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he move
objects
by
concentration?
Can
he
send
and
receive
. mental messages ?
Does he
have
a
sixth
sense—ESP?
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pages
through
before you answer.
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Captain Edgar D. Mitchell, former
moon walker,
has
found
another
universe to explore.
Captain Edgar D. Mitchell piloted
the
lunar module on the Apollo
flight
in
197.1.
He
shot
through
clouds
in
a
rocket and became
the
sixth man
to
walk
on
the moons
SUrfflC6.
That’s a pretty hard act to follow.
What
in
the
world
is
left
for such
a man
to
do?
Not much—in
this
world. But Captain
Mitchell
thinks
,
he’s
found
another
world
to
investigate.
It’s
farther
than
the
moon—as
far as the most unremem-
bered
dream. But
it’s
near, too—as
near
as
the
human
mind.
It’s
consciousness.
Consciousness.
All
by
itself
the
word
doesn’t
seem
that
exciting.
What’s
the
big
thrill
about
being
awake
or
asleep? But many people
believe
that
consciousness
includes
much
more
than
just
those
two
functions. They
say
it
includes
all
the
strange,
weird
stuff
involving
communication
and
activity
outside
the
five
senses.
In
other
words,
psychic phenomena.
Now
that’s
more
exciting.
And
that’s
the
area
into which
Captain
Mitchell
-has
recently
launched
himself. He’s formed an organization
called EDMA (for Edgar D. Mitchell
&
Associates)
Corporation
to
do
research and testing in various forms
of psychic phenomena.
The general term for these phenom-
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ena is PSI (sigh). And PSI has three
the same times on
earth, four people
categories:
in
different
cities
tried
to
pick up
• Extrasensory perception (ESP)
Captain
Mitchell’s
mental
pictures
• Psychokinesis
(PK—Pronounce
it
of
the
numbers
he
was
sending.
sigh-koh-kin-EE-sis)
The
earthlings
picked
up
Captain
•
Spirit
communication—ghosts,
Mitchell’s transmissions often enough
hauntings, and talking to spirits.
to produce what he calls “statistically
The
science
that' studies
PSI
in
significant” results,
all
its
categories
is
called
para -
And not only that. Captain Mitch-
psychology.
ell’s
reason
for going into
the
field
Captain Mitchell’s interest in
this
isn’t just
to be
“in.” He deeply be-
field
isn’t hard
to understand. After
lieves
that
by
understanding
their
all,
the
popularity of eerie TV
pro-
psychic
selves
people
can
better
grams
like
“Ghost
Story,”
“Sixth
understand each other and the whole
Sense,” and “Night
Gallery” shows
natural
order
of
things. People and
that many people are fascinated with
nature can develop a sort of harmony
the subject. But the former astronaut’s
from
this
knowledge. And
this,
he
’
interest runs a lot deeper than most
feels, might
help
to
create
a better
people’s.
world.
For one thing, he actually conducted
EDMA’s
ideate
are
high,
and
at
an
experiment
in telepathy—a form
least one of its guinea pigs sounds
of ESP—while aboard the Apollo
well, very
interesting. You can meet
spacecraft. At four prearranged times
him by turning the page. And don’t
he
concentrated
hard
on
certain
stop
there.
Pages
through
will
numbers based on cards from a special
attempt to explain some of the other
deck
that
parapsychologists
use. At
forms of psychic phenomena.
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The
objects
grouped
around
the
staring eye above are illustrations of
a gold ring going through some weird
changes. Very weird changes, as you’ll
notice.
Notice in the Fust drawing on the
left 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 Denwu mem.
Because,
according
to
people
who
actually
saw
it
happen,
the
ring
pictured
above was
sheared
through
and then
slowly
twisted
into an
S-
shape—simply
by
the
power
of
a
man’s mind.
It 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
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jit
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
occurrence
involved
Captain Mitchell’s astronaut watch—
a very
large instrument with double
stems
and
lots
of hands.
Everyone
noted the time:
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.
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
outdoors,
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.
IS 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.
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