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£96| 4equieydas NMONANN FHL GNV JONVALS FHL JO SHYOLS NAL 6 “ON—9L ISA September 1963 40g TRUE STORIES OF THE STRANGE AND THE UNKNOWN FAIE THE STORY OF OLGA WORRALL Bj SVAN SANDERSON SAYS: The Story of El Yage, Psychic Drug of Mystery @ Astral Errand of Mercy e Science’s Water-Breathing Mice e The Rock and Roll Poltergeist True Mystic Experiences e News
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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 VENTURE BOOKSHOP P.O. Box 671 Evanston, Ill. (Vo)
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SEPTEMBER Vol. 16—No. 9 1963 Se ten bs _ Issue No. 162 Lt a CURTIS FULLER | Assistant Publisher: PAUL FOGHT Editor: MARY FULLER : Managing Editor: CHESTER S. GEIER CO Science Editor: HENRY A. BOTT Art Director: SYDNEY BARKER pe | TRUE REPORTS ON THE STRANGE AND UNKNOWN i - The Seership Of Olga Worrall ...............:ccscsccecsssetecesesessseee Curtis Fuller 26 El Yage ... A New Path To Psychic Experience .... Lee R. Gandee AZ HVS EEE es S UAE CB Sette Sco eget rama Cet ce en ARC ac pete aes Willy Ley 65 Let’s Investigate Flying Rocks... Ivan T. Sanderson 84 DRAMATIC ACCOUNTS OF ACTUAL EXPERIENCES I Married A Witch The Woman Who Bought A Ghost Dreamer Traps A Murderer Astral Errand Of Mercy Aidan Van Alm 35 Susy Smith 50 ... Irene Turnbull 74 Carol Hales 77 NEWS AND NOTES ON UNUSUAL TOPICS I See By The Papers . Curtis Fuller 6 What Caused Christ’s Death? 49 Science’s Water Breathing Mice 58 True Mystic Experiences 59 Turkey’s “House Of The Virgin Mary” 64 Was The “Thresher’s” Fate Foretold? ..... 75 Fingers Of Fate -......... Se .. Jeffrey Liss 76 Miracle For A Doomed Girl ... Lawrence W, Hall 81 Bringing The Bible Up To Date .. Alson J. Smith 82 The Rock And Roll Poltergeist 92 My Proof Of Survival ... 93 New Books 99 ReportPxom=Dhe Readers 2... cscs Epes eee The Readers 109 Published every month by CLARK PUBLISHING COMPANY, 845 Chicago Avenue, Ivanston, Till- mois. Second class postage paid at Evanston, Illinois, and at additional mailing offices. We do not accept responsibility for the return of unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or artwork. Subscribers should notify us of address changes 30 days in advance, giving both old and new address. Copyright © 1963, CLARK PUBLISHING COMPANY 4
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QUOTE OF THE MONTH A mass of uncertain evidence does not produce a certainty but the mul- tiplicity of cases adds to probabil- ity. Quoted by Samuel K. Lothrop Essays in Pre-Columbian Art and Archeology UTTER FRUSTRATION E FIND OURSELVES in- creasingly impatient and un- happy about science ignoring the claims of parapsychology and For- teana. A typical claim is the case for ignis fatwus which, translated, means “fool’s fire”. Ignis fatuus has been reported for thousands of years. Modern reports reach us every month. It ought to be much easier to investigate, say, than UFO’s. We have personages like Harvard professors concerning them- selves with UFO’s —if only to dis- prove them. (Did you ever stop to think that it is all but impossible to prove that something does not exist?) At any rate, we’re in such a state of mind that we wish one of the Donald Menzels of this world would look closely enough at ignis fatuus to prove it does not exist. By Curtis Fuller Recently UPI sent a dispatch on ignis fatuus from a town with the unlikely name of Spooksville, Mo. We doubt that you can find Spooks- ville on the map and for all we know the name originated in the mind of the UPI reporter. At any rate, the dispatch discussed the “Hornet spook light,” so named after the nearby town of Hornet, Mo. Hornet is in the southwest corner of Mis- souri, near the Oklahoma state line, There is a dirt road that stretch- es from the state line westward in- to Oklahoma and UPI claims that a “spook light” glows and dances every night along this road on the Oklahoma side. L.W. Robertson operates a
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Io Eileen Jane Welch died two hours later. Thirty-seven schoolmates testi- fied that they had seen the girl lift- ed aloft. Still, the coroner could not be- lieve their stories. “Why should this happen to her alone?” he asked. Meteorologists stated that it would require a wind of at least 110-m.p.h. velocity to have lifted her into the air. But on this morn- ing there was no gale or even a single gust of such velocity record- ed anywhere in the nation. One government expert is quoted as stating: “We simply don’t know what happened and how it happened.” oe) THE BROKEN CLOCK HE CONDITIONS under which telepathy or other forms of psi operate most effectively are known only in part. If one believes in telepathy but not in clairvoyance, for example, he can dismiss out of hand the Air Force’s attempts to have subjects guess random num- bers selected by and known only to a computer. More complex is an experiment conducted by Prof. A.E.H. Bleks- ley, head of the Department of Ap- plied Mathematics, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. FATE Professor Bleksley’s subject was in Cape Town, 900 miles away. Each day for 74 days, Professor Bleksley set the hand of a broken alarm clock to a time between mid- night and 7:45 A.M. He set it for a different time each day. Mean- while his test subject in Cape Town — went to bed each night while telling himself to “see” the time to which the clock was set and to wake at | that time. After Professor Bleksley set the “alarm” of the broken clock, he sealed the clock in a box and locked the box in the cupboard. There was naturally no physical communica- tion at any time between the pro- fessor and his subject. Yet three times in the 74-day ex- periment, the subject woke at the precise hour and minute for which the “alarm” was set and five times he awoke within one minute of the time. Professor Bleksley considers these eight occasions to be “hits” and of high enough statistical sig- nificance to indicate mental tele- pathy. This is but another of the repe- titious experiments by which para- psychologists apparently are: try- ing to convince themselves that psi really does exist. These studies have been going on for years and it seems time for researchers to be looking in a new direction. Suppose Professor Bleksley had used a working alarm clock, for
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I SEE BY THE PAPERS races, but a study soon indicates that they do not agree with those of Carleton Coon. First of all, Cayce’s definition of a race by color alone is not acceptable by any modern anthropological standards. Cayce’s readings claim that the races originated in the following geographical areas: “Those in the Gobi (Desert) the yellow. The white, rather in the Carpathians. The red in the Altan- tean and the American (continents). The brown in the Andean. The black in the plain and the Sudan, in Africa.” Cayce’s definition by color thus makes no provision for Coon’s australoids. Cayce’s “red” and “brown” races would both be classi- fied under what Coon calls “mon- goloid.” What Coon calls “cauca- soid” is probably what Cayce means by white, which actually comes in a variety of shades down to nearly black. Cayce makes no provision for the capoids. And as a further disagreement, we are sure that Carleton Coon would deny there ever was an Atlantis. CO THAT CATAPULT AGAIN HAT MYSTERIOUS rock- thrower has been at it again — this time in Melrose Park, Pa., near Philadelphia. Rocks have been bombarding the home of Jack T. Siciliano, 32 Dewey Rd., since 13 ABC’s of COLOUR SCIENCE A basic course in Colour Science. 14 lessons clearly explain each ray, how it is absorbed into the body, and how the rays affect you physically, mentally and spiritually. Regularly $14.00. With this ad, $10.00. Your order also entitles you to free membership in the Fellow- ship. COLOUR MEDITATION LAMPS YOUR NAME IN LIVING COLOUR Colour meditation lamps reflecting the colour value of the letters of your name. Personality ray lamps, rainbow meditation lamps. Send 25c for brochure, ANALYZE YOUR NAME WITH COLOR An interesting, lucrative hobby, as well as one that will prove helpful to your clients and friends. Handbook giving explicit direction on analysis of name by Qabalistic meaning of let- ters, numbers and colours. $10.00 each. “LET'S GET ACQUAINTED WITH JESUS” A 35-page booklet, revealing many unknown facts concerning the life of Jesus, the Man, The Teacher, The Messiah. $1.50 each. ALSO AVAILABLE: Incense and perfumes cor- related with the 7 Rays, Incense, 28 cones, 75c. Perfume, 2-o0z. bottle, $2.00—pure floral oils, no alcohol. AQUARIAN COSMIC COLOUR FELLOWSHIP, INC. 6811 Yucca St., Hollywood 28, Calif. PLAN YOUR FUTURE, MAKE PREDICTIONS, Be Your Own NUMEROLOGIST NUMEROLOGY by Vincent Lopez gives instructions so sim- ple anyone can master them at a_ single reading. Here is the complete, modern text introducing you to the ancient Art of Numbers. NUMEROLOGY is divided into four parts: Forecasting at sa Glance, Your Path poof Destiny, Your Name, and Numbers and Philosophy. “To anyone interested in having a first rate textbook on simplified, scientific Numerology this attractive volume by the celebrated band- leader will not be disappointing.”” G, B LeGros.— FATE. = 2, NUMEROLOGY ~~<*4~ by Vincent Lopez — $3.50 VENTURE BOOKSHOP P.O. Box 671, Evanston, Ill.
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14 Easter and as we write had contin- ued beyond the middle of May. Philadelphia and Cheltenham township police had searched for - weeks in vain. They saw rocks land but found no one throwing them. On one occasion, while police were searching a rather wide area for the source of the rocks, 20 stones the size of baseballs fell into the back yard while two Siciliano children, Jimmy 13 and Jackie 10, were pres- ent. Police visited homes 100 yards away from the Siciliano home and discovered the rocks must be clear- ing them by a wide margin. Mean- while the Sicilianos were getting desperate. “We're hoping that some- one will find a way to end it,” Mr. Siciliano said. “We’ve lived danger- ously long enough.” He was afraid that someone was going to get killed. Two children had been hit by the rocks — but only by marble-sized rocks. The big rocks hadn’t hit anyone but had smashed windows, screens, the sid- ing of the house and an automobile windshield. And where were these rocks com- ing from? Readers of FaTE must be getting pretty weary of this same old explanation. Police said they were being shot from a catapult or from a giant slingshot, but mean- while no one to our knowledge ever has found such a device around one of these rock-falling areas. FATE In an excess of daring, the Phila- delphia Inquirer published an ed- itorial calling for stern action by the judges if the miscreants were caught. “The stone-throwing outbreaks must be recognized as a part of a pattern of juvenile misbehavior which, throughout its extent, has not received properly vigorous treatment. These ‘boys’ have fig- ured in some major crimes lately — as in several cases of arson which resulted in huge fires. More ade- quate deterrents are required.” Fate readers can only shake their heads at a courtroom attack on what is undoubtedly poltergeist activity. ioe) TWO INCHES A YEAR LTHOUGH the German scien- tist Alfred Wegener published his theory of continental drift 50 years ago, it is becoming “respect- able” only now. When Fare began publication 15 years ago, Wegen- er’s theory was about as wild as poltergeists — or Hugh Auchincloss Brown’s theory of a periodically capsizing earth. Study of the magnetism “frozen” into rocks clearly shows that at the time those rocks congealed either the magnetic poles were in a different direction than are to- day’s poles—or there were mul- tiple magnetic poles.
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I SEE BY THE PAPERS Now -the study of magnetism has been joined by geology and pal- eontology, for example, and it is be- coming clearer just when the conti- nents started to drift apart. Australian scientists have con- cluded “with reservations” that 100 million years ago Australia was al- most squarely at the South Mag- netic Pole and it has since moved some 3,400 miles with respect to North America. This may seem like an enormous distance but it actual- ly averages out to be only two inches a year. British scientists have estimated that a super continent surrounded by one great ocean existed about 150 million years ago. About 120 million years ago a gigantic rift ap- peared in what is now the Atlantic Ocean and the two American conti- nents began to drift away from Africa. Some 60 million years later a new rift separated Africa from India, and Australia from Antarc- tica. Eventually, the slow motion of India pushed up the Himalayan land mass. Paleontology confirms much of this. When the continents were joined animals could move freely between them. Once the gaps be- came big enough, plants and ani- mals no longer could migrate and became separated as species. The way in which this happens is being suggested, too, by studies of the ocean floor. As the light land 15 Formula for Genius by Edward L. Kramer au- thor of ‘‘Pathways to Power’, “Slumbertalk”’, and the ESP method ‘‘Listen.’”’ Dr. Boris Sidis, associate of William James at Harvard, delighted in tak- ing failing students and making hon- or students of them with a unique for- mula. He applied the method to his son’s education, and Billy was able to read and write at the age of four. He skipped through school, and at eleven addressed the Harvard faculty on the Fourth Di- mension. Einstein ac- cepted a correction of a flaw in his Theory of Relativity which Billy found, At fifteen, he taught at Rice Institute in Texas. The mother of Billy, has revealed this re- markable method and its application in col- laboration with Dr. Edward L. Kramer, founder of the Kim- Billy Sidis FATE Readers: A copy of the ESP method cal- led “LISTEN” ball Foundation of | will be included Personality Engineer- free with your ing. It is available for “Formula Genius”“—$1.00. to you in a 48 page illustrated manuscript called, “Formula for Genius.” KIMBALL FOUNDATION $1.00 BRENTWOOD 17, MISSOURI.
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I SEE BY THE PAPERS Neyv., the Patmont car skidded and crashed. Diane was hurled 25 feet. She told her father as she died: “T’m not afraid. I know where Tm going.” are It seems to us that all these four incidents, taken from the news- papers during the month I am writing this, may be valid premon- itions or, at least, clairvoyant or telepathic warnings of disaster. oO UP THERE =[E NEWS FROM Mars, though incomplete is not so discouraging. The preliminary re- port of findings from the gigantic tandem balloon that carried a huge telescope and sensing equipment aloft early in March indicates the presence of water vapor and carbon dioxide on Mars —as we said. Meanwhile we thought you might like to know that on May 21 a tiny planet of our solar system, named Betula, came within 14.6 million miles of Earth. Astronomers think Betula is probably less than 50 miles in diameter. The closest other approach of any asteroid was the sudden appear- ance of Hermes in 1937; the plan- etoid came within 400,000 miles of us, but was so speedy its orbit still hasn’t been determined. Nor has Hermes been seen since that com- paratively close call.—Curtis Fuller 23 IDOL OF THE SUN God of Luck INTRICATELY CARVED from a semi-prec- ious stone found near the Pyramid known as “Sun of God’ in Mexico, Legend says this sMall primitive idol rules games of chance, and brings good luck, prosperity and hap- piness to the wearer. Carved idol on chain makes attractive necklace. Key chain for the men. $2.00 ppd. State choice. No C,.0.D, FANTASY LINE 952142 So. Hobart, L. A. 6, Calif. SCIENCE OF TAROT CORRESPONDENCE COURSES BY THE FOREMOST CUSTODIAN AND SPIRITUAL CENTER OF THE ESOTERIC WISDOM OF TAROT AND THE HOLY QABALAH Sincere aspirants send for free booklet THE OPEN DOOR and documentation on the ‘‘Tzaddi Miracle.’’ BUILDERS OF THE ADYTUM, Dept. A 5105 N. Figueroa St., Los Angeles 42, Cal. FOREIGN JOBS Foreign employment offers men and women choice of 19 countries — free transportation—special tax benefits —bonuses—liberal vacations—and a most unique way of life in govern- ment careers or with American com-" panies, their subsidiaries. Over half a million Americans work and live ex- ceptionally well outside the U.S.A. You can earn up to $1,600 per month paid in U.S. currency. For complete details send $2 to Foreign Projects, P.O. Box 1945, Beverly Hills, Calif. CALIFORNIA JOBS Thousands of new job openings now in Southern California in all fields. Permanent job security. Send $2 for job information, names and address- es to California Jobs, P. O. Box 1944, Beverly Hills, Calif. :
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Ambrose and Olga Worrall are noted psychics. the SEERSHIP of Oba Wall By Curtis Dollen : HE YOUNG MAN had a busi- nesslike appearance, brisk and efficient. He was sitting at the din- ing room table of a comfortable Baltimore home, writing on a pad of paper. When he was through, he folded the sheet thoughtfully, then strode into the living room and handed it to the trim, dark-eyed woman who sat waiting for him. She took the folded sheet and held it in her hand, looking at him solemnly, waiting, listening. Words formed and she began to speak, answering the questions on the folded paper without opening it or reading them. Then she an- 26
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She not only gave correct answers to questions which, unknown to her, were in alien Arabic script—she gave correct answers when none were known to anyone! nounced that the most important question her interrogator had on his mind had not been written on the sheet of paper. It has something to do with the word “platelet,” she said. (This turned out to be the key word in some blood research he was doing.) As she talked on, she pronounced some words in a strange language very unlike English. The alien sounds seemed to twist and tear at her throat, so foreign did they seem. _ After she had answered the ques- tions, the young man told her to unfold the slip of paper and read what he had written. At first the scribbling looked like shorthand to her. But no, he said, the questions were in Arabic! A ee Fo DECADES it had been pro- posed that if a sensitive actual- ly could speak a language which was unknown to her in a normal state, this would constitute one ul- timate proof of mediumship. Many such claims have been made but investigation has dissolved most of them like a lump of sugar in hot tea. A rare number of un- usually gifted European mediums are alleged to have spoken Chinese and similar exotic and far-removed tongues but the verifications of this . have not been universally accepted. In the mediumship of Olga Wor- rall, a Baltimore housewife, Fats believes it has unequivocal proof of the ability of a sensitive to speak. a previously unknown language, and to give intelligent, intelligible an- swers in that language. Moreover (herein lies an even deeper mystery) Mrs. Worrall, in the case described here, gave an- swers to serious medical research questions that no one in the world knew at the time the problem was phrased by her questioner. Even beyond this, Mrs. Worrall told her interrogator that the medical ques- tion most important to his experi- ment was not written down but she had the answer for it, nevertheless. The young man who wrote the five questions is a medical doctor. Today he is in charge of a depart- ment and deeply involved in re- search at a large Eastern hospital. 2]
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28 His name, title, address and back- ground are known to FATE Maga- zine but for purposes of this article his identity must be concealed. We have given him the pseudonym of “Dr, Theo.” Dr. Theo was born in Lebanon and educated at universities in Leb- anon, England, and the United States. He is a charming man of middle height with dark, wavy hair and a quick manner. He speaks Arabic, French, and English and is a devout and practicing Christian of the Eastern Orthodox faith. One evening in 1954 Dr. Theo was invited to pay a social call on Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose Worrall of Baltimore. Mrs. Worrall is Olga. He had been working as a research associate in an Eastern hospital, trying to solve a complicated med- ical research problem. He was trying to exclude a particular phe- nomenon from normal blood serum so that a much better distinction would arise between normal serum and abnormal serum. 3 Dr. Theo explained to Mr. Wor- tall that he had several questions and problems he needed answers to and wondered if Olga could get the answers for him through her gift of seership. Mr. Worrall escorted Dr. Theo into the dining room, handed him a pad of paper, asked him to write his questions and left. Dr. Theo seated himself on a French Provin- FATE cial chair at the dining room table and wrote down five questions in Arabic. Four dealt with medical re- search problems and one asked a question about Lebanon. Dr. Theo then folded the paper carefully and returned to the liv- ing room where both Worralls were waiting. He handed the folded sheet to Olga, sitting on a Hepple- white sofa upholstered in dark rose velvet. The living room is rather formal, with a piano, hi-fi, the us- ual tables, chairs and lamps and a large Persian Kerman rug on the floor. “My medical questions on the folded sheet referred to experi- ments, the results of which were unknown even to me at the time,” Dr. Theo explains. “I felt that by asking such questions any possibil- ity of my influencing Mrs. Worrall by some psychological means or possibly by telepathy would be eliminated. “As a matter of fact, I repeated this experiment a number of times and in a majority of cases my ques- tions were answered in a relevant. way. Some of the answers had to do with strictly scientific and medical material about which the Worralls could have known noth- ing.” One such question dealt directly with Dr, Theo’s research. “A fan- tastic part of this thing is that Olga said to me, ‘I will answer all
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THE SEERSHIP OF OLGA WORRALL : 29 Reproduction shows example of questions written in Arabic by Dr. Theo and given —folded up—to Olga Worrall for answer. a D9 Se your questions but you don’t have the right question here.’ “And then’she gave me an an- swer in the key word ‘platelet.’ ” Dr. Theo recently explained to us the significance of Olga’s revela- tion. “The platelets are cellular ele- ments in the blood which are main- ly concerned with blood clotting. In the work we are doing,” he ex- plained, “they were indirectly in- volved as a complicating factor. At the time I was asking the ques- tion, I did not even think of plate- 24 Go eee er Aa a Ane eas a s 4 A Mle) CL wo G es e fal aA ce 2d SVE mw s25 ae 3 Qos GTs 7 boot Cw cee S55 St ge zee) ae To a Hse 61 BO oF aT | Qw Eck Ge ES BAS CyitasdN Coo it a) 0 es Cee ~_ lets in connection with our work and their possible complicating effect on our phenomena. But when brought to my attention by Olga Worrall, and on further investiga- tion, I was able to show that these platelets were indeed causing the false positive results in our ex- periments. “We then made attempts to get rid of these platelets in an effort to eliminate false positive results. This approach was successful. Ex- periments were made in which the effect of the platelets was excluded
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730 / by various methods and the perti- nence of this concept to our method was established.” The professor with whom Dr. Theo was working on the research project was amazed with the pro- gress and asked him how he had happened to think of such a pos- sibility. Dr. Theo remarked somewhat lamely that “I just had a feeling,” but the professor replied that it was much more than that —it was a hunch. “Coming from a man of his scientific background and ma- terialistic approach, and who had known nothing of these personal experiences of mine, this statement could not be taken lightly.” Dr. Theo says he was further amazed that not only did Mrs. Worrall understand his Arabic ques- tions without reading them but gave him key words in Arabic which were relevant to the questions he had asked. These basic facts are not half- remembered incidents from some- thing that happened nine years ago. Dr. Theo went on record about this in a letter he wrote shortly after his amazing series of meetings with the Worralls. The letter was written to a prominent Methodist minister (name on file) May 10, 1954, and Fare has a copy of this letter which verifies and details his experiences immed- jately after they happened. FATE “During my last sitting,” he wrote the minister, “as a result of the arrival of my mother from Leb- anon, the atmosphere was really filled with joy and practically all the Arabic synonymns for joy to be found in the dictionary were spoken through Olga. “What is even more astonishing is the pronunciation of the differ- ent Arabic words according to the different dialects, which, in a num- ber of cases, were convincing fea- tures of the reality of the communi- cating persons’ identity (his father). “For example, Olga, in relating to me a conversation from an uncle of mine, whom I had told the Wor- ralls nothing about, and who had been a doctor in Cairo, Egypt, when on earth, pronounced a few very distinctive words in an Egyp- tian dialect which is quite unique in the Arabic language.” Dr. Theo recently described in more detail exactly what he meant and gave FATE some specific in- stances of how Olga had spoken correctly several Arabic dialects. In the case above, for instance, “Cairo” is pronounced “Al-Kahra” in the Egyptian dialect. Olga pro- nounced it correctly, although in the Lebanese dialect it is pro- nounced “Al-Kahira.” In another instance, Olga cor- rectly pronounced the words “Bahki Ana” in the Egyptian
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THE SEERSHIP OF OLGA WORRALL ae dialect, which means “I am talk- ing.” In the Lebanese dialect this would be pronounced “Bihki Ana.” “On the other hand, words at- tributed to dead relatives who had lived in rural Lebanon fitted in well with the rural Lebanese dialect,” Dr. Theo explains. “The expression ‘Ayha’ carries no mean- ing to a non-Lebanese and is not in the Arabic dictionary. It even has no meaning to a Lebanese liv- ing in the big city. Yet this same vocal expression to a Lebanese from the rural areas of Lebanon carries a good deal of meaning. It takes one to rare occasions of great festivities, marriage festiv- ities, for example, and is synony- mous with a state of happiness and joy.” On another occasion, words. at- tributed to a dead man from the desert were spoken by Olga in classical Arabic and had reference to things of the desert. Such a word is “Ya Akh,” which means “Oh, Brother.” Yet when Olga used words having the same meaning but attributed to a Lebanese, she used the correct Lebanese dialect word, “Ya Khy.” Dr. Theo feels that additional convincing evidence was obtained in 1958 when Olga wrote in Arabic the word illustrated on this page. This word means “my mule” and was attributed to a camel driver. Olga’s word is on the top of the Arabic word meaning ‘‘my mule,’ above, ° was written by Olga Worrall. Dr. Theo wrote same word for comparison, below. reproduction. Beneath it, Dr. Theo later wrote the same word for com- parison. “The mere reference to such a word in connection with a man from the desert is evidential,” he says. “That Olga, in addition, was able to write such a key word in Arabic is indeed an exceptional phenomenon.” In a further effort to verify the accuracy of the Arabic words spoken by Olga, Dr. Theo made a point of introducing series of words which sounded similar but had dif- ferent meanings. Some related to the subject matter under discus- sion; some did not. “In practically every case,” he declares, “Olga Worrall would pick up the right words which were pertinent to the discussion and exclude the non- pertinent words.”
