Approved For ReleW 2W/03/07 : CIA-RDID96-0078110001000100022-5 This is a little book that Xerox puts out for High School students. Approved For Release 2001/03/07 CIA-RDP96-00787ROO0400100022-5 Approved For ReleaWOW3/07: CIA-RDP96-007874VOOW100022-5 ABOUT OUR COVER CURRENT SCENE Man, Hf can d a lot pf , , " put can he Move 91, o6jects, by concentratio70 V h d An i d i, _ an If e sen rece ve , irnental tnessa@M bops he ",have a st xth sen A , m Aea`1 pages 2 through 9 - before you answer, Ca tain Edgar D. Mitchell, former p ALSO IN THIS ISSUE moonwalker, has found another _THAT'S universe to explore. REMEMBER, HOW IT WAS" "The Waltons" is TVs based'on a Man's real-life. farnily. Captain Edgar D. Mitchell piloted 14 THE POINT OF IT the lunar module on the Apollo 14 In 11 this play, three boys take He shot through flight in 1971. h h eirteac em e the e ouds in a rock t and becam li! t6 @'w n-t m s 61 k he l a diet k o R m A n a U ace 22 WILLTH EA BAD GUYS': That's a pretty hard act to follow. PLEASE STANO`-UP What in the world is left for such Can you pick your favonte -in this bad guy here. man to do? Not much a world. But Captain Mitchell thinks 'V 1 .- h e's KO? '6(f &AN ANt world to @'281 HAI Y found another ORE it's farther than the M investigate. ' * s ohi k irld lfer@ ot p6etry moon-as -h ' 'oy tr far as the most unremeni you mtg t enj to bered dream. But it's near, t too-as the human in i n d. I t's near as consciousness. @READ MAGAZINE. Incorcoratimi; Young Ame,ic&-CoPyriqht Q 1973 Xerox Car- Consciousness. All by itself the potation. Publishing, Executive, and Edi. tpirial Offices: Xem.,Ed.cstion Publica@ word doesn't seem that exciting. vons, 245 Long Hill Road, Middletown. 'Conn, 0607. Material in this issue@ may, What's the big thrill about being iot be reproduced in whole or in part awake or asleep? But many cial people in any form a, format without 5 pe l i 1 i f ad ss Delieve that' consciousness on includes rom the pub u perm s isher @ 1 twice, 0 month, during the schoo , year.: beginning September I May tS@ Clasecoom su and ending on much more than just those bscription Price fair two i 1[0 d 0.6 a dmss:@ a, more cop es sent to it includes all hr semester per student. $170 for,' sa hT pe The bscri functions ol ear Sin le s tion rate t a c , . s y o y u g p y n orders totaling tow than, 10 copiew. 3-40 per"year eachi t:Q stuff involving yab4e, i ad n the strange, weird " c e' I pt ion r ,In, Canada, classroom subscri communication and activity " outside p la an. d@ to, 16 ill d 4 +3 a an , Oan@ the Ave senses. In other 'n 0,01&ee Year. SI bsc words, 11 A I " n or O's lot" o 8+ 304; postage, Ari& Iran- chic phenomena ING Psy 0 : dlipi il able in aak, r u er ear a Pe . . p g. Now that's more exciting. p And y y p p vance. Second-class postage paid at Co-, turribus, Oho. Printed in U.SiA. XEROX (V a trademark of XEROX CORPORATION. Send Forms 3579 to Publication and- that's the area into which Captain ub3odption Offices indicated below. -has recently launched Mitchell Managing Eortar: Edwin A, Hoey himself. He's formed an organization Sfalf Waterv Jacqueline A. Sall Joyce Sarin called EDMA (for Edgar D. Mitchell Edward J. Zagoaski d Gl & Associates) Corporation i to do i h D F assmap, research and testing in c various forms iu es gner: l Executive Editor; James J@ O'Dormall @Publicatlori and Subscription Offices Xerox Education Publications of psychic phenomena. Education Center, Columbus, Ohio 43216 The general term for these di phenom- L d ., Canadian Distributor: Edu-Me a t I Adam S treat. Kitchener, Ontario 2 XEROX Approved For Release 2001/03/07: CIA.-RDP96-00787ROO0400 1100022-5 Approved For Relea@ @_3/07: CIA-RDP96-00787FJO W100022-5 *1b ena is PSI (sigh). And PSI has three categones., ~ Extrasensory perception (ESP) ~ Psychokinesis (PK-Pronounce it sigh-koh-kin-EE-sis) e 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 Se 'nse," and "Night Gallery" shows that many people are fascinated with the subject. But the former astronaut's interesf 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 3 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 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 CIA-RDP96-00787ROO0400100022-5 Appr- I NA", V %,N I I\\V\ W/ / V/ Y abo T, 'T bJOTOre )rQ q W The objects grouped around the up with the real story behind t em. tions of Because, according to people who staring eye above are illustra a gold ring