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Scientists Look at Psychic Ability.
By Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff.
230 pp. New York:
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Tty ROBERT ORNSTEIN
The scientific study of parapsycholo-
gy has been v/ith us for almost a cen-
tury now,
with
little
in
the way
of
definitive
results.
One
of
the
major
problems
in our acceptance
of para-
psychology, of course,
is that we are
quite resistant to new information and
phenomena which we consider a priori
to be impossible. We do not normally
pursue scientific inquiry,
for instance,
into these areas.
If
I were to propose
.
an experiment in training elephants to
become
peach
trees
I
do
not
think
much
financial
support would appear
nor could
I enlist anyone’s enthusiastic
help.
People
simply
do
not
inform
themselves
about
things
they do
not
believe to be possible.
Such was the case within more con-
ventional
science
with
Copernicus’s
proposition of a universe that differed
fundamentally from
that
of
Ptolemy,
with Harvey’s discovery of the circula-
tion of blood and even in the reporting
of the Wright brothers’
first air flight.
Many newspapers, including The New
York Times, simply
refused
to cover
it because they did not think
it was,
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parapsychology,
we f find
this lj
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rejection
to
an" extreme, •'unmatched...#
perhaps
in any
area. Even
the great
liifefe.ya-v, 19th-century German phy-
siologist
Hermann
Helm-'
^1P7 holt2 ’ distinguished
in the
jO
areas of
optics, physics and
the
study
of
perception
'vrote >
“Neither
the
evi-
.’dlWl dence
of my own
senses
'^W®Wl nor tbe testimony of all the -S',
fellows of the Royal
Soci-
ety”
would
convince him
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of the truth of parapsychological data.
In a professional
review, of the workrti
of Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff, au-
thors of “Mind-Reach,” an unonymous
reviewer in The Journal of
Electrical
.
and Electronic Engineers wrote, “This 2?
is the kind of thing I wouldn’t believe
in even if it were true.”
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One of the basic
difficulties
in un- -
derstanding parapsychology
is that
its Cf
claims are a
distinct challenge
to our
contemporary
world-view.
If
some
/
people can perceive events before they
“happen,” if there are modes
of inter-
,
-
personal
. communication unknown
to
many,
if
people
can
influence
action
and/or
events
at
a
distance
greater
than
the
range
of
normal
influence,
then perhaps we need dramatically to
revise our conception
of human
abil-
ities and/or conception of how events
are registered by people. Since the bur-
den of documentation, though, should
be on those who claim that these ca-
pacities
exist,
their
interpretations of
the nature of their data should be ac-
cepted
only
after much
evidence has
been accumulated.
There seems to be a persistent falla-
cy
regarding
the
work
of
parapsy-
chologists that is based on a misunder-
standing
of
the
nature
of
scientific
proof—an assumption that one demon-
stration, one example of a unique phe-
nomenon
should
be
enough
to
con-
vince us that parapsychological or any
other
sort
of
scientific
phenomena
exist.
William
James
expressed
this
proposition when he said that the ap-
pearance
of
only
one
white
crow
would
dispel forever the idea
that
all
crows are black. But that is true only
in an extremely idealistic universe. We
need much more
evidence
than
one
isolated
instance to overthrow an ac-
cepted
world-view. The
existence
of
William
James’s
white
crow
could
well be dismissed by our statistics de-
partment as
statistically
insignificant.
One bit of evidence ought to be enough
but it. is not.
random event on a machine and
picture
drawing,
in which
the
Israeli
psychic
Uri
Geller
at-
tempted
to draw
pictures
like
those previously
sealed
in
en-
velopes and kept
in a different
room. All
of these experiments
are
reported
as
successes
by
the
authors
but
they
provide
very
little
evidence
either
in
their book or in published jour-
nal
articles
that any
of them
can be
repeated. Nor has any-
one
else
reported
similar
re-
sults.
Here
is the difficulty:
If the
experiments cannot be repeated
by others we have the situation
of the one White crow.
It may
be theoretically true (assuming
we take his word that he saw
one)
that
all
crows
are
not
black, but that is irrelevant un-
less
he
can
produce
another
white one as proof. Again, para-
psychologists
labor
under
a
fundamental
misconception
of
the importance
of the
idea of
chance, of the idea of science,
and
of
the
necessity
Tor
the
verification.
“Mind-Reach,”
then,
is
a
hook slim
in hard evidence.
It
is pleasantly written, and
it
is
amusing to follow the thought
of
the
authors
as
they work
out
their
research and some-
times
horrifying
to
see what
their opposition has been. But
it
is ultimately an unsatisfying
book lacking any indication of
“Every man
is
an
exception,”
as
book lacking any indication of
.
