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...ought to make short work with it, no matter what supernatural being may have infused it." The then newly proposed theory of subconscious mental processes appealed to James as highly useful for understanding the sudden shifts in character that often attend conversion experiences. Indeed, he lauds the discovery of phenomena outside the "primary consciousness" as "the most important step forward that has occurred in psychology since I have been a student of that science...
...notion of man as the dreamer of age-old dreams led him into a mystic world. His life was plagued by occult phenomena (poltergeists threw his books about; blinding pain awakened him at the instant a patient was committing suicide), and his dreams even came to include flying saucers. In the morning he would ponder: perhaps the flying saucer is a magic lantern, and I-I am only the picture it projects...
...more useful to state that one and one make three than that they add up to two. This curious state of affairs by no means looms as a grave threat to mathematics. It should serve as a warning, though, against the unsophisticated application of mathematical concepts and formulae to phenomena in the world of experience...
Astronomers suspect that the ionosphere itself may be a radio transmitter, and University astronomers hope to confirm this. They are also trying to find out how radio noise from the earth and its ionosphere fluctuates between day and night, and from latitude to latitude, and how such phenomena as sun-spot activity and solar flares influence its intensity...
Energy & Power. Actually, Meistermann's achievement is not so much in his human touch as in his feeling for energy, which he regards as a main characteristic of the world today. For a radio studio, he once tried to capture in visual terms the feeling of such phenomena as wave length, directional beams, high frequency; and behind all his designs there is always a sense of invisible power...