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knowledge. It remains a loose'Cnd. And scientists do not like loose-ends. But at Duke University a very real accomplishment stands to the credit of Dr. J. B. Rhine.
DR. RHINE recognized the importance of developing a really sci' entific method for studying psychic phenomena. Under his leadership the Parapsychological laboratory of that University has developed a repeatable experiment consisting of a standard test based on the attempt to "guess" the cards in a special deck made up of 5 cards of 5 different symbols. Over the past twenty years cxperi' ments with these cards, called ESP cards, have been repeated in thou' sands of cases and with a variety of persons working with different investigators.
The results of all these tests have been laboriously tabulated and analyzed on a statistical basis by expert mathematicians. The conclusion is inescapable that the human mind has powers that go far beyond any physical basis or explanation that science can offer. Rhine's recent book, "The Reach of the Mind," certainly indicates that in some cases it has a long "reach" indeed!
Dr. Rhine and most of the other researchers in this field have long since concluded that clairvoyance and certain other psychic powers — telepathy, telekinesis, etc. — are real. But they are the first to emphasize that these powers are far from dependable. Rather they are a now-and-then gift on which even the most talented cannot rely, except in a rare case like that of the African, Daba.
February, 1931
Down in South Africa, a psychiatrist named Dr. Laubscher reported a case he personally investigated. A native witch doctor, Solomon Daba, claimed he could achieve clairvoyant vision whenever he willed it. Dr. Laubscher was naturally very skeptical and decided to make a test. Telling no one of his plans, he drove sixty miles out into the veldt in the opposite direction from Solomon Daba's kraal. At a random spot in the bush he buried a small purse in the ground. He put a flat brown stone on top of the purse. Then he placed a small grey stone on the brown one.
Dr. Laubscher left and drove rapidly back to Daba's kraal. Although telling the witch doctor he had prepared a test, he give him no inkling as to its nature. The witch doctor agreed to undertake the test and started his special seance dance. After coming out of a trance, Daba recounted for the astonished Dr. Laubscher every move he had taken, describing the purse, its burial in the ground, the placing of the two stones over it and the exact location of the cache. Dr. Laubscher concluded that this African was clairvoyant and had so trained his psychic powers that he could call upon them at any time with confidence.
But leaving aside rarities like Daba and considering only run-of-the-mill cases, it is generally true that clairvoyant visions appear without intention or conscious effort. They just come out of the blue. But usually they concern an event of some importance; often the death of a friend or relative. The experience of Mary Towers shows