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A QUESTION ABOUT YOUR FUTURE IS ANSWERED HERE. THE ANSWER is spelled out in the pattern formed by the PROPHETIC WANDS OF YI KING as they fall from the hands of the fortune-teller. This pattern will be listed in the Table of the 64 Hexagrams which will direct the fortune-teller to the correct answer in the ancient Rhyming Key to the Hexagrams, The Wands, Table, and Key are a system of prophecy suc- cessful in China for over 3,000 years — and you can be suc- cessful with it today. In fact, the great psychologist C. G. Jung has said that, “ ... meaningful answers are the rule,” with this technique. Dr. Jung himself conducted at least four successful experiments in which his questions were answered by this oracle. The fortune-tellng PROPHETIC WANDS OF YI KING are now available to modern students in a complete study kit. Each kit includes six hand-made, ivory-enameled, jet-black acrylic Wands, along with copies of the ancient Table of the Hexagrams and the Rhyming Key. Complete Kit $5.95 The limited supply is offered through the CLARK PUBLISHING COMPANY 845 CHICAGO AVE., EVANSTON, ILL. 3
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i i ee oe Pe Ml = — -—_ 3 _— —<—<— +. Vol. 16—No. 7 1963 Contents ee Ss: Publisher: CURTIS FULLER Assistant Publisher: PAUL FOGHT Editor: MARY FULLER Managing Editor: CHESTER S. GEIER CO Science Editor: HENRY A. BOTT Art Director: SYDNEY BARKER PRUE REPORTS ON THE STRANGE AND UNKNOWN She “Sees” With Her Fingers 0000.0... Valeria Trisvyatskaya, UPI 26 Te STwiere A Nand Beart oon Se ee Willy Ley 42 Let The Flowers Heal You ................... Marcus Bach 61 Science And The Spiritual Nature Of Man _. J.B. Rhine 74 Want To Learn Two Languages In One Week? ........ Claude A. Logan 89 STORIES... . DRAMATIC ACCOUNTS OF ACTUAL EXPERIENCES Duel. By Watchetakt ss. <5 ses ree Major C. Court-Treatt 35 March Of The Invisible Musicians —..2.0200....22.....-. Michael Bouissou 51 Did I Meet The Ghost Of My Father? _.... Pauline Kappel-Prulictk 70 The Apparition at Mannington Hall 0002... eeeeeeeeeeeee eee Tex Lowell 82 Command Performance: “J. Must Read Your Cards” 2. Judith Childs Speer 85 "ce KES NEWS AND NOTES ON UNUSUAL TOPICS i See By The Paras: eee Curtis Fuller 6 Paralyzed By A Magnetic Cloud . Jeanne Booth Johnson 54 OB ete a cts teas oo unl ns cy 2 etn er NN ee IC cee The Readers 55 Bringing The Bible Up To Date .... . Alson J. Smith 68 Nhe #Eletwornve-“BiGlogicnl = Camp mae ces ea vest es cas petneas egos $8 My Proof Of Survival .................. The Readers 93 BB 43) ipeaaret ar e ne ERS eta a ire ae er 99 Report From The Readers ..u2.....----c-cecccsesccececeeecoeeneees-eeneeeee The Readers 109 Published every month by CLARK PUBLISHING COMPANY, 845 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, Illl- nois. Second class postage paid at Evanston, Illinois, and at additions] mailing offices. We do not accept responsibility for the return of unsolicited mannscripts, photographs or artwork. Subscribers should notify us of address changes 30 days in advance, giting both old and new address. Copyright © 1963, CLARK PUBLISHING COMPANY 4
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Y See by the QUOTE OF THE MONTH A hundred years ago no scholar believed in the historical reality of the Trojan War, an incident of pri- mary importance in the Greek oral tradition of later times. Sciilie- mann’s work on the site of Hissar- lik proved beyond a doubt that the old tale was based solidly upon fact. It was the same with the legendary Minos, and the brilliant civiliza- tion of Crete, revealed to modern eyes so spectacularly by Sir Arthur Evans’ excavations at Cnossus. — Aubrey de Selincourt “The World of Herodotus” VIEW FROM LENINGRAD ROF. LEONID Vasiliev of Len- ingrad University, whom we have quoted in this magazine, has added a new postscript to his re- searches into telepathy. Vasiliev already has proved, he believes, in researches extending over 40 years, that telepathic sig- nals are not in the electromagnetic spectrum — which includes a spec- trum as broad as visible light and invisible radio waves. We already have described in Fate Vasiliev’s experiments of putting subjects in- side specially built rooms, like Fara- day cages, screened to eliminate By Curtis Fuller electromagnetic waves. Even with subjects inside the cages, telepathic results were not impaired. Henry Bott, science editor of this magazine and himself a physicist, rightly points out that there are still a couple of areas in the elec- tromagnetic spectrum that behave in a peculiar way and haven’t been thoroughly explored. Until this has been done prudence requires us not to accept Vasiliev’s findings as final. When he gets into describing how telepathy does work, however, we confess that Vasiliev loses us. He concludes that all humans and some animals have both a “trans- mitter” and a “receiver” for tele-
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No extraordinary events marked his birth in 1877, near the Persian frontier of Russia. His early school- ing trained him for the priesthood. But, shortly after his studies be- gan, George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff “disappeared.” His 20-year “disappearance” (all that is known is that he traveled ex- tensively in the most remote regions of Central Asia) was the first stage in a life-long pursuit to “know the inner world of man.” Now, the posthumous publication of his second book provides a vital key to both the man and the mystic, shedding brilliant new lights on this spiritual leader and _ philosopher whose work goes on today through the Gurdjieff Foundation. Here, for the first time, are illu- minating portraits of the people Who is Gurdjieff? Mystery shrouded his strange life. who helped shape his thoughts—a stimulating narrative of Gurdjieff’s probing into the secret labyrinths of man’s mind. Among the men who shaped the master’s thought: @ His poet father — who implanted the notion that man’s fundamental striving should be the creation of an inner free- dom. e@ Bogachevsky — deacon at the Kars Cathedral, who first introduced Gurdjieff to spiritualism, auto-suggestion and other supernatural phenomena, @ Piotr Karpenko — with whom Gurd- jieff met the fakir who told him the truth about the astral body of man. e@ Prince Yuri Libovedsky — who ac- companied Gurdjieff on his visits to an isolated monastery in Turkestan, site of the sacred rituals that today comprise a part of Gurdjieff’s teaching. @ Father Giovanni — the Italian whose ideas about ‘‘the divine body of man’’ are also a part of his teachings. “ Of Gurdjieff, Frank Lloyd Wright has written, ‘‘He not only intends to awaken a man to the nature of himself as an ea above personality. He knows ow! MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE MEN, by G. I. Gurdjieff postage. Send for this fascinating book today! E. P. DUTTON & CO., 201 Park Avenue South, New York 3, N. ¥. Please send me-_-. INC. l .. copies of MEETINGS with | REMARKABLE MEN @ $6.95 and bill me. I NAM cecceccece recesses cessscsccnssecsensveusrocetcreestvesenees : ACGPOSBD ve siw'n vicieie.¢.v's 'cisic nis clmisie sisia\wisielv evel er aiss sieieiciestee'vinis aisigiotelTsiele ] CLEY, cpciaieasis wv c0 sie ee ss aici Zone) <i 0.2 State I SAVE! Enclose check or money order and we pay |
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8 PU i BRITISH RADIESTHESIA ASSOCIATION = New members welcomed. $3.00 a year. Journal, Diploma, ete. World-wide membership. BRUCE COPEN, N.D. “The Lodge,” Brantridge Forest Balcombe, Sussex, England = TMM ee HYPNOTISM ® SELF-HYPNOSIS SLEEP LEARNING Books - Tapes - Recordings - Courses - For FREE Catalog write: Philanthropie Library, F697, Ruidoso, New Mex. FRE — BOOK LIST ON REQUEST — Equipment Metaphysical ® Self-Help Occult ® Inspirational DeVORSS & CO. 516 W. 9th St., Les Angeles 15, Calif. “YOUR LIFE IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT" There is a secret of Success: pr ee eS ee “You can have what you want; you can be what you want to be; and you can do what you want to do if you learn to use the power that les within you.” WRITE NOW FOR A FREE BOOK- LET containing information about this remarkable course of training for personal development and self- improvement. ACT NOW: This may very well be the stepping-stone to the achievement of your desires. FREE BOOKLET - WRITE TO: H. G. CARRUTHERS FDN, P. O. Box 2907, Dept. L Orlando, Florida FATE pathic communication, and that these tiny organisms seem to be- have like two electronic computers connected by a cable. Telepathy, he says, seems to obey the laws of cybernetics, the science of numbers which governs the planning of com- puters. This may describe the way telep- athy works but Vasiliev still is telling us very little about the mechanisms involved. He does have one rather import- ant thing to say in this regard, however, something worth repeat- ing, even though he may be led to say it by the requirements of Marxist theory. It is not “thoughts” which are transferred in telepathy, but “information about thought,” Professor Vasiliev concludes. Which gives us a tool for under- standing why telepathic messages so often are given symbolically. oO UNUSUAL HAUNT NE WONDERS what the Rus- sians are coming to, giving serious consideration to such non- materialistic ideas as telepathy. And now we have a ghost reported direct from Moscow by none other than that conservative wire service the Associated Press. Moreover, the dispatch had to be passed by Sovi- et censors. One of the most feared men in Russia was Lavrenti P. Beria, chief
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I SEE BY THE PAPERS of Stalin’s secret police. Since he was executed, Muscovites say his house is haunted. For a while after Beria’s execu- tion 10 years ago his house was used as a kindergarten. But this didn’t last, apparently for good and sufficient reason. For instance, Lydia A. Smetanova said, “My little boy was there for a while but he became nervous and frightened. I removed him. The place is haunt- ed.” Today Beria’s home is the Tunis- ian Embassy, and the occupants deny that anything unusual goes on there. It was not always so, the wife of an unidentified Euro- pean ambassador told Eddy Gil- more of the AP. She said the wife of the former Tunisian Ambassador “was frightened to death of the place. She said all sorts of strange noises kept her awake. There were moans and groans and unexplained footfalls and slamming and bang- ing of doors.” io 2) NOT COLUMBUS? Beck WE turn away from those surprising Russians we want to leave you with one last word from them: Columbus did not discover America! Seviet Historian David Tsuker- nik stated: “A detailed study of Columbus’ first voyage suggests that his flo- the Insight Anstitute Recognized authorities teach THE OCCULT SCIENCES in the comfort of your home Each course from the Insight Institute is sent to you complete including a full set of lessons, charts, examples, numerous self-tests and full model answers. You need no special pre- vious training. Every course supplies everything There are no additional books, ances or aids to buy. Psychic Development DEVELOP PSYCHIG POWERS—How clairvoyance, psychometry, telepathy, etc.. can be developed under your complete. control. Most comprehensive training ever perfected. Along safe, positive lines—student can switch ‘‘on’’ and “‘off’’ the psychic plane when he chooses, $5.00 Cartomancy (The Tarot) READ THE TAROT—Fullest, most practical ex- position ever made of the uncanny Tarot and how to use it to foresee events in everyday life. A complete guide to interpreting the Tarot in prac- tical situations. Includes full 78-card pack of Tarot Cards in color. Astrology READ HOROSCOPES—The most complete course ever written. Many test horoscopes with instruc- tions showing how you can use astrology. Course includes copy of Raphael’s Ephemeris, so there is nothing extra to buy! $6.50 Palmistry READ HANDS—Ancient science of palmistry brought up to date. Six fully illustrated lessons give you keys to innermost secrets of character, temperament and personality, ‘Teaches-.you to use a key to destiny. $5.00 DIRECTORS OF STUDIES: Frank Lind, Colin Eyans, Richard Eden, Edward Whitman, Vera Comp- ton. required. appli- 1 — — — — — — — — — — | INSIGHT INSTITUTE I 845 Chicago Ave., Evanston, Il. I | Please enroll me in_ the courses | |] checked below. I enclose $_---------. I Check, cash, or money order for 1$ ) CAST HORGECOEES ( ) THE T 1( ) READ HANDS ! ( ) DEVELOP PSYCHIC POWERS BS I l
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TO). tilla sailed on somebody else’s heels . . there is every ground for the conclusion that Columbus had predecessors. He used their infor- mation when setting out for the new world. “The circumstances of Columbus’ first trip show that the map and sailing direction used by Colum- bus contained precise information not only about the location of the new world islands, but also about the routes both ways.” Meanwhile another historian, Samuel Varshavsky, states his be- lief that an Englishman named Nicholas Lynn discovered Hudson’s Bay as early as 1360 —132 years before Columbus. Ancient writings have often mentioned a 14th Cen- tury Latin book called A Happy Discovery Voluntarily Made from the 54th Parallel to the Pole. The book apparently has not survived and although many historians con- sider it pure fantasy, Varshaysky disagrees. oO WHEN THE LIGHTS WENT OUT ERE IS A mystery that no one had solved a month and a half after it happened. In Denver, Colo., last February 14, there was a sudden power failure that affected more people and electrical power than ever before in the history of the Public Service Company. No one has found what went wrong. FATE At 11:04 A.M. electricity sud- denly ceased flowing along a 10- mile 115,000-volt line between the Zuni Plant and the Cherokee Plant. This caused a surge of current which couldn’t pass over the line to instantly overload lines to Cheyenne and Boulder, knocking out relay equipment. Fearing dam- age to the turbines, the Cherokee Plant was shut down. The gener- ators provide 360,000 kilowatts. At 12:46 P.M. the power re- turned to the line just as myster- iously as it left. Engineers hunted hurriedly for the cause. Men patrolled the Hnes carrying the power from Cherokee to Zuni and found no break. Crews double-checked equipment and plants in the entire Denver area. They found nothing. At first the engineers said brave- ly that their investigations would continue until the exact spot and nature of the cut-out was found “so necessary steps could be taken to prevent a recurrence.” Later, a PSC spokesman admit- ted “there is no guarantee that such a failure won’t happen again. We may never know the cause.” This is indeed a great mystery. One might speculate that some mys- terious force literally repelled the power passing through the line. Or there may be a simple answer. We cannot resist reporting the solution to a mystery that plagued
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How To Step Up Your Vigor And Live Longer By William Brady, M.D. I've been a Doctor for 60 years. In all that time, I reckon I’ve come in contact with just about every illness and injury the body can suffer. I don’t think I’m any smarter or better than other Doctors I know, but I do have some different ideas about health, Some of these ideas have got me into a peck of trouble! You see I write a daily health column in the newspapers—I’ve been writing it since 1914—and I’ve done my level best to bring my ideas to the attention of the folks who need them, I really think that a lot of our troubles—things like tooth decay, rheumatism, sinus trouble, bron- chial asthma, and others—START IN THE STOM- ACH. In my more than half-century of experi- ence, I've become positively convinced that POOR UE is the root of many of these com- plaints. Well, I don’t have to tell you that this doesn’t go well with the “Drug Trusts’ and the ‘‘Pill Ped- dlers."’ I mean the big pharmaceutical laboratories that make millions every year by persuading people pony PILLS, when they ought to buy GOOD F We, the American Public, have been brain-washed from babyhood with lies, superstitions, myths and fairy-tales about our health, and I think it’s high time we woke up and stopped being a nation of suckers ! What kind of lies? These—lies about constipation, and that once-a-day bowel regularity is a vital health law, That you should have your children’s tonsils taken out to prevent sore throats and “colds.” That you must treat ‘“‘colds’’ with pills and “‘cold medicines.’”” That you must brush your teeth two or three times a day or get cavities. Folks—these things just aren’t true. ‘‘Constipa- tion’’ is one of the Great American Myths. There’s no such thing. NO food you can possibly eat is constipating. You DON’T have to have “‘roughage.”” “Cold medicines?’” I can show you how to avoid “colds’’ without medicine. And I want to warn you that some popular ‘‘cold remedies’’ contain very dangerous ingredients, and none of them do you much good, after all. About the Tooth Decay Legend. I haven’t used toothpaste for 30 years, and I still have good teeth. Did you ever stop to wonder why you still get cavities, even though you brush your teeth as you are told? Could it possibly be—lack of enough CALCIUM? I firmly believe that if you will follow my ideas for your family and for yourself, you can enjoy the sort of DEEP-DOWN, GLOWING HEALTH AND VIGOR that everyone of us deserves. II Now, don’t go thinking that this is just an advertising claim, with no facts to back it up. I feel very strongly that my health rules will help you. They are based on practical experience, and have helped others find true health, I wanted to speak to you myself about this, and tell you about my book. I’m not promising you any miraculous cures, or anything like that. These cures will not cure cancer or leprosy. But I fee] that a Doctor’s job is more im- portant than just CURING sick folks— he should also try to keep HEALTHY FOLKS, HEALTHY! But I CAN offer you GOOD STRONG LASTING HEALTH. I CAN tell you how to ENJOY life with zest and energy. I CAN give you simple rules of eating, sleeping, exercising and living that give you the pep and vitality we all want to feel, I don’t work miracles, but I know I have helped thousands of men and women to get back on _ the toad to good solid health, ABSOLUTELY ANY- ONE AND EVERYONE can use my Seven Rules for Positive Health—anyone, young or old, rich or poor, man or woman, healthy or sick—and regain the wonderful joy of feeling REALLY swell again. These Seven Rules, together with hundreds of health tips and advice, are in my new book called— AN 30-YEAR-OLD DOCTOR’S SECRETS OF POSITIVE HEALTH by William Brady, M.D. Now, my publishers don’t want you to buy a pig in a poke. You can PROVE to your own satisfac- tion that my book can get you back on the road to health—by filling out and mailing the coupon be- low. The publisher will send your copy right away. Then, if you decide to keep my book, just send my publisher $4.95, plus a few cents for shipping. But if you don’t like the book, put it back in the carton it came in and send it back. You won't owe anything and there’s NO obligation to buy the book. So send the coupon along today. Prentice-Hall Inc., Dept. 5244-JT Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey Please rush me a copy of AN 80-YHAR-OLD DOCTOR’S SECRETS OF POSITIVE HEALTH— for a ten-day free trial. I understand I may re- turn the book within 10 days if I am not satisfied in any way, and owe nothing. If I keep the book, I will remit $4.95, plus a few cents postage, as payment in full. Name ..-cccesvcerscccsccsccccscccssscescceccssere AGAreSS cc veccecesercceserccsveccesescescensessae (NIA Ore Sat erinecte Zone ...... State aj siacere SAVE! Remit $4.95 with coupon and we'll pay the postage. Same return and_ refund privilege guaranteed. Dept. 3 va
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I SEE BY THE PAPERS since we only speculate on what poltergeist phenomena are, who can say. One wishes, though, that authorities would get a bit more sophisticated in their investigations when these mysterious objects be- gin plumping down. In Wellington, N. Z., late in March, a strong contingent of police searched for the “artful dodger” who was terrorizing oc- cupants of a guest house in the suburb of Brooklyn with a well- aimed bombardment of stones. R. A. Beatty, proprietor of the place, was rightfully worried. Guests were moving out and the police were helpless, even though the bombard- ment lasted for hours at a time —on one occasion from 7:30 P.M. to 1:00 A.M. But Mr. Beatty was not opti- mistic. An army of cops and civil- ians came up with no clues. He told one newspaper reporter: “He will be back again tonight — there is no doubt of it— and we can’t take much more.” As for the police they knew what was causing the rain of rocks — a powerful catapult concealed somewhere in the vicinity. All they had to do was to find it, the assail- ant, and his rock supply! oO THE SOUND OF MUSIC N A GRAY sandstone home at 3 McDonald Street, Motherwell, 13 The Brotherhood of Faithists Invites you to attend their 26th CONVENTION At Wyalusing Rocks, Wyalusing, Penna., U.S.A., Fri. & Sat., June 21-22, 1963 This Summer Solstice Conven- tion will be a repeat from last year at the same place. The American Indians are hold- ing their great Pow-Wow at Wy- alusing that same week-end and we may join them part of the time. Our own meetings will consist of discussions in extra-sensory perception, psychic phenomena and healing. The Sacred Crescent Session will take place both nights. All welcome! Write to: The Brotherhood of Faithists P. O. Box 25, Station “F” Toronto 5, Ont., Canada “My Key Treatise” BY ISIDORE KOZMINSKY, D.Sc. FR.N.S., F.R-H.S., F.R.AS., ABAA, F.F.B.A., D.M. (U.S.A.) Recognized as one of the world’s greatest astrologers A complete explanation of a DEFI- NITE LAW which selects winners of horse and greyhound racing events with outstanding accuracy. Based on astrological principles. “* ‘My Key Treatise’ is the master- piece of a genius.’’—J. A. F., Hants. $9.00 postpaid For private distribution only. PHIPPS-COTON, LTD., 51, Bowyer Road, Dept. F-1 Abingdon, Berkshire, England
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14 Lanarkshire, Scotland, the sound of unearthly music has filled the living room every now and then for two years. It is the sombre re- frain of a church organ. Engineeer John Hamilton and his wife Margaret moved into the house over two years ago when their son Ian was five. They soon became so familiar with the re- frain that frequently Ian will halt in his play and say: “There goes that song again.” The story of the music-haunted home did not become public until this past New Years Eve when neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Andy Shearer, spent the evening with the Hamiltons. The Shearers heard the music, and Mrs. Hamilton explained that they had not told anyone out- side before because they did not wish to be laughed at. Despite investigations, no natural cause for the music has been found. oO CATALYST? OU CAN BELIEVE this or : not but the Associated Press re- ports it with a straight face from Beckenham, England. It seems there’s been a phantom coachman driving four horses around the cottage of Albert Betts for years. One day late in Feb- ruary the family dog Cindy was taken away to the animal hospital at Ilford, about 20 miles away. FATE When Cindy left, so did the fam- ily ghost. Apparently it went to stay with Cindy at the animal hos- pital. Reg Filmer, a photographer, says he was walking his own dog after midnight when the ghost galloped by on its way to join Cindy. “T heard the noise of horses and wheels. It got closer and closer, but I could see nothing,” Filmer later related. Questioned about this, Albert Betts said yes the coach and four were gone—but he had a com- plaint. “After the dog went,” com- plained Betts, “there was a bump. I saw our ghost crashing through the greenhouse with a coach and four. He ruined my chrysanthe- mums.” Everything worked out fine, though. When Cindy returned home so did the ghost. Little Joey, a three-and-one-half-year-old _ neigh- bor girl was visiting Mrs. Betts when the spook showed up. It frightened her so much she spilled cocoa all over her white pajamas. io ) THE MOVING RUG T SAN SIMEON, the impres- sive estate of the late Wil- liam Randolph Hearst, which is now the state’s most popular his- torical monument, there is one rug different from all the rest.
