PVY Flmc@,C- T_@ooe JC'C- 01 r U..; Mind-Reach(,)) Approved For R&& -&01Lb9/Ar>gWA- 96-OPTAT, W( , 923-8 1 4 ;IqqM A case for parapsychology random event on a machine and 7 picture drawing. in which the Israeli psychic Uri Geller many, if people can influence action Mirld-Reach and/or events at a distante greater than the range of norm, al influence, then perhaps we need dramatically to Scientists Look at Psychic Ability. revise our conception of human abil- By Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff. 230 pp. New York: ities and/or conception of how events G. P. Putnam's Sons. $8.95. are registered by people. Since the bur- den of documentation, though, should be on those who claim that these ca- Ry ROBE, RT ORNSTECIN pacities exist, their interpretations of at- tempted to draw pictures like those previously sealed in en- velopes and kept in a different room. All of these experiments are reported as successes by the authors but they provide very little evidence either in their book or in published jour- nal articles that any of them be repeated. Nor has a ti C. any- ran the nature of their data should be ac- one else reported' similar re- ne scientific study of paripsycholo- cepted only after much evidence has strits. gy has been with us for almost a cen- been accumulated. Here is the difficulty: If the tury now, With little in the way of There seems to be a persistent falla- experiments cannot be repeated definitive results. One of the major cy regarding the work of parapsy- by others we have the situation problems in our acceptance of para- cholopists that is based on a misunder- of the one White crow. it may psychology, of course, is that we are standing of the nature of scientific be theoretically true (assuming quite resistant to new information and proof-in assumption that one demon- we take his word that he saw phenomena which we consider a priori stration, one example of a unique phe- one) that all crorws are not to be impossible. We do not normally nomenon should be enouph to con- black, but that is irrelevant un- pursue scientific inquiry, for instance, ince us that parapsychological or any less he can produce another into these areas, If I were to propose. v white one as proof. Again, para- an experiment in training elephants to other sort of scientific phenomena psychologists labor under a become peach trees I do not think exist. William James expressed this fundamental misconception of much financial support would appear proposition when lie said that the ap- the importance of the idea of nor could I enlist anyone's enthusiastic pearance of only one white crow chance, of the idea of science, help. People simply do not inform would dispel forever the idea that all and of the necessity for the themselves about things they do not crows are black. But that is true only verification. believe to be possible. in an extremely idealistic universe. We "Mind-Reach," then, is a need much more evidence than one Such was the case within more con- isolated instance to overthrow an ac- book slim in hard evidence. It ventional science with Copernicus's is pleasantly written, and it is ,epted world-view. The existence of amusing to follow the thought proposition of a universe that differed William. James's white crow could of the authors as they work fundamentally from that of Ptolemy, well be dismissed by our statistics de- out their research and some- with Harvey's discovery of the circula- partnient as statistically insignificant. tAmes horrifying to see what tion of blood and even in the reporting One bit of evidence ought to be enough their opposition has been. But of the Wright brothers' first air flight. but it.is not. it is ul-tiniaiely an unsatisfying Many newspapers, including The New "Every man is an exception,#' as book lacking any Indication Of