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32 In addition to Olga’s precise se- lection of the correct and subtle dialect pronunciation, Dr. Theo had been impressed by two other facets of her ability to use a completely strange foreign language. One of these is her ability to answer questions written in Arabic. Repeatedly, Dr. Theo wrote down questions about scientific experi- ments whose results he did not know himself. Other questions dealt with future events. He would hand the folded paper to Olga who would hold it in her hand while she an- swered the questions. “The questions usually were an- swered satisfactorily,” he says. “Sometimes the sequence in which the questions were put was not fol- lowed exactly in the answers but the fields with which these ques- tions dealt were usually all re- ferred to.” An example is the three ques- tions in Arabic reproduced on page 29. These questions were asked of Olga in 1954. “One of the ques- tions is exceptionally interesting,” Dr. Theo states. “I asked which is the active fraction in the experi- ment which includes four fractions altogether. Olga gave the answer as ‘Number Three.’ At the time I had no concept as to which one would be the most active fraction. At the termination of the experi- ment several weeks later the most active fraction was indeed found to FATE be Number Three as predicted. “Here then was an example where the questions were asked in Arabic on a scientific matter deal- ing with findings which were un- known to me at the time and yet the answer was the correct one. It is unlikely that this was merely chance.” Arabic is a complicated language. Pronunciation is especially difficult for foreigners. Yet Olga not only was able to answer Arabic questions in English but she was able to an- swer them in Arabic as well. “Some of the words Olga would pronounce were clearly enunciated,” Dr. Theo says, “and what is more remarkable, her replies all were ‘given in words which, when united, gave a clear answer to the sub- ject being discussed or the ques- tion asked. ~“T could not always understand all the words she would relay but on further questioning she would usually pick the right word from a number of related words I would give her to choose from.” On one occasion Dr. Theo took two Persian friends, a husband and wife, to visit the Worralls. During the visit a spirit appeared to Olga claiming to be the man’s father. He said he was called “Bahba” by his family. The startled son burst forth with an exclamation. “Our family was the only Persian household to call
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THE SEERSHIP OF OLGA WORRALL the father ‘Bahba,’” he said. “Our grandmother lived near the border of Iraq and had taught us to use the Arabic word instead of the Per- sian name ‘Behbeh.’ ” * Ok OW CAN a woman born in Cleveland, Ohio, and brought up speaking only English and White Russian suddenly become a linguist in Oriental languages as esoteric as Classical Arabic, Egyptian and Leb- anese dialects of Arabic? Olga learned English as any child growing up in Cleveland learns it, and she learned Russian in lan- guage school. Her father was a White Russian, and although her mother was a Hungarian she never learned to speak that language. Olga says she never heard Arabic spoken before she found herself re- peating the words that she was. “hearing” in her inner mind. Her method of working is quite different from that of most sensi- tives. Light does not bother her. She never goes into trance. “As I listen I receive the answers,” she says. She thinks of her gifts as “seer- ship.” “I am not a voice medium,” she says, “in fact I do not possess physical mediumship. “In a normal state I am able to hear and see discarnate spirits and as I hear what the spirit says I repeat it. If the spirit speaks in a foreign language then I try to 33 pronounce the words as~J hear them, and that is all there is to it. I do not need atmosphere for my work. When there is a need I be- come the receiver but I cannot turn it on at will just to prove or satisfy an individual.” All this is not quite as simple as it sounds. At times when the specific word is hard to grasp, Olga may be given a simplified picture or symbol to indicate the word. Dr. Theo recalls that this happened in the case of the platelets. The word “platelet” was not familiar to Olga and she was given the mental pic- ture of a plate with the additional notion of a small plate. Questioned about the time Dr. Theo brought his mother to visit the Worralls and messages came through, supposedly from his dead father, Olga explained that as she heard the words she pronounced them and apparently did a “good job” because Dr. Theo understood what she said. : “At the same time Ambrose heard Arabic words spoken by the dead father different from the ones I heard. It is not unusual for both of us to see the same spirits and hear the same words spoken. Often he will get one word, I the next, and then the combined words form a message.” Ambrose Worrall’s own medium- ship obviously enters this complex picture. He was born in England we
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34 of an English father and Scottish mother, from whom he gets his soft Scottish burr. He is an import- ant administrator for a large com- pany, and he is himself a sensitive and charismatic healer. As an example of Ambrose Wor- rall’s mediumship he introduced the name of a chemical compound of whose existence Dr. Theo was unaware at the time. He investi- gated and found it was a new and important addition to the Pharma- copeia whose function fitted in well with the research area he was dis- cussing with him. It is obvious that there is a subtle interaction between this husband and wife, though Olga says, “I doubt if Ambrose influences me or I influence him, for we are as dif- ferent as can be in temperament. I am a real Russian and he a typical Englishman. But spiritually we are on the same wave length which makes life very exciting, especially when we see and hear the same things.” She added, “We are two separate beings in complete har- mony.” Neither Olga nor- Dr. Theo be- lieve that telepathy could possibly explain her abilities, though for different reasons. Her ability to FATE give answers known to no living man rules out telepathy as far as Dr. Theo is concerned. Olga’s reasons are different. “I actually hear the words as they are given to me by spirits,” she states emphatically. “To me it is as real as though I were hearing you speak. I speak spontaneously, it is true, but not from any ‘inner voice.’ When foreign words are spoken I am prompted by the spirit as though the spirit wants me to pronounce the word correctly.” Such an opinion certainly would be questioned by conventional psychical researchers who _ seek scientific explanations for all areas of the unknown. But against their materialistic search must be matched the accomplishments of this Baltimore housewife who, in exotic languages, correctly gives answers known to no living man. Editor’s Note: Mrs. Worrall does not give readings, seances nor do any professional work for the gen- eral public. She uses her gift only for friends and then only if there is a need. “I am not interested in providing anything to the curious,” she states. Fate regrets that letters cannot be forwarded to her. a ee
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The incredible effect of my wife telling an abusive drunk to “drop dead” is one of many which has convinced me that... I Married a WITCH i, Agen M* WIFE and I were very much in love when we were married in France just 30 years ago. We were very young. A few months later we moved to England and we have been travelling ever since. We’ve lost count of the countries we’ve visited and lived in. Currently we are living in the United States. I’ve had a wide variety of jobs and, since we have no children living, my wife always has been able to be with me. We are a very compatible couple, though this often seems to surprise the people we meet. 35 Van Alin When we were married neither my wife nor I knew anything of the matters which I am going to describe. We would have laughed at even the suggestion that such things exist. So when they occurred we had to start all over again, ap- praising the world we live in. Luck- ily neither of us leaned toward the mystical; neither of us was relig- ious; and both of us had highly technical educations. Had it been otherwise either one or both of us might have “cracked” and gone into some extreme form of cultism. Its always difficult to discern in
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36 retrospect when really new things come into one’s life. So I am going to take the first instance that made me realize something outside the ordinary was going on. I am con- stantly accused of being pragmatic to the point of cynicism but there is one thing that brings me up short; this is coincidence. I'll go along with noticing up to three sim- ilar occurrences, but on the fourth count I begin looking for a cause. It is for this reason perhaps that I cannot now remember the items that preceded the following affair. That they did occur I have no doubt. Otherwise I would not have noted this one. My mother, a widow, was very fond of my wife and of me, her only child, and she took every opportun- ity to be with us. She was a busi- nesswoman on her own and also travelled extensively. We used to meet up in out-of-the-way places anywhere on five continents. On this particular occasion we met in the West Indies, in Haiti to be precise. In those days there were only half a dozen hotels in that country; the most delightful was owned and exquisitely managed by a Madame Frankel, in Port-au-Prince, the capital. There one dined on a long circular verandah amid palms and behind bougainvillea, overlooking the beautiful bay. The service was perfect and the food Parisienne. FATE This verandah curved around a large circular room with a big bar at one end. Conversation at the bar was multi-lingual but English predominated and, as usual, the English-speaking got together im- mediately as if they were old friends. When we arrived we were taken into the circle as soon as we had ordered our drinks and soon we all were behaving as if we were at a private cocktail party. My mother was a very striking-looking woman, extremely amusing as well as in- telligent, and she soon was launch- ed into the intricacies of the in- ternational oil world with a tall, athletic-looking, young American. He was on a local business trip from Panama, where he worked for one of the larger American oil com- panies. Shortly after sundown everybody retired either upstairs or home to dress for dinner, as was then the custom. We were left at the bar with this young man, finishing some discussion. First my mother and then my wife retired. As I finished my drink I realized that the man was quite drunk. He explained that he already had showered and chang- ed earlier, after playing tennis, and I went on upstairs. My womenfolk were dressed be- fore I and started down the wide, winding staircase together. How- ever, my wife had forgotten some-
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I MARRIED A WITCH thing and raced back up, leaving my mother waiting halfway down. By this time I was ready and so we went down together, one, two, three, in procession. Just as I hit the bot- tom step my mother said some pleasantry to the young American, whereupon he gave out with more than one foul expletive, definitely directed at her. I could hardly be- lieve my ears but instinctively start- ed forward, the hotel manager be- hind me as he too had heard from his desk at the bottom of the stairs. I was going for the man when my wife sort of banged me back and literally spat at the fellow, “You drop dead.” She didn’t wave her arms or point; she just stood still and glared with her very large dark eyes. The result was electric. Every- body stopped talking; the barman’s lips fell open; the manager gasped; and the American slid off the bar- stool and reeled out of the room, down the main stairs to the garden and out into the night. The three of us then marched into dinner with all eyes upon us, amid a terrible hush. I remember I cast many a sidelong look at my wife during the meal. She is a forceful char- acter and when excited her French blood comes out. This was all new _ to me, but then we had been mar- ried only a little over a year. The end of this story came just before dawn the next morning. 37 The young man had managed to catch his plane for Venezuela, then had flown by an overnight company plane to Panama. There, according to the reports, he had taken a taxi to his home which stood isolated amid tropical gar- dens. He had paid off the driver and started up the verandah steps. The cab had driven away. The house had a wide wooden verandah all around, fully screened. The man unlocked the screen door at the top of the steps and then, with his keys in his hand, started across the verandah to the main door of the house. The lady of the house, a beautiful girl, was an American but not his wife. The man was separated from his wife who steadfastly refused to give him a divorce, and the company ignored the presence of this, his avowed fiancee, for lonely and angry young men in the tropics do not make good junior executives. The pair were very much in love, everybody agreed. But on this occasion the poor fellow never used his key; in the early dawn the door swung inward, a pale hand holding a Colt .45 ap- peared and there was an explosion which sent a bullet straight through the young man’s heart. The amazing thing brought to light during the investigation was that the girl could not explain, even under duress, where she got
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38 the automatic. It bore its serial number but never was traced. Nor could she give any logical reason for her act. At a loss, the authorities shipped her home. She was said to be perfectly sane. The only thing she was reported to have said in court was, “Something or somebody forced me to do it; but I loved him so.” pees ER Ale THIS I began to take special note of my wife’s re- marks when she was angry. Her next curse did not have quite such gruesome results. It was di- rected at an artisan I employed to do a job on a house we had rented. The man was admittedly an un- pleasant character but he was the only competent carpenter around. We got along all right until one day he started doing something that my wife did not want done his way. She told him so. In return the man shouted at her that he was not going to take orders from any blank blank woman. I saw it coming! The stiffness, the silence, and the eyes! But some- thing very odd happened. The man was enormous but he just wilted like a dead cactus and started to shake. This tickled my wife’s sense of humor so that, instead of bawling him out or cursing him, she just said coldly, “You need a good paddling.” Then she turned away and went into the house. FATE Not 10 minutes later we heard a three-part crash, a yell of terror, followed by another crash and a howl of pain. We and the staff rushed out to the back of the house. The man was rolling in the yard with littered lumber and parts of a completely demolished ladder around him and attached to his posterior was a huge plank. It was attached by a number of large, old, curved, rusty nails. It took the combined staff to pry these out while he yelled and moaned and prayed. The moment he was free he bolted out the gate and down the street. He never came back, nor sought payment. He sent a small boy for his tools. We never saw him again but our staff must have had the full story for they treated my wife with marked respect ever after. ee aek =k sae SO IT has kept me on tenterhooks lo, these many years. Yet in time I came to know my wife better and have gained as- surance that she is a kind and good person and in no way evil. On the other hand, she is impatient, vola- tile, and emotional. But she cannot deliberately “curse” people even when they deserve it. It only oper- ates “consciously-unconsciously” by which I mean she must be furious but not deliberately trying to “curse” them. Perhaps I alone know the very different symptoms dis-
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I MARRIED A WITCH played by her when she is angry with somebody and when she goes cold and quiet and spits out her damnation. My wife, a male assistant of mine, and I were driving into New York from Idlewild Airport on a bright sunny afternoon. My as- sistant was driving and, since we wanted to pick up a few things from some stores, he had gone off the main, four-lane highway of Queens Blvd., to the little two- Jane road on the right. Here there was a continuous line of cars parked by the curb. We were creep- ing along looking for a store and had come opposite two empty park- ing spaces. We were just going to turn in when there came a roar be- hind us and an old, but souped-up, black sedan full of black-leather- jacket boys bore down on us at a really terrific speed. My assistant accelerated but the other car leaped forward on our right into the empty spaces and then careened in front of us with about half-an- inch to spare. It then charged the in- tersection against a red light just as a bus drew out from the right. Somehow the bus driver slewed and stopped dead so that the sedan went around:its bow as a speedboat might pass a freighter, mounted the left curb and disappeared. We had stopped and sat gasping. Then I heard my wife say simp- ly, “They ought to burn.” 39 At that very instant the bus drew out so that we had a clear view down the street in time to see a sheet of intensely blue flames suddenly spurt out of both sides of the offending sedan; it came to a screeching stop; the doors flew open and five or six youths leaped out. It was so sudden we cannot say how many of them were on fire but at least two had sheets of flame running down their backs like the livid crest on a dragon. And it was not gasoline because what little there was in the tank caught fire half-an-hour later after the fire department had arrived. My wife was considerably upset by this and, in my excitement, I made matters worse by saying, “Youre getting better, dear.” And she was getting better! This was the first time I witnessed her fire at her target, though it was not the first case of fire per se. An interesting point in this case is that, although the flames shot out of the car only some seconds after my wife had cursed the boys, they did not do so until she had a clear view of the car, after the bus drew away. I suppose the parapsy- chology boys would call this pyro- kinesis. shueeken 3k HE NEXT time death struck my wife nearly panicked, for this time it was not intended at all; in fact, it had been only a petty
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40 annoyance. My wife had no strong attachment to the fellow, although she had known him in a purely business relationship for many years. And, of course, nothing I could do would convince her that it was “mere coincidence.” Both of us have spent over 20 years now doubting that cliché. It was no good; she felt nothing could make amends for what she was sure she had done. I had ordered certain goods from this man, which he delivered. When I came to use them they proved most unsatisfactory, were, in fact, badly made, of materials not up to standard. I grumbled. When the bill came it was high and my wife blew her stack. She didn’t go cold and stare —at least, I did not see her do so; but she made some pretty scathing remarks. Two days later I went to the man’s workshop and found the place looking strangely deserted. Only one employee sat at his usual bench. “Where’s Joe?” I asked. “Didn’t you hear?” the work- man replied. “He dropped dead.” I was aghast for he was not an old man. J did not think of my wife at that point. I asked what had happened. “Oh,” said his employee, “he said -he felt sick and was going down to get a cup of coffee. He made it to the street but turned into the to- FATE bacco stand next door. They knew him there and gave him a chair but before he could sit down he just dropped to the floor, dead.” I started home feeling truly sorry. Then it suddenly struck me be- tween the eyes. I must not tell my wife. I began making all sorts of plans to say he had gone out of business, or he had gone on a tour, or he had gone broke, or anything. But I still didn’t know my wife! When I got home there was an uproar going on. Never think you can keep anything from a witch. She knew! She had phoned the man to re- monstrate about his bill, and the lone worker there had told her the story. We had a bad three days. eerie ck COULD GO on, but what’s the use? I’ve kept a running record and I have plenty of witnesses but what’s the use? Those who don’t believe this kind of thing won’t ever believe it; and those who do, already believe it. Anyhow, there is no proof. My wife can’t do any of these things deliberately and I know of no routine that could make her. Hypnotism might, I suppose, but she either can’t or won’t be hypno- tized. There is or was, however, another strange wild talent that she has had at least once. This was polter- geistic.