Soren
Kirkegaard
wrote. We
are
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tbe soMity of the findings and
in
all people—the^blurb of the
shots to convince us
of
the
ability
of anyone
, else
book
claims
that
they
have
:
Many publicizers of parapsychology ^ repeat them.
^
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documented that “some degree
have sought to counter
their skentics
Indeed -
1 have attempted, an
of psychic ability
is universal”
collaboration
with
these
au- —they
are
engaging
in
the
,
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thors, to repeat one of their ex-
same sort of unjustified propa-
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.% no exception
periments (published in Nature)
gandazing they
decry
in
their
that there
is
a significant amount of
ancj was unabi e to do so though
opponents.
It
is
one
thing
to
incontrovertible
scientific evidence
in
j spen t a large amount of time
say that “here We demonstrate
favor of the existence of parapsycho-
trying and had the same subject
a minor finding
in a few sub-
logical phenomena. And the only rea- they used and the full coopera-
jects which might be used by
son
these
phenomena
are
not more
tion of the authors. Instead of
others," but
it
is ridiculous to
; widely accepted
is because of hostile
any real evidence 'that accords
ask
us
to
believe
that
their
prejudices,
because
of preconceptions
with the accepted standards of
minor, preliminary experiments
in the minds of readers and reviewers,
contemporary psychophysiolog-
prove
anything
about
psychic
and because of blindness,
ical research, what we have in
abilities
in the general popula-
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describes
the
experiments
sketchy suggestions of how re-
Throughout the book the au-
carried
out
at the Stanford
Research
search
in
this
area
ought
to
thors state their hope that the
Institute
in Menlo Park,
Calif., on so-
proceed. The authors do make
study
of
parapsychology
will
called paranormal phenomena by Targ some useful
points. We should
become
primarily
a
scientific
and
Puthoff, who
are
physicists. The
stick to conditions which mimic
one
in which
speculations are
authors
outline
several
of
their own
those of everyday life, not use-
firmly
grounded
in
the
evi-
experiments in the book: One of these
lcss * trivial situations (although
dence.
In
their own
writing,
experiments
involved
“remote
view-
ignore
their own
advice
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al-
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in
which
a
person
sequestered
in
one
of
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always
go
beyond
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claim
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Dear
iiussell
and.
1-Jal:
Happy
..;ew Year
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copy
of your book!
And many
thanks
for arranging
to have me sent a
It's beautifully written,
in such
an
easy
I
congratulate you on
it.
style
that
I
couldn't stop
it once
it was
begun
-- finished
it
in
a
e sitting.
And
it
presents
impressively so much
that's
important
-jJd
interesting,
that
the content
is
a pleasure as well as
the style.
I should think
it would
bowl over
the readers
who didn't know about
your work beforehand
-- and am sure
that parapsychologists will
be
o^wor^you^v^d
be0aUse U
puts a11
toSether
in one place
the
corpus
the timing was
particularly good for
me.
It
came
the galleyTs
for my ms.
for Holman's
handbook,
and
I
give
two citations
to
the bokk.
the same day as
revised them
to
Thanks
again,
and hopes
that you'll carry on with
ideas
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Superficially
it would seem
that
physicists and engineers would be the least
likely
supporters of extrasensory phenomena.
But here we have two physicists
at the
dis-
tinguished Stanford
Research
Institute who have been doing rigorous experiments
and conclude that There
is Something There and
it
is something that probably ex-
ists in every man,
That something
is remote viewing:
the ability of a subject at X
to describe in words or drawings the
details of a locale chosen by an experimenter
ini cs away.
They report on
a number of experienced subjects, including Uri Gcller
as well as some willing volunteers.
All did better than chance would predict-cvcn
letter in terms of drawings alone rather than verbal descriptions.
Targ and Put-
hoff speculate
that
there may be some right hemisphere perceptual ability here
that
has gone unnoticed or shoved' under the
table
in our rationalist analytic
era.
They
a so suggest
that extremely low frequency electromagnetic waves may be involved
so that the phenomena need not remain beyond scientific ken,
There
is something
veiy
likeable about
the
pair:
their attitude; their sophistication with regard
to True
Believers, to the
possibilities of fraud and deception; and
their understanding of
the
loyal opposition” (c.g„ Martin Gardner and others who wouldn’t
believe in
ESI
even
if
it were true).
Margaret Mead has written an encouraging introduction
showing shes ready
to move with
a shifting paradigm.
Others, up to
this point un-
convinced, may be shaken up
a
bit (experience “cognitive dissonance” as the psy-
chologists say).
In any case, the results reported, confined to a small sample but
with decent rigor, lob the
ball squarely in the court of the nay-sayers.
It
will be
interesting to watch the play that follows.
