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Speaking to a full house in the Ames Courtroom, the popularizer of parapsychology, J. B. Rhine of Duke University, maintained that although the existence of ESP has been "reasonably well established," experts are still far from understanding the causes or even the basic nature of parapsychic behavior...
Rhine did, however, list the "many peculiarities" which he had discovered in his study of ESP. The phenomenon, he stated, must be voluntary, or else laboratory experiments could not discover its existence; yet ESP seems to be an unconscious ability...
...Rhine, professor at Duke University, speaks on "Progress in ESP Research" tonight at 8 p.m. in the Law School Forum at Ames Court Room, Austin Hall. Other Forum participants will be Edwin G. Boring, Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology, Emeritus; Ulric Neisser, Brandeis University; and Timothy Leary, Lecturer in Clinical Psychology...
Rhine is a pioneer in ESP research...
...According to Webster's: "After S. A. Maverick (1803-70), a Texas cattle owner who did not brand his calves, 1) An unbranded animal, esp. a motherless calf; 2) a refractory individual who bolts his group and initiates an independent course." Garner's own definition: "A sort of freewheeling slick...