EXAMINING PSYCHIC PHENOMENA

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 There is no question that there is an unseen world. The
 problcm,,is, how far is it from midtown and how late Is it
 open? Unexplainable events occur constantly. One man
 will see spirits. Another will hear voices. A third w ill  ake
 up and find himself running in the Preakness. How many of
 us have not at one time or another felt an ice-cold hand on
 the back of our neck while we were home alone? (Not me,
 thank God, but some have.) What is behind these experi-
 ences? Or in front of them, for that matter? Is it true that
 some men can foresee the future or communicate with
 ghosts? And after death is it still possible to take showers?
 Fortunately, these questions about psychic phenomena
 are answered in a soon to be published book, Bowl, by Dr.
 Osgood Mulford 'I'waweigc, the noted parapsychologist and
 professor of ectoplasm at Columbia University. Dr. Twelge
 has assembled a remarkable history of supernatural inci-
 dents that covers the whole range of psychic phenomena,
 from thought transference -to the bizarre experience of two
 brothers on opposite parts of the globe, one of whom took a
 bath while the other suddenly got clean. What follows is but
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 Without Feathers                                                                      Examining Psychic Phenomena
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 a samp;rnti of yr. I wvelge s most celebrated cases, with his
 comments.
 APPARITIONS
 On March 16, 1882, Mr. J. C. Dubbs awoke in the middle
 of the night and saw his brother Amos, who had been dead
 for fourteen years, sitting at the foot of his bed flicking
 chickens. Dubbs asked his brother what he was doing there,
 and his, brother said not to worry, he was dead and was only
 in town for the weekend. Dubbs asked his brother what it
 was like in "the other world," and his brother said it was
 not unlike Cleveland. He said he had returned to give
 Dubbs a message, which was that a dark-blue suit and
 Argyle socks are a big mistake.
 At that point, Dubbs's servant girl entered and saw
 Dubbs talking to "a shapeless, milky haze," which she said
 reminded her of Arnos Dubbs but was a little better-lo;Qking.
 Finally, the ghost asked I?ebbs to join him in an aria from
 Faust, which the two sang with great fervor. As dawn rose,
 the ghost walked through the wall, and Dubbs, trying to
 follow, broke his nose.
 This appears to be a classic case of the apparition
 phenomenon, and if Dubbs is to be believed, the ghost
 returned again and caused Mrs. Dubbs to rise out of a chair
 and hover over the dinner table for twenty minutes until she
 dropped into some gravy. It is interesting to note that spirits
 have a tendency to be mischievous, which A. F. Childe, the
 British mystic, attributes to a marked feeling of inferiority
 they have over being dead. "Apparitions" are often associ-
 ated with individuals who have suffered an unusual demise.
 Amos Dubbs, for instance; had died under mysterious
 circumstances whcn a Earner accidentally planted hire.
 along with some urn s.
 SPIRIT  1)F.PARTURE
 Mr. Albert Sykes reports the following experience: "I was
 sitting having biscuits with some friends when I felt urn
 spirit leave my body and go make a telephone call. For
 some reason, it called the Moscowitz Fiber Glass Company.
 My spirit then returned to niy body and sat for another
 twenty minutes or so, hoping nobody would suggest cha-
 rades. When the conversation turned to mutual funds, it left
 again and began wandering around the city. I am coli-
 vinced that it visited the Sta tut: of Liberty and then saw the
 stage show at Radio City Music Hall. Following that, it
 went to Benny's Steak House and ran up a tab of sixty-eight
 dollars. My spirit then decided to return to my body, but it
 was impossible to get a cab. Finally, it walked up Fifth
 Avenue and rejoined me just in time to catch the late ric%s.
 I could tell that it was reentering my body, because I felt a
 sudden chill, and a voice said, `I'm back. You want to pass
 me those raisins?'
 "This phenomenon has happened to me several tunes
 since. Once, my spirit went to Miami for a weekend, and
 once it was, arrested for trying to leave Macy's without
 paying for a tie. The fourth time, it was actually my body
 that left my spirit, although all it did was get a rubdown
 and come right back."
 Spirit departure was very common around 1910, when
 many "spirits" were reported wandering aimlessly around
 India searching for the American Consulate. The phenomc-
 non is quite similar to transubstantiation, the process
 whereby a person will suddenly dematerialize and remateri-
 alizc somewhere else in the world. This is not a bad way to
 trairci, although there is usually a half-hour wait for
 lug age. The most astonishing case of transubstantiation
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