My Library

If I remember correctly, Marion had the summer issue of the NEWSLETTER almost ready to go to press. But she was as outraged as everyone else was. She said that she would scrub what had been prepared, and publish the results of the eight formal experiments (I will quote at length from this NEWSLETTER in the next chapter). This, however, was not the same as having papers published in the JOURNAL, and which parapsychologists everywhere considered a scientific one. I don’t believe Dr. Osis ever fully recovered from this disgusting event -- although he continued as Research Director for some years more. Although he and I were to have one big fight in May, I nonetheless honor and respect him completely. At that time, he was one of the very few parapsychologists researching the question of whether there is some aspect of the human being that can go out-of-body and which might survive after death. I did not fully realize at the time how hated was this concept by parapsychologists everywhere. Dr. Osis was a member in good standing of the American Psychological Association, the Eastern Psychological Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow for the Scientific Study of Religion, and was on the Board of the Academy of Religion and Psychical Research.