Misc Articles and Notes

Misc Articles and Notes

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Articles and Notes

Appears to be mostly documents from 1972

The more I scanned these documents the more I realized how this blank folder was very valuable and needed to have a name attached. So I renamed it Articles and notes.

Many interesting documents besides just newspaper articles including a national enquirer article about Ted Owens and another article that is difficult to find the title page. Perhaps they are the same article? There was article about parapsychology in Europe written by Jefferey and at about two more articles that mentioned Ted Owens.

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Oct. 7, 1972

Mr. Joseph DeLouise, Psychic
Chicago
c/o National Tattler

fella....

A friend of mine in Chicago saw an article today, in which you say some nasty things about me in Tattler. You even have the gall to insinuate, as he explained it long distance, that I might be a "fake and phony".

Let's take it one step at a time.

You have to be stupid. You know, dumb. No one in this world, in their right mind, would take me on. Not after I have documented causing hurricanes with my mind; controlling radar installations with my mind; controlling pro teams with my mind... and mind you, we are speaking of documented before-the-fact action. But you have chosen to insult me...as did Long John Nebel, some years ago (then he lost his prime time radio show; then his wife committed suicide; then he got cancer)...and so, you will get what you richly deserve, as time goes by.

You have to be stupider and dumber than me, because my IQ is scientifically certified. I am a member of Mensa. You are not. You couldn't make it. So...you are a dumb bunny.

Second: (we've taken up the mental, now the psychic)....as a psychic, fella, you are a nothing. So you can make some predictions. Big deal. I can make predictions that come true; also I can control exploding volcanos, control the weather, control military forces, heal people given up by doctors for dead, control pro football and basketball teams, control radar installations...and on and on and on. And all of it is documented; proved. I have notarized, signed affidavits from lawyers, scientists, etc., as to the truth of what I have just stated...so there can be no argument. I have even had UFO's appear at certain times and places so that scientists and others could examine them with binoculars, etc. This, also, is proven. So...you have to be stupid to call me a fake or a phony.

Third: why try to dare football players to come to Cape Charles and punch me in the nose? My, how brave you are! Let's you and him fight, you say. Well, fella...I live at 619 Randolph Street, Cape Charles, Virginia. I say you are a dirty, lowdown yellow coward. That is what I label you. Now, if you aren't...come on down, and we'll square off in my backyard with bare fists. I am 52 years old, with a potbelly, and years out of condition...but it would be a pleasure to give you a lesson in manners.

Look at it any way you can turn it, fella...mental, physical or psychic...you are light years away from being anything, or doing anything, like Ted Owens, PK Man. And for your sake you'd better believe it.

Ted Owens (PK Man)
Box 48, Cape Charles, Virginia 23310

cc: National Tattler,


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Jeffrey... this is a most intelligent rebuttal against "Owens just uses precog" from a learned man. Thought Bernstein might want it.

Ted

(The following is copied from page 84 of March 1971 Saga magazine article written by Otto Binder, entitled "Ted Owens - Flying Saucer Missionary." This is Binder's argument...against my critics who say that I have no powers and cannot communicate with UFOs...that I am merely talented at the use of precognitive ability. Owens.)

..."It is quite impressive to look over Ted's list of "PK feats accomplished" and see that many are marked as occurring in "three days," "five days," or "nine days." Some are even overnight, while others take a month or more. But the numerous close-hitting cases compel one to seek a paranormal rather than a "chance" or a "luck" explanation.

"One question remains. Is Ted unwittingly using pure cognition and only that? That is, does he have the power (miraculous in itself) to peer into the future and see coming events that turn out true 85% of the time? The SIs and his contact with them could then be sheer mental "window dressing" out of his subconscious mind, as it delves with uncanny accuracy into the future. This would mean too that all his so-called powers are imaginary -- that he does not control or make hurricanes, and has never spoiled a space shot with a PK shot.

"He would, in short, be foreseeing those events by his purely prophetic powers, and nothing more, with his subconscious imagination supplying the rest. But, because of his overwhelming list of "hits," that would still make him the greatest seer of all time, far above Jeanne Dixon or any others today, and even dwarfing the feats of the biblical prophets or the Oracle of Delphi.

"Explaining a fantastic phenomenon by one even more fantastic, is hardly a rational way of solving a riddle.

"Dr. Rhine would be the first to snort at this explanation, for his precognition experiments with ESP cards have revealed no such enormous prophetic powers in the human mind or psyche. Thus, with the precognitive theory, there is nothing to explain why Ted Owens should alone be able to read the future like a book -- unless God himself has lent him divine powers.

"The other explanation gives us something more rational as a method -- that other-dimension beings with their super-science have given Ted PK powers to perform feats he merely announces in advance.


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"And one other strong point backs up Ted's SI-contact claims. There are flying saucers seen all around earth (unless you are a last-ditch skeptic). If the UFOs exist, then the people who fly them exist. Certainly they cannot be ordinary humans but must be far beyond us in intellectual power.

"Thus, there is no great assumption to make as to the very probable existence of the SIs that Ted claims to talk to. Nor does his contact by ESP -- now a well-established phenomenon -- in any way stretch the imagination.

"The pure-precognition theory is barely possible while the SI-contact explanation is more highly probable..."

(Note: Otto Binder was co-author of the book, "Mankind - Child of the Stars," with Max Flindt (a Fawcett Gold Medal Book). The foreword of the book was done by Erich von Daniken, author of "Chariots of the Gods." In the foreword, von Daniken states, of Otto's book..."I know of no work since Darwin that deserves as much attention with regard to the evolution of man."

Otto Binder was a noted author - and his thinking was highly regarded by many experts in the field of the paranormal, and UFOs. This should be kept in mind while reading the afore-mentioned material. Owens.)


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21 March 1977.

Jeffrey Mishlove
% PSYCHIC (New Realities)
680 Beach Street
San Francisco, Ca. 94109.

Dear Jeffrey:

Read your article in "Psychic", Jan./Feb. '77 on the subject "Parapsychology in Europe" and found your report very interesting. Well, it is a great magazine!

Now---------- in regard to Ted Owens, I don't know how he does it or if he does it or if he has some deal going with the C.I.A. in regard to the so-called "U.F.O.'s". (I knew "Castaneda" was full of it, I couldn't take any interest in his books, and there have been several that have taken his books apart in the last few years. I couldn't waste my time). Owens, like so many, makes many claims. Chicago psychic Joseph De Louise has called Owens a liar and has evidentially proven it via these lie detector tests. See enclosed. It would be interesting for Rick Bennett (up here) and his voice stress tests to interview Owens and ask him if he has some connection with any government agency or some research group that may have some connection. It seems to me that the government really wants us to believe that all this is from another planet rather than a new source of free energy??? Most thinking people are quite aware that these government agencies are the instruments useful to the multi-national corporations and the owners of the capital stock (i.e. financial houses). This is news? So---------- people like Ted may jolly well fit right into this pattern for the (they hope) unthinking masses.

Best of luck young man---------- Aron Abrahamsen has moved to Everett, Wa. and to escape the land upheavels in California. I should think you fellows would really begin to think about this very seriously, especially Jim Bolen.

1524 nw 52
Seattle, Wa.
98107

Best Regards,
Ruth Ingalls
(Ruth Ingalls)


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THE NATIONAL TATTLER
October 20, 1974

# War of the Seers!

## Chicago's Joe DeLouise Spurs Virginia's Ted Owens To Take Lie Test, Which He Flunks, in Latest Round

EDITOR'S NOTE: A bitter war between psychics Joe DeLouise and Ted "PK Man" Owens has raged ever since the former challenged the latter's abilities in a TATTLER article two years ago. Owens claims to receive communications from outer space intelligences and to have hexed professional sports teams and personalities. He is a phony, DeLouise claims. Here is the latest report from the war front.

By TOM VALENTINE
Of the Tattler Staff

Psychic Ted "PK Man" Owens has failed a lie detector test about the alleged powers he claims to possess.

Those powers have been the subject of a long-standing debate between Owens and seer Joe DeLouise, a fight that began in the Oct. 22, 1972, TATTLER, when the two men launched charges and countercharges about each other's ability.

According to a polygraph expert, Owens has failed to tell the truth when stating he has communicated with super-beings from outer space, caused injuries to professional football players and the death of a radio personality.

The mystic from Cape Charles, Va., submitted to the test at the insistance of Ed Busch, host of a popular radio talk show on WFAA, Dallas, Tex.

"I'd read about the claims made by Owens and the rebuttal by DeLouise in TATTLER," Busch said. "So I asked Owens if he would submit to a test. He agreed."

Owens originally angered DeLouise by claiming he caused injuries to sports personalities and the death of radio announcer Long John Nebel and his wife.

"HE'S HURTING the image of legitimate ESP," DeLouise said. "What's wrong with his claims is, if he has really done what he said, he should go to jail -- if not, he should shut up."

Basis for the dispute began in 1966, when Owens tried to earn $25,000 by putting a "hex" on opposing teams for Philadelphia Eagles football team owner Jerry Wolman.

Wolman requested a demonstration. Owens joined him in the stands and made the New York Giants play miserably, he claimed.

But the Eagles played worse and lost. Wolman booted Owens out. In retaliation, the psychic threw a hex on Wolman's team.

He tried the same stunt with Baltimore Colts former owner Carroll Rosenbloom in 1971, that time asking $100,000. When Rosenbloom refused, he cast another hex, he said.

OWENS CLAIMS responsibility for injuries to quarterback Roman Gabriel and other stars, as well as the death of Nebel, who was openly critical about the psychic's abilities years ago, lost his own show and his wife by suicide before contracting cancer and dying himself.

"If I were one of the quarterbacks, like Gabriel or Joe Namath, who is injury-prone, I'd go out and punch Owens in the mouth for just thinking I should get hurt," DeLouise said.

"If he insists his hex claims are true, then jail him for assault with a deadly weapon."

Owens answered DeLouise by calling him "stupid" for not accepting substantiations of his powers. He invited the Chicagoan to Virginia so the two could literally slug out their differences in his backyard.

THE VIRGINIAN cited his membership in Mensa, an organization of people with genius IQs, as proof of his superior intellect.

When contacted by radio announcer Busch this summer, Owens again professed the ability to contact space beings, perform mind-over matter feats (including changing the weather) and control sports teams.

A skeptical Busch then asked the psychic if he would care to appear on his talk show and submit to a lie detector test. Owens agreed.

The trial was administered by Wayne Baker, who directs the polygraph division of the Dallas-based American Bureau of Intelligence, Inc., a highly reputable firm.

"THE EVALUATION of Owens' polygrams revealed criteria indicating deceptive responses to several relevant questions," Baker said.

Four times, Baker asked Owens direct questions about the latter's relationship with UFO entities. Four times, Owens professed having such a relationship. Each time, the polygraph indicated "deception."

Twice, Baker used reverse questioning procedure, asking his subject, "Have any of the miracles you say are documented been falsified in any way?"

"No," Owens replied. Again, the machine registered "deception."

"Have you made any false statements to the public concerning your psychic powers?" Baker queried.

"No." Again, the machine indicated deception.

WHEN INTERVIEWED by Busch after the test had been completed, Owens challenged the results, stating:

"Lie detector tests often lie themselves. This test proves nothing."

When DeLouise learned about the results, he told TATTLER:

"I could have told you that. It's too bad the rest of the psychics who are sincere and trying to build credibility have to be linked with a character like Owens."

# HOW TO HANDLE A HANDGUN

TATTLER PEOPLE


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Article by Eva Åström, Journalist, from the Swedish magazine, Saxons veckotidning, Sveavägen 145, 106 63 Stockholm, Sweden.

HALF MY BRAIN IS POWERED BY FORCES FROM SPACE...!

(Caption on picture) YOU MAY THINK WHAT YOU WANT ABOUT TED - BUT HE IS AN EXCITING PERSON.

(Caption on picture) TED OWENS HAS PERFORMED 307 MIRACLES. HERE HE SUMMONS SUPERIOR FORCES...

Ted Owens is a remarkable man. To say the least. He is not only a sociable person of great talent - he also maintains that half his brain is governed by forces from outer space. Read and judge for yourself the truth of the accounts of his experiences.

By Eva Åström
Photo: Kurt Pettersson

He is a man in his late middle age. Big, loud and with an eternal cigar glued to the corner of his mouth. Ted Owens has the capability of dominating a large group of people. Not in an unpleasant manner but through his imposing personality.

The things he tells make people shut up and listen. Ted, who has flown to London from his home in Virginia, USA, over the weekend, maintains determinately that he is no longer an ordinary earth being. Unflinchingly, he declares that his brain has been modified by space creatures. His brain is only half human. The other half is a UFO-brain!

I have looked upon all reports about UFOs, flying saucers, with the greatest scepticism myself. Still Ted is treated with the greatest respect by professors and other prominent scientists. Even if maybe they are not always convinced about the truth in all that Ted tells - and those are fantastic things - they don't seem to regard Ted as a fake.

The story about Ted's UFO brain starts in Texas in 1953.

- I was driving alone through the desert in a 1937 Chevrolet. I had been driving on and on for several days. The perspective of time had lost its meaning to me. One evening I stopped the car and hiked out into the desert. Why, I did not know. It was merely an irresistible impulse.

- That was the last I remembered. Gradually I woke up. It was hot and in the middle of the day. All round me there was the marks after some strange type of fence.


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- Well, the car was still there and I drove to the nearest gas station, considerably confused. I filled up at the gas station and bought the daily newspaper. To my amazement it became apparent that 3 days had elapsed since I stopped the car in the desert. Several days were just gone!

Ted lights the butt of his cigar and takes another gulp from his glass of beer. We are all awaiting the continuation of the story breathlessly.

- All the time I felt strange. Still I drove on. I did not go very fast, maybe 60 miles an hour, when I entered a sharp curve. I was terrified, noticing that my body was as though it had been paralyzed. The car of course continued in its direction straight forward, down toward the ravine at the side of the road.

- I hardly dared to keep my eyes open. Without my touching the steering wheel the car turned up the road again all by itself and went on running. The paralysis ceased immediately.

(Caption) 307 MIRACLES

The strange occurrences continued during Ted's journey. He drove into Mexico and ended up in a strange hotel. To start with the hotel had been an old castle. Now the saying was that the hotel was haunted. Ted spent the night in the room which according to hearsay was the one most afflicted by the ghosts. Unfortunately, they refused to appear before him.

- On the road back to San Antonio I happened to run into another car. Nothing serious, I could go on driving. Once in the city I felt so exhausted that I had to rest. I checked in at the Hilton and asked for the most moderately priced room.

- The bellboy took my little bag and directed me to the most lavish suite. There must be some mistake, I said. But the boy persisted that it was the right room. Tired as I was, I didn't feel like arguing but went straight to bed.

- The next time I woke up, 3 more days had passed! Furthermore, I had been moved to an entirely different room.

- What had happened was that SI, Science Intelligence, had taken me up to one of their spaceships and operated on my brain. When I felt the back of my head, I noticed a huge scar running along my skull. It was the scar from the operation.


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From that day on Ted was an entirely different man. His intelligence was tremendously increased and he soon became aware that the operation had led to unexpected possibilities.

- Up till now I have performed 307 documented miracles. I've made hurricanes, floods, electromagnetic disturbances, governed football games and made UFOs appear. Among other things. Everything happens at the command of the UFO-men, SI.

Ted stops for an effective interval and lets his message sink into our minds. We giggle nervously, looking at each other. What is one to believe? Ted is composed. He does not need to think anything! He knows...

We are sitting in the home of George, one of Ted's new friends and admirers in London. George's two Labrador dogs run excitedly around the PK-man, as Ted calls himself.

Ted seems to think that we have had enough time to digest his statements and goes on:

- Each time I intend to perform a miracle I first write a letter to six different scientists and predict what is going to happen. That is, I really don't predict things - I arrange so that they happen.

- At home I've several rooms filled with documents showing that I have been right. I've only brought a fraction of all my material with me to London, says Ted, pointing at a huge bag.

The bag is filled with letters and newspaper clippings and presented as proof of the fact that Ted's miracles have really occurred.

Bending forks like Uri Geller does is something that Ted frowns at with contempt.

- I want to do GREAT things. Some years ago in 1972 I wrote to different scientists in California. There had been a prolonged drought in the state. It had lasted for several years. I made so that it should rain for exactly 90 days, which I also wrote in my predictions.

(Caption) IT RAINED FOR 90 DAYS.

- Not only did I promise rain, but also snow and hailstorms.


