The Truth About Mars
An Eyewitness Account
Ernest L. Norman
A
Landmark Pioneering Book
About Life on Mars
Introduction
A few months ago the astronomical and astrophysical world was tremendously excited
by the approaching conjunction of Earth with the planet Mars. Many prominent astronomical authorities hoped to
settle, once and for all time, the old, controversial issues about this planet: i.e., were there canals or were
there not canals on Mars, and was this planet inhabited by some form of human life? So far as can be ascertained,
the results of these investigations, after thousands of photographs of the planet and numerous controversies, were
that some groups were even more firmly entrenched in their original ideas, while others became more confused than
ever. In an overall sense, it can be said that they arrived at no definite conclusion whatsoever, nor will any
new conclusions, which may be arrived at by the same token, have any more validity than the original concepts.
Therefore any new attempt
at visualizing life or the canals on Mars resolves into the realm of clairvoyance and not by the making of bigger
and more powerful telescopes. The two hundred-inch telescope at Mt. Palomar has, in a sense, merely increased the
size of the universe for man rather than brought it closer to him. Now, just in case the term clairvoyant should
arouse any antagonism or question in some persons, let us digress a moment to explain just what is meant by the
word clairvoyance.
Clairvoyance, or the development of the sixth sense,
is only another word for extrasensory perception taking place within the consciousness of man rather than through
the reactionary physical senses such as physical sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste. Practically everyone
on this earth has had or will, at some time, be in a semi or momentarily clairvoyant state. Anyone having a so-called
hunch or premonition is momentarily in such a state. At the great Duke University, Dr. Rhine, in his fifty years
of research on parapsychology, has definitely established the facts and truths of extrasensory perception. There
are numerous societies, associations, and organizations, national and international, whose many years of work have
proven beyond a doubt that man does have, and can also develop, this extra sense or clairvoyance, sometimes called
the sixth sense.
Any doubting Thomas can,
if he is open minded enough, find, in a short time, an overwhelming mass of evidence to support this truth. In
an advanced state of clairvoyance an individual sees and lives in a state of consciousness that “tunes” him in,
as it were, to past or future events, places, and happenings, distance being no barrier. Such an awareness or consciousness
is almost as real as the everyday objects around him. Any particular electrical or mechanical device, such as the
television set, will demonstrate to some extent the nature of this conception.
A savage in the jungle
would immediately be confounded were he presented with the appearance of some of our everyday appliances. He would
quite likely, in his failure to understand or conceive, throw up his hands and deny the whole thing. He would,
in a sense, be like the farmer who, having seen a giraffe for the first time, was exclaiming “there is no such
animal!”
It is, as it has always
been, the great lack of ability to form new concepts that has always caused man to throw up his hands and to cry
out loudly against the appearance of any new thought, or mechanical or electrical contrivance. This is also quite
true of most of our modern-day scientists, whether he is a man of medicine, of chemistry, or of astronomy. Therefore,
it is up to individuals who have developed this extra sense or clairvoyance to fill in the obvious gaps in our
many branches of science as well as in some of the more firmly-established spiritual concepts.
In writing an article of
this kind, no effort is being made to prove what I have found and believe is true. Truth is entirely independent
of the individual. After my thirty-five years of active research in the fields of electronics, physics, astrophysics,
parapsychology, and their allied and associated sciences, I have succeeded in correlating and establishing an integrated
concept which, when combined with a natural and highly-developed clairvoyance, gives, to a practically perfect
degree, a direct mental contact not only person to person upon this earth but in contacting individuals living
on other planets. This is, in a sense, what can be called conscious astral flight, inasmuch as I see the cities
and the people and hear the individuals as they now exist on other planets. No mechanical devices are used, nor
is any particularly advanced degree of trance state entered into. I maintain conscious continuity and am able to
quote, at the time, just what is taking place, both audibly and visibly, at all times.
