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Phanteur, whole no. 1, January 1946
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four-dimensional continuum, from poltergeists and departed spirits to the physiology of the nervous system. And beyond the happenings of the seance room, there were the events of the oratory and the meditation hall. There was the ultimate all-embracing field - - the Brahma of Sankara, the One of Plotinus, the Ground of Eckhart and Boehme, the Gaseous Vertebrate of Haeckel." Anything that I could add to the above would be anticlimactic, for I think Huxley has put the idea very well. I seem to remember that Charles Fort, too, suggested a certain oneness of the universe. The idea has probably been put forward countless times by philosophers. In fact, if I can manage it, I would like to write, for my next article, a piece entitled: THIS ANIMATE WORLD. Perhaps Deebee with print it for me. ((Indubitably, folks; in fact it is on the next page.)) Now, with the idea that there is a work for a pontifex between the fields of worldly knowledge, I suggest that after the war is over and Paul and I get back home, that we start up the FRONTIER SOCIETY once again, and that we concentrate on showing that there is an underlying oneness in the universe. What do you say? I'd like to know? The End As one of the earliest members of the FRONTIER SOCIETY, and a frequent contributor to FRONTIER, I think I am qualified to talk about the original organization, at least. For I was one of those members who did not contribute anything to advance the avowed purpose of the organization; about all I did was help pad out the pages of FRONTIER with stilted fiction; pages which should have been, but weren't, as Donn explained above, filled with stuff on the frontier of knowledge. I really shouldn't have been a member. The "facts" of spiritualism (see Huxley, above) never interested me. My position on such matters is simple; either these manifestations exist only in the gullible imaginations of their observers, or they exist as as normal part of the "real" world; no other world is necessary to explain them. If they are a normal part of the "real" world, then we may confidently expect to ferret them out and to understand them in due time. Philosophers who write long intellectual treatises, unsupported by duplicable evidence, serve their purpose when they have stated the problem involved; their curious excursions into the metaphysics merely serve to confuse the issue. As for the "oneness" of the universe, the interchangeability of matter and energy would seem to be fairly conclusive as far as the "real" world goes; the only major question there seems to be the meaning of reality, especially with the square root of -1 showing up so fre-quently in physical investigations. In any even, this latter problem would not seem to invalidate conclusions based on observed and duplicable phenomena. Donn, as probably all of you know, has been back in the States for some time; this should have been published sooner, but I'll probably never put out another Summer issue of any publication, if I continue my sojourn in the South, so this past Summer may be taken as setting a precedent. Friend, I was born too soon. In dreams, I live my life on other worlds. Now, born of awsome strife And death of human-kind, the boon Of bursting atoms sets men free. Freedom for the young, not for me. I'll see the first ship round the moon, Perhaps -- a decade hence, we're told -- but I'll be fifty then; too old -- Friend, I was born too soon! --- D. B. T. Itisfuntowritefillersinverseformjusttofitthespaceontheendofthepage.it'seasy,too!
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four-dimensional continuum, from poltergeists and departed spirits to the physiology of the nervous system. And beyond the happenings of the seance room, there were the events of the oratory and the meditation hall. There was the ultimate all-embracing field - - the Brahma of Sankara, the One of Plotinus, the Ground of Eckhart and Boehme, the Gaseous Vertebrate of Haeckel." Anything that I could add to the above would be anticlimactic, for I think Huxley has put the idea very well. I seem to remember that Charles Fort, too, suggested a certain oneness of the universe. The idea has probably been put forward countless times by philosophers. In fact, if I can manage it, I would like to write, for my next article, a piece entitled: THIS ANIMATE WORLD. Perhaps Deebee with print it for me. ((Indubitably, folks; in fact it is on the next page.)) Now, with the idea that there is a work for a pontifex between the fields of worldly knowledge, I suggest that after the war is over and Paul and I get back home, that we start up the FRONTIER SOCIETY once again, and that we concentrate on showing that there is an underlying oneness in the universe. What do you say? I'd like to know? The End As one of the earliest members of the FRONTIER SOCIETY, and a frequent contributor to FRONTIER, I think I am qualified to talk about the original organization, at least. For I was one of those members who did not contribute anything to advance the avowed purpose of the organization; about all I did was help pad out the pages of FRONTIER with stilted fiction; pages which should have been, but weren't, as Donn explained above, filled with stuff on the frontier of knowledge. I really shouldn't have been a member. The "facts" of spiritualism (see Huxley, above) never interested me. My position on such matters is simple; either these manifestations exist only in the gullible imaginations of their observers, or they exist as as normal part of the "real" world; no other world is necessary to explain them. If they are a normal part of the "real" world, then we may confidently expect to ferret them out and to understand them in due time. Philosophers who write long intellectual treatises, unsupported by duplicable evidence, serve their purpose when they have stated the problem involved; their curious excursions into the metaphysics merely serve to confuse the issue. As for the "oneness" of the universe, the interchangeability of matter and energy would seem to be fairly conclusive as far as the "real" world goes; the only major question there seems to be the meaning of reality, especially with the square root of -1 showing up so fre-quently in physical investigations. In any even, this latter problem would not seem to invalidate conclusions based on observed and duplicable phenomena. Donn, as probably all of you know, has been back in the States for some time; this should have been published sooner, but I'll probably never put out another Summer issue of any publication, if I continue my sojourn in the South, so this past Summer may be taken as setting a precedent. Friend, I was born too soon. In dreams, I live my life on other worlds. Now, born of awsome strife And death of human-kind, the boon Of bursting atoms sets men free. Freedom for the young, not for me. I'll see the first ship round the moon, Perhaps -- a decade hence, we're told -- but I'll be fifty then; too old -- Friend, I was born too soon! --- D. B. T. Itisfuntowritefillersinverseformjusttofitthespaceontheendofthepage.it'seasy,too!
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