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Five days later the storms began and lasted as predicted for 90 days. In a desert region, where there had been no snow for 15 years, the depth could be measured in decimeters. The newspaper San Francisco Chronicle of February 6 the same year prints an interview with a meteorologist:

- What has happened is so complicated and unexpected that I don't even understand it myself. I can't recall that a similar type of weather has ever occurred...

In 1966 Ted wrote to the Meteorology Station in Florida that he could control the hurricane Inez, which threatened to pass in over land. Ted would see to it that it would instead be routed over northern Cuba.

A day or two later Inez quite unexpectedly changed course and followed the route directed by Ted.

- I have of course not always been right in my predictions. But 85 per cent of them come true, says Ted modestly. SI are very good at arranging weather changes, but their technique is not entirely perfect.

Ted shows me a book from 1971 where he foretold what was going to happen within the nearest future.

"President Nixon will not remain in office. Something very unusual is going to happen. He will resign or be forced to resign..."

We certainly all remember the Watergate scandal and its consequences.

"Millions of cars will be brought to a standstill in the U.S. and the whole western world. There will be no gasoline to run them."

Some years later there was the oil crisis.

- In July of 1966 I got a command from SI to write to CIA. They wanted to prove that they really existed. SI promised to appear over the North as well as the South Pole and cause electromagnetic disturbances.

A few days later, on the 8th of July, one could read in the newspapers about a mysterious saucerlike object, which had landed at the South Pole. It was observed by several scientists, who also managed to take several color photos of the object.


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At the same time strange electromagnetic disturbances afflicted the area...

What is the purpose of the spacemen's weather interferences and other phenomena? Are they out to conquer the Earth?

- Strange as it may seem, I know very little about their purposes, Ted declares. It may seem as though they wanted to hurt mankind, but I'm convinced that whatever occurs is part of a major plan for the good of humanity.

(Caption) INVISIBLE UFO-MEN

- SI have an intelligence by far superior to man's. They are not created from the same matter as we, they consist entirely of energy. Consequently, they are invisible. I've never seen any of them.

- Through the exchange of thoughts and symbols we maintain our contact. SI are thousands of years ahead of us in development. They don't live, as one might think, on another planet, but in an entirely different dimension. By means of their symbols, I believe I've been able to understand what their intentions with man are.

- The white man is about to annihilate the Earth. That's what SI want to prevent. Before we began to conquer the Earth and enslave other people, they used to live in harmony with the nature.

- SI want the Indians to get back their country, the USA, the blacks Africa and the Eskimos their territories. The natural disasters are punishment and an exhortation from SI for man to reconsider his actions. They don't govern man - they give guidance - but man decides his own fate.

In April of 1972 Ted wrote to NASA and told them that he would incapacitate the electric system of Apollo 16, create electromagnetic disturbances and cut off the radio contact. But no astronaut should come to any harm.

Ted reads aloud out of a newspaper from the day after the homecoming of Apollo 16.

"4-5 things happened to Apollo 16 which have never happened to a space capsule before. It is a total mystery. The rocket had problems with the antenna, the computer which was supposed


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to guide it, broke down and the main engine malfunctioned. The orange juice leaked into the space suits of the astronauts. They could hardly remove their helmets."

"When they had landed at Cape Kennedy the gasoline truck, which was supposed to empty Apollo of its fuel, exploded. The rocket was destroyed by fire. Investigations show that the astronauts had been exposed to radioactive radiation."

(Caption) UFOs BUILT PYRAMIDS

- I'm not the only one in contact with SI. Moses was one of the first. Without the cooperation of SI the Egyptians would never have been able to build the pyramids.

- The pyramids have ever since been protected by the SI. Enclosing the pyramids there is still another invisible pyramid. Its power punishes those who enter the pyramid. What it protects is not any worldly riches. It is guarding the old knowledge. The knowledge, among other things in the form of unexplained murals, can only be used by humans possessing the powers of a medium.

- Now and then I'm being tested by the SI. Once I dreamed that I flew over the city. SI asked if I wanted to go on flying. I looked down at all the people who walked there, heavy and earth-bound on the ground. It would have been tempting... but... I knew that my place was with the humans. I wanted to remain with my wife and our child.

Before the transformation of Ted's brain he lived an exciting and varied life. He had had 50 different professions and in his leisure time he practiced knife-throwing, judo and hypnosis. Music is another great interest of his. He was so good at it that he played the drums with several well known jazzbands.

The claim that he is a crackpot is rejected by Ted by way of showing his membership in the very exclusive society MENSA. To become a member you have to have an IQ of at least 148. Ted has 153. A person with an IQ above 140 is generally regarded as a genius.

- I exercise my brain like any other muscle. Through training you can increase the capacity of your brain with at least 80%, maintains Ted. My brain is not completely developed as yet. SI have promised to improve my brain further.


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Around his neck Ted wears a strange pendant. Its sign looks like a Danish O with a bolt of lightning running through it. The cipher symbolizes Ted himself.

- I always wear it. It has saved me from disasters and assaults many a time. I've in my possession letters from several people, who have been saved from disasters only by wearing the pendant, Ted tells us.

In December of last year Ted performed his most complicated and controversial miracle. A TV-company wanted Ted to prove that he really possessed supernatural powers. Ted made a list of no less than 11 phenomena which were to happen in Chicago within the nearest future:

Chicago would be hit by both record heat and an unusually powerful snow blizzard. The sky will be ablaze from lightning and hurricanes and tornadoes would sweep the region. Electric blackouts and strange radio signals were to paralyze the life of the city. Waves were to destroy many vessels, UFOs would appear, airports were to practically stop functioning and strange things were to happen to Chicago's football team, the Chicago Bears.

Everything came about in rapid succession. Record temperatures of 86°F were registered in December. The day after all traffic was paralyzed by snow blizzards. Three tornadoes with a wind velocity of 80 miles an hour caused great damage. Radio signals made drawbridges open and close by themselves. The bus services of Chicago broke down, when the buses started and stopped without anybody touching the instruments.

Chicago's main airport had more accidents than ever. Several planes were very close to collision. Nobody could find an explanation. An entirely new safety system at a cost of millions of dollars had to be ordered.

The Chicago Bears had their worst season ever. The players were injured and were taken ill all the time. The few remaining, capable of playing, acted like beginners on the field.

The predictions of Ted are well documented. He shows the letters he wrote before everything happened and clippings with surprising newspaper articles from the following months.

It is rather weird to leaf through Ted's book of newspaper clippings. His success cannot be explained by pure luck or chance. He has been found right too many times.

What can we expect from next year, according to Ted?


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- Mostly bad things. Huge natural disasters will strike as punishment for man's destruction of the Earth's natural resources. Ex-president Nixon will die, possibly he will be murdered. Also Pat Nixon will die. Kissinger will be subjected to an assault which may prove to be fatal.

-The President of Uganda, Idi Amin, will be murdered or thrown out of his country. The stock market will experience a crisis of about the same magnitude as the depression of the 1930s.

Ted cannot promise anything positive for the future. Much depends upon how man takes care of his Earth.

Before we part Ted shows me a letter where he promised that England should be afflicted by rain when he came for a visit. Quite right, it started to rain the same day he arrived after many months of drought and heat.

As soon as I get back to my hotel I take out a Swedish evening paper of yesterday's date. Maybe Ted had looked at the weather forecast before he predicted the weather. I quote from the paper:

"Not a single cloud over England. The high pressure covers large parts of Europe. England lies within its central parts and the problem with the drought remains."


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NATIONAL TATTLER, OCT. 22, 1972

Joseph DeLouise Raps A Fellow Psychic

# 'Seer Ted Owens Is Ruining Legitimate Image Of ESP'

By TOM VALENTINE

Famous Chicago psychic Joseph DeLouise has accused another famous seer, Ted Owens, of "hurting legitimate ESP's image."

"We psychics have enough trouble with the skeptical public without having some guy popping off with phony claims," DeLouise said.

DeLouise told TATTLER in an exclusive interview that Owens, a seer who claims he talks with outer space intelligences, is "opening a Pandora's box with some of his claims about his influence on professional sports teams."

Owens claims he has put a "whammy" on such teams as the Baltimore Colts and Los Angeles Rams of pro football, the Baltimore Bullets in pro basketball, and everything in Philadelphia.

"What's wrong with his claims," DeLouise points out, "is if he has really done what he said, he should go to jail--if not, he should shut up."

Here's what Owens has claimed:

He started in 1966 trying to earn $25,000 by putting a "hex" on opposing teams for Philadelphia Eagles owner Jerry Wolman.

Wolman asked for a demonstration, so Owens sat in the stands with the club owner and made the New York Giants play miserably, he said.

However, the Eagles played worse and lost, so Wolman booted Owens out. Seeking revenge, Owens claims he hexed the Eagles and they went steadily downhill. Owens claims his hex was responsible.

Last year, he offered his services to the Baltimore Colts' owner Carroll Rosenbloom and this time the price was $100,000.

Rosenbloom said no, so Owens claims he's the one that hexed them out of the Superbowl against Dallas in 1971 and cost them the playoff against Miami in 1972.

When Rosenbloom made his unprecedented franchise trade of the Colts for the Rams, Owens gave the owner a second chance. He wrote to Rosenbloom on June 30 suggesting:

"You are acquiring a team that I will stop like it has run into a stone wall unless you hire my services."

Rosenbloom ignored him.

On July 17, Rams quarterback Roman Gabriel suffered a collapsed lung and the Rams are hindered despite having a fine team.

The Cleveland Browns are another team Owens claims to have personally wrecked: "One of the team's executives called me a two-bit ESP phony on live radio. Well, you'll notice that Art Modell, (Browns owner) has had an accident. That's just the beginning. Once the season begins, I keep a file on the team and start with the quarterback."

DeLouise is furious at such claims.

"If a person caused another person harm with a club or a gun, they'd go to jail; so if Owens is really doing these things as he claims, he should be locked up. If not, then his outrageous lies are giving all psychics a black eye."

DeLouise said he does not doubt the powers of hexing. "The human mind can do many things, good or evil, and what he claims to be doing is evil.

"If I were one of the quarterbacks, like Gabriel or Johnny Unitas or Joe Namath, who is injury prone and must face the danger of getting hurt, I'd go out and punch Owens in the mouth for just thinking I should get hurt."

DeLouise suggested the owners of a team Owens claims to have hexed take him to court.

"If he insists that his hex claims are true, then jail him for assault with a deadly weapon."

De Louise Says Owens Should Be Tossed In Jail

# 'If I were Namath, Unitas or Gabriel, I'd punch Owens in the nose'


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LARRY DONKO

"I've done over 400 miracles".
-Ted (PK Man) Owens

OH, oh.
Ted Owens is at it again.
He has cranked up that force he refers to as PK Power.

While trying to keep a cigar lit, Owens told me, "Using only my mind, I'm going to hit the current Nato exercises with PK Power to scramble them as much as I can. This may cause ships to come together, airplanes and helicopters to fall down.

"This may cause all kinds of freak things to happen, making everything go wrong that can go wrong."

"PK Power" is a short phrase for psychokinesis power. This is the talent to move things with psychic force. Years ago in Texas, Owens became acquainted with space intelligences who traveled in a cigar-shaped craft.

Ever since then, these persons (?) have been using Owens as a transmitter for mysterious energy.

Said Owens. "I can sit here in my living room with my cigar and a can of beer and, with my mind, control a whole professional team for a whole season. Or control a whole Appollo moon shot. Or hit an entire city, like I did with Cleveland."

## Power proclaimed

Owens isn't bashful. He announces the miracles in advance. From a 2-story frame home on Randolph Street in Cape Charles, Owens sends bulletins to college professors, writers, astronomers, newsmen and others.

During my visit, Owens told me, "I will build into my mental attack on the Nato exercise the intelligence to prevent anyone from being killed or hurt."

Nato's Operation Strong Express opened yesterday and will continue until Sept. 28 in European waters. It is the largest combined land, sea and air maneuver for Nato since 1968. The operation involves 64,000 men, 300 ships and 700 aircraft. The U.S. Navy is participating with 37 ships.

"I refer to this as a huge laboratory experiment for PK Power; just like the Olympics."

I said to Owens, "You don't mean that YOU and the PK Power made that mess in Munich?"

"At first," said Owens, "I was going to employ my mental powers against the Russians. The U.S. refused to cooperate. So, instead of experimenting with the Russian team, I switched to the Americans. You saw what happened."

## An evil force?

To hear Owens describe PK Power, it sounds are welcome as the heartbreak of rasis. Question: is this PK Power the devil's work? Is it a curse upon mankind?

"Not at all," said Owens. "I'm proving I'm demonstrating that the power of the mind has infinite ability. People don't realize this. So, I'm making miracles. I do it on a scale to impress, to boggle the mind."

Since last spring, Owens has been working on several miracles of the first rank. They include:

Inflicting Apollo 16 with everything from a fouled up guidance system to a lost lunar lander cover to orange jucie in the space suits of the astronauts. "I affected the whole thing, from here to the moon, with my mind. I made all kinds of freak things happen."

The blitz of Cleveland. "For the first time, I controlled an entire city for a week. I caused intense heat, severe lightning, made people do crazy things. It all hit. Pow! Here are the clippings. Look and you'll see reports of a heat wave, streets buckling, lighting hitting railroad tracks, high winds, people calling City Hall to say they've been talking to Howard Hughes."

## Football teams target

Dooming 15 pro football teams to disappointing seasons.

"None of the teams will get into the Super Bowl. I will control them and see that they lose enough personnel, enough games to miss taking all the marbles."

The teams are Washington, Baltimore, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, Atlanta, Chicago, New England, Houston, Denver, Kanssa City, New York Jets, Phalidalphia, Cleveland and San Diego.

Before the training camps opened, Owens wrote to 15 teams and offered to help with PK Power. His fee is $25,000.

None accepted. So, Owens will turn on the teams, hurling the PK Power at them by way of television. He did it to Baltimore last season. He did it to the Virginia Squires in basketball.

"I give the teams a fair chance to employ PK Power to help them win. I would use the money for my little church, the Church of Sota. So far, I have made no money from PK Power."

Last year, Owens zapped the Colts when owner Carrol Rosenbloom would not meet his terms. In 1972, Rosenbloom took control of the Los Angeles Rams. When Owens zaps somebody, they stay zapped. As Rosenbloom assumed ownership of the Rams, quarterback Roman Gabriel suffered a collapsed lung and quarterback Jerry Rhome was burned in a garage fire. ZAP.


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3/20/72
The Sun Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio

# PINCH HITTING

## Psychic Force to Wreck Browns

By Dan Coughlin

I'm afraid that Browns fans had better hedge their bets this season if they believe the track record of a well-known mystic.

The seer is Ted Owens, who claims he can talk with Space Intelligences from an alien dimension. Owens, 52, who lives in a suburb of Norfolk, Va., maintains that he derives psychokinetic powers from his friends in outer space.

He tells his gift KD Power and he says he is directing it against the Browns. He promises they'll finish under .500 this fall.

This isn't Owens' first intrusion into the world of sports. In recent years he claims to have put the whammy on the Virginia Squires, Baltimore Bullets, Baltimore Colts, Los Angeles Rams and everything in Philadelphia.

HE FIRST DABBLED in pro football in 1966. Needing money to support his family and to further his own research, Owens asked Philadelphia Eagles owner Jerry Wolman for a job. He promised to hex opposing teams for a stipend of $25,000.

Wolman was skeptical but he also was desperate, so he consented to a demonstration. Owens sat in the stands in Franklin Field and made the Giants play miserably. Unfortunately, the Eagles played worse and lost the game. Wolman booted him out. Further correspondence went unanswered.

"No one is perfect," said Owens, who claims to have a batting average of 92%.

The next season an angered Owens turned his powers AGAINST the Eagles, and they went from 9-5 to 6-7-1. Owens was in high gear in 1968 when the Eagles dropped to 2-12 and Wolman went bankrupt and lost the club.

CONVINCED OF HIS POWERS, last year he offered his services to each team in pro football. Some filed his letter under junk mail. One who replied was Baltimore Colts owner Carroll Rosenbloom. Owens' price by now was up to $100,000, and Rosenbloom backed off. So Owens directed his evil eye at Rosenbloom and claims to be personally responsible for the Colts losing the Super Bowl game to Dallas. He doesn't explain how they got that far.

When Rosenbloom traded the Colts for the Rams, Owens gave him a second chance. I have a copy of the letter dated June 30 in which Owens wrote, "You are acquiring a team that I will stop like it has run into a stone wall unless you hire my services."

No answer.

On July 17 Rams quarterback Roman Gabriel suffered a collapsed lung.

BASKETBALL HAS NOT escaped his voodoo, either. In 1971 Owens warned in advance that the Baltimore Bullets would lose four straight playoff games to the Milwaukee Bucks because a Baltimore newspaper editor had been rude to him. The Bullets lost four straight. He apparently gives Jabbar no credit.

