife was asleep, through her voice. This occurred for the first time in a train com- partment in southern California in America, while they were on a Jec- ture tour. This spirit dictation, how- ever, was not spontaneous and con- tinuous, but only done in} response to Yeats’ questions. He took down the answers in notebooks, filling 50 of them by 1920 when the sleep dic- tation ended. Occasionally the work was interrupted by spirit “frustra- tors,” and when his true guides be- gan to speak again, he was told that
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44 months of work was false, and must be disregarded. This spirit dictation had been of- ten accompanied by physical phe- nomena, observed by all present though not felt exactly the same by every person. They would feel “a sudden warm breath coming up from the ground” or “a sudden flash of light fell between us and a chair or table was violently struck.” “There was much whistling,” which disturbed the servants. “Sweet smells were the most constant, now that. of incense, now that of violets or roses or some other flowers.” When someone was ill there was an astringent smell, and more rare- ly there was a bad smell meaning that something needed to be ex- pelled. An extinguished candle meant that the communicators were starved. A burnt feathers smell also indicated an illness. Sometimes they heard music. Once both his wife and Yeats heard music at a time when they were apart. She sometimes saw apparitions, “a great black bird, persons in clothes of the late 16th century and the late 17th century.” With other mediums Yeats felt that lies and truth were mixed to- gether but he trusted his wife with- out suspicion. Later in life Yeats decided that trance communications were not communications from the dead, as he had thought, but were knowl- edge of truth from their higher FATE selves, based on their own previous studies and knowledge gained through such groups as the Golden Dawn Society and the Rosicrucians. He was always inclined to partial rather than whole belief in the oc- cult, in the reality of mind-created forms. “Because these imaginary people are created out of the deep- est instinct of man,” he wrote in his autobiography, ‘to be his meas- ure and his norm, wherever I can imagine these mouths speaking may be the nearest I can go to the truth.” He wished to create a mystical system based on folk truths. This mythology was to be historical and prophetic, local and patriotic. His system, as finally worked out in his book A Vision, is very similar to Jung’s as shown in the latter’s Integration Of The Personality, ac- cording to Moore. It was an adapta- tion, reduced to essentials, of tradi- tional occult ideas. As he grew older, Yeats realized that “by removing God from the universe and turning all life into cycles, he had deprived his system of any .. . basis for (ethical) con- duct.” In order to reemphasize the need of virtue, he spoke more and more of the immortality of the soul. At the end of his life he realized that he had- developed a belief in God, though he never joined a church. This was “the God of unwilling be- lief.” He did not so much escape
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YEATS, A POET TAUGHT BY SPIRITS | 45 orthodox religion as find a substi- tute for it, David Daiches points out. 2 In his Great Lunar Wheel in A Vision Yeats devised an extremely complex system of dividing the phases of a man’s life from com- plete objectivity (beauty) to com- plete subjectivity (wisdom.) It also contained all the different character types into which men can be fitted, 28 possible types of human person- ality or phases of the moon, each pictured as one of the spokes of a Great Wheel. Any human soul, he said, passes through all 28 phases in a series of incarnations, though at full moon and dark of the moon, phases 15 and one, the soul is in spiritual rather than human form. The soul has also, according to this wheel, during a single lifetime, stages like Shakespeare’s seven ages of man, but extended to 28. In 1917 a new symbol corallary to the lunar symbolism was intro- duced into the automatic writing, says Ellmann. This was a spiral, a whirling cone or spool, with two cones drawn in the script which whirled around inside each other, one subjective and one objective. These were related to European his- tory, it being shown as passing like the human soul through a cycle from subjectivity to objectivity. The cones also symbolized “beauty and truth, value and fact, particular and universal, quality and quantity, the abstract and the concrete, life and death.” These interpenetrating cones resembled the seal of Solo- mon, which is basic in magic invo- cations. In the seal one triangle rep- resents water and the other fire, and in union they symbolized the marriage of spirit and matter. In A Vision Yeats tried to relate myth, magic and philosophy. Crit- ics found the book an exasperating offspring of “astrology, Plato’s Timaeus, confused geometry, and a partial and arbitrary application of a time scheme to a personal view of history.” But R. P. Blackmur summed up Yeats achievements in these words, “Yeats has, if you accept his mode, an extraordinary grasp of the reali- ty of emotion, character and aspira- tion; and . . . his chief resort and weapon for the grasping of that reality is magic.” As J. C. Ransom added, Yeats was born into a barren and unre- ligious age which, during his life- time, became a naturalistic or irre- ligious one, against which he had to exercise a gift for splendid meta- physical imagery in poetry. He couldn’t use the symbolism of the church, in which he didn’t believe, and had to prove a poet could re- main religious outside a common body of religion. His worst critic cannot claim he did not succeed in this effort.
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the Nov. 23 UFO Meteor? Jet? Balloon? Northern Lights? Just what was seen over the Midwest? by Curtis et / hee LL Gop’s Cui~~tun had an ex- planation for an Unidentified Flying Object or Objects seen over a broad area of the Midwest from Missouri to Ohio just before dawn on November 23, 1960. The UFO was variously described as being “as big as the moon,” cigar or saucer-shaped, illuminated, 46 “Experimental aircraft’ was one explanation of- fered for Nov. 23 UFO. Among such craft is this disc-shaped Avrocar de- veloped by Avro Aircraft, Ltd., of Canada under sponsorship of U.S. Army and Air Force. (Official U.S. Air Force Photos.) and with a vaporous haze about it. It was in view in some places for as long as an hour. What was it? As we write, shortly after the event, no one knows. But public and semi-public officials and wit- nesses have leaped into print with any number of explanations. In
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fact, the explanations are so vary- ing, so ambiguous, and so contra- dictory that we propose to make them the central point of this ex- cellent, well-documented sighting. - Traditionally, UFO reporters de- scribe what was seen, what hap- pened, and give the explanations. But here we are reversing the pro- cedure and giving the explanations first and the descriptions later. @ The glow in the dawn sky was caused by foil dropped by high- flying jet aircraft from more than 25,000 feet altitude, according to Keith Muir, assistant chief of De- troit’s Air Control Center. The foil, sometimes called “window,” is used in air defense exercises to practice 47 jamming of radar. Muir stated that the foil, drifting down through the rays of the early morning sun which was not yet visible from the ground, caused the glow over Michigan. @ The Air Force said it wasn’t foil. It leaned to the theory that the UFO was a giant research balloon launched at 5:30 A.M. CTS near Sioux Falls, S.D., as part of the Tiros Satellite launching program. The AF theorized that the balloon got caught in a jet stream and was whisked over the Midwest in prac- tically nothing flat. The object sighted over the Great Lakes was seen as early as 5:15 A.M., which meant that the balloon would haye had to drift from Sioux Falls in one
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48 hour, and 25 minutes. © The UFO was the Tiros II weather satellite, which was launch- ed into an almost perfect orbit from Cape Canaveral that day and was traveling around the earth once every 98 minutes. @ It was a bright fireball — un- doubtedly a meteor. : @ It was a reflection of Northern Lights coming from behind clouds, according to a “guess” by Maj. Ronald Green, director of infor- mation at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. @ It was two B-52 bombers flying at 40,000 feet. The glow came from the condensation trails left by the jets. At high altitudes these trails freeze and became visible when re- flected in the light of the rising sun. This theory was supported by Bunker Hill Air Force Base in Indiana picking up two B-52’s at 40,000 feet on its radar. @ It was an experimental aircraft. ii ANYONE were to set out deliber- ately to confuse the thousands of persons who witnessed this sight- ing last November, he could not have done a more effective job. Meteor? Jet Plane? Balloon? Northern Lights? But let’s examine the “explana- tions” to see if they alone, without regard to the facts of the matter, are able to stand on their own feet. First, the “foil” explanation. FATE There seems little doubt that foil was dropped. The Detroit Weather Bureau and Willow Run Airport Tower confirmed it. Although Self- ridge Air Force Base at nearby Mt. Clemens, Mich., officially denied any knowledge of such a test at the time, another report stated that a shower of tinfoil was dropped over Carleton, Mich., in a radar ob- struction test. But, on the face of it, the UFO obviously was not a fall of tinfoil over Carleton, Mich. The object was seen over Missouri, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Il- linois, Kentucky, and Ohio — much too wide an area over which to see sun shining on tinfoil. Second, officials at Raven Indus- tries in Sioux Falls, who launched the huge balloon there, said it could not be the UFO. They reported that at 6:13 A.M. CST the balloon was over Spirit Lake, Iowa, and was not moving very fast. The con- trol office at the time was still re- ceiving radio signals from the bal- loon and the maximum reception is 400 miles. Third, unfortunately for the Tiros II weather satellite explanation the UFO was moving from west to east and Tiros II was travelling in the opposite direction. In addition, it was too high—over 400 miles — to be easily seen. Fourth, it could scarcely have been a fireball or meteor. The ob- ject was visible for as long as 15
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THE NOVEMBER 23 UFO minutes from a single location — not a very likely circumstance for a meteor, although the Associated Press from Madison came up with a novel explanation of this discrep- ancy. AP said it was a “slow-mov- ing” comet. This does not accord with astronomical knowledge. Fifth, it was a reflection of Northern Lights coming from be- hind clouds. The descriptions we have are much too precise and vivid to permit this explanation. Sixth, the wide areas from which the object or objects were reported rules out the explanation that it was two B-52 bombers flying at 40,000 feet—unless there should turn out to have been a number of different kinds of things all seen at the same time over the area. Seventh, it may well have been an experimental aircraft. But what kind of an experimental aircraft, and from where? Nim PERSONS agreed that they had seen a bright object trail- ed by a cone or “V” of light, mov- ing directly west to east without sound and visible from one point for as long as 15 minutes and at another for an hour. Some persons © said it was “bigger than the moon” and trailing smoke or a comet-like tail. A spokesman at Chicago Mid- way Airport said, “We’ve never seen anything like it before and 49 don’t know what it was.” The only witness we know of who watched the object with bi- noculars is the one who proposed the “experimental aircraft” idea. He is B. J. Sharrock, of 266 Oakmont Ave., Hartwell, Ohio, near Cincin- nati. Sharrock had just arrived at work in Sharonville when he noticed the UFO. He took a pair of 10- power binoculars from his car and watched it for six minutes before it disappeared. “From what I could see it was a definite solid man-made object,” declared Mr. Sharrock. He said it was cigar-shaped, like “two saucers upside down, rim to rim.” At one end was a searchlight or floodlight, shining down on a cloud. This light seemed to rotate—or at least it switched ends, making it appear to Sharrock that the object was re- volving. “On the side appeared to be a row of lights where the rims would meet. The top and bottom were real black —real shiny jet black,” Sharrock told the Cincinnati En- quirer. He was unable to see the ends clearly because of “gaseous vapors” that surrounded it. Escal Bennett, head of the U.S. Weather Bureau office in Cincin- nati, watched the object from Abbe Observatory, Clifton. “I have no idea what it was, but it was not a weather phenomenon nor a weather balloon. To me it looked like a
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50 hard core of light on the edge of a cumulous cloud, with another light flaring out about five degrees at the bottom. It was veiled in a faint fibrous white stuff, like smoke or vapor.” Bennett said that weather ob- servers at Lunken and Greater Cin- cinnati Airport towers also saw it. William Howe, who heads the Miami Conservancy District’s ob- servation program at Dayton, Ohio, confirmed Bennett’s description and added that he saw two smaller lights near it. Raymond Spitznagel of Cincin- nati said it was too bright to be a star. He said it was motionless when he first saw it. Then it moved to his left, made a kind of half circle, stopped, returned to its start- ing place and disappeared. Mrs. Bailey Dickerson said it looked like a star “but with a streamer on the bottom of it.” Several policemen members of the department at Hamilton, Ohio, gave detailed descriptions. Sergeant Ben Fox said, “It came out of the northeast like a bright little ball with a tail behind it. I thought there were two of them. Then one disappeared and the other turned and went out of sight.” Sergeant John Reece said the ob- ject was “silverish” and Patrolman Dale Richter said “it glittered.” All agreed it had a long vapor trail behind it. FATE And here, of course, is a serious discrepancy from most of the re- ports received. The object has here- tofore been described as proceeding generally west to east. But a Wis- consin report specifically declared it disappeared out over Lake Michi- gan between Manitowoc and She- boygan. Yet Sergeant Ben Fox states that it “came out of the northeast.” Things are beginning to get con- fused. Most of the sightings in Wisconsin were around 5:30 A.M, CST. Yet two Beloit police officers in a squad car spotted an object at 6:30 A.M. and notified the Rock County Sheriff's department that what appeared to be a weather bal- loon was descending in the Colley Road area. Deputies who checked the Dougan farm and surrounding territory found nothing. At Sheboygan, some object was in view for an hour between 5:15 A.M. and 6:15 A.M. An engineer from Lebanon, Ohio, on his way to Hamilton with three companions, insisted on anonymity but gave a detailed description of what the four saw. He said it was moving northeasterly and was def- initely cigar-shaped. Its flight path was “a sort of corkscrew” and it left a trail of vapor 15 times its length. He said it was silvery in appearance. A woman resident of Carlisle in Warren County, Ohio, described the
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THE NOVEMBER 23 UFO object as “a small star with a cloud of smoke behind it.” HAT ARE we to make of all this? In view of this brief analysis, certainly we can draw tentative conclusions more valid than any of the off-the-cuff “expla- nations” previously given. First, we suggest that there prob- ably was more than one object. Second, the descriptions indicate that the only explanation of the seven with any possible degree of validity was Witness Sharrock’s conclusion that it was a “solid man- made object.” We don’t know, of course, whether it was “man-made” but it is reasonable to assume that Mr. Sharrock described what he saw as “man-made” because he was unable to imagine it was not “man- made.” Tt is also reasonable to say that 51 Sharrock saw a saucer-shaped fly- ing object which he believed to be under some kind of control. Other witnesses described it as “cigar- shaped.” This has been a common confusion in UFO sightings, and is frequently explained by the fact that a thin, saucer-shaped object looks cigar-shaped if seen from some angles. We predict that when all the re- ports of the morning of November 23 are finally organized and inter- preted, they will turn out to have been a group of sightings of several similar objects which cannot be ex- plained in terms of any known phe- nomena. The sightings are significant and important and cannot be explained away by any of the “easy explana- tions” which proliferate at the time of a sighting and invariably con- fuse the facts. ie LINKS BETWEEN MAN AND WOLF AN appears to have more social behavior traits in common with wolves than with apes, according to Professor Marston Bates, a zoologist at the University of Michigan. He pointed out that man and wolf both are hunters, while apes and monkeys largely are vegetarians. Wolves, like men, are loyal to their families and even help in rearing their offspring. Among monkeys, the female alone bears the bur- den of caring for the young. Another similarity between men and wolves, Professor Bates said, is that both associ- ate in groups larger than the family. Wolves join together in packs, men in clubs or frater- nities.
