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COVER STORY Boom Times on the Psychic Frontier Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man, But will they come vhen you do call for them? —Henry IV For all the enormous achievements of science in posting the universe that man inhabits, odd things keep slipping past the sentries. The tap on the shoul- der may be fleeting, the brush across the cheek gone sooner than it is felt, but the momentary effect is unmistakable: an unwilling suspension of belief in the HENRY GROSKINSKY DEVICE SET UP TO RECORD OUT-OF-BODY TRIP AT AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR PSYCHIC…

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BEHAVIOR cally, the ay hase gibeP Pot Ritledse 2003/04/48 + C1ARDPOGs007E7ROQQ 1000800026 is.” Stanford Professor selves to some significant facts about botany. Plants do respond physiological- ly to certain sound waves. Talking to a plant may indeed make it healthier, be- cause it thrives on the carbon dioxide ex- haled by the speaker. Many psychics and their followers believe that paranormal powers may be dependent on mysterious auras or “en- ergy flows,” phenomena that they say can be recorded by Kirlian photogra- phy. The technique, developed in the late 1930s by Russian Electronics Ex- pe…