My Library

As mentioned earlier in this book, this was the concept that parapsychology would never have a repeatable experiment -- such as I had done with Backster, Schmeidler and Osis. Backster, of course, was not considered a parapsychologist by parapsychologists. The JOURNAL published Schmeidler’s papers on the repeatable thermistor experiments -- but only perhaps because of her extraordinary standing in science and parapsychology. Some parapsychologists on the Board of the venerable Society also felt that the ASPR SHOULD NOT itself conduct research, and wanted to do away with the office of Research Director. And, indeed, when Osis finally did retire, the office of Research Director was not filled again. In the end, the Osis-Mitchell OOB experiments have been mentioned in almost every reference and popular book since. Long after Osis had given up, Janet Mitchell continued to try to get published the paper on physiological correlates -- and which was avoided like the plague. It was finally published in 1977, after I had become known as a "psychic spy for the CIA" and etc. But it was published not by an American source, but in England in the JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH. I will refer to this paper ahead, because some of its findings were unusual and crucial to the development of controlled remote viewing.