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Under any circumstances, this would seem a curious question for an Episcopal bishop to ask of his 22-year-old son. The circumstance under which it was actually asked was odd indeed. The scene was the home of a Santa Barbara spiritualist, the Rev. George Daisley, in the summer of 1967. The questioner was the Right Rev. James A. Pike, the resigned Bishop of California and a staff member of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. With Daisley's help as a medium, he was communicating with his son James Jr., who had killed himself the year...
...second heart transplant for South Africa's Dr. Philip Blaiberg, 59, there arose a question of propriety. Mrs. Dorothy Haupt, 22, whose husband was the donor of the heart Dr. Blaiberg is using, said if he gives it up, she wants it back. Why? Because a spiritualist said her dead husband could not rest without his heart. If the heart is returned, Mrs. Haupt plans to bury it in her husband's grave. "I would do it myself," she said...
...inspired amateurs, fuddled bunglers, sensational charlatans, and uncomfortable professionals. Each has survived a series of tumultuous popular vogues, and each today seems to have found tenuous public acceptance. Out of the black box and darkroom came what may really be the vital art of the moment. Out of the spiritualist's dim salon has emerged what may prove to be tomorrow's scientific revolution. In reaching a toe-hold, each discipline has sacrificed a measure of color and excitement: gone are the horrific lantern shows of the early photographer-magicians, gone too the emphasis psychic investigators once placed on communication...
Brazil's newspapers hoot at Zarur. The Protestant churches deplore him, spiritualist sects repudiate him, and Rio's Roman Catholic Auxiliary Archbishop Dom Helder Camara calls him a heretic. Says Zarur: "I don't say I am comparable to Christ, but my followers do." Then he pleads their case: "Look, my enemies call me a thief, a heretic, a sorcerer. Well, they called Jesus all those things as well. I was born on Dec. 25th, the same day as Jesus was, and I also received a message from St. Francis on my 33rd birthday, the same...
...After King's death, Rockefeller learned to his chagrin that the Canadian Prime Minister was a spiritualist, who sought counsel at seances with his dead mother...