Sports has been only a sidelight for the mystic. He points to other catastrophes. For example:

On Oct. 26, 1965, he cabled the CIA that a terrible catastrophe would hit the United States within 10 days. Actually it took 13 days. On Nov. 9 the biggest power failure in history hit the east and became known as the Big blackout. He takes credit for it.

HIS FORECASTS HAVE been studied by several university scientists, including Dr. Max Fogel of Norristown, Pa. Duke University's School of ESP also has perused him at length. Dr. Fogel, incidentally, is the international scientist for Mensa, the organization of persons with IQ's over 148, which is generally accepted as genius level.

Upon learning that Owens' IQ is 150, I was reminded of that old fable that there's a thin line of difference between genius and lunacy. In 1968, however, Owens was accepted to Mensa, which usually tries to purge its rolls of known loons.

WHY, I ASKED HIM, was he turning his great might on the poor Cleveland Browns, who had enough trouble winning their division title last year.

"The reason is Pete Franklin," said Owens.

I knew there had to be something sinister.

"He called me a two-bit ESP phony on live radio," Owens explained.

"You'll notice," Owens pointed out, "that the Browns owner Art Modell recently had an accident. That's just the beginning. Once the season begins I keep a file on the team and start with the quarterback."

I didn't tell him about Bill Nelson's knees.

Slick Runway Sept 1972

# Worms Close Airport

CLEVELAND (UPI) -- The longest runway at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport was closed for 30 minutes Thursday as a motorized broom swept the concrete clear of hundreds of thousands of earthworms.

Captains of four jetliners reported that braking action on landing was extremely poor because of the worms. The 9,000-foot northeast-southwest runway was closed and traffic diverted to shorter runways which did not have the problem.

A tower air traffic controller said recent heavy rains in the area apparently brought the worms to the surface of the ground around the runway.

"This is the worst we've ever had," said a spokesman in the airport operations office. "Usually we just ignore them, and when the sun comes out they go away.

"But this time there were so many on the last one-third of the runway that we had to sweep them off to the side and scoop some up," he said. "We have places in fields beyond the airport where we can take them."

Both of these items are recent, and both from recently-PK'd Cleveland.

Owens
(PK Man)


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Dear Ted,

Please forgive the delay in returning this material to you. It was fascinating to peruse.

I enclosed several copies of a column I did on you which appeared in The Plain Dealer on Sunday, Aug. 20.

So far, your power directed against the Browns seems to be working. They look pathetic. A key defensive player, defensive end Joe Jones, has been lost for the season with a knee injury. Team owner Art Modell's right hand is still partially paralyzed as a result of that accident in July.

You itemized several other atmospheric conditions that would hit the Cleveland-Akron area this past summer, however, which weren't quite so close. For instance, you forecast blazing hot drought. In reality, Cleveland had it's rainiest summer in 102 years. There were no major power blackouts, just the usual breakdowns at the Muny Light plant. There were no 60 to 90 mile per hour winds except a couple windstorms where the breeze reached close to 60 in gusts, but that isn't unusual for a Cleveland summer. That usually happens a couple times.

However, you also predicted planes would be forced down and ships sunk offshore. It seems to me that more small planes crashed in the Cleveland area this summer than in recent years. Also, one storm ---------- I think it was the backwash of Hurricane Bertha ---------- caused considerable damage to boats at local marinas and several were sunk. I don't have any comparison figures on the number of small plane crashes, however. I do know we had a helluva rainstorm, though.

Thanks for your cooperation. I hope you like the column I did on your powers.

Sincerely yours,
Dan Coughlin
Dan Coughlin


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# Psychic Sees Jackie O. Being Murdered, Burton Dumping His Aging Liz

![Image: Liz Taylor and Richard Burton]
Liz Taylor and Richard Burton -- their marriage will come apart, Owens predicts.

![Image: Jackie Onassis]
Jackie Onassis: more violence, says Owens.

![Image: President Nixon]
President Nixon will be unable to finish his term.

BY PAUL ADELSON

Jackie Onassis faces more violence and suffering.

Richard Burton is going to dump Liz.

Russia will soon rule the world.

These are just a few of the predictions made by Ted Owens, a 52-year-old "UFO Prophet" from Cape May, Va.

"I don't make the predictions," Owens began. "They're given to me by the SI's, Space Intelligence."

Space Intelligence, Owens explained, are beings from flying saucers. He said that these beings are responsible for increasing the ESP ability he has had since childhood.

Owens said he has been guided by the UFO people since 1965.

"One night, I was riding down the highway with my daughter, when we lived in Ft. Worth, Tex.," he explained.

"A cigar-shaped UFO suddenly appeared over a nearby field and then floated toward my car.

"It didn't make any noise. It had red, white, blue, and green colors flaming out of the end of the craft."

Owens never met the men in the spacecraft. But, from that moment, his entire life changed.

"Suddenly, I learned to develop my powers," he said. "I started experimenting with mind over matter to control nature's forces."

Owens can recall hints of his ESP power during his childhood in Bedford, Ind.

"My teachers and family figured I was dumb and stupid," he said.

"Even as a child though, I was capable of using my ESP abilities. Later, I took an intelligence test and found I had an I.Q. of 150.

"An I.Q. of 140 means you're a genius."

Because of his I.Q., Owens belongs to "Mensa," a society of people who are geniuses.

Owens elaborated on his relationship with the beings from outer space.

"The SI's used my brain to set up a two-way radio with me," he said. "I have the power to cause things to happen by using PK, or psychokinesis."

For many, the story about the spacemen is hard to swallow. But Owens has indeed "made things happen."

With 85 per cent of his predictions correct, Owens has a reputation for accuracy. Larry Bonko, a newspaper columnist for the Norfolk Ledger-Star, wrote about one example of Owens' ability:

"Owens was at the post office in Norfolk when a thought struck him about a bomb," Bonko wrote.

"He went up to a man at the counter and said, 'My special ESP ability and powerful mind have picked up the thoughts of some bad people who are planning to bomb the post office here.'"

People laughed at this prediction. But, shortly afterwards, somebody firebombed the post office in Norfolk.

Bonko has documented other accurate predictions, such as the great East Coast power blackout in 1965, three hurricanes, and the 1969 Cuban plot to kidnap President Nixon.

Owens doesn't like it when people scoff at his powers. In fact, when

![Image: Ted Owens]
Ted Owens, the "UFO Prophet."


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some of the professional football teams laughed at his offers to make them win for a price, Owens hexed them.

Now they wish they never had laughed.

In February, 1971, Owens cast his evil eye on the Baltimore Colts. The spell would be lifted, he said, only if they paid him $100,000.

Team owners ignored his demands. But soon enough, bad luck hit the Colts.

Johnny Unitas hurt his heel tendon and was sidelined.

Top player Sam Havrilak sprained an ankle. Running back Tom Matte was hospitalized with Appendicitis.

Team owner Carroll Rosenbloom finally decided it was no joke and personally wrote a letter to Owens, asking him to please remove the hex.

Since then, Owens has hexed other teams, including the Baltimore Bullets basketball team.

"Make no mistake about it," Owens disclosed in his form letter to several teams, who are all suffering unexplainable losing streaks.

"I can control your teams!"

Owens sees an ominous future for some jet set celebrities.

Concerning Jackie Onassis, Owens said there is an aura of violence hanging over her.

"I see Jackie murdered. I see her lying covered with gore. Ari will be delighted to see her exit. He hates her. When the murder happens, he will be away somewhere, with a perfect alibi."

On Liz and Burton, Owens predicted that the aging actress will soon be dumped.

"Liz hates men. She rapes and robs them. But Time has caught up with her. As she gets wrinkles, and more fat, her screen of beauty will fade away. Burton will divorce her."

And when will all this happen?

"I can't give the exact time for either prediction," Owens stated. "I find it hard to pinpoint predictions in a time reference. I can only say what shows up on my 'mental screen.'"

Owens offered some other predictions for the coming months:

The ground level in Nevada has started to sink, and Owens predicts the entire state will suffer natural catastrophies.

The Russians will gain additional power in the near future. In effect, Russia will rule the world. But the Red Chinese will be quietly sneaking up on Russia behind her back.

Mexico and Canada will become openly hostile towards the United States. The borders of these countries will be partially sealed off.

Long-range predictions:

There will be an accidental nuclear explosion in the United States, probably in the Midwest.

President Nixon won't complete his second term in office. He will either resign, or be forced out.

The wealthy will lose their riches as businesses go broke. Jobless people will roam the land.

THE NATIONAL NEWS EXPLOITER, Volume 7, Number 12, September 17, 1972

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Psychogenetic Systems
1975, Vol. 1, pp. 98

© Gordon and Breach Science Publishers Ltd.
Printed in Great Britain

# Letter

Sir--I would like to suggest to those planning further work with Uri Geller (as well as similar psychokinesis sensitives and "healers") a line of research whose significance, were anything like positive data to be obtained, would be difficult to overestimate. I am referring to the possibility of replicating--and even extending--the type of experiment which followed S. L. Miller's production in 1953 of amino acids from the electrical sparking of a mixture of water vapour, methane, ammonia and hydrogen (all presumed to have been available on earth prior to the beginning of primitive life). Since Miller's classic experiment (1959), investigators have played with the idea that the production not only of amino acids and protein molecules and chains but of the basic genetic material itself--"life" in the form of self-replicating molecules--could be achieved (Calvin, 1969; Rutten, 1971; Strong, 1970). Despite the use of a variety of approaches and catalytic agents, however, this goal has continued to elude them.

The possibility is worth considering that physical psychics of the stature of Uri Geller, and conceivably proven "healers" (let us say those who have successfully altered rates of enzyme reactions), might be able to provide what electric current, ultraviolet light, high pressures, and high temperatures have not themselves been able to provide. I do not feel that experiments with persons of this stature should be limited solely to trying to achieve the types of things which have, in essence, been done repeatedly in the past. Investigators in psychical research might as well go for broke in one of the most baffling areas in current science. Positive data would also, needless to say, provide a link to a number of areas in our own riddle-wrapped area, from the data of materialization to data now on dead center in the survival problem (Cairns-Smith, 1971; Eisenbud, 1972).

It need hardly be emphasized that this type of research might be far more complex and difficult than that heretofore carried out. I feel certain, however, that the cooperation of biochemists can be counted upon.

### REFERENCES

Cairns-Smith, A. G. *The Life Puzzle*. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1971.

Calvin, M. *Chemical Evolution*. Oxford: Clarendon, 1969.

Eisenbud, J. The dilemma of the survival data. Discussion of Professor Flew's paper. *Journal of the American Society of Psychical Research*, 1972, 66, 145-154.

Miller, S. L. Formation of organic compounds on the primitive earth. In Oparin, A. I. (Ed.), *The Origin of Life on Earth*. London: Pergamon, 1959.

Rutten, M. G. *The Origin of Life by Natural Causes*. New York: Elsevier, 1971.

Strong, C. L. Experiments in generating the constituents of living matter from inorganic substances. *Scientific American*, January, 1970, 130-139.

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Sun's strange activity could mean something else.)

The Indian astronomer and mathematician, Chandrasekhara Vekata Raman, now an American citizen, studied how a star reaches supernova explosiveness. Any star with a mass less than one and a half times that of our Sun (called "Chandrasekhara's limit") is believed to be incapable of exploding. Instead, it's supposed to die slowly as the star evolves from blue giant babyhood to white dwarf senility. The shrinking process supposedly maintains the energy equilibrium.

When the energy cannot be radiated into space fast enough, pressure rapidly builds up in the core. Stars with greater mass and volume therefore, are unable to maintain their pressure balance by shrinking. The result is an explosion of such terrible violence that in addition to destroying all of its planets, the total volume of the star stuff may expand as far as the next nearest star.

Our Sun is one of the most enigmatic objects we know. Since the modern astronomical symbol for the Sun, as well as the chemical symbol for hydrogen, its most abundant element, is a circle with a dot in the center, it seems a rather odd "coincidence" that two disciplines which developed independently should arrive at the same symbol for the major component of the Sun and the Sun itself.

Until the discovery of the neutrino no one knew that an accurate representation of the Sun and its neutrino core was a dot surrounded by a circle. This raises the interesting question of how ancient astronomers (circa 4000 to 2400 B.C.) with no admitted knowledge of chemistry (let alone atomic particle physics, spectroheliograms, or radio astronomy) arrived at this most simple, all inclusive Solar symbol imaginable.

This evidence suggests prehistoric solar disturbances that may have caused radical changes throughout the entire planetary system. Such disturbances could have been responsible for all the cataclysmic effects so painstakingly recorded by Immanuel Velikovsky.

Extremely long solar cycles could have resulted in exactly the kind of Earth and solar disturbances that Velikovsky writes about--and as the geological and fossil records indicate.

A crash "Sunwatch" program is now underway--with OSOs (Orbiting Solar Observatories), SOEPs (Solar Orbit Experiment Packages), and many similar probes.

No one expects too much from them. The best we can hope for is an early warning system. Whether the current solar disturbances indicate short or long-range upheavals, there's just no foreseeable way to escape even a minor solar catastrophe.

★ THE END

JIM LINDENSMITH

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=== Page 22 of 48

EXPLODING SUN
(Continued from page 31)

the eye, so that estimate could mean that a catastrophe is frighteningly imminent!

Every star must have equilibrium. If the energy generated at the core exceeds the amount being radiated into space from the Sun's photosphere (visible surface) one of two things can happen: the Sun's great volume will shrink or expand in a sudden increase of light, heat, and energy. This could be up to a billion times its former output. The Sun would explode into nova or even supernova violence.

Gravity is the main clue to solar activity. It varies. Scientists can describe what it does, but no one knows exactly what it is, except that there are periodic changes in the Sun's gravitational activity. At times gravity is very intense in one area of the Sun and very weak at others. Because we depend on its steady, uninterrupted heat, light, and energy for our very existence, any disturbance, however slight, in the Sun's internal mechanism is an alarming prospect.

Astronomers admit they know very little--almost next to nothing--about this source of all life. More than 90 percent of what they do know has been learned since 1955, and almost all of that knowledge, moreover, has been learned during the past seven years.

Until the odd coincidence between the great solar eruptions last August and the discovery of the outburst from Cygnus in September, it was universally believed that (with the exception of occasional magnetic storms, flares, and sunspots) the Sun was a stable, main sequence star (yellow-white stars about the Sun's age).

But like so many recently overturned scientific beliefs, the serene picture of the Sun as a nearly changeless nuclear energy mechanism seems about to be overthrown.

Any great change in temperature or variation of the Sun's magnetic or gravitational activity would mean the end of all life on Earth. Such upheavals may very well signal an impending nuclear chain reaction that could convulse the star and trigger a nova. Such an event would, of course, mean the virtual destruction of every planet in the solar system. But there are other, less dramatic solar mechanisms--possibly undiscovered cycles that could bring on another ice age or--worse--turn the Earth into a burning, lifeless desert.

The energy we receive from the Sun has strange properties. For example, if it were physically possible to immerse your arm in the Sun's kinetic (cool molecular vibration) temperature, you could come into contact with temperatures as high as 20,000 degrees without even blistering your skin. On the other hand, if the Sun's radiant (hot) temperature suddenly became equal to the kinetic, every planet in the system would be vaporized!

However, in spite of everything astronomers have learned, the Sun is still largely a mystery. Within a range of 93 million miles we have a splendid specimen of a main sequence star which could have been studied intensively, yet modern astronomers have preferred to concentrate on distant stars and galaxies.

Few laymen are aware that the Sun (surprisingly) possesses an atmosphere--and clouds! These enormous formations of metallic gases, calcium vapor, and hydrogen float between 15,000 and 30,000 miles above the Sun's visible surface. They often last for weeks. The Sun rotates in approximately 25 days, but due to inertia, its polar regions spin faster than the equatorial region which lags by about 10 days per revolution. Oddly enough, the Sun's axis is tilted (like the Earth's) from the plane of the ecliptic, but the inclination is only about seven degrees (Earth's is 23.5 degrees).

No one knows why the Sun rotates or even why it shines. We've only recently learned how. There's almost no scientific agreement about why the Earth spins on its axis. This professed ignorance is probably due to the survival of the dogma of the 19th Century scientific materialists that the solar system--in fact the entire Universe--is a vast accident and that its order and reason exist only in the mind of man.

If one assumes that the entire cosmos is an accident, the logical conclusion would then be that "all is chaos." However, it seems both logical and reasonable that the Sun's light, heat, and energy is specifically engineered to provide the most hospitable environment for the generation of life.

