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Rorvik, whose credentials include wide-eyed articles on psychic and faith healers and a passionate advocacy of the discredited cancer drug Laetrile, has informed the House subcommittee that he will be available for testimony in the fall. So far, he has no takers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A False Image | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

...theory's principles and how they relate to an individual's day-to-day existence. The film opens with a dazzling shot of the sun above the ocean--replete with rich color schemes of oranges, purples, and reds--as a voice-over observes that "we lose our innocence through psychic pollution," which is, "like environmental pollution, an inevitable result of human society." The point is rammed home by a montage of photographs showing various moments of violence and human misery. But this effective cinematic ploy is followed by the enunciation of the guiding tenet underlying the spiritual system of Arica...

Author: By Joe Contreras, | Title: Eavesdropping on Experience | 5/19/1978 | See Source »

...label as absurd Larry Flynt's charge that the shooting was an attempt to stop his assassination investigation [March 20]? Are you psychic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 10, 1978 | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

There seem to be not one but two writers inside the prolific John G Fuller. One has produced sober responsible books on banking and medical research. The other is better known for his hyperthyroid, irresponsible studies of psychic phenomena. In 1965 Fuller, whose various incarnations include a stint as a columnist for the Saturday Review and Emmy Award-winning work as a television producer, published Incident at Exeter. In it he concluded that the unidentified flying objects sighted and reported around the country were of extraterrestrial origin. A year later, he wrote The Interrupted Journey, the preposterous account...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Town Crier | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

...were these Fuller's only transgressions. In 1975 he published Arigo: Surgeon of the Rusty Knife, an approving look at a South American "psychic surgeon." Then, a year ago, Fuller brought out The Ghost of Flight 401, in which he credulously describes the experiences of flight crew members who claim to have seen apparitions of colleagues killed in a plane crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Town Crier | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

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