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@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ This instilled in me both an active caution about fully revealing my \sc{ufo}-as
 
 I told this man that I felt I had been communicated with on a telepathic level, and perhaps even \dq{altered} chemically or mentally in a way which I did not fully understand. He was sympathetic, if a little wild-eyed, telling me that he was in short-wave contact with people all over the world who reported similar experiences. For reasons best known to himself, this FBI-ham told me several times-about one of these people: a nurse in Atlanta, Georgia who had developed the ability to move objects psychokinetically subsequent to \sc{ufo} contact. He mentioned no psychiatric problems in conjunction with this nurse, but evidently had either seen her abilities firsthand or somehow had come to believe absolutely in their reality.
 
-My other peculiar \sc{ufo} friend during the year of 1974 was a young man who has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals since the age of fourteen, when (as he relates it) he freaked out at a private prep school subsequent to playing one of the witches in Macbeth. Bethiwitch told me that directly after the staging of this play he became violent in English class and told his instructor that he was a wife-beater and a bastard.
+My other peculiar \sc{ufo} friend during the year of 1974 was a young man who has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals since the age of fourteen, when (as he relates it) \label[bethiwitchfreakout]\wlabel{he freaked out at a private prep school subsequent to playing one of the witches in Macbeth}. Bethiwitch told me that directly after the staging of this play he became violent in English class and told his instructor that he was a wife-beater and a bastard.
 
 At this time in history, I cannot relate for sure whether this witch's English instructor \e{was} a wife-beater and a bastard. It is certain that after this nervous breakdown my friend was shunted from one custodial facility to another, emerging at age twenty-one slightly crazed and claiming to be psychic.
 
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ Sequoia certainly must have been amazed! He rallied, however, with several colla
 
 It was certainly a help to me in my situation of deliberate lunacy to discover another deliberate lunatic---if Sequoia's lunacy is actually deliberate.
 
-Recently I received another communication from him, reading \dq{don't let \sc{Them} immanentize the escaton,} on the front near the address. On the reverse, Sequoia had written \dq{Dear Genie: nice to hear from you again\ld} Near this sentiment was pasted the purple word \e{Fnrd}\ednote{Fnord?}, and the entire thing was signed \dq{sincerely, Warren Sequoia.} The same to you, baby.
+Recently I received another communication from him, reading \dq{don't let \sc{Them} immanentize the escaton,} on the front near the address. On the reverse, Sequoia had written \dq{Dear Genie: nice to hear from you again\ld} Near this sentiment was pasted the purple word \e{Fnrd}, and the entire thing was signed \dq{sincerely, Warren Sequoia.} The same to you, baby.
 
 During the time I was experiencing this upsurge of article-writing coupled with the sincere desire to raise hell, I was also experiencing an upsurge of creativity in other areas.
 
@@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ I called Joy Summery on the phone and told her that I had no \sc{ufo} group, but
 
 Helen O'Laughlin is a young black woman who sometimes reads tea leaves. Shortly after I moved into my office, she came nervously in to see me and told me that she and several other people had seen \sc{ufo}s in Roxbury, the black section of Boston.
 
-Helen told me that she had been lying down with her boyfriend, half asleep, when she felt physically \dq{touched} by something which hit her in the chest. She woke and went to the window. Up in the sky was a bright green light which was moving around in a jerky way.
+\label[chestwake]\wlabel{Helen told me that she had been lying down with her boyfriend, half asleep, when she felt physically \dq{touched} by something which hit her in the chest. She woke and went to the window.} Up in the sky was a bright green light which was moving around in a jerky way.
 
 Her boyfriend, Helen says, saw a \dq{white shadow} in the room at the same time.
 
@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ He also told me that there was word that this \sc{ufo} had shown up on a radar s
 
 According to Petersen, the actual event had taken place a week previously, on 10\slash 12\slash 76 at about one or two o'clock in the morning. He could not remember specific details of this sighting, but gave me the name of a local paper which had carried a more detailed story. When I called the \journaltitle{Milford Daily News}, a woman gave me the name of a police officer who had witnessed the \sc{ufo}. She also told me that subsequent to publication of the news of this Bellingham sighting an individual identifying himself only as \dq{an astronomer} had called the paper to report that any bright light in the sky on 10\slash 12\slash 76 must have been the star Sirius.
 
