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Everyone involved balked at this. So I drew rank on them. "Look, we can say that this experiment was done within the scope of the 50 percent time allotted to ME. Since we have progressed with this idea under that concept, then no parapsychologist will seriously consider anything that had any hint it was my idea to begin with." Everyone still balked. "Then," I said, calmly, "I’m outahere this time for good." Everyone then agreed -- and thus it was done. I designed the scheme for this covert distribution of information. The ASPR had, at that time, some 8,000 supporting members who paid annual dues at $15 per head. Five hundred of these received the Silfen-Mitchell report. The subscribing members got very excited -- and demanded MORE research along these lines. Against this onslaught the obstinate members of the ASPR board could do nothing -and MORE research was undertaken. Well, after all it IS true that science is one thing, and that politicking, planning and plotting is another. The Chinese have an old proverb that goes something like "If water cannot get in one way, it will circulate and find another way to do so." Dr. Silfen’s experiment has always carried an additional luminosity to it, one that is completely lost in the history of remote viewing. It was the break/make point between experiments that merely fiddled with phenomena and experiments attempting to discover PROCESS that might be involved. After all, most people think Psi perceptions "just happen" without bothering to think about why and how they happen -- and about this a great deal is going to be narrated in chapters ahead.