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I MARRIED A WITCH My wife can remember nothing of this type of thing from her youth. However, the occurrences became frequent on our honeymoon and remained so for nearly a year, gradually diminishing in extent and frequency. I will relate only one instance. We were living in London in a tiny apartment. The bathroom was the largest room, strangely enough. It contained the necessary appurt- enances and one linen “basket” which was actually a large white box with a cork covered lid to sit on. This stood to the left of the door, directly opposite the wash- basin. There was a good eight feet of space between them. There was no other furniture in the room apart from the bath and toilet, everything else being in closets flush with the walls. We did not even keep sponges out loose. We had a dinner engagement one evening. My wife loves parties but she was not keen on this one as she found our host and hostess stuffy and dull. So she dawdled un- til it was manifest we were going to be extremely late. This em- barrassed me and I told her so. I already was dressed, so she hustled off to get ready like a dutiful wife. I retired to a small office I had three rooms away, picked up a AI book, and settled down to wait. About five minutes later a screech that would be worth thous- ands on radio issued from the bath- room. I dashed out of the office sure that in her hurry she had stepped into a scalding bath. In a way, it was worse. My wife was standing pressed against the washbasin clad in noth- ing supplied by man and in the pose adopted by outraged young ladies in B-Class movies, and she yelled at me in words to match: “You hit me! How dare you hit me? How dare you?” I simply stood there with my mouth open. I hadn’t been within three rooms (though admittedly small rooms) of her and I said so, forcibly. Slowly she began to relax. Then she let out another yell almost as shrill as the first, whirled around. in a sort of corkscrew way and, still yelling, pointed at the right cheek of her buttocks. There, as clear as life, vivid, bright red, and raised an eighth of an inch, was the mark of a right hand, about two-and-one- half inches in total length and one- and-a-half inches wide. We never did make that dinner and we’ve never seen our prospec- tive host and hostess since. Nor have they ever heard from us, I’m afraid. Ee
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L YAGE — una Planta Mister- iosa—a 90-foot vine grow- ing luxuriantly in the Amazonian jungles of South America may con- tain a psychedelic drug that can set men free from the bonds of space-time, and which is not yet generally known to science. Once free, man will be able to see what he never has seen, in ' places he never has been. Indeed, evidence indicates that primitive South American Indians may al- ready have gained this power from El Yagé. Interest in yagé heretofore has been confined to two or at most EL YAGE’... A psychedelic drug contained in this South American plant holds promise of enabling man to see what he never has seen, in places to which he never has been. By ahs R Gandee Alkaloid with psychic effects is ex~ tracted from El Yage’, a 90-foot vine which grows in the Amazonian jungles. three groups: first, the native wiz- ards who use yagé as a means of wielding power over their tribes- men; second, the scientific special- ists, botanists, chemists, and phar- macologists; third, possibly mili- tary specialists in the field of in- telligence, for Russia has’ shown a degree of interest in yagé hard to explain, considering the distance of the Amazonian hinterland from the Soviet Union. Of them all, there is little doubt that the native witch doctors remain the best informed group. Nevertheless, much of a scien- tific nature is in print, unfortunate- 42
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A New Path to Psychic Experience MEET THE AUTHOR Lee R. Gandee (shown here when headmast- er at the Camden Military Academy in Camden, S.C.), currently is teaching at Lenoir Rhyne College, Hickory, N.C. He also has taught at the Georgia Military College and at the Rugby Academy, New Orleans. Born in West Virginia in 1917, he served with the U.S. Air Force in World War II; and with the South Carolina Na- tional Guard, 1950-54. He is a student of parapsychology and is interested in those aspects of religion which have parapsycho- logical implications. He is a consultant his- torian to the Historical Committee of the Lutheran Synod of South Carolina. His hobbies are free-lance writing, collecting antiques and flower-growing. ly in publications so compartment- alized in their appeal that there is little likelihood of scientists in other fields discovering what has been written. If it is true that the drug in yagé can enable a man to describe in detail something he never has seen, at a distance of several hundred miles, then the pub- lic should know that such a drug exists. It would be of good use to others besides the Russians. The first data on yagé to break- through to a non-specialist aud- ience were those published in the December, 1962, issue of Americas, the Spanish-language publication of 43 the Pan American Union. In that journal, Sr. Alfredo Granguillhome of Mexico City presented his paper, “Fl Vage, una Planta Misteriosa.” Those who have seen Sr. Granguill- home’s material realize that the plant called yagé richly reserves its description as “a mysterious plant.” The readers of Fare already have been informed of the sacred mushroom and of its powers to un- lock the secret rooms of the mind. Apparently yagé is another plant, or group of plants, whose mysterious alkaloids have equal if not greater potency in extending human exper- ience. Perhaps yagé can reach even
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44 deeper recesses of the subconscious, enabling the mind to cross thresh- olds into areas where it is freed from limitations of space-time. Sig- nificantly, one of the alkaloids de- rived from this plant is called tele- pathine, and Spanish-speaking re- searchers have renamed the plant telepatina. This weird plant, and related plants including “the vine of the dead,” are being used in the rituals of at least 35 tribes of the upper Amazon and Orinoco River basins. These tribes include the head-hunt- ing Jivaros; the other tribes are mostly familiar only to anthrop- ologists — jungle savages whose secrets, even after centuries of in- frequent contact with the Brazilian and other Latin American people, remain almost as unknown in South America as in the United States. It is known that most of these tribes use yagé and the related plants in the preparation of a basic ritual drink, to which some add one set of ingredients, others another, thereby rendering the drink intoxi- cating, medicinal, or narcotic, de- pending upon the result they wish. These ingredients are all plants of the family Malpighiaceae, known for its mysterious alkaloids. This article is concerned with two of these in particular, Banisteriopsis Caapi, from which the basic drink is made, and Banisteriopsis Rusby- ana, called yagé or chagro panga. FATE It is the latter, B. Rusbyana, which is generally conceded to give tele- pathic powers to its users. Banis- teriopsis inebrians, a closely related species, is probably the ingredient that is the intoxicant. The basic drink is a water in- fusion made by boiling pieces of the stem and pounded bark of B. Caapi all day in a large earthen pot. Water is added occasionally to replace that lost by evaporation. The result is a coffee-colored or reddish brew resembling cane syrup. This is said to be a specific for - malaria, and to prevent future in- fections. It also has been recom- mended by some as a remedy for beri beri. To induce telepathy, leaves and young branches of yagé are added. Sr. Granguillhome states that these impart a strange, bluish or green- ish tone of almost fluorescent in- tensity to the drink. To the everlasting confusion of researchers, these ritual drinks are known locally by their generic names regardless of additives intro- duced to alter the function of the drink. Thus the local nomencla- ture is yagé, whether it is to be used for intoxication or telepathy. And the generic name changes from tribe to tribe, although yagé and Caapi are most often encountered. These same names also are used by the tribes to identify all the vari- ous plants that go into the drink.
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EL YAGE’ ... NEW PATH TO PSYCHIC EXPERIENCE 45 This confusion over identification complicates the task of studying these poorly understood Malpig- hiaceae plants. Richard Evans Schultes, in The Identity of the Malpighiaceous Narcotics of South America (Botanical Museum Leaf- lets, Harvard University, Vol 18, No. 1, 1957) says, “... They remain, even today, the most poorly under- stood of the hallucinigens of the Americas, and the narcotics whose identification is most baffling.” No doubt much of the baffle- ment comes from difficulty in com- munication with the tribes who know them, and from reluctance on the part of the native wizards to reveal to white men the secret of the exact identity of the plants -which enables them to experience things that white men have, in the opinion of the witch-doctors, no reason for knowing. Sr. Granguillhome, writing in Americas, indicates that it is pos- sible that white men may never know all that the Indians know. He says: “It appears that the ef- fect of yagé on the Indians is dis- tinct from its effect on white people. They (the Indians) see and de- scribe perfectly scenes and happen- ings in which they never have tak- en part, nor have seen. To one of the investigators who arrived in those parts, a completely primitive Savage—pardon the pleonasm — who never had left his village nor his region, described in its most minor details a procession or mili- tary parade, making reference not only to the brilliant uniforms, to the horses—an animal unknown in that region of the Amazon — but even to the medals worn by some of the officers.” The Schultes article was ilhis- trated by a photograph of such a savage, handsome, intelligent-look- ing, naked except for the scantest loin cloth possible to imagine. It would be next to impossible to be- lieve that such a man would even know that uniforms or medals exist. Schultes’ photographs of the plant itself show a sprawling, luxuriant vine in cultivation. In the wild state this vine reaches a length of 90 feet or more, though it is often de- scribed as a shrub or low bush — the reason being, probably, that the botanists saw cultivated specimens which were cut back so often that they have little chance to reach much stature. The first description of this plant by a European, with a list of its uses, was given in 1851 by the botanical explorer Richard Spruce who found it used by the Tukanoan Indians on the waters of the Uaupés River. They used it to make true prophesies and accur- ate divinations, which they did by means of “frighteningly realistic, colored visual hallucinations.” The plant thus identified is now known
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46 scientifically as Banisteriopsis Caapi (Spruce ex Griseb.) Morton Caapi is the Arawak name. Other linguistic groups know the same or related plants as. kajpi, yagé, yahé, ayaluasca, natema, pinde, nepe, or bejuco de los muer- tos, which may be translated as death vine, or more literally, vine of the dead. The latter name may imply that along with its other qualities, it may be used as a means of communicating with discarnate entities. For over half a century Richard Spruce’s discovery was lost in the archives, not appearing until 1908 when a posthumous account of his travels, Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and Andes, was published. In this publication the plant was discussed in some detail. In the Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, (Vol. 21, No. 20, 1931) Mr. C. V. Morton, quoting Sr. Guillermo Klug, of Iquitos, Peru, says: “... They add to the yagé the leaves and the young shoots of the Chagro panga . and it is the addition of this plant which produces the ‘bluish aureole’ of their visions. These are like cinematograph views, and oc- cur after about half a liter (a liter is a fraction more than a quart) of the drink has been consumed in por- tions of an eighth of a liter each (one-half cup) at intervals of half an hour. Thereafter, the Indian FATE falls into a profound sleep during which he is in a state of complete insensibility and anesthesia. During this period the subconscious activ- ity acquires enormous intensity. The dreams follow each other with extraordinary precision and clear- ness, giving to the intoxicated per- son, according to the observations of missionaries, the power of double vision and of seeing things at a distance, like certain mediums in their trances. Upon awakening, he remembers clearly the ‘hallucina- tions and fantastic visions which he has experienced in unknown regions. Perhaps this drug has the property of developing the psy- chic faculties . . .” Continuing with an account of experiences of an experimenter named Barriga Villalba, he says: “¢.. . The small doses which Bar- riga Villalba tried upon himself produced profound sleep and cer- tain sensations of well-being. But this was very far from the effect on the savages, for which reason Professor Munoz, of Columbia, em- ployed 30 to 40 grams of the drink, prepared according to the manner of the natives. Effect: At first there was a slight stimulation of the nerves, similar to that of caffeine, then a slight dilation of the pupils. All exterior objects acquired a strange appearance, aureoled and of a blue color. Then came the most extraordinary hallucinations, _ re-
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EL YAGE’... NEW PATH TO PSYCHIC EXPERIENCE 47 sembling those of hashish, very magnificent, very terrifying. These are due without doubt to the ex- citation of the cerebral centers of vision, to such an extent that the person who has taken yagé is cap- able of seeing objects in the midst of the most complete obscurity . . .” This bears out Sr. Granguill- home’s statement that the ceremon- ies are conducted in closed, dark- ened chambers, in which the per- son having taken yagé is able to see with perfect clarity. Possibly the sensitivity is sufficiently heighten- ed that light of any intensity would be painful to the subject. If yagé produced only the sort of hallucination that hashish pro- duced, it would be only another narcotic, dangerous, better left alone, but hashish dreams do not report telepathically what has oc- curred in other places. Sr. Granguillhome writes: “Sey- eral years ago, Colonel Custodio Morales, Military Intendant of Calcedo, Columbia, near Riohacha, out of curiosity took 11 drops of yagé, which Dr. Cerda Bayon ad- ministered to him.” (This probab- ly refers to the extracted drug.) “On the following day, the Col- onel, in a state of alarm, declared to the doctor that he had dreamed that his father, in Bogata, had died, and that one of his sisters was very sick. When a short time later the mail arrived, the Colonel received the previously-dreamed information in a letter which was sent him. “Thus and all,” Sr. Granguill- home adds, “the power of vyagé reaches the point of giving the in- toxicated person telepathic powers —extraretinal vision .. “On ingesting the yagé the ef- fect begins in a few minutes. First comes a great pallor and a general trembling of the body, later, a co- pious sweating, with excitement, and there is a moment in which wild delirium seizes the subject. This slowly subsides, and is followed by a heavy sleep. . .” “In this state ‘the subject is so insensible that he can be pinched or shaken without being awakened. It is the moment when a kind of doubling of the personality takes place, in that while the conscious being remains inanimate, even to the smallest details, the subcon- scious works with fury and intensi- ty. And it is then that the dreams appear, vivid, brilliant, and pre- cise.” They are recalled perfectly on awakening. Professor Barriga Villalba per- formed some experiments upon an- imals with the drug yageina, which he succeeded in isolating from yagé. To small amounts, both horses and dogs responded with extreme ex- citation, trembling, and loss of equilibrium. To larger doses, they reacted as to a real poison. The
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48 animals lost equilibrium, cried, fell into convulsions, suffered a lower- ing of temperatures, and became generally anesthetized — except that the dogs experienced no loss of vi- sion or smell. It is not stated whether they recovered from the large doses or died. One source reported that in using one variant of the yagé drink, the intoxicated persons remained in- sensible for three days before re- gaining consciousness, but this may have been the result of mixing the drink with other compounds, as both tobacco and the tropical tree, datura, are used by certain tribes to vary its effects. It may be fortunate that the plants mentioned are not available to casual experimenters, for with narcotics mistakes can have fatal re- sults, though apparently the var- ieties of the Banisteriopsis taken singly or in combinations by the natives, produce only substances which can be taken safely in fairly large quantities. Obviously, trained experimenters should penetrate the regions in which the various plants grow, learn first hand from the native witch doctors how the drink is pre- pared, describe scientifically the plants used, and observe in what combinations they produce varying results. Only then will it be safe to isolate and use the drugs. And only when the drugs are clearly FATE identified, and perhaps produced synthetically, can yageina and tele- pathine be added to the tools of the psychic researcher and psy- chologist. Other of these plants may con- tain psychedelic powers more in- teresting than mere production of telepathic ability. There has to be a reason why one of the vines is called the vine of the dead, and if some obscure hallucinogen can sen- sitize the subconscious to a point where it can enter into communica- tion with or receive communica- tion from discarnate entities, we may learn something. In 1858 Villavicencio reported that the related plants called yagé were used in Amazonian Ecuador for purposes of “sorcery, witchcraft, prophesy and divination.” This early reference and others of a sim- ilar nature imply that one plant contains an agent which enables the mind to glimpse the future. Prophesy hardly can be under stood any other way. Sorcery and witchcraft often are merely descriptions of powers and actions which are perfectly natural but which are beyond the under- standing of those who refer to them by these names. Whatever the . powers may be, the map illustrat- ing the Schultes paper shows that they are understood in an area of some 300,000 square miles of the South American jungle.
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EL YAGE’ ... NEW PATH TO PSYCHIC EXPERIENCE - 49 It is humbling to realize that sav- ages have knowledge not yet dis- covered by learned scientists. and investigators, but we can remember also that wizards and witch doctors understood and used psychology and psychiatry before civilized man rediscovered them. The important implication con- cerning the uses of yagé seems to be that it can greatly extend the capabilities, sensitivities and exper- iences of the human mind. Possibly it can open doors now shut to the theologian and the psychic research- er. When one deals with the sub- conscious he comes very near the roots of being. Certain religions teach that con- sciousness is not subject to death, nor to space, nor to time. If yagé can prove this, or provide a short cut to that level of the subconscious where carnate and discarnate en- tities meet and where distance and time no longer limit consciousness, then it will be worth any amount of investigation required to make it part of civilized man’s equipment in his struggle for understanding, Cle WHAT CAUSED CHRIST’S DEATH? OR THE past 20 years a dis- tinguished Paris surgeon has conducted a research study into the medical cause of Christ’s death on the cross. As a first step in this study, the surgeon, Dr. I. Barbet of St. Joseph Hos- pital of Paris, obtained permis- sion to examine and photograph Christ’s shroud, kept in the Gua- rino Guarini Baroque Chapel of the Cathedral of Turin. The Shroud is a strip of cloth 8% feet wide by 121% feet long. It is believed to have been used to cover Jesus when He was taken down from the Cross, as it bears head-to-toe imprints of Christ’s body. Dr. Barbet studied the Shroud for the evidence it provided concerning the four nail holes, the flagellation cuts, the thorn crown marks, the spear wound and the sweat and dirt stains. He concluded that Christ had died of suffocation and ex- plained that a person hanged by his hands or wrists suffers from anatomical stricture. The arm and trunk muscles first contract, then the two sets of muscles which control the intake and ex- halation of air also contract. Since the muscles controlling in- halation are stronger than those * controlling exhalation, and thus degenerate more slowly, the lungs draw in more air than can be expelled. In a short time the victim’s lungs become so in- flated with air that exhalation is impossible and suffocation re- sults.