York Times, simply refused'to cover,,@@.,., Soren Kirkegaard wrote. We are all it because -they -did not, think It was. scientists, rl> 4 billion-to-one shots and, as possible:-"-@, onal long- lidit Of f, Ipeo z the so i i y the indings. and in al ple-th6`-151urb of the need much more than occasi We,r "-of the ability of anyone else book claims that they bave In parapsychology, find this S e us. hots to convinc to repeat them. documented that "some degree rejection to an: extreme, unmatched.,@ 'Many publicizers of parapsychology 1@ . perhaps1n. any area. Even the great. have sought to counter their skeptics . Indeed, I have attempted, dn of psychic ability -is universal" - . v@ -they' are engaging in"' the collaboration with these au- 4y'@-,v:,19th-century German phy- rL by Proclamation. They claim -and -thors, to -repeat one of their ex- same sort of unjustified propa- r ologist Hermann Helm- Targ and Puthoff are no exception- the periments (published in Nature) ganddzing they decry in their n holtz, distinguished in t hat there is a significant amount of and was unable to do so though opponents. It is one thing to areas of optics, physics and incontrovertible, scientific evidence In I spent a large amount of time say that "here we demonstrate study of perceptlon'@:' the ',@-.-favor of the existence of parapsycho- trying and had the same subject a minor finding in a few gub- wrote, "Neither the ev@- logical phenomena. And,the only rea- they used and the full coopera jects which might be used by dence of my own senses i;@@ son these phenomena are - not more tion of the authors. Instead of others," but it is ridiculous to ,;,,%nor the testimony of all the_@@:@'widely accepted is because of hostile any real evidence'that accords ask 'us to believe that their :fellows of the Royal Socl- pre -judices, because of preconceptions with the accepted standards of minor, preliminary experiments ety'.1,' would convince- in the minds of readers and.reviewers, contemporary psychophysiolog- prove anything about psychic of the truth of para psychological data, e a I ness, ical research, what we have in abilities in.the general popula- ;and b c use of bind In a professional review. of. the work.,,,--, "Mind - Reach" fairly.,@ straightfor- this book are a few minor, tion. of Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff, all- ,"wardly describes the experiments sketchy suggestions of how re. Throughout the book the au- thors of "Mind-Reach," an' nonymous,,,-,`_ u carried out at the Stanford Research search in this area ought to thors state their hope that the reviewer in The Journal.of Electrical Institute in Menlo Park, Calif., on so- proceed. 'Me authors do make study of parapsychc4ogy will and Electronic Engineers wrote "This Called paranormal phenomena by Targ some useful points. We should become primarily a scientific Is the kind of thing I wouldn't believe nd Puthoff, who are physicists The stick to conditions which mdmic one in,which speculations are t 9P in even if It were rue. authors outline several of their own those of everyday life, not use- firmly @grounded: in the evi- One of the basic difficulties in un- in the book: One of these less, trivial situations (although dence. In their own writing, derstanding pnrapsychology is that its involved "remote view- !hey ignore their own advice 'however, Targ and Puthoff al. claims are a distinct challenge to our ing," in which a person sequestered 1n one of their experiments). most always go beyond evi- contemporaty world-view. If some in a room is asked to describe a place Further. even if it is granted dence and claim they have thit they have demonstrated proven their case when they people can perceive events'before they -,,.chosen at random and not revealed "happen," if there are modes of inter- to the subject where two