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ABOUT OUR COVER
Man., He can do a lot, of
things. But can he move
objects by 'concentration?
Can he send and receive
nntal messages? Does he
have a sixth sense-ESP?
Readpages 2 ,through 9
before you answer.
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based-on a man's real-life
family.
14 THE POINT OF IT
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CURRENT SCENE
Captain Edgar D. Mitchell, former
moonwalker, has found another
universe to explore.
Captain Edgar D. Mitchell piloted
the lunar module on the Apollo 14
flight in 197.1. He shot through
l9uds in a rocket and became the
,al th man to"" .ilk on'-'the moon's '
surface.
That's a pretty hard act to follow,
What in the world is left for such
a man to do? Not much-in this
world. But Captain Mitchell thinks
he's found another world to
investigate. It's farther than the
moon-as far as the most unremem-
bered dream. But it's near, too-as
near as the human mind. It's
consciousness.
Consciousness. All by itself the
word doesn't seem that exciting.
What's the big thrill about being
awake or asleep? But many people
believe that' consciousness includes
much more than just those two
functions. They say it includes all
the strange, weird stuff involving
communication and activity outside
the five senses. In other words,
psychic phenomena.
Now that's more exciting. And
that's the area into which Captain
Mitchell -has recently launched
himself. He's formed an organization
called EDMA (for Edgar D. Mitchell
& Associates) Corporation to do
research and testing in various forms
of psychic phenomena.
The general term for these phenom-
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ena is PSI (sigh). And PSI has three
categories:
Extrasensory perception (ESP)
? Psychokinesis (PK-Pronounce it
sigh-koh-kin-EE-sis)
? Spirit communication-ghosts,
hauntings, and talking to spirits.
The science that studies PSI in
all its categories is called para-
psychology.
Captain Mitchell's interest in this
field isn't hard to understand. After
all, the popularity of eerie TV pro-
grams like "Ghost Story," "Sixth
Sense," and "Night Gallery" shows
that many people are fascinated with
the subject. But the former astronaut's
interest runs a lot deeper than most
people's.
For one thing, he actually conducted
an experiment in telepathy-a form
of ESP-while aboard the Apollo 14
spacecraft. At four prearranged times
he concentrated hard on certain
numbers based on cards from a special
deck that parapsychologists use. At
the same times on earth, four people
in different cities tried to pick up
Captain Mitchell's mental pictures
of the numbers he was sending.
The earthlings picked up Captain
Mitchell's transmissions often enough
to produce what he calls "statistically
significant" results.
And not only that. Captain Mitch-
ell's reason for going into the field
isn't just to be "in." He deeply be-
lieves that by understanding their
psychic selves people can better
understand each other and the whole
natural order of things. People and
nature can develop a sort of harmony
from this knowledge. And this, he
feels, might help to create a better
world.
EDMA's ideals are high, and at
least one of its guinea pigs sounds-
well, very interesting. You can meet
him by turning the page. And don't
stop there. Pages 6 through 9 will
attempt to explain some of the other
forms of psychic phenomena. a
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 The objects grouped around the
staring eye above are illustrations of
a gold ring going through some weird
changes. Very weird changes, as you'll
notice.
Notice in the first drawing on the
left that the ring is split.
Notice in the next two drawings
that the ring is slightly twisted.
Notice in the last drawing that the
ring forms an S-shape.
Got any answers for these changes?
Don't even bother. You'd never come
up with the real story behind them.
Because, according to people who
actually saw it happen, the ring
pictured above was sheared through
and then slowly twisted into an S-
shape---simply by the power of a
man's mind.
It sounds incredible, we know. But
then psychokinesis-the power of the
mind to control objects-is an incredi-
ble idea.
Psychokinesis (PK) is one kind of
psychic phenomena that EDMA Cor-
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poration (pp. 2-3) plans to investi-
gate. It will study the man who caused
the weird changes in the rings. His
name is Uri Geller.
Uri, a 25-year-old native of Israel, is
well-known in that country for his
ability with telepathy. (Telepathy is a
form of ESP that involves the ex-
change of mental messages between
two or more people.)
Uri's ability with telepathy attract-
ed the attention of Dr. A. Puharich,
a physician from New York City who
has done much psychical research.
