Vade Retro, Earth Girl

Lake Chautauqua, NY, August 1968

Getting the Main Idea, part of the “Specific Skills” series from Dexter and Westbrook, Ltd. 1970

By Richard A. Boning

The Cross and The Switchblade by David Wilkerson and John and Elizabeth Sherill

Published by Pyramid Books (this is the 1970 reprinting with cover illustration by Lee Gregori).

From The Mind, a LIFE Science Library Book, by John Rowan Wilson and the Editors of TIME-LIFE Books. (1964, reprinted in 1971)

“The Mind’s Active Night Life - Monitoring a Dreamer”, from The Mind, a LIFE Science Library Book, by John Rowan Wilson and the Editors of TIME-LIFE Books. (1964, reprinted in 1971)

Girl speaking into a Chromalizer, from The Mind, a LIFE Science Library Book, by John Rowan Wilson and the Editors of TIME-LIFE Books. (1964, reprinted in 1971).

“The colored panels tell her visually when she is making the right sound.”

Optical illusions from The Mind, a LIFE Science Library Book, by John Rowan Wilson and the Editors of TIME-LIFE Books. (1964, reprinted in 1971)

From The Mind, a LIFE Science Library Book, by John Rowan Wilson and the Editors of TIME-LIFE Books. (1964, reprinted in 1971)

I would have been obsessed with this book if I’d had it as a child.

“Routes for Musical Messages

The picture on the opposite page is a photograph of a pianist. On it have been sketched the two hemispheres of the brain, a network of nerves throughout the arms, and a connecting length of spinal cord. The system of billions of cells and miles of fibers can relay many messages at once…”

Day at the beach, 1969.

I never really paid attention to the background action going on in the pool shot, but there is some serious summer fun going down.

From Stories of Great Battles, by Robert N. Webb. Illustrations by Shannon Stirnweis. 1960.