4 TRUE7*1STORIES OF THE STRANGE AND UNKNOWN B£ ARTICLES . Religion in Ancient Persia Donald N. Wilber 40 in The Old and the Nouveau Witch Marcello Truzzi 58 The Decline of Parapsychology Raymond Bayless 75 UFO Damages Iowa Soybeans Vivian Buchan 88 Dermatoglyphics: What Modern Scientists * ersta See in Your Hand Beverly Jaegers 98 IT ALL began with STORIES . Zoroaster, A Nightmare and more correctly Its Startling Aftermath Marion Boe 51 called Zarathustra. He may Will-o'-the-wisp have lived in the Sixth Sounds Fire Alarm Starr Deuel 66 Century B. C. or he may When a Fiction Fooled have lived earlier. At first a a Spiritualist Gwen Gaines 83 priest of the Aryan faith, Our Ouija Called Up Iran's ancient polytheistic a Spirit Mecia Clifford 94 nature worship, he later FEATURES . emerged as self-proclaimed prophet of the I See by the Papers ...Curtis Fuller 7 god Ahura Balky Hearse 57 Mazda. His teachings, hymns, prayers and rituals Boom, Then Bust 65 are preserved in the Avesta Hidden Bullet Disclosed 68 the earliest known True Mystic Experiences The Readers 69 manuscript of which dates Ancient Text Disputes Bible 74 from the 13th Century A. D. Bats Desert Drying Cave 87 —at least 19 centuries later. Fisherman's Luck 92 Scholars hesitate to Fingers of Fate Harold Heifer 93 summarize Zarathustra's Virgin vs. I.R.S 97 teachings but I propose to Madstone Cures Hydrophobia 104 try. Ahura Mazda, the My Proof of Survival The Readers 109 greatest of the gods, New Books David Techier 119 eternally at war with Report from the Readers The Readers 139 (Continued on page The UNIVERSE Book Club invites you to CHOOSE EITHER ENCYCLOPEDIA when you join aril agree to accent only 4 books in the cnminf year. mtl | [h o( lhe5e fBV6alM, B 0IO 3 Tells How to Make Money Writing FATE February 1973 Vol. 26 -No. 2 Issue 275 Short Publisher Curtis Fuller Subscription Mgr. 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DRAMATIC ACCOUNTS OF ACTUAL EXPERIENCES A Nightmare end Its Startling Aftermath Marion Boe SI veiy study or practice. ray from be- Will-o'-the-wisp Sounds Fire Alarm Starr Deuel 66 ginners. In other words, he teaches When a Fiction Fooled a Spiritualist .Gwen B3 contributions to magazines within you a method, an angle, a plan Gaines Spirit two weeks after starting. Our Ouija Called Up a Mecia Clifford 94 right away. Mr. Barrett says that the only skill and thousui thousands required is that the beginner be Noneofthei FEATURES . NEWS AND NOTES on UNUSUAL TOPICS mirations. able to write a sentence in plain English. Almost anyone with a I See by the Papers Curtis Fuller 7 grade school education can write p^'stcarcUo X"r. 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Research is the invasion of the Are there other worlds about you? pre- Can you part the veil to higher worlds? unknown. One may traverse Can you intuitively tune in to viously mapped territory, plan- inspiration? ning one's course in some detail did you come from and where Where until one reaches the border oj will you go from here? terra incognita. At this boundary, Have you lived before? Are you afraid to die? there must be an abrupt change Do the dead ever contact the living? in strategy. The jungle is dense, Is it possible for living man to perception is limited. One cannot individual horoscopes may have become immortal? know where one will be a day value but the daily, weekly and Astara has the answers to these and hence, one cannot be certain oj monthly generalized horoscope many more of life's enigmas, gleaned either distance to be covered or columns are of little or no value, from many sources including the direction to be taken. In short, that it is not valid to go from the world's great Scriptures, ancient Mys- particular, that tery Schools and their modern counter - one cannot plan. The best one general to the can do is prepare for contingen- the general advice of an astrol- Astara is a world-wide, non-profit cies. ogy column cannot apply accu- organization created for only one pur- —DeWitt Stetten, Jr. rately to specific individuals. pose — to help you. If you seek a richer, Editorial in Science In reviewing the claims of fuller life with meaning and purpose write now for the free booklet, "Find- August 18, 1972 astrology, however, I admit to ing Your Place in the Golden Age." mixed feelings. On the one hand THE TOPIC this month is as- I never have been able to accept trology. We do not know- the concept that the minute of a much about astrology nor have child's birth can have over- we ever been drawn to it partic- whelming influence on its life. ularly. Perhaps it always has What happens to babies whose made us somewhat uneasy. This birth is Caesarean or hastened Ion. was true even accidents? Golden Age. I. A* when we were by drugs or What publishing Winifred Tennes' ex- happens when chance intervenes Ast&ra j cellent monthly astrology col- to hasten or delay a birth? And umn — excellent, that is, as such why is it so important anyway? monthly coverages can be. On the other hand I respect the We finally ceased publication research which seems to support "AN ASTARIAN IN NEED NEVER WALKS ALONE" of Winifred Tennes' column be- many of the claims of astrology cause she felt and we felt that — particularly the research of 7 FATE the late Vernon Clark whose un- OCCULT & timely death we still mourn. 00 SUPPLIES *jg> QUEST BOOKS SKEPTICAL BELIEVER LEGENDARY INCENSES & OILS NOT alone in my ambiv- Ls AM °/ I Laurence Bendit, M.D., and a P h v d M v alent attitude toward astrol- by J. ogy. Sydney J. Harris, the news- Bendit paper columnist, recently refer- Phoebe D. Payne "skeptical be- red to himself as Dr. Bendit is a psychiatrist, deeply interested in psychic liever," hanging loose on both experience. His wite and co-author— a natural clairvoyant. sides of the question. /VFW. REVISED ENLARGED EDITION "I am at the same time a skep- OILS, CANDLES, SEALS NOW IN ECONOMICAL PAPERBOUND EDITIONS "PERFUME tic," writes Harris, "because I AND INCENSE", by Aima am equally convinced that astrol- ogy, as understood and prac- The Psychic Sense This World & That ticed today, is as far from the The authors employ their combined knowl- Is there rational explanation for the ' !.! : HOUSE OF HERMETIC essential truth of the matter as edge of medicine, depth pyschology, and phenomena of spiritualism and the seance- clairvoyance to investigate man'3 myster- room? Here is a frank examination of com- 8906 MELROSE AVENUE, Depl F ancient astrology was from Re- LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90069 ious Sixth Sense— his ESP or Extrasensory munication between the living and the dead, naissance astronomy, or medi- Perception.