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Issue No. 11 Editor: Ray Palmer
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IT HAPPENED TO ME „...n.ononnnonnnaai 44 Dreams That Came True... Mrs. M. I. Johnson Space Is But A Thought A-Way . Harriett M. Gallagher ene tun Anonymous The Headless Men... Helen Bailey The Skeleton Driver Mera Gaskill Seeing Double Mrs. Barbara Hancock A Ringside Seat With Decth John G. Parry Better forgotten e Betty Hall
BISHOP SHEEN’S GHOSTLY STRAIGHT Ma w.. 67
ARTICLES
IS YOUR UNBORN BABY EXPENDABLE?................. Ray Palmer 8
HYPNOTHERAPY VERSUS DIANETICS.... Prof. Alfred Luntz 13
GOVERNOR JOHNSON’S ATOMIC BILL OF RIGHTS... Ray Palmer 18
WHAT ARE THE FLYING SaucERS 2 Max B. Miller 34
THE DAGGER BEHIND THE ATOMIC CLOAK Marion Kirkpatrick 62
s A PLOT AGAINST OUR LIVES 5 Richard 8. Shaver 68
l FICTION BASED ON FACTS .
l n „„ 8 Everil Worrell 30
FEATURES
EDITORIAL .......... . Ray Palmer 6 “TRUE” EXPERIENCE DOESN'T CHECK OUT? Weeks Parker 33 .. Dorothy Spence Laver 80 THE SEANCE CIRCLE......... 2 Letters from our Readers 89
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‘WILL YOU SEE THE FINALE _ of the one and only performance of the world’s COLOSSAL-GIGANTIC-STUPENDOUS-MOST COSTLY destruction in multi-dimensions of unsurpassed magnitude? NEVER IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND
has such an extravaganza been staged on the earth, in the air and under the ses. The “opted La soa of this mankind-ob rating performance will prove te you
its impo THE FORTY-FOUR Y YEARS WAR 1914 =- 1958
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ke Ferdinand at Seravajo, June 1914.
Scene Carer of Ru 70 German, Belgium, English and small nations Europe
Scene III Declaration of War April 6th, 1917 by the U.S. A.
Scene IV—Versallles Agreement € TICE. Cast—65,038,810 armed men of various nations. 955,871 others died. Cost— 8186, ,097 or over 1 pili loliars, Length—Four Years.
Scene m. Bestruetion ot the U U say ‘Pearl Harbor. Scene T1V—Nagasaki and Hir mbed,
Cast—74, sad In armed forces
ions. Killed—16,031,000 soldiers plus 000 0 oa 7. MILLION
425,000,000 or over a
Location—Asla, America, Europe, Afr 5 Tine 1650. - 1958. Scene I—Truman’s ‘Police Acti h Scene e U.S.A, with Chiang Kal Chek and the defense“ of Formosa
Sone III U.S. A. hot war against Ch
Scene I1V—Concentration camps for 898 peaceful citizens in the U.S.A. and Global War of Socialism vs. Fascism or Progress vs. Reaction.
Scene X—A and H bombing of China, U, S. A., Russia and England and use of bacteria, poison gas and other diabolical weapons.
Scene Vi—War's crescendo halted by 3 and a change in the earth's poles bringing ‘a new heaven and earth
Oast—Men, women and children of 66 nations Killed—Four-fifths or more of the
oe numa race, Cost—Complete destruction of Free Enterprise,“ phe Pr Near Finnie The exit n e dl materialism, ready to Length—Elght Y 8. eo accept God's Kingdom on Earth.
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i , » 4 The TIME OF TROUBLE is UPON US Never in the past has mankind been threatened by A and H bombs, war, dis-
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‘Will you find yourself as helpless as a newborn baby entering earth fife if you
are one of the millions who will be blown off the earth, burned to a crisp, die of
- poison, disease or starvation during the last act of this 1914 - 1958 FORTY-FOUR YEARS WAR?
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HIS issue of MYSTIC is de- mad! Mad clear through. Mad voted to a mass of material enough not to overlook an open- which may be called a ern. 5 — in the other guy’s guard, factic through which he can smash his i alstie ugly nose flat against his skull- tendencies, and by the person who bone! Those openings have pre- wishes to deride. To or of = a sented them: Ives, and this issue is white that smashing punch. It may even hii and to Khe cher ted is: soap beadirty punch. It is designed box orator. Both of them will have to attract attention. It is designed something to say about your edi- to make the blood squirt. It is in- tor this month, because it so pane tended to hurt. And last of all, it pens that the material contained is intended to start an even bigger in this issue actually is in the na- fight. So let's start swinging . ture of a crusade, and i via the variety of articles authored presented in as soap box a manner by your editor in this issue. as we can achieve. But since this is an editorial, Ordinarily we're rather 1 and we wish to cover our “punch- insofar as use of hard words is ing” very thoroughly concerned. Ordinarily we refrain enter the ring here in the editor- from such words as “liar.” We ial, but will just give a sort of pre- choose to ignore liars, because their limin ry to the main bout. And a
fall, ly. quite a few subjects. But when we have to add the All of you know that MYSTIC words “vicious” and “dictatorial? is not a rich magazine. In fact, it and “overbearing” and “malicious” had trouble paying its bills. and “underhanded”, then weare Its subscribers have always come becoming far from impersonal, and through magnificently (never more fat from neutral. So, let it be said, magnificently than recently!) and with the chips falling where they the bills have been paid. However, may, that the editor is crusading, several incidents have arisen which and not only that, he is crusading have induced a change in our
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which is not due to penurious- ness, but to honesty. From now on, we are not paying for the material
in MYSTIC. We will publish ‘offered free of charge by writers, researchers, etc. You won- der why? And you wonder how we'll get good material? Well the fact is, we expect to get much bet- ter material that way. And our reason is simple: We have found that a great many writers are not above presenting a completely fictitious manuscript, labeled true, for publication. The reason they do so, is because they can make money at it. Because we will pay them for it. “Making a buck”
seems to be sufficient reason to
write in (for instance) a false true psychic experience. We feel ‘that by not paying money for anything in MYSTIC, nobody will have a reason to submit material ‘that is false, except possibly to see his name in print, which we admit ‘does happen, but isn’t easy to guard Against. However, sometimes we will request material, and offer payment. But in these instances, we will know what we are asking for, and its truth will already have been established, or we would not request it. And in the case of the Occasional fictional pieces we pct (mostly ordered to illustrate mystic point), we will again
t. In any case, payment
an be small, for the simple reason
that we aren’t, as we said balore, a rich magazine. In the case of It Happeried To Me... . we pay it by means of a lde subscription. We doubt if anyone would want to read 48 issues of lies similar to the one he himself presented, so we don't think there'll be many people „dreaming up“ fake experiences. After all, knowing his is a lie, how could he trust the others? You might ask yourself, regard- ing atomic energy, poisoning of the atmosphere by test bombing, etc, what is mystic about such things, and where is their place in MYSTIC magazine? We think it is the very place for such material. The atom is the frontier of the un- knowns, the land of the hereafter— hidden science, the doorway to new vistas that stagger the imag- ination, and whose influence reaches into worlds we never even dreamed about, and dimensions yet unknown. And lastly, it poses the immediate threat of plunging us all into that most mystic of all un- knows, the land of the hereafter and in no gentle or pleasant way! We are (perhaps all unknown to all of us, including our military men) possibly being doomed to death by our activities in atomics. It would be well to search rather thoroughly into this unknown world, thought- fully, carefully, and with the best (continued on page 15)
IS YOUR UNBORN BABY EXPENDABLE ?
By Ray Palmer
HE May, 1955 issue of I Farm Journal, in its Last- Minute Report, is very much alarmed by a series of new dis- eases which are striking beef and dairy herds all over the country. These diseases are called by a variety of names including muco- sal disease (Iowa), upper respira- tory infection (California), virus diarrhea (New York), and so on through the various states. But everywhere, the symptoms are the same, and in spite of the varied nomenclature, it is a tremendously baffling disease or series of dis- eases. The symptoms are these: fever shoots up, sores appear in the mouth, the animals slobber, there is a discharge from the nose, they are afflicted with diarrhea, they become lame and stiff. It is con- sidered highly infectious, due to the fact that half to all of the ani- mals in some herds are effected in a few days. Few diseases, it is pointed out, are this potent. Death losses are not high (up to 10%)
but losses in weight, condition and milk flow are costly. Antibiotics have absolutely no effect on the disease, although they are of as- sistance in secondary infections which many times follow, such as pneumonia,
At Milton Junction, Wisconsin, Dr. W. D. Chesney recently has discovered that stillborn lambs and young lambs, who died shortly after birth, were highly radioac- tive, especially in liver and pan- creas and lungs,
At Green River, Montana, in the McKinnon area on the Utah- Wyoming border, there has been a heavy loss of lambs, born dead, most of them prematurely, and ranchers have raised the question as to whether or not the cause is radioactive fallout from the Nevada tests. :
At Kalamazoo, Michigan, on March 22, Dr. Haym Kruglak, who has been making radioactive fallout tests (he’s a Western Michigan College Physicist), has discovered that the Nevada tests
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Sit raised the cosmic radiation count from 46 to 800 per minute, an increase of 1,700 per cent. This top reading, he says, is “a danger signa »
He began checking Kalamazoo air on March 7, at the time of the latest atomic tests at Yucca Flat, Nev.
The morning of the first ex- plosjon he got a normal cosmic radiation count of 46 a minute. By 1 p.m. March 9, the average count had reached 67 a minute. By the 2 erae of March 10, the count
had reached 200. Similar investigations after the March 12 tests in Nevada dis- closed “basically the same re- sults,” Kruglak said.
However, during the last ex-
periment. Dr. Kruglak checked a
pan of snow and found that 234 ‘days after the test the count of the
snow reached 800. Asked if that was dangerous
replied.
“T wouldn't go out and sit in that snow “ite and I wouldn’t bon it down and drink it. A read- ing of even ro times normal radia- “tion, or around zoo, is a danger ‘signal to me.”
In the Atomic Energy Commis- ~ sion’s ryth semi-annual report, it i 8 that radiations from
changes than heretofore estimated. Experiments at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory show that mutations in mice as a result of radiation, occur at a ten times greater rate than those observed in fruit flies, on which previous estimates of radiation damage to hū- man heredity were based. The AEC has revised its estimates of the genetic hazards as a conse- quence of its mouse tests. It is pointed out that the effects on hu- mans may be correspondingly higher, but that it is impossible to determine this ‘because human beings have never been subjected to such tests. However, it is certain that previous “tolerance levels“ have been much too Said Professor H. J. Muller, No- bel prize-winning geneticist, on April 25: “Radiation from H- bomb tests can cause tens of thou- sands of harmful mutations in the next generation of Americans.” He also said: “It is largely the reck- less attitude on the part of physi- cians (in the case of x-ray exposure) which has influenced extremists to claim that nuclear explosions are harmless or even beneficial. So many people are already aware of the damaging action of radiation on ‘heredity that these attempts in high places to ‘disclaim the danger cause ‘the public to lose confidence.“ Dr. Linus Pauling, Nobel Prize winner, also came out March 19,
asking that no further testing of nuclear weapons be conducted by Russia or the United States be- cause of the worldwide effects of radioactive fallout.
In view of the stated opinions of such respected and able men as these, it is impossible to reconcile the statement on March 19 of a man known as Jack Blotto who says: “A big communist ‘fear’ cam- paign to force Washington to stop all American atomic- hydrogen bomb tests erupted this week.” (Readers of Mystic may be able to compute the source of the eruption by Femembering that this maga- zine’s first articles on the subject appeared on March 10, to be fol- lowed swiftly by numerous news- paper statements, and the now famous official announcement that the fallout area from an H-bomb covered 7,000 square miles and could kill everybody in an area the size of the state of Delaware.)
Mr. Blotto went on to use such phrases as: “important communist drive,” “straw man set up by the Reds to try and create alarm,” “typical distortions,” “fake claim,” “panic pressure,” “fanning public sentiment,’ “totally false line,” “communist propagandists.”
We would like to know who this Jack Blotto is; because we are in- terested in punching him in the nose. He is speaking about
us, about Drs. Muller and Pauling,
and about every respectable Amer-
ican who has raised a well-founded, documented, experiment - backed, logical, positive, unassailable, and perfectly TRUE warning about the dangers involved.
On the same date, or almost the same date} Admiral Strauss (with the shiny blue pants, made this dec- laration, in essence: It is better that a few unborn Americans die tomorrow of genetic damage, than millions. of Americans in an atomic war today. The reason for continu- ing the tests is the grave necessity of keeping ahead of the Russians, and the stake is our existence as a nation.
In the light of this statement (you can dig up the exact quotation yourself) we have no doubt who Jack Blotto is—one of the same ilk.
Now let’s go back to the lambs and steers and cows. By reading official government pamphlets on the symptoms of atomic bomb ra- diation on human beings, you can discover that these symptoms are identical. This leads to very strong (and not unbased) suspicion that the new disease is not a disease at all, but radiation exposure. This exposure is particularly dangerous in pregnancy. Any sane doctor will refrain from x-raying a pregnant patient unless absolutely necessary, because of the effects he knows can
ente zanging Ete ee
0 IS YOUR UNBORN BABY EXPENDABLE? It
death; or if a live birth, to genetic nancies), we made some inquiries, damage and resulting monstrosity and learned a startling fact, In our or deformity. Ov tle nity, | One of the . diation is the cau ig of ac nt Mi
round up the medical fac but anyone poe can do
and p
Bile te caused . nage blood cells, e manna ot
re * gen- carrying eed of the blood. Perhaps one of our physician friends can enumerate the exact process for us, but the details are not necessary in this particular dicussion. 7 Your author has three children, tl and several years ago, he and his Wie decided to have a fourth child. Unfortunately there was an acciden- th tal abortion, which seem _Spon- th taneously produced. That it fol- ics, lowed the Spring series of . el tests closely meant nothing to us. ful. In such case, carelessness be- A year later, we tried again, with comes criminal. exactly the same results, and also, The argument that any human Shortly after the next series of being is expendable for the safety tests. Suspicious by now, (no signs of other human beings is fallacious. of such inherent weakness were In the case of soldiers who vol- . evident in the three former preg- unteer to be expendables, they are
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given the chance to make a choice, In this case, the exposure is compul- sory, the death that: results is a sentence of death.
Yet, the big question here is not a personal one, but a practical universal one — the fact is, the tests may quite conceivably be dooming the world to the very same extinction the two competing nations are trying to avert for themselves by the threat of im- posing it upon the other. Let’s not allow the Blottos and the Strausses to hold the reins of horses they do not intend to control, through misguided bullheadedness or sheer stupidity.
You future parents of America (and of the whole world!), do you consider your unborn sons and daughters expendable? Are you agreeable to offering them up as Sacrifices on the altar of the H- bomb in the hands of men who set themselves up as the highest tri- bunal of all, even over God him- self?
And worse still, if you have al- ready lost a child, is the atom cloud over Nevada sufficient con- solation?
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HYPNOTHERAPY VERSUS DIANETICS
By Professor Alfred Luntz
Duving a recent Mark Probert se- ange, œ question submitted by Carl Cursio regarding hypnotherapy was put to Professor Luntz. His Answer seemed to us to vate a sep- arate treatment in MYSTIC.
HILE hypnosis is the oldest
method used to reach into
the mind of an’ individual to get at the cause of his bodily ail- ments, there are other methods which I feel are just as good if not better. One of these is known in your present day as “Dianetics.” (Created by L. Ron Hubbard.— Ed.)
The fact that it was mishandled and suffered a good deal of abuse in its initial period is no logical reason to assume its lack of value in What you are seeking to do. Of course you did not mention whe- ther or not you had tried using anything other than hypnotherapy.
While I mention Dianetics (now called Scientology), there are many other approaches to the “inner” self, and it is my belief that no single one of them will work successfully on all individuals —
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Professor Alfred Luntz
and more, it is my concerted opin- ion that all too many people are caused to have their period of suf- fering unnecessarily prolonged be- cause of the wide-spread belief among physical and mental doctors that there is such a “touch-stone” and each one claiming ke alone has it.
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Now in regard to your statement that the Hindu hypnotist can hypnotize anyone, you will par- don me if I object to that asser-
tion. While it is true, by and large,
that the Eastern psychologist is con- siderably better in his practice with things dealing with mind, he is still a human being and as such he is no more given to infallibility than is anyone else.
While it is true that almost all human beings are by nature subject to hypnosis, there are a multitude of fears and phobias lying deep within the unconscious that pro- hibit them from opening their minds for ion.