other people remote, viewing," the phe- -have done nothing of the sort. personal, communication unknown to have gone. These descriptions are then nomenon has I>een studied only In writing this book. the au- matched' with "objective" descriptions Oil a very few people. When thors have done more harm, the authors attempt to "sell" perhaps, to their own position Robert Ornstein teaches 0 th places Otkroi . I at c Uni. cA re -Arcd to their fieid of study than t versity of CA11fornia Me( PARIVet 4 mlegiia (4 8zV_N`"?Vi2 "iesare Junliley have helped. t psychic a .0 and is the director of Human Nature, a which people were asked to guess a co magn?.Ine to nplienr in the fall. Continued on Page 24 R, lp@ 0 ir Keiea,4q, 71@ V_ N@ ,Yjarch,.',,'7) 97 7 f .1, M11 W -W? '4- 4VO 3- RM iP Editor M r 11a iTo Shapiro, Y flii@; !C' Tjje Y Ti me, lew@ ork ,Il wr: 9Book Review '14 -N, 229"_'4est,:4 Street -Z, 3rd P, VW New ork','@ 10036' 'A@ Ne w'@ York. Y I' q A A N'i t,!!g4p y @k 15 Arv @N 4 0 - -Do a n.,Xr ',S 1i) a piro V 87'r.7", lp 0, W @Rol-ert Ornstein.An his review ofour bcok@'Mind-Reach in t@ 13th Fook Review implies,that our experiments'in.Rett FIJI lack: '1solid'ty1!,,. and Vi ewin th e main concern.ofAhe book can no V'., he @@'xr t. d 'b. fir -peat- anyone ;L NQ 'Zi N 'I 7, M - @W 'M,.@eL@',",@j" f This- is.'simply-not' rue.,e',"T:.T@7 t i%p r 01V "@,r N r exneriments"in Remote Viewing have 'been widely replicated in half a dozen lattoratories across the country. -' Three of these wpre put lished in the Proceedings of'. the EI ectrica-1 ind EJ 0- ctr1oni Enpin?ers ,(Octobor 1970'),- 9"joi)rnal Ornstein refers to nn d a h' fourth'.,@Yas-prp,,sentpd Pt the' Alifms ti@, 1976,@,4innunl m'7eting of -Faraps7@61,naicd- A tion -'a3 1- well".in'_,advancp,@'@ of ,the 1,ook 7r 5500 9 A V L %%'l V, "MPIE K,_@,f'i 0% t 0, D-,4:@ 7 V"i- @p -that'there'has been no rep' Z: - oriOrnstein to s tq,, e F an,,,, pa le, eai@ ah. 1, oIL aux s -for 'a sciantist"supposedly, knowl-edg I r, tbe7 iqld ho,is reviewing. & ,vr;. @@oWg@ (N) r Pxj1er1.in(in!.s at S pnf ord'Posearch "Ins ti tutq@,,,,, Pro amonrr,, the, mos@ ANO X" ly monitot,ed :in the history'of sci onee. ',Li terally d o zf.M s of; s e ve re ns- .,ev -.re involved in" reniti ,a nd".1 and judp -:wt 7 :i-c e V.@'d 11a t i r i it cribed inAhe book.: accixylu-' wlqs, solid @onongh- to, 3.mprPSr1:S()Me, of, scienco s- mo.sf'' m le hori V.-,, "including A)r. T,`,pr;!nrotj-J-nd who wrptq,,,,the_.JPtr,, dixt- nut. M. TO N, 7 An are @@iware-t-hnt Yind-Rench dclves into a subject:sensitive. turned out, t, o b e so ",nind-' scicnce. I n:@, th e' cn s e o f @-.h i s revi. ew, it -4.1 ly noted in any, dil igent nt@;@aove-rni.: Yasic f ac norm.Al V -e.missi.ng:.' that tho'book is Illustrated nw wet (with dr, e r i uqu A, ., fe, 13 07 -Mead introditction a n, .. 'i inizzi ~.i?i~,i"nhoi-.oprr~3phs),''t,hat Jt;inc1.udos'the_,.__ 1,y Richard Fach.@'"You-evon gav e it'to the'wrong pullisher i r?, uhlished.,.,with'pride we are, assured.-by,I)elacorte. ,ich, was p @'Prc-.571-T.---knor Friode, not bythe,',,pul@l isho r, 'you cred i ltj@ d _1LkAli A v r raight. qqor is so tting st . ....... . ... .. t - @; 20 4427 % 7-T y Sincere 11, -IRT f tin T@ fe#_ 3,1 @3.1 IT f ;Ivie T 2x: r. ,@,ro?,@(@_,Puthof A, arg ell "'e;i i" Wee - A, k IM i @v F74 S tn n f o rd Rx,.@ enrch titute 4 _X6, r1c Calilor i OR `4 1,"fl Ve 'N" Ni,; M. el@ 4" till J 4, v 5 At 4_ ?W@ VA 1 r 1@ yl 7 6-b-0 81 0, 9 0 5 902 43 vA-`,$"-0 7 Apo($@4d,,Fdr,,Wdtg@ 21(103,@@, FEN C THE CITY COLLEGE OF THE GITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y. 10031 DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY Dear [11ussell and fla 1: January 1, 197V BaPPY jew Ye@,)rl And Piany thanks for arran.cring to have me sent a copy of your booki I con@,,-ratulate you on it. It's beaut1fully written, in such an easy style that I couldn't stop it once it was berun -- finished It in a sin,@rle sittint:r. y so muck) that's imporiant And it presents impressivel aiid interestin@,,, that Lhe content is a pleasure as well as the style. I should think it would bowl over the readers who didn't know about your work beforehand -- and am sure that parapsycholo'-ists will be grateful for it, because It pubs all to.