Sorokin-Therese Brosse Correspondence

              Therese Brosse, M.D.,
]t, square Rapp,
Ffcril,    p    ,    France,
March 16,  1*9
To Professor Pitirira A. Sot
3 Cliff Street,
Winchester, Massachusetts,
(Till you kindly excuse this really too long delayed answer to your
letter.     I am at present in charge  of the prof-ramme on War Handicapped Children
in the Education Deportment of Unesco and overloaded with work vor^y difficult
to  carry out beoause of administrative obstacles.
Op to now,  I  thou^lit it was my duty to stay hero  striving to improve the
educational lot of children.    However,  the research work you mention in your
letter is  the very thing I am interested in and little by little  I am beginning
to realize  that  1  should devote all my efforts to it.    I examined with Professor
Meyer,  of "college  oe France",whether it would be  possible to oarry out auoh
experimental research work at the same time as my activities in Unesco.     It
appears that my research work would really suffer  too much in this case.     I
therefore would prefer to devote my full  time to my researches  in the field
which interests us both.
In view of the  importance and urjenoy of our work,  I have even decided
to  slve up my present position in Ur.esco in a few months'  time  if you think
it advisable that  I  should  join your Research Center at Harvard for any length
of time on which you would agree.    The amount of money for my fare to the states
and my living expenses would perhaps not be very much over the expense borne
by your fund in the material organization of a laboratory in France and the
cost of assistantJhip which I would need if I had to earn my living at the
same tiws.    Formerly, when I' carried out my experiments,  1 used Jjp earn my
livin? dith my private  prAtice as  a coiieultant in a health resor* for five
months of the year and this  left me free to devote the rest of my'timo  to my
research work.    Since  ths war  I  have  had to  give up such an arrangement as I
had to-brr.vel on mission for the French Ministry of Public Health and later unesco.
As to the work itself,  I intend to registeri   the eleotroencephalograrome,
the  "chronaxie  percutanee",  the basic metabolism and  the  lonisations of the
environmental air while  people are concentrating their mind with special states
of consciousness.    In fact, what the yogis call  "prana"  is a dynamio power
which seems  to have connections with electric*fllKij|fr and could possibly be
registered this way,    I plan thinking more  deeply about those prospects and will
let you know-'iti more  detail what I shall undertake.
As my contract with Unesco may be renewed on the  1st of April, would you
kindly cable me, whether you see  any possibility of my going to the States to
work in your center or whether it is more  advisable  to remain in France,    Your
answer will enable me  to fix the  len'.-th of time  I  shall remain with Unesco
In renewing my contract,
P.T.O.