Hermann Oberth (Father of space flight) on Parapsychology

"After all, we can already guess today from the research of the paranormal that it will bring profit. I want to start with the vaguest hints and then move on to safer ones.

1. As telepathy evolves, it could become possible to stay in touch with submarine crews, even if their antennas are underwater.

2. It might also be possible to stay in thought contact with distant space travelers. This would be advantageous because telepathy is not bound to space and time and can therefore be faster than the speed of light.

3. One could hope to come also with presumed inhabitants of other solar systems, yes other Milky Way systems into thought-connection, which would be a terribly protracted thing with the giant distance over radio or space ships.

4. Yes, even interstellar space travel would perhaps be possible with the help of parapsychology. I know a Buddhist priest who is standing in the spirit of moving somewhere. He provided me with proof of this himself and said that colleagues of his could even build up a body elsewhere, but he himself was not capable of it. So the soul could also move to another solar system at the moment and build a new body there. The medium mentioned above, which considers the flying saucers to be extraterrestrial spaceships, could not say, however, whether their passengers came into our solar system in this way and only built their UFOs somewhere here.

Now to less vague assumptions:

5. As I said before, clairvoyantly gifted persons could sometimes give hints to the police to help uncovering accidents or crimes.

6. The further development of telepathy could also be used for espionage and counter-espionage.

7. The current crisis of humanity is due to the fact that far too much is being lied about. Here too, in addition to the introduction and further development of the lie detector, parapsychology could bring much blessing.

8. It is known that clairvoyants gave nature and particularly history researchers valuable suggestions.

9. Today one can hardly doubt any more the existence of black magic, and for its research and fight parapsychology could donate use.

10. We will hear a lot more about paranormal healing in the course of this conference. But this lecture would not be complete if I did not mention a particularly characteristic and convincing case as an illustration: […]"

Hermann Oberth 
Parapsychologie - Schlüssel zur Welt von morgen
1976
Translated from the German

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