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Ly SPRINT MEET a On an Austin, Tex., street, Val- entino Lopez found Mrs. Sybil Bri- ones, who had tried to stab herself to death. He rushed her to a hos- pital in his car. After physicians bandaged her wounds, Mr. Lopez volunteered to drive her home. His can ran off the road and into a ditch. Mrs. Briones was killed. ® Mr. and Mrs. Ramon Trevino of Brownville, Tex., have 12 children, each born in a different month of the year. @ Queen Elizabeth sent a telegram of congratulations to Mrs. Mary Scarthorne of Altrincham, England, on her 100th birthday. It never was delivered. The messenger got no answer to his knock, investigated and found Mrs. Scarthorne dead. e When Robert Hooker’s car went over a bank at Westfield, N.Y., the horn began blowing of its own accord and kept it up for two hours until passers-by spotted the wreck 52 FECT CTCL: The WHEEL of FORTUNE ~ By Paul Steiner ance and rescued Mr. Hooker. e Shortly after being made chief of Groeville, N.J., Wendell Fisher had to put out his first fire —in his own home. ® Bertha Crouthamel of Perkasie, Pa., said to her Bible class, “I look forward to seeing angels.” Then she slumped to the floor, dead. ® Mrs. Bessie Brown ran back into her blazing Cincinnati apartment to get her Bible. She was burned to death. @ In Washington, D.C., W. R. Hill has an office at 1313 13th St. N.W. His phone number is NO-7-1313 and his license tag is 1313. ° In Briddleton, Eng., Mark Har- rison was killed as he worked in a field, by bouncing wreckage from a plane that crashed nearby. Har- rison’s father had been killed a few years before in the same manner. \ecrruuerrrmieamanene Out
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SFATE will pay $5 for, each True Experience published. Stories; should be less than 300 words and typed (double-spaced) on one side of the paper. They should be sent to the TME Editor, FATE Magazine, 845 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, Ill. They must be signed by author and the author’s address must be given. Manuscripts will not be re turned unless accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed return envelope. THE SAME DREAM By Anna Skarles HENEVER ANYONE talks about dreams I am reminded of the time in 1939 when Aunt Bertha Neumann and my mother, Anna Ishie, dreamed the same dream. It was a year after Mother’s father, Edward Neumann, had died that he came to her in a dream. Mother often described this dream. She always told the story the same way. “T can see him yet,” she would say. “His hair was as white as clean snow and he wore gray over- alls with a red shirt. He carried his eyeglasses in his hand as he spoke to me, partly in German and partly in English. It was so real that it was hard for me to realize that it was a dream. My mind could think of nothing but what Pa told me. “And I was not the only one who could not get any rest that night, as I found out the following day when my sister-in-law came to see me. 53 “Oh, Anna, I had the strangest dream last night. Remember all that money that was missing after Pa died? Well, he told me where it is,’ Bertha said. “Tn the potato bin,’ I said. “How did you know?’ Bertha asked, amazed. ““Pa told me where he hid it in a dream last night, too. He said I could find the money on the right side of the potato bin where he had buried it,’ I said to Bertha. ““Ffe told me the very same thing. Pa said the money was in a tin box along with some gold pieces,’ Bertha said. “We found by comparing them our dreams were exactly alike — even down to what Pa wore and how he talked. It was my sister-in-law, though, who suggested we go to the farmhouse and see if we could find the money. “The farmhouse had stood empty and showed signs of neglect. We opened the outside doors that led down to the dirt basement. Rays
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54 of sunlight followed us down into the basement and cold air rushed past us on its way out of the base- ment. Flashlights in hand we ex- plored the sides of the room until we saw the potato bin. There, in the corner of the right side of the bin, was a heap of brown dirt. Whatever had been buried there was now gone. Only a hole re- mained. “Maybe Pa told someone else about the money buried in the po- tato bin, too,” Mother always con- cluded. Both my mother and my aunt were living in Detroit, Mich., at the time of their identical dreams, in the early spring of 1939. Grandfather’s farm was in Rich- mond, Mich., about 65 miles away. —West Sacramento, Calif. A DREAM MARRIAGE By Lynn Dallin FRIEND OF MINE, Crawford Gates, is a talented young writer who also is deeply religious. A good-looking bachelor, he was most popular with the fair sex in his home town of Provo, Utah. While he dated many lovely and charming girls, none ever seemed to be the right one. On one occasion after he had made an oft-repeated statement to the effect that he wanted a home and children, I asked him what he was waiting for. He replied that FATE somehow he just never had felt he’d met the right girl. When he did meet her, he believed that he somehow would know it. About two months later he stop- ped by to tell me that he was en- gaged. I was surprised at the news and asked who the lucky girl was and how it had come about. He told me she was a girl he had dated only a few times and who lived in the Bay area in California, about 1000 miles away. He hadn’t seen her for several months. “On this particular night, I dreamed of her,” he said. “She was standing with me before an al- tar, in a bridal gown. The experi- ence was so vivid I wondered about it most of the rest of the night. I called her the next morning. When she answered the phone, I told her IT had dreamed about her the pre- vious night.” “T know,” she answered. “I dreamed about you, too.” “What was your dream?” I asked. “T was standing at an altar be- side you, in a wedding gown. We were going to be married,” she re- plied. “Well, that was the experience I had been waiting for,” my friend concluded. “I asked her to marry me and she accepted.” Crawford and Georgia have been married three years now and ex- pect their second child shortly. My
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TRUE MYSTIC EXPERIENCES friend must have known what he was about, for they are the hap- piest couple I know — Long Beach, Calif. POSITIVE POWER By J. P. J. Chapman ‘ Soe TIME BACK my wife and I decided for many reasons that it was time to sell our house, I had an inward feeling: “sell — get out ee rae away.” The longer I de- layed the more intense this feeling became. So I decided we would move and get what we wanted by way of a change, at our price. A house agent remarked that my selling price was far too hot. How- ever, I told him that was how it stood, no more, no less. This went on for quite a while until one day my thought brought along the man I was looking for. He agreed to my price. He also met another priviso that I had put with my thought: the buyer would not want to complete for several months. This I got as well, at kis suggestion. When contracts were exchanged my wife remarked, “Well, now we have done it! Sold our home with nowhere to go! You know, I am worried.” A little later she said, “Look at this lovely view, unrestricted, right across a golf course!” I thought for a while and said, “Right. I will get you another and the golf course, and seclusion, and 55 no smoke, and not too far from where we now are — say, 10 miles.” We went chasing around looking at houses. My dear lady was get- ting desperate, although I told her not to worry. I was absolutely 100 per cent confident that we would get exactly what we wanted. Time went on, then one morning a friend rang up‘to say that a house was being auctioned the next day, We rushed out to see it and here it was! Golf course! Ten miles away! Plus all our other condi- tions. At the sale I was the only genu- ine bidder. I got the house at the exact price I had set on, for immediate completion. It was an executor’s sale. The auctioneer who sold it was disgusted. He could not make out why there were no other serious bidders or why it did not fetch much more. I made no com- ment. As I write this story we are in the process of moving. When all is worked out we shall have got what we intended and set out for. Occult power will collect the things you desire, as this article clearly sets out. — Ferndown, Dor- set, England. MOTHER HAD SECOND SIGHT By Greta Bloomhill Vy I hear second sight discussed I recall an incident which occurred in January, 1918,
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56 during the days of my childhood. My parents, Jeannette and Jo- seph Falk, were farmers in Central Africa at Lower Rangemore, eight miles from Bulawayo. One day our milk cart failed to turn up after Mappuga, the African milkman, had done his rounds. It was most inconvenient as all our milk cans were in the cart. Two mornings later Mother de- clared she had dreamed the milk cart was at a place called Hyde Park, three miles north from our Mimosa Farm. “Tt is next to a pool,” she said, “with a hill just in front of it.” She described the scene in detail though she had never been at Hyde Park; she had only passed it when on her way to town in the carriage. We had little faith in her dream but, nevertheless, Father and I sad- dled our horses and rode to Hyde Park. To our amazement we found the milk cart in exactly such a spot as Mother had seen in her dream. The milk cans were all there, and the order book was tied to one of them. From the book it appeared that Mappuga had been paid by some of the milk customers and had made off with the money, leaving the mule harnessed in the cart to make its way home. The mule had strayed off the road to graze and the cartwheel had caught in a hooked branch so that it could not move away. It had grazed a circle FATE bare around the cart and a pool of rainwater next to it had kept it from getting thirsty. Today Hyde Park is populated and there are houses where the mule and cart were trapped. Today scores of people would notice a stranded vehicle at that spot im- mediately. In any case, modern farmers all deliver their milk by lorry. But in those days Hyde Park was still wild. This incident goes to prove that though Africa’s pioneers had a dif- ficult time, occasionally divine provi- dence sent them help. — Bulawayo, S. Rhodesia, Federation of Central Africa. WE HEAR WITHOUT EARS By Susan Norris M: ROOMMATE, Margaret Run- yan, and I are college stu- dents who share an apartment across the street from our campus. There is a strange connection between us which we discovered shortly after we had taken the apartment to- gether. On a Saturday morning I was awakened by the sound of music coming from the living room. Mar- garet had put several records on the stereophonic set and the strains of Carmen woke me. Margaret was somewhere in the other end of the apartment but suddenly I could hear her voice, as if she stood be- side me, whispering, “I swear to
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TRUE MYSTIC EXPERIENCES goodness, that’s the biggest fly I ever saw.” Later, as Margaret and I sat at the breakfast table, I told her of my strange impression. Instead of laughing, she said, “I did think those. very words. I was in the kitchen fixing a cup of coffee when the biggest fly I ever saw came toward me. I killed it.” She emptied the wastebasket and showed me the dead fly. It was one of the largest horse flies either of us had ever seen. The next day we had our tele- phone installed. Margaret was work- ing evenings in Santa Monica, some 25. miles away. The man finished the phone installation at 5:00 o’clock. He had put our phone in the bedroom and, as he turned to go, he brushed against the dresser and knocked a bottle of Margaret’s _ perfume to the floor. I watched the expensive liquid seep onto the bare floor. And the rest of that evening I wondered what Margaret’s reaction would be when I told her of the carelessness of the telephone man. But I didn’t surprise her because she said, as she walked in the door that night, Sa eel $7 “Suzie, all the way home I’ve been smelling that perfume I got for my birthday. It’s the strangest thing, because my car has never smelled like that before.” Of course, the spilled perfume had been on my mind for hours. Another Saturday Margaret went to the market to pick up a few items for our grocery shelf. She had been gone about 10 minutes when I reached into the refrigerator for the lettuce and discovered we had none. I knew Margaret had not written lettuce on her grocery list, but she came home carrying bread, beans, butter and lettuce. She said, “You know, I didn’t plan to buy lettuce because we still have some but when I got to the store I couldn’t resist picking up a head.” Margaret and I attend classes regularly; our grades are average; our friends regard us as part of the gang. We are different only in that there exists between us a strange and unique system of com- munication. Often we are able to speak without using our mouths and hear without using our ears. — Hollywood, Calif. MONEY IN THE BANK BURGLAR broke into a bank in Colchester, England, but be- fore he could open the vaults he was frightened away by a watchman. In his hurry to escape he dropped five shillings (70c) of his own money.