When Dr. Puharich was convinced
that Uri possessed PK ability, he ar-
ranged a trip to America for a series of
tests and psychic experiments.
While here Uri demonstrated a
whole string of seemingly unbelievable
PK experiences-all witnessed by a
group of distinguished doctors and sci-
entists, including Capt. Edgar
Mitchell. Based on an interview with
a member of the group, here is what
Uri's audience says they saw.
REPORT OF EVENTS
The day began at Dr. Puharich's
home with a gold ring containing a
stone. The stone was attached to the
band with heavy gold prongs. Uri,
using only concentration, caused the
prongs to bend back from the stone.
The wearer felt nothing.
The second occurrence involved
Captain Mitchell's astronaut watch-
a very large instrument with double
stems and lots of hands. Everyone
noted the time: 10 a.m. The watch
was placed facedown on a table, and
Uri announced he would move the
hands back.
He went into deep concentration,
and when Captain Mitchell turned the
watch over, the hands had been moved
back one hour and eight minutes.
Next, a 14-carat gold ring-large
and hard-was placed on the table.
Uri concentrated and told the group
to watch the ring. Suddenly there ap-
peared a smooth cut through one side
of it.
As the group watched, one-half of
the ring began twisting out of shape. It
continued to twist for several hours,
even after Uri had stopped concen-
trating on it. It ended up as the S-
shaped object pictured on page 4.
The afternoon' brought even more
PK demonstrations. Uri shattered a
long needle-merely by concentrating
on it. Then he caused the pointed end
of a safety pin to bend out of shape
by rubbing it between his thumb and
forefinger.
The power followed Uri outdoors,
also. While outside getting a breath of
fresh air, he closed his hand over the
hand of someone who was holding a
young green bud from a bush. Within
20 seconds the bud was brown and
withered.
IS HE FOR REAL?
Those are the reported events. Were
they all part of a hoax? Remember,
Uri was carefully watched by trained
scientists and doctors, an audience not
easy to fool.
Nobody pretends to'know how Uri's
ability works. But EDMA Corp. in-
tends to try to find out. It hopes to
do tests on Uri, monitoring his brain
waves, heartbeat, and muscular ac-
tivity to find out what happens when
he goes into his PK state.
That might be tough, because Uri
himself says that his power comes
and goes. And when the power is gone,
he couldn't shear through a ring any
more than you could. But further
studies of Uri Geller could be very in-
teresting. Very interesting.
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 Imagine attempting a wheelie on
your bike in. the driveway and ending
up doing a crashie into a bed of
geraniums. You'd probably feel pret-
ty bad. But how do you think the ge-
raniums would feel?
Geraniums? They can't feel-can
they? A man named Cleve Backster
claims plants can feel. He's done ex-
periments proving, he says, that plants
have emotions just as humans have.
They "faint" when threatened, feel
sympathy and appreciation, and even
have a sort of memory, according to
Mr. Backster.
It all began in 1966 when Mr. Back-
ster, a lie detector (polygraph) expert,
hitched up an electrode from his poly-
graph to the leaf of a houseplant. Mr.
Backster had just poured water on the
plant's roots, and he wanted to see
how long it would take for the water
to reach the tip of a leaf. (Polygraphs
measure and automatically make a
chart of changing electrical impulses.
A freshly watered plant would grad-
ually show a pattern of less and less
electrical resistance.)
squiggles.-It wasn't measuring root-to-
pattern that appears on a person's
polygraph when he's emotionally
moved. Was the plant saying,
"Thanks for the drink"?
Mr. Backster decided to try some-
thing else. He thought of a threat to
the leaf: touching it with a burning
match. But before he could do any-
almost off the chart. The plant seemed
afraid!
That was enough for Mr. Backster.
He began a series of hundreds of ex-
periments with plants and polygraphs,
? Someone selected one of three fresh
vegetables to be dropped into boiling
water. The one selected went into a
polygraph "faint" (a sudden upward
movement followed by one continuous
straight line) before it was even
touched.
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Your garden might be doing a
lot more than just growing.
It might be reading your mind.
The plant showed no reaction whatso-
ever to five of the students. But when
the killer approached, the plant
"fainted."
? While tiny shrimps were being boiled
alive in one room, plants in another
reacted with intense emotion. Grad-
ually, however, as more and more
shrimps were cooked, the plants
stopped being so excited.
