European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 16, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The Dean of by Kay Bartlett associated press Over 60 years Joseph Banks Rhine and his were much taken by claims of mediums to communicate with the both doctors of they started won Dering if this could possibly be they were but they were determined to find out if the dead could communicate with the it was a quest that would twist and turn and change i but one that would dominate their it was also a quest that would turn esp into a household Ana now in their 80s we average says Rhine they admit they never found the answer to that particular but along the they found a everyone Calls became the Dean of extrasensory his experiments at Duke University in and later at the Independent Institute for Parapha school by at the foundation for research into the nature of convinced millions of the existence of got the government interested and produced reams of far Fri readable reports on efforts to harness this elusive ability in controlled there were sour the Rhines were battered by controversy As they tried to prove the existence of this other Side of the mind they were accused of juggling Fig ures after All these Many scientists feel they have proven still Spry at 83 with a full head of Gray hair and Mellow Brown is far from he my ambition there is so much left to its been harder and slower than i had but there Are More possibilities whenever i say i mean Rhine corrects him nodding his head to his a scientist of parapsychology in her own the author of four published books and presently in search of a publisher for her the Rhines grew up together in Northern Ohio and after 58 years of they still can look like teenagers on their first Rhine forgets her White purse one Rainy summer Day As they leave their offices and he pops out of the car to go get it for loping up the sidewalk and Steps to the front Hes so but i bet i could find it says his Mother of four children and grandmother of the Rhines were teaching at the University of West he in botany and Louisa in when they decided to follow their with Only a few Hundred dollars in their they set off for Harvard University to try to work with professor William an englishman whose interest in psychic research was Well their first communication was definitely without the psychic he was about to get on a Steamer to go around the recalls we barely caught him before he they trained for a year with Walter Frank Lin Price of the Boston society for psychic we practically camped in the recalls i cleaned bathrooms in a Rooming House and stoked the Furnace that remembers that was after years of esp Rhine still Doest know if dead can comm uni the following they followed Mcdougall to friends and colleagues a close a Princeton strongly advised me to stay out of the says he told me i would lose my i said i didst have any to he said i would never get a Job if i got i told him id never know what i wanted to know if i didst do i also told him i want doing it just for my own if there was something it should be i also promised him i  publish until i found a dozen people who found the same thing As i the Rhines worked with mediums for 10 they found mostly but they also found Tome who were getting information in inexplicable ways for knowing the inscription on the grave Marker of an investigators How did the mediums get the message the Rhines started poking into precognition and later into psychokinesis moving objects by mind they coined Psi an umbrella term for such after 10 years of study and getting mediums into the we decided we we rent getting says we All knew the medium had gotten the information but we could never see the Way to show she got it from the we All decided to put it on the we we rent there was no sense in building Bridges with the same Span missing in All of he turned his attention to he also kept his Promise not to publish until a dozen others found the same but he startled the world of psychology and science when he published a report about a Young divinity Stu Hubert who in the Early 30s was Able to beat the Laws of sitting in one Pearce was Able to Call Zener a special deck of 25 with five different being pulled by an experimenter in an other those who didst want to accept us finding simply said be others but what if he Rhine asked Why and How this remarkable subject was Able to attain such a he has never found that hard of hearing Ever since he was a Marine Sharpshooter in world War has had other outstanding but he has never been Able to isolate Why esp sometimes works and sometimes even Pearce lost his ability after his girl Friend jilted Rhines experiments moved from individual card gues sing to working with computers and polygraphs to work ing with groups of random subjects to combinations of esp and tests Miles and Miles the effects of hypnosis and reviews of All the but after All these what have we Learned Rhine is guarded in his it int like most things in the physical sciences were up against so if this were an orthodox science we would have been accepted Long its really a Materia Listic world beyond anyone we have become so successful in overcoming health problems and food we expect everything to to that when it Doest the critics say Mist the doing something we Are Loo used to Ihei Ensel giving us perfect lenses were in the dark on the very Icv of the what is the reason i dont see red Ori from the physical the stands Between weve been t tic habits of of we can would be the a researcher at the i Swers that same question this split the atom before they will accept that 11 the one thine parapsychology has i to produce is the truly repeat Abb if you mix Hydrogen right water will Ahn Yir not so with1 a subject May moral for then drop to Chance or logy has never found is the formula Una be perhaps there is research says Rhine we have Learned that i Tio ship Between age or groupings of i Chic we have also Learned to have Given evidence of psychic ability m general ability in the animal he puts no credence in claims i mood and attitude sometimes seem to i positive person will do better ii negative very negative id i Low that Para psychologists consider it i Call it pal v the rest of the world would Call i James a professional magician i As the amazing Randl and has a Standu for anyone who can perform a feat Power that he cannot perform through fam Akers says that not a valid j accept Psi if you accept accept Psi today challenges to esp Arent i tons of personal honesty so mock i critics allege subconscious people now pretty much assume were i else Why would we be doing the suffered 1974 when the Arthur i de of changing records in an i psychokinetic it was effect of human thoughts on animal we were says it at Levy was dismissed for and his research was since Rama Krista i headed the ten Young me Many in Blue jeans and at psychic what we have says Razov property be studied in the Over the Rhine has tried to c to accommodate we i we thought we rent meet them Halfway or we n research As to what was significant i than the Hes officially retired from ceased attending the twice weekly me wife still they both work in i he is busily polishing the remarks a Poge 14 the stars and stripes