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Rosaries through the ages © | What is the secret of their universal use? For prayer beads go back as far as history goes — beyond! SE = Se by, Chivest Bike Crosley HE ORIGIN of the rosary is lost in the dim past of the human race. The indefatigable and inspired Austrian interpreter of the runes, Guido von List, has shown that prayer beads were in use before recorded history. The oldest prayer beads in exist- ence date from the year 1640 B.C. and were used by the Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep III. They con- sist of 144 garnet beads separated into unequal groups by small scar- abs of silver, alabaster and other materials. The beginning of the rosary is marked by a Crux Ansata and thus it resembles a Catholic rosary. This string of prayer beads may be seen at the Rosicrucian Museum in San Jose, Calif. Although we cannot trace the use 58
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of prayer beads to its beginning it, nevertheless, presents a fascinating perspective on the continuity of - human ideas and practices. Lady Godiva, wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia and Lord of Coy- entry, and famous for her long blond hair and her robeless ride, estab- lished a religious house in Coy- entry, England, in 1043 and left a string of jewels on which she had been accustomed to say her prayers that it might be hung on the statue of the Blessed Virgin. No one 59 knows where Lady Godiva got the idea of praying with beads. The date of the first use of prayer beads by the Druids cannot be established with accuracy. It is safe to say, however, that it was at least 1000 years before the Chris- tian era and centuries before the destruction of the enormous Druidic library at Alesia on orders of the Roman Emperor Julius Caesar. One Druidic name for strung beads used in prayer and other religious exercises was Sal Ange,
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60 from which roots we have derived such words as salvation and angel. Druidic rosaries identified the start- ing point on the string of beads by a copper medal which showed three fiery flames against a dark back- ground. Because of these three pictured flames the Druidic rosaries also were called Tri-Flamm. The dedication of the Druidic - rosary included first annointing it _ with pure beeswax and then bless- ing it with freshly condensed dew. Beeswax, considered the most in- corruptible product of any living organism, was symbolic of the in- corruptible power residing in the rosary. The dewdrops symbolized the condensation of the immeasur- able power residing in infinite space. Druidic rosary exercises per- sisted in Central Europe even after the era of Charlemagne (742-814 A.D.), while the first use of the rosary at Lordus was by a congre- gation of Druidesses before the days of Julius Caesar. Charlemagne went so far as to order severe and cruel punishment inflicted on those per- sons caught with Druidic rosaries in their possession. Still, the Tvi- Flamm exercises persisted. The first direct reference to Lordus — the rocky crag in South- ern France dedicated to the Lord — goes back to the Eighth Century. Only since February 11, 1858, when Bernadette Soubirous saw a vision of the Blessed Virgin there and four FATE days later discovered the miraculous spring at the foot of the grotto, has this ancient shrine been part of the Roman Catholic religion. Today this spot is called Lourdes and the people recite their rosaries there as a sacred daily ritual just as they did in the days of the Druids. Perhaps there is some metaphys- ical connection between the present day miracle healings which take place at Lourdes and the centuries- long, faithful rosary recitations, first by the Druids and subsequent- ly by their Roman Catholic de- scendents. The Hindus are believed to have used prayer beads thousands of years ago as proven by references to their use in the Veddas and the Mahabharraia. These traditions go back far into pre-history. The Hindus have a large array of prayer beads, in the neighbor- hood of 300 different kinds. They are divided into two groups, those for the working of good deeds and those for the working of evil deeds. Hindus consider their prayer beads so holy that they cannot be seen or touched by anyone but their owner. A Hindu will hide his hands under a rug as he fingers his beads during prayer or the recitation of mantras. Special silken muffs are also used to keep prayer beads out of sight. If a Hindu rosary is seen or touched by another it is immedi- ately discarded by its owner in the
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ROSARIES THROUGH THE AGES 61 belief that it has lost its efficacy. The same thing is true if the string of the Hindu rosary breaks. A Hin- du will not restring a rosary. A large number of Hindu rosaries are made of durable seeds among which the radrushka seeds are es- pecially popular because they are divided into four segments, suggest- ing the four faces of Shiva. It is not uncommon to find Hin- du rosaries made of elaborately carved beads, some representing, down to the minutest sculptured detail, the Hindu pantheon. Some- times this work is so small that it can only be seen under a magni- fying glass. To produce such a rosary may require the better part of an artist’s lifetime. Zoroastrian cults like the Parsees of Bombay, India, use a rosary that will not fit into a lady’s purse or a man’s pocket. This Zoroastrian rosary has 1000 beads, each one as big as a fist. Such rosaries are kept in special vaults in Parsee temples and used only on certain days of the year. On these specified occa- sions the rosary is brought out and the congregation forms a circle holding the beads of the rosary. You will have some idea of the enormous size of this Zoroastrian rosary when you realize that the circle formed by the congregation with the rosary may be as large as 70 feet in diameter. While the members of the congregation hold the beads of the rosary they recite prayers, and religious rituals are performed. It is debatable as to when the Zoroastrians first began to use prayer beads in their worship and the date given is up to 3,000 years ago. The Mohammedans merely con- tinued the use of prayer beads which had been established among the pagan tribes of Arabia. Thus the Mohammedans had been accustomed to praying with beads before they became followers of Mohammed. After the sectarian split of Islam, following the battle of Siffin, A.D. 657, the western Mohammedans used the 100 bead praying strings while the eastern Moslems used the 33 and 36 bead prayer strings. Moslems call their prayer beads Tasbih. ; The starting point of the Mo- hammedan rosary is marked by a silk tassel. Mohammedans believe that they acquire spiritual merit by the rapid recitation of the 99 at- tributes of God as they touch the 99 beads. The 100th bead of their large rosary is meant to serve for: the contemplation of God himself. The Christian rosary was first used by Roman Catholics and is the most recent rosary, historically speaking. According to Catholic legend the rosary was introduced by St. Dominic (de Guzman, 1170- 1221) as a means and a help in
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62 combating the Albigensian heresy in 1208. Thomas de Cantimpre, about the middle of the 13th Century, first uses the written word rosary although there are references to aids to prayer in the Bible. The Catholic rosary is fashioned after the Druidic model. There are about 40 variations of rosaries or chaplets in use today. They con- sist of from three to 150 beads. The most popular rosary has five dec- ades, or 50 beads. Originally Cath- olic rosaries were made only of wood, durable seeds, bone, ivory, metal, natural crystals and gem stones. More recently glass and plastic beads are permitted. A Catholic rosary once blessed shall not be loaned or sold to another person. However, it may be given away. The starting point for prayer is marked by a cross, a cross and a medal, or by a medal only. Medi- tation while reciting the rosary is an important part of Catholic ros- ary devotion. The Hebrew Bible contains num- erous passages which would seem to refer to the use of prayer beads (Deut. 6:4-9, Deut. 11:13-21, Deut. 11:18, Ex. 13:1-10, Ex. 13:11-16) however, the Jews have interpreted these as referring to the Tefillin or Phylacteries — prayer thongs with a box on the forehead which con- tains passages from the Talmud. These Tefillin or Phylacteries have been used by the Jews since the FATE 11th Century and there has been no use of prayer beads by Jewish worshippers since that time; how- ever, because Asia Minor had such a prolific array of prayer beads it does seem probable that the early Jews also used prayer beads. This inference is strengthened by the fact that prayer beads are still con- sidered a special distinction for out- standing rabbis and apparently are bestowed by special edict of the Sanhedrin. The rabbi so honored becomes a venerated person. In Saudi Arabia it is thought that twirling the string of 30 beads will acquire merit for its owner. He is supposed, at the same time, to focus his thoughts on God. Several varieties of Buddhist prayer beads exist. Generally they have 108 beads with an elaborately braided knot and a tassel as a starting point. There are also Bud- dhist rosaries with 12, 13, and 15 beads. One of the oddest rosaries is used in Tibet. Like most Tibetan ros- aries, it is made up of 108 beads, however, the beads of this partic- ular rosary are made of the outer phalanges of the little fingers of the right hands of persons who have died. Obviously, it requires the bones of 108 dead. The Tibetans adorn these bone phalanges with elaborate, decorative carvings and then join them with metal links. During the 1933 World’s Fair in
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ROSARIES THROUGH THE AGES 63 Chicago the Field Museum had one of these rare rosaries on display. High in the Himalayan mountains Buddhist hermits live with nothing to protect them from the great cold except a skimpy loin cloth. Naked, summer and winter, day and night, they have no fire to warm them — except fire which they have learned to generate within their own bodies. This heat is the secret art of Tumo, without which these hermits could not live. Tumo keeps them warm and is even capable of melting the snow to a radius of eight feet around them. Tumo may be achieved in two different ways. Concentration on an imaginary flame issuing from the navel is one method. The other uses a string of beads known as a Yogi string. The hermit stands on his toes with his feet together. He stretches himself to his full height and raises his arms above his head holding a Yogi string between his outstretched arms. In this position, which the hermit can maintain for hours without faltering, the proper prayers or mantras are recited while he slowly rotates the prayer string, bead by bead, through his hands. In this manner Tumo, or bodily heat, is produced. Originally the prayer beads used by the Japanese were identical with the Buddhist strings, but they were modified when the present Japan- ese religion, Shintoism, came into existence. Japanese rosaries today have elaborately corded knots with dangling tassels and _ tear-drop shaped beads at the ends. Some- times a small carved figure of a saint replaces the tear-drop bead. The Japanese also have double and triple rosaries formed by looping two or three rosaries together. These are used in esoteric and involved religious rituals. The North American Indians use decorated prayer sticks with notches in them in-much the same manner as other worshippers use prayer beads. Regardless of the construction or method of using, all prayer beads are more than merely an aide for concentration during prayer. They are a venerated device for the temporary freeing of the mind from mundane surroundings during re- ligious exercises. This may account for the age-old persistent and uni- versal use of prayer beads. Con- stant repetition of prayers or man- tras will produce spiritual effects, although few Westerners realize what a potent tool the rosary ac- tually is when it comes to the com- plete disassociation of mind and body. The spiritual effects may be of an exalting nature, they may be frightening, they may produce body heat, they may miraculously heal. A Dr. Fahnenstock, a physician of Philadelphia, Pa., about the year
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64 1890, evolved a method of rosary concentration which he called statu- volence, or “the willed state.” He based his ideas on the esoteric power of the rosary and proved to his own satisfaction, at least, that his meth- ‘od would relieve pain, effect re- markable healings, and with proper application allow the human con- sciousness to penetrate the entire Universe. After careful study of séatuvol- FATE ence, which is a form of dissocia- tion, it is my opinion that this is the secret of the universality of the use of prayer beads. Obviously, early man was fully aware of the power inherent in the proper use of prayer beads and undoubtedly he treasured his “beads” as an easy means for separating mind from body and thus achieving astral pro- jection as well as other truly re- ligious and uplifting experiences. - — THERE’S ALWAYS A FIRST TIME S A TRAVELING salesman for 35 years, Hermann Spoerring of West Germany never had missed a train in 10,000 trips. His employers arranged to honor him with a medal—but Spoerring was late for the presentation ceremony. He had missed by 20 sec- onds the train which was to have taken him there. ~ PAYMENT IN KIND S BOBBY DAVIS mowed his lawn in Memphis, Tenn., the mower blade struck a rock and hurled it through the rear window of a neighbor’s automobile. The following week, as the neighbor mowed his own lawn, his mower hurled a rock through the rear window of Davis’ car. << PREDESTINATION A he fell down stairs at the police station in Lockport, N. Y., Patrolman Francis P. Sheehan was taken to the hospi- tal with back injuries. He had slipped on a pencil lying on the top step. The pencil was stamped “Lockport Memorial Hospital.” a
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Ralph was at war, thousands of miles away—yet I saw him struggling for life in a great, black sea. By ipa Justice ow FAR can the mind of man send thoughts or messages, and from what distance in time and space can the mind of man receive such messages? It. is my belief, from actual ex- perience, that there is no limit, in distance or in time! Everyone has had the experience of thinking about a loved one at the moment a message or telephone call comes from that person, or at the time something unpleasant is happening to him. This would in- dicate that thoughts travel instan- taneously between attuned minds. It is my opinion that a feeling of love or friendship is necessary, since one rarely hears of such an experi- ence happening between strangers or people who dislike each other. Human emotions, then, seem to be a major factor and scientists are still trying to prove or disprove that 65 this incalculable force goes on even after death, between the living and those we call the dead! A favorite nephew of ours shared an extra-sensory communication- line with me from the time he was a small boy. He loved pumpkin pie and every so often I would say, for no reason at all, “It’s just about time for Ralph to come over for his pumpkin pie,” and I would bake a big one for the family and a smaller one for Ralph to eat all by him- self. Before long his bluejeaned little figure would come along the highway. He lived more than two miles away, cross-country, and oc- casionally he would be a day late but he would explain that he “had to work and couldn’t get away” al- though he just knew I had baked him a pie the day before! He would, in his shy, gentle way, bring me beautifully patterned
