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i a eT ne) ea @ Do de ee Wate Dee ee ee ts 2 ee “@ teste) ee a eae te ee n “ - ~—s . . : ~ 2dOG at : . e lo j Cc ‘ 4 study, The changing climate of opinion was indicated in a most encouraging way iu December 1969 when the Arnecrican Association for the Advancement of Science '"AAAS' accepted ihe Parapsycnology Association as an Affiliate Member." Que last pointin this respect; in short, it appears that to esteblish for himself PSI as a reality, the scientist must alrcady’believe, partially ecleast thet it could exist, Tris has proven too much of a departure for most scientists, and itis not gurprisins that their attempts to repeat Dr. J. B. Rhine's or other such scilentiZic vaperiment: have been not gencrally too successful, Andso, they have gathered far less evicexce of PSI than psychical researchers when, for conviction, they have ~aaded far more. ; . : . : esychologist Ernest R, Hilgard explains whey in Science Digest, Nov. 1965.. "To demonstrate something highly implausible requires better evidence than to demonst- rate something plausiblé. The reason is that supporting evidence for the plausible finding comes from many directions, while the implausible one must hang from the slender thread of nonrandomness until certain systematic relationships are found that tie it firmly to the known. “hy do we have so much trouble understanding the mechanisms by which such things become a reality? The means for tying it to the known has been appzrext all along, ‘bowever, it remains for someone to tie them all up in a nice tidy bundle. For ex-: ample, if we turn to the astute medical reference book "The Neurosciences", second study program, published by the Rockefeller University Press, 1970, chapter 47 on ‘Tguroendocrine Communication (36) and chapter 68 on Neurotrarsmitters and Neuro- hormone and Neurosecretory neurons, we learn that the brain, through actual wnought processes , causes the neurosecretory neurons to secrete "messenger enz- yrrves'' and hormones which are dispatched to specific organs, glands and tissues of. Ie body. These messenger enzymes or hormones can then activate or ceactivate the manufacture and use of other body hormones, enzymes and molecules therevy controlling through such "messengers" the level of activity of physiological functions of the entire body, in essence, our sickness, recovery and/or health, One has only to accept, as some scientists do, the minds ability to communicate by ESP 'and tele- ‘pathy to understand, a scientifically acceptable, explanation of f ho ow psychic } he ealing may becorne a reality, ts Hi BedbbeL hy si eed Other "sixth er forgotten sense" functions of the mind and body, such as tactile ‘ision (37) are just as logically, scientifically, and clinically explained. By knowing “tne mechanisms by which such ‘'sight" can occur in totally blind people, training in tactile sight (38) can become a reality evenina Unive rsity environment such as the. program at CeO ets State at Atlanta. é Some of our nation's better technologists (39) and « even Astronauts such as Dr, Edgar D. Mitchel (40) do accept and recognize the frontiers of the inind and are now be~ ginning to dedicate their professional and financial lives. to it's study, Dr. Mitchel - is so trong 2 a believer that he takes hull pi age advertisements in national magazines quihi : ‘ _ x new