Volume 21, Number 8 · May 16, 1974
What Hath Hoova Wrought?
By Martin Gardner
Uri: A Journal of the Mystery of Uri Geller
by Andrija Puharich
Anchor Press/Doubleday, 285 pp., $7.95
Arigo: Surgeon of the Rusty Knife
by John G. Fuller
Thomas Y. Crowell, 308 pp., $7.95
It's hard to say which of these two books is the nuttier, but there's no denying that Puharich's book is the funnier. The comedy begins in 1952. Andrija Henry Puharich, an ex-Catholic with an MD degree from Northwestern, is starting his career as a distinguished parapsychologist. Through a medium from Poona, India, he makes his first contact with the Nine. The Nine are the highest minds in the universe, roughly equivalent to what everybody else calls God. Their messages are partly confirmed by another medium who reports to Puharich through one Dr. Laughead (sic) of Whipple, Arizona.
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