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June 1961 40c TRUE STORIES OF THE STRANGE AND THE UNKNOWN Articles Strange Case Of The Mystery Satellite Harlan: Wilsonmiy.nce cee eleet 25 Let’s Talk About Survival After Death Dr. Henry Smith Leiper ...... 44 Sun, Moon and Earth Wind Your Biological Clos Raul :Foghtaeirevcseierensietele aasieke Healing Energy Called ““Orgone” Walter Edwards ........-..-.-- 75 Gurdjieff, Teacher Of The Occult Ellery-Laniersccmtercceaiciereista rst 86 S ; 2 toes The Hanging Tree’s Eight Victims Bernard Molohon ............ 31 Dream Witness To Murder G.-Maldram. Wildsweescc ss ces 59 Werewolves In Thailand? OrmondsMcGilliesccmeincneee ee 62 Miracle Of The Ice Cubes Eleanore Weissman .......... 71 A Dirge For Father De La Brosse Andrew Ballantine .......... 81 The Pnantom Hitchhiker Of Okinawa... Latest News . . . Lawrence Of Arabia’s Messenger Of Death... My Proof Of Survival... New Books
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JUNE C Vol. 14—No. 6 1961 on ten £ 7} Issue No. 135 Publisher: CURTIS FULLER = Assistant Publisher: PAUL FOGHT Editor: MARY FULLER CO Managing Editor: CHESTER S. GEIER Foreign Editor: MIR BASHIR Art Director: SYDNEY BARKER | ARTICLES... | TRUE REPORTS ON THE STRANGE AND UNKNOWN Strange Case Of The Mystery Satellite ..........-........0---- Harlan Wilson 25 Let’s Talk About Survival After Death ........ Dr. Henry Smith Leiper 44 Sun, Moon and Earth Wind Your Biological Clock ........ Paul Foght 66 Healing. Energy Callede “Orgone eee Walter Edwards 75 Gurdjieff, Teacher Of ‘Fhe Occult .22..--sc--cecccecceneee- Ellery Lanier 86 DRAMATIC ACCOUNTS OF ACTUAL EXPERIENCES The Hanging Tree’s Eight Victims .........ss.ccecc-se-- Bernard Molohon 31 , Dream Witness To Murder -.....0.......-:cscscecseeee---- C. Maldram Wilds 59 = Wiczermolvcs sini Dhatland)? 20 nee Ormond McGill 62 AVisracte hy aie Mee CODES 2 sn ascs oh em cect ene Eleanore Weissman 71 A Dirge For Father De La Brosse ......c..:-:-ccss0e- Andrew Ballantine 81 NEWS AND NOTES ON UNUSUAL TOPICS SESS TND 6 sy ncaa sea See tee eae ee Curtis Fuller 6 "Pru e® WMiySbiG misx pera Gh Ces <2 seoskso csc scncpesacce ce sctetoecsesnssenns The Readers 53 (he Phantompeasegmiker OL Okinaywa- 2s oa scans see 61 Lawrence Of Arabia’s Messenger Of Death .......2:....... Richard Harvey 94 My Proof Of Survival The Readers 95 New Books 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. Subscribers 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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I See by the Papers... QUOTE OF THE MONTH Eratosthenes (276-194 B.C.) @ pupil of Ptolemy III, was head of the great library at Alexandria. He believed that the world was round. He found a deep well near Syene, on the Nile. At the bottom of this well a reflection of the sun could be seen at noon on Midsummer’s Day. Eratosthenes reasoned thai this meant that the sun was directly overhead and that it must there- fore point to the center of the earth. On Midsummer’s Day, Hraios- thenes measured the angle of the sun as shown by the shadow of a stake at a point near his library in Alexandria (some 570 miles due north of the well). By Geometry, Eratosthenes cat- culated that the circumference of the earth was 25,000 miles. (The distance around the earth at the equator is now calculated to be 24,902 miles). This finding of the size of the earth and the information that ¢é was round was later suppressed. —Curtius of Hadecan CO ETERNAL VERITIES CIENCE is often imagined to be a set of unchanging facts ex- pressing eternal truths. Even sci- entists sometimes fall into the trap of believing this to be so. On the contrary, science emerges as only a discipline, a point of view, a method, and no one can be aware of the fast changes among the “eternal truths” without wonder- ing both how eternal they are and how “truthful” they are. Truth, we learn, is relative. Con- sider one of the earliest of these relatives, primitive man. The his- tory of this little known, bestial and foul-smelling creature is at best uncertain. And like so many things in this world of change, our con- cept of primitive man is constantly changing. Every so often somebody comes up with a new “earliest human.”
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8 Perhaps the most that can be said about these discoveries is that they are “humanoid”—that is, they are closer to man than to the ape. Usually (and perhaps always) they are not in the direct line of descent of man (or ascent, if you prefer), but represent offshoots which reached dead-ends and extinction many thousands of years ago. Fortunately, our general knowl- edge has gained a stage of sophis- tication where the newspapers usu- ally do not any longer refer to these poor sad fossils as “missing links.” It would take a brave pale- ontologist these days to define a “missing link.” CO MEET THE NEWEST Wé: ARE NOT being clever when we say that the new- est is also the oldest. Recently An- thropologist L. S. B. Leakey dis- covered in Africa the fossil remains of a new sub-man older, yet more human, than his previously discov- ered 600,000-year-old ‘Nutcracker Man.” “Nutcracker man” was so named because of his powerful jaws and giant teeth which were quite capa- ble of cracking nuts—or bones either. Also called Zinjanthropus, the creature’s remains were discov- ered in Olduvai Gorge in 1959. Leakey has been digging there since 1931, and it may be one of FATE the richest fossil areas in the world. The newest discovery, as yet un- named, seems closer to the human line than is Nutcracker Man. Lea- key can’t say for sure whether this creature walked upright, but he had somewhat jackal-like habits. He lived at the time of the sabre-ivoth tiger, and there are indications that he got his meat from leftovers of the sabre-tooth’s kill and skinned the carcasses with primitive tools. Perhaps even more significant is the discovery of the foot bones of Nutcracker Man. Compared with those of a man and a gorilla, the big toe of the gorilla projects almost at aright angle to the other toes while those of Nutcracker Man are in a line, like those of modern man. There are substantial differen- ces in the joining of the toes and while the other foot bones resemble those of modern man they are dif- ferent in particulars. Nutcracker Man’s foot also was wider. oO AND NOW COMES THAILAND BS DO NOT despair. From Thailand come reports that even richer fossil deposits may ex- ist there than in the Olduvai Gorge. Dr. Ejigil Nielsen, a paleontolo- gist for Copenhagen’s Mineralogi- cal Museum and leader of the Thai-Danish Prehistoric Expedi- tion, has done preliminary investi-— gation along the Kwai Noi River
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= do) and found stone axes and pottery that represent the entire chronology of man through paleolithic, meso- lithic and neolithic periods. The river was obviously a great migra- tion route in Southeast Asia during prehistoric times, and the tools ap- pear to be 250,000 to 1,000,000 years old. Although the current expedition is only for reconnaissance purposes, Dr. Nielsen said: “We have already found enough material for a hundred lifetimes of study and we haven’t begun to look hard.” io a) AND THEN TURKEY UCH CLOSER to our own period of history, another find has been made which may force revision of theories that civi- lization began in Mesopotamia among the Sumerians. Near Burdur, in southwest Ana- tolia, excavations in a giant mound uncovered 20 levels of occupation. Above the seven lowest ‘and ear- liest levels, Dr. James Mallaart found a layer of virgin soil. And above this he discovered the shards of well-made pottery and proof that the inhabitants practiced farm- ing and house building. The houses were of mud brick. The floors were laid on a pebble base covered with lime plaster, painted in various shades of red and then burnished. FATE The houses were plastered. There were plastered bins, platforms for grinding cereals and grains, fire- boxes that held glowing embers. There were the knuckle bones of cattle in most houses. These knuckle bones were recognized by — natives as being used in a game called asik, still played in Anatolia. Yet the find is 7,400 to 9,000 years old—much older than any- thing we know of Sumeria. oa) WHAT’S ETERNAL? % 7ES, SCIENCE must define a 4 large part of its future job as revising the major truths of the past that have become the un- truths of the present as our knowl- edge increases. For instance... Dr. Lyle B. Borst, a physicist of New York University, has con- cluded that Sparta, the Greek city- state which was most noted for mil- itary accomplishments had a secret weapon—steel. Sparta and the Spartans used steel weapons as ear- ly as 650 B.C. “Our tests show that the specimens we have exam- ined are made of a very high qual- ity steel with very few impurities. The elastic limit is above 52,000 pounds per square inch, almost twice that of modern structural steel. It is striated and its carbon content is right—0.2 to 0.8 per cent.” Another somewhat embarrassing
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I SEE BY THE PAPERS revision had to be made by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Museum recently revealed that three famous Etruscan terra cotta warrior figures, on exhibition for 30 years and known to thousands of visitors fer their heroic size (one is eight feet high and weighs 800 pounds), are fakes. CO NOW LET’S FACE IT ELIEVERS MAY have to face the fact that the Abominable Snowman is also a fake. When we consider why people believe there is a Snowman, we conclude that many do so because they hope a Snowman will be found and thus further embarrass scien- tists who have said there isn’t any such thing. But in the case of the Abomin- able Snowman, we confess that there is mighty little evidence thus far to prove that it exists. Let’s face it. It’s nearly impossi- ble to prove that something doesn’t exist. You can prove that it does exist by saying, “Well, here it is. This is it. You can feel it, see it, hear it, taste it, smell it. You can detect its presence by instruments.” But when you say that it doesn’t exist because you can’t detect its presence by any means you know, that still doesn’t prove it isn’t there. This argument applies equally to Il STUDY OCCULT SCIENCES AT HOME! @ READ HOROSCOPES The most complete course ever written. Many test horoscopes wit h instructions sieving how you can use astrology =e $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 ee @ READ THE TAROT —Fullest, 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- yoyance, psychometry, telepathy, etc., can %e developed under your complete control. Most comprehensive training ever perfected. Along safe, positive lines—student can switch ‘‘on’’ and “off’’ the psychic plane when ho chooses, $5.00 @ EACH COURSE SENT TO YOU COMPLETE including full set of lessons, charts, examples, numerous self-tests and full model answers. You need no special advance training. Every course supplies everything required. ORDER TODAY! i INSIGHT INSTITUTE 845 Chicago Ave., Evanston, Ill. : Please send me the courses Ste I below. LT enclose $-..~=..-~._-. Check, [cash, or money order for l I¢ ) CAST HOROSCOPES i 1$ ) THE TARO I ( ) ANALYZE ANDWEITING | I( ) READ HANDS ia ) DEVELOP PSYCHIC POWERS i [ Name: 2 ecc-coren ese neneec ean | Valtidress® 2252s eee re -| 'City and State__.-_----------------- i
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12 scientists who say that clairvoy- ance, clairaudience, ESP, telepathy, psychokinesis, time displacement, etc., don’t exist because they can’t fit them into their scheme of things. Let them try to prove that they don’t exist. Obviously they can’t. But they go on disbelieving any- way. They have been called “scien- tists with half-closed minds.” But in the case of the Abomin- able Snowman, it’s a little different. Sir Edmund Hillary, who hunted him intensively in the Himalayas, flew all the way back to this country with some possible evidence that-turned out not to be évidence. It is Hil- lary’s belief that there is no such thing as an Abominable Snowman. The yeti’s scalp, that Hillary borrowed from the Khumjung monks and brought back to this country for examination, turned out to be the molded hide of a se- row, a kind of goat-antelope. Hillary, conqueror of Mt. Ev- erest, was not able to find any Sherpas who had actually seen a yeti, though some said they heard them at night. The explorers frequently found footprints in the snows which ful- filled the descriptions of yetis— large feet with sharply defined toe marks. The Sherpas swore these were authentic footprints. Yet when they were followed into the shade of rocks or on the north side of a snow slope, the yeti tracks al- FATE ways disappeared. “In their place we found the small footprints of a fox or wild dog bunched closely to- gether as the animal bounded over the snow . . . The warmth melted them out, ran them together, com- pletely altered their contours and made as fine a yeti track as one could wish.” Hillary admits that his theory doesn’t cover every case. No explan- ation has been found for the noise that the Sherpas attribute to the yetis. Yet at this point, Hillary feels that the Abominable Snowman be- longs in the field of mythology. CoO BUILT-IN RADIOS NN LANDERS, who runs a column of advice to the love- lorn and other lorn, is a skeptical person. Some time ago a woman wrote Ann Landers and said her mother-in-law insists that she fre- quently receives radio messages through her bridgework. Ann Lan- ders suggested the woman see a psychiatrist. How often have you received this kind of gratuitous advice from disbelievers? Promptly Ann Landers was snowed with letters saying that people can indeed receive radio mes- sages through their bridgework. The mail came from research en- gineers, factory workers and even other mothers-in-law.
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I SEE BY THE PAPERS One factory worker reported he kept hearing voices and thought he was losing his mind. At last he decided to see the plant doctor— who found that small particles of metal filings had lodged between his teeth and they carried the vi- brations to the biain by bone con- duction as in a crystal-tuned cir- cuit. Since then we have reports of radio reception through steam ra- diators, bath tubs, and electric or- gans. In Midland, Tex., last Novem- ber, Mrs. Virginia Kimmey was startled, to say the least, when mu- 13 sic began coming out of her hot water tap. In Watertown, Mass., eight-month-old Andrea Whalen has a trick rabbit. When the bunny is pressed it squeaks and the televi- sion set changes channels. The set has a remote control device which appears to be activated by the squeak of the rabbit. ~ You can imagine the surprise of seven-year-old Pam Alex of Green- ville, S. C., when her electric or- gan began to talk back to her. She sat down to play it one day and a man’s voice asked, “How are you this morning, buddy?” Seems the same voice was on the television 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 A.D. translated, edited, and interpreted by Henry C. 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 eome 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, 350 pages. ORDER TODAY! ONLY $5.00 Roberts ee ee eee 8 VENTURE BOOKSHOP § P.0. Box 671 : Evanston, IIlinois — Please send me my copy of THE COMPLETE § PROPHECIES OF NOSTRADAMUS at cnee. H 1 enclose (] cash, [] check, [} money order "tor $5.00. NAME ..ceccceceees eeeececes eeeecaseeoueseeres 1 - Address eee tN
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14 set also when they turned that on. Now a few weeks ago somebody else wrote to Ann Landers. A me- chanic in a machine shop thinks his ex-girl friend put a hex on him. He operates a seven horse power motor and since he left the gal the motor won’t run. Other mechanics can’t find anything wrong with it and the motor will run in their shops but not in his. Ann Landers replied that this was all nonsense, of course, and there were no such things as hexes or spells and that a good mechanic certainly would find the trouble. Comments, anyone? CO OUR MYSTERIOUS EARTH HAT REALLY started us off on this month’s kick about sci- ence, change and truth was the un- usually large number of recent re- ports, studies and statements which, if accepted, would change completely our concepts of our earth and our universe. And all this in just a single month. Who knows what next month may have in store for us? For example, only two years ago, scientists reported that the earth was slightly pear-shaped. Recent- ly, new calculations aided by satel- lite observations at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory demon- strate that the earth is not even a uniformly rounded pear—but a FATE slightly irregular ellipsoid. A cross section of the earth along the equa- tor would show that one axis of the earth is more than a quarter of a mile longer than the other. The earth is thickest on a line be- ginning at a point off the eastern tip of Brazil and-ending at the Ad- miralty Islands above eastern Aus- tralia. Nobody knows why the bulge exists. Here’s another interesting ob- servation: Ancient Egyptian and Chinese records are being studied to help determine sunspot and au- rora borealis activity as far back as 220 B.C. Observations are de- picted on dated Chinese manu- scripts, for example, that indicate there have been changes in the well-known il-year cycle for sun- spot activity. The great famines and droughts recorded in Asia re- flect the effect of solar cycles. CO WHICH CAME FIRST? T IS GENERALLY believed that falling rain generates electrical charges that cause lightning. Re- cently a team from an electronic research organization told the Amer- ican Meteorological Society that the opposite may be true. The researchers theorized that lightning may turn part of a cloud into an electrostatic precipitator which coalesces cloud droplets into raindrops.
