Dear Friend,
Can some people really see the future? Read other people’s minds? Observe events unfold - as they happen - even when they take place hundreds or thousands of miles away from them? Indeed they can!!!

Popularly called ESP or extrasensory perception, it is the firmly established ability of the human mind to perceive or to experience without the help of the five senses. A 2001 Gallup Poll found that half of all Americans believe ESP is real, and 65 million Americans have personally experienced it. The scientific evidence is substantial and continually growing. In fact we could be on the verge of breakthroughs in our understanding that may surpass in importance the breakthroughs in aviation made by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk in 1903.

We are no longer working to show that ESP exists, but now we are focusing on how it works, and how it can be used to help the human condition. Moreover, we now recognize that our minds can interact at a distance with other minds and that our minds can help influence the health of others at a distance. And some of our “near death” and other experiences suggest the survival of our consciousness after death.

I grew up in a world of parapsychology. The Rhine Research Center is named after my father, the late Dr. JB Rhine, who, with my mother, Dr. Louisa Rhine, pioneered the scientific study of ESP in the United States starting in the 1930s at Duke University. My father applied scientific methods to establish the reality of ESP in the laboratory setting. This work has been duplicated around the world and has had an enormous impact on our understanding about the workings and the reach of the mind.

The implications of the results of consciousness research are nothing short of astounding and one must wonder why they have not yet become national priorities. Sadly, they have not. Virtually no government or corporate funds are available for continued research into ESP.

Now, after more than fifty years of superb research, and at a time when humanity cannot afford to discontinue its work in understanding the nature of the mind, our work is on very shaky financial footing. Nonetheless, we have developed a strategy to maintain and intensify our work. Yet we must turn to our many friends for help.

In 2003, we published an aggressive research agenda for probing more deeply into consciousness that will further explain our place in the universe and enhance our lives in the most practical ways, including how ESP can be used in healing and even in business applications. Inspired by the Wright brothers’ breakthrough in aviation, we called our agenda "Taking Flight."

Today, we are launching the Taking Flight Society for friends who want to be a part of our effort to create a revolution in understanding far more thrilling even than aviation has been. Asking for you to join us in our work at this critical junction is really the only way we can ensure our work and the future of the Rhine Research Center. The Taking Flight Society asks for a five-year financial commitment at a level with which individuals and couples are most comfortable. We are hoping that a minimum commitment of $100 a year for five years will be possible for you. Of course we will appreciate your gift in whatever amount. At the $100 per year level, the commitment would be only $8.33 per month. While this amount may seem relatively modest, over the next five years, the total commitment would be $500. And this amount will make all the difference in the world in how The Rhine plans for its future.

Those of you who know me personally -- and the thousands of you who have written to me about your ESP experiences -- know that we have rarely asked our friends for financial support. For years we have lived off the generosity of only a few individuals and the independent grants that our researchers have received. At this point, as funding is drying up, we have no choice but to ask our friends for help.

We at The Rhine are all working as volunteers and have only one paid office worker. So we are counting on your help now and trust you will respond to this urgent and sincere appeal for help. Your gift to the Rhine Research Center is tax-deductible.
Thank you!
Sally Rhine
Sally Rhine