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ABOUT RENEE DUBONNET © An artist whose psychic abilities have been tested at Duke University, Renee Dubonnet lives in New York City. She attended the University of Colorado, where she studied journalism, adver- tising and commercial art. Later she studied at the Palace of Fine. Arts in Mexico City, where she worked under the famed mural painter, Diego Rivera. She also attended the Sorbonne in Paris, the Royal Academy in England and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, THE WOMAN WHO The 17th Century Dutch painting was a bargain— ‘' but the poltergeist activity that accompanied it was costly. A: GHOST FOLLOWED his por- trait into a third floor, walk- up apartment on Park Avenue, in New York City, where beautiful artist and former newspaper cor- respondent Renée Dubonnet lives. Renée is psychic, of course, or she might not have been so acutely aware of the most subtle attacks of her other-world persecutor. She was born in Denver, the daughter of a neuro-surgeon who traveled widely in connection with his research. Renée grew up in Europe, South America, and the Middle East. She attended the Sorbonne in Paris 50 By LS Smith and the University of Mexico, where she studied under artist Diego Rivera. Later in England she won an art scholarship at the Royal Academy in London. She has had a number of one-man shows in the United States and Europe. And all her life Renée has had psychic experiences. “I just know » about things,” she says. But. she has no idea how this knowing comes about. Her father was interested in her: unusual abilities and occasionally
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tested her for extra-sensory percep- tion. When she was about four years old she was taken to the Parapsy- chology Laboratory at Duke Uni- versity for testing. : “T grew tired of so many grown- ups trying to pick my brains,” she says. And she found it difficult to cooperate on order. But she has frequent clairvoyant dreams. When she is handed a package she often knows its contents without open- ing it. She once described to a nurse in a hospital the patient who When he didn’t come in within a reasonable time she began to worry and when a friend of her father’s arrived about an hour later saying he had bad news, she said, “Yes, I know. It’s about my father, isn’t it? Is he dead?” Her father had had a fatal coro- nary early that morning. After World War II Renée be- came a foreign correspondent. She spent much time behind the Iron Curtain in occupied Germany, in the Soviet Sector of Berlin, and in BOUGHT A GHOST had died in a certain room three weeks earlier. Renées friend, Susan Perl, an illustrator for the New York Times, says that on several occasions she has handed Renée a letter and asked her to give a character an- alysis of the writer. She says that Renée has given perfect descriptions of persons she never has seen. One day after Renée was grown and living apart from her father she instinctively rose early one morning and dressed hurriedly much before her usual time. She felt that something strange was about to occur. As she stood look- ing out the window she saw her father drive up in his car. He got out, looked up and waved to her. Portrait of unknown man, purchased at auction, later proved to be of a Dutch statesmen who died violently. 51
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52 Czechoslovakia. Later she was sent to North Africa where she had so many interesting adventures that she has written a book, Nor All Your Tears. It is not yet published. x OK * T WAS ON January 23, 1960, that her experience with the haunted portrait began, Renée Du- bonnet and Susan Perl attended a charity benefit art auction at the Graham Galleries in New York and there Renée saw a picture which she immediately felt she must have. It was the portrait of a man, not handsome, but rather sulky looking, with dark eyes, a large high-bridged nose, and with the long hair of an earlier period hanging over a wide lace collar. The opening price on this picture was quite high but gradually the auctioneer put it lower and lower, still without a bidder. When he got to $15 the auctioneer said, “This is ridiculous, the frame alone is worth $125.” Renée did not bid even then, for she had no real use for such a pic- ture. Yet; she says, “I still had an intense feeling that this had to be- long to me.” When it was put on the reject pile she went to it and ran her hands over it to see if she could get any psychic impres- sions by contact. She told Susan Perl that it was an original, was Dutch or Flemish, and from the 17th Century. As to its value she was impressed with the figure FATE $1200. She bought it for the $15 for which it had last been offered, although the auctioneer still argued that it was worth much more. When Renée received the papers which came with the painting she found affidavits from the Univer- sity of Utrecht stating that it had been painted by a Dutch artist named Hanneman in the year 1671. Also, in the envelope was a letter quoting an appraiser in New York who had valued it, in 1947, at $1000. Nevertheless, she was soon to wish she had ignored her psychic urge to buy it. From the moment the picture came into Renée’s apartment things began to happen. About 20 minutes after her arrival she picked up the telephone to call a friend. The phone had not rung, but someone “was on the line. A weird, unearthly voice was repeating, “You are go- ing to die at 7:30 tonight.” Since it was then 7:20 Renée felt a slight - chill. “Don’t call the police,” the voice continued, “there will be no time for them to save you. Just consider it inevitable.” Renée handed the phone to Susie Perl, who says she heard a voice which sounded completely disem- bodied. “Just accept your fate,” it said, “you will be dead at 7:30 to- night.” Susan was so frightened she insisted that Renée leave the apart- ment at once. Renée listened to the
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THE WOMAN WHO BOUGHT A GHOST 53 dire predictions a few moments longer, then grabbed up her coat and the two girls ran to the door. As they started out billows of smoke blew in their faces. “My God, they’ve set fire to the building” was Renée’s first thought. However, they soon learned that it was only the neighbor’s steak dinner going up in flames. Renée returned to her apartment and didn’t die at 7:30. She lived to experience a number of nerve shattering events during the next few months. Her two Siamese cats, Geevi and L’Endormie, became aware even before she did that the three of them were not alone in the apartment. The cats seemed to see, or sense, an invisible visitor. They would start to circle around a large space in the middle of the living room floor. Just at that moment Renée would hear a sound, apparently from the center of the space, like the noise of crumpling cellophane. This occurred more and more frequently. So did the fires. Two fires broke out in the apartment directly be- low her. There was a flood in the apartment above Renée which ruined her ceiling. Two mysterious fires started at Renée’s kitchen stove. “Once a hot dish just seemed to explode in my hands,” she says. “I was taking it out of the oven and it burst into flames.” Phone calls to the fire department from that building were so fre- quent that when they heard the address the firemen routinely. droned, “We'll be over.” Renée’s friends shared her ex- periences on occasion. As she talked with someone on the telephone he might hear a thud and then her wail, “Oh, my books . . . they’re strewn all over the floor.” Or he might hear a crash as Renée screamed, “Oh, my best china plate!” Sometimes callers might hear a scream on the wire which Renée herself did not hear. She seemed to have a haunted tele- phone as well as a haunted apart- ment. Renée named the gentleman of the portrait “Kuvoort.” She natur- ally credited him with her difficul- ties, since they had begun when the picture arrived. Finally Renée began to think she saw him. She would catch a glimpse of him from the side of her eye, as if detecting movement. Friends who visited her apartment began to have the same experience. Out of the corners of their eyes they sometimes seemed to see move- ment. “One day I really thought I saw him,” Renée says. “I was on the bed talking on the telephone. Sud- denly there he was standing, in full Dutch costume. He stayed for quite a while, looking at me. If I looked directly at him I couldn’t
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54 -see him; but if I looked about 10 degrees to the side there he would be.” Renée had the manuscript of her book cross-stacked on the floor by her desk. Her bed was in an alcove and partitioned from the desk by a wall screen. One night while read- ing in bed she heard papers rattling near her desk. Going around the screen she found the pages of her manuscript scattered over the floor. There was no wind to have scat- tered them. Renée sensed Kuvoort’s presence and broke out in goose pimples. She started back to her bed, the safest place she could think of. As she was walking away the papers rustled again. Renée turned quickly to see some of the pages fluttering. She jumped into bed just as foot- steps became audible walking to- ward her...clump...clump... clump. She couldn’t see him but the continuing footfalls indicated he probably was standing very near her. She sat bolt upright in bed for most of the rest of the night. About daybreak she slept and when she awoke in the morning, in a state of half sleep, she saw him. He was looking down at her with the same scowl on his face that he wears in the picture. Renée had fallen heir to an em- ployment agency, from a husband who passed briefly through her life, and she was trying to run it. FATE On March 1, 1960, her wallet was stolen from her purse in a closed desk drawer in her office. She re- ported it to the police. When Detec- tive John Powell came from the 15th Precinct and Renée told him of the theft she suddenly realized that her problem was greater than she at first had realized. She had no money even for carfare home, and no key to get into her apart- ment. Since the lock had been picked once before in an emergency, she asked Detective Powell and his companion if they would mind tak- ing her home and finding some way to let her in. They told her they would be glad to, when they got off work. They came by about 9:30. But the men were unable to pick her lock. Detective Powell said someone had tried to force the lock, the door had been jimmied out of line so that nothing could make the lock work. But Renée says it is an old building and the door hung crooked to begin with. Anyway, the hinges were on the inside, and it had been burglar-proofed with metal strips; so there was no way to let her in unless they broke down the door. They explained to her she would have to replace the door if they wrecked it, and that a new one would probably cost $100. Renée decided to stay outside until morning when she could get a lock- smith to make a new key, or re- move the lock. —
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! THE WOMAN WHO BOUGHT A GHOST 55 A patrolman on duty in the neighborhood came in to see why the detective car and the radio patrol were outside. When the others left he remained with Renée. And it was well that he did. Very soon a tremendous noise began to come from inside the locked apart- ment. There were bumps and bangs as if someone was wrecking the place. The two cats began to scream and cry. This went on for a long time. The patrolman went outside to make sure the windows of Renée’s apartment all were in- accessible from the outside. Then he and Renée sat on the steps near her door listening to the many strange sounds emanating from within her apartment. After many hours these gradually subsided. In the morning a professional locksmith removed the lock. Even then Renée had difficulty opening the door because it had been bar- ricaded with heavy objects from inside. Several suitcases in which she stored manuscripts were pushed against the door. In the center of the room two wrought-iron chairs and several tables were overturned. Lamps were standing on _ their shades or hanging by their cords. Pictures were awry on the walls. Books and papers were scattered all over the floor. Nothing was actually broken except the parti- tion screens which had been punc- tured when they went over. “Tt couldn’t have been burglars inside the locked apartment,” Renée insists, “and the cats certainly couldn’t have overturned the heavy chairs or gotten at the pictures on the walls. It must have been Kuvoort!” While Renée was still gazing un- happily at the mess her friend Irwin Vaxler telephoned. When she told him what had occurred in her apart- ment while she was locked outside the door he came immediately. “The place was a bedlam,” he says. He was particularly impressed that the books, which were strewn about the floor, seemed to have been picked out of the book shelves in regular sequence, there being a gap for every fourth, or fifth book. He said that in one particular cor- ner the lamp on the table was up- side down, the picture on the wall behind it was completely askew, and yet a row of tiny porcelain figurines had not been disturbed or moved out of line. “Tt never occurred to me that vandals might have caused this sort of damage,” Vaxler says, “but now that you question me about it I would say that no vandals could possibly have upset some things in this way and not disturbed others.” It took Renée several days to re- store her house to normal and a week to get her morale back in order. But this weird activity never has been repeated.
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56 She still heard the crinkling cel- lophane sound on occasion; her clock stopped from time to time and then started itself up again; and once or twice her electric type- writer wrote by itself, although what it wrote made no sense. And there was still her lost wallet to wonder about. The detectives assured her that if it wasn’t returned in two week’s time it wasn’t likely ever to show up. They said that frequently the money was stolen and then the billfolds themselves were dropped into mail boxes. But by June Renée’s billfold was still missing. A friend decided to try to put her into hypnotic trance to see if Kuvoort or someone could speak through her and tell what had happened to her billfold. On the night of June 21, 1960, Renée was hypnotized. A tape re- cording was made on which all the witnesses present spoke their names for the record. Whoever, or what- ever talked through her did not identify himself, but was assumed to be Kuvoort because he seemed to be the chief protagonist in Renée’s mixed-up mystic life. He was asked, “Can you tell us the name of the party who took the wallet?” The answer was, “Yes, it was a man named Sam or Joe.” He was described as tall and slender. It was said that he had given the FATE wallet to his girl friend and had spent the money. Kuvoort was asked if he could be instrumental in its return and replied that he could. He said it would be re- turned on June 23 at approximate- ly the same time it was stolen. But on June 23 the wallet was not returned; in fact, there was a further incident of a man caught going through her desk, which con- vinced Renée that she never would see the wallet again. However, the post office called her not long after- ward to tell her a red leather wallet with her identification cards in it had been found in a postal box. So she had her wallet, after all, thanks, she feels sure, to Ku- voort. And perhaps because he had helped return the wallet, perhaps because he had vented his wrath in the huge poltergeist activity of March 1, he apparently had no more urge to destroy and things began to quiet down. Renée feels Kuvoort has become the guardian angel or watch dog of the apartment rather than a spook bent on wrecking it. ike DDLY ENOUGH the eviden- tial aspects of this case tie in with the picture in an entirely different way. On the back of a photostatic copy of the picture which came with the affidavits about the por- trait Renée Dubonnet bought at
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THE WOMAN WHO BOUGHT A GHOST 57 the auction is an inscription in “German, which language she can’t read. Included among the affidavits is a translation of the inscription: The picture on the reverse side, portrait of a young man in three-quarters to the left, emanates from the school of Jan DeWitt and is the work of Hanneman’s hand. Now, with only this to go on, a member of the Society for Psy- chical Research decided to try to find out what he could about the identity of the person in the pic- ture. At the same time Renée was asked to write her impressions about the man whose portrait she now possessed. When the A.S.P.R. investigator went to the New York Public Library, with only the in- formation in the inscription quoted above to go on, he asked to see any book that might show him paintings by Jan DeWitt. He was told that Jan DeWitt was not a painter but a Dutch statesman. The inscrip- tion on the back of the picture since has been correctly translated to read: The picture reproduced on the back is that of a young man turned three-quarters to the left, whose features are remi- niscent of those of Jan De- Wisiter: 2 - The AS.P.R. representative looked for books about and by Jan DeWitt, and saw pictures of him. He identifies him as the man in Renée’s picture, painted by Adrian Hanneman. Information in ency- clopedias about this famous Dutch prime minister includes the follow- ing: He died in 1672. He was an advocate of authority of states in opposition to princes of the House of Orange. He was a grand pen- sionary of Holland and concluded peace with England. He restored national finances and strengthened Dutch commercial supremacy in the East; opposed recognizing the Prince of Orange as a stockholder; conducted war against England terminated by favorable Treaty of Breda; secured passage of perpetual edict against the House of Orange. Kings mentioned in connection with him were Charles I, William III, and Louis XIV. Jan DeWitt was killed by an angry mob. Sees ok Now let us see what Renée wrote down in her note book (before knowing the outcome of the A.S.P.R. investigation) as she sat quietly contemplating the picture and trying to get psychic messages about it: 1670-1671 Adrian Many people in the English court. Much traveling back and forth between England and Holland. ’ Mary, Princess of Orange House of Orange
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58 _ Charles I or Charles II — but the impression of Charles I is stronger. Street riots, much violence. Man FATE in the portrait has people plotting his death behind his back. Then he is killed by mob violence. co SCIENCE’S WATER-BREATHING MICE GROUP of scientists cur- rently are conducting sensa- tional experiments in an attempt to reverse the evolutionary pro- cess by turning air-breathing animals into water-breathers. Their fascinating project al- ready has met with partial suc- cess, according to a recent re- port in Transactions of the _ American Society for Artificial Internal Organs, edited by Dr. George E. Shreiner, Professor of Medicine at the Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, D. C. The experiments are being carried out at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands, by three Dutch scientists: J. <A. Kylstra, M. O. Tissing and A. Van Der Maen. As yet their re- search does not involve artificial internal organs but various wa- ter solutions and an anti-fatigue drug called Tham, which has- tens removal of excessive carbon dioxide in body tissues. The Dutch research team re- portedly has kept completely Submerged mice of both sexes alive under water for unusual periods. In their experiments they used ordinary tap water, sea water, artifically salted wa- ter and water buffered with Tham. Submerged rodents showed the usual body movements of inspiration and expiration and made coordinated voluntary movements to escape when star- tled by raps on their tanks. Some of the mice reportedly breathed a saline solution for as long as four hours. With Tham in the water, other mice lived as long as six hours, and one show- ed continuous breathing motions for 18 hours. Thus far efforts to return the mice to their nor- mal, air-breathing state have been successful only with those submerged for periods of 10 to 30 minutes. A goal of the research is to make it possible for submarine crews, trapped underwater, to escape at depths currently con- sidered prohibitive. If the crew- men could be adapted tempor- arily to water-breathing, they would ‘be better able to with- stand the crushing pressure of the ocean at its most extreme depths.
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tiue MYSTIC EXPERIENCES FATE 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. A FORCE DREW ME AWAY By Lawrence W. Hall Ea ABOUT a year ago there was a restaurant called The Cyp ‘n’ Saucer on Welton St., in Denver, Colo., between 15th and 16th Streets. For a long time, when I worked in the downtown area, it was my habit to take lunch there almost daily. On Saturday, June 23, 1962, I started to walk over there after not having been in the area for some time and not know- ing that the cafe recently had closed. Going along the street toward the place the closer I got to it the more undesirable the whole idea became. This seemed strange since the time was going on Noon. I soon was walking more slowly and when I came down 15th to Welton I was unable to turn right. Instead, I turned left, to the south, and crossed the street. At this point it seemed I was not hungry anyway and so, after observing that the bus stop was only another block 59 away, I continued on and found the car waiting as it loaded passengers. I boarded that Number Four bus and rode out of the main part of town. Arriving near my residence I alighted and at once felt as if I had been released from a strange force which had been pulling me away from my route to the res- taurant. When I got up to the house I also noticed that I was starved and so ina few minutes I took the car and drove to a drive-in nearby. LAWRENCE W. HALL
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60 While there I heard over my pocket radio that the place I had just come from had exploded. Many persons had been injured and shocked; fire trucks, police and ambulances were on the scene. The next day both Denver daily papers, The Denver Post and The Rocky Mountain News, ran full page stories of the disaster. Several of the photographs showed debris and injured people scattered all around. These stories said, “An explosion thundered through down- town Denver shortly after 1:00 P.M. Saturday, injuring at least 20 persons and turning the 1500 block of Welton Street into a shambles of broken glass . ... the fire, be- lieved to have started in a pile of debris on the roof of the building, sent flames 75 feet into the air. Minutes later the flames touched off an oxygen tank which feeds cutting torches—producing a violent explosion.” Within an hour more than a dozen persons were admitted to the Denver General Hospital for treat- ment of injuries. Many people were caught in this calamity, some only - walking along the street were bad- ly cut by flying glass—but for reasons I do not understand I was * not among them. What mysterious force pulled me away from the scene of this dis- aster? Things like this lead me to wonder whether man is, or even FATE should be, the master of his own destiny. — Denver, Colo. 1 MARCHED WITH GERMAN SOLDIERS By Ernest Heckler N 1911 I HUNTED for a vac- ant room in one of the villas on the out-skirts of the southern Ger- man city of Heilbronn-am-Neckar, state of Wuerttemberg (Schwab- enland), famed for its Infantry Regiment No. 122, named in honor of Kaiser Franz Joseph of Austria. In pre-war Wuerttemberg a high school graduate had the preroga- tive of taking a one-year military training, instead of two or three years required for the common soldier, depending on the branch of service, and of being trained as a future reserve officer. A one-year trainee could choose his branch of service, but had to pay for his own food and living quarters, pay a soldier to keep his field-uniform clean, and if he turned out to be a poor sharp-shooter on the field- range, bribe his superiors for extra ammunition. I tried not to rent in an officer’s house, but unsuccessfully. A very courteous, charming lady showed me the vacant room in her house. I agreed to take it, paying her a month’s rent in adyance. Then when I entered the house that night in the semi-dark I saw an officer’s cap hanging on the rack
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TRUE MYSTIC EXPERIENCES in the entrance hall. The landlady had not told me an officer of the Army was staying in the house. I was to report for duty at 8:00 o’clock the next morning, but I did not get up in time. At about 10:00 o’clock the landlady and her officer-husband entered my room to inquire about me. The officer spoke rebukingly to his wife, “But I told you, my dear, not to rent this room again.” I explained to them that I had a terrible nightmare in which 1] fought, for what seemed hours, with forces of super-human strength bent upon my destruction. The dream terminated when someone went up and down my spine with a chisel, beating upon my helpless body, as I was unable to move or cry aloud. “You see! You see!” nodded the officer to his wife. I finally managed to get up and noticed in the mirror my drawn face, sunken eyes and sallow com- plexion, quite foreign to me then. I was exhausted and sick. No, it wasn’t a hangover, as I had not been drinking the night before. The officer volunteered to take me to the camp where I would have to give an explanation for my failure to report in time. When we entered the office he offered me a chair facing two other officers, one of whom gave me a quick, stern look, while the other one 61 turned to my landlord with the question, “What! Again! ?” Oddly enough, they seemed to understand what had occurred to me. One of the officers made a res- ervation for me at a nearby hotel, told me to move there temporar- ily, go to bed again and report for duty the next morning. This I did. I was in the camp for several days before I finally understood the mystery of all this. I learned that the officer in whose house I had the frightening experience, was for some time on sick-leave. He had been gradually loosing weight and strength, complaining of repeated and terrifying nightmares. He was a puzzle to his doctors. He had been a superior to two corporals, who had incurred his continual dis- pleasure. They had complained of maltreatment and had asked for transfer which was denied them. In desperation they had killed each other in a suicide pact, shooting each other in the mouth with army rifles. Their brains had been spattered all over the walls. To make matters worse, it was thought that their spirits were haunting the house of the officer, where I slept that one night. I had no opinion or occult knowledge about haunted houses but I soon became aware that there was much maltreatment in the German army. A major not getting
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62 along with his chief, the chief not liking his lieutenant, the lieutenant despising a corporal, and the cor- poral physically abusing the newly recruited boys was not at all un- common. Wuerttemberg people were most- ly peasants (Bauern) and shep- herds, known for their amiable dis- positions (Gemuetlichkeit). Some of their youngsters were marked- ly awkward and slow to learn and for that reason had a rough time in the army under the German military discipline then existing. Although the majority of the boys quickly learned goose-stepping, saluting, and mastered jumping over ever increasing barriers on the obstacle course. Ordinarily, when the young sol- diers marched through the city singing, the teenage girls would Open their windows and throw flowers and kisses at them. But one day one officer worked my company so hard that the older men passed the word “No sing- ing!” When the order came to sing, a few voices began feebly . . -. “O Deutschland hoch .. .” and the effort died out. On a re- peated command by the now en- raged officer, no one tried to sing. In a frenzy he marched us back to the field, where he made us practice creeping in a freshly cow- manured pasture. After an hour or so the chief deserted his company, FATE turning us over to the sergeant. When we marched .through the city this time, the windows were hurriedly closed. — La Mesa, Calif. A STRONG IMPRESSION By Ethel Brader EN YEARS AGO my mother was hospitalized, in critical condition from pancreatitis. For several weeks I spent every after- noon and evening there, helping the nurses keep her comfortable. Be- fore leaving at night I usually checked to see that the bell cord to summon the nurse was pinned to her pillow, as she was alone in the room, unable to call out for help, since there was a tube in her throat. This particular night, on August 27, 1953, exhausted, I hurried home when she drifted off to sleep. After reporting to the family on her pro- gress, I went directly to the front stairs leading to my bedroom. But an invisible wall seemed to have been built across the stairs. Some- how, I couldn’t break through this unseen barrier. “What's wrong?” my father in- quired. “Something is stopping me from going up to my room,” I explained. “You're overtired. Your nerves are getting the best of you,” he di- agnosed. Again I tried, but failed. Then, though I heard no voice, a strong impression flooded through me that
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TRUE MYSTIC EXPERIENCES the bell cord wasn’t pinned to Mother’s pillow, that she needed the nurse, but couldn’t summon her. Swiftly I telephoned the hospital, asking for the nurse on duty in that wing. When she answered, I identified myself, and explained, “Silly though this sounds, I know my mother needs immediate atten- tion but can’t reach the bell cord to summon aid. Will you please check?” ' She hesitated a second, then agreed, “T’ll look.” Five minutes later she was in- forming me, “You were right. The cord was unpinned. But how did you know she needed a nurse?” “Just a feeling,” I lamely replied. “Thank you.” Often, since Mother’s recovery, we have speculated on whether I experienced mental telepathy, spirit- ual aid, or simply delayed factual recall.— West Seneca, N.Y. PAPA WATCHED OVER US By Ann Hall NTIL I WAS eight we, the Ben- nie Reed family, lived on Mr. Boyd’s ranch, four or five miles out of Pittsburgh, a little town in north- east Texas. Mama managed us six children, Tommie, the oldest, Jimmie, A. B., Viola, Joe, the youngest, and me, Annie, and Papa. She trained us well in good manners for life. She taught all of us not to ask for what 63 ANN HALL we didn’t see, to politely refuse what we didn’t want, and to get up and do for ourselves. *. Papa was assistant foreman to Mr. Louie. His every action until Mama’s sudden death in 1918, fol- lowing closely Mrs. Boyd’s death and the disposal of the property by Mr. Boyd, was that of obeying an order. My three older brothers, in their late teens, left home one at a time within weeks following Mama’s death. Papa, Viola, Joe and I moved to a smaller farm. Viola was 12, I was eight, and Joe was six. The four of us were almost helpless in our ig- norance. The first year was a total failure, except for the flower and vegetable gardens. Neighboring farmers hired us kids for much more than our worth. Papa spent weeks away from home working, return- ing with staples and yardages of
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64 cloth for Viola and me and ready- mades for him and Joe. He spent days cutting and hauling wood, until late September. Then he cut and sewed for Viola and me until he was sure that we could do as well as he. Then he set up the quilt in the frame and worked at that. In the spring of ’21, with more experience we started our crops. When the crops were laid, by that July, Papa told us, “I'll be away for awhile; you kids be good and see after each other.” And he left. In the four weeks he was away we saw him in the house every day. He was wearing a blue suit of work clothes we never had seen before. We didn’t see him come or go and Com TURKEY’S “HOUSE OF PHESUS, a tiny town on 1,377-foot Mount Aladag, near Izmir in western Turkey, is reputed to be the last home of the Virgin Mary. It has be- come an important pilgrimage center for hundreds of ill Chris- tians seeking miracle cures. According to tradition, the Virgin Mary settled at Ephesus with St. John after the death of Jesus. She is said to have spent her last days there, and St. John’s tomb reportedly is lo- cated near the town. Christian pilgrims journey to Ephesus to seek a cure by drink- ing from, or bathing in, the sa- FATE we never could catch up to him inside. He’d just disappear. In the fifth week when he came home wearing the clothes we had seen him in we asked him about the tricks he had played on us. He turned as white as a sheet and said, “T haven’t been away from the job since the day I left here, until now. I prayed every day asking God to watch over you kids.” Forty-two years, a horde of grandchildren, and more than a dozen great-grandchildren later all four of us are alive and in good health. But recently I’ve often won- dered if Papa unknowingly pro- jected himself through space to watch over us. — Brooklyn, N.Y. Co) THE VIRGIN MARY” cred spring in front of the struc- ture known as “the house of the Virgin Mary.” Residents of the town assert that disabled per- sons have come to the house leaning upon sticks—and have walked away, leaving the sticks behind as evidence of their cure. One pilgrim said to have been healed was a retired teacher named Arif Bayean, who for 14 years had been unable to walk without the aid of canes. Be- fore he left Ephesus, leaving his canes at the shrine, he inscribed on them a message of thanks and gratitude to the Virgin Mary.
