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Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP96-00789R001001420001-3 sanely and rationally" (41:5). “Anyone who decides for himself that it is safe to experience paranormal functioning can learn to do so” (41: 126). a The key to learning appears to be acceptanc and support, rather than skepticism and criticism. Since Western society has repressed these psychic abilities, most people experiencing psi also tended to ignore their potential and usefulness. In our society, a person who is beginning to experience emerging psychic abilities, or who is interested in doing so, has almost nowhere to turn for guidance....They can admit their interests and risk being branded as social deviants, or they can deny their interests in psychic functioning and thereby become alienated from what might be an important aspect of their own lives and experiences (41: 122). However, as people hear more about these capabilities and realize psi functioning is a normal experience, there is a greater sharing and exchange of personal experiences. People from all walks of life are attending personal awareness and assertiveness seminars to learn how to t control of their lives. Instructor Robert Robbins teache ake S$ a seminar entitled “Fear into Power: The Firewalk Experience” where hundreds of people learn to walk barefoot over coals in a four hour seminar. Their whole concept is t mind and will can control the world. Norman Cousins, adjunct professor at the UCLA School of Medicine written two books on the subject of self-healing. He hot hat and has is certain that the mind has the power to affect “physical” processes (21:48). ofessional mineralogists and geologists I R i Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP96-00789R001001420001-3 an