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66 leaves to examine, tiny green: “hop- py-toads” and _brilliantly-coloredi bird feathers he had found: He would hold a fragile butterfly’s: wing between small brown fingers, ever so carefully, and say, “Ain’t it beautiful, Aunt Louise?” Or he would bring me a single flower he _ had picked, explaining that he had left the rest, but this one was “the very beautifullest ever growed!” He seemed to know that I would not laugh nor throw away his small treasures .and I had, indeed, a kitchen drawer full of his small rocks, symmetrical lengths of sugar- cane, feathers and butterfly wings. Six years passed so quickly, and Ralph was in the war and overseas, 18 years old and still sensitive and quiet. I felt from the day of his departure that he would never come back. Yet when I thought of the word “death” that did not seem to apply to him. The word “maim- ed” did, however, and often in my dreams I would see Ralph and look at his arms, legs and head to find evidence of this “maiming” but could see none. One night I had a nightmare in which I saw Ralph struggling in a great sea of black water. I woke up crying, for the dream had been so real. At the breakfast table my family wanted to know if he had drowned, making a joke of my dream. I thought for a moment and then said, “Come to think of it, I FATE saw’ him. disappear except: for his extended hands and suddenly some- thing floated by him: and’ he: clutch- edi at it. Then TI knew: ie: would! be all’ right.” A. V-Mail letter finally came;. so cut full of holes by the censor that we knew something unusual had happened but it was not until two years later that, in a lucid moment, Ralph told me that his transport had gone down and he had been in the water all night. Just as he was giving up, so cold and weak he didn’t care any more, he thought he heard my voice screaming, “Ralph! Ralph!” Opening his eyes he saw a piece of timber floating by. This he grabbed and clung to until rescued. He said that my calling his name had saved his life. Ralph knew when his best friend was killed and wrote repeatedly for news of him. No one else would tell him that his buddy was gone but when he wrote to me pleading for the truth, because he “could feel John’s presence so close by,” I re- plied that John probably was close by, for he was where he could no longer feel pain, nor sorrow, nor fear. > One day I was lying on the porch swing half asleep when a picture took form before my closed eyes. I saw the deck of a ship. Two young men sat with their backs against a wooden wall, out of the wind. One of them was Ralph! I
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MY MIND TRAVELS IN TIME AND SPACE 67 felt that they were very homesick. The stranger took a large roll. of money out of his pocket. In my half-dream and could see it was more than $200. I sensed he had won it in a crap-game! He was telling my nephew that he would give all of it for just one glimpse of his young wife and baby. He asked Ralph if there was someone he would like to see. I read my nephew’s lips as they said, “My ‘mother. But if I could talk to somebody, I think I would choose my Aunt Louise.” “For Pete’s sake! No girl?” his companion asked. “Aunt Louise just knows things,” Ralph answered. “I don’t believe Tl ever get home, but if I do, she’ll help me make it. She woke me up once when I was drowning. She knows things without you telling her and you could tell her anything and she’d know how you really felt and why you are like you are.” The scene faded and I opened my eyes and I knew that in some way, I had spent a few moments at Ralph’s side, on the deck of a trans- port ship, thousands of miles away! More than two years later, after my nephew had come home on the Arcadia with the wounded and with his Purple Heart in his breast pocket, I had one talk with him. In the course of our conversation he told me about his night in the water. I asked him also about the ship scene and conversation. He wasn’t even surprised. He said that it Aad taken place and that he often felt that I knew what he was doing, especially when he was homesick and discouraged. I saw Ralph only briefly after that, for he had been given a medi- cal discharge after he received a head injury in an explosion. He had turned back to look for a buddy and been caught and buried under tons of rubble. At times he was perfectly normal. At other times he would become violent, thinking he was again in the midst of the fight- ing and he would attack anyone in sight, screaming about Japs and other enemies, for he had served in several campaigns in several thea- ters of war. I never saw him when he wasn’t rational but he became steadily worse and has been con- fined permanently in a government hospital. So my feeling that he would never come back to dwell among us, that he would be maimed without a scratch, came true. Why this faculty of extra-sensory perception is given to some more than others is one of its greatest mysteries. Personally, I feel that it has something to do with one’s ac- quaintance with hardships and sor- row. One finds it to an amazing degree in those who have fought in the Underground against invaders and those who have been persecuted
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68 - and driven from their own countries. Deprivation and hardship, sorrow and pain seem to sharpen the senses as one would tune the strings of a violin until they are taut and re- ceptive to the slightest touch. I also have found extra-sensory per- ception and the ability to see into the future in those who live with truth, goodness, mercy, justice and love. Compassion and understand- ing of our fellow man may be the main ingredients for the psychic mind. Surely criminals are notori- ously lacking in the ability to see into the future, or they would fore- see their own downfalls. Penns Ae HEN MAN’S mind, or whatever part of him launches itself into space and travels so far from the physical body, leaves on one of those strange astral expeditions, what part stays behind to guard the sleeping body? Or does the mind merely send and receive thought waves and electrical im- pulses much as a radio does? During the Korean conflict, my son was stationed at an air base 1000 miles from home. Every time he planned to come home it seemed that all leaves were cancelled hbe- cause of some temporary emergency and we had not seen him for a year. My daughter and I decided to make a quick trip down to see him. On the way down we stopped over one night, but decided that we FATE could drive back home without stopping over night, thus giving ourselves one more day with Tom- my. He was upset about this and urged us not to do it but we stayed to the very last minute of our al- loted time and then started home, taking turns driving. Sometime during the night on a long stretch of empty highway I fell asleep. I was awakened by my son’s voice calling, “Mother! Mother! Wake up!” I struggled up out of sleep, and it seemed to me that my son had suddenly appeared and that he had grabbed the steering wheel! My young daughter who was driv- ing had fallen asleep. The car had left the pavement, crossed a wide strip of gravel, and was less than two feet from the edge of a steep, deep ravine! If the car had fallen into this ravine we might have lain there for hours or days before any- one found us. We stopped, then slept an hour before going on. As soon as we arrived home, even before I unpacked the car or rested, I wrote my son a short note, telling him we had arrived home safely and describing my strange experience. At the same time, that very morning, Tommy wrote me a letter which crossed mine in the mails, mentioning that he had been so worried about us he had slept badly and that he had had a sort of night- mare in which he seemed to be watching our car as it sped along
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MY MIND TRAVELS IN TIME AND SPACE 69 a dark, deserted highway. He was able to follow us with his eyes and was nervous for our car frequently crossed over the white line, as though the driver was sleeping. Suddenly our car did leave the highway and in his dream he watch- ed in horror as it headed for a deep ravine. In his dream he was able to project himself between my daughter and me, grab the wheel, and call, “Mother! Mother! Wake up!” He wrote that he knew his sister was driving, for he could see her distinctly, but that he had called my name because he knew, somehow, that I would hear him! I know that it was Jove that en- abled Tommy to come to us when danger threatened. PREDICTED BY THE CARDS PREDICTION of a close brush with death, made by a fortune-telling friend of his wife, recently was reported to have come true for William Fallis of Hamilton, Canada. Fallis said he consented to have his fortune told only to please his wife who was “Scot- tish—and very superstitious.” He insisted he was skeptical as the fortune teller, Mrs. Mary Wawin, spread out a row of black cards on the table in front of him and _ predicted “death .. . or an escape from death in a short time... ona rainy Thursday night.” On a Thursday night in June, 1960, one week after the pre- diction, Fallis was a passenger on a cabin cruiser owned by a friend, Harold Taylor. Spot- ting a floating log in front of the cruiser, Fallis went for- ward with a pike pole to push the obstruction out of the boat’s way. The log, rising with a wave, jarred the boat—and Fallis tumbled overboard. Several other persons aboard the cruiser threw life preserv- ers to Fallis, but he was un- able to catch one. Harbor Pa- trolman Walter Samek saw Fallis tumble into the water and he sped to the scene in a police boat. Fallis had gone under the waves three or four times and was suffering from shock when Patrolman Samek arrived and pulled him into the boat. Fallis remained skeptical about the way Mrs. Wawin’s prediction had come true. He said she had made it only for fun and that he believed the whole thing was just a coinci- dence. Qo
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Did we really live before? Or are we merely inheriting ancestral memories? Dr. Mathison demon- strates some of the equipment with which he conducts electro- psychometric examin- ® ations—and out of which grew the the- ory expounded here. A GENETIC THEORY OF REINCARNATION By Volney G. VWilsthison HE WAS the ugliest woman I have ever seen. Ungainly, shapeless, with small porcine muddy-colored eyes set deep in a coarse heavy- jowled face. She had been sent to me for an electropsychometric examination by a large metaphysical organization, owners of a contiguous garden farm 7° upon which she had worked for many years without remuneration, other than room, board and cloth- ing. She had become seriously de- pressed, and I was to find out why. The examination didn’t go very well. Even under hypnosis, Maggie was apathetic and unresponsive. Finally she sat up on the couch
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and remarked, “The trouble is, you are trying to investigate me in my present life-time. There is nothing significant in my present life for you to find out.” At last she was showing signs of emotion. She continued, “I’m 65 —and I’m still a virgin. No man has ever wanted to marry me, or wanted me at all. No man has ever approached me in that way. No man ever will. I’m the world’s ugliest woman. This is my Karma. I’m paying for what I did in previous lifetimes.” In the course of developing elec- tropsychometric assessment tech- niques during several preceeding years I had pretty much avoided the question of reincarnation. But here I was involved in it, Hypnotherapy com- bined with electro- psychometry played a part in Mathison’s early experiments. ABOUT VOLNEY G. MATHISON The author was born in a sod house on @ Texas cotton farm. At 16 he became a seagoing radio operator and later a ra- dio construction engineer. After psychoanalysis failed him, he invented his electropsychometer to help probe the human psyche. lt helped him and is used as an aid to psychotherapy. willynilly, for Maggie was now telling a weird, intensely dramatic story of the 14th and 15th Centu- ries, wherein she asserted she had lived a series of lives as beautiful, voluptuous, immoral, ruthless wo-
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72 men. Describing [Italian court scenes in colorful detail, she related that nobles and princes had pursued her in droves. She had ruined homes, provoked duels and murders, then scorned these men to become the courtesan of kings. Now, her punishment was to be born a fe- male farm drudge, the world’s ugliest woman, rejected by all men, wanted by none. When confronted by a baffling situation in electropsychometry, such as this recital of Maggie’s, I’ve learned to consign the matter to my own subconscious processes and wait for a helpful answer. And, a day or so later, I suddenly realized that Maggie was Italian, that her past-life dramatizations related ex- clusively to historical Italian events. About this same time, I was having trouble with plump, at- tractive Connie, a Mexican girl em- ployed in the assembly of the bio- electronic instruments I manufac- ture. Connie would not solder joints and wires properly. She’d dab on bits of half-melted solder and leave her work in that defective way. She had no idea why she did this, and on being reprimanded always became extremely upset and irra- tional. Connie already had been exam- ined by standard electropsychomet- ric procedures and it had been as- certained that she had an intense, subconscious terror of getting burn- FATE ed. According to conventional psy- choanalytic theory, this meant that Connie had suffered severe burns in childhood or infancy. But she never had. Reluctantly now, I decided to rehypnotize Connie and try for a Bridey Murphy type of past-life regression. Connie promptly pro- duced a vivid, detailed dream of being a Spanish beauty of the 17th century, enroute to the New World on a Spanish sailing ship. She de- scribed the vessel, with its colored sails and white-painted masts and rigging. A fire broke out. There was panic on the crowded vessel. Connie suf- fered frightful burns, especially in the areas of the face, neck, shoul- ders, arms. She escaped with a few other survivors in a whaleboat or the like, and eventually reached Mexico. But her beauty had been destroyed. No one henceforth ad- mired or desired her, or would do anything for her at all. In the hypnotizing routines that I have developed in this work, the examinee is stringently instructed that upon being brought out of the regressive trance, he or she will re- member, permanently and in de- tail, everything said, done, or dreamed. So, when Connie sat up, she soon began laughing through her tears, and she exclaimed, “Why should I be so afraid of a little old hot sold-
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A GENETIC THEORY OF REINCARNATION 73 ering-iron — after going through all that?” Thereafter we had no further trouble with Connie’s soldering. But an even more interesting facet in her case is perhaps that, prior to that hypno-regression experience, Connie had a huge red welt cover- ing the entire back of her neck and tight shoulder. It looked like a severe burn and when she became upset it looked even more inflamed and ugly. This now began to di- minish. One day, without previous thought I said to Connie, “You’re soon going to be married, and when you get married, that psychogenetic burn will completely vanish from your beautiful skin.” She did — and it did. Next came Hildreth, a tall, at- tractive college woman, of Scandi- navian descent, with a responsible executive school-board position. Hildreth, a mother of three chil- dren, had a serious problem. She had married a dynamic man who urgently desired adequate marital relations — but every contact with him produced in her the condition known as “cystitis,” a severe in- flamation of genital and urinary structures. In Hildreth the condi- tion was confined entirely to vaginal areas, but was excruciatingly pain- ful, persisting for many days after a contact. “T presume you’ve had medical examinations and treatments,” I remarked. “Why certainly,” she retorted. “T’ve been to many doctors. We have tried so many different medi- cations and treatments I’ve lost count of them! Now they say this must be psychogenic.” From the viewpoint of conven- tional psychoanalysis Hildreth’s cystitis, if psychogenic in origin, could only mean that she had a sub- consciously buried “sex-guilt” trau- ma or experience based on some illicit sexual situation in childhood. So we went through a long, in- tensive assessment — and came up with a zero reaction. There was nothing in the subconscious mem- ory-patterns of her childhood to ac- count for her intensely painful psy- chogenic reactions to her husband’s marital approaches. By this time I came to the de- cision that if a searching present- lifetime assessment disclosed noth- ing, the only thing left was to fol- low Dr. Sigmund Freud’s dictum, “Look earlier.” Probing into ge- netic past lives was, of course, something far earlier than Freud ever contemplated. In his works, he does refer to “phantasies of the womb,” but this relates to prenatal traumas occurring after conception. We again proceeded in what we had come to call “collapsed time,” wherein a century is traversed in about a minute.