The Earth seems to rotate for pretty much the same reason. If it didn't, the dark side of the planet would be plunged into eternally lifeless cold and ice, and the sunlit side would be just as sterile from the ceaseless intensity of the solar furnace.

Trying to grasp such complex, interfaceted functions is like trying to empty the ocean with an eyedropper. But we're practically forced to see it from a viewpoint of purposefulness. "The Sun appears," said the late French Jesuit philosopher-scientist Teilhard de Chardin, "to be a great engineering achievement."

Our local star operates on the power of the atom, which is how it generates energy. This energy spreads from the incredibly dense core to the Sun's visible surface by conduction (i.e., through physical contact between the energy particles).

Still there is almost nothing material in the near vacuum of space between the Sun and the Earth. The Sun's life-giving energy is transmitted through space by radiation. To maintain its critical balance, the escape of heat energy from the photosphere has to be exactly equal to the amount of energy being generated by nuclear fusion at the Sun's core. Although the solar core is gaseous, it is far denser than the hardest metal and has a temperature range between 10 and 70 million degrees Centigrade!

The atoms of this gas are under such enormous pressure that their outer electron shells are smashed and the atomic nuclei swarm together. Although a cubic inch of this star stuff weighs somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 tons, it is still a gas.

Some of the energy emitted by the reflecting or reversing layer of the Sun's photosphere is absorbed by the chromosphere (the reddish layer of incandescent gases seen surrounding the Sun during an eclipse) and the corona (the Sun's halo, also visible only during eclipses of the Sun).

The rest of the energy radiates through space, and by the time it reaches the Earth it is further filtered by the thick layer of ionized gases in the highest reaches of our atmosphere (the ionosphere) which absorb most of the ultraviolet rays.

The Earth's atmosphere is only about 12 miles high while the Sun's atmosphere extends for millions of miles, up to about 3,000 miles, the solar temperature (between 8,000 and 10,000 degrees Centigrade) is the same as that of its photosphere, but instead of becoming cooler with increasing altitude, its atmospheric temperature starts to climb! At a height of 5,000 miles it reaches 20,000 degrees Centigrade.

In the highest reaches of the chromosphere (at an altitude of 9,000 miles) the temperature rises to 100,000 degrees! In the corona itself, the heat goes as high as a million degrees or more. The kinetic temperature alone rises to many millions of degrees.

As it is, X-rays and ultraviolet radiation from the highest and lowest parts of the corona have many effects on the different layers of the Earth's atmosphere. Solar magnetic storms bombard our ionosphere with charged particles, thus altering it and the underlying troposphere.

About 50 years ago, the Sun was thought to be the center of everything, and the extent of the "universe" was considered to be the 10,000 to 50,000 stars visible with a telescope on a good night. No one had any idea of the shape of our Milky Way Galaxy until in 1948 American astronomer Harlow Shapley put forth the most remarkable theory since Copernicus deduced that the Earth moves around the Sun.

The Sun is just like any other star, he said, inasmuch as it orbits the galactic nucleus. He calculated the location of the heart of the galaxy by figuring out the center of gravity of the great globular clusters of stars positioned around the galaxy. Beyond these globular clusters there are star systems hundreds of times larger. These "satellites" of our galaxy are about 100,000 light-years away and contain about 10 million stars apiece. Beyond these satellites of the Milky Way there are an entire family of galaxies clustered into a single system. The nearest of these is the giant galaxy named Andromeda--two million light-years away. Astronomers call these scores of galaxies "The Local Group." Stretching to "infinity" as far as the largest optical telescopes and most powerful radio telescopes can penetrate--about eight billion light-years (the distance light travels, at the speed of light, 186,200 miles per second, in eight billion years)--are approximately 200 billion galaxies, all of them racing away from each other at speeds approaching that of light itself. Mathematicians theorize (relatively, at least) that at the outermost limits of visibility, these galaxies exceed the speed of light, at which point they "disappear" because they're moving away from us faster than their light can reach us.

Every so often astronomers observe a brilliant flare of light inside our galaxy where there was previously only a faint
(Continued on page 60)

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pinpoint of light. Because they were once thought to be "new" stars they were called "novae." On rare occasions these distant suns explode in an even more brilliant pyrotechnical display that dazzles the heavens. Only about four nearby supernovae are observed each century. Some are so brilliant that they can be seen with the naked eye in broad daylight. They actually rival the Sun itself in brightness.

The first documented supernova was described by Chinese astronomers in 1054 A.D. American Indian rock drawings in Arizona show this supernova rising beside the crescent moon about an hour before dawn. The date, translated from the Chinese calendar to ours, was July 5, 1054. It was the most stupendous explosion ever witnessed by man. Chinese, Japanese, Indian, and European records are in complete agreement about the time and place of this great exploding star.

Such a supernova produces more light, heat, and energy than all the other stars in the galaxy--combined! After almost a thousand years, the remains of that explosion are still visible--as the Crab Nebula in the constellation Taurus. Although it is 4,000 light-years distant, it is still expanding at a speed of 680 miles per second, and has now reached a diameter of five light-years.

In November 1572, the famous Danish astronomer-astrologer Tycho Brahe, discovered another exploding star. At its period of maximum brilliance it too could be seen in full daylight. In 1604, Tycho's pupil, Johannes Kepler, discovered still another brilliant nova. There hasn't a notable stellar explosion near our Sun until 1918 when an extremely brilliant star destroyed itself in the constellation of Aquila.

At least 20 stars explode every year within our Milky Way Galaxy, but supernovae are 10,000 times more powerful than ordinary novae and exceed the brilliance and energy output of the Sun by a factor of several billion. So far, 25 well-established examples of supernovae have been detected. And, science writer and astronomer, John Rublowski said last year, "Our own galaxy is just about due for another of these spectacular displays."

No one can guess which star will face utter destruction. Astronomers theorize that stellar anomalies should become fairly obvious to any inhabitants of planets that lie within the "life zone" of a star before it goes nova. One of these anomalies is increased activity, especially on or within a flare star like our own. What other clues indicate that such a star is due for a supernova explosion?

The Italian physicist Enrico Fermi, who played such an important role in the development of the atomic bomb, was the first man to investigate pre-supernova conditions. He proved that it takes at least 150 million pounds of pressure per square inch at the Sun's center for the atoms to arrive at a collapsed state. In this condition there are no "elements" as we know them, only shattered atoms--electrons, protons, neutrons, etc., all whirling around each other. At this pressure, atoms collapse and become what is called Fermi gas. (The Earth's internal pressure is only about 22 million pounds


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per square inch. The entire mass and density of the planet aren't enough to crush a single atom.)

Due to the fantastic pressures at the Sun's neutrino (collapsed particle) core, hydrogen is constantly being changed into helium, thus balancing the energy being generated by the energy being radiated into space through the photosphere.

Now that the Sun's hydrogen which provides the fuel for its nuclear chain reactions has been almost half-consumed, its equilibrium may be drastically tipped much sooner than anyone suspected. Judging from the Sun's recent dramatic eruptions and the corresponding changes in terrestrial weather--record-breaking rainfalls, floods, summer hailstorms, a drop in global temperature, etc.--we may be facing an imminent decline in the energy being produced by the Sun.

It seems only natural to assume that as the Sun's fuel is used up, its production of heat energy will decline very gradually, and that in a few hundred thousand to a few billion years our local star will slowly die, becoming colder and dimmer with each passing century until the blazing nuclear fire simply goes out like a smoldering ash.

That's logical enough, but happens to be wrong. Investigators such as Dr. George Gamow, professor of physics at the University of Colorado, have discovered that the *exact opposite* would happen. Instead of becoming dimmer and colder as its supply of hydrogen reaches the critical stage of depletion or (as some astronomers now fear) half-depletion, the Sun will act up dramatically, with an increase in flares, magnetic storms, and huge sunspots which are out of phase with its 11-year cycle. Under these conditions, the Sun will grow larger, hotter, and brighter. As the hydrogen decreases and the supply of helium increases, the difference in the proportions of these gases will produce even greater changes.

Helium is not as transparent as hydrogen. Consequently it would become more difficult for the nuclear energy generated from the core of the Sun to penetrate the more opaque helium than it did when a greater amount of the more transparent hydrogen was present.

This halfway stage is almost here. The duration of the deterioration period as the helium increases and the hydrogen supply diminishes could be anywhere between 10 years and a thousand, but the Sun's nuclear energy will have an increasingly difficult time fighting its way from the core to the photosphere.

At this point the crucial balance between energy generated and energy radiated will have been tilted the other way; more energy will be generated than the Sun can safely release. According to Dr. Gamow, these conditions will raise the interior pressure of the Sun to astounding proportions. Moreover, the nature of the nuclear reactions at the solar core will itself undergo drastic changes.

These reactions also depend on the temperature that triggers the Sun's atomic fusion. The pressure of this new kind of atomic reaction will generate even more energy, and the outer layers--no longer heavy enough to keep the solar core in place--will expand because the photosphere won't be big enough to radiate the

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2) that the normal course of stellar development consists of cycles of violent activity; the Sun appears to undergo periodic upheavals, some of which result in (or are caused by) changes in magnetic polarity. This would account for the interruption of history and the occurrence of interplanetary disturbances recounted in such vivid detail by Velikovsky.

Science is beginning to fit the pieces together, and they do not conform to the picture of slow, orderly, quiet evolution painted by the Gradualists and Uniformitarians of science. Catastrophism appears to be an indispensable part of natural evolution.

In early August 1972, during what was supposed to be the lowest ebb of the 11-year sunspot cycle, the Sun erupted in a violent series of flares and major magnetic storms. Astronomers classified them as the most severe ever recorded. There was some speculation about the possibility that the Sun was "changing its magnetic polarity."

In immediate, numerous and complex ways, the Earth responded to the solar upheaval. The aurora borealis (which is caused by charged solar particles caught in Earth's magnetic field), previously visible only in the polar regions, was seen in the U.S. as far south as Richmond, Va. Radio communications were garbled and disrupted as the highest reaches of the Earth's atmosphere were ripped apart by magnetic storms of unprecedented intensity.

Something strange and foreboding does seem to be happening to the Sun, and it baffles the world's leading scientists.

### Astronomers believe that the beginnings of a star's violent death throes should become fairly obvious to any inhabitants of planets within its life zone. One such sign is increased activity--such as violent solar flare activity, magnetic storms, and a sudden surge of X-ray and radio wave emissions. Even though there has been no publicity, worried scientists have been observing our Sun going through just such a strange, hyperactive stage at this very moment!

tists. Nothing in astronomy or astrophysics provides a solid clue to the Sun's unprecedented outburst of radio wave broadcasts and X-rays.

On the night of September 2nd, exactly one month after the solar upheaval, radio astronomers in Canada and the U.S. who had been observing a binary star (two stars orbiting each other) called Algol were surprised by two extremely interesting flares. But because of bad weather, astronomer Philip C. Gregory figured he would check out an object in Cygnus which was known for its radio bursts and X-rays. He tuned in on a star in our galaxy called Cygnus X-3 but could hardly believe his own senses. There was a rapid increase of 220 times in the amount of radio emissions from Cygnus X-3--something that had never been seen before!

"At first I thought something had gone wrong with the receiver," Gregory said, "and I had to keep turning the sensitivity down." Within an hour he alerted Robert Hjellming of the U.S. National Radio Observatory at Greenbank, W. Va. "Would you believe an increase of 220 times more flux units from Cygnus X-3?" Gregory asked incredulously. Before the night was over they had confirmation from Greenbank, as well as from astronomers at the University of Toronto, and Queens University (also Toronto).

"What makes this even more spectacular," Hjellming said, "was that only the night before, emissions from Cygnus X-3 had dropped to below the lowest they had ever been! We're now sitting on reams of unpublished data, and are frankly puzzled. We've never seen anything like this outburst!"

The subsequent galvanic activity was reminiscent of science fiction film. By the following Sunday morning scientists were vigorously investigating and had alerted six observatories. Astronomers in charge of orbiting telescopes in space were also alerted to make observations over the entire radio spectrum.

"In a celestial event as violent or abrupt as this--at such high temperatures--we'd expect to detect bright X-rays as high as 10 million degrees Kelvin," Gregory said. Paradoxically astronomers at Mount Palomar Observatory said they saw "nothing obvious" in the visual range of Cygnus X-3 (which is 50,000 light-years from Earth).

"This is a very, very strange object," Gregory admits. "The outburst is as hot as a nova or supernova, but we'd expect to see some optical brightening from such an explosion."

Astronomers E. R. Seaquist and P. P. Kronberg of the University of Toronto have suggested that flare stars (such as our Sun), X-ray stars and others experience cycles of much longer duration than those recorded since the birth of modern observational astronomy.

Last year the X-ray satellite Uhuru confirmed that Cygnus X-3 was an X-ray source. In June 1972, it was also discovered to be a radio source. "It's compact and very powerful, and behaves very erratically," says American astronomer Riccardo Giacconi, the foremost investigator of the Uhuru data.

On September 7th, astronomer Chi Chao Wu of the University of Wisconsin discovered still further evidence of anomalous stellar energy outbursts. With raw data from Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2, he reported a remarkable increase in the output of ultraviolet rays from Cygnus X-3--enough for scientists to press the latest orbiting telescope, Copernicus, into service to help in trying to solve the unnerving Cygnus X-3 mystery.

Why all this fuss over the violent activity of a distant star? Is it possible that whole groups of blazing suns in line with our own undergo regular pulsations in sequence, like a string of Christmas tree lights?

"All we know right now," says Giacconi, "is that something very weird is going on." Since that announcement, the astronomical community as a whole has become increasingly reticent in making public statements about the immediate fate of our Sun. All they are willing to admit is that "we need more study and observation to find out exactly what is happening."

The eruption of our normally quiet Sun on August 7th was the most severe ever recorded. According to David McLean of the Space Environmental Sciences Center at Boulder, Colo., "the exceptionally large centimeter-wave radio bursts that accompanied the unexpected flares indicated that this was a most extraordinary solar event. The August 7th flare ran the X-ray sensors right off the scale!"

It's generally known that the Sun's gravity holds all the planets, comets, and other bodies of the solar system in strict orbits, and that sunlight is the original source of all our energy, such as that stored in our food and fuels. Solar energy is used by green plants in photosynthesis and also powers our weather, for example.

The Sun's diameter is 865,400 miles and its volume about 1.3 million times that of the Earth. Its mass is almost 700 times the total mass of all other bodies in the solar system and 332,000 times that of the Earth.

Since prehistoric times, men have pondered the mystery of the strange "fire" which causes the Sun to radiate such enormous amounts of heat, energy, and light without becoming either cooler or hotter. Only during the past couple of decades have scientists deduced the nature of the forces that cause the Sun to "burn." While our local star is a life-supporting system for Earth--and possibly other worlds in our solar system--by its very nature, our life-giving Sun could also be the cause of mass extermination!

Like all stars, the Sun must maintain its equilibrium in order to radiate. It does this by converting hydrogen (the most abundant element in the Universe) into helium. Astronomers figure that this process has been going on in the Sun for about 5,000 million years.

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FATE MAGAZINE BOOK REVIEW DEPT.

"Earth's Ambassador" by D. Scott Rogo and Jeffrey Mishlove.

Now, Fate readers, first I must explain something to you. The Editor of Fate Magazine asked me not to review this book. Because, you see, I wrote it. But I explained to him sincerely that, as a scientific investigator I am scrupulously honest and objective and would not even think about praising a book just because I happened to write it. (Mishlove didn't write the book. I did. He just did the introduction. I did all the work.) Another reason I wanted to review this book - the other book reviewers at Fate Magazine would probably give it a bad review, you see.

As for the book itself, it reflects month of research and the documentation of the cases is impeccable. If I do say so myself, the author did a brilliant job of putting together a book on a difficult subject. And after I had finished the first completed copy of the book I began to read the first part of it and found that I had made the subject matter so interesting that I couldn't put the book down until I had finished all of it! Frankly, I would place the book in the "superior" category.

As for what is in the book...it is about some idiot who thinks he can talk to flying saucers; thinks he can make it rain; and imagines that he can cause football players to fall down. Ha ha ha! Nevertheless, I was given the chore of writing the book, so I went up to Vancouver, Washington, to personally interview the moron. (Mishlove warned me beforehand to wear a bulletproof vest and take nothing to eat or drink that might be offered to me, for safety's sake. He even offered to loan me his own bulletproof vest, the one with hearts and flowers design all over it, but I declined.) Well, Owens was what I expected him to be. A regular slob. He had no taste whatsoever in clothes. Tacky, you know? He had no taste in good music, preferring horrible jazz music to my own beautiful classic music. He prefers banging around on drums instead of playing a decent musical instrument like my own oboe. And he had no couth at all. The chap sat around swilling scotch and beer and yelling at his TV set. Really, now, I ask you. To cap it all off he inveigled me into playing some games of pool and he beat me five games to three. But it was the way he won the games that infuriated me! I noted, with my scientific investigator techniques, that during the first game he was pushing glass after glass of white wine into my hand. Soon I was smashed, and Owens got ahead of me. The man has no scruples whatsoever, and simply is not to be trusted, if you see what I mean. Not since W. C. Fields laced Baby LeRoy's lemonade with gin have I seen such a dastardly ploy.