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introduction
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the
n.tlnre
ol meinoiy and
techniques
loi
slinking
it.
Iligbec
(a
P'Achologist at Hrigham Y oung Ibiiver-
sits
) discusses some basic piinciplesol
memory
i m pi
1 ventent
. yli alegies lor cl-
tecthc lent
1 tj.;
. some general ink's
loi
impnwiug memoiy, and
lout
spec
i
I ic
iiieiuon
s\ stems
(link.
loci.
peg.
and
phonelis
t,
In addilion. these me lelaled
to sonic pi act ical
s ii nations to illiM inig
I heir ell eel i’. cnev-s.
I he w
1 iling
is cleat
leelinieal
relcrences me died
bill
do
not
hog
die
readei
dowii
in
teclmical
jmgon
or
umic'ces-aiiy
detail.
I he
au-
t hi H k commeiidaMy cauiioiis in repent
edit emphasizing
llial improt ing one’s
tnenuu
t
is
haul
wmk. -A linihn
/..
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i
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ni /v.< Wngt.
/ imuiin
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< in
1 n\ ilir. S A
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Kennedt
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I
ugtyic.
< )n
lleemning
( ounselnr: a basu^Tuidc lor non-priilcs-
sional erumselors.
;
( rossinml:
Sc.il'iir.
l‘t\'l|'A
I'SM
Ibis
is
an
excellent '&ml
rclresliingk
,
lively guide to dealing v<nh adolescents
j
and adults
in a helping c^paeik. ken-
I
nedy’s emphasis in the c'oitn.sding-ther-
j
apt
situation
is on eliminatN)g stress
in
the relationship and on the inljporttmee
ol’
llu,'
counsel"!'’’s
k n "
'.c ledgcsk'l
sell
I Jess
I ipln HI s
ol
skissis.il
ildillUVJU'
ol
pel .on. ility kpes me
mipressit city ip
dated and piesenled
in
a
-p
Ic
siiu,\,hjc
tor ihc lav coiuiscliii and stmleul.
IK?.
now tied
lot
Ins
wink
on
the
ilctd
o pme lit
ol
language and
lliouglit.
I he
1 e
(.('millions
ol
this investigation
allowed .the aiithoi
to compare limn the
same
culliue
both
imdei developed
giou|is ail’d groups aliendy licgiiuiing to
he involved
in model'll
lile.
I an in slud-
ied dilVerences
in eonceptuali/aliun
in
lei ins
ol’ peiec'plion.
abslrucl ion.
tea
soiling', and imaginalion. and the resul-
lanl
analysis
clearly shows
the
soeto-
hisiorieal shaping of these higher men
tal
pioccsses.
I.aria's
procedure
ol’
ohservalion
anti
c'iiieltilly
strucliucd
i|iiestioning
is elegant
in
its simplicity
and naturalness and represents a signifi-
cant advance
in clinical field mclhodol-
ogv
. An
interesting
treatise on cogni-
tion.
havin':
definite
implications
lor
cultural anthropology and lor the devel-
opmental psychology ol cultural minor-
ities.- -h 7///um Ahrinns, I’orllnnil Slate
Cniw
l.ih.. Ore.
Waul. Alan
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will) conliihs. by
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Ml).
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Viiginia
M.
I
eilli. Childhood Autism
A:
Stnielural
I lu'i upv
: selected papers on early child-
hood autism.
Nelson
II, ,11
22:p.
inilcx.
l.C
7ti-2tl7l.
ISHN
11 VI llll 2 -M>- 7
. JI 2 .MI.
i-svi 0
I Ins
collection
ol'
Ih
pa pc is
(all
pie-
v musk
published) acknowledges only
lighlk
that the psychological nature of
aiitisiu
is
vciy
much
in
question.
W aid's and his colleagues’ Inns is clear-
k
;i ps\ ehodynamic one.
'I hough he ap-
pears
in
accept
the
neurophysiologic
basis
Ilir
ninny
ol
the
autistic
syntp
mill'..
Iiis liealmenl appmncli
is based
mi an ego devclopmcnliil theory which
has. ;u best, an unccrlain support in tite
data on autism
. Ward’s hook dcsciihes
sii ticlural play therapy as an ordered in-
cremental program
lor addressing
the
ohserveil developmental deficits ol the
autistic child while at the same lime in-
iiiitheh
responding
to
his
cmolionnl
leeds.
lie reports some success.
I low-
tv ci
. the
ai tides docnineniing llu
. sia
l-'v,
ale
e vus/ic'i al mgk
iedinul.ini
ill
ntjirn
ili a nssions ol'etiolngy mid ilehni
lor
l lie lay eoimselm and
'-iink'nl.
