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 \nonum\chap FORTY
 
 What is the source of the \sc{ufo} enigma?
-As has been documented in photographs published in newspapers
-
-
-from all around the world (republished for your reference in journals
-such as Flying Saucer Review the source of the \sc{ufo} enigma seems to be
-an unidentified flying sphere. In connection with these spheroid manifestations, people are also experiencing strange dreams. "seeing"
-unusual shapes or creatures, and incurring a marked psychological
-after-effect which in its most negative manifestations can lead to obsession with \sc{ufo} lights, and delusions of personal "difference' and
-importance.
-
-FORTY-ONE
-7\slash 16\slash 77
-I really do not know what is the most constructive thing to do with the
-copy of chapters from Introductory Space Science, volume II. Department of Physics, Air Force Academy which.I have now received by mail
-from Andrew Galligan.
-
-There is no earth-shattering news in this package. which contains
-pages 455-468 of the 1968 volume and a typewritten transcription of the
-same chapter from the 1970 volume.
-
-Chapter 33, 1968, is entitled Unidentified Flving Objects. and Chapter 33, 1970, is entitled Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. It these are
-indeed Air Force documents, and I have no reason to believe that
-Galligan could or would falsify this writing. then there seems to have
-been a real advance in thinking on the part of the Air Force during the
-years 1968--1970.
-
-On pages 6 of the typewritten copy of chapter 33. 1970. it is stated:
-""The \sc{ufo} problem must now compete on its scientific merit w ith all the
-other pressing scientific problems facing mankind."
-
-Strangely, I find myself in complete agreement with these purported
-words from the Air Force, and with their change in terminology. We
-have not been witnessing flying objects. We have been witnessing aerial
-phenomena. Furthermore, folks: this is quite definitely a scientific
-problem. It is one of the most pressing scientific problems facing
-mankind. On page 466 of chapter 33, 1968. it is stated that: *One thing
-that must be guarded against in such study is the trap of implicitly
-assuming that our knowledge of physics (or any other branch of science)
-is complete. An example of one such trap is selecting a group of physical
-
-
-laws which we now accept as valid, and assuming they will never be
-superseded."'
-
-I'had never expected to find myself in agreement with the Air Force on
-this topic, but here I am: I am in absolute agreement with this statement
-on the "'trap of implicit assumptions!" I find, as Pontius Pilate once
-stated in another context, no fault with the Air Force, as the Air Force is
-represented in this document.
-
-I completely wash my hands, however, of any controversy as to what
-exactly was meant or intended by these purported chapters. I have them
-here in front of me, and I am going to discuss them as literature. as I
-discussed Giftie's eight-page form letter on his \sc{ufo} sighting. (p. 32)
-
-At the end of chapter 33, 1970, there is a defense of the Condon report
-and Project Blue Book. These government-sponsored \sc{ufo} investigations have been publicly criticized by several well-qualified experts in
-the \sc{ufo} field, most notably J. Allen Hyneck of Northwestern University, who was a member of the original Project Blue Book before it
-disbanded.
-
-In his book, The \sc{ufo} Experience, A Scientific Inquiry, Hyneck
-criticizes the Condon Committee for several reasons. Most notably:
-disorganization and factionalism among the participants, and failure to
-act significantly on data relating to the few residual sightings for which
-there is absolutely no conventional explanation.
-
-It is probably true that there was factionalism on this controversial
-committee. This may have been for any number of specific situational
-reasons.
-
-Subsequently, in an interview for Fate magazine in June of 1976,
-Hyneck has openly stated that **. . . the subject is much more complex
-than any of us imagined to begin with. It has paranormal aspects, but
-certainly it has very real physical aspects, too."'
-
-Let me suggest two very interesting possibilities: first, that these
-people involved with actively investigating the \sc{ufo} phenomenon may
-have been receiving telepathic information which they were ill-equipped
-to understand, and secondly that these investigators were looking for the
-wrong thing in examining the data, and thus suffered diffuse and
-disturbing stress due to the inner knowledge that the \sc{ufo} photos and
-data which they were examining did not relate to ''craft'" or "'flying
-
-
-objects'" at all, but to a sort of alien manifestation beyond their immediate conscious comprehension.
-
-FORTY-ONE
-7\slash 18\slash 77 '
-Lest I fall into this same *'trap of implicit assumptions,"' I would like at
-this time (moving, as stated in the introductory chapter, page 5, paragraph 4, from the abstract into the concrete) to suggest several explanations for problems in apprehension of \sc{ufo}s.
-
-One of these problems is psychological. The other is practical. First of
-all, and concerning psychological problems, people in general have
-been conditioned to believe two things which are not true. One, that
-\sc{ufo}s are some sort of solid spacecraft with unknown but
-technologically-comprehensible powers of propulsion, and two, that it
-is going to be possible to ''validate'" or "'invalidate'* a \sc{ufo} sighting on
-the basis of contrast with conventional pheromena such as shooting
-stars, weather satellites and unusual military aircraft.
-
-Because of these erroneous expectations, which have been instilled
-by science fiction books and films and *'official'' attempts to cope with
-the frequency of \sc{ufo} sightings, there is a problem for the average
-individual in actually apprehending the \sc{ufo} reality. '
-
-Unidentified ''objects,'' lights and paranormal occurrences such as
-electrical failure in a car engine coincidental with the appearance of
-small figure eight-shaped humanoids are all automatically placed within
-the "'science fact or science fiction?'" framework and catalogued or not
-catalogued according to this arbitrary, binary distinction.
-
-Reading the clipping on William McCarthy's Pond, for example, it is
-very difficult to tell at this late date whether someone was joking or
-deluded or whether a small black box did indeed fall through the ice and
-subsequently disappear (p. 26).
+
+As has been documented in photographs published in newspapers from all around the world (republished for your reference in journals such as \jt{Flying Saucer Review} the source of the \sc{ufo} enigma seems to be an unidentified flying sphere. In connection with these spheroid manifestations, people are also experiencing strange dreams. \dq{seeing} unusual shapes or creatures, and incurring a marked psychological after-effect which in its most negative manifestations can lead to obsession with \sc{ufo} lights, and delusions of personal \dq{difference} and importance.
+
+\nonum\chap FORTY-ONE
+\rightline{7\slash 16\slash 77}
+\vskip 0.5em 
+
+I really do not know what is the most constructive thing to do with the copy of chapters from \bt{Introductory Space Science, volume II. Department of Physics, Air Force Academy} which.I have now received by mail from Andrew Galligan.
+
+There is no earth-shattering news in this package. which contains pages 455--468 of the 1968 volume and a typewritten transcription of the same chapter from the 1970 volume.
+
+Chapter 33, 1968, is entitled \essaytitle{Unidentified Flying Objects}. and Chapter 33, 1970, is entitled \essaytitle{Unidentified Aerial Phenomena}. It these are indeed Air Force documents, and I have no reason to believe that Galligan could or would falsify this writing. then there seems to have been a real advance in thinking on the part of the Air Force during the years 1968--1970.
+
+On pages 6 of the typewritten copy of Chapter 33, 1970, it is stated:
+\dq{The \sc{ufo} problem must now compete on its scientific merit with all the other pressing scientific problems facing mankind.}
+
+Strangely, I find myself in complete agreement with these purported words from the Air Force, and with their change in terminology. We have not been witnessing flying objects. We have been witnessing aerial phenomena. Furthermore, folks: this is quite definitely a scientific problem. It is one of the most pressing scientific problems facing mankind. On page 466 of Chapter 33. 1968, it is stated that: \dq{One thing that must be guarded against in such study is the trap of implicitly assuming that our knowledge of physics (or any other branch of science) is complete. An example of one such trap is selecting a group of physical laws which we now accept as valid, and assuming they will never be superseded.}
+
+I'had never expected to find myself in agreement with the Air Force on this topic, but here I am: I am in absolute agreement with this statement on the \dq{trap of implicit assumptions!} I find, as Pontius Pilate once stated in another context, no fault with the Air Force, as the Air Force is represented in this document.
+
+I completely wash my hands, however, of any controversy as to what exactly was meant or intended by these purported chapters. I have them here in front of me, and I am going to discuss them as literature. as I discussed Giftie's eight-page form letter on his \sc{ufo} sighting. (p. 32)\ednote{ref}
+
+At the end of Chapter 33, 1970, there is a defense of the \essaytitle{Condon report} and \booktitle{Project Blue Book}. These government-sponsored \sc{ufo} investigations have been publicly criticized by several well-qualified experts in the \sc{ufo} field, most notably J. Allen Hyneck of Northwestern University, who was a member of the original Project Blue Book before it disbanded.
+
+In his book, \bt{The \sc{ufo} Experience, A Scientific Inquiry}, Hyneck criticizes the Condon Committee for several reasons. Most notably: disorganization and factionalism among the participants, and failure to act significantly on data relating to the few residual sightings for which there is absolutely no conventional explanation.
+
+It is probably true that there was factionalism on this controversial committee. This may have been for any number of specific situational reasons.
+
+Subsequently, in an interview for \jt{Fate} magazine in June of 1976, Hyneck has openly stated that \dq{\ld the subject is much more complex than any of us imagined to begin with. It has paranormal aspects, but certainly it has very real physical aspects, too.}
+
+Let me suggest two very interesting possibilities: first, that these people involved with actively investigating the \sc{ufo} phenomenon may have been receiving telepathic information which they were ill-equipped to understand, and secondly that these investigators were looking for the wrong thing in examining the data, and thus suffered diffuse and disturbing stress due to the inner knowledge that the \sc{ufo} photos and data which they were examining did not relate to \dq{craft} or \dq{flying objects} at all, but to a sort of alien manifestation beyond their immediate conscious comprehension.
+
+\nonum\chap FORTY-ONE
+\rightline 7\slash 18\slash 77 
+\vskip 0.5em 
+
+Lest I fall into this same \dq{trap of implicit assumptions,} I would like at this time (moving, as stated in the introductory chapter, page 5,\ednote{ref} paragraph 4, from the abstract into the concrete) to suggest several explanations for problems in apprehension of \sc{ufo}s.
+
+One of these problems is psychological. The other is practical. First of all, and concerning psychological problems, people in general have been conditioned to believe two things which are not true. One, that \sc{ufo}s are some sort of solid spacecraft with unknown but technologically-comprehensible powers of propulsion, and two, that it is going to be possible to \dq{validate} or \dq{invalidate} a \sc{ufo} sighting on the basis of contrast with conventional pheromena such as shooting stars, weather satellites and unusual military aircraft.
+
+Because of these erroneous expectations, which have been instilled by science fiction books and films and "official" attempts to cope with the frequency of \sc{ufo} sightings, there is a problem for the average individual in actually apprehending the \sc{ufo} reality. 
+
+Unidentified \dq{objects,} lights and paranormal occurrences such as electrical failure in a car engine coincidental with the appearance of small figure eight-shaped humanoids are all automatically placed within the \dq{science fact or science fiction?} framework and catalogued or not catalogued according to this arbitrary, binary distinction.
+
+Reading the clipping on William McCarthy's Pond, for example, it is very difficult to tell at this late date whether someone was joking or deluded or whether a small black box did indeed fall through the ice and subsequently disappear (p. 26).\ednote{fix}
 
 Perhaps we all have been asking the wrong questions.
 