‘Unfortunately, orthodox psy-
in seeking the origin of complexes, has sought it in only the present life’s experience of the patient. I suppose this is a natural situation, for very few of your modern psychologists have given much thought to Hindu psychology and the teachings of reincarnation. If we accept reincarnation as a fact we shall see the logic in assuming ‘the so-called soul or spirit of an individual to be a composite of re- corded experiences and no more than that. We shall also begin to understand that the physical body is a direct creation of the mind of the individual wrought out of the
memories of past experiences and
what he will have to use it for in
MYSTIC
Many persons — asked me, If reincarnation is true, why do they. not remember their past lives?” The fact is, they do, but they have ‘been laboring under the idea that such recalling must be done in the form of mental pictures, largely done in remembering what they did yesterday or as they do’ in recalling a dream, when factual- _ ly the greatest portion of the me- chanics of memory takes place in what is loosely termed the “uncon- scious self“ and is felt in the ner- - vous system as urges, which are then transferred to- the glandular
system which prepares the body —
chemically to go into action. Now let us suppose that one or
more of these unconscious urges —
contain within them elements of shame or fear. They may restrict the body self from responding; and the energy that was created by the urge finding no normal out- let, turned back upon the nervous system and will soon or late create a physical ailment, and very often and for reasons known only to the inner self of that one, he will block © every effort made to release him
from his ailment. I am certain you
are aware of medical cases wherein
a person suffering from illness that
is known as fatal has gotten well again, even though receiving no medical care at all, and then there are certain other persons who have
said they were going to die, and die
as is
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they did, even though the closest medical examination of their bodies showed nothing organically wrong with them.
Now when. we consider all that has been said here, you will see why I cannot offer you help in what you desire.
I mentioned Dianetics or Scien-
tology because there are certain people who mentally abhor the thought of losing their own con- sciousness, and the method men- tioned here permits the patient to retain his own awareness and to know what he is doing, which in many respects is better for the patient in the long run.
EDITORIAL... (Continued from page 7)
scientific and mental ability we have, rather than plunge ourselves into it irretrievably in our incon- tinent haste. (Perhaps the better
word is kate!) Another subject you might ques- tion as to its mystic nature is the subject of free speech. Well, free speech is inextricably linked with free thought, and with free prac- tice of religion, and with free ex- pression of philosophy. You can- not have true mystic freedom with- out free speech. That is why, in this issue, we have an article in E free speech, and the Amer- an Way, is stressed in no unheated manner. Free speech, the greatest gift to mankind from the Unseen hg does come from mystic réalms!), is worth fighting for, and must be fought for ‘when- ever it is threatened. It is the duty of the philosopher to protect the F es of mankind's
mystic destiny. He cannot achieve
that destiny while hampered by lack of such freedoms.
In our April issue, where we started the atomic danger ball roll- ing (and how it has begun to roll!), we experienced a situation we’ve never exxperienced before. We re- ceived more than 4000 requests for reprints of both the atomic article (which was written by your editor, for the benefit of those who asked who wrote it) and the poisoned food article. Na- turally, since type was destroyed, and no reserve copies available, we were unable to provide these re- prints. And to reprint from scratch would have been financially im- possible, even though many of those requesting reprints offered to pay for them. Unfortunately, we are not the Reader's Digest, with the money to provide these really ex- pensive luxuries. We do want to thank our readers who were so anxious to spread the word, and we felt quite flattered.
We also want to thank those readers who sent in subscriptions,
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and even gifts, in response to our plea for subscribers, There are al- ways some people who are willing to carry any load for a principle. and we certainly appreciate those friends. We won't give you any figures, as we promised, as we'd hate to admit that the figure is so very far from the 5,000 we agreed to duplicate if they came through. However, never fear, we won't turn to sex magazines to make money. It seems our present sub- scribers are solidly behind us, and the way they are coming in for “seconds” means a great deal. It means that MYSTIC has their approval, and with that sort of encouragement, we're in there
for good! We'll make
MYSTIC better every issue, be- lieve us — the incentive is cer- tainly there!
When it comes to a question of morality, just what does it mean? Of course, our readers know our
or a great many individuals of varied numbers. Take as an in- stance the case of a mother about to give birth—and it is the doc- tor’s opinion that the mother will die if the child is not sacrificed; or the reverse, the child will die if the mother is not sacrificed. When a doctor is faced. with that problem, what should his decision be? In the Catholic faith, the decision is this: He must try his best to save both, even if he loses both, or either, in the end. He cannot make a choice, and take a course either way. Even if the husband, told of
the dilemma, frantically demands
that the wife be saved, at the ex- pense of the baby. The moral issue is quite clear to the Catholic doc-
tor— save them both, if at all
possible, with the help of God— and if he fails, his conscience is clear.
Yet, there is an argument here. What if he knows, beyond all doubt, that the baby cannot be saved? And that to try, would doom the mother? Is one death not bet-
ter than two? Would it not be
murder to condemn the mother to death as certain as the baby’s? Or, in the case of an abortion (accid- ental), must the mother be allowed to bleed to death because the foe- tus has not yet actually been pas- ed? Obviously there are personal decisions involved here, and there is no question that, Catholic or not,
doctors make them, even though they might not be in line with dog- matic morality. may be that there is a differ- ‘ence of opinion even among the Catholic clergy, as to the proper procedure (and we are not tak- ing Catholicism in any way ex- cept as a means, of illustration), that some of our readers will write and correct us. However, what is the morality in a case where neither the mother or child is in danger, but possible future mothers and children may ‘be in danger if an. “experiment” is not performed? Is there any moral justification here? Is the f t that “the greatest benefit “the greatest number” applies a one? We say it does not. No what possibility exists n that of death for all future and children) can justify
1 causing of the death of the present mother or child! h As for the future: “In God we
t pi” And God we obey in the wonderful letter. We got a from @ reader whose pride on names , but we want to
at it od teal character to e an opinion in the face of
e
criticism. All we can say is that criticizers are a sorry lot in the face of one who can take it when it’s dished out! It’s not good to be in the wrong, but it’s wonderful to be able to admit it.
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By Ray Palmer
When an American has something to say, it is the duty of every other American to defend his right to say it; for any suppression of speech is the seed of eventual loss of all liberty.
T isn’t often that a governor of
one of these United States comes apart at the seams, but apparently, when one does so, he teally blows himself high wide and handsome. However, just in case this particular governor still has a few of his nuts and bolts assem- bled, it’s about time someone
finished the job of taking them
apart. And, because Tom Paine, George Washington, Ben Franklin, and a few others aren’t around to do the “dirty” work they once did so ably, your editor will take it upon himself to bring up a few re- minders which might serve to put a few facts back where they belong. Not that we liken ourselves to Tom Paine, but we do have one ac- complishment, and that is the ability to read. It is something we have read that we want to pass on to the readers of MYSTIC (and, we hope, to the whole mass of the American People— commentators, please copy!). We refer to the
newspaper stories that came out of Colorado on Sunday, March 13, 1955. After we’ve passed them on (so that you can refer back to them), we want to make a few comments that we have been hor- ribly shocked to find have not been made anywhere in these Unit- ed States since then. We can’t un- derstand why they haven’t been made. And we are alarmed that they haven’t been made.
The following are actual excerpts from newspaper stories:
RADIOACTIVE DUST FALLOUT ALARMING SCIENTIST THINK
DENVER, March, 12 (AP)— Fallout of radioactive dust in Colorado from the Nevada nuclear tests has reached a point where it can no longer be ignored by those concerned with public health and safety, two scientists at the Uni- versity of Colorado medical center said today.
GOVERNOR JOHNSON’S
“For the first time in the his- tory of the Nevada tests, the up- surge in radioactivity measured here within a matter of hours after the tests has become appreciable,”
Dr. Ray R. Lanier, head of the |
university's radiology department,
said in an interview.
“Tt is not our desire to alarm the public mind needlessly, but we feel it is our duty to say so.”
LN He said his department is study-
$ n. N AEDE Theodore Puck, head of the $
ing the fallout, measuring its in-
tensity, and will report its findings |
to the Atomic Energy Commis-
* biophysics department, also pointed out that geiger
counter readings don't tell the *
Whole story of radiation hazard.
#
“The trouble with airborne radio- active dust is that we breathe it N into the lungs,” he said, “where | it may lodge in direct contact with §
living tissue.” BS
He said this is erh different from having it lodge on skin or j.
clothing where it can be brushed or washed off.”
Dr. Lanier said that there is no $i “Safe minimum below which the Lent)
danger of radiation damage to in- dividuals: or their unborn de-! ‘meats: disappears, ‘i
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“Or at least we do not know what it is,” he added.
COLORADO'S GOVERNOR TONES DOWN ATOM FEARS
rado.
Two University of Colorado medical center scientists said earlier that officials concerned with
AEC,“ said the Mayor.
At Grand Junction, Colo., Direc- tor Sheldon Wimpfen of the AEC office there said he was assured by authorities there would be no harmful radiation from recent nu- clear blasts near Las Vegas, 600 miles from here.
SCIENTISTS SEEK BAN ON A-BOMB:
Governor Johnson charged Saturday night that last week’s warning by two University of Colorado professors on the potential danger of atomic “fallout” from the Nevada A-bomb tests was part of a nationwide drive by American scientists “against the use of atomic bombs.”
The governor said in a formal statement that employment of ‘fright’ strategy” by the two C. U. scientists was aimed at creating public sentiment against “the necessary testing of atomic bombs” and was “most damaging to the defenses of the free world.?“
The two professors, Dr. Ray Lanier and Dr. Theodore Puck, expressed frank shock when in- formed of the governor's charges. “They called it most serious,“ “most unfortunate” and “rather amazing” but said they would with- hold a detailed reply until later.
Dr. Ward Darley, president of the university, said it was his opinion that questions raised by the
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primarily are con- d with the adequacy of our tific knowledge.” He added: s hard for me to see why g such questions should be political implications, but inno position to comment » e two scientists told Denver 5- last week at a press nce that the fallout in rado and other areas in the bath of the Nevada tests had the point “where it no can be ignored from a health standpoint.” They effects of the fallout on fu- nerations can not be meas- red by today’s Rnown facts on
Drolessors
e statement caused an imme- national furor, brought in- denials of danger from the energy commission, the r, Mayor Newton and other During last week, sev- scientists backed up the 3 in formal state-
the free world's persisting in plans ne x be weak -
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of future generations. Unless Am- erican scientists remain way out
in front of Russian atomic scien-
tists, there will be no future gen- erations of Americans.
“Many of us could and roa
share their opposition to these
lethal destroyers were it not that
the United States is in a desperate and deadly atomic race with ruth- less Russia.
“The threat of atomic bombs is all that stands between peace and war in the world today. Much as the United States would like to stop testing and improving atomic bombs, she dare not do so.”
The governor said he was not accusing the Boulder scientists and their colleagues of “being Fifth Columnists.” But he added: “Their employment of ‘fright’ technique is most damaging to the defenses of the free world” and charged that
“fallout in this case merely pro-
vided the vehicle upon which to launch a well-planned attack upon the atomic defenses of the United States.”
ANGRY ED RIPS REPORT, SAYS ARREST AUTHORS
Governor Johnson said Satu ay night he does not believe the active fallout from the Nevada atomic tests could be dangerous eee that the University of Colorado
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scientists who released the report should be arrested.”
The governor was angry about the report released to the press by Dr. Ray R. Lanier, head of the university radiology department, and Dr. Theodore Puck, head of the biophysics department. He charged that the release was a “publicity stunt” and said the two scientists were “out for publicity.”
Johnson said he was speaking as a member of the congressional atomic energy committee “from the time the first A-bombs were ex- ploded at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.” He added that he planned an im- mediate investigation of the report.
“This is a phony report,” the governor said. “It will only alarm people. Someone has a screw loose some place and I intend to find out about it.”
“NOTHING TO RETRACT” CU SCIENTIST HOLDS
Dr. Ray Lanier said Saturday night he “doubts that Governor Johnson’s statement” attacking Warnings against the dangers of atomic fall-out “needs a reply.“ Lanier and Dr. Theodore Puck— both of whom are professors in the University of Colorado sys- tem—drew attack from Johnson, who said the warning was part of a conspiracy by American scien- tists against further development of atomic weapons.
“T will not reply to it now, and I doubt that it needs a reply,” said Dr. Lanier. “I hope, only, that the newspapers will not put me in a position of replying in rash terms to the governor... ”
Dr. Lanier was asked if he were “as positive today” as he was at his March 11 press conference on the possible dangerous effects to Denver life from wind-borne Ne- vada atomic “fall-out.”
He replied: “Those are funda- mental, printed facts, and there is no backing away from facts. Nor is there anything to retract. When we conducted our press conference, we qualified all of our observa- tions with conditional factors.”
Dr. Puck termed Johnson's al- legations “most serious” but de- clined comment, He said he wanted time to “reflect” upon it seriously, and would withhold comment until he reads Johnson’s text.
He called the attack “most un- fortunate,” however. A reporter commented:
“Tt would appear the governor has accused you and Dr. Lanier of taking part in a plot to under- mine the defense of the United State. Wouldn’t that constitute a very serious charge?”
“Certainly,” Dr. Puck replied.
DR. PUCK RATED HIGH AS VIRUS INVESTIGATOR A Univerity of Colorado scien-
attack by Governor n for his scientific views joactive “fallout” is one of ntry’s top virus investiga-
Dr. Theodore Puck, head department of . biophysics CU medical center in sP Puck’s studies in virus in- of cells have long been d by major grants from rican Cancer Society which ay be able to unlock, studies, some of the ounding the cause of ind how it starts inside cells human body.“ 1953; Dr. Puck made major iedical news when he re- results of his work
It was this theory d off a new avenue in
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This isotope has a half life of ean eight days, but during its brief life span it emits beta as well as gamma rays. The beta rays are high-speed particles (electrons).
Beta rays, according to Dr. Puck, do not travel very far, even through air. But when in contact with living tissue the effects of a beta emitter cannot be ignored. With this idea in mind, Dr. Puck says his department has been taking beta ray readings of radioactive fallout material following the cur- rent Nevada tests, and plans to re- port its findings to the AEC.
Other Denver and Denver-area dust samples now are being gath- ered atop the Denver public schools administration building and at a water filter plant mid- way between Denver and Golden. Under a recent change in policy, these samples are being air-mailed immediately after taking to an east- ern office of the U. S. public health service for study. For several years, the Denver weather office has been taking dust samples for study by the AEC.
The C. U. medical school scien- tists point out that ever since Henri Becquerel discovered radio- activity in 1896, men have been trying to determine what a “safe dosage is.
Ehe best ‘guinea pigs’ for So- called safe dosage studies,” Dr. Lanier said Saturday, “have been
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the radiologists themselves. Doc- tors now try to keep below 300 milli-roentgens a week, but X-ray doctors have nine times the leuke- mia rate of the average citizens, They have five times the incidence of skin, kidney and Jung cancer. And they have more mal-formed children. Particularly for genetic damage, which may not show up for several generations, there is no known safe minimum dosage.” The time to study atomic fallout problems and determine how to cope with them properly is now while the matter is in its infancy. When big-scale atomic power planets become widespread, the problem will be much more serious than it is now, with infrequent wea- pon tests in the Nevada desert the only source of atomic-dust.
ATOMIC ‘FALLOUT’ EFFECTS EXPLAINED
Just why scientists, including Drs. Theodore Puck and Ray R. Lanier of the University of Colo- tado Medical Center here, are
worried about the long-range ei-
fects of atomic “fallout” is ex- plained in easy-to-understand terms in the March 21 issue of Life
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The CU scientists, a biophysi- cist arid a radiologist, stated merely that Colorado fallout from the Ne- vada bomb tests has ‘reached a point where it “no longer can be safely ignored.” But internationally famous scientists quoted by Life are far more out-spoken, calling the fallout peril potentially more Fn than the nuclear fireball it-
oni So Rabinowitch, U. S. bio- chemist and one of the major “wheels” in the wartime atom bomb project, warns that “atomic war may throw a monkey wrench into the mechanism of the preser- vation of the species.”
Herman J. Muller, geneticist and Nobel prize winner, says; “Atomic warfare may cause as much genetic damage, spread out over fu- ture generations, as the direct harm done to the generation exposed.”
Alfred H. Sturtevant, another geneticist, is even more specific about dangers discussed here re- cently by the Denver scientists. Sturtevant states:
“The last H-bomb test (the one that showered fallout on the Jap- anese fishermen) alone probably produced more than 70 human mu-
been producing muta- nges) in the genes which such hereditary traits as eyes, red hair, long fingers. are good, but the vast ma- e bad. They cripple, stunt, The balance is thought quite delicate, and that is
nowitch meant by atomic
re “throwing a monkey wrench preservation of the species.“ two-page spread, Life shows r photographs of plant cells d 4,000 times. One cell is il, the pattern of the chromos- is separated into two clean- 3, ready for cell division in- identical descendants. But ther picture, radiation has the , battered the „The cell will divide s which are different, . akenei and maimed. * „ *
there you have the news-
es. It is difficult to any coherent, well- manner on such a hodge- SA it will be best to
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the matter of their positive state- ments regarding the effects of ra- dioactivity. | Every high-school sophomore knows his science well enough to be able to agree with them without cavil. Thus, when they say something, it should be listened to with respect.
