Strange Powers of the Mind by Warren Smith

Strange Powers of the Mind
by Warren Smith
1968 Ace Star

Anecdotal feel to a lot of these entries, with names changed, mostly of predictions. A few good entries.

There's the Copenhagen Hypnosis Murders, in which a man made a fellow prisoner a hypnotized slave and supposedly forced him to kill - they both ended up in jail for the murders.

There's the story of Mrs. Sarah A. Hand who believed if she removed her head, both her head and body would continue living. She attempted to decapitate herself, and failing that, laid across a railroad track. She left a note to make sure her head didn't get squished because then it wouldn't work. Her experiment was a failure.

There are several predictions - all of the clairvoyants' previous prophecies have come true, of course, so let's take a look at the future predictions. Some have no date references, so they could still be true in the future, and some are so vague ("important political figures will be replaced") I couldn't point to any and say if and when they came true.

• LBJ fails to be re-elected (got this one right, extra points that he didn't lose the election, he didn't run)
• President Nassar of Egypt assassinated in 1968 (1970, heart attack)
• Russia and China fight an all out nuclear war in 1970
• Religious war in India between Buddhists and Muslims at the end of the 20th century
• Eclipse in July and August, 1999 (got August right), in which a masculine female becomes ruler of Russia.
• An American will lead England by the turn of the century (Boris Johnson was 19 years too late).
• NYC and the Eastern Seaboard will be destroyed in the 1990s.
• Lemuria will rise in 1968.
• The Soviet Union will lose a war against 10 million Middle Eastern Muslims (closest was Afghanistan, in Asia with about 250k fighters)
• America wins the Vietnam War in 1967
• Armageddon by 2024, still time for this one

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