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Do these ingenious arrangements of numbers and words in squares have a mysterious power to protect their owners from evil, illness and death? A NUMBER OF YEARS ago the auction catalogue of a Eu- ropean coin dealer listed, under the general heading Miscellaneous Tiems, the following: “Medal, gold, diameter 32 millimeters, weight 29 grams, somewhat worn, obverse stylized sun with Latin inscription, reverse magic square.” I did not get to see this cata- logue until many months after its expiration date so I did not have to make a decision on whether to put in a bid or not. And since I never saw even a picture of this “medal” I cannot be certain that I am cor- rect in thinking that this dollar- sized gold piece was not a “medal” at all but originally had been an amulet. My main reason for draw- ing this conclusion is, of course, the magic square on the reverse, be- cause magic squares have been used as amulets for many centuries. The amulets of the western world, it should be explained, are 65 By, Will, Ley not the same as the talismans of the Mohammedans. A talisman is ex- pected to attract good luck and op- portunities, an amulet has the some- what lesser job of warding off evil and unpleasantness. The St. Chris- topher’s medal of our time, which travellers carry on their persons for protection against the hazards of travel are an example. The amu- let’s purpose is to ward off what- ever may interfere with safe arrival at the destination and it may amuse many readers to learn that the first successful Vanguard rock- et carried such a medal, After two failures somebody said that the rocket’s guidance system obviously was incomplete without such a medal and on the next attempt one was installed with some ceremony, In the past, when the main haz- ard was physical violence and war, a certain coin was doing the same job, it was the so-called Jorgen- thaler made by the mint of Krem-
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66 nitz in Austria-Hungary. The coin was the size of a dollar piece and showed a picture of St. George slay- ing the dragon, hence the name. It was carried by merchants who had to travel, and by all soldiers who could afford it. For those who could not afford a Jorgenthaler there was the Passauer Zettel; Zettel being the German word for a slip of pa- per. Actually many of these Zettel were pieces of leather, for greater durability. The idea had originated with one Kaspar Neithart, who was the official executioner of the City of Passau. One successful and aged leader of an Austrian regiment (about 1550) was “known” to be “fast”? against steel and lead because of two espe- cially potent amulets. History does not record what these amulets were, but the record does say that this warrior never was hit by a musket ball and that he never suf- fered the slash of a saber. When he was finally taken prisoner by his enemies they did not even try to kill him by shooting or by de- capitation with a sword, they in- vented a new method for him: the poor man was buried so that only his head was above ground and then his skull was’ bashed in with wooden bowling balls! Often the protecting Passauer Zet- tel carried for an inscription just the name of God, written in He- brew. One Zettel is known to have FATE had the name of God written in six different languages along the six lines: of a Star of David. (The orig- inal has not been preserved, as is logical considering the time that has gone by.) Quite often the protecting device was a “magic square.” And what is a magic square? Fig. 1., which shows a simple one, provides the answer: it is an arrangement of figures. These fig- ures must be consecutive and must add up to the same sum both ver- tically and horizontally; even the two diagonals must produce the‘ same sum, namely 15 for this par- ticular square. Figure 1 It is possible to arrange the num- bers from 1 to 9 in different order in such a square of 9 “cells” and still obtain a magic square as shown by Fig. 2. As a matter of fact, the magic square of Fig. 2 has a special name and may be the old- est known magic square. The name is Lo Shu and it has been known since the time of the Chinese em- peror Ta-Yu (Yu the Great) who ruled from 2205 B.C. to 2198 B.C. Tradition is that the emperor him-
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MAGIC SQUARES self found this magic square on the back of a sacred turtle. Of course the figures on the back of the turtle were not the figures we use to-day, but were just groups if dots. Now, it so happens that the four corners of the Lo Shu are the even num- bers, which means that the odd numbers form a cross. In China, at the time, odd numbers seem to have been considered male and a square, which had magic properties to begin with (although these magic properties were merely that every line gave 15 as its sum), hav- ing the male numbers forming the cruciform backbone naturally be- came the emblem of masculine vir- tues. The Lo Shu was placed over the entrance to every dwelling so that nothing evil might enter. The rea- son that few Europeans noticed this was due to the fact that the Chinese symbols used later did not immediately proclaim to the un- practiced eye that they formed a magic square. As is the case with many things which are more than 20 centuries old there has been much discussion of whether the Western world bor- 67 rowed the magic squares from China (via India) or whether it was an independant invention: Ei- ther is possible, of course, but it is a fact that magic squares appear late in European history. Neither the classical Greeks, who were ad- dicted to playing with numbers, nor the Romans, nor even the Arabs have left a single example of a magic square in their writings. Be- cause of a Roman example of some- thing resembling a magic square (discussed near the end of this ar- ticle) it is possible that they knew magic squares and just did not write much about them. In any event the first man known to have written about them was a Greek named Emanuel Moschopoulos who lived in Constantinople around the year 1300 A. D. About 200 years later magic squares suddenly captivated the in- terest of the Europeans. The. Ger- man physician, theologian and stu- dent of the occult, Cornelius Hein- rich Agrippa, usually called Agrip- pa von Nettesheim, began a study of magic squares and constructed them systematically. Mathematicians call a magic square, like the Lo Sku, a square of the third order because it has three squared cells. A magic square totalling 16 cells is called a square of the fourth order because 16 is four squared. Agrippa von Nette- sheim — he lived from 1486 to 1535
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68 — tried his hand on squares of the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and even the eighth and ninth orders. But the first magic square of the fourth order to be published had been constructed by Agrippa’s slightly older contemporary Al- brecht Durer (1471-1528.) It is the square shown in Fig. 3. Orig- inally it formed a part of Durer’s picture of “Melancholia” and the two figures in the center of the bot- tom row are the date of the work, namely 1514. This certainly is not just an “in- teresting coincidence” as some art historians have stated. Durer, in all probability, had written the year on a preliminary sketch, intending to use it as a part of the composi- tion and then conceived the idea of building a magic square around the date. It not only deepened the sense of melancholy which he wished to convey, it also made a better composition than the year by itself. Albrecht Durer’s motive may have been mainly artistic expres- sion. Agrippa von Nettesheim went deeper into philosophical specula- tion and associated magic squares of different orders with the “plan- ets” of pre-Copernican astronomy. The simplest square, that of the third order, he associated with the outermost planet of his time: Sa- turn. The square of the fourth or- der then belonged to Jupiter, the Figure 3 square of the fifth order belonged to Mars, that of the sixth order to the Sun. The seventh order square was associated with Venus, the eighth order square with Mercury and the ninth order square with the moon. It was Agrippa’s specu- lations which laid the groundwork for amulets of the type sold at the coin auction of which I spoke. A number of such amulets were pre- served in the Historical Collection of Emperor Francis Joseph of Aus- tria and were, at one time, de- scribed in some detail. Before I quote from these de- scriptions one more fact should be mentioned. At the time Agrippa von Nettesheim associated magic squares of different orders with the planets it already was customary to associate certain metals with cer- tain planets. The metal of the plan- et Mercury was, of course, mer-
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MAGIC SQUARES cury. The metal of the planet Mars was obviously iron. The metal as- sociated with the Moon was silver and the metal of the Sun was gold. Hence, one would expect a Sun amulet to be made of gold and to show a magic square of the sixth order. And that is precisely what the pieces in the Vienna collection did show. The magic square shown on the reverse of one of them is the one reproduced in Fig. 4. Each column adds up to 111. Why this particular value was intended is not known; that it was the intended value is shown by the word Nachyel above the square. As a word Nachyel has no meaning, but it expresses the same figure in cabbalistic symbol- ism. If written in Hebrew letters it would look like this: N-K-J-A-L; but each of the Hebrew letters also stands for a figure, the letter nuwn= 69 50, the letter kapk=20, the letter jod=10, the letter aleph=1 and the letter /amed=30, which also adds up to 111. The obverse of the piece shows the figure of a king in front of the throne. That the king represents the Sun is indi- cated by the letters SOL and by the figure of a resting lion under the king’s feet. An astrological symbol shows that the lion’s. figure refers to the constellation and not to the animal and in astrology the constellation Leo and the sun are closely associated. There is, inci- dentally, some reason for this asso- ciation. When the Sun enters the constellation Leo it is the hottest time of the summer for the north- ern hemisphere. Two other pieces have different symbols on the obverse but the same magic square on the reverse. In one case the figure 111 is above the square, in the other case 111 is above the square and 666 below. The latter figure is, of course, the sum of the addition of all the cells of that square. But the same square was not al- ways used, even though all the squares on Sun amulets always added up to 111. Figs. 5 and 6 show two other arrangements. Fig. 6 is especially interesting and in- genious in that it shows one magic square inside another one. The center of the square in Fig. 6 is a magic square of the fourth order,
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each column adding up to 74. As a rule one cannot tell just when these amulets were made, but one which was a part of the private collection of the last king of Saxony is an exception. It shows a stylized picture of the Sun super-imposed on the figure of a walking lion and the Moon above the Sun. The in- scription reads, in large capitals of the type often used on monuments: SOLIS ET LUNAE CONGRES- SUS CUM BASILISCO, which can very easily be mistranslated because a basilisk is a fabulous monster with a poisonous breath and horrifying appearance. But in this case the word Jbasilisco is meant to be the diminutive of -basileus which is the Greek word for king. Now the Latin for King is vex and regulus is a similar di- minutive which is what is meant but with reference to the star of FATE Figure 6 that name, the brightest star in the constellation, Leo. Hence the in- scription reads: Conjunction of Sun and Moon and Regulus, and even the date of the conjunction is given in the form XIX AUG MDCCV—August 19, 1705. Pre- sumably the dies for the amulet were prepared beforehand, but the amulet was actually struck on the date of the conjunction. Since the amulets of the Sun were expensive, the owner did not carry it on his person usually. It was deposited in a wooden box and to preserve its efficacy it had to be wrapped in yellow silk. Wheth- er the remark of a German writer (around 1750) that one has to wear yellow gloves in order to steal one was meant seriously or . face- tiously is difficult to decide after all these years. The number of known Sun amu-
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MAGIC SQUARES lets is larger than that of Moon, Venus, or Mars amulets. This may be due partly to the fact that they were made of gold, and therefore valuable even in the eyes of the materialist and the atheist. Lunar amulets were, of course, made of silver, while Mars amulets were made of iron or of red brass. Jupi- ter amulets should have been made of tin, but the two known examples are of silver. There are two schools of thought on how the virtue of an amulet could be utilized best. Some ad- vised to carry the amulet of the occasion, as it were: a Mars amu- let if you went to war, a Venus amulet if you courted a lady, a Jupiter amulet when negotiating a business deal. Others, and they were in the majority, followed as- trological reasoning. If you were born under the sign of Leo a Sun amulet would aid you in any ven- ture. By the year 1700 the number of magic squares which had been con- structed had grown quite large— it had grown so large a century later that the French mathemati- cian B. Violle needed three volumes to publish a complete collection of known magic squares —and math- ematicians became interested in the problem as a mathematical sub- ject. They did succeed in finding certain rules. A magic square of the second order is impossible, a I 7 2 45/3934 4 | 3 [ag] 36| 19/37/33] 6 [30}14, 43|39)28/21 [26] 11|7 | 42| 32/23/25 /27| 18 | 8 | 41 | 15]24l29]221 35] 9 | 10 |20|13/17|44[31 40] 115 [12/16] 46/47|4e Figure 7 magic square of the third order can have only one fundamental ar- rangement, namely that of the five odd numbers forming a cross and the four even numbers forming the corners. But the fourth order al- ready can have 880 different fund- amental arrangements and over half a million fourth order squares are possible. For sixth order squares the total number jumps to 567,705, 600! But, while certain rules could be found, the actual construction of a magic square is still a question of trial and error, though the mathe- matical rules help to eliminate in advance many possible errors. A few such squares constructed by amateur and professional math- ematicians with free Sunday af- ternoons are shown here. Fig. 7 is a triple square, a square of the seventh order encapsuling a square
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72 Figure 8 of the fifth order which, in turn, encapsules a square of the third order. Fig. 8 shows a square of the ninth order which is composed of third order squares; each third or- der square is composed of nine consecutive numbers. Fig. 9 shows an interesting at- tempt. Remember that the numbers must be consecutive, but how about consecutive prime numbers? The fourth order square of Fig. 9., con- structed by the mathematician Bergholt, consists of prime num- bers only, but it is not perfect, even though it adds up properly. The reason it is not perfect is that the prime numbers are not consecu- tive. The only even prime, namely seleal70l3|5] rlaalsolse 67| 72/65 4 |9 [2 lag|saia7 26|19|24]44 |37|42|62|55|60 21/23/26|39|41/43]57|59/61 22|27|20|40) 45] 3815863154 35|28|33|80|73|78|17 |10|15| [30|32|34|75|77| 79] 12 |14| 16 31 ]36|29| 76/81] 74] 13) 18 | 11] 2, is missing. Missing prime num- bers which would have had to be present to fulfill the consecutive re- quirement are 43 (between 41 and 53] [37] 1 29|7 {is} 47 Figure 9
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MAGIC SQUARES 47, which are used), and 59, 61 and 67 (between 53 and 71, which are also used). Figure 10 And now I have to discuss, as promised, the “near-magic” square of Roman times. It was found scratched in wall plaster of a Ro- man villa at Cirencester, England. Written down as a simple Latin sentence it is interesting enough in that it is a so-called palindrome, a term derived from the Greek word for “running backwards.” As can be seen at a glance SATOR ARE- 73 PO TENET OPERA ROTAS can be read from left to right as well as from right to left. The word Arepo is somebody’s name and sator can mean “sower,” “beget- ter,” or “producer.” The sentence reads best by leaving sator un- translated. It then reads: The sator Arepo guides the wheels at work. But this sentence (invented by Arepo himself?) was written in the form shown in Fig. 10. It can be read left to right starting at the top, or right to left starting at the bottom, or in vertical columns downward starting at the left, or in vertical columns upward start- ing at the right. It is not. legible diagonally. Of course, the sator Arepo may have invented the arrangement himself, but it looks so much like a magic square that one wonders whether the idea of this arrange- ment originated with the Romans. But, unfortunately, we have no ex- ample of magic squares from Ro- man times so all we can do is guess. Ka NO ESCAPE FTER HE gave a sermon on death during a service at St. Pat- rick’s Catholic Church in San Diego, Calif., the Rev. John J. Cotigan was approached by Josephine Valente, 43, who told him she feared death awaited her and asked him to bless her. He did so and she left the church. As she crossed the street she was struck C9 and killed by a car.
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The police had no clues—and it remained for a dream to unmask a respected man as a depraved sex killer. hy Irene Tebulh aieee TELEPHONE rang and rang and finally, half-awakened from my nap, I picked up the re- ceiver of the nearby instrument and said impatiently, “I was dreaming.” I recognized my cousin Henry Turnbull’s voice when he laughed and said, “Speaking of dreams, I’ve got a story you won’t believe. Id like to come over and tell it to you.” Henry was deputy sheriff and made a practice of telling me all interesting events related to the su- pernatural because of my expressed interest. I said, “By all means, come.” This time his story was as hor- rifying as it was unbelievable. A child, five-year-old Dorothy Schneider, had been murdered on January 12, 1928, near Flint, Mich., by the most depraved type of sex criminal. Days had passed 74 without a single clue. Meanwhile, on the following Sunday, 30 miles away from the crime in Owasso, Mich., an ailing young carpenter, Harold Latridge, had received the highest honor of his life. He had been made Deacon of the Church of Christ, succeed- ing the pious Adolph Hotelling, who now had become a church Elder. Latridge had a bad heart; the excitement of that Sunday was too much for him and he suffered a seizure. When he awoke from this he recalled he had had a strange and terrible dream. Not until the next day did the ailing and frightened Latridge get up the courage to go to a school where his father was working and tell him of the dream he had dreamed about the respected Hot- elling. He told his father that in his
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dream he had been walking beside a stream, while across from him, his face contorted with passion, Elder Hotelling was striking a little girl again and again with a knife. The father apparently was not overly impressed by his son’s dream but a workman who felt somewhat differently about dreams overheard the story and he thought it worthwhile to report it to the police. : The police questioned Deacon Latridge. He told the story of his dream to them. He even agreed with them that it was unbelievable. Dreams don’t come true. Although it Aad seemed very real. But the police had no other lead and so they questioned Elder Hot- elling. To their utter amazement Hotelling, breaking down, confessed. The Michigan Supreme Court gave the reward for catching the murderer to the dreamer, Harold Latridge, saying, “We believe this strange young man, who follows the trade of the carpenter of Na- zareth, who said, ‘Suffer little chil- dren to come unto me.’” On April 7, 1955, 27 years after his crime, Adolph Hotelling died in the Jackson, Mich., prison to which he had been sentenced for the 1928 slaying of the little girl. Some men are trapped in their own dreams. This man was trapped by another man’s dream. <t- WAS THE “THRESHER’S” FATE FORETOLD? VER A year before the O sinking of the Thresher, according to one report, Philip M. Jenkins, an amateur artist of Fresno, Calif., did an oil painting which showed the sub- merged Thresher descending at an angle into the ocean depths. Jenkins, who specializes in paint- ing U.S. Navy ships, said he had planned to donate the painting to the submarine. He changed his mind when a friend who was in the Navy told him the paint- ing depicted the Thresher “in an uncontrollable dive position.” <— CALLED BY A GHOST CCORDING to a story he told neighbors, Aniceto Morales, 57, a policeman in Mexico City, was haunted by the ghost of his dead wife, Teresa. Almost nightly for five months after her death in January, 1962, Morales claimed, Teresa terrified him by appear- ing while he was in bed and begging him to join her. One night in June, apparently responding to her pleas at last, he hung himself in his bedroom.