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74 In the time-space of the 7th Century, we got our dream reaction. Hildreth had been one of seven virgins in a Norwegian Druid tem- ple. After giving a detailed de- scription of the temple, she began speaking of a rumor that a band of Viking boatmen had landed on the river bank, some five miles away. At this point, Hildreth told me something I hadn’t known before: that the Vikings of those times were greatly feared by the country people as pirates and looters. The seven virgins got out of the temple on the pretext that they were going to pick lingenberries — wild cranberries. Instead of pick- ing berries, they slipped down to the river and, as they had secretly expected, were spied by the Vi- kings, pursued, caught, and thor- oughly ravished. As Hildreth told it, she was violently bent back over a crag and raped 18 times. The con- sequences were indescribably pain- ful injuries. The weeping girls crept back to the temple, where their deflowered condition was soon discovered. They were all expelled. Obviously, however, this presumed genetic for- bear of Hildeth married, had a family, and thereby provided a line of descent reaching down to Hil- dreth. On the basis of this data, or ge- netic dream, I proceeded precisely as in the case of any severe present- FATE life trauma or injurious situation. Not long thereafter, Hildreth came by with her husband. She was completely healed and happily re- ported that the two of them had taken a month off for a “second honeymoon.” * * OX Ho the phenomena dealt with herein are not confined to sexual problems. These just happened to come along first in my investigative work. Sex is Nature’s or God’s obyious method of achiev- ing physical immortality. Ridi- cule, taboo, or amusement in refer- ence to sexual expression is a blas- phemous relic of an antisexual psy- chosis that is moving into the do- main of the past. Since the symbological theories of conventional psychology could not account for some of the situations being encountered through the ap- plication of the specific hypno-re- gressive techniques employed in this work, it seemed necessary to develop some other explanatory theory. This theory, obviously ar- rived at through inductive process- es, relates to psychogenetics. Psychogenetics is a special phase of biogenetics, which is itself a new science, scarcely born. In the first place, there is the casually accepted statement that one has a biogenetic “inheritance.” Precisely what is a biogenetic inheritance? We know that at the moment of
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A GENETIC THEORY OF REINCARNATION 15 conception what one is destined to become, physically at least, is de- termined by two fantastic lotteries. These are the lotteries of the “sperm-race” and of the pairing of one’s parental genes. In the serial acts of coitus and masculine ejaculation, some 50,000 or more pollywog-shaped sperm start off on a thrashing, all-or- nothing race to reach the female ovum. Only one sperm ever pierces the egg. Hence, at the moment of your own conception, some chance one, of 10’s of thousands of fiercely competing sperm, has won the race to enter the ovum provided by your mother. All the others thereafter perished. ; This one winning sperm from your father carried 24 tiny rod-like structures, the chromosomes. Each chromosome carried a string of a thousand or more living, complex bioelectronic systems — your genes. Each gene is a system of molecules. And these molecules may be con- sidered, theoretically at any rate, - as being electronically-structured universes of physical image-energy patterns. The number of genes in a single chromosome was formerly estimated ’ as being around 600; recent esti- mates raise the figure to about 2000, or perhaps 50,000 in each parent’s 24 chromosomes. At the moment of conception the genes of your father paired off, in a vibrating dance, with the genes of your mother. The total number of chance com- binations originally was estimated as not less than 17 million. This estimate has been revised to over a billion. In view of the fact that your parental sperm is a chance winner from among thousands of tail-flail- ing competitors, all different, the possibility of ever again producing your exact duplicate is one in tril- lions. Conception having occurred, we have a single cell containing 48 rod- like chromosomes made up of 80,- 000 or more genes. Each gene now duplicates it- self. How it does this is the su- preme miracle and mystery of crea- tion! Next, all the original genes move to one end of the slightly elongated cell. The duplicate group moves to the opposite end. A strange phe- nomenon of contractive tension oc- curs around the circumference of the cell. This may be caused by cosmic-ray energy bombardment. If this should be the case, then life does depend upon a ceaseless in- flow of cosmic energy or Power from the illimitable depths of space. The cell tightens round the mid- dle, becomes dumbell-shaped, then suddenly separates and two com- piéte cells exist where there was
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76 only one. Both cells immediately repeat the process, becoming four. These become eight, sixteen and the growth of a foetus is in full swing. Again we are confronted with a miracle. The developing infant passes through every major evolu- tionary phase of life on this planet in a span of “collapsed time” sim- ilar to the “collapsed time” used in the technique of hypno-regression into past centuries. Ontogeny re- capitulates phylogeny in the time span of a billion years collapsed into a period of nine months. This lottery of the genes irre- vocably determines the color of your eyes and hair, your physical con- figuration, and thousands of other physical factors. Serious subnorm- alities and structural weaknesses may be included. Up to this point, we have re- mained within the area of estab- lished scientific facts. * * x Pye caowe research is moving into high gear. Even the staid, matter-of-fact Wall Street Journal recently published a long article titled “What Causes Life?” and says that the answer, when it comes, will bear awesome implications. It also states that cells are known to carry assembly plants wherein chemicals are converted into living elements; that there are two types of genetic molecules, the DNA FATE molecules, which are the “engin- eers with blueprints,” and the RNA molecules, which are the “operators that construct” in accordance with the orders of the DNA molecules. The main basis for our theory of genetic reincarnation is that, since the genes duplicate themselves and separate into the opposite ends of a cell before the cell divides, ob- viously every cell living today has a genetic component of every cell that has ever lived on this earth! This genetic component is in every cell of your skin, your stomach, your brain, your heart. You may be presumed to possess a positive “memory energy” component of countless “past lives” in every cell in your body. We know that in the microcos- mic cell universes there are formulae, processes, designs, engineering dis- ciplines and knowledge that make our finest scientific techniques look infantile by comparison. This statement applies with equal validity to what may be termed memory-energy recording of past events. Our theory states, first, that one’s psychical or bioelectronic memory- energy patterns carry certain pre- dispositions and potentialities which are expressible both physically and psychically. The term “bioelectronic memory- energy pattern” is, I think, a con- densed scientific definition of what
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A GENETIC THEORY OF REINCARNATION 77 is often labelled “inherited.” Ex- actly how we “inherit” physical and psychical characteristics is a mys- tery. We lack both the terminology and knowledge to deal with this major factor of life. Some of the genes you have by chance inherited may last have ap- peared in a remote ancestor. Only 20 generations back we have 1,048,- 576 ancestors. Only 40 generations back we have over 240 trillion an- cestors! Elements of all of these forbears are within us, on cellular and bioelectronic levels. Only vast systems of electrons are small enough, physically, to car- ry such vast amounts of data in such minute storage areas. And, since our electronic patterns carry enormous amounts of detailed information about our ancestral physical structures, it seems reason- able to postulate that these pat- terns also carry memory data re- lating to enforced genetic modifica- tions of structure occurring as a consequence of lack of food, in- juries in combat, pestilences, and other disasters. These remote memory-energy patterns account to some degree for the unexpected appearance of musical or artistic talent. They ac- count, too, for the unexpected emergence of unfavorable qualities, tendencies or predispositions. In the psychical field, if one’s inheritance really is in the nature of non-physical electronic memory- energy patterns, then there is no limit to the possible variations that may manifest themselves. Hence, the case-history dreams previously presented may be de- scribed as the reactivated expres- sions of harmful events suffered by some remote ancestor whose genes were inherited. These genetic-dreams are per- haps not normally activated. If we all went around with the distress- ing misfortunes of specific ances- tors in a continuously reactivated state, we would have no time for anything else and the entire human race would collapse. Specific re- calls, even when sought for through hypno-regressive techniques, may be few and far between. Sometimes disturbing present-mo- ment situations contain elements similar to the disastrous ancient events in our genetic line. These, perhaps, trigger images, either sym- bolic or actual, of those ancient, un- known past events which had de- cisive effects upon one or more of our forbears, and hence, inevitably upon us. Such similar elements in certain present-moment situations trigger the psysical or psychoelec- tronic images in our mental pro- cesses indicated by the term bio- electronic memory-energy patterns. The fantastic possibility that an entire population might be de- moralized on a mass basis by some
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78 extraordinary techniques for re- activating a wide series of genetic engrams is, at this moment, a sub- ject of classified military research. I am not a psychologist, but an electropsychometrist —a technical cousin of the electroencephalograph- ologist. The latter studies electrical brain waves, the former observes and seeks to interpret the relative intensities of electrical registra- tions of emotional responses to a highly organized series of interro- gations relating mostly to the ex- aminee’s childhood experiences. The theory dealt with herein is based on a synthesis of the work, to date, of geneticists, cytologists, and electropsychometrists. Any the- ory merely endeavors to explain previously inexplicable manifesta- tions. The essential requirement is that it must not contradict itself at any point. * * RRESPECTIVE of any judgment of this theory’s validity, the case histories processed on the basis of this theory are fascinating. There is the case of a successful big-time income-tax specialist who persistently euchered himself into knock-down, drag-out court battles with the internal revenue service, on behalf of wealthy clients, until he became an emotional wreck. Psychiatry could not figure him out at all, and an extensive electro- psychometrically-monitored exam- FATE ination of his entire life disclosed no adequate motivational source of his extreme hatred for government tax men. Investigation of his genetic back- ground showed that both through his mother’s Dutch line and his father’s German line, he was de- scended from forbears who had en- gaged in violent, losing battles with Dutch and Prussian tax officials. Hence, this disturbed tax specialist appeared to have a double-barreled genetic inheritance impelling him into unnecessary and futile battles with government tax men, whom he hated psychopathically. A still more fascinating case is that of a Chicago medical psychi- atrist, 65 years old, who had been futilely receiving psychotherapy and psychoanalysis from his colleagues for about 30 years. He seemed to suffer a phobic compulsion to carry on unremitting political warfare against the Polish gangster elements of his city. He had occupied him- self so persistently with this “noble task” (to use his own rationalized term) that he had aroused the most intense anger and hatred of his selected enemies. They beat him up; gouged out one of his eyes, kicked out his testicles. Also, they collected monetary judgments through court awards in libel suits they won against him, totalling almost his entire professional life- time income.
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A GENETIC THEORY OF REINCARNATION ; 79 Extended electropsychometric examination of this disturbed doc- tor did not disclose an adequate present-life motivational source of his highly selective aggressiveness. A yalid cause of this Jewish phy- sician’s phobia did not appear until he was placed in medium hypnosis and instructed to regress back through the lives of his Jewish an- cestors — whereupon violent elec- tropsychometric registrations began. The associated data, as interpreted, related to bioelectronic memory- energy patterns of savage pogroms suffered by his Jewish forbears at the hands of lawless mobs in Poland, Even the word “mob,” when trans- lated into his ancestral tongue, reg- istered an electronic, restimulated response. Chicago gang violence, especially attacks upon recalcitrant Jewish operators of small dry- cleaning shops, had reactivated this doctor’s genetic bioelectronic pat- terns to a compulsive degree — always, selectively, to Polish gang- sters (never to Italian and Sicilian gangsters), ne . SEEMS to me that biogenetic memory-energy phenomena may have given rise to countless report- ed hypno-regressive recalls of past reincarnations. The data of bio- genetics and of bionucleonics does not in the least discredit nor negate such recalls; it affords them a sci- entific probability. Some electronic memory-energy pattern transmitted through a line of specific genes that has been submerged for a thousand years may suddenly be- come dominant under hypnosis and capable of being recalled. It seems unlikely that any one, by any procedure, is ever going to change the genetically-inherited color of one’s eyes or hair. But there is a real probability that the part of one’s inheritance which is comprised of electropsychophysical energy patterns can be revised, modified, restructured by the seem- ingly limitless power of sustained psychical or mental imaging or pic- turing—that is, by consistently and perseveringly thinking, having the idea, feeling, believing, knowing and visualizing with maximum vivid- ness, Clarity, and intensity that you are, by degrees, achieving and bringing into reality any selected mode of self-improvement. — A SMASHING SIMILARITY N KNOXVILLE, Tenn., a car driven by Paul Allen Mayes, 26, crashed into a bus driven by Paul Allen Mayes, 39. The names of the men were listed side by side in the city directory—but they were not related and never had met before.
