Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 16, 1969, Winnipeg, Manitoba No Lipec free wednesday 16, 1969 fun is fading from by Alfred Friendly London special birth place of psychical research the believers Are Stul Faith Ful but the fire is gone from their bellies. Science and the empirical approach As has been their wont Ever since they proved that he Moon not made of Green cheese have taken the fun out of psychic Phenomena. For the most part the respectable be Lievers in mental telepathy supernormal cognition extrasensory perception spiritualism telekinesis and the rest of it base their Faith on the thought that such things ought to exist in a decent interesting world. But they limit their convictions by the dreary honesty that science ordains and confess that they prove what they so much want to be proven. Styles As Well As degrees of certainty in what is now called As a generic term parapsychology have changed from the Early Days. With Feu exceptions like the presently renowned Rosemary Broun busily transcribing what seem to be second rate compositions dictated to her in accented English by Bach. Beethoven and Chopin mediums and spiritualists Are no longer rage. Ant leaving aside the sad Little Folk in Shashy houses held together with the Aroma of centuries Bogie cd cabbage the inquirers do not pay much attention t o ectoplasm Al emissions table mappings Bell ringing or ghosts Al though there is some Resi dual interest in Polter it was clearly More fun Back in 1s82, when the society for psychical re search was founded and spiritualism and physical Phenomena were objects of concern o f the Learned members. And they were Learned among the presi dents were physicists like sir Oliver Lodge both lords Raleigh and sir William Crookes he of the Crookes tube Hul his interest in spirits is thought to have been rather less than in the attractive medium who conjured them other presidents were he american philosopher William James the French philosopher Henri Bergson. And the great classicist g i 1 b e r t Murray. Arthur Conan Doyle of course was another famous member. Almost All the Early followers were attracted to the subject by a desire to prove the existence of an afterlife at a time when 19th Century science had engendered close to unbearable doubts. According to the Hon. Secretary of tie society j. H. Cullen. That purpose still remains the principal activating Force of those who become members i Flay. The curious fact however is that participation in the organization tends to Lessen Faith and raise doubts rather than the reverse or. Cutten de clares. To be sure most of the presents 1100 members a record High remain con Vinced that there is some thing to parapsychology but they tend to become infected with the Only corporate attitude to which the society subscribes the need to subject each manifestation to objective scrutiny and the refusal to accept it unless scientifically proved. As mentioned above it is an approach that has melancholy consequences. At a meeting of the society hat i attended recently not More than a dozen hands in an audience of 500 were raised affirmatively to the question do Yogi believe that esp and paranormal events have been scientifically the audience intent genteel Square and As near As one could Tell by appear ances upper Middle class with better than Avera a. Education heard two distinguished psychologists specialists in the subject matter argue the negative and another equally renowned psychologist and a geneticist who is a fellow of Trinity College Cambridge and a believer in poltergeists argue the Side that the listeners wanted to hear and take Hope from. But the chairman 73 Vear old sir Alister Hardy fellow of the Royal society masochistic ally held his acid the audience s fort to the fire. His exposition was rigorous As befitted an emeritus professor of zoo logy at Oxford. But offered As if by a Man in pain parapsychology has not yet met the proper scientific requirements for acceptability. Then he said As it seemed to me wistfully and half forgetful of Thoss around him i know Tele Pathy exists from some experiences of my own. But i can t prove it scientific Al 6.000 unnoticed death Nashville. Tenn. A the suggestion Box in one Rie per tent at Vanderbilt univer sity has been removed. 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