-I have here in my hand a letter from the \sc{ufo}s: Nazi Secret Weapon
-publisher in Canada telling me that my letter of inquiry to him as
-regarding the letter of protest published about his organization in one of
-the \sc{ufo} magazines, was ''disjointed,"" but offering to swap information on my Hungarian contact in the maroon coat (p. 23) for information
-
-
-on Nazi occult activity during World War II.
-
-Are you kidding? I have been burned on these carnival grab-bag deals
-once too often (p. 79) to place much confidence in such a blindfold
-trade.
-
-Is it really of any importance whether or not a smail black object fell
-through the ice? Or where it came from? Or what it was made out of? Or
-how hot it was when it fell?
-
-I submit at this point that it is our prejudices about what is supposed to
-be occurring which have led us to ignore the reality which is already with
-us.
-
-Specifically, we have been conditioned to expect that if there are
-\sc{ufo}s they will be of some particular shape (triangular, circular, with or
-without exhaust pipe or special time-warp drive equipment) and manned
-by---or should I say ''creatured''---by occupants with physical characteristics which are or are not humanoid. When people say 'humanoid,''
-they generally mean physically humanoid: two-legged, tail-less, one-headed,
-tool-manufacturing animals with thumbs installed at a ninety-degree
-angle to the index finger of a right and a left hand joined to two
-arms, which are used to build spacecraft and other devices for transportation. It is also assumed that these crafts-creatures, in order to quaiify as
-humanoid, must possess a face of some sort with recognizable eyes,
-nose and mouth. Or approximations thereof. (p. 49)
-
-In making the distinction humanoid or non-humanoid, then we suppose that occupants of \sc{ufo} craft are likely to have physical bodies. The
-only way to tell if anything is or is not humanoid (as opposed to spheroid,
-obloid or insectoid) is to take a look at the physical body of this thing and
-decide. If there are no physical bodies available, this is going to be a
-difficult decision.
-
-Suppose-that the bodies of our visitors are like astral or spirit bodies,
-and further suppose that these presences have the ability (as a spirit, for
-example, communicating through a medium or appearing in your neighbor's hallway as a dank and ghostly mist) to take on a variety of forms at
-will? Furthermore suppose that these versatile entities have developed a
-sense of humor concerning this activity, bizarre as this joking may seem
-to contactees.
-
-We have been looking for primitive entities (about at this stage of
-
-
-Earth development) who amuse themselves with long capes and robots.
-What we may have on hand are entities much further along on the
-evolutionary scale than Earth's human beings, creatures who would
-truly enjoy sending a partial explanation of the concept of ''hyperspace"
-to the US Navy inscribed: '"Happy Easter!"
-
-Think of what a knowledge of alternate dimensions, and space travel
-using the pranic energies, might mean in terms of our current ideas
-concerning death and resurrection!
-
-Analogous to the humanoid\slash non-humanoid dead-end debate, there is
-the weather satellite\slash non-weather satellite dead-end debate. If our cosmic jokesters can signal attention with low-flying planes which are
-about to "run into stars" and display such interesting and varied
-phenomena as traveling "'bars of light,* a malfunctioning TV set,
-""plane lights"" which turn around at a ninety-degree angle and become
-"car lights™, and taps on the chest which lead a contactee to the window
-to view an unusual light in the sky (all in defiance of our ordinary
-expectations as regards time, space and logic), they are not apt to be
-caught with their pants down (to use a humanoid metaphor) unless they
-want to imprint the idea into or onto yours or my memory that they have
-fish scales on their thighs or a purple rear end.
-
-Therefore, it behooves us to ask not if we yesterday saw a green scaly
-thing hop out of a blinking clamshell or how we can possibly prove or
-disprove the experience, but why it happened at all.
-
-I assume that these manifestations are not supposed to dead-end in the
-vision itself, but represent in themselves a form of communication: a
-"staging out'" of ideas which are in some way important or amusing.
-
-FORTY-TWO
-
-7\slash 19\slash 77
-So that, appropriately, I have just received my reply from Karnstedt,
-which was addressed in large pink italic letters and contained within the
-envelope a postcard showing the full moon over San Francisco.
-
-He told me that Simon Herrick is starting a new magazine, now has
-some of my writing on file, and that "we space people must stick
-together. . . '
-
-Karnstedt did not mention his energen, but he wished me light and
-
-
-love.
-
-Before going home to my mailbox to find the full moon over San
-Francisco, I had met accidentally the lady whom I had unexpectedly met
-at New Years. She was sitting at a table in the psychic center with a cast
-on her leg. I told her that I was including her experience in this writeup,
-and she reaffirmed her story about the sighting of glowing blue objects in
-the sky while at the Neposset Drive-in watching the movie Dracula.
-Additionally, she told me that she had continued to experiment with
-astral projection to contact \sc{ufo} entities.
-
-She told me to be sure and include in my writeup the news that \sc{ufo}
-entities are blue and that their skin is surrounded by a blue light.
-
-This vision might be of interest to those who are searching for a clue to
-the \sc{esp} force in the ultra-violet light range, where the frequency of
-vibration is faster. As I will explain in Section 46, I do not connect the
-pranic energies with anomalies in electromagnetic time\slash frequency. Certainly, these anomalies might show up more easily in an area of vibration
-wherein the pulsing interval is shorter.
-
-This heavy-set lady at the psychic center further told me that she
-connects \sc{ufo}s with the electrical blackout in New York City on 7\slash 
-13\slash 77, an odd date indeed from the numerological point of view.
-
-On 7\slash 13\slash 77, there was a massive blackout in New York City, causing
-looting and extreme inconvenience. Details of this blackout can be
-found by consulting any reputable newspaper file. At any rate, it
-happened.
-
-On this same day, this heavy-set young woman told me she had gone
-outside to fix the exhaust pipes on her motorcycle when she felt psychically odd in some respects and an old fracture in her leg separated,
-laying her up for awhile and motivating her to hang around the psychic
-center and do some talking.
-
-She attributes the reactivation of this old injury to an influx of energy
-which she says has channeled her life back into a quieter sort of activity.
-She told me that she had been doing construction and demolition work,
-including plaster-boarding and plumbing installation. I found this interesting, since yesterday's section on more highly evolved creatures
-with a strange sense of humor was written on the bus to New York City,
-where I met with a contractor who is redoing the interior of my loft there.
-
-
-¢
-
-The more practical side of my mind at this time is filled with thoughts of
-construction and demolition.
-
-While we were talking, the woman who had been afflicted with a
-wailing bisexual spirit (she is the daughter of the woman who manages
-the Friendly Tearoom) spoke up from across the table and told me that on
-the news just after the blackout there had been word that \sc{ufo}s were
-sighted near White Plains, N.Y.
-
-I told her that I had not heard this particular news report and she told
-me that it had come in on the radio news some time in the evening on
-7\slash 14\slash 77. On this particular news report, the \sc{ufo} sighting was not
-linked to the blackout. The announcer simply reported the sighting of
-several \sc{ufo}s near White Plains, N.Y. at the time of the blackout.
-
-I have no way of checking this bit of gossip, but relay it for what it is
-worth. .
-
-FORTY-THREE
-Or perhaps I do have some sort of concomitant verification that pranic
-energies were in flux on 7\slash 13\slash 77 . . .
-7\slash 20\slash 77
-But before I go any further in describing this concomitancy, let me relate
-that the possibility of a White Plains \sc{ufo} sighting at the time of this
-blackout troubled my sleep last night.
-
-When morning came, I went directly to my office and looked through
-J. Allen Hyneck's book, The \sc{ufo} Experience: A Scientific Inquiry to
-find the address of the \sc{ufo} Data Collection Center in Northfield,
-Illinois, where I had sent the report of my 1973 Swampscott sighting,
-and a subsequent report detailing that I had experienced some sort of
-mental alteration as a result of this sighting.
-
-At the time of that sighting, I had called Raymond Fowler, who is a
-\sc{ufo} enthusiast living in Wenham, Massachusetts, and was angered by
-his insistence that the sighting of a light was not significant, that it had to
-be a craft on the ground.
-
-Something now mentally is taking me back to my experience of
-unreasonable anger at Fowler. I reread Mary Louise Armstrong's letter
-of resignation to the Condon Committee, which is included in Hyneck's
-book. I was struck by the distress which lay behind this letter.
-
-
-It seems to me quite possible that the people surrounding Ms.
-Armstrong had been experiencing unusual mental states. Clearly,
-Hyneck also made the same observation or he would not have gone to the
-trouble of composing a book on \sc{ufo}s which is so specific on confusion
-and disorganization and\slash or negligence in the United States Air Force
-Research.
-
-This brouhaha on \sc{ufo}s occurred in 1968, and the chapters of the
-purported Air Force manual which Galligan has supplied me with were
-printed in 1969 and 1970.
-
-It seems to me, as I have said, that in these chapters the \sc{ufo}
-phenomenon is taken quite seriously. This manual (which also contains a
-respectable bibliography of \sc{ufo} references, including James E.
-McDonald's Unidentified Flying Objects-Greatest Scientific Problem of
-Our Times) does not come right out and say that we have visitors from
-outer space and that possibly these visitors are utilizing an alternate
-energy system, but it does alert possible researchers to the "trap of
-implicitly assuming'' rigidly that we do not have visitors from outer
-space and that they are not using an alternate energy system.
-
-Whether or not Galligan's chapters 33, 1969 and 1970, are actually
-chapters from an Air Force textbook (they read like chapters from an Air
-Force textbook), it is good not to fall into any "'trap" whatsoever.
-
-One of these traps concerns the belief that military personnel and
-those experts employed by military personnel are level-headed, infallible, and not subject to telepathic and\slash or emotional mental alteration.
-
-Any thought given to the behavior of Nazi military personnel during
-World War II, for example, should call into question the idea of superior
-logical thought as being an implicit military characteristic. Quite a few
-of these personnel, including apparently the Canadian publishers of The
-Antarctica Theory (yet to be released), believed quite seriously that the
-planet Earth was hollow and could be entered through Anlarctica.
-
-Either several humans associated with the Condon Committee and
-Project Blue Book were suffering personal psychological stress simultaneously, or something had altered the consciousness of key members of
-this group, to make them unusually unreasonable and hypersensitive.
+I have here in my hand a letter from the \bt{\sc{ufo}s: Nazi Secret Weapon} publisher in Canada telling me that my letter of inquiry to him as regarding the letter of protest published about his organization in one of the \sc{ufo} magazines, was "disjointed," but offering to swap information on my Hungarian contact in the maroon coat (p. 23)\ednote{fix} for information on Nazi occult activity during World War II.
+
+Are you kidding? I have been burned on these carnival grab-bag deals once too often (p. 79)\fixnote\ to place much confidence in such a blindfold trade.
+
+Is it really of any importance whether or not a smail black object fell through the ice? Or where it came from? Or what it was made out of? Or how hot it was when it fell?
+
+I submit at this point that it is our prejudices about what is supposed to be occurring which have led us to ignore the reality which is already with us.
+
+Specifically, we have been conditioned to expect that if there are \sc{ufo}s they will be of some particular shape (triangular, circular, with or without exhaust pipe or special time-warp drive equipment) and manned by---or should I say "creatured"---by occupants with physical characteristics which are or are not humanoid. When people say "humanoid," they generally mean \e{physically} humanoid: two-legged, tail-less, one-headed, tool-manufacturing animals with thumbs installed at a ninety-degree angle to the index finger of a right and a left hand joined to two arms, which are used to build spacecraft and other devices for transportation. It is also assumed that these crafts-creatures, in order to quaiify as humanoid, must possess a face of some sort with recognizable eyes, nose and mouth. Or approximations thereof. (p. 49)\fixnote
+
+In making the distinction humanoid or non-humanoid, then we suppose that occupants of \sc{ufo} craft are likely to have physical bodies. The only way to tell if anything is or is not humanoid (as opposed to spheroid, obloid or insectoid) is to take a look at the physical body of this thing and decide. If there are no physical bodies available, this is going to be a difficult decision.
+
+Suppose-that the bodies of our visitors are like astral or spirit bodies, and further suppose that these presences have the ability (as a spirit, for example, communicating through a medium or appearing in your neighbor's hallway as a dank and ghostly mist) to take on a variety of forms at will? Furthermore suppose that these versatile entities have developed a sense of humor concerning this activity, bizarre as this joking may seem to contactees.
+
+We have been looking for primitive entities (about at this stage of Earth development) who amuse themselves with long capes and robots.  What we may have on hand are entities much further along on the evolutionary scale than Earth's human beings, creatures who would truly enjoy sending a partial explanation of the concept of \dq{hyperspace} to the US Navy inscribed: \dq{Happy Easter!}
+
+Think of what a knowledge of alternate dimensions, and space travel using the pranic energies, might mean in terms of our current ideas concerning death and resurrection!
+
+Analogous to the humanoid\slash non-humanoid dead-end debate, there is the weather satellite\slash non-weather satellite dead-end debate. If our cosmic jokesters can signal attention with low-flying planes which are about to \dq{run into stars} and display such interesting and varied phenomena as traveling \dq{bars of light,} a malfunctioning TV set, \dq{plane lights} which turn around at a ninety-degree angle and become \dq{car lights}, and taps on the chest which lead a contactee to the window to view an unusual light in the sky (all in defiance of our ordinary expectations as regards time, space and logic), they are not apt to be caught with their pants down (to use a humanoid metaphor) unless they want to imprint the idea into or onto yours or my memory that they have fish scales on their thighs or a purple rear end.
+
+Therefore, it behooves us to ask not \e{if} we yesterday saw a green scaly thing hop out of a blinking clamshell or \e{how} we can possibly prove or disprove the experience, but \e{why} it happened at all.
+
+I assume that these manifestations are not supposed to dead-end in the vision itself, but represent in themselves a form of communication: a \dq{staging out} of ideas which are in some way important or amusing.
+
+% FORTY-TWO
+\nonum\chap FORTY-TWO
+
+\rightline{7\slash 19\slash 77}
+
+So that, appropriately, I have just received my reply from Karnstedt, which was addressed in large pink italic letters and contained within the envelope a postcard showing the full moon over San Francisco.
+
+He told me that Simon Herrick is starting a new magazine, now has some of my writing on file, and that \dq{we space people must stick together\ld}
+
+Karnstedt did not mention his energen, but he wished me light and love.
+
+Before going home to my mailbox to find the full moon over San Francisco, I had met accidentally the lady whom I had unexpectedly met at New Years. She was sitting at a table in the psychic center with a cast on her leg. I told her that I was including her experience in this writeup, and she reaffirmed her story about the sighting of glowing blue objects in the sky while at the Neposset Drive-in watching the movie Dracula.  Additionally, she told me that she had continued to experiment with astral projection to contact \sc{ufo} entities.
+
+She told me to be sure and include in my writeup the news that \sc{ufo} entities are blue and that their skin is surrounded by a blue light.
+
+This vision might be of interest to those who are searching for a clue to the \sc{esp} force in the ultra-violet light range, where the frequency of vibration is faster. As I will explain in Section 46, I do not connect the pranic energies with anomalies in electromagnetic time\slash frequency. Certainly, these anomalies might show up more easily in an area of vibration wherein the pulsing interval is shorter.
+
+This heavy-set lady at the psychic center further told me that she connects \sc{ufo}s with the electrical blackout in New York City on 7\slash 13\slash 77, an odd date indeed from the numerological point of view.
+
+On 7\slash 13\slash 77, there was a massive blackout in New York City, causing looting and extreme inconvenience. Details of this blackout can be found by consulting any reputable newspaper file. At any rate, it happened.
+
+On this same day, this heavy-set young woman told me she had gone outside to fix the exhaust pipes on her motorcycle when she felt psychically odd in some respects and an old fracture in her leg separated, laying her up for awhile and motivating her to hang around the psychic center and do some talking.
+
+She attributes the reactivation of this old injury to an influx of energy which she says has channeled her life back into a quieter sort of activity.  She told me that she had been doing construction and demolition work, including plaster-boarding and plumbing installation. I found this interesting, since yesterday's section on more highly evolved creatures with a strange sense of humor was written on the bus to New York City, where I met with a contractor who is redoing the interior of my loft there.  The more practical side of my mind at this time is filled with thoughts of construction and demolition.
+
+While we were talking, the woman who had been afflicted with a wailing bisexual spirit (she is the daughter of the woman who manages the Friendly Tearoom) spoke up from across the table and told me that on the news just after the blackout there had been word that \sc{ufo}s were sighted near White Plains, N.Y.
+
+I told her that I had not heard this particular news report and she told me that it had come in on the radio news some time in the evening on 7\slash 14\slash 77. On this particular news report, the \sc{ufo} sighting was not linked to the blackout. The announcer simply reported the sighting of several \sc{ufo}s near White Plains, N.Y. at the time of the blackout.
+
+I have no way of checking this bit of gossip, but relay it for what it is worth. 
+
+% FORTY-THREE
+\nonum\chap FORTY-THREE
+
+Or perhaps I do have some sort of concomitant verification that pranic energies were in flux on 7\slash 13\slash 77\ld
+
+\rightline{7\slash 20\slash 77}
+\vskip 0.5em
+
+But before I go any further in describing this concomitancy, let me relate that the possibility of a White Plains \sc{ufo} sighting at the time of this blackout troubled my sleep last night.
+
+When morning came, I went directly to my office and looked through J. Allen Hyneck's book, \bt{The \sc{ufo} Experience: A Scientific Inquiry} to find the address of the \sc{ufo} Data Collection Center in Northfield, Illinois, where I had sent the report of my 1973 Swampscott sighting, and a subsequent report detailing that I had experienced some sort of mental alteration as a result of this sighting.
+
+At the time of that sighting, I had called Raymond Fowler, who is a \sc{ufo} enthusiast living in Wenham, Massachusetts, and was angered by his insistence that the sighting of a light was not significant, that it had to be a craft on the ground.
+
+Something now mentally is taking me back to my experience of unreasonable anger at Fowler. I reread Mary Louise Armstrong's letter of resignation to the Condon Committee, which is included in Hyneck's book. I was struck by the distress which lay behind this letter.
+
+It seems to me quite possible that the people surrounding Ms.  Armstrong had been experiencing unusual mental states. Clearly, Hyneck also made the same observation or he would not have gone to the trouble of composing a book on \sc{ufo}s which is so specific on confusion and disorganization and\slash or negligence in the United States Air Force Research.
+
+This brouhaha on \sc{ufo}s occurred in 1968, and the chapters of the purported Air Force manual which Galligan has supplied me with were printed in 1969 and 1970.
+
+It seems to me, as I have said, that in these chapters the \sc{ufo} phenomenon is taken quite seriously. This manual (which also contains a respectable bibliography of \sc{ufo} references, including James E.  McDonald's \bt{Unidentified Flying Objects---Greatest Scientific Problem of Our Times}) does not come right out and say that we have visitors from outer space and that possibly these visitors are utilizing an alternate energy system, but it does alert possible researchers to the \dq{trap of implicitly assuming} rigidly that we do not have visitors from outer space and that they are not using an alternate energy system.
+
+Whether or not Galligan's chapters 33, 1969 and 1970, are actually chapters from an Air Force textbook (they read like chapters from an Air Force textbook), it is good not to fall into any \dq{trap} whatsoever.
+
+One of these traps concerns the belief that military personnel and those experts employed by military personnel are level-headed, infallible, and not subject to telepathic and\slash or emotional mental alteration.
+
+Any thought given to the behavior of Nazi military personnel during World War II, for example, should call into question the idea of superior logical thought as being an implicit military characteristic. Quite a few of these personnel, including apparently the Canadian publishers of \bt{The Antarctica Theory} (yet to be released), believed quite seriously that the planet Earth was hollow and could be entered through Anlarctica.
+
+Either several humans associated with the Condon Committee and Project Blue Book were suffering personal psychological stress simultaneously, or something had altered the consciousness of key members of this group, to make them unusually unreasonable and hypersensitive.
 
 Not to mention a bit hilarious.
 
-In Hyneck's book The \sc{ufo} Experience: A Scientific Inquiry, he
-
-
-mentioned Condon's joking behavior, (Condon was, I hope you will
-realize, the head of this investigative committee) detailing: *". . . Condon phoned the governor of Utah to apprise him of the predicted landing
-(by a person "'in contact" with extraterrestrials) of a rectangular shaped
-\sc{ufo} on the salt flats at Bonneville . . "° (See p. 19, this book, for
-word of a real rectangular \sc{ufo}.) . . . In another instance he (Condon)
-passed information to Washington with a straight face about an offer (for
-three billicn dollars) made to him by an 'agent of the third universe' to
-construct a spaceport so that ships from this universe could land in our
-world."
-
-For some reason, Condon's alleged behavior appeals to my theories
-on the extraterrestrial sense of humor.
-
-Happy Easter, everybody! .
-
-But I do agree with Hyneck that such outbursts are rather outre, as part
-of an investigation supposedly relevant to National Security.
-
-As a practicing psychic reader, one of the liabilities which I experience is situational paranoia. This usually happens when my \sc{esp} channels are casually open for some reason and I become sensitive to any
-passing negative thought of a friend or acquaintance, no matter how
-trivial. During the last few years, I have gotten more conscious control
-of this unusual sensitivity, because I know that I am liable ta*experience
-this hypersensitivity.
-
-When I start feeling (for example) that my good friend Steve has
-insulted me because on a hot day (this happened yesterday) he had only
-ice water, beer, orange juice and white wine in the house, but no scotch
-whiskey . . . then I pull my mental processes to a halt and try to gain
-access to where these feelings of insult really are originating.
-
-What really happened in this case is that I got lost on my way to
-Steve's new apartment, and had arrived about an hour late on one of the
-hottest days of the summer. Steve was slightly irritated, but masked his
-irritation beneath the hospitable offer of ice water, beer, orange juice or
-white wine. My \sc{esp} picked up his irritation and unreasonably construed
-his offer of a drink as an insult. I did not say anything at the time, but
-later on found myself brooding upon this insulting offer of a drink.
-
-After I had brooded for about twenty minutes and was on the verge of
-calling Steve and accusing him of devaluing my dramatic craftsmanship
-
-
-(Steve is also a playwright), I began to wonder if for some reason I might
-be situationally hypersensitive.
-
-This was last evening, the same evening that validation of the White
-Plains 7\slash 13\slash 77 sighting was also nagging at the back of my mind. It was
-nagging at the back of my mind most particularly since, as I have
-detailed in a series of letters to R. Martin Wolf at the Society for the
-Investigation of the Unexplained, I had experienced radical mental
-alteration on Monday and Tuesday preceding the Wednesday evening
-blackout of New York City. Most significantly, I had called a friend who
-had sent me a rather complimentary letter on some of my occult writings
-(p- 75) at a quarter of nine in the moring to tell him that he had
-"insulted my mathematics."
-
-After about five minutes of this unreasonable accusation, he hung up
-the phone. When he hung up the phone, I became even more upset and
-aware that something was ''wrong." I went ahead with my appointments
-for the day, then wrote a letter of apology and tore up the letter. For the
-rest of that evening I was in a state of agitation.
-
-Conceiveably, this agitation could be traced to romantic disappointment, but my screwy relationship with Shenks has gone on this way off
-and on for about thirteen years, so I am reasonably sure of its
-continuance---barring death and\slash or armed warfare.
-
-On Tuesday, when my mother called to ask about the trip to New York
-City which I had planned on Wednesday, I became upset because she
-asked if my Haitian divorce was legal in New York City.
+In Hyneck's book \bt{The \sc{ufo} Experience: A Scientific Inquiry}, he mentioned Condon's joking behavior, (Condon was, I hope you will realize, the \e{head} of this investigative committee) detailing: \dq{\ld Condon phoned the governor of Utah to apprise him of the predicted landing (by a person \sq{in contact} with extraterrestrials) of a rectangular shaped \sc{ufo} on the salt flats at Bonneville\ld} (See p. 19, this book, for word of a real rectangular \sc{ufo}.)\fixnote \ld\ In another instance he (Condon) passed information to Washington with a straight face about an offer (for three billicn dollars) made to him by an \sq{agent of the third universe} to construct a spaceport so that ships from this universe could land in our world.}
+
+For some reason, Condon's alleged behavior appeals to my theories on the extraterrestrial sense of humor.
+
+Happy Easter, everybody! 
+
+But I do agree with Hyneck that such outbursts are rather outre, as part of an investigation supposedly relevant to National Security.
+
+As a practicing psychic reader, one of the liabilities which I experience is situational paranoia. This usually happens when my \sc{esp} channels are casually open for some reason and I become sensitive to any passing negative thought of a friend or acquaintance, no matter how trivial. During the last few years, I have gotten more conscious control of this unusual sensitivity, because I know that I am liable ta*experience this hypersensitivity.
+
+When I start feeling (for example) that my good friend Steve has insulted me because on a hot day (this happened yesterday) he had only ice water, beer, orange juice and white wine in the house, but no scotch whiskey\ld\ then I pull my mental processes to a halt and try to gain access to where these feelings of insult really are originating.
+
+What really happened in this case is that I got lost on my way to Steve's new apartment, and had arrived about an hour late on one of the hottest days of the summer. Steve was slightly irritated, but masked his irritation beneath the hospitable offer of ice water, beer, orange juice or white wine. My \sc{esp} picked up his irritation and unreasonably construed his offer of a drink as an insult. I did not say anything at the time, but later on found myself brooding upon this insulting offer of a drink.
+
+After I had brooded for about twenty minutes and was on the verge of calling Steve and accusing him of devaluing my dramatic craftsmanship (Steve is also a playwright), I began to wonder if for some reason I might be situationally hypersensitive.
+
+This was last evening, the same evening that validation of the White Plains 7\slash 13\slash 77 sighting was also nagging at the back of my mind. It was nagging at the back of my mind most particularly since, as I have detailed in a series of letters to R. Martin Wolf at the Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained, I had experienced radical mental alteration on Monday and Tuesday preceding the Wednesday evening blackout of New York City. Most significantly, I had called a friend who had sent me a rather complimentary letter on some of my occult writings (p. 75)\fixnote\ at a quarter of nine in the moring to tell him that he had \dq{insulted my mathematics.}
+
+After about five minutes of this unreasonable accusation, he hung up the phone. When he hung up the phone, I became even more upset and aware that something was \dq{wrong.} I went ahead with my appointments for the day, then wrote a letter of apology and tore up the letter. For the rest of that evening I was in a state of agitation.
+
+Conceiveably, this agitation could be traced to romantic disappointment, but my screwy relationship with Shenks has gone on this way off and on for about thirteen years, so I am reasonably sure of its continuance---barring death and\slash or armed warfare.
+
+On Tuesday, when my mother called to ask about the trip to New York City which I had planned on Wednesday, I became upset because she asked if my Haitian divorce was legal in New York City.
 
 Good lord!
 
-I told her: "'Nobody's going to kill me. They don't check your legality
-when you cross state lines. That's from the nineteen-thirties. Nobody's
-going to arrest me! I didn't break any windows!"" and hung up the phone.
-
-For the rest of the day, I was flooded with thoughts about arrest,
-violence and the unjust accusation that I had done something wrong, so I
-was too tired and strung out to make the trip I had planned on Wednesday.
-
-At approximately 9:15 on Wednesday night, I felt overcome by energy
-drain and exhaustion and lay down on my bed. About ten minutes later,
-the phone rang. It was the contractor. As he identified himself, I
-remembered that I had forgotten to call him and make specific
-arrangements. We talked briefly, and made an appointment. Then I
-
-
-called the woman from whom I was planning to rent loft space.
-
-She came on the line immediately, before the phone had rung at all
-and told me that she had just been blacked out and was trying to call me.
-She was reaching for the phone at the time I called her. Indirectly, then,
-my agitated mental state had predicted the blackout and civil disorder
-that was to take place on Wednesday night in New York City, and had
-subliminally prevented me from taking my scheduled trip.
-
-Additionally, for the twenty minutes just prior to the actual electrical
-failure, I had felt particularly zonked out and drained of energy.
-
-And you are not going to believe this, Rosie . . . but. . . I lay down
-just now to take another rest as it is very hot and the content of this
-preceding passage is disturbing to me in several ways. While I was lying
-down, Lobo phoned (remember Lobo: one of my only two close \sc{ufo}
-buddies in 1974) after three years of non-contact, and we made an
-appointment to meet at my office tomorrow, at high noon.
-
-I have not seen Lobo since 1975, and am very curious as to why he
-called at exactly this time. I told him that I had written most of a book on
-\sc{ufo}s since I saw him last, and was just now writing a passage about the
-New York City blackout. He told me that he understood that it is
-technically possible to build some sort of wave-propagating, ionization
-machine which jams transmitters, but Lobo did always indulge in wild
-speculation. In the realm of hard practicality, I just talked to my contractor, who feels that there are too many safety hazards in the loft under
-consideration to make it worth my investment.
-
-Viva: construction and demolition! (p. 89)
-
-As I was saying, then, before these interruptions and digressions,
-often mental content which is being perceived non-consciously by \sc{esp}
-or is for some reason too strange or outrageous to fit into the ordinary
-conscious norms, erupts into half-formulated emotional behavior.
-
-It is obvious from reading Hyneck's book and Mary Louise
-Armstrong's letter of resignation that they were personally agitated
-themselves, and also witnessing strange behavior, both on the motional
-and judgmental levels. This high incidence of mental oddity could
-possibly spring from influence on the Condon Committee which was
-coming in below the level of ordinary consciousness.
-
-I'know I have said this before (p. 91) and I am going to say it again in
-
-
-context of my strange behavior preceding an event of which I had no
-conscious pre-knowledge, but which might have been dangerous to me
-personally: The unusual antics surrounding the Air Force \sc{ufo} Investigations described by J. Allen Hyneck show mental alteration of a sort
-which I have come to associate with mental alteration due to \sc{ufo}
-contact and\slash or the influence of powerful spirit entities. As I have
-indicated in discussing Andrew Galligan's "'Happy Easter" message
-(p. 72), these entities (and I assume at this point, Rosie, that we are
-dealing with real alien entities, whether these be creations of the collective unconscious, satanic spirits or visitors from another galaxy) are
-intelligences with a highly-developed mental capacity and a strangely
-distinct sense of humor.
-
-These entities can operate through human beings mediumistically to
-cause strange behavior, and independently of the human psyche to cause
-psychokinetic phenomena.
-
-As I have reiterated, it is the bizarre sense of humor which remains
-distinctive for me personally.
-
-In the experience detailed in ''Notes on Torres,"" for example, I was
-led all round Robin Hood's barn to finally locate (instead of mysterious
-Scottish spiritualist messages) a spy-adventure novel set prominently in
-California (from which distinctive location I had just returned) and
-South America (where the original Torres \sc{ufo} photo was taken).
-
-The plot of this coincidental novel was hilariously reminiscent both of
-quirky attitudes brought to my attention by Torres, and some of the
-raunchier elements of my ex-marriage, not to mention various of my
-experiences in California.
-
-This associative event is beyond ordinary coincidence. Itis also funny
-and not-funny, like pulling the chair out from behind someone as they
-are about to sit down. Or opening a fracture in someone's leg so that she
-wants to return to the psychic center to shoot the breeze about the
-electrical blackout in New York City and construction and demolition
-work just as T am also concerned with psychic and possibly \sc{ufo} oddities
-concerning the blackout in tandem with my personal construction and
-demolition work.
-
-This coincidence (p. 89) is interesting and meat for speculation. Itis
-also a little horrifying to think that this woman probably had a bone in
-
-
-her leg separate after an influx of energy which she quite definitely
-attributes to \sc{ufo} entities.
-
-After my experiences with learning to move the pendulum by influx
-of pranic energy, I am in no position to doubt this story about her leg
-injury ex cathedra.
+I told her: \dq{Nobody's going to kill me. They don't check your legality when you cross state lines. That's from the nineteen-thirties. Nobody's going to arrest me! I didn't break any windows!} and hung up the phone.
+
+For the rest of the day, I was flooded with thoughts about arrest, violence and the unjust accusation that I had done something wrong, so I was too tired and strung out to make the trip I had planned on Wednesday.
+
+At approximately 9:15 on Wednesday night, I felt overcome by energy drain and exhaustion and lay down on my bed. About ten minutes later, the phone rang. It was the contractor. As he identified himself, I remembered that I had forgotten to call him and make specific arrangements. We talked briefly, and made an appointment. Then I called the woman from whom I was planning to rent loft space.
+
+She came on the line immediately, before the phone had rung at all and told me that she had just been blacked out and was trying to call me.  She was reaching for the phone at the time I called her. Indirectly, then, my agitated mental state had predicted the blackout and civil disorder that was to take place on Wednesday night in New York City, and had subliminally prevented me from taking my scheduled trip.
+
+Additionally, for the twenty minutes just prior to the actual electrical failure, I had felt particularly zonked out and drained of energy.
+
+And you are not going to believe this, Rosie\ld\ but\ld\ I lay down just now to take another rest as it is very hot and the content of this preceding passage is disturbing to me in several ways. While I was lying down, Lobo phoned (remember Lobo: one of my only two close \sc{ufo} buddies in 1974) after three years of non-contact, and we made an appointment to meet at my office tomorrow, at high noon.
+
+I have not seen Lobo since 1975, and am very curious as to why he called at exactly this time. I told him that I had written most of a book on \sc{ufo}s since I saw him last, and was just now writing a passage about the New York City blackout. He told me that he understood that it is technically possible to build some sort of wave-propagating, ionization machine which jams transmitters, but Lobo did always indulge in wild speculation. In the realm of hard practicality, I just talked to my contractor, who feels that there are too many safety hazards in the loft under consideration to make it worth my investment.
+
+Viva: construction and demolition! (p. 89)\fixnote
+
+As I was saying, then, before these interruptions and digressions, often mental content which is being perceived non-consciously by \sc{esp} or is for some reason too strange or outrageous to fit into the ordinary conscious norms, erupts into half-formulated emotional behavior.
+
+It is obvious from reading Hyneck's book and Mary Louise Armstrong's letter of resignation that they were personally agitated themselves, and also witnessing strange behavior, both on the motional and judgmental levels. This high incidence of mental oddity could possibly spring from influence on the Condon Committee which was coming in below the level of ordinary consciousness.
+
+I know I have said this before (p. 91)\fixnote\ and I am going to say it again in context of my strange behavior preceding an event of which I had no conscious pre-knowledge, but which might have been dangerous to me personally: The unusual antics surrounding the Air Force \sc{ufo} Investigations described by J. Allen Hyneck show mental alteration of a sort which I have come to associate with mental alteration due to \sc{ufo} contact and\slash or the influence of powerful spirit entities. As I have indicated in discussing Andrew Galligan's \dq{Happy Easter} message (p. 72),\fixnote\ these entities (and I assume at this point, Rosie, that we are dealing with real \e{alien entities}, whether these be creations of the collective unconscious, satanic spirits or visitors from another galaxy) are intelligences with a highly-developed mental capacity and a strangely distinct sense of humor.
+
+These entities can operate through human beings mediumistically to cause strange behavior, and independently of the human psyche to cause psychokinetic phenomena.
+
+As I have reiterated, it is the bizarre sense of humor which remains distinctive for me personally.
+
+In the experience detailed in \dq{Notes on Torres,} for example, I was led all round Robin Hood's barn to finally locate (instead of mysterious Scottish spiritualist messages) a spy-adventure novel set prominently in California (from which distinctive location I had just returned) and South America (where the original Torres \sc{ufo} photo was taken).
+
+The plot of this coincidental novel was hilariously reminiscent both of quirky attitudes brought to my attention by Torres, and some of the raunchier elements of my ex-marriage, not to mention various of my experiences in California.
+
+This associative event is beyond ordinary coincidence. It is also funny and not-funny, like pulling the chair out from behind someone as they are about to sit down. Or opening a fracture in someone's leg so that she wants to return to the psychic center to shoot the breeze about the electrical blackout in New York City and construction and demolition work just as T am also concerned with psychic and possibly \sc{ufo} oddities concerning the blackout in tandem with my personal construction and demolition work.
+
+This coincidence (p. 89)\fixnote\ is interesting and meat for speculation. It is also a little horrifying to think that this woman probably had a bone in her leg separate after an influx of energy which she quite definitely attributes to \sc{ufo} entities.
+
+After my experiences with learning to move the pendulum by influx of pranic energy, I am in no position to doubt this story about her leg injury ex cathedra.
 
 Think about what this young woman may have experienced.
 
-She went out to a drive-in for the evening, looked up into the sky, saw
-a flying light formation of blue \sc{ufo}s and was motivated to practice
-astral projection to contact them. During this astral projection, she got
-the firm message that these aliens had to innoculate themselves in some
-way before entering earth's atmosphere.
-
-Several years subsequent to this initial experience, she went outside to
-tinker with her motorcycle, felt a strong sense of ''\sc{ufo} presence'" and
-felt an old fracture in her leg separate. This event sent her to the psychic
-center to talk, where she said she felt she had been directed by \sc{ufo}
-presence. This woman told me that these presences were blue with black
-eyes. She seemed a bit spaced out and exhausted and was evidently
-feeling hostile toward these blue \sc{ufo}s.
-
-'I broke it,"" she told me. *'I got beyond there. I projected into the
-places they didn't want me to go.'
-
-However, it is possible that, broken or unbroken, she wem exactly
-where ''they'' wanted her to go and returned to be sitting at a table near
-my office talking at exactly the right time that ''they'' wanted me to
-notice her and find out more about her experience, for my own information.
-
-Of course, the effect on this woman is a strange spaced-out state of
-mind in which she feels that she is in combat somehow with \sc{ufo}
-entities. These entities are apparently trying to preserve their astral
-privacy.
-
-This all began at the Neponset Drive-in during a showing of Dracula.
-Ironic as this may seem, Dracula has absolutely nothing to do thematically with intergalactic space stations. I do not believe that this woman's
-subsequent impressions of blue \sc{ufo}s arrived on that evening from
-nowhere. Furthermore, it is exactly to the strange sense of humor of
-these entities that it should be Dracula showing at this drive-in theatre
-rather than Ma and Pa Kettle at Cape Canaveral or a Woody Allen film.
-
-
-It is and it is not funny that this woman's obsession with extraterrestrial contact should have begun in conjunction with a classic horror film
-
-. . which does not contain blue, black-eyed aliens at all, but does deal
-with a lethal form of late-night contact. Happy Easter, Jessup! I hope
-you enjoyed the CO exhaust! What caused Lobo to recontact me after
-two years of silence, just as I was resting from drafting a passage about
-my subliminal early warning system? What, indeed, motivated the US
-government to entitle one aspect of the \sc{ufo} investigation which
-Hyneck thought so unusual as ''Project Grudge?"'
-
-As they used to say in my grandmother's day: ''Something must've
-gotten into these people."'
-
-Chances are it was the same damn exira-sensory thing, Rosie! Like
-broken cuckoo clocks that go tick tick toc in the cupboard, lying
-non-functional on their sides! Or independently international photos of
-whitish ellipsoid aerial phenomena! (Consult Flying Saucer Review,
-Ufology or my own color xerox reproduction: p. 35.)
-
-People have basically two choices, perhaps, in dealing with this sort
-of oddity: suppression of the extraordinary by pretending that it does not
-exist, or protection of the psyche by dealing with the unacceptable in a
-provisional pseudo-scientific way. However, I am proceeding down the
-third road here with quite a few other people. In fact, it is beginning to
-look to me like some sort of mental parade.
+She went out to a drive-in for the evening, looked up into the sky, saw a flying light formation of blue \sc{ufo}s and was motivated to practice astral projection to contact them. During this astral projection, she got the firm message that these aliens had to innoculate themselves in some way before entering earth's atmosphere.
+
+Several years subsequent to this initial experience, she went outside to tinker with her motorcycle, felt a strong sense of \dq{\sc{ufo} presence} and felt an old fracture in her leg separate. This event sent her to the psychic center to talk, where she said she felt she had been directed by \sc{ufo} presence. This woman told me that these presences were blue with black eyes. She seemed a bit spaced out and exhausted and was evidently feeling hostile toward these blue \sc{ufo}s.
+
+\dq{I broke it,} she told me. \dq{I got beyond there. I projected into the places they didn't want me to go.}
+
+However, it is possible that, broken or unbroken, she wem exactly where \dq{they} wanted her to go and returned to be sitting at a table near my office talking at exactly the right time that \dq{they} wanted me to notice her and find out more about her experience, for my own information.
+
+Of course, the effect on this woman is a strange spaced-out state of mind in which she feels that she is in combat somehow with \sc{ufo} entities. These entities are apparently trying to preserve their astral privacy.
+
+This all began at the Neponset Drive-in during a showing of \filmtitle{Dracula}.  Ironic as this may seem, \filmtitle{Dracula} has absolutely nothing to do thematically with intergalactic space stations. I do not believe that this woman's subsequent impressions of blue \sc{ufo}s arrived on that evening from nowhere. Furthermore, it is exactly to the strange sense of humor of these entities that it should be \filmtitle{Dracula} showing at this drive-in theatre rather than \filmeitle{Ma and Pa Kettle at Cape Canaveral} or a Woody Allen film.
+
+It is and it is not funny that this woman's obsession with extraterrestrial contact should have begun in conjunction with a classic horror film\ld\ which does not contain blue, black-eyed aliens at all, but does deal with a lethal form of late-night contact. Happy Easter, Jessup! I hope you enjoyed the CO exhaust! What caused Lobo to recontact me after two years of silence, just as I was resting from drafting a passage about my subliminal early warning system? What, indeed, motivated the US government to entitle one aspect of the \sc{ufo} investigation which Hyneck thought so unusual as \dq{Project Grudge?}
+
+As they used to say in my grandmother's day: \dq{Something must've gotten into these people.}
+
+Chances are it was the same damn exira-sensory thing, Rosie! Like broken cuckoo clocks that go tick tick toc in the cupboard, lying non-functional on their sides! Or independently international photos of whitish ellipsoid aerial phenomena! (Consult \bt{Flying Saucer Review}, \bt{Ufology} or my own color xerox reproduction: p. 35.\fixnote)
+
+People have basically two choices, perhaps, in dealing with this sort of oddity: suppression of the extraordinary by pretending that it does not exist, or protection of the psyche by dealing with the unacceptable in a provisional pseudo-scientific way. However, I am proceeding down the third road here with quite a few other people. In fact, it is beginning to look to me like some sort of mental parade.
 
 Congratulations, Lobo! So nice to see you electrically once again!
 
-FORTY-FOUR
-7\slash 21\slash 77
-Lobo arrived this morning, one half hour late and looking relatively
-good. He told me that he could not stay long because he had just been
-evicted, his belongings had been thrown out onto the city dump, and at
-the moment he had four German shepherds (two adults and two puppies)
-outside in his car.
-
-He was afraid that these dogs might become overheated, and so we
-made an appointment for Lobo to come over to my apartment tomorrow,
-where the dogs can rest out back in the shade. Before he left to relieve the
-dogs, Lobo confided to me that while traveling in Mexico he had given
-mechanical assistance to an ex-Nazi driving a Mercedes-Benz.
-
-
-This car had broken down near wherever it was that Lobo was
-hitching. On the way back to Mexico City, this ex-Nazi (who at this
-point was in possession of a Mexican wife and several children as well as
-his Mercedes) told Lobo that yes it was true that Hitler's establishment
-had been very much into the exploration of occult ideas and probably
-technology related to the use of extra-sensory perception and bioplasmic
-energy.
-
-At this point, I asked Lobo if he knew anything about the Canadian
-publishers of \sc{ufo}s: Nazi Secret Weapon. He looked puzzled, then
-nodded briefly and told me that he had an overwhelming urge to hug me.
-Lobo says this to all the girls, but I took him up on this offer, so he
-hugged me briefly and went out to relieve the dogs.
-
-Shortly after this quick exit, as I was sitting in my office with the door
-open correcting a xerox copy of My Sandwich Exploded, a woman in a
-red dotted-swiss sundress wandered in looking for Larry Sands, the head
-of the Shin Psychic Center. She told me that he was not in his office and
-that she had been meaning to drop in on me for some time, but I had
-never been in my office at the times she had felt like dropping in---until
-now. \sc{ufo}s, Zeena claimed, were assisting her to channel and balance
-her energies. I told her to come right in and tell me all about it.
-
-It was certainly lucky, in a way, that Lobo had left so quiEkly after
-hugging me.
-
-Before Zeena began the story of her adventures with interdimensional
-contact, I told her that I thought it was possible that more highly-developed
-beings might be assisting her to channel and balance her
-energies. I told her about my experience with Torres, and described
-how I can now move the dowsing pendulum psychokinetically at a
-distance without touching it. Then I moved the pendulum for Zeena and
-she told me that she was familiar with the use of the dowsing pendulum
-to get "'yes'" and *'no'' answers, and with concepts of psychic healing
-which involve pranic energy channeling. She told me that she had
-always been naturally psychic, and seemed to know where and where
-not to go automatically, It was certainly true that she and Lobo had
-followed each other in and out of my office as if responding to some joint
-transdimensional cue.
-
-Zeena first felt an influx of pranic energy when she was living in
-
-
-California. She identified this energy influx with god and enlightenment. In order to understand what was happening to her, Zeena went
-first to the Esalen Institute, where she practiced various forms of
-meditation, and then to the Psychic Institute in Berkeley, where she
-experienced further pranic energy channeling and at times was able to
-see astral energy forms.
-
-While Zeena was attending the Psychic Institute in Berkeley, a
-member of a ''flying saucer'" group approached her and said that he
-could travel intergalactically.
-
-She rejected this claim because she felt that it was impossible to travel
-intergalactically without a space ship, and that his claims were *'off the
-wall'' entirely.
-
-Then one day, while Zeena was meditating, she saw a small green
-insect on the wall. This green insect told Zeena that the space ships were
-coming. She felt somehow convinced by this experience, and then again
-while in Los Angeles had another contact with an unconventional \sc{ufo}.
-
-Zeena was talking with a Los Angeles clairvoyant when she saw a
-beam of astral light shoot out from his forehead. At the end of this beam
-of light was a whitish elliptical shape. This frightened Zeena and she left
-the room. Later, with this same clairvoyant, she felt that she had left her
-body, and was hovering near the ceiling of the room. She panicked, and
-when she felt herself being separated from her body was then violently
-drawn back into her ordinary sensory awareness. As Zeena once again
-entered her body, she found herself repeating hysterically: ''I'm saving
-my body for God. I'm saving my body for God."" Whatever this may
-mean in context---probably that her awareness had actually been separated from her body, in conjunction with the presence of alien spirit
-entities which might perhaps have tried to enter her vacant body
-mediumistically---it was subsequent to this out-of-body experience that
-Zeena began to feel that \sc{ufo} entities were helping her to channel and
-balance her energies.
-
-These \sc{ufo} entities, Zeena asserts, are not in themselves wholly astral
-or mental forms, but have actual physical existence, albeit of an unusual
-nature.
-
-I speculated that these entities might be using psychic mediumship to
-contact human beings because they have no physical bodies and cannot
-
-
-manifest on this material continuum, but Zeena argued with me, saying
-that her instructions were coming from real beings with a real physical
-existence. This existence, she told me, participates more fully in the
-pranic or astral energy system than does our ordinary bodily existence.
-The difference between human beings and \sc{ufo} entities, Zeena asserted, is not wholly a matter of expanded awareness. These entities
-simply have more pranic energy per square inch of their very real
-physical existence and thus find it difficult to be present entirely within
-our ''material'' vibrational continuum, which is actually more dense
-electromagnetically than \sc{ufo} matter. This made sense to me in terms of
-my theories of time alteration under pranic action, which will be
-explained in section forty-six.
-
-FORTY-FIVE
-7\slash 22\slash 717
-Meanwhile, I was late meeting Lobo back at my apartment due to an
-extended psychic reading.
-
-The woman I had scheduled for a mid-morning appointment turned
-out to have unusual problems as regards a case of smallpox in a past life.
-I did not know this initially.
-
-She told me that she had unexplained problems with scar tissue on one
-shoulder. This tissue had appeared overnight several years ago and was
-non-malignant. For some reason, this woman was certain that these
-scars (which I had not seen) were traces from a past life.
-
-I went looking back into her past lives and found that she had died at
-thirteen in the nineteen-twenties of a case of smallpox which had not
-been treated, due to the superstition of her parents. As soon as I had told
-her this, the young woman dramatically unbuttoned her blouse and
-showed me five or six raised markings which looked as if some force had
-modeled smallpox suppurations onto her skin. She was in her late teens,
-and was having emotional problems with her parents, when these model
-poxmarks appeared. I surmise that the emotional situation of parental
-restriction reminded her psyche of the former parental superstition, and
-that her own subconscious recollections built a physical reminder of her
-previous early death. '
-
-This (as must be obvious) was a highly unusual reading in a number of
-
-
-respects, and I was thinking about it strongly on my way back home
-from bus to bus, trying also to signal Lobo mentally that I was unavoidably an hour late, and would eventually be arriving. Just as I turned onto
-my street, I saw an ancient square-ish car with four German shepherds
-(two adults and two puppies) pull into this street at the other end of the
-block.
-
-As I kept on walking I watched this thing meander a bit and then
-finally find a parking place. I peered inside. Sure enough: it was Lobo
-
-. . somehow signaled in to my exact instant of arrival. He hopped out
-of this vehicle and presented me with a small black toy German
-shepherd. I held this dog and then put it back into the car, while the big
-white shepherd smiled cutely at me from the driver's seat, and tried to
-thrust its head through the opening and closing window.
-
-After this event, we went inside and I fixed Lobo coffee. I asked him
-how he came to be evicted from his former residence on the North shore
-of Boston, near the ocean, and he told me that this had been because his
-friend had no car insurance. What? Your friend has no car insurance?
-And this is why all your belongings have been hauled to the city dump?
-Amazing! Because your friend had no car insurance!?
-
-'I had wanted to start a cultural center,"' Lobo told me, ' 'but several
-agencies told me that there had to be at least six or seven people coming
-regularly before this could be given serious consideration. This is the
-reason they had it in for me, I suppose . . . actually . . . my actual
-specialty is angels coming down from the sky."'
+% FORTY-FOUR
+\nonum\chap FORTY-FOUR
+
+\date{7\slash 21\slash 77}
+
+Lobo arrived this morning, one half hour late and looking relatively good. He told me that he could not stay long because he had just been evicted, his belongings had been thrown out onto the city dump, and at the moment he had four German shepherds (two adults and two puppies) outside in his car.
+
+He was afraid that these dogs might become overheated, and so we made an appointment for Lobo to come over to my apartment tomorrow, where the dogs can rest out back in the shade. Before he left to relieve the dogs, Lobo confided to me that while traveling in Mexico he had given mechanical assistance to an ex-Nazi driving a Mercedes-Benz.
+
+This car had broken down near wherever it was that Lobo was hitching. On the way back to Mexico City, this ex-Nazi (who at this point was in possession of a Mexican wife and several children as well as his Mercedes) told Lobo that yes it was true that Hitler's establishment had been very much into the exploration of occult ideas and probably technology related to the use of extra-sensory perception and bioplasmic energy.
+
+At this point, I asked Lobo if he knew anything about the Canadian publishers of \bt{\sc{ufo}s: Nazi Secret Weapon}. He looked puzzled, then nodded briefly and told me that he had an overwhelming urge to hug me. Lobo says this to all the girls, but I took him up on this offer, so he hugged me briefly and went out to relieve the dogs.
+
+Shortly after this quick exit, as I was sitting in my office with the door open correcting a xerox copy of \playtitle{My Sandwich Exploded}, a woman in a red dotted-swiss sundress wandered in looking for Larry Sands, the head of the Shin Psychic Center. She told me that he was not in his office and that she had been meaning to drop in on me for some time, but I had never been in my office at the times she had felt like dropping in---until now. \sc{ufo}s, Zeena claimed, were assisting her to channel and balance her energies. I told her to come right in and tell me all about it.
+
+It was certainly lucky, in a way, that Lobo had left so quiEkly after hugging me.
+
+Before Zeena began the story of her adventures with interdimensional contact, I told her that I thought it was possible that more highly-developed beings might be assisting her to channel and balance her energies. I told her about my experience with Torres, and described how I can now move the dowsing pendulum psychokinetically at a distance without touching it. Then I moved the pendulum for Zeena and she told me that she was familiar with the use of the dowsing pendulum to get \dq{yes} and \dq{no} answers, and with concepts of psychic healing which involve pranic energy channeling. She told me that she had always been naturally psychic, and seemed to know where and where not to go automatically, It was certainly true that she and Lobo had followed each other in and out of my office as if responding to some joint transdimensional cue.
+
+Zeena first felt an influx of pranic energy when she was living in California. She identified this energy influx with god and enlightenment. In order to understand what was happening to her, Zeena went first to the Esalen Institute, where she practiced various forms of meditation, and then to the Psychic Institute in Berkeley, where she experienced further pranic energy channeling and at times was able to see astral energy forms.
+
+While Zeena was attending the Psychic Institute in Berkeley, a member of a \dq{flying saucer} group approached her and said that he could travel intergalactically.
+
+She rejected this claim because she felt that it was impossible to travel intergalactically without a space ship, and that his claims were \dq{off the wall} entirely.
+
+Then one day, while Zeena was meditating, she saw a small green insect on the wall. This green insect told Zeena that the space ships were coming. She felt somehow convinced by this experience, and then again while in Los Angeles had another contact with an unconventional \sc{ufo}.
+
+Zeena was talking with a Los Angeles clairvoyant when she saw a beam of astral light shoot out from his forehead. At the end of this beam of light was a whitish elliptical shape. This frightened Zeena and she left the room. Later, with this same clairvoyant, she felt that she had left her body, and was hovering near the ceiling of the room. She panicked, and when she felt herself being separated from her body was then violently drawn back into her ordinary sensory awareness. As Zeena once again entered her body, she found herself repeating hysterically: \dq{I'm saving my body for God. I'm saving my body for God.} Whatever this may mean in context---probably that her awareness had actually been separated from her body, in conjunction with the presence of alien spirit entities which might perhaps have tried to enter her vacant body mediumistically---it was subsequent to this out-of-body experience that Zeena began to feel that \sc{ufo} entities were helping her to channel and balance her energies.
+
+These \sc{ufo} entities, Zeena asserts, are not in themselves wholly astral or mental forms, but have actual physical existence, albeit of an unusual nature.
+
+I speculated that these entities might be using psychic mediumship to contact human beings because they have no physical bodies and cannot manifest on this material continuum, but Zeena argued with me, saying that her instructions were coming from real beings with a real physical existence. This existence, she told me, participates more fully in the pranic or astral energy system than does our ordinary bodily existence.  The difference between human beings and \sc{ufo} entities, Zeena asserted, is not wholly a matter of expanded awareness. These entities simply have more pranic energy per square inch of their very real physical existence and thus find it difficult to be present entirely within our \dq{material} vibrational continuum, which is actually more dense electromagnetically than \sc{ufo} matter. This made sense to me in terms of my theories of \e{time alteration under pranic action}, which will be explained in section forty-six.
+
+% FORTY-FIVE
+\nonum\chap FORTY-FIVE
+
+\date{7\slash 22\slash 77}
+
+Meanwhile, I was late meeting Lobo back at my apartment due to an extended psychic reading.
+
+The woman I had scheduled for a mid-morning appointment turned out to have unusual problems as regards a case of smallpox in a past life.  I did not know this initially.
+
+She told me that she had unexplained problems with scar tissue on one shoulder. This tissue had appeared overnight several years ago and was non-malignant. For some reason, this woman was certain that these scars (which I had not seen) were traces from a past life.
+
+I went looking back into her past lives and found that she had died at thirteen in the nineteen-twenties of a case of smallpox which had not been treated, due to the superstition of her parents. As soon as I had told her this, the young woman dramatically unbuttoned her blouse and showed me five or six raised markings which looked as if some force had modeled smallpox suppurations onto her skin. She was in her late teens, and was having emotional problems with her parents, when these model poxmarks appeared. I surmise that the emotional situation of parental restriction reminded her psyche of the former parental superstition, and that her own subconscious recollections built a physical reminder of her previous early death.
+
+This (as must be obvious) was a highly unusual reading in a number of respects, and I was thinking about it strongly on my way back home from bus to bus, trying also to signal Lobo mentally that I was unavoidably an hour late, and would eventually be arriving. Just as I turned onto my street, I saw an ancient square-ish car with four German shepherds (two adults and two puppies) pull into this street at the other end of the block.
+
+As I kept on walking I watched this thing meander a bit and then finally find a parking place. I peered inside. Sure enough: it was Lobo\ld\ somehow signaled in to my exact instant of arrival. He hopped out of this vehicle and presented me with a small black toy German shepherd. I held this dog and then put it back into the car, while the big white shepherd smiled cutely at me from the driver's seat, and tried to thrust its head through the opening and closing window.
+
+After this event, we went inside and I fixed Lobo coffee. I asked him how he came to be evicted from his former residence on the North shore of Boston, near the ocean, and he told me that this had been because his friend had no car insurance. What? Your friend has no car insurance?  And this is why all your belongings have been hauled to the city dump?  Amazing! Because your friend had no car insurance!?
+
+\dq{I had wanted to start a cultural center,} Lobo told me, \dq{but several agencies told me that there had to be at least six or seven people coming regularly before this could be given serious consideration. This is the reason they had it in for me, I suppose\ld\  actually\ld\ my actual specialty is angels coming down from the sky.}
 
 And if you think this makes no sense, you may be right.
 
-It seems that Lobo was driving a friend's car with out-of-state plates
-and no registration or insurance. So, the police stopped Lobo and
-questioned him about this car with the out-of-state plates since Lobo had
-been driving around a long time in his friend's car with out-of-state
-plates.
-
-In the process of questioning Lobo, the police found that this car of his
-friend had no insurance or registration, so they fined him two hundred
-and fifty dollars, which he did not pay, since (as seems logical) the car
-itself did not belong to him, although the police would (of course) have
-no way of knowing anything about this arrangement since the car had no
-insurance or registration to identify itself as not being Lobc's property.
-
-
-At any rate, subsequent to Lobo's refusal to pay the two hundred and
-fifty dollar fine on a car he did not own, police officers entered his home
-without a warrant to search for health hazards (apparently it is legal in
-one North Shore community for police to enter without a warrant if they
-are searching for a health hazard . . . or. . .isn'tthis contrary to Article
-Four in Amendment to the Constitution of the United States?) and while
-inside this man's home without prior notice took pictures of some dogs
-and the unconventional furniture of a cultural pariah. That is to say: a
-mattress on the floor, several boxes and whatnot else. Then they went
-outside (according to Lobo), put up some sort of a condemned or "'health
-hazard"' sign on the front entrance, and several days subsequent to this
-action hauled most of Lobo's belongings to the city dump where (as he
-told me) they were plowed under. )
-
-Lobo told me that he was so upset by this violation of his civil liberties
-that he literally forgot how to breathe, so that he had to keep counting
-from one to ten to keep his lungs in gear. At this point, Lobo told me, he
-went to the emergency room of a local hospital, where they found
-nothing physically wrong with him and called in a psychiatrist to check
-for psychosomatic problems, which of course he certainly was experiencing at the time. .
-
-This psychiatrist asked Lobo if he felt that he had been hearing voices
-or seeing people who were not there. Of course, Lobo has seen, as he
-puts it, "'angel people drifting down through the sky in clusters," but the
-people who were causing him to have difficulty in breathing were really
-there.
+It seems that Lobo was driving a friend's car with out-of-state plates and no registration or insurance. So, the police stopped Lobo and questioned him about this car with the out-of-state plates since Lobo had been driving around a long time in his friend's car with out-of-state plates.
+
+In the process of questioning Lobo, the police found that this car of his friend had no insurance or registration, so they fined him two hundred and fifty dollars, which he did not pay, since (as seems logical) the car itself did not belong to him, although the police would (of course) have no way of knowing anything about this arrangement since the car had no insurance or registration to identify itself as not being Lobc's property.  At any rate, subsequent to Lobo's refusal to pay the two hundred and fifty dollar fine on a car he did not own, police officers entered his home without a warrant to search for health hazards (apparently it is legal in one North Shore community for police to enter without a warrant if they are searching for a health hazard\ld\ or\ld isn't this contrary to Article Four in Amendment to the Constitution of the United States?) and while inside this man's home without prior notice took pictures of some dogs and the unconventional furniture of a cultural pariah. That is to say: a mattress on the floor, several boxes and whatnot else. Then they went outside (according to Lobo), put up some sort of a condemned or \dq{health hazard} sign on the front entrance, and several days subsequent to this action hauled most of Lobo's belongings to the city dump where (as he told me) they were plowed under.
+
+Lobo told me that he was so upset by this violation of his civil liberties that he literally forgot how to breathe, so that he had to keep counting from one to ten to keep his lungs in gear. At this point, Lobo told me, he went to the emergency room of a local hospital, where they found nothing physically wrong with him and called in a psychiatrist to check for psychosomatic problems, which of course he certainly was experiencing at the time. 
+
+This psychiatrist asked Lobo if he felt that he had been hearing voices or seeing people who were not there. Of course, Lobo has seen, as he puts it, \dq{angel people drifting down through the sky in clusters,} but the people who were causing him to have difficulty in breathing were really there.
 
 They seem to have been the police department.
 
-At this point in his narration, Lobo began to laugh appreciatively, and
-went outside to check his dogs.
-
-"Iremember," he told me when he returned, ''volunteering to come to
-this planet. Do you remember volunteering?"'
-
-I told Lobo that I did not remember volunteering, but that I was sure
-that I had experienced previous lifetimes on this planet. As far as coming
-down vibrationally into this particular time at this particular place, I am
-sure that I must have been drafted. Certainly, I did not invoke the
-expansion of my consciousness which began with my \sc{ufo} sighting in
-Swampscott in 1973. I told Lobo about the woman whose body had
-
-
-somehow registered the memory of the pox that had killed her as a
-teenage boy in another lifetime, and he frowned and told me that he
-remembered being in some sort of metallic compartment, and seeing the
-doors shut . . . but there was really nothing else available that Lobo
-could remember about this processing experience from another lifetime,
-except that he had been a volunteer to be incarnated to raise the consciousness of the spirits now incarnate on the Earth planet.
-
-I told Lobo that Bethiwitch (remember Bethiwitch: my other 1974
-\sc{ufo} companion?) had once told me that he and I had lived together in
-another lifetime on a vegetable planet. This, I have since speculated,
-could possibly be a planet with a different sort of carbon-dioxide life
-cycle. Beings with a carbon-dioxide-based respiration, for example,
-would have to take special precautions before breathing the air of earth
-(p. 26). Possibly, one or the other of us then commented, everyone
-should take special precautions before breathing the air of earth (p. 83).
-Lobo and I then laughed for about ten minutes, staring at our coffee
-cups, and he asked me once again if now since I was divorced and he had
-once been a member of special sexual sensitivity and freedom classes in
-Berkeley, California, could he please put his arms around me. He told
-me it was nothing special, and so truthfully I told him that in my
-apartment it was little Berkeley, California on certain occasions, and
-that yes I was very curious about those special sexual sensitivity and
-freedom classes.
-
-While Lobo had his arms around me, he told me he could feel my
-mental vibrations and that it was like hearing beautiful classical music
-played with the pranic energies. I asked him if that was what he told all of
-the vegetables that he and his dogs drove around hugging in the name of
-sexual freedom and sensitivity, and he asked me if I could lend him
-about five or six aspirin since he had to go on to work at his job as a
-security guard down by the beach, and was having quite a headache in
-this situation just trying to breathe. Certainly! Any time.
-
-FORTY-SIX
-Taking heed of the green insect which Zeena says she saw on her wall (p.
-99), I am now going to discuss some of the basic electronic properties of
-
-chlorophyl.
-
-
-The pranic breathing involved in the process of photosynthesis is
-basic to an understanding of \sc{ufo} activity. In discussing the pranic
-breathing of vegetable life, I am going to use terms directly derivative of
-traditional research on chlorophyl and the process of photosynthesis.
-
-Since nowhere in the literature on photosynthesis is pranic energy or
-the possibility of pranic energy mentioned, I am also going to use terms
-introduced in my article ''Fluidice: Time as a Function of Prana," which
-was published in Pursuit magazine in Spring 1977, and one new term
-which is specific to observable time anomalies within the electromagnetic spectrum.
-
-I am going to call this new property "insult" in memory of my
-conviction just prior to the New York City blackout that several of my
-friends and acquaintances had *'insulted my mathematics." This insight
-on insult called my attention to possible connections between ''my
-pranic mathematics'" and electricity. The mathematical property of
-insult refers not to emotional upset (though this very idea may cause
-emotional upset in some traditional physicists, Rosie!) but to the jerk or
-"warp'' in time which occurs at the junction between the electromagnetic and pranic or astral dimensions.
-
-Traditionally, in occultiana, this junction is symbolized by an X or
-cross with (roughly) the horizontal representing the material continuum
-and the vertical representing the pranic or mental energies which intersect the material continuum, but remain qualitatively different from this
-material continuum. In plane geometry (as is well-known) it takes two
-straight lines to make a point.
-
-If---and now, here we go, Rosie!---the sub-atomic electronic energies
-which bind the basic structure of this material continuum are considered
-to be a horizontal straight line (although these energies are not literally a
-straight line) and the astral or pranic energies are considered to be a
-vertical straight line (although these energies are not literally a straight
-line), the crucial point at which these different sorts of energies intersect
-is a mathematical time point compartment which I have labeled **Fluidice." Fluidice is not a real box. It is a set concept. This Fluidice
-compartment is a time compartment which is absolutely attached to the
-electromagnetic spectrum. In the electromagnetic spectrum, the electric
-and magnetic fields are represented as being normal to one another.
-
-
-However, although the electric and magnetic fields are oriented differently, they share time frequencies, which is why the interaction of
-these electric and magnetic vectors forms a coherent material structure,
-which we have termed "'electromagnetic." All matter, as can be seen by
-examination of the sub-atomic electronic interactions, is electromagnetic in nature. At regular points of sequential time there are Fluidice
-compartments along the electromagnetic continuum, at vibratory nodes
-of time-agreement.
-
-At these Fluidice compartments, which are rigidly attached to the
-nodes of time\slash frequency agreement (ice), but do admit alteration by the
-time-independent pranic energy (fluid), there can occur an insult to the
-ordinary material continuum as the Fluidice time-compartment contracts or expands under the influx of prana. This insult is analogous to
-the exparision and contraction of material objects under a flux of temperature. Pranic influx into the Fluidice-compartment can cause the
-time\slash space effects which we call ''psychokinesis' or "'synchronicity."
-Prana has no electromagnetic structure, but (as with heat) can be noticed
-by an alteration of electromagnetic structure. This pranic insult to the
-material continuum can be evident electrically as interference or strange
-voices on electrical equipment and\slash or the unusual states of consciousness which are associated with effects such as "'illumination'" or *'inspiration." Since this time insult also occurs sub-atomically, it can be seen
-to cause alteration of matter such as observed in psychosomatic illness,
-stigmata (p. 100), and "'spirit"" phenomena such as the inexplicable
-shattering of a mirror or the appearance of a bright ellipsoidal light in the
-atmosphere concomitant with idea alteration involving consciousness
-expansion and\slash or \sc{esp}.
-
-This consciousness '"'expansion' involves a real electrical alteration
-of the neural functioning (see p. 78). This ionic alteration under pranic
-influx changes the chemical nature of the neural mechanism in a way
-which is similar to, but not exactly the same as, chemical changes of the
-nervous system which have been observed in connection with the use of
-LSD and mescaline.
-
-This time insult effect also contributes to the dual absorption effect
-which has been observed in chlorophyl pigment. This dual absorption
-effect has been documented and discussed by researchers all over the
-
-
-world, but never fully explained. It is fundamental to the process of
-photosynthesis, which is a basic life process. In response to the alleged
-warning (p. 84) about traps of implicit assumptions and the non-absolute
-nature of all known physical laws, I would like (in context of the
-foregoing rapid descent\slash ascent into serious technicalities) to advance
-my own explanation for the unexplained time anomaly in the absorption
-process of photosynthesis. This concerns chemical transitions which, as
-observed, seem to be too *'rapid"' for accurate observation or inexplicably "*simultaneous." These are insulted chemical transitions. Photosynthesis is a life process and during this life process the chlorophyl-bearing
-plant is breathing prana.
-
-T will list first what is officially not known about photosynthesis: a)
-Differing sites in chlorophyl pigment absorb light at different rates, and
-selectively prefer differing frequencies of light, ranging the spectrum
-from blue to red. It is not known how or why these sites select the light.
-b) Simultaneously, at sites distant (miroscopically) from one another,
-chlorophy! exhibits oxidation and reduction reactions which seemingly
-have no functional link, except their co-presence in one substance. The
-oxidation\slash reduction reaction is chemically ionic in nature and normally
-the reduction process releases an ion which is then absorbed during the
-oxidation process. Naturally, this sequence of liberation and absorptlon
-takes sequential time. It is not known how chlorophyl, during the
-process of photosynthesis, manages to dispense with sequential requirements and suddenly oxidize and reduce at the same time, in separate locations. c) When subjected to light stimulus, chlorophyl exhibits a
-time delay between initial illumination and response which indicates
-mediation by so-called "'dark responses," which have not been fully
-understood.
-
-Obviously, green vegetables are a bit spaced out in their behavior.
-During photosynthesis, catalytic energy is added to chemicals already
-present in the plant cell, changing the electronic configuration of the
-chemicals and thus converting carbon dioxide and water to carbohydrates and oxygen.
-
-To quote from an elementary chemistry textbook: *"The importance of
-photosynthesis cannot be overestimated, since it represents the principal
-way by which solar energy is made available to living organisms."
-
-
-It has always been assumed that the catalytic energy being added to
-carbon dioxide and water in the presence of chlorophyl and\slash or other
-catalytic pigments, was strictly photonic illumination. However, as I
-have pointed out in my article, *"The \sc{ufo} Certainty," which appeared in
-the Everything for Everybody newspaper in August 1977, there are no
-strict guarantees in small particle physics.
-
-Experimentally, the quantized energy packet called a photon (of
-which tiny projectiles a stream of light is said to be composed) has been
-observed to enter two small apertures at the same time, yet subsequently
-register an intact presence on a measuring counter at only one place.
-
-Where was this photon in transit? Where did it go while pulling itself
-together, and at what time did it reassemble?
-
-Officially, it is said that a photon can never be located by exact
-measurement, only by the probability that it might be in a certain area at
-a certain time. Because of this strange behavior of the photon, scientists
-have said that it is both a particle and a wave: the wave goes through two
-apertures and the particle registers in one place. Given this explanation,
-it is easy to see why the photon might be hard to locate.
-
-If the foregoing wave\slash particle duality seems difficult to understand, it
-is probably because something is missing from the official description.
-
-As I have said in my discussion of Fluidice (p. 26), I believe that
-concepts of time will have to be revised in order to account honestly for
-observed physical phenomena.
-
-Time alteration is the only means by which the photon could possibly
-be in two places at one time and then subsequently register in one place at
-a different time.
-
-The wave\slash particle dilemma can be seen as one of the time insult
-effects observable within the electromagnetic spectrum.
-
-Given the inexplicable behavior of chlorophyl during photosynthesis,
-there is no reason to suppose that time-altering pranic action is not
-occurring to cause simultaneous oxidation and reduction. In fact, the
-presence of a pranic catalyst would also explain the fact that photosynthesis has been seen to occur in the absence of any conventional light
-source, as documented in laboratory experiments with chromaophore
-development.
-
-Pranic action, as linked with all vibratory action of the electromagnetic spectrum, is not contingent on the presence of visible or invisible
-light.
-It seems to me that many problems of biochemistry and small particle
-physics can be better described by admitting the presence of time insult.
+At this point in his narration, Lobo began to laugh appreciatively, and went outside to check his dogs.
+
+\dq{I remember,} he told me when he returned, \dq{volunteering to come to this planet. Do you remember volunteering?}
+
+I told Lobo that I did not remember volunteering, but that I was sure that I had experienced previous lifetimes on this planet. As far as coming down vibrationally into this particular time at this particular place, I am sure that I must have been drafted. Certainly, I did not invoke the expansion of my consciousness which began with my \sc{ufo} sighting in Swampscott in 1973. I told Lobo about the woman whose body had somehow registered the memory of the pox that had killed her as a teenage boy in another lifetime, and he frowned and told me that he remembered being in some sort of metallic compartment, and seeing the doors shut\ld\ but there was really nothing else available that Lobo could remember about this processing experience from another lifetime, except that he had been a volunteer to be incarnated to raise the consciousness of the spirits now incarnate on the Earth planet.
+
+I told Lobo that Bethiwitch (remember Bethiwitch: my other 1974 \sc{ufo} companion?) had once told me that he and I had lived together in another lifetime on a vegetable planet. This, I have since speculated, could possibly be a planet with a different sort of carbon-dioxide life cycle. Beings with a carbon-dioxide-based respiration, for example, would have to take special precautions before breathing the air of earth (p. 26).\fixnote\ Possibly, one or the other of us then commented, everyone should take special precautions before breathing the air of earth (p. 83).\fixnote\  Lobo and I then laughed for about ten minutes, staring at our coffee cups, and he asked me once again if now since I was divorced and he had once been a member of special sexual sensitivity and freedom classes in Berkeley, California, could he please put his arms around me. He told me it was nothing special, and so truthfully I told him that in my apartment it was little Berkeley, California on certain occasions, and that yes I was very curious about those special sexual sensitivity and freedom classes.
+
+While Lobo had his arms around me, he told me he could feel my mental vibrations and that it was like hearing beautiful classical music played with the pranic energies. I asked him if that was what he told all of the vegetables that he and his dogs drove around hugging in the name of sexual freedom and sensitivity, and he asked me if I could lend him about five or six aspirin since he had to go on to work at his job as a security guard down by the beach, and was having quite a headache in this situation just trying to breathe. Certainly! Any time.
+
+% FORTY-SIX
+\nonum\chap FORTY-SIX
+
+Taking heed of the green insect which Zeena says she saw on her wall (p.  99),\fixnote\ I am now going to discuss some of the basic electronic properties of chlorophyl.
+
+The pranic breathing involved in the process of photosynthesis is basic to an understanding of \sc{ufo} activity. In discussing the pranic breathing of vegetable life, I am going to use terms directly derivative of traditional research on chlorophyl and the process of photosynthesis.
+
+Since nowhere in the literature on photosynthesis is pranic energy or the possibility of pranic energy mentioned, I am also going to use terms introduced in my article \dq{Fluidice: Time as a Function of Prana,} which was published in \jt{Pursuit} magazine in Spring 1977, and one new term which is specific to observable time anomalies within the electromagnetic spectrum.
+
+I am going to call this new property \dq{insult} in memory of my conviction just prior to the New York City blackout that several of my friends and acquaintances had \dq{insulted my mathematics.} This insight on insult called my attention to possible connections between \dq{my pranic mathematics} and electricity. The mathematical property of insult refers not to emotional upset (though this very idea may \e{cause} emotional upset in some traditional physicists, Rosie!) but to the jerk or \dq{warp} in time which occurs at the junction between the electromagnetic and pranic or astral dimensions.
+
+Traditionally, in occultiana, this junction is symbolized by an X or cross with (roughly) the horizontal representing the material continuum and the vertical representing the pranic or mental energies which intersect the material continuum, but remain qualitatively different from this material continuum. In plane geometry (as is well-known) it takes two straight lines to make a point.
+
+If---and now, here we go, Rosie!---the sub-atomic electronic energies which bind the basic structure of this material continuum are considered to be a horizontal straight line (although these energies are not literally a straight line) and the astral or pranic energies are considered to be a vertical straight line (although these energies are not literally a straight line), the crucial \e{point} at which these different sorts of energies intersect is a mathematical time point compartment which I have labeled \dq{Fluidice.} Fluidice is not a real box. It is a set concept. This Fluidice compartment is a time compartment which is absolutely attached to the electromagnetic spectrum. In the electromagnetic spectrum, the electric and magnetic fields are represented as being normal to one another.
+
+However, although the electric and magnetic fields are oriented differently, they share time frequencies, which is why the interaction of these electric and magnetic vectors forms a coherent material structure, which we have termed \dq{electromagnetic.} All matter, as can be seen by examination of the sub-atomic electronic interactions, is electromagnetic in nature. At regular points of sequential time there are Fluidice compartments along the electromagnetic continuum, at vibratory nodes of time-agreement.
+
+At these Fluidice compartments, which are rigidly attached to the nodes of time\slash frequency agreement (ice), but do admit alteration by the time-independent pranic energy (fluid), there can occur an \e{insult} to the ordinary material continuum as the Fluidice time-compartment contracts or expands under the influx of prana. This insult is analogous to the exparision and contraction of material objects under a flux of temperature. Pranic influx into the Fluidice-compartment can cause the time\slash space effects which we call \dq{psychokinesis} or \dq{synchronicity.} Prana has no electromagnetic structure, but (as with heat) can be noticed by an alteration of electromagnetic structure. This pranic insult to the material continuum can be evident electrically as interference or strange voices on electrical equipment and\slash or the unusual states of consciousness which are associated with effects such as \dq{illumination} or \dq{inspiration.} Since this time insult also occurs sub-atomically, it can be seen to cause alteration of matter such as observed in psychosomatic illness, stigmata (p. 100),\fixnote\ and \dq{spirit} phenomena such as the inexplicable shattering of a mirror or the appearance of a bright ellipsoidal light in the atmosphere concomitant with idea alteration involving consciousness expansion and\slash or \sc{esp}.
+
+This consciousness \dq{expansion} involves a real electrical alteration of the neural functioning (see p. 78).\fixnote\ This ionic alteration under pranic influx changes the chemical nature of the neural mechanism in a way which is similar to, but not exactly the same as, chemical changes of the nervous system which have been observed in connection with the use of \sc{lsd} and mescaline.
+
+This time insult effect also contributes to the dual absorption effect which has been observed in chlorophyl pigment. This dual absorption effect has been documented and discussed by researchers all over the world, but never fully explained. It is fundamental to the process of photosynthesis, which is a basic life process. In response to the alleged warning (p. 84)\fixnote\ about traps of implicit assumptions and the non-absolute nature of all known physical laws, I would like (in context of the foregoing rapid descent\slash ascent into serious technicalities) to advance my own explanation for the unexplained time anomaly in the absorption process of photosynthesis. This concerns chemical transitions which, as observed, seem to be too \dq{rapid} for accurate observation or inexplicably \dq{simultaneous.} These are \e{insulted} chemical transitions. Photosynthesis is a life process and during this life process the chlorophyl-bearing plant is breathing prana.
+
+T will list first what is officially \e{not known} about photosynthesis: 
+\begitems\style a
+* Differing sites in chlorophyl pigment absorb light at different rates, and selectively prefer differing frequencies of light, ranging the spectrum from blue to red. It is not known how or why these sites select the light.
+* Simultaneously, at sites distant (miroscopically) from one another, chlorophy! exhibits oxidation and reduction reactions which seemingly have no functional link, except their co-presence in one substance. The oxidation\slash reduction reaction is chemically ionic in nature and normally the reduction process releases an ion which is then absorbed during the oxidation process. Naturally, this sequence of liberation and absorptlon takes sequential time. It is not known how chlorophyl, during the process of photosynthesis, manages to dispense with sequential requirements and suddenly oxidize and reduce at the same time, in separate locations. 
+* When subjected to light stimulus, chlorophyl exhibits a time delay between initial illumination and response which indicates mediation by so-called \dq{dark responses,} which have not been fully understood.
+\enditems
+
+Obviously, green vegetables are a bit spaced out in their behavior.  During photosynthesis, catalytic energy is added to chemicals already present in the plant cell, changing the electronic configuration of the chemicals and thus converting carbon dioxide and water to carbohydrates and oxygen.
+
+To quote from an elementary chemistry textbook: \dq{The importance of photosynthesis cannot be overestimated, since it represents the principal way by which solar energy is made available to living organisms.}
+
+It has always been assumed that the catalytic energy being added to carbon dioxide and water in the presence of chlorophyl and\slash or other catalytic pigments, was strictly photonic illumination. However, as I have pointed out in my article, \essaytitle{The \sc{ufo} Certainty,} which appeared in the \jt{Everything for Everybody} newspaper in August 1977, there are no strict guarantees in small particle physics.
+
+Experimentally, the quantized energy packet called a photon (of which tiny projectiles a stream of light is said to be composed) has been observed to enter two small apertures at the same time, yet subsequently register an intact presence on a measuring counter at only one place.
+
+Where was this photon in transit? Where did it go while pulling itself together, and at what time did it reassemble?
+
+Officially, it is said that a photon can never be located by exact measurement, only by the probability that it might be in a certain area at a certain time. Because of this strange behavior of the photon, scientists have said that it is both a particle and a wave: the wave goes through two apertures and the particle registers in one place. Given this explanation, it is easy to see why the photon might be hard to locate.
+
+If the foregoing wave\slash particle duality seems difficult to understand, it is probably because something is missing from the official description.
+
+As I have said in my discussion of Fluidice (p. 26),\fixnote\ I believe that concepts of time will have to be revised in order to account honestly for observed physical phenomena.
+
+Time alteration is the only means by which the photon could possibly be in two places at one time and then subsequently register in one place at a different time.
+
+The wave\slash particle dilemma can be seen as one of the time insult effects observable within the electromagnetic spectrum.
+
+Given the inexplicable behavior of chlorophyl during photosynthesis, there is no reason to suppose that time-altering pranic action is not occurring to cause simultaneous oxidation and reduction. In fact, the presence of a pranic catalyst would also explain the fact that photosynthesis has been seen to occur in the absence of any conventional light source, as documented in laboratory experiments with chromatophore development.
+
+Pranic action, as linked with all vibratory action of the electromagnetic spectrum, is not contingent on the presence of visible or invisible light.
+
+It seems to me that many problems of biochemistry and small particle physics can be better described by admitting the presence of time insult.
+
 This time insult occurs at the intersection of electromagnetic vibratory
 time with the time-independent pranic energies.
 
-CONCLUSION
-7\slash 24\slash 77
-I am aware that in the preceding section on chlorophyl and time insult I
-have advanced a radical alteration in the description of the structure of
-matter.
-
-This is not some frivolous idea I picked up while eating carrots and
-reading a paperback on Einstein's halloween parties. These ideas are
-based on the technical reading which I have been doing since my initial
-\sc{ufo} sighting in 1973. This technical reading has been primarily in the
-area of mathematical philosophy and the description of experiments in
-chemistry and physics. I am aware that I have placed these new concepts
-of time structure within the unusual context of a chronologically-written,
-a-sequential narrative. As stated in the introductory chapter, this
-technique has been deliberate. As well as giving some of the mind-altering
-qualities of the \sc{ufo} reality, I wanted to demonstrate that it is
-quite possible to remain sane while writing an account of unusual
-happenings and that the study and documentation of unusual happenings
-need not and probably should not be approached with the rigidity of
-logic. . )
-
-I have just finished reading Carl Sagan's recent book The Dragons of
-Eden, in which he talks about the evolution of intelligence. In this book,
-Sagan details the physical structure of the brain as this relates to evolution from primitive life forms to man. He discusses the possibility that
-highly-evolved extraterrestrial life forms may have a shape and mental
-capacities which are as surprising to us as man might be to a reptile
-aware of the hereditary relationship. In fact, the title of Sagan's book is
-based on this concept of the ancient reptile heritage which survives in
-man in the limbic area of the brain. You will have to read The Dragons of
-Eden for a full exposition of this view:
-
-
-"She walks! She talks! She crawls on her belly like a reptile! . . as
-the archetypal strip show hustler is reputed to yell out to the patrons of
-the snake dance at the local county fair.
-
-Sagan includes involuntary hissing behavior as evidence in man of the
-survival of this reptilian characteristic. I do not know about Sagan, but I
-have never hissed at an enemy in my life. I have never witnessed
-reptilian hissing behavior in a human being and I do not know actually
-that hissing is a primary characteristic of reptiles, some of whom are
-vocally silent.
-
-I have seen a human being hiss like a cat, but the thought of a dragon
-never crossed my mind.
-
-Perhaps Sagan has witnessed reptilian hissing in his close relatives
-and associates. If so, I think they might go for a bowl of warm milk and a
-little purina cat chow sooner than a tray of raw eggs and a few live game
-birds. Although, cobras do drink warm milk, don't they? And cats do
-catch live birds. At any rate, snake-like I am puiling the literary leg of
-Mr. Sagan in order to inch myself around to the fact that in the final
-chapter of his book on the evolution of intelligence (and after opening
-the possibility that more highly-developed life forms might be much
-different from human beings) he makes an ex cathedra denunciation of
-topics such as astrology, \sc{esp} and telepathic communication with more
-highly-evolved entities, possibly from another galaxy or plane of being.
-
-I assume that astronomer Sagan includes in this blanket denunciation
-the communication with angels which has been reported by personalities as diverse as Immanuel Swedenborg, St. Bernadette of
-Lourdes, and my good old friend Lobo of America, who is a psychic
-medium.
-
-Lobo sees angels coming down from the sky in clusters. We discussed
-these angels and he agreed that these shapes that he was secing were
-probably astral energy forms. Lobo also can see the spirits of human
-beings who are deceased. He told me of an experience in a Spiritualist
-church during which he could see the guide of a Spiritualist minister
-standing beside her as she spoke. _
-
-Lobo himself (though he has his personal peculiarities, I have never
-seen him hissing) envisions part of his voluntary mission on this earth
-plane as the performance of "'interdimensional rescue work."
-
-
-He certainly did rescue me back in 1974, when I had really seen a
-\sc{ufo} light and did not know quite where to put my perceptions. Once
-again, in 1977, he appeared at just the right time to rescue me from the
-very real confusion and exhaustion which were holding back my composition of the rough draft of this book (p. 103). Lobo's sudden appearances and disappearances are not really accidental or coincidental. They
-stem from his mediumship and psychic ability. Because he is an all-American
-drifter, he is absolutely free to be in the right place at the right
-time. I do not know for sure whether he always knows how he got into
-these places, but he is of good will and has \sc{esp}.
-
-There is an ancient occult teaching about the '"'ass that bears the
-sacraments."" A rather lowly-looking animal can be carrying valuable
-gold, if the strength of this animal can bear the weight. Psychics and
-mediums may not always intellectually understand what they are saying
-or why they are saying it, but frequently they can come up with valuable
-or life-saving information. Sagan speaks in his book about the possible
-destruction of ''creativity" in accidental brain damage, and very correctly states that this faculty might never be missed in a routine screening
-for damage, since most people are not highly creative.
-
-I would like at this point to remind the professional skeptic that this
-same criterion can be applied to the psychic faculty. It is just™as scientifically off the wall to test just anybody for \sc{esp}, and then declare there
-is no \sc{esp}, as it would be to test any citizen at random for creativity and
-inventiveness and then declare that there is no such thing as creativity
-
-. Or an operatic tenor . . . or an artistic person who can copy
-historical landmarks accurately . . .
-
-Likewise, it is off the wall scientifically to declare that there have
-been no \sc{ufo} sightings involving pranic contact with more highly-developed
-intelligences by consulting a radio telescope or the findings of
-people whose specialty is astronomy. I go to a medical doctor to learn
-about the state of health of my body. I do not go to a medical doctor to
-learn about the piece of the great pranic spirit which animates my body.
-If I want to know where a star is, I will ask an astronomer. If I see an
-angel who speaks to me, I will most assuredly not ask what magnitude it
-is and how many light years distant it is and whether or not it has
-experienced the red shift lately or actually is a quasar.
-
-
-Possibly, if a visitor from another galaxy appeared (like the Indians of
-South America, who confused the Spanish invaders with an angelic and
-godlike navigator who had visited the continent previously), and was
-using the pranic or \sc{esp} energies for communication, some psychics and
-religiously-minded people like Lobo of the sexual freedom league might
-confuse this visitor with an angel.
-
-Other humans confronted with an unexpected influx of pranic communication might simply disbelieve this experience and forget it
-entirely, only to have the suppressed memory of this unusual encounter
-erupt via dreams and irrational waking behavior (p. 91). This can often
-happen with ordinary telepathic or spirit contact. For example, recently I
-went to visit some people near Boston who have a haunted house. This
-was a stressful encounter for everyone and involved negative spirit
-contact, some of it relating to effects on children.
-
-My son was not there with me and I told him nothing about the strange
-events which had occurred, but shortly after I returned home from this
-encounter he jumped out of bed in a sleepwalker's frenzy and urinated
-all over the floor.
-
-Evidently, he had picked up the agitation which had characterized the
-situation in the haunted house, and this came out in irrational naughty
-behavior rather than any clearly formulated question or statement about
-what I had been doing.
+\nonum\chap CONCLUSION
+\date{7\slash 24\slash 77}
+
+I am aware that in the preceding section on chlorophyl and time insult I have advanced a radical alteration in the description of the structure of matter.
+
+This is not some frivolous idea I picked up while eating carrots and reading a paperback on Einstein's halloween parties. These ideas are based on the technical reading which I have been doing since my initial \sc{ufo} sighting in 1973. This technical reading has been primarily in the area of mathematical philosophy and the description of experiments in chemistry and physics. I am aware that I have placed these new concepts of time structure within the unusual context of a chronologically-written, a-sequential narrative. As stated in the introductory chapter, this technique has been deliberate. As well as giving some of the mind-altering qualities of the \sc{ufo} reality, I wanted to demonstrate that it is quite possible to remain sane while writing an account of unusual happenings and that the study and documentation of unusual happenings need not and probably should not be approached with the rigidity of logic.
+
+I have just finished reading Carl Sagan's recent book \bt{The Dragons of Eden}, in which he talks about the evolution of intelligence. In this book, Sagan details the physical structure of the brain as this relates to evolution from primitive life forms to man. He discusses the possibility that highly-evolved extraterrestrial life forms may have a shape and mental capacities which are as surprising to us as man might be to a reptile aware of the hereditary relationship. In fact, the title of Sagan's book is based on this concept of the ancient reptile heritage which survives in man in the limbic area of the brain. You will have to read \bt{The Dragons of Eden} for a full exposition of this view:
+
+\dq{She walks! She talks! She crawls on her belly like a reptile!}\ld\ as the archetypal strip show hustler is reputed to yell out to the patrons of the snake dance at the local county fair.
+
+Sagan includes involuntary hissing behavior as evidence in man of the survival of this reptilian characteristic. I do not know about Sagan, but I have never hissed at an enemy in my life. I have never witnessed reptilian hissing behavior in a human being and I do not know actually that hissing is a primary characteristic of reptiles, some of whom are vocally silent.
+
+I have seen a human being hiss like a cat, but the thought of a dragon never crossed my mind.
+
+Perhaps Sagan has witnessed reptilian hissing in his close relatives and associates. If so, I think they might go for a bowl of warm milk and a little purina cat chow sooner than a tray of raw eggs and a few live game birds. Although, cobras do drink warm milk, don't they? And cats do catch live birds. At any rate, snake-like I am pulling the literary leg of Mr. Sagan in order to inch myself around to the fact that in the final chapter of his book on the evolution of intelligence (and after opening the possibility that more highly-developed life forms might be much different from human beings) he makes an \e{ex cathedra} denunciation of topics such as astrology, \sc{esp} and telepathic communication with more highly-evolved entities, possibly from another galaxy or plane of being.
+
+I assume that astronomer Sagan includes in this blanket denunciation the communication with angels which has been reported by personalities as diverse as Immanuel Swedenborg, St. Bernadette of Lourdes, and my good old friend Lobo of America, who is a psychic medium.
+
+Lobo sees angels coming down from the sky in clusters. We discussed these angels and he agreed that these shapes that he was secing were probably astral energy forms. Lobo also can see the spirits of human beings who are deceased. He told me of an experience in a Spiritualist church during which he could see the guide of a Spiritualist minister standing beside her as she spoke.
+
+Lobo himself (though he has his personal peculiarities, I have never seen him hissing) envisions part of his voluntary mission on this earth plane as the performance of \dq{interdimensional rescue work.}
+
+He certainly did rescue me back in 1974, when I had really seen a \sc{ufo} light and did not know quite where to put my perceptions. Once again, in 1977, he appeared at just the right time to rescue me from the very real confusion and exhaustion which were holding back my composition of the rough draft of this book (p. 103).\fixnote\ Lobo's sudden appearances and disappearances are not really accidental or coincidental. They stem from his mediumship and psychic ability. Because he is an all-American drifter, he is absolutely free to be in the right place at the right time. I do not know for sure whether he always knows how he got into these places, but he is of good will and has \sc{esp}.
+
+There is an ancient occult teaching about the \dq{ass that bears the sacraments.} A rather lowly-looking animal can be carrying valuable gold, if the strength of this animal can bear the weight. Psychics and mediums may not always intellectually understand what they are saying or why they are saying it, but frequently they can come up with valuable or life-saving information. Sagan speaks in his book about the possible destruction of \dq{creativity} in accidental brain damage, and very correctly states that this faculty might never be missed in a routine screening for damage, since most people are not highly creative.
+
+I would like at this point to remind the professional skeptic that this same criterion can be applied to the psychic faculty. It is just as scientifically off the wall to test just anybody for \sc{esp}, and then declare there is no \sc{esp}, as it would be to test any citizen at random for creativity and inventiveness and then declare that there is no such thing as creativity \ld Or an operatic tenor\ld\ or an artistic person who can copy historical landmarks accurately\ld
+
+Likewise, it is off the wall scientifically to declare that there have been no \sc{ufo} sightings involving pranic contact with more highly-developed intelligences by consulting a radio telescope or the findings of people whose specialty is astronomy. I go to a medical doctor to learn about the state of health of my body. I do not go to a medical doctor to learn about the piece of the great pranic spirit which animates my body.  If I want to know where a star is, I will ask an astronomer. If I see an angel who speaks to me, I will most assuredly not ask what magnitude it is and how many light years distant it is and whether or not it has experienced the red shift lately or actually is a quasar.
+
+Possibly, if a visitor from another galaxy appeared (like the Indians of South America, who confused the Spanish invaders with an angelic and godlike navigator who had visited the continent previously), and was using the pranic or \sc{esp} energies for communication, some psychics and religiously-minded people like Lobo of the sexual freedom league might confuse this visitor with an angel.
+
+Other humans confronted with an unexpected influx of pranic communication might simply disbelieve this experience and forget it entirely, only to have the suppressed memory of this unusual encounter erupt via dreams and irrational waking behavior (p. 91).\fixnote\ This can often happen with ordinary telepathic or spirit contact. For example, recently I went to visit some people near Boston who have a haunted house. This was a stressful encounter for everyone and involved negative spirit contact, some of it relating to effects on children.
+
+My son was not there with me and I told him nothing about the strange events which had occurred, but shortly after I returned home from this encounter he jumped out of bed in a sleepwalker's frenzy and urinated all over the floor.
+
+Evidently, he had picked up the agitation which had characterized the situation in the haunted house, and this came out in irrational naughty behavior rather than any clearly formulated question or statement about what I had been doing.
 
 He has not done this sort of thing before or since.
 
-This is not to suggest that a human being with suppressed memories of
-\sc{ufo} contact is likely to urinate all over your floor, although this may
-happen.
+This is not to suggest that a human being with suppressed memories of \sc{ufo} contact is likely to urinate all over your floor, although this may happen.
 
 Anything is possible.
 
-I simply suggest that the daily behavior of those who claim \sc{ufo}
-contact or any concomitant effect such as unexplained car engine failure
-coupled with one hour of amnesia should be watched for oddity: not the
-oddity of madness, but the oddity of shock or hysteria.
-
-I have received, for example, a letter from Mrs. Betty Hill of the
-famed Interrupted Journey \sc{ufo} case. T had written to Mrs. Hill, telling
-her about my work and sending her an article I had written which
-connects \sc{ufo} contact with \sc{esp}. She sent me back a very courteous
-letter admitting the possibility of \sc{esp} as a phenomenon, but stating that
-
-
-she had experienced no \sc{esp} as connected with \sc{ufo}s.
-
-However, in this letter she stated a curious fact. She told me that she
-had experienced \sc{esp} as a child and in fact thought she had been mildly
-gifted with \sc{esp} until the date of 9\slash 19\slash 61, which was the date of her
-famous experience with ''capture'" by a \sc{ufo}. Obviously, her sighting
-had something to do with the \sc{esp} mechanism, or she would not have lost
-this particular esoteric ability (mild as it was in her case) during the
-shocked aftermath of her \sc{ufo} contact.
-
-It is odd that she would not notice this effect directly, after all the
-questioning she must have undergone.
-
-The oddity of contactee behavior has often been minimized by the
-\sc{ufo} press in order to make the situations depicted seem plausible and
-not figments of mad imagination. This is understandable, but does not
-really represent the reality of the \sc{ufo} situation, whick in a great many
-cases extends beyond the one-shot situational event of a *'sighting'' into
-personal behavior and insights.
-
-These insights range from the diagnosis of cancer as due to a chemical
-imbalance in the atmosphere, through a sense of being the '"child of the
-cosmos"' to Lobo's idea that he was incarnated on Earth to raise the
-consciousness level of humanity.
-
-I am very much into the idea that our concepts of "intelligénce" and
-"intelligent behavior'' need to be revised, as do our ideas of how
-particular communications with more highly-evolved and\slash or spirit
-entities might possibly occur.
-
-For example, as I was quietly sitting here in the air shuttle plane to
-New York City, jotting down notes specifically on the absorption spectra
-of chlorophyl, an exit sign fell on my head. These notes had specifically
-to do with the site\slash absorption dilemma which I have mentioned as point
-number (a) on page 106 of the preceding discussion of pranic action
-during photosynthesis. There is a lot of research material on chlorophyl,
-and right after the exit sign fell on my head I decided that the site\slash 
-absorption dilemma was the ""way out" for me as far as beginning to
-elucidate the photosynthetic problem in a way which could be easily
-understood.
-
-~And if you understood that, Rosie, you will easily understand the
-following dilemma:
-
-
-There is no easy explanation for why that exit sign fell on my specific
-head. I was sitting in the center seat of a row of three seats and this sign
-was fastened to the ceiling at the center of the aisle, just back of my
-seatmate, who was not touched. At the time it hit me, I turned to him and
-mentioned that I found this accident very significant due to my interests
-in psychokinesis and synchronicity.
-
-He smiled and nodded and returned to reading Fear of Flying by Erica
-Jong.
+I simply suggest that the daily behavior of those who claim \sc{ufo} contact or any concomitant effect such as unexplained car engine failure coupled with one hour of amnesia should be watched for oddity: not the oddity of madness, but the oddity of shock or hysteria.
+
+I have received, for example, a letter from Mrs. Betty Hill of the famed \bt{Interrupted Journey \sc{ufo}} case. T had written to Mrs. Hill, telling her about my work and sending her an article I had written which connects \sc{ufo} contact with \sc{esp}. She sent me back a very courteous letter admitting the possibility of \sc{esp} as a phenomenon, but stating that she had experienced no \sc{esp} as connected with \sc{ufo}s.
+
+However, in this letter she stated a curious fact. She told me that she had experienced \sc{esp} as a child and in fact thought she had been mildly gifted with \sc{esp} \e{until} the date of 9\slash 19\slash 61, which was the date of her famous experience with \dq{capture} by a \sc{ufo}. Obviously, her sighting had something to do with the \sc{esp} mechanism, or she would not have lost this particular esoteric ability (mild as it was in her case) during the shocked aftermath of her \sc{ufo} contact.
+
+It is odd that she would not notice this effect directly, after all the questioning she must have undergone.
+
+The oddity of contactee behavior has often been minimized by the \sc{ufo} press in order to make the situations depicted seem plausible and not figments of mad imagination. This is understandable, but does not really represent the reality of the \sc{ufo} situation, which in a great many cases extends beyond the one-shot situational event of a "sighting" into personal behavior and insights.
+
+These insights range from the diagnosis of cancer as due to a chemical imbalance in the atmosphere, through a sense of being the \dq{child of the cosmos} to Lobo's idea that he was incarnated on Earth to raise the consciousness level of humanity.
+
+I am very much into the idea that our concepts of "intelligence" and "intelligent behavior" need to be revised, as do our ideas of how particular communications with more highly-evolved and\slash or spirit entities might possibly occur.
+
+For example, as I was quietly sitting here in the air shuttle plane to New York City, jotting down notes specifically on the absorption spectra of chlorophyl, an exit sign fell on my head. These notes had specifically to do with the site\slash absorption dilemma which I have mentioned as point number (a) on page 106\fixnote\ of the preceding discussion of pranic action during photosynthesis. There is a lot of research material on chlorophyl, and right after the exit sign fell on my head I decided that the site\slash absorption dilemma was the \dq{way out} for me as far as beginning to elucidate the photosynthetic problem in a way which could be easily understood.
+
+And if you understood that, Rosie, you will easily understand the following dilemma:
+
+There is no easy explanation for why that exit sign fell on my specific head. I was sitting in the center seat of a row of three seats and this sign was fastened to the ceiling at the center of the aisle, just back of my seatmate, who was not touched. At the time it hit me, I turned to him and mentioned that I found this accident very significant due to my interests in psychokinesis and synchronicity.
+
+He smiled and nodded and returned to reading \bt{Fear of Flying} by Erica Jong.
 
 Actually, previous to this accident, I had written a ballad:
 
-Knocking Out the En*Gynes with my Mojo \sc{ufo}
+\vskip 1em
+\centerline{{\it\ul{Knocking Out the En*Gynes with my Mojo \sc{ufo}}}}
+\vskip 1em
+
+{\parskip=0pt\parindent=0pt
 
 Goodbye, transcontinental: I can't fly west no more
-I walk up to the teller and the keys don't punch the score
+
+\nudge I walk up to the teller and the keys don't punch the score
 
 This machine is out of order, though my account as full of dough
-I am knocking out the en*gynes with my mojo \sc{ufo}
+\nudge I am knocking out the en*gynes with my mojo \sc{ufo}
+
+\vskip 1em
 
 Goodbye tender romance: chains vibrate in the locks
-The door swings automatic: I have cooked my bobbie sox
+
+\nudge The door swings automatic: I have cooked my bobbie sox
+
 My stainless steel gift wedding knife jumped off the butter
-SO: I am knocking out the en*gynes with my mojo \sc{ufo}
+
+\nudge \sc{SO}: I am knocking out the en*gynes with my mojo \sc{ufo}
+
+\vskip 1em
 
 Met my lover down in Soho: he got stranded on a train
 
-Mojo knocked out the en*gynes, left me standing in the rain
+\nudge Mojo knocked out the en*gynes, left me standing in the rain
+
 Well, the longer that I stood there, the wetter that I got
 
-Mojo knocked out the en*gynes: I have cooked my bobbie sox
+\nudge Mojo knocked out the en*gynes: I have cooked my bobbie sox
+
+\vskip 1em
 
 So, goodbye transcontinental: I can't fly the western zone
-If that bugger hits the en*gyne we'll be falling like a stone
-so, if a circuit hits you shortly, it is then that you will know
-I am knocking out the en*gynes with my mojo \sc{ufo}
 
-Which not only mentions my ironical fear that psychokinetic energies
-might somehow disintegrate an airplane in which I was riding, but
-specifically links the \sc{ufo} reality with ""mojo," that indefinable and
-extra-sensory method of persuasion so important to gypsies and street
-people.
+\nudge If that bugger hits the en*gyne we'll be falling like a stone
 
-Mojo is a sort of charisma, but it is specifically related to iuck and the
+so, if a circuit hits you shortly, it is then that you will know
+
+\nudge I am knocking out the en*gynes with my mojo \sc{ufo}\par}
 
+Which not only mentions my ironical fear that psychokinetic energies might somehow disintegrate an airplane in which I was riding, but specifically links the \sc{ufo} reality with \dq{mojo,} that indefinable and extra-sensory method of persuasion so important to gypsies and street people.
 
-ability to persuade by hypnotic means. Some have identified mojo with
-sex, but though mojo includes (of course!) sexual persuasion, this
-psychic ability is not confined in its exercise to sexual prowess, but
-includes the power of mind over matter and over the psyche of other
-individuals.
+Mojo is a sort of charisma, but it is specifically related to iuck and the ability to persuade by hypnotic means. Some have identified mojo with sex, but though mojo includes (of course!) sexual persuasion, this psychic ability is not confined in its exercise to sexual prowess, but includes the power of mind over matter and over the psyche of other individuals.
 
-In his latest letter to me, received August first, 1977, Andrew Galligan confides that the chapters of the purported Air Force manual which
-he possesses were ''smuggled" out of Air Force facilities.
+In his latest letter to me, received August first, 1977, Andrew Galligan confides that the chapters of the purported Air Force manual which he possesses were \dq{smuggled} out of Air Force facilities.
 
-Galligan does not mention the identity of the smuggler, if they were
-smuggled.
+Galligan does not mention the identity of the smuggler, if they were smuggled.
 
-None of the pages I possess is stamped classified orrestricted, and the
-information in chapter 33, 1969 and chapter 33, 1970, is all derivative of
-secular \sc{ufo} publications. The only interesting bit of information in
-these chapters involves the admonition to would-be \sc{ufo} investigators
-not to fall into the '"'trap of implicit assumptions."
+None of the pages I possess are stamped \e{classified} or \e{restricted}, and the information in chapter 33, 1969 and chapter 33, 1970, is all derivative of secular \sc{ufo} publications. The only interesting bit of information in these chapters involves the admonition to would-be \sc{ufo} investigators not to fall into the \dq{trap of implicit assumptions.}
 
 I wonder if this is anything like the Bermuda Triangle.
 
-In his letter of August first, Galligan also mentions the theories of
-Wilhelm Reich, who postulated some sort of universal energy called
-orgone. Reich identified this energy with sexuality, and later went to jail
-for claiming that his ''orgone cabinet" (which he envisioned as an
-energy accumulator) cured cancer and other diseases. N
+In his letter of August first, Galligan also mentions the theories of Wilhelm Reich, who postulated some sort of universal energy called orgone. Reich identified this energy with sexuality, and later went to jail for claiming that his \dq{orgone cabinet} (which he envisioned as an energy accumulator) cured cancer and other diseases. 
+
+As detailed in Section 30, I have not found the pranic energy involved in \sc{esp} and \sc{ufo} contact to manifest any spectacular physical healing effect as a regular event.
 
-As detailed in Section 30, I have not found the pranic energy involved
-in \sc{esp} and \sc{ufo} contact to manifest any spectacular physical healing
-effect as a regular event.
+I have found that these experiences can have a profound mental result, both in terms of information and expanded consciousness. Speaking personally, since my \sc{ufo} sighting in 1973 I have learned quite a lot about mathematical theory and the nature of the electromagnetic spectrum.
 
-I have found that these experiences can have a profound mental result,
-both in terms of information and expanded consciousness. Speaking
-personally, since my \sc{ufo} sighting in 1973 I have learned quite a lot
-about mathematical theory and the nature of the electromagnetic spectrum.
+Of course, since I include the pranic energies in my view of the universe, my interpretation of information on electromagnetism, gravity and theories of numbers is going to differ from the standard interpretation.
 
-Of course, since I include the pranic energies in my view of the
-universe, my interpretation of information on electromagnetism, gravity
-and theories of numbers is going to differ from the standard interpretation.
+However, previous to 1973, I had no strong interest in the mathematical aspects of philosophy. In fact, it was the least of my interests.  Additionally, although I had worked as a reporter and playwright, I had really shown no interest in the personal essay. As of now, I am publishing personal essays. This trend of thought began (p. 9)\fixnote\ during the time I was experiencing my secondary \sc{ufo} contact in 1975.
 
-However, previous to 1973, I had no strong interest in the mathematical aspects of philosophy. In fact, it was the least of my interests.
-Additionally, although I had worked as a reporter and playwright, I had
+Something happened to my interests and abilities, beginning in December of 1973. Whatever it was that reintegrated my capacities, that reality is the reason for this book.
 
+The last time I saw Lobo (although I am sure I will see him again) he offered to give me a can opener, which I refused, indicating that I already had an electric can opener.
 
-really shown no interest in the personal essay. As of now, I am publishing personal essays. This trend of thought began (p. 9) during the time I
-was experiencing my secondary \sc{ufo} contact in 1975.
+Subsequently, he has been seen hugging Rosie and telling her that I am after his body with my mojo. There ain't no more gifts to give. No, not exactly. More likely your mind. I have no need for a manual can opener. Actually, I think the same can be said for our \sc{ufo} visitors, or (as Lobo puts it) the angel people from another planet.
 
-Something happened to my interests and abilities, beginning in December of 1973. Whatever it was that reintegrated my capacities, that
-reality is the reason for this book.
+In retrospect, I believe that I have been educated. I do not claim to understand the plan.
 
-The last time I saw Lobo (although I am sure I will see him again) he
-offered to give me a can opener, which I refused, indicating that I already
-had an electric can opener.
+\vfill
+
+\centerline{{\typoscale[1100/] THE END}}
 
-Subsequently, he has been seen hugging Rosie and telling her that I
-am after his body with my mojo. There ain't no more gifts to give. No,
-not exactly. More likely your mind. I have no need for a manual can
-opener. Actually, I think the same can be said for our \sc{ufo} visitors, or (as
-Lobo puts it) the angel people from another planet.
+\fvill
 
-In retrospect, I believe that I have been educated. I do not claim to
-understand the plan.
+\rightline{\e{As was dictated by events}}
+\rightline{September 2, 1977}
+\rightline{New York, N.Y. 10011}
+
+\vfill
 
-THE END
+\bfreak
 
-As was dictated by events
-September 2, 1977
-New York, N.Y. 10011
 
+\null\vskip 1em
+
+\centerline{{\typoscale[1200/]\sc{Selected Bibliography}}}
+
+\vskip 2em
 
-SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
+\bt{Primary Processes in Photosynthesis}, Martin D. Kamen, Academic Press, New York, 1963.
 
-Primary Processes in Photosynthesis. Martin D. Kamen, Academic
-Press, New York, 1963.
+\bt{Biochemistry of Photosynthesis}, R.P.F. Gregory, Wiley Interscience, Belfast, 1971.
 
-Biochemistry of Photosynthesis R.P.F. Gregory, Wiley Interscience,
-Belfast, 1971.
+\bt{Quantum Biochemistry}, Bernard Pullman and Alberto Pullman, Wiley Interscience, New York, 1963.
 
-Quantum Biochemistry, Bernard Pullman and Alberto Pullman, Wiley
-Interscience, New York, 1963.
+Other Books mentioned in this text are available at libraries and bookstores by author and title.
 
-Other Books mentioned in this text are available at libraries and
-bookstores by author and title.
+\vfill 
 
-IF YOU SHOULD HAVE ANY
-QUESTIONS
-?
+{\parskip=0pt\parindent=0pt
+\leftskip=0pt plus1fil\rightskip=0pt plus1fil\parfillskip=0pt plus1fil
+{\typoscale[1200/]
+\sc{IF YOU SHOULD HAVE ANY}\nl
+\sc{QUESTIONS}\nl
+\sc{?}\nl\par}
 
 Do not hesitate to phone my answering service.
-212-691-7950 ext 285 .
-PERSONS mentioned in this book are real persons. Names have been
-changed in certain cases to avert publicity. I do not give out the names of
-persons who have appeared in this book under a pseudonym. Please do
-not ask me to do so.
+212-691-7950 ext 285\par}
 
+\vfill
+
+\sc{Persons} mentioned in this book are real persons. Names have been changed in certain cases to avert publicity. I do not give out the names of persons who have appeared in this book under a pseudonym. Please do not ask me to do so.
+
+\break
+
+\centerline{{\typoscale[1200/]\sc{Epilogue}}}
+
+\vskip 2em
 
-EPILOGUE
+\Q{\e{\dq{If heaven has distributed to me my portion in knavery, I am none of your degenerate spirits who hide the talents they have received.}}}
+\Qs{\playtitle{The Blunderer}}
 
-"If heaven has distributed to me my portion in knavery, I am none of your
-degenerate spirits who hide the talents they have received.' trom The
-Blunderer.
+\vskip 1em
 
-This quote is from one of the early plays by Moliere, the great French
-playwright and satirist. It is a familiarity with the literature of satire
-which has sustained me through the comedy of errors described in this
-volume.
+This quote is from one of the early plays by Molière, the great French playwright and satirist. It is a familiarity with the literature of satire which has sustained me through the comedy of errors described in this volume.
 
-I do not claim at this time to have come to any final conclusions as to
-the nature of the phenomena which I describe. With regard to metaphysical and philosophical speculation, everything can be said to be in your
-mind. The question then remains: what is your mind, and where is it?
+I do not claim at this time to have come to any final conclusions as to the nature of the phenomena which I describe. With regard to metaphysical and philosophical speculation, everything can be said to be in your mind. The question then remains: what is your mind, and where is it?
 
-Alonzo Torres (who is written up in Section 30 and has suffered
-through various sorts of \sc{esp} slapstick) felt upon reading the manuscript
-of this book that I had been somehow unfair to him in judgments made
-about his psychological state at the time of our experiments with induced
-spirit contact and psychic healing.
+Alonzo Torres (who is written up in Section 30 and has suffered through various sorts of \sc{esp} slapstick) felt upon reading the manuscript of this book that I had been somehow unfair to him in judgments made about his psychological state at the time of our experiments with induced spirit contact and psychic healing.
 
-"I have a degree in psychology,' Torres asserted. "'I prefer not to
-make absolute judgments. I like to hold the facts in my mind, and weigh
-the possibilities."
+\dq{I have a degree in psychology,} Torres asserted. \dq{I prefer not to make absolute judgments. I like to hold the facts in my mind, and weigh the possibilities.}
 
 Certainly, we would all like to be able to judge psychological situations impartially. It is true that no one on earth has this absolute faculty.
 
-I made an error in constructing the TORRES REBUS which is part of
-Section 30. In the play written by Alonzo Torres, he does not represent
-the chess master Capablanca as playing chess with a pigeon, nor is the
-girl friend of Capablanca jealous. Actually, according to Torres, the
-spirit of Capablanca enters a live pigeon, which is then able to play chess
-with a little boy. However, in Torres' play in any version, a pigeon
-certainly does play chess.
-
-Due to the unusual nature of my material, I may have made other
-errors of representation. Sometimes my mind (wherever itis) just would
-not go all the way around some of the fantastic details which were
-presented to me.
-
-If I have hurt anybody's feelings, I would like to apologize. In order to
-
-
-protect the mental health of various private individuals, T have used the
-real name of contactees and others only when this was specifically
-requested, or when the individual is already a public figure.
-
-Finally, I would like to assert that, while I certainly have no direct
-memory of living on a vegetable planet such as Bethiwitch describes in
-Section 1, we here on Earth do not presently know all there is to know
-about one of our primary life processes: photosynthesis.
-
-Plants somehow eat light, and we eat plants. Given human ignorance
-of this basic enigma, it is entirely possible that entities more highly
-evolved than human beings, arriving either from a distant planet or
-somehow from the mental dimensions of our own solar system, may
-possess faculties of \sc{esp} and psychokinesis which utilize some of the
-same time-strange energies which have been observed, but not explained, by modern chemistry and physies.
-
-To these entities, if they exist outside our own collective unconscious,
-human activity must seem bizarre and ridiculous. They certainly might
-want to study us.
-
-Perhaps the collective unconscious of the human race is studying
-itself. In that case, we are now enjoying global paranoia. *However, I do
-not believe that the collective unconscious is responsible for \sc{ufo}
-phenomena. "
-
-*"Soviet Scientists are baffled by a huge mass of light that flared Tuesday in the skies of
-Petrozavodsk in Soviet Karelia and hovered over the city in the form of a jellyfish
-sending down a multitude of fine beams, Tