My Library

The news of the "evidential" picture-drawings of course circulated into Mullen and Zelda Centrals -- and the ASPR soon began getting a few calls from media types. So far as I knew back then, such calls had been few and far between -- largely because, in my opinion, the ASPR had never had the sense to hire at least a part-time publicity person and which might have helped in raising funds always needed. All in all, the experiments were now going well and my responses were beginning to improve. So I seized the bold opportunity to ask for two things. As I explained it to Dr. Osis and Dr. Schmeidler, I found doing the same thing all of the time very boring, and that I felt the boredom was detracting from my efficiency as a responsive test-subject. Now, encountering bored test-subjects in parapsychology labs was not unusual. And it was generally admitted that many experiments failed only because of boredom of doing dozens, hundreds or even thousands of trials regarding the same kind of experiments. So my little complaint was understood. As long as the ASPR was paying me for the day, I asked if some other kinds of experiments be devised so that my interest factors might be maintained. This was readily agreed to, for in fact Dr. Osis already had other experiments in mind.