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I SEE BY THE PAPERS dez and J. Eric Thompson. This is called the “GMT correlation” after the initials of the three men. There is a difference of at least 260 years between the two but the disagreement might be as much as 500 years, as suggested by radio- carbon datings. The problem lies in the fact that the Mayan calen- dar was kept in very accurate 20- year cycles but nobody can find out what year, in our time, they began keeping it. oO FACE ON THE WALL | N THE TABERNACLE of Glad Tidings, Nassau, Bahamas, last January 20, the Rev. Paul Roberts just had begun his sermon when a young housewife named Euna Lowe leaped to her feet and shouted: “I see Jesus! I see Christ! He is here!” Other worshippers turned to look at the freshly painted light green wall at which Mrs. Lowe gazed transfixed. They could see noth- ing. News spread around the island of New Providence and the church was packed for evening services. “By then,” says Reverend Roberts, white leader of the integrated con- gregation, “most of the congrega- tion insisted they could see three faces on the wall. The dominant one was the face of Christ.” Luther Evans, of the Chicago SUCCESS PRACTITIONER The Spiritual methods I practiced lifted me from ill-health, poverty, debt, into radiant health, happiness, success, use of a_ $20,000 home and financial independence. I will send YOU the EXACT Spiritual methods I used and give you one month's Suc- cess Treatments to help you REAL- IZE YOUR DESIRES. Will include valuable Lesson, ‘‘How To Increase Your Income.”’ Tells how one wom- an demonstrated $165.000 in an al- most incredible way. Reading given and 3 questions answered. Reg. $5.00. Special offer to FATE read- ers, $3.00 plus 15c postage. State de- sires. Send birth date. Write: Mary Carter Allen Box 219, Sulphur Rock, Ark, Have A Shrine To God In Your Own Room PRAYING HANDS. Use as a focus for deep concentration or prayer. Effective aid to mystical contemplation. An authentic repro- duction in genu- ine silver plate of Durer’s famed sculpture. 10%’’ x 9". Mounted in basswood. $7.00 COMPLETE WORSHIP SET. Daily devotional practice brings progress to- ward spiritual perfection. The mere presence of these meaningful articles will instill peace in your heart. This complete worship set is of solid brass, hand-polished to radiance. Five pieces, complete with candles. $22.50 order from: VENTURE BOOKSHOP P.O. Box 671, Evanston, Iil.
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ky ja ae Thisvyatshaya Correspondent for UPI OZA KULESHOVA can “see” with her fingers. She is blind- folded. A book lies before her. She moves her fingers along the page and rapidly reads the text. She reads with correct accent and ex- pression. “There is nothing new in that,” you may say. “Evidently she has learned to read Braille, which opens up for the blind the world of letters and words.” But the point is that Roza Kule- shova, reading with her fingers, is not blind at all and the book before her is vot in Braille. Perhaps she is acquainted with the text of the book and she ‘has trained her memory to such an ex- tent that she can easily remember things by heart you say? This is not the case! The woman who “sees” with her fingers is a 22-year-old housewife from the Ural city of Nizhni Tagil, Russia. She is married to a factory worker and has a little daughter. To meet her, I visited the Neu- rological Institute of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Medical Sciences in Moscow, where Roza was being tested. When Roza entered the room I decided to test her in my own way and asked her to “read” a photo- graph. She readily agreed. After blindfolding herself, she moved her fingers over the photograph and stated it was of a man. She “saw” a moustache on his face, and said he was of an advanced age. “How did you determine his age?” I asked. “Tt’s very simple,” Roza replied. “His face is covered with small wrinkles.” HOW IT ALL BEGAN 6¢ PF DISCOVERED my abilities,” Roza related, “when I was 16. I had just finished seven-year school and got interested in litera- ture, dramatics and wrote verse. I was invited to take part in the amateur dramatics circle of the Society of the Blind, so as to help them in staging small skits. Seeing how the blind read the texts in Braille, I also decided to learn to read with my fingers — not the let- ters in relief as they did but or- dinary printed books. “At first it was mere curiosity on my part, but then I really be- came absorbed in it. Many a long evening I would sit over an ABC for the first graders, in which the letters were larger. At the begin- ning I read under the control of my eyesight. I practiced persistently 26
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SHE “SEES” WITH HER FINGERS A Russian girl's fantastic ability confronts science with new mysteries of human perception. Wearing a blindfold during a test conducted by Russian researchers, Roza Kuleshova, 22, displays amazing ability to detect words, phofo sub- jects and colors with her fin- gers. UPI photo.
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28 and regularly. And gradually I learned to read with the third and fourth fingers of my right hand. “Subsequently I wished to try to distinguish the colors on drawings and fabrics. I ran my fingers through a heap of scraps of ma- terials, trying to separate them ac- cording to color without the aid of my eyes. At first I used to get mixed up in the different shades, got chagrined and began it all over again until I attained my aim.” Roza seems to be very sociable, readily demonstrating her abilities. She lacks any idea of being “excep- tional,” willingly sharing her ability with others. She claims that “every one who wishes” can learn to determine, say, colors with his fingers, on condition that he trains persistently. It is interesting the way Roza defines her perceptions: she feels red as a “zigzag” line, white is always “smooth” to her, black — “peas under the fingers,” and green — “little squares.” Having learned to read and de- termine colors with her fingers, Roza ceased practicing and, ac- cording to her, gradually lost in- terest in her phenomenal abilities. They might have remained un- noticed were it not for a fortunate chance. She was troubled by epileptic fits, which seized her from time to time, and she went to see a FATE doctor. Neuropathologist Iosif Gold- berg of the Nizhni Tagil hospital was the first to make a detailed investigation. The girl told him that her fits had started after she began regular training in “reading” with her fingers. Roza was placed in the Sverd- lovsk neurological clinic for treat- ment. There she underwent a thorough clinical examination under the supervision of Professor David Shefer. Then she was given a course of treatment against epilep- sy. This fortunately had no effect on her abilities. After a series of experiments Dr. Goldberg concluded that Roza possesses a supersensitive skin. Roza was invited to the Neuro- logical Institute in Moscow to continue the experiments. A spe- cial commission was set up for this purpose. It consisted of some staff members of the Neurological Insti- tute (Prof. Filipp Bassin, and Re- searchers Esfir Bein, Galina Knya- zeva and Kharis Yarullin) and the Information Transfer Problems In- stitute of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences (Dmitri Mirza, Diana Bogoyavlenskaya and Tamara Kiseleva). The commission made wide use of the examination data of the Bio- physics Institute of the Academy of Sciences, the Physiological Insti- tute and of other establishments which could be of help.
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SHE “SEES” WITH HER FINGERS 29 EXPERIMENTS FOR AUTHENTICITY Ro WAS ASKED to read some texts with her eyes tightly blindfolded with a cloth bandage. An opaque screen was placed in front of her for fuller control. She read without effort. Painted items were put into a bag or a special box into which the woman’s hand entered through a hole with a tightly fitting muffler. Roza determined the colors ac- curately by touch alone. This ex- cluded all possibility that consci- ously or unconsciously elements of optical vision contribute to her perception with the fingers. The ex- perts even became convinced that Roza reads more successfully when she excludes eye vision entirely and “reads” only with her fingers. To discover the secret of the Kuleshova phenomenon, scientists went over and over the experi- ments. Roza patiently demon- strated her abilities. She “read” texts with her fingers and told about the content of drawings. It was necessary to use new books and new drawings for every experi- ment. New things were discovered during these experiments: that Roza is able to “read” not only with the fingers of her right hand but also with the toes of her right foot; and, more incredible, that Roza can “read” with the tip of her tongue! However, she doesn’t with as much confidence “read” with her foot or her tongue. Roza herself did not suspect these ad- ditional abilities. Another remarkable discovery was made; when the light near her fingers was feeble Roza had diffi- culty “reading” the text; in the dark she couldn’t read it at all. The scientists considered this very important and immediately undertook further experiments. They bound up Roza’s fingers in
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30 black paper, smeared them with glue and soap, and changed the usual position of her hands. In each of these variants the effect on Roza’s perception was different. Her ability to determine the color of figures through glass or sheets of plexiglas (up to two cen- timeters thick) also was checked. The Biophysics Institute carried out a series of experiments in which they checked Roza’s finger vision as they usually examine eyes. At first they tackled the prob- lem of the finger sensitivity to different rays of the spectrum, Roza distinguished most easily the yellow, green and blue rays, just as does the eye of an ordinary person. But she did not feel the infrared radiation in doing so. Roza’s color perception was in- vestigated also. As we know, color for human beings is made up of three components: in mixing the three “basic” colors (red, green and blue) in varying proportions, one may obtain any other color. According to the proportions of the colors mixed to obtain a new color one can determine the so-called curves of the spectral sensitiveness of the three types of “receivers” that are represented in the nerve elements of the retina which ensure normal color vision. It was found that these proportions of Roza’s “finger vision” are the same as in the ordinary eye or very close to it. FATE The scientists checked four hy- potheses in the course of their re- search. The intense sharpening of the tactile sensibility of the fingers, i.e. the simple sense of touch, was the first hypothesis subjected to analysis. It very soon was learned, however, that this idea was insuf- ficient to explain Roza’s abilities. If her ability is merely a matter of the intensification of the sense of touch, then how can one explain the fact that she freely reads texts covered by glass or a cellulose film? And actually, of course, the fingers gliding over a completely smooth printed page cannot feel any rough- ness. To eliminate this possibility entirely, Roza was given uncolored designs in relief on metal, as for in- stance, a high relief on a cigarette case. She could not determine the subject of the design, although a man with little training but a normal sense of touch can success- fully cope with such a task. Thus any grounds for connecting Roza’s abilities with merely tactile sensitiveness were convincingly elim- inated. An hypothesis on the special sensitiveness of Roza’s fingers to changes in temperature was ad- vanced. It is common knowledge that different painted parts of the surface of the same body have dif- ferent temperatures. Does Roza de- termine the color of different sec-
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SHE “SEES” WITH HER FINGERS 31 tions of the same object according to the insignificant differences in these temperatures? Tests carried out in the Biophy- sics Institute established that Roza is insensitive to heat effects even considerably more intense than the rays of the different colors used ex- perimentally. The woman easily called the colors of the spectrum, although a special heat-absorbing filter was placed in the path of the rays. On the other hand, she did not feel the infrared rays, although they were a thousand times more in- tense than the rays of, for instance, green, which she noticed easily. Hence, Roza does not determine color through the sense of heat, but through some other aspect of the action of this light. — It is known that some persons can know or pick up the thoughts of another. Is this the case with Roza? Were the experimenters in- voluntarily suggesting these things to Roza? Roza was given a book; the doc- tors went off to one side. She open- ed it to different pages and read the first word that came under her fingers. Only after she had pro- nounced the word was she approach- ed to make sure that she had read it correctly. Thus telepathy was eliminated as an explanation since no one knew what word Roza had touched. The scientists then considered the most unexpected and the most dar- ing hypothesis. It is difficult to imagine the existence of “vision” in the tips of the fingers, but the ex- perimenters showed that this is the most probable explanation for Roza’s unusual abilities. Roza does not “see” with her fingers in the dark. She needs good light when she reads with her fin- gers. That is precisely why Roza refused to read when the tip of her finger was painted black. She claimed that she “felt with her fin- ger some kind of black dirt” and couldn’t read. Incidently, Roza’s finger was painted after she was blindfolded, so that she couldn’t have known what was smeared on it. With every new experiment the similarity between the sensitiveness of Roza’s fingers to light and the work of the eyes for ordinary vision was confirmed. Another simple test was proposed by scientists from Sverdlovsk. The ribbon was removed from a type- writer. The letters were thoroughly cleaned of any remnants of ink. By hitting the keys hard a “blind text” of several lines appeared on a white sheet of paper. Then the ribbon was put back into the type- writer and on the same paper a very dimly printed text was typed by lightly hitting the keys. De- spite the fact that the “blind text” was in great relief, Roza was un-
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32 able to read a single word of it. She determined with great difficulty only the letter “o” and a period. However, when her fingers glided over the letters printed lightly in ink, she read the text rapidly, by whole sentences. When a bright light was shone on her fingers and a subsequent transition was made to a dim light, she could not discern anything for the first 20-40 seconds. Then her “vision” gradually was restored. This resembles the case with our eyes, of course, which do not get used to darkness immediately after a bright light. There is some evidence that the sensitiveness to light of Roza’s fin- gers is greater than the sensitive- ness of the retina of her eyes. She reads a book with her fingers and correctly decodes intricate tables even in twilight. How can Roza’s ability to de- termine the colors of painted items dependent on the color of the rays hitting them be explained except by supposing she has authentic vision in her fingers? A lamp was covered with a red shade. Because of this red light the light green cover of a book look- ed blue to all observers. Roza, blindfolded, called the book “blue” without hesitation. When the shade was taken off the lamp Roza could not understand why the blue book in her hands had turned light green. FATE PROFESSOR BASSIN’S VIEWS INTERVIEWED Prof. Filipp Bassin concerning his views on Roza Kuleshova’s unusual ability. Question: Professor, it would be very nice if you could express your opinion on the last hypothesis. Answer: The experiments led us to believe to an ever greater extent that Roza possesses a developed re- ceptivity to light irritants in the skin of the fingers. The receptors of her skin manifested functions of authentic light sensitiveness, i.e., the ability to be irritated by the action of light falling on it and to send, as a result of this excitation, centripetal impulses. The data on the investigation fitted in well with this hypothesis. Thus, evidently, the Kuleshova phenomena is bound up with the existence in certain sections of the surface of her body of true photo- receptive zones, i.e. sections in which photoreceptive formations (we have in mind structures that are made to generate currents of light stimu- lation) prove to be especially clear- ly represented. It is not excluded that the sensitiveness of man’s skin to light is to some extent an ex- pression of atavism. It could have been lost because there was no need for it. The experiments of some specialists prove that it is possible to restore it by training. Question: Do you completely de- ny the role of the sense of touch in
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SHE “SEES” WITH HER FINGERS 33 the process of discernment? Answer: No, we do not assert that. While accepting the hypothe- sis of skin receptivity of light, several reservations must be made regarding it. It must not exclude the idea that Roza includes also the functions of feeling items with her fingers in the process of dis- cernment. In other words, the mechanical irritations of the skin structures facilitate or stimulate the process of skin sensitiveness to light. These irritants, therefore, have to be considered as components of an intricate physiological mechan- ism that ensures finger “vision.” Question: Have cases like this been known to science and is there any mention of them in literature? Answer: The very idea of light sensibility (precisely sensibility and not irritation) of the skin is noth- ing new. Its elaboration is bound up with a number of names. The first of them is that of Dr. Khovr- in of the Neuro-Psychiatric Hos- pital in the city of Tambov. Way back in 1898 he published his ob- servations of a patient which re- semble in many respects the case we are investigating. In the ’30’s of this century Nina Poznanskaya investigated the sen- sitiveness of the skin to the rays of the visible section of the light spectrum. Prof. Alexei Leontiey demon- trated not only the possibility of developing the sensitiveness of the skin to light in normal beings un- dergoing these tests but also deter- mined that training facilitates this process. He made more precise the relation between the processes of forming skin photoreceptiveness and the dynamics of conditioned re- flexes. Question: Has the case with Ku- leshova helped broaden our knowl- edge in a definite field? Answer: It certainly has.. Evi- dently the range of the irritants which may activate skin receptors is broader and less specific than has been believed before. Under certain conditions light may make skin receptors more active. There- fore, our customary view on the strict specific character of these formations must be revised. We have to take into account their re- action to the influence of a broad range of factors, among which may be light. Question: With what physiolog- ical mechanisms can the functions of finger vision be connected? Answer: Both the central and peripheral sections of the’ nervous system take an active “part, of course, in this function. The Neurological Institute gave Kuleshova an electroencephalo- graphic examination when intense light was shining on the photosen- Sitive zones of the third and fourth fingers of her right hand. Under
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34 the influence of such stimulation, powerful electrical charges of a pathological character arose in the left hemisphere of the brain. When the same section of the left hand was lit up, analogous shifts in the right hemisphere were not discov- ered. This observation shows the existence of a definite functional connection between the state of the nervous elements of the skin’s photoreceptive zone and the brain. Epilepsy, from which Roza suf- fered, evidently also played a role in the phenomenon, but it is not clear what that role was. CONCLUSION HE KULESHOVA phenomen- on burst upon science and plac- ed before researchers a series of questions. Evidently scientists from diverse fields of knowledge will par- ticipate in further studying Roza’s “riddle” and, the main thing, de- termining its use to science. This problem will interest neurologists, physiologists, psychologists, optici- ans and cybernetics experts. FATE This will help those studying the evolution of the living organism to understand how the systems of per- ception of light and color arose, what this perception was like at first, and how the organ of sight, the eyes, developed. Roza Kuleshova’s fingers are a wonderful model for conducting tests that can’t be conducted with eyes. And her abilities are needed by the blind. Perhaps the blind can learn to use their fingers in lieu of eyes. I have been told that quite soon the Sverdlovsk Teachers’ Training Institute (in the Urals) will start experiments on both blind and seeing persons to explore the possibility of developing their skin sensitiveness to light. Cybernetics specialists are con- sidering a number of riddles: how the signal on color is transmitted from the eye to the brain, how it is coded, how it is decoded, how it in- teracts with other signals, such as the signal on pressure, and how, at last, the intricate process of recognizing images takes place. Qu GS ACCORDING TO THE HOROSCOPE NE RECENT summer day A. A. Lenhart of Minneapolis found that his horoscope indicated it was a good day for him to en- gage in sports, so he went out to play golf. On a 135-yard water hole he topped his tee shot, but saw the ball skip three times across the top of the water, hit the bank on the opposite side, bounce high into the air, and plunk into the cup for a hole-in-one—Raymond C. Otto.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Major C. Court-Treatt, who died in los Angeles in 1952, lived in Africa for many years as a British Commission- er. He was a big game hunter, ex- plorer, aviator, linguist, artist and poet. His collaborator, Helen R. Hunger, states the adventure related here is one of many from a collection of tape recordings made in his own voice. On the verge of death from African black magic, I knew my only hope of living was to fight fire with fire. by Major G Coast aeaath able Doe. Hunger DUEL TO THE DEATH proved the only way to settle matters between myself and the foul witch doctor called “the Ka- rogi.” The year was 1921 and my na- tive trackers and I had established a rest camp in Bandala country along the border between Sudan and French Equatorial Africa. We had camped to rest, refit and ex- plore ahead for the next year’s hunt- ing which I proposed to do in the 35 little-known Koreish Divide. I had no intention of becoming involved in local matters at all. I meant to enjoy leisurely discus- sions with the young chief and the very intelligent Fiki, or chief priest, of the Arabic-speaking Bandalas. But Fate over-ruled me and I was soon empaneled to serve as a grim and primitive coroner’s jury deep in the forest. One morning just before dawn the chief of the Bandalas came se-.