-ether in one place the corpus of work you've done. @he timing was particularly Z-,ood for nie. It came the same day as the 1-alleArs for iny ms. for I'lolman's Handbook, and I revised them to ,zive two citations to the bolick. Thanks a.,,,,ain, And hopes that you'll carry on with all your bright ideas for what needs do4,in,-! idler Cordially, V e 2003/09/16: CIA-RDP96-00787ROOO gg IM"I VtTR-.111t@JW@iir "M T, 4. FD ell 4TW s, 5 tj@ x S. 'idu.th,,NeWo'. u e.. n SG1 I ref-:w to 1,@ EV; %VS. Targ, Russell & Superficially it would seem that physicists and engineers would be the least likely Harold Puthoff Supporters of extrasensory Phenomena. But here we have two physicists at the dis. MIND-REACH: Scientists tinguished Stanford Research institute who ]live been doing rigorous experiments Look at Psychic A bility an(] conclude that There is Something There and it'is something that probably ex- Delacorte $8.95 ists in everynian, That something is remote viewing: the ability of a subject at X I /? SBN: 440-05688-7 to describe in words or drawings the details of a locale chosen by an experimenter miles away. They report oil a number of experienced subjects, including Uri Geller, as well as some willing volunteers. All did better than chance would predict-even better in terms of drawings alone rather than verbal descriptions. Targ and Put- hoff speculate that there may be some right hemisphere perceptual ability here that has gone unnoticed or shoved'under the table in our rationalist analytic era. They also Suggest that extremely low frequency electromagnetic waves may be involved, so that the phenomena need not remain beyond scientific ken, There is something very likeable about the pair: their attitude; their sophistication with regard to True Believers, to the possibihties of fraud and deception; and their understanding of the "loyal opposition" (e.g., Martin Gardner and others who wouldn't believe in ESP even if it were true). Margaret Mead has written an encouraging introduction showing she's ready to move with a shifting paradigni. Others, lip to this point un- convinced, may be shaken up a bit (experience "cognitive dissonance" as the psy- chologists say). In any case, the results reported, confined to a small sample but With LICcent rigor, lob the ball squarely in the court of the nay-sayers. 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ISHN 0440-05688-7. 11,9.0 it-iii: it',, . ),,ill to `,111ce 1972 phy"ici-A" 'hlig :Ind 1111(holl, I 11@1\e hven Calryllig otil IvIiipSvk:IIoIogv It.,, II Crillicill" all tile SuillIold ReNcal-Ch I1,IiN 0 c \ P (11% ( 11 Ill"(11(fle. Iffilld-Rcacill, a 1'eview and Ik of iul "(1filillaiv of, [licit- lescill,C)l to dole. ic- 'c" field poll" tile le"(11ts (11' "I.Cilloic viewlig lit I'll.' k'\jICIifIICIlIS. ill Which 0IL' CXjVliIIICIII- ps)cho- ct-, asked stili.iccu, it) descrille their lit- 0787RO00500240093,8_@-;@@ Y, 0 )I,()0Y d For ReleMse 2 AvRro,p, 11;'Il imaging ora arge ocallon, Ilstj- I @qlllf '11V tile destination ofa third p:11 IV, I lie ill 0I 1'escal-Chers, collipeteill cx pet i Incli 1,11 and I technique and impeccahle inleglity, ples colilhilled Willi tile obviolls1v po"Itive g1lidt I-12SUlt', of 11161- CXPCI'ifllClll provide Ul;t, unquestionably powerltil evidence 1,91. 