The reason at this point for this slight digression is this. When I commenced work at the lab at the ASPR, I found I was already thinking more of "bio-mind" rather than psi, ESP, OOBE and other Western nomenclature whatnot. Somewhat later in this book, I will show that there is a great functional distinction between bio-mind and mind. I now invite readers to shift their understanding from "psychic" phenomena to concepts of "powers of bio-mind." Doing so will make it easier to comprehend almost the whole of what lies ahead. Chapter 14 INSIDE THE VENERABLE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH - WINTER, 1971 My first stay as a test subject at The American5 Society for Psychical Research was to last about seven months. The stay was to be a bittersweet experience, laced with triumph and failure -- and backstabbing farcical soap opera. The venerable Society was to manufacture yet another one of its embarrassing and toxic scandals -- to the utter horror of all, even to those particular individuals who brought it down on the Society.