Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 12, 1977, Winnipeg, Manitoba Mind control life control too text and photos by Ron Laytner san Diego California they ranged in age from 10 to 80 and there were 200 of them filling a Large lecture Hall the san Diego suburb. No one made a sound. Everyone was fascinated by the tall woman at the lectern. Her name is Helen Bangs and Slit was talking of the Powers of the human brain. The room was jammed because the lecture was free. Miss Bangs was describing what could be gained by taking her course in mind control. She promised a lot. To the sick health to the aging youth to those needing Money wealth. She had something for everyone. And yes it Cost Money for the -10-hour course. At first glance it seemed like a Good Deal for Helen Bangs. If enough people took the course she d made a lot of Money. She already looked successful and she d driven up in a euro Pean Sporl scar. Scattered among the audience were some people with Green pinned on identification cards. They were graduates. They Wated their teacher with intense respect and nodded their Heads in agreement As she spoke. The graduates were obviously decent and honest people. And yet what was being said seemed too Good to be True. Or was it Helen Bangs must be doing some thing right. Her Institute of Psi biotic is booming across California with branches in Anaheim Van nys Lan Caster and san Diego. Classes have also opened in Dallas Texas and in Phoenix Arizona. Another is to open in Frederick Maryland. Why because graduates Are excited. Mind control has been working for them. They re bringing in hundreds of new students. Weeks of careful Check ing and personal experience show the lecturer is delivering much of what she promises. Helen Bangs does t belong to some strange new religious cult. She is part of a new science sweeping the world. Millions in Many lands Are studying the unknown Powers of the mind and its effect on our lives. Man has been fascinated for ventures by the mystery of the mind but Only in recent years has its study become pop ular. Perhaps it began in 1971 when . Astronaut Edgar d. Mitchell went into space and beamed Back messages to Earth using the Power of his mind. It was the dream of science fiction fans mental telepathy. But this was no stunt. Mitchell was a superbly trained american scientist and he Cap tured the imagination of the world. Then the soviet Union jumped in. Some of their top scientists conducted experiments of the mind inside the .s.h. The soviets wanted to be the first in the new science and maybe they Are. From Israel came Uri Geller who Bent keys and started stopped watches. He insisted he did it with the Power of his mind. But he was often called a fake even after being checked out by Ameri Ca s prestigious Stanford research Institute. But in 1973 Geller astonished the world while showing his Powers on european television. The bbl s Ticle phone switchboard in London was jammed As hundreds of Homes reported spoons bending and stopped clocks starting. Geller s critics went silent. Newspapers today routinely carry stories of psychics helping police solve cases. Why Are they often successful a dutch psychic declared some Pas sengers of a missing Airliner were still alive High in South american mountains weeks after they had crashed. He said the plane was near a Lake and that its wings were torn off. The psychic was right. Frequently we hear of strange heal Ings. Thousands flock to Faith healers. Cures do happen. Everyone seems to know someone who has experienced an inexplicable happening. Christian science churches flourish throughout the world. Their members experience cures doctors cannot explain. Thousands go to Lourdes in France hoping to be cured. Many Are. There is so much science does not know. The human brain May be the ultimate computer. Students of the mind find its Powers awesome. Scientists compare it to modern computers which Don Beaumont teaches a Psi mind control class. Students Range in age from 12 to 75. Some of the younger students Hope to improve their Marks in school. Older students wish to cure ailments such As insomnia or Back trouble. Can be made Small enough to fit inside a Wristwatch. They estimate a computer which might match the brain and made with today s tiny technology would still be so Gigantic it would fill the entire Empire state building in new York. No one knows the Power of the brain. But it s believed we use less than 10 per cent of its capabilities. Increasing its use is the object of mind control. Why do some people gel sick and others stay Well Why do some fail and others succeed those studying mind control believe they Home some of the answers. Even children Are studying the mind. A graduate stopped