Anyway, rush out and buy this book. It is one you will not want to miss. Or write me and I'll sell them to you by the dozen. (I have to move fifty million of these books, you see.)

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Rus devastating droughts followed by floods. be in chaotic condition. Farmer vote will be im- in the elections. The elderly who resent prevailing conditions will come out to vote in a strong block. Prominent newspapers in different localities will disappear from the scene.

**Ted Owens, Predictions From Space Intelligences**

In a letter dated May 23, 1971, we received from Ted Owens, the man who claims he serves as Earth's intermediary for Space Intelligences, details of "one of the most exciting things" that he had ever done.

"You know, of course," he reminded us, "how I have documented in advance . . . creating three simultaneous hurricanes . . . guiding hurricanes against the predictions of the Hurricane Center in Miami . . . ending droughts . . . creating droughts . . . making UFO's appear over cities . . . and so on, for about 250 miracles. Here is a new one. For the first time I have gone one-on-one with a molten, lava-belching volcano!"

The astounding Ted Owens told us that he had specified to columnist Larry Maddry of the (Norfolk) Virginian Pilot that he would try to save Sant-Alfio, Sicily, the village that lay in the path of erupting Mt. Etna, by Sunday, May 23rd. In the letter, Owens told me that his UFOs had saved the village, and he went on to tell us exactly how it happened.

"Last Thursday, I read where the fiery molten lava was pouring down on this town of Sant-Alfio in Sicily. The news item read that the lava couldn't miss--the people and the town were directly in its path. So I picked up the phone and called Larry Maddry, reporter for the Virginian Pilot in Norfolk and told him that I would use my considerable powers

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and telepath to the UFO intelligences that I am linked up with to save this village and its people. On that day, Thursday, I sent a letter to him (Maddry) backing it up in writing with copies to Otto Binder and two scientists who are overseeing my work. (It is thoroughly documented.)

"I used a shotgun approach--my own brain, plus telepathing to SI control--to bring this about.

"Saturday night, two days later, the fiery flow of lava--a mile wide and eighteen feet deep--burning up everything in its path, miraculously diverted and flowed to one side of the town, saving the 4,000 people there.

"No finer demonstration of SI power would you ever want to see. I told four very responsible people two days in advance specifically what I was going to try to accomplish. And I accomplished it."

Along with his letter, Owens sent a newsclip that headlined, "Lava diverted past town." According to the Associated Press, a "flaming river of lava" from Mt. Etna was suddenly diverted from the village of Sant-Alfio and had begun a two and one-half mile path down the Cavagrande Canyon to the sea. The new course had no town or village in its path.

A few days later, Owens sent us a full-page story in the Virginian-Pilot that chronicled "The Day Heywood Hale Broun Came to Town." The reason for CBS' colorful sports essayist's coming to Norfolk had been to interview Ted Owens on his amazing documented ability to, ostensibly, psychically "zap" professional football teams.

Owens is a prolific letter writer to his "contacts," and we receive on an average of two letters a week advising us on the activities of the Space Intelligences and their Earthly emissary. We must admit that he has told us which teams have been singled out to be on some kind of cosmic smear list, and, fantastic as it may seem, something invariably happens to key players on those teams. Of course, one does not have to be voodooed to sustain a barrage of injuries in the less-than-gentle world of professional football.

On April 8, 1971, Ted Owens sent the following open letter to all pro football teams:

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"The attached newsclip (telling about Johnny Unitas' injury and Tom Matte's attack of bleeding ulcers) is a special delivery letter to you from my SI's (UFO intelligences). What am I talking about?

"Weeks ago, Don Klosterman, General Manager of the Colts, dropped me a line inquiring about my reason for using "PK" (psychokinesis) on the World Champion Colts. I answered and explained that I must demonstrate each year my incredible powers by holding back the winner of the Pro Championship the preceding season, as I have done with the Jets and Kansas City Chiefs, and now must do with the Colts.

"I warned Mr. Klosterman and Mr. Rosenbloom, Sr. specifically and clearly that my mental attack had already been placed in motion against the Colts, was affecting them now, and if they intended to hire me (for $100,000) they had better do it quickly before the PK began to tear the team apart. (You don't believe this? Then check with the two gentlemen.)

"They ignored me (always a terrible mistake, but no one seems to learn from it) and two of their fine stars are zonked, Unitas and Matte, both in the same hospital at the same time, both struck down in the same time period of 24 hours.

"Also, just recently, my number two PK target, the Cowboys, have had two star players . . . and one of their coaches zonked.

"And the regular season hasn't even begun yet!

"I keep on giving these fantastic demonstrations of how my 150 or more other-dimensional powers can take pro teams apart, stop them cold, etc., yet none of them seems to want this hair-raising power on their side! This, to me, is unbelievable.

"Last year, I stopped approximately fifty million dollars worth of pro football teams. This coming season . . . let's see, what's thirteen times ten million?"

The May 3rd issue of Sports Illustrated took official notice of the PK man in their "People" section:

". . . back in February Owens decided to cast a spell upon

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the Baltimore Colts. And charge $100,000 to unhex them. Now, was it Owens' fault that Johnny Unitas tore his Achilles' tendon, Tom Matte got appendicitis and Sam Havrilak sprained his ankle? Well, when a Philadelphia writer challenged Owens to 'prove you can do something' the PK man announced he would hex Tom Woodeshick of the Eagles, and within 15 minutes, Woodeshick was ejected from the game for fighting. Colt owner Carroll Rosenbloom has dropped Owens a polite note requesting him to remove Baltimore from his list of losers. 'If you will advise me as to a course of action which we could follow . . . I will do whatever I can to comply,' Rosenbloom wrote. But the question seems to be, will he come across with $100,000?"

Although Ted Owens generally limits his sports activities to hexing football teams with PK, he claims that he also whammied a basketball team this year when coach Gene Shue of the Baltimore Bullets made the mistake of publicly refusing Owens' offer of assistance over television. "They had a right to refuse the PK man," he said, "but not over television."

Within moments of the insult to his pride, Owens telephoned the Baltimore Sun and told them that he would have his revenge. The Milwaukee Bucks downed the Bullets 102 to 83.

"I sat by my television set and followed the game play by play," Owens told us. "Everytime the Bullets got the ball, I called in power on the court so they would make mistakes. My power would then throw off their timing and make them miss their shots. After the game, the Bullets admitted that they got enough shots at the basket to have provided them with a winning margin, but they simply could not get their shots through the hoop!"

In last year's annual, we told you Ted Owen's incredible story of how he has established mental contact with the SI's, who are using his brain as a receiving station for their telepathic messages. Owens, who was born in Bedford, Indiana, in 1920, says that he first acquired his contact with the Space Intelligences one night in 1965 when he was living in Fort

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Worth, Texas. He and his daughter were driving in the country when a cigar-shaped UFO suddenly appeared and came floating toward their automobile.

No space-suited aliens stepped forth to converse with Ted, but he writes in his book How to Contact Space People: "From that day on, my life changed radically . . . while in Fort Worth, I gave my daughter, Lornie, several demonstrations of making lightning strike in certain areas during thundershowers, I was playfully experimenting with a theory I had on the practical application of PK, or psychokinetic power, to nature's forces."

Ted, a married man with three sons in addition to his daughter, Lornie, is also a member of Mensa, the high intelligence society, proving, at least to several peoples' satisfaction, that he is no dummy on any level of consciousness.

"Not only are my regular ESP powers outstanding in the world," Ted told us, "but combined with these powers, I am able to communicate with, and receive answers from, UFO intelligences--and prove it! I am able to utilize these powers from their world, or dimension, in this, our own dimension and world."

Owens prefers to call his strange friends "Spatial Intelligences," and he says that they have "fantastic, awesome powers."

Ted Owens claims that he is the only psychic in the world who can cause and create major national and international events to happen. He says that he had documented such occurrences time and time again. He points out Otto Binder's articles in Saga magazine, his frequent letters to "contacts," and the fact that he is working ". . . under the scrutiny of three of the world's best scientists, Owens says, has given him a notarized affidavit pertaining to one of his psychic feats.

"At present I am using my powers and the SI powers to try and stave off a Russian nuclear strike," Owens told us ominously. "If you're reading this now, we will have been successful!"

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would not attempt to pinpoint time exactly, because ". . . in psychic perspective, one can most times tell you what is going to happen, but not exactly when it is going to happen. That's just how it is."

Ted warned us that his material would probably "shock, horrify, and or infuriate your readers. But I can't help it. I'm telling it just like it is."

The spokesmen for the SI's told us that we would have to understand that he and the SI's were presently forced to give negative demonstrations in order to bring financial cooperation from the U.S. Government. "Just as Moses did in his time, and in exactly Moses' own way," he commented grimly. "By plagues."

Assuming that the U.S. Government will still not have cooperated with Ted and the SI's by the time this book is released, here is what Owens sees in store for 1972:

Weather Phenomena

During the winter of 1971-'72, there will be unprecedented weather phenomena. Snowstorms, vast and deep. Hurricane winds and unseasonal tornados. Rainstorms marked by violent lightning attacks. Terrible floods. see next page

In the summer of 1972, there will come searing heat and drought. Fires will start mysteriously, everywhere, with no logical explanations. Hurricanes will strike Florida.

Then there will come another winter of record-breaking snowstorms, hurricane winds, and tornados.

Money and the Stock Market

By 1972 the Stock Market will either already have crashed to bits, worse than in 1929, or it will do so shortly. The false god of money will be taken away from the American people. Hopefully, it will be replaced by some of our older, truer values and the old pioneer spirit.

Animals, Birds, and Fish

Animal lovers may now know that PK similar to that planted long ago in Egyptian tombs to attack and destroy

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those who might come later to plunder has been issued by myself to protect animals, birds, and fish all over the world. This type of PK is called "hunter PK" and it envelopes each animal, bird, and fish. Those humans who wantonly and wastefully kill creatures for nonsurvival purposes will thus activate this invisible, deadly shield and release it to track and to punish them in its own time.

In 1971, after I first issued this particular PK project, hundreds of baby seals were killed in Alaska in order to sew up their pelts into fur coats. I had already sent the PK out around the world to protect animals, fish, and birds. Well, when they loaded up all those poor, little, pitiful furs onto a sealboat, what happened? Blocks of ice converged on that boat from every direction, crushed it, and sank it, furs and all. This is how PK works.

### Mysterious Forces from Bodies of Water

The SI's have ordered humans to stop polluting lakes, rivers, streams, and oceans within three months time or they will have the bodies of water--which carry a combined intelligence which humans know nothing about--attack human beings in their own way. As of this time, the governments have done nothing, so you might expect all sorts of things going on against humans coming from bodies of water in 1972. This will not be a good year to go swimming, fishing, or boating. It could cost your life.

### Rains in Africa

In Africa the rains will come and fill up the empty rivers, streams, and water holes where wildlife go to obtain their water. I have set this up in 1971, and the PK should be working up great power for this in 1972.

The SI's and I intend to drive out all whites in Africa and to stop the needless killing of wildlife there. We shall return the country to its native blacks so that the country can once again become healthy and grow. The animals will then multiply, and Africa can once again become the wonderful "cradle of the Earth" that it once was.

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### Strange Sonic Signals from Space

In order to demonstrate their powers, the SI's will send out sonic signals to Earth from their four huge space craft stationed around this planet. These signals will cause abnormal insect, animal, fish, and bird behavior. This should be occurring often in 1972, and all kinds of strange things will be taking place which will probably affect your own life in one way or another.

### Space Intelligences to Halt Earth's Rocket Programs

In 1972 NASA will be fortunate indeed to get even one rocket off the ground. The SI's have ordered all space work to stop completely until humans have themselves under control.

Suppose you had a farm next to another farm, and on the other farm you could see mad dogs fighting and killing each other. Would you want these mad dogs to make their way over onto your farm? So it is that the SI's want us humans to stay out of space orbit, off the moon, away from other planets until we have grown up enough to stop our own wars and halt our own pollution problem.

In order to keep us on Earth, they have set up a deadly PK attack in space orbit and in outer space, also. They have warned the U.S. Government not to send any more humans up. (At this writing, three Russian cosmonauts recently went up, planning on spending two weeks; they came down in a few days. The newspapers reported both "human and mechanical" trouble. Then the U.S. shot up a $73 million Mars rocket, two years in the making . . . and it fell back into the ocean. NASA was unable to explain why this happened.) And so it will be.

### Trouble in Nevada

It would be wise to stay away from the state of Nevada. The SI's have begun demonstration against the modern Sodom and Gomorrah of Reno and Las Vegas, and all sorts of things have begun to happen--earthquakes, riots, sinking

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earth. I have just received a report from a reliable source that says the ground level of Nevada has begun to sink. So stay away from Nevada--or the PK may get you there if you don't watch out!

Russia to Gain Superiority in 1972
The Big Red Bear will be kingpin of the world in 1972. Ahead in weapons capability and in scientific capability, they will, in effect, rule the world. But Red China will be quietly sneaking up behind Russia.

Hostility Against U.S. from North and South of the Border
Both Mexico and Canada will be openly hostile towards the U.S. in 1972, and I expect the borders of those countries to be sealed off partially, or completely, against visiting U.S. citizens. South American nations will really express hostilities against the U.S. in 1972.

The SI's to Control Pro Football Teams
It is estimated that a few hundred million people watched the Pro Bowl playoff in 1970 (A game which I controlled, by the way, hitting the Cowboys with PK to make them lose. Remember that freak double-tip which led to the winning touchdown for the Colts?). In 1972, I will be attacking, play by play, game by game, thirteen pro football teams--my most ambitious PK undertaking yet in the field of sports (I controlled five in 1970).

I am now talking about the winter of 1971-'72, culminating in the Pro Bowl World Championship Playoff. Here is a list of the Unlucky Thirteen: The World Champion Colts, Kansas City Chiefs, Cowboys, Jets, Bears, Redskins, Chargers, Dolphins, Rams, Broncos, Eagles, Patriots, and Oilers.

In controlling these thirteen teams and causing them to be the losers, I will be demonstrating further the great powers that I have through the SI's. In all aspects of my work, overall, I have never dropped below 85% success, and usually the percentage is higher. In sports, I have never failed in attacking a team over a season.

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The above discussed sports demonstration can possibly be shelved in the event that one of the above-named teams should hire me to help it. In this case, I shall remove the thirteen-team PK attack and simply help my team win as many games as it can, which should be considerable. You will know if this happens, because it should appear in the newspapers--if the team allows it to be publicized, that is.

After making his predictions for 1972, Ted Owens informed us that if he should receive the financial backing to carry out certain SI assignments, much of what he had prognosticated would not come to pass.

"Because then I will be using my powers to stop wars all over the Earth, to stop hating, killing, and corruption, to stop pollution of all kinds, and so on," he said.

How will we know if Ted obtains the necessary backing to carry out his work?

"I will issue a statement to the newspapers which will probably be carried nationwide, and you will see it," he told us. "The only thing that will not be changed is the space-PK. Earth must be cleared up first; mankind must be brought back into proper balance with Nature. And that will take years to clear up, with me working full time with the SI's. God bless you, and keep you!"

And there we have Ted Owen's predictions for another year. Owens never fails to stir up controversy with his SI point of view, and program hosts who have had him as a guest on radio and television talk shows state that he always keeps the lines humming.

Interested readers may contact Ted Owens, the PK man, at Box 3134, Norfolk, Virginia 23514.

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Chico (Calif.) Enterprise-Record, Thursday, May 3, 1973. Page 6B

Ted Owens

# Famed Psychic Visits Here

By CATHY STOTT
(Enterprise-Record Intern)

One of the "world's greatest psychics" who predicts that the nation will be plagued by a drought this year is visiting in Chico. Ted Owens, who hails from Virginia and has been the subject of numerous national magazine articles as well as appearing on national television, is a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Al Bailey, owners of Chico MotorLodge, 725 Broadway.

Acclaimed as one of the "world's greatest psychics" in the April 1971 issue of Saga Magazine, Owens says he doesn't just predict, he claims to have the power to cause "miracles" to happen.