But, when we come to Governor Johnson, it seems to be a different matter. Governor Johnson is angry. He says Lanier and Puck should be arrested. May we ask, what for? We expect an answer, Governor. An answer if you please. What charge do you propose to use to arrest these two men? We can see only one, and we won't touch upon it quite yet, because we have some very strong words to say about it, and we want them to be all in one paragraph (because if we dwell up- on it much further, we shall burst with a louder bang than any atom bomb! ).
What do you mean, Governor Johnson, when you say: “This is a phony report.”? You mean it’s phony? Not true? You must know better! You went to High School, we've discovered, and took some physics so you know it isn’t phony. So why say it is? Please, Governor, why?
“tt will only alarm the people,” you say? Very nice of you, gover- nor, to shield us that way, but if
you please, we don’t alarm so easily.
enn at danger, being
intelligent people, and we always
recognize danger, and try to avoid
it. It’s only common sense. And our
past history, from 1776 on, shows
‘that we don’t panic. We meet
danger, and we combat it, in every
way humanly possible. We don’t
chicken out. No matter what you
| think about the color of our guts, it isn’t yellow.
So “someone has a screw loose someplace,” and you intend to do something about it? Do you mean Drs, Lanier and Puck have screws
loose? Do you mean they are men- ; tally unsound, and therefore un- suited for their jobs? Perhaps it [|| would be best to leave the diagnos- i tics to diagnosticians trained in | such things. Besides, such state- I ments are libelous. But what inter- | ests us, is your intent to “do I something” about it. What do you intend to do, Governer? Have them | | | |
“investigated”? Have them pitched out of their jobs? Have them si- lenced?
No, you think they should be arrested!
Now we come to the reason. It comes in your “charge” that “sci- entists are seeking a ban on A- bombs.” You say | nationwide Wy scientists, which is “most damag- Wi) ing to the defenses of the free | world.“ In short, you are calling i American scientists traitors. Vou | |
it is part of a drive by American
wish Drs. Lanier and Puck arrested
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for treachery. If they were in the army, you would have them shot.
You say: “We must not permit the defenses against the free world’s arch enemy, persisting in plans for world domination, to. be weakened by wild and, probably, baseless spe- culation about the genetics of future generations.” You go on to say that: “Their employment of ‘fright’ tech- nique is most damaging to the de- fenses of the free world.” Then you add: “Fallout in this case merely provided a vehicle upon which to launch a well-planned attack upon the atomic defenses of the United States.”
We are pleased to note that you do not quibble, Governor. You say things quite clearly, so that there can be no mistake. No amount of verbiage could get you out of the spot in which you have placed yourself. You even confirm your position as an “official” one, by stating that you speak as à mem- ber of the congressional atomic energy committee “from the time the first A-bombs were exploded at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.” That’s quite along time . to be holding these opinions, Governor, and leave little doubt that they are not just transient ones, r
You are against free speech. You think it should not be permitted, not in atomic matters. No matter what the danger to future citizens, to holy hell with them! You > will
n consider for a moment if anger is a serious one, perhaps than the arch enemy“ you esperately fearful will beat the atomic punch that will ir oy us all. You would arrest n who ventures an opinion atomic bomb program ly way contrary to the horrible purpose of g a “punch” which the ly cannot possibly survive. pripen, Governor, can’t we ans have our say? Since “a few make the decisions ny? Since when can the be used in the way on using it?
neve you the slightest 8. y right here that is aware of the atomic war, and what enemy“ (you must have in the highschool ) can do to us. As e will prepare to de- We always have good job of it), and will. And so far, we've it despite the handicap open our mouths please. We intend
us, But one
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the testing of a weapon might pos- sibly prove to be an unsuspected danger even greater than an atom war, we aren’t going to stick our heads in the sand like an ostrich and ignore it. We don’t let down our pants in one direction to keep our shirt on in the other.
After we've tested all the bombs, Governor, and we have our “defense” all set up and wait- ing, what then? Do we just wait until the “arch enemy” has like- wise equipped himself? You'll have to agree that that is exactly what we will do. Inevitably, no matter what our haste, we will have to let them catch up on us. And perhaps you think this sort of a stalemate will solve the problem, safeguard our “free world”? Perhaps it may. As long as the bomb is here, we sincerely hope it will. It’s better to have a bomb we never use, than not
‘to have one while the arch enemy
does, and uses it on us. l But, Governor, what if we find, after we've won the atom-bomb race, that our success has created a frankenstein that will then pro- ceed to subject us to horror upon horror, and even wipe us out, without a single warlike move on either our part or on the part of the arch enemy? These scientists be-
- lieve they have good and sufficient
evidence (not just wild and base- less speculation) that such can be the case. They want the danger
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recognized, and steps taken to avert it. We want those steps taken. And we won't tolerate you deny- ing us the right to take them. We won't have a careless man on our atomic energy committee it’s too important to be manned by any- thing but the best brains. And we Won't, most of all, have any sort of intolerance. We won't have our Bill -of Rights superceded by a desperate “stop-gap” oppression in the name of expediency. We came away from the Old World to gain these freedoms (which are now Spreading ever wider beyond our boundaries) and we don’t intend to give them up, in the slightest jota.
We're going to talk, ‘Governor, ‘and you are going to listen at least for the time being. . . we doubt if you'll be there to listen after the next election. (We don’t believe the people of Colorado vote for the things you declare we must have “or there will be no future genera- ‘tions of Americans.) Rather, the
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people of Colorado will join with | the people of the rest of these free United States, in making every conceivable effort to make sure that we have not overlooked a single danger to our future as a free people. Those of us who are parents don’t give a hoot for our own lives, if saving them means the death of our children. It’s our kids we're fighting for, and ‘we won't risk them needlessly by a rash and ill-advised course. ‘
Governor, you are out of order, and anybody who talks like you is also out of order. We've got too much of that sort of thing and we think it had better come to à halt right now. If you're any kind of man, you'll apologize to Drs. Lanier and Puck, and to the Am- erican people.
If you mean well, itll be easy to do, and we'll be the first to cheer for you. We'll yell our ton- sils out—because that’s the way we do things in America, Gover- nor!
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EOPLE said that a white
gull haunted Dune Harbor.
He was there every summer, and there was never another like him, neither so large nor so white — unless since he died a prototype has taken his place.
He was a tradition. New crops of children watched for him, and dif- ferent pairs of lovers. He had ac- quired a name; the natives would say “Diamond Eye is back again,” and the summer people came to say it too, His planing wings burned in the sunshine as though the snowy plumage were tipped with silver or platinum and powdered with dia- mond dust; and you could see the flash of his eye as he wheeled by on the wind.
For some reason the younger children seemed to pity him.
“He’s lonesome because he isn’t like the others!” they said.
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To Mavis Allister, the gull was a poignant symbol. Sometimes his free soaring tugged at her heart, and sometimes his flight was like the white fire of a thrown lance, and
Je WHITE GULL Bi
y EVERIL WORRELL
pierced her through with too sharp memory.
Twenty years had changed the outside world,. but not the lonely little place that was Dune Harbor, nor the lonely remembering place inside of Mavis. They had, strange- ly, affected her golden beauty very little, either. She was, she thought (not for the first time, nor without a trace of bitterness), like Diamond Eye; a storied tradition of the beach town.
The wife of an FBI man does not always know whether she may keep him long, Mavis had kept her man all of two years. Then Tony Vincella got out of jail and came down to Dune Harbor and shot Kerry, who had not been warned of the jail break.
Tony Vincella had had other ideas on that day in June. He had found Mavis at the cottage alone, and had her all neatly tied into a chair when Kerry came in from a swim. Mavis’ shoulder still wore the scar of a cigarette burn.
Tony’s fun was cut short when Kerry arrived, but Tony’s gun got
Sometimes the only way bring to you a message
fony ran and Kerry died, that people came to help. d never been caught. fell into unconsciousness fully—there was always thankful for. Before he d said the thing that 9 nobody and tried not b Kerry was dying e delirious—but grief $ do well not to asy to their bosoms, Ma- ‘Her mitld gave way, You know, I think she »
thing must not be of Mavis Allison. statement she s, offsetting her s last words. ‘en them slowly
— seek-
an important message
kan be put across is by means of a symbol. Perhaps this story is such a symbol. May it
from. . . over there,
so bad —
“Mavis, my love —” now almost inaudibly: “I can’t see myself as a dove, can you? Maybe a sea gull. And not just to be silly, but to watch over you! That devil, Vin- cella. If they shouldn’t get him— he has the memory of an el —”
He seemed asleep, when he was gone. It was the next summer that the white gull first showed up at Dune Harbor.
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Diamond Eye soared high and low today; up to the altitude of an eagle's sentinel eyrie; seaward and back to the cottage, planing low.
Once in winter Mavis had been drawn to the beach house, irresis- tibly. To see if the white gull would be there too? Nobody had ever spoken of seeing him in winter; but she came down to see.
He was theres he circled the house at midnight. White the snow in the moonlight; black ebony the ocean torn with gnashing lines of foam; whiter, the flash of his wings.
Inside, the smell and warmth of
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32 | driftwood burning out in the fire- I place. Firelight reflected from the leaded panes. Just beyond them and so near, those beating wings strong - to ride out any gale.
| H _ Mavis’ hand went to the case- |
|
ment hasp. The bright eyes flashed into hers; then had come her
y shuddering withdrawal, and her col-
. lapse into wild tears that were
half of terror.
— “Let me keep sane. I mustn't be-
| ~ lieve, I mustn’t think —”
|. ‘She had never come again in
6 2 winter.
* * *
No she on the front steps, l the summer sun hot on her, chil-
~ drems voices sounding near, yet lost es in time and space. Get up and go in. Start dinner. Carol and Lee are on the way out l now!“ she ordered herself sharply, * and stood up . . the man com- pe |” ie slowly up the flagged walk. Little and dark he was, and aging; 1 but she knew those half mad cruel la eyes as if she had looked into them | yesterday. = “TPs been twenty years — and I e spent most of them back in i Ttaly,” the thin mouth pronounced E.: gently. “I've a new visa and a new name, and still I waited to be sure I wasn’t being watched. You haven't changed!” he threw out
| , suddenly, resentfully. “I have, but
Pa know you anywhere. Well, you
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always came 13 here, I heard! You’ve waited all this time for the rest of what I promised Kerry Allison I'd do—”
A car was coming fast along the highway behind the house, its siren howling. He kas been watched, and they are after him now, Mavis thought. They'll be here just too late for me, as they were too late for Kerry.
The short, sharp burst of the death-thunder came then, and the smoke,
Came, too, a silver-flaming thing
with wide sweep of beating wings.
It flew blindingly close to Mavis, poised before her. Truly a flung lance — Oh, no! A shield.
For an instant afterward, a fury of lopsided straining pinions beat about the narrow skull-head of the little man who dropped his gun and ran — straight into the arms of two who came to meet him.
But Mavis knelt on the patch of green by the flagged walk while the gull’s head sank lower until it lay flat on the grass. The wings were spread, the bright eyes glazed; and on the white breast-feathers a round red spot shone in the sunlight like a royal ruby.
Mavis felt that her heart was torn open like the heart of the gull. Yet this was a healing pain, a winged pain, a thing to lift a heart long drooping. A great gift! had been
~ given; yes, the ait of- 15 but
a
g i z 4 fa J7 ï g i 25 . 1 . sal A eA
a
re, for it was indestructible. In- ple awareness of indes- life? Something to wear „like a diadem of price- liamonds and rubies. T doubt love is immortal — think it wrong to believe les?” she wondered. And Ves, I knew it was Tony Kerry said— he had a like an elephant.” For, as other day, she was surround- by neighbors and friends. , the white gull is were saying. He'll ne again!“
atl the nearest to
rath ec 7
e ere. Oh, you must Said. “Nothing is
lle, N.
al body
THE WHITE GULL
taid, Shr a a strange power of concentration’
— ——— ee =
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ever just all gone!”
An eight-year old regarded her searchingly, dark eyes troubled.
“The bad man with the gun — he’s gone!” he insisted, “With the men who took. him, Then, will he come again!”
Mavis sought words to clothe a
truth, 4 “Maybe he — or his badness —
isn’t just quite real!” she told him. “All he could ever do was so much less — really — than he
thought it was!”
And it came to her as something strange when she realized that the children understood. When they grew older, they would partly for- get; but today in the sun and the
salt wind they understood, and their crying stopped. THE END
P EXPERIENCE DOESN'T CHECK OUT?
© Ch ief Jack Heard, (of Houston, Texas) was somewhat perplexed m Weeks oe hypnotist and founder of the Psychical Research C.
r was asking for verification of an incident which, he said, he but in a “reputable magazine.
: author, H. J. Jolet of Columbus, Ohio, told in the article of lor vagrancy and selling pencils without a license. related, by “a strange power of concentration,” the au-
” (See June 58 MYSTIC,—Ed.)
from the jail and reappear in Peoria, Ill.
5 Mr. Parker said, “If this happened the it the rest of their lives.” But no one recalls
1 W. N. Daut failed to show that an
WHAT ARE THE
By Max B.
Miller
President: FLYING SAUCERS INTERNATIONAL
INCE that momentous day of
June 24th, 1947, when pilot
Kenneth Arnold reported see- ing nine shining “saucer like” ob- jects flying at 1,200 miles per hour over the Cascade mountain range of Western Washington, the undy- ing controversy of the flying sau- cers has been raging.
Volumes of material has been published on the subject. This in- _ cludes more than two dozen books, thousands of magazine articles, and countless material appearing in newspapers and journals through- out the world.
There are hundreds of organiza- tions in this country and others de- voting their time to solve this—one of the most baffling mysteries of all times.
Elliott Rockmore, President of the Flying Saucer Researchers of Brooklyn, estimates that he re-
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ceived from four to six hundred flying saucer sightings from news- paper sources in mid-summer 1952, rivaling the Air Forces own files.
The Air Force claimed that 1952 was the “bumper crop” year for re- ports. They received 1700 in all.
The Air Force has maintained, since the inception of flying sau- cers, that they have no evidence which would lead them to believe in their existence.
Their latest report tells us:
“The majority of sightings could be accounted for as misinterpreta- tions of conventional objects, such as balloons and aircraft. Others could be explained as met- eorologial phenomena or light re- flections from crystalized particles in the upper atmosphere. Some were determined to be hoaxes. However, there still remained a few unex-
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Force has stated in the eaffirms at the present unexplained aerial phe- e not a secret weapon,
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ported phenomena.
“By the same token, no auth-
entic physical evidence has been received establishing the existence of space ships from other planets.”
Although it may not look like it,
‘when it held the World’s First Flying Saucer Convention in
ing saucers.
ig Saucers International. It is believed to have tlie culation of any magazine of this type. k
oy
rtments nor any Government is is, classified
“there ain’t no sech things.”
three days. Close to 1500 people attended this gathering, Ñ kind ever held, to hear the world’s foremost authorities on
3 Miller published the first issue of SAUCERS — official )
this is a much more liberal state- ment than those the Air Force is- sued in the early part of its inves- tigation, assuming the attitude of
Reports of that time were usual-
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‘ly taken by officials with a shrug of their shoulders and mumblings of “hoaxes” or “hallucinations.”
In late July 1952 came the “crisis.”
Twice, in the period of one week, unidentified flying objects (the name the Air Force prefers over “flying saucers”) invaded the na- tion’s capitol.
Visual and radar sightings were made.
The “objects” were over the White House and Capitol Build- ing! Jets were hurried aloft.
Three objects outmaneuvered the jets at every turn.
When our fastest interceptors were sent into a critical area,“ the objects would vanish. When the planes were gone, the objects reap-
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Careful, reliable radar operators hose reputations must be of the highest to man the Air Control towers of our Capitol and surround- ing area—calculated the objects to have a velocity of up to two miles per second; 7,200 miles per hour!
No aircraft on earth has such
speed.
As the headlines of this event flashed across the nation, public demands of the Air Force were as-
Several, days later, the ‘Afr
Force held a press conference. Ma-
jor General John A. Samford, Chief of Air Force Intelligence
found a one degree inyersion th
with several aides discussed the as: pects of the flying saucers, includ ing the Washington sightings. Samford debunked saucers all around, saying the Washington sightings were temperature inver sions, ) This theory was . more-or-less originated by one Donald H. Men- zel, Professor of Astrophysics at Harvard University. Temperature inversions, strong enough to give a radar “echo,” would have to be eight to ten de grees Fahrenheit. Major Donald E. Keyhoe, | USMC, retired, author of th best seller, “Flying Saucers From Outer Space,” checked the offi cial Weather Bureau figures. H
first night, two degrees the second
When he questioned Majo Lewis S. Norman, Jr. about it, was told that temperature inversion couldn’t possibly explain the Wash ington sightings. Major was allowed to quote him as an o ficial Air Force spokesman.