1 I'll 11, -e, -y perception. the i diLy of pamsciisoi sible Targ and 11,11tholrdclilonstrale Willi this ever work that given proper Conditions, Mly- ilhIC one Cliff obtaill Perceptions lradilional- Lld. ly considered paranornial - illipos- of CHIC I silile. Ili additiotl@ they prove tile Ficili- ('Ili, I ty of' I positive setting for paiallol lll@il i n @k activity, and theV LICHIOnsil'lile ligliin f',Ik 'Ind again [lie interference ol, tile coll- ;Illgi rmlgi scious mind with paraperception: only !,litI Whell confidence was ill"pired and alla- fill) lylic;II :Icllvlly slippicssed or ip'llowd, sht.1% kirf" bI @Illd 1,1101oll,do more limit plewill 1;Iho- ratory observations. 'I hey desclihe tile Intel-[ 1111cmilly elusiveness ol"Psychic phe- caust. llonlella, ;is jigaill :Ind agaill ;Illellip(s to 197 4. dcsij@n colill-olk 'd ex pe[ illicill, vra.' r flils1l;lted by unexpected, scellil .ligly Kl;%@ H 7, 111iracil lolls coi lic ide lices. Yet Illough Imerial - ation 1@ 14.9 5 ook PkIce tile convincing event,, [)lost I tI O's oillside [lie experiments, tile all I coll"i"lently regalkled only colill-ollcd alid scienlilic expelilliellull results lls V, (hila. Their book is highly recommend- C Lt. -h"dli 'M'd /I. RUSSM, %!('It' Y01-A T rze, 1glor) Collmy, Jo;Ill. Moriow. 1977. l6lip, illus, imil". '6 ISBN 0-689-011,11) (1, @8 95. 1it 11 I'll This well-wlillell introdiloi oif Ili life llchrcw king,, ,p;ins the pciiod bc- k@ecn [lie cleclioll of, S@Jlll IC, 1020 B.C.) mid tile filll of, lei tls;IlCl1I to tile Nibylonians (c. 587 '1 he lC\I ill- cludes :1 short section dcalinu \kith tile authorship of tile BiNe @Ind ;I dk- cuNsion ofthe nature oI'pn1phc,.:\ \Is(, useftil ;Ire filaps of' file I loly I and ilhis- intling tribal :Intl enemy 110111)(1:11ics: a cflrollolo@y of, king". prophels ,;1Il(l.gClI- Cl;ll llkt0l y; hlack-lind-%% like I cpi ,ol, lions ol'scveral histolic @%Iil k I I L picling the kings: IIILI 1711101OL!Mphs (11' Neveral ol, tile arclillcological site's pl t-'s- clIlly to lie I-el"Ickl to pI:IcCs of' interest. 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Ricluird admirablejob of telling (lie story. text is infused Will) feelings humorous Sel,-,cr. Simon mid Schuster, $7.95 [January] and sad-sometimes tragic. Mostly the ISBN 0-671-223 ,56-9 author reaffirms her commitment to In [Ili's Strallge and remarkable [look, TIlE CHRYSANTHEMUM Christianity, I faith which hit,,; fre- Richard Selzer, ;I surgeon at Yale Mcdi- AND THE BAT: Baseball Samurai quently been weakened by doubts for cal Centel-, jLIXtiII)OSCS IVIICC[ioll With Style. flobllrt lVhiting. Dodd, Mead, solid reasons, not all personal. In fact, information, anatorny with literature, $10 IS13N 0-396-07317-4 the most compelling parts of this sensi- 1101-1-01- With IlUnlOl- Mid SLII-gCl'y with American baseball fans will find this tive book describe the author's periods Poetry (just 0MOi0flidly marred by book irresistible. W@iting has done an ofatheism and her fig ht to recover from whimsy), all ill lilligUilge. [IMI'S -,is Sharp outstanding job of showing how the "cold isolation," the terror of believing as a Scalpel. Ile tiikcs LIS into tile oper- Japanese national character has Shaped in nothing. Sejdmq's Lenlen seleciion ating room and into the patient's very the diamond game ill Illlt Ct)Lllltl'y. Ill for 1977. [Janilaryl innards; talks beguilingly about bones, spring troining, players through arc put kidneys, ,kill and other P,'IrtS Of a NgilnCll thilt would make I chain the body (skipping those much-touted gang seem like I vacation. Throughout (lie brain and (lie heoiW and tile 130-ganic season file two six-team provides es@,:iys kill baldness. smoking, 11111i0l' IC;IgUeS dClIl;klld fron) their te@inl ' Chinese ICIIpLInCIIII'e @Ind ilhOllioll. ils ille n-ibers it combination of' *'fighting well it,, some lighter pieces oil his youth spirit" (which does not inclu c iu_,gres- in Troy, New York. Ile ends. not as sive bascrunning or heanillill