He says his mind had control of professional basketball and football teams in recent years and that he caused injuries to key players to keep certain teams out of the Super Bowl.

In June 1967, Owens said, he notified the U.S. hurricane center that three simultaneous hurricanes would occur. Just after that, hurricanes Beulah, Chloe and Doris were active on the same weekend.

In 1972, Owens told a team of scientists and other authorities that the country would experience terrible floods because humans had been polluting lakes, rivers and streams for too long. Many damaging floods occurred.

Owens, who has been written about in many issues of Saga, Sports Illustrated, in two books, "Revelation, The Divine Power" and "Occult America" and many newspapers, explained that he gets his power from the Bermuda Triangle, off the Florida coast where many U.S. aircraft and ships have been reported missing. Owens pointed out that Dr. Jonathan Wright, National Aeronautics and Space Administration physicist has stated there is a UFO base in this area on an island in the Bahamas.

"I have worked for and with them (UFOs) for 10 years," Owens said.

Owens, who claims an IQ of 153 -- genious level -- is a member of Mensa, an international organization of people with IQs above 148. Only 2 per cent of the world's population belongs to Mensa, he said. To become a member, one must apply and go through extensive tests and analysis by teams of scientists.

Owens has been analyzed over and over again by scientists in this country because of his 200 documented predictions and "paranormal phenomena."

Owens has been a jazz drummer, lecturer, hypnotist -- the list of vocations approaches 50. He has appeared on a CBS television special and has recently been approached by Hollywood producers about a movie of his life, he said.

Owens now trains people to become what he calls "super brains." He teaches individuals how to have instant access to 50 to 80 per cent of their brain power whereas most people have a much more limited usage. He gives them the "tools to solve any problem they are confronted with." He stated he is going to train some people while in Chico.

Owens has a wife, Martha, and an 8-year-old son.

MY SEVEN SCIENTISTS..........

When being interviewed by Miss Stott...she kept a poker face throughout, for approximately an hour. At the finish...after she'd seen my documentation... she stared at me, still pokerfaced, and said calmly, "You've just blown my mind."

This was so funny, thought you'd like a chuckle on it.

Ted


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Tattler Special Report

January, 1976

# Top Psychics Foresee Massive UFO Sightings in Coming Year

AMONG THE NOTED psychics who predict that UFO sightings will increase during 1976 are Marc Vito (left) and Ted Owens. They and other seers are in agreement that aliens from space will transport many humans to other worlds. However, the psychics say, the aliens mean us no harm and actually only want to help us develop more advanced techniques.

By CLIFF LINEDECKER
Of the Tattler Staff

Top psychics contacted by Tattler claim there will be more sightings of UFO's in 1976 than ever before and hundreds of vanishings as alien intelligences transport humans to other dimensions and worlds.

However, the psychics agree that the aliens mean no deliberate harm. Instead, some psychics say, the beings from other worlds are already helping mankind develop solar energy and to advance other areas of knowledge.

As the number of sightings and contacts increases, according to psychic Ted Owens, of Cape Charles, Va., the U.S. government will reluctantly admit the UFO's are a reality.

Owens, who is known as "The UFO Prophet," says there will be so many reputable witnesses, including scientists and police, that the government will be forced to admit that UFO's are observing mankind.

"The government's job is to protect the people of the U. S. In this case, we are talking about the military, but if the military knows unequivocally that it cannot protect people from UFO's, then it doesn't want to admit that," explains Owens. "So they've been covering up the sightings hoping the whole thing will go away."

OWENS SAYS there is nothing to fear, however. The UFO's are not hostile. "If they were, they would have taken us over long ago. My estimate is that the UFO's could take over the surface of the earth in a matter of minutes if they wished - but they don't wish to and have no reason to."

The "UFO Prophet" says there are two types of beings responsible for the phenomena and claims to have been working personally with higher intelligences from another dimension for years.

"They claim to have worked with Moses," he says, "and they never die. They are all knowing, and using telepathy, have personally gained much valuable knowledge from them."

The second group of UFO's, Owens refers to as "O.I.'s," or "Other Intelligences." Although meaning no deliberate harm to life on this planet, he says, they are of lower intelligence than the other dimension beings and sometimes cause injury through carelessness.

"O. I.'s are from other planets, and they can be rough on humans. The O.I.'s are responsible for some of the cattle mutilations. There is also some cult involvement, but the O.I.'s are the ones involved in the the very mysterious cases where surgical procedures come in that even our top surgeons could not accomplish."

"WHY ARE THEY doing it? They don't want to interfere with our culture, but they do want to study life here. So they sneak around the periphery of our culture, dissecting some of these strange animals (cattle) and taking them back to their planet for closer examination."


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Three leading psychics reveal their predictions for 1976

Ted Owens: Violent storms

Maris De Long: Small riots

THREE of America's foremost psychics this week revealed their latest predictions exclusively for The Star's readers.

Among the startling events they foresee for 1976 are:

* President Ford's life will be in extreme danger. He will not be reelected.
* Jackie Onassis and her teenage daughter Caroline will have a double wedding.
* Violent storms will wreak havoc across the entire nation.

Maris De Long of Los Angeles was Marilyn Monroe's personal psychic and predicted Kissinger's marriage and the death of Aristotle Onassis. She predicts:

Ronald Reagan will be Ford's running mate in the national election. But Ford will not be re-elected. An obscure politician will go to the White House.

Small riots will erupt in Los Angeles about mid-year.

Christina Onassis will bear a son and heir to the Onassis fortune. But health problems will surround her at this time.

Henry Kissinger's marriage will be rocky in 1976. There will be persistent rumors of divorce.

Dr. K will resign from the Ford Administration. His wife will accept a public affairs appointment in the near future and become a famous stateswoman.

Ted Owens, a prophet and healer from West Virginia, foretold the Watergate scandal and Nixon's historic departure from the White House. He predicts:

America's economy will nosedive in 1976, causing an epidemic of crime and unemployment.

President Ford is now in the greatest physical danger of his life. In the next few months an assassination attempt will be made on him that is not amateurish.

A storm of revolution will sweep America during 1976 and in the following year. Politicians and government workers will be mobbed in the streets by angry citizens.

More great celebrities will pass away in 1976 than in any previous year.

Violent weather will wreak havoc on most parts of the nation. Freak tornados, hurricanes, droughts and raging storms will be reported more often than ever before.

Jandolin Marks, a former model who lives in Alaska, foresaw the United Air Lines crash that killed 43 persons including the wife of Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt. She predicts:

Jandolin Marks: Air mishaps

World heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali will be the proud father of a baby boy.

Jacqueline Onassis and her daughter Caroline, will reveal plans for a double wedding ceremony later this year.

Patty Hearst is destined to become one of the world's most loved philanthropists.

A mid-air collision near snow covered peaks will occur in the last week of March, 1976. Two other tragic air mishaps will be reported during January -- one involving a military plane crash on a mountain side, the second caused by a thunder storm.

THE Star 30c Jan. 13, 1976

America's liveliest family weekly


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December 27, 1973

TO MY SEVEN SCIENTISTS, MY REGULAR CONTACTS, AND THE UFO (SI) DISC PEOPLE..........

Listed below are the books and magazines which, so far, have carried articles and pictures of me in them...which have described my work, in part or in whole. And soon there will be two more books coming out doing same.

(BOOKS)

"Occult America" by John Godwin, Doubleday & Co., Inc., Garden City, NY $7.95.

"Revelation: The Divine Fire", Brad Steiger, Prentice-Hall Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ. $7.95.

"How To Contact Space People", Ted Owens, Galaxy Press, 200 Chapel St. Kitchener, Ontario, Canada (or from Saucerian Pubs., Clarksburg, W. Va.)...$5

"Predictions For 1973", Glenn McWane, Award Books, #AQ1032, 235 E. 45th St., NY NY 10017 $1.25.

"What The Seers Predict For 1972", Brad Steiger and Warren Smith, Lancer Books, 1560 Broadway, NY NY 10036 $1.25.

"What The Seers Predict For 1971", Brad Steiger and Warren Smith, Lancer Books, 1560 Broadway, NY NY 10036 $1.25.

"The Devil Is Alive And Well And Living In America Today", Jason Michaels, $1.25 Award Books, AQ1137, 235 E. 45th St., NY NY 10017

"Flying Saucer Intelligences Speak", Ted Owens, Galaxy Press, 200 Chapel St. Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, $1.25.

"Other Dimensions: 1974" by Brad Steiger, Other Dimensions Inc., 104 Washington St., Decorah, Iowa, 52101, $1.25.

"Danger On The Moon", Michael X, Saucerian Pubs, Box 2228, Clarksburg, W. Va. $1.50

"PREDICTIONS FOR 1974", WARREN SMITH, BOX 897, CLINTON, IOWA, 52732, $1.25.

(MAGAZINES)

Saga Magazine, 333 Johnson Avenue, Brooklyn, New York...the following issues: (at 60¢)
August, 1970
September 1970
January 1971
March 1971
April 1971
October 1971
January 1972
February 1972
Saga Annual 1972...75¢
January 1973
Saga Annual 1973...75¢ and Saga UFO Special 1973...75¢

Sport Magazine, 205 E. 42nd St., NY NY...50¢. (July 1971, Vol. 52, No. 1)

There you have it to date. Of course there have been dozens and dozens of newspaper articles written about my work...also articles in National Tattler publication.

They contain detailed descriptions of my work, my miracles, my predictions...and will give you a wealth of information about PK Man!

Owens
(PK Man)

Ted Owens (PK Man)
Box 48
Cape Charles, Va. 23310


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Virginian-Pilot, Tuesday, March 27, 1973 B7

# 'PK Man' Owens Retires--Undefeated

By FRANK VEHORN
Virginian-Pilot Sports Writer

Ted Owens, a man who claims to have stopped both Julius Erving and Bubba Smith without moving a finger and who wrecked entire major league teams, is disassociating himself from the affairs of sports.

A resident of Cape Charles who has achieved international attention, Owens disclosed he is withdrawing all hexes previously applied to persons, geographical locations and athletic teams.

The announcement will be cause for celebration in Philadelphia and Baltimore, where Owens said his powers were used in disrupting athletic teams.

In several magazines and national television programs, Owens has explained that his special powers are received from "space intellectuals" with whom he communicates.

Most of his predictions have involved storms, earthquakes, space research and draughts. He can produce documented proof of his success. But he also has carried out attacks against several professional teams and assumed responsibility last season for the Squires losing in the ABA playoffs to the New York Nets.

Owens made known most of his predictions in news letters to scientists and selected journalists.

In his latest, he says he has "erased the blackboard clean... and any vestige of PK (the power he uses) effect in the past, attached to anything or anyone at all... is now gone and erased."

Owens would not disclose the reason for removing his power.

"I am under orders not to do so," he said. His only remaining act, he said, would be to produce a mild earthquake in northern California in which no one will be killed or hurt.

Owens, whose powers are described in an article in the current Saga Magazine annual, said a movie soon will be made of his life but he would not reveal any other future plans.

![TED OWENS ... removes hexes]

For the post several years, Owens attempted to reach agreement with several proteams for a deal in which he would use his psychic powers to help the team win.

Owens said former Baltimore Colts owner Carroll Rosenbloom, who now owns the Los Angeles Rams, wanted to employ him but was prevented from doing so by National Football League commissioner Pete Rozelle.

Owens then turned against the Colts, who one year won the Super Bowl and then started falling apart, culminated last season when coach Don McCafferty was fired and the legendary Johnny Unitas was benched.

Before the season, Rosenbloom swapped the Colts for the Rams and Owens said the move was because Rosenbloom was trying to escape the hex that Owens had on him.

But Owens notified Rosenbloom that he would PK the Rams, too, and a couple of days later Rams quarterback Roman Gabriel was stricken with a rare lung injury.

The mood for the Colts was set when Bubba Smith injured himself by running into a yard marker when no one was near him. Smith's season-long absence badly hurt the Baltimore defense.

Last year, the Squires infuriated Owens by bringing in an actor who claimed to cast evil spells on New York during the playoffs. The Squires had ignored an offer by Owens.

Owens informed the Squires, who were ahead, 3-1, in the best-of-seven series, that he was working against them. The Nets won the last three games and the series.

In the final game, the Squires shot their worst of the season and one player commented, "It was strange. The shots that usually go in just were not dropping."

Not ever Julius Erving, the remarkable forward Owens considers the best in basketball, could pull the Squires through.

But Philadelphia, home of the worst collection of professional athletic teams, has felt the sting of Owens the most.

"It started back in 1968 when I lived there," explained Owens. "The brother of Eagles owner Jerry Wolman met with me and said he was interested in using my powers to help the team.

"He gave me a couple of tickets to the game. The opponent was Pittsburgh and that team fumbled and dropped the ball about every time. But Philadelphia was worse."

So the Steelers won and the Eagles rejected Owens.

Owens then, to prove his powers, turned against the Eagles and eventually all of Philadelphia's athletic teams. Last year the baseball team had the worst record in the National League and this season the basketball team has the worst record in pro basketball.

Owens remembers when Norman Snead broke his leg while playing with the Eagles. "There was no one near him when it happened" said Owens. "But I was on the spot, throwing my PK at him."

Owens normally PKed teams while listening to games on radio or by watching games on television.

Last season Eagles owner Leonard Tose "guaranteed" his team would beat New York in a game on national television.

Owens called The Virginian-Pilot and said he was "going one-on-one" with Tose and the Eagles would not win.

Sportscaster Howard Cosell remarked the game was one of the strangest he had seen, that the Eagles were moving the ball all over the field but couldn't score.

Owens won and Tose and his Eagles lost.

"From the time I started working against the Eagles, the team was wiped out, the coach (Joe Kuharich then) was fired and the owner (Wolman) went bankrupt," said Owens, who last season claims to have stopped both the Chicago Bears and Cleveland Browns.

Most of the times Owens went against teams was because he was ridiculed. Two years ago, Baltimore Bullets coach Gene Shue insulted Owens on television while his team was leading in the NBA playoffs.

"I told Shue his team might as well not suit up for the remaining games of the playoffs," said Owens, "and I was right because the Bullets didn't win."

Owens says now when he sits down to watch a ball game on television it is just for enjoyment.

"I don't care if the Eagles, the Phillies or the 76ers win," he said. "But it may take a while for the PK force to wear off in some areas."

Owens says he won't PK a team any more, even if someone calls him a nut or crackpot. He is even forgetting the differences he had the past year with the Squires.

"In fact, I hope the Squires win the championship in the playoffs," he said, "and I believe they can do it. The Squires are the best team in professional basketball when Julius Erving is at full strength.

"I would even put them up against the Celtics or the Lakers."

If the Squires went against the Celtics or Lakers, though, they would probably need the blessing of Ted Owens.

Now, that can't happen. For Ted Owens, whose name can't be found in any record book, is retiring from sports unbeaten.

# Transactions

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YANKEES--cut six pitchers: lefties Alan Closter, Larry Gowell, Joe Grzenda and Ron Klimkowski to Syracuse, released Wade Blasingame outright and returned Steve Blateric to Reds' organization.

DODGERS--purchased relief pitcher George Culver from Astros.

PHILLIES--announced that rookie third baseman Mike Schmidt would be sidelined three weeks to a month with a dislocated left shoulder.

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BRONCOS--signed free agents Tom Walker, Northern Colorado, tackle; Matt Maslowski, San Diego wide receiver; Ken Lawler, California guard; Miles Moore, Stanford cornerback; Charles McCloud, Stanford cornerback; and Al Privette, Arizona tight end.

