Keeper of the Children by Hallahan William H.;

Author:Hallahan, William H.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Published: 2019-11-19T16:00:00+00:00

It’s called psychokinesis,” said Dr. Hart.

“That’s the ability of the human mind to move an object without touching it?”

“Yes, that’s close. PK. Psychokinesis.” Dr. Hart had a goatee, a black triangle in the midst of which was a mouth always verging on a smirk, the mouth of a born skeptic.

“Can the spirit leave a human body and return?”

“Ah, now you’re talking about Oobies. Oh-oh-bee. Out of body. That’s what this laboratory is studying. Astral projections. Spirit travel.”

Benson leaned forward. “Have you ever seen a spirit leave the body?”

“You had to ask me that, didn’t you? We were getting on so well. Well, let’s see. Have I ever observed the human spirit leave the body? I don’t know. At least, I haven’t knowingly observed it, but it may be happening all the time.”

“I don’t follow you.”

“The problem is the tools we measure with. Science is quite embarrassed by all these occult subjects. ESP. PK. Oobies. Telepathy. Precognition. We don’t know how to measure them. It’s only been since the late thirties that this whole subject has come out of the closet, and it’s filled with myths, lies, legends—do you have any idea how many frauds and loonies have infested this occult world? Well, now nearly a dozen major universities—including this one—are studying the subject. For the first time, really gifted scientists with adequate funds are in the field. But there’s a problem with science itself now. It’s a crisis of confidence. In fact, science doesn’t trust itself anymore. Everything’s being challenged, changed, revised. Two and two doesn’t necessarily add up to four anymore. Depending on whose mathematics you use. And this occult subject is as big as an ocean and all we’ve got so far is a thimbleful. Come here. Let me show you something.”

Dr. Hart stood up and led Benson down a hallway past several windows that looked out on the campus. Students hurried to and from their classes.

Dr. Hart showed him into a large room, in the middle of which stood a glassed-in chamber. In the chamber was a bed surrounded by various pieces of electrical apparatus. Elsewhere about the room were tables and chairs and free-standing black screens. On the tables were decks of cards, dice, discs with different numbers and in different colors.

“When we find someone who says he can take trips out of the body, we bring him here and we try to test him. In the early days we used to sit him down or lie him down, then tell him to go somewhere—say, to your house and identify the objects on, say, your coffee table. We got some very interesting results. People often described things they saw while out of the body that were amazingly accurate. But it raised as many questions as it answered. How did we know the person was actually out of the body? Maybe it was mental telepathy or a form of precognition. We have some really unusual clairvoyants. We have people who seem to be able to influence the casting of dice—statistically significant influence.

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