Ectoplasm

[Tom Stanton]

At 04:22 PM 2/17/97 GMT, Jan Klimkowski wrote:

>The Nazi seances so wonderfully described by Pynchon are poetic   
>reworkings of a piece of real history...

I have also read (somewhere...I'll try & find it) that in addition
to the occult, Nazis supported some whacky pseudo-sciences.
The one that comes to mind is an "inner earth" theory that suggested
that earth was a sphere, but that we were "inside" the sphere, and that
a radio transmission from Berlin would go across the eather to, say,
Tokyo. They actually tried this near the end of the war, more in des-
paration than in solid belief. I also read that the Nazi occult linkages
included some serious attempts at counter-espionage (savants were
recruited to help war planners). Not too far out given the US/Russian
experiments in the 1950s & 60s with psycics, LSD, etc.