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36 cretly to my tent and told me of the cruel death of a young girl of the village. The young chief, brave but obviously terrified, begged me as a friend to come with him and the girl’s parents to “see what I would see,” The girl, he said, had left home to become a servant to the Karogi, the local practitioner of black mag- ic. Now she had been found dead, apparently mauled by a hyena. The Karogi was a member of the Karogi tribe who, 10 years before, had wandered into Bandala country and built himself a hut in a dense thicket in the forest. He soon be- came known simply as “the Karogi.” Gradually there had arisen around him, like a foul miasma, a reputa- tion for evil, black magic and spells. He admitted he was a witch doctor but he preyed on the people and practiced extortion by imbuing them with fears and threats. He demanded excessive gifts for his services and it was said that any- one who opposed his wishes fell sick and died. I joined the funeral party, taking with me some of my boys—tough, hardened hunters who had shared many experiences with me. We came to a little clearing in the forest where the body of the girl lay. A short distance off, in the shade, sat the Karogi, wrapped in a filthy, evil-smelling skin robe. It covered the whole of his body and FATE almost all of his face, but from the fold over his head his eyes gleamed out at us. He was silent and mo- tionless. We approached and looked down at the body of the young girl. On the ground, which was sandy, was the undoubted spoor (tracks) of hyena pads. The body was terribly torn and mauled. Now a hunter with years of ex- perience in the far places must, per- force at times, have seen bodies mauled by wild animals. As I gazed at the pathetic remains, I had a strong feeling that there was some- thing wrong, something unnatural. I called to Koh Kong, my little bushman tracker, and gave him, surreptitiously, the bushman sign which means “look carefully.” That night after dinner I sum- moned Koh Kong and gave him to- bacco for his little black pipe and he squatted, puffing at my feet. Now Koh Kong is the best tracker I have ever had. His powers were uncanny. He could run on spoor in dry grass which I could not see even when it was shown to me. Above all, he had the art of sensing or seeing subconsciously thousands of small signs which gave him a true picture of what had happened. For awhile I let Koh Kong smoke his pipe in peace and then suddenly I said, “Koh Kong, was the girl killed by a hyena?” He looked at me for a second,
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DUEL BY WITCHCRAFT | his eyes mere pinpoints and then shot out his hands, fingers extended. This is the sign for warding off evil. Then he rose, turned rapidly and left. I knew that I would not get one word out of him, but I had my answer. Very shortly word drifted through to my boys and so to me of the Ka- rogi witch doctor’s enmity. Possibly my slight training in medicine and surgery by which I was able to cure minor ills earned his jealousy, for naturally I charged nothing and he must have felt that I was not only robbing him of fees but also whit- tling down his prestige. I did not take the witch doctor’s enmity lightly; magic or trickery, call it what you will, can be dan- gerous and it seemed that his tricks and spells began to work. At first it was odd things, small things, but yet annoying. Little objects disap- peared. Water jars were found leak- ing. Tent pegs were pulled from the ground with only the strain of a slight wind and tents fell. I became anxious and annoyed when things started happening to my pets. It has long been a Habit while hunting to catch animals and train them. In this camp I had a baby giraffe, several species of buck, half a dozen gazelles, some monkeys, several maribou storks, demoiselle cranes, and various other animals. Several of these animals just disappeared. 37 One of the storks was found with a broken leg and had to be de- stroyed. Two of the monkeys unex- plainably were found hanging limp- ly over the branches of a small tree, apparently poisoned. Then the com- pound where the large animals were kept was raided several times at night—apparently by hyenas—and several of my pet gazelles disap- peared. My suggestion that one or two of the boys should mount guard over the animal pen was received with cold fear. They seemed ashamed to refuse and answered with down cast eyes, but I did not feel entitled to press the point. For three or four weeks nothing further happened and we heard that the Karogi had gone on a journey. Then news was brought that he had returned and that he had another servant to replace the poor girl who had been killed. This servant was a boy. One day soon after we got this news I was sitting outside my tent while Achmad, the head boy, was clipping my hair. While he was do- ing this I was paring my nails. As we talked I noticed a strange-look- ing small boy, wandering dreamily about the camp. Twice previously he had asked me for work but I told him there was none for him and dismissed him with a small present. I noticed him now, squat- ted not far from my tent and I stu-
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38 died him. He looked about seven or eight years old and was thin and dirty. His face was utterly ex- pressionless and his eyeballs seemed fixed; the pupils enlarged and clouded like muddy pools. My hair finished, I looked around for the tent boy and then remem- bered that I had sent him on an er- rand. So I called the little boy with the strange face and, pointing out a broom and a flat basket, told him to sweep up the hair and throw it on the fire about 50 yards from the camp. This fire always was kept smoldering for the burning of rub- bish. I sat down and was studying a map of the Divide when I heard a yell. Jerking my head up, I saw the small boy running hard for the for- est with Baballa, our expert ele- phant hunter, behind him. The boy tripped and fell but was up in a flash and streaked into the shades of the forest. After a little Baballa returned. To my surprise, I saw that he was back-tracking himself with infinite care; suddenly he stopped and bent over, gazing at the ground. He looked towards camp and, seeing me watching him, waved to me to join him. I walked over. Wordlessly he pointed to where the little boy had stumbled. He had dropped a few tufts of my hair and a nail clipping or two, but must have FATE gotten off into the forest with quite a handful. Babaila told me this small boy must be the servant of the witch doctor. We looked at each other and I am not ashamed to say that I was scared. This was a type of magic of which I had heard. However, for a week or so, I was busy planning the new season’s hunting and had not much time to think of witchcraft. But I noticed my boys watched me more atten- tively than usual. Then I began to feel weak and ill. It is hard to describe the sick- ness which came upon me so gradu- ally. It started with just a feeling of laziness. This got worse; every day I felt a little weaker. At first I hoped it might be sandfly fever but soon knew it was not. I had to admit that I was faced with the allegedly impossible. I knew the Karogi had used my hair and nail parings, probably in a clay model, in order to work some vile black magic upon me. I stirred my sluggish brain and fading energy to the point where I made up my mind to fight fire with fire. I have quite a skill in modelling, so I had clay and bamboo brought to the store hut which always was kept locked and which was just be- hind my tent. Locked in the sweaty gloom of the hut I made a frame- work, or armature as sculptors call it, from the bamboo and on this
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DUEL BY WITCHCRAFT frame I constructed a life-size dum- my of the Karogi. This dummy finished, I sum- moned Baballa, Koh Kong, Achmad and Jamahala, my chief hunter. All of them had been with me for years; they knew me and I knew them as my faithful friends. I swore them to complete secrecy and we made a plan. First we must entice the Karogi away from his hut. So I persuaded the young chief to send a message to the Karogi, saying he wished to consult him on‘a profitable but very secret matter. It was so secret in fact that he must meet him alone, at the rise of the moon, at a ford some three miles from the Karogi’s hut. This message was carefully framed to appeal to the Karogi’s avariciousness. Later we got word the Karogi had agreed. The chief was told not to keep the appointment but to remain in his hut and he seemed happy not to come in personal con- tact with the Karogi. That night, a dark night, my four boys and I wrapped the dummy of the Karogi in a cloth and stole out of the camp by a back trail. A little distance along the trail to our surprise, we found my friend the Fiki waiting. He said no word but joined us and his muttered prayers and incantations seemed to hearten my boys and even to en- courage me, for I was now very 39 weak and shaking as though with malaria. I acted in a dream. Only my will power kept me going. Eventually we arrived near the Karogi’s hut. Koh Kong stole for- ward and returned reporting all was clear. We went up to the hut and cut the leather lashings of the door and entered. My flashlight showed strange objects piled up in corners and slung from the roof poles. There were greasy leather bags of unknown con- tents. There were bones and dried entrails of animals, strips of hides and claws (apparently hyenas’) strung on a brillant scarlet rope. Above all, there was a vile and evil smell. Baballa, whose eyes were dart- ing everywhere, froze and pointed to a corner of the hut. There was a foot-high replica, made out of an old bit of canvas, of a tent. I stepped forward to move it but the Fiki held me back. I saw he had brought with him a pair of wooden tongs. Later I learned these were made from the branches of the tree called Shiggra Beida, which means “The White Tree.” If a branch of the tree is stirred in muddy water it will immediately clear it. I have used it since many times for clear- ing mud from wells or streams or water holes fouled by game. Be- cause of its ability to clear water it has acquired a connotation of pur- ity.
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40 With these tongs the Fiki moved the tent and I was horrified, but not surprised, to see a devilishly clever wax figure of myself spread- eagled and pinned upon the ground with long needle-sharp thorns from the Tahl tree. These thorns are not only sharp, but somewhat poison- ous; their prick causes an aching pain for hours. My boys by now were huddled together and literally trembling with fear. The Fiki touched nothing with his hands. With the tongs he re- moved the thorns one by one and placed them, together with the doll, in a piece of skin. All the while he recited prayers and finally tied the bundle tightly with thongs. I now set about executing my plan. I was too weak and sluggish to do anything myself and my boys were sweating with fear, but such was their discipline and affection for me that they carried out what was to them a task so fearsome as to be almost impossible. The effigy of the Karogi was slung by a rope from the roof poles. The hands were tied out sideways to wall poles of the hut and the feet were pegged to the ground with two sharpened stakes. From my haver- sack I produced four of the long razor-sharp hunting knives used by the Arabs. One, I drove to the hilt into the image between the eyes, one into the throat, one where the FATE heart would be, and one into the stomach. All this was done in a great hurry for the Karogi might return at any moment. As we left the foul smelling hut we tied the door exactly as it had been. The hinges had been cut but my boys cleverly faked them so that they looked good. However, when the door was opened, with no hinges, it would fall forward into the face of anyone trying to enter. We quietly walked some half mile into the forest and there squatted nervously on the ground to wait. Only the Fiki remained calm. He squatted, clutching his amulet (which held excerpts from the Kor- an) with one hand and my wrist with the other. His melodious mon- otone, praying continuously, was the only sound in the dark depths of the forest. Koh Kong lifted his hand and gave the bushman sign for “listen.” I heard nothing but it was obvious that Koh Kong and Baballa heard. Their eyes turned in the direction of the Karogi’s hut. Suddenly the night silence was rent by a succession of screams. Screams of horror, fear, rage, and terrible curses were followed by the sound of a body plunging wildly through the bush. Almost immediately we saw a yellow glow from the direction of the Karogi’s hut, followed by a sheet of red flame which rose above
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DUEL BY WITCHCRAFT the tree-tops with sparks and whirl- ing clouds of black smoke. We sat and listened to the sounds of the Karogi thrashing about in the forest. Periodically we heard strange animal-like howls or a string of curses. There would be short periods of silence. Suddenly we heard the most ter- rible prolonged scream of rage and fear that it ever has been my luck or misfortune to hear. Then the Fiki, still holding me by the arm, and still reciting his pray- ers, began to move forward. I thought I now heard a note of thankfulness in his praying. In a clearing of the forest we found the body of the Karogi. He lay spread-eagled on his back. The expression on his face defies description. His lips were drawn back in an animal snarl, showing yellow teeth. His eyes protruded, staring fixedly up at the dark sky. A great Arab hunting knife had been driven through his heart, pin- ning him to the ground. The Fiki now took complete com- mand. Two of the boys were sent, running, to camp for spades. On AI their return a shallow grave was dug. Using the spades the Karogi’s body was pushed into the grave and poles thrown on top. The Fiki sharpened a stake some six feet long from a branch of the white Shiggra Beida; peeled the bark from it, lifted it high and with one tre- mendous surge, drove it through the body of the Karogi and into the ground. Then branches and wind- falls were piled into an immense funeral pyre. A light was set to this pyre and as the flames rose the skin contain- ing the wax image of me was placed against the white pole. We watched the flames rise in wav- ering curtains of fire, then burn lower and lower until only a red hot bed of coals remained. I saw with amazement that the white pole stood almost unscorched and intact. Silent and strained by our ter- rible night we started the short trek back to camp. As we walked I re- alized that a change was coming over my whole body. It was like a drink of old French brandy. The world seemed alive again and I was returning to it. ——EEE 20-TO-1 ODDS SPELL TRAGEDY OLICEMAN Lawrence McDonald of Detroit’s suburban Southgate force dropped his service revolver as he started to clean it in his home. The weapon discharged and the bullet sped 138 feet down the street where a group of 20 children were playing. The bul- let struck and killed one of the 20 youngsters—Officer McDonald’s seven-year-old daughter, Linda.