Early in 1953, Major Genera Samford was quoted in a na tional magazine as saying:
“The theory is 88 has not yet been proved. There- fore the Air Force cannot yet ac- cept it a a satisfactory explana tion. Furthermore, it would not ac count for all reports, by any means.
Other statements from “Projec
Keyno
(official investigating unidentified flying ob- Wright-Patterson Air ) virtually eliminated nation as a satisfactory to flying saucers.
n Walter Karig, Special ‘to Chief of Information, Navy, clinched the matter said in the American magazine: “Reflected or images and the like, md back a radar return.” he Air Force’s initial in- a in 1949, it had but 34 unexplained. they claimed to have but twenty per cent of sightings (a large por- ese came from pilots and ed observers). All but ity they claimed, had in 1953. er 2gth, 1952 an un- came in from north-
About seven-thirty Force base received a several unidentified ¢ crew of a B-26. The ‘slow to intercept. er that, radar operators
picked up an object on
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Colonel Low climbed to 35,000. He saw the lights were revolving ina counter-clockwise direction. The rotation was between eight and twelve times a minute.
As if he wasn’t puzzled enough, the colonel saw three shafts of white light shining outward—as though the lower part of the object was revolving while another part was stationary.
As he approached the object, he switched off his cockpit lights. This was proof that it could not have been a canopy reflection.
Low raced to intercept the ob- ject’ at over five hundred miles per hour. The object apparently didn’t see his plane for several seconds, but then it increased its speed and diasppeared in thirty seconds.
Five minutes later, the colonel saw the object again and again tried to intercept, but this time keeping his cockpit lights on, The object speed out of sight in five seconds.
The official Air Force conclu-
on: “Probably Astronomical,” in- timating that the pilot was chas- ing the planet Jupiter. This is a clear indication of what the Air
Force terms as “explained” sight-
ings. Albert M. Chop spent one and a half years with the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright- Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio and two years on the ae Force
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Press Desk (as head of the “un- identified flying objects” branch of the Office of Public Information) of the Air Force.
An insight of his background is given to make one realize the im- port of his opinions.
Albert M. Chop believes in the reality of flying saucers and their interplanetary origin. He even went so far as to tell columnist Matt Weinstock of the Los Angeles Daily News: ‘
“How can you write off as a mirage an object that appears on a radar screen, then is seen being chased by a jet interceptor equip- ped with radar, then maneuvers at speeds up to 5000 miles per hour, making sharp angle turns that are impossible in any craft that engin- eers conceive?”
Let us look into just one pertin- ent sighting and try to apply the Air Force’s explanations of “mis- interpretations of conventional ob- jects, such as balloons and aircraft,” “meteorological phenomena;” “light reflections from crystalized par- ticles in the upper atmosphere; and “hoaxes.” The story originally appeared in the Ontario (Califor- nia) Daily Report.
On the morning of September 22, 1953 Robert Starr, Northup Air- craft field inspector and a first lieutenant in the roth Fighter Squadron of the California Na- tional Guard; Richard Lierd and
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Houseman, mechanics; and Mui Funk, crew chief were working o1 an F-8ọ jet parked on a repai apron at the Ontario Internationa Airport when the strange phenom enon was first sighted.
Lieutenant Starr said the over head flight of a strange jet plane at tracted their attention because the: knew from the engine sound that i was not a Northup craft.
They looked up to spot th plane and saw a dark cigar-shape object falling through space, whic! they first believed to be a jetti soned wing tip-tank.
“We wondered why the pilot hai jettisoned the tip-tank,” Starr re lated, “and watched as it tumble end over end, free-falling toward th ground. We watched it for six o eight—maybe ten seconds befor the object suddenly stopped it fall and seemed to change i shape.”
He said the four men were i agreement on what they saw, adc ing:
“It seemed to change once halte in the air and became circular wit a luminous sheen. It streaked t the north disappearing in fiv seconds.”
Starr said he had been aroun aircraft for a long time and ha made countless observations bu had never seen anything eve faintly similar to what they sa’ at that time.
said: “I would be afraid to it the altitude of the craft ‘speed. But it flew faster than ling I have ever seen in the aircraft and I've watched a any high speed experimental by the Army.” it aren't these objects? The possibility of a be eliminated by noting cations of these four men: chief, and -mechanics. Phe possibilities of a mass fation appears virtually im- for the same reasons as svious. Four qualified obser- cially in their positions) seem to be subject to s of this type. Misinterpretations of con- | objects” could not ac- the characteristics and €tability of this object as . This includes balloons and
_ “Meteorological pheno- ould not appear as a dark article falling in space, g in mid-air. turning to “disc-shaped” form os. and shoot off
e and disappear in five
ht reflections from i particles in the upper same as above. „was the object?
‘ly very real, of an „Lieutenant Starr’s
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statement: . It flew faster than anything I have ever seen in the way of aircraft and I’ve watch- ed a good many high-speed exper- imental flights by the Army” and saying that he had been around aircraft for a long time and had had made countless observations but had never seen anything even faintly similar to what they saw at that time, identifies it as seemingly alien to us.
How do the other countries take the flying saucers?
On November 11th, 1953 the news was flashed around the world, by all leading news services, that the world’s first official flying sau- cer sighting station had been es- tablished in Canada.
Harold Greer, in the Toronto Daily Star, gives probably the best account of this:
“The world’s first scientific fly- ing saucer sighting station is being constructed by Canadian electronic engineers at Shirley’s Bay,” ten miles northwest of Ottawa.
“The work of ‘Project Magnet’ —code name for the secret deve- lopment of a flying disc powered by electromagnetic propulsion — the station is being equipped with every conceivable type of recording device in the hope of obtaining the scientific measurements necessary to prove or disprove the existence of flying saucers.
“When completed, the station
40 l will be manned twenty-four hoùrs a day. It will contain the various types of radar, an ionosphere re- corder, a magnetometer to measure electrical charge, a recording gravo- meter to measure gravity and a radio set running full volume at 530 kilocycles to pick up any radio noise.” (why 530?—Ed) The article goes on to say: “Project Magnet’ researchers have found that flying saucer re- ports have come in flurries about two years and two months apart. It may or may not be significant that they have occurred when the planet Mars has been in opposition to the earth and that reports are most frequent when Mars reaches its closest point to the earth... Since the board began system- atic investigation of flying saucer sightings early in 1952, heavy. sec- recy has surrounded the work. It is known, however, that a consider- able number of reports have been received on the special forms printed in order to obtain as much precise observation as possible from the person or instrument making the sighting. While not called clas- sified material, these forms are held to be ‘for official use only.“ The board has never published any analysis of them or made any re- port on progress of the investiga-
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from coast to coast and sea cap- tains beyond that, all under stand- ing instruction to report phenomena; it supplies by far the bulk of the sighting reports.”
Wilbur B. Smith is engineer in charge of “Project Magnet.” in the telecommunications division of the Canadian Department of Transport. He told the Canadian Press news service:
“There is a high degree of prob- ability that they (the flying sau- cers)do exist and are interplane- tary.”
Smith claims that there is a ninety to ninety-five per cent prob-
ability that flying saucers do exist:
sixty per cent probability that they are “alien vehicles,” ten per cent probability they originate here on Earth, and a thirty per cent probability that they are in- conceivable to man—such as some form of time travel involving a form of life other than protoplasm.
The article in the Daily Star concludes:
* It is generally agreed that the average layman would con- clude from the more dramatic sight- ing reports that flying saucers do indeed exist.
“One of the Canadian sightings, for example, took place over an airport at night. Several perons saw a disc-like object moving at low altitude over the field at about sixty miles an hour. A search-
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t caught the object in its beam saucers are real objects, and are ra moment, at which point it not caused by meteors, hallucina- sd skyward at an incredible tions, or any atmospheric freaks,” Sightings of this kind, it is Getting back to this country, we d, are by no means rare find reference to flying saucers by Frank Edwards, former news com- mentator over the Mutual Broad- casting System network, „Top scientists,” Edwards re- lated, “whose identity I am not at to reveal... have been
Let us see what Australia has to
about flying saucers: ‘MELBOURNE, January oth 4—An RAAF officer in Mel- me revealed today that the liberty had been investigating fly- been investigating the phenomena A cer reports since 1947. of unidentified aerial objects he officer said that an Intel- since 1947; analysing samples of ice Officer usually interviewed various types; inspecting every bit le who reported flying objects. of evidence, for whatever could be fhe officer said that the RAAF learned from it. With their permis- sping an open mind on the sion I can read to you this one significant paragraph from their
ce of the objects. He. added, , from the information statement to me, dated September
1. 43 ave ved, that the objects 8, 1953.” ave an interplanetary source. Edwards quotes: “Our research in this matter
pple on earth should be able
into outer space within about leads us to believe that these un- vea s. Why shouldn't people identified flying objects are ob- nete have already reach- servation vehicles from another | 5 stage?” planet and further that this in- re that, Australia again made formation is being kept from the lewspapers.. people. A statistical analysis of the Australian Flying Saucer evidence collected thus far proves tion Committee is com- without doubt that we are dealing extra-terrestrial influences
of twelve members, including with i chemists, an elec- from an unknown source.”
engineer, a civil N On the night of July 14th, 1952 ye astronomers. rst Officer William B. Nash and ime ist, 1953 they an- and Officer William H. Forten- at, after three months’ bery, pilots for the Pan American hey had formed the conclu- World Airways, saw eight flying at “some so-called flying saucers two thousand feet below * un
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them while flying over Norfolk, Virginia. The Air Force made an investigation of this incident with the usual “Conclusion: Unknown.“ Besides being a senior pilot, William B. Nash is a 2nd Lieu- tenant in the United States Re- Serve; a man well qualified on the subject of flying saucers. He made the following statement in the March 1954 Mystic magazine: “Tt must be obvious to every- one by now that our world is being systematically explored by visitors from another planet Arthur Louis Joquel II is a noted authority on rocketry and Space travel; is author of the
popular book, “The Challenge of
Space.” He voiced this opinion in the March 1954 magazine:
“For hundreds, or even thou- sands, of years, obervations and reports have been made regarding these objects. Accurate, well- trained, impartial witnesses have described them, using almost the same terms in all ages and times. There have been sufficient re- ports concerning these objects made by scientists, military per- sonnel, and trained civilians, to have removed any doubts as to their existence.
No country on Earth could have built such vehicles hundreds of years ago. It would strain the ability of any country today to
develop such flying objects, and to construct, test, and launch them, and furthermore keep their place of origin a secret. It seems much more logical, under the circum- stanes, that flying disks have their place of origin somewhere in space, and visit the earth for some reason or purpose.”
What are the flying saucers?
Without having our sanity ques- tioned, and in the hope of not being called “crackpots, illiterates, and cultists,” I think we can safely draw the following conclusions:
I. Flying saucers are very real and material objects. 4
2. Flying saucers have as their place of origin, a source (or sources) outside of this planet.
3. Flying saucers have been visiting this planet for several hundred or thousand years.
4. Flying saucers are appar- ently of friendly intent, having made no direct hostile move to this date.
5. When and if we make contact with the flying saucers, it will undoubtedly change our every way of life.
There it is. I ask you to just keep an open mind for the events ahead for, as Albert Einstein said: “Those people have seen some- thing.”
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IT HAPPENED TO ME... From time to time MYSTIC magazine passes on accounts of true experiences from our readers. The following stories are given to us as actual happenings, and the editors are pleased to present them at face value. “It Happened to Me.. is just one phase of MYSTIC’s presentation of evidence upon which its readers can draw their own conclusions. Names and addresses are print- ed, or are on file at the office of MYSTIC in the case of those to whom identification might prove to be a source of embarrassment or inconventence. MYSTIC does not pay for these contributions, but presents them as a service to those readers who request actual happenings going on today, and in the lives of living people. However, a 48-issue subscription, worth $12.00 will be given for each manuscript published. Send your exper- tence to “Drawer 48, Mystic Magazine, Amherst,
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DREAMS THAT CAME TRUE
EOPLE often have marvelled both dreamed one night that Pa the way my sister Frances father had returned home on the and I dream dreams that come morning train. Next morning we true. Each morning after such discussed this dream at length. a dream we would discuss it with “It is strange we both dreamed each other and declare it was a fact, and that it would come true. My father was called to Detroit, Michigan to work. We all missed him very much and after he had been gone about two months we
&i Da. vay vad ibsvol eye's e sn bas
Vell,” said Frances, “I won't but I know he is on his way this minute.”
minutes later, mother into the room and we told about our dreams. We were gers, and mother thought we ‘silly for words.
father is not coming for another month, so sy with your work around ind stop gabbing.”
minutes later we heard one pounding on the front “That’s father,” we told
ignored us and went to the stood father with his ‘leather suitcase in his hand. t it down and kissed us as to meet him.
her threw up her hands in but did not tell father melee She did not encourage us in this idea hing into the future. father was called to St. burgh Fla. to work. After been there several my sister, May came home bringing her three he spent the day, then 1e. There was a paper- ng her home. She to the living room, where Ñ tood in front of the
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room to room, exclaiming in ex- citement over the pretty walls. Suddenly May’s dress caught fire. She had stood too close to the flames. Terrified, she ran wildly out of the house, into the yard, screaming, her burning dress fanned by the high winds of winter. The paperhanger ran after her, but he could not catch her, as she fought wildly. Finally he grabbed her and rolled her over and over on the damp ground, while putting out the blaze with his hands.
My sister suffered third degree burns, and her hands, back and legs were hanging - shreds of scorched flesh. She was in a ser- ious condition and was rushed to the hospital where she lay for months fighting for her life.
My father in St. Petersburg, Fla. said he was awakened in the “middle of the night. He hearda voice, May’s voice, screaming, “Oh Father, help me! Help me! I am so badly hurt.” He jumped from his bed in terror, dressed and came home,
“How did you know, father?” we all asked.
“May told me. I heard her call- ing me so pitifully and I had to come to her,” he said sadly.” How bad, is she?”
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much. Those scars, even though she has had plastic surgery; remain clearly on her beautiful body to- day.
I was once visiting my in-laws, whom I liked and loved as if they were my own people, down at Clarksville, Tennessee. I had a wonderful time and intended to stay with them for another week. I went to bed and was sound asleep, when I saw my husband appear before me and say,” Mary, please come home, I am so sick and lonely without you. I am in bed with the flu and unable to get
up. You will find the money for your train fare in a letter you will get tomorrow. Go to the mail box and get the money. Catch the noon train, and come home as fast as you can.”
I lay there in bed until dawn, thinking of my husband there at home with no one to look after him, and I wanted more than anything in the world to go to him as fast as I could. I got up and packed all my clothes.
My sister-in-law said,“ Mary, what on earth are you doing? I thought you were going to stay with us another week. Please don’t go.”
“T must,” I said, quietly. “I am sorry, but Ray is ill and he wants me to come home today. I will get my train fare in the mail today and then I'll catch the noon train, as
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he said, and go to him as fast as I can.“
Mary, Mary, what on earth has come over you. Did you get a telegram or anything? If you did, why didn’t you say some- thing about it before? Why didn’t you tell me, honey?”
“I didn’t know myself,” I told her. “Ray talked to me in the night and told me I would have money in the mail today and that he was ill and wanted me to come home at once.”
“Are you goofy? Do you believe in such fantastic things as that, Mary? I’m surprised at you. You are supposed to be an intelligent human being.”
“You'll see when the mail comes that I’m telling you the truth, and I’m all ready to go to the depot as soon as the train ar- rives.”
The postman drove his old car up to the mail box and placed a large white envelope in it. Ethel’s face was as white as a ghost as she handed the letter to me, not saying a word. I took the letter and opened it and there fold- ed between the sheets of paper was my train fare. I took it out and held it up for my sister-in-law to
see.
We walked back to the house, got my suitcase and she drove me to the depot. “Mary,” he said, I can’t understand you. I believe
u are supernatural.”
ome dear friends of ours were ferred to the Phillippine Is- They had been there for gut a year and were terribly dis- ted with life and were sad and ely to be so far from home and lends. I wrote, them often. It took it two months for a letter to them, and get their answer
y friend wrote, “Pray for me certain hour, or think of me that hour and I'll be thinking y It will seem that we are ther, and we will be, in rit.” Often we thought of each Although these friends ‘on the other side of the it seemed there was no dis- e between us at the time of ag together in spirit.
me night 1 heard one of these ds call to me as I aroused
URING the months of Sep- ember and October (1954) I
imented in psychic projection, ie extent of locating a certain for who is becoming a shining in a field of learning for the it of the human race at large. i E est in contacting this per- Sa purely selfish desire, but
Wi I had made the opening ctive centered in— and
` — the folding and the un-
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myself from a troubled sleep. “Mary, Mary, I am so ill and so lonely. This awful heat, and the in- sects are just about to worry me to death. There is no peace, no escape from the blistering heat of the tropics, no escape from anything over here. Oh, how I wish I could go home. I am so sick, Tropical fever, I guess.“
I sat up in the bed. The voice died away in the silent darkness and my heart was sad. I prayed for these friends, around the world from me.
