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...century later, thousands of men & women still answer Mrs Fox's query with a fervent yes. For the Fox sisters, though they later went on tour to confess that their apparent psychic powers were an "absolute fraud," really started something. By 1854 (while the Fox sisters were still "psychic"), 15,000 earnest believers had signed a petition demanding that Congress appoint a committee of scientists to investigate such phenomena.* And belief in spiritualism continues to flourish. This month, Britain's House of Commons gravely read for the second time a bill to protect "genuine" mediums by repealing...
Like his friend and fellow fake-hunter, Magician Harry Houdini, Rinn spent a long time looking for evidence of psychic power he could believe in. As a youngster, he was bowled over when a medium ordered him to place the spout of a kettle to his ear and thus receive the words of a "spirit voice." Only after he himself became a magician did Rinn realize that he had been duped (out of $5) by a double-bottomed kettle equipped like a telephone receiver and in contact with a "spirit" hidden behind a panel...
...spiral" theory of civilizations, famed British Historian Arnold Toynbee holds that the pressure of outside challenge produces a civilization's strongest response. He also sees psychic and spiritual factors as more potent in history than material ones. Last week, in a Founder's Day address at California's Pomona College, Toynbee brought both tenets to bear on the main issue of his own time...
Lost Chords. In Los Angeles, Jacqueline Sisson, suing her hairdresser, declared that scalp burns suffered while getting her hair done had "impaired, retarded and affected her psychic powers to read musical tunes in the minds of her audience...
Full Appreciation. The Citizen's story, based on an interview with the dowager Duchess of Hamilton,* was taken from the London weekly Psychic News, a leading publication of Britain's spiritualist cult. A longtime acquaintance of the bachelor Prime Minister and an ardent spiritualist herself, the duchess declared that King "fully appreciated the spiritual direction of the universe and was always seeking guidance for himself in his work...