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OTHER TONGUES—OTHER FLESH By George Hunt Williamson. We are beginning to realize that there are living beings on other worlds. Our probes into space indicate we may soon journey into the heavens to discover them. Here is scientific evidence that there ARE brothers in the skies overhead! A collection of man’s knowledge of visits to Earth in the past of these people from other planets, proved by archae- ological research, including the author’s own worldwide search. Facts, plus sensible extrapolation! Price: $4.00 SECRET PLACES OF THE LION By George Hunt Williamson. The second book by this scientific researcher. Who built the Great Pyra- mid? Did Lemuria and Atlantis really exist? What is the meaning of the Aztec Calendar Stone? Is there an ancient space ship buried under the Sphynx? Where is the Holy Grail? Where is the lost treasure of the Inca; the fabulous Dise of the Sun? Was Joseph of Arimathea buried in Britain? Did the American Indians guard ancient Lemurian records buried in Time Capsules? (Book shipped direct from England) Price $4.00 ROAD IN THE SKY—By George Hunt Williamson. The third book in this great series! Startling evidence, proven by archeology, linking ancient civilizations with the beginnings of humanity and visitations from Outer Space! A “highway grander and longer than any on Earth, yet it often touched the green hills of Earth. A highway linking the stars together and moving out beyond the known Universe.'’ This book takes you back to the most remote records of hu- manity and throws light upon our beginnings, (Book shipped direct from England) Price: $4.50 THE SECRET OF THE SAUCERS By Orfeo Angelucci. Five editions prove this book’s greatness! Psychie experience backed by eyewitness # confirmation. There actually is an unknown world around us, usually invisible, but at least the veil is being torn away. The great message of the space men given by Orfeo in his strange adventure into higher realms. Go with him on his psychic ‘‘trips’’ into space aboard an eerie, phantasmic space vessel to the world from which mankind may have come, to a ‘fallen world” acting out its retribution! Price: $3.00 SON OF THE SUN By Orfeo Angelucci. The second book in the series, written both by popular demand, and by pressure of new events! Here are the dynamics of the Universe, simply presented. The Cosmos lives in a music of the spheres as a concept of Infinity and Eternity laid bare. In this very real Space Age, we need the spiritual and moral undercurrent presented in this book. The truth which man seeks will soon swell into world tides that sweep upon us from space and from the strange beings within it. Price: $3.95 A DOCTOR IS BORN By W. D. Chesney, M.D. A book by a doctor who dares to tell the truth about medical trade unions, malpractice, kickbacks, fee-splitting, unnecessary surgery, drug monopoly and criminal overcharging, food poisons, poison sprays, medical rackets. The lifetime notes of a General Practitioner, at the age of 80 deter- mined to reveal the evils that he has seen bottled up for a half a cen- tury. Here is a book that contains not only facts, but a heart-warming story of real people, a doctor and his wonderful wife. Price: $3.50 FLYING SAUCER PILGRIMAGE By Bryant & Helen Reeve. They went on a 23,000-mile pilgrimage to meet the people who claimed to have seen flying saucers, even ridden on them! Here is their factual ac- count of what they found, as they visited, and even lived with, the major ‘‘contactees’’. And then they saw a flying saucer themselves! Read their exciting conclusions, their singular message to you! This is no fiction book, but a documentary manuscript unique in U.F.O. re- search, valuable to those who want facts. Price: $3.50 AMHERST PRESS LAKE MARJORIE, AMHERST, WISCONSIN 15
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16 STILL A MYSTERY HYSICISTS at their annual meeting in New York City confess they are unable to explain such puzzles as the apparently con- tinuing explosion of the cosmos and the increasing number of “funda- mental” particles of the: atom. On the infinitely small level, about 30 sub-atomic particles have been identified. Yet Dr. Victor F. Weisskopf, out-going president of the American Physical Society, does not believe they can be the basic units of the cosmos. He thinks there may be some unit still smaller than any yet discovered. On the infinitely large level, there is controversy about whether the cosmos is actually expanding as a result of some central explosion (which means that it would have had a beginning), or whether it is ina “steady state” and new matter is being created—and always has been. Believers in the expanding uni- verse concept point out that there is a shift in the light coming from the more distant galaxies toward the red end of the spectrum. This “red shift” would suggest that the farther away the galaxy, the fast- er it is going away from our point of observation—much as the tone. of a train whistle changes as it ap- proaches, passes, then goes away from us. In February, Prof. Martin Ryle FATE of the University of Cambridge told the Royal Astronomical Society that he had received radio signals from the most distant parts of the cosmos yet probed by man—and that the distribution of the signals confirm- ed that the galaxies are flying away from each other. Believers in the “steady state” theory, who are equally qualified scientists, claim it means no such thing. io a) THE GREATEST MYSTERY HILE ASTRONOMERS and physicists have been arguing about little matters like this, we have to report that something is missing—namely about 90 per cent of the universe. We have this from no less an authority than Dr. Martin Schwarzschild, Eugene Higgins Pro- fessor of Astronomy at Princeton University. Dr. Schwarzschild says that gravitational studies show there is an enormous amount of invisible substance of some kind scattered throughout space. Dr. Schwarzschild studied star movements within our own Milky Way galaxy and after calculating the weights of the visible stars, plus the weight of interstellar gas and dust, he’s still about 40 per cent short of making them conform to Newton’s laws. When the whole cosmos is considered, he’s as much
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I SEE BY THE PAPERS as 90 per cent short of what ought to be there according to the move- ments of bodies that can be seen, Dr. Schwarzschild is trying to find this missing matter. He sug- -gests two explanations. One is that there are billions of “cool” stars that can’t be seen even by infra- red rays. The other is that matter ‘may simply be spread in the form of hydrogen molecules as a thin gas through much of space. oO MORE MYSTERIES D® GORDON J. F. MacDonald of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration reports that the earth is about two per 17 cent fatter around the waist than it ought to be in terms of its pres- ent rotational speed. The earth is slowing down at the rate of a small fraction of a second each year. Studies of satellite orbits also in- dicate, says Dr. MacDonald, that there are some huge unknown lumps inside the earth at depths of a thousand miles or more. At present we don’t know where these lumps are; or what they consist of. CO ONLY YESTERDAY T THE END of -the Permian Period, around 200 million years ago, the vegetation of India, Australia, Antarctica and the south- Tiffany Thayer of the Fortean Society said: “Twice As Good As Ouija!” THOUGHT DIALS reer none sk ° The Art Linkletter Show! It 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 fost articles . . . and contains a section on “picking winners!’ Col. A. E. Pewell, FATE Magazine book reviewer, terms THOUGHT DIAL, “a landmark in psychic research.” YOU WILL WANT TO BEGIN YOUR EXPERIMENTS IMMEDIATELY! SS es ct Ss GS es es eee ee ee Ge ee ee es | ORDER TODAY FROM: I | 9th House Publishing Co, I j Box 1092 I | Hollywood 28, Calif. | | Please send immediately Sydney Omarr's | THOUGHT DIAL, for which enclosed find $8-00:.5 | wame
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18 ern portions of South America and Africa were strikingly similar. This has led some scientists to reason that these sections all were joined together during this 30 million year stretch of time. One proponent of the theory is Dr. S. Warren Carey of the Uni- versity of Tasmania and he be- lieves that these huge land masses became separated because of an expansion of the earth. Dr. Carey theorizes that the earth has swelled enough to increase its sur- face around 40 per cent in the past 200 million years. Dr. Carey’s ideas are considered so seriously that Dr. Bruce C. Heezen of Columbia University has used them to explain the structure of the Atlantic Basin. Now this theory apparently has been knocked into a cocked hat by two California physicists, Dr. Al- lan Cox and Dr. Richard R. Doell of the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park. ~Drs. Cox and Doell analyzed the magnetism frozen into rocks during the Permian Period from thousands of samples around the world. Based upon the inclination of the magne- tism in these rocks, they found that the mean radius of the earth then appears to be almost identical to that of today. There might be room for a slight expansion but nothing like that which Dr. Carey has pro- posed. FATE BY WAY OF EXPLANATION E HAVE GONE into these scientific matters in such de- tail because we want to belabor a point. Scientists can’t agree among themselves about their own special- ties; it’s probably too much to ex- pect them to agree with us about psychical research, io 2) THE DIRT THROWERS Dp G JANUARY, the Rich- ard Odoms family of Fremont, Calif., and their six little Odoms, endured a barrage of dirt throwing. Tt all began on December 30, when, at 8:15 P.M., a big clod of earth hit the roof of their home. Clods kept raining down until 3:30 A.M. When Mrs. Odom went out to see what was going on she near- ly got smacked by a chunk of sod. Ever since, a barrage of clods have been aimed at the house two or three times a week. Seven win- dows have been broken and one Odom child was hit in the face and his nose bled. Police, as usual in such cases, can’t even get a fix on the point from which the clumps of earth are coming. Also, as usual in these matters, where there is artillery the police and everyone else assumes there must be an artilleryman. A neigh- bor boy baby sitting for the Odoms claims he saw him—a hairy, heavi-
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I SEE BY THE PAPERS ly-bearded something that “scaled six-foot fences as if they were cracks in the sidewalk.” The creature has little eles to do, obviously, but heave clumps of dirt at the Odoms’ house. ee ee CLOSING THE BOGKS OR THOSE who have been fol- lowing the case of the miss- ing- Carroll V. Jason family that vanished near aes Grove, Va., on January 11, 1959, the case was closed with the conviction on Feb- ruary 23 of Melvin Davis Rees, Jr. CO ANOTHER BURNING HARLES A. McCOLLOUGH, 63, of Spokane, Wash., was found in his room badly burned one day last January. He died shortly afterwards in a hospital. McCollough was an arthritic cripple who used a cane and had great difficulty getting around. When he was found, he was lying on a new mattress that showed no marks of fire, nor did his room show any fire marks. Yet he had third-degree burns covering 50 to 60 per cent of his body. CO HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY A RECENT DISCOVERY may make tranquilizer drugs old hat. This is the finding that heavy MYRTLEWOOD PENDULUM FROM THE HOLY LAND comes this rare, 4 exotic wood, native to the rocky hills of that land of antiquity, where the Great Master taught 2000 years ago, This pungent wood, found in only two known places in the world, is fashioned and shaped by native hands. Mystic and Layman alike may use this pendulum in the art of divination as the ancients did. It has proven amazingly accurate. Gift boxed, Price $2.00 ppd. “FANTASY LINE” 95242 SO. HOBART, L.A. 6, CALIF. Sc a ce ee es ss pe ee Oe I FLYING SAUCERS i lie you are a saucer fan, S.P.A.C.E. I ] Ss a ‘‘must’’ for keeping you up to | date. This unique monthly Das tion carries latest sightings, opinions and UFO phenomena—12 issues $3.00, | +month trial subscription $1.00. | ] S.P.A.C.E. | 267 Alhambra Circle H Coral Gables, Florida I YOU ARE INVITED TO OUR Nineteenth Convention To be held at The Healing Temple, Lily Dale, N. Y., June 21-22-23-24, 1961. Advanced thinkers and psychics bring their knowledge and gifts to these unique conven- tions. Subjects range from Space Craft to Psychic Phenomena, Cosmic Consciousness, Pro- phecy and ESP. Many attending our meetings claim to receive remarkable psychic gifts as well as healings of body and soul. Please notify us of your intention to attend. Free information, Read our amazing publications: First Convention Summary, $1.00; Second Convention Summary, $2.00; Third Convention Summary, $1.00; 1958 Convention Summary, $1.00; Canadian Flying Saucers, $1.00; First Translation of American Petroglyphs, $1.00; Psychic Reports of the Brotherhood, $1.00; The Living Oracle, $2.00; Oahspe, American edi- tion, $10.00, English edition, $4.00. Regular Tuesday 8 p.m. meetings at Casa Loma, Toronto The Brotherhood of Faithists Casa Loma, 1 Austin Terrace, Toronto 4, Ontario, Canada
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I SEE BY THE PAPERS human hand she skirted islands in thé harbor and the stone break- water at the harbor entrance. About noon she was found un- scathed by her captain-owner, Phil- ip Curcuru, on the open ocean eight tiles to the southwest. io a) THE CASE OF THE MISSING TREES EAR WORCESTER, MASS., last winter, seven trees were chopped down on two estates, lifted over stone walls 20 feet high, and hauled away near a busy main street. No one heard the thieves at work or saw the trees being carted away. The few small chips indi- cated the loot was taken out whole —not an easy task for 35-foot trees. CO NOTES PROM UP THERE A FATE READER recently sent us a letter from Life Maga- zine in which K. Deane Stout of Fulton High School, Knoxville, Tenn., described experiments with balloons sent aloft with ice as a payload. The balloons are made from plastic garment bags sealed with heat and inflated by natural gas. The ice payload is calculated to melt as fast as the gas leaks and so the balloons stay aloft. “Would this explain that ice dropping from the sky?” asks our reader. 21 OSCHSSCCCOKGECLeCSeTEOAGEAEES A NEW CONCEPT SELF-HYPNOSIS! NOW—the Voice of CHARLES McKINLEY HYPNOTIST AND AUTHOR OF “(SELF-HYPNOSIS—HOW TO USE IT” ON TAPE! — ON RECORD! LEARN QUICKLY, EASILY! PROVEN EFFECTIVE! Write for Free Literature McKINLEY-SMITH CO. DEPT. FD, BOX 3038 SAN BERNARDINO, CALIFORNIA O@Geeoveooooeoeoeoeeoeooneaeese SCIENCE OF TAROT Corresponding Courses by the Foremost Custodian and Spiritual Center of the Esoteric Wisdom of TAROT and the HOLY QABALAH Sincere aspirants send for free booklet THE OPEN DOOR. BUILDERS OF THE ADYTUM, Dept. A 5105 N. Figueroa St., Los Angeles 42, Cal. AN AMAZING BOOK NUMEROLOGY is an exact science. Let one of its greatest exponents show you how you can eliminate the element of chance and find winners of racing events with outstanding accuracy. Isidore Kozminsky, D.Sec., F.R.A.S., F.F.B.A., is the author of this as- tounding work ‘“‘Racing and Win- ning,’’ based on 40 years’ experience of forecasting by Numerology. Packed with helpful examples. Write for your special edition to-day, price $2.00, post free, to the publishers:— PHIPPS-COTON LTD. (Dept. F11) 51, Bowyer Road, Abingdon, Berkshire, England
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22 FATE Our answer is no because, as HOW | BEAT KENO IN RENO! everyone knows, it all comes from Keno is a popular game in Nevada. It has i i tremendous pay-offs. John Bok leaned that airplanes with leaky water Sys Keno was the same as the ancient Chinese tems. game of ‘Pak Kop’’ which originated in China over 4,000 years ago. The Chinese played Just the other day, for example, Pak Kop from dream interpretations. He also learned how the Chinese interpreted dreams to the original characters and then he translated Everett Nelson of Newell, Towa, these word-pictures to numbers. found a chunk of ice 10 inches in-— John Bok prepared a dictionary of over 700 ° % common words with correlated numbers. His diameter on the roof of his store. trip to Reno vindicated his theories and pro- = duced an amazing story. This book is a limited It must have fallen from an air- edition of the author's private printing and is 1 offered only to readers of FATE Magazine. piane, He believes that FATE readers are better pre- Pram pared to accept the psychic phenomena of Nonetheless, we find it interest- dreams than those who do not believe in psy- chic manifestations. ing to note that the U.S. Depart- Pa ere geen only the) Book, + Anslud ine: ment of Agriculture has discovered “‘Keniromantie Dictionary,’’ for $3.00. If you live in Nevada, California, j : or any near state, or if you plan a trip through there are all kinds of sects way Nevada, you MUST have this book. Send your wie check NOW for “How I Beat Keno In Reno.” up there. Perry A. Glick, an ento- We reserve the right to return all orders mologist, has tracked insects at after the first printing is gone. Write: ° * : o 4 BOE sia nit cE URE ISHING:CO., high altitudes by combing the up P.0. Box 6527, Seattle 16, Wash. | Per currents with insect traps. At 15,000 feet he has found spiders, crickets, book lice and even ter- mites: SAUUDUPUETENUUOTETO DEUS CASA TUAD ET ELUATE USER EES ne of the strangest psychic phenomena ever noted is the projection of the astral body— when the astral body lives and functions outside the physical. CO NEWS & NOTES FROM ALL OVER HICOPEE, MISS.—A_ button became lodged in the nose of two-year -old Denise Chouinard. Her three-year-old sister Dianne climbed a cupboard, grabbed the pepper and shook it over Denise, who promptly sneezed out the but- ton. Dianne couldn’t explain how she thought to use the pepper. Lahore, Pakistan—Prof. V. Ko- vanoy, director of the First Chem- ical Institute of Moscow and mem- bers of the Soviet Academy of Medical Sciences, told doctors here that it may be possible to banish The world’s two greatest au- hhorities on Astral Projection have collaborated to produce... THE PROJECTION OF THE ASTRAL BODY by Sylvan Muldoon and Hereward Carrington Long recognized as the authori- ative book on the subject. $5.00 VENTURE BOOKSHOP P.O. Box 671, Evanston, IU. MMMM eee en
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zg zg g z z Z Z z z 2 z 2 2 2 2 - 2 e 2 z Z 2 2 2 z g Strange Case of the MYSTERY SATELLITE AOPOPLEPPPPPLLALPLELLEPEP SEE By Phashion Wibon It circled the earth like any man-launched satellite — but it was circling the wrong way! ¢¢] KNow AN airplane when I see one!” These scoffing words came not from a wild-eyed UFO fan but from a man who indeed ought to know not only an airplane when he sees one, but a UFO as well. They were uttered by Robert I. Johnson, director of the Adler Planetarium of Chicago, last fall, after an observation he made from the deck of the Planetarium while watching the first pass of the Echo I balloon satellite. Dr. Johnson’s comment was only one of many since then, for the mysterious “visitor satellite’ has been widely observed by astron- omers and apparently never con- clusively identified. “T’ve been dreading the day when 25 I would sight a UFO,” Dr. Johnson said. And sure enough, Dr. Gerard Kuiper, University of Chicago as- tronomer, said the object the Adler Planetarium people saw must have been an airplane’s lights. Dr. Kui- per said he and his staff had been watching Echo I at the same time and saw nothing of a UFO. There- fore, it must have been an airplane. However, it was not an airplane. Pretty soon reports began filtering in from many responsible authori- ties. - The object the Adler Planetari- um people saw was about a tenth the size of Echo JI, a faint red in color, and was not following the orbital path of any of the 31 known objects then circling in space. The unknown was moving from
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26 east to west, directly opposite the course of Echo I and about twice as fast. Johnson was looking for it because he had received telephone calls from persons who had seen the object and asked what it was. Nobody knew for sure. Day before the Adler Planetari- um statement, a Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. tracking camera at the Bethpage plant photographed an object but “all the picture showed is a white line, so we still can’t even begin to make an identi- fication.” The white line was diffi- cult to detect and barely visible even after the photo was enlarged. Frank Judson, an assistant at Adler Planetarium, declared: “Tt’s not a meteor because it’s much too slow. And it’s not an arti- ficial man-made satellite; of that we're certain. The object travels from east to west; every artificial satellite ever put up has traveled from west to east. That’s the only way in which they can take ad- vantage of the earth’s rotation.” Another difficulty was that the object didn’t even have the decency to maintain a regular schedule. “We don’t know when to watch for it,” declared Judson. “It appears some nights and some nights it doesn’t. Usually it appears at about the time Echo I does, going in the op- posite direction and about twice as fast.” “What is it?” Judson was asked. FATE © “Between you and me, I just don’t know,” said the Adler Plan- etarium staff man. Asked if he believed in flying saucers, Mr. Judson replied, “Defi- nitely not. I do not believe in fly- ing saucers.” : Early sightings were more or less officially reported by the George- town University Observatory on August 24, 1960; Connecticut State College on August 24 and 25; Grumman Aircraft Corp. on Au- gust 25, twice on August 26 and again on August 29; Adler Plan- etarium on August 26. N“® the National Investiga- tions Committee on Aerial Phenomena, has linked the un- known sighting with the admission by the Secretary of the Air Force last summer that the Air Force was maintaining a “continuous surveil- lance of the atmosphere near Earth for unidentified objects — UFO's.” Maj. Gen. Arno Luehman signed the Air Force policy letter which explained that both known and un- identified space objects are being tracked by the National Space Sur- veillance Control Center at New Bedford, Mass. This center receives data on sat- ellites and unknown space objects from over 10 sensor stations in the U.S. and abroad. Positions of both known and unidentified space ob- jects are indicated on a luminous
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STRANGE CASE OF THE MYSTERY SATELLITE 27 map of the world and the Center has a computer with data on all known earth-launched satellites, or- biting boosters, rocket parts, hard- ware, and miscellaneous debris that might go into orbit during a regu- lar launching. Tn this way the Center can quick- ly recognize any new object re- ported to be in orbit. The Center did track the eaiery object seen by Adler Planetarium observers but has released no pub- lic information about it as of this writing. Apparently it has not been able to identify the mystery object. Still another Air Force program recently announced is Project Saint, which involves the use of “big brother” satellites designed to ac- company and identify unknown or- biting objects. Air Force spokes- man have stated that these “inspec- .tion satellites” will probably be equipped with TV and telemeter- ing devices and are mainly intended to spot secretly launched Russian satellites. Late in February, 1961, a Farr representative made inquiries at _ several Department of Defense of- fices in Washington and was told unofficially that the mystery satel- lite had been identified as a sep- arated part of a known satellite and had simply gone into another orbit. Anyone familiar with this prob- lem, however, knows it would be impossible for a portion of a satel- lite launched on a west-east orbit to accidentally go into a fast east- west orbit. Another rumor circulating in Washington was that the Russian rocket sent toward Venus was really launched on an east-west orbit for “special” (but unexplained) rea- sons. The same rumor then sug- gested that the publicly announced Venus probe was really the second attempt to achieve a rocket to Venus, and so the first and unsuc- cessful attempt is the mystery sat- ellite. All this is pure speculation and does not explain many observations made of the mystery vehicle. One observation is that the mystery object has a waxing and waning brilliance which seems to differ markedly from other satel- lites. ae PROBLEM of mystery satel- lites is not new. As long ago as May 15, 1954, Maj. Donald Keyhoe of NICAP claimed that the earth was being circled by one or more artificial satellites. Key- hoe charged that the information was being kept from the public. Dr. Lincoln La Paz of the Uni- versity of New Mexico was quoted as having identified two satellites orbiting the earth — one about 400 miles in altitude and the other about 600 miles. La Paz, so the story goes said they were “meteors which
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28 had been captured by Earth.” Dr. La Paz later denied he had ever made such a statement. As early as 1953, apparently, Dr. Clyde W. Tombaugh, who discov- ered Planet Pluto, was assigned by the Army to the job of searching the region between Earth and our own Moon for natural satellites. It was later announced that nothing had been found. However, the West German mag- azine Lies Mit! on March 3, 1955, stated that Tombaugh had discov- ered two new Earth satellites which were supposedly meteors captured by the gravity field of Earth and now were orbiting Earth. The “satellites” were supposedly 430 to 650 miles from Earth and between 60 feet and 300 feet in diameter. This report sounds very much - like the “discoveries” attributed to ' Dr. La Paz, and it remains a ques- tion whether either is true—or whether the similarity between the two reports may mean that where there is smoke there is indeed fire. In his second UFO book, The Flying Saucer Conspiracy, Major Keyhoe relates that in September, 1953, a slip by a military official led to his discovery that the Earth “was being circled by one or more artificial satellites,” and that this was why Dr. Tombaugh had been commissioned to make his study. In February, 1960—more than six months before the August- FATE September mystery satellite—the United States Department of De- fense revealed that an unidentified object had been orbiting the Earth on a rough polar orbit. This would mean, of course, that it would be quite a different object if it were a true satellite. The polar satellite was said to be huge in size and estimated to weigh about 15 tons. It was sug- gested that the object might have been Russian, but Professor Alla Masevich, the Soviet woman as- tronomer in charge of Soviet Sput- nik tracking stations, declared that the object was not theirs. The Navy space searchers de- scribed the polar satellite as being about 19 feet long and five feet in diameter, with an orbit carrying it as far as 1,074 miles from Earth to as close as 134 miles. Another “mystery object” was reported last October to be roam- ing the southern skies at twice the speed of the sun. It was described as looking like “an ordinary star without any tail as found in a comet,” according to Science Serv- ice. It was discovered by Henry L. Giglas of Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz. While it was too faint to be visible with the naked eye it could be seen through binoc- ulars. The U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington implied that the ob-
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STRANGE CASE OF THE MYSTERY SATELLITE 20 ject might bean asteroid since it was moving in the same direction as known asteroids and nearly as fast as the fastest ones. Obviously the object was not a known asteroid, however, or it weald have been identified as such by“ the astronomers who were watching it. "pes WE see repeated hints by the armed services and by as- tronomers that unknown objects are orbiting Earth. Farr Magazine is not the only publication to read possible significance into these oblique references and commun- iques. Last July, Newsweek Magazine described the work of the National Space Surveillance Control Center in New Bedford, Mass., as follows: “At the Air Force’s Spacetrack . .. the IBM computers punched out calculations for the two new US. satellites ... white and orange fluorescent letters on the black- felt ‘Satellite Status’ board showed 11 USS. satellites and one Russian satellite still in earth-circling orbit. “To Spacetrack’s knowledge, that was the grand total of space traf- fic at mid-1960. But a growing number of scientists are now con- vinced that Spacetrack, for all its diligence, may have overlooked at least one space vehicle neither Rus- sian nor American, but out of this world—indeed, out of this solar system. “This satellite, they suspect, is a visitor sent by the ‘superior be- ings’ of a community of other stars within our Milky Way galaxy—a kind of United Stellar Organization interested, for archeological and an- thropological reasons, in how things are going on in this part of the galactic neighborhood ...” Reasons for thinking the mys- tery object is a visitor from anoth- er galaxy, are suggested by Prof- fessor Ronald H. Bracewell an Australian radio astronomer now at Stanford University in the authori- tative British scientific journal Nature. The idea of seeking to communi- cate with civilizations in other gal- axis by means of radio telescopes is worthwhile, says Professor Brace- well, but he sees little hope for quick success by this. method. If a superior civilization really wanted to pick up signals it would do much better to send an inter- stellar probe to the vicinity of a star being investigated. Such a civilization could even send a “spray” of probes aimed at 1,000 likely stars, Bracewell says. The probes would be programmed to rebroadcast any radio transmission they might hear. While Earthmen cannot do this, Professor Bracewell points out, “su- perior communities” could.