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Weird reports about a powerful and dangerous African beast, unknown to science, raise the question— ABOUT THE AUTHOR Willy Ley is a prominent science writer, lecturer and authority on space travel and rocket research. He wos an early associate of Her- monn Oberth, German space flight pioneer. He has authored such books as Rockets, Missiles and Space Travel, Exotic Zoology and Engineer's Dreams. pees THROUGH the very useful, one-volume _ natural history book entitled World Na- tural History, by E. G. Boulenger, director of the aquarium of the Zoological Society of London, I came across the following remark: “Some 20 years ago (which is to say about 1920) weird stories were widely circulated in our press concerning a strange animal known as the Nandi bear, frequenting Kenya Colony and _ peculiarly given to attacking women and children, The stories became so persistent that the British Museum authorities instituted an enquiry. 42 By Willy Ley “As a result, skins and skulls of the alleged bear were sent to Eng- land. These were always those of either leopards or hyenas, the skull of one often being forwarded with the skin of the other — the two being alleged to belong to one and the same animal. Finally a tracing of the “bear’s” footprint arrived. This showed six toes, a state of things unknown amongst mammals recent or extinct. Close examina- tion showed it to be two impressions of hyena pads, one superimposed upon the other and so the legend of the “Nandi bear” was at last dis- pelled .. .” While I have no doubt that the British Museum received ship- ments of leopard and hyena skins
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and skulls in all possible combina- tions, and while I wonder what kind of a person could manage to live in Africa and know so little about wildlife that he did not be- come suspicious when confronted with a six-toed footprint, I have to say that the case is not quite as simple as it has been made out by Professor Boulenger. To begin at the most fundamen- tal level, Africa is one of the few places left on earth where a fairly large animal might still exist with- out being known to science. During the years from 1900 to 1914 not less than three large mammals were discovered there. It began in 1900 when Sir Harry Johnston discover- ed the short-necked giraffe now generally known.as okapi. Pm, 43 i} Ilustration by Olga Ley The streak of discoveries con- tinued when, in 1904, Captain Meinertzhagen of the British East African Rifles discovered an un- known species of wild pigs in the Ituri Forest, named, in his honor, Hylochoerus meinertzhageni. The discoveries reached a third climax when the German explorer and animal hunter Hans Schom- burgk discovered, in 1911, an ani- mal which had been believed to be extinct. It had been described by natives and missionaries as an enormous black pig which was very dangerous, but the Negro officials of Liberia stated with visible re- lief that it no longer existed in Liberia; “if it ever lived in our country,” they added. The “enormous black pig” not
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44 only existed, it turned out to be identical with an animal described by the American physician Dr. Samuel Morton in 1844. But Dr. Morton had not seen the animal, he only had a skull to go by and had concluded, from the study of that skull, that it had belonged to a relative of the hippopotamus. The animal found by Schomburgk was what is now called the pygmy hip- popotamus. The end of the discoveries was not yet. In 1937 Dr. James Chap- in of New York discovered the bird Afropavo congensis, the Congo peacock. It is only natural that a man like Hans Schomburgk, with one major discovery to his credit, looked around for more. I listened to him in 1930 in Berlin at the occasion of a privately arranged small lecture which he devoted to rumors he had heard. There were rumors of a dangerous animal liy- ing in the inland swamps, rivers and lakes which went under a name which would translate as “water elephant.” There were rumors about a pygmy rhinoceros which was supposed to live some- where in the mountains. And there was a story about an animal called Too which was said to be all black, have a “very bad face,” and which sometimes at- tacked without the least provoca- tion. When somebody asked Sch- FATE omburgk which of these stories he believed he said that he had been shown a piece of skin covered with reddish-brown hair which was said to have come from the “Water ele- phant.” But he added that his mention of this piece of skin was not meant to imply that he did not think the stories of the pygmy rhinoceros and the Too were just stories. The first point in favor of the existence of the Nandi bear which could be brought up by its defend- ers is what has just been men- tioned: namely that Africa is just the place where additional dis- coveries are possible, even likely. The second point that could be brought up in defense of the Nandi bear is somewhat more sophisti- cated. This is, that it is very strange there are no bears in Afri- ca. The bear tribe is well-represent- ed everywhere else, except. of course, on the two isolated contin- ents of Australia and Antarctica. Here in the United States we have Ursus americanus, the well- known Black bear and the not quite as well known Ursus ornatus, the Spectacled bear. And we have, last but by no means least, Ursus horribilis, the Grizzly bear which is the only species of bear known to attack at night time if it feels so inclined. In Asia (and formerly in Europe) they have Ursus arctos, the brown bear, they have Ursus
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IS THERE A NANDI BEAR? tibetanus, the Himalayan black bear and they have two forms re- lated to the latter with names that do not need explanation: Ursus japonicus and Ursus malayanus. In the far North there is Thalarctos maritimus, the Polar bear which can reach a weight of 1500 pounds. The Polar bear is the only bear which is a meat-eater exclusively since fish and seal is all he can get. All the other bears are decidedly omnivorous, though meat forms a large part of their diet. That bears are missing in the African fauna is quite surprising just on the strength of the distribu- tion of the bear tribe otherwise. It is even more surprising if you know one additional factor. During the last century a veritable treasure of fossil bones was found in Greece near a shepherd’s settlement called Pikermi, not far from the much. better known Marathon. The Pik- ermi fossils are fossils of mammals. They are about seven million years old, belonging to the early part of the Pliocene sub-period of the Ter- tiary Period. The fossils found at Pikermi indicate clearly that species of mammals which had evolved in south-western Asia and in Eurcpe were migrating to Africa then. There were various forms of hyenas, antelopes, elephants and horse-like animals. And among the Pikermi fossils — but also known from Persia and 45 India — is an ancestor of the later bears. Its scientific name is Hya- enarctos and it was of about the - size of the smaller bears of our time. So we are confronted with the strange fact that all the tribes of mammals which lived in south- eastern Europe and in south-west- ern Asia reached Africa — except the bears. And, of course, there is no conceivable reason why the bears who are doing very well indeed everywhere else, should not thrive in Africa. Having explained some of the zoological background it only re- mains to get rid of a linguistic confusion before we can proceed to a few of the Nandi bear stories. The confusing fact is that the stories that have come out of Central Africa ever since about 1910 deal with two different ani- mals, both evidently mammals, both unknown and, unfortunately, with somewhat similar names. The Nandi bear is one of them, its name was coined by the British and is taken from the name of the people who live in the area. (The Nandi themselves refer to the animal as chemosit.) The name of the other unknown animal is Nunda which is a simplification of the native term mngwa. Mngwa is, in turn, a contraction of the Kisuaheli term mu-ngwa which means “strange one.” The mugwa or Nunda is usually described as a
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46 lion-sized, cat-like animal with grey fur and the stories about it all come from the coast of Tang- anyika. The descriptions of the Nandi bear, on the other hand, definitely do not suggest a feline and the stories about it come from Central Africa, mainly the Kenya region, but also from the Congo area. Here is a typical one, told to the British anthropologist C. W. Hobley by a Major Toulson: “Tt was getting dark when one of my boys came into my room and said that a leopard was close to the kitchen. I rushed out at once and saw a strange beast making off. It appeared to have long hair be- hind and it was rather low in front. I should say it stood about 18 to 20 inches at the shoulder; it ap- peared to be black, with a gait sim- ilar to that of a bear — a kind of shuffling walk. Unfortunately it was nearly dark at the time and I did not get a fair view of the head. “Several Dutchmen had asked me a few days before what the - strange animal was on the plateau; they said it was like a bear, but they had only seen it at dusk; it turned on their dogs and chased them off. They described it as a thick-set beast and it was making a peculiar moaning cry.” The date of that story is 1912. Some 20 years later Captain A.T.A. Ritchie, who was the game FATE warden of what was then the Kenya Protectorate, collected Nandi bear reports which were actually incor- porated in the Annual Report for 1935 of the Game Department of the protectorate. A typical one, told to Captain Ritchie by a Mr. Anderssen, re- ported that Mr. Anderssen went out on a rainy day because of excited noises made by a group of natives whom he found standing around a dead and disembowelled pig. At that moment he heard a roar from the forest and he tried to get the men to go with him to pursue the beast. But the men refused; they were not going to go any nearer the “devil” than they were at the moment. Questioned about the ap- pearance, those who said they had seen it agreed on long black fur and a head which was not very big but baya sana. “As regards black hair,” Mr. Anderssen continued, “we found long black hair lost in the battle; this was not from the pig which had coarser hair. The boys could not explain in what way the head was baya sana but they all agreed that it was “very bad.” I could not get a clear footmark in the grass. What I could see looked very large, something like the mark of an old leopard which could not draw in its claws properly. The pig ap- peared to have been killed in an extraordinary manner, as if it had
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IS THERE A NANDI BEAR? been hit, say, with a log, breaking the backbone; it had then been turned over and the stomach torn open with sowerful claws. The stomach, heart, etc. thad been eaten.” The fact that the internal organs had been eaten and nothing else, unfortunately, is not indicative of a particular predatory animal. Most carnivores, after a kill, will begin their feast with the internal organs of the victim and then go on to the larger muscles. In this particular case the predator, whatever it was, probably was scared off which would account for the condition of the dead pig. But there seems to be a general feeling among the natives that the feeding habits of the Nandi bear are somehow unusual and strange. Whenever a corpse of a man with a smashed skull is discovered by somebody the Nandi bear will get the blame. It is supposed to lie flat on low branches waiting for some- body to come along. Then one blow of its clawed paw will smash the skull and the Nandi bear will eat the brain. There is even a special word for it which means “brain- eater.” An actual case of such a brain- eater was described in 1919 by a farmer named Buxton: “Its first appearance was on my farm, where the sheep were miss- ing. We finally found all 10, seven 47 dead and three still alive. In no case were the bodies touched, but the brains were torn out ... Dur- ing the next 10 days 57 goats and sheep were destroyed in the same way; of these 13 were found alive. The Lumbwa were all in a State of great terror, and weird stories were told about the brain-eater, how it walked on its hind legs, pulled babies out of huts, and was even able to kill a man. Finally it was tracked to a ravine and killed by the Lumbwa with their spears. It turned out to be a. very large hyena of the ordinary spotted variety. It had evidently turned brain-eater through some sort of madness.” The fact that the men tracked and killed a very large hyena, however, does not make the case completely clear. Hyenas have no paws which could tear the top off the skull of a sheep or goat in order to get at the brain. And if old hyenas turned brain-eaters that fact would be known, just as it is known that old lions and tigers turn man-eater. But if the killings had been made by another animal it is very likely that hyenas were attracted by the presence of the corpses of the victims. The investigation of the Nandi bear stories is made more difficult by the fact that-the Nandi them- selves use their word chemosit in more than one sense. It is not just
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48 a name for an animal which they know and for which the white man has no name since he does not know it. It is a word which also means something like “demon.” The word is used to scold children into submission. And inquisitive travellers are supplied with curious detail, such as that the chemosit has long whiskers and that its urine smells so bad that dogs run away from it and no man can force him- self to remain near it. It is detail like this which has prompted conservative zoologists to discredit the whole story of the Nandi bear and has, on the other hand, caused less conservative zoologists to “explain” the Nandi bear by assuming the existence of a giant mandrill at least as large as a man, while still others have in- vented a giant hyena for the pur- pose. Such “explanations” disre- gard the simple fact that a land- roving animal is the less likely to remain unknown the larger it is. To find an animal, real or hypo- thetical, which fits ell the de- scriptions of the Nandi bear is im- possible, for the very simple reason that the descriptions to which this name has been attached are de- scriptions of several different ani- mals. Some of the reports almost certainly refer to old, large and solitary hyenas. In other cases the deeds of leopards were attributed to the unknown animal. One care- FATE ful, if scared, description is in- dubitably that of an aardvark seen suddenly at night by a man who never had seen a live aardvark be- fore. And a good number of the alleged misdeeds of the Nandi bear look to a skeptical observer as if they were simple murders, com- mitted for unknown reasons with- out any witnesses and later slightly disguised so that they would be blamed on an attack by a predator. But even if all these things are discounted there remains a set of statements which refer to a “bear,” which is to say to something that looks like a bear even though, zoologically speaking, it may not be a bear at all. Now it so happens that there is a mammal in Africa that would make a fine Nandi bear if only it were larger. It is comparatively rare and because of its habits — usually nocturnal and burrowing — it is very rarely seen. The animal goes under a small collection of names. It is called African honey-eater (its scientific name is Mellivora, which means the same) or African honey-badger, and the customary name among English naturalists is ratel. As for the other names, one feels like para- phrasing Voltaire’s famous state- ment that the Holy Roman Empire wasn’t holy, wasn’t Roman and wasn’t even an empire by saying that the African honey-badger is
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IS THERE A NANDI BEAR? not really a badger, that its main food isn’t honey but that it is, at least, African. The ratel is one of the family of carnivores to which the badgers belong and which numbers among its members the wolverine (also called “glutton”) of the Arctic which has been called the most voracious and bloodthirsty of this generally _ bloodthirsty group. Every naturalist has remarked on the fact that the wolverine looks like a bear cub and this applies to the ratel, too. The ratel’s body is, in a fully grown specimen, almost precisely one yard long, to which an eight inch tail is to be added. It is very sturdily and powerfully built, has strong claws (not retractible) and a set of teeth which can do almost as much damage as the teeth of a wolf. Its long fur is black, except for the back where it is silvery white. One fact about the ratel, signi- ficant when it comes. to Nandi bear stories, is that the white portions of the fur disappear with age and are replaced by black fur, except for a crescent-shaped marking above and between the eyes which remains white. If by now you begin to wonder whether Hans Schomburgk’s Too (after all, he did not see it himself, but was just given a description) was just an old ratel, we are in 49 complete agreement. And if you like to know what a “very bad” face might be like, look at the il- lustration. While the ratel does like honey, it is omnivorous and mainly carni- vorous; it hunts for mice, birds, snakes and large snails. It looks for fruit and fleshy roots and for ground-nesting bees. It will break into chicken coops and even kill a young deer on occasion. Its thick fur and tough skin are like an armor but when it encounters a superior enemy like a leopard or a large dog the ratel tries to escape without a fight. Its strong claws enable it to dig with fantastic speed. Observers have said that a ratel, even in medium hard, stony soil, appears to sink into the earth, disappearing under the surface like a diving submarine. If the ground is too hard to do that it still has another weapon: the same weapon as the skunk to which it is distantly related. The Dutch naturalist van Arkel d’ Ablaing told that he put two rifle bullets into a ratel one night from a distance of less than 20 paces. But the animal escaped in the dark and since it started to rain van Arkel waited until the next morning. “Looking for it the next day in the underbrush was simple; all I had to do was to follow my nose. The rain that had fallen had diminished the stench but failed
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50 to destroy it; the stench was still so horrible that only my scientific zeal made me keep up the search.” But if even the stink glands do not enable the ratel to do what it wants to do, namely to be left alone, it will turn into a ferocious fighter. There is no report that a ratel ever killed a man, but it seems reasonably certain that an unarmed man would be wise to run away at full speed if confronted with a thoroughly aroused, full- grown ratel. The ratel, then, has all qualifi- cations but one for the Nandi bear stories. It is nocturnal; it is rarely seen; it looks like a bear; it is car- nivorous; it is powerfully built and can be dangerous; it even can produce a nauseating stench. If the normal length of an adult ratel were five feet instead of three nobody could entertain any doubts about the identity of Nandi bear and ratel, As it is one has to conclude that any killings of livestock or people which are unusual in some respect are habitually attributed FATE to the “unknown” and the ratel, on the rare occasions it is seen, is taken to be this unknown. It is even possible that an oc- casional solitary and old ratel grows to an unusual size. In spite of the fact that the animal is not very rare actually very little about its habits is known. The Nandi bear problem has two possible solutions. One is that it is not an unknown animal at all but rather it is a case of mistaken identity in which old ratels have been blamed for things they didn’t do. This mistake is pos- sible because the habits of the ratel seem to be better known to people working in zoological gardens far from the scene than to the people who live where it lives. The other possible solution, which grows less and less likely with passing years, is that the Nandi bear is not yet known to science. If you feel inclined to be- lieve this you may start wondering all over again why there are no bears in Africa. rr THE PRESENT IN PAST TENSE EVERAL YEARS ago, according to a United Press Interna- tional news report, Transworld Airlines employed workmen in Rome to dig gravel for ballast for its piston-engine Constella- tions. The men were instructed to dig the gravel from one central pit so as not to spoil the site with a multitude of holes. While dig- ging they unearthed an ancient plaque in Latin, which proved to be a sign intended for Roman workmen digging gravel for ballast for Roman ships. It admonished them to dig from a central pit so as not to spoil the area with a multitude of holes.
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Reprinted by permission i} OF A , by Michael Bouissou, published — by Sidgwick and Jackson, Ltd. ay : we ah, > a + da of the Invisible Musicians The many-voiced choir seemed to pass by on the road—but the swift-legged girl could not catch up with it. EVENS THOSE black years after the first World War had broken out there was no question of going for summer holidays into the Swiss mountains or to the sea. My father, a confirmed Parisian for whom the very words “country house” were anathema, installed us, nevertheless, for those war summers in a charming and very simple coun- try house near Mantes, where some of my mother’s cousins owned a property. In the old days this house had By Wichael ees: been inhabited by some nuns who for the purpose of teaching the little village girls, had added two bright classrooms with windows opening onto the road and the garden. They became very pleasant living rooms. Nothing could have been less mys- terious than this village house which my mother, as though with a magic wand, had quickly turned into a gay and comfortable home. It belonged, as I have said, to my mother’s cousins. Being fervent Catholics they had closed the house 51
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52 when the nuns, no longer allowed to teach, left their little convent; and until our arrival nobody had been allowed to occupy it. In addi- tion to an impressive display of priedieu, carefully stored in deep cupboards, we found a number of statuettes, fortunately small in size. They had all come straight from the religious shops near St. Sulpice and each of them ingenuously sported the emblem of the saint it portray- ed: all the virgins had lilies or roses on their blue mantles; the good shepherd’s lamb had the most life- like curls; St. Roche’s dog never left his master and I could almost swear that there was not a single St. Anthony without his little pink pig. It was in this calm and infinitely simple setting that one evening an unexplained phenomenon took place. My mother and I were in the drawing room; it had formerly been the Mother Superior’s study but now it was a comfortable, pleasant room full of bookshelves, with a piano, and large armchairs which encouraged one to read. I was en- sconced in one of these chairs. My mother was writing, and, except for the faint scratching of her pen, the noise of an occasional falling ember, nothing troubled the silence which at nightfall enveloped the whole countryside. Suddenly a chorus of great beau- ty and purity rose in the night. The FATE chant, unaccompanied by instru- ments, was quite perfect and the harmony of the various voices gave me such a sensation of superhuman joy, liberation and exaltation that the words “Celestial choir” immedi- ately sprang to mind. My mother and I watched each other without daring to move, fearing that our slightest gesture might break this divine harmony. This wonderful singing certainly lasted several min- utes in the still night, then grew more remote and finally ceased. Coming out of our rapture (and this word is not too strong to depict the state of mind into which this choir had plunged us) we opened the single window of that room which looked out onto the deserted road. It, too, was sleeping peace- fully, silent save for the light rustle of leaves in the autumn wind. There were no houses round the convent, which lay outside the village, and even had there been one, who could possibly have been singing with such perfection in this many-voiced choir? I left the house and ran as fast as my 15-year-old legs would carry me along the road. So little time had elapsed that I should certainly have caught up with the mysterious sing- ers: I ran a long way but there was nothing. . . .The flat road flanked by fields and a few trees offered no hiding place and the ditch was narrow and shallow. And then what
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MARCH OF THE INVISIBLE MUSICIANS 53 cause had these magnificent choris- ters to hide themselves? When I returned to the house I found my mother sitting near the fire, thoughtfully poking the burning logs with the tongs. I told her I had seen nothing. In the meantime she had been upstairs to the children and had found them fast asleep. She had also discreetly peeped into the bedrooms of the two servants, who would certainly have been as incapable as would the children of singing so magnificently. The garden wall would have been difficult to scale, and then, once more, why should our mysterious singers have hidden themselves? It seemed as though we were the only ones to have heard these voices which had nevertheless echoed so powerfully. I sat down at the fire opposite my mother and I was struck by her sad and pensive look. She did not seem surprised, but after a few min- utes’ silence she looked at me and said, “Of course you heard them too?” Then, without waiting for my reply, she went on, “Yes, ob- viously. I’ve often thought that a mysterious domain hidden from normal mortals has been opened to you too. I am sorry, for I’m sure you will get more sorrow than joy from it.” She stared once more in- to the fire and, without giving me time to reply, went on, “I hope that it is not a sorrow or a loss that these wonderful voices were announcing to us this evening. Perhaps they were singing the liberation, the joy of some of our unhappy soldiers dying in the front line without sol- ace, without their mothers’ last ca- ress, Perhaps it was that, this time.” She seemed to have forgotten my presence and spoke softly, in a very ‘calm voice. In this way I learned of the premonitory image, the “her- ald” who always announced to her the approaching death of a loved one: an elderly man with greying hair, dressed in a grey suit, who stood motionless, looking at her for a long time in silence, and then slowly vanished. “The last time he appeared was just before the death of my brother. I had seen him pre- viously before the death of your grandmother. The spectre was there in my room and that day I was so afraid that I went to fetch your father. He put his arms round me and kissed me and in some way I felt protected.” . At that moment she lifted her head and noticed me listening in silence. With a swift and graceful gesture she pushed back the curls on her forehead, got to her feet and picked up the lamp — there was no electric light in the convent: “Come, we must go to bed,” she said. “It’s getting late. How beau- tiful those voices were.” It was a mysterious and quite inexplicable incident which may