A few days later I had a radio- gram from my friends, stating they had been desperately ill at that time I had the dream but were recovering.
Mrs, M. L. Johnson
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folding states, stages, stagnating levels of consciousness, as I took the mental blocks in turn and did a few flip-flops in order to develop the mind to the supra sub-conscious measurements of the time com- sumed in the mental operations. To my knowledge, no one has ever put any emphasis on supra sub-consciousness and the levels of its activity in pertaining to the mental phase of) behavior— yet,
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the same may be listed as extra- sensory perception in field learn- ing.
It took a few trips to convince me I was of no importance to any psychological catagory as listed in the book of learning, yet my ego fluttered a bit in self-esteem as I found I could separate my soul and body and still be conscious of my actions and the thought forms as they had been presented and cata- logued in the subjective mind for future reference. The first contact picture came when I walked along a treelined driveway and entered a large building. I stood alone for some time in puzzled introspec- tion before I realized where I was, and why I was there. At first there seemed to be floor, then gradually a small section of flooring appear- ed and a kneehole desk came into view.
There was no one visible in the room at the moment, but from a section of the desk words were coming slowly, forming sentences, in which I was being welcomed. Then a man took form and sat in a swivel chair at the desk, his back toward me. He was dressed in a dark suit. Occasionally he swiveled while he kept up a rhythmic tap with the first finger of his right hand. I stood directly back of the man and couldn’t see his face, yet it seemed we were directing a
thought in Unison in some pre- —shoggselb YA ho sima sieaa
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arranged subject—a meeting in which I had only a vague aware- ness. I was not prepared for the two women who appeared out of nowhere and were asked to be seated — one at each end of the desk. I still stood back of the man while he talked to the ladies. He called one of them “Halka” and the other one “Hedda.” Something stirred in my thought processes and strangely enough*I could remember when I had been called by both of the names at separate intervals. In memory I knew both of them very well.
I said to the man, “I have been called by both of those names at different periods, Just what does that signify?”
Then he answered, “Those are your personalities as opposites. When appearing at the same time, they may denote a split personal- ity.”
I could not agree with this statement. entirely and I said, “I may be mixed up a bit as all of this experiment is new to me, but I do know that split personalities are only words to cover the gaps in all phases of consciousness.”
The man remained silent.
Back home again, I remembered a mental picture thrown on the screen would be focused upside down and; no doubt, backward. I was viewing the picture from a wrong position. I should have been
i) tte bë-
d Jon the opposite side of the acing the man to make the act complete. fowever, I could not stop making my first contact ection. I was wrapped in ory of success and, of e, trying to make self heard his well-trained atmosphere. I n the picture and it was beau- ‘at the moment. All I had to as to make these learned e conscious of my presence.
next visit, I was listening in thesis of 3, 500 words. The man was giving a lecture to J lent class (this time in a white and the time was evening). me noticed me, so I took a h the rest of the class, and ed. The subject he was ex- jing was centered around the cle of matter, called the ‘on. He was saying, “The neu- like the Roentgen Ray, per- for the psychic body what y accomplishes for the phy- defects in construction of man. neutron-light is so illum- that it lays bare the divine we may see self as God where one may observe
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souls in their oneness with the ALL.
“Ts it too much to assume the psychic body has an organism equal in power and manifestation to the functional organism of the physical body? We do know much of the physical development of the X-Ray has helped in many ways to bring to light the various ails and ills of flesh and bone structure of the physical self. The neutronic mea- - sure deals with the mentality and is the memory Ray of all time, A continuum into other dimensions and senses above the avers five as we know them.”
Then came the morning when he chose to see me. He called me by name, shook my hand while he asked, — “What have you to say about it now Harriett?”
I answered, “What can I say except that I am here, ready to ask questions and hope for answers?
He asked me to be seated at his desk while he sorted some papers —then the picture faded and I was back in my flat, in Detroit, in the same position before the flight.
Harriett M. Gallagher 2117 Grand River Ave
Ja vironment of individual Detroit I, Mich. OVER THE BORDER , I lay in a only answer, “Oh, I’m so tired!” I
ye pen in a poor state of e be ene
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ment and worry, for some time. It
was during the depression so I often did not have enough to eat. So it was that I ended up.in the hospital.
Previous to this I had been staying at a resort, trying to eke out a living, but I felt myself be- coming weaker and weaker. Then, one day, I was sitting at my table with a sheet of white paper before me. I started to write. When I had finished, these words appeared before my eyes:
“Go back to your home. You are very sick and you need to be with your friends.”
I was startled into action, and before the day was over, I had re- turned to a dear friend of mine. She put me to bed and worked over me with cold compresses before she called the doctor. If she had not eared for me, I would have ceased to breathe, for my lungs did not want to operate. The doctor ordered me at once to the hospital.
I slept like a baby during the first hours I was there. My bed was beside a screened window, and in my waking hours I could see the trees, rich in their green leaves, and what seemed to me to be the loveliest flower garden I had ever seen, across the lawn. I think now that I was impressed because I was starved for love and beauty- had been for years.
French woman who was being treated for an illness that caused her to become very excited at times, so that I was obliged to bury my head in my pillow to shut out her babblings, which were mostly in French. Even though it was a
sort of public ward' the nurses treated her as if she were someone very special.
To get away from her, I decided to take a bath in one of the tubs I had seen in the wash-room, It was evening and the nurses were getting the patients ready for their night’s rest, so, unnoticed by any- one, I put on my -kimono and left the ward. I took my bath, but was so weak I had difficulty in return- ing to my bed. I dropped onto it, kimono and all, and fell into a kind of stupor. But I could still hear the noises going on about me, for a while. I heard a nurse give an im- patient order.”
“Get that woman’s kimono off her, nurse! She's —”
I heard no more, though I was conscious of someone trying to open my lips, before everything blacked out around me.
I felt myself being moved from the bed. It seemed that I was on a cot, at first. Then I began to get worried.
“Where are you taking me?” I asked of the ‘attendant’ who was at my side. I could not open my eyes,
In the bed next to mine lay a but 1 felt someone near.
“Your body is very sick, so we e taking you out of it for a while, Hil it can heal a little!“ came e reply. There was a discussion g on about me, but I could not erstand what they were saying Ness I asked a direct question. was moving slowly. I felt my- df being lifted to a little height d T became anxious.
Where are we going now?” I
We are taking you out on the through the window” — But there is a screen on the ndow. You can’t do that!”
Oh, yes we can, my dear! You t quit your worrying, and you ll be all right!”
wer the window-sill we went d it did me no good to demur. w many. were ‘taking’ me, I did ‘know, but they kept up a con- ial conversation, and their tones fe sweet and friendly.
hat am I lying on, please?” mattress,” they said. A sort avenly’ mattress. If you were to see it, you couldn't. It’s 1 ent.“
seemed ridiculous to me, ny mind got busy again. an’t do this! Our night- haven't any backs and III ed! People will see me r up, and they won't
of my companions laughed,
IT HAPPENED TO ME... 51
me that no one could see us, even if they looked. The air was soft and cool, and I could hear the leaves rustling in the trees about me, and what was more, I could not hear any babblings from the woman whose bed was next to mine.
I wish I could remember what we talked about, that night, It was all interesting to me then, but nothing of the trend of the con- versation has stayed in my mem- ory. I think they were talking about ‘heavenly things.’ We stayed among the branches of the trees all through the short night hours. Then the birds began to twitter among the leaves; the day was beginning to ‘break.’ I could hear the milk wagons on the road as they pas- sed on their daily task. If I tried to open my eyes, I could see a little, but I could not open them very far.
“It’s time you were taking me back!” I complained. “How are you going to get me into the building without being seen?”
“Through the window the same way that we came out. Why are you in such a hurry?”
“Tf anyone sees me before I get into bed, it will be terrible!“ I replied.
“We are going, now. You will soon be safe and sound in your little bed, and then we will have to leave you.”
tried to explain to I could See ih building now. I
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could almost touch the grey stone walls as we passed. I was lifted over the window-sill. But for some
reason we stopped there 1 j
ent. $ I heard a scream. “Nurse! Nurse! me
quick!“ The excited voi
French papel 3
sA eee T was beck i in the room,
, A
K = 18 x
“Look for the mattress in the corner, when it’s light!” admon- lap 7 one of asin before Had left.
sudden. There stood the nurse at xe. nigh „ you stif de
the foot of the “nervou bed. I got a rear view E would not have be
b My guests of the night said hasty farewells, and were gone.
N aunt of mine eh ates
cattle ranch in California. My aunt and uncle went on a vacation and they asked my mother and ` husband and I to stay on the ranch and take care of it. One day my husband and mother went over to the far side of
‘the ranch to fix some fence. I was
—
my have altere l i te 1 T had travelled ‘over
t ad night which red m my pei outlook on the
*
K Name withheld by request
at home rather than go along
oily wis ironing in the kitchen when something caused me to look out the window. There is a spring about
a hundred yards from the house. .
It is surrounded by willow trees. 2 iets around
— , I CO ee IE
ry
am * trees, ‘ad when a first him I thought my husband jack until I took a good look. With horror I realized the man
we as a body.
I forgot all about my fear of ; akes and decided to go over ere my husband and mother
“hey asked me why I came, but ouldn’t tell them for three days. afraid they would laugh at
ince my early teens I had been guided by prophecies and warnings gh dreams, and had learned to ignore them.
about 1917 I was living in the small west coast town of ota, Florida. An old time flag e stood at the center of the n before its largest hotel. The artery of traffic came through ain street, swung around the g pole and proceeded at right gles toward the Bay where it ected Bay Shore Drive—the ily automobile “speeding grounds”
dream one night I was sur- to find myself in the pas- eat of my car whereas I i my own We.
thee x . ir HAPPENED T TOME...
didn’t have a head. All I could see
THE SKELETON DRIVER si 7
“Finally, when 1 did tell them
about the incident, my mother A) k said it wasn’t a laughing matter. “ye na because a- man had been killed i j there about three years before and | j they never had found his head. He a4
has been seen by others, walking around the spring, she said, and A the saying is he comes back to W and find his head.
. Bailey — 4 104 West Alameda a Rosewell, New Mex. :
eden in a 55 black 1 = deep black hood, There was . personality indicated; no resem- blame to any human being eair just white bones and black shroud. a f I awakened trembling in al knowledge that it was a warning i that I must heed. H J By late afternoon, however, Ai nothing unusual had occurred and I completely forgot the incident. I drove into town, around the flag pole and toward Bay Shore Drive. When within a few car-len the Drive the dream flashed 1 fore me as if projected ben screen. With no other reason for f; doing so I slammed brakes and skidded to a stop just as a a -A driven by a drunken driver zi ‘Paste . ed sels enen at 80
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could almost touch the grey stone walls as we passed. I was lifted
reason we stopped there ‘ion a mom- 25
ent. I heard a scream. “Nurse! Nurse! quick!” The excited 5 x French woman, came to
„Go to sheep, 2 There is nobody there! is hardly morning, yet!” ae
bed. I got a rear view oe 55 Which would not have been p sible if I had been lying in bed. I could see the o
My guests of the nig t said hasty x a
farewells, and were gone.
4 a: usual,
“Look for the mattress in the 1 W it's 9 admon-
Wben 1 898 everything was the m rses sew in =
id ** know that things
pened that second night which altered my whole outlook on had travelled ‘over the
‘Name withheld by request
THE HEADLESS 1 MAN
N aunt of mine owned a big deat! stayed at home rather than go along
cattle ranch in California. My aunt and uncle went on a vacation and they asked my mother and ` husband and I to stay on the ranch and take care of it. One day my husband and mother went over to the far side of the ranch to fix some fence. I was
ly afraid of snakes, so I
with them.
I was ironing in the kitchen when something caused me to look out the window. There is a spring about
Prt eo
„ e CTE a i
mong the trees, and when I first aw him I thought my husband Was back until I took a good look. With horror I realized the man didn’t have a head. All I could see Was a body. 1 forgot all about my fear of snakes and decided to go over my husband and mother ere! ‘hey asked me why I came, but wouldn’t tell them for three days. s afraid they would laugh at
Since my early teens I had been uided by prophecies and warnings hrough dreams, and had learned ever to ignore them. In about 1917 I was living in the * west coast town of : , Florida. An old time flag 0 Food at the center of the own before its largest hotel. The jair artery of traffic came through fs main street, swung around the pole and proceeded at right les toward the Bay where it intersected Bay Shore Drive—the nly automobile “speeding grounds“ In a dream one night I was sur- ised to find myself in the pas- 's seat of my car whereas I s did my own driving. ig toward the driver's seat who my chauffeur might
* 4
IT HAPPENED TO ME. 53
Finally, when I did tell them about the incident, my mother said it wasn’t a laughing matter, because a man had been killed there about three years before and they never had found his head. He has been seen by others, walking around the spring, she said, and the saying is he comes back to try and find his head.
Helen Bailey 104 West Alameda Rosewell, New Mex.
THE SKELETON DRIVER
be I found him to be—death! A skeleton in a long black robe and deep black hood. There was no personality indicated; no resem- blame to any human being.
just white bones and black shroud. I. awakened trembling in the knowledge that it was a warning that I must heed.
By late afternoon, however, nothing unusual had occurred and I completely forgot the incident. I drove into town, around the flag pole and toward Bay Shore Drive. When within a few car-lengths of the Drive the dream flashed be- fore me as if projected upon a screen. With no other reason for doing so I slammed brakes and skidded to a stop just as a car driven by a drunken driver zig-zag- ged meee sie intersection at top
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speed. Without that warning I could not have avoided being hurled into the Bay.
/
Mera Gaskill, 429 Elder Drive Claremont, Caljornia
SEEING DOUBLE
VEN now I am uncertain whe- ther to believe in ghosts, but I
did come across a rather curious piece of evidence the other day. My
father-in-law gave me a diary
which had belonged to an uncle of
his, one Henry Hancock.
It appears that Uncle Henry had been a solicitor in the small of Wiveliscombe until his death some fifty years ago. He had also had an office some nine miles away in Bampton which he visited twice a week, travelling in his one-
horse buggy alone. Back in those days it was a lonely bit of country- side between the two small towns.
The first entry in his diary re-
cords that while about half-way home one moonlight winters night, he became conscious of an over- whelming feeling of foreboding. The further he went the stronger it grew, until he could stand it no longer. Being a deeply religious man he stopped the buggy and got out. Kneeling beside the road, he prayed earnestly for a few moments. Presently, feeling the weight of fear had been lifted from his
Shoulders, he continued his journey
and arrived home without mishap.
Some months later, in an entire- lube Mui .
town
ly different entry, he records that he was summoned to the bedside of a dying farmer who wished to make his will. While there the man ad- mitted that he had a confession to make, and asked Uncle Henry if he could recall a certain lawsuit of some years back, in which he, the
farmer, would have won had it not been for a certain piece of evidence
produced by Uncle Henry. As a result not only did he lose the case but it also cost him several hundred pounds.
So great was his anger that he vowed a terrible revenge and had lain in wait for the returning soli- citor on the lonely Bampton road. In his own words he continued:
“With murder in my heart I Saw you coming sir, but just be- fore you reached me you did a strange thing. You stopped and got out and knelt down, then after a few minutes you came on. As you drew level I saw there were two of you and I was mercifully prevented from committing a das- tardly crime.”
Mrs. Barbara Hancock Lemons Cottage Atherington, Umberleigh, N. Devon, England.
R I dreamed this story, or, as mystics might say I'd in through a psychic experience. prevent any argument, let's say reamed that I died in my sleep. the ego, soul, or astral body, it what you will, came out of „carna covering and looked m upon its physical counterpart g in bed apparently not breath- „This spirit- entity, identified self, experienced a feeling of freedom; mixed with the ef one would sense when throw- way an old, stained, thread- Suit of clothes. My next might was: “So I'm dead. | what?” There was not the lest feeling of sorrow at being der in a dimension entirely to me. But there was some eliness; which, at the moment, I ib ited to a desire to mix with I thought of people I had J found myself with them. out any sensation of transi- or going from here to there. new way of thinking, their ty problems were boresome to Fo example: I thought of in D. Roosevelt, who had been inaugurated to his sec- n office (this experience of appened in 1937), and, as ht of F. D. R., I was im- ely projected into the White
IT HAPPENED TO ME... 55 A RINGSIDE SEAT WITH DEATH
House. There he and Jim Farley were discussing the possibilities of a third and fourth term in office, and the second world war that was to come.
To me they seemed like children playing with armies of toy soldiers;
-not men who believed themselves
as shapers of destiny.
None of this was surprising to me... because I knew that the third and fourth term of office for F. D. R. had already come about; that death interrupted his fourth term; and the second world war was over with. It was like reading a week-old newspaper. I got the im- pression that the time element with the living was like a clock running slow. It seemed to me that they thought only in the past. Whereas, I was thinking in the eternal NOW. And could see the whole pattern, instead’ of only a part of it» Perhaps clairvoyants see only the NOW; but to others it seems like the future.