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30 He believes that Earthmen might contact these superior communi- ties by monitoring a probe sent out by them—in other words, an uni- dentified satellite. Bracewell refers enigmatically to “4 signal picked up by the Norwe- gian, C. Stormer, and never ex- plained.” He points out that we’re get- ting all kinds of space noise. Then he delivers his clincher: “We should look around for a probe—that’s the best thing I can conceive of as an Earthman. But FATE there may be surprises. I am sure they out there are terribly clever.” And why would they want to reach us? Bracewell develops mathematical calculations showing that the Milky Way civilizations have a high mor tality rate, “perhaps from over- familiarity with nuclear fusion.” “The prospect of catching a tech- nology near its peak might be a strong incentive for them to reach us—in other words, before the H- bomb makes earth purely an arche- ological point of interest.” a end ROME’S MUSEUM OF SPIRITS ART OF THE CHURCH of the Sacred Heart of Suf- fering in Rome is a strange museum which claims to dis- play proof that the human soul survives after death. Called the Museum of Spirits, it con- tains many kinds of exhibits, some dating back several cen- turies. All the exhibits, it is reported, are substantiated by affidavits and sworn state- ments. Collection of the unusual items in the museum was begun by the Rey. Vittore Jouet, a former pastor of the church. One day in 1897, it is related, a mysterious fire appeared sud- denly on a wall near the altar as he conducted a mass. With- in the flames he and the amazed congregation saw the agony- twisted face of a man. After the flames disappeared there remained on the wall a black- ened image which still may be seen today. This token of contact with the spirit world is said to have in- spired Father Jouet to collect others. Among them is an apron worn by Sister Maria Herendorpe of Westphalia, Germany, in 1637 when it re- portedly was branded by the spirit of a long-dead friend, Sister Chiara Scholers, leaving the imprint of a hand. Another exhibit is a book of devotions bearing the seared prints of three fiery fingers. This book, which belonged to Maria Zaganti of Rimini, Italy, is said to have been touched by the spirit of a friend, Palmira Rastelli, who appeared in 1871, a year after her death.
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The HANGING TREE’S EIGHT VICTIMS By Poonaed Mobohon The lynching party hanged an innocent boy—and Fate saw each member of it suffer an even more horrible death. HE History of the West is sprinkled with occasional ac- counts of Vigilante Committees hanging innocent persons. General- ly the principals in such “honest” miscarriages of justice suffered no more than pangs of conscience. In only one case on record did Fate take a hand and violently destroy every member of a lynching party, including the self-appointed “Judge” who had presided at the “trial”, 31 The 1882 hanging of an in- nocent, 19-year-old boy in Wash- ington Territory set off a chain of events which saw every one of the perpetrators suffer a more horrible death than the victim. Even the Hanging Tree did not escape. It, too, was killed by a freak of venge- ful Fate. Rock Creek Valley, is a 10-mile- long stretch of fertile farm land in eastern Washington stretching from the town of Rockford south and
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32 east to the Idaho line. Rockford, 27 miles southeast of Spokane, was founded near the junctions of Mica and Rock Creeks in 1878 when A. N. Worley and his cousin Clint Farnsworth built a sawmill there. This was 11 years before Wash- ington became a state on Novem- ber 11, 1889. The first settler, A. L. Bradley, had come to the valley a year earlier, but the opening of . the sawmill started a real “boom”. Among the settlers to arrive within the next few years were fam- ilies who had worked their way up from southern Oregon. These set- tlers took up land in the upper part of the valley and quickly built a house of worship which they called the Rock Creek Valley Bethel Methodist Church. Within a few months the Bethel Methodist Church was to be the meeting place for a group of men who planned the most deliberate, cold-blooded mob murder of an in- nocent man ever committed in the West. Among the Oregon arrivals were the Kolstad brothers, as unlike as night and day. Jeff, industrious and highly-esteemed by all who knew him, brought along three orphaned children of his wife’s sister. The oldest, a boy called Oldie, was 19. Both his sisters were also in their teens. Their family name was Neil. Kolstad’s brother was a lazy, bullying brageart named Sylas but FATE called “Red” because of a huge red beard he wore. At the time some people were aware that an organized gang of horse thieves operated a string of stations from southern Oregon to the Canadian border. Horses were stolen in the souti and driven north where they found a ready market among the newly-arrived farmers. But the thieves also stole horses in the north and drove them south to resell as replacements for those they had stolen in that area. It was an endless chain of north- south thievery, with profits at both ends! “So you don’t think Red’s gettin’ them horses legal, eh?” Will Sparks asked Cole Rothrock as they wait- ed to load lumber at the sawmill. “Why, ’cause you don’t like him?” “Who does like him?” came back Rothrock. “Well now,” argued Sparks, “T’ll admit he’s gone quite a bit, but when he comes home he’s got bills of sale for them horses. An’ I ain’t seen no doctored brands on ’em.” “Maybe you never looked real close at either them bills of sale or them brands,” put in Rothrock. But Sparks wouldn’t give up. “What about him givin’ Oldie Neil a job?” he persisted. ‘He ain’t even related to him, really. The kid’s just Red’s brother’s nephew by marriage.” “Maybe the kid’s in on it too!”
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THE HANGING TREE’S 8 VICTIMS 33 suggested Rothrock bitterly. “Cole! You don’t know what you’re sayin’. Oldie’s worked for the Hecht family, and Mrs. Hecht told me he’s one of the best hired hands they ever had around. A real pleasant, hard-workin’ boy, she said, and they wished they could afford to keep him.” It was true. Everyone liked and respected Oldie Neil. Recently he had built himself a solid log cabin out near the Idaho line, and was claiming the surrounding land by “squatter’s rights”. That was not unusual; there was plenty of land and more than one person around the valley had started the same way. And now Oldie was being paid to pasture Red’s valuable horses for him in that sparsely- settled area. Shortly after Cole Rothrock and Will Sparks had their discussion at the sawmill, Henry Fristoe claimed his horses had been stolen, Later it was found that the horses had merely strayed from their pasture, but with feeling so strong against Red because of his surly ways and easy living, tempers ran high. It was early June, 1882, and the next Sunday the men attending Rock Creek Valley Bethel Meth- odist Church stayed after services to discuss ways and means of deal- ing with the unpopular Red. Cole Rothrock, sometimes jokingly call- ed “The Judge” because of his elo- quence, immediately took charge. “Didn’t I tell you?” he sneered, looking accusingly at Will Sparks. “Right out there at the sawmill? Give Red time, I said, and he’ll start stealin’ our Teecost ya he’s gone and done it!” The crowd was seething with in- dignation but Paul Sparks, trying to be even more objective than his brother Will had been when he talked to Rothrock at the sawmill, attempted to reason with the angry mob, “Listen!” he shouted. ‘We're tryin’ a man when he ain’t even here to defend himself. Let’s go get him and see what he says.” He sat back down to a chorus of boos and catcalls. Will Sparks leaned over and said to his brother: “T stuck up for Red, too. But he just made a damn liar out of me, Paul.” Right then and there Red was tried and unanimously found guilty of horse stealing. He was sen- tenced to be hanged. Seven men, led by the strutting “Judge”, Rothrock, set out to find Red and carry out the sentence of the “court”. They were the Sparks brothers, John Dykstra, Mark Tay- lor, Marvin Bradford and “Chub” Collins. They found Red sooner than they expected. His attitude dis- armed them immediately. Sure he would go home and get the bills of sale, and let them go over the de-
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34 scriptions and signatures with a fine-toothed comb. Sure he’d take them out to Oldie’s place, but it might cause trouble. There was something funny about what Oldie had been up to lately. The other day Red had been out there and found several extra horses in the band. Knowing that Oldie owned only a saddle horse, he asked where they came from. “He told me it was none of my damn business,” said Red, looking each Vigilante in the eye. “Well, I told him I didn’t want no stolen stuff in with my horses, and as soon as I could find somebody else I’d take mine away from his pasture. Of course he’d hate to have me take ’em away. Not because of losin’ the money, but because he’d not have no herd to hide the stolen ones in. Anybody goin’ by the road wouldn’t know how many horses there was in that band, but J would!” The Vigilante party, thinking no better than the usual mob of self- righteous lawmakers, now hurried to Oldie Neil’s cabin. Arriving there early in the after- noon, they were stopped within hailing distance by an apprehensive Oldie. “What you lookin’ for?” he called from his doorway, a rifle in the crook of his arm. The posse reined up. It was true what Red had told them! Only a man with something to hide would FATE come to the door ready to start shooting. Being friends and neigh- bors of Neil, they had hoped to ease up to him without trouble, and snatch him before he could make a grab at his gun. This kind of greeting took them off guard. “We want to talk to you, Oldie,” shouted “Judge” Rothrock, the first to recover from his surprise. “What about?” “About some stolen horses.” “T ain’t got none,” Oldie an- swered. Not knowing about Red’s treach- ery, Oldie could not be expected to get it through his head that they were accusing him of knowingly harboring stolen horses. But he was far from stupid, so it must have dawned on him that these men were hinting the horses he pastured for Red were stolen. “Listen,” he yelled, his voice rising several notes. “If there’s any stolen horses out there, I don’t know about ’em. And anyway,” he added, “if you got any sus- picions about Red why don’t you go to Cheney and get the sheriff? It’s his business and not yours!” “Veah, that’d take only a day or two,” said The Judge sarcas- tically. “An’ you’d be clear up in Canada by the time he got here.” Cheney, which had been made the county seat about a year be- fore, was located a good many miles southwest of Spokane, while Rock
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THE HANGING TREE'S 8 VICTIMS ; 35 Creek Valley was southeast. There could no longer be any doubts in Oldie’s mind that these neighbors had judged him guilty of horse thievery along with his uncle. Not after that last remark by The Judge. Neil made another movement with the rifle that ap- peared to be threatening to the Vigilantes, and slammed the door shut. That was the last straw. He was guilty beyond doubt, and was go- ing to shoot it out with the posse. But several volleys fired into the solid log walls had no effect. Oldie did not return the fire. Just wait- ing for them to get closer and pick them off! The Judge ordered the men to quit shooting and bellowed toward the cabin: “Oldie?” Neil was too smart to open the door. He answered through the wall. “You say you ain’t had nothin’ to do with stealin’ them horses?” “Of course not! An’ Uncle Syl always had bills of sale.” The Judge hollered through the walls to Oldie: “All right. But your uncle said you had some other horses out here last week. Some that wasn’t his. An’ last night when he slipped out to look, they was gone. Who’d they belong to?” This last piece of information at least it cleared up for Neil what The Judge had been saying before. So Uncle Syl was the one who was making Neil out a horse thief! “Syl’s a liar!” said Oldie. “He knows I never had no extra hor- ses.” “Would you testify to that?” called back The Judge. “T sure would!” “All right. You come with us to Cheney an’ be a state’s witness. You'll have to go just as if you’re a prisoner because your Uncle Red has accused you of stealin’ horses. Understand? But as soon as you help us conyict him your trial won’t amount. to nothin’ an’ you'll go free.” It must have all sounded logical to the 19-year-old, coming from The Judge and these other neigh- bors he knew and trusted. Oldie came out of the cabin and gave them his gun. When Taylor and Bradford started to tie Neil’s hands behind his back, he protest- ed. He had given his word that he would go with them to Cheney. What other assurance did they need? But The Judge reminded him that only a guilty man would ob- ject to following the ordinary pro- cedure for prisoners. Reasonable or not, Neil now had no choice. The Judge called Dykstra and Collins aside. Oldie was told these two men were going back to the church to report. The five others started off with their prisoner.
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36 If Oldie Neil was naive enough to believe that Red was waiting around to be available for a trial, the members of the posse were not. Each of them knew, in his own mind, that they had been foolish to let Red get way. They were pretty certain, too, that Red was now on his way out of the country as fast as he could gallop. Later events proved their suspicions right. ; But many of Oldie’s actions, in- cluding the protest about having his hands tied, made them honestly feel that at least he knew he had been keeping stolen horses for his uncle. If that was the only way he was implicated, his panicky acts could have been written off as the logical results of an innocent young mind suddenly confronted with the reality of being accused of horse stealing. But the members of the posse, already feeling ridiculous for letting Red Kolstad get away, thirsted for something with which to cover up their own stupidity. On top of all this, The Judge had magnified every little action and statement of Oldie’s as the words and deeds of a guilty man. These clever manipulations had had their effect on men who, in another frame of mind, might have seen through them for what they Oldie Neil knew the country well, and he had not ridden far FATE before he realized that his five captors were not taking him toward Cheney, but in an almost opposite direction. When he protested he was told by The Judge that they were taking him up to the Hecht place for character references. In the meantime, Dykstra and Collins wasted very little time in their report to the men waiting at the church. The gist of it was that Oldie Neil and not Red Kolstad was the guilty party and they had captured him after a terrific gun battle. He was going to be hanged but, since Cheney might not look upon such an action with favor, they were going to have to cover their tracks. Collins and Dykstra led the rest of the men from the church out toward Hecht’s place, where they were to stage a fake attack on the prisoner and his captors. This party met the one led by The Judge where two branches of the creek met. The place was called, appropriately enough, ‘“Hecht’s Grove”. The Hecht house was not more than a quarter of a mile from the grove. Late that evening the Hechts heard shooting down in _ these woods. As far as they could judge, some came from one branch of the stream and the return fire came from over near the other branch. Not having any idea what it was about, they stayed up all night, prepared for anything. But they
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THE HANGING TREE’S 8 VICTIMS 37 heard no more commotion. Early the next morning two neighbors, Martin McCoy and Dave Vess, came to the Hecht house and told them there was a dead man hanging from a tree down in their pasture. Mrs. Hecht, already weary from a sleepless night had hysterics. When later that day the victim was identified as Oldie Neil, whom she was al- ways to remember as a fine young man, she blamed herself for his death. “Tf we’d only had the money to keep him!” she said over and ever. “Then this wouldn’t have happened.” Charles O. Worley, a Rockford pioneer who knew both Oldie Neil and the Hecht family well, was the first to identify the body on Monday morning. He, too, had al- ways had a high opinion of the boy, and was doubly upset when he realized that the body could not be taken down until a full investiga- tion was made. (This Worley should not be confused with A. N. Worley, co-founder of Rockford. However, Charles O. Worley is the man Worley, Idaho, was named after.) Worley dispatched a man to Cheney, but the sheriff and coroner did not arrive until Tuesday. The body was cut down and buried on a hill across Mica Creek from Rockford, about two miles from where the hanging took place. The investigation produced no one who could shed any light on the hanging. The Judge and his crew were ready and eager to tell a terrifying story of being attacked by a huge band of gunmen. They defended their prisoner until their ammunition was gone, then were forced to give him up. Then they had lit out for their homes, most of which were in the upper valley. Why no man in either band was so much as nicked by a bullet, was not explained. Also, why the “law- abiding” Vigilantes didn’t go for help after their prisoner was “ab- ducted” remained a mystery. It is certain that after the kid- napping Collins and Dykstra joined the lynching party. For al- though, they were as voluble as the rest in recounting the story of the attacking gunmen when Fate took a hand and began to destroy the cold-blooded execu- tioners one by one, the names of John Dykstra and “Chub” Collins were on her list! ga | was in no hurry to take revenge. She was content to let her victims live for a time with their guilty consciences. The first to feel her wrath and to suffer one of the most horrible deaths meted out to the seven ring- leaders, was Mark Taylor. He was discing a field adjoining
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38 his house. He had hitched six horses abreast to pull a tandem disc loaded down with rock to make it cut deeper. The botflies were ex- ceptionally bad that summer, and one of the middle horses threw its head up and down until a crossline got under the neckyoke. Taylor stopped the disc and went around to unhook the line. His wife, out in the yard hang- ing clothes, heard her husband cursing the horse. She stopped and stood transfixed. Something told her Mark was in danger. Taylor had loosened the line and taken no more than one step when something, no doubt another bot- fly, landed in the nose of the horse directly behind Taylor, and one in from the outside. Mrs. Taylor saw the horse lift its head, let out a loud snort, and throw one foot forward, at the same time shaking and lowering its head. This knocked Taylor down and _ his screams scared an already skittery six-horse team. His wife heard a singletree crack as the horses leaped forward to trample her shrieking husband and then froze in horror as the double discs cut Taylor to ribbons. Mark Taylor’s death was written off as an accident, except possibly by some of his partners-in-crime. They must have felt even more nervous when a strange story came down from Springdale, a town up FATE north, where Cole Rothrock, had moved. The Judge was found shot to death in June, 1892. His body had been tossed to the hogs in his own hog pen. No trace ef the killer could be found and the case was soon bur- ied in the sheriff’s “unsolved’’ file. John Dykstra’s number came up next. Dykstra had not done well as a farmer and between spring field work and harvest time took a job in a small sawmill, up near Spokane. Dykstra’s job was re- leasing bottom logs, one at a time, from a gravity skidway, wrestling them with canthooks onto a pair of dollies, and pushing them onto a narrow track so they could be rolled onto the sawyer’s platform. It wasn’t particularly dangerous work because when logs were held in place at the top of the hill by a system ef big wooden wedges. All the men at the bottom had to do was re-wedge above the log to be released and then knock out the wedges holding the bottom log. The two men working on the skidway always stood at the ends of the log, so if its release caused others above it to “settle” or roll, they could jump out of the way. But John Dykstra, could not beat Fate. A fully-wedged layer of logs broke loose and rolled over him, squashing him beyond recog- nition.