his car on the Way to Helen bang s lecture and picked up two 10-year-old girls who bounced in the Back seat laughing and giggling. What would happen at the Hall sue Tibbitt 30, her baby daughter Valerie was bom with the help of mind control. Sue had been afraid to have a second child because her son had been bom weak and Liny six Prema Ture and she s suffered through 24 hours of labor. After taking Psi mind control she made a list of what i thought would be the perfect pregnancy and the child it would produce. I wrote Down that my body would accept Only female sperm that i would conceive be pregnant and deliver a baby girl on March everything happened As i planned it. I got pregnant first month of the programming. Don t worry the Driver said. They la behave. They re both graduates. And they did instantly snapping to adult attention and sitting silent and engrossed throughout the entire two hour Long talk. Later their mothers explained the girls had risen from the Bottom of their class in school to the top since taking mind control. Class began monday morning in the ban Guys Holiday inn and ended sat urday night with graduation. Teacher Don Beaumont demanded Complete attention. No one was to talk or leave the room. No one did. He led the class Alozij strange new paths. Students were taught to mow Down their brain Waves to near sleep for concentrated learning. Results were almost immediate. Memories sharpened. Soom the class could me Morise Long lists of numbers after seeing them just once. There was a whole new Way of think ing. Mind control students never use the word problem. Instead they use Challenge. A Challenge is something to be overcome. And when they re greeted they Don t say they re fim. They a re belter and they re taught that negative hateful unkind thoughts come Back tenfold against those thinking them. And so they have Good thoughts of Iove Ami i kindness and Are taught to forgive their enemies. Students learn a silent inner com Mand to get what they desire. It ends with for the Good of All Mankind. No harm no Hurt to How can such thoughts be anything but Beth i Cial graduates report cures ranging from Bud eyesight to cancer. Women use mind control to program pregnancies. There is even a special hot line Tele phone number for emergency Assis Tance. In 1975, it was used when 500 graduates with demonstrated psychic Abili ties were asked to help a girl who had been shot six times by her jealous sex husband. She was t expected to lift but Theresa reuse. 2-1, made an amazing recovery. After just three Days of intensive care in san Diego s Paradise Valley Hospital she was up and walking. Five Days later she went Home. The six year old son of a Salt Lake City chiropractor fell on a broken bottle and was disembowel led. Or. Roger Hutchings said he used mind control to help his Sone As he rushed him to Hospital. Young Eric surprised the Doc tors. He reported no pain did t bleed much did t go into Shock and made a very Quick recovery. Sue Tibbitt 30. Wanted her second child to be a girl. But she was afraid to gel pregnant because of the painful and premature delivery of her first born. After taking mind control sue wrote Down her idea of the perfect pregnancy and even a birth Date. Valerie was born in Dan Diego in a Normal birth just 15 minutes off her programmed time. A 47-year-old Chicago woman who does t want her name used because the thoughts of doubters might harm me had a fast spreading cancer. A Hysterectomy was performed both breasts removed. Doctors saw spots on her lungs. Chemotherapy was to begin in three months. In desperation she took mind control. Two months later the spots were gone. There was no need for chemotherapy. In the last two years doctors have found no traces of cancer. Bill Bullard. 59, of Hamilton Texas operates a restaurant near los an Geles. He had been operated on for cancer and was taking chemotherapy treatments when he took mind control As a last resort. Three months later the cancer was gone. His doctor Calls him or. Miracle. Bill credits mind control with saving his life. His doctor says it was because of chemotherapy. John Martens 73, of fort Lauder Dale Florida look mind control hoping to end 15 years of insomnia. Two Days into the course he was sleeping a solid eight bows a night. Half a year later he still is. Marsha Dresser at and her husband Bob 4fi, of it Enate cal., wanted to have another child. But their last had been born four years earlier feet first in a painful 18-hour delivery. The dressers took the course and program med a Quick and easy they should have been More specific. Their daughter was born on the front seat of their car on the Way to the hos Pital. All too often it is More popular. Easier and much safer to criticize