{"product_id":"2940016092522","title":"Jason, Son of Jason: A Science Fiction Classic By J. U. Giesy! AAA+++","description":"Excerpt:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was midnight when the night superintendent called and told me No. 27 had died. I rose. The thing was no surprise. I had known it was going to happen. No. 27 had told me so himself. Nonetheless, I went to his room. Routine in the mental hospital had nothing to do with that strange secret held in common between myself and the man--that strange state of affairs which had enabled him to predict his own death so accurately.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd yet as I mounted the stairs to the room where his body now lay as a worn-out husk I had none of the feeling which so customarily assails the average mortal in such an hour. To me it was not as though he had died. The body was a husk indeed--an emaciated, worn-out thing which, because of our mutual secret, I knew had been kept alive by the sheer force of the spiritual tenant, now removed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI stood looking down upon it, with very much the same sensations one might have in viewing the tool once plied by the hand of a friend. It was nothing more than that really. Jason Croft had used it while he had need of its manipulation, and when his need was accomplished he had simply laid it down.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCroft was a physician, even as am I. He was a scientific man. In addition he was a student of the occult--the science of the mind, the spirit, and its control of the physical forces of life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe was an earth-born man. The home in which I first met him contained the greatest private collection of works on the subject I have ever seen. In dying he left them to me--I have them all about me.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMany men have mastered the astral control on the Earthly plane. Croft had carried it to an ultimate degree. He shook off the envelope of the Earth atmosphere, led thereto, as he frankly confessed in our conversations, by the attraction of a feminine spirit, though he did not know it at the time, and recognized it only when he first viewed Naia--Princess of Tamarizia--on Palos, planet of a distant star.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI had dabbled in the occult to some extent myself. Hence when he spoke of the doctrine of twin souls he had no further need to explain. He alleged that since a child the Dog Star had called him subtly through the years in a way he could not explain. Once having come into her presence, however, he knew that Naia had called across the void to him.","brand":"BDP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121344037104,"sku":"2940016092522","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940016092522_p0.jpg?v=1763628833","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016092522","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}