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THE HANGING TREE’S 8 VICTIMS 39 The wedge at the other end of the tier could not hold the logs. Dykstra’s partner saw the ava- lanche coming and stepped back to safety. John Dykstra jumped back, too, but the logs twisted enough to catch him. He went under the rollers like a piece of meat through a hamburger machine. A few people, remembering that John Dykstra had been in the o- riginal Vigilante group that cap- tured Oldie Neil and, also, remem- bering how Vigilante Mark Taylor had died, began to wonder. Fate next pointed her finger at Will Sparks. Will, with the help of his brother Paul, had built a high wooden windmill tower over his well. He had hauled the gears, wheel and directional “tailpiece” all the way from Spokane. He was extremely careful in putting the top mechanism in place. And he had built a sturdy ladder on the outside of the tower so he could keep the precious gears well oiled. Always careful, Will Sparks never went up the ladder to oil the gears when there was any trace of a breeze. He had another rule, too: neither of his children could go above the third rung of the wind- mill ladder. “It’s too dangerous,” he told them. But Fate decreed that on one of his trips up the ladder, with no sign of a breeze stirring on the ground and the children and he tossing good-natured banter back and forth, a sudden shifting of the locked tailpiece and wheel knocked Sparks to the edge of the platform. For a moment he clung frantical- ly to the big wheel, while the oil can plopped not a foot from where the little boy stood. But Will had grabbed a fin of the wheel which now turned, twisting his arm. “Get away! Get away!” he screamed to the children. Then he slid off the platform and landed on the hard clay at the foot of the tower. Every bone in Will’s body was broken. From this point on, Paul Sparks was a changed man. Apparently he blamed himself for Will’s death although neighbors told him he was foolish. “Just because you helped Will put up that windmill,” argued Harry Hahn, “don’t prove you killed him. It was an accident. Can’t you see?” But, Paul Sparks could only see that his brother had been the fourth member of the seven-man lynching party to die violently — and he had helped erect the in- strument that killed him. Paul Sparks began to say that he would die next. He never said why, but he kept hinting that any day now he might be killed. But Marvin Bradford was Fate’s fifth victim. He had sold his place near Rockford and moved to the
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40 Big Bend Country, a larger, flatter farming area southwest of Spokane bounded on the west by the mighty Columbia River. He built a new house, cleared the sagebrush off his Jand, and had exceptionally good luck there during some of the wetter years. He prospered more than any of his old cronies around Rockford and did a pretty good job of convincing himself that the other four deaths had been acci- dents. But, accidents or not, he was glad he had removed himself from the hoodooed creeks and hills where the hanging had taken place. When the dry years hit the Big Bend Bradford suffered less than his neighbors. He had saved enough money to tide him over. He was even among the first dreamers of a mammoth irrigation project in the Columbia Basin. But Marvin Bradford did not live to see that dream come true. His house became a sheet of flame seconds after he accidently turned over a kerosene lamp. Before he could get to the door, his clothes and hair were afire. His dash across the yard to jump into the horse trough only fanned the flames. And the crowning jest of Fate was that the broiling sun of the afternoon had evaporated every drop of water in the trough! When news of Bradford’s death reached Rockford, Paul Sparks FATE temporarily changed for the bet- ter. He had been wrong. He had not been number five! Often his wife caught Paul grinning, and once in a while he laughed out loud. This was a pleasant change even if the laughter sounded some- what high-pitched. One night Paul awakened his wife talking in his sleep. “T ain’t goin’ to die! I ain’t goin’ to die!” he kept repeating, punctu- ating the words with laughter. “I ain’t goin’ to die because I did say we should bring Red in for trial! But nobody would listen!” The spring after the news of Bradford’s death, Chub ~ Collins was hiking along the Oregon- Washington Railroad and Naviga- tion Company tracks just above Rockford, quite unaware that Fate had numbered him sixth on her execution timetable. Collins stopped in the middle of an OWR&N bridge and knelt down to survey the water below. He must have been aware that the morning passenger train out of Spokane was about due but the trestle was short and he would have had no trouble getting off af- ter he heard the train coming. Becoming fascinated perhaps with fish he saw below in the water his ears could not have warned him until the engineer, sweeping around the curve above the trestle, saw a man kneeling on the bridge
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THE HANGING TREE’S 8 VICTIMS 4I and nearly chinned himself on the whistle cord. There still would have been time for Collins to get away, but as he leaped to his feet his one boot went down between the timbers nearly to the knee. The brakes could not stop the train in time. Victim number six had paid for the Oldie Neil hanging, quickly ground to a bloody pulp beneath the pounding wheels. Paul Sparks continued his sleep- talking. Mrs. Sparks, learned some truths about Oldie Neil’s hanging. Paul had been.a party to it. And he had come to realize, over the years, that The Judge had egged the men on, had built up a case against Oldie Neil that the rest of them were gullible enough to swallow. The Judge had been over- anxious to take Red Kolstad’s word that Oldie was a thief. Now Paul Sparks was convinced that Oldie had been innocent. It was evident this conviction, along with the violent deaths of all six of his co- horts, was driving Paul crazy. He was still certain that he would die violently like the others. His loyal wife, assuring him that she would tell no one what she knew, was able to talk the whole thing over with Sparks. For a while he seemed to get better in some ways, but his fear of a terrible death kept growing. Finally, out of pure exhaustion he agreed to see Dr. Witter in Rockford. The doc- tor, who may have known some of the details of the hanging, sug- gested that Paul Sparks be com- mitted to Medical Lake (the State Insane Asylum for eastern Wash- ington) so he would be “safe” from whatever he feared. Sparks agreed without argument. But even in the asylum he could not help talking about The Judge. No one paid much attention to him until he mentioned the name of Rothrock, An attendant named Herndon drew him aside and asked what he knew about Roth- rock. “Why, Cole Rothrock was us- ually called The Judge when he lived at Rockford,” Sparks ex- plained, lucidly. “The fellow that was shot and fed to the hogs up at Springdale?” “That’s what I heard,” admit- ted Sparks. “You know something?” said Herndon. “I know who killed Rothrock!” “Then why not tell the sheriff?” asked Sparks, reasonably. “Because it happened a long time ago and the case is closed. Opening it would only make a lot of people unhappy. Besides,” Herndon added, “the man that killed Rothrock is dead.” “Who killed him?” asked Sparks. It was a logical question. “Remember Matt Alexander, the man who killed a hotel man-
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42 ager in Spokane over losing a lot of money he’d left in the hotel safe? Well, the loss of all that money drove him crazy, all right, so they didn’t hang him. They sent him here to the asylum instead. He had worked with a gang of horse thieves that stole horses all the way from southern Oregon to the Canadian border. Rothrock was one of the gang. Kind of a silent part- ner, I guess, but furnished a lot of the brains and leads. He worked close with that fellow Red Kolstad. You know, the one that skipped the country about the time they hanged a boy at Rockford for horse-steal- ing. All in the same gang, I guess, but Alexander claimed the kid mever did anything but take care of stolen stock .. .” The odd look on Paul Sparks’ face made Herndon stop. But Sparks regained his composure. “Anyway,” Herndon went on, “Alexander went to collect from Rothrock and the old man tried to beat him out of what he had com- ing. I guess Matt went crazy that time, too. He killed Rothrock and fed him to the hogs. But he wasn’t too crazy to find the money Roth- rock had. No one ever traced him, and he hid out somewhere in the wilds up there till it blew over. Alexander must have kept that money a good many years before he went to Spokane and put it in the hotel safe.” FATE Paul Sparks had been listed as “improving” ever since he came to Medical Lake. His wife, who had rented the farm and moved in with her sister, visited him often. Paul had been able to talk with her calmly and lucidly until her first visit after Herndon’s story about the thieving Judge. Subconsciously Sparks undoubt- edly had suspected for a long time that Rothrock was implicated. He had been so anxious to let Red Kol- stad go and see that Oldie Neil was made to look guilty. Now, the knowledge that The Judge had caused Sparks to be a party to hanging an innocent boy was com- pounded by absolute proof that Rothrock was a horse thief himself. How Paul managed to keep his equilibrium until he told his wife Herndon’s story, no one knows. After telling her he went completely to pieces. One evening Sparks escaped from the asylum. He got across the Idaho line into the foothills of the Coeur d’Alene Mountains. Jurisdic- tional problems somewhat delayed the search and Sparks must have thought he was safe. He got care- less and before he knew what was happening was completely surround- ed. But Paul Sparks was not to be locked up again. Swinging his arms and screaming, he ran right through the cordon ef men, who hesitated to
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THE HANGING TREE’S 8 VICTIMS 43 shoot because they felt he was not responsible. They cornered him again on a cliff where he turned on them with a string of invective that would turn a mule-skinner green with envy. As they crowded toward him he backed over the cliff, falling to the sharp talus below. At the bottom of the cliff, they found Paul Sparks sinking into a peaceful sleep which never again would be disturbed by a guilty con- science. His last words were in sharp contrast to the language he had used a short time before. “Now I can tell Will that The Ju----.” He never finished the sent- ence. The sharp rocks had broken his body as bad as his brother Will’s had been broken when he fell from the windmill tower. Paul Sparks was Faie’s seventh and last victim for the Oldie Neil hanging. eek ek . P. Gitsert, Rockford pioneer who was a young man of 24 at the time of Neil’s hanging, said in later life that he was “just about as guilty” as the seven men who com- mitted the crime. He had attended the Vigilante meeting in the church that June Sunday of 1882, and would have gone with the doomed seven if his wife hadn’t stopped him. A sick young daughter had taken a turn for the worse and Gil- bert’s wife insisted that he not leave them alone. His guilt-by-association caused him to view an unusual number of weird personal happenings with a- larm, and lose a good many hours of sleep. However, when the middle of the 20th Century arrived and he found himself still around he philo- sophically told Rockfordites that in his own case he felt Fate had been paid in full by causing him so much worry. But the scrubby forked pine that had served as the gallows for Oldie Neil was doomed. Next to it stood a larger pine which took the full force of a bolt of lightning. Rain put out the fire but the big tree died. Some person or persons set it afire again. Blazing, it fell into the fork of the “hangman’s tree,” destroying it also and adding evi- dence to the superstition that a tree which has borne evil fruit cannot live. Note: Because descendants of some mem- bers of the lynching party still live in Rock Creek Valley, certain persons in the foregoing aceount have been given fictitious names.
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Let’s Talk About 2) Ie all Iie A world-famed minister speaks out for the first time on psychic matters—and advises the timid to do likewise! By Dz Henry Sith Seiper ye aco I invited the editor of Life Magazine to speak to a group of ministers in New York. This was back in the days when Life was a humor magazine — be- fore, you might say the “Lucean” revolution. The editor was a man by the name of Martin and I let him choose his own subject. He said to us, “I’ve noticed from my knowledge of ministers that their business is religion but their main interest is telling stories. 44 “Now, mine is just the reverse. My business is telling stories in Life Magazine, but my real interest is in spiritual things and in psy- chical research.” Then he began to tell us of many sittings he had had with a medium who had no theological or philosophical training, who never had had any contact whatsoever as far as anyone knew with the- ology, but through whom he had received long and very involved messages from John Hall who had
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SPEAK OUT, MINISTERS! been minister of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York. When he had finished I turned to a contemporary of Hall’s, George Webster, who then was head of the Seaman Institute in New York and said, “George, you knew John Hall. You’ve heard this today purporting to be from John Hall. Does this sound to you like John Hall’s mind, John Hall’s ap- proach to life, John Hall’s point of view?” He said, “No. I never heard John Hall say anything of this sort when he was in this world.” Martin was deaf and I had to relay this reply to him. When he heard it he sniffed and said, “Well, if you don’t get any new ideas 45 after being in Heaven for 20 years, what’s the use of dying?” I’ve always thought it was a pretty good answer, because one of the things the skeptics always reveal when you tell them that you’ve had a communication from someone no longer in the world is this disposition to make sure that it’s a repeat from something they’ve said here, and if it isn’t then it couldn’t be theirs, I don’t want to generalize too much from this incident but I think that the reaction of Dr. Webster in that instance was fair- ly typical of the Western Christian reaction in our age and particular- ly the attitude toward the whole question of whether man’s spiritual
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46 nature is of such a character that there is a means of communication with those who have passed beyond. Now a second recollection has to do with a very different type of experience. I had a very dear friend, a colleague for many years. I never heard him say a word on this subject, and I never talked with him about it. He has been outside this life in the larger life for nearly four years. His wife sent me a quotation from one of his sermons some time ago. In it he spoke on “living with those out of sight.” He speaks of how he had the contact. One gets the sense of con- tact with the departed he says, and “it is the voice we thought was still now using new supersensory powers to reach us. We feel no physical manifestation, but it is the touch of a hand whose sub- stance has indeed vanished yet whose loving encouragement is stronger than ever.” This is the only reference to such a matter that I ever heard from him, and I heard it curiously enough just after I’d had a sitting with Arthur Ford and one of the 14 per- sons who came through that after- noon in less than an hour was this particular man. He wanted to say that he hoped that I would do what I’m doing now —and I’ve never done it before in a general assembly of any kind in all my 50 years of con- FATE tact with the whole area of psychi- cal phenomena. He said one of the things he regrets about his ministry is that he never had spoken of his knowledge of and interest in the psychic world. I’d say ‘that it was more than a coincidence that I got that message directly from him in a way that was to me utterly con- vincing. Arthur Ford never knew him in the flesh, by the way, and didn’t even have his name. No name was given, but the identifica- tion was absolutely, inescapably real. Now it’s impossible not to recall my own experiences over the years with Dr. Ozora Davis who was the President of Chicago Theological Seminary, the author of many hymns, the author of many poems, moderator at one time of the Con- gregational Christian Churches throughout this country. Tt happened that Dr. Davis was taken to a hospital for an opera- tion. It was discovered he had in- curable cancer. They said he couldn’t possibly live more than two months and they discharged him as hopeless. Well, the story is long but he lived for a number of years. He was completely cured of cancer so that later an exploratory operation showed nothing but scar tissue where the cancer had been. He was cured by spiritual means through a medium. The skeptic will tell you there is
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LET’S TALK ABOUT SURVIVAL AFTER DEATH 47 no proof that the healing wasn’t just because they made ‘an explora- tory operation —that might have cured him! At any rate, he got well; that’s the main thing. As one of the most remarkable men I’ve ever known, I followed him in his writing and was with him in his various psychic experi- ences. But, and this is the point, he never would write about it; he never did speak about it and he did not because he said, “If I do it will spoil the reputation of my Sem- inary. It will spoil my reputation at Chicago University. They'll say ‘he’s an old crackpot, he’s got a lot of silly ideas.’ ” He told me “I’d rather go through life without that kind of ridicule.” And actually he was informed, he told me, that if he would write a book detailing his many psychic experiences he might go on living for a long time. He wasn’t a very old man at the time of his death which came long after this cancer experience, but he felt he couldn’t do that even on the chance of a longer life. He said, “I’m not afraid of death. I’ve no silly notion that death is the end of life, and I would rather not risk creating an impression that my books, my poems, my work in the Chicago Seminary is all some- how contaminated because I’m mixed up with this ‘ghost stuff.’ ” _Well, you see he had the same kind of knowledge of the Western approach to man’s spiritual nature that Sir Oliver Lodge understood so well when he was asked to be- come the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Birmingham. (Equiv- alent to Chancellor or President of an American University.) Oliver Lodge knew that his interest in psychic research would quite prob- ably lead to a lot of complications even though he was a great scien- tist, a mathematician, a physicist, and had an independent reputation in the world of scholarship, quite apart from anything in the area of psychic research. He said, “Now, look, if I’m going to come to Birmingham, I’ve got to be free te go on in my researches. I’m not going to be hampered by any prejudices you may have against the psychic world.” And they were broadminded enough to have him come as the Vice-Chancel- lor of the University. Now what I’m saying seems to me to suggest that a characteristic of modern Christian approach to this question of life after death, is that it ought to be confined to fu- nerals and Easter. It’s always couched in very vague terms and it avoids the specific evidence for its truthfulness. It does seem strange, doesn’t it, that the very people who preach from the pulpits of our churches that man is a soul who has
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48 a body, just as a church is a fellow- ship that has a building, are really afraid to face up to it. If anybody should say, now you’re right and my former schoolmate, my father or my brother came to me through supersensory powers and convinced me of the reality of life beyond, the ministers say “well you’d better not say anything about it.” Once a man on a bus here in Chicago, a very heavy set, great big burly chap, said, “You know they say that all men are afraid of women. It isn’t so, but don’t quote me.” John Stevenson wrote an article in Harper’s Magazine two or three years ago, which was titled “Scien- tists With Half Closed Minds.” He said that “contempt prior to exam- ination” is the approach of a great many people, scientists and reli- gious leaders, to this whole subject, and anybody who has dealt with it at all, knows that’s true. They won’t investigate. Sherwood Eddy was caught by that curious fact. I’ve known him for more than 50 years. I’ve travel- ed with him in many parts of the world, entertained him in my home in China when I was a missionary there. Sherwood has told in his book, You Will Survive Death, how one of his friends, a Quaker named Wood, in Philadelphia, used to say to him “Sherwood you’re absolutely closed-minded. You will not in- FATE vestigate the experiences out of which I have come to believe in survival and in man’s nature as a soul that has a body.” Finally Sherwood said, “Well, I guess I can’t go on resisting this. I’ve got to see if there’s anything in it.” For 13 years he exposed himself to experiences in many different places under many different condi- tions, and then he wrote his book. You see he wasn’t going to go on being guilty of “contempt prior to examination;” but many. people still are, unfortunately. Dr. Hyslop, who was professor of Logic and of Ethics at Columbia University said, “Though religions and philosophies pretend to believe the same thing, whoever accepts the belief in spirits from scientific evi- dence has to face this situation. That is, that he will be misunder- stood and looked down upon. If he has any regard for the good will of his neighbors, he’d better let the subject entirely alone.” T think John Stevenson helped us in his article when he said, “the data of parapsychology is bringing a revolution which will make the Copernican revolution seem trivial.” T think the revolution is under- way. The fact that there are many churches now conducting healing services indicates as much; for ex- ample, St. Bartholomew’s Church on Park Avenue, and the Church of the Heavenly Rest —you’d think with
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LET’S TALK ABOUT SURVIVAL AFTER DEATH 49 that name they could have gotten at it earlier. I had the strange experience of bringing to a distinguished group of persons in New York who were writers, college presidents, distin- guished lawyers, and people in diplo- matic pursuits, a series of lectures on this subject some years ago. I brought Professor Rhine of Duke University; Alexis Carrel, the No- bel Prize-winning doctor, who dis- cussed healings; and Dr. Wooster, who was founder of the Emanuel movement in the great Episcopal Church of that name in Boston. (The Church of England invited Dr. Wooster to come to England and approved officially of his min- istry of healing.) Then I had a man who was himself psychic and who did a number of astounding things. When it was all over some of the most distinguished men in that group, professors at Columbia Uni- versity, said “the biggest bunch of hooey we ever saw in our lives.” Well, that was not contempt before examination, that was contempt after some sort of examination which apparently had not registered in any way. They could deny that these things had happened in front of their eyes! Dr. Weatherhead, a friend of mine for many years, has just retired as Minister of the City Temple in London. He was head of the Meth- odist Church in England. He has been unafraid and has written and spoken increasingly on this subject. Now I think the revolution needs to begin by taking off some kind of blinders and looking at the New Testament. Somebody was object- ing to the way in which Cecil B. DeMille produced his famous films on Biblical scenes. And he said, “They complain about my film! They say that there’s too much vio- lence and sex in my films and they base their objections on the Bible. I wonder what kind of stained glass- es they had on when they read the Bible? Not even I would dare to put on literally some of the things that are in the Bible having to do with violence and sex.” We need an approach to the Bible that takes off any kind of blinders and if anybody sits down with the Gospels and the Book of Acts he will discover that the New Testament writers took for granted things which we now call by terms such as extrasensory perception. He will find evidence of numerous heal- ings by the laying on of hands — and often at a distance with no physical contact. He will find clair- voyance, exorcism, materializations, apparitions, and apports. Not long ago a distinguished min- ister was asked to speak to a group interested in this subject in New York. He gave us quite a disserta- tion on the Witch of Endor as prov-
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50 ing that nobody could have any- thing to do with occult matters without getting mixed up with evil spirits, etc. When he finished I said, “Have you ever read the story of the Transfiguration, because if you have, there wasn’t just one person from the realms of after life who appeared, who was seen, and who engaged in conversation, but sev- eral. Would you hold the same ob- jections to the story of the Trans- figuration on the Mount as you hold to the story of Saul in the cave of the sorceress or prophetess of En- dor?” He said, no, he hadn’t thought of that, but he didn’t think there was any parallel. I didn’t think there was either, but at least they were in the same category. The trouble is that most people unsympathetic to this area want to talk about the Witch of Endor and not about our Lord and the prophets and great spirits of the past with whom he held converse on the Mount. Or else, of course, they want to write it all off as poetry and symbolism without any under- lying reality. But I’m going to be specific and statistical for just a moment. I find 66 references to supersensory perception in the Book of Luke, 46 in Mark and at least one in every single chapter in that Book, and al- most as many proportionately in FATE Matthew and John. There are num- erous single references in Acts. All of these Books show that their au- thors took for granted that men stand on the threshold of the~In- visible World. Several years after the war, in 1947, Dr. Fjellbu, then Dean of Trondheim Cathedral in Norway — later Bishop — visited my home and at my own dining table he told us about the night when he had an- nounced that he was going to speak from the pulpit of the Cathedral and challenge the Quislings in his country who were trying to pervert the Church. When it came time for the service he left the Dean’s resi- dence, tried to get into the Cathe- dral, but found that the police had shut and locked the doors and were standing guard in front of it. The great square around the church was filled with people who wanted to get in. They were being refused admission but some had come early and remained. Dean Fjellbu said, “I went back to the house and I said to my wife, ‘T can’t get in, and I can’t get to the pulpit. I can’t get into my own church.’ She said, ‘Yes you can, because last night I had a vision. It was so real that I could almost draw a picture of it.’ “She mentioned the name of a man who had come and stood by her in the vision and said, ‘when your husband has to get into the
