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...understood demand our positing an extraterrestial intelligence or power? After all, any world in which we lived would appear patterned to us our pattern seems extraordinary only because it is the pattern with which we live. It is no more special or less probably than any other constellation of phenomena. Control over our ability to act within such a design is entirely in our hands--if we possess the strength to see it there...
...thunderheads high above northeastern Colorado, the World War II-vintage B-26 released its payload: a swarm of tiny, aluminum-coated strands of fiber glass. The strange-and dangerous-flight was part of science's latest attempt to tame one of nature's most spectacular and damaging phenomena: lightning storms...
...graduate of Wittenberg College in Springfield, Ohio. She was a student in the Harvard Summer School Publishing Procedures course. Since Monday, August 14th, she has been working for Harper Row in New York. Second prize and $15 went to Barbara Manschreck for her poem "On the Evolution of Phenomena or What Crazy Maggie Shouted to the Pigeons." Barbara has done graduate work in English and is currently studying theology at the Boston Theological Institute. Third prize and $10 went to Laura Freedgood for her poem "Cave." She has done graduate work in English and is now enrolled in the M.A.T...
Author Owen Rachleff (The Occult Conceit), who teaches a course called Witchcraft, Magic and Astrology at New York University, takes a dim view of the whole movement. "Most occultniks," says Rachleff, "are either frauds of the intellectual and/or financial variety, or disturbed individuals who frequently mistake psychosis for psychic phenomena." Yet for all its trivial manifestations in tea-leaf readings and ritual gewgaws, for all the outright nuts and charlatans it attracts, occultism cannot be dismissed as mere fakery or faddishness. Clearly, it is born of a religious impulse and in many cases it becomes in effect a substitute faith...
...skeptic has 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...