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54 help to explain how the mysterious and the occult can become manifest in a life which in other respects is completely commonplace. Those marvellous voices that evening had revealed to me the still hidden source, which one day would bring to me the strange gift of being able FATE to read human destinies in bodies and souls. This is the third installment con- cerning the adventures of Madame Bouissou. In the next issue she tells of witnessing an amazing “simultaneous double incarnation.” PARALYZED BY A MAGNETIC CLOUD By Jeanne Booth Joknson N INTERESTING “For- tean” item was reported in “Shipping News,” a chatty col- umn which appeared around the turn of the century in The Maui News, published on the island of Maui, Hawaii. The item, originating in Philadel- phia, apparently reached the islands by cable, and was not identified with any newspaper or other Philadelphia source. It appeared in the August 18, 1904, issue of The Maui News. “PHILADELPHIA, July 31— When the British steamship Mo- hican, Captain Urquhart, from Ibraila, Roumania, which was in this port today, was making for Delaware Breakwater, it had a most remarkable experience which terrorized the crew, played havoc with the ship’s compass, and brought the vessel to a standstill for a half-hour. “For that length of time the Mohican was enshrouded in a strange vapor, which glowed like phosphorous. The entire vessel looked as if it were on fire and the sailors flitted about the deck like glowing phantoms. The cloud had a strange magnetic ef- fect on the vessel, for the needle of the compass revolved with the speed of an electric motor and the sailors were unable.to raise pieces of steel from the magne- tized decks. The captain says: “The seamen were in terror. Their hair stood straight on end, not from fright so much as from the magnetic power of the cloud. They rushed about the deck in consternation and the more they rushed about the more excited they became. I tried to calm them, but the situation was be- yond me. “‘Por a half-hour we were enveloped in that mysterious vapor. Suddenly the cloud be- gan to lift. The phosphorescent glow of the ship began to fade. It gradually died away and in a few minutes the cloud passed and we saw it moving off to sea.’ ”
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ae, Tue MYSTIC Experiences | —SSeaFATE will pay $5 for each True Experience published. Stories } = should be less than 300 words and typed (double-spaced) on one side of the paper. They should be sent to the TME Editor, FATE Magazine, 845 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, Ill. They must be signed by author and the author’s address must be given. Manuscripts will not be re- turned unless accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed return envelope. THE MIST FROM PRAYER By Harold Leader [ 1948 MY BUSINESS was good, my health was good, my marriage was happy and I had no problems in any department of my life. Yet I suffered from a most ter- rible malady. It was a terror which came in the night and left me each morning. Each night I would go to bed and almost immediately slip into a deep sleep for about one or two hours. Then I would wake up and feel quite comfortable for a few mo- ments but, gradually, I would be- gin to feel hot and the most terrible thoughts or imaginings would take ‘control of my mind and I would see nothing but disaster and futility in everything I did or was. All through the rest of the night the anguish would increase in in- tensity until it seemed unbearable. Suicide seemed the only answer. I bought an automatic pistol and kept it loaded in a drawer next to my bed. Only the knowledge that I had the means to end it all if it 55 got any worse gave me the strength to endure the nightly agony. For 100 successive nights I enter- ed this hell and on no night was I able to sleep for more than two hours and most nights the surcease was much shorter. I lost weight and became morose. Only habit kept me functioning on the job and noth- ing could have inveigled me to en- ter upon any new venture. Gradually I became more and HAROLD LEADER
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56 more miserable and unsociable. I looked like a zombie and felt worse. My wife, Emma, was sympathetic but I spurned her as I did all our friends. On the 101st day I left home for work and arrived in my office about 8:30. I started on what I knew would be another perfunctory day of nothingness. But about 9:00 o’clock I had a strange feeling that an invisible mist was covering the floor of my office. The door was closed and the mist seemed to get deeper and deeper until it flowed up over the top of my desk, sur- rounding me and also interpenetrat- ing me. At last it reached the top of my head and I was inundated in this strange miasma. It swept on up- ward and popped out through my scalp with a mild spurt. With this spurting sensation I suddenly felt vital and alive. Rarely have I felt so good. I started to work with enthusiasm; my old vig- or returned and there was no vestige of the malaise. I felt so alive that I thought I must call my wife and tell her the good news. As I related to her what had happened she told me that as I left the house that morning I looked so done in that she wept and fell on her knees and prayed to God to help me. It had been 9:00 o’clock when she so abandoned herself to this prayer for mercy. I worked the rest of the day and FATE felt fine. I went home that night and spent a pleasant evening before retiring at about 10:30. I slept the whole night through and waked in joy, gloriously refreshed. Never, since that time, have I lost sleep through anxiety or worry. I have passed through circumstances much more calculated to induce worry since then but I seem able to handle the problems as they arise. As for the gun; I sold it. Now T find my security in the knowledge that Something is available and near. Prayer opens the curtain to a very present help in time of trouble. —Los Angeles, Calif. WEDDING NIGHT WARNING By Frances Turney N DECEMBER 28, 1956, my parents were 2,000 miles away and couldn’t be present at my wedding. I missed them so much during the ceremony and longed to have them meet my husband-to-be. After thé 8:30 wedding and late evening reception Robert and I started towards our new home, trav- eling from the central California valley over the Tehachapi Moun- tains to Nevada. We were pulling a small house trailer. I was completely worn out and, as our car pulled slowly up the near- ly deserted highway between Bak- ersfield and Barstow I put my head on my husband’s shoulder and fell into a deep sleep. Suddenly, I heard
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TRUE MYSTIC EXPERIENCES my mother calling my name in alarm. I saw a yellow car coming towards us. It was straddling the center white line. Very clearly in the light from our headlights I saw the green ladder sides of an empty trailer that the oncoming car was pulling. And I felt our car lurching on the gravel shoulder beside the canyon which dropped into black- ness at our right. Then it was gone. I must have cried out with relief. My husband asked, “Honey, what’s wrong?” I described exactly what I’d seen, feeling positive that it had not been a dream brought on by overtired- ness. Robert calmed me and, final- ly, I fell asleep again. Fifteen minutes later I awoke as he pulled the car off into a safety turnout. I saw his hands tremble as he lit a cigarette. “Tt happened,” he said, “exactly as you described it. I didn’t dare wake you. I slowed down when I saw it coming and doubled my con- trol of our car. Without your warn- ing we probably would have gone over the side.” Was it my warning? Or was it the warning of my mother, who was with me for my wedding? — Redding, Calif. MISTER X By Kay Norton T WAS IN 1933, when my grand- father passed away, and sur- 57 prisingly willed all his worldly possessions to me, including an old Shepherd dog named Mister X. I say surprisingly because Grand- father had disowned me when, against his wishes, I married the man of my choice. Grandfather was very strongwilled; he hated doctors and banks; and no one ever knew where he kept his sav- ings. We sold our equity in the home we had in Los Angeles and moved to our newly inherited ranch home, feeling rather wealthy with the thousand dollars we had left after paying our bills and moving ex- penses. My inheritance was a six- room house, double garage, thou- sand-unit poultry house, and two- and-one-half acres of bearing grapefruit trees. This seemed like security. Bill didn’t have a job — the depression had taken care of that. We thought we had inherited a little “gold mine,” and what a disillusionment we were in for! That first year was anything but security! Our chick- ens died of flu; Bill was injured on the first job he got, after weeks of hunting, and had to be hospital- ized for months in the veteran’s hospital at Sawtelle. Bills piled up, causing me to spend tearful and sleepless nights of worry. Our credit was exhausted. We borrowed our limit on everything we had. I grew to hate the place which I had once
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58 thought of as a little “gold mine. Our three little boys were all that made life worthwhile. Their love and affection made me vow to make a go of things somehow. One day I realized I had not seen our calico cat for several days. Immediately I suspected Mister X of having chased her off, or of in- juring her. He hated cats and was very jealous of the little pet we had brought from Los Angeles. I walked to the back of the feed-room where he was napping on the mound of leaves which served as his bed the year around. Rain or shine, he never would sleep anywhere else. He had indif- ferently refused to use the warm shelter we built for him. “You bad dog,” I said sharply, “where is the kitty? Go find her!” Mister X jumped up as though electrified. He hated a scolding even worse than he hated cats. He walked three or four steps toward the farthest eave of the slanting feed-room roof and, cocking his head on one side, stood looking up and wagging his tail furiously, half-whining, half crying, a habit he had when wanting to tell us something. “T hope he hasn’t cornered the cat up under the eaves,” I thought, following his glance but seeing noth- ing. _ “You old silly,” I said, thinking to shame him, “there’s nothing » FATE there. Now go find kitty.” He didn’t move, just stood look- ing, first at me, then back to the spot under the eaves, beseeching me with his eyes. Once again, I looked and noted that the last sec- tion between the two-by-sixes was boarded up. All the others had been left open. My curiosity was now thorough- ly aroused. I got a pinch bar and a hammer and soon the boarding was removed. As the last nail let go I stared open-mouthed at a metal chest resting within the en- closure. My hands shook as I re- moved it. It was dust covered, and cobwebby, and quite heavy. I seemed to recall having seen this same chest resting on Grandfa- ther’s dresser many years ago. He had kept it locked and I had imagined or been told that he had kept his Captain’s papers in it when he had been at sea. It was very old. A key had dangled from a chain at its side. But no such key was there now. I had to pry open the lock. The lid flew back as though on a spring, revealing a yellowed document and bundles of currency which covered numer- ous 20 dollar gold pieces resting on the bottom of the chest. I read the document. It was Grandfather’s original will and it stated, as had the second one, that I was the sole heir of all his possessions, including this little
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TRUE MYSTIC EXPERIENCES chest of money. This will differed from his second will only in that all of his worldly goods were item- ized, including the chest. Wonderful Mister X, who now was sitting at my feet studying me with almost human expression in his eyes, had led me to the secur- ity which we thought we had found upon our arrival at our ranch home. Some word or memory, I will never know which, had sparked him into disclosing the chest’s hid- ing place. Something had stirred this intelligent friend to action. Because of his hatred for banks, Grandfather had used this en- closure as a hiding place for his savings, probably commanding Mister X to watch as he placed the chest there. Mister X had re- mained faithful to this command, sleeping close by, instead of in the warm shelter which we provided for him. We have had several dogs since Mister X died but none with the faithfulness and intelligence he exhibited. — Fontana, Calif. ASTRAL FLYING IS REAL By Vince Molloy Y INTRODUCTION to astral projection occurred approxi- mately seven years ago. It was about the time Bridey Murphy was popular and articles on hypnosis told of the wonderful results being accomplished through this medium, 59 physically and psychologically. I decided to study hypnosis, hoping thus to overcome my shyness and increase my memory. : I encouraged my friend, Lee Thompson, to take these lessons in hypnosis with me. It immediately became apparent that Lee was an excellent subject, a somnambulist (a person who goes into deep trance). One night while Lee was hypno- tized the hypnotist, Mr. K, asked me to give him an address, any ad- dress. I gave him my mother’s home address. Mr. K. repeated this address to Lee and said, “I want you to fly there and let me know when you are outside the house.” I sat up straighter! After about one minute Lee said, “T am there.” My mother’s house was about seven miles away. Mr. K. asked Lee to tell us what he saw. “Its a row house of red bricks. There are four stone hous- es in this block and the rest are red brick,” Lee reported. This I had not known but later checked and found it to be true. Lee never had visited my mother’s house and was not familiar with that section of town. Mr. K. instructed Lee to enter the house. After saying he was in- side Lee described the rooms, the furniture and its location; he even described my mother and father and said they were watching television.
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60 I admitted the accuracy of Lee’s de- scriptions and Mr. K. told Lee to fly back. After that incident I purchased some books on astral projection and decided to find out the truth for myself. Another friend, George Ellis, and I worked out a plan for what we consider a foolproof test. ‘Although George and I are good friends I never had been to his home. I only knew he lived some- where in Catonsville. Lee never had met George and also was unfa- miliar with this area of Baltimore. I had become quite adept at hyp- nosis and we decided I would hyp- notize Lee at my house and ask him to go to George’s home, astrally. We had decided not to tell Lee of this experiment until it was over. After repeating George’s address to Lee several times I ordered him to fly there immediately. He was sitting in the chair very quietly, but after about a minute he said, “T am there.” I told him to stay where he was for a moment. I dialed George’s telephone number and when he an- swered I said, “George, this is Vince, you have company.” George said, “Good, let’s hear what he has to say.” Lee described a bungalow sitting by itself with a lawn all around it. FATE He entered the kitchen through a back door and reported it to be rather small. He said it must be used primarily for cooking and said the family eats in the adjoining dining room. He described the din- ing room furniture and its location and then said, “Over in the corner is a short, dark haired man stand- ing, talking on the telephone. Above his head is the beginning of an arch that continues over to the other wall. It acts as a room divider be- tween this and the living room.” I told Lee, “Now, move that ash tray there on the table.” Lee answered, “I can’t. I tried but I can’t. By the way, that man over in the corner just sat down.” On the phone I asked George if he had heard Lee say he just sat down. George said, “Yeah, Vince, I heard him. And you know what? I did just sit down! We were convinced, so I told Lee to fly back to my house and re- enter his body. After he was back I awakened him and explained what had transpired. There are a number of theories put forth as to how this phenome- non takes place. I have no theory. I simply do not know. But I do know astral projection is real. — Baltimore, Md. Se
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=> Let the FLOWERS heal you = Unique English healing method uses simple flower essences—yet patients report fantastic results, By Wiha Bach Dr. Marcus Bach is an internationally known author- ity on world religions. A former associate director and professor in the School of Religion at the Uni- versity of lowa, he is a popular lecturer on inter- faith understanding and contemporary religious movements. He is the author of such distinguished books as Strange Sects and Curious Cults, Major Religions of the World, and The Unity Way of Life. N 1931 A SHIP loaded with tile was wrecked in a North Sea storm off the coast of Cromer, Eng- land. Two men on board had lashed themselves to the mast and were eventually rescued. One of them, unconscious, his clothes stiff with sea salt, was being carried ashore when a physician waded into the water and moistened the man’s lips with several drops of liquid from a small vial. Almost imme- diately the man regained conscious- ness and in a few moments was fully recovered. The doctor who ran into the sea was Edward Bach, a Welsh- born scientist, bacteriologist, and 61 practicing physician. The solution he applied to the lips of the ship- wrecked victim was a concoction of his own making called Rescue Rem- edy, the basis of which is the es- sence of five flowers: Rock Rose, Clematis, Impatiens, Cherry Plum, and Star of Bethlehem. If this had been the only testi- mony to Dr. Bach’s remedies, the incident might quickly have been forgotten or checked off as mere coincidence. But through the years of his life (1888-1936) reports fil- tered in from people who claimed fantastic cures through the power of Bach’s “Flower Healing” method. Today more reports are being re-
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62 ceived than ever before. From Australia comes the account of a man injured in a car crash, bleeding and in deep shock. Upon receiving three doses of the Rescue Remedy, he was sufficiently fit within 12 hours to travel to his home 1000 miles by train. In Pennsylvania a man lost his thumb and index finger in a Fourth of July fire-cracker accident. A local physician who recommended skin grafting later admitted this would be unnecessary after he saw the effect of a Bach “flower-poultice” on his patient. He called it a mi- raculous healing. Cases of asthma cured with drops of Wild Rose, Agrimony, and Gentian; nerves calmed by the essence of Mimulus: melancholia dispelled with several drops of Gorse and Hornbeam; even an injured dog made well by the use of a Bach remedy; these are part of the fabulous repertory of testimonials kept on file, fully signed, at the Dr. Edward Bach Healing Centre, Sotwell, Walling- ford, Berks., England. _I visited the headquarters this past winter and found it to be housed in a modest red brick Tudor cottage. I went there because more and more questions about the Bach Method were coming to me from persons interested in spiritual heal- ing, persons who had heard of Dr. Bach’s contention that God has placed in nature, primarily in flow- FATE ers, the “divine substance” for the prevention and cure of every dis- ease. Some indicated they had or- dered some of the flower remedies and several had experienced phe- nomenal results. Parking my car in the wooded lane and stepping out into the pastoral quiet of friendly surround- ings, I was greeted by the Centre’s directors, Miss Nora Weeks and Victor Cullen, late-middle-aged people with the buoyancy of youth and the characteristic enthusiasm of devotees to a great cause. To them: nothing in the world seemed more important than the dissemi- nation of the Bach Method. They talked about it over our cordial cups of tea, emphasized it when they showed me the pamphlets the founder had written, spoke of him with deep feeling when they showed me the furniture he had made and, most of all, praised the remedial process as we admired the flower and herbal gardens which he had developed. It is their conviction that Ed- ward Bach was an inspired man of God who came into the world specifically to divulge the art of flower healing and to pass away when his life mission had been ful- filled. It is their assignment to carry on that mission. Although Dr. Bach built upon the founda- tion of a science already explored by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, the
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LET THE FLOWERS HEAL YOU founder of homeopathy, and upon a foundation suggested earlier by such men as Hippocrates and Paracel- sus, Bach’s procedure was unique in the way in which he extracted and potentized the “divine essences” of flowers and interpreted their use. His procedure was so startingly simple, in fact, that I can well un- derstand why scientifically minded moderns might look upon’it with skepticism. I learned about it when Miss Weeks escorted me into the cottage dispensary. Here, in cup- boards, tidy and immaculate as a pharmaceutical lab, stood an array of neatly labeled bottles: Agrimony, Centaury, Cerato, Clematis, Gentia, Impatiens, Mimulus, Scleranthus, Star of Bethlehem, Vervain, Wil- low, 38 in all. Explaining that these were the stock bottles containing the essen- ces, Miss Weeks informed me that the blooms of the plant are picked on a bright, sunny day and gently placed in a glass bowl containing spring water. When the surface of the water has been completely cov- ered by the floating blossoms, the bowl is left in the sun for three or four hours. The blossoms are then carefully whisked out with a twig and the water is poured into bottles to which brandy is added to pre- serve the remedy. There is also a boiling method which is used in some preparations, but the final product is the same, the “living 63 essence” of each blossom-is said to be extracted through the rays of the sun. “Several drops from these stock bottles,” Miss Weeks informed me, “are sufficient to fill a prescrip- tion for a patient. The drops are put into a smaller bottle partially filled with water and the patient then takes several drops in water or milk.” “Who diagnoses the patient?” I asked. “We have practitioners,” she ex- plained, “who are trained by com- ing here or by correspondence.” In answer to my question, “How many practitioners are there?” she informed me that the Centre has a list of over 200. Among them are medical doctors, osteopaths, chiro- practors, herbalists, and spiritual healers who use the flower rem- edies in conjunction with their own methods of healing. “An intelligent patient can be his own diagnostician,” she assured me, “for Dr. Bach taught that we need take no notice of the disease, but must analyze the outlook on life of the person in distress. Treat the patient, not the disease, is the rule.” Here is the core of the Bach Method and the understandable reason for the criticism leveled against it by his fellow medics. Bach insisted that the cause of every disease was related to some
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64 deep-seated fear, anxiety. worry, fault, or failing in the patient. “Seek out the cause,” he said flat- ly, “and with the healing of it, the disease will disappear.” In his Method he enumerated 38 basic states or moods which caused disease and told his followers ex- actly what Miss Weeks was telling me, “Any honest observer should be able to ascertain the state or mixture of states or moods in the afflicted.” All that was necessary was complete honesty in the analy- sis. For the 38 causal moods, Bach prepared 38 remedies and placed them under seven specific catego- ries: Fear, Uncertainty, Apathy, Loneliness, Over-sensitivity, De- spondency, and what he called “Overcare for the welfare of oth- ers.” Each category was again broken down into detailed subdi- visions. For those who suffered basically from fear, for example, it was necessary to determine fear- of-what or fear-of-whom or fear- because-of-what or fear-because-of whom? All of these could be ascer- tained, Dr. Bach insisted, through a detection of personality traits. He even began to identify, as Miss Weeks felt she also is able to do, basic personality tendencies just by looking at the patient. Patients are thus frequently referred to as “flower-types.” The Clematis type are those who FATE are dreamy, drowsy, with no great interest in life. The Vervain people have fixed principles and ideas, are confident of themselves and rare- ly change. Scleranthus personalities are those suffering from indecision. And then, of course, there are types within types which need careful analyzing. Miss Weeks smilingly surmised that I am a Gentian type with a bit of Wild Oat influence! When I asked for an explana- tion of all this, I was quite amazed how right she was. The Gentian people are those annoyed by de- lays and hinderances to their progress; the Wild Oat type are ambitious to accomplish things, they long for new experiences, and they have difficulty in determin- ing exactly what occupation to fol- low. All of which comes very close to home. Having analyzed the personality type and screened the traits to their finest level, the Bach Method pre- scribes the flower remedy to fit the type and trait. If I took sick, I would very likely need a bit of Gentian and Wild Oat essence, but it is not quite as simple as that. There might be times when I would require the Rescue Remedy which is a combination of five remedies. Then there are also progressive or successive remedies. Take the case of a patient suffer- ing the after effect of a hysterec- tomy. According to the record, Gen-
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LET THE FLOWERS HEAL YOU tian was prescribed for her feeling of depression, and Olive for weari- ness and fear. Or consider the asthmatic sufferer who had been told by his specialist that he would have to resign himself to life-long suffering or move to another clime. He was cured by using Wild Rose for his resignation to the condition, Agrimony for his worried state, and Gentian for his doubts that a cure could be effected. Having corrected his mental condition, his asthma disappeared. It was little wonder to me that Dr. Bach’s medical confreres in their day took exception to such unorthodoxy. It was no surprise that critics occasionally referred to the flower-essence-medicines as “liquid placebos,” “brandy water,” and “Bach’s beverages.” How, they asked, could one or two drops of “perfume” heal anything outside of make-believe illnesses? Think of an accredited diagnostician meet- ing a coronary case by saying, “You are the uncertain type and need four drops of Clematis three times a day!” But the fact of the matter is that Edward Bach was a reputable physician, qualified at University College Hospital, London, a noted Medical Officer, and a recognized bacteriologist. And it remains that because of the cures effected, no less than by reason of the growing understanding of psychosomatic ills 65 and the healing power of herbs and plants, his claims, strange and ex- aggerated though they may seem, are beginning to be given new con- sideration. About 20 patients are treated each week in the Great Britain offices of the Bach Healing Centre, and though no statistics are avail- able on the number treated else- where, it is estimated that there are some 200 patients who weekly consult practitioners in Australia, South Africa, Canada, Germany, India, New Zealand, South Amer- ica, and the U.S.A. In some coun- tries these dispensers of Bach rem- edies are compelled to work in se- cret because of medical opposition and laws which forbid “flower- healing” activities. When I inquired how much flower essence is dispensed —each year, Miss Weeks said, “This is im- possible to say. The quantities used are very minute and no report is made on how much is used or dis- pensed. We could estimate the amount by reviewing our stock — bottles, but this would be inconclu- sive.” Case histories are open for in- vestigation although the names of the patients are customarily with- held. One that interested: me was the account of a woman, aged 43, who, according to the report, was suffering from a severe case of psoriasis. She was “very nervous,
