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Put Your Psychic Powers to Work:
a practical guide to parapsychology
1973
evelyn monahan
with
terry bakken
1973 II Printing
To Betty C.Reaid,
who has been the greatest source
of inspiration and encouragement
to Evelyn Monahan.
To the four children of Terry Bakken-
Shari,Jim,Lori,and Karen-
who will grow up to inherit a world
made better through the science of parapsychology.
Contents
Foreword — IX
1. Clairvoyance
and Psychometry — 1
2. Telepathy — 21
3. Human Aura — 29
4. Psychokinesis — 37
5. Mediumship — 47
6. Reincarnation — 61
7. Dermaoptics — 77
8. Meditation — 95
9. Visualization — 109
10. Ethics — 125
Index — 133
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125.
10 Ethics.
Any reader who wants to research ethics can find innumerable books on the subject as well as innumerable books that discuss ethics along with other matters. The question of ethics has been considered by such people as Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Teilhard de Chardin, I. Krishnamurti, and countless others. If all the names were listed they would form a book.
The question of ethics penetrates every area of human life. The laborer, the college student, and the scientist all find themselves at one time or another confronted with ethics in the form of moral values. Although moral values may vary slightly from nation to nation some seem almost universal in civilized societies. Most cultures respect life and value the individual’s right to privacy. As progress brings change, mankind faces the same ethical questions faced in the past and dealt with according to the circumstances and laws that existed at that time in the society.
What reader has not seen a movie or read a book concerned in some way, perhaps a major way, with the ethical problems scientists face? What reader in the civilized world today has not at some time actively participated in or actively listened to a discussion of the moral question involved in the use of nuclear energy and warfare?
The cheers that went up when Japan surrendered and World War II ended were followed in time by the often-asked question: “Were we as a nation morally justified in dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?” Some were quick to point an accusing finger at the scientist in an attempt to place responsibility on those who had made possible the use of such a device. We shall not argue here for or against justification in the atomic bombing of these two Japanese cities but shall deal with the question of scientific responsibility for such an event.
Progress brings with it many changes to which man must adjust his mode of thinking and behaving. In considering the question of right and wrong, good and bad, blessing or curse, the reader should look within this mode of response to progress, for here man makes a choice of how and to what ends he will use the tools science gives him. No discovery or material object is good or bad in or of itself. Good and evil enter our world in the uses to which men put discoveries and material objects. When an individual or a nation makes a conscious choice to use a law, an object, or a theory in a way they know to be hurtful to others, either by infringing on their human rights or by doing them bodily harm, that choice has introduced evil into the world.
People who are aware of the potential good a specific scientific discovery may offer ask another question that attempts to place on science responsibility for the results of progress: “What about people who will use this discovery in the wrong way?” In answer to this question it must be pointed out that everything that exists could be used “in the wrong way.” Every new discovery, mankind's every progressive step, is in danger of being used by some people in a way that proves hurtful to others.
Agriculture, which began to be used extensively about 8,000 years ago, is an example of just such a giant step in human progress. Most readers surely would agree that food cultivation is one of man‘s greatest blessings. Progress in agriculture has allowed the world to feed its people; nations with more advanced agricultural techniques teach these techniques and/or sell food to nations not so advanced.
Scientists now are looking for ways to introduce the techniques of agriculture to ocean beds so that in the future earth may be able to produce sufficient food to feed its growing population. People are looking hopefully to agriculture for the answer to the question: “How can we have enough food to feed our growing numbers on this planet?”
These same people who look to agriculture with such hope may never have considered that not until the advent of agriculture did land become an extremely valuable commodity that caused men to fight army against army, nation against nation for the right to its possession. Class distinctions were created as society divided into those who owned and those who worked the land and, later, into those who made and those who sold implements to till the soil. Many people became wealthy—some at the expense of their neighbors. All this fragmentation of a society previously without agriculture was brought about by the uses and purposes to which men applied its discovery. Will the reader now attempt to answer the question: “Is agriculture a blessing or a curse?” With the history of agriculture in mind one can see that a cut and dried answer, a simple yes or no, is hardly possible.