? One of six students was given the
task of tearing into shreds one of two
plants alone in a room. After the plant
was demolished, the students, one by
one, walked by the surviving plant.
Mr. Backster also says that the
polygraph has charted reactions from
cooked vegetables. And rotted ones.
He says he's also recorded eggs "faint-
ing" just before being cracked into a
waiting skillet.
Mr. Backster has had lots of en-
thusiastic followers. Twenty or 30 in-
stitutions are at present reproducing
some of his experiments in their own
labs. A reported 7,000 scientists have
requested copies of his research. And
some people have tried to actually
make plants do things by thought con-
trol.
An inventor named Paul Sauvin re-
cently conducted an experiment in
which an indoor plant, controlled only
by Sauvin's thoughts, supposedly trig-
gered a device that started a car in an
outdoor parking lot. Sauvin was 21/s
miles away at the time.
But what does it all mean? One in-
terested party thinks there might be
a "primary form of instant communi-
cation between all living things that
goes beyond everything we now know
about science." Scientists in the So-
viet Union, who have done research
similar to Mr. Backster's, are con-
vinced that plants possess electrical
impulses similar to man's nerve im-
pulses.
We don't know where it all could
lead. Just remember all these things
the next time you're around a willow
tree. The wrong thought might make
it weep. . ^
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 Can a person's spirit leave tiebod to
see events somewhere else? So.me .,;
people believe' so-and-
claim to have .done it.
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It was late at night and Robert
Monroe was lying in bed awake. His
wife had already fallen asleep be-
side him. Suddenly a surge of power
began in his head and spread through-
out his body. Trying to analyze what
was happening, Robert let his mind
ramble.
A moment later, he felt something
pressing against his shoulder. He
reached back and felt a smooth wall.
He tried to see in the dim light. He
thought he had fallen out of bed.
Then he looked again. Something
was wrong. This wall had no win-
dows, no furniture against it, no doors.
It wasn't a wall-it was the ceiling.
Robert was floating against the
ceiling, bouncing gently every time
he moved. Startled,,he rolled over and
looked down. Below him he could see
two figures lying on the bed-his
wife and his own body.
"My reaction was quick," he later
said. "Here I was; there was my body.
I was dying, this was death, and I
wasn't ready. Desperately, like a diver,
I swooped down to my body and dove
in. Then I felt the bed and covers.
When I opened my eyes, I was in my
ASTRAL PROJECTIONS
A dream? Hallucinations? Fake?
Not to Robert Monroe, who lives in
Virginia. He claims that this mind-
out-of-body event really happened.
In the world of ESP, such experiences
are called astral projections.
Some scientists in psychic research
believe that in an astral projection-
or out-of-body state-the spirit or soul
of a human moves out of the body and
goes to another location. From that lo-
cation, the spirit can then look back
and see its own body. The spirit can
also see other locations that might not
be visible to the body-such as the
next room. In addition, scientists
claim that the spirit can go thousands
of miles away without harm-perhaps
even into deep space.
The body, in the meantime, is not
dead. It is suspended in a state that
resembles a coma. Breathing con-
tinues, with the heart and other organs
functioning properly.
INGO SWANN
- Robert Monroe's experience is not
supported by scientific evidence. But
another man's experiences supposedly
are. He is Ingo Swann, and many of
Mr. Swann's out-of-body trips have
occurred in a laboratory, with Brien
entists hovering close by to study the
effects.
In one case, Mr. Swann sat in a
dimly lit room. Above him, out of his
view, a shelf suspended from the ceil-
ing held three objects-an umbrella,
a black leather case, and an apple.
While scientists watched, Mr. Swann
went into a trance.
When he awoke, he was able to de-
scribe all the objects in fine detail.
He explained that his spirit had left
his body, traveled to the ceiling, and
studied the objects.
Scientists cannot say for sure that
Mr. Swann's spirit actually left his
body-there is no definite proof. But
they feel that such an experience is
possible if a person believes in having
a soul or spirit that is separate from
the body.
In any case, scientists warn experi-
menters that astral projection can lead
to harm without a trained person near-
by. For one thing, since the body is in a
coma, it could be mistaken for dead
and could be buried. When the spirit
returned, it would logically awaken in
a coffin!
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