Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 46 — page 64: what you’re looking at

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SAVIOUR With that idea firmly stuck in their minds at an early age they’d grow up thinking that such things simply couldn’t be done at all, by anybody, and certainly not by they them- selves.” He waved his hand as though by making such a motion he could explain the entire idea. “It’s the con- ditioning process all over again. If you’re brought up to believe a certain thing is true, then there’s a ten to one chance you'll continue be- lieving it to be true, and some- times you'll continue believing even against the evidence of your own senses. And that’s just what man’s done. He’s convinced himself that most stories of strange mental pow- ers are false and that the few that aren’t false point clearly to a person who is freakish and very different to the normal type of man or woman. The idea that everyone possessed such powers never occurred to him because everyone didn’t use them. The idea that every- one didn’t use them because everyone didn’t know how to use them, naturally didn’t occur to him either.” Patrick lay back in the bed, resting his head on the pillow, thinking. Then he said: “If everyone’s got these powers then why can some of *em use 63 them and others not?” Before the old man could answer, awareness having come to him of his own strange powers and the erratic way in which they had manifested themselves, he followed his first question with another: “‘And why can’t the ones who’ve got the powers use them whenever they want ?’’ He sat up in the bed and glared at his companion, the anger coursing through him with sudden violence— anger at the fact that he still did not understand what was happening to him, but more especially anger at the old man’s apparent awareness and deeper knowledge of the situation. “Don’t get annoyed now,” Mr. Whittamcautioned. “That won’t get you anywhere. I’ve taken a long time telling you very little, I know, but then these things can’t be rushed. Those two last questions of yours, now, are things I’m not too sure about myself. There are still quite a few things about these abilities that we haven’t tracked down yet, and since I’m way down in the grade scale I know less than most.” Patrick was about to reply when he realised just what the man had said. His eyes comiclooks.corn