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—Gingers of FATE By Jeffrey Liss Joan Robbins, 17, of Providence, R.I., asked the patrolman, “Re- member me?” on her way to the hospital after a head-on collision. The patrolman did. Five hours be- fore he had investigated another accident, a\car-demolishing rear-end collision, from which the young lady had emerged unhurt. e In Trenton, N.J., Ronald Gerva- soni, a slaughterhouse employee, was taken to the hospital in critical condition. A calf he had been pre- paring for slaughter had struck back — and kicked a butcher knife into his chest! @ Mr. and Mrs. Ed Guy of Topeka, Kans., drove to Florida to visit their former neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Hutton, who had moved to Tampa two years before. When they arrived, they were told that the Huttons had gone to Kansas and were expecting to arrive that same day at the Guy home. S William Sansoucie, of Worcester, Mass., recently received a_ six- month suspended sentence for 76 drunkenness because of a case of mistaken identity. The cab he hail- ed turned out to be a police car. e After he had asked the Bristol, England, police to set up a radar trap outside his church because speeding cars were endangering his parishioners, Canon William Kings- ley Martin was fined $5.60 — he was caught in his own trap. After he blacked out at 7:15 A.M. on July 10, 1961, at a railroad crossing near Plattsburgh, N.Y., and his car crossed the tracks, jumped the curb and crashed into a service station, Guerino Mi- schenelli was taken by a city emer- gency ambulance .to Physicians Hospital, where he was x-rayed for possible chest injuries. One morn- ing several months later at 7:15, he blacked out crossing the same tracks. His car jumped the same curb and crashed into the same service station. And, of course, he was taken by a city emergency am- bulance to Physicians Hospital, where he was x-rayed for chest in- juries.
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A. 3 fal Eau of Mercy I had visited my sick friend—without ever having left home. HERE CAN COME a time when the physical senses are useless and the only solution is to use the powers and abilities that lie beyond the five senses. I did this once and I saved a life. Some years ago, at a very criti- cal and difficult time in my life, I was befriended by Miss Jaime Palmer, president of the Writers Round Table and for 18 years the manager of song-writer Carrie Ja- cobs Bond. Since that time I had hoped that someday, in some way, I could repay her. I often told her, ““Someday when you need me, even if you can’t call me, I'll know. And I'll come to you.” Years later, on the evening of 77 By Carol Hales May 28, 1961, I was restless and as- sailed by an inner prodding that somewhere, someone needed my help. I kept asking, “Who needs me to help them now?” I was tor- mented by a sense of desperate urgency. In the darkness I paced in my yard and prayed that God would enable me to know what to do and how to answer this psychically communicated need. Suddenly a light began to flicker through the branches of a tall euca- lyptus tree. I stood silently beneath it and watched a strange blue-white light as it grew larger and larger and finally formed a triangular frame. Then, inside that shimmering, vi-
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78 brating glow I saw a face begin to form. First the forehead appeared, then the eyebrows, then the eyes, the nose, and finally the mouth and chin. Every feature was dis- tinct. It was as if an artist actually was creating the likeness while I watched. I gasped as I recognized the face. It was Miss Palmer’s. The face seemed alive. “Oh, Jaime,” I cried aloud. “What is wrong? How can I help you?” Her lips moved but I heard no sound. For a few moments I stared into the eyes that shone through the wind-stirred branches of the tree, and I read in them a message of dire need. “T’ll help you,” I promised. Then the entire vision blacked out as quickly as a light is turned off when one pulls the switch. I ran into the house and to the telephone. I dialed my friend’s number. The ringing phone was . like a wail in my ears. It rang and rang, but there was no answer. I realized that, under normal circumstances, my friend could be in her studio writing; she could have retired early and taken the receiver from its cradle; she might be in the living room watching T.V. with her totally deaf brother and unwilling to answer the phone at that moment. FATE But these logical thoughts brought me no comfort on this oc- casion because I had the psychic knowing that this was not a normal time. I simply had to reach my friend. I decided to send a telegram. Then I realized that if she would not answer the telephone she would not answer the doorbell. I could get a cab and go to her home. But a wind had risen and was shrieking like a banshee. And her home is surrounded by a gar- den in which there are many trees, palms and shrubs. I knew that, as- sailed by a torrent of wind, trees would be rustling, palms would be rattling, and shrubs would be brush- ing their green fingers loudly against the windows. Even if I stood under the living room or bed- room window and yelled my voice would almost certainly be lost in the wild melody of other wind- borne sounds. I thought desperately of asking the Hollywood police to call there and see if everything was all right, but I realized that such an inter- ruption for no apparent and con- crete reason would be embarrass- ing to my friend. Besides, I real- ized the police might take a very dim view of my anxiety based on a psychic premonition. I knew they might even think I was under the influence of spirits—and not the kind that are found in the world
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ASTRAL ERRAND OF MERCY which lies beyond the five senses. So I prayed and asked God to help me, to make it possible for me to heed the urgent message I was receiving, to know what to do, how to bring to my friend the aid I was convinced she needed. I had to know what I could do and I be- lieved that God would answer my sincere and unselfish prayer. I lay down on my bed and awaited the answer. And as [ lis- tened to the screaming wind a won- . derful sense of relief broke through my anxiety. It was the feeling which I call knowing. I knew that I. would be able to aid my friend. “Jaime,” I said aloud. “You’re having a time of crisis. I don’t know what it is. But I know with all that’s in me that I’ll be able to reach you, somehow, someway. And I'll get there in time, Jaime. I know it. I feel it. God will help me, help me get there in time.” * Ok Ok yest OCCURRED next may seem incredible.. But I wish to. point out that during this entire experience I felt as real as I do in the world of the five senses. There seemed nothing odd in my being where I was, nor in the manner in which I arrived there. As I lay on my bed I felt as if I were rising and drifting, easily and comfortably from my body, from my room, from my home. I seemed to be drifting in a calm, aware of 79 the wild shriek and the tremendous blow of the wind, yet untouched by it. It was as if, insulated by an unseen garment, I moved along a magnetic air current that kept me safe from the storm. I distinctly remember gliding in this manner across the freeway, past the hills from the San Fernan- do Valley where I live, into the Hollywood area more than 10 miles away, where my friend has her home. I drifted directly to her gar- den, over the stone wall and be- neath what I knew to be her bed- room window. There was no glimmer of light in the entire house—although she always kept a night light burning. A new sense of alarm now began to ring in my consciousness. That sense of urgent need again over- whelmed me. I had to get into that house. I had to see my friend and learn her need and how to aid her. I clasped my hands and I cried out, “God help me to help Jaime.” Suddenly, I was aware that the rampaging wind was quieting. And soon only a few trees stirred faintly in the breeze. Then I noticed a radiant mass of light forming about me; it seemed to be charged with some wonderful, vitalizing power. I sud- denly began to ascend to the bal- cony of my friend’s bedroom. I stood there a moment, looking through the half-open French win-
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80 dow. I pushed it wider and entered the room. The white radiance spread and revealed my friend lying in her bed. I knew at once she was des- perately ill. Moving to the bedside I laid my hand upon her forehead. She stirred restlessly and moaned. “Jaime,” I said to her, “it’s me. It’s Carol. I’ve come to help you. You'll be all right.” She seemed unaware of my pres- ence. Then I cried out, “God, I place Jaime in your care. Please guide me to know what I must do to help her.” I returned to the balcony. I floated over the railing and drifted slowly down to the garden. I recall touching an orange tree and tight- ening my fingers about a piece of its green foliage. Then I looked up at the stars gleaming in the clear, pre-dawn sky. The next thing I recall I was back in my bedroom, lying on my bed, stirring and crying out, as one does when wakening from a nightmare. I was conscious of clasping some- thing between my fingers and I lifted my hand. I was holding a sprig of bright green foliage from an orange tree. There are no orange trees near my home. I knew without doubt that what had happened to me had been no dream. kK x FATE URE OF THE action I must take I telephoned my good friend and physician, Dr. Marion J. Dakin, and told her that I was sure my friend Miss Palmer was very ill and I asked her help. Dr. Dakin and her nurse, Mrs. Unetta Morse, were very kind and went immediately to the Palmer home. They knocked and called loudly, but there was no answer. They tried all the doors. By a stroke of luck Jaime’s deaf brother had forgotten to lock a side door when he made his nightly rounds. Through this door Dr. Dakin and Mrs. Morse entered. Once inside they found the brother and made him understand they were medical people and that “Carol felt your sister needs help and asked us to come here.” Then they found Jaime, desper- ately ill. She was rushed to Santa Monica Hospital, where immediate surgery was performed. The doc- tors removed the largest gall stone they ever had seen at that hospital, a stone in such a position that with in a short time it would have burst an intestinal wall. Without that immediate surgery she could not have lived. How do I account for the events of that wild night? Its hard to say. I think that I have a psychic gift which in times of great stress—I have had other similar, though not so dramatic ex-
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ASTRAL ERRAND OF MERCY periences—allows me to function beyond the boundaries of the world- ly senses. That night, as my mother can testify, I never once left home. 81 But if my experience was merely a dream then where did I get the foliage from an orange tree? And how did I know of Jaime’s desper- ate need? MIRACLE FOR A DOOMED GIRL By Lawrence W. Hail DAY Pauline Scott, of London, England, is a hap- py, healthy 16-year-old-girl— but in 1956 medical science con- cluded that she was doomed to die with a blood disease for which there is no known cure. As a last resort, Miss Scott was taken by her physician to a certain religious shrine and urged to pray for a healing. This she did. ‘When next I saw her, three days after her trip to the shrine, she was in an oxygen tent,’ wrote Gabriel Fielding, M. D., in his article in the Family Doctor. The girl was given a blood transfusion and was believed to be a hopeless case with only weeks to live. Then Pauline began to recov- er without any apparent reason. She stated, “I heard a nurse and a doctor talking at the foot of my bed when they thought I was asleep. They said they did not think I would be alive by morning. I prayed to get better and I believe it was a miracle that I did.” Why did Pauline mysteriously improve after she had asked for divine assistance? Dr. Fielding’s conclusion is that, “‘Pauline’s re- covery showed that we can rely not only upon our own great wits in time of trouble, but on God’s also.” J ANSWER TO PRAYER RRIVING cold, hungry and penniless from Chicago, Billy Humes, 23, and his wife, Jean, 20, sought refuge in St. Vibiana’s Cathedral in Los Angeles. As they prayed in a back pew, they saw aman rifle the poor boxes. They gave police a description of the thief that enabled them to pick up a suspect. A newspaper report of the incident brought the Humes a flood of job offers and free use of a two-room apartment until their financial situation improved.
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‘Bringing THE BIBLE By ALSON The Conversion of Saul — From Acts 9:18 — 1 And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest. 2 And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem. 8 And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: « And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? 5 And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest. 6 And he trembling and astonished, said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do. 7 And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man. 8 And Saul arose from the earth; and when his eyes were opened, he saw no man: but they led him by the hand, and brought him unto Da- mascus, 9 And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink. 82 10 And there was a certain dis- ciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and to him said the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I am here, Lord. 11 And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judas for one called Saul of Tarsus: for, behold, he prayeth, 12 And hath seen in a vision a man named Ananias, coming in, and putting his hand on him, that he might receive his sight. 13 Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he hath done... 15 But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen ves- sel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the chil- dren of Israel: 16 For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name. 17 And Ananias went his way, and entered into the house; and putting his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord hath sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost. 18 And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.
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J. SMITH UP TO DATE IN THE LIGHT OF PARAPSYCHOLOGY AND MODERN KNOWLEDGE AUL OF TARSUS was a classic case of split or dissociated per- sonality not unlike Dr. Morton Prince’s famous patient, Sally Beau- champ, or Dr. Walter Franklin . Prince’s Doris Fischer. For many years the dominant personality was “Saul,” proud Roman citizen and . conservative Jewish leader, and a vigorous persecutor of the new Christian sect. The “Paul,” an idealistic young student of Jewish history and philosophy who was impressed greatly by the life and teachings of Jesus and by the bravery exhibited by Stephen, for whose death his primary person- ality, “Saul,” was largely respon- sible. “Paul” felt guilt at the mar- tyrdom of Stephen, and decided to attempt to become the dominant per- sonality permanently. (Those who . have read the literature of dissoci- ated personality will recall how, in : both “Sally Beauchamp” and “Doris - Fischer,” second and third person- alities frequently succeeded in com- pletely taking over the body.) Under a hot sun on the Damascus plain, “Saul’s” troubled mind and conscience produce a mental image secondary personality was. 83 of Jesus and he hears a voice crying to him, “Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?” He is truly shaken, and “Paul” seizes this opportunity to attempt to become dominant. The intensity of the psychic struggle for dominance causes the common body to lose sight and consciousness. When they are regained at the bap- tism by Ananias, “Paul” has become dominant and remains so for the rest of his life, although traces of “Saul” continue to appear from time to time —as in “Paul’s” strictures against marriage. The “voice” which “Saul” attrib- uted to Jesus and which others in the party heard although they could not identify the speaker was in all probability the voice of the secon- dary personality, “Paul,” who had gained control of the vocal appara- tus as “Saul” lost consciousness. To interpret Saul’s conversion in this way does not detract in any Way from the spiritual validity of the ex- perience, for all of us are many per- sonalities, and religious conversion is merely the attaining of dominance, under the influence of a powerful emotional experience, of the truest and best of our many selves.
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Calling all Physicists: aes IS a sort of little-boy complex that grips everybody whenever a good poltergeist mani- festation persists and most espec- jally when it involves so-called (er- roneously, as usual) “stone-throw- ing.” It seems to take possession of the afflicted and the uninvolved, the press and the police, established science and established religion, mystics, psychic researchers, and even the Forteans. I’m sick and tired of all this, particularly of the attitude of the parapsychologists. And just to set the record straight, the stones are mot thrown; 84 ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ivan T. Sanderson is a world-famous zo- ologist and writer. He is the author of numerous books and magazine articles on popular natural history, as well as scholar- ly reports in scientific journals. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1911, he attended Eton College and Cambridge University, where he received degrees with honors in geology, zoology and botany. He has led scientific collecting expeditions into little-known parts of the world to study animal life and to bring back unusual specimens and new facts concerning them. they are dropped or lobbed or just drift around. A part of the trouble is, as usual, semantic, and involves the appel- lation parapsychology. Everybody seems to think that any phenomenon that is inexplicable under currently known physical principles consti- tutes what they call a parapsycho- logical problem. In the case of poltergeist mani- festations the other courts of ap- peal are the police, established re- ligion, and the occultists in that order. Perhaps they invariably go to parapsychology as a last resort
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Parapsychologists have been investigating this baffling phenomenon—but is it within their field at all? because it is the only science that will even look into such matters, though technologists of sundry ilks are always too happy to get into the act with their electronic devices. Everybody overlooks the meaning of the word parapsychology. Para means “like;” Jogos means the “study of;” and psyche means “the soul” or spirit, with a distinct em- phasis on the human spirit which can, in another way, be interpreted as the whole non-material part of a living entity. Parapsychology thus is part of psychology and is one of the so-called mind-sciences. It has nothing to do with and is totally incompetent in such purely physical phenomena as stone-dropping and other measurable aspects of polter- geistery. Yet it has gotten deep into the act and made attempts, al- beit somewhat pathetic, to take it over. In doing so it seems to have convinced the public that the whole business is its domain. I have nothing against parapsy- chologists or their endeavors. In fact, I am greatly in awe of their accomplishments in the face of the 85 battle they have had to wage for recognition. What is more, they have achieved some astonishingly valid results of a most commend- ably high scientific caliber. If some other sciences subjected themselves to half the rigid discipline of para- psychology we’d be a very deal closer to understanding our universe than we are. Despite all this, the whole bus- iness (stone-dropping) and partic- ularly this case in San Bernardino, Calif., (see March 1963, Fate) is not within the aegis or the compe- tence of either parapsychology or occultism, and for reasons that Dr. Fodor himself states very clearly in that article: to wit, that “(so-called) psychic phenomena cannot be sep- arated into rigid classifications, or a scheme of orthodoxy.” He also made it clear in his other state- ments to Fatre that this case did not fit either the orthodox classifi- cation of ghost or polter-ghost. I think Dr. Fodor has got an inkling of what I-am driving at but I also think everybody else simply has got rocks in their heads. But first to
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86 clear away the last remnants of the semantic muddle. There are indeed many inexplic- able (so far) occurrences that are demonstrably of a psychological na- ture. Similarly, a high percentage of poltergeist efforts do seem to be linked to morons, or persons reach- ing puberty, or young marrieds making sexual adjustments. On the other hand, there are vast fields of these inexplicables that have no- thing to do with human beings or any other animal, and appear often to occur when none are around. (This does not mean that matter cannot be affected by human minds at a distance but, why bring this up before we have exhausted all the multifarious non-psychological pos- sibilities? ) The semantic trouble is that we use the wrong catch-phrase. In place of parapsychological we really ought to say paranormal or, in the case of the purely physical, para- physical. Further, we should differ- entiate between the paraphysical and the quasiphysical. The first is something that “looks like the phys- ical,” the second is something that is “half physical.” For instance, stone-dropping looks absolutely physical but there are things wrong with both cause and effect here, so that the phenomenon is paraphys- ical. A motion picture seen on a screen, on the other hand, is ab- solutely physical but it is not what _ the cases. FATE it appears to be. It is, therefore, quasiphysical. Forteans are primarily interested in non-parapsychological phenom- ena. We are especially concerned with the purely physical and show a tendency, while doubting everything and particularly theories, to believe that all paraphysical events can or will be satisfactorily and complete- ly explained on some physical prin- ciples, though not necessarily on Newtonian, LEinsteinian, or any others that concern our particular space-time continuum. Stone dropping is a very ancient business and old-hat to Forteans; yet Forteans, being few and far be- tween, and deliberately unorgan- ized, and overwhelmed by -the sheer volume of inexplicables, have not had time to go into 90 per cent of Stone dropping needs some Fortean analysis. Let us try this. Stones come either from the sur- face rocks of our earth or they fall on the surface of this earth through its atmosphere from space. In both cases the purely physical part of this phenomenon is a petrological one, with either a geological or an astronomical aspect. The mechan- ism of “stone-dropping” takes: us to one of the three major branches of cosmology; namely, physics, (the other two being mathematics and geometry) which includes. statics, . dynamics and mechanics. The first
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LET’S INVESTIGATE FLYING ROCKS 87 is the study of objects (or liquids, as in hydrostatics) at rest; the sec- ond, of objects in motion; and the third, objects in reaction as opposed to mere action. Our falling stones are moving, or in action, and some- times in reaction. Tn the case of so-called “thrown” stones we are concerned with their origin, which is purely topograph- ical and petrological, their general behavior, which is dynamic, and their particular behavior, which on occasion enters the realm of what may be called the mechanical. This last statement may seem odd but, as we shall see in a moment, these stones do not always behave as if dropped or lobbed. They some- times seem to have a “will of their own.” Let us take these three as- pects of the matter in turn: the stones themselves, their normal dy- namic performance, and their oc- casional, seemingly mechanical be- havior. Stones that have “dropped” are of three basic kinds: those that re- semble, or could be, stones found locally within the area of the drop- ping; those that can be, or are traced to, or matched with avail- able stones somewhere within a rea- sonable distance —say a 300-mile circle around the point of dropping; and those that cannot be matched within hundreds of miles or at all. Perhaps this latter group should be permanently split into those that only occur great distances away (and that might be joined to group two), and those that are not known anywhere. Competent petrologists can, and usually have, identified the polter- geist-dropped stones and perhaps their most astonishing aspect is that almost all of them can be matched with stones found with- in a reasonable distance of the lo- cation. This is one of the things that most aggravates the technolo- gists and the few scientists who have got mixed up in the business. It has been totally ignored by the parapsychologists, perhaps natural- ly, as just plain local stones are a crashing bore and prove them no- thing. There is little else to be said about the stones themselves - but this is due to lack of any real re- search or even plain observation by ° anybody. For instance, these stones often have been reported to be either “hot” or “cold” — meaning compared to their surroundings. I don’t know of anybody who has popped a geiger-counter over one on its arrival, nor of any other physical (electromagnetic or other) tests having been made on them in situ and promptly. This would be worth doing. We even could prove physically that they were really hot or cold. It would be handy to know when we come to investigate the dynamics of the phenomenon.