This example shows that each new discovery is like a two-sided coin. Just as no one-sided coins exist, so nothing is known to man that cannot by his discretion and choice be misused. Perhaps the better part of valor in attempting to answer the blessing-or-curse question is to weigh the potentially good uses of a new discovery against the number of people in the world who will misuse the same discovery. It is not reasonable to call an end to discovery in order to correct such misuse. It is more feasible to educate and train people in such a way that they will choose to use scientific discoveries in a manner beneficial to mankind.
The relevance of ethics to the science of parapsychology becomes clear when one recognizes the powerful significance of discoveries in this field. The ability to communicate mind to mind or through clairvoyance to possess specific facts about both the past and the future is threatening to some people who view these abilities as potentially capable of infringing on their right to privacy. We emphasize again that no ability is in and of itself good or bad. Some people may, and most likely will, misuse their talents.
One of the greatest forces available to mankind against such misuse is education of the general public in parapsychology. Through mass education we can prevent this knowledge from becoming the esoteric possession of a few individuals or nations. Through education and by encouraging people to develop parapsychological abilities within themselves we can also reduce the number of persons who make a lucrative living by using such abilities to entertain or advise. People who seek advice are willing to pay someone they believe is special or gifted.
There will always be those who have developed these abilities more fully than others, just as there are those who play the piano for their own enjoyment and those who play well enough to give a concert. However, through general education and knowledge we can help the public to distinguish among those who have developed their abilities as has the concert pianist. People so educated will be able to recognize those who offer much and deliver little as they become financially well off.
The person who seeks clairvoyant information owes to himself an ethical obligation that consists of his responsibility to investigate as tar as possible the qualifications of the clairvoyant or psychic. The public can greatly curtail fraudulent psychics by being discriminating in those they seek out and prices they are willing to pay.
Each person is always responsible to himself in any area that involves dependence on another. Frauds can make a living by commercializing their abilities, real or imaginary, because many people are willing to shed decision-making responsibilities by happily following the advice of one who supposedly knows best. Some readers may be astounded to learn about some of the advice supposedly intelligent people seek from so-called psychics who set up businesses beside highways or main thoroughfares. Questions include: Will I take a trip this summer? Should I sell my house? Should I change jobs? Should I marry the person I’m dating? Will my husband and I straighten out our marital problems? And the winner of all questions: Should we get a divorce? When one considers that 99 percent of these wayside psychics have had no training in vocational guidance, marriage counseling, or psychotherapy, it is more than a little frightening to know that people make decisions based on what these psychics tell them.
A much needed regulatory body composed of persons qualified in both parapsychology and counseling or psychotherapy could maintain a register of persons who practice in various fields of the psychic sciences. The register would include their qualifications in the field in which they claim expertise, and this information could be made available to the public on request. As a sort of better business bureau this regulatory body could also keep a list of complaints registered against any persons who claim to give psychic information or advice. Any person’s inclusion on the register would be a voluntary matter. This register would be an attempt to maintain ethical standards and protect the public; so ethical practitioners interested in doing both would gladly allow themselves to be listed.
Such a register is being formed now through Psychic Science Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to research and education. Psychic Science Institute in Atlanta, Georgia, will accept applications from people throughout the country. This register is not the ultimate answer to the ethical question of the qualification of those in the psychic sciences, but it is a constructive move away from destructive criticism about what has not been done!
The future holds great promise for new developments through the science of parapsychology. With the research already in progress in dermaoptics, the future hopefully will bring these techniques to the point where they can benefit all of the world’s blind, visually handicapped, and slow readers. Man does not exist to serve science; science exists to serve man! How better can science serve than to give the knowledge and techniques that enable men to discover and enrich their own human potential?
This is the promise of parapsychology.
