Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 13, 1974, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press thursday 1uni 13, 1974 Wimin thee Rev Kajj _ astronaut turns from outer space to inner space of n t h i c experiments. In preparing this Moisiu. Pear cd this year arc fron study which allows Readi by Charles Foley san Francisco Spe Cial owns when capt. Edgar Mitchell . Navy travelled to the Moon As a crewman on Apollo 14 he says he was As pragmatic a test Pilot Engineer and scientist As you d find but his moment in space gave him a vision of planet Earth that filled him with Awe and wonder and dramatically changed his life. It began with the experience 6t seeing Earth float ing in the vastness of space in All its incredible Majestic breathtaking our planet seemed to fit so harmoniously into the evolutionary pattern of the universe that suddenly Mitchell knew that there is an unseen dimension behind the visible creation that gives it de sign and gives life purpose. The presence of divinity became almost he says and the experience stayed with him Long after the parades and the shouting had faded. Sometimes he would lie awake for hours at night pondering h i s new certainty and struggling with the Enigma of Why if everything had meaning and direction Man seemed sometimes to be doing his Best to drive things off course. Why these eternal crises Why the threat of nuclear holocaust w h y War crime struggles for Power the ravaging of nature How Best to realize Man s potential for a peaceful creative fulfilling society for answers Edgar Mit Chell who has a doctorate in astronautics turned from outer space to inner space to human conscious Ness and its related Fields of psychic research in which he had been interested for some years. He was sceptical at first but As he got deeper into Para psychological research and saw the work being done by scientists he changed. His experience in space was spiritual he wanted now to relate to it his purely scientific past in such a Way As to promote new awareness a new consciousness that would allow Man to see his fundamental Unity with the processes of nature and the function ing of the on this Large order 3r. Mitchell is still working. You May find him today at the Headquarters of his Institute for noetic sciences in the Calm Leafy suburbs of Palo Alto near san Francisco. As director he has become an unofficial spokesman for the scientific study of paranormal Phenomena malting speeches giving inter views lecturing about his belief that extra sensory perception telepathy psychic Healing and a general expanding of the frontiers of consciousness represent Man s Best Hope of resolving his problems. Or. Mitchell is a hand some bearded Man with intense eyes and a taste for Check suits an excellent talker who clearly loves what he is doing. Everything about him exudes optimism the smile the handshake the poster on his Wall that shows a Kitten clinging to a rope end with the caption when you get to the end of your rope tie a knot and hang he has been interested in psychical research he told me since 1967, and during the Apollo 14 mis Sion had conducted an unauthorized Experiment in telepathy to Earth. Results were psychic research is a Challenge to he said and a Challenge to a shortsighted View of reality if the evidence sup porting the facts of esp Dusty Divide Moose jaw sask. Up half of a local Street will be allowed to collect dust while the other half is regularly cleaned City Council has decided. Council had voted previously to implement a dust control program on the entire Street but overturned half its decision when Resi dents of the Street s North Side objected. The residents said the Clea Ning mixture which is water soluble Atad brings moisture to the surface of the Road harms grass and shrubs. Residents of the Southern Side of the Street the 900 Block Duffield favored the dust control program. For generations the russians made a Vodka from potato spirits. Now we introduce to Canada a Vodka which is a delicate blend of Fine Grain and potato spirits. Rostov Vodka and other aspects of Para psychology was often rejected by some scientists it was because of prejudice and the diehard stubbornness born of insecure unless there was a giant conspiracy involving 30 University departments All Over the world and hundreds of respected scientists in various Fields Many of them formerly hostile to the subject psychic research was looking at Phenomena that were in deed real even if present scientific knowledge is unable to explain n o e 11 c s or. Mitchell says is the study of mind and consciousness from the Green Root Nous and psychic re search is but one of its aspects. The Field also includes for example Para physics which is extending the Laws of physics to explain paranormal Phenomena and exobiology the study of the possibility of extraterrestrial life. His Institute in California concen trates on psychic research however As one of the most important keys to bridging the chasm be tween daily living and ultimate the Institute raised funds for a now famous series of experiments with Uri Geller a Young israeli who seemed unusually gifted with Powers of telepathy Clairvoyance and psychokinesis the ability to move or Bend objects without physical Contact. Or. Mitchell put the testing in the hands of two scientists at the nearby Stanford research Institute one of the most respected . Think tanks and himself served in the Laboratory As part of the re search team. He came away convinced that or. Geller s Powers were real and wondering whether the Young Man had even begun to tap his True psychic abilities. The sri scientists were Cau t i o merely remarking that they hid observed Phenomena for which we have no scientific explant or. Geller under controlled Laboratory conditions scored an astonishing number of hits in Tele Pathic experiments appearing if deflect a bal Ance under a Bell Jar and seemed to Bend rings and spoons simply by touching them. The Geller tests Are de scribed in detail in or. Mitchell s forthcoming Book psychic exploration a weighty 700 pages guide to the whole Field of noetic investigation in America today. And what a Field it is More than 30 scientists have contributed to a Book that is at once a history an anthology and a Survey of inner space from poltergeists to Plant communication psychokinesis to psychic Healing thought Graphy to out of the body known in the business As Robes. The approaches Range from the coolly technical to the amiably anecdotal. Sir Winston Churchill s widow describes How a moment of inexplicable precognition saved his life during the Blitz. Or. Rex Stanford a psychology professor from St. John s University new York tabulates and Ana lyres the results of elaborate esp tests by Means of algebraic formulae or. Charles tart a University of California us scientist explains How he measured the brainwaves of people claiming Robes experiences of conscious Ness existing outside their physical bodies and Why he is now convinced that these Are one of the most important a rid neglected phenom or. Thclma Moss an other us expert describes her investigations of rus Sian research into telepathy skin vision pm Acu puncture Killian photography of the electrical Energy Fields surrounding plants and and psychic Healing. Perhaps the most inter Esting contribution of All is or. Mitchell s own account of his space experience and his belief that Para psychology opens the Way to a quantum leap of under standing into the Transfer m a t i o n of human consciousness that is Necess Ary for solving our critical in preparing this Monu mental study or. Mitchell was aided by the Noel is Institute s educational director John White who is himi9lf the editor of Sev eral books. Two which appeared this year arc fron tiers of consciousness 22 Lucid essays covering the noetic Field and offering fresh insights into the nature of being and what is meditation a comparative study which allows readers to evaluate the various approaches to an experience to which in these stressful times hundreds of thou Sands of people Are turn ing. Breslauer Warren looking for that special gift that will please dad we have it come see our excising selection of Fine gifts just perfect for dad. Definite to please and Surprise him and you la be proud. 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