I
, A,,,
, in d in
I he icpealed desci ipiions ol
end ol
1 he hook
. deali in: w
11 h siiual ioiissj.J
i| )(
.
|ee|iuiv|ue mid
raiiouale
ol Wind
s
such as
gi id
. suicide
. ding abuse
.
;ill 'l ^ s\, net in a
I therapy
. Readers would have
"eineigeneies.
lacks
I In:
aillhnilty.wt'-'
|i,en
lullei
seived
willi
a mine cun
ihc chapters
t»n peisunahlv,
1 "
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I lie
hold
should
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piacliea!
ini
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icy
with
line
I'.'imc
I'll 'In igiaplue '.
I "i
idvidiiale and graduate educalimi
cliulog'.
. and suei.d woik
lihiaiidi.
for
la ice
cosinopulil.ui
public
/.lihrai
ies
---An Me
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. Ovkitrii. lirtmkl
jj
luiia.
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( ognilivi' neu'liip/nent:
its
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in Us 01 igi
nal
Russian
in
t‘) 72
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desert 'es
field
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conduclc'd
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Purapvycholoijy & Occultism
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llniold kutholi.
Mintl-
l<c licit : scientists look
ill psychic ability.
DcLiluMc. 1977
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i have been ettrrying out parapsvdiologv
j experimenls
al
the Stanlord
Rescardi
'
InstUule.
Miinl-Keneli
.
ii
review
iind
summary of their research to dates
re-
pot is the
results of "remote viewing"
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in which the expcrimenl-
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competent
experimental
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technique
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impeeeahle
integrity,
pies
ed
in
down-to-earth
fashion
to
combined with
the obviously
positive
(
guidi
the readei
in
his
daily
life.
Al-
results
of
their experiments,
provide
j
Cilia/
ili's
lucid
style and
the
readable
unquestionably powerful evidence
for
trandation
lender
the contents acees-
the
reality of parasensory
perception.
sible
despite
difficult passages. How-
Targ and PutholT demonstrate with this
ever
the entire Revitalization
is avail-
work that given proper conditions, any-
able
for
$12.
from
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on
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one can obtain perceptions traditional-
l.td.
240 W. 72nd
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ly
considered
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or
impos-
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In addition, they prove the facili-
j (laid
to Hooks on Islam,
ftXp,. $1.50.
ty of a
positive setting for paranormal
in u
ieh
Revitalization
is
listed,
is
a
activity, and
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again
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being
" t h v
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spii mini
laterial "keeper": lofty ideals ex-
ed
in
down-to-earth
fashion
to
jpty.y.rry?;
the readei
in
his dads
life.
Al-
• -Vvi?Wwrrthirtfbmrf
scions mind with pttraperception: only
and
bibliography which
every
collec-
when confidence wtis inspired and ana-
lion
bn
Islam
should
have
on
its
lytical
activity suppressed or ignoied,
shelv
s.)- -David
HA
l.illirlield,
l.i-
wete reliable results forthcoming.
Imp,
linos
if ( impress
and I'ulholf do more Ilian picsenl labo-
,
ratory observations. They describe the
w .W";
uncanny
elusivencss
of
psychic
phe-
e'au''t. k athcahal ol
St. .hihn the
I
isme.
nomena, ax again and again attempts to
i
“
"°'v
design
controlled
experiments
xxi-re
!
r
lltct.nns on the Holma.is
.
Iriixlratcd
by
unexpected,
seemingly
,
J'',
'",,, jtHtwmSHN
ii h7iV>k .w.x'W. mi
;
p.,p.
miraculous
coincidences.
rel
Inoujm
j
^.v.v
the most convincing events took place
i Nenihj three
vents
n
'
^
the most convincing events took place
|
Nearlsfl three
vears
and
outside
the
experiments,
I he
authors
,
Chris/ljjn
intcdhj^BSTvtnel
in
New
consistently
regarded
only
controlled
|
the nie.niingof llil-
experimenlal
results as valid
scientific
|
lag^difamcaiist. The 2A papers given al
data.
I heir book
is highly recommend-
/Mial mfLrnnlional symposium make up
Cii.—Iulwiml U. Russell, AVie York
Their authors analyze
I'mulai Jcntar questions raised by the or-
gani/ijj murder of six million lews, an
.
'
"
Z
'
'
evil o jsiich unprecedented magnitude
noiuaion
that
I
|c world prefers to forget
it. Ap-
proiummg
the
challenge
from
almost
Co,nay.
loan. Thfirel^kings.
•'*'^
"\'P<
'««
j""'
outside
the
experiments,
the
authors
consistently
regarded
only
controlled
experimental
results as valid
scientific
data.
Their book
is highly recommend-
ed.
