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• W118828578 abstract "Karlis Osis died on his 80th birthday, December 26th, 1997. He had lived a rich and varied life, both personally and as one of the leading researchers in the field of parapsychology. I came to know him in 1971 when he, as Director of Research at the American Society for Psychical Research, invited me to join him in his study of deathbed visions. That was the beginning of a long and much cherished association that lasted until his death. Karlis, his wife Klara, and their three children formed a particularly tight-knit and loving family. Karlis was born 1917 in Riga, the capital of Latvia. He lived through the horrors of the Second Word War - first under the occupation of the German army, where he barely escaped being conscripted, then as a refugee, when he fled his country after Russian troops invaded Latvia towards the end of the war. After difficult travels through war-ravaged Europe, he found shelter in a refugee camp in the American Occupation Zone in southern Germany. In Germany, Karlis started a life. He entered the University of Munich, where, in 1951, he completed his studies in psychology with a thesis on Extrasensory Perception. While still a student at the University of Munich, he took a leading role in organizing seminars and lectures on parapsychological topics. He then immigrated to the United States under a displaced person program. During a period of hard manual labor in a timber mill near Seattle, he entered into correspondence with J. B. Rhine about experiments with animals. This led Rhine to invite him to join the Parapsychology Laboratory at Duke University, where he started a career in parapsychology which lasted until his retirement in 1983. After he retired and until his passing, he made a number of contributions to its Journal of Parapsychology. After a few years with Rhine (where he conducted a famous study of psi in cats), he moved to the Parapsychology Foundation in New York. In his time with the Parapsychology Foundation, we can see the beginning of a methodological approach in parapsychology when Montague Ullman, Karlis Osis, and Douglas Dean started their study of ESP in dreams. These studies and others - the new look, as Karlis referred to it - led to a general broadening of the field, both in its methods and in the choice of areas for research. founder of the Parapsychology Foundation, Mrs. Eileen Garrett, was a very memorable person to Karlis. She was a charismatic, socially highly capable lady and a great psychic who organized important scholarly conferences and funded numerous projects. Later, when we jointly came to know another great psychic, Sathya Sai Baba, he often made comparisons and expressed his fascination, frustrations, and also enjoyment in dealing with such colorful and vigorous personalities. Karlis was by nature a people-oriented man who had a keen and empathetic understanding of other persons, was highly observant and non-judgmental, and always kind and patient with everyone. In 1962 Karlis started to work with the American Society for Psychical Research, where he later became Director of Research and did probably his most important research - some of it experimental like the effect of distance on ESP, some dealing with spontaneous experiences. He worked much with both approaches and he was often remarkably innovative, such as in his studies and experiments of out-of-body experiences, although his interpretation of the findings was not always appreciated by all his colleagues. Karlis had a great liking for a sentence which he attributed to his friend Chester Carlson: The impossible takes a little longer. …" @default.
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