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To investigate this practice, the Ministerial Association of Los Angeles, representing 400 pastors and 485,000 church members, hired Fictionist Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones and Dr. U. L. Di Ghilini, onetime Florida drugless practitioner and professional student of "psychic phenomena." The investigators had little difficulty piling up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Ordained Duck | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

His biography of Lindsay, aside from its value as a study in poetic frustration, throws a vivid light on the quality of the culture that nourished the poets of the Midwest school. Containing a great store of unassimilated information, lighted by occasional clairvoyant insights, the book seems less revealing of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bitter Poet on Sad Poet | 10/7/1935 | See Source »

The Clairvoyant (Gaumont-British), remotely suggested by an Ernst Lothar novel about a man who discovered he had the gift of detailed and exact prophecy, makes eerie entertainment out of the supernatural. Like The Scoundrel which needed two outright miracles for a happy ending, The Clairvoyant uses the modest method...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 17, 1935 | 6/17/1935 | See Source »

To show their full import, Researcher Rhine hauled out the mathematics of probability. A subject practicing clairvoyance gets, for example, 7 or 8 hits out of 25 tries. As a gambler knows, the law of averages does not preclude such a score once in a while although the long-run...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Blind Sight | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

On the basis of these tests Dr. Rhine has concluded: "The ability to exercise clairvoyant and telepathic perception has been fairly well shown to be a natural capacity of the human species." He finds that, like manual dexterity, this ability increases with practice, is diminished by illness, fatigue, drowsiness, narcotic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Blind Sight | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

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