going through some weird actually saw it happen, the ring changes. Very weird changes, as you'll pictured above was sheared through notice. and then slowly twisted into an S- first drawing on the shape-simply by the power of a n the Notice i left that the ring is split. man's mind. Notice in the next two drawings It sounds incredible, we know. But that the ring is slightly twisted. then psychokinesis-the power of the Notice in the last drawing that the mind to control objects-is an incredi ring forms an S-shape. ble idea. Got any answers.for these changes? Psychokinesis (PK) is one kind of Don't even bother. You'd never come psychic phenomena that EDMA Cor 4 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 CIA-RDP96-00787RO0'0400 1100022-5 Appr ved For Releas42OW3/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787%000VA100022-5 N poration (pp. Next, a 14-carat gold ring-large 2-3) plans to investi- gate. It will and bard-was placed on the study the table. man who caused the weird changes Uri concentrated and told the in the rings. group His name is Uri to watch the ring. Suddenly Geller. there ap- Uri, a 25-year-old peared a smooth cut through native of one side Israel, is well-known in that country of it, for his ability with telepathy. As the group watched, one-half (Telepathy is a of form of ESP that involves the ring began twisting out the ex- of shapeAt change of mental messages continued to twist for several between hours, two or more people.) even after Uri had stopped concen- Uri's ability with telepathytrating on it. It ended up attract- as the S- ed the attention of Dr. shaped object pictured on page A. Puharich, 4. a- physician from New York The afternoon, brought even City who more has done much psychical PK demonstrations. Uri shattered research. a When Dr. Puharich was convincedlong needle-merely by concentrating that Uri possessed PK ability,on it. Then he caused the pointed he ar- end ranged a trip to America of a safety pin to bend out for a series of of shape tests and psychic experiments.by rubbing it between his thumb and a foreflo While here Uri demonstratedger. , , unb e ievab e , h,e, of seem in @o.wer @ i1blio-W-W- n out l oors, whol e strin T g y g PK experiences-all witnessedalso. While outside getting by a a breath of 9 group of distinguished fresh air, he closed his hand doctors and sci- over the entists, including Capt. hand of someone who was holding Edgar a ' Mitchell. Based on an young green bud from a bush. interview with Within . a member of the group, 20 seconds the bud was brown here is what and Uri's audience says they withered. saw. REPORT OF EVENTS IS HE FOR REAL? The day began at Dr. Pubarich'sThose are the reported events. Were home with a gold ring they all part of a hoax? Remember, containing a stone. The stone was attached-Uri was carefully watched by to the trained band with heavy gold prongs.scientists and doctors, an Uri, audience not using only concentration,easy to fool. caused the prongs to bend back from Nobody pretends to'know how the stone. Uri's The wearer felt nothing. ability works. But EDMA Corp. in- The second occurrence tends to try to find out. It involved hopes to Captain Mitchell's astronautdo tests on Uri, monitoring watch@ his brain a very large instrument waves, heartbeat, and muscular with double ac- stems and lots of hands. tivity to find out what happens Everyone when A noted the time: 10 a.m. he goes into his PK state. The watch was placed facedown on Thai might be -tough, because a table, and Uri Uri announced he would himself says that his power move the comes hands back, and goes. And when the power is gone, He went into deep concentration,he couldn't shear through a ring any and when Captain Mitchellmore than you could. But further turned the watch over, the hands studies of Uri Geller could had been m6ved be very in- back one hour and eight teresting. Very interesting. minutes. 5 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 CIA-RDP96-00787ROO0400100022-5 Ap@ 874POW1000 ,pved Fo[B.@easV- 0%03/07 + Ar + Jr X X X XX A X + X X JrX DO Plants @1@ Have ESP Imagine attempting a wheelieelectrical resistance.) on your bike in. the driveway Suddenly the chart became and ending full of up doing a crashie into a squiggles.