Rdsvard //. Russell, AVir )ork
uatigion
Morrow.
1977.
IftHp.
illtis. ni:ipx. imlcv
IT 7 *'
WMKi. ISliNO-AKK-OM.W H.
9V
him
im
i
This
well-written
introduction
to
the
Hebrew
kings
spans
the
period
be-
tween
the
election
of
Saul
(e.
11*2(1
ICC.) and
the
fall of Jerusalem
to
t lie
Babylonians (e. 5X7 li.C.k
I he text
in-
cludes a short section dealing with the
authorship
of
the
Bible
and
a
dis-
cussion of the nature of prophecy
Also
useful are maps of the Holy
I and
illus-
trating tribal and enemy boimdaiies; a
chronology of kings, prophets, amt gen-
eral history; black-and-white reproduc-
tions of several historic w 01 ks ol ait de-
picting
the
kings; and
photographs
ol
several of the archaeological sites pres-
ently known
to
be
related
to
biblical
places of interest. Comay
has written
other books of Jewish
interest lamong
them
I lie Temple of Jerusalem
.
1.1
I
I
15/75. and Israel,
l.l h/l5.hh|. and was'
an
editor
of
Ciievelopediii
.Imlnno.
This
short
text would be
u'seltil
in
re-
ligious
schools
and
in
YA
collec-
tions.
Moslie
//.
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St h
of
\p
plied
Soeial Sdenees.
( ase
Western
Reserve
lltlis'., Cleveland
an easy hope nor an easy
I ail h
is pos-
sible any
longer,
for Jew
oi
Christian.
So accustomed have we become to vio-
lence since Auschwitz that imlilfeience
is again
the common tesponse.
Ibis
is
not a book for the casual leader, but
it
is indispensable to any
serious student
of Holocaust history.
I he voices raised
are often at odds, but they bear witness
to "the chief counter-testimony
of the
Holocaust: the preciousness and unique-
ness of every humgn being.” —Milton
Ueltr.er, A’rie York
’
( ('Connor, hli/abeth.
I lie New Commu-
nity
.
I
i ,.i per
.
IVfi
1.2
1 p
1 1
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s
.
It
-s-vsiw
tsltv
n.
pap.
9*
KM
O'Connor
has
written
a
thought-pro-
voking book on the various aspects ot
(
hristian community as
it
is lived in her
Church
of
the
Saviour
(Washington.
I)
<
She shows that one cannot
sue
lain coimni mil v w
it hot it hoi It in net
. pet
sonal
transfoi illation
ihiougli
giving
up
"sale" wavs of acting and
think-
ing -and
transfoi mutton
ol
the
outer
wot Id
-- ihiougli
touting the
st niggle
ol
the oppressed bv
positive action, while
avoiding
both
racism
and
con
descension.
I mph.isis
is on the need to
cominnmcale and on the vyoith ol
all ol
( iod 's child
1 en. Suitable lor chut ell and
public
libialies.
Indoli
R.
lo'mtii.
I.unsinp
/’./... A In h.
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.o':
'M
i\
BIBLE ,
Mi
EDWARD
.
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r. fiy> fSteesit'ifSitn'i
iimfl * H nlTSi
al
( )lui/;iii
. On
(lit
Duties
of
Ilrolhrr*
coniiniimcalc ami on llu* \m>i in ol
all
»i|
.
V*
IhmkI.
( iod’s elnldien. Suitable lot clmicli and
'
.wC
Overlook,
(list
lw
Vikiiig
tv”. 'Mr
tr.
1'ioni
public
libialies. -Judith
R.
lo'eon.
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s
, )|uo |p
| 0 |,„
|(
\nd Sarah
l aughed:
most important theologians,
lbs semi-
t |H.
status
ul' women
in
the
()i<l
Tesla-
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,; t>%'^%/
nnl Revitalization of the Relipious
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/-
meut.
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‘
enees wtis
ti comprehensive, lumlainen-
westminstei
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'mip
.
hihlim:.
imlev
I
Hr
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w2s;
AA
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jects— politics,
churity.
aits,
(io
lo
wink
for Ap-picos/edt iFotbReleasier
mill learn
lit
his
lecl—ami so on. This
might have been
;i practical manual
in
the
go-go conglomerate
years
of
the
1960s. hut today it's whimsy. |./«;ma/'v|
MORTAL LESSONS:
Notes on
(lie Art
of Surgery. Richard
Sel:er.
