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The Associated Press
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Associated Press.
June 25,
1981) Thursday, PM cycle
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SECTION: Washington Dateline
LENGTH: 676 words
HEADLINE: Committee Recommends Assessment of Parapsychology
BYLINE: By BARTON REPPERT, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
BODY :
The esoteric world of parapsychology may now merit a "serious assessment" by
Congress to help decide whether further research is warranted, according to a
study prepared for the House Science and Technology Committee.
Parapsychology, which involves heavily disputed phenomena such as "remote
viewing" and influencing people at a distance through mental powers, is among
more than 150 science and technology issues included
. ..
two years to compile the 530-page survey.
will get
The report's section on "the physics of consciousness" said recent
experiments in remote viewing and other aspects of parapsychology "suggest that
there exists an 'interconnectiveness' of the human mind with other minds and
with matter."
Experiments on person-to-person phenomena have offered " ...
other areas such as investigative work, education and "mind-initiated
cures" in medicine.
The study observed that U. S. research in parapsychology has received
relatively low financial backing "largely because the credibility and potential
yield of such research is widely questioned, although less today than ever
before."
"Given the potentially powerful and far-reaching implications of knowledge in
this field, and given that the Soviet Union is widely acknowledged to be
supporting such research at a far higher and more official level, Congress may
wish to undertake
...
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