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Presbyterian Loehr, 45, was trained as a chemist at Illinois' Monmouth College before he turned to the ministry and "religious research." When he heard six years ago that Duke University's famed extrasensory perceptionist, Dr. Joseph B. Rhine, was testing the effect of prayer on plants, Loehr and his associates bought two sealed jars of water, prayed hard over one, ignored the other, and used them to water two equal sets of seeds, planted under identical conditions. Two weeks later the prayed-over water had produced seven seedlings, the ordinary water only three. "It looked as though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Power of the Brief Burst | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

Clairvoyance was another talent of Swedenborg's. It has led Duke University's famed Extrasensory Perceptionist Joseph B. Rhine to call him "the pioneer in the work I am doing." At about 6 o'clock one night in 1759, Swedenborg, who was visiting a friend in- Goteborg, suddenly turned pale. A great fire had broken out, he announced, in Stockholm, 325 miles away, and as it spread, he gave out bulletins like a mental radio station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Great Swede | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

...emotional Manhattan theorizer who has successively been a Baptist, Unitarian and Universalist preacher, and now is a New Humanist, an Extra-Sensory Perceptionist* and Euthanatist Charles Francis Potter, Dr. Tuttle's murder and attempted suicide were reasonable. He and a sizable group of other notable men believe so strongly in the right of an incurably diseased individual to have his life terminated gently that they have organized a National Society for the Legalization of Euthanasia. For purposes of their propaganda the Miami incident came in handy, occurring as it did the very day after Dr. Potter first publicly announced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Potter & Euthanasia | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

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