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ay Experience with EUSAPIA PALLADINO Eusapia Palladino, as she ep- peared in her later years, was a world-famed physical medium, By Chee The marble table was large and heavy — but it moved when the small woman medium just pointed at it. USAPIA PALLADINO, who was considered the most famous physical medium of recent years, was a Neapolitan peasant. From early childhood she had shown her- self possessed of extraordinary mediumistic powers. Her phenomena were investigated by many of the most distinguished scientists of Italy, France, England, and Germany. They all came to the conclusion that her demonstra- tions were genuine manifestations from the spirit world or due to the 80 workings of some, up to now, un- known force. In 1892 a group of scientists in- cluding the Professors Schiaparelli, Brofferio, Gerso and M. Aksakoff, together with Professors Richet and Lombroso, held a series of investi- gations of Palladino in Milan under the severest conditions imaginable. The phenomena consisted of ma- terializations of spirit hands, levita- tions of heavy tables and pieces of furniture within a radius of three to four feet and the fluctuation of
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some 17 pounds in the medium’s weight, as shown by a _ balance scale in the seance room. A few years later, especially in 1908 and 1909, her demonstrations were investigated at Cambridge, England, by Sir-Oliver Lodge, Dr. Ochoroweiz, Professor Sidgwick, and in Paris by Camille Flammarion, Professor Morselliand Monsieur and Madame Curie. They also conclud- ed that they were in the presence of some mysterious, unknown force. My own personal experience with Palladino was somewhat unusual. When staying asa guest at the Villa La Florideanor at Naples, the property of a rich American, Major Alexander Henry Davis, one Sunday afternoon our host asked his guests to decide “what amusement he should provide them.” As Palladino’s name was in everyone’s mind at that moment (1903-04) it was suggested that he have her brought to the villa. Nothing loath, Major Davis sent a carriage to fetch her and in less than an hour she arrived. We were seated in a library at the foot of a flight of white marble steps. It was a large handsome room with many windows giving a superb view of the famed Bay of Naples. A footman announced Sig- nora Eusapia Palladino. All turned toward the entrance to see a small, timid-looking woman standing on the top of the marble steps. Major Davis, speaking in Italian, bid her welcome and then, I am sorry to say, in a rather sneer- ing way said, “Signora, we have heard of your powers as a ‘furniture mover’ so I have sent for you to show my guests some of your tricks. I suppose you will desire the cur- tains drawn and the place made as black as possible?” Very timidly the little woman said, “No, Signor. I sometimes get results equally well in the light as in the darkness, but I can promise nothing. I can only do the best I can to get you results.” Major Davis lit a long cigar and withdrew to a position with his _back against a heavy oak chest be- 81 tween two windows at the end of the room. Palladino slowly descended the steps and in rather a frightened way, I thought, looked at the half- dozen spectators seated in various parts of the room. I could not help feeling sorry for her. No matter what her powers of levitation might be, it seemed a rather cold-blooded ordeal for her to face that brilliantly lighted room with Major Davis at the far end with his piercing eyes watching every move she made, while the smoke from his big cigar seemed to form a huge question mark above his head. Major Davis did not care what he paid for his amusements but the
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82 sarcastic look in his eyes showed plainly that this time he considered he had wasted his money. Palladino came a little nearer the center of the room; her mouth was slightly open; her lips were moving rapidly. To my mind she was silently praying; perhaps she was. Suddenly her eyes seemed at- tracted to a very large marble table that stood right before her. She reached her hands in its direction. Her whole appearance changed. In- stead of the timid little woman who had stood irresolute on top of the steps a moment before, she now was drawn up to her full height with every part of her frail body tense. An extraordinary thing happened. In broad daylight everyone in that room saw two long lines of whitish matter proceed from her out- stretched hands and reach the table. I had, of course, had some ex- perience of what is called ecto- plasm, especially in connection with Sir William Crookes and his ex- periments in London. It had been recorded by many scientists who had witnessed demonstrations given by Palladino that she in some way possessed the power of pro- ducing ectoplasm. However, this was the first time I ever had seen the phenomenon in full daylight. The moment the lines of whitish force touched the table it com- FATE menced to move. It was an unusually large, heavy table, the entire top being formed of a solid piece of Carrara marble. At first it moved slowly, then more quickly and to the astonishment of all present it appeared to be im- pelled by some irresistible force in the direction where Major Davis stood. Palladino did not move from the position she had taken in the center of the room. She stood still, like a statue, her hands outstretched in the direction of the table with a vacant expression in her eyes, as if not interested or aware of what was taking place. The table rapidly approached Major Davis. He was still puffing his enormous cigar with an incred- ulous expression spreading over his face. The table finally reached his waistline and began steadily press- ing him back against the oak chest at his right. Major Davis was not a man to give in easily. Only when he found his will-power unavailing and his strength inadequate did he cry for help. Sir Fletcher Moulton, the emi- nent barrister, and I went to his assistance. We endeavored to force the table back but our united ef- forts were useless. We rang for the men servants, four of them, strong, hefty men, bent themselves to the task but the
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MY EXPERIENCE WITH EUSAPIA PALLADINO 83 pressure against the Major kept in- creasing. What might have hap- pened I do not know if I had not seized Palladino and dragged her frail form in between the end of the table and Major Davis. She appeared to be in a state of trance and did not seem to realize what was taking place. But the moment she put her hands against the table a reverse action com- menced. The table slowly moved back and kept moving until it reached the center of the room, from where it had started. Major Davis did not wish any further demonstration of “furniture moving!” See eee re DEATH CAME WITH LINCOLN’S Bot By Raymond C. Otto OBERT T. LINCOLN, the son of Abraham Lincoln, was in the army when his fa- ther was president. On the day his father was assassinated he received orders to report to Washington. He arrived at the White House late in the eve- ning and was informed that his parents had gone to Ford’s The- atre. He went there and, upon entering the building, was met by a group of men carrying out the president. Years later, during Presi- dent Garfield’s administration, Robert Lincoln became Sec- retary of War. Garfield re- quested that Lincoln accompany him on a trip to the seashore at Elberon, N. J., but at a late hour an urgent matter made it necessary that Lincoln remain in Washington. Just before train time he hurried to the depot to inform the president of the emergency. As he ap- proached the door of the sta- tion he was met by a group of men carrying out the fatally wounded president, the victim _ of assassin Charles J. Giteau. Twenty years later Robert Lincoln again received an invi- tation from a president. This time President McKinley re- quested the pleasure of his company at a public reception in the Temple of Music at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, N. Y. Lincoln, now mindful of the presidential tragedy stalking his footsteps, accepted the in- vitation with some misgivings. When he arrived at the door of the building he met a group of men carrying out President McKinley—the victim of an- other assassin! SS
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THE WORLD’S Changing Climate Melting Arctic ice is one indication of a startling rise in temperature. What mysterious forces are at work? By Retell Carn Reprinted by special permission of OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, INC. from THE SEA AROUND US, copyright 1950, 1951, Fo THE GLOBE as a whole, the ocean is the great regulator, the great stabilizer of temperatures. It has been described as ‘a savings bank for solar energy, receiving deposits in seasons of excessive insolation and paying them back in seasons of want.’ Without the ocean, our world would be visited by unthinkably harsh extremes of temperature. For the water that covers three-fourths of the earth’s surface with an enveloping mantle is a substance of remarkable quali- ties. It is an excellent absorber and radiator of heat. Because of its enormous heat capacity, the ocean can absorb a great deal of heat from the sun without becoming what we would consider ‘hot,’ or it 84 by Rachel L. Carson, can lose much of its heat without becoming ‘cold.’ Through the agency of ocean currents, heat and cold may be dis- tributed over thousands of miles. It is possible to follow the course of a mass of warm water that originates in the trade-wind belt of the Southern Hemisphere and re- mains recognizable for a year and a half, through a course of more than 7000 miles. This redistributing function of the ocean tends to make up for the uneven heating of the globe by the sun. As it is, ocean currents carry hot equatorial water toward the poles and return cold water equator-ward by such sur- face drifts as the Labrador Current and Oyashio, and even more im-
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portantly by deep currents. The redistribution of heat for the whole earth is accomplished about half by the ocean currents, and half by the winds. So, day by day and season by season, the ocean dominates the world’s climate. Can it also be an agent in bringing about the long- period swings of climatic change that we know have _ occurred throughout the long history of the earth—the alternating periods of heat and cold, of drought and flood? There is a fascinating theory that it can. This theory links events in the deep, hidden places of the ocean with the cyclic changes of climate and their effects on hu- man history. It was developed by the distinguished Swedish ocean- ographer, Otto Pettersson, whose almost century-long life closed in 1941. In many papers, Pettersson presented the different facets of his theory as he pieced it together, bit by bit. Many of his fellow sci- entists were impressed, others doubted. In those days few men could conceive of the dynamics of water movements in the deep sea. Now the theory is being re- examined in the light of modern oceanography and meteorology, and only recently C.E.P. Brooks said, ‘It seems that there is good sup- port of Pettersson’s theory as well as for that of solar activity, and that the actual variations of cli- 85 mate since about 3000 B.c. may have been to a large extent the re- sult of these two agents.’ To review the Pettersson theory is to review also a pageant of hu- man history, of men and nations in the control of elemental forces whose nature they never under- stood and whose very existence they never recognized. Pettersson’s work was perhaps a natural outcome of the circumstances of his life. He was born—as he died 93 years later —on the shores of the Baltic, a sea of complex and wonderful hy- drography. In his laboratory atop a sheer cliff overlooking the deep waters of the Gulmarfiord, instru- ments recorded strange phenomena in the depths of this gateway to the Baltic. As the ocean water presses in toward that inland sea it dips down and lets the fresh surface water roll out above it; and at that deep level where salt and fresh water come into contact there is a sharp layer of discontinuity, like the surface film between water and air. Each day Pettersson’s instru- ments revealed a strong, pulsing movement of that deep layer—the pressing inward of great submarine waves, of moving mountains of water. The movement was strong- est every twelfth hour of the day, and between the 12-hour intervals it subsided. Pettersson soon estab- lished a link between these sub- marine waves and the daily tides.