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LET’S TALK ABOUT SURVIVAL AFTER DEATH 51 Cathedral there is a way, and I'll tell you what it is.’ The man in the vision described a secret passage that hadn’t ever been known to us, and he said ‘you can get in there and you can go down and come up near the pulpit in the Cathedral.’ ” Dr. Fijellbu said, “Oh, non- sense;” but his wife insisted, ‘let’s decide whether it’s nonsense after we’ve gone and looked.’ So they went and, sure enough, they found a panel which slid open when they applied force to it. They went through the cobwebs with a broom and a flashlight and Dean Fjellbu came up into the pulpit and preach- ed at the given hour while the Nazis raged outside. I’ve told that story to a number of my friends and they have said, “Frankly, we don’t believe it.” You see, the easiest thing to do is just deny that these things hap- pen, or else find some wonderful way of discounting them as “coin- cidences.” I’m always reminded of those words from the New Testa- ment, “Though one rose from the dead, you would not believe.” People who don’t want to believe, won't believe. ; You will say, now why doesn’t he talk more about healing and about prayer; these things are ac- cepted, especially prayer. ‘The question of whether there is truth in the belief that man survives death . is the real touchstone of this whole business. The Christian faith in its teaching has always stressed the survival of man’s spirit. The sig- nificance of the Resurrection is its assuring all believers of the con- quest of the grave. And yet, any attempt to act as if it were so and to say there is proof of it, seems to create difficulty. T got a letter the other day from a Methodist minister who was a colleague of mine in the former Federal Council of Churches. He had seen a reference to my speak- ing on psychic subjects and said he had been interested in the field for years. I had known this particular man for half a century and I had worked in the same office with him for 20 years. Yet I never had the slightest idea that he was interested in psychic matters. I never talked with him about it and he never talked with me about it. He wrote me now only because I already had the “beans spilled” by publication of my own interest. That is a high- ly significant event and so very characteristic. I want to conclude with the great theme that Alexis Carrel discusses so wonderfully. He says that pray- er is the most powerful form of energy that one can generate. “The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of the glands. Its result can be measured in terms of in- creased physical buoyancy, intellec-
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52 tual vigor, moral stamina and a deeper understanding of the rela- tionships underlying human fellow- ship. Prayer is a force as real as terrestrial gravity. “As a physician, I’ve seen men after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. It is the only power in the world that seems to overcome the so-called powers of nature. Occasions on which prayer has done this have been termed ‘miracles,’ but a con- stant quieter miracle takes place hourly in the hearts of men and women who have discovered that prayer supplies them with a steady flow of sustaining power when they link themselves with the inexhaust- ible power that spins the universe.” Tt ought to be possible for an in- creasing number to say with F. W. H. Meyers that “telepathy, clair- voyance, precognition ‘are indubit- able hard facts.” These are all in- escapably real and beyond them I would add the psychic healing of disease and self-verifying communi- cations with the departed. I heard of a man who said to Mr. Dwight L. Moody, “I won’t believe anything I can’t prove.” And Mr. Moody said, “All right, FATE brother, can you prove that your mother was your mother? Can you prove that your father was your father?” Of course, he couldn’t prove either thing. All he ever had done was to depend on what other people told him. He never would have any chance of proving what he said he wouldn’t believe without proof. Helen Keller brings more wisdom than I can bring to this subject. She says, “Those with sight so often put their entire trust in what they see. They believe that only material things are real. When a loved one dies and is no longer seen, they lose contact; their sense of the unseen is undeveloped. Whereas the inner, or mystic sense, if you will, gives me vision of the unseen. “As IT wander through the dark, encountering difficulties, ’m aware of encouraging voices that murmur from the spirit realm. I sense the holy passion pouring down from the springs of infinity. I am conscious of the splendor that blinds all things of earth to all things of heaven, lured by silence and darkness. I possess the light which shall give me vision a thousandfold when death sets me free.” ©
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Juce MYSTIC EXPERIENCES iFATE will pay $5 for each True Experience published. Sto: 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 PRESENCE OF GOD By Agnes M. Blackwood N Ocroper, 1936, my husband and I were living on a wheat ranch about 10 miles northwest of Hartline in the state of Washing- ton. Our house was in the middle of a section of land half a mile from the road. The wheat had been harvested and sacked. The stock had been turned into the stubble and could go anywhere on the ranch to feed. Sometimes the cows failed to come in to the barn to be milked and one of us had to find them and drive them in. My husband had to haul the wheat to the elevator in town. It was an all-day’s trip with the horses and wagons and he had loaded the wagons the night be- fore so as to get an early start in the morning. On this particular day six of our eight horses were pulling two wagons loaded with sacks of wheat. Later on the same day I drove into town in our car to go to a party. My husband started home before I did. Late in the afternoon I passed him on the road. He saw me coming and pulled over to the side of the road. I stopped beside him and we chatted for a few min- utes. I told him I would go on home and if the cows were not at the barn I would find them and bring them in. Then I planned to get supper and have it all ready when he got home. He told me AGNES M. BLACKWOOD
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54 he would do the milking after he arrived. The sun was almost down but the twilights are long in the north and there is quite a lot of day- light even after the sun is out of sight. As I drove through the gate in the southeast corner of the ranch T could not see the cows. I drove on to the house but they were not at the barn either. On my way to the house I passed the barn and corrals and the two horses that had been left at home were stand- ing by the corral gate. I passed close by them but they did not move or even look up. At the house I changed my clothes and just as I came outside again the big red moon came up over the hill to the east. It made the fields almost as light as day. I stopped for a few minutes, stand- ing very still. I asked God to show me the way to go for the cows. Then I walked directly north from the house, up a little draw or ravine, turned and went toward the northeast corner of the ranch. I saw no sign of the cows but de- cided to go on a little farther to a clump of trees where I sometimes found them. Suddenly I heard horses gallop- ing behind me. I turned to see the two horses I had left standing so quietly at the corral gate. They came on a dead run, heads up and FATE manes flying, until they were very close to me. I never had been able to get so close to them before. I said to them, “What on earth are you two boys doing out here?” They shook their heads, nick- ered, whirled around and started in the opposite direction, toward the northwest corner of the field. I followed. Although they soon dis- appeared over the little hill I kept on and as I came up onto the hill I saw them standing beside the cows which were bedded down for the night. When I came close to them the horses nickered again; the cows got up; and horses and cows all started on a run for the barn. I dropped to my knees right there in the moonlight in the middle of the stubble field and said, “Thank you, Father.” Never in my life have I felt so conscious of the presence of God. When I got back to the barn the two horses stood just as they had when I drove in, as if they had not moved. The cows were wait- ing to be put into the barn.— San Diego, Calif. MY GUARDING ANGEL By Anne Dickinson N January, 1947, we had a very big snow storm here in Milwau- kee. When it stopped snowing it turned very cold. The best most people could do was to shovel a
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TRUE MYSTIC EXPERIENCES path down the walks as many of the drifts were head level or higher. One evening at 6:00 o’clock I was coming home on the National Avenue streetcar. When the car halted at the corner where I in- tended to get off it stopped so that passengers could get on, but the car door where the passengers were expected to get off was direct- ly in front of a telephone pole, with the snow piled high all around it. I have poor eyesight anyway and the glare from the lights of the oncoming traffic blinded me. Nevertheless, I started out the door and as I was trying to reach the pole I was lifted bodily and put down again, oh, so gently, on the cleared path of the walk. I looked around to see who had rescued me from falling or worse. Standing beside me, and with no other person in sight, was a woman wearing a bonnet and shawl. As I started to thank her she disappeared. However, I recognized her, as I had seen her once before. Then, also, I had been in need of help and she had suddenly appeared. I call her my “Guarding Angel”. I am a wheel-chair shut-in and cannot walk, otherwise I am well at 90.— Milwaukee, Wis. TELEPATHY EXPERIMENT By Kay Marie Harat M* YOUNGER SISTER, Dorothy, and I used to make a game 55 of mental telepathy. We found that whenever I really wanted to contact her, she knew it without any com- munication other than by thought transference. Several times when she was in high school I willed her to come to my house directly from school. It worked every time. She was never surprised as she said the thought just popped into her head. At the same time, I seem to sense when she will telephone or come over of her own volition min- utes or hours before she does. My brother-in-law, Jacob Felek, lives across the street from us and we often discuss telepathy and other paranormal phenomena. In the fall of 1959, with our families as witnesses, Jacob and I tried an experiment. At a pre-arranged time, in our respective homes, we each sat with blank paper. and pencil. I was to send and Jacob to receive. I proceeded to draw, with great concentration, a woman with a very prominent hair-do, an un- trimmed fir tree, other odd items, then returned my efforts to the woman’s hair, and after this wrote the numbers from one to 50. At the same time, Jacob drew the woman, a triangle — which, of course, closely resembled my fir tree in shape—the odd items, then he returned his attention to the hair-do, but completely omitted the numbers. When we compared our papers
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56 we were amazed at similarities in Jacob’s drawing of the woman and the duplication of the detail he had drawn in the hair-do. However, I was surprised that the numbers had not got through to him at all because I had concentrated very hard on them. We plan to do this again in the near future. I think it was a suc- cessful experiment. Do you? — Lincoln Park, Mich. WHO SLAPPED AUNT MIN? By Venona Hutmacher WHEN MY AUNT MIN was a young girl she was so beautiful. There was never any need to apply beauty aids to her lovely face to make it bloom like a wild rose, nor any need of pom- ades for her blonde curls to make them glisten like gold. She was the most beautiful creature I have ever seen—and at one time the saddest. Aunt Min was planning to be married at the time she was visit- ing with us in 1895. Dan, her young sweetheart, was a fisherman and in that part of the world— Ship Harbor, Nova Scotia it was— many of the fishermen holed up in shacks on the Islands to be close to their work in the early morn- ings. They remained on the Islands all during the week, coming inland on Saturday night to spend Sun- day with their families. Young Dan was no exception. FATE It was about a week before the wedding on a Saturday night. A terrible storm had blown up. The wind howled like a Banshee; thun- der and lightning rent the skies. The sea rolled in torment and breakers, rising mountains high, dashed against the shores. The rafters of our house shook with the terrible force of the gale and ev- eryone remembered the fishermen on the Islands who would not be coming ashore this night. My mother was knitting and Father was reading. We youngsters were busy at our school work. Aunt Min was sitting by the fire with her feet in the oven, as she said that bad storms always “gave her a chill”. It was late spring, lob- ster fishing time, but there was al- ways need of a bit of fire. Mother bundled us children off “to bed finally but my room was just off the kitchen where the fam- ily usually spent their evenings and I could hear every word of the conversation. Aunt Min seemed worried and pensive. I heard her speaking to my father. “Jim,” she said, “do you suppose Dan would attempt to cross the Bay tonight?” Father answered, “Only a fool would attempt to cross on a night like this and Dan’s no fool.” “Well, I don’t know,” Min con- tinued. “Our wedding is only a week away, you know. He would
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TRUE MYSTIC EXPERIENCES want to come in if possible.” “Of course he would, Min,” Mother said. “But he wouldn’t dare try it.” “Well, my girl,’ Father said half seriously, “if he does there’ll be no wedding, you can be sure of that.” Everything was silent for a while then, except for the beat of the storm outside. Suddenly I heard Aunt Min scream in an angry, high-pitched voice, “Jim. How dare you slap me like that?” “Slap you?” Father said. “Are you crazy, girl? I didn’t slap you.” “How dumb do you think I am?” Aunt Min replied. “Just don’t do it again, Jim. I’m not in the mood for fun.” Mother thought Aunt Min might be getting a sudden jumping tooth- ache and only imagined she’d been slapped, for certainly no one there had slapped her. But a few mo- ments later she jumped up again, her voice very angry, accusing Fa- ther of slapping her a second time. Father said he thought she was taking leave of her senses. But Aunt Min had been slapped twice and what else could she think but that her brother was playing a silly trick on her. She had turned around to face Father and Mother then, to put an end to the nonsense, when suddenly she re- ceived another hard slap. She could 57 see it had not been Father after all. “But what hit me? Who did it?” she said. And then quite suddenly she began to cry. Somehow Aunt Min knew it was Dan. He had tried to cross the Bay after all and now was in trouble and needed her. She knew it. Deep inside she knew that Dan was dead. I heard her say so. Grandfather found Dan’s boat the following morning where she had drifted ashore on Catfish Point, her sails flapping loosely in the wind that had died down to a pleasant breeze. Nearby lay Dan’s bruised body. It had come drifting in with his boat. Dan had been struck with the boom and apparently knocked overboard un- conscious. So, there was no wedding after all. But who, or what, had slapped Aunt Min? And why? Was it Dan’s subconscious mind calling to his loved one for help in his hour of need? Or did Aunt Min also feel the blows of the boom that killed Dan? We do not know. But we remember the ter- rible night that something slapped Aunt Min—Toronto, Canada. SNAKES IN THE LAB By Dr. W. D. Chesney N 1933-34 WE lived in the Rose Marie Hotel in Los An- geles. A company with offices in
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58 Bendix Building, 12th and Maple Streets, was formed to take over my vitamin D patent, employing both solar rays and artificial ultra violet. One night my wife and I attend- ed a public seance in Hollywood. Arthur Ford was the medium. Any- body that has experienced the spir- itual powers of this great medium and doubts that survival is proved, needs psychiatry. He told me that certain fellow workers in vitamin synthesis were getting ready to hand me the XX. I did not be- lieve Mr. Ford then, although both my wife and I, thereafter, carried a large sum of currency, just in case. Further knowledge of the treach- ery came about in this way: We used many hundreds of white rats in our vitamin tests. After the tests were completed, we always had hundreds of healthy test ani- mals to dispose of. Within a month after receiving Mr. Ford’s message I walked into our laboratory early one morning, and found the floor literally car- FATE peted with rattlesnakes. One of my inhumane friends had arranged for the owner of the reptiles to bring them to see if they would eat the white rats. There were at least 25 husky snakes on the floor. Their poison glands and fangs were in operating state as shown by sever- al dead and dying test animals on the floor. The odor of the pit vi- pers was almost suffocating. I went into my private office and came out with a shotgun. I ordered the man to get them out forth- with or I said I’d shoot them out. He knelt on the floor in the midst of the enraged snakes and made a peculiar hissing sound, barely audible to our ears. He said he was talking to his pets. He picked them up, one by one, and dropped them into a large grain sack tied the opening, shouldered the sack and marched out of my life. On May 5, 1934, I found that Mr. Ford’s message was more than true and my wife and I took off for our Chicago home via auto.— Milton Junction, Wis. Ce WEATHER SETS THE MOOD HE MOODS of human beings are affected by the weather, psy- chologists at Columbia University report. They say their tests show that most persons are happiest on pleasant, sunny days. The greatest degree of moodiness and depression oceurs when the weather is gloomy and overeast. Weather appears to influence the moods of women more than those of men.
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The mother found her daughter strangely missing—but none believed her dream of murder explained why. B, C Mablam Wel C was IN 1870 that Mrs. Sarah Burton had a strange and ter- rifying dream involving her daugh- ter, who was married to Jim Lowell and lived in Lewiston, Me. Mrs. Burton wrote to a friend in Lewiston at that time saying that she dreamt she was on a road in the neighborhood of Lewiston. She heard a voice saying, “There are mills around here.” (There were a number of lumber mills in the Lewiston area in those days.) Sud- denly she perceived ahead her daughter, Lizzie Lowell, riding in a wagon with her husband, Jim Lowell. Apparently Jim drove the horse along the road which bordered a river; then he turned directly into a by-road, a sort of pasture road. She lost sight of them for a short period of time as they disap- peared in the pines. Her next vision was of her daughter, Lizzie, on the ground begging Jim for her life. She appeared to see Jim raise his hand and then a fog intervened. She did not see any more than that last view of her daughter lying on the ground under the pines. Mrs. Burton doubted notes which she subsequently received, supposed- 59
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60 ly from her daughter. So she went to Lewiston to investigate. Upon meeting Jim Lowell, her son-in-law, she questioned him about her daughter’s whereabouts. He said that she was in another town and had been seen by a man only recently. His vagueness as to the identity of his informant and the strong impression left by her dream caused her to go to the city marshall. But the marshall was not moved by evidence merely of absence and of an old lady’s dream, so Mrs. Burton’s attempt to initi- ate an investigation was a failure. More than three years later, in October, 1873, a farmer named Small was collecting fallen wood in a section out of Lewiston where the pines grew by the river. He saw a good log and proceeded to recover it. As he maneuvered it he noticed some odd items in a nearby pine thicket. They appeared to be rows of buttons. Closer examination dis- closed some rotten cloth covering a human skeleton. Small hurried to town and re- ported his findings to the same city marshall who had discredited Mrs. Sarah Burton’s dream when she = FATE told it to him three years before. The body was eventually identi- fied as that of Lizzie Lowell and on October 17, 1873, an officer handed Jim Lowell a copy of the Boston Journal, in which a full account of the finding of his wife’s bones was written. He hung his head. In a sensational nine-day trial Jim Lowell was found guilty of the murder of his wife, Lizzie Lowell, and was sentenced to be hung. How- ever, his lawyers worked diligently and finally got a commutation of sentence for him. Twenty-five years later he received a pardon, since he claimed that his wife had been killed through the bucking of the horse and that he had hidden her body through fear of being con- sidered guilty of a murder he said he did not commit. There being no witness to the actual murder, the pardon was granted. However, there had been a wit- ness. A mother, sound asleep, miles away, had seen her daughter killed and had, from a dream three years before they found her body, de- scribed the place where her daugh- ter’s body lay. “S) @ John Small was the farmer who discovered the remains of Lizzie Lowell just off Switzerland Road on October 15, 1873. The exact location where the body was found is now covered by water inas- much as it is under the lake formed by the Gulf Island Dam. @ Lizzie met her death in 1870 when she was 28 years old. She was
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DREAM WITNESS TO MURDER 6r last seen alive on June 12, 1870 at 6:20 P.M. when Mr. Henry Tripp and his wife, Flavilla, passed her and her husband, Jim Lowell, in their buggy on Switzerland Road. @ The buttons of the dress on the skeleton were identified by those persons who had seen Lizzie wearing her new dress while viewing the Central Hall fire in Lewiston on Sunday, June 12, 1870. @ Since the head was missing (it never was found and marauding animals were held responsible) the Lewiston Journal and Lewiston Herald carried day by day accounts of the murder case under the title “The Mystery of The Headless Skeleton.” The Boston Journal also carried @ full account of the murder on October 17, 1873. SS THE PHANTOM HITCHHIKER OF OKINAWA AXT DRIVERS in Naha, Okinawa, recently reported startling experiences with a girl ghost who they say hitches rides on the road to the U.S. Marines’ Camp Schwab. They already have given the phan- tom a name—the “Nightwalker of Nago.” One driver said he was tak- ing an unidentified Marine passenger to Camp Schwab when they saw the girl stand- ing in the road. The Marine invited her into the cab and shortly afterward was dumb- founded when she vanished from the seat by his side. Three cab drivers who claim to have seen the phantom hitch- hiker say she always appears at the same spot on a mountain road leading from the camp to the fishing village of Nago. They describe her as a woman in her 20’s with short-cropped hair and wearing black slacks. Yoshio Higa, the first taxi driver to report seeing the phantom, said she flagged him down and told him to take her to Nago. When the cab neared the village, Higa related, he turned to ask the girl exactly where she wished to go—and found she had disappeared. Another driver, Katsu Yama- shiro, described a similar ex- perience at what is now dub- bed “Ghost Corner.” He said that as he approached the spot while taking!an Okinawan wom- an from Nago to Henoko, his passenger called to warn him of a woman ahead in the road. Yamashiro said he saw no one, but on his return trip a wom- an flagged him down at that spot. A few minutes later he turned to question her about her destination—and found her gone. Ss
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Ron Ormand and Ormond McGill photographed at Angkor Vat on their Far East tour, during which they heard this story. A naturalist tells of his terrifying encounter with a “Taw”— an uncanny creature both man-like and beast-like. by Osniond Mie Gill C WAS WHILE visiting with Har- old M. Young in Chiengmai, Thailand, that Ron Ormond and I first heard of the Taws. The Taws, it seems, are a form of mountain werewolf found among the Lahus —a tribe of mountain people living in the jungles bordering Northern Thailand and Burma. Here was a legend generally associated with Europe that also existed in the 62 Orient, and obviously had some basis in truth. Harold Young for years was an official of the Burmese government. During the period of British con- trol he was stationed among the remote tribes of the Shan and the Lahus. He finally left Burma due to political turmoil and he now lives in Chiengmai. A naturalist of note, he is the proprietor of the
