Approved For Release 20@1j03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787@900090100022-5 sop RAN ANN SETTER NET nb A Acro ime anes eae ps ABOUT OUR COVER «Man. He can do a lot of ngs: But can he move... ecis by “concentration? | n. he send and. receive. CURRENT SCENE After the Moos... | Another Wold “RisointHis issue Captain Edgar D. Mitchell, former LS meee 8 moonwalker, has found another -49 “1 REMEMBER,” THAT'S - .- oO are HOW IT WAS” a cos universe. to explore. TV's “The Waltons” is -. based on a. man’s real-life family. "Read pages 2 ‘through 9 ~ « before you answer. ; : Captain Edgar D. Mitchell piloted the lunar module on the Apollo 14 flight in 1971. He shot ‘through louds ina rocket and became the _ sixth man to walk on ‘the moon’s” | ws eg |. surface. Oe 22 WILL . BAD GUYS | . 'Phat’s a pretty hard act to follow. “PLEASE STAND-UP © aries . , Can you pick your favorite . What in the world is left for such bad guy here? * ~~ ga man to do? Not much—in this ee ee world. But Captain Mitchell thinks | - he’s found another world to ~cinvestigate. It’s farther than the ~“moon-—as far as the most unrememm- bered dream. But it’s near, too—as near as the human mind. It’s ; consciousness. “ READ MASA © 1879. Keron. Gare = Consciousness. All by itself the poral Siiees Xerox. Education Pobica-_- ‘word doesn’t seem that exciting. Hons, 245 LeMe acoral in ths issue. may What’s the big thrill about being Hot be reproduced in whole or-in part : 1 any Cot or re pubaher. esued: awake or asleep? But many people believe that consciousness includes much more than just those two yeat functions. They say it includes all: REE Sacer payable in. advance, -< the strange, weird stuff involving at AR “Be postage and. he Le d activity. outside 14 THEPOINTORIT ~~ > -Inthis play, three boys take g : their tear “poetry trying to ¢. postage and. han: st 99, ory Yetaling lees than he five In other words, $430. + -30e- pastagée and: gee Dems eg oy ae per pupil. per year: payable: in ad: psychic phenomena. ~ vane. Sgcond,class, Bowes PY EROX @ N that’ iti And ia. 2 trademark of XEROX CORPORATION. - . ow at’s more exciting. d: Forms 3579 to Publication and: “that’s the area into which Captain tion. Offices indicated: hetow. ee te areas Mitchell -has° recently launched g Fear edwin RAOOY - himself. He’s formed an organization. " oyce Soin) none ~. called EDMA (for Edgar D. Mitchell ve - Edward J. Zagoraki i i rward J. Zagorski & Associates) Corporation to do : “Designer: Richard Glassmapy °.” | Brecutve Eaton: James O'Donnel _ research and testing in various forms vot Bybligation and Subscription Offices Joel 2 : ee Nacox Education Publications 8°" ‘of psychic phenomena. : ~ Bdueation Center, Columbus, Ohio 43216 oon : - es <7. Canadian Distributor: Edu-Media Ltd. 20 “ad The general term for these phenom- 1 Adam Street, Kitchener, Ontario. ‘ Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000400100022-5
Scere rime | Approved For Release ena is PSI (sigh). And PSI has three categories:  Extrasensory perception (ESP) ® Psychokinesis (PK—Pronounce it sigh-koh-kin-EE-sis) © Spirit communication—ghosts, . hauntings, and talking to spirits. The science that studies PSI in _all its categories is called para- psychology. . Captain Mitchell’s interest in this field isn’t hard to understand. After all, the popularity of eerie TV pro- grams like “Ghost Story,” “Sixth Sense,” and “Night Gallery” shows that many people are fascinated with the subject. But the former astronaut’s interest runs a lot deeper than most people’s. For one thing, he actually conducted _ an experiment in telepathy—a form of ESP—-while aboard the Apollo 14 spacecraft. At four prearranged times he concentrated hard on certain numbers based on cards from a special deck that parapsychologists use. At sseienaeeenaineliglnieteten ommeieet at atioar iran renee ane re e ee a cad 3/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787@p00¢901 00022-5 the same times on earth, four people in different cities tried to pick up Captain Mitchell’s mental pictures ‘of the numbers he was sending. The earthlings picked up Captain Mitchell’s transmissions often enough to produce what he calis “statistically significant” results. And not only that. Captain Mitch- ell’s reason for going into the field isn’t just to be “in.” He deeply be- lieves that by understanding their psychic selves people can better understand each other and the whole natural order of things. People and nature can develop a sort of harmony from this knowledge: And this, he feels, might help to create a better world, EDMA’s ideals are high, and at least one of its guinea pigs sounds— _well, very interesting. You can meet him by turning the page. And don’t stop there. Pages 6 through 9 will attempt to explain some of the other forms of psychic phenomena. Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000400100022-5
SSAA RAD ORE RTA AREER OEM IGA, AE ENR Pr os meet RY eal Nl RN =~ SS OS ACS eee OO B0 Te a / 1 y ead/ about’ ff e , The objects grouped around the staring eye above are illustrations of a gold ring going through sore weird changes. Very weird changes, as you'll notice. . ‘Notice in the first drawing on the "~ Jeft that the ring is split. Notice in the next two drawings that the ring is slightly twisted. _ Notice in the last drawing that the ring forms an S-shape. Got any answers for these changes? Don’t even bother. You’d never come up with the real story behind them. Because, according to people who | actually saw it happen, the ring pictured above was sheared through - and then slowly twisted into an S- 1 shape—simply by ihe power of a man’s mind. Tt sounds incredible, we know. But then psychokinesis—the power of the mind to control objects—is an incredi- ble idea. Psychokinesis (PK) is one kind of psychic phenomena that EDMA Cor- . j - Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000400100022-5
