Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, No. 67 — page 59: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION Davis — Gestalt psy- chology Zimmerman—author of The African Medicine Man Hillier—psychomatics | Glinke—automatic writing Dewer—author of A New Valuation of the Spirit World. Wilson said: “I don’t sup- pose the list is exhaustive. The interesting point is that all of us have been engaged upon work into what I might call, ‘the science of the mind’.”’ “Yeah, you might call it that,” I told him. “This Lazarus has a bug about it and the money to indulge his whim. Rich guys are like that. It’s legal—there’s noth- ing to investigate. Why not pocket the dough and forget him ?” “T have a hunch there’s more to it than that. Lazarus is encouraging research into the one field orthodox science has ignored, the field of human personality. Make no 58 mistake about this, Mr. Stone, if we succeed in finding natural laws behind the minds of men, and applying those laws, then we've got something really big . . . bigger than nuclear physics, for instance.” “Okay,” I said. “Tl look into it if that will make you happy.” After Wilson had left, I took the elevator down to street. level, collected my auto and drove north to my apart- ment. The sun was blinding hot, there wasn’t a breath of air stirring. I showered and changed into a dry shirt, ate at a drug store and drove towards Wall Street. Tracey’s office was small; just a desk, two chairs and a phone. Like Wilson said, he was small and old; retired lawyer would be my guess at his occupation. I said: “I’d like to fix an appointment with Mr. Lazarus.” Tracey didn’t bat an eyelid. “‘T regret that is impossible,”’ he said drily. ““Mr. Lazarus sees no one. If you will state comicloooks.com