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zoo in that city. Unquestionably he is one of the best informed men in the world today on the Shan and Lahu peoples. We were seated before a cheery fire in Young’s spacious living room on the evening he told us this story. Filling his pipe, Harold looked out into space for a moment, lighted the pipe, and then slowly began: “You say you are interested in searching out the mysterious and the unknown. I can tell you of things among the native people in these mountains that are uncanny; psychic phenomena that are daily occurrences. To me, it seems the more man retreats from nature be- hind the barrier of civilization, the farther he gets away from the basic powers which are the natural heri- tage of uncivilized man. “Have you ever heard of the Taws?” he asked. We shook our heads. “The Taws,” the naturalist went on, “are a form of native werewolf. Working among these natives I had heard about them for years. They were described as strange, fearsome creatures with furry hides that at certain times of the month raid a village and either kill or carry off a victim. “Native superstition I told my- self; an excuse for carelessness in allowing a wild beast to get past the sentries and into the village. But that was before I had a per- 63 “The True Experience ; of Harold M. Young” Harold M. Young is an American who has been in the Orient for some 25 years. In the past he was employed by the British Government as an overseer to the Shan and Lahus tribes in Burma. He left Burma when the Native Govern- ment came to power moving to Chieng- mai, Thailand, where he is proprietor of the Zoo. Mr. Young is a naturalist and an authority on the Lahus. His story of the Thailand “Taws’ would indicate that werewolf reports are world-wide and not confined to Western Europe. Au~ thor Ormond McGill states, “Mr. Young has been my friend for about five years.” sonal experience of my own. “About six months ago, I was on a hunting trip that took me to a Lahu village high in those moun- tains to the north that lie just on the Thai-Burma border.” Harold pointed out of his window. “It had been quite a hike, but I love the mountain trails and was anxious to get in some night shooting. The Lahu are great hunters. They have always been most friendly to me, but this night the chief raised his hand in denial of my wish as he said in his own language, ‘Taw in close to village; you can no hunt now!’ “T was about to voice my objec- tion at being detained in no uncer- tain terms, when a shriek cut through the night. It came from behind us; from a thatched hut standing close to the jungle’s edge. My hand flew te my pistol and I
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64 dashed towards the source of the scream. The chief and other na- tives followed more slowly behind me. I knew them as brave men whom I had seen face a snarling tiger, yet they seemed strangely re- luctant to help. I heard them mut- tering the word, “Taw, Taw, Taw.’ “T slowed as I approached the hut from which the scream had come and became more cautious. On tip-toe I advanced to the only window and peered inside. There was a bright moon that night and the inside of the hut, seen through the opening, while at first only a dusky smudge soon came into focus as my eyes became adjusted. I saw a sight I shall never forget to my dying day; one that literally lifted the hairs on my head. Within that hut, chewing on the slashed neck of _a now dying woman, was the most terrifying of creatures. It was both man-like and beast-like. It’s body was covered with coarse hair and in its head was a ghastly gash of a mouth from which slavered, about the cruel fangs, droppings of spittle. It’s eyes were small and red in the darkness. “T took in all of this in the fleet- ing of a second; then my pistol was pumping lead into the creature. With a wild yell it leaped and was gone into the night. I called to the natives who came gingerly forward. Together we searched for the crea- ture amongst the trees which grew FATE to the back of the hut near the edge of the village clearing. It was no- where to be found. This was in- credible as I am an expert marks- man and to have missed my target at such point-blank range was out- of-the-question! I was sure that I had not missed, yet the Taw (which the natives insisted it was) was gone! “The female victim was quite beyond our help. I tossed a robe over the body. We continued our search into the jungle brush about the place, but there was nothing. Defeated we huddled by the fire the rest of the night. There was very little talk; each man strange- ly silent in his own world of thought. “Tt was not until the next morn- ing, with the coming of light, that we began a fresh search. A new clue was now discovered. A line of blood stains led from the hut into the surrounding thickets. The Lahu, those master hunters, tracked the stains as they circled the vil- lage, only to re-enter at the op- posite end. “Once out of the bush, I my- self could see the blood splotches clearly upon the ground. They led into another hut. We all dashed forward and drew aside the skin door-covering. Inside, lying on the bed, was a native. He was dead—his eyes open and glazed. The trail of blood ended in a
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WERE WOLVES IN THAILAND? pool on the floor of the hut— from a bullet hole in his side just below the heart. I had not missed! “But this is not the creature I saw ripping at the woman’s throat last night, this is a man” I pro- tested. “The chief spat full in the dead face. ‘Taw,’ he said!” Harold Young ceased speaking. In the ensuing silence, broken only by the crackle of the fire on the hearth, we looked at each other. Young asked quietly, “Would you like to hear of another Taw exper- ience?” We nodded uncertainly. “This one is not a personal experience of my own, but was told me by one of my beloved Shan friends in the mountains of Burma. “There were two young men— hunters—who habitually made their excursions on foot down a path leading into the jungle that took them by one of the Burial Caves of the Dead. These people, as you may know, bury their recent dead in caves with the corpse sit- ting upright. Each day in passing, one young man told his friend to proceed on—that he might in loneliness pay his homage to the dead within. Understanding the whim, his friend would comply, to be rejoined a bit later by the other man. “This procedure continued. Eventually the suspicions of ‘the second young man became aroused. While pretending to pass on down the path, he doubled back and saw his friend disappearing within the burial cave. Cautiously he stole forward. Inside the cave he saw a creature, hairy and horrible, or so it seemed to him in the dim light. It was hunched over a dead corpse calmly munching the remains. “Tnstinctively, he drew his cross- bow and fired the arrow through the creature’s skull. It toppled for- ward across the corpse. With his foot he turned it over. The eyes which met his were the eyes of his friend. Then as they closed in death and as he continued to gaze in horror the entire visage met- amorphosed, from those of a beast to the handsome features of the young man he had known. ““Taw,’ he screamed, as he turned and ran from the cave.” “Ts it true, Harold?” we asked incredulously. “Tt is true, the mountain people ‘do not lie about such things,” he answered. Cp
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SUN, MOON and EARTH wind your BIOLOGICAL CLOCK Science is finding answers to a great biological riddle— how universal forces regulate your life. OUR LIFE story can be read in the movements of the sun, moon and earth. The very tides of the sea reflect the tides of your life on this earth. The rate at which every plant, animal or man on earth lives his life at a given moment of time in- exorably reflects the influence of the movement of the sun, moon and the earth itself. The great, Pret Se anere Ne o,6 ue "es% universal forces involved in these movements tell us all, prince or Paramecium, when we are to live fast and when slower. These same forces give each liv- ing thing advance notice of changes in its environment. Unfortunately, none of this information rises to man’s conscious level or TV weather forecasters could at last make real- istic predictions. é, Peony oe eb rte «. + a¢ No Shae +3 = >, . SIRS Seer rraetsaee = » COE ad aed " ese pneee CAPSS ae 66 he dye ats
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Dr. Frank A. Brown, Jr., Mor- rison Professor of Biology at North- western University, made public these new scientific truths in a re- cent lecture at the Chicago Acad- emy of Sciences. For the past 12 years Dr. Brown has been studying one of the great- est riddles of the universe: the rid- dle of how living things carry out their normal activities with clock- like precision at particular times of the days, months and years. Dr. Brown reported that a few scientists have been aware of this uncanny ability of living things for over 200 years, but because there seemed no plausible use for the in- formation science took the attitude that the facts might go away if they were ignored. Now the dawning of the age of space travel soon will make it pos- sible for man to completely escape from his present environment. The question of how man will react to this change has made it important to know more about the way he is affected by his present environ- ment. So the scientists have dusted off the ancient knowledge and in a few short years of study have pro- duced a wide array of facts that must strike the layman as nothing short of incredible. Living things exhibit daily and annual rhythms which Dr. Brown calls “biological clocks.” In man these clocks govern sleep, body 67 temperature, hormone and kidney excretions. When these clocks are forced out of adjustment, man is stressed — he is not adjusted either. Dr. Brown reported on an experi- ment conducted in the Arctic by scientists from Cambridge Univer- sity. In the Arctic summer when the sun never sets, or in the Arctic winter when it never rises, it would seem to make no differences at all whether men eat, sleep and work on a 22,- 24, or 26-hour daily cycle. But it does! The Cambridge experiment found that men living on a day not 24 hours long become strained. And stress and strain can have fatal results when men are operating under the dangerous cir- cumstances of the Arctic explorer —or the space traveler. The phenomena of the biological cycles in living things are the result of complex environmental conditions, some obvious and some so subtle that science only now is beginning to understand their influence. Dr. Brown stated that one important factor of environment is its rhythmi- cality. Contributing to this rhyth- micality are the movements of the earth relative to the sun and the moon. These movements are called geophysical rhythms. There are four geophysical rhythms. The earth rotates relative to the sun to produce the 24-hour solar day rhythm. The lunar day of 24 hours, 50 minutes is the time from
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68: moonrise to moonrise. The third rhythm, is the synodical month of 29.5 days which results from the moon’s arrival every 29.5 days at the same relative position between the earth and the sun. The fourth rhythm is the 365 day, 5 hour and 48 minute year which results from the period required by the earth to complete a revolution about the sun. There are potent forces which vary as the geophysical rhythms vary. And, as before stated, some of these forces are obvious, and others are very subtle and as yet little understood. Everyone can associate the daily and annual rhythms related to the sun in terms of changes in light and temperature. The lunar day and synodical month also can be easily associated with the ocean: tides and with nighttime illumination as the moon waxes and wanes. But all four types of rhythms include less noticeable changes in forces such as gravity, barometric pressure, high energy radiation, and magnetic and electrical fields. The effects of these forces have not been completely cataloged by scientists. In fact, only within the past year has Dr. Brown’s research indicated that magnetism is one of the sub- tle factors influencing biological rhythms. Dr. Brown’s discovery that man’s environment includes far more fac- FATE tors than previously were known may have wide influence on other areas. of scientific study. The dis- covery of man’s ability to sense some extremely subtle forces well may provide several broad hints. to experimental psychologists who have been seeking clues to extra-sensory phenomena. The geophysical rhythms and their associated forces have many effects on the biological rhythms or “clocks” of living things. Here, too, some of the effects are easy to see and some are difficult even for scientists to isolate and measure. The annual rhythms of growth and reproduction of animals and plants are well understood. It is well known that the migrations. of birds and the flowerings of plants are determined by seasonal changes in the lengths of day and night. Synodical monthly breeding rhythms, geared to particular por- tions of the year, phases of the moon, and times of the solar day, are common among animals living in the oceans. Dr. Brown has noted that lunar reproductive rhythms are not re- stricted to sea dwellers. The re- productive cycle of the human fe- male, averaging exactly the synod- ical month, indicates that both solar and lunar rhythms are effective here, too. Tt might appear that biological rhythms are merely the responses
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SUN, MOON AND EARTH WIND YOUR CLOCK 69 of organisms to rhythmic changes in light, temperature or the tides of the seas, but this is far from being the whole answer. This is the astonishing fact that has been brought to light by the research that Dr. Brown has conducted dur- ing the past 12 years. Dr. Brown has discovered that when living things are removed from their natural habitat and placed under conditions where no variations occur in any of the forces to which they are supposed to be sensitive, they commonly con- tinue to exhibit the same rhythms that they lived by in their natural habitat. Four to five million years ago a crayfish came to live in the River Styx in Mammoth Cave, Ky. Since that time no crayfish living in the river has ever seen the light of the sun or the moon. In fact, because there is no light these crayfish no longer have eyes. And because they do not need protection from the heat of the sun, their body sur- faces no longer have any pigment. The air temperature, water tem- perature, and barometric pressure in the cave is constant throughout the year. But Dr. Brown has proved that these tiny animals still know the time of day. They know exactly where the sun and the moon stand in the sky. They know the month of the year. And they never make a mistake in their time-telling. Year in and year out, they always know. These facts were ascertained -by measuring the rate at which the crayfish consume oxygen. This in tur, provides a measure of the activity of body processes of the animal. It was discovered that the activity of the crayfish varies ab- solutely with the movements of ‘the sun, moon and the month of the year. The rate of oxygen consumption is highest in the summer, lowest in the winter. It is high during the third quarter of the year, and it is high during the months of April and May. Remember, there are no changes in light, temperature or barometric pressure to tell these cave dwellers the time of the day or year. These factors have remained stable in Mammoth Cave for four to five million years. How can simple creatures like these crayfish keep track of the passage of time with such unerring accuracy? In his lecture Dr. Brown explain- ed that the time-telling ability of organisms could result from the response of the organism to an in- dependent, built-in timing mechan- ism, or it could result from the organism’s ability to “repeat” tim- ing information flowing to it from outside sources.
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70 To settle the question, Dr. Brown began a series of experiments at Northwestern University which now. have attracted world-wide atten-_ tion. In the laboratory organisms were _ placed. in specially-built vessels where they were isolated from every factor of the environment to which they were deemed sensitive. Ap- paratus was then designed which could measure the basal metabol- ism, or life rate, of these isolated living things. Like the Mammoth Cave cray- fish, the organisms sealed away from change in environmental condi- tions continued indefinitely to dis- play both solar-day and lunar-day rhythms in their metabolism. What is more, they also predict- ed atmospheric-pressure changes 24. hours in advance, and recorded with absolute accuracy erratic changes in outdoor air temperature, cosmic radiation and general background radiation. To Dr. Brown it was plain that the artificially isolated organisms continued to derive a wealth of in- formation about outdoor atmos- pheric rhythms. This discovery tends to settle the argument about the na- ture of the biological timing mech- anism. It appears that living or- ganisms are “repeaters,” reacting to forces from the outside. Dr. Brown believes that man also receives all of this same infor- FATE mation, but remains unaware of it because it does not rise to his con- sciousness. , The question remaining unan- swered is, what subtle energy is so universal as to be able to communi- cate such information to all forms of life? - Dr. Brown recently has conduct- ed experiments with magnets which prove that snails can perceive very weak magnetic fields and can dis- tinguish directions of magnetic fields. Terrestrial magnetism is known to fluctuate rhythmically with the so- lar and lunar periods. Further experimental evidence as- sembled by Dr. Brown and his as- sociates suggests that both flat- worms and snails perceive changes in electrostatic fields, the fields that surround electrically charged bodies. Magnetic and electrostatic ener- gies are universal forces and they may be the communications car- riers. The remaining question is what system originates the timing sig- nals? Dr. Brown believes that his evi- dence establishes that the primary timing system is the movements of the sun, moon and earth. Thus it is that modern science finds that the astrologer speaks the truth when he says that your life chart, your past and your future is written in the heavens from the moment of your birth.
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MiuIracte of the ICE CUBES Was I unable to see the ice cubes— so that I would be able to see the child who was drowning? HAVE ALWAYS thought of myself as a down to earth, practical sort of person, One of my favorite quotations is “Seeing is believing.” That is why this peculiar thing has thrown me into such confusion. We live in a large, old-fashioned house on the shore of Eastchester Bay. Our front lawn extends down to the water’s edge. In summer it is so lovely that our friends turn green with envy at our splendid lo- 71 etssman By A ee As told to aulens Kappell-Pritucih cation. In winter, they thank their lucky stars that they decided to settle further inland. It was on a winter Friday, Janu- ary 6, 1961, that this phenomenon occurred. I call it phenomenon be- cause I am timid about using the word “miracle.” My oldest son, Charlie, who is seven, fell off his sled and came in crying, holding his head. A big boy had deliberately forced his sled into
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72 a tree, he told me.. E sympathized and. ran to the refrigerator to: get. some ice cubes; I wrapped thene im the disk towel and pressed thenr to his: forehead. “Don’t worry, Darling: Tt wilf stop hurting im a minute. If you. press the ice on your bump), it will go. down,” I told: him. He sobbed hysterically until I took a dish of chocolate pudding from the refrigerator, squirted’ it with cream, and plumped a cherry on top. He stared at it with de- light and promptly forgot his pain. He wiped his eyes, rubbed his nose with his sleeve, and was recovered. I sighed with relief, took up the ice cube tray that I had emptied for the compress and refilled it with water. I clearly recall returning it to the freezer because on the way I dripped some of the water, and I remember feeling very annoyed be- cause the floor just had been waxed, Later in the afternoon my hus- band called from the office to tell me he was bringing two clients home for cocktails. After I hung up I checked the liquor cabinet to be sure we weren’t short on any- thing. Then I checked the refrig- erator freezer again to make sure we'd have enough ice cubes for cocktails. All eight trays were full and frozen hard. I then went into the living room to do some mending. I took out FATE my sewing basket and sat down in front of the picture window. Our living’ room overlooks the bay and’ from time to time I raised my eyes from my sewing to look out. T could see several boys and girls skating on the ice that had formed along the shoreline. The salt water seldom freezes, but this winter had been extremely cold. One abnor- mally cold spell seemed to follow another. This last cold spell al- ready had lasted two weeks. The water along the shore was frozen grey, nubbly and irregular. As the tide fell it cracked in great chunks and rested on the sand. When the tide swelled it lifted in bulky masses and the splits between the great ice islands refroze. T always disapprove of children - skating or even walking on the ice. I never allow any of our children to do it. I know how unpredictable salt water can be at any time of year. In the winter it seems more treacherous than ever. As I sat sewing and looking out I felt myself becoming tense and anxious. It disturbed me so to see the children skating on the ice that I decided to get up and begin fixing things for our guests to nib- ble on. While I was standing in the kitchen Charlie and Bobby, my younger son, both tore through the door, screaming, “The tree, Mama. We hit the tree again.”
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~ MIRACLE OF THE ICE CUBES Bobby, hopping up and down be- side Charlie roared, “He pushed me. He pushed me into the tree.” “Get some ice, Mom. Make it better with ice, Mom,” shrieked Charlie. T ran to the sink for the towel and opened the refrigerator door. I stepped back aghast. It was com- pletely empty! The trays were there but there was no ice in them. I checked and rechecked. The ice had vanished. I slammed the door and turned to the children. “Tce! Ice!” They chimed to- gether, creating a nerve-wracking uproar. I did not have time to give much thought to the mystery of the missing ice cubes. I said, “All right. Wait here.” Running out of the kitchen door, I added, “There’s plenty of ice outside.” I ran down the front lawn to the beach. There I got down on one knee and clawed at the broken, loose chunks of ice. I laid several large pieces on the towel. Then, just as I was rising I heard a muffled shriek. I searched the shore ice with my eyes. Just a few feet from the end of our boat dock I caught a glimpse of red. I strained my eyes and was sure I saw a red mitten wave in the air. Horror clutched my heart. I ran out to the end of the dock, slipping and stumbling all the way. Just a yard from me I now saw 73 the red mitten gripping the edge of a hole in the ice. A little girl was struggling just below the surface of the water. She was being sucked under by the tow of the tide and the weight of her wet clothing. I lay down flat on my stomach, as close to the edge of the dock as I could. By stretching I just reached that red mitten! First I tugged. Then I pulled with all my strength and raised the child out of the water. I slid her toward me on the ice. I dragged her up onto the dock, then took her in my arms and ran for the house. The little girl’s clothes and face were already coated with a thin crust of ice. I put her on the couch in the living room and called the doctor. He told me what to do till he got there. As I hurried in and out of the kitchen with warm compresses for the little girl I had just rescued, I found that my two boys already had administered their own first aid with more chocolate pudding. By the time the doctor arrived the little girl seemed somewhat thawed out and felt much better. She told us her name. The doctor examined her and then called her parents. He decided that it would be best to drive Susan home. My husband and his guests ar- rived just in time to help bundle her up and carry her to the car. “Tt’s certainly lucky that you
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~ 74 saw the accident from your wind- ow. This little lady couldn’t have survived in that icy water very much longer.” The doctor said to me as he was leaving. “But I didn’t... .” I wanted to explain further but he was al- ready on his way to the car. I waved goodbye to Susan. Then I took the coats of our guests and tried to collect myself. My husband asked, “Where were you when she fell in?” I told them all the whole story. I related how I had checked the ice cubes and how, when I wanted some for the boys, they were gone. I said I supposed perhaps the re- frigerator had defrosted and the trays had spilled. Maybe there was a short in the refrigerator, or per- haps a fuse was blown, I suggested. I asked my husband to check the fuse box later. . “Well, it certainly was a lucky thing for Susan that you happened to be there just then. She would have been a ‘goner’ if you had FATE gone down there just seconds later,” someone remarked. “Ves,” I sighed, “it was lucky.” My husband gave me a hug, “Tm very proud of you.” He turned to his guests, “All right, folks. How about a drink? It will have to be warm, but that doesn’t really mat- ter too much now.” We all agreed. Bill went into the kitchen to mix a cocktail. Suddenly he was back in the doorway. His face looked puzzled and strange. “The ice cube trays are filled to the brim,” he said, “With ICE!” “But that couldn’t be,” I pro- tested. “I know the trays were empty. I checked.” “They’re full now.” We all looked at one another in astonishment. Perhaps there had been more than luck in Susan’s rescue. But what had happened? Had the ice cubes really disappeared? Or had something kept my eyes from seeing them? What makes a miracle? VP MYSTERY IN THE SKY FRENCH astronomer, Dr. Daniel Barbier of the Institute of Astrophysics of the Paris Observatory, reportedly has discov- ered a mysterious band of red light encircling the night side of the earth in the tropics. He estimated that the band lies between 125 and 190 miles overhead and states that normally it can be observed from the ground only with special instruments. He said he does not knew what it represents ether than that something unsuspected is going on.
