My Library

This book launched a psycho-political resistance to Osis -- since his work moved much too close to the problems of the existence of the soul, reincarnation and true EXTRA-sensory experiencing that was not a mere figure of speech. SCIENCE did not like any of these ideas, and so most parapsychologists petitioning to be received as scientists did not like them either. In other words, Dr. Osis was doomed -- except for one important factor. This factor was the support of Chester F. Carlson, the American physicist who invented the Xerox process to become universally utilized and which made him multimillionaire. Carlson WAS interested in OOB and Dr. Osis’s work. Carlson died in 1968, but the continuing position of Osis as Director of Research at the ASPR was tied to the large endowment Carlson has set up for the ASPR. All those parapsychologists who became members of the ASPR board and who didn’t like OOB stuff could only make life and research difficult for Osis -- but they couldn’t get rid of him. However, within a few years, they drove him into early retirement. THIS was the actual reason the ASPR publishing committee refused to publish his first OOB experiments that involved my humble self. I, of course, had learned a bitter something along these lines. And so, after the Silfen experiment was done, I said: "OK, some science has been done. So let’s now consider the psycho-political aspects." "If you prepare an official report, then certain parapsychologists will begin pissing in their pants again. Instead, let’s prepare a very unofficial, groveling report and circulate it unofficially but widely -- and do this BEFORE the ASPR board is aware of it."