1984 September Omni Magazine - Psychic Power for Hire, Alien Animals, UFO Update

Description: 1984 September Omni Magazine - Psychic Power for Hire, Alien Animals, UFO Update CONTENTSFIRST WORDOpinionGurney Williams III6OMNIBUSContributors8COMMUNICATIONSCorrespondence12FORUMDialogue14LIFEBiomedicineDaniel Kagan18PSYCHIC POWER FOR HIREMindDaniel Kagan20THE BODYHealthJoel Davis22BREAKTHROUGHSTechnologyPhoebe Hoban26BOOKSThe ArtsMichael Bishop30EXPLORATIONSTravelPaul Raeburn32STARSAstronomyRobert Freitas, Jr.34ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCEComputersPaul Hilts36FREEBASING PERUVIAN STYLEContinuum39CLOCKS THAT MAKE US RUNArticleLen Hilts48AFTER THE CHINA SYNDROMEArticlePaul Bagne56ADAGIOFictionBarry B. Longyear64CHANCE AND DESIGNPictorialPierre Cordier72RELICS FROM THE DAWN OF TIMEInterview: Blas CabreraJohn Gliedman80EINSTEIN’S SANCTUMArticleEdward Regis, Jr.88ALIEN ANIMALSPictorialPat OrtegaJ4SPACE PHONESArticleCharles Sheffield102TOOTH FAIRY antimatter quirky quartzFiction UFOs, etc.Carol Carr106 111 148games LAST WORDPhenomena Diversions HumorManfred Kage Scot Morris ________Mike Wilkins'"''"'152 -"^54Twenty-five hundred years ago inGreece, the Oracle at Delphiwas a thriving concern. Anyonerich enough to contribute gold to the temple'scoffers could put his questions about thefuture to the shrine's wise men. They wouldthen pass the questions along to a templepriestess, an experienced psychic whowould describe to the graybeards what shesaw. The wise men, in turn, wouldanalyze her images, put them into verse,and relay them to the client.In other words, the Delphic Oracle was abusiness, a consultancy on future eventsthat—for a fee—delivered psychicallyderived predictions on affairs of state,finance, war, politics, and personal fortuneToday in San Mateo, California, abusiness partnership, aptly named DelphiAssociates, is doing what the originaloracle did: offering clients psi-derivedprognostications for business decisionsAnd they are turning a nice profit.The three Delphi partners, physicistRussell Targ, psychologist Keith Harary,and businessman Anthony White, areeminently qualified to deliver state-of-the-art psi services, White is a Stanford MBAwith 15 years of experience as a financialconsultant and venture-capital specialist.Targ and Harary spent ten years eachat the prestigious SRI International organi-zation doing government-funded psiresearch. Before that, Harary made a namefor himself as a supremely talented practi-tioner of remote viewing—using mentalimpressions to "see” distant objects, places,and people. Although many parapsycholo-gists are skeptical that psi is advancedenough to be of any practical value, Targ,Harary, and White are not.When the Delphi partners got together in1982, their first undertaking was to predictthe movement of silver futures by usingprecognition and remote viewing. White andHarary would set themselves up in differenthouses, no communication at all passingbetween them. For each trial, White’sjob was to choose a common object torepresent one of four fluctuations in the silvermarket. The experiment was done over aweekend; once the price fluctuations wereknown on Monday, the object representing... And much more! 12175

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