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Running an human being through an experiment designed only to please the experimenters’ expectations, an experiment with NO reward for the human subject if it did what was wanted -- well, that was ANOTHER kind of experiment. Rats and guinea pigs got food as a reward for succeeding. Human subjects got . . . (nothing, perhaps a brief word of praise). I suggested that subjects who succeeded should be given a one-carat diamond. THAT ought to inspire them. But more seriously, because of my long-term studies of the literature, I had noted a definite lack of interest in what Psi perceptions consisted of. After all, psychics do not utilize their physical eye mechanisms to see what they "see." In the first instance, it seemed that their "seeing" depended on mental image pictures, although many in the past had said that they didn’t "see" anything, but merely "sensed" whatever they did. Some said they "heard" whatever they "sensed" -- and not a few had said that the "information" came from their toes or armpits -- or some other unusual anatomical place or part. Even in my own case regarding the formal eight out-of-body experiments the inner ASPR clique tried to demolish, I didn’t "see" all of the time. Sometimes I had clear, sharp mental image pictures, other times a preponderance of fleeting, non-visual "impressions." At other times all was foggy, or simply black, but with a sense of information "coming through" anyway. One day after a particularly good result had been achieved, and before the ASPR feathers hit the fan, Dr. Osis had grown silent and pensive. He sat down and wound his legs together like two snakes, put his chin on his hand and looked at me with piercing eyes.