something we Don t understand. Took mind control to see works. Six months later i find i do my Job better. My memory has improved. I be lost i pounds of fat. My income has doubled. What More can i say nothing quite like a Good Book except. By Phil Kalber some list a an Idle moment can Point out the error of one s ways. Out recent monday night in my Bookcase lined Den i was swivelling in my chair contemplating a new year re solve or two while awaiting Howard Cosell s telecast of another titanic clash Between two colossal super Powers of the National football league. On the fourth revolution. I started noticing the number of books with protruding slips of paper indicating my Reading Progress to Dale. A had count was Laken. No fewer than 17 hardcovers bore the Banner of sur Render video victims of past specials blockbusters extravaganzas first liners Don t misses and continuing sagas. A random Check revealed i had explored Only half of America with Alistair Cooke Gol detained at Camp ii in my ascent of Everest with Edmund Hillary was still groping about in the Long dark the initial chapter of a history of the Middle Ages and had never emerged from the preface of a Best seller i had received three christmases ago. That s downright i said aloud As my wife entered the Den. She replied. You just missed the opening Kickoff return for a you Don t i said. Tvs just made my new year s Reso Lution. As of this moment it s Good Bye Colombo hello America. It s Back to the slopes of Everest Back to the age of enlightenment. No More to for after my wife had recovered i divulged my plan of withdrawal to a Small storage area not unlike a cell behind the Heater in the basement. There i would somehow dovetail a Reading lamp chair Footstool and 17 unfinished authors. The following evening with a firm grip on the Conquest of Everest t bade Farewell to my family grouped around the television. I m going to finish what i started if it takes me until the summer reruns. No interruptions Well Honor your my wife assured me. Aren t you going to watch adventure theatre asked my daughter. It s about sunken treasure. Dad guarded by Man eating elaborated my adventurous son. Sorry i m climbing mount Everest i said resolutely heading for my lube loss Domain. Settling into my armchair i re joined the Hillary team at Camp it. It seemed coincidental that As i ascended higher through the Khu mtg Gla Cier area my Heater was working More frequently. I timed the on off cycles. It was coming on every minutes i reported upstairs. Slave you people left a window or a door open the Heater s on most of the look. Dad the divers arc going Down after the my Daugh Ter cried. 1 watched their descent until my wife announced she had found the cold air leak. You had left the garage door open when you came Home to i turned Down the thermostat and returned to the basement. The cat had taken advantage of my absence and was curled up in the depression f had left in the armchair. Sorry pal but i have a stiff climb ahead of i Lold her. Dumping her on the i had arrived Al Camp vial 2x000 feet when i spied the new plastic Bowling Ball to my son s ten pin game which he had received for Christmas. The triangular setup of pins at the far end of the basement invited a Roll i threw a strike then reset the pins and rolled again. Another perfect hit then a third a fourth i galloped up stairs. I just rolled a perfect game. First time you should see these Sharks my son shouted. After 20 har rowing minutes a Snowblower com Mercial reminded me i had some unfinished business below. I pushed on to Camp Viii at feet. I was just As determined to reach my goals As Hillary was. Halfway up the Treacher Ous Southeast Ridge within sight of the Summit there was the crash of pot Tery a Flash of fur in flight. I investigated the matter then trudged up stairs. Would someone find me the Dustpan and Brush the cat has knocked Over a Geranium Plant on the just a my wife replied they re raising the sea Chest and no one knows what it was All i could find to say As i joined the rest of the viewing audience. A half hour later at the film s conclusion my wife asked me what it was i had wanted. There s a mess in the basement that could use a Dustpan and i said transfixed by adventure theatre. Part ii the White Tower a Mountain climbing drama in the Swiss Alps starring Cluade Rains and Glenn Ford. Ill clean it up after i get the children to promised my wife. An hour later she reappeared. I found your Book on the floor. What shall i do with Mark my place with a piece of paper and put it in the i replied entirely absorbed in the High Altitude plot. What about your new year s Reso without thinking i repealed my first answer. Christian science Monitor 16 Winnipeg fur i 14, i ;