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>" "If Backster is right, we're in trouble."

Scientists have a hard time duplicating his experiments.
At the 1975 American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in New York City, Arthur Galston, of Yale University, got together a select group of scientists to try to neutralize the work.
The year before in Chicago they focussed on Immanual Velikovsky, who wrote Worlds in Collision.

>"I had already learned that you don't go into these things to win; you go in to survive. And I was able to do that. They've now gotten to the point where they can't counter the research I'm doing, and so their strategy has been to just ignore me, hoping I'll go away."

"Their main criticism as far as consciousness research in general is concerned, is repeatability. The events I've seen must be spontaneous. If you've thought them out in advance, you've already changed them. It all boils down to a very simple thing: repeatability and spontaneity do not go together, and as long as members of the scientific community overemphasize that aspect of scientific methodology, they're not going to get very far in consciousness research."

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