Autzoo.1560 net.misc utzoo!laura Thu Apr 15 17:49:22 1982 re: PSI Yeah for utcsrgv!donald -- except that I think he is referring to Dying Inside, by Silverberg. I base this on the fact that I have read every novel or short story collection by Poul Anderson but 4, and none of those seem to match this discription. Dying Inside is wonderful, however. It is one of my favorite books, so even if Poul Anderson did write a similar one, I encourage people to read it. Strangely, another of my favorite books is about a successful society with telepaths; it's called The Telepathist (The Whole Man in American paperback publication) and is by John Brunner. I have recently got a subscription to the Skeptical Enquirer -- and have gone to the library and read back issues. If you are interested in real facts about stange occurrances from psi to ufos to the shroud of Turin, I suggest that you get yourself a subscription. It is well worth it. Which brings me to the point -- although I do not believe that psi or psi powers exist, i am willing to suspend disbelief for the sake of interesting discussion. What applies to theoretical people can often be applied to real ones. For instance -- if you were psionic and had access to the mind of a person about to commit a crime what would you do? (If a psychiatrist suspects one of his patients is about to commit a crime what does he do? If you believe your spouse is about to commit a crime, what do you do?) ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.