pitches) inappi-oprialely zis might -seem. with a and traditional respect forauthority fig- ch@irming piece oil hirdwatching. Even ures (apologics to coache". managers Selzer's grisliest anecdotes are trans- and fans are coninionplace). BeN1.1110M fornied in the telling fly his belief that is truly tile J@ip:uiesc natiomil gallic, (lie surgcoll*s function ovel-kills those with sevcrilJ@daily ri@lpcrs devoted ex- of* tile Poet and tile priest. Old drIW- CILIsiVCIyAo it and the TV nctworks ings. JJM11MIT] SI1LIra,LeL.I with it, Of courNe the nation lool,5,forward to tile day if viCtOl'y I BLY1. PRIVATE .1 -:: EYI @'Cr tile U.S. ill a true WOrld Series. / The Real World ofthe Private Dclecti@e. I @ Photos. , ) 11 Nichoho PiI ress i Pla b . t 4 @ g"" y y ISBN 0-87223-475-4 NIIND-REACII: Scientists This slice of-life i,, -,in honest lliv ure of Look at Psychic Ability. Ru.%Sell Targ %%hat ;I private detective*,, , ork is idl and Harold Piallolf. Dclacortc Press alloul: it is revealing ank I'd scinaling. (An Eleanor Friede Book), $8.95 IS13N . Irwin Blve lia", hcell it Ili iva(e Inklesliga- 0-440-05688-7 tor for ;0 @ears in and aiound New In a no_11ollsellse I-cpol.l 10 which tvl,,,._ Yoi k. and lie is it good one. I lis job garet Mead has lent her scientific im- consist" not of chasing NLdtCSC fiIICOI1S pl-inliltUr with I brief introduction. fill- Sexy blondes. but of' helping law- physicists Targ and Putholl' describe a yers shepherd people through I system Series or parapsychology experiments th,'It is h(II_CiILICI'.I1iZCd. 111111glin& in(] in- as dramatic its any ever undertaken, different. Here %ye follow him as lie That these experiments, conducted HONEY: The Life and Loves of Lenny's Shady Lady. Hon- eY Bruce ivilh Dema Benenson. Playboy Press, $9.95 ISBN 0-87223-435-3 Most readers won't know whether to applaud tile candor of this "true con- fession" of tile woman Who was Lenny Bruce's wife or be turned off by its emphasis on matters sexual with every I.dotted and every 1 crossed. Those W hom it does not affect violently one wily oi- the other will find it the story of I It.)wer middle-class girl who became a Stripper, thought She had found love in a lesbian affair and then met and Mar- led the rising Young comedian who @ittcr became so controversial. The sec- (ions dealing with Floney's show busi- ness cm-eer al-e 50 jejune that they so.und like parody; the passages dealing_ wilh I enny and their stormy, drug- are alw- obsessed life together , ays inter esiing and at times absorbing. Most ilffeCtilig is 111C Picture Of BRICC ilfl[Cr his busts for obscenity had started-a )-ar-anoid, monomaniacal, frenetic I wreck [Januaty) at WITH MALICL TOWARD NONE: Works oil three Cases: looking ill) wit- Stanford Research Institute, have gen- The Life of Abraham Lincoln. Stephen eraled 11111CII publicity is (ILIC to B. 0(ites. Harper & Row, $15.95 ISBN 111C llilrtiCipatiOll OrpSyChiC Wil;IRIS Ul'i 0-06-013293-3 Gelicrand I ngo Swann. Yet most of I Ile The blurb for O;ites's highly readiible, deatli-dO@ag act. participants were ordinary people who were presurnably able to accurately de- Scribe "target drawings" hidden from view as well. it,, diskint geographiC@ll Sites. The allillors furnish tran%cripis ill' the experiments. hints for would-be .1rernote viewers" and one or two new hypotheses. Most striking are tile pho- toglaphs Or tile "targets" juxtaposed With (Ile Volunteers' Sketches SO thit readers can forill their own opinion. Index, etc. 1.111111MI'YJ THE IRRATIONAL SEASON. Xfadeleine L'Engle. Crossroads/Sea- bury Press, $8.95 ISBN 0-8104-0324-4 It's hard to imagine readers failing to 649b4@14MMo6ig drarnatic life of President Lincoln SLIg- gests that it's in exposd of the "real" Lincoln which emphasizes his disdoin for P.IrClltid backgl-OUnd. lust for politi- cal