-I called the Bellingham police department on 10\slash 22\slash 76 and talked to the officer who had seen the \sc{ufo}. Sgt. Mullhaven told me that he had seen at home before being called by the station a multi-colored light in the sky which was flashing on and off. This was visible, Mullhaven told me, for about five hours and was seen from several locations. He gave me the name of the night dispatcher who had taken the original calls.
+I called the Bellingham police department on 10\slash 22\slash 76 and talked to the officer who had seen the \sc{ufo}. Sgt. Mullhaven told me that \label[lightstation]\wlabel{he had seen at home before being called by the station a multi-colored light in the sky which was flashing on and off.} This was visible, Mullhaven told me, for about five hours and was seen from several locations. He gave me the name of the night dispatcher who had taken the original calls.
 
 When I finally reached this dispatcher on the phone, he was cooperative and told me that something had indeed occurred concerning a light in the sky which was seen simultaneously from several different locations in the area.
 
@@ -543,9 +543,9 @@ While I was out of town in January, a square black object fell through the ice o
 
 What indeed? I deeply regretted that I had been out of town at the time. On a different metaphysical errand, I had to be in touch with the Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained, and asked them if they had noted this event. They told me that they had indeed moted this unexplained event, and somehow in the course of the same phone call it evolved that I was requested to write an article on conceptions of time for the relativity issue of \journaltitle{Pursuit} magazine.
 
-I had already entitled this time concept \dq{Fluidice: Time as a Function of Prana,} and coincidentally all of my diagrams did concern a square (potentially-disappearable) box of time.
+I had already entitled this time concept \essaytitle{Fluidice: Time as a Function of Prana,} and coincidentally all of my diagrams did concern a square (potentially-disappearable) box of time.
 
-This article appeared in the Spring 1977 issue of \journaltitle{Pursuit}.\ednote{See Appendix.} I do not know how hot a large fluid ice box would be in this continuum, but I do link flexible time boxes to living thermo-nuclear bodies such as the sun.
+This article appeared in the Spring 1977 issue of \journaltitle{Pursuit}.\fnote{This essay has been included in the appendix..} I do not know how hot a large fluid ice box would be in this continuum, but I do link flexible time boxes to living thermo-nuclear bodies such as the sun.
 
 Certainly, such a box would not remain for long on the bottom of William McCarthy's pond.
 
@@ -1164,7 +1164,7 @@ I was moved just now to do some automatic writing myself, and got the phrase: \d
 
 Torres has told me that subsequent to one of his \dq{inspired} piano sessions his hands bled from so much hard playing. I wonder what he actually sounded like.
 
-\date{5\slash 6\slash 77}
+\label[fox]\wlabel{\date{5\slash 6\slash 77}}
 
 I felt like looking up \dq{Fox} in the card catalogue of the library and (incredibly!) found the name of James Fox, the pseudonym of a writer named James Knipscheer (a K-sounding name, indeed!) who has written a novel entitled \booktitle{Operation Dancing Dog}. This is the only book by Knipscheer-Fox shelved in the Boston Library. This title has resonance of the idea of manipulation of human beings by \sc{ufo} entities. Also, as a typical American adventure novel, I suppose it does contain elements of violence. It was unavailable on the shelf, so I put in a request order.
 
@@ -1212,7 +1212,7 @@ Definitely, I will cease my \dq{healing} treatments, as I believe that the effec
 
 \booktitle{Operation Dancing Dog} was located in the library. It turns out to be a pulp mystery about international intrigue, parts of which are set in Bogota, Colombia. Since the \sc{ufo} photo was taken in South America, this is extremely interesting. Also, of course, Torres comes from South America, as did his late uncle.
 
-There are episodes of sadism in this book and several passages which describe Nazis who hide by fundamentally changing their physical appearance. This has resonance for me of Pinto's strange opera \playtitle{Gardenia} and relates for me also to an organization in Canada which is now publishing information on what is described as Nazi occultist\slash \sc{ufo} activity during World War II. I have just received their information.  Additionally, Fox-Knipscheer has studied at several European universities, according to the book jacket blurb. I wonder if he was ever in Scotland. Descriptions of the dilletante-like life in California mirror some of my own recent experiences there, which I described in my poem \poemtitle{Trip 1011. Departure 4031.}\ednote{is this consistent} This was completed less than a month ago.
+There are episodes of sadism in this book and several passages which describe Nazis who hide by fundamentally changing their physical appearance. This has resonance for me of Pinto's strange opera \playtitle{Gardenia} and relates for me also to an organization in Canada which is now publishing information on what is described as Nazi occultist\slash \sc{ufo} activity during World War II. I have just received their information.  Additionally, Fox-Knipscheer has studied at several European universities, according to the book jacket blurb. I wonder if he was ever in Scotland. Descriptions of the dilletante-like life in California mirror some of my own recent experiences there, which I described in my poem \poemtitle{Trip 1011\slash Departure 4031.} This was completed less than a month ago.
 
