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...Your report on the investigation at Stanford Research Institute of the psychic power of Uri Geller [March 12] is shocking. There are good aspects, yes: first, that SRI and the team of physicists dared to examine Geller's claims; second, that the funds could be raised to pay the bill...
...their spiritual side. Assagioli, the Freudian-trained psychoanalyst who originated the method, explains that "we walk to the door of religion, but we let the individual open it." Assagioli's theory postulates several levels of man's "inner constitution," including a higher realm that is the psychic home of his spiritual, philosophical and artistic "imperatives." To gain access to this region, Assagioli uses conventional psychoanalysis as well as a series of esoteric exercises and meditation techniques...
Fanon's books, though not highly original, gain an undeniable authenticity because they spring so intensely from what he lived and observed. He had read Hegel, who wrote in the most abstract way of the distorting effects of the master-slave relationship on the psychic life of the slave. He had also read and been deeply influenced by Sartre, who (in Anti-Semite and Jew) gave Hegel's master-slave analysis labyrinthine new twists. Hegel was not a slave, however, nor Sartre a Jew. But Fanon was black. His most significant work came out of his sudden realization...
Thereafter, as Fanon grew more prominent, he grew more controversial and more lost in the Algerian and Third World factional disputes that still swirl around his memory. Author Gendzier succumbs to what amounts to a left-wing psychic disorder in its own right: the compulsion to pursue and defend Fanon's reputation through increasingly irrelevant intricacies. She does this in a prose crippled by repetition and neo-Marxist jargon. Fanon himself quickly escapes her-and the reader is glad to follow him. · Horace Judson
...other hand, insists that there are a few references to people or events in the séance for which he could find no research in Ford's papers. The author concludes: "Personally, I think the evidence supports the hypothesis that Arthur Ford was a genuinely gifted psychic who, for various reasons, scrutable and inscrutable, fell back on trickery when he felt...