-It wasn't bed of measuring root-to- geraniums. You'd probably leaf time. It was producing feel pret the same ty bad. But how do you thinkpattern that appears the ge- on a person's raniums would feel? polygraph when he's emotionally Geraniums? They can't feel-canmoved. Was the plant saying, they? A man named Cleve Backster"Thanks for the drink"? claims plants can feel. He'sMr. Backster decided done ex- to try some- periments proving, he says, thing else. He thought that plants of a threat to have emotions just as humansthe leaf. touching it have. with a burning They "faint" when threatened,match. But before he feel could do any- sympathy and appreciation, thing, the graph's curve and even shot upward have a sort of memory, accordingalmost off the chart. to The plant seemed Mr. Backster. afraid! It all began in 1966 when That was enough for Mr. Mr. Back- Backster. ster, a lie detector (polygraph)He began a series of expert, hundreds of ex- hitched up an electrode fromperiments with plants his poly- and polygraphs, graph to the leaf of a houseplant.and he's had some weird Mr. results: Backster had just poured water on the 0 S plant's roots, and he wantedomeone selected one. to see of three fresh A how long it would take for vegetables to be dropped the water into boiling to reach the tip of a leaf. water. The one selected (Polygraphs went into a measure and automatically polygraph "faint" (a make a sudden upward chart of changing electricalmovement followed by impulses. one continuous A freshly watered plant wouldstraight line) before grad- it was even uallv show a Dattern of lesstouched. and less Approved For Relea94-,20%U03/07: CIA-RDP96-007874WOOO0100022-5 Your garden might be doing a lot more than just growing. It might be reading your mind. One of six students was requested copies of his research. given the And task of tearing into shredssome people have tried to one of two actually plants alone in a room. make plants do things by thought After the plant con- was demolished, the students,trol. one by one, walked by the survivingAn inventor named Paul Sauvin plant. re The plant showed no reactioncently conducted an experiment whatso- in 've of the students. But which an indoor plant, controlled when only ever to fi the killer approached, by Sauvin's thoughts, supposedly the plant trig- 'fainted." gered a device that started a car in an 4 9 While tiny shrimps were outdoor parking lot. Sauvin being boiled was 21/2 alive in one room, plants miles away at the time. in another reacted with intense emotion.But what does it all mean? Grad- One in- ually, however, as more terested party thinks there and more might be shrimps were cooked, the a "primary form of instant plants communi- stopped being so excited. cation between all living things that goes beyond eve'rything we now know Mr. Backster also says about science." Scientists that the in the So- polygraph has charted reactionsviet Union, who have done from research cooked vegetables. And similar to Mr. Backster's, rotted ones. are con- He says he's also recordedvinced that plants possess eggs "faint- electrical A4 ing" just before being impulses similar to man's cracked into a nerve im- waiting skillet. pulses. Mr. - Backster has had We don't know where it all lots of en- could thusiastic followers. Twentylead. Just remember all these or 30 in- things stitutions are at present the next time you're around reproducing a willow some of his experiments tree. The wrong thought might in their own make labs. A reported 7,000 it weep. scientists have 7 zj; - @,w _.XJ Approved For Release 2001/03/07 CIA-RDP96-00787ROO0400100022-5 ApOroved For ReleaW- OW3/07 : CIA-RDP96-0078-/WOOW100022. It was, late at night and Robert be visible to the body-such as the Monroe was lying in bed awake. His next . room. In addition, scientists wife had already fallen asleep be- claim that the spirit can go thousands side him. Suddenly a surge of power of miles away without harm-perhaps 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 g6fl ery time y ev I 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 T and dove in. Then I felt the bed 1_' and covers. When I opened my eyes, I was in my body again." 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 ihen look back and see its own body. The spirit can also see other locations that might not 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. laborator with-s entists h- th, overing close by to tu Y e 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! 9 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 CIA-RDP96-00787ROO0400100022-5