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Tale of the 'Evans, v. 4, issue 2, Spring 1946
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DO YOU HEAR VOICES? * "Based on the formula used by advertising companies to determine the number of prospective customers, ------ your Editor would judge that there are 1,800,000 in this country who know that they hear voices, and most of the rest hear them and call it their subconscious . . . . by the same formula about 500,000 believe they have a mission to perform . . . . and some 100,000 have unlearned knowledge of a highly technical nature in their minds . . . Experts will point out that the ad. formula used in this way, is silly; we reply, scale it down to ten percent and it's still amazing. . ." Thus write the editor of a national scientification magazine. Now, we are not going to stick out our own neck (in the vernacular, and however scrawney it may be) on the so-called Shaven mystery. The fact that the whole stirabout originated with a scientification publication, which continues to commercialize it with no unskilled hand, gives it a black eye from the start. Fact, fiction, and dream, are inextricably mingled, and it is safe to say that no scientific society or periodical will give the matter any attention whatever, as it now stands. We remind our learned brethren, however, that facts exist and forces operate, before they are officially approved of, and quite independently of scientific pronouncements. some of the most important facts known to mankind are disregarded or flatly denied by official science -- by which we mean, learned bodies, publications, institutions and university departments. If we wait for official sanction before we examine phenomena, we shall make a late start, or none at all. The disturbing feature of this business is not the Shaver fiction, but the correspondence it has evoked, the intense sincerity of many of the writers, and the constant repetition of certain elements. We mean, for example, that if a score or a hundred people assert that they have seen, in dream or vision, an identical but unknown gadget (or building or landscape or anything else of new and distinctive appearance), it is something to think about. Especially if you accept, as all informed people now do, theexistence of extra-sensory or extended sensory-perception, and of extra-sensory existents. These visual appearances, dreams, and voices, all smack to us of lower astral contacts, clairaudience and clairvoyance. We * Reprinted from THE ROUND ROBIN, A Bulletin of Contact and Information for Students of Psychic Research and Parapsychology., Vol. 2, Number 1, January, 1946. 5
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DO YOU HEAR VOICES? * "Based on the formula used by advertising companies to determine the number of prospective customers, ------ your Editor would judge that there are 1,800,000 in this country who know that they hear voices, and most of the rest hear them and call it their subconscious . . . . by the same formula about 500,000 believe they have a mission to perform . . . . and some 100,000 have unlearned knowledge of a highly technical nature in their minds . . . Experts will point out that the ad. formula used in this way, is silly; we reply, scale it down to ten percent and it's still amazing. . ." Thus write the editor of a national scientification magazine. Now, we are not going to stick out our own neck (in the vernacular, and however scrawney it may be) on the so-called Shaven mystery. The fact that the whole stirabout originated with a scientification publication, which continues to commercialize it with no unskilled hand, gives it a black eye from the start. Fact, fiction, and dream, are inextricably mingled, and it is safe to say that no scientific society or periodical will give the matter any attention whatever, as it now stands. We remind our learned brethren, however, that facts exist and forces operate, before they are officially approved of, and quite independently of scientific pronouncements. some of the most important facts known to mankind are disregarded or flatly denied by official science -- by which we mean, learned bodies, publications, institutions and university departments. If we wait for official sanction before we examine phenomena, we shall make a late start, or none at all. The disturbing feature of this business is not the Shaver fiction, but the correspondence it has evoked, the intense sincerity of many of the writers, and the constant repetition of certain elements. We mean, for example, that if a score or a hundred people assert that they have seen, in dream or vision, an identical but unknown gadget (or building or landscape or anything else of new and distinctive appearance), it is something to think about. Especially if you accept, as all informed people now do, theexistence of extra-sensory or extended sensory-perception, and of extra-sensory existents. These visual appearances, dreams, and voices, all smack to us of lower astral contacts, clairaudience and clairvoyance. We * Reprinted from THE ROUND ROBIN, A Bulletin of Contact and Information for Students of Psychic Research and Parapsychology., Vol. 2, Number 1, January, 1946. 5
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