Simon
and
Schuster,
$7.95
ISBN 0-67
1 -22356-9
In
this
strange
and- remarkable book,
Richard Sel/.cr, a surgeon at Yale Medi-
cal Center, juxtaposes
rellcction with
information, anatomy
with
literature,
horror
with humor anil
surgery
with
poetry
(just
occasionally
marred
by
whimsy),
all in language that's as sharp
as a scalpel. Me lakes us into the oper-
ating room and
into the patient’s very
innards; talks bcguilingly about bones,
liver, kidneys, skin and other parts of
the body (skipping those much-touted
organs
the
brain and
the
heait); and
provides essays on baldness, smoking,
Chinese acupuncture and abortion, as
well tis some lighter pieces on his youth
in Troy, New York,
lie ends,
not
as
inappropriately as might seem,
w'ith a
charming piece on birdwatching. Even
Selzcr’s
grisliest anecdotes
arc
trans-
formed
in the
telling by his belief that
the surgeon's
function overlaps those
of the poet and
the
priest. Old draw-
ings.
[January]
HI. YE. PRIVATE EYE:
The Real World of the Private Detective.
iXieliolas RUcitni. Playboy Press, $833^
ISBN 0-87223-475-4
This slice of life
is an honest [wltirc of
what
a
private detective's work
is
all
about;
it
is
revealing am+Oascinaling.
Irwin Blye has been a private investiga-
tor
for
years
in
and around New
Yoik, and
he
is
a good
one.
Ilis job
consists not of chasing Maltese falcons
for sexy blondes,
but
of helping
law-
yers shepherd people through a system
that
is bureaucratized, bungling and in-
different.
Here we
follow
him
as
he
works on three cases: looking up wil-
Psrform a
dcatli-deSyittf* act.
nesses
for
a ma
a oised
in
a South
ollering, no matter what
their laith or*
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ascertain her Inis 'land's income in case
women's movcmei
there
is
a' divorce, and working on an
daily valuable,
fo
instance of a landloi J's negligence. The
of L’Engle's life as
rape etise has an h
i', .. unie, but the other
an,
wife,
mother
two
trail
oil, leaving loose ends.
It
all
Combining anccdo
has the ring ol truth and Pileggi does an
cussion
of humar
admirable job of telling the story.
text
is infused
will
|J<mmry\
and sad—sometimi
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THE CHRYSANTHEMUM
AND THE
BAT:
Baseball
Samurai
Style. Robert
Wliitiiu>.
Dodd,
Mead,
S 10 ISBN 0-396-07317-4
American
baseball
funs
will
find
this
book
irresistible. Whiting has done an
outstanding job
of showing how
the
Japanese national character has shaped
the diamond game
in
that country.
In
spring training, players are put through
a
regimen
that
would
make
a
chain
gang seem like a vacation. Throughout
the 130-game season the two six-team
major leagues demand from their team
members
a
combination
of
"lighting
spirit" (which docs not include aggres-
sive bascrunning or
beanbull
pilches)
and traditional respect for authority fig-
ures
(apologies
to coaches, managers
and fans are commonplace). Besuboru
is
truly
the
Japanese
national game,
with sevcraUdaily papers devoted ex-
clusively,.to
it
and
the TV
networks
saturated with
it. Of course the nation
loojs s
forward
to
the
day
of
victory
y>i'cr the U.S.
in a true World
Series.
Photos.
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MIND-REACH:
Scientists
Look
at Psychic
Ability. Russell Tarn
and Harold
Ruthoff,
Delaeortc
Press
(An Eleanor Friede Book), $8.95 ISBN
0-440-05688-7
In a no-nonsense report to which Mar-
garet Mead has
lent
her
scientific im-
primatur
with
a
brief
introduction,
physicists Targ and Puthoff describe a
series of parapsychology experiments
as dramatic
as
tiny
ever undertaken.
That these experiments, conducted
at
Stanford Research Institute, have gen-
erated much
publicity
is partly due
to
the participation of psychic wizards Uri
Gcllcr and Ingo Swann. Yet most of the
participants were ordinary people who
were presumably able to accurately de-
scribe "target drawings" hidden from
view
as
well, as
distant
geographical
sites. The authors furnish transcripts of
the
experiments,
hints
for
would-be
"remote viewers” and one or two new
hypotheses. Most striking are the pho-
tographs of the
“targets" juxtaposed
with
the
volunteers’ sketches so
that
readers can
form
their own
opinion.
Index, etc.
[January]
THE IRRATIONAL SEASON.
Madeleine
L'En^le.
Crossroads/Sca-
bury Press, $8.95 ISBN 0-8164-0324-4
It’s hard
to imagine readers
failing
to
JLei IE spiritual
lift from Logic's. luai' .
the thrust behind
the
women's movement, the book
is espe-
cially valuable,
for
it's an exploration
of L’Engle's life as a professional wom-
an,
wife,
mother
and
grandmother.