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88 The first thing to establish is that the phenomena of which we speak appear to be but one of a class. All of these involve the appearance of objects at a location where they previously were not, and without discernible, known, physical (me- teorological, mechanical, human, etc.) force being involved. Such ob- jects can either (1) just appear, (2) float in, (3) be lobbed or drop- ped, (4) be fired or projected. Curiously, it appears they never ar- rive in the normal manner, at the velocity expected if they had been truly thrown or dropped — meaning they never arrive at the speed pre- scribed by known gravitational pull, i.e. at a velocity of 32 feet per sec, per sec. This I personally find very odd and just about the most cogent argument for placing the whole matter in the realm of the para- normal or paraphysical. I am not going to attempt to go into either (1) or (4) above. The first gets involved in both the ap- ports of the occultists and the spon- taneous appearances of the For- teans. The latter would drag us in- to such things as shattered wind- shields and meteorites (?) which travel horizontally through the low- er atmosphere. Thus we are left with objects that just “float” in or which appear to be lobbed or dropped from a very short distance. Even the police in this San Bern- FATE ardino case. mentioned that the stones did not seem to be dropping or otherwise arriving at the veloci- ties prescribed by either dynamic principles or common experience. They did not dent cars! They did not bruise persons hit! Some even seemed to “home-in” on flashlight beams! This is by no means unique; in fact, it is almost universal — please note, I am now talking about stone-dropping specifically, nor re- lated phenomena, such as objects sailing about houses. This can mean only one thing (if proved); namely, that these stones, when in motion, are not obeying the known, proved New- tonian laws of physics. What laws, then, ave they obey- ing? Some persons contend that they are not obeying any laws but rather are behaving erratically or even arbitrarily. I believe, however, if somebody would measure their speed of fall on arrival it might be dem- onstrated that they are obeying some law or, at least, following some pattern that is not entirely random. Here we get into pure conjecture, but it looks very much as if they might be obeying some other so-called “law” of dynamics. If we could establish this we would have at least two principles of dy- namics in our space-time con- tinuum. And now, even worse: some of
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LET’S INVESTIGATE FLYING ROCKS 89 these stones seem to “have wills of their own.” This did not occur specifically in the San Bernardino case but has been reported in other cases. This behavior on the part of said stones can only be classed as mechanical —be that self-induced or influenced from or by outside energies. Let me try to explain. I was sitting on a verandah of an estate house in Sumatra in the year 1928 with my host and hostess — he, a Hollander, she, an English lady. Suddenly, a small, shiny, black pebble came sailing in from the outer darkness. It rolled to a gentle stop by the back wall. I was not alarmed but, admittedly, I was somewhat surprised. Then, another stone came in, then another, and another. I now was alarmed and asked who was throwing stones at us. My host began cautiously. He said that such stones came in all night, almost every night; but that none ever had hit anybody. There was a moment of profound silence though the party included half a dozen people, all “outsiders” like myself. Then everybody wanted to know the cause of this, Why did our host tolerate people throwing stones at him night after night? Had he no control over his staff and his estate workers? Meantime, more stones arrived, bounced, and rolled to a stop by the back wall. Our host invited us to pick up some of the stones and mark them with chalk (which he provided), lipstick, paint, or anything, and then toss them as far as we could into the surrounding garden. This garden was extensive, with sweep- ing lawns, shrubbery and beyond, acres of secondary tropical growth —a tangle so thick you could not force your way through it. We threw the small stones, duly mark- ed, far out into this peripheral tan- gle. We must have thrown over a dozen such marked stones. Within a minute they were all back! Nobody, with a powerful flash- light or super-eyesight, could have found those little stones in that tangled mess, in that length of time, and thrown them back onto the verandah. Yet, they came back, all duly marked by us! Dr. Nandor Fodor has said, “These stones are animated. They are, on the least assumption, guid- ed. They can change direction in flight at a 45-degree angle .. . call them ‘obsessed.’ ” In other words they are mechan- ically activated. But by what? What force produced the reaction, in ad- dition to the action? There are all sorts of perfectly decent tests that could be tried in good solid, continuous cases such as this San Bernardino location; and these could occupy the tech-
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go nologists happily for years. That they are not attempted is our bad luck and evidence of the rocks in our heads. Meanwhile, it really is useless to go on with the dynamic aspects of the phenomenon. This leaves us one other aspect; the one that prompts this tirade. Here we have a purely physical phenomenon, yet, the best anybody can do is go mental about it. Let us stay in the physical world or, at least, in that world which ontolo- gists (certain kinds of practical philosophers) tell us we think ex- ists. Who cares if a table is or is not there when you are not? There are stones or we think there are by every physical and mental means we know, so let’s go back to the stones. If stones arrive at some location where they were not before, they must come from somewhere. First let’s ascertain where they might have come from. This the petro- logical technologists have kindly done for us innumerable times. Sec- ond, let’s ascertain how they got there; and, finally, why. At present we know nothing of the dynamical (or mechanical) forc- es that move the rocks but we do know of one possibility for the how: “teleportation” or ITF (in- stantransference) as I choose to call it. The case of “stone-drop- ping,” more or less, has to be of this nature — to wit, transport from FATE one point to another by forces (or agencies) presently unknown to us. The idea of ITF implies “instan- taniety,” which in turn seems to in- dicate the speed of light, or better. However, these stones come “float- ing” in. This pre-supposes both a starting force and a braking force! This takes us into the why. To this is linked still another question: where were the stones be- fore they “floated” in? It appears not everything is “an- chored down” quite as properly as it should be according to Newton- ian principles of gravity. I’m not going into levitation though if that exists it most certainly would be in- volved in the laws or principles we're concerned with here. There are certain places scattered over the earth where gravity seems not to behave in the manner we consider normal. I am not speaking of the Oregon Vortex or its many tourist- attraction imitators, nor am I think- ing of that parlor trick of picking up a fat man with the little fingers of four other persons. I mean places where the pebbles don’t seem to be lying on the ground or gravitically pressed to it as they should. There is one such in a glacial circe at the head of either the Songe or the Nord Fjord in Norway where I was taken when I was about six years old by my godfather who was in the stone quarrying business and interested in geology. There is an-
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LET’S INVESTIGATE FLYING ROCKS 91 other in the vast volcanic crater of Kintamani on the island of Bali in Indonesia, and I have reports (i.e. rumors) of several others. Is it possible that ITF and re- lated phenomena constitute natural though rare aspects of what we call nature and that in one of its aspects things come so loose in one place that they “take-off”? —with the speed of light or otherwise? If so, where do they go? Into another space-time continuum; to another time or part of our universe; or to some point within some constricting geophysical forces such as geomag- netism, planetary motion, or what- not? You can toy with these pos- sibilities all you want but you can- not get away from the very pertin- ent question: where do they go? Unless, of course, you choose to fall in line with some cosmologists who now contend that matter can be both spontaneously created and simply cease to exist. Of course, our problem really is not where the hypothetical stones that hypothetically take off go, but where those that manifestly arrive come from. If they come from no- where (i.e. are spontaneously cre- ated) why should they be of such complex crystalline composition and almost always so similar to millions of tons of other stones lying about the immediate vicinity? Isn’t it sen- sible, if not logical, to suppose that for unknown reasons, under certain circumstances, loose objects in one -locality come unstuck and are trans- ported to another; and isn’t it just as sensible to suppose that, if they are transported, and if they are available there, and if they are “loose” enough, they will continue to take off, either continuously or at regular intervals because of some perfectly natural physical rhythm such as the rotation of the earth, magnetic tides, or other geophysi- cal time-clocks such as earth-tides? This should answer the why ques- tion so beloved of the human mind. There is no why in nature or the physical universe, though nothing is purely fortuitous. It is a ques- tion of opportunism. If the right things are in the right place when the right circumstances arise, -cer- tain effects can, may, or will be produced. It is like evolution. There is no divine plan or built-in urge to evolve in any one direction or for any one purpose. The why for the arrival of a lot of unwanted stones at any one point is simply that a lot took off some- where else for certain reasons and followed a certain path that came out there. Maybe a violent girl reaching puberty influences that path; but that is another matter. My contention is that these phe- nomena are physical matters and should be tackled as such within the framework of what we know of the statics, dynamics, and mechan-
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g2 ics of our physical universe before we start calling in parapsycholo- gists, mystics, and the Cloth. Let the police and the technologists get their investigations out of the way and then turn it over to the For- teans for presentation to and re- g RP FATE search by the advanced physicists. And where do we find physicists with sufficiently open minds? You’d be surprised! I’d say over 50 per cent of them today would give it a fling provided no other physicist heard of his doing so! bg THE ROCK AND ROLL POLTERGEIST POLTERGEIST with a taste for popular songs re- cently was reported to be active in a house trailer at Leigh, near Cricklade, Wiltshire, England. The trailer is the home of a woman and her 13-year-old son. According to the Rev. John Johnstone, vicar of Ashton Keynes, who was called in as an exorcist, the mischievous ghost makes the trailer “dance,” and throws objects around inside it when the 13-year-old boy sings a pop song. Reverend Johnstone added that the ghost quiets down when the boy sings a hymn. The phenomena in the trailer are said to have begun after the roof was removed from a near- by 200-year-old cottage which was reputed to be haunted. The Reverend Johnstone said he “felt the spirit’s vibrations” the moment he entered the trail- er late on a Sunday evening to perform the rites of exorcism. He prayed and commanded the poltergeist to “quit this home and leave this woman in peace.” Then he no longer felt the vi- brations, he stated. After he left, however, the woman said the terrifying mani- festations continued. The trail- er rocked and shook and objects flew through the air. She and her son slept in a trailer a short distance away, as they had done almost every night since the manifestations began. Informed of this complication, the Reverend Johnstone said, “I don’t think this is an evil spirit, or it would have obeyed my com- mand.” He expressed the opin- ion that the only remaining so- lution was to move the trailer from where it now stands to a new location. wT ¥
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My PROOF of SURVIVAL 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, Ill. Manuscripts must give author's name and address and include a stamped, self-addressed return envelope. THE VANISHING GUEST By Pauline Ross N OCTOBER of 1931 I took my three children for a visit with my mother, Fannie Wilson, who lived alone on a small farm just outside Paducah, Ky. A few days after our arrival a letter came from my brother, Ar- thur Vinyard, who lived in Los An- geles, Calif. He said he was driving to join us for the summer, On the morning of the 16th I was busy ironing and watching my children who played outside in a sand box. My mother sat by the door of the screened-in porch preparing vegetables for our dinner. We talked about Arthur driving so far and wondered how long it would take him to make the trip. I looked up to see if the children were still ir sight and saw my brother standing in the doorway. I rushed to the door saying, “Ar- thur, you’re here.” As I opened the door he turned and went down the steps and around the house, entering a summer house which was covered by grape vines. I followed him but when I got there no one was in sight. My brother had disappeared into thin air. I was so sure I had seen Arthur that I ran around to the front of the house, where I was sure I’d find 93 his car parked in the driveway. Retracing my steps, I stopped to ask the children if they had noticed a man walking about the yard. “No, Mummy,” they answered. I went back to my ironing and felt a bit foolish when my mother said, “I didn’t see a man and I’m closer to the door than you.” “But I did see Arthur; and I feel his presence now. If he wasn’t such a serious person I’d say he is playing a joke on us,” I insisted. The next morning I went into the city to shop. When [ returned I. found my mother weeping. She held PAULINE ROSS
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MY PROOF OF SURVIVAL come and extend his help for the journey? And now she was saying, “Mon bebe ...” (she had lost three sons, two infants, one especially loved angelic two-year-old). She was see- ing her babies. It was clear she did know them, they existed somewhere. “Ah...ma mere... ma soeur... vous et... jolie...” (my mother, my sister, you are pretty). It was not a simple jolie (pretty). It said more in its inflection, than any syllables could. She repeated in French, “Vous et...” and it was as if a hand were laid across her lips to silence her, or as if words were inadequate. Plainly, she had recognized, held conversation with her mother and her sister, they had acknowledged her and my grandmother had been delighted at their condition. Curtains had parted momentarily for me, as a soul slipped from one consciousness to another ...I would need that reassurance in the not-so- distant future! I have kept it with me!— New Orleans, La. IN THE GARDEN By Lucille Sampson Or: DAY IN May, 1957, a friend of mine whose name is Doris, telephoned me to say her mother wanted to come to my house for a little call. I was pleased to have them and prepared to serve tea. Later when we had had our tea Doris’s mother asked, “Do you ever read the tea leaves?” I answered, “Oh yes, at times I am_so right it frightens me.” She smiled and said, “I knew you could. I have never been close to any one whom I thought had so much ESP. When I die I will come back SPIRITUAL }CONSULTANT Questions answered on your problems. If you are worried about your affairs, regardless of their nature, write to me for help. You will receive my sincere per- sonal attention. Send $1.00, full birthdate and stamped addressed envelope to: DR. VIRGINIA FAHLEE MIDPINES, CALIFORNIA (No personal checks) A Vibroscopic DIVINING ROD! 8 missing persons, fost articles, underground water & minerals. Chamber holds materials sought. You hold the Unknown in your hands when you hold this Chambered Rod. You will see it moved by Unseen Forces, feel the power of | Unknown Energy, learn concrete facts you can check out immediately. The modern version of the ancient dowsing and divining rods... it is the only psychie appliance’ whose value is in its power to be of im- mediate aid and benefit. The 5-inch wooden handle of the Vibroscopic Divining Rod has a chamber to hold samples of whatever substance you seek. The action of the 8-inch Vibro- scopic Spring tells you when you have found the object of your search. DIVINING ROD only $4.95 VENTURE BOOKSHOP P.O. Box 671, Evanston, Il
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96 REINCARNATION Can knowledge of your past lives help you in this one? NOEL STREET, the Healer and Reincar- nation Consultant, has publicly demonstrated on many occasions, in the U.K. and elsewhere, his faculty of tracing back past lives, and many grateful clients throughout the world have testi- fied to the help received through his seer- on Write for details of ATR MAIL POSTAL SERVICE, enclosing 40c for immediate reply. W. M. NOEL STREET 344/6 New North Road Kingsland, Auckland, New Zeland LEARN WHILE SLEEPING METHOD 92% EFFECTIVE Develop MIND POWER and GLOWING HEALTH. _ Reduce Tension, Control Habits. Details Free. A.S.R. FOUNDATION Box 7021, Henry Clay Sta. Lexington, Ky. MARTINUS COSMOLOGY Receive information and a 4-month free subscription (4 issues) to CON- TACT LETTERS containing a resu- me of a lecture given by the Danish sage MARTINUS, and a letter deal- ing with an actual spiritual prob- lem seen from his -‘‘cosmic con- scious” point of view. Literature by MARTINUS is now available in the English language. Apply to: MARTINUS INSTITUTE Mariendalsvej 94/96 Copenhagen F, Denmark or MARTINUS U.S.A. CENTER P.O. Box 692 Miami 33, Florida FATE to you, as I have it too.” About two months later (I had not seen them again) my husband and I had been to a movie and we arrived home about 11:15. Our garage was narrow and I always got out of the car before my husband drove in. It was a clear, dry night and as I stood there in the light of a small new moon, I became aware of a soft glow from the garden. As I watched it grew brighter and bright- er, until a small figure of a person appeared. This figure was stooped over in such a position that I could make out that the garment was a hospital night-gown, tied in the back. The face at first didn’t suggest any one to me but it wore a broad and happy smile. I was completely covered with goose pimples as a chill ran over my body as I watched. My husband hasn’t any ESP but when he walked out of the garage he saw something and asked me what it was. I told him that perhaps his fa- ther, who was in a hospital and 85 years old, had died. He was very much concerned but I knew he didn’t see the vision I saw. Next morning my phone rang at 7:00 o’clock. I thought this early call might have something to do with the vision I had seen the night be- fore and it did. It was Doris and she said, “Did you know Mother has been in the hospital and very ill?” Immediately, I placed the smile I had seen on the luminous figure last night. She needed to go no further but she continued, “She died last night at 11:00 o’clock.” ‘I told her, “She was in my garden shortly after.” Doris sighed and said, “She told
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MY PROOF OF SURVIVAL you she would came back to you.”— South Acton, Mass. SPIRIT ON A SLEIGH RIDE By Mae Finnigan As Told To Irene Turnbull i HIS INCIDENT happened when my mother, Mae Finnigan, was eight; she was the youngest of four; her brother Jack, 14, was the oldest. They were living near Ontonagon, Mich., a lumbering town, in 1912. Their home was located near the mill, as her father was a scaler and watchman there. The distance from home to the village was three miles. In winter the children greatly en- joyed traveling by team and bob sleigh. Jack especially always was ready to go night or day, when’ his dad announced he was going into town. Going through the woods, Jack liked to jump off the sleigh and run along for awhile to warm up, then jump back on, Mother said. During a severe winter, when the temperature hovered around 20 de- grees below, Jack got pneumonia. The night he died Mother’s grief- stricken mother (my grandmother) woke the family and told them, “God needed our beloved brother.” His dog, a large collie, continued to sleep on Jack’s bed, whining in the night. One bright moonlight night a short time later the family had been to the village and were returning home when they saw a form—about Jack’s size—standing ahead of them by the roadside. As they approached the horses began to snicker as if they knew him, and the collie set up a gleeful barking. They drove past, almost afraid to loox back, then felt something jump onto the sleigh just as Jack used to do. Glancing back, HUMAN LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS REVEALED Wonderful and amazing. Understand- ing dream symbols. Proven methods for retaining youth. Abundant life for you. Send $3.00 for eight lessons and | membership, or send $1.00 for new booklet “Human Life on Other Planets Revealed.” How they look, dress, speak, live. Their religious worship. Why the scientists are wrong. PSYCHOPHYSICS FOUNDATION P.0. Box 822, Glendora, Calif. THINKING AND DESTINY is the W H book that discloses who you are, ARE where you are and what your des- tiny may be. This 1000 page vol- YOU ume by H. W. Percival teaches you how to direct your own des- mer tiny and enrich your life. $7.50, VENTURE BOOKSHOP P.O. Box 671 Evanston, Ill. BIRTHDAY SHOWING? ACHES AND PAINS DUE TO AGING? AMAZING ® = TABLETS THE SYMBOL OF VITALITY! H-3 is IMPROVED! Now contains GINSENG —the centuries-old ingredient used in the Orient to promote a feeling of well-being! Smart peo- ple substitute H-3 for Royal Jelly! H-3 is recommended especially for the relief of muscular aches and pains often associated with the aging processes YOUR DOCTOR. BG gee IT FOR OTHER CONDI- All you need is_a Love of Life, the Con- viction that it is Short, and every Moment is Precious. $ 6.50 (1 Mo’s Supply) Mail Order $5.00 $17.25 (3 Mo’s Supply) Mail Order $13.00 Calif. Residents add 4% Sales Tax D & C SUPPLEMENTS CO. P.O. Box 2416, Sepulveda, Calif. @U.S. Pat. Off. ; Canadian Distributor: De Duke Distributing Co., Edmonton, Alberta, Canada {