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INDEX
A
Absolute, 62-S3. 64, 97
Aka thread. 6
Akashic records, 1-2, 56
American Indian, 98
American Magazine, 48
Aquinas. Thomas, 125
Aristotle, 125
Astrology. 74-75
B
Bible, 62, 64-65, 68
Body and Mind, 49
Breath technique, 14-15, 17, 18, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 41, 43,
44, B3—-84, 90, 92, 102-104, 105, 105, 107, 120, 121, 123
133
C
Chakras, 98
Chardin, Teilhard de, 125
Christianity, 64-65, 68, 96, 98-99
Clairvoyance, 1-20, 24, 97, 101, 129, 130
exercises. 11-20
Clairvoyunce, Hypnotism, and Magnetism, 2
Collective unconscious, 56
Cornell University, 30
Cosmic mind, 1. See also Meditation
Critique of Pure Reason, 49
D
Dermaoptics, 77-93, 132
exercises, 90-93
techniques, 77-89
Dr. Hudson's Secret Ioumal, 67-68
Douglas, Lloyd C., 67
Dreams of a Ghost Seer, 49
Duke University, 2, 49
E
Ectoplasm, 51
Edison, Thomas A., 48, 69
Einstein, 3
Electroencephalogmph (EEG), 22, 99-100
Elias, 64-65
England, 29, 31, 4a
ESP deck, exercises with, 11-20
134
Etheric or bioplasmic body, 30-31
Ethics, 125-32
Extended sensory perception, 15-16, 17, 18-20, 24, 25-27,
B2-86, 93. See also Dermaoptics
Extrasensory perception [ESP]. 4, 93, 97
F
Future 8VBI1lS,1. Z, 3, 5, 6, 10, 73, 109-13, 115, 116. S89
also Visualization
G
Garrett, Eileen ]., 59
Genetic memory, 72
Georgia State University, 22, 73, 74, 77, 101, 113-14, 117
H
Harvard University, 2, 49
Hejbalik, Karl, 2
Hermetic teaching, 64, 66
Hippocrates, 2
Human Atmosphere, 30
Human aura, 29-36
exercises, 33-36
Human Aura, 30
Hypnotic regression, 70-71
I
India, 96
135
J
Jeremias. 65
Iesus Christ, 65
Iohn the Baptist, 65
Jung. Carl G., 49-50, 56, 75
K
Kant, Immanuel, 49
Karma, 66-67, 68
Kilner, Dr. Walter ]., 29-30
Kirlian method, 30
Krishnamurti, ]., 125
M
Mantras, 98
McDougall, Dr. William, Z, 49
Meditation, 95-108
exercises, 102-108
Mediumship, 47-59
forms, 50-55
pioneers, 48-50
theories, 55-59
Mikailova, 38
Mozart, 70
N
Naumov, Dr. Pavel, 38
136
O
Object reading. See Psychometry
Occultists, 6, 32, 62, 103
Oracle of Delphi, 2, 47, 48
Osis, Dr. Karlis, 23
Oxford University, 49
P
Parapsychology, 2, 23, 37, 40, 49, 74, 75-76, 101,
129, 131, 132
Past events, 1,2, 3, 5,6, 10, 19-20, 109,112
Periscope, 2
Plato, 125
Present events, 1, 2, 5, 6, 112
Psychic Science Institute, 131
Psycholdnesis(PK),37-45, 110,111,115
exercises, 41-45
Psychometry, 5-8, 17-20, 24
Psychotherapy, 100-101, 131
R
Rahn, Dr. Otto, 30
Reincarnation, 61-76
doctrines, 62—68
scientific views of, 68-76
Rhine. Dr. Louisa, 2, 38, 49
Rhine, Dr. I. B., 2, 23-24, 38-39, 49
Russia, 2, 22,30, 31, 38, 78
137
S
St. Augustine, 99
Schopenhauer, Anhur, 49
Scientific American, 48
Socrates, 50
Stanford University, 30
Swedenborg, Emanuel, 48-49
T
Telepathy, 13, 14, 21-27, 56, B3, 97, 1H1
exercises, 25-27
Three Faces of Eve, 57
Transmigration of souls, 62
U
Universal ether, 1-2, 56
Universal unconscious, 1. See also Meditation
V
Verification, 8-9, 10, 18, 24, 27, 29, 34-35, 36, 39, 51-52.
54, 56, 57-59, 70-76, 112
Vibrations, 3-4, 5, 7
Visualization, 109-24
exercises, 120-24
Y
Yale University, 2
Yoga, 1-2, 32, 62, 75, 95-98
138
About the Authors
Evelyn M. Monahan teaches parapsychology at the Georgia State University School of Special Studies. She did her undergraduate work at the University of Tennessee, where she majored in psychology. Later, she attended Emory University, doing graduate work in experimental psychology.
Ms. Monahan has appeared on numerous television and radio shows, lectured extensively, and written articles for business magazines.
Her professional activities include working with the handicapped, especially the blind, the deaf, and the learning disabled.
Terry Bakken is woman's editor and a staff writer on a newspaper, and has done free-lance work. "
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