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66 strong inferiority complex, ashamed of her skin condition and stayed at home in order not to embarrass others because of her appearance.” For three months she was treated with three essences: Crab Apple for her feeling of uncleanness; Gorse for her sense of hopelessness; Mim- ulus for her nervousness. At the end of the three month period her skin condition had disappeared. “Body, legs and arms completely clear,” said report, “only a few dark marks remain. She is now confident and happy, having lost her fears. Is still continuing with the same rem- edies in order to consolidate the improvement.” While such case histories might not stand up under medical prob- ing, they seem to satisfy the directors of the Centre and similar accounts were sufficient to give Dr. Bach all the evidence he need- ed to convince him of the merit of his discoveries. His writings consist of surpris- ingly few publications. Beside sev- eral scholarly monographs, he authored only two small booklets, Heal Thyself, and The Twelve Heal- ers. The story of his life and work was written by Nora Weeks who, with the collaboration of Victor Cullen and other associates, edits the monthly News Letter and cir- cularizes pamphlets on the move- ment. Besides the remedial essence of FATE the flower preparations, whatever their power may be, the soundness of Dr. Bach’s theories are today being conscientiously investigated. He enumerated five simple prin- ciples fundamental in any consid- eration of the nature of disease: 1. The soul of man is his real self. 2. Life is a school of exper- ience. 3. Our earthly sojourn is but a moment in the course of our total evolution. 4. As long as the soul and the personality are in harmony, the individual will exper- ience peace, happiness, and health. 5. Unity is the keynote of all life and its Creator is love. Then he cited what he called two major fundamental errors of thought: failure to honor the dic- tates of the soul and cruelty or wrong to others, both of which, he maintained, are sins against unity. Committing either of these basic errors, Bach said, brings conflict to the individual, and conflict even- tually leads to disease. Dr. Bach admitted that he re- duced illness to such a level of simplicity that his discovery would be rejected by those who insisted upon keeping disease mysterious and complex, but he was quite pre- pared to be accounted queer and
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LET THE FLOWERS HEAL YOU revolutionary because of his be- liefs. Townspeople in Sotwell, how- ever, had the utmost affection and respect for him. To some he was a Thoreau, working his gardens and stressing a homespun way of life; or a Luther Burbank, believing that flowers and all living things respond to the spiritual approach and reflect the mood and the atti- tude of those who move among them. To others he was a kind of St. Francis, filled with love for animals and birds and the good earth. But to Miss Weeks and Victor Cullen and those intimately involved in the program, Edward Bach was a prophet with a hint of Messianic vision, foreseeing a world in which disease would be eradi- cated and death would be a natural step into another form of life. Perhaps only those who exper- ience miraculous healings through a Bach remedy will go this far in an 67 appraisal ef the man and his method, but many people, I am sure, will at. least partially -agree with a practitioner in California who said, “To feel and to know that the beauty of a flower can heal the emotional transgressions of humanity is truly inspiring, par- ticularly to those who look upon all nature as -a kingdom of divine intelligence capable of responding to that same intelligence in other forms of life.” One gets this feeling after a so- journ at the Bach cottage, or dur- ing a walk through the garden, or in a visit with Nora Weeks. I left the headquarters with a renewed sense of the innate goodness in man and of the unending quest that goes on among people everywhere: the quest for health and healing which, no matter what seemingly strange, uncharted paths it takes, is always closely linked with the everlasting quest for God. C9 Coming next issue: Gene Albright describes “MY EXPERIENCE WITH DEATH” “Suddenly the darkness cleared. | became extremely aware of every- thing. My mind became sharper and clearer than it ever has been. The pain was gone. | felt wonderful and supremely free. | saw my body, very still and white, the eyes rolled back and the mouth open. Then I was no longer alone... a“
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By ALSON - Bringing THE BIBLE HEALING OF THE MAN SICK OF THE PALSY — From Luke 5:17-32 — 17 And it came to pass on a cer- tain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judea, and Jerusalem: and the pow- er of the Lord was present to heal them. 18 And, behold, men brought m a bed a man which was taken with a palsy: and they sought means to bring him in, and to lay him before him. 19 And when they could not find by what-way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop, and let him down through the tiling with his couch into the midst before Jesus. 20 And when he saw their faith, he said unto him, Man, thy sins are forgiven thee. 21 And the scribes and the Phar- isees began to reason, saying, Who is this which speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone? 22 But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answering said unto them, What reason ye in your hearts? 23 Whether it is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Rise up and walk? 24 But that ye may know that the 68 Son of man hath power to forgive sins, (he said unto the sick of the palsy,) I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy couch, and go into thine house. 25 And immediately he rose up before them, and took up that where- on he lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying God. 26 And they were all amazed, and they glorified God, and were filled with fear, saying, We have seen strange things today. 21 And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at the receipt of cus- tom: and he said unto him, Follow me. 28 And he left all, rose up, and followed him. 29 And Levi made him a great feast in his own house; and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them. 30 But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, say- ing, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners? 31 And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick. 32 I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
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J. SMITH UP TO DATE IN THE LIGHT OF PARAPSYCHOLOGY AND MODERN KNOWLEDGE ALSY IS DEFINED by the dic- tionary as “paralysis; loss of power to feel, to move, or to control motion in any part of the body.” Such paralysis may be due to damage to the brain and central ner- vous system, or it may be self-in-. duced and psychosomatic. We do not know which was the case here, but we do know that Jesus treated this palsied man as though his infirmity was caused by guilt-feelings: the man was palsied by his own con- science. When Jesus heals the man by saying, “Thy sins are forgiven thee,” he is expressing an insight that is both very old and very new. The an- cients associated sin with sickness; so do modern psychiatrists. A strong sense of guilt can paralyze as surely as can a blow on the head, and paralysis caused psychosomatically can be healed by exorcising the guilt- feelings. What Jesus did was give the man permission to forgive him- self. He was not practicing spiritual healing so much as he was antici- pating psychiatry. Unlike some other so-called ‘“‘mir- acles,” this healing was made possi- ble by the palsied man’s faith. No man who did not believe that Jesus could heal him would have gone to 69 the trouble of having himself let down from the roof into the presence of Jesus. He believed that Jesus had power to forgive sins; he believed that Jesus could heal the sick; and in all probability he shared with Jesus the common concept of sick- ness as sin. His own faith, plus the charismatic presence and authority of Jesus, enabled him to rise up and walk once he was relieved of his paralyzing burden of guilt. Jesus did not adhere to any one method of healing. He always used the method that best fitted the case. Here he employed no physical adjuncts—no clay, no symbolic bath- ing, no laying on of hands, no prayer. In some cases we have read of him using clairvoyance, telekin- esis, and other parapsychological ef- fects. Here simple forgiveness of sins sufficed. Parapsychology would not ques- tion a healing like this, for para- psychology has demonstrated in the laboratory the ability of powerful emotions to effect changes in test scores. And the feeling of relief, of being given a fresh chance, that comes with the laying down of a burden of guilt, surely is one of the most powerful emotional experiences any person can know.
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DID I MEET the Ghost of MY FATHER? The tall man in the uniform of a German officer was a stranger to the boy—and to the world of the living. AR MEANT LONGING. This was how Herbert Schmidt thought of it when he was nine years old, living in Wurzburg, Germany, during the Second World War. It was longing for chocolates and fresh fruit. It was longing for shoes with rubber soles and a pair of pants that were not extended to ankle length with three different colored fabrics. War meant Mother crying. War meant fire and fear and air-raid sirens. War meant a futile longing for peace . . . what- ever that was. Herbert never had known peace. The war had started when he was a baby. The war had swallowed his infancy, his security, and his father before he had been able to speak. Herbert shifted his school bag to his other shoulder, as he walked on the Kaiserstrasse, and picked up a stick. He whipped the heads off
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some tall Queen Anne’s Lace. “What makes you so angry, boy?” Herbert looked up. A tall stranger in a ragged German offi- cer’s uniform fell into step beside him. He had a pleasant face, wide- set laughing, brown eyes, and a mouth that smiled. A light scar ex- tended across his cheek to the bridge of his nose. The scar was crescent shaped and white like a new moon. Herbert recognized it as a fencing wound. “Well?” inquired the smiling stranger. “Why do you clop off the heads of those poor flowers?” “T am angry about the war,” Herbert said. “How so?” “T have not had any chocolate since Easter and then it was such a little piece I hardly tasted it at all.” “That is too bad,” the soldier shook his head sympathetically. “And I am tired of having to sleep in the shelter at night. I’m sick of all the snoring noises and the smell of the babies.” “Tt will end some day.” The stranger took out a cigarette and paused to light it. The boy noticed a ring on the man’s finger. It was a little mermaid holding a beacon, an unusual design. “Ts your mother well?” asked the officer. “Ves. Do you know Mama?” 71 “I knew her. . long ago.” “She is ill sometimes. She cries too much the doctor says. . .since my father died.” “I’m sorry to hear that. Is your grandmother still living with you.” “Yes, but she is getting very old. She won’t go to the shelter with us nights any more. She says she is too old to care whether she lives or dies. Nothing will make her go.” “Sometimes it is best te leave old people alone. Do you have enough food? Are you well previd- ed for?” - “Yes. We are not hungry like some of the others.” “Good. I’m glad to hear that. How are you doing in school?” asked the soldier. “Do you like school?” “Yes. I have a nice teacher. Mama was very pleased with my last report card. She said someday I might be able to go to the uni- versity and study like my father. My father was a very good stu- dent. He had many honors. I will never be as smart as he was.” The soldier laughed, then asked, “Your mother talks a great deal about your father does she?” “Oh, yes. She tells me often of the things they did together, their trip to Italy, their summer : in: France, and about the holidays, the’ - foods he liked . . . and about their happiness when I was born. She misses him very much.”
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72 “My poor Erna. . “Erna?” “Your mother meant a great deal to me once.” “Oh ... would you like to come home with me now? I think Mama is home from work.” “No. I do not have time. In a little while I must go. Would you like some chocolate? I know of a shop that used to have good choco- late. I went there often when I was a boy.” “Yes. But its getting late.” “Tt won’t take long. It’s only around the corner.” Herbert nodded vigorously and took the firm masculine hand that the soldier offered. They entered a tiny candy shop that snuggled between a big bakery and a tailor shop. The shelves of the sweet shop were relatively bare of wares, but in the show window lay a thick slab of chocolate covered with shiny silver paper. The sol- dier pointed to it telling the wom- an behind the counter, “We'll take that.” “How many gram, sir?” “All of it!” the soldier grinned. The boy sputtered in protest but the soldier waved him silent and said, “Let me have the plea- sure of giving you this at least.” Once they were outside again the soldier extended his hand. “I must say goodbye now. It made me very happy talking to you.” » FATE “Thank you for the chocolate, sir.’ “T want you to give your mother this for me.” The soldier bent down and kissed the boy lightly on the forehead. Herbert shudder- ed because the kiss was so cold. “And tell her,” said the soldier, “that life is but the bridge to an- other life in which we shall all meet again—living and dead. Can you remember that?” Herbert nodded. He opened his school bag to put in the chocolate. When he looked up again the stranger was gone. Puzzled, he scanned the street. No one was in sight. He hurried home. It was very late. His mother would be angry. When he entered the yard his _ mother was already at the head of the steps. Her pretty face was anx- ious. “Where have you been?” she de- manded. “IT met a man. He bought me chocolate.” “What!” She took hold of his arm. “How often have I told you not to talk to strangers?” “He wasn’t exactly a stranger, Mama. He knew you. He knew your name. He asked me how you and Grandmama were.” His mother looked at him curi- ously, “Come inside. Tell me about it.” They went into the living room.
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DID I MEET THE GHOST OF MY FATHER Grandmother sat by the window knitting. She clicked her tongue when she saw him and scolded, “Naughty boy.” Herbert cleared his throat, “I met him on the way home from school, Mama. He was a soldier, an officer. He had a nice voice and he asked me why I was angry.” . “Angry?” repeated Mrs. Schmidt. “Ves. I was chopping the heads off weeds. He asked me about school and if we had enough to eat. He wanted to know how you and Grandmama were. He was sorry you were not feeling well.” “Did you ask him his name?” snapped the grandmother. “No.” “What did he look like?” his mother asked. “Well. . .” Herbert paused. “He was very handsome. He had a scar across his cheek and nose. Like this. . .” Herbert traced a_ half crescent on his cheek. “It was a little white moon.” Now his mother leaned toward him, “What else? Did you notice anything else?” “No... yes! He had a ring.” “Speak up. boy!” commanded his grandmother. “What kind of ring?” “Tt was a little fish lady, a mermaid, holding a lantern.” His mother’s face was very pale. Her eyes filled with tears. “Mother,” she gasped, turning 73 to the old woman. “Did you hear? Could he be alive?” “No. He is dead!” said the grandmother with finality. “The child had a dream.” “T was awake, Grandmama. How could I dream?” protested Herbert. His mother took Herbert by the shoulders and looked searchingly into his face, “This soldier. . -what else did he say?” “He told me to give you this...” Herbert kissed his mother lightly on the forehead. “And he said to tell you that life is but a bridge to another life in which we shall meet again, the living and the dead.” His mother began to weep. “Go wash your hands for sup- per,” ordered Grandmother rising to her feet. “Your mother will feel ibetter after a little rest.” * * * This encounter, which has taken on more meaning for Herbert Schmidt than it had for him when he was nine years old, occurred in 1944, four years after his father was killed in the war. It has con- vinced Mr, Schmidt that the sep- aration of the living from the dead is as fine and fragile as the thread of a spider's web. And he believes that once, years ago, the fine cur- tain parted, enabling him to spend — part of a short afternoon with his father—his dead father.
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ERHAPS IT IS time to see what the science of parapsychol- ogy or psychical research has to contribute to our conception of the spiritual nature of man. Perhaps it is even urgent that we do this at this particular time because the world is going through a great crisis involving the question of whether the traditional belief in the spiritual nature of man has any foundation in fact. Our religious heritage has given us a spiritual view of human nature, and the advancing tide of scientific knowledge of man and nature has developed an opposing view variously identified as mech- anism, materialism, physicalism, and the like. The two views are to be distinguished by the question of whether man has a side to his nature that is beyond this physical system to which, of course, he be- longs. Is there any reality, any cause-effect relationship in the spiritual part of man’s personality? In a word, is there anything non- physical about man? The question is so large and so involved, there is need to focus this vast issue in some concrete but re- presentative form. With this in view, I wish to review the develop- ments through which I myself have lived in searching for the answer to this question. However, it has been my hope that anything I could find of value in my own search would be of use to others facing a similar problem. From the other point of view, it has been the sympathetic interest of thousands of intellectual seekers for the truth about man’s nature, through this last half century and more, that has given support and larger meaning to the researches I am about to re- view. In fact, the story is so little personal and is so sufficiently re- A famed parapsychologist dis- cusses a vital question: Is man just a machine—or does he have qualities which transcend physi- cal limits? presentative that I need hardly apologize for the narrative form of presentation. What happened to me 45 years ago, when I was a pre-ministerial student in a small college of North- ern Ohio, is typical enough to serve as a starting point. It was then I . discovered, in my psychology course, that freedom of the will, a principle on which the practice of 74
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the ministry as I understand it would have to depend if it was to be effective in human life, was a quite unsupported and even mis- taken notion. The most distinguish- ed of the psychologists, William James, said it was a problem for the philosophers, but I wanted to know it as a fact. Thus discouraged by all the scientific authorities I could consult on the matter, I gave up the ministry and went into one of the branches of biology — one that took me into an area of problems Dr. J. B. Rhine is head of the Parapsy- chology Laboratory at Duke University. beyond the domain of the will. Biology was then and still is, for all practical purposes, one of the physical sciences; and the beauti- ful simplicity of mechanistic ex- planations of living systems —as far as these explanations go— gives a welcome peace of mind to the searching student. Then 40 years ago another tran- sition occurred. I was at the Uni- versity of Chicago as a graduate student in plant physiology, when I received a challenge that profound- ly jarred my new-found compla- cency. I heard a lecture by Sir Ar- thur Conan Doyle. What Sir Ar- thur had to say did seem ridiculous, 75 and I left with justifiable scorn for the manifest credulity displayed. But in my mind, which I opened far enough to look for possible facts, there were deposited a few seeds of thought that germinated; they doubtless found soil in the still unanswered questions in the back of my groping thoughts. I went to the library to see whether Sir William Crookes did what Sir Arthur reported; whether Sir Oliver Lodge had, indeed, as a young physicist, carried out the ex- periments on telepathy the speaker mentioned. And I came upon the writings of Professor William Mc- Dougall, F. R. S., then recently
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76 come to Harvard from Oxford. McDougall was a psychologist who defied the mechanist interpretation of man and scoffed at the physical- istic theory of behaviorism that was sweeping the country. A trail of reading was started which took my fellow-student wife and me through many a volume not on the reserve shelf of plant physiology. Mechan- ism at least was challenged, and McDougall, it seemed, had drawn his most clear-cut factual support from the struggling little infant science of psychical research. So we looked into that. Thirty-five years ago we were on the doorstep, so to speak, of Mc- Dougall the great psychologist who had gone to Duke University to es- tablish a Department of Psycho- logy. We went not only to see, if possible in a short semester’s time, whether psychical research was really a science or could become one; but we had the assignment given us by John F. Thomas, a Detroit educator who asked us to consult Professor McDougall, con- cerning the value and interpreta- tion of stenographic records of me- diumistic utterances which he had collected over a number of years of personal study. The semester passed and we stayed longer, with teaching posi- tions to sustain us. The investiga- tions of the Thomas material, though they did not lead us at FATE Duke to the conclusion Thomas himself reached, namely, that they represented post-mortem commun- ication, were sufficiently impres- sive to afford him a thesis for a doctorate at Duke in 1933. Five years of study, research, and teaching at Duke decided one thing—there was a scientific field involved. There were evi- dences to justify continued effort. The problems and phenomena de- served to be taken seriously, and Duke University was a harbor for such research. It is true, our conclusions were tentative. We had not been sure of the origin of the communica- tions contained in the Thomas ma- terial. We were not sure it was evidence of post-mortem commun- ication. We were not satisfied with the evidence then existing for those abilities ascribed to the medium as counter-hypotheses — telepathy and clairvoyance. During the next five years, as we eagerly pursued the problems of telepathy and clairvoyance, we had a most fortunate opportunity. The well-known medium, Mrs. Eileen J. Garrett, volunteered her services to the Duke Department of Psychology. Mrs. Garrett asked for a thorough investigation, under whatever conditions the Labora- tory wished to impose. While the Department of Psy- chology was responsible, with Pro-
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SCIENCE AND THE SPIRITUAL NATURE OF MAN 17 fessor McDougall a_ sponsoring member, the work with Mrs. Gar-— rett over the next two years (of several weeks in each year) fell mainly to my young colleague, Dr. J. G. Pratt, and myself. For the first time a medium was tested in the Laboratory with her usual method of operation, adding only such modifications as were needed to guard against confusion in the interpretation of results. With the medium in one room and the-sender in another and with stenographic records as the basis for the judg- ment of accuracy by the sitters (without knowing which record per- tained and which did not) and with the methods of evaluation de- veloped at the time, evidence was obtained that the medium did com- municate information to sitters that she could not have hit upon by chance and could not have come by sensorially or by reasoning. This justified the conclusion that extra- sensory perception, at least, was involved — a term which had been introduced that same year (1934) when the first report of the Para- psychology Laboratory at Duke appeared in a monograph published by the Boston Society for Psy- chic Research. While the experiments with the medium in trance were going on, Mrs. Garrett also was participating in the card-calling tests of tele- pathy and clairvoyance. Much of this ESP testing also was con- ducted with the subject and the target in different rooms. Even the medium’s “control”, Uvani, was tested with the medium in the trance state. It was noted that Uvani and the waking Mrs. Gar- rett scored in the card tests at ap- proximately the same level and showed very similar curves of dis- tribution for the different tests and conditions. This suggested that Uvani was very closely identifiable with Mrs. Garrett, at least in his ESP ability. It is safe to say that in these standard ESP tests of Mrs. Garrett’s ability, she was able to communicate more information per unit of time than took place in the communication of trance utter- ances to which she was normally accustomed in her practice. We were left, then, with the question of whether anything more was needed than the evident ESP cap- acity Mrs. Garrett’s card tests had demonstrated to explain her ability to get the knowledge she was able to communicate to her sitters. As you can well see, that left us at the crossroads. There had been an important advance but it called for a series of further steps be- fore its ultimate value could be as- sessed. At this point in our investi- gation of mediumship as a possible phenomenon of survival, we had to recognize that we lacked a de- sign that could give us a conclusive
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78 case for incorporeal personal agency. So long as the medium had the ESP ability, and this medium clearly had it, we could see no way to frame an experiment which could demonstrate a source beyond her and clearly apart from her. The other choice at this cross- road, the further investigation of ESP, was clearly open and we ad- vanced into it with enthusiasm. The early psychical researchers had given special attention to tele- pathy because it seemed, in the transcendent interaction of mind with mind, to suggest spirit agency among the living. When, therefore, in spontaneous experiences a de- ceased person appeared in a dream, or an apparitional hallucination, or in some other way, and conveyed an important message, the inter- pretation was given and widely ac- cepted that this very agency could be taken as paralleling what hap- pens between persons in normal telepathy from the living agent. This emphasis on agency was rather a distinctive point. But as the study of telepathy and other ESP capacities went on, it became increasingly evident that this agency had been unduly stressed. It was, in fact, the initia- tive of the percipient or receiving subject that was most important, and as more and more critical analysis was applied to the test conditions, telepathy itself as a dis- FATE tinct phenomenon was brought into question. A series of advances in method led up to this. First, the old telepathy tests had consisted of the agent, let us say, looking at a card while the percipient attempted to identify it. The first improve- ment, then, was to eliminate the card so that the transfer, if it oc- curred, was on a_thought-target basis instead of a thought-and-card basis. Telepathy worked without the card and even when, in a still further step, precognitive clair- voyance had to be eliminated be- cause it always could be supposed that this subject, who was attempt- ing to catch another person’s thought, might alternatively go for- ward in time to the point where the thought was recorded. To rule out that possibility, a complicated system had to be worked out. It is too intricate to describe here. But telepathy worked even under those conditions and was sufficiently well-confirmed. Still we had to ask: How do we know this percipient is not connecting up with the agent’s or sender’s brain making it clair-- voyance again? How do we know there is anything like an independ- ent thought that is not just brain reading? Here we are stuck with the present limitations of psy- chology and neurology. Parapsy- chology will have to wait until more is known about how to deal with thought-brain relations.
