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...Geller demonstrated ESP and psychokinesis (ability to move or bend objects without touching them) to the delight and excitement of Targ and Puthoff, Hyman said that he was able to spot the "loopholes and inconclusiveness" of each feat. He also caught Geller in some outright deceptions that Targ and Puthoff apparently did not discern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Magician And the Think Tank | 3/12/1973 | See Source »

...openness of mind displays itself on many levels, from ESP experiments funded indirectly by the U.S. Government to the weeping throngs of California 13-year-olds getting blissed-out by the latest child guru off a chartered jet from Bombay. The acupuncturist now shares the limelight with Marcus Welby, M.D., and his needles are seen to work?nobody knows why. However, with Castaneda's increasing fame have come increasing doubts. Don Juan has no other verifiable witness, and Juan Matus is nearly as common a name among the Yaqui Indians as John Smith farther north. Is Castaneda real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don Juan and the Sorcerer's Apprentice | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

...Something happens to you out there," explains Apollo 14 Astronaut Ed Mitchell. As a result of what happened to him, he has since quit the space program, divorced his wife and begun to devote himself full-time to an unlikely pursuit for an M.I.T. graduate: research into extrasensory perception (ESP), which he feels may help people round the world to achieve greater "intuitive" communication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: The Greening of the Astronauts | 12/11/1972 | See Source »

...proven spiritualism to be valid, but there is a residue of the unexplained in these claimed psychic events, some occurrences that seem to defy the laws of chance or mere coincidence. It is just such phenomena that are currently being investigated by parapsychologists under the general heading of ESP, extrasensory perception: telepathy, communication from one mind to another without normal means; precognition, the prediction of future events; clairvoyance, the power to discern objects not present to the senses; and psychokinesis, the movement of material objects with the mind. While investigations go on, though, such gifts pose a problem for Christians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Occult: A Substitute Faith | 6/19/1972 | See Source »

...becoming apparent. Apollo 12 Astronaut Dick Gordon recently quit to become executive vice president of pro football's New Orleans Saints, and Apollo 7 Astronaut Donn Eisele traded his NASA desk job for the directorship of the Peace Corps in Thailand. In August, Ed Mitchell, who staged an ESP experiment aboard Apollo 14, will leave the space program to pursue his intense interest in psychic phenomena. Apollo 15 Astronaut Jim Irwin, a Baptist lay preacher, will also retire, "to spend more time spreading the good news of Jesus Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Down to Earth | 6/12/1972 | See Source »

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