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86 “Moon waves,’ he called them, and as he measured their height and timed their pulsing beat through the months and years, their rela- tion to the ever-changing cycles of the tides became crystal clear. Some of these deep waves of the Gulmarfiord were giants nearly too feet high. Pettersson believed they were formed by the impact of the oceanic tide wave on the sub- marine ridges of the North Atlantic, as though the waters moving to the pull of the sun and moon, far down in the lower levels of the sea, broke and spilled over in mountains of highly saline water to enter the fiords and sounds of the coast. From the submarine tide waves, Pettersson’s mind - moved logically to another problem—the changing fortunes of the Swedish herring fishery. His native Bohuslan had been the site of the great Hanseatic herring fisheries of the Middle Ages. All through the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries this great sea fishery was pursued in the Sund and the Belts, the nar- row passageways into the Baltic. The towns of Skanor and Falsterbo knew unheard-of prosperity, for there seemed no end of the silvery, wealth-bringing fish. Then sudden- ly the fishery ceased, for the her- ring withdrew into the North Sea and came no more into the gate- ways of the Baltic—this to the enrichment of Holland and the im- FATE poverishment of Sweden. Why did the herring cease to come? Petters- son thought he knew, and the rea- son was intimately related to that moving pen in his laboratory, the pen that traced on a revolving drum the movements of the sub- marine waves far down in the depths of Gulmarfiord. He had found that the submarine waves varied in height and power as the tide-producing power of the moon and sun varied. From as- tronomical calculations he learned that the tides must have been at their greatest strength during the closing centuries of the Middle Ages—those centuries when the Baltic herring fishery was flourish- ing. Then sun, moon, and earth came into such a position at the time of the winter solstice that they exerted the greatest possible at- tracting force upon the sea. Only about every eighteen centuries do the heavenly bodies assume this particular relation. But in that period of the Middle Ages, the great underwater waves pressed with un- usual force into the narrow passages to the Baltic, and with the ‘water mountains’ went the herring shoals. Later, when the tides became weak- er, the herring remained outside the Baltic, in the North Sea. Then Pettersson realized another fact of extreme significance—that those centuries of great tides had been a period of ‘startling and un-
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THE WORLD’S CHANGING CLIMATE 87 usual occurrences’ in the world of nature. Polar ice blocked much of the North Atlantic. The coasts of the North Sea and the Baltic were laid waste by violent storm floods. The winters were of ‘unexampled severity’ and in consequence of the climatic rigors political and econom- ic catastrophies occurred all over the populated regions of the earth. Could there be a connection be- tween these events and those mov- ing mountains of unseen water? Could the deep tides affect the lives of men as well as of herring? From this germ of an idea, Pet- tersson’s fertile mind evolved a theory of climatic variation, which he set forth in 1912 in an extra- ordinarily interesting document call- ed Climatic Variations in Historic and Prehistoric Time.* Marshalling scientific, historic, and literary evi- dence, he showed that there are al- ternating periods of mild and severe climates which correspond to the long-period cycles of the oceanic tides. The world’s most recent period of maximum tides, and most rigorous climate, occurred about 1433, its effect being felt, however, for several centuries before and after that. The minimum tidal ef- fect prevailed about A.D. 550, and it will occur again about the year 2400. During the latest period of bene- volent climate, snow and ice were little known on the coast of Europe and in the seas about Iceland and Greenland. Then the Vikings sailed freely over northern seas, monks went back and forth between Ire- land and ‘Thyle’ or Iceland, and there was easy intercourse between Great Britain and the Scandinavian countries. When Eric the Red voy- aged to Greenland, according to the Sagas, he ‘came from the sea to land at the middle glacier—from thence he went south along the coast to see if the land was habit- able. The first year he wintered on Erik’s Island . . .’ This was proba- bly in the year 984. There is no mention in the Sagas that Eric was hampered by drift ice in the several years of his exploration of the is- land; nor is there mention of drift ice anywhere about Greenland, or between Greenland and Wineland. Eric’s route as described in the Sagas—proceeding directly west from Iceland and then down the east coast of Greenland—is one that would have been impossible during recent centuries. In the thirteenth century the Sagas con- tain for the first time a warning that those who sail for Greenland should not make the coast too di- rectly west of Iceland on account of the ice in the sea, but no new route is then recommended. At the end of the fourteenth century, how- ever, the old sailing route was aban- doned and new sailing directions were given for a more southwesterly
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88 course that would avoid the ice. The early Sagas spoke, too, of the abundant fruit of excellent quality growing in Greenland, and of the number of cattle that could be pastured there. The Norwegian settlements were located in places that are now at the foot of glaciers. There are Eskimo legends of old houses and churches buried under the ice. The Danish Archaeological Expedition sent out by the National Museum of Copenhagen was never able to find all of the villages men- tioned in the old records. But its excavations indicated clearly that the colonists lived in a climate de- finitely milder than the present one. But these bland climatic condi- tions began to deteriorate in the thirteenth century. The Eskimos began to make troublesome raids perhaps because their northern sail- ing grounds were frozen over and they were hungry. They attacked the western settlement near the present Ameralik Fiord, and when an ‘official mission went out from the eastern colony about 1342, not a single colonist could be found— only a few cattle remained. The eastern settlement was wiped out some time after 1418 and the houses and churches destroyed by fire, Perhaps the fate of the Green- land colonies was in part due to the fact that ships from Iceland and Europe were finding it increasingly difficult to reach Greenland, and FATE the colonists had to be left to their own resources. The climatic rigors experienced in Greenland in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries were felt also in Europe in a series of unusual events and extraordinary catastro- phes. The seacoast of Holland was devastated by storm floods. Old Icelandic records say that, in the winters of the early 1300’s, packs of wolves crossed on the ice from Norway to Denmark. The entire Baltic froze over, forming a bridge of solid ice between Sweden and the Danish islands. Pedestrians and © catriages crossed the frozen sea and hostelries were put up on the ice to accommodate them. The freezing of the Baltic seems to have shifted the course of storms originating in the low-pressure belt south of Iceland. In southern Europe, as a result, there were unusual storms, crop failures, famine, and distress. Ice- landic literature abounds in tales of volcanic eruptions and other vio- lent natural catastrophes that oc- curred during the fourteenth cen- tury. What of the previous era of cold and storms, which should have oc- curred about the third or fourth century B.C. according to the tidal theory? There are shadowy hints in early literature and folklore. The dark and brooding poetry of the Edda deals with a great catastro- phe, the Fimbul-winter or Gotter-
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THE WORLD’S CHANGING CLIMATE 89 dammerung, when frost and snow ruled the world for generations. When Pytheas journeyed to the seas north of Iceland in 330 B.C., he spoke of the mare pigrum, a sluggish, congealed sea. Early his- tory contains striking suggestions that the restless movements of the tribes of northern Europe—the southward migrations of the ‘bar- barians’ who shook the power of Rome—coincided with periods of storms, floods, and other climatic catastrophes that forced their mi- grations. Large-scale inundations of the sea destroyed the homelands of the Teutons and Cimbrians in Jut- land and sent them southward into Gaul. Tradition among the Druids said that their ancestors had been expelled from their lands on the far side of the Rhine by enemy tribes and by ‘a great invasion of the ~ ocean.’ And about the year 700 B.C. the trade routes for amber, found on the coasts of the North Sea, were suddenly shifted to the east. The old route came down along the Elbe, the Weser, and the Dan- ube, through the Brenner Pass to Italy. The new route followed the Vistula, suggesting that the source of supply was then the Baltic. Per- haps storm floods had destroyed the earlier amber districts, as they invaded these same regions eighteen centuries later. All these ancient records of cli- matic variations seemed to Petters- son an indication that cyclic changes in the oceanic circulation and in the conditions of the At- lantic had occurred. ‘No geologic alteration that could influence the climate has occurred for the past six or seven centuries,’ he wrote. The very nature of these pheno- mena — floods, inundations, ice blockades—suggested to him a dis- location of the oceanic circulation. Applying the discoveries in his laboratory on Gulmarfiord, he be- lieved that the climatic changes were brought about as the tide- induced submarine waves disturbed the deep waters of polar seas. Al- though tidal movements are often weak at the surface of these seas, they set up strong pulsations at the submarine boundaries, where there is a layer of comparatively fresh, cold water lying upon a lay- er of salty, warmer water. In the years or the centuries of strong tidal forces, unusual quantities of warm Atlantic water press into the Arctic Sea at deep levels, moving in under the ice. Then thousands of square miles of ice that normally remain solidly frozen undergo par- tial thawing and break up. Drift ice, in extraordinary volume, enters the Labrador Current and is car- ried southward into the Atlantic. This changes the pattern of sur- face circulation, which is so inti- mately related to the winds, the rainfall, and the air temperatures.
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go For the drift ice then attacks the Gulf Stream south of Newfound- land and sends it on a more easter- ly course, deflecting the streams of warm surface water that usually bring a softening effect to the cli- mate of Greenland, Iceland, Spits- bergen, and northern Europe. The position -of the low-pressure belt south of Iceland is also shifted, with further direct effect on Euro- pean climate. Although the really catastrophic disturbances of the polar regime come only every eighteen centuries, according to Pettersson, there are also rhythmically occurring periods that fall at varying intervals—for example, every 9, 18, or 36 years. These correspond to other tidal cycles. They produce climatic vari- ations of shorter period and of less drastic nature. The year 1903, for instance, was memorable for its outbursts of polar ice in the Arctic and for the reper- cussions on Scandinavian fisheries. There was ‘a general failure of cod, herring, and other fish along the coast from Finmarken and Lofoten to the Skagerrak and Kattegat. The greater part of the Barents Sea was covered with pack ice up to May, the ice border approaching closer to the Murman and Finmarken coasts than ever before. Herds of arctic seals visited these coasts, and some species of the arctic whitefish extended their migrations to the FATE Christiana Fiord and even entered into the Baltic.’ This outbreak of ice came in a year when earth, moon, and sun were in a relative position that gives a secondary maximum of the tide-producing forces. The similar constellation of 1912 was another great ice year in the Labrador Current—a year that brought the disaster of the Titanic. Now in our own lifetime we are witnessing a startling alteration of climate, and it is intriguing to apply Otto Pettersson’s ideas as a possible explanation. It is now established beyond question that a definite change in the arctic climate set in about 1900, that it became aston- ishingly marked about 1930, and that it is now spreading into sub- arctic and temperate regions. The frigid top of the world is warming. The trend toward a milder cli- mate in the Arctic is perhaps most strikingly apparent in the greater ease of navigation in the North Atlantic and the Arctic Sea. In 1932, for example, the Knipowitsch sailed around Franz Josef Land for the first time in the history of arctic voyaging. And three years later the Russian ice-breaker Sadko went from the northern tip of Nov- aya Zemlya to a point north of Severnaya Zemlya (Northern Land) and thence to 82° 4r’ north Iati- tude—the northern-most point ever reached by a ship under its own power.
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THE WORLD’S CHANGING CLIMATE or In 1940 the whole northern coast of Europe and Asia was remarkably free from ice during the summer months, and more, than roo vessels engaged in trade via the arctic routes. In 1942 a vessel unloaded supplies at the west Greenland port of Upernivik (latitude 72° 43’ N) during Christmas week ‘in almost complete winter darkness.’ During the ’forties the season for shipping coal from West Spitsbergen ports lengthened to seven months, com- pared with three at the beginning of the century. The season when pack ice lies about Iceland became shorter by about two months than it was a century ago. Drift ice in the Russian sector of the Arctic Sea decreased by a million square kilometers between 1924 and 1944, and in the Laptev Sea two islands of fossil ice melted away complete- ly, their position being marked by submarine. shoals. Activities in the nonhuman world also reflect the warming of the Arctic—the changed habits and migrations of many fishes, birds, land mammals, and whales. Many new birds are appearing in far northern lands for the first time in our records. The long list of southern visitors—birds never reported in Greenland before 1920 —includes the American velvet scoter, the greater yellowlegs, American avocet, black-browed al- batross, northern cliff swallow, ovenbird, common crossbill, Balti- more oriole, and Canada warbler. Some high-arctic forms, which thrive in cold climates, have shown their distaste for the warmer temp- eratures by visiting Greenland in sharply decreasing numbers. Such abstainers include the northern horned lark, the grey plover, and the pectoral sandpiper. Iceland, too, has an extraordinary number of boreal and even subtropical avian visitors since 1935, coming both from America and Europe. Wood warblers, skylarks, and Siberian rubythroats, scarlet grosbeaks, pip- its, and thrushes now provide ex- citing fare for Icelandic bird watch- ers. When the cod first appeared at Angmagssalik in Greenland in 1912, it was a new and strange fish to the Eskimos and Danes. Within their memory it had never before appeared on the east coast of the island. But they began to catch it, and by the 1930’s it supported so substantial a fishery in the area that the natives had become de- pendent upon it for food. They were also using its oil as fuel for their lamps and to heat their houses. On the west coast of Greenland, too, the cod was a rarity at the turn of the century, although there was a small fishery, taking about 500 tons a year, at a few places on the southwest coast. About 1919
