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one wanted to look for it, but
/ am not cynical, really. 1t will
take a long time for this idea to
be accepted. I imagine the idea
Of Communism stayed in Marks
mind before it came out and
narrowed, gathered force, be-
came Steel-pomted, started to go
in a definite direction. This is
the reversal Of Communism, of
scientific matefialism. This will
take many years.
I'VE will approach this with
scholarly methods, so we can
be sure. We do not take any
thing on faith We make it clear
what is our material. We say,
anything that cannot be ex-
planned, with any rationale -
that cannot be explained ration
ally, that cannot be understood,
that seems supernatural, this is
our material. Telepathy, clair
voyance, precognition. MY wife
has collected over ten thousand
of these incidents. Most of them
seem to point toward the future.
For instance, to use an inn
mediate example, I always like
to use an immediate example,
one of the merchants downtown
was in a car accident. He dream
ed the night before that he was
in a car accident, that the car
was demolished beyond repair,
and he may have thought it was
just dream. In the dream, the
car was a little English make,
and it was not his car, so he
didn't worry about it. The next
day he was driving to work and
saw a little English car that had
been in a wreck being towed
past, just like the dream. And
he went on and at the next stop
light a truck ran into him and
demolished his car. He dream
ed about the wrong wreck, he
got the two mixed. We test to
find out about this = does it
have value?
Man seems to have an = abil-
ity, to experience these things. -
He went into a description of
testing methods = the pack of
25 test cards, with symbols on
them: can the subject call the
symbols without seeing them?
From there he went on into
dissertation on the mathematical
side of Extrasensory Perception,
which is easy to get lost in. 1t
involves standard deviationS and
expected means and other sta
tiStical principles.
1--WE lean a little backwards on
the mathematics, because our
critical front always says, well
they did the mathematics wrong,
or something, so we put in safe
guards. Here, this is the latest
issue of the Journal of Para
psychology, it just came out to-
day, and here in the editorial
staff, see, we have two men who
do nothing but read anything that
is published that has anything
to do with mathematics. That is
rare for a journal of this kind
Talk drifted around to DR..
Rhine himself.
Il have lost my personality"
he said. mo, / don't mean that
literally, l mean / have lost =
my self. i have become so wrap
ped up in this work, have iden-
titled with it. That can happen
to anyone, whether they're work
ing in a slum, or in school work,
or in writing too, / suppose. You
identify with it so much that you
lose your self. If you reach
the age of sixty-seven and you
have not yet found anything to
identify with, you'd better look
around for something better to
end your life with.
why have / identified with
parapsychology? Because it is
way to understand the nature of
man, what a man is"
For just an instant, DR.. Rhine
seemed to look inward at him
self.
"It gives you sense of mis-
sion," he said. Not mission in
the sense that someone sent you,
but mission in that something
impels you to understand, to
know What is a man 1t
is so immense. E"
He picked up the Journal of
Parapsychology again
AT the last meeting of our so
ciety they invited me to give a
little talk, and | had a passage
here at the end ! think |
said something about how inn
portant this work is. Here
He read aloud:
"If then, with a moderately
expanded confidence in our pres
ent position in parapsychology,
we allow ourselves a fair and un-
inhibited look at our field Of
research, there is a certain tonic
satisfaction in the very magni-
fude of tho mystery il presents