Round Robin.
A Bulletin of Contact and Information for Students of Psychic Research and Parapsychology / A Factual and Non-Sectarian Publication issued in the Interests of Borderland Sciences Research Associates (BSRA) and all Students of Psychic, Occult, Spiritistic and Parapsychological Phenomena.
Other titles: Journal of Borderland Research
1945--1960 Monthly, bimonthly
San Diego, CA. Publisher: Borderland Sciences Research Associates. Editor: N. (Newton) Meade Layne.
Succeeds: Flying Rolls Succeeded by: Journal of Borderland Research --> Borderlands
1/1, February 1945-16/6, September 1960. 24 pp., $2.50-$5.00 a year (included with membership in BSRA.

The journal is said to have had a more occult companion publication called Flying Rolls that was reserved for select students of an inner group. Layne (1882-1961) was an academic and a poet, with a personal interest in the occult and spiritualism, whose open-boundaried methods and outlook he sought to apply to the study of the unexplained and mysterious realities that traditional science ignored. He had been a student of Frater Achad's and Israel Regardie's and formed part of the congeries of Southern California occultists, spiritualists, Theosophists, Forteans, etc., of the period, including Max Freedom Long of Huna fame and others. The journal seems to have been designed originally (as its subtitle indicates) as a source of contact information for like-minded researchers: "A Bulletin of Contact and Information for Students of Psychic Research and Parapsychology." Layne was a Fortean and modeled this journal on that of the Fortean Society. Like it, the journal was more interested in statements of fact than theories evolved to explain the facts. "Every fact is a child of God" and the "facts" concentrated on were those neglected or ignored by establishment science. See "Newton Meade Layne as a Fortean," https://www.joshuablubuhs.com. Despite the implicit agnosticism of Forteanism, Layne was closely involved with the trance medium Mark Probert, the "Telegnostic from San Diego," on whom Layne wrote for Ray Palmer's Fate. Probert's mediumship gave access to the Inner Circle of the Etherians and especially Yada D'Shiite, whose revelations figured prominently in the journal. The journal anticipated the UFO craze of 1947 by featuring the flying saucer phenomena of 1946 over San Diego, and UFOs thereafter played a prominent role, although Layne was convinced that they were not simply material objects but were rather "ether ships," evidence of the inter-penetration of planes of existence -- specifically from Etheria. Over the passage of time, and after it became Journal of Borderland Research, the journal turned more to the unexplained generally, "the Fortean falls of objects from the sky, Teleportation, Radiesthesia, PK effects, Underground Races, Mysterious Disappearances, Occult and Psychic Phenomena, Photography of the Invisible, Nature of the Ethers and the problem of the Aeroforms (Flying Saucers," etc., and to the likes of aurameters, thought-forms, the Drown Homo-Vibra Ray, Lakhovsky Wave Oscillators, Schauberger Water Technology, Hoerbiger's hollow earth, etheric physics, Atlantis, Eeman Screens, free energy, the Shaver Mystery, psychic surgery, aura goggles, Magnetic Vitality Research, anti-gravity, Od, Vril, Prana, Radiesthesia, dowsing, radiant energy, free energy, and the like. In its early days the journal had close ties, both in readership and contributors, with Ray Palmer's magazines. The journal contained articles by Layne and "associates" of the BSRA and occasional contributions by or excerpts from Manly P. Hall, David Patterson Hatch, Hereward Carrington, and others. Layne's initial successor as editor of Journal of Borderland Research was Riley Crabb, an Hawaiian Theosophist and UFO lecturer and early proponent of the mystical use of LSD. LOC; Harvard University; California State University; Michigan State University; University of Illinois, Urbana, etc. California State Library; San Diego State Universitiy.

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