Combining anecdotes, poetry and a dis-
cussion
of human
relationships,
(he
text
is infused with feelings humorous
and sad—sometimes tragic. Mostly the
author
reaffirms
her commitment
to
Christianity,
a
faith
which
has
fre-
quently been weakened by doubts for
solid reasons, not
all personal. In fact,
the most compelling parts of this sensi-
tive book describe the author’s periods
of atheism and her fight to recover from
"cold isolation,” the terror of believing
in nothing. Scabtoy's Lenten selection
for 1977.
[January]
HONEY: The
Life
and Loves of Lenny’s Shady Lady. Hon-
ey Brace with Dana Benenson. Playboy
Press, $8.95 ISBN 0-87223-435-3
Most
readers won't know whether to
applaud the candor of this "true con-
fession" of the woman who was Lenny
Bruce’s
wife
or be
turned
of)' by
its
emphasis on matters sexual with every
/
dotted
and
every
t
crossed.
Those
whom
it does
not
affect
violently one
way or the other will find
it the story of
a lower middle-class girl who became a
stripper, thought she laid found love in
a lesbian affair and then met and mar-
ried
the
rising young comedian who
later became so controversial. The sec-
tions dealing with Honey's show busi-
ness
career
tire
so
jejune
that
they
sound like parody; the passages dealing
with
Lenny
and
their
stormy,
drug-
obsessed
life together arc always inter-
esting
and
at
times
absorbing.
Most
alfccling
is
the
picture of Bruce after
his busts for obscenity had stinted—
a
paranoid,
monomaniacal,
frenetic
wreck.
[January]
WITH MALICE TOWARD NONE:
The Life of Abraham Lincoln. Stephen
B. Oates. Harper & Row, $15.95 ISBN
0-06-013283-3
The blurb for Oates’s highly readable,
dramatic
life of President Lincoln sug-
gests that
it’s an expose of the “real”
Lincoln which emphasizes
his disdain
for parental background, lust for politi-
cal power,
etc. Such points are made
only
llcctingly
its
the author
is swept
along by the tide of epic events which
tried and tested Lincoln and bore him
to glory. This book
hits the appeal of
it
good
novel
with
no
distracting
foot-
notes. But
it’s clear from an appendage
of notes at the end that Oates hits stud-
ied
itll
sources—the
Hood
of
biogra-
phies and memoirs on
the
Civil War
president with which his book
will be
inevitably compared. Oates has done
an admirable job with this portrayal of
character,
the con-
w
From
CHARLES PANATI
Dear Hal and Russ,
I
just finished your book and think it is
wonderful.
Beautifully done.
I'm filled with curiosity to see how it
is received——what with the impressive
data,
the sober presentation,
the intro-
duction by Margaret Mead,
everything
I particularly liked the chapter on the
"Loyal Opposition."
You put the
. facts
straight and put everyone in his place
all the while be level-headed and gentle-
menly
(more that
can be
said
for the
Loyal Opposition).
Thank you for mentioning the Geller
Papers.
I regard it an honor to have
my name in your book.
I wish you more
than luck, you both deserve it.
Best wishes
for the New Year,
ine movement, some institu .swed by those excluded from utident, enlighténed, sensiAppro class’ liberalism, Hke that sus- and controlling this book, has .-en- as nothing less than a mOve- 1 institution—perhaps a com- ‘novement at that. the point of largest substance - restorations is the thing posi- added, present now, absent be- © nat which forces, by its star- , sresence, a reconsideration of ind where you are. In letters an authority that depends alto- upon inwardness with the character of the times, that.can without winking, say-—-as a Cur fashionable novel speaks-—of as “the most profound morai of our time.” There’s another ity derived from an instinct for tioning; in its books, regardless times, sanity is. a rule not.an _ and shamelessness invariably ned shame, “Responses” recov- \ outline of the latter kind of ity, and it is, to repeat, a a cleans- in 191] (at the age of 48) when asformed the literal Alexandrian : of hig poems into a “‘metaphor-" ” Keeley traces the evolution poet's mythic “model through ” gressive stages as “sensual city” mythical Alexandria,” which in 2xpands to embrace the entire ! of Hellenism”; from there the inally attains a. “universal per- ‘e.” Fortunately, Keeley under- . that what the critic reads as, ~ rate the current lofty metaphysical in- ~ sal qualities are less than con- ly wrought by poets, and his ‘hapter shows how the detached vision of some of the late poems springs olt of, is possible only ie of, the poet’s meticulous and nt working-out of his personal cal structure,’ The contplex and and integrity of Cavafy’s model, “st produced by a modern poet, - ealed by the demonstration: of: xt that each of its phases is sub- _ in its successors, Thus Keeley ’y shows how the eroticism of xems of the “sensual city” not *xists on the two planes of the -f and modern worlds where. rarallelism denotes the continui- « hedonistic ethic and the radical- erent social status of its practi- 3, but that it also joins with his major themes to contribute to 2S final vision of the human en under the aspect of eternity, lebrate it still for the passions © 1, even as one sees the ='S, Te Rg “track, “fh '- By Robert E. Ornstein. . 