Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-31

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planes, dumping" by very i'm
poftant persons, and bad
weather
Nearly every day was cold and
rainy. There was nothing to
read, hardly anything to smoke
With all the hotels crowded, the
airline put up a dozen of us In
a cottage on the beach. There
was an ambassador from a Mid
die European country. There
was q Greek admiral. There was
q State Department courier who
slept with his leather case pad
locked to his wrist. There was
the usual number of war CORE
spondents. brigadier generals
and the like. Everybody's nerves
were on edge. 1t wouldn't have
taken much to have started q
free-for-all.
Killed by Censor
All this is Just background for
my own single experience with
the supernatural-that and a
whimsical desire to tell part OF
story a British censor killed on
me IA years ago. Also it's a way
of backing into the work of DR.,
and Mrs. j. B. Rhine on pre-
cognition"
Somebody had picked up some
where in Hamilton one of the
few books available-"EXperi-
ments in Time" by celebrated
British engineer. the late DR..
j. w. Dunno. 1t was chiefly
about strange dreams. DR.. Dunno
didn't claim anything prophetic
about dreams at the time he
wrote the book. But he described
uncannily accurate dreams about
events in the past of which he
never had heard, checked to
minute details when he investi-
gated.
out Of it all he evolved a
theory-there was a preface say
ing he might be right by no less
all authority than Sir Arthur
Eddington-that there were "se-
rial times" Man lived stimuli
taneously in past. present and
future. The battle of Waterloo,
in other words. may be going on
at this moment. So may the
wedding of my great-great-
granddaughter in the 21st GEN.
tury. Offhand. of course, this
sounds like nonsense-but I'm
not so sure any more.
Read by Everyone
Everybody read the book. hav-
ing nothing else to do. t. ERE
was cedar log open fire
cracking in the cabin. Outside
a cold full moon was shining
on the white coral beach. The
whole crowd started telling
stories of wierd personal pre-
rnonitions. The most spine
tingling was that of the Greek
admiral - something about a
premonition of the death of his
sister.
Suddenly he broke off.
I've the same feeling now, -
he said. There's death Ill this
atmosphere"
Just then there was a loud
knock at the door. On the door.
step stood the ghost like figure
Of a girl. Her thin garments
might have been the spiritual
lists ectoplasm shaken in the
December wind.
There's a dead man lying in
the road" she said. There was
He was later identified as a
German spy.
In the excitement the girl dis
appeared. Nobody ever saw her
again. Some maintained she
was a visitation from another
realm of life - one of DR.
DUNES sereal times. I ran into
the Dunno book again the other
day Just before talking to Mrs
Rhine.
She has collected and an
alyzed to date 1894 cases Of
Spontaneous precognition" -
that is. knowledge of a future
already existing.
Dangerous Subject
Now this, of course, is danger.
GUS ground, full of religious dy.
Mantle. If my future is already
what can I do about it? DR.
Dunno, I suppose. would have
said there was nothing I coulc
do. Mrs. Rhine says there is q
lot. She doesn't accept anything
except her statistics.
There probably isn't a family
In the world without its anecodte
Of premonition.
Mere coincidence can account
perhaps for the majority of such
stories, Mrs. Rhine says. If
have a premonition of a stroke
Of good luck and it comes, there
is no significance. 1t can be in.
terpreted merely as a rationale
cation of my hopes. If some
thing somewhat similar to what
I see in a premonitory dream
happens, there is no significance
But If I have premonition OF
something bad and it happens
with details checking quite pre-.
cisely those of dream, and II
the facts can be checked under
the most rigid scientific controls
there may be considerable sig
nificance to the staff of the para
psychology laboratories.
574 Seem Genuine
Out Of all the cases Mrs
Rhine has collected, she has
found STA which look genuine
In at least a dozen Of them II
was possible to do something
about 1t which STAYED of dis.
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