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Healing energy called “ORGONE” Health benefits are said to result from use of a make- it-yourself device operated by a mysterious new energy, By Walhee Edwards Wilhelm Reich, considered a brilliant psychoanalyst, discovered what he called “orgone’’ energy. His ap- plications of fhis energy in- volved him in legal difficul- ties which resulted in suicide. Bout 20 vEARS aco a brilliant ‘psychoanalyst, writer of nu- merous accepted works in his own field, accidentally discovered a new kind of energy with healing powers. He labelled it “orgone.” He con- sidered the new energy akin to static electricity and so the name was chosen to suggest that this energy is related specifically to organisms. This psychoanalyst, Wil- helm Reich, claimed that this energy which apparently has its source in 75 the sun possesses relaxing and heal- ing powers and is basic to the health of all living things. Although Reich got a few psy- chiatrists and psychoanalysts in America and in several European countries to investigate and support his findings, for the most part his work was ridiculed by his fellow scientists. Men who never read more than a chapter or two of his writings on this subject dismissed them as being psychotic. In mak-
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76 ing fun of Reich they also falsely described both his theories and the way in which he said orgone could be accumulated. Reich fought back bitterly against such attacks and now and again forced opponents to retract state- ments. On one occasion, after the publication of a misleading review of one of his books, he forced the editor of the Psychiatric Quarterly to admit, “Many of his bitterest op- ponents would be among the first to concede his brilliance, his scientific integrity and his great personal courage.” However, various medical person- ages continued their attacks and Reich finally was hailed into court under the Pure Food and Drug Act. Reich refused to admit the court’s power to curb his scientific studies, was finally imprisoned on a con- tempt of court charge, and killed himself in prison. Such was the tragic end of one of the great minds of the 20th Cen- tury, an early collaborator of Sig- mund Freud and the author of over 30 scientific books, including Char- acter Analysis, The Murder Of Christ, The Function Of The Or- gasm, The Cancer Biopathy, and The Oranur Experiment. ee ek ack 'WELVE YEARS ago I first came across Reich’s writings and found some of his psychosomatic in- sights most intriguing. Later I be- FATE gan to investigate the orgone energy theory. For over five years now I have conducted experiments with orgone energy, checked my work with other scientifically minded per- sons and have come to the conclu- sion that some important healing energy is present here. I am still unable to say just how or why the energy works, precisely what its limitations are, nor can I fully ac- cept Reich’s theory of its source and activity. I do know that some power is present and I urge every- one interested to try some simple experiments and discover for them- selves what it can do. Eventually it may be possible te secure substantial research funds to undertake a thorough large-scale in- vestigation. At present, owing to the simplicity of the design and the unusualness of the theory, present medical scientists refuse even to look at it. Reich’s energy apparently is con- nected with the healing energy given off by the hands of spiritual or psychic healers and to the odic force of Baron von Reichenbach. This 19th Century German chemist and industrialist devoted his life te the investigation of the laws govern- ing an energy he called odic, to denote its basic relationship to all of life. It was demonstrated for him mainly by the many clairvoy- ants with whom he worked over a period of years. He related odic
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HEALING ENERGY CALLED “ORGONE” 77 energy to the sun’s rays, found it in every kind of substance and des-- cribed its properties, but to my knowledge didn’t have the set-up: to: actually measure it im modern scientific forms. Other investigators, however, working with this energy, often under different names, have meas- ured it; for instance, several investi- gators in France showed that the energy off the finger tips, which is one form of odic force, cam move a galvanometer a given number of degrees, depending upon the gifts or powers of the individual. Orgone energy, like odic force, is supposedly of a bluish color, is powered by the sun and works slow- ly, although the precise relation- ship of this energy to odic force or healing energy is not clear. It may be a variant of the same thing. Only careful and precise research will yield the answer to this and similar questions. Static electricity machines were made and used for certain ailments in John Wesley’s time. Nowadays some chiropractors have an expen- sive machine for helping stroke patients, polio paralysis sufferers, etc. This machine shoots a small charge of electricity into the patient in order to activate inert limbs. I have seen such a machine in Tor- onto, Canada, whose operator claims phenomenal results with it. Stu- dents: of radiesthesia in Britain re- port, in their Journal Of The Brit- ish Society Of Dowsers, successful use of various kinds of semi-elec- trical energies for a variety of ill- nesses. Although it is: difficult to simplify without doing injustice to Reich’s theory, a brief description of it is necessary before experiments for testing orgone’s presence and power can be outlined. Orgone is a natural electricity connected with all living organic life, just as electrical energy is as- sociated with electrical phenomena. Tt is the basic life force. Without it all life dies. Thus, basic to all cellular life, it accounts for the action pattern of pulsation, con- traction, and expansion which Reich sees in all living organisms includ- ing the human body. This life energy is discharged at certain points and in certain ways. It enters the body mainly through the lungs. since it is in the air, put there by solar radiation. Clouds and bodies of water accumulate it. In brief, every living thing is con- stantly immersed in an ocean of orgone. It was Reich’s theory that the free flow of the natural quantity of orgone for any given organism is its best guarantor of health. If this free flow through the body in its natural sequence is interrupted, as it is by body tension, then disease may enter. Emotions like fear, re-
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78 sentment, hate, tighten up or freeze parts of an organism, inhibit deep rhythmic breathing and so promote unhealthy physical conditions. From this idea Reich developed a theory of psychosomatic disease. Furthermore, Reich thought he found ways of actumulating orgone which made it therapeutically valu- able. His first device was called an accumulator. It consisted of a box, much like a telephone booth, in which the patient sat. Walls and roof were made of layers of differ- ent materials to accumulate the orgone. He made dozens of these boxes and rented them out all across the United States in the 1940’s. Cumbersome and expen- sive they would not be easily dupli- cated, but his “orgone blanket” is. I have used the orgone blanket to test Reich’s theory. The theory is that alternate lay- ers of organic and inorganic ma- terials will somehow “catch” from the atmosphere therapeutically use- ful quantities of the atmospheric orgone. The amount of orgone ac- cumulated is contingent upon the number of layers used in the box or blankets. The orgone blanket, of which I have made several dozen despite my quite limited mechanical abilities, consists of layers of organic and in- organic materials. I used, as Reich directed, layers of (organic) wool or silk and layers of (inorganic) FATE steel wool, spread out evenly. Two or three cartons of fine steel wool from any hardware store can be spread out on top of pieces of wool or silk, say two feet by three feet in size. After repeating the layers of steel wool and wool several times then sew all around. My simplest and least expensive blankets have three or four alternate layers of wool and steel wool. Reich, in a small booklet entitled the Orgone Accumulator, suggests that an application of this blanket over the body for up to an hour will improve such things as back- ache, sciatica, and exhaustion. Two or three applications within a day or two will help to clear up a cold. A single application of up to an hour will induce a feeling of well- being and relaxation, especially among persons who are normally rather tense. After I tested two control blankets (made of paper and wool) and two orgone blankets at a conference several years ago Aldous Huxley found the effect so pleasantly relaxing that he asked how to buy one. The power of the blanket depends to quite an extent upon the weather. When the sun is strong its effect is maximal. During lightning storms the power is excessive and may pre- cipitate vomiting or belching attacks especially if its placed over the stomach. On wet or foggy days the effect is minimal as, according to
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HEALING ENERGY CALLED “ORGONE” 79 the theory, the clouds have largely absorbed the orgone in the atmos- phere. Reich’s booklet warns against using the blanket during lightning storms and also warns against using it if you have high blood pressure or are taking sulfa drugs and cer- tain other kinds of medication. If you plan any extensive use of the orgone blanket Reich’s booklet should be purchased and followed closely. Since first testing the blankets personally I have progressed to dis- tributing them to friends and ac- quaintances. Those who used the blanket at all systematically claimed to get results for such different ail- ments as stomach cramps, mild sci- atica, mild polio after-effects, back- aches, tiredness, and colds. Friends with scientific zeal and training who have used the blanket or an ac- cumulator get similar results, in- cluding the attenuation of fevers. Altogether over 20 friends tried out various kinds of orgone blankets and in 80% of the cases reported that they were helped. Those who said they had not been helped ap- peared to lack faith in the efficacy of the device and for that reason used it only once or twice for a given condition. In brief, they did not give the blanket a fair trial. One lady who had severe sciatica pains used her blanket daily for a half hour at a time over a period of several weeks and feund her pain was very greatly reduced. A man who had polio and could not walk or use his arms when he began to. use the orgone blanket stated that he felt much better within two weeks. In a month’s time this man was back at work, al- though his doctor’s prognosis had been between three and six months. This man used a large five foot blanket which was five layers thick. My most valid tests were the babies and small children who were asleep when the orgone blanket was put over their other bedclothes. In these cases the power of suggestion was eliminated. A number of psychoanalysts and psychotherapists in New York have used accumulators for years and found them useful. Obviously they are no panacea for all ills, minor or major. Some of the limitations of orgone energy have been pointed out by Reich himself. I personally find that after some months of use its energizing effect gradually gets weaker. Ac- cording to Reich one’s orgone level can be built up only to a point and one gets little benefit thereafter. These cases and tests are in no way conclusive and I only relate them here that you may see what the small amount of experimenta- tion I have undertaken indicates. Full confirmation of this energy and what it can do awaits a long series of tests. Perhaps some reader
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Bo will be stimulated to try such ex- periments. The possibility of using this energy with good results, once its powers, limitations and dangers are known, in hospitals and homes would seem to be considerable. Many patients in hospitals are low in energy and need “building up,” precisely the task to which the blanket is suited, according to my experience. In addition, it seems ideal as a preventative for colds and other minor ills. We have so used it for many years in our home with the result that our medical bills, apart from hospital deliveries of our four children, have been almost nil. me ok | Ea THOUGH years have passed it is still difficult to judge fairly the tragedy of Reich’s death. He was legally charged with mak- ing false claims for his accumula- tors, with raising false hopes of cancer cures, and with profiting on accumulator rentals. | It is true that at one time he had several hundred of these ac- cumulators in circulation at a monthly rent of $10. And since the AMA did not approve of them their use was frequently without strict medical supervision. Certain- ly his booklet makes no extravagant claims and clearly states that the . FATE accumulator was experimental. Apparently the government ac- tion against him was due to the very rigid stand the AMA takes re- garding cancer cures and some pre- judice may have operated against him due to his bold, highly contro- versial writings on sex, Reich himself may be somewhat to blame for the fact that the ac- tions against him seem to amount al- most to persecution. His handling of the original injunction to appear in court was high handed, overly emo- tional and somewhat paranoid. He refused to appear in court on the grounds that his work was scientific and as such not subject to court decisions. He was mistaken and his imprisonment on a contempt of court charge naturally followed. His own reaction to the government in- junctions seems to have provoked a guilty verdict. At the same time, surely the pre- siding judge was unnecessarily harsh in imposing a two year sentence on such an eminent man whose avowed aim was to help mankind and al- leviate suffering. There is no excuse that I can think of for the burning of Reich’s books and journals — such actions belong to the dark ages. As things turned out this trouble and the prison sentence led directly to Reich’s suicide. EEE
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als ats als als als als Br Br Br Br Wer WBS A DIRGE FOR FATHER DE LA BROSSE 81 The old priest was dead and the bells of the churches he had served tolled his pass- ing—but no human hands had pulled those bell ropes, By ulow Ballantine eae Compan sat quietly reading between the hewn log walls of his study. It was a soft April evening in 1782 and the windows of the little presbytery on Tle aux Coudres were open to ad- mit the gentle breeze that whispered among the maples and the spruce. Except for this murmuring and the distant booming of the St. Lawrence River’s ice slowly moving down- stream to the sea the night seemed strangely still.
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82 In the nearby chapel he had said compline and his private prayers; now he was reading that portion of sacred Scripture that was to be the theme for his morning’s meditation. His attention was attracted by a single solemn stroke of the chapel bell and he turned his head slowly toward the open window. Once, but only once, had Father Compain known a gale to sway the heavy metal cloche that had been the gift of benefactors in faraway France. And tonight there was scarcely a breeze! The bell sounded a second stroke. Father Compain rose and moved toward the open window just as the third stroke of the bell’s melancholy sound filled the spring air. It sounded again as he opened the door and again as he entered the chapel and yet again as, guided by the ruby aureole of the sanctuary lamp, he made his way toward the high altar. The bell continued its mournful dirge but there was no sign of hu- man agency. Perplexed and mystified, Father Compain knelt at the altar rail. He did not utter a word of vocal pray- er. He only waited in confident ex- pectation that some answer to the riddle would come. And come it did, not in words, but in that soundless speech which mystics are said to hear. “Father de La Brosse is dead,” FATE it seemed to say. “Tomorrow you will go to the very tip of the island — early, as soon as you have said your morning devotions. A boat will come for you to take you to Tadou- sac. Father Compain reeled from the shock. Father de La Brosse long had been his closest friend, though their missions were separated by many miles. He rose from his knees and re- turned to his presbytery, hardly daring to credit the news that had come to him seemingly from the world of spirits. Nevertheless, early morning found him on the rocky shore of the Tle aux Coudres, staunchly braving the gale that had risen during the night. “Ohe! Hol!” he called through his cupped hands to a boat he could see threading its way among the ice floes that threatened to crush it to splinters. SPS ES L= Jean-Baptiste de La Brosse, cure of Tadousac and priest in charge of several other missions around the mouth of the Saguenay where it joins the St. Lawrence, was, like his confrere Compain, a Jesuit and a native of France. Born at Pointu in Old France in 1714, he had come to minister to the Iroquois tribesmen in 1754. During the whole of that fateful lith day of April in 1782 he had
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A DIRGE FOR FATHER DE LA BROSSE 83 been occupied with his priestly tasks — saying Mass, the Hours, hearing confessions, blessing, bap- tising, preparing White and Indian candidates for the rite of Holy Confirmation whenever a bishop should be able to reach his lonely post. But at the close of day he turned in search of relaxation to the home of friends at the Tadousac trading post. There was no lack of eye-witness- es to the strange things that oc- curred that night, and in 1846 an account of them was set down in writing by the Rev. Epiphane La- pointe at the dictation of the set- lement’s oldest inhabitant, one Jean Audet. This old gentleman, then aged 91, was living at that time at the Sainte-Famille on the Island of Orleans, midstream in the St. Lawrence. Following is his account of the events as told to Father La- pointe and retold by the Rev. Henri-Raymond Casgrain in his col- lection of Legendes canadiennes (Montreal, 1875.) “The evening before his death Father de La Brosse appeared to be in perfect health. He was a well- built man of 68, robust and with lovely white hair and an ascetic face. At nightfall he had come in search of a few hours of recreation at the home of an official at the Tadousac trading post. He was cheerful and friendly as usual. To- ward 9:00 o’clock he rose and pre- pared to take his leave. “Having bidden everyone good- night, he paused a moment at the threshold, then said in solemn tone: “‘My friends, I bid you fare- well — forever. For you will never see me again alive on earth. At midnight of this very night you will hear the bell of my chapel announc- ing my passing hence. Come then and see for yourselves. But, I beg of you, do not touch my body. “Tomorrow you will go find Father Compain at the Ile aux Coudres and bring him to say the burial office at my grave. He will be waiting for you at the tip of the island. Don’t be afraid to make the journey, no matter what the weather.’ “At first we thought the good Father was joking, but he insisted with an air of conviction which left little room for doubt.” When one of the trading post employes protested with a forced and hollow laugh the priest turned to him saying: “My son, before it is another day you will know the truth of my words.” “When he had left us,” Audet’s account continues, “we remained stupefied, speechless, not daring to believe the good father’s prognostic. Those of us who had watches laid them on the table and all of us waited anxiously. Ten o’clock came ... 11:00... the hour of midnight drew near.
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84 Then at the stroke of the hour the chapel bell tolled, just as Father de La Brosse had said. “We rose as one man and, aghast with fear and shaking like leaves, rushed into the chapel. By the faint light of the sanctuary lamp and the unsteady flickering of votive candles we were able to discern the black robe of our good friend. He lay prostrate and motionless at the first step of the altar, his brow buried in clasped hands. “He was dead.” Tt was learned some time after- ward that not only at Tadousac, not only at Ile aux Coudres, but also at Father de La Brosse’s other missions —at Chicoutimi, at Ile Verte and Trois Pistoles, Rimouskt and the Baie des Chaleurs — the bells had tolled precisely at mid- night, apparently of their own ac- cord. A young native son of the Ile Verte named Damboise, a cantor at the church and a most respected colonist whom Father Lapointe knew very well, told him that his father was coming home that night from his work at the sugar refinery when, toward midnight, he was surprised to hear the bell. At the time he took scant notice but later, when he discussed the occurrence with his neighbors, he found that many of them also had heard the bell, and all were agreed that it sounded at FATE the very stroke of midnight. “The terrible news spread like lightning all through the mission. From daybreak onward the whole population, Indian as well as White, invaded the chapel and its sur- roundings, eager for a last look at the remains of the holy man stretch- ed out on the choir pavement. No one dared to touch him. With mingled grief and affection they simply looked on him. They prayed. They interceded. “All day long crowds came and went and came again in silence, unable to take their eyes from the remains of the saintly man of God whose burning words of exhortation had so often made the echoes of this same chapel to ring. For hours the Indians stood motionless, their fingers to their lips to signify the sorrow no words could tell. “By daybreak a southwesterly gale had arisen, so violent that it churned the open water into white capped waves and tossed the float- ing blocks of ice about like dice thrown from a giant hand. “At first no one dared embark on a journey, but seeing their fears the senior officer at the post ad- dressed his more timid fellows. “Are there not among you three courageous enough to come with me and carry out our good father’s last wish? Remember what he told us — “There is no risk for those who
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A DIRGE FOR FATHER DE LA BROSSE 85 make the journey to Ile aux Cou- dres.” ”’ Whether they were reassured or shamed, four men launched a boat and headed for midstream of the wide river. From then it seemed as though an invisible hand propelled the little craft with such speed that they were able to double the Cap aux Oies and sight the Tle aux Cou- dres ‘by 11:00 o’clock that morn- ing. “Father Compain,” Father La- pointe’s transcript continues, “was waiting for them, book in hand, at the tip of the island. ““Father de La Brosse is dead,’ he told them as they beached the boat for him to board. ‘You have come for me to give him a Christian burial.’ ” In the early evening of the same day Father Compain went ashore at Tadousac, said Vespers of the Dead in the little chapel and re- cited the burial at his friend’s graveside. ‘ x OK Ok UCH,” CONCLUDEs Father Cas- \ grain’s narrative, “is the strange tale which everyone at Tadousac, at Ile aux Coudres and round about knows by heart and which many on both banks of the St. Lawrence and the Saguenay tell with only slight variations which are easily recon- cilable. All accounts agree in the principal details. “Tf this singular event had had only one or two witnesses it would be an easy thing to cast doubt upon the telling; but as partici- pants and ‘spectators there was a whole population with no interest in inventing a fable or in falsifying the truth. “For many years the Indians who came down the Saguenay -never passed the port of Tadousac with- out going ashore to pray in the chapel where rested the remains of one who for them had been a living, earthly image of their heavenly Father. They would prostrate them- selves to press their faces against the floor above his tomb; with their mouths they would touch a small opening in the pavement and they would talk with confidence as though to their living friend. Then they would apply their ears to the opening, fancying they could hear the holy man answering from the depth of his sepulchre.” All this came to an end, however, with the exhuming of Father de La Brosse’s body; when age and decay had done their worst for the little chapel at Tadousac, compel- ling the removal of the relics to a new resting place in what is now the Quebec city of Chicoutimi. v
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That it is of benefit to experience shock is one of the STILL REMEMBER the poignant longing I felt when I saw the film, Lost Horizon, many years ago. I remember in particular the scene in which Ronald Coleman, having discovered the isolated paradise of Shangri-La, was summoned for his first meeting with the ancient man who was the spiritual guide of the community. The ancient one said, “My son, we have been expecting you.” Little did I imagine that I would have a similar experience. It all came about one fine sum- mer day when my wife, Lillian, and I were driving through the lovely countryside of upper New York 86 startling doctrines advanced by... By Ellery EE re State. I mentioned casually that there was a person I had met brief- ly some years ago whom it might be fun to visit. I could not recall the person’s name or the location but something told me to keep driving. Eventually, on a hunch, I pulled up outside a farmhouse in a remote section. I did not recognize it par- ticularly. Nevertheless, this “per- son” stepped down from the farm- house porch and approached our car. We stepped out. The first words I heard were, “We were ex- pecting you.” We were told that two extra set- tings had been set at the dinner
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GURDJIEFF’S “OCCULT ENNEAGRAM” “Enneagram” or nine-diagram was basis of an original the- ory about the construction of the universe taught by Gurd- jieff. He claimed all knowl- edge could be organized within this symbol and ev- erything interpreted with the help of its interconnecting points. table and that two spaces waited for us among the persons lined up on the porch, going through the occult position exercises as taught by Gurdjieff. Lillian and I forthwith found our- selves standing in a line-up with a dozen or so other people we never had seen before. The porch we stood on commanded a_ beautiful view of valley and mountain. My old acquaintance started chanting commands for movements of the hands, body, feet, head, etc. Later I learned that we had gone through a process of physical attunement with the life of the planetary bodies and astrological configurations. Thus our pleasant afternoon drive in the country became an initiation into the doctrines of Georges Ivano- s 87 vitch Gurdjieff, regarded by many as the greatest occult teacher of modern times. Few students of the occult have been privileged to par- ticipate in the exercises we went through that afternoon. My acquaintance had spent many years as a disciple of Gurdjieff and had been assigned the duty of carrying his message to an impor- tant group of persons whose iden- tity I cannot reveal. Also, this per- son had been entrusted with the stewardship of the 5,000 odd mu- sical pieces that Gurdjieff composed as part of his teaching schedule. That afternoon I learned things about the great occult master that no book will disclose. For example, my friend told how at a time when they were at the beautiful French
