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...culture's adversaries and propagates self-security within the culture. The functional and existential components of black culture are based on the historical experience of blacks, but the latter emphasizes the black ritual tradition. The ritual tradition of blacks is the inherited pattern of symbolic response to various societal phenomena...
...have an open mind about psychic phenomena [March 4], but let us not stop exploring new ideas and thoughts, even some of the most outlandish ones. If we had stopped in days of old and said majestically, "We know it all." life wouldn't be so much fun. The world would still be flat, the seas beset by monsters, and the moon would still be cheese...
...Your story on psychic phenomena used my name and mentioned my book in such a way as to insinuate that I consider the phenomena hoaxes...
...least, the paranormal establishment has questioned the dogma, emphasized the ignorance and underlined the arrogance of modern medicine and science. Indeed, modern doctors have scarcely breached the frontiers of the mind. Science has all too frequently destroyed the layman's sense of wonder by seeking materialistic explanations for all phenomena...
...lecture on spiritualism, Rhine and his wife Louisa immersed themselves in literature published by the Society for Psychical Research. When Rhine later joined the faculty of Duke University, he began a lifelong devotion to psychic research. It was he who coined the terms extrasensory perception and psi (for psychic phenomena); it was he who gave his specialty an academic imprimatur by compiling mountains of statistics about psychic subjects who could "read" cards that they could...