 As a subplot in Operation Dancing Dog, there is a husband who encourages his wife to have extra-marital affairs due to the fact that he is impotent. There are a few funny scenes with regard to this. This impotent husband seems in this respect to share the self-effacing mentality of \playtitle{Gardenia}, and actually there is quite a gruesome scene in \booktitle{Operation Dancing Dog} about a man with an eye injury who must wear patches over both eyes. Is a Dancing Dog much like a chess-playing pigeon?  Torres did write a short play about a chess-playing pigeon. Did Fox\slash Knipscheer ever expect such an exegesis? I really cannot come to any decision about the final meaning of all this, except that it seems to be quite definitely resonant with meaningful coincidences which go nowhere.
 
@@ -1295,13 +1295,13 @@ Subsequent to sending this article off to the Society for the Investigation of t
 
 I have retained my ability to move the pendulum at will without touching it, but also seem to be the focus for such diverse and unexplained events as the bathroom toilet paper rack flying off the wall with a loud crack while I was in the next room talking to a friend on the phone, inexplicable stoppages of machines in banks as they process my checks and deposits, failure of the ignition of buses toward which I am running, and (last but not least) the occasional ability in myself to heal minor ailments such as a sprained wrist and mild flu by the laying on of hands.
 
-All of these incidents of mental effect on the physical are directly related to the ancient occult teaching that there is a circulation of \dq{pranic} or psychic energies through the physical body. These are mental energies which interpenetrate the physicai, and they are able to activate events materially in a way which has previously been unexplained.
+All of these incidents of mental effect on the physical are directly related to the ancient occult teaching that there is a circulation of \dq{pranic} or psychic energies through the physical body. These are mental energies which interpenetrate the physical, and they are able to activate events materially in a way which has previously been unexplained.
 
 In an article written for \journaltitle{Pursuit} magazine previous to my encounter with Torres (Section 10) I place the pranic link with the electromagnetic spectrum as occurring within the area of time-frequency. In \sc{ufo} contact, it is the pranic energy circulation which is affected and sensitivity to \sc{esp} and spirit communication may be permanently enhanced.
 
 Because in the modern Western world we have little or no education in pranic contact: what is likely to happen during pranic communication, and what it actually feels like physically, the percipient either of a strange craft using pranic energy for manifestation or of a strong \sc{esp} and\slash or mystical experience is apt to feel shame and embarrassment.
 
-This is because (as in rain therapy; which I will hear more about on July 7) \sc{esp} or pranic thinking is physical in effect. This physicality of pranic thinking is the basis of theories such as the orgone theory advanced by Wilhelm Reich and the sex magic rituals and sensually-oriented ceremonial practices of witchcraft and primitive spiritist religions.
+This is because (as in rain therapy; which I will hear more about on July 7) \sc{esp} or pranic thinking is physical in effect. This physicality of pranic thinking is the basis of theories such as \label[orgonereich]\wlabel{the orgone theory advanced by Wilhelm Reich} and the sex magic rituals and sensually-oriented ceremonial practices of witchcraft and primitive spiritist religions.
 
 Traditions of shamanism and jazz music also involve a physicality imbued with pranic content.
 
@@ -1325,7 +1325,7 @@ This touch can also be administered at a distance as (by analogy) the rhythms of
 
 The sound itself does not touch the ear, but it is a vibratory ratio and series of relationships which touch the ear, by the mediumship of the air activating a similar vibratory response in a distant mechanism.
 
-I have found that in making the pendulum move without physically touching it, this analogy of \dq{touching the air} is helpful. I flex my muscles against the air with a swaying motion, and the pendulum moves at a distance. Physically-pranically I am sending the thought \dq{sway-flex}\ednote{hyphenated?} into the pendulum string, but this is not an intellectual idea.
+I have found that in making the pendulum move without physically touching it, this analogy of \dq{touching the air} is helpful. I flex my muscles against the air with a swaying motion, and the pendulum moves at a distance. Physically-pranically I am sending the thought \dq{sway-flex} into the pendulum string, but this is not an intellectual idea.
 
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@@ -1389,7 +1389,7 @@ Mark Simons told me that he believes he had called me on July 4 and then come to
 
 \dq{Four sevens,} Mark Simons informed me, \dq{make twenty-eight.} This is correct, but four eights made thirty-two, so that the date of Mark's birth is significantly rendered even, whereas the date of our conversation, being a combination of 49 and 77, is significantly odd.
 
-In the course of our conversation, Mark told me about someone named Maurice K. Jessup. He felt that Jessup had been murdered, and that the circumstances of his murder had been made to look like a suicide.
+In the course of our conversation, Mark told me about someone named Maurice K. Jessup. He felt that Jessup had been murdered, and that \label[jessupsuicide]{the circumstances of his murder had been made to look like a suicide.}
 
 According to Simons, Jessup had written three letters entitled the \dq{Allende Letters} which had to do with \sc{ufo} contact. Jessup sent these letters to an Admiral at the Naval offices in Washington (I am relating this story now as it was told to me, without making any attempt at verification, which is impossible) with the inscription \dq{Happy Easter!} written on the envelope.
 
@@ -1459,9 +1459,9 @@ Feeling encouraged by my recent use of the telephone, I think today I will call
 
 And now, once again: Congratulations to myself!
 
-Just before I called Simons I checked my mailbox, which contained a letter from Ben Shenks telling me that he had read his copy of "Notes on Torres" and telling me that I was incorrect, that he had no romantic interest in me.
+Just before I called Simons I checked my mailbox, which contained a letter from Ben Shenks telling me that he had read his copy of \dq{Notes on Torres} and telling me that I was incorrect, that he had no romantic interest in me.
 
-In terms of telepathic correspondences, he did not mention any romantic interest I might have had in himself truly, Ben Shenks, but went on in this letter to tell me that the actor James Fox who played opposite Mick Jagger in the pseudo-Satanic movie \filmtitle{Performance} has become a \dq{loud Christian} and suggested that I consider this Fox in the list of Satanic possibilities. (p. 59)\ednote{update ref} mentioned in \dq{Notes on Torres} (Section 30). Shenks says he finds this article on Torres \dq{quite definitely resonant with meaningful coincidences which go nowhere.} Perhaps, as I discussed with Karnstedt, they are leading toward some sort of synchronistic performance of events.
+In terms of telepathic correspondences, he did not mention any romantic interest I might have had in himself truly, Ben Shenks, but went on in this letter to tell me that the actor James Fox who played opposite Mick Jagger in the pseudo-Satanic movie \filmtitle{Performance} has become a \dq{loud Christian} and suggested that I consider this Fox in the list of Satanic possibilities (p. \pgref[fox]) mentioned in \dq{Notes on Torres} (Section 30). \label[shenksshrug]\wlabel{Shenks says he finds this article on Torres \dq{quite definitely resonant with meaningful coincidences which go nowhere.}} Perhaps, as I discussed with Karnstedt, they are leading toward some sort of synchronistic performance of events.
 
 So: done! It has been done, Shenks! I have included the actor James Fox in my list of possible Satanic identities.
 
@@ -1490,7 +1490,7 @@ Galligan added, in connection with rain therapy, that he has been to psychiatris
 
 \dq{Oh,} I answered, \dq{are you aware of the ionization effect during rain? In my notes I have already postulated that you are probably hypersensitive to the electrical changes in the atmosphere which always occur in conjunction with precipitation.}
 
-Galligan referred me to Wilhelm Reich and his idea of the \dq{energy accumulator.} Briefly, Reich had the idea that orgone energy (Section 30, page 67)\ednote{update ref} has to be personally accumulated within a chamber of some sort (the phone booth, the slicker, the pyramid, the station wagon) in order to draw corresponding orgone energy from the atmosphere, or to set up a connection between the individual and trans-dimensional sources of orgone energy.
+Galligan referred me to Wilhelm Reich and his idea of the \dq{energy accumulator.} Briefly, Reich had the idea that orgone energy (Section 30, p. \pgref[orgonereich]) has to be personally accumulated within a chamber of some sort (the phone booth, the slicker, the pyramid, the station wagon) in order to draw corresponding orgone energy from the atmosphere, or to set up a connection between the individual and trans-dimensional sources of orgone energy.
 
 This seems to me to be a lot like the ancient idea that the best channel for mediumistic communication is a person whose inner concerns are known clearly. This is the basis of L. Ron Hubbard's Scientology program, though he applies the clearing of inner processes to a procedure called auditing.
 
@@ -1546,7 +1546,7 @@ Why visit the Bermuda Triangle? You can disappear right here at home. You don't
 
 Because sudden expansion of consciousness by influx of pranic energy into the nervous system will activate that strongly-implanted memory. You may become hypersensitive to pain as well as to pleasure and philosophical profundity.
 
-In the throes of this painful hypersensitivity, you may go out into your car and turn on the carbon monoxide (p. 72)\ednote{update} or try to strangle your professor during a discussion of Macbeth (p. 4).\ednote{update} You might also write an incomprehensible paper on your strange experience with psychic healing (Section 30!) or (worse!) call all of the newspapers and report that your orgone collection cabinet cures cancer (p. 67),\ednote{update} which is what Reich went to jail for claiming.
+In the throes of this painful hypersensitivity, you may go out into your car and turn on the carbon monoxide (p. \pgref[jessupsuicide]) or try to strangle your professor during a discussion of Macbeth (p. \pgref[bethiwitchfreakout]). You might also write an incomprehensible paper on your strange experience with psychic healing (Section 30!) or (worse!) call all of the newspapers and report that your orgone collection cabinet cures cancer (p. \pgref[orgonereich]), which is what Reich went to jail for claiming.
 
 But \ld\ oh no! \ld\ not me, Rosie!
 
@@ -1560,7 +1560,7 @@ I will not go into gruesome detail, but I will list the correspondence:
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 * My marriage was violent, and in the course of this mutual battle I sustained cuts and bruises, had my clothes ripped off several times and was a part of accusations and counter-accusations of adultery and psychic fraud: this parallels several of the violent sex scenes in the book \ld\ How exactly, you will never know, Rosie! 
 * Since discovering a book on Gestapo practices in the library of a close associate in 1970, I have had fears about Nazi association with government employees. The combination of juggling the crazy Nazi publishers in Canada and tales of a Nazi spy ring in Fox-Knipscheer's book with my latent concern with private Gestapo sadism led me not to mention this possibility in my original article. 
-* The California scene of call girls, strange eccentric rich ladies and cocktail parties is exactly the same as the California scene in which (as I once privately felt) several mutual friends of myself and Ben Shenks are now going to hell in a handcart. Shenks may deny this, (p. 75)\ednote{update} but James Fox would not deny it. If it is actually true, as Shenks reports, that James Fox has become a \dq{loud Christian.}
+* The California scene of call girls, strange eccentric rich ladies and cocktail parties is exactly the same as the California scene in which (as I once privately felt) several mutual friends of myself and Ben Shenks are now going to hell in a handcart. Shenks may deny this, (p. \pgref{shenksshrug}) but James Fox would not deny it. If it is actually true, as Shenks reports, that James Fox has become a \dq{loud Christian.}
 \enditems
 
 What is it like to disappear? I do have some idea what it might be like not to exist: physically be non-existent, and yet retain the ability to register memory and sensation. Once I worked psychically with a woman who was afflicted by a \dq{wailing} spirit. In the course of trying to identify this spirit and ascertain motives for this bedevilment, which included thoughts of violent sex and depressive presence, a sense of \dq{wailing,} a name, and then several identifying characteristics came across to me psychically.
@@ -1587,7 +1587,7 @@ So: what does this touching little episode of a bisexual spirit have to do with
 
 Simply, it is a case of a person's consciousness being altered by the presence of an entity from the astral dimension.
 
-In this case, thoughts of this entity were causing unusual sexual ideas, and the sense that there was a depressive \dq{wailing} in this woman's vicinity. This is not so different from cases of \sc{ufo} contact, when contactees state (p. 18)\ednote{fix} \dq{I woke with a touch on my chest and went to the window,} or (p. 19)\ednote{fix} \dq{I saw the light at home before being called by the station.}
+In this case, thoughts of this entity were causing unusual sexual ideas, and the sense that there was a depressive \dq{wailing} in this woman's vicinity. This is not so different from cases of \sc{ufo} contact, when contactees state (p. \pgref{chestwake}) \dq{I woke with a touch on my chest and went to the window,} or (p. \pgref{lightstation}) \dq{I saw the light at home before being called by the station.}
 
 Although I have now written to Andrew Galligan for his copy of the Air Force manual on \sc{ufo}s and also to the mixed-up Nazi contingent in Canada for additional information on whirling fan-shaped discs, I really do not feel that this information---although perhaps reassuring as documentation in my files---is going to be of much help in understanding the \sc{ufo} reality.