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ARTHUR KOESTLER
The Art of Fiction No. 80
Interviewed by Duncan Fallowell
Issue 92, Summer 1984
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From the Interview
INTERVIEWER
Are you a religious man?

KOESTLER
Not in a denominational way. I’m attracted by mysticism.

INTERVIEWER
The Society for Psychical Research, ESP, that sort of thing?

KOESTLER
I do believe that the evidence for telepathy, for example, is overwhelming and that it is a part of reality that is above science. Science allows us to glimpse fragments of reality. There is another level, for the understanding of which our brains are not programmed. In other words, there are concepts, such as infinity in space and in time, which science cannot fathom. These concepts belong to a level of reality which is above our heads.
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