power, etc. Such points are made only 11cclingly as tile atithor is swept along by tile tide of* epic events which tried and tesled Lincoln and bore him to glory. This book has tile appeal of I good novel with no distnicting foot- note',. But it's clear from ;in appendage 01'110tel, at the end that Oales has Stud- led all sourccs-the flood of' biogra- phies and memoirs on the Civil War president with which his book will be inevitably compared. Oates has done an admirahle job with this portrayal of -i D@Ad* , aractcr, the con- -g-el I coal , fii,4 cl, J-0 Approved For Release 210101/6'A"! From CHARLES PANATI Dear Hal and Russ, I just finished your book and think it is wonderful. Beautifully done. I'm filled with curiosity to see how it is received--what with the impressive data, the sober presentation, the intro- duction by Margaret Plead, everything-- I Darticularly liked the chapter on the "Loyal Opposition." You put the.facts straight and put everyone in his place-- all the while be level-headed and gentle- menly (more thab can be said for the Loyal Opposition). Thank you for mentioning the Geller PaDers. I regard it an honor to have my nane in your book.- I wish you more than luck, you both deserve it. Best wishes fort he New Year., ine mQvernvrit, some institu- :W, lnntd, (@r iw,m but rrr:r,!- .'t!,,Yed by tho@e excluded from ly set aside as an unreliable judge of enlightened, sensAmrom ase 2003/091/1' -R0P9'6-"?J0 23-8 While each o Field" cri- ciass' liberalism, like that sus- o , Pr Niv i n1of and controllin tiques-of weret Gurdjieff groups, _q this book, has @tn as nothing less than a move- mystical sport centers, Carlos Castane- da, Uri Geller-is sensible, the continti- )r institution-perhaps a com- movement at that. al scolding tone becomes unpleasant. nce -e ,he point of -largest substance The sighs of dismay. breathing restorations is the thing posi- throughout this book collect into a Idded, present now, absent be- whine. EventuW)y Professor Ornstein @,.at which forces, by its star- W, presents his choice of an esoteric psy-. ,,resence, a'reconsideration of &ology for all segsons: contemporary ind where you are. In'letters Sufism. "The Mind Field's" final sec an authority that depends alto- %h tion is a guided reading of 11 Suft the upon inwardness with tales selected from the recent antholo- at.can gies of Iridries Shah. character of the times, th i Professor Ornstein's talk Mthout winking, say-as a Cur- Yet for all fashionable novel speaks--of about intuitive wholistic understand-,, as "the -most profound moral ;,@The' Mind ing, his map of the mind field is Sur- of our -time." There's another I '. .@ @ I . prisingly flat: it lacks artr political ity derived from an instlact for Field". dimension. He never.considers that:'.- tioning; in its books, regardless there could be reasons particular to times, sanity is a rule not-an Anie-rica why our psychological explo- , '. By Robert E. Ornstein. and shamelessness -invariably 128 pp. New Yorh: Grossman/Viking. rations @become desperate -personal,'' ned shame. "Responses" recov- quests or beCOMe Teified into "con- i outline of the 'latter kind of sclbtisness" for conspicuous consumP- ity, and it is, to repeat, a cleans- tion. The frustrated yearning's for com- ,ht. -qpesU are never X By IEPPREY KLEIN munity behind such Laughs com easy nowadays to those examined. Ornstein writes: "R' is an: who never believed in the human unfortunate accident of the 20th-cen- ts tury that-those most interested. in potent!,al movement. Most studen of ial ;mowlc,11,-e - --md. in. an higher consciousness have either be- V@I'sOr come zombies in som@- corporate extended conception of man tend to be those least il in L911 (at the age of 48) -when growth enterprise or themselves joined ..su ted to gaining or I ,isformed the literal Alexandrian the ranks of the disillusioned. As widtl using. them," An unfomnate accid.ent? of h]is poems into a"metaphor.