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Three cheers for SAGA. You've done it again. Your article about strange findings on the moon in your March issue was marvelous. Your magazine does more to inform the public about UFOs, astronomy, psychic discoveries, and related subjects than any other magazine, newspaper, ra- dio or television, and I, for one, am most grateful. Joseph Goodavage, the author of "What Strange-and Fright- ening-Discoveries Did Our Astronauts Make on the Moon?", is an excellent re- porter, and he has many admirers among the thinking public.
Please continue to do such an excellent job of reporting on Ted Owens, Mariner findings, and other data and discoveries on related subjects. The moon article real- ly held my attention, and I bought several copies and passed them out to friends. You deserve a lot of credit for giving us the truth. It's what we need the most right now. Future success to your magazine.
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In the April Sound Off you ran a letter headlined Time Travel. The writer presented a case for using time travel in star travel. He built his case pretty well but he completely missed the most likely and best method of using time travel in space exploration.
This method is what I call the "Time Di- lation Effect." It consists of 2 concentric spheres of time traveling at different speeds. The outer sphere will travel at a much slower pace than normal speed, holding the ship back in time. The inner sphere will travel at the same pace as the normal universe. Thus the outside world can make a trip to a star at a speed slow- er than light, but to the people inside the ship and on the parent world it would ap- pear to be traveling faster than light.
In this way you have circumvented the speed of light barrier without breaking it. If you cannot understand this it is be- cause your human brain is not powerful enough to conceive of something on so high an order.
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To begin with, you deserve a big pat on the back and a warm thank you for telling it like it is. All of your articles are great and informative, but being a UFO buff for a long, long time now, I refer to your cov- erage of the UFO controversy. It gives me a secure feeling to know that at least one part of the news media-your maga- zine-keeps the general public informed about things which they are concerned
about and which really matter to them in their everyday lives.
I firmly believe that our government should be doing the same thing that SAGA is doing; keeping the public aware so we won't be in the dark about what to do or expect if, by chance, we are con- tacted by spacecraft and beings from an- other planet. There is no doubt in my mind that the government is suppressing and hiding facts and evidence that we should know about. Because of your pub- lication, and the way you dig up material for us to read, we will at least be a whole lot smarter and wiser about what is going on.
You are doing a superior job.
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UFOs EXPLAINED
This concerns "Amazing Super Sci- ence Of The Ancients" by Joseph F. Goodavage (April 1974). Forty years ago when I was in the third grade, I looked around one day and said to myself, "this cannot be all there is to it. There have been those before us and there will be those who will follow!"
I had already had a taste of biblical teachings on the creation, which occurred 8,000 years ago, and wondered who was trying to kid whom!
As time passed and I found out more about the world and about what has been discovered by different investigators, the more I tried to convince others that the Bible is an unproved book of folktales and mythology.
Our society is so bound up by religious doctrine that it is a wonder to me that the radio has ever been accepted as a fact. One can tear a radio apart and not find where the voices and music come from. so one can say the radio doesn't exist!
UFOs don't "exist" because they are impossible according to most of the sci- entific and engineering brains (?) of the world. Former civilizations are impossible because no mechanical artifacts have been found. Even if bulldozers and au- tomobiles were to be dug up, the diggers and scientific minds would not accept the facts before their eyes! WHY? Because we all are told that we started from Adam and Eve 8,000 years ago, and they did not have clothing much less any machinery.
I may be the only one on Earth who tru- ly feels the way I do, but I think it's a won- der that the human race as we know it ever learned to hunt and fish and use fire to cook with. Because, by and large, the scientific and ruling types are so utterly pigheaded and dense when anything new is even mentioned as a possibility!
Every time progress has been made in (Continued on page 6)
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Psychoenergetic Systems
1975, Vol. 1, pp. 98

© Gordon and Breach Science Publishers Ltd.
Printed in Great Britain

# Letter

Sir--I would like to suggest to those planning further work with Uri Geller (as well as similar psychokinesis sensitives and "healers") a line of research whose significance, were anything like positive data to be obtained, would be difficult to overestimate. I am referring to the possibility of replicating--and even extending--the type of experiment which followed S. L. Miller's production in 1957 of amino acids from the electrical sparking of a mixture of water vapour, methane, ammonia and hydrogen (all presumed to have been available on earth prior to the beginning of primitive life). Since Miller's classic experiment (1959), investigators have played with the idea that the production not only of amino acids and protein molecules and chains but of the basic genetic material itself--"life" in the form of self-replicating molecules--could be achieved (Calvin, 1969; Rutten, 1971; Strong, 1970). Despite the use of a variety of approaches and catalytic agents, however, this goal has continued to elude them.

The possibility is worth considering that physical psychics of the stature of Uri Geller, and conceivably proven "healers" (let us say those who have successfully altered rates of enzyme reactions), might be able to provide what electric current, ultraviolet light, high pressures, and high temperatures have not themselves been able to provide. I do not feel that experiments with persons of this stature should be limited solely to trying to achieve the types of things which have, in essence, been done repeatedly in the past. Investigators in psychical research might as well go for broke in one of the most baffling areas in current science. Positive data would also, needless to say, provide a link to a number of areas in our own riddle-wrapped area, from the data of materialization to data now on dead center in the survival problem (Cairns-Smith, 1971; Eisenbud, 1972).

It need hardly be emphasized that this type of research might be far more complex and difficult than that heretofore carried out. I feel certain, however, that the cooperation of biochemists can be counted upon.

REFERENCES

Cairns-Smith, A. G. *The Life Puzzle*. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1971.
Calvin, M. *Chemical Evolution*. Oxford: Clarendon, 1969.
Eisenbud, J. The dilemma of the survival data. Discussion of Professor Flew's paper. *Journal of the American Society of Psychical Research*, 1972, **66**, 145-154.
Miller, S. L. Formation of organic compounds on the primitive earth. In Oparin, A. I. (Ed.), *The Origin of Life on Earth*. London: Pergamon, 1959.
Rutten, M. G. *The Origin of Life by Natural Causes*. New York: Elsevier, 1971.
Strong, C. L. Experiments in generating the constituents of living matter from inorganic substances. *Scientific American*, January, 1970, 130-139.

JULE EISENBUD,
4634 East 6th Avenue,
Denver, Colorado 80220, U.S.A.

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Are you playing apps. with Owens?

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20 San Francisco Chronicle

N Mon., June 3, 1974

# When Superbrain Makes It Happen

By Kevin Wallace

Ted Owens, "the UFO and PK man" from rural Cape Charles, Va., has been widely misrepresented as using his flying saucer contacts to predict the scores of pro-ball games.

"I don't predict," Owens explained impatiently. "I watch the games, two at a time on the TV, and I MAKE it happen, play by play."

Owens, a smiling and portly man with a cigar, has been here at the Bayside Motor Inn for the past few days, on a tutoring errand to improve a local student's brain.

"I teach a few people how to have superbrains," he said, offhandedly, and moved back to the bigger picture:

"I have a special brain, half UFO, half human.

"I see the day when each pro team will have its own master psychic on the bench -- say, Jeane Dixon and her crystal ball with the Raiders, and me with my SI Disc with the 49ers -- and the most powerful psychic would win."

He produced a clipping showing it's already being done on a small scale in Kenya, where soccer teams hire witch doctors.

Next he produced an SI Disc -- a sort of red poker chip with white squiggles on it.

"I don't sell SI Discs," he said. "But since it takes me 20 minutes to program each one, and I have mailing costs, I have to ask for a minimum $5 contribution."

He also lectures.

SI Discs seem to help people, Owens said -- and, from a mass of articles and documents strewn over his bed, he extracted a letter from a small girl in Bremerton, Wash., saying her back trouble cleared up after a year of wearing her SI Disc and seeing the doctor.

But SI Discs won't get just anybody into contact with what SI stands for -- "Space Intelligences," which are UFO-borne beings, "not from another planet, but another dimension," who ten years ago established two-way telepathic contact with Owens, at the time just another writer, while he was motoring along on a drive through Texas.

"They told me I was the only human they'd been able to get into two-way communication with them -- and survive it -- since Moses," Owens recalled, with modest relish.

With a batting average like that, it's hardly likely that a third SI communicator will turn up right away, despite the great revival in occult interest, especially in the Bay Area.

"But the new interest is a good thing," Owens said, "even if it only makes everybody read a book called 'Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain,' which shows how far ahead the Russians are in all this."

He shuddered pleasurably.

Actually, when Owens arranges ball game outcomes -- and, as he adds, "other large-scale PK things, such as storms, droughts, volcanos and hurricanes, all of them documented by scientists and lawyers in these articles and letters right here" -- it's the SI folks up in their flying saucers who are doing it, at Owens' request.

By "PK," Owens alludes to "psychokinesis," the term for mentally affecting objects at a distance -- the sort of thing that the Stanford Research Institute's Uri Geller likes to do, bending spoons and car keys on TV shows.

Owens maintains a common sense skepticism about whether Geller's alleged extraterrestrial contacts are on a par with his own SI friends -- asking, reasonably, "If so, why just bend spoons?"

From the bed, he produced accounts of his own larger-minded enterprises from the Chicago National News Exploiter, the National Tatler, Saga Magazine, the Chattanooga Times, a couple of paperbacks about "What the Seers Predict," and the Mensa Bulletin, house organ of the society of Owens' peers in the higher IQ brackets.

A paperback showed that in 1970 Owens "predicted" -- though the verb is at odds with Owens' general usage -- "President Nixon will not end in office. Something unusual will occur, and he will either resign or be forced out of office."

Other clippings and affidavits credited Owens with arranging for lightning to strike in Philadelphia and three simultaneous hurricanes to harrass Florida in 1968, the losing streak of the Baltimore Colts in 1971, an earthquake in the Texas panhandle last February, and the materialization of a UFO earlier this month over the Dallas Airport -- which was nothing.

"The time those two Mississippi fishermen went for a flight aboard a UFO -- well, I not only asked the UFO to go pick them up, I brought out the other UFOs in 25 states right afterwards, to create a furor."

Owens, an Indiana boy to start with, creates his furors nowadays in an otherwise sleepy "six-by-six block" Virginia village, sometimes to the alarm of his wife, who he says is "a simple Texas girl who doesn't know much what goes on.

"But she's had phenomena happen to her. Like the knife floating around in the kitchen. And the night she came in screaming from the balcony, after a little creature had dropped down beside her. And the time she saw this pigeon with a radar antenna around its neck."

Such unnerving trivia are accepted with aplomb by Owens, much as the whole world was by W. C. Fields. And still is by Walter Cronkite.

Owens' four children are more psychically gifted, especially Teddy, 3, who brings an ashtray when Owens is just sitting in his chair, smoking and beginning to wish an ashtray was at hand.

The next-youngest, Beau -- "actually that's Beau-garde, with an accent over the e" -- first showed his own gift four years ago.

"I was sitting in front of the TV one day, planning to control two basketball games, when Beau climbed on my lap and controlled them himself -- two basketball games in one day, and that's complicated even for me. And Beau was only 8 at the time!"

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Best to Dr. Sprinkle... Owens (PK Man)

PARAPSYCHOLOGY IN EUROPE

Ted Owens

Prof. W.H.C. Tenhaeff

Prof. Hans Bender

John Eccles

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Courtyard of the Utrecht cathedral

Dr. John Hasted

by Jeffrey Mishlove

The 1976 convention of the Parapsychological Association was held under the shadow -- in fact, virtually in the courtyard -- of an 800 year old gothic cathedral at the State University of Utrecht in Holland. Located in the center of the Netherlands, the University of Utrecht is the largest in the country with an enrollment of over 30,000 students. Combining ancient traditions with modern science, the university actually houses two separate parapsychology laboratories.

Dr. Martin Johnson, president of the P.A. and host of the conference, is a modern researcher, steeped in both the philosophy of science and empirical research methods. His colleague, 88 year old Dr. W.H.C. Tenhaeff, Europe's first academic parapsychologist, is still an active researcher.

The conference itself was a mixture of old and new approaches to psychical research at a level of intensity rarely, if ever, equalled in the history of this emerging science. Over 80 papers were presented covering phenomenal new research in psychokinesis, ganzfeld techniques, out-of-body experiences, physiological measures, hypnosis, meditation, subliminal perception, and general ESP.

The keynote address was delivered by Sir John Eccles, Nobel laureate in physiology, who described his dualistic theory of mind-body interaction; and, of particular interest, specified psychological experiments which, in his opinion, indicated both precognition and psychokinesis taking place *within the brain!*

The precognitive experiment involves conscious detection of a signal a fraction of a sec the neural impulses act the cortex. As for psy the brain, the exa supports J.B. that an act ing a o

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Even if Hasted's paper had been the only one presented, the P.A. Convention would have still been an important scientific landmark.

In one of his experiments, Hasted made simultaneous electronic measurements of the PK "strain" on three keys which were suspended from the ceiling of the laboratory, equidistant and out of reach of his young subject. The results show a comparable, but not exactly identical, force affecting all three keys simultaneously.

In another study, aluminum strips which were left alone in a room became twisted and braided like pigtails within a matter of seconds. The subject was in an adjoining room. Electronic strain gauges recorded a force on the metal unlike anything that would be seen by normal human bending.

The extraordinary success of the PK research has led some experimenters to seriously question ethical ramifications. Dr. Zbigniew W. Wolkowski of Paris announced (at a later conference in London) the discontinuation of his PK research, after he was asked to explore the use of psychokinesis to modify genetic material. Citing the admonitions of philosophers and spiritual teachers, Wolkowski stated his opinion that psychokinetic forces were of a "low level," and possibly quite destructive. He maintained that clear ethical positions should be formulated before such research is allowed to continue much further. On the other hand, Hasted suggested that in a few years, commercial applications of PK and telekinesis would be possible.

Important breakthroughs were also announced in ESP research. Ernesto Spinelli, a doctoral student in psychology at the University of Surrey, England, created a ripple of excitement when he reported the results of a three-year study relating chronological age to ESP abilities. Over 700 subjects ranging in age from 3 to 35 participated in over 7,500 experimental trials. The results were remarkable and will probably have a profound effect on our understanding of developmental psychology.

Children in the age range of 3.3 to 3.7 years scored 672 hits out of 1500 trials in a situation where only 300 hits would be expected by chance. The experimental task was a uniquely designed card-guessing test which was electronically monitored with rigorous controls against sensory leakage or cheating. The chance probabilities of such incredible results is less than one in $10^{90}$.

Children in the age range of 4.5 to 4.9 years also scored significantly above chance, obtaining 523 hits out of 1500 trials. The probability of this score being obtained by chance is less than one in $10^{30}$. Children between 5 and 8 years of age achieved 386 hits out of 1500 trials. The probability of this score occurring by chance is less than one in a thousand.

Above the age of eight years, the ESP scores in Spinelli's experiment dropped to the scoring level of most average adults, less than one percent above chance expectations. When they are repeated, these results should clearly establish the important role of psychical research in developmental psychology.

Other studies explored the relationship between ESP and meditation, psychotherapy, relaxation, erotic stimulation, openness of personality, call-time, cognitive modes of awareness, classroom experience, mother-child relationship, emotionally loaded targets and experimenter personality.

Nicholas Tornatore, a psychologist from Staten Island, N.Y., conducted a survey of over 600 psychiatrists regarding the incidences of psi during therapy with their patients. Twenty-eight percent of the psychiatrists reported that they had personally had at least one paranormal experience. Over ten percent of the psychiatrists noted paranormal phenomena during their sessions with patients. The data tended to support the notion that psi occurred at times in the therapy when significant emotional breakthroughs or shifts in attitude were taking place.

In half of the cases, the psychiatrists felt that the paranormal incident aided in the analysis of the patient. Often, however, the analyst was not aware of the implications which the incident might have for therapy. Tornatore concluded his paper by suggesting that institutions providing training for psychiatrists and clinical psychologists should be concerned with psi phenomena and their relationship to therapy (see his report in this issue).

Following the Utrecht convention, many researchers traveled to London for the Institute of Parascience conference at the City University of London. The presentations at this meeting covered a greater range of topics than at the Parapsychological Association

Metal objects sealed in tubes developed paranormal bends in the presence of Hasted's young subjects.

Straightened paperclips intertwined themselves in a few moments while placed in a glass globe.

Perhaps the key point in evaluating the success of the glass globe experiment is that, after two years Hasted has been unable to discover any technicians or magicians who have been able to produce comparable bending of the paper clips using normal means. Hasted has now gathered enough solid data to begin forming theories regarding the vectors and forces required for the phenomena he has observed.

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how to encourage and foster the psychic aptitudes of their children, before the major governments of the world establish reliable lines of communication with civilizations beyond the earth?

After attending the research conferences in Utrecht and London, I can clearly imagine the possibility that these events will occur before the end of this century.

(Continued from 40)

that "the basic underlying idea is the same. More fascinating and important, however, is their view that altered states of consciousness produced by psychedelic drugs, by toxic substances and by anoxia (often characteristic of dying persons) result in deathbed visions, apparitions and other unusual mental experiences. They further suggest that it is such experiences that are the source of the eschatological mythologies that are to be found in the world's religions. They provide interesting data in substantiation of these claims.

In Part III, Chapter XIII--the only chapter that is devoted entirely to a parapsychological approach to survival after bodily death--Rosalind Heywood relates a number of her own psychic experiences which are suggestive of survival. Her paper is well-written, interesting and makes only modest claims, but it adds no new theoretical knowledge to this sort of presentation.

One noticeable error in the volume is Koestler's attribution of "the best of all possible worlds" doctrine to Hegel. This is a view for which Leibniz is widely known.

Frederick C. Dommeyer, Ph. D.
(Dr. Dommeyer is professor of philosophy at San Jose State University.)