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NEW BOOKS. FORCES AND FIELDS by Mary B. Hesse. Thomas Nelson & Sons, Ltd., New York, 1961. 318 pages, about $6.00. This book is subtitled “A Study of Action at a Distance in the His- tory of Physics.” A better capsule summary of an absorbing and inter- esting book could not be devised, un- less one listed the chapter headings. They excellently outline the theme: I, The Logical Status of Theories; II, The Primitive Analogies; IIE, Mechanism In Greek Science; IV, The Greek Inheritance; V, The Cor- puscular Philosophy; VI, The The- ory of Gravitation; VII, Action At a Distance; VIII, The Field Theo- ries; IX, The Theory of Relativity; X, Modern Physics; XI, The Metapsy- sical Framework of Physics. As readily can be seen this is no paperback mystery, but also it is not a textbook and the author’s prose is felicitous as well as lucid. She has chosen as interesting an as- pect of physics as it is possible to find and her technique of embedding her explanation of the concept of “action at a distance” in an his- torical matrix, is both a happy and a wise one. Aristotle’s idea that the agent 99 had to be in contact with that which was acted upon, was obvious from the impact of one body with another but this did not prevent him from en- tertaining altogether false ideas of the nature of motion. Clearly, any conception held by the ancients on the nature of action at a distance— light source and eye, for example— was likely to be wrong. Analogy was the principle tool used by the an- cient Greeks—for that matter, all ancient thinkers—and this is quite inadequate to explain the subtleties involved in, say, the attraction of a lodestone for an iron filing. Even Renaissance man was little more sophisticated. Galileo might at long last have elucidated a mathe- matical description of motion, but so eminent a pre-cursor of a modern science as Roger Bacon could im- agine that action at a distance was a species of witchcraft. The giant Newton whose mathe. matical description of gravitation “explained” a universe, did not at- tempt to account for the nature of gravitation. Here was action at a distance even more mystifying than electric or magnetic forces. The author, Mary Hesse, is gen-
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NEW BOOKS Sub-atomie force fields introduce further complexities, and if that is not enough, Mary Hesse devotes a portion of a chapter to analyzing the conception of psi phenomena in terms of field theory. For dilettante or serious student, this book is a welcome source of stimulating ideas; the casual reader might-well enjoy it for its en- tertaining historical summary of what, after all, is generally consid- ered an abstruse subject.—Henry A. Bott. THE CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE, by Joel S. Goldsmith. The Julian Press, Inc., New York, 1963. 209 pages, $4.50. Joel Goldsmith has written many books on his philosophy, or meta- physics, called “The Infinite Way.” This new book, The Contemplative Life, seems especially suited to the general reader. An introductory statement: “What concerned me in my earlier years was that so much of God’s abun- dance and love were in evidence and yet that there was so much of poverty, sin, and disease among men. And for me, the burning question was why this was true, and how it could be eliminated. The answer that came was that only through our conscious awareness and accept- ance of God’s presence could those things that do not belong in our ex- perience be eliminated and be re- placed by those things that are ours by divine right.” To impress upon the reader the importance of this consciousness of God, and to aid in its attainment, is the purpose of this book. Goldsmith uses familiar religious terminology, but the words do not IOI FKIIFIAIFAIASADASASASKAAA AE x A VOICE THAT HEALS Almost every ailment known to man has yielded: to the healing power of the man guided by. scthis * ‘voice.’ He is most famous for cures of ulcers and slipped discs. E, G, Fricker is they Finan, and Maurice Barbanell tells his story in | HEAR A VOICE. 144 pages, 5. VENTURE BOOKSHOP P.O. Box 671 Evanston, Ill. FOOLY YS HIGH MYSTICISM Not a religion THE VISIONING FACULTY o¢ the mys- tic Eye is our only achieving fac- ulty. TRANSMUTATION of matter waits upon the flawless ecstasy which only the Mystic Eye can see. HIGH MYSTICISM is the secret that un- locks yourself . . , You find your integrity within yourself . . , also your wealth and harmonious Being - You are no longer at the imerey of outside influences, INITIATION into the Realms of Mystic seeing awaits all successful Candidates. PRIVATE INSTRUCTION given to students who come to the studio .. . By appointment only. SEND $5.00 MONEY ORDER for introductory lesson to: NANCY MANSELL O’NEIL 357 South Curson Ave. Los Angeles 36, Calif. 11 years at this address
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REPORT FROM THE READERS jects, including frogs, and later dump them along with a heavy rain- fall. (2) During rainstorms with ac- companying strong winds certain arboreal species (tree frogs or tree toads) are dislodged and fall to the ground, sometimes being blown and scattered several hun- dred yards away, even on top of fairly high roofs, thus giving the appearance of it having “rained frogs.” (3) Young frogs choose periods of heavy or protracted rainfall in which to migrate and disperse from their rearing places, because exces- sive drying of their skins would prove fatal. During these migra- tions frogs in large numbers appear to be everywhere.—Milan Rafayko, Paris, Ky. With 113 WHEN TABLES WALKED I have read in Fate a lot of things I have seen in my own life, but never had thought too much about. One is table walking. When I was very young my fa- ther told us children it could be done. He said his first wife was a medium who could talk to the table and get answers. On one occasion she was the only one with her hands on the table, which walked around and knocked for her. Two husky men got up on top to hold it down, but still the table moved. We begged Daddy to let us try it. We all gathered around our heavy oak dining room table and placed our hands on its flat surface. It took about 30 minutes for it to move, but move it did. It would turn around, stand on one leg, and knock LEARN A SCIENCE THAT OFFERS IMMEDIATE AND PRACTICAL REWARDS a simple dowsing-type instrument the Abbe’ Mermet, a Roman Catholic priest, located oil fields in Africa, survivors of an expedition to the North Pole, and made nearly 2,000 other authenticated discoveries and diagnoses. His successes include archeological discoveries made at the request of the Pope himself! The Abbe’ has assembled all of his special knowledge in the amazing textbook PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF RADIESTHESIA. YOU ALSO NEED THIS INSTRUMENT You will learn the skills described in PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF RA- DIESTHESIA more easily if you have the patented dowsing instrument designed by the Abbe’. This precision machined pen- dulum is imported directly from Paris. Prices: Book only, $4.95; Pendulum only, $6.95. BOOK AND PENDULUM BOTH $9.95. if. VENTURE BOOKSHOP, P.O. Box 671, Evanston, Ill. 4
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. REPORT FROM THE READERS Other times I envision some repul- sive creature, such as an insect or snake or misshapen image. Invar- iably, within a few hours or few days I receive some bad news Why are these things so symbolic in my subconscious mind? Does any- one else have similar experiences. I would appreciate knowing.—Ross L,. Bralley, Galesburg, Ill. WHAT IS ESP? In his letter in the May issue, Mr. Charles L. Pizzano of Dedham, Mass., has confused ESP with black magic, demonology, witchcraft, sor- cery, and “related powers.” There is nothing supernatural or mystical about Extrasensory Perception. It merely is a natural function of the subconscious which, through para- psychology, is being brought to the cognizance of the conscious mind. Mr. Pizzano writes as though ESP were either some sort of mental death ray or a secret weapon. To link ESP with the Occult Arts is an utterly unwarranted and ridiculous assumption. He states that Tibet ‘literally was crawling with monks.” So is the world crawling with skep- ties!—Carlton Quint, Dallas, Tex. ORIENTAL LITTLE PEOPLE In one of the old issues of FATE I saw an article about the wide- spread belief that pygmies, “little folk,” fairies, etc, really existed. It might be of interest to your readers to find out that even here on our remote Island of Formosa we had pygmies as recently as 500 | years ago. In Japanese folklore there are some tales about the “spider men” who were only three feet tall . and lived in holes underground. Could it be that in the past this TIS Learn to use ASTRAL PROJECTION Free Lesson. No obligation. Gnostic Society For Self-Development 114 Broderick Street San Francisco 17, Calif. | Fa a a 5 ee CLAIRVOYANT Any four questions answered. Print name and address, enclose $1.00 bill and send to: K. KENNEDY 823 MAIN ST., ST. JOSEPH, MO. Give it a chance! ae The : ) Amazing MYSTIC EY has the answer! Ask it any question about love, health, business, money — past, present or future! Determine the sex of unborn children! Find missing valuables! Two sets available: Standard Set complete with pendulum, reading board and booklet of in- structions, $1.50 postpaid. Deluxe Set in ruby- ted vellum-covered box. $3.25 postpaid. Order yours today. CLARK PUBLISHING CO. 845-Chicago Ave., Evanston, Illinois
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REPORT FROM THE READERS Two-Mile Run. He said its wing- spread was 25 or 30 feet. ~ ; A week later another flew the same course. Two weeks later an- other flew a different course, up the Shintown Run, down Hevner Run, and up Hammersley Fork stream. Each time there were several other witnesses. On July 4, 1962, I saw one flying south, up Hevner Run and down Shintown Run. I called the Legion and told them a thunderbird would come down Shintown Run at 9:15. It did, and flew up Halls Run after crossing the river. According to Indian legends the _ thunderbird flies down and seizes a ‘victim by the shoulders, carries the prey to a barren mountain top where it devours it. First the belly is rip- ped open, while the prey is still alive, and the insides are eaten. Lastly, it picks a hole in the skull and eats the brain. The Indians said it was cap- able of carrying away a deer or man.—H. M. Cranmer, Renova, Pa. BIBLICAL MISINTERPRETATION? I feel that Bringing the Bible Up 117 to Date: St. Paul Baptizes and Heals, by Alson J. Smith, in the May issue needs a drastic correction. In giving his version of the mean- ing of the four words in the Bible spoken by a Disciple in Acts 19:6, “they speak with tongues,” Mr. Smith says the phrase means: “ut- tering words that make no sense.” J disagree with him. In another part of the Bible, “The Acts of the Apostles” (Acts 2:4-11), the Bible proves that these same four words definitely mean that the Dis- ciples and Apostles were speaking in foreign languages! The Bible is God’s Word, and does not have one senseless word in it. In the above “Acts of the Apos- tles,” verse 4 says they began “to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.” And in verse 6 all the 17 different foreign- ers were astounded because each heard them speaking in his own lan- guage. Verse 8 tells that all heard “every man in our own tongue wherein we were born.” Verse 11 says “we do hear them speak in our own tongues the wonderful DIVINE HEALING By Dr. Basil Mills and the late Dr. Reginald Mills, famous father and son team from London, See this inherited God-given gift at work. Your weak healing power. Dr. Basil Mills is continuing the absent healing ses- sions formerly held in Hollywood, Calif., by his late faith no barrier to this wonderful father Dr. Reginald Mills and himself. The healing power is now stronger than ever is assisting his son from the other side. Oyer 80% of those seeking healing have as Dr. Reginald Mills been successfully treated. Two weeks Absent Treatment, DR. BASIL MILLS 90 Roseford Road Cambridge, England $5.00. England.
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REPORT FROM THE READERS beautiful everything was or how wonderful I felt. I only wish every- one could have that dream.—Martha Lombardi, San Francisco, Calif. RELIGIOUS ARTICLES: “DULL” I wholeheartedly agree with Bob Wolcott’s letter in the April issue, ex- pressing disapproval of FATE’s “be- coming involved with religion.” I wish to add, with Christian religion, especially the Catholic branch of it. As Fats turns to religion, reading becomes uninteresting and dull. FATE should stay within its range of psychic phenomena. One on a re- ligious quest may find more inter- esting reading in Buddhist scrip- tures, or in the writings of Chin- ese sages.—Anis Rukas, Chicago, Ill. RELIGIOUS ARTICLES: “WELCOME” Bob Wolcott’s letter aroused my ire, until I realized it takes all kinds of people to make the world. That he should object to religious articles shows an adverse experience. It also shows a mind closed toward God. It is as natural for mankind to turn to God as it is for plants to turn to the sun. Cover grass for a week or two and note its yellowed, dying condition! Whether we ac- knowledge it or not, we would be as much in a dying condition without God as the grass without the sun. Any articles that clarify God and make Him nearer to us, I welcome with open arms. Such articles cer- tainly belong in FATE as God’s work- ings are mysterious. Articles like those on Unity by Marcus Bach, Unharmed Through Seven Battles by Edgar Peara, and Prayer and My Canvasbacks by Hen- ry Marak, are gratefully read. Please let us have more of them!— 119 INSTANT MEDIUMSHIP Use your amazing psychic powers NOW! Why ‘‘develop” for years? MONEY? HEALTH? LOVE? NOTH- ING IS HOPELESS. Remarkable NEW APPROACH (demonstrated by Jesus) now verified by modern science. This simplified monograph teaches psychic secrets THAT WORK How to avoid dangers. Send only $1.00 donation for ‘The Eleventh Re- velation’’ and other Bible secrets to, The TRUE Church, P.O. Box 2, Station “‘G’’, Buffalo, N.Y. Dept. F. Success equals A plus B There are two kinds of success: Wealth, Fame, Business Success; and Success of Greatness through Soul Unfoldment. BOTH ARE _ IM- PORTANT. You can develop your Great Quali- ties of Courage, Intelligence, Creative Ability, Will Power and Soul Unfoldment to _ enjoy COMPLETE SUCCESS. Also regain Health, Vitality, Youth. “Life Is For Living’’ literally explodes your Greatness. Send $1 to: ‘ J. DAY P.O. Box 484, Hollywood 28, Calif. ASTROLOGER Let Astrology light your way. Life Chart and year’s directions, $10. The same in more detail, $15. Two charts compared, $20. Detailed di- rections for one year covering more than 60 tmportant dates, $30. Give time, date and place of birth, along with exact dates of four major events, births, deaths, marriages, etc. State your DEOuIenIE. LAS MILLER OUG 2414 Liddesdale, Detroit 17, Michigan ADVERTISED IN AB FATE! If what you have to sell is of interest to readers of the subjects covered by FATE, you'll gell more through FATE than through any other magazine in its field. FATE not only reaches more of these readers but the best of them. Write for an advertising rate card today! Advertising Director, Clark Publishing Co., 845 Chicago Ave., Evanston, Ill.
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ABSENT HEALING, also without know- ledge. Send ONLY postage. Learn Lay- ing-on-of-Hands healing. ‘Thesis plus simple instruction, $2.00. Absent Heal- ing taught, questions answered, plus the above offer, $10.00.—Rev. Magierar, New Boston, Mich. . DO YOU HAVE A PROBLEM? Let me help you solve it by Spiritual Counseling. Send self-addressed stamped envelope, $1.00.—Rosemary, P.O. Box 61, Newark, Ark. ° HANDWRITING ANALYSIS What does yours reveal? At least three typewritten pages, $1.—Kaye, 836 Em- ory #3, San Jose, Calif. NEED HELP? Trance Medium, Healer. Spirit Counseling. Three questions, $3.00. —Rev. Vera Gruel, Mio, Mich. DR. CUSHING SMITH 1362 Book Bldg., Detroit 26, Mich. 45 years experience as practicing meta- physician. Healer. Consultant. Specialist in mental etiology. Lecturer, author of ew book, “I Can Heal Myself and I ill’’. REV. RUTH MATHIAS, Consultant and Friend, 20 years experience. Send for your two-page Personal Analysis. En- close 10 questions, stamped envelope, $3.00.—827 Broadway, Everett, Mass. HANDWRITING ANALYZED, 50c. Char- acteristics revealed. PROBLEMS AN- ALYZED, $1.00. HOROSCOPE ANALY- SIS, $2.00. Include birthday.—Kandel, Box 9803-F, Tampa 4, Fla. SERIOUS PSYCHIC RESEARCHER de sires correspondence with persons skilled in use of OUIJA Board or AUTOMATIC Writing.—Box 6223, Savannah, Ga. CHARACTER ANALYSIS — Handwrit- ing, $1.00. Birthchart $2.00 (currency).— Taylor, 206 Watkins, Longview, Texas. CLAIRVOYANT ANSWERS three ques- tions. Send birthdate, stamped ad- dressed envelope and $2.00 to: Rev. Grace Fisher, 3505 Graustark, Houston 6, Texas. WANT A BEAUTIFUL COMPLEXION? Information on herb mentioned in Bi- ble Purifies. $1.00—(Nurse) Pearl Wood- on, 17795 Foothill, Fontanat, Calif. WHERE IS ANNALEE SKARIN, author of ‘“‘Ye Are Gods’’? If anyone knows the whereabouts of Annalee Skarin, and can direct a letter to_her, please con- ae euLaey, Margaret Fuller, Editor of COUNSELING and HEALING. State problem. Enclose $1.00 in stamped ad- dressed envelope. Avis E. png. 2623 Oakes Ave. Everett, Wash. SECRET LOVE POTION used by An- cient women. Details, $1.00 cash.— RSS ACIRY P.O. Box 5419, Jacksonville, a. THREE QUESTIONS, $1.00. Give hair, eye coloring, birthday.—J. Barrett, R.D. 1, Napanoch, New York. GOD’S ABSENT HEALING TREAT- MENTS. Treating People, Birds, Ani- mals. Your faith and efforts with Heal- ing Medium could create Miracle Cures. Send details of sickness or disease. $3.00 fee one month service.—Rev. Thomas Kelly, Harmony, Pa. SPIRITUAL CLAIRVOYANCE SOLVES Problems—3 questions, $2.00. ‘‘Amazing Accuracy”’ say clients. DIVINE ABSENT HEALING. 2 weeks treatments, $3.00. Describe sickness. LESSONS—‘‘How to Develop Clairvoy- ance, Psychic Powers,’’ $1.00. ‘‘How You Can Get Spirit Answers to questions,’’ $1.00. ‘‘Karma—Past, Present, Future,’’ 50ce. ‘‘Key to Abundant Supply,’’ 50c. It works! All, $2.50. Beautiful PSYCHIC GEM STONE, spiritual aid to powers— $2.00—instructions. Include postage. Rev. Jeanette Molus Box 5157 Sherman Oaks, Calif. THREE QUESTIONS answered by spirit. $1.00, or seven questions, .00.—Rev. David Parker, 9 Barclay St., Port Jer- vis, N.Y. HANDWRITING ANALYZED. $2.00.— Sherwood, Route One, Minot, N. Dak. PSYCHIC COUNSELOR to answer your personal problems. Three questions, $2.00 —Rev. Mary Williams, RFD No. 4, Butler, Pa. EGYPTIANS used this SECRET for pro- tection from evil. Details $1.00 cash.— pw alee ttels P.O. Box 519, Jacksonville, a. LIKE TO READ YOUR PALM? Send 25¢e for big 9’’x17’’ chart that explains OW eg -Greeny, Box 604-E, Jamaica 31, REINCARNATIONS: Reason for present problems (Karma) revealed ~- through your past lives. State problem and birthdate. $3.50.—Laura Field, 10400 Mildred, El Monte, Calif. 126
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UAL POWERS by cleansing body and lectures, tropical fruits, hot na- tural mineral waters, massages, inter- esting excursions — inspiring and rest- ful vacation at Rio Caliente Spa, Box 1187, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. YOUR LIFE TRENDS toward success or failure. Which direction are you go- ing? Complete birth data, photo, $4.00. aa P. Trinerson, Box 780, New York 1, CLAIRVOYANT ANSWERS three ques- tions. Send birthdate, $2.00. — Merritt Reed, P. O. Box 6400, Tucson, Ariz. SUCCESS PRACTITIONER. Prosperity Treatments, one month, $3.00. Includes Valuable Lesson, ‘‘How To _ Increase Your Income.'’ One woman demonstrated $165,000 in an almost incredible way. Reading included. 3 questions answered. Send birth date. State desires. Write: Mary Carter Allen, Box 219, Sulphur Rock, Ark. X-RAY VISION! Discover the keys to successfully read and rule the minds of others. Satisfaction guaranteed. $3.00. —Minter, Box 244-XA, Cedarburg, Wis. FOR self-addressed, stamped envelope, receive FREE MEDITATIONS to _in- crease perception. — Rt. 2, Box 334, Little Rock, Ark. WRITE VELMA for prayer and fast- ing. You can be set free.—Velma Nut- ter, P. O. Box 324, Des Moines, Iowa. OIL COLORING OIL COLORING PHOTOGRAPHS — A fascinating hobby or profitable sideline for those with artistic talent. Learn at home. Easy simplified method. Free booklet.—National Photo Coloring School, 835 Diversey Parkway, Dept. 674B, Chi- cago 14, Ill. PORTRAITS-PAINTINGS PSYCHIC ARTIST — Beautiful lifelike oil portrait of your Guide or Master teacher. Sincere guidance included. 9x12, $17.50; 16x20, $40.00. — Mary O. Steph- ens, P.O. Box 1206, Scottsdale, Ariz. PRINTING-STATIONERY OFFSET PRINTING—24 hour service. $6.75 - 1000; $18.50 - 5000; 814x11. Intro- ductory Offer - 100 copies $3.75. — National Letter, 300FM West 43rd St., New York 36, N.Y. PRINTING: Send 10c for catalog.— Vives, 82-77 159th St., Jamaica Hills 32, - New York, N. : PRODUCTS-NOVELTIES FREE GIFT With one years subscription to the World Shopper trade catalog. Tremendous sav- ings in all six big issues. Send $4.50 to: World Shopper, P.O. Box 457-F, Santa Rosa, Calif. The new MYSTIC PYRAMID GAME will answer many psychic questions. Only $3.00. —Otis Caldwell, 2427 Roslyn Ave. Charlotte, N.C. COMBINATION Rubber Stamp and Pad. Three lines, $1.00. No postage stamps. — Krause, 2202 Bennett Ave., Chatta- nooga, Tenn. DEVELOP SPIRITUAL POWERS. Wear Amethyst Baroque Bracelet, $3.75; Tie Tack, $2.50; Feeling Stone, $1.00. Tax and postage included. Money Back Guar- antee. — The Gemstone, 14008 Ventura Blvd., Sherman Oaks, Calif. EXOTIC INDIAN INCENSE. Sample pack, .00. — Ram, P.O. Box 1866, G.P.O. New York 1, N.Y. BEAUTY FADING? Look younger, more beautiful, IMMEDIATELY. Latest cos- metic discoveries. Complete glamour kit, $35.59. Money back guarantee, Enclose description.—V. Shoff, 5888 Dewey Road, Madison, Ohio. MYSTIC JEWELRY—made to _ order. Send 50c for exciting booklet and lucky stone. Money credited first order.—The House of Six, Box 701, Williams, Ariz. OBSERVE MYSTERIOUS MANIFESTA- TIONS, with plastic eye visualizers, ppd. Instructions included. —WAT, Box 1, Brecksville 41, Ohio. BRACELET OF GOOD FORTUNE Beautiful gem stones you will be proud to wear—ll1 stones—the magic number known to bring good luck to the wear- er. Send $3.00 (includes taxes and post- eee eee. Heasley, Box 366, Marien- ville, Pa. STRANGE UNIQUE ITEMS catalog, 10c. The unusual and rare of the _ occult world.—Black Magic Shop, Dept. B, Box 5664, Minneapolis 17, Minn. MAKE CERTAIN of receiving a reply when answering classified advertise- ments in these columns. Write clearly or hand-print your full name, address and postal zone number. 127
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