Appr poration (pp. 2-3) plans to investi- gate. It will study the man who caused the weird changes in the rings. His name is Uri Geller. Uri, a 25-year-old native of Israel, is well-known in that country for. his ability with telepathy. (Telepathy is a form of ESP that involves the ex- change of mental messages between two or more people.) Uri’s ability with telepathy attract- ed the attention of Dr. A. Puharich, a physician from New York City who has done much psychical research. When Dr. Puharich was convinced that Uri possessed PK ability, he ar- ranged a trip to America for a series of tests and psychic experiments. While here Uri demonstrated a. whole string of seemingly unbelievable PK experiences—all witnessed by a group of distinguished doctors and sci- entists, including Capt. Edgar Mitchell. Based on an interview with ° a member of the group, here is what - Uri’s audience says they saw. REPORT OF EVENTS The day. began at Dr, Puharich’s home with a gold ring containing a stone.. The stone was attached to the band with heavy gold prongs. . Uri, using only concentration, caused the prongs to bend back from the stone. The wearer felt nothing. The second occwrence involved Captain Mitchell’s astronaut watch— a very large instrument with double stems and lots of hands. Everyone _noted the time: 10 a.m. The watch was placed facedown on. a table, and Uri announced he would move the hands back. He went into deep concentration, and when Captain Mitchell turned the watch over, the hands had been moved back one hour and eight minutes. ved For Releasg,200g§03/07 : CIA-RDP96- 007a7agoowgb100022- 5 Next, a 14-carat gold ring—large and hard—was placed on the table. Uri concentrated and told the group to watch the ring. Suddenly there ap- peared a smooth cut through one side of it, As the group watched, one-half of ' the ring began twisting out of shape. It continued to twist for several hours, even after Uri had stopped concen- trating on it. It ended up as the S- shaped object pictured on page 4. The afternoon’ brought even more PK demonstrations. Uri shattered a long needle—merely by concentrating on it. Then he caused the pointed end of a safety pin to bend out of shape by rubbing it between. his thumb and forefinger. | The power followed Uri ‘outdoor i also. While outside getting a breath of =| fresh air, he closed his hand over the hand of someone who. was holding a young green bud from a bush. Within 20 seconds the bud was brown and withered. 1S HE FOR REAL? Those are the reported events, Were they all part of a hoax? Remember, Uri was. carefully watched by trained scientists and doctors, an audience not easy to fool. Nobody pretends to know how Uri’s . ability works. But EDMA Corp. in- tends to try to find out. It hopes to do tests on Uri, monitoring his brain waves, heartbeat, and muscular ac- tivity to find out. what happens when he goes into his PK state. , That. might be- tough, because Uri himself says that his power comes and goes. And when the power is gone, he couldn’t shear through a ring any | more than you could. But further studies of Uri Geller could be very in- teresting. Very interesting. Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000400100022-5
Ap ‘ AY SN oN BERS > PULP CEEL ? Ler A % NYY \ F Do Plants* Have ESP? Tmagine attempting a wheelie on your bike in the driveway and ending up doing a crashie into a bed of geraniums. You’d probably feel pret- ty bad. But how do you think the ge- raniuras would feel? Geraniums? They can’t feel—can they? A man named Cleve Backster claims plants can feel. He’s done ex- periments proving, he says, that plants have emotions just as humans have. They “faint”? when threatened, feel sympathy and appreciation, and even have a sort of memory, according to Mr. Backster, Tt all began in 1966 when Mr. Back- “ster, a lie detector (polygraph) expert, ‘hitched up an electrode from his poly- graph to the leaf of a houseplant. Mr. _- Backster had just poured water on the plant’s. roots, and he wanted to see how long it would take for the water to reach the tip of a leaf. (Polygraphs _ Measure and automatically make a chart of changing electrical impulses. . A freshly watered plant would grad- ually show a pattern of less and less ved For Release 20Q4j03/07 5 Cin electrical resistance.) Suddenly the chart became full of squiggles. It wasn’t measuring root-to- leaf time. It was producing the same pattern that appears on a person’s - polygraph when he’s emotionally moved. Was the plant saying, “Thanks for the drink”? - Mr. Backster decided to try some- thing else. He thought of a threat to the leaf: touching it with a buming match. But before he could do any- thing, the graph’s curve shot upward almost off the chart. The plant seemed afraid! That was enough for Mr. Backster. He began a series of hundreds of ex- periments with plants and polygraphs, and he’s had some weird results: # Someone selected one of three fresh vegetables to be dropped into boiling water. The one selected went into a polygraph “faint” (a sudden upward movement followed by one continuous straight line) before it was even touched. ‘ i ¥ Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R0004001 00022-5
