Do you recall the ancient story of King Canute, who in order to orchestrate his absolute power commanded the ocean tides to stop? But the waves kept breaking relentlessly. Time and tide, he learned, wait for no man. Not even a King. But, is it conceivable that a man, by force of some strange inner power, may one day be able to conquer both the tides and time? It started one day last year in December, just before the Christmas holidays. Professor Edwin Quailan was giving his end of semester lecture at the University, in his course of parapsychology...