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13. For an update on this subject, consult Barber and others (1970), Stoyva and others (1971), Shapiro and others (1972), and Miller and others (1973). These Aldine Annuals come out each year.

14. (See note 8)

15. These two paragraphs are due to Sybil Richardson.

16. Compare Macbeth's witches: "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes."

17. 1 wish to acknowledge with thanks the help of Beverly Adams in the preparation of this section.

18. Many persons have trouble with precognition as it implies to them a determined future. Yet since most premonitions involve disaster, they may be psychic warnings given so that the event may be circumvented by informed action, in which case they are precognitions only if not acted upon.

19. This section is taken from the M. A thesis of Beverly Adams, a sponsee of the author's.

20. See also section 4.54.

21. The trance healing of Edgar Cayce is relevant here, but has received so much attention in the literature, that we neglect it.

22. through touching the hand of the adept. Recall what the Ghost of Christmas Past said to Scrooge: "Bear but the touch of my hand and you shall be upheld in more than this."

23. On the TV "Masterpiece Theatre" segment on "Lloyd George."

24. 1 am particularly indebted to the scholarship of Vincent Gaddis (1967) for this section, and regret that due to the rapacity of an agent, we cannot quote him.

25. Solomon and others (1961) and Zubek (1969) have excellent reviews of this area, to which we are indebted.

26. That the effect is fleeting may be noticed from the restricted times of exposure. Table III, (p 142) does not report any modern instances of time greater than a minute, nor of distance greater than 150 ft. Furthermore there is fire contact with only a small part of the body surface.

27. The reader may wish to compare the visions of this section with those of 4.7 and note many similarities.

28. Excursus of the ego, or dissociated behavior, is the essential aspect of the trance state as well as of the obsessional and schizophrenic. We assume the conscious level as man's normal threshold, not realizing that it is the function of the ego to summon into this vivency the rational consciousness, (OSC). Under severe physical or psychical stress or ego exhaustion the ego may not be able to perform this function, and then another lower form of consciousness, less human, less split off from the uroboros, may present itself.