As this thought is somewhat in- volved, I would like to digress a moment to give an example: One evening we are admiring the beauty of a star twinkling down upon us from the firmament. To us that is happening then and there. But to a learned astronomer there is a different picture. Because he knows that particular star disin-
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tegrated millions of light-years ago, and we are only just perceiving its reflections.
Bored with the childishness of the living, I felt lonesome for some of my own kind ... the dead. In a flash I was among them. It was just as if I had suddenly been de- posited in Grand Central station; with “people” hurrying here and there; with others standing in small groups.
Moving over to a group of four, two men and two women, I dis- covered that three of them were trying to convince the one woman who couldn’t believe that she was dead. There was no actual talking as the living know it; instead, a form of telepathy was the means of communication. Mental-pictures were rapidly transmitted from one to the other. It was something like turning one’s television set from one station to the other, and im- mediately getting a picture. It was apparent to me that the barrier of languages was overcome here. Because the living had first to think in images, and then form these pictures into sounds that would be understandable to another living person.
The woman was very fright- ened at the thought being con- veyed to her. This was evidenced by a blur of incoherent pictures; showing her to be bordering on
hysteria.
To avoid confusion in the telling of this anecdote, I will hereafter write: he, she, or I “said” this or that, just as though the living were talking. ile among the living I had been an inveterate smoker, There- fore, while tuning-in on this “con- versation” of departed spirits, I automatically fumbled for a cig- arette. But, as soon as I felt the desire for a smoke there was al- ready a cigarette in my mouth and a lighter in my hand. “This is going to be good.” I thought. “I have only to express a desire and imme- diately it is manifested. Hey! I’d better be careful of my thinking, or I’m liable to manifest something disagreeable; and not know how to get rid of it.” Lighting the cig- arette, I took the first deep inhala- tion... but. . . there was no sen- sation. In fact, there was nothing but a picture of the smoke issuing
one’s imagination. I thought: we carry over our desires . . . with- out the ability to satisfy them brother!” This was to be tough. But I did feel glad that I had not been an alcoholic or a
clo
i i)
~ >
IT HAPPENED TO ME... 57 ater finding its own level”.
E these souls hurried past me
hey were constantly changing
lothes.
Presumably, as they
thought of what they would like to , that too became manifest,
ed they were clothed accordingly.
And what a variety of costumes . it was like a masquerade ball. Looking around, I saw a large
K
man ion,
medi sval
built in all styles, from to ultra-modern. Work-
nen were building additions to it.
And there was no sound of axe r hammer. It was like watching ent movie. iosity moved me to enter his monstrosity, and I saw that it s furnished in every imaginable ; from conservative to the biz- e, Inside there were many, many Spirits sitting around on this poly- lot furniture. They were “conver- ing,” and the gist of their subjects is their
arth. Thi
own frustrations while on s made me think of some
f my own; with a feeling of re-
Bh * a
very
distinguished-looking old
dy, dressed in mid-Victorian tyle, was sitting on a Turkish leaning her chin on a gold- aded cane. Her piercing black e must
oughts,
been observing me. And have picked up my because she said: “Don’t
too much about the things
veren
't able to do while among
ng. All of those things you
Tet
„ e Ane
can do over here. If you want to enough.“
“But how?” I asked d ly. They were matters that were only essential on earth. There would be no purpose to them here.“
She answered, “Young man, being new on this plane you have much to learn. Look around. Do you see such a great deal of differ- ence between us and the living?”
Looking around, I saw a large gold-framed mirror on the wall op- posite me, but could see no reflec- tion of myself in it. The little old lady had referred to me as “young man;” could it be that these entities only saw each other in the form in which the other soul was pictured in their thoughts? Because, when I left the body on earth it had been middle-aged. I might be a young soul, but I certainly wasn’t a young man.
As I turned to look at her again I found that she had changed into_ a young, and very beautiful woman.
“Don’t look so surprised,” she said, smiling. “You thought of me as being old, first because of the style of dress, and second because of the elderly manner in which I was addressing you. There is no age here. We are as young or old as we think we are; or as another soul thinks of us. When I passed over, it was in the era that this type of dress was worn; therefore I feel more at home in it.”
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could almost touch the grey stone walls as we passed. I was lifted
reason we stopped there ‘ion a mom- 25
ent. I heard a scream. “Nurse! Nurse! quick!” The excited 5 x French woman, came to
„Go to sheep, 2 There is nobody there! is hardly morning, yet!” ae
bed. I got a rear view oe 55 Which would not have been p sible if I had been lying in bed. I could see the o
My guests of the nig t said hasty x a
farewells, and were gone.
4 a: usual,
“Look for the mattress in the 1 W it's 9 admon-
Wben 1 898 everything was the m rses sew in =
id ** know that things
pened that second night which altered my whole outlook on had travelled ‘over the
‘Name withheld by request
THE HEADLESS 1 MAN
N aunt of mine owned a big deat! stayed at home rather than go along
cattle ranch in California. My aunt and uncle went on a vacation and they asked my mother and ` husband and I to stay on the ranch and take care of it. One day my husband and mother went over to the far side of the ranch to fix some fence. I was
ly afraid of snakes, so I
with them.
I was ironing in the kitchen when something caused me to look out the window. There is a spring about
Prt eo
„ e CTE a i
mong the trees, and when I first aw him I thought my husband Was back until I took a good look. With horror I realized the man didn’t have a head. All I could see Was a body. 1 forgot all about my fear of snakes and decided to go over my husband and mother ere! ‘hey asked me why I came, but wouldn’t tell them for three days. s afraid they would laugh at
Since my early teens I had been uided by prophecies and warnings hrough dreams, and had learned ever to ignore them. In about 1917 I was living in the * west coast town of : , Florida. An old time flag 0 Food at the center of the own before its largest hotel. The jair artery of traffic came through fs main street, swung around the pole and proceeded at right les toward the Bay where it intersected Bay Shore Drive—the nly automobile “speeding grounds“ In a dream one night I was sur- ised to find myself in the pas- 's seat of my car whereas I s did my own driving. ig toward the driver's seat who my chauffeur might
* 4
IT HAPPENED TO ME. 53
Finally, when I did tell them about the incident, my mother said it wasn’t a laughing matter, because a man had been killed there about three years before and they never had found his head. He has been seen by others, walking around the spring, she said, and the saying is he comes back to try and find his head.
Helen Bailey 104 West Alameda Rosewell, New Mex.
THE SKELETON DRIVER
be I found him to be—death! A skeleton in a long black robe and deep black hood. There was no personality indicated; no resem- blame to any human being.
just white bones and black shroud. I. awakened trembling in the knowledge that it was a warning that I must heed.
By late afternoon, however, nothing unusual had occurred and I completely forgot the incident. I drove into town, around the flag pole and toward Bay Shore Drive. When within a few car-lengths of the Drive the dream flashed be- fore me as if projected upon a screen. With no other reason for doing so I slammed brakes and skidded to a stop just as a car driven by a drunken driver zig-zag- ged meee sie intersection at top
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speed. Without that warning I could not have avoided being hurled into the Bay.
/
Mera Gaskill, 429 Elder Drive Claremont, Caljornia
SEEING DOUBLE
VEN now I am uncertain whe- ther to believe in ghosts, but I
did come across a rather curious piece of evidence the other day. My
father-in-law gave me a diary
which had belonged to an uncle of
his, one Henry Hancock.
It appears that Uncle Henry had been a solicitor in the small of Wiveliscombe until his death some fifty years ago. He had also had an office some nine miles away in Bampton which he visited twice a week, travelling in his one-
horse buggy alone. Back in those days it was a lonely bit of country- side between the two small towns.
The first entry in his diary re-
cords that while about half-way home one moonlight winters night, he became conscious of an over- whelming feeling of foreboding. The further he went the stronger it grew, until he could stand it no longer. Being a deeply religious man he stopped the buggy and got out. Kneeling beside the road, he prayed earnestly for a few moments. Presently, feeling the weight of fear had been lifted from his
Shoulders, he continued his journey
and arrived home without mishap.
Some months later, in an entire- lube Mui .
town
ly different entry, he records that he was summoned to the bedside of a dying farmer who wished to make his will. While there the man ad- mitted that he had a confession to make, and asked Uncle Henry if he could recall a certain lawsuit of some years back, in which he, the
farmer, would have won had it not been for a certain piece of evidence
produced by Uncle Henry. As a result not only did he lose the case but it also cost him several hundred pounds.
So great was his anger that he vowed a terrible revenge and had lain in wait for the returning soli- citor on the lonely Bampton road. In his own words he continued:
“With murder in my heart I Saw you coming sir, but just be- fore you reached me you did a strange thing. You stopped and got out and knelt down, then after a few minutes you came on. As you drew level I saw there were two of you and I was mercifully prevented from committing a das- tardly crime.”
Mrs. Barbara Hancock Lemons Cottage Atherington, Umberleigh, N. Devon, England.
R I dreamed this story, or, as mystics might say I'd in through a psychic experience. prevent any argument, let's say reamed that I died in my sleep. the ego, soul, or astral body, it what you will, came out of „carna covering and looked m upon its physical counterpart g in bed apparently not breath- „This spirit- entity, identified self, experienced a feeling of freedom; mixed with the ef one would sense when throw- way an old, stained, thread- Suit of clothes. My next might was: “So I'm dead. | what?” There was not the lest feeling of sorrow at being der in a dimension entirely to me. But there was some eliness; which, at the moment, I ib ited to a desire to mix with I thought of people I had J found myself with them. out any sensation of transi- or going from here to there. new way of thinking, their ty problems were boresome to Fo example: I thought of in D. Roosevelt, who had been inaugurated to his sec- n office (this experience of appened in 1937), and, as ht of F. D. R., I was im- ely projected into the White
IT HAPPENED TO ME... 55 A RINGSIDE SEAT WITH DEATH
House. There he and Jim Farley were discussing the possibilities of a third and fourth term in office, and the second world war that was to come.
To me they seemed like children playing with armies of toy soldiers;
-not men who believed themselves
as shapers of destiny.
None of this was surprising to me... because I knew that the third and fourth term of office for F. D. R. had already come about; that death interrupted his fourth term; and the second world war was over with. It was like reading a week-old newspaper. I got the im- pression that the time element with the living was like a clock running slow. It seemed to me that they thought only in the past. Whereas, I was thinking in the eternal NOW. And could see the whole pattern, instead’ of only a part of it» Perhaps clairvoyants see only the NOW; but to others it seems like the future.
As this thought is somewhat in- volved, I would like to digress a moment to give an example: One evening we are admiring the beauty of a star twinkling down upon us from the firmament. To us that is happening then and there. But to a learned astronomer there is a different picture. Because he knows that particular star disin-
56 MYSTIC
tegrated millions of light-years ago, and we are only just perceiving its reflections.
Bored with the childishness of the living, I felt lonesome for some of my own kind ... the dead. In a flash I was among them. It was just as if I had suddenly been de- posited in Grand Central station; with “people” hurrying here and there; with others standing in small groups.
Moving over to a group of four, two men and two women, I dis- covered that three of them were trying to convince the one woman who couldn’t believe that she was dead. There was no actual talking as the living know it; instead, a form of telepathy was the means of communication. Mental-pictures were rapidly transmitted from one to the other. It was something like turning one’s television set from one station to the other, and im- mediately getting a picture. It was apparent to me that the barrier of languages was overcome here. Because the living had first to think in images, and then form these pictures into sounds that would be understandable to another living person.
The woman was very fright- ened at the thought being con- veyed to her. This was evidenced by a blur of incoherent pictures; showing her to be bordering on
hysteria.
To avoid confusion in the telling of this anecdote, I will hereafter write: he, she, or I “said” this or that, just as though the living were talking. ile among the living I had been an inveterate smoker, There- fore, while tuning-in on this “con- versation” of departed spirits, I automatically fumbled for a cig- arette. But, as soon as I felt the desire for a smoke there was al- ready a cigarette in my mouth and a lighter in my hand. “This is going to be good.” I thought. “I have only to express a desire and imme- diately it is manifested. Hey! I’d better be careful of my thinking, or I’m liable to manifest something disagreeable; and not know how to get rid of it.” Lighting the cig- arette, I took the first deep inhala- tion... but. . . there was no sen- sation. In fact, there was nothing but a picture of the smoke issuing
one’s imagination. I thought: we carry over our desires . . . with- out the ability to satisfy them brother!” This was to be tough. But I did feel glad that I had not been an alcoholic or a
clo
i i)
~ >
IT HAPPENED TO ME... 57 ater finding its own level”.
E these souls hurried past me
hey were constantly changing
lothes.
Presumably, as they
thought of what they would like to , that too became manifest,
ed they were clothed accordingly.
And what a variety of costumes . it was like a masquerade ball. Looking around, I saw a large
K
man ion,
medi sval
built in all styles, from to ultra-modern. Work-
nen were building additions to it.
And there was no sound of axe r hammer. It was like watching ent movie. iosity moved me to enter his monstrosity, and I saw that it s furnished in every imaginable ; from conservative to the biz- e, Inside there were many, many Spirits sitting around on this poly- lot furniture. They were “conver- ing,” and the gist of their subjects is their
arth. Thi
own frustrations while on s made me think of some
f my own; with a feeling of re-
Bh * a
very
distinguished-looking old
dy, dressed in mid-Victorian tyle, was sitting on a Turkish leaning her chin on a gold- aded cane. Her piercing black e must
oughts,
been observing me. And have picked up my because she said: “Don’t
too much about the things
veren
't able to do while among
ng. All of those things you
Tet
„ e Ane
can do over here. If you want to enough.“
“But how?” I asked d ly. They were matters that were only essential on earth. There would be no purpose to them here.“
She answered, “Young man, being new on this plane you have much to learn. Look around. Do you see such a great deal of differ- ence between us and the living?”
Looking around, I saw a large gold-framed mirror on the wall op- posite me, but could see no reflec- tion of myself in it. The little old lady had referred to me as “young man;” could it be that these entities only saw each other in the form in which the other soul was pictured in their thoughts? Because, when I left the body on earth it had been middle-aged. I might be a young soul, but I certainly wasn’t a young man.
As I turned to look at her again I found that she had changed into_ a young, and very beautiful woman.
“Don’t look so surprised,” she said, smiling. “You thought of me as being old, first because of the style of dress, and second because of the elderly manner in which I was addressing you. There is no age here. We are as young or old as we think we are; or as another soul thinks of us. When I passed over, it was in the era that this type of dress was worn; therefore I feel more at home in it.”
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My new-found friend continued. “The problems you brought over here, you alone will have to work out on this plane. We all have free-will. Now we have a greater freedom for its expression. With- out the cramping, misleading in- fluences of our earthly five senses; and without the pressure that was brought to bear on us by other living people.”
As she talked I again had the de- sire to smoke. And went through the same materialization perfor- mance with a cigarette; with no sensation of enjoyment.
Noticing this. My lady friend said. “Now you are experiencing one of the things I prefer to. Un- less you eliminate certain earthly desires from your soul-mind, you will continue to try to do them over and over, endlessly; with no sense of satisfaction. Look over there at that man pouring liquor into himself. On earth he could have obtained a little escape, so- called, in that manner. And see that fat woman gulping greedily at the food on the table in front of her. She cannot taste anything; any more than the liquor-drinker can; or you with a cigarette.”
I thought to myself: “This can- not be the paradise that the living describe so beautifully. It must be some form of purgatory.”
My friend again picked up my thoughts. I had yet to learn how to
control them so that others wouldn’t get what I didn’t want them to. “Yes,” she said. “This is a form of purgatory. On this plane there are what the living call earth- bound spirits. They stay here for as long as they choose; or until they learn how to raise their vibra- tions to a higher level. As there is no time nor space in the Cosmic, many remain in this state until they are forced to reincarnate back into a living body for another op- portunity to try and learn their lessons in the earthly school.” Thinking of her high-type of mentality,” I asked, “Are you also one of these earth-bound spirits?” “No,” she answered. “I com- menced here but was able to at- tain a higher state of conscious- ness. Now, part of my work is to help newly-arrived spirit-entities to adjust themselves to this environ- ment. While in the flesh I lived in a mansion (part of this building was materialized by my thinking when I first arrived here), and I was filled with the beliefs of fam- ily-heritage. Egotisms and self-cen- tering ideologies controlled me so much that now I am trying to work out my problems, or Karma, by
helping these bewildered souls to
help themselves.”
