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...compared notes on materializations and levitations, automatic writings and unfriendly state laws. For relaxation, the 200-odd delegates took in sightseeing tours and a weekend dinner-dance or rested their corporeal manifestations in the lobby and read "How It Feels to Die-by One Who Has!" in the latest Psychic Observer, or writings with a message, such as I Rode a Flying Saucer-the Mystery of the Flying Saucers Revealed Through George W. Van Tassel-Radioed to You by Other-World Intelligence in Reaction to Man's Destructive Action...
...discovered and hypnosis was discarded. It was making a comeback 60 years ago when Freud hit upon the idea of psychoanalysis, and the experts again lost interest in hypnosis. Now, the third time around, it is once more winning the support of reputable men in both the physical and psychic areas of medicine. To help put hypnosis over the top for good, eleven doctors have assembled the first comprehensive textbook in the field, Hypnosis in Modern Medicine (Thomas; $7.50), with Psychiatrist Jerome M! Schneck as editor...
Tradition has not been abandoned entirely. Wan and weary maidens still linger at the scene of their betrayal. Here & there a lonely house still groans with memories of ancient wrongs-though in one story the trouble is that the house is not haunted, which creates an unhappy state of "psychic emptiness...
...lasts from ten minutes to half an hour. Then the wizard slumps back in a sweat and pulls himself together to collect a fee of $16 (but only, he insists, from those who can afford it). With identical treatments, D'Angelo claims to be able to cure "all psychic or nervous disorders," such as paralysis, phobias, migraine, insomnia and loss of sight, hearing or speech. Since most such cases are hysterical in origin, he can often help patients who have enough faith in his powers...
Having cleared up this matter of short-circuited psychic waves, he told a pretty young girl, with a large engagement ring, that her wedding would take place soon, in the middle of March. The girl acknowledged the question, and the act went on amid applause...