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Approved For Releas -RDP96-00789R00100142000453....0 05. There are three avenues that parapsychologist have long since recognized as possible routes to general acceptance of psi: 1. Through experiments which produce psi upon demand in Laboratories so skeptics are convinced that all conditions are correctly controlled. 2. Through mainstream sciences acceptance of new theories which explain psi phenomena. 3. Through finding practical applications that “work" regardless of our limited understanding (33:xii-xiil). Researchers have traditionally tried to use method one to convince the scientific community, | but “prevailing concepts” reign supreme. Method two is also directly dependent on the scientific community and is very unlikely given the limited understanding of psi today. That is why psi practitioners and many researchers have gone to method three in the 1980s. Through practical application they can develop their skills, leaving “prevailing concepts" behind, along with the scientific community. Many researchers point to how the scientific community was the last to accept hypnotism--so too researchers feel psi will gain acceptance from society long before the scientific community comes to grips with it. Operational use of psi is up to the user. King Croesus was content after one test to use the Delphi oracle. World famous psychic, Edgar I. Cayce, advised General John Pershing and accompanied him on European missions. Fven General Patton used the psi talents of a Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP96-00789R001001420001-3 Lae a