128 PP. New York: Grossman/Viking. a 95... - ; ‘By JEFFREY ELEIN' Laughs come easy nowadays to those who never believed in the human ' potential movement, Most students of higher consciousness have either be- | come zombies in some corporate growth enterprise or themselves joined the ranks of the disillusioned: Ag with _ American political’ radicalism, it is ex- . tremely difficult to maintain a respon- sible, forward course. Teachers, like Robert Ornstem, who pointed out the limits of the Western mind, have been , outflanked by cultists of all stripes, | united only by their mindlossness, It - is thus understandable why “The Mind. Field” is inspired by utter dismay. Professor Ornstein: wants “to sepa- flation, the goofiness, the outright Hes, and the commercialism from the real possibility and discipline.’ Although ‘he speaks from the platform of -aca- . demic psychology, he is not address- ing just his colleagues: The bogus scientific “yalidations” of Transcen- ' dental Meditation upset him both be- cause they are professionally sloppy - ' and because they obscure the purpose . of spiritual pursuits. , While Ornstein admits TM may have some beneficial relaxing effects, noth- ing angers him more than the use of, he esoteric tradition as a form of psychotherapy. He believes that Freud- jan hydrantics are not only a peor ex planation of human problems, but that attention to personal problems now leatis us off the main evolutionary “In an undesenerated esoteric traditions, the ordinary celf is mot to ene oe Jeffrey “Klein is an editor of Mother and the me ee Weg de HN-REW96-007d7 HOD _ The . personal afinned, or even ‘onsecved, Dub mrre- ly set aside as an unreliable aoe of While each of ‘The Mi buado 2358 d” cri tiques—of secret Gurdjieft groups, mystical sport centers, Carlos Castane- da, Uri Geller—is sensible, the continu- al scolding tone becomes unpleasant. sighs of dismay. breathing throughout this book collect into a whine. Eventually Professor Ornstein presents his choice of an esoteric psy-._. thology for all seasons: contemporary: — “The Mind Field’s” final sec- - tion is a guided reading of 11 Sufi”, 4 . . tales selected from the recent antholo- * Sufism. gies of Indries Shah, ., ¥et for al Professor Ornstein’s ‘talk ‘about intuitive wholistic understand- : .ing, his map of the mind field is sur-+ : . ' prisingty flat: it lacks any political - ". dimension. He never considers that’. °° _” there could be reasons particular to ° a ‘ America why our psychological explo- ,.,': rations -become desperate ~ personal’. quests or become reified into “con- . sciousness” fer conspicuous consump- . tion. The frustrated yearnings for com- | munity behind such quests are never | Fs, examined, Ornstem writes: “It is an: _unfortunate accident of the 20th-cen- tury that those most interested in “gnowledge- and in an extended: conception of man tend to be those least suited to gaining or «4 using. them.” An unfortunate accident? - Instead of analyzing why we produce timid professionals’ on the one hand and unprincipled quacks on the other, Professor Ornstein . seems etal to scold, , On the West Coast at t least, Robert ott - Ornstein is justly. well-known for ex- * periments which show that #ntuition or “right brain thinking” probably has a physiological basis. Because he is |-’ a respectable: scientist, he has been 2+." looked to by many as a consciousness expert. “The Mind. Field” seems born - out of too many lecture tours, ‘too - many dimmers and «symposia and parties full of curious strangers. It is” “asi if. having been asked the same - i grand questions too often, Professor Ornstein finally lost his temper and said: “All right, you want to. know w. jat I think of all these damn move- ments, well let me tell you...” . How-not-to euides rarely help. beginners, Those readers who are just now becoming curious about Yoga, zen, biofeedback, parapsychology and the like wouid be better off turning to Ornstein’s earlier book, “The Psy- chology of Consciousness.” It is‘a com-° prehensive and often graceful intro- duction to esoteric psychclogy. Those - readers who already appreciate the esoteric tradition will have to look be- yond “The Mind Field’ for mature lence “AS yet we do not have a‘ “Rpprdiee. ‘Pot Rel elew 2O0SION/ TEE C1A-ROP IE: E9078 7ROESOI2N623°8"° eng Ee Danley (Avtar 22 1978 7 wie 8 <r Eyed 7, . ; oe wi os % | beh es BAG AE an CESARE RAL Le on EE 2 SMES EME a ASSEN te phashe Oh abo PS N eit rere