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g2 the cod began to move north along the west Greenland coast and to become more abundant. The cen- ter of the fishery has moved 300 miles farther north, and the catch is now about 15,000 tons a year. - Other fishes seldom or never be- fore reported in Greenland have appeared there. The coalfish or green cod is a European fish so foreign to Greenland waters that when two of them were caught in 1831 they were promptly preserv- ed in salt and sent to the Copen- hagen Zoological Museum. But since 1924 this fish has often been found among the cod shoals. The haddock, cusk, and ling, unknown in Greenland waters until about 1930, are now taken regularly. Ice- land, too, has strange visitors— warmth-loving southern fishes, like the basking shark, the grotesque sunfish, the six-gilled shark, the swordfish, and the horse mackerel. Some of these same species have penetrated into the Barents and White seas and along the Murman coast. As the chill of the northern wat- ers has abated and the fish have moved poleward, the fisheries a- round Iceland have expanded enor- mously, and it has become profit- able for trawlers to push on to Bear Island, Spitsbergen, and the Barents Sea. These waters now yield perhaps two billion pounds of cod a year—the largest catch of a FATE single species by any fishery in the world. But its existence is tenuous. If the cycle turns, the waters begin to chill, and the ice floes creep southward again, there is nothing man can do that will preserve the arctic fisheries. But for the present, the evidence that the top of the world is grow- ing warmer is to be found on every hand. The recession of the northern glaciers is going on at such a rate that many smaller ones have al- ready disappeared. If the present rate of melting continues others will soon follow them. The melting away of the snow- fields in the Opdal Mountains in Norway has exposed wooden-shaft- ed arrows of a type used about A.D. 400 to 500. This suggests that the snow cover in this region must now be less than it has been at any time within the past 1400 to 1500 years. The glaciologist Hans Ahlmann reports that most Norwegian gla- ciers ‘are living only on their own mass without receiving any annual fresh supply of snow’; that in the Alps there has been a general re- treat and shrinkage of glaciers dur- ing the last decades, which became ‘catastrophic’ in the summer of 1947; and that all glaciers around the Northern Atlantic coasts are shrinking. The most rapid reces- sion of all is occurring in Alaska, where the Muir Glacier receded
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THE WORLD’S CHANGING CLIMATE 93 about 10% kilometers in 12 years. At present the vast antarctic glaciers are an enigma; no one can say whether they also are melting away, or at what rate. But reports from other parts of the world show that the northern glaciers are not the only ones that are receding. The glaciers of several East African high volcanoes have been diminish- ing since they were first studied in the 1800’s—very rapidly since ~1920—and there is a glacial shrink- age in the Andes and also in the high mountains of central Asia. The milder arctic and sub-arctic climate seems already to have re- sulted in longer growing seasons and better crops. The cultivation of oats has improved in Iceland. In Norway good seed years are now the rule rather than the excep- tion, and even in northern Scan- dinavia the trees have spread rapid- ly above their former timber lines, and both pine and spruce are mak- ing a quicker annual growth than they have for some time. The countries where the most striking changes are taking place are those whose climate is most directly under the control of the North Atlantic currents. Greenland, Iceland, Spitsbergen, and all north- ern Europe, as we have seen, ex- perience heat and cold, drought and flood in accordance with the varying strength and warmth of the eastward and northward-mov- ing currents of the Atlantic. Oceano- graphers who have been studying the matter during the 1940’s have discovered many significant changes in the temperature and distribution of great masses of ocean water. Ap- parently the branch of the Gulf Stream that flows past Spitsbergen has so increased in volume that it now brings in a great body of warm water. Surface waters of the North Atlantic show rising temperatures; so do the deeper layers around Ice- land and Spitsbergen. Sea tempera- tures in the North Sea and along the coast of Norway have been growing warmer since the 1920’s. Unquestionably, there are other agents at work in bringing about the climatic changes in the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. For one thing, it is almost certainly true that we are still in the warming-up stage following the last Pleistocene glaciation—that the world’s climate over the next thousands of years, will grow considerably warmer be- fore beginning a downward swing into another Ice Age. But what we are experiencing now is perhaps a climatic change of shorter duration, measurable only in decades or cen- turies. Some scientists say that there must have been a small in- crease in solar activity, changing the pattern of air circulation and causing the southerly winds to blow more frequently in Scandinavia and Spitsbergen; changes in ocean cur-
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94 rents, according to this view, are secondary effects of the shift of prevailing winds. But if, as Professor Brooks thinks, the Pettersson tidal theory has as good a foundation as that of changing solar radiation, then it is interesting to calculate where our twentieth-century situation fits into the cosmic scheme of the shift- ing cycles of the tides. The great tides at the close of the Middle Ages, with their accompanying snow and ice, furious winds, and FATE inundating floods, are more than five centuries behind us. The era of weakest tidal movements, with a climate as benign as that of the early Middle Ages, is about four centuries ahead. We have therefore begun to move strongly into a period of warmer, milder weather. There will be fluctuations, as earth and sun and moon move through space and the tidal power waxes and wanes. But the long trend is toward a warmer earth; the pen- dulum is swinging. FT THE LEVITTOWN OF 500 B.C. | Fite THE PAST 25 years Profes- sor Zdzislaw Rajewski, director of Warsaw’s archeological museum, has been excavating an amazing pocket of ancient civilization preserved for 2.500 years under a lake 50 miles northeast of Poznan in Poland. Called Biskupin, it is a roughly circular walled village completely covering an island over six acres in area. Dr. Rajewski believes the village was built at a time when northern Poland had a fairly warm and dry climate. About 500 B.C. the climate turned increasingly cold and wet, the lake rose and finally the villagers abandoned their homes to the engulfing water. In 1933 dredging of the Gasawka River eaused the level of Lake Biskupin to fall as much as 15 feet, bringing the remains of the Iron Age settlement to view. The site has now been dam- med and pumped dry. At a time when cultured Medi- terranean people regarded North- ern Europe as a savage-infested wilderness, life in Biskupin was surprisingly civilized and orderly. The village had regular streets and almost identical log houses which appeared to have been planned as earefully as a modern Levittown. Except for a small open square, the entire area within the fortified walls was packed with houses in 13 straight rows. Over 5,000,000 artifacts and frag- ments have been found, showing Biskupin had a flourishing culture, with trade goods reaching it from much of Europe. Apparently sun worshipers with- a roughly demo- cratic government, the villagers used small plows to cultivate wheat, barley and other crops, and raised cattle, sheep, pigs, dogs and a breed of now-extinct small horses.
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MY PROOF OF SURVIVAL dreamed that I got out of bed and padded across the cool linoleum in my bare feet to close it and just as _ I reached it the door swung wider and the body of my friend, Florence White, fell out of the closet at my feet. I was awed rather than surprised when, three hours after I woke up, I received a cable from England, 12,000 miles away, which read: FLORENCE DIED IN HER SLEEP LAST NIGHT. As always Florence had been first with the news.—Seattle, Wash. WHAT IS DEATH? By Miles W. Hurd HAD BEEN interested in psy- chic matters for about a year in April, 1954. I had read -all the books and literature on the subject 99 that I could find and even had heard “silent inner voices” discuss- ing psycho-religious subjects, pre- sumably for my benefit. Sitting in the living room one evening, waiting for my wife to get dinner ready, I heard an inquiring voice say, “Do you want to see death?” To me it seemed a logical con- clusion to one of their discussions and so my answer was an inward “ves”, Just then my wife came in and asked what I had said and to whom I had been speaking. She claimed she had heard voices. How could she? It had all been silent thought! (Of course, I have learned Since then, as most husbands event- ually do, that wives have a sixth sense which they call “woman’s in- tuition”.) I rarely sleep the night through “Are you willing to let success happen to you?” If you are, then you will find like countless others have salready, that the writings of Roy Eugene Davis set forth the distilled essence of the best of ancient and modern principles—in clear, precise terms. 5 SRE ED AY ATS eee ee ees a Koes Ge RN A OH A SS oe Re Se | 1. “TIME, SPACE and CIRCUMSTANCE” A beautifully printed, cloth covered textbook that has recently been favorably reviewed in ‘Wate’, “Exploring the Unknown” and the “A.R.E, Bul- Tetin.”” Is now being translated into Japanese and also dis- tributed in the Britis Empire (by Thorson’s of England at 15/-) If you want the facis, then get this book, $3.00 $3. 2. “SUCCESS THROUGH SUPERCONSCJOUS POWER” No. 1— A reprint of popular articles. Paper covered, $1.00 2 8. “SUCCESS THROUGH SUPERCONSCIOUS POWER” No. 2 — A companion booklet to the above. $1.00 I I I 1 | I I | Totals $..ssceseeess I l 1 | I I I UJ FREE literature describing records, tape record- ings, and the new home ‘ Study course on request. CUYFsecccaph sere ira cee enya VAG) 5S hina wee Bat evceesssccsece Roy Eugene Davis Publications Garrett Park, Maryland
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100 without waking up at least once, usually between 2:00 and 3:00 A.M. That night when I awoke in the dim room two men were beside my bed. Their presence was real enough, although a gray-white translucence veiled the details of their physical appearance. “We've come to show you death,” they said. One moved to the head of the bed, the other to the foot. At a signal between them they grabbed my feet and shoulders and threw me out of bed. I landed on my feet and half walked, half glided into the kitch- en. They followed me. Nothing was said. I felt thirsty and attempted to -turn on the cold water tap. I couldn’t turn it on. My fingers grasped the tap but when I exerted pressure my fingers passed right through the tap handle. When I turned to the two men for an explanation they just smiled and led me back into the bedroom. There I saw my body FATE still lying on the bed next to my wife who remained peacefully asleep. “You’ve seen it,” my companions said. “ “This is death?” I asked. “A mere stepping out of the body.” As they made this simple state- ment they tossed me a full turn into the air over the bed and I was mo- mentarily suspended in a horizon- tal position over my body. There was a snapping sound.and a sudden downward pull and then I lay in ‘bed again. You can imagine the questions that filled my mind: How did they release me from my body? What holds the spirit in the body? Why ecouldn’t I leave my body whenever I wanted to? Why couldn’t I turn on the water tap? Where did they come from? Who were they? But my companions had faded into invisibility and these further questions remain unanswered.— Cleveland, Ohio. OUR ASTRONOMICAL ENVIRONMENT NOW CHANGING IN MANY RESPECTS Men and women find themselves obliged today to understand and adapt their WAY of LIVING to these changing environmental conditions, if they are to prosper in HEALTH and SPIRITUALITY. To fail to align .our living so as to follow the admonitions of the Wise and Beneficent Supraphysical Leaders and Teachers of Mankind in this critical hour, will be to fail to grasp a spiritual advantage which is offered to Mankind only once in every 13 Solar Ages. WRITE TODAY, requesting the seventy-six page booklet Number One, of the Sanctilean Series—Enclose $1 for your postpaid copy to: UPLAND TRAILS PRESS P.O. Box 1688 Coolidge, Arizona
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WILLIAM JAMES ON PSYCHICAL RE- SEARCH, compiled and edited by Gard- ner Murphy, M.D., and Robert O. Ballou. The Viking Press, New York, 1960. 399 pages, $6.00. Since his death 50 years ago, William James has been called, “the most renowned and representative of the thinkers of America.” <A true pioneer, creator of the first psychology laboratory in America, James was a relentless foe of dogma in all forms, one who sought to test every theory by its practical ap- plication to life. No phenomenon was too obscure to escape his rest- less search for “concrete facts,” so that he soon found himself dispas- sionately studying first-hand the phenomena called “psychic.” More than any other American man of science, James’ active par- ticipation in psychical research lent a measure of respectability to “ehost chasing.” His most notable achievement in this direction was his discovery of the Boston “mental medium,” Mrs. Piper, whose subse- quent “sittings,” principally under the supervision of the great Aus- tralian investigator, Richard Hodg- son, provided what is generally rec- ognized as the best-authenticated, “watertight” record of “spirit com- munications” in the history of spir- itualism. These trance ples given), detailing knowledge of messages (exam- obscure names, dates, places and events recognized by the sitter and ostensibly supplied by the sitter’s deceased acquaintances communicat- ing through Mrs. Piper, converted Hodgson and many notable skeptics, but not James. Ever in search of the “alternative hypothesis,” he ack- nowledged that ‘“supernormal re- ceptivity of some kind is certain- ly involved,” adding his thought that it might be better explained as telepathy from the unconscious memories of the living, or perhaps even from “some cosmic reservoir in which the memories of earth are stored. ...-” After Hodgson’s death, James re- ceived through this medium mes- sages claiming to come from his deceased colleague. Unable to de- cide whether these represented the work of a veritable Hodgson or “some mere spirit-counterfeit of Hodgson,” James remained “uncer- tain” on the question of “spirit- survival,” and waited for “more 1ot
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REPORT FROM THE READERS GREEN-GLOWING OBJECT About 10:30 on Sunday night, April 24, 1960, I was sitting in my living room when suddenly I no- ticed something unusual in the sky. A large, glowing green object was slowly descending behind the houses across the street. I saw it in the eastern sky. The object looked larger than the full moon when it is rising. It had the appearance of two oval shapes linked together by side struts. The green glow was intense and vivid, brighter than the full moon, although the object did not look at all like the moon. It did not look like a meteor, either. It stood out strongly against the sky, al- though the sky was overcast. It definitely was shaped like an object constructed by intelligent be- ings. And it definitely was a solid object, although the glow obscured some of the details. I saw no win- dows or portholes. The object was so big and seemed so close, I wondered what would happen when it disappeared behind the houses. Nothing happened, how- ever. The neighborhood remained quiet. The next day a neighbor across the street said that her husband’s younger brother had seen something unusual in the sky as he was car- rying out garbage. He said all he saw was a greenish object descend- | SEE the HUMAN AURA! a vital step toward PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT Aura researchers have now developed a mechanical means of learning to see the human aura — permanent optically per- fect filters mounted in a pair of gog- gles adjustable to your head-size. They leave your hands free! Up to now the most highly developed psychics have had to learn to see the human aura with the aid of awkward physical means—ex- pensive fragile screens and hand-held films, treated with obscure dyes of short-lived power. NOW — YOU CAN BE AMONG THE FIRST - . . tO Own aura goggies in this coun- try. To detect aura radiation from the human body, animals or inanimate things you need only a few minutes practice with AURA GOGGLES. The leather frames fit close to your head to shut out all unwanted light rays. The filters are pinacyanole bromide, a coal tar de- rivative that is not expensive and will not deteriorate with age or use. Of the few researchers who have had the pri- vilege of testing the goggles, more than 90% have seen the aura on their first try! AURA GOGGLES + +. are a scientifically manufactured psychic - appliance, with pinacyanole bromide filters, boxed with complete instructions: ee Soe $10.00 ORDER IMMEDIATELY AND GET ABSOLUTELY FREE a_copy of specially-prepared pamphlet, “Seeing the Aura,"’ a book about what aura vision means to YOU! oo rma ee See cee oR ee me eR Per LEERY PN ERE ML 1 CLARK PUBLISHING CO. | 845 Chicago Ave., Evanston, ill. l Please sent me AT ONCE .....s.s000+ pair of AURA GOGGLES, and include booklet ‘‘Seeing I the Aura’’ at no additional cost. | T enclose [] cash [J check () money | OLGAE LORS Bown vip sew snidegeasc nes Aer n tweens eee nee eee ee seeeseeseerees | Name | Address oie Se 109
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