With a little sigh, she continued. “I feel that soon I am about to reincarnate again. The thought makes me rather sad; knowing
at I will be leaving all these ildren. In spite of the weaknesses o carry over with them, through the law of cause and effect, find that I have gained compas- onate understanding, and love or them. And my work here has
ide me see the over-all pattern of why and how of things on arth. I pray that I will be able to ing some trace of this thinking ito my next carnate form. Not that expect to remember what hap- med here consciously, but in me flash-back, or dream, or, so- Alled, psychic experience, I may
brought to the realization of the tility of my form of self-expres- On in my last incarnation.” As this very beautiful lady ex- essed her innermost thoughts to ie, I was wondering what form of pression there was between the zes over here. And whether there Duld be any sensation in a kiss; Would it be just as tasteless as f cigarette? Either she was too I in her own thoughts to R up that one of mine; or else ignored it as being presump- on the part of a newly-ar- fed, earth-bound, spirit. A little ashamed of my earthly of thinking, I said. “Tell me. do I go about lifting myself higher state of consciousness?” S I said this I felt a rumbling ition throughout me, that de- into a deep, sonorous,
IT HAPPENED TO ME... 59
voice. As words formed out of these vibrations, the voice said: “You are going back. . It couldn't have come from my beau- tiful lady friend. Because she had disappeared. In fact, everything around me had faded into nothing- ness; and I felt myself shrinking as though I were being compressed into a funnel. Trying to fight off this overpowering force, I shouted: “I won't go back!” But the power forced me down; until I found my- self back at my cast-off body, and entering it against my will. In the body I sat up in bed, There was cold perspiration on my forehead, and my extremities were cold and clammy. My first gesture was to reach to a table by the bedside, where I kept my cigarettes and lighter.
IU lit a cigarette. And this time I got the familiar sensation out of the first drag on it. I started making notes about the many truths I had learned in my dream; so as not to let them slip away from my conscious mind into the dusty pigeon-holes of my subconsci- ous. While doing so I was thinking deeply about the beautiful lady I had manifested. And how wonder- ful it would be to meet her again in this world. Then I realized that, even if she reincarnated now, she would be starting life again as a new-born babe. And though she had thought of me as a young man
60 I was still middle-aged. Time doesn’t stand still on this earth-
plane. And I thought of Dr. Faus- tus, when Mephistopheles showed him a vision of the beautiful Mar- guerite, and promised him his lost youth if he would but mortgage
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his soul. Looking at the on my
cigarette, smoldering between my
fingers, I said: “I’d better give up smoking. . . one of these days.”
John G. Parry
529 S. W. 7th Couri
Miami, Fla.
BETTER FORGOTTEN
MARS ago I decided to become a nurse and go in training at the General Hospital, in San Fran- cisco. At first I was a little home- sick, then as the months went by I Was given more reponsibilities and made friends. I loved it. One night, after a snack with the girls, I went back to the ward and reported to our charge nurse. I talked with her a few minutes, then started down the corridor to answer a light. After I finished, I decided to look in on two patients who were very ill and were not expected to last through the night. Flashing my light down toward the floor I opened the door quietly. The room Was in darkness. I stood petrified, for just then I heard a sigh, then there was silence. I saw an irrides- cent light, bluish in color, smallish in size. It seemed to float like smoke from the top of the man’s head, drifting toward the open window. Seconds later I witnessed from the other bed the same procedure. I ran back to the charge nurse, AHA
me, trying to understand what was wrong. Then she took my arm and forced me back to the room with her. They were both dead. I had witnessed the death of two men, one white, the other colored. Believe me, in death there is no difference. Both minds or souls were the same.
Several older nurses tried to kid me out of what I told them. Final- ly I gave up trying to convince any- one.
Later in life, I met one of the nurses again. She told me that she had believed me— but didn’t want to be ridiculed again. She had seen a woman, in one of the smaller wards, and spoken to her. When she asked why the woman had been moved later that night, they told her that no one had been in that bed for three days, Her story had received the same ridicule as mine. That was why she had remained silent. There are things that hap- pen that we keep to ourselves,” she she informed me, No doubt she is
Chews
As a nurse I was trained not to ow emotion or panic, even when
thing was hard to comprehend. Friday evening I had a call br an interview regarding an elderly in returning from the hospital the st day. His daughters told me he d insisted on coming home, For ther’s sake, they hoped I could in time to return him to
Never will I forget the light in
‘tired old eyes, as he _ gazed his beloved room.
fy heaven! he murmured.
cient, what’s your name?” Vhile I made him comfortable talked of his illness. Mr. David is both intelligent and gracious. told me of days long since gone. er have I had such a daughterly ption for any man except my fer. At times I would find him
ing at his family, “I'll tell Ow you all neglect me.” When alked in he would start his list omplaints, calling me The te Avenger.” I knew he was ely letting off steam.
ra few months my patient another slight stroke. Still the br nor I revealed his secret, but ime was very short. Somehow I the doctor was on Mr. Da- ) side also. I changed to night from eleven to seven, at nce. nsideration of Mr. David I d very small light. It was
IT HAPPENED TO ME... 61
too dim to read so I knit, and auto- matically sipped my coffee. Look- ing up I saw a young man. “Yes?” I enquired. He had fairly run into the room, calling, “Dad.” His eyes met mine. “I'll return,” he said. He had been surprised and embar- rassed at seeing me. Confused he fled. I was indignant. At two o’clock in the morning for anyone to romp into a patient’s room — of all the nerve.
At breakfast I asked the girls about their brother. “Yes they ans- wered, “We have a brother, dead.” Shocked, I said no more, dreading what they might think of me should I have said that we had had a vis- itor. Next day they insisted, as Mr. David was in a coma, that he be transferred to the hospital. I accompanied him in the ambulance, On the way he came to, asking me where we were going. Then he turned his head toward the window, softly saying, Forgive them, for they know not what they do.” I was no longer on the payroll, but stayed as long as possible with him, knowing that his son would call for him very soon; But I had to leave. He passed on at two o'clock that morning. I was grieved that I could not be with him at the time of his death.
Betty Hall,
25344 Penn. Ave.,
- Lomita, Calif. THE END
Does the atom bomb effect
THE
OR many years before atomic
fission became a fact, scien-
tists were studying sunspot activity in relation to heavy rain- fall. Sir James Jeans, the British phycisist, proved a definite connec- tion, through charts made of tree ring growth and sunspot- charts. Andrew E. Douglas, Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Steward Observatory for the Uni- versity of Arizona, went much fur- ther. His work started in 1901, and he has records dating back to A. D. 11. His findings prove conclusively the definite relation of heavy rain- fall and heavy sunspotting.
How “storms” on the sun can affect earth weather has never been determined, but in some way they do.
Since the invention of radio, other interesting discoveries shave been made. During periods of high sunspot activity, magnetic storms in the atmosphere of the earth are greatly intensified. This interferes with radio and telgeraphic com- munication.
For this reason, amateur astron- omers in different parts of the
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DAGGER BEHIND
country are employed to keep charts on sunspots. In this way radio and telephone communica- tion lines can be kept open. Wea- ther men also use this information to route planes and shipping. Sunspot activity has been intensi- fied immensely since the first atomic explosions in 1945. The lar- gest sunspot area ever recorded was on February 5, 1946. As 1942-43 was the expected maximum, only the size of the spotted area was un- usual; but activity should have di- minished after that, until the min- imum was reached in 1953-’54. Instead, in May, 1947, the area of spottedness of the solar surface was the greatest recorded over nearly a hundred year period. Then in 1948 another peak occur- red which was nearly as great. And in May, 1951, Dr. William Marko- witz, of the Naval Observatory, re- ported a giant sunspot group, the largest in four years, followed by the usual serious disturbances in tadio and telegraphic communica-
tions. This, when sunspot mini- » should have been approach-
} 1 would seem that not only do ipsets on the sun affect our , but our earth can, in turn, se disturbances on the sun. hese were all periods of atom omb testing activity.
Solar phenomena and the effect the earth has been studied ex- sively since the war, not only n the United States, but all over the world. Russia is known to have en notably active. The fields of Har physics, the earth’s atmos- pre, meteoric astronomy, and es- cially magnetic phenomena are special interest to astronomers it this time.
This, of itself, would not be so gnificant if our sun were not to be a yellow dwarf. A low dwarf is the most interesting, d also the most dangerous, type Star. It is known as a variable i, which means that it pulsates, ‘expands and contracts. But
weather, our health, earth's equilibrium?
HE ATOMIC CLOAK By Marion Kirkpatrick
every once in a while yellow dwarfs expand and keep on ex- panding. They are then called ex- ploding stars.
Because astronomers know this, but do not know what causes a star to explode, professional astronomers have enlisted the aid of many amateur astronomers. These ama- teurs are assigned certain variable stars to watch. They check the brightness at stated times each night. Some of these stars vary in brightness over a period of hours, some over a period of months. By keeping a constant check, astrono- mers hope to be able to learn what causes a yellow dwarf to explode. For this reason they also keep re- cords of sunspot activity.
Many astronombers believe that excessive sunspotting may cause our sun to burst all bounds and become an exploding star. If it should explode, Venus, Mercury,
64 MYSTIC
Earth and Mars would be engulfed in a matter of minutes.
During heavy sunspot activity, cosmic radiation on earth rises far above normal. Our earth is send- ing some radiation into space during test bombing. Is it unreasonable to believe that this radiation—unin- tended by Nature—could seriously upset the sun? The radiation is small, compared to solar radiation, but it is possible that even a small amount can upset natural bal- ance, when coming from a source never intended by Nature.
It is generally known that the
true north pole and the magnetic pole do not coincide. It is also known that the magnetic pole varies séveral degrees as the earth wobbles on its axis. At the Ameri- can Meteorological. Society meet- ing in Washington, Drs. Walter Munk and Gordon Groves stated the belief that monsoons pushing against the high Himalayas. and air masses moving over the Asiatic continent keep the North Pole moving in a flat circle of 20 feet in diameter.
This would indicate that the earth is very delicately balanced. If winds and air masses could
cause the pole to move, a series of and H-bomb tests could surely nudge the earth on her axis—and in a direction opposite to Nature’s intended direction,
Tt is believed that, should the
gët
magnetic pole approach too near the true north pole, the poles would “jump” together, causing tidal waves, earthquakes of unbelieve- able magnitude, and possible vol- canic eruptions throughout the earth.
Are they getting dangerously close? d The orbit of the Moon around the earth depends on magnetic at- traction. Proof that our magnetic system is out of order comes from the Royal Astronomer of England. He states that the “moon is out of gear,” and is, in consequence, re-charting the tides for the first
time in history.
He does not say that atomic blasts are responsible for this con- dition, only that the condition ex- ists. But many people would like to know why this has happened.
The denials by military author- ities, government officials, and scientists that A-bombs have caused drastic weather changes, have be- come notorious. Do the facts bear out the denials?
In the September 8, 1951 issue of Science News Letter, Jerome Namias, Chief of the extended forecast section of the United States weather bureau, said that the unusual weather conditions of the winter of 1949-’50 could per- sist for months, and “result in ice age epochs.” He cautiously started
that the explanation is clearly anti-
b ent was in the Pacific area, first ever recorded. The follow- ig year the pattern was repeated, hich was very unexpected. This movement of air masses was mid- ay between Alaska and Hawaii. )A-bomb explosions cause a pil- rf of smoke and fire to race toward Me sky at a speed of nearly ght miles per second. gine, if you can, the terrific bances this causes in our at- here, Air currents are drawn d the explosion site, regard» of their normal direction. d air from the polar region, hot from the tropics, all crowd to- d the test site. one with good eyesight and intelligence can look at a ‘of the Pacific area and ac- for the clockwise whirls in mosphere. Still, a report from sources stated that tests bring rain! ring the tests early in 1952, ‘little town of Mina, Nevada d three inches of rain in less | three days. This is the average for the town. More- i — New Mexico and i Texas received the dr g rain in over a year ig the same period. It was
THE DAGGER BEHIND THE ATOMIC CLOAK 65
and 1952 tests.
Many parts of the United States and the Hawaiian Islands are un- dergoing serious drouth conditions. This could be accounted for through the change in pressure areas. The highest air pressure belt, located for centuries over the Ber- ing Sea, is said to have. disappear- ed, and to be re-forming over Northwest Africa. If this is true, what earthly disturbance could have caused it?
What more logical explanation than atomic tests?
Another question many people would like to have answered by our scientists pertains to the ozone. This is a protective layer of oxy- gen gas which is slightly different from ordinary oxygen, in that it is composed of three atoms to the molecule, instead of the usual two.
The ozone layer is probably the most important single layer in our atmosphere. Although it is only one-tenth inch thick, it filters out most of the ultraviolet and red and infrared rays of the sun. It also filters some of. the yellow-green radiation. So well balanced is it in thickness, it allows just enough ultraviolet light to penetrate to the surface of the earth for health, but keeps out enough to keep us from burning, as long as we are sensi- bly cautious about sunburn.
Is this layer of ozone self-renew- ing?
$ OS
Atomic blasts, causing pressures that travel skyward at speeds of eight miles per second, must draw huge amounts of atmospheric gas- ses into outer space. If the layer of ozone is not self-renewing, how many more blasts will it take to change it enough so that our earth will no longer sustain life?
Smithsonian scientists are using a 50-year record of variations in the yellow-green band to trace changes in the ozone layer. Radionic in- struments show that longwave, elec- tromagnetic energy is entering our atmosphere, Ultraviolet radiation is known to decrease during sun- spot minimum, but there has been no sunspot minimum. Could harm- ful rays be penetrating the ozone layer, rays unknown on earth un- til now?
Many times in the past our earth has experienced heavy meteor showers, often called shooting stars. These usually follow the appear- ance of a comet. Following these showers, many new disease germs seem to become active causing ailments difficult to diagnose, and even more difficult to treat. A belief, surviving from ancient times, is that pestilence follows the appearance of a comet. Could this be caused by harmful rays allowed to enter our atmosphere by the “holes” made in the ether by the meteors?
Hans ; Turing, Austrian physis
*
cist, says: Cosmic rays have very much the same effect on the hu- man body as atomic radiation.“
Whether atomic blasts have opened the way for new disease germs to enter our atmosphere from outer space, or whether new diseases are being caused by radio- active dust, remains problemati- cal, but it isa fact that science cannot account for “Virus X,” the “three-day flu” or the disease which attacked the leg veins of the 22 nurses in a New York hospital.
The increasing frequency of the dread lukemia, which so closely re- sembles radiation sickness, is caus- ing the greatest alarm throughout the country. Many people would like to know whether lukemia is ac- tually increasing, or whether many people are dying of radia- tion sickness.
Radiation from debris of the fission process can be picked up all over the world. It is reported that the first radioactive cloud is still being tracked as it wanders over the earth.
Studies by the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission found there is a definite trend toward more luk- emia in children of residents of Na- gasaki and Hiroshima.
If our atmosphere in the United States is not polluted from debris from the fission process, why has lukemia increased so alarmingly here also?
Mankind is playing with forces far beyond his understanding. Our ‘scientists have admitted they are, ‘at times, uncertain of the outcome of many experiments. How far have they gone toward evaluating final outcome of unrestrained e of the A-bomb?
Could it be possible the Rus- sia n scientists have been investiga- ‘tin g many of these problems, and fo! that reason want to outlaw the A-bomb? Are these some of the ngs Andrei Y. Vishinsky was al- ng to when he said the Ameri- can press will understand some time What a disaster for mankind lies in i race for atomic and hydrogen bomb superiority? Note that he did not say in atomic warfare.
The answers to the questions pre- ented here could not give “aid and tomfort” to the Russians. There is strong possibility that the answers would not aid and comfort the mericans, either, but they would ot feel quite so frustrated and
THE DAGGER BEHIND THE ATOMIC CLOAK
67
helpless.
What right have military auth- orities, in a democracy, to “clas- sify,” or, more plainly, Aide from the people those things which might frighten them? Is the Am- erican public so mentally unstable that every frightening fact should be “classified” or hidden; that military authorities should appoint themselves nursemaids to the people, in order to protect them from the facts of life? i
The knowledge of Russia’s de- velopment of the atomic bomb was “classified” for many months. Surely Russia knew about their bomb! Who is the enemy? Do our military authorities merely like the role of nursemaid? They “classified” flying saucers, and in so doing they pronounced thousands of our citizens insane. Who is insane? The people who saw them, or the people who said there was no such thing, because they have never seen one?
THE END
Bishop Sheen's Ghostly Straight Man
During Bishop Fulton J; Sheen's March 14 broadcast, he asked: “Would rere rd to say: “Of course not!” The explanation for this strange occurrence 38 said to be d technician, in transferring the program from the studio con- l to the master control, inadvertently threw the switch to ABC for an instant of Dumont, affecting the sound, but NOT THE PICTURE. Is this possible? @ recording of the ABC program for the same time actually have rds in it? You TV technicians, let's have h the sound of a program and ‘leave the picture behind?.
opne: (poln Pa le,
$ OS
Atomic blasts, causing pressures that travel skyward at speeds of eight miles per second, must draw huge amounts of atmospheric gas- ses into outer space. If the layer of ozone is not self-renewing, how many more blasts will it take to change it enough so that our earth will no longer sustain life?