* ,American politkal"radicalism, it isex- 'Instead of analyzing why we produce 'd icifessibriAls' on the one hand Keeley traces the evolution tremely difficult,to maintain a respon- Pml P poet's riiy-thic'model through. sible, for;vard cotirse@ Teachers, like and unprincipled quacks on the other, ?ressive stages as "'sensual city- Robert -Ornsteiri, who pointed out the Professor Ofnsteirt.seems content. to scold. mythical Alexandria," which in, limits of the Western inind, have been On the West Coast .at least, R .obert @xpands to embrace the entire outflanked by 'cultists of all stripes, Ornstein is justly. well-known for ex- I of Hellenism"; from there the united only by their mindlessness, It inally attain's a-.'@unlversal per- is thus understandable why "The Mind periments which show that intuition ;e." Fortunately, Keeley under- Field!' is inspired by utter dismay. or "riglA brain thinking" probably has that what the ;critic reads'as 1@mfessor Ornstein - vrants "'to sepa- a physiological basis. Because he . is sal qualities are less than con- rate ihe' current lofty metaphysical in- a re-spectable - scientist, he has been ly wrought -by poets, and his flation, the goofiness, the outright lies, looked to by many as a consciousry"s -bapter shows how the detached and the commercialism from the i-eal experL "The Mind Field" seems born vision of some of the late poems ibility and di ipline." -Although out of too many kntwe tours, 'too springs oibit of, is possible only possi . Sc cbrmers and - symposia and he speaks from &it platform of,aca- many ;e of, the poet!s meticulous and demic. psychology, he is 'iiot address- parties full of curious. strnngers. It is' int working-out of his personal ing just his colleagues. The bogus as if, having been asked the sarne -ml structure. 'The' complex and sciertific "validations" of Trar-scen- gnrd questions too ofte:;% Professo r' lind integrity of Cavafy's model, dental Meditgtibn up .set him both be- O"ein finally lo-st b5s temper and -st produced by a modem poet, cause they are profmionally sloppy said: "All right, you want to krow ealed by the demonstration of, and because they obscure the purpose., what I think of all these damn move- :ct that each of its phases'is sub- of spiritual pursuits. ments, well let me tellym . in its successors. Thus Keeley While On stein admits TINI may have -How-not-to guides rarely help ;y shows how the eroticism of some beneficiad 7elaxing effect-%, noth- beginners. Those readers who are just )ems of the "sensual city" not ing a,,,, s hTn more than the use now becoming curious about Yoga, e of. .,y and ,xist3 on the two planes 'of the t@e e!@oterlc tmditicm as a form of Zen, binfeefiback, parapsyclholog --t and modern worlds w Iher .e. psychotherapy. He believes that Freud- the like would be betwr off turning -mrallelism denotes the continus- inn byCratilics -re not croly a peor ex- to Ornstein's earlier book, `17he Psy- dical- 1L hedonistic ethic and the ra planat@on of hun-Lan problems, but that choiegy of C,,nsciousness." It' s @a corn- erent sctial status of its practi- atten6,n to, personal problems now prehensive and often graceful intro- but that it also joins with his duction to esotaric psycholopy. Those leads us off th@e rnain eVotULionary major Ithemes to contribute to readers who already appreciate the =1", final vision of the human track. "In ;m tin4e-lnerated e-oteric esrAeric tr@idit"011 wid have to look be- wri under the zsoect of etemity, trncliticn, the ord7n;r@ is not to yond "The Mind Field" for mature lebrate it !still ior t2he passions ZeffreTl@ lein is an editor. of Mother lea,!,ership. 'As yet we do not have a even as one sees tl,.e de@A$pr he L L Irp Ell L AJ c