Beyond Reality.
Exploring the Strange and Unknown / Latest Discoveries of ESP, the Occult & Psychic Phenomena.
1972--1981 Bimonthly
New York, NY.
Editor: Harry Belil.
Publisher: Simplex; Textured Reproductions, Inc.; Beyond Reality Magazine, Inc.
Succeeded by: UFO Update!
No. 1, October 1972-March 1981.
$9.00 for 12 issues, 64 pp. (plus additional pages

The usual unlikely theories and devices for increasing "masculine virility," experiencing "transcendental experience" on LP record with "New Stereo Vibrations," unlocking "Your Hidden Powers," discovering the "Real Me," "Beating Inflation," challenging "Your Mind to Relax with the Electric Reactometer," developing "Telecult Power that Automatically Brings You Anything You Desire," putting "Pyramid Power to Work for You," "Hypnotizing Strangers," learning "The Art of Dream Catching," acquiring "The Psycho-Command Power," winning the Irish Sweepstakes, mail-order professional degrees, and clothes ("Zodiac Fashions on In-Fashion T-Shirts and Tank Tops"), together with the usual advertisements, for Astara, AMORC, Scientology, and the School of Wicca of St. Charles, Missouri. This was a glossy, commercial publication by Harry Belil (1927-2009), perhaps published to complete with the success of Ray Palmer’s various offerings. Belil was a jack-of-all-trades professional in the pulp magazine field, starting as a cartoonist (inker) for various comic books in the 1940s and 1950s and then working as an illustrator (he illustrated the covers for this journal) and editor for a variety of adventure, military fiction and automobile magazines from the 1950s to the 1980s, and the single-issue UFO Update! in 1981. He published the journal as an unfocused hodge-podge of the non-ordinary: the occult, psychic phenomena, demonology, frozen mammoths, numerology and astrology, UFOs, biofeedback, lost civilization, Doppelgangers, various conspiracy theories, reincarnation, John Lilly and dolphin research, auras, spiritualism, "Human Sexuality as a Channel to the Occult," hauntings, witches, and the unusual, mysterious and unexplained generally. It included regular contributions by and interviews with the popular occult figures of the period, like Uri Geller, Brad Steiger, Max Toth, Charles H. Hapgood, Hans Holzer, Ivan T. Sanderson, Von Daniken, and others, and included book reviews and a column for readers of the magazine. The most notable article published by the journal was Belil’s interview with Don Wilson, "Our Mysterious Spaceship Moon," in no. 23, November-December 1976, later part of Wilson’s Secrets of Our Spaceship Moon (1979). The journal also included irregular Special Collector’s Issues on individual topics, like UFOs. A complete run of the journal can be found on AFU Archives for the Unexplained (files.afu.se).

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