Ira Went Beyond the Pale

What do you think when you hear about news of psychic phenomenon? By now it almost seems to be an afterthought because everybody knows there is, at some level or another, a degree to which all people have some psychic abilities. In today's internetter world - psychic ability is commonplace. This may be a result of the actions we are able to take when an event happens. For example, say you predict something that seems insignificant at face value - such as predicting if your wife picked up a that box of mushrooms at the market without having the conversation. She hadn't picked up mushrooms for six months, but you were itching to make a dinner with shrooms and you predicted, in your mind, that she would come home with the portabellos. You called it. You are psychic. Something in your mind said she'd get them and you didn't go to a market a get them because you had "that feeling." In fact, last week you did the same thing when you predicted the actions someone you don't know. It happened and you had a confidence it would happen yet you're not sure what triggered that confidence. OK. So this happens all the time, and if you were never consciously aware of these things happening, you suddenly find yourself wondering how you did that, and you go looking for answers. Next thing you do is submit to a websearch and find there are 2,000,000 links to stories, studies, articles, books and countless peer reviews from all kinds of people around the world. Your notion is confirmed, sort of. There is yet to be that definitive scientific study that confirms or denies that possibility that what is happening is psychic phenomenon. Scientists have a way of confirming such reports until well beyond that "duhh" moment. Such studies carrying a social impact like this gets snuffed out by scientists less likely to make waves are in most cases at the mercy of grant money and other triggers or door stops as it were.

A new study might show that psychic phenomenon is not just a sci-fi joke or trick of mind. So we look back at all the seers who tried to make certain claims and got laughed at, particularly if this issue was part of a court system defense plan. Such was the case with Einhorn. From Levy's book (p. 174), it was Ira's negotiations with the Hunt manufacturing company that found its way to draw negative reactions (later this manifested during the court system process). The Unicorn was paid $10 grand for a study on trending in the industry. Then "The Unicorn did go somewhat beyond the pale, though, in recommending that this machine-tool manufacturer establish venture capital projects to invest in "psychic technologies.""

Nearly 40 years later, psychic studies are going stronger than ever. Scientists have come to somehow make psychic practices not mere hallucinations or other such non-sense as reports continue to be included in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, but they have made it kind of a hum-hum news event. It's everywhere. It's happening right now. Maybe you don't see it, maybe you don't take such mental risks, but there is psychic sideshows happening world-wide -- go look it up on the web.