Approved For Releasg,20@1J03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787@9004g0100022-5 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000400100022-5 — Your garden might be doing a lot more than just growing. lt might be reading your mind. _@One of six students was given the task of tearing into shreds one of two plants alone in a room. After the plant was demolished, the students, one by one, walked by the surviving plant. The plant showed no reaction whatso- ever to five of the students. But when the killer approached, the plant “fainted.” * @ While tiny shrimps were being boiled - alive in one room, plants in another reacted with intense emotion. Grad- ually, however, as more and more shrimps were cooked, the plants stopped being so excited. Mr. Backster also says that the polygraph has charted reactions from cooked vegetables. And rotted ones. ‘He says he’s also recorded eggs “‘faint- ing” just before being cracked into a™ waiting skillet. Mr.-Backster has had lots of en- thusiastic followers. Twenty or 30 in-- stitutions are at present reproducing some of his experiments in their own labs. A reported 7,000 scientists have: requested copies of his research. And some people have tried to actually make plants do things by thought con- trol. An inventor named Paul Sauvin re- cently conducted an experiment in which an indoor plant, controlled only by Sauvin’s thoughts, supposedly trig- gered a device that started a car in an outdoor parking lot. Sauvin was 2% miles away at the time. But what does it all mean? One in- terested party thinks there might be a “primary form of instant communi- cation between all living things that goes beyond everything we now know about science.” Scientists in the So- viet Union, who have done research similar to Mr. Backster’s, are con- vinced that plants possess electrical impulses similar to man’s nerve im- pulses. We don’t know where it all could lead. Just remember all these things - the next time you're around a willow tree. The wrong thought might make it weep. a - | m7 _— Pe RI a Sie Eee RIE org “a0
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It was late at night and Robert Monroe was lying in bed awake. His wife fad. already fallen asleep be- side him. Suddenly a surge of power began in his head and spread through- out his body. Trying to analyze what was happening, Robert let his mind ramble. A moment later, he felt something pressing against his shoulder. He reached back and felt a smooth wall. He tried to see in the dim light. He thought he had fallen out of bed. Then he looked again. Something was wrong. This wall had no win- dows, no furniture against it, no doors. It wasn’t a wall—it was the ceiling. Robert was floating against the | ceiling, bouncing gently every time . he moved. Startled, he rolled over and looked down. Below him he could see. two figures lying on the bed—bhis” wife and his own body. “My reaction was quick,” he later said. “Here I was; there was my body. I was dying, this was death, and I wasn’t ready. Desperately, like a diver, I swooped down to my body and dove in. Then I felt the bed and covers. When I opened my eyes, I was in my ’ body again.” ASTRAL PROJECTIONS A dream? Hallucinations? Fake? Not to Robert Monroe, who lives in Virginia. He claims that this mind- out-of-body event really happened. In the world of ESP, such experiences are called astral projections. Some scientists in psychic research believe that in an astral projection— or out-of-body state—the spirit or soul of a human moves out of the body and goes to another location. From that lo- cation, the spirit can then look back and see its own body. The spirit can also see other locations that might not ‘Approved For Releatg20@4J03/07 : CIA-RDP96-0078 7@P00GQ0 100022-5} be visible to the body—such as the next room. In addition, scientists claim that the spirit can go thousands of miles away without harm—perhaps even into deep space. The body, in the meantime, is not dead. It is suspended. in a state that resembles a coma. Breathing con- tinues, with the heart and other organs functioning properly. INGO SWANN - Robert Monroe’s experience is not supported by scientific evidence. But another man’s experiences supposedly are. He is Ingo Swann, and many of Mr. Swann’s out-of-body trips have occured in a laboratory, with scien- - entists hovering close by to study the. effects. In one case, Mr. Swann sat in a dimly lit room. Above him, out of his view, a shelf suspended from the ceil- ing held three objects—-an umbrella, a black leather case, and an apple. While scientists: watched, Mr. Swann went into a trance. ; When he awoke, he was able to de- scribe all the objects in fine detail. He explained that his spirit had left his body, traveled to. the ceiling, and studied the objects. Scientists cannot say for sure that Mr. Swann’s spirit actually left his ’ body—there is no definite proof. But they feel that such an experience is possible if a person believes in having a soul or spirit that is separate from the body. In any case, scientists warn experi- — menters that astral projection can lead to harm without a trained person near- by. For one thing, since the body is in a coma, it could be mistaken for dead and could be buried. When the spirit returned, it would logically awaken in a coffin! B sot nee wr paneer ee RNAP MARR: nse a aH Ron — ah oe | ee of Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000400100022-5