========== ALSO OF NOTE ==========

**Seeing with the Mind's Eye** by Mike and Nancy Samuel. New York/Berkeley, Random House Bookworks, 1975. 331 pp. $9.95. The history and practice of visualization; contains a chapter on parapsychology.

**Occult Illustrated Dictionary** by Harvey Day. New York, Oxford University Press, 1976. 156 pp. $8.50. A dictionary of terms used in parapsychology and occult sciences.

**The Paranormal Perception of Color** by Yvonne Duplessis. New York, Parapsychology Foundation, 1975. 117 pp. $4.50 (Paperback). Skin vision and the use of color for ESP tests.

**Vibrations** by Daniel Logan. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, 1976. 193 pp. $7.95. Well-known psychic tells how to help yourself channel and deal with ESP experiences.

**The Space Gods Revealed** by Ronald Story. New York, Harper & Row, 1976. 139 pp. $7.95. An expose of van Daniken's views and facts.

**The Healing Environment** by Cristina Ismael. Millbrae, Ca. Celestial Arts, 1976. 206 pp. $4.95. A survey on occult, psychic, and mental healing.

**A Meditator's Diary** by Jane Hamilton-Merritt. New York, Harper & Row, 1976. A western woman's experiences with meditation in Thailand.

# Bibliography

**PSYCHIC COUNSELING**
EISENBUD, J., *Psi and Psychoanalysis*. New York: Grune and Stratton, 1970.
HONORTON, C., "Psi-Conducive States of Awareness," in Mitchell, E. D. et al., *Psychic Exploration*. New York: Putnam's 1974.
ROGERS, C., *Client-Centered Therapy*. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1971.
ULLMAN, M., "Psi and Psychiatry," in Mitchell, E. D., et al., *Psychic Exploration*. New York: Putnam's, 1974.

**THE PARANORMAL EVENT IN PSYCHIC THERAPY**
COLEMAN, M. L., "The paranormal triangle in analytical supervision," *Psychoanalysis and the Psychoanalytic Review*. 1958, Vol. 45, pp. 73-84.
EHRENWALD, J., *Telepathy and medical psychology*. New York: Grune & Stratton, 1966.
EHRENWALD, J., "Presumptively telepathic incidents during analysis," *Psychiatric Quarterly*, 1950, Vol. 24, pp. 726-743.
EISENBUD, J., "Telepathy and problems of psychoanalysis," in G. Devereux (Ed.), *Psychoanalysis and the occult*. New York: International Universities Press, 1953.
EISENBUD, J., *Psi and psychoanalysis: Studies in the psychoanalysis of psi-conditioned behavior*. New York: Grune & Stratton, 1970.
FREUD, S., "Dreams and telepathy," in G. Devereux (Ed.), *Psychoanalysis and the occult*. New York: International Universities Press, 1953.
JUNG, C. G., *Memories, dreams, reflections*. New York: Vintage, 1961.
SERVADIO, E., "Psychoanalysis and telepathy," in G. Devereux (Ed.), *Psychoanalysis and the occult*. New York: International Universities Press, 1953.
----------, "Telepathy and psychoanalysis," *Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research*, 1958, Vol. 52, pp. 127-133.

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signal a fraction of a second before the neural impulses actually reach the cortex. As for psychokinesis in the brain, the example Eccles chose supports J.B. Rhine's contention that an act of pure will, such as lifting a finger, is evidence of mind over matter. To do this properly, there should be no apparent stimulus for the action. Eccles discussed the neurophysiological concomitants of such an act. His dualistic notion of mind-body interactions was provocative in that it contradicted both the orthodox neurophysiological view and the newer theories of consciousness now being put forth by quantum physicists.

A major highlight of the conference was a Japanese television film which documented the spectacular talents of Dutch psychic sleuth Gerard Croiset. Croiset was flown to Japan from Amsterdam in order to locate a missing child. Upon his arrival he was taken straightaway to a television studio in front of the cameras. Immediately, on seeing a photograph of the missing child, he began furiously drawing a map of the area where he thought she should be found. Then Croiset went to bed, but the television crew used his map to find the actual site and set up TV cameras there before dawn. As the sun came up, the film shows the young girl's body rising out of the lake, where Croiset had pinpointed her--before either Croiset or the police had arrived on the scene. A further interview shows the amazement of the police chief when he arrives.

Many experimental researchers found loopholes in the TV film presentation and stated their opinion, quite accurately, that from an evidential point of view the film was too uncontrolled and proved nothing. Yet the purpose of such a film wasn't to provide proof, but rather documentation for those who were willing to assume the basic honesty of the participants. The film drew a loud applause from the hundred participants who had missed lunch and packed into a hot crowded room to see it.

Under the direction of Dr. W.H.C. Tenhaeff, in-depth personality studies with talented "paragnosts" such as Croiset have been the main focus of research for many decades. Tenhaeff has studied over 500 police cases solved by Croiset, and even more failures.

As Croiset has shown a particular talent for locating the bodies of drowned children, it is interesting to note that he himself nearly drowned in a lake at the age of six. The event left a lasting impression on his mind.

A touching moment for the audience of researchers occurred when Dr. Hans Bender, director of the Institute for Border Areas of Psychology and Mental Health in Freiburg, Germany, described his long friendship with Tenhaeff--which had inspired him to create his own laboratory in Germany. Bender was reduced to tears when he recalled how their association had been disrupted during the painful years of the second world war in Europe.

Of great importance to contemporary parapsychology were the reports of unusually talented psychokinetic subjects from around the world--whose abilities were generally triggered when they learned of Uri Geller's amazing talents. E. Alan Price reported studies with ten such subjects in South Africa. Other reports came from France, Germany, Denmark and England. Dr. John B. Hasted, chairman of the physics department at Birkbeck College, University of London, has been conducting intensive studies with six subjects over the past two years.

Hasted's documentation of extraordinary PK phenomena seems to exceed that of any other scientist in the world. He has shown the bending of metals (Fry's #11 alloy) normally so brittle that they would fracture sooner than bend.

Hasted has now conducted over twenty experiments in which his young subjects are asked to cause metal-bending in unfolded paper clips which are placed inside of a glass globe six inches in diameter. This experiment has produced marvelous results. Sometimes as many as eighty paper clips become entirely knotted, gnarled, twisted and intertwined--packing the globe so tightly that it will not rattle when shaken. Sometimes the experiment is done twice, first with silver colored clips, then with copper clips which become intertwined with the others.

The experiment does have a few drawbacks. First the globes are not entirely sealed. A small hole, about a quarter of an inch in diameter, is left so that the clips may be inserted. The experiment has not been successful when the glass is completely sealed (although Zbig-niew Wolkowski in Paris has done this successfully with Pierre Gerard). Also, the subjects are generally alone when the metal bending occurs, without any scientists watching (again, Wolkowski in Paris has actually seen the metal bending in the sealed glass container). Once in a while Hasted and his colleagues are fortunate enough to actually see, and videotape the bending of the paper clips in the glass globes.

*Straight pieces of metal braid themselves together while the subject is in the next room at Prof. Hasted's laboratory.*

*Metal so brittle that it breaks rather than bends was deformed by one of Prof. John Hasted's subjects.*

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convention, and were also addressed to a wider audience. Topics ranged from theoretical physics and cybernetics to testimonies of personal encounters with UFO intelligences. Noted novelist Colin Wilson spoke on the Gurdjieff techniques of psychic development.

The general tone of the meeting was lively and personal. Scottish physicist and astronomer, Axel Firsoff, presented a paper on theoretical physics and parapsychology. Then he discussed his experimentation on reincarnation in cats and his personal encounters with UFOs.

Professor John Taylor, of King's College in London, showed videotapes which had captured the apparent materialization of a small metal object, as well as several other objects bending in front of the camera without being touched. Unfortunately, Taylor's videotape was made in the home of his subject, using equipment that Taylor had left with him, at a time when no scientists were actually present. It's therefore not impossible that the image on the videotape was fraudulently produced. Taylor, nevertheless, affirmed his trust in the subject. Furthermore, examination of the actual magnetic tape showed no evidence that it had been tampered with. Other calculations made it seem to Taylor highly unlikely that the metal object was thrown at high speed to produce an effect similar to materialization.

Dr. Keith Birkenshaw of University College in London suggested that the entire issue of psychokinetic metal bending may be a "non-problem" comparable to the efforts of early explorers to find the edge of the earth.

Suzanne Padfield, a well-known psychic whose PK talents have been extensively tested in the British Paraphysical Laboratory of Benson Herbert, presented an interesting paper on the use of "psychic support figures." These are the "guides," "spirits," "space-brothers," "masters," and other assorted other-dimensional entities to which many psychics attribute their powers. Padfield stated that in the beginning of her psychic work, she thought that her powers had come through extraterrestrial sources. Since then she has learned to take responsibility for her psychokinesis as a natural human talent. She suggested that parapsychologists should be tolerant of the needs of psychics to maintain "psychic support figures," without letting these extraneous concepts interfere with good research and theoretical understanding of psi.

Perhaps more than other psychics, Padfield is sensitive to the different conceptual frameworks which distinguish psychic practice from scientific practice. Her husband, Ted Bastin, an eminent British physicist, presented a paper on the philosophical issues in attempting to reduce psychic phenomena to the language of quantum physics and relativity.

Padfield's presentation was followed by what might be considered the most unusual talk ever to be presented on a scientific podium. Mr. Ted Owens, "the PK Man," from Cape Charles, Virginia, spoke before the parascience conference on his own psychic achievements which he claims resulted from his personal communication with flying saucer entities.

To back up his claims, Owens produced piles of affidavits, newspaper clippings, letters and documents sufficient to astound the most open-minded and experienced researcher of the paranormal.

A letter from Max L. Fogel, Ph.D., director of science and education for Mensa in America testified that in 1973, two days after a written "prediction" from Owens, a UFO was sighted by a policeman in Chase City, Virginia. Owens claimed that he had actually caused that sighting by signalling his UFO "friends" to appear.

In California, last April, two days after Owens sent a letter to scientists at the Stanford Research Institute, claiming that he was about to have his UFOs interfere with the weather, it snowed for the first time in over ten years in the City of Menlo Park. Newspaper clippings indicated that some teenagers had never seen snow before!

An affidavit from a radio producer in Dallas, Texas, stated that within weeks of Owens' public claim that he would produce a "major demonstration" of his power over the weather in Texas there was an earthquake of 4.5 on the Richter scale, high winds and tornadoes, the coldest weather in Texas history, followed by hot winds which destroyed half of the Texas wheat crop. Other documents indicated similar "demonstrations" in Cleveland and Chicago.

The parascience conference was not totally prepared to handle a character the likes of Owens. Outrage was expressed by such notable members of the audience as Professor J.B. Hasted when Owens suggested that the U.S. government should use him as an agent of psychic warfare against the Russians. Due to irregularities in the schedule, Owens took the podium on several occasions but was abruptly cut short by the moderator. This produced loud cheers and hisses from the assembled crowd.

Many felt that if Owens wasn't an outright liar, that he was a dangerous character. There was little sympathy in the room for his messianic proclamations as the premier representative on earth of the UFO cosmic intelligences. His claims were difficult to accept, yet the documentation was there for all to look at. I had already known of Owens' snowstorm prediction in Menlo Park, so perhaps I took him more seriously than most and am now in the process of carefully reviewing his documented claims.

Later on, as things calmed down somewhat, Owens appeared in a panel discussion with Dr. Alan J. Mayne, a UFO researcher from University College in London. UFO researchers feel certain that all of the reported sightings cannot be explained away as ball lightning, cloud formations, temperature inversions, meteors, aircraft, weather balloons, poor observation, fraud, etc. Many cases, which have been observed by reliable witnesses under good conditions still remain unexplained. A number of these cases involve claimed contact with UFO occupants and often involve a parapsychological dimension.

Only time will tell if the enormous breakthroughs implied by the reports of Croiset, Hasted, Spinelli, Owens and others will lead to a new era in parapsychology--perhaps even a psychic revolution. Since the time of D.D. Home and Sir William Crookes in the last century, Europeans have seen many apparently well-documented psychic claims come and go without leaving an appreciable dent in the texture of society's institutions.

Perhaps the events of the summer of 1976 presage something different. How long will it be before psychokinesis and dematerialization have found reliable commercial applications, before psychic detective training is considered a regular adjunct to police academies throughout the world, before a new Dr. Spock tells millions of mothers

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SAGA Science Special

# IS OUR SUN ABOUT

According to science writer and astronomer, John Rublowsky, our galaxy is due for another spectacular and unbelievably destructive upheaval--with a star going nova or even supernova (literally burning itself out in just a few months or years). Although no one knows exactly which star will go critical, or when, increasing signs of violent instability are now being displayed by our Solar System's very own Sun!

Astronomers recently reached the alarming conclusion that the nearby cosmos is not the changeless, serene environment it had always been believed. "Something weird," says Robert Hjellming of the U.S. Radio Astronomy Observatory, "is happening to the star system called Cygnus X-3."

Even more ominously from our viewpoint, new studies indicate that our Sun is beginning to exhibit signs of instability.

When an unprecedented solar storm passed OSO-7 (Orbiting Solar Observatory 7) on Aug. 7, 1972, the chief of solar physics for NASA reported that the solar eruption released more energy in one hour than the U.S. could consume in 100 million years. By the time the incredibly hot solar wind from this storm rocked Pioneer 10 on its voyage to Jupiter (at a distance of 204 million miles from the Sun), the temperature of its gas particles had increased to about two million degrees Fahrenheit--20 times higher than normal.

The interplanetary magnetic fields in space were more than 100 times stronger than usual. American Pioneer and Explorer satellites, which were tuned in to the storm, were quickly joined by two Soviet and three European Space Research Organization satellites.

Astronomers and physicists are deeply concerned about this turn of events on the Sun. So much so that three emergency sessions were held at the American Geophysical Union's special meeting in San Francisco in December.

Is it possible for the familiar, life-giving Sun to act in such a destructive way that all life on Earth will be affected? Astronomers have always believed that Sol would blaze on for billions of years. Why, then, all this talk about a premature cycle of solar instability?

For one thing, during the last two periods of lowest activity in the 11-year sunspot cycle, scores of eyewitnesses reported that the Sun had apparently "moved." They seemed to be experiencing a subjective preview of how the Sun would appear if the Earth--through some mysterious gravitational anomaly--suddenly began to wobble on its axis. Any such interruption of what we regard as the normal orderly activity of the solar system would necessarily originate from the Sun--and it would be catastrophic.

Lunar samples returned by the Apollo astronauts and close-up pictures of the Moon have revealed fused, glazed particles from the topmost layer of lunar crust. Because this condition on the Moon is extensive, geologists have concluded that during some brief period of instability, the Sun blazed forth with 100 times as much energy and heat as usual. They've fixed the time of this near-catastrophe at about 1500 B.C., thus adding still more evidence to that compiled by Immanuel Velikovsky in his monolithic book Worlds in Collision, which documents massive civilization-destroying natural disasters that occurred eons ago.

The Sun's symbol--a circle with a dot in the center is also the symbol for the chemical hydrogen, Sol's most abundant and indispensable element. It is an extremely ancient symbol and provides tantalizing evidence to support two unorthodox theories:

1) that human knowledge was far more scientifically advanced in prehistoric times than anyone up to now has dared to admit; and

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Only recently, astronomers still believed that this atomic process would continue indefinitely--for at least another 10 billion years before all the hydrogen was depleted and the Sun shrank to white dwarf size, less than 15 miles in diameter. Under these conditions the atoms' electron shells are compacted together and crushed. The escaping radiation of heat, light, and energy from such a super-compacted dwarf star would be insufficient to support life on Earth.

But even more recent spectroheliographic analysis has revealed that almost half the Sun's store of hydrogen has already been used up! Scientists estimate that the Sun will "burn out" in five billion years instead of 10. However, as new data keeps flowing into NASA's computer banks from orbiting planetary satellites, the solar observatories, a strangely disquieting picture is emerging. The Sun is beginning to behave in odd and unpredictable ways. Instead of gradually growing cooler over a period of billions of years, the critical stage of Sol's existence could be reached very quickly when the amount of hydrogen is balanced by the helium produced in the nuclear fusion process at its superhot, superdense core. This may be much sooner than anyone had previously suspected. The current estimate is anywhere from a decade to a few hundred thousand years. In cosmic terminology a million years is a mere blink of (Continued on page 57)

A total eclipse of the Sun, top left, in 1970 showing details of the corona. Top right, this photograph of the Sun shows some regions that generated major flares. Above, solar flares seen during an eclipse. Magnetic storms, after flares, disrupt radio broadcasts. Lately, the Sun has been behaving unpredictably.

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