Smithsonian scientists are using a 50-year record of variations in the yellow-green band to trace changes in the ozone layer. Radionic in- struments show that longwave, elec- tromagnetic energy is entering our atmosphere, Ultraviolet radiation is known to decrease during sun- spot minimum, but there has been no sunspot minimum. Could harm- ful rays be penetrating the ozone layer, rays unknown on earth un- til now?
Many times in the past our earth has experienced heavy meteor showers, often called shooting stars. These usually follow the appear- ance of a comet. Following these showers, many new disease germs seem to become active causing ailments difficult to diagnose, and even more difficult to treat. A belief, surviving from ancient times, is that pestilence follows the appearance of a comet. Could this be caused by harmful rays allowed to enter our atmosphere by the “holes” made in the ether by the meteors?
Hans ; Turing, Austrian physis
*
cist, says: Cosmic rays have very much the same effect on the hu- man body as atomic radiation.“
Whether atomic blasts have opened the way for new disease germs to enter our atmosphere from outer space, or whether new diseases are being caused by radio- active dust, remains problemati- cal, but it isa fact that science cannot account for “Virus X,” the “three-day flu” or the disease which attacked the leg veins of the 22 nurses in a New York hospital.
The increasing frequency of the dread lukemia, which so closely re- sembles radiation sickness, is caus- ing the greatest alarm throughout the country. Many people would like to know whether lukemia is ac- tually increasing, or whether many people are dying of radia- tion sickness.
Radiation from debris of the fission process can be picked up all over the world. It is reported that the first radioactive cloud is still being tracked as it wanders over the earth.
Studies by the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission found there is a definite trend toward more luk- emia in children of residents of Na- gasaki and Hiroshima.
If our atmosphere in the United States is not polluted from debris from the fission process, why has lukemia increased so alarmingly here also?
Mankind is playing with forces far beyond his understanding. Our ‘scientists have admitted they are, ‘at times, uncertain of the outcome of many experiments. How far have they gone toward evaluating final outcome of unrestrained e of the A-bomb?
Could it be possible the Rus- sia n scientists have been investiga- ‘tin g many of these problems, and fo! that reason want to outlaw the A-bomb? Are these some of the ngs Andrei Y. Vishinsky was al- ng to when he said the Ameri- can press will understand some time What a disaster for mankind lies in i race for atomic and hydrogen bomb superiority? Note that he did not say in atomic warfare.
The answers to the questions pre- ented here could not give “aid and tomfort” to the Russians. There is strong possibility that the answers would not aid and comfort the mericans, either, but they would ot feel quite so frustrated and
THE DAGGER BEHIND THE ATOMIC CLOAK
67
helpless.
What right have military auth- orities, in a democracy, to “clas- sify,” or, more plainly, Aide from the people those things which might frighten them? Is the Am- erican public so mentally unstable that every frightening fact should be “classified” or hidden; that military authorities should appoint themselves nursemaids to the people, in order to protect them from the facts of life? i
The knowledge of Russia’s de- velopment of the atomic bomb was “classified” for many months. Surely Russia knew about their bomb! Who is the enemy? Do our military authorities merely like the role of nursemaid? They “classified” flying saucers, and in so doing they pronounced thousands of our citizens insane. Who is insane? The people who saw them, or the people who said there was no such thing, because they have never seen one?
THE END
Bishop Sheen's Ghostly Straight Man
During Bishop Fulton J; Sheen's March 14 broadcast, he asked: “Would rere rd to say: “Of course not!” The explanation for this strange occurrence 38 said to be d technician, in transferring the program from the studio con- l to the master control, inadvertently threw the switch to ABC for an instant of Dumont, affecting the sound, but NOT THE PICTURE. Is this possible? @ recording of the ABC program for the same time actually have rds in it? You TV technicians, let's have h the sound of a program and ‘leave the picture behind?.
opne: (poln Pa le,
A PLOT AGAINST OUR | LIVES
by an age-old enemy of the human race, which has for thousands of years destroyed civili- zations, and has during our civilization, murdered the best minds, and invoked all the hatreds that have kept us from uniting, until today its grim threat is death itself in the form of atomic war, and atomic death in its worst form.
By Richard S. Shaver
of mob violence which so ruthlessly and inescapably destroyed every leader, every thinker in all France. It was malevolent plan, carefully and completely worked out to the last drop of blood, that destroyed everything fine in France—and blamed it all on Democracy, on “the people”.
The blood bath of the French revolution“ was but the culminat- ing crime of a long series of terri- ble campaigns against the minds of man. History records one of these campaigns as “the witchcraft
»
In Spain this witchcraft perse- cution built up to the Inquisition, peaked by the auto da fe. All over Europe this terrible business of kill- ing thinkers went on and on through long centuries of elimina- tion of the best of mankind.
Scholars today seem to see little connection between the horrors of the Inquisition and the terrors of the French revolution. Yet to those who know, there is no essential dif- ference, in fact not even a pause, between the succeeding operations upon the growing mind of the race of mankind.
Tuch, the ancient dwellers of the caverns, fear the mind of mankind ‘as they fear no other thing. The “Tong. Bin: roll of the Inquisition, ‘the witch burnings al over Europe, ‘the persecution’ of the “heretics”, all the dark, bloody doings of me-
dieval darkness, were in actuality but the mopping-up from an older, longer war—a war of century after century of careful pruning back of
the growing race. That endless struggle was, and is, for the great- est possession, the most tremendous value that exists on earth, That treasure is the science of those great peoples who built the caverns. The so-called “witches” and “sor- cerers” they burned so enthuiastic- ally were the last surface possessors of fragments of that Elder science. Today we laugh, ignorantly, con- descendingly, at their “magical” books, at their mumbo-jumbo reci- pes for niagic. Those things of magic which have come down to us from medieval times seem the work of ignorant, credulous fools. For they are just that! The true “Black Books” the actual scrolls of genu- ine scientific data, were very care- fully eliminated, for that was the purpose behind the whole campaign. The silly relics left us today are purposely left to mislead moderns into having the attitude they do have toward the “dark ages“.
The underworld succeeded ad- mirably in that long struggle’ for complete possession of the ancient science. They did overlook one fact, that you’ must have scientists to own science, and their fear and ig- norance ‘today is the same as their fear and ignorance then. Even among themselves, they cannot let
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‘any one man know too much, for the same reasons they destroy our ‘surface men of science.
So they succeeded, and confined all knowledge of the underworld to the underworld, bottled up ap- parently forever. But, on the sur- face, the minds of men like Lavoi- Sier were laying the base of modern Science as we know it today. They feared modern science, but some- how it grew, even though they ab- orted its birth. I, perhaps alone among men, fear they succeeded even here. For modern science rests upon several false premises; its base has serious faults which may cause its complete downfall.
Our modern technological cul- ture rests upon the tenuous base of the atom bomb, waiting for that ‘moment when the master pulls the puppet’s strings and the ter- rible holocaust begins that will end our civilization. It is not a solid base for our people to con- sider, that atom bomb.
The atom bomb is a product of our surface science. If we pos~ sessed the elder science, we would never produce fission bombs. They knew better, from ancient experi- ence with radioactivity and kin- dred ills of all atomic fire. In their science, all that is not inte- grant, and all that is disintegrant is an enemy of life. We know that much, up here today, yet we handle and work with disinte-
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grance both as a weapon and as a tool. We are beginning to recog- nize it for the deadly adversary of life that it is, but will our knowl- edge of its nature come rapidly enough to stop its injuries? It doesn’t look that way. It looks as if the atom bomb, the H-bomb and atomic energy are going to fin- ish us before we finish with them.
Yes, our modern industrial ciy- ilization rests upon a base com- pletely undermined by our dead- liest enemies. Apparently we are already done, just waiting for the axe to fall. The air fleets are be- ing readied; potential nation-de- stroyers await their cargoes of uni- versal death. All this is, as al- ways controllable by unseen rays upon the minds of the men who command. We think those com- manders and ‘leaders are our own, chosen and trained by our own— and they are. But their minds can be taken over at any time by a people who have no love for us, nor for themselves or any other living thing; a people raised in a tradition unbelieveable unless ex- perienced.
Over our heads this ancient en- emy now holds the greatest club it has ever held! The whole future of mankind upon earth, any future at all, depends, today, upon whether hey fear the after-effects of the bombs more than they fear the future development of man.
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(Hence, any solon who belittles the total peril of atom bombard- ment is an ignorant fool who-has no real knowledge of the issues in- volved.)
Our world-wars, the first in 1914, and the last the Korean farce (if anything so tragic and expensive can be called a farce), all occurred in’ my lifetime. To the average citizen these wars
_ have seemed inevitable struggles
between great nations for living room, for power, for all the things that make nations great and ri Yet over and over our present day historians point out that no nation has visibly profited from any of these wars. They are right; no nation profited, all lost.
But they are wrong in thinking that any one nation or any group of nations caused or ordered these wars. The Hohenzollerns lost everything in their great gamble for world domination—we say. Doesn’t it seem strange that any great family having so much would gamble it all in a mad thirst for.
more and more?
These wars are but parts of the ancient time-worn process of keep- ing surface man whittled down to size. Before the first world war Germany possessed the great uni-- versities, the laboratories, the fam- ous physicists and men of rë- search. Today, after two genera-
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our turn. For today we, the U.S.A. possess the greatest and best cra- dles of scientific learning, where the scientists who will build the future are being trained. As the pattern goes, the U.S. A. will emerge inevitably from the next war defeated, broken, and shorn of all true scientific power, shorn probably forever of all true men- tal growth.
If we emerge from another world war, it will be as a-stag- gering nonentity, a remnant of flesh without a mind, a France for- ever after futile.
After the next world war, when recovery sets in, the technicians of the world will come from some other nation. Perhaps from the new Canada, grown great by stay- ing neutral. Perhaps from such now little nations as Switzerland and Sweden, grown great because others have grown small. That is, if radioactivity from the atom bomb lets any nation liye on in health.
All young thinkers refuse such pessimism, such despair toward the future, and rightly so. Optimism is natural and right for the young. I only hope they can see deeply enough to accept the information I can give them, while refusing to accept the despair. It is not easy for the modern public school pro- duct to an of this contrary to all
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have been taught. First-they to think their way out of a l strait-jacket. of untruth. 4 Beets step back to the days be- e the French Revolution. This was the hey-day of the Marquis de e. Today we use the word sadist without realizing the man s not a myth. The Marquis was al, a man as well known to mce as Tommy Manville is to He was a fashionable aristo- leader of a coterie of power- and rich young libertines. Let's ppose for the sake of illustra- that the Marquis de Sade was who had access. to the caves, lone who had signed on with the avowed enemies of mankind. (To- day such recruits are usually 0 Though they pay millions for the privilege, they get little for it. But, according to what little itings exist on the subject, this not always so in the past, and recruits sometimes achieved wer.) Now, let's further sup- that the Marquis de Sade and "his followers lived at the exact ‘time of the Revolution (they were in fact earlier) and that they es- aped its fury, went down into he caves... What would wah a group have to the people who. destroyed their monarchist playground, re- placed it with a young “people’s State’? Wouldn’t they have en- red a counter-revolution to
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avenge the artistocrats?
Isn't that about what happened to the revolutionists?
Looked at through the eyes of the Marquis, history gives a dif- ferent picture than we ever see in a school text. Sadly one must conclude that the sadists have had far too many successes for comfort to the right-makes-might theorists.
Suppose, too, that the cavern rulers could give a servant like de Sade a life-span two or three times the normal three score and ten. How much deviltry would he ac- complished in 200 years of cruel debauchery? Enough to wreck the French race, do you think?
Napoleon and his wars wrecked the French race, probably without too much prodding from beneath. We do know she has never re- gained her former position.
No, it didn't happen exactly that way. I was trying to draw a picture of their work in a form you could grasp easily.
The reality of their work is a subtler and less evident meddling. But we today have our groups of favored “aristos” who do their bidding on the surface. just as they did in the days of de Sade. That their work is less dark, or their pleasures less grisly than those of the Marquis, I have no reason to
(Naturally, these past remarks are directed only to those who
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know something about de Sade’s history, his record of cruel and unusual amusements, his group’s habit of indulging in dalliance while victims were tortured under their eyes.)
I wonder if “the flimsy base upon which our civilization rests” will be a fully understood phrase? The elder culture (to compare for illustration), was based upon an understanding of the causes of hu- man conduct denied to us (literal- ly denied). We have no true un- derstanding of human nature or why we are driven to destroy each other and our work. Hence, not knowing “why”, we cannot stop the approach of war.
The elder monitors knew the in- fluence of sun and star cosmic ra- diations upon human thought, and they were trained to recognize this influence when its symptoms ap- peared in the affected individual. There are a number of symptoms to look for, especially in children, whose little minds are forming. Their pedagogy was based upon a system of picking out these affected individuals while still young and subjecting them to special treat- ment and restraint. In the worst cases, of course (such as the young Hitler must have been), they were destroyed.
I know a few of these ies toms, though only a few, from sources you can guess. One of
bedclothes, in the very young child. It is the same movement the doctor today recognizes as ap- proaching death in a very sick person. All children go through a stage of life when they have not learned to resist these mental in- fluences, we call this the “mischie- vous stage”. This is a very im- portant stage of life, when the character is really formed. If the young mind does not learn uncon- sciously to resist these powerful influences when young, he becomes what we call 'the stinker’. If the “stinker” does not learn to fear the results of his errant conduct, he becomes the true criminal.
The work of such men as Freud, Kraft-Ebbing, etc., would be vast- ly more valuable to pedagogy if it recognized this true basic cause of errant behavior. As it is, psychia- try is a false science, because its premises contain large errors. This is demonstrably true, however it may horrify the student who has swallowed the pedants’ errors whole hog (by pedants, I mean the teachers who have made Freud and the others a kind of - infallible fetish to explain all human be- havior).
It is very difficult to go on dis- cussing this thing as if it were in the past, or were some abstract theory. .. as it actually
in my experience, so that I know
nd want to scream a warning of resent peril to the world. It is ficult to struggle with the gen- fal lack of knowledge on this ubject. For instance, if every scientist ing on research knew that rtain lines of research meant death for himself For instance, if border patrol- police, immigration inspec- rs, customs inspectors, etc., etc., not to learn certain things, wouldn’t die like my broth-
For instance, if the human race a whole knew they had an en- my who meant to make simple ient cattle of them, and were aching success in this an-
E F that a hint worked in subtly is more apt to reach a hearer n any broad statement of fact
This silent scream of warning to 5 | helpless, dear, unknowing fu- re human race goes on and on, ut how to make the present-day
an hear is beyond me, Too, a beyond me what they are sup- sed to do about it if they do lar. They could be far worse off lowing than not knowing. Nevertheless one can't help ng though it is like shouting a deaf man on a tight rope. Want to tell him the rope is
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fraying, but he goes on with his antics.
There is an old Chinese adage that goes something like this: “The fool is killed by accident, the smart man dies by his own hand.” The adage dates from the days of de- cadence of the Empire, when the value of life sank to its lowest ebb. It is the true pessimist’s ne- gation of the value of life.
Let us hope it is not really ap- plicable today. But with the atom bomb hanging over our heads, and the ancient menace under our feet, the outlook is not exactly an optimist’s picnic ground.
You who read will probably dis- count “the ancient menace”, but you can hardly discount the atomic weapons as an illusion. The average man can do as little about one as the other, it seems.
The man of research, the men such as those who helped to create the atomic menace, can doa lot about both. If they knew.
For instance, there are about a dozen relatively nearby stars whose radiant emanations are deadly to thought, damp out the sensitive electrical mechanism the human brain really is. Our own sun, of course, is the worst of- fender, but there are several stars which help. The survival of this ancient knowledge is evidenced by the existence of astrology, insist- ing as it does that the stars influ-
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ence human character and behav- ior. They do, directly so!
These mentally disturbing rays could be isolated, studied, some de- fense against them attempted. These rays and their effects upon life were the original cause of the construction of the caves. The miles of rock insulation overhead should help to keep out the harm- ful effects. That they have not done so for the cavern people of today is no fault of the builders, but the fault of the ignorance of the original rediscoverers of the
- caves after the twin diasters of
sun-fire and water earth nearly clean of life.
They turned the conductive beams of the mechanisms upward, bringing in sunlight . . bringing in the same evil that afflicts us on the surface with criminals. The mechanisms were not meant to be used as they used them, and as time went on the inbuilt filters and protective devices broke down, letting in the degenerative influence of the rays. Poured through in concentrated form up- on their own bodies, the cavern dwellers were more adversely af- fected by them than ourselves on the surface.
So we have evil in the caves, and we have evil upon the sur- face. The religionists say God will
swept
destroy us all for this evil. Mystics
like ourselves can only ponder and
wonder where any solution can be found, where any power can be produced to combat evil. The childish mental error that grows up to become the adult evil is a pow- er upon earth and under the earth, today