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Article: Koestler and His Jewish Thesis.
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- The National Interest
- Article date:
- September 22, 1999
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David Cesarani, Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind (New York: Free Press, 1999), 656 pp., $30.
When Arthur Koestler and his wife Cynthia jointly committed suicide in 1983, they left a bequest of about $1.67 million to finance psychic research and study of the paranormal. Universities in Oxford, Cambridge and London refused the money for fear of mockery; it was known that after staying at various Indian ashrams, Koestler had been investigating levitation and had installed a big weighing machine in his front hall because it would be easier to detect the loss of a few pounds than to measure the gap between stockinged feet and the carpet. People said Koestler had ...