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88 Chateau and had asked Gurdjieff why he did not stay and do his work among the beautiful rose- covered alles he had answered, “I work in cafes where people are more what they really are.” I was told how Gurdjieff had called him- self Dr. Kulinari because he took pleasure in cooking delightful Asiat- ic dishes. He believed in giving his students new taste thrills as a means of intensifying their awareness of the digestive process. We left for home late that day in a state of bewildered exhaustion. I now knew the meaning of the con- tinuous references to work in Gurd- jieff’s teachings. Everything centers on the idea of work. But to try to tell all about the teaching is not simple. The best I can do is to tell you something about the man’s per- sonality and life experiences plus a crude approximation of his basic ideas. cee Ghee URDJIEFF was born in 1878 in — the Russian state of Georgia. His birth place was within sight of Mount Ararat, where Noah’s Ark is said to have come to rest. His child- hood was spent amid surroundings hardly changed since Biblical days. There were huge flocks of sheep and the elders told fairy tales and an- cient legends to the children. He told a silly tale of how he remem- bered when he was born, a donkey kicked in the window and the music FATE of a new fangled gramophone in a nearby house provided a rhythm for the gumchewing of the mid-wife, much to his annoyance. This was the Caucasus, an ancient crossroads of many cultures. Gurd- jieff’s ancestry ran back to the Greeks of Caesarea and he could trace his lineage back to pre-Chris- tiam times. His family was run in the strict patriarchal manner de- scribed in the Bible and his father was a last bard among his people besides being, apparently, a most original thinker. Gurdjieff’s first teacher was the decan of the military cathedral in Kars,, who prepared specially gifted students. for the combined profes- sion of priesthood and doctor with the intent of healing both spirit and body. One of his early memories was. of being called to the bedside of his dying grandmother. After he had kissed her hand she gave him this sage advice, “In life never do as others do.” As a result of taking this advice literally he spent a good deal of his childhood walking on his hands be- cause the other boys walked on their feet. Once in a brawl with some of his fellow urchins he knocked. one of them unconscious by butting him in the stomach with his head. An- other urchin struck him in the face and young Gurdjieff felt something strange in his mouth. He took it
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GURDJIEFF, TEACHER OF THE OCCULT 89 out and saw that it was one of his teeth. He held the tooth up to the sunlight and was startled to dis- cover that it had seven roots. Hang- ing from the bottom of each root was a tiny droplet of blood. The sunlight glistened through the drop- lets and he beheld for the first time the seven colors of the rainbow which eventually led him to discover the seven rays of Creation. He quickly tired of his “priest- doctor” training. His early experi- ences had made him wary of the truths taught by modern science. He doubted and questioned every- thing his teachers taught or claimed. As a result of his study of early Armenian literature he became con- vinced that earlier civilizations had vital information that now was lost. So, while still a very young man, he organized a group of friends as the Truth Seekers. They sought out hidden cloisters where the an- cient traditions still survived. They were especially interested in the Whirling Dervish doctrines. Mem- bers of this group included an archaeologist, geologist, engineer, physician, philologist, and other spe- cialists. They went to Persia Turke- stan, Tibet, India, the Gobi Desert, Egypt, and other places. Gurdjieff looked very much like an oriental with his piercing black eyes and because of this was ad- mitted to many places that Western explorers hardly knew existed. He studied for two years in a Whirling Dervish monastery and spent sev- eral years as a healer, using hyp- notism. He spoke a number of oriental languages fluently, which enabled him to study in schools in Tibet, in India, and with the Sufis in Persia. He taught in Russia and estab- lished three small schools there for special students. During the Revo- lution he managed to support his school through his foresight in hav- ing purchased a suitcase full of skein silk which his students wound onto star shaped cardboards and sold to the populace who were threadbare and needed something to keep their clothes together. Re- markably, he was given written per- mission by both sides to carry arms for self protection since both Bol- sheviks and White Russians ap- proved of him. However, it was not possible to continue his work properly and so the group left on a hazardous journey out of the country and eventually purchased a_ beautiful 14th Century estate called the Chateau du Prieure at Fontain- bleau, France. It was here, in 1921, Gurdjieff established the Jn- stitute for the Harmonious De- velopment of Man. Pupils lived in two weeks as guests and had to participate ac- tively in the work. This included housework, gardening, woodchop-
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90 ping, as well as the practice of the 6,000 physical movements accom- panied by music, The idea was to break old habits and automatic functioning. Only through such training could the Astral body be born, An old Zeppelin hull was converted into a study-house and strange new methods of instruction were used to shock the students out of complacency. The stated aim was to develop people into hu- man beings. The work methods in- cluded gymnastic exercises, occu- pational rhythms, and sacred dances from Asia which were to assist in the harmonious development of la- tent powers. In 1924 Gurdjieff brought 40 of his pupils to America for a series of demonstrations of their dances and exercises. Lleelyn Powy wrote a vivid de- scription of one performance given at the Neighborhood Playhouse. He had been persuaded to see the danc- ing by his sister who was interested in the work. He wrote of Gurd- jieff, “he had a high, bald head, with sharp black eyes. His general appearance made one think of a riding master, though there was something about his presence that affected one’s nerves in a strange way. Especially did one feel this when his pupils came onto the stage, to perform like a hutchful of hyp- notized rabbits under the gaze of a master conjurer.” FATE Gurdjieff’s dances were designed to break the conventions of ordin- ary movement and by creating in- dependent action instead, the mental and emotional conventions of his pupils. The music was based on Dervish dances of which he had a thorough knowledge. The perform- ance was in the form of a ballet called The Siruggle of The Magi- cians and was meant to pantomime Black and White Magicians alter- nately. In the United States Gurdjieff again chose a cafe as headquarters. He could usually be found in the Child’s Restaurant on 56th Street in New York where several tables were joined as for a convocation. He loved to be with people, and made no pretense to “sanctity.” When he returned to France from America in 1930 he had a ter- rible automobile accident that would have killed any ordinary person. As a result he had to abandon the Institute and take to writing as a means of spreading the work. This was to be the third phase of his life’s work which continued until his death in 1949. In his semi-autobiography, All and Everything, he shows his sense of humor when he explains why he chose Beelzebub as the hero of his tale. He explains it is always neces- sary to grease the correct palm to get anything done in this world or any other werld and so, instead of
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GURDJIEFF, TEACHER OF THE OCCULT 9x letting the devil bedevil him, he intended to make use of the devil’s vanity to make him serve Gurd- jieff’s ends. ay ke ok | SHALL Now attempt to describe the Way of Work that Gurd- jieff taught. There is an essence that comes down from the stars through our planetary zone and enters the earth. This essence arrives at the time of our birth via the Ray of Creation. Our parents only provide the ma- terial equipment of our bodies in which this essence is received from the stars. All the work that we do in our lifetime is really geared to lead us back to the stars from which we came. Each of us is here for a definite purpose. We have something spe- cial to learn, observe, and become conscious of —and that we must begin to dislike! We must work against it. This can be anything like meanness, cruelty, self-centered- ness, fear, or ignorance. If any per- son dies without finding out why he is here, this is the greatest of all tragedies. It is important to struggle against pride in our own virtues. Other- wise we increase our false person- ality until our viewpoint is thinned down and we become, in effect, dead. The only real death is the death of our desire te return to the stars, Gurdjieff had a favorite parable about a man in prison. After many years a stranger came to offer him a key to leave the prison. But the prisoner refused it, having acquired so many prison habits that he had forgotten his origin in the stars. The prisoner not only refused the keys but grew indignant and tried to kill the stranger. The prison had become all to him and he was ready to sacrifice his life to remain in prison. Gurdjieff taught that of the four ways to work for liberation we should choose the fourth way which is the most difficult and must be practiced in the midst of life. The first way is that of the fakir, the second that of the monk, the third is that of yogi. But the fourth is related to our external life. It varies with the varying circum- stances of life and never can be- come a final form or habit. It must be ready to change in method from day to day, even from moment to moment. No matter what changes occur in our lives we must be able to hold close to the sense and feel- ing of the work. The fourth way aims to develop an all-around, well-balanced person who can be all things to all men, who can be totally flexible. This is no easy task! Any side of your life that you find difficult to adjust is part of your work. There is noth- ing romantic about this work. It
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Q2 must be ruthless and unsentimental. It is not like an Indian fakir star- ing at the sun, it is not a monk ab- sorbed in contemplation, it is not a yogi meditating in a cave. Your work may be in the mid- dle of Main Street where the traffic is thick and tempers are hot. Your work is surrounded by the miseries of life and life itself becomes your instructor. Most important the stu- dent must never forget that the work is not taking place in time and space but in Eternity. Self-observation and self-remem- bering are two of the keys in the pursuit of the work. The worst crime we can commit is to live in- side of ourselves all the time. Hap- hazard living is destructive to the growth of the astral body. It can destroy all chances for immortality. The beginning of the work is to ob- serve oneself and try to discover wrong internal conditions and then to start working against them, thus we can alter not only our personal relation to things outside us, but even the nature of events that hap- pen to us daily. According to Gurdjieff the source of human trouble is lack of unity. We are made up of many “I’s”. Until one recognizes that he is more than one personality it is im- possible to work for unification. As it is we live under a delusion of unity while in reality our many “Ps” all pull against each other. FATE Gurdjieff described three influ- ences that shape our lives. The “A” influence is created by ordinary living and shapes what he called our “false personality.” The “B” influence comes to us from outside our everyday experience and in- cludes our religions, fairy tales, fantasy, etc. The “C” influence comes from the stars. Under these influences people develop into a circle of types like the musical notes of an octave. There is a 1, 2, 3, humanity that is only mechanically minded. Num- ber one man is moved only by in- stinct, number two man is moved by his emotions, and number three man is moved by his intellect alone. These men do not understand them- ‘selves nor do they understand one another. Part of the occult work is to practice “self-remembering.” ‘This can take as little as a half minute a day if that is all that can be managed. “Self-remembering” should lead to new understanding, new knowledge of self. Gurdjieff said the vast majority of people “have absolutely no in- terest in acquiring knowledge,” be- cause to acquire knowledge is to give up the “buffers” which serve to keep a man from realizing all the contradictions within himself. These buffers allow him to maintain an artificial conscience in place of a real conscience. Everyone has spent
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GURDJIEFF, TEACHER OF THE OCCULT 93 years in wrong and stupid living, in indulgence in all kinds of weak- ness, of dullness, of ignorance, of pretense and lack of effort, in con- stantly deceiving himself. In other words lives can be spent in the great and profound emptiness of living. The “buffers” absorb the shock of one side of man’s conscience col- liding with another side of his con- science. They prevent contradictory sides of personalities from becom- ing conscious together. They may make life easier but they prevent man from ever feeling real con- science. In fact, they hold back all development. The 66th line of Wordsworth’s poem Recollection of Immortality reads: “Heaven lies about us in our infancy!” According to Gurdjieff: a little child has no buffers. Although the little ones are only partially awake, and as Wordsworth continued: “Shades of the prison-house begin to closes.” The child is born into a world of sleeping people and very soon starts to sleep as well. Personality is lost under the influence of teachers and parents, and a false personality is born under the power of imitation. Real conscience is forced into the darkness. The “buffers” prevent us from having shocks, when it is only through shock that true growth comes about. The important thing in self-remembering is to discover all these acquired “buffers.” Gurdjieff told a very funny-sad story about a mountain man who, visiting a village market for the first time, saw some strange red fruit. With his last pennies he bought some of this beautiful fruit. He later sat down to eat the fruit and his face turned red and his mouth burned with fire. The fruit was red peppers. A stranger passed him and seeing the tears streaming from his eyes asked him why he insisted on eating the fiery fruit. The ignorant mountain man answered that he was no fool! He had spent his last pennies on this fruit and he was going to get his money’s worth. The more we practice self-re- membering the more likely we are to discover the “buffers” within us that keep us chewing the red pep- pers. Gurdjieff taught a completely original theory about the construc- tion of the universe based on an occult diagram called the “Ennea- gram” or nine-diagram. With this “KE” as a guide it is possible to be- gin to work realistically. It is made by dividing a circle into nine equal parts. A symmetrical figure is drawn by joining six points in re- lation to a diameter that goes through the topmost point in the circle. The top point is the apex of an equilateral triangle that u-
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94 nites the points that were not used in the original joining. This symbol was kept a secret for a long time. Seven of the points represent an octave and an eighth point symbolizes a point of shock where the octave repeats. With an additional shock point there are nine elements. All knowledge can be organized within this symbol and with the help of its interconnecting points everything can be inter- preted. You can put into the en- neagram whatever you know and whatever you leave out represents your ignorance. If you can use this symbol you have no need of teachers or universities, all knowl- edge can be read in the symbol. You can be completely isolated in a desert and “trace the ‘ennea- FATE gram’ in the sand and in it read the eternal laws of the universe,” said Gurdjieff. Each time you will learn something new, something you never knew before. Students from different worlds, speaking different languages, studying different sub- jects, can trace an “enneagram” and immediately know where each stands in his understanding. It is the hidden secret of the universal language. The diagram must be understood as a living thing. Under Gurdjieff’s guidance students would stand on a large scale “E” and go through series of motions and postures around and across the circle. It was only through thus “living” the symbol that its occult meaning could be transmitted. — Sr LAWRENCE OF ARABIA’S MESSENGER OF DEATH By Richard Harvey OR SOME time before his death in 19385 at the age of 47, England’s romantic soldier-hero, Col. T. E. Law- rence—better known as Law- rence of Arabia—was in a gloomy state of mind, quite un- like his usual self. He confided to friends that he felt unhap- py and puzzled, because never before had he experienced the sensation of finality that seemed to hang over him. Then something happened to upset him even further, Every day for three weeks a small bird flew to the window of his cottage and tapped at the glass with its beak. If Lawrence moved to another window to evade it, it invariably followed and tapped at the glass near- est him. A friend observed that Law- rence was deeply distressed by the bird’s persistent and seem- ingly ominous behavior. One day, while Lawrence was ab- sent, the friend shot and killed the bird. Within the hour, Lawrence’s eolorful career came to an abrupt and tragic close as the result of a motorcycle accident.
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PADRE PIO, by Oscar De Liso. McGraw- Hill Book Co., Inc., New York, N. Y., 1960. 233 pages, $4.95. “Padre Pio, possibly the first priest in history to have the stig- mata, bleeds from open wounds in his hands, in his side, and in his feet. His side wound spills two ounces of blood a day. It’s a cut shaped like an upside down cross, the verticle line vanishing as a light mark at the end. The wounds in his palms go through his hands. They are festered holes of red and brown membranes, but present no inflammation of the tissues. The flesh is alive. Even a slight pres- sure causes a great deal of pain. The wounds in his feet are wider on top. The stigmata befell him on the morning of September 20, 1918.” It is possible that the Italian monk Padre Pio is the first priest in history to have the stigmata. It is also possible that of all the as- tonishing personalities who were part of the wave of mysticism that swept the world at the end of World War I, only Padre Pio has benefited mankind. Even the reader inclined to take a clinical attitude toward the stig- mata must be impressed by the accomplishment of Padre Pio in cre- ating the great hospital named in honor of the late Fiorella La Guar- dia. When thousands of wounded, sick, and war-weary pilgrims flock- edtohim after World War II, Pad- re Pio organized a building pro- gram that resulted in a $5,000,000 hospital staffed by 24 physicians and 80 nurses. And all without leaving his remote monastic retreat. Osear De Liso is a professional writer, and he writes in swift, smooth professional style. All of his previous books have been novels, and Padre Piois sometimes more of an historical novel than a biography. Beyond a doubt the book is “based completely on fact and careful re- search, but at times it is overbur- dened with dialogue that attempts to reconstruct long-ago conversations, It is obvious from this book that the consequences of being the first priest to have the stigmata may have been nearly as painful as the wounds. Author De Liso records many of the efforts made to dis- credit Padre Pio by the press, by the medical profession, and by nu- merous Italian churehmen of his own Roman Catholic persuasion. Tot
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REPORT FROM. THE ‘READERS YELLOW-GLOWING UFO Have you been seeing any space ships lately? At about 8:15 on the evening of January 24 Danal (Eric) and I were leaving the house on an errand and saw what evidently was a space ship or UFO. It appeared at first like an enor- mous star in the east, where no star of such magnitude could be. I saw it first and pointed it out to Danal. The thing was moving toward us and growing larger by the mo- ment. Danal says we saw it for about five minutes as it moved across the sky. It was lost when it was almost overhead (slightly to the right) as the large building next to ours blocked the view. The object was a definite yellow- ish light which did not twinkle or pulse. I did see a whole series of light frames when it was still a little distance from us. Danal says he did not see these light frames until after he had gone into the house and gotten binoculars. During this time the object had come quite close, although I have no way of determining its distance from us, its altitude, speed or size. : It had no lights like planes have, just a general glow of yellowish light. Danal and I differ concern- ing the light from the several frames forming a long band like windows in a rail car. I said they .films, | SEE the HUMAN AURA! | = a vital step toward a 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 nands free! Up to now the most highly developed psychics nave had to learn to see the human aura with the aid of awkward physical means—ex- pensive fragile screens and nand-held treated with obscure dyes of short-lived power. NOW — YOU CAN BE AMONG THE FIRST . . . to own aura goggles 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 pinacyanoie 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 20% have seen the aura on their first ry! AURA GOGGLES + »« . ave a scientifically manufactured psychic appliance, with pinacyanole bromide filters, boxed with complete instructions $9.95 ORDER IMMEDIATELY AND GET ABSOLUTELY FREE a copy of specially-prepared pamphlet, “Seeing the Aura,’ a book about what aura vision means to YOU! SR Se err tems cs cos amen ene mee meee deme Sc seem RELY Pune: oc Oy i CLARK PUBLISHING CO, j 845 Chicago Ave., Evanston, Hil. i Please sent me AT ONCE .....-+.e000 ] AURA GOGGLES, and include booklet “Seeing pair of i i I I | ( money | ! i I I ! | the Aura” at no additional cost. I enclose [fj cash [J check ae. {OF cS un ceconle es pes acetate pane pices ieee Prerervrrrirrirrr etre eit PAddrens: . ee Mane 5... State .s.cee.s= Sa eee A SS ST SE NS SR SE SE GL NE SS r09 Lg @
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REPORT FROM THE READERS west of town. When it arrived there it moved straight‘up at great speed and went out of sight. Again I tried to phone and it was only hours later that I finally got central. The operator told me to call later as the town had gone mad and the switchboards were busy. The next day I called the field and was told that the object was not connected with the base, was not a balloon nor any known air- craft. Planes had gone up after it but had been unable to catch it. Again there was nothing in the pa- pers. My neighbor said she had felt the same trance-like condition I did. Ruby L. Mitchell, San Antonio, Tex. BLOBLIKE UFO Curtis Fuller’s article, “The No- vember 23 UFO,” was of great in- 113 terest to me. I can vouch for the UFO Mr. B. J. Sharrock describes on page 49. I saw a UFO just like - it at dusk during the latter part of . August, 1960. It was, as Mr. Shar- rock deseribes, vague, dark and bloblike, and it had two bright os- cillating lights near its rear. Mr. Sharrock must have been observing the object at about the same angle and height that I saw mine, and while it was drawing away from us. I was at work as a postal clerk in the General Post Office here in Philadelphia. The time was ap- proximately 8:30 P.M., and I was in a room on the fourth floor of the building. The evening was quite warm and I was standing in front of one of the large open windows to get a breath of fresh air. I was facing due north. The GPO is lo- GAR CAYCE’S EVIDENCE FOR REINCARNATION told by a trained psychologist in sophical order. In addition, MANY MANSIONS Shortly after receiving her Ph.D. degree in psycho- logy, Gina Cerminara decided to study the files of the late Edgar Cayce, probably America’s greatest psychic. As her study progressed, Miss Cerminara discovered that Cayce’s work formed the basis for a new approach to the ancient philosophy of re- incarnation. This approach is the structural basis of her book. In Cayce’s files is probably the most remarkably documented body of psychic phenomena in the world. Here is an exciting and beautiful book, free from cant and self-delusion. For the first time, the profoundly moving facts and statements of Edgar Cayce’s readings have been assembled into a phile- it opens up “the magnificent possibility’’ that re- incarnation is truth, Offers a new horizon to anyone interested in the meaning of life. MANY MANSIONS — ONLY $4.00 THE VENTURE BOOKSHOP P.O. BOX 671, EVANSTON, ILLINOIS
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REPORT FROM THE READERS of her genes could have been passed on to Ruth Simpson (the present reincarnation of Bridey Murphy) to furnish a genetic or physical basis for her past life recalls. At the time when the Bridey Murphy case was rocking the coun- try, practically every hypnotist, amateur and professional, was cash- ing in on the publicity by regressing any and all willing persons. In reading the details of many of these cases as they were published, it was quite apparent to me that noth- ing more than ancestral memory re- calls were being produced. There was the case of the young soldier who apparently was the re- incarnation of his own grandfa- ther! This should have been indica- tion enough that ancestral memory recall was involved, but seemingly it was not detected as such by any- one except yours truly. Genuine reinearnation regression eases differ entirely from the very common ancestral memory recall eases. In a case where both parents of a subject were foreign born, with absolutely no chance of any ancestor residing in the United States, this subject had some excel- lent recalls (not under hypnosis, but by another method) of two pre- vious lives, both of them in this country! In conclusion, reincarnation is one thing, ancestral memory anoth- er. The one is non-physical, the other physical in nature. The two have nothing in common. Serious investigators should be cognizant of this and take precautions to avoid being deceived into accepting er- roneous phenomenon as the genuine article—Milan Rafayko, Lexing- ton, Ky. 117 SPECIAL OFFER fo FATE Golleciors 5 Back Issues $1.00 We have on hand a few copies of each back issue listed below. Check the ones you need and mail the list and coupon with your remittance as soon as possible. Our stock of these back copies is being exhausted rapidly — SO.DON’T WAIT! SEND YOUR ORDER TODAY! j CLARE PUBLISHING CO. (A) ee CHICAGO AVENUE EVANSTON, ILLINOIS Please send me immediately the back issues I have checked at the special reduced price of 5 i 5 for $1 00. ] No. Month No. Month if] 47 Feb. 1954 [] 66 Sept. 1955 | fC] 48 Mar. 1954 [] 68 Nov. 1955 [10 49 Apr. 1954 [J 70 Jan. 1956) {4 50 May 1954 [] 72 Mar. 1956 [QQ 52 July 1954 [] 74 May 1956 | J] 53 Aug. 1954 [] 76 July 1956 }E] 55 Oct. 1954 [] 78 Sept. 1956! 1 57 Dec. 1954 [] 80 Nov. 1956 | jC] 60 Mar. 1955 [] 81 Dec. 1956 | jl 61 Apr. 1955 [] 82 Jan. 1957 pL] 63 June 1955 [] 84 Mar. 1957 j ;o 64 July 1955 [] 85 Fe. 1957 | i (All other issues available except No. 1, 8; 4, ] 6, 7,8, 9, 10,.11, 12, 13, 14; 16, 17, es 80, 2 Ib 1 23, '25; 26, 27, 49, 31, 34, 38, 42, 51, 59, ca | 79, 86, 90, 128.) I I enclose: [| check [J cash [] money order I i LODO cia recujralereiere stews In case any of the above are tah of stock send alternate Issues as follows: a ce cee pee SY eS SY HE GY Se
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