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SCIENCE AND THE SPIRITUAL NATURE OF MAN 79 Here, we have a choice be- tween saying “Telepathy is, indeed, mind-to-mind transfer of thought. Or it is the apprehension of the thought-brain action, in which the brain itself is an essential part of the target.” Thus it may be there is no fundamental difference be- tween what we call telepathy and what we call clairvoyance. Probably there is a common stem of process for both of these phenomena any- how. But the net effect for the survival question is that the case for telepathy cannot give any sup- port, as it was once construed to do, to the survival hypothesis. It is true that this crossroads situ- ation for the survival hypothesis is more of an advance than is real- ized by those who are impatient for an early solution. Had the evidence for extrasensory perception not been what it is, had it not grown up as a strong counterhypothesis, there would be no case at all for survival. Now it has at least reached the crossroads. Now, if someone knows how to go about it, it stands ready to be investigated. But without the evidence of ESP communication in the living what kind of post-mor- tem existence would be thinkable? What kind of communication in such an order of existence or be- tween it and our own would be conceivable? If it is not sensory, it would have to ibe extrasensory. But the point is a much stronger one than this. The outstanding characteristic of ESP phenomena is their failure to conform to the type of lawfulness expected of phy- sical processes. There appear to be no physical media of stimulation that can account for them. The conditions seem to defy the space- time properties on which the science of physics is based. In other words, here in the counter-hypothesis it- self is the kind-of evidence that mankind has been seeking in the investigation of spirit communica- tion — evidence of another order of causality but one that is none-the- less, real for all its defiance of phys- ical explanation. So I say, then, that we have rather successfully answered at least one question: whether human per- sonality has anything in its make- up that conforms to the concept of the nonphysical or spiritual. However even the kind of evi- dence that has given scientific sup- port to the spiritual concept of man’s nature is not entirely beyond dispute; rather, it is likely to be the most disputed of all the major issues in the history of science by the time it is fully accepted by the scientific world, if that is to be its destiny. Let us examine the general character of the evidence that psi is a nonphysical phenomenon: We might first look at spontan- eous cases of parapsychical phe-
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80 nomena. There always has been rather outstanding in such material a seeming indifference to the dis- tance involved. A woman in China hears her mother’s voice as the mother is dying in Vermont. A young man dreams in Java of his mother’s funeral in South Carolina. But the disregard of time in ESP experiences is equally striking. We find many examples of precogni- tive dreams and premonitory ap- paritions. When a picture, in con- siderable detail, comes to the dreaming mind days before a wreck or other catastrophe, the rational mind gives up attempting to find an explanatory theory of the universe on physical lines. (And what others have we?) And when the phenomena in question were brought into the Laboratory for study and it was possible to make the kind of quan- titative comparisons such a fantas- tically revolutionary hypothesis as time-space-free-perception calls for, it could be seen that even under controlled conditions distance ap- peared to make no difference in the success of subjects who were at- tempting to identify card order. Experiments have been carried out, under test conditions, spanning the Atlantic both ways and from differ- ent countries. The experimental ev- idence confirms spontaneous case studies. It does likewise in precognition FATE tests. The slow, difficult ascent of methodology in the researches in precognition have carried us through a number of modifications of methods, but even the beginning procedures, in which card order was predicted ahead of the shuff- ling of the cards whether by hand or mechanical shuffler, with the cards cut by the throw of dice or by the use of temperature figures from the next morning’s news- paper, a large body of evidence has been assembled, indicating, as do the case studies, that time, no more than distance, influences the operation of ESP ability. More recently there have been highly complex ways of randomiz- ing targets for precognition tests, and these methods seem sufficient to rule out all alternatives and to permit us to conclude from the re- sults that precognition alone could be responsible. The evidence now has accumu- lated to a considerable magnitude, variety of experimenters’ condi- tions, and methods. Furthermore, it all hangs together well with the evidence from the comparison of distances and other physical con- ditions which would affect sensory communication but which do not seem to affect extrasensory. And, finally, the experimental evidence confirms the spontaneous case ma- terial. It seems, then, reasonable to say the criteria which apply to phy-
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SCIENCE AND THE SPIRITUAL NATURE OF MAN 81 sical operations are not in evidence here. This kind of perception is something else than physical; nevertheless it is a natural process, real, in the sense that results are produced, and that certain princi- ples apply. Even quantitative meas- urement is possible and there is no escape from the concept of ESP phenomena as energetic. Anything that influences another system in the universe, as ESP has to do to manifest itself, must belong to the natural, causal system of operations for which the hypothesis of energy always has been used. The fact that this energy does not present to our senses direct effects or man- ifestations does not mean it does not exist. There are other energies too that do not so manifest. The only distinctive quality thus far known for this psi energy is just this feature — it does not give us the experience of space-time. It lacks the property that produces that effect or possesses the pro- perty that transcends that effect, whichever way one prefers it put. These phenomena of parapsy- chology now demand experimenters who will join in the task of finding out what this energy of man really is. The important next step, of dis- covering how it can be that ener- getic causation can occur in a space-time world by a force inde- pendent of space-time, is surely the scientific challenge of the century. Parapsychology is definitely tak- ing the direction of a stronger case for the spiritual nature of man be- cause of the indication that there is something about man that behaves unlike the world the physicists have been describing for us. But we must recognize that this is only the be- ginning of a large exploration. But man simply must under- stand himself. He must know more about the man who holds the fate of the world in his hands, more about the forces that can be used to save the world from the mis- guided behavior of those who have more power than wisdom. Man has to know first of all, whether he has a spiritual nature or whether he is simply an automaton of the com- plex physical forces in his ‘being. If there is a spiritual function in man, and if it does in some way transcend the physical system of his body and environment, it could very well give him a certain free leverage by means of its transcend- ence of space-time. Moreover, this other side of man has its own na- tural, lawful system, and therefore it can be studied, understood, in- fluenced, and educated. So the idea of a validated morality is possible and even makes sense. The govern- ment of men is, as our heritage testifies, verifiably more than the engineering of material robots; life and personality are more than ela- borate mechanics. ee!
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The Apparition at Mannington Hall By Tex Lowoll Illustrated by Tex Lowell The doctor's late-night visitor in the library not only was a complete stranger—he also gave evidence that he was far from complete as a living person. N UNUSUAL GHOSTLY visi- tation was experienced by Dr. Augustus Jessopp, a dentist of Norwich, England, in 1879. He wrote a detailed account of the occurrence a few days after it occurred, and related it to a few of his friends. The story became so exaggerated and confused in the process of telling and retelling that the doctor finally felt obliged to permit the London Athenoeum to print a true account of the incident. At the time of publication, some two months after the experience, 8 5 Dr. Jessopp stated that he objected to being “looked upon as a kind of medium to whom supernatural visi- tations are vouchsafed, and, on the other hand, do not wish to be set down as a crazy dreamer whose disorganized nervous system ren- ders him abnormally liable to fan- tastic delusions.” He was, in fact, a very stolid, straightforward man, in no way given to flights of im- agination. He insisted that he was in per- fect health and in no way in a condition approaching weariness,
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irritability or fatigue at the time he was “visited.” He was, in fact, in high-spirits as a result of an in- vitation from Lord Orford to spend a night at Mannington Hall in the company of mutual friends. An an- tiquarian by hobby, the doctor had been hoping for an opportunity to examine some very rare old books in his lordship’s huge library. Arriving at 4:00 P. M., the doc- tor enjoyed a pleasant and animat- ed conversation until time to dress for dinner. The group—six in number — dined at 7:00, continu- ing their discussion of art and travel in far countries. The doctor em- phasized that their talk did not in any way touch upon the super- natural. Following dinner they played cards and at 10:30 the group broke up, as two of the mem- bers had a considerable distance to drive. Dr. Jessopp received permission from his host to sit up and make notes and transcripts from the rare books. Lord Orford first suggested that his valet remain in attendance, but the doctor asked that the ser- vants be permitted to retire as it would likely be five or six hours before he would have finished his work. So it was that by 11:00 o’clock Dr. Jessop was the only person downstairs. He set right to work -in a room which opened into the library. The room was an expansive one, 83 with massive fireplace and chimney, luxuriously furnished. From a high shelf of the library the doctor brought the six small volumes and stacked them at his right hand on a wide desk. He had four long candles on the desk, and the night being chill, a crackling fire in the fireplace, so that his illumination was excellent. He worked swiftly, alternately reading and writing, elated at his good fortune. Just before 1:00 o’clock he started work on the last book, the others now being stacked to his left. At about 1:30 he suddenly glimpsed some- thing white on the desk about a foot from his left elbow. It was a large hand. The hand was colorless but for the strong blue veins across its back. Putting aside his pen the doctor turned and saw a tall, stur- dily built man, sitting at the desk with his back to the fire. The vis- itor was bent slightly over the desk, intently examining the pile of books the doctor had been studying. He was dressed in a garment of black corded silk, similar to the habit worn by clergymen in the early 1800’s, cut close to the throat with an edging of satin or velvet serving as a stand-up collar fitting close to the chin. The reddish-brown hair was closely cut, the face clean- shaven. The profile gave an ap- pearance of rugged strength. The man seemed quite relaxed, his
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84 hands clasped lightly together, and he seemed completely oblivious to the doctor’s presence. For some moments Jessopp stared at his visitor, convinced only that he was not a truly living being. Curiosity crowded out any sense of alarm or even uneasiness. He fumbled for a pencil, then re- membered his sketchbook upstairs. But his desire to make a sketch of the stranger was ruled out by the fear that his subject would be gone upon his return. Then, for some reason he never could explain, he felt compelled to reach out and move the first book, upon which the apparition’s gaze rested. As he did this his arm passed before the eyes of the figure, and it sud- denly disappeared. Smothering his disappointment, Jessopp returned to writing. After some five minutes, just as he was nearing the end of his task, he saw the hands reappear near his own. The stranger had returned and now was sitting in the same position and attitude as before. The doctor turned and studied him more closely, framing in his mind a sentence with which to address him. But then a delayed action of N FATE fear flooded over him; he dared not speak —he feared the sound of his own voice. After a few moments of silent speculation, he returned deliberate- ly to his writing and completed the few words that were left, conscious the while of the presence at his side. Completing his task he looked around again and further studied his silent companion, whose posi- tion blotted out the flames in the fireplace. Closing his book, Dr. Jessopp let it drop to the table. At the sound the figure quickly vanished; the fire suddenly re- appeared to the doctor’s view. For some time the puzzled man sat back in his chair, wondering if the visitor would return. Then a feeling of dread began to envelop him; he wondered if he were losing his nerve. Replacing the first five books on the shelves, he left the sixth on the table, put out the candles and went up to bed. Fear left him and he slept soundly. Dr. Jessopp never tried to ex- plain his remarkable experience, although he related it often. Ex- planations, theories or inferences he preferred to leave to other per- sons. 4
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COMMAND PERFORMANCE — “I Must Read Your Cards... .” 4 I had to obey the voice I alone and break up a gay party to give By Judith Childs Speer FELT A PRESSURE on my shoulder as though an unseen hand: had been placed on it, and a disembodied voice said, “Read her cards.” “Her” meant Ellen, a woman my husband and I had met soon after arriving as guests at lush Pyramid Lake Ranch outside Reno, Nev. Ellen was “in residence” at the ranch awaiting her divorce. For some unexplained reason Ellen and I had taken an instant dislike to each other. Now I was standing alone in a corner playing a nickel slot ma- 85 GY could hear— a warning of sorrow ahead. chine while my husband, a profes- sional pianist, entertained a group of our fellow guests, a group that included almost all the other wom- en at the ranch. I had fed the bandit a couple of dollars and was abaut to put in another nickel when I felt this pressure on my shoulder and heard the voice. I do not know what im- pelled me to look across the room at Ellen, but I knew immediately the voice meant her. I hadn’t read cards for years and I certainly wanted nothing to do with this woman.
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86 I turned back to the machine and put in a few more nickels. Now the pressure was much harder and the voice more insistent. “Read her cards,” it said in a tone so loud that I looked around to see if anyone else had heard. Again I glanced at Ellen across the room. She was drunk and making a lot of noise. I disliked her even more and turned back to the machine and angrily put in another nickel. But the voice was to have its way ... a third time the hand grabbed me by the shoulder, and the demand was shouted. I looked at Ellen with a growing sense of panic. I was impelled to obey so I pocketed my remaining nickels and walked over to where she stood talking to a bunch of cowboy gig- olos. No one’s presence could have been more unwelcome than mine, and I was quite aware of it. “Excuse me,” I said feebly, “but I simply have to read your cards.” Everyone stopped talking and looked at me in amazement. When Ellen got over her surprise she let out a wild guffaw and said in a patronizing tone, “I don’t believe that stuff. I have had readings all over Europe and no one has ever told me anything.” Undaunted, I insisted and to get rid of me she said, “Oh, all right, but don’t forget I’m an unbeliever.” Someone got an ancient pack of greasy cards and we were led to an FATE old Black Jack table. Many curious people wanted to hang around to see what was going on, but I shooed them away. As I looked into Ellen’s sullen face I said apologetically, “I don’t know what I’m going to tell you, if anything. Please do me the favor of not interrupting me until I am through.” She nodded and I cut the cards. The cards fell gently to the table and I could hear my own voice going on and on as though someone had turned on a phonograph. I told her that her mother had been a very beautiful woman, that I did not have a feeling of incest but, nevertheless, I saw her mother in her brother’s arms. A woman named Nora Bailey came to my mind and I placed her in New Jersey. I saw two sons and a litiga- tion over some property that Nora had left upon her death. The boys, Jim and Eddie, had bitterly feuded among themselves, and Ellen and her family were in danger of losing their share of the inheritance. I saw a lovely little old red leather trunk in an attic in Norfolk, Va., it was being opened by Ellen. She was down on her knees before it, the top was up and she reached in- side and took out a bundle of old letters tied with a faded lavender ribbon. The smell of sweet laven- der assailed my nostrils as she held it in her hands. Then she slipped
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COMMAND PERFORMANCE the ribbon off and selected one letter; I could see it came from Lavinia. This scene faded and a man stood before me. I knew he was very rich and that Ellen was getting her divorce so she could marry him. The same voice which had in- terrupted my slot machine game said, “Tell her that in three weeks this man will be certified and put in an insane asylum in his home town of Philadelphia. She must not marry him. Tell her she must not marry him.” The reading ended abruptly. I sighed and said, “Well, what do you think?” I was really taken aback when I looked up at Ellen. She sat star- ing at me, trembling violently; her face was ashen. When she spoke her voice was only a whisper. “My mother married a man who was a great deal older than she was. He had a son a year older than my mother by his first wife. I was eight years old when [J first saw my mother in my half-brother’s arms and knew they were having an af- fair.” i She gulped and ran her tongue over her lips, “I haven’t thought of that for many years.” She reached down. and idly picked at an up-turned card as she continued, “Nora Bailey was my mother’s sister. She died as you said and her sons, Jim and Eddie, 87 have been fightifg over her estate, in which I share in a small way, for - three years. The estate has not been settled and the property is in New Jersey. “The trunk you saw was in my family’s attic in Norfolk and I did go through it and I picked the name Lavinia from one of the old letters and named my child that.” Suddenly she jumped up and clenched her fists and looked down at me as though she hoped I didn’t exist and was a figment of her imagination. She was cold sober now and trying to believe that what I had said last wasn’t true. “T am engaged to an enormously wealthy man from Philadelphia. He has had two nervous break- downs, but he seems perfectly all right to me. He is coming to meet me in Reno a week from next Sat- - urday.” She was so upset I felt sorry for her, but I had given her only what was given to me. My husband was rather dis- gusted with my antic, to say nothing of being baffled. Our host- ess, Clara, took me to one side and asked me please not to do any- thing like that again. Two days later my husband and I took our leave. We said goodbye to everyone. Ellen was very re- served in her goodbye. Fate had been unkind enough to most of ~ these people and they couldn’t help
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88 being glad to see someone who might know more about them than they wanted to tell leave. This incident occurred early in June of 1948 and by the end of that same month I got a long dis- tance telephone call from Ellen. The connection was not very good but I could hear and recognize her voice when she said, “Judith, I FATE think you should know. They have just certified Ben and he never came for me . .. no one knows what happened; he just suddenly went to pieces.” She was crying. And I wished I never had gone to Reno, never had met her, never had played a slot machine, and most of all never had seen a pack of playing cards. 2 THE FLATWORM’S “BIOLOGICAL COMPASS” WY CREING with ordinary flatworms, which are found in ponds and streams, Prof. Frank A. Brown, Jr., biologist at Northwestern University, re- portedly has found that such factors as the moon, magnetism and electrical fields influence living creatures in strange ways. Dr. Brown long has made a study of “biological clocks” and “biological compasses”—myste- rious influences which give crea~ tures a sense of direction and time. He has learned that oys-. ters and crabs follow a cycle that coincides with the tides, which are controlled by the moon. Probing other possible con- trolling forces, Dr. Brown and his colleagues have studied the effect on experimental animals of such things as the earth’s magnetic and electrostatic fields, and gamma radiation. He re- ports having found that the flatworm, if aimed in a north- erly direction, will tend to move to its left when the moon is new. As the moon waxes, the worm changes direction and with a full moon veers to the right. Dr. Brown also placed flat- worms in a magnetic field suf- ficient to blot out the earth’s weak magnetic field. A toy mag- net brought near a compass needle, for instance, is sufficient to overcome the earth’s mag- netic field and to set the nee- dle spinning in the mild mag- netic field he created, he found that the worms no longer veered right or left as the moon waxed and waned. Working with the Nassarius snail, Dr. Brown created an electrostatic field by placing electrically charged plates on either side of a tank. The snails veered to one side or the other, according to the electrical field, making it possible to determine the direction in which they would move.
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WANT TO LEARN By Cinade ps ologan Time suddenly ran out on my project to master two African tongues so—I had to find another way to do it. EVEN DAYS BEFORE I had not been able to speak more than six phrases in either Cris’ or Tom’s native language. Now I could converse fluently with them both. They were amazed — and, to tell the truth, so was I. It was neither trickery nor magic that allowed me to accomplish this feat, but rather the remarkable phenomenon of posthypnotic sug- gestion. The events which led up to my language learning abilities began in 1948 when I developed an ardent interest in hypnosis. My wife, a psychiatric worker, became inter- ested in 1952 and we often prac- ticed on each other. However, I never had any real need to take advantage of hypnotic techniques until February, 1958. I was trying to write a book on the social and political structure of modern Africa and as I had become 89 convinced that the Swahili and Hausa languages would play an im- portant role in Africa’s communi- cation, I decided to do a couple of chapters on them. Fortunately, I had two friends, Cris Elorie, a Nigerian who spoke Hausa, and Tom Farealle, a Tan- ganyikan, who spoke Swahili. They lived on the floor below us in an apartment building at 72 Holland St., in Toronto, Canada. Both were working on advanced degrees at the University of Toronto and had- at least two years to go. I had bought a couple of texts on Swahili and Hausa and with the aid of the two boys, was studying the languages at a normal pace. Imagine my dismay when Cris sud- denly developed an acute feeling of nostalgia and decided to pack his trunk for Africa, He said he would leave in only two weeks. With this sudden change of plans
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go I told my wife that I had decided to learn both languages the quick and easy way: through posthyp- notic suggestion. I am a very receptive subject and go into a deep somnambulistic trance within minutes. Although the term generally refers to sleep- walking, I mean here that the sub- ject is able to open his eyes, to walk and talk while under hyp- nosis. A little review of how hypnosis works may be helpful. First, hyp- nosis depends upon the utmost co- operation between the subject and the hypnotist. With few exceptions, an unwilling subject cannot be hypnotized. Hypnotism pushes one’s conscious mind into the background and brings the unconscious mind to the fore. The deeper the trance, the more predominant the uncon- scious mind becomes. Experiments have demonstrated that vast, nor- mally untapped mental abilities can be utilized under hypnosis. It was by this technique that I was going to try to learn two lan- guages within a few days. * * * E DID NOT foresee all of the difficulties which lay - ahead of us. My wife and I first gave the texts of both languages a quick reading. Then she tried to read them to me while I was in trance. However, the tongue maneuvering FATE and subpalatal gutterals of some of the Swahili and Hausa words were too much for her. We had to change our plans. We decided to teach the boys how to hypnotize. Step by step we explained the preliminaries. There followed many sessions on hypnotic techniques. Finally, it was time for Cris to hypnotize me. He did fine at the start; my wife said I was in a light trance. However, his early super- stitions apparently frightened him; he often had called hypnotism “black magic.” When I responded to his suggestions his eyes widened in amazement and his voice quiv- ered. This was confusing to me and, since the trance depth was light, I woke up. We changed our strategy again. We reread both texts while Cris and Tom corrected our pronunci- ation, inflection and accent. We went through the books chapter by chapter, with the boys correcting us whenever necessary. After my wife felt she had mas- tered a few chapters we were ready for our next step. In a com- fortable chair I was put into deep trance. We became so absorbed with the lessons that first day my wife did not have a chance to pre- : pare dinner. So she played a trick on me; she told me, while I was un- der hypnosis, that I had eaten, and I was not even hungry.
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WANT TO LEARN 2 LANGUAGES IN 1 WEEK? - gI After “dinner” she read to me and asked me to repeat certain phrases, which I did. Although hereafter each lesson averaged three to four hours, this first one lasted five. At intervals my wife made these suggestions: “You are relaxed, very relaxed. You will remember every- thing that I read to you after you awake. Do you hear me?” “Ves,” I replied. “O.K.,” she said. “Tashi means ‘to rise up, to start.’ “Tafo means ‘to come.’ “Zamna means ‘to sit down.’ “Koma means ‘to return, to go back.’ “Shiga means ‘to enter, to go in.’ “Chi means ‘to eat.’ “Samu means ‘to find, to ob- tain.’ “There are three ways to say why: ‘domi, dommi, donmi. ” And so she continued with page after page of vocabulary. Next she read the idiomatic expressions and their meanings, colloquial expres- sions, market terms and various salutations. To put it simply, I was learning the language the same way you learned English —by hearing the language and repeating what I heard. You didn’t begin by study- ing grammar. You first learned how to say things, how words are ar- ranged, and only when you knew the language pretty well did you begin to study grammar. I did it the same way. The only difference was that I “harnessed my sub- conscious” to get maximum reten-. tion of a tremendous amount of material within a relatively short period of time. The posthypnotic suggestion was given that when I awoke I would be able to speak with Cris. If the hypnotist specifically suggests that you will remember or not remem- ber, as the case may be, you will act accordingly. In my case I did not remember the actual learning sessions but I remembered the language. : When I awoke Cris spoke to me, © carefully keeping the conversation as best he could to the vocabulary which I had been “learning” during the trance lessons. After my first lesson that Sun- day morning, February 9, 1958, my speaking vocabulary in Hausa was several thousand words. My: “teacher-wife” was obliged to take a back seat when I began to con- verse with Cris. ; My second lesson under hyp- nosis took place the following Mon- day evening at 7:00 o’clock and lasted three hours. I had more vocabulary study and I started grammar: pronouns, verbs, cases and practice exercises. The next evening I had more exercises and more grammar: nouns, tenses, voices, passive participles, verbal
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Q2 suffixes, prepositions, and numerals. ~On Wednesday we did the rest of the grammar: adverbs, adjectives, etc. The entire grammatical struc- ture of the language was read to me. My lessons in Swahili followed a similar pattern on Thursday and Friday. We spent six hours on each of those two evenings studying Swahili, a very precise language. Saturday, February 15, 1958, marked the end of a hectic week. That morning I listened to further translations in both languages from 7:00 A.M. til noon, under hypnosis. I was then given the posthypnotic suggestion that at 4:00 Cris would commence to talk to me in Hausa, and I would answer him in Hausa, that Tom would do the same in Swahili, and I would answer him in Swahili, and that my wife would speak to me in English and I would answer in English. eK Soe E CELEBRATED the week’s end with a sumptuous meal of fried rice and lobster. Later I noticed Cris watching the time very closely. I asked him if he was go- ing out. He answered no. I glanced at my watch and observed that it FATE was almost 4:00 o’clock. Suddenly Cris began to talk to me in Hausa. I understood him and I answered him in Hausa. Tom spoke to me in Swahili and I an- swered him in Swahili. My wife then asked me a question in Eng- lish and I replied to her in English. What an evening! I had an un- explainable urge to talk and I snapped back and forth in three languages with the greatest ease, and without any conscious knowl- edge of the posthypnotic sugges- tion. All I knew was that I had the urge, the vitality, and the facility to talk; and talk I did. My rigorous lessons, coupled with the remarkable phenomenon of posthypnotic suggestion, now have been over for three years. But to- day I still speak both Hausa and Swahili fluently. Through hypnotic techniques I also have perfected my Spanish. I plan to go to France someday and my French needs a lot of im- provement. But I-won’t clear a jungle with an axe; I'll use mod- ern machinery. When it comes time to improve my French, T’ll do it the easy way—over a week- end! — THE FIRE HAD GOLDEN ASHES LDERLY Vittorio Bazzo of Tortona, Italy, leaped from his burn- ing automobile and as he sadly watched it destroyed by the flames, he got a hunch. Vittorio played the car’s license number in the weekly National Lottery and won 2,125,000 lire—about $3,500. —Raymond C. Otto.
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FATE will pay $5 for each story published in this department. Stories should deal with an actual experience proving spirit survival. They should be less than 300 words and typed (double-spaced) on one side of the paper. They should be sent to “Survival” Editor, FATE Magazine, 845 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, III. Manuscripts must give author's name and address and include a stamped, self-addressed return envelope. MOTHER CABRINI HELPED By Winnie Adcock WAS A YOUNG nurse in charge of a delivery room in the Col- umbus Hospital in New York City in the year 1940. The hospital building had been built in 1892 so was old, with no modern conveniences such as hos- pitals have today. Nurses worked 12 hours a day or night, six days a week. A registered nurse those days did the amount of work and had the responsibility three _ registered nurses assume today. Reporting on duty at 7:00 P.M. I worked through to 7:00 A.M. Sometimes during the night I had relief and slept on a stretcher in the nurses’ dressing room. On those nights when I took my nap I would see a nun standing by the stretcher but when I became fully awake she would disappear into thin air. I was surprised that I had this same dream almost every night; the same nun appeared. One morning at 4:00 A.M. I was on my way to the delivery room with a patient on the stretcher. We were in a big rush but the elevator was busy most of the time and there was a 15 to 20 minute wait. The delivery room was several floors above the patients labor room. Many times ac- cidents happened and babies were 93 born on the stretchers while nurse and patient waited for the elevator. It always meant lots of excitement. One nurse had 28 births on the stretcher by the elevator in just three months. She lost her job. I always whispered a prayer that we would get to the delivery room on time. And many times the nun of my dreams walked with me, holding and pushing the stretcher to the ele- vator. If I spoke to the nun she al- ways disappeared—she just seemed to vanish into the night. Many of the other nurses con- WINNIE ADCOCK
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MY PROOF OF SURVIVAL John, went out to the barn and ex- amined the split dashboard and the horse which had not been wiped down. It was more than a week later that John brought home the startling se- quel. Word around town was that on the night Lawrence had picked up his mysterious passenger two rogues from the village, knowing it was his day for collecting the Queen’s taxes and that he would be very late get- ting home, had planned to set upon him and rob him. They had been quoted to John as saying, “We were all set for him but he had a monstrous big man with him and we dared not molest him.” At once Lawrence and every mem- ber of his family, including my mother, had the same thought. Bur- ied in the graveyard into which the stranger had disappeared was Am- brose, dearly beloved son of Law- rence and Ellen Laffin. A fine fig- ure of a man, noted for his physical prowess and size, he had been struck down in a mine disaster at the age of 19.—Providence, R. I. GRANDFATHER'S “TREAT” By Mrs. R. L. Devore S A CHILD I had an abnormal fear of death. Life was so wonderful, I never wanted it to come to an end. I was the first and favorite grand- child of my maternal grandfather, W. A. Dow. We spent many joyous hours together. How I loved holding onto his hand as we walked to the neighborhood store, for I knew that he would buy a treat for me there. . He sensed my fear of death and often tried to impress me with his own great faith in the goodness of 97 FERBRBRBBAERBBRREBEEBEBREBE EEE TALK IT OVER BY TAPE RECORDER Use our experience and understanding in prob- lems of HUMAN RELATIONS, SBELF-IM- PROVEMENT or PERSONAL SUCCESS. Talk ” to us and hear our answer—or SEND for our WRITTEN METAPHYSICAL COURSES. MYSTICAL ORDER OF HERMES The Church of Occult Metaphysics Box 221, Hermosa Beach, Calif. Adee eeswesweseseeaenenenuse A SOUL AG POWER Is The Greatest Foree In The Universe — It is the dynamic activating principle back of all genuine achievement, Spiritually and materially. Those possessing this power are limitless in their progression on all planes. Mankind must awaken and develop this dormant inner force if it is to survive the coming travail of mounting world chaos — and he able to face with confidence the changes and problems of the dawning New Spiritual Age. Man must learn to be his own savior or he is going to be his own destroyer. He has been woefully misled. Cease following false and shallow teach- ings which actually cause you to completely by-pass God and his Divine Laws. Soul Power enables you to tap God’s great storehouse of knowledge and wisdom for your own full guidance and deliverance. Learn how you can develop this dynamic power, as the Nazarene did, through the teachings in Soul Science and Divine Law, as revealed by the Ancient Mystics and Masters of old. Do not delay. It is much later than you think. Write NOW for in- structive explanatory color brochure “Un- folding the Lotus Within Your Own Being.” Sent free for limited time to all earnest and sineere seekers of Light and Trush. Louis S. Vosburgh, Headmaster Scwoo. oF Sout Science AND Diving Law Lake Shore Hotel, 12506 Edgewater Drive Lakewood 7, Ohio, U.S.A. Dept. F-73 BABBWABRABAEBEREAEE aaa 4 =|
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NAVAHO WITCHCRAFT, by Clyde Kluck- hohn. Beacon Press, Boston, 1962. 276 pages, $4.95. To the Navaho, witchcraft is “bad medicine” as opposed to “good,” al- though “a legitimate technique” when used against “all outsiders.” To the author—Rhodes Scholar, stu-~ dent of psychiatry at the University of Vienna, and Professor of Anthro- pology at Harvard University until “his fatal heart attack” in the New Mexico back country—Navaho witchcraft was not a body of claims investigated but a pattern of be explored for “uncon- to be ations” (he seems to belief to evo '™s.. scious motives ge about parapsy- have known noth. Mana a chology)- ot me Sections and Appr. yk being latter, about one-half the bu are i rratives, translated Navaho egrets Ean voted to its major ones” Witchery, Le ave-robbers, wome: ) Pon. disguised as wolves as oe otes, and bedecked in : es jewelry, meet in caves; one ae paskets of corpse-flesh, CO” aoe of evil prayer and song: a wee cannibalism, necrophilia 4 feelin obscenities, initiate newcome ge apes -st-jnitiation being=mur arene » a sibling), and prepare powdered “corpse poison” for new forays of murder, vengeance and extortion. Sorcery, magic-at-a-distance, by images (doll or sandpainting), af- flicting man, his possessions or com- munity. Wizardry, the “shooting” of tiny objects by magic into the vic- tim’s body, curable only by extrac- tion by a “sucker”, who is often suspected of splitting fees with the “shooter”. “Prostitution Way,” di- vination, love-magic, etc., by mind- affecting herbs, chants, ete. Pro- tection is generally afferded by good prayers,.songs and chants, and by the presence of sacred medicine and objects; but strong “witching” can only be broken by the confession and death of the witch. The author asserts that, whatever its origin, witchcraft provides the Navaho with exciting stories for en- tertainment, “explanations” for - otherwise perplexing events, support for established taboos and ritualism, ~ “4d an outlet for publicity-seekers ane , ready \, importe principa dividual’s ; With the comin tensions and 99 v to suffer as “victims.” More ignt, it “provides one of the a socially understood means ing” ‘the Navaho in- i-social tendencies.” - of the white man, enxieties for the Nav-
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REPORT FROM THE READERS out the item in my manuscript cred- iting the Round Robin. While I got a good deal of the material direct from Gilbert Wright when I talked with him the bulk of my account of the Edison device and Wright’s supposed contact with Steinmetz and Edison, was lifted from his Round Robin ar- ticles; and J should have preferred to credit them. Another point—a minor one—is that the lead as you have rewritten it seems to suggest a degree of cre- dulity on my part considerably in ex- cess of what I really feel. I have, I hope, an open mind with respect to all these matters, but actual com- munication from the Other Side is a thing that is going to take an aw- ful lot of proving. That lead, I feel, makes me sound a bit naive, and perhaps over-credulous.—J. Wain- wright Evans, La Luz, New Mex. A “BIRTH-DATE FILE?” The suggestion, in Mrs, Wilson’s letter in the April issue, that any two persons born the same year, day and hour will have coinciding years for important events in their lives, seems to offer highly interesting possibilities for research and service by your magazine. Readers could be invited to send their birthdates and times (with name and address) which could be filed in chronological order. When- ever two have coinciding birth dates, they could be invited to send in the dates of the most important events in their lives, with a brief indication of the nature of the events. They then could be given an opportunity to get in touch with each other if they so wished. I would be glad to handle this if any of your readers care to send me 113 | SEE the HUMAN AURA! | —_____ a vital step toward PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT Aura researchers have now developed a mechanical means of learning to see the human aura — permanent optically per- fect filters mounted in a pair of gog- gles adjustable to your head-size. They leave your hands free! Up to now the most highly developed psychics have had to learn to see the human aura with the aid of awkward physical means—ex- pensive fragile screens and hand-held films, treated with obscure dyes of short-lived power. AMONG THE FIRST NOW — YOU CAN BE . . . 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 pinacyanole bromide, a coal tar de- Tivative 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 oe have seen the aura on their first ry! AURA GOGGLES » . . are a scientifically manufactured psychic appliance, with pinacyanole bromide filters, boxed with complete INStrUCHORS Sst eae $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! ee ee Se ae es Se Sa OS SS CLARK PUBLISHING CO. | 845 Chicago Ave., Evanston, Il. | I Please sent me AT ONCE .....-.--+-. pair of | | AURA GOGGLES, and include booklet ~Beelntsy the Aura’’ at no additional cost. 0D cash (0 check Order fOr $.o2 ccs ececusesviess (1 money | I I I enclose I |
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REPORT FROM THE READERS away in a dresser drawer. While getting ready for the game I took the ticket out of the drawer and must -have placed it on a table be- side the dresser. But when ready to leave I could not find the ticket on either the table or the dresser. I looked in other places for it and searched all my pockets. I returned to the table for another look under the few objects on it. As I did so there appeared on the table what looked like a puff of white smoke about the shape and size of the ticket—and in another moment there was the ticket. I had a third such experience about six years later. Beside an easychair was a stand which held a large ash tray. I seldom smoke and had little use for the tray except to place my glasses on it when I took them off. One evening I laid my glasses on the tray and went to the table for some- thing. When I returned to the chair and the ash tray, my glasses were gone. Recalling the previous happenings, I checked carefully to make certain that this present mystery was not due simply to some oversight or con- fusion on my part. I knew I had placed my glasses in the ash tray, but I checked into all the other things I might have done. At last, certain-my glasses were gone, I decided to go to the closet and get another pair I had in a coat pocket. I tookvanother look at the ash tray—and there were my glasses. I guess only a poltergeist could cause such things to happen. —D. W. Beach, Oakland, Calif. FAITH RENEWED Thank you for renewing my faith in your magazine—and more than 115 WIP OPIII DIDI POLIS DODO O DODO ODED. LIFE READINGS Your Life Reading can help you better under- stand your present life. Discover your Strengths: your Hidden Gifts, the Talents you've brought from your past lives. For Reading, send $5.00 and a button from a frequently used garment. Please include place and date of birth. REV. E. HESSEL P.O. BOX 79, BROOKLYN 7, N.Y. PEPL PLO LILI LLL LLLELLLODSLOCDDLOL OLS CLAIRVOYANT Any four questions answered, Print name and address, enclose $1.00 bill and send to: K. KENNEDY 823 MAIN ST., ST. JOSEPH, MO. LEARN RADIO SCIENCE The new RADIOMAN’S GUIDE is the complete key to a practical un- derstanding of radio. 1088 pages, 400 illustrations and diagrams. Jeatures radio fundamentals, phys- ics of sound, and all the- oretical and _ practical radio work. -00. VENTURE BOOKSHOP P.O. Box 671 Evanston, It. HELP AND GUIDANCE yy FOR YOU through "3 * ASTROLOGICAL STUDIES Al * NUMEROLOGY * THE TAROT * ZODIAC & OTHER CHARMS DETAILED REPORT of the result of TQ lifetime’s study (runs to more than 2,500 words) with details of the Tarot and YOUR ZODIAC, as well as attention to other marvelous items especially for YOU. Send name, address, time of birth as well as place and day, month and year together ING with $1 to cover handling costs (airmalled 3 reply) to: = MADAME OUIDA (F.12) 98, Gt. Russell St., London W.C. 1, England
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