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| Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300330001-8 IN734-855 This "so" would mean "How could something like this happen?" This would be. a criticism of us. - Also, at the time we were watching the student bend and break a spoon, we wondered, "Is this really happening, or is it a dream?" Therefore, while we were waiting for the editorial department experiment, we were feeling odd mixed emotions. ‘The experiment did not start off very smoothly. The student was thirty minutes late because of traffic. "He's really coming, isn't he?" asked the editor-in-chief half jokingly. When the student still had not arrived after fifteen more minutes, the editor-in-chief and some of the editorial department staff went downstairs to the cafeteria to have a late lunch. ; Some of those who stayed behind did not seem to. have their heart in it. It seemed that they were not really believers, and we were uneasy. ‘Finally the student arrived. To be truthful, it was then that I finally relaxed. I have spent a lot of time with this introduction, but the reason I did this was to give a psychic demonstration. This type of confused mental state my be considered to be representative of normal reactions to. psychic powers. The reason why it is so difficult for people to believe in psychic powers is because it cannot be demonstrated at any place or at any time. Just like the psychic student who cannot pick up a spoon at any time and bend it. If he should have a cold or be tired, it takes him a lot longer to bend the spoon. This day was not exactly ideal. He still had not bent the spoon after thirty minutes. Everyone was watching closely. The atmosphere kept getting more and more tense. People were having more and more doubts. We were more nervous than the subject. After lunch, the editor-in-chief had business at the editorial department on the ninth floor. The student would often lift his hand off the spoon and joke with the editorial department. "If I can't do it, I'll be embarrassed. I'm so ashamed that I°ve lost my confidence." It seems he knew just how we were feeling. This is exactly what we were thinking. "Maybe our nervouseness has a negative effet on him." This is just what I was thinking, so I left for.a while, and went up to the editorial department on the ninth floor, I went back to the offices on the '. fourth floor about five minutes later. When I got to the door, I noticed that it was oddly quiet inside. Then I felt, "Aha, it's beginning." -9|- Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300330001-8