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After the intermission, the second act began with an explanation of psychic powers by an "independent expert," Professor Sanjean, owner, trainer, and confidante of "Emir, the only dog in the whole world who can read your mind." Sanjean told the audience that the "only reason telepathy isn't more widely recognized is that peope are on different wave-lengths." This meshed nicely with the assurance Bey's interpreter gave before the program that the "astral, or soul body is the force that binds the chemical body to God. And Bey, by completely mastering the astral body, loosens the silver chord...
Then he tried picking thoughts out of the audience. After walking about getting names, be went back to the stage, announced a name and answered the psychic question. "Mary" stood up when called, and the interpreter commisserated with her on Bey's behalf for her "illness," but assured her that all would be well since there was a cure. Mary shook her head and said that wasn't the question. Tarah stiffened when told, and pointing at Mary roared, "Are you sure you're not sick?" "No," replied Mary, "and I should know because I'm a doctor." "Well then...
...Consumption, for it was that that brought him down to the grave." But the great outburst of the disease after the Industrial Revolution made its earlier ravages seem tame.- In the novels, plays, journals and poetry of the romantic era, Dubos & Dubos find revealing details of TB's "psychic effects, its influence on behavior and tastes." The ideal of feminine beauty, which the white plague made current, was epitomized by Dumas fils (mourning an ex-mistress) in La Dame aux Camelias: frail, pale, hollow-eyed and languid. To be like this type, healthy and otherwise sensible young women dosed...
...Freud's belief that thwarted basic drives are the cause of all mental ills, maintained that pinched emotions were more often due to contradictory values in society. She predicted that in the U.S. the conflicting goals of success-through-competition and Christian unselfishness would cause a plague of psychic quirks and kinks in coming generations. Her advice: a man should be "truthful to himself," develop an inner moral code, and relate himself to others in "a spirit of mutuality...
...case where sterility of mental origin is overcome by medical help, said Dr. Kroger, "the same psychological difficulties which once prevented conception may influence the child's psychic development, and just as in the case of the emotionally immature but fertile woman, another member is added to an endless procession of neurotics. Therefore, the physician must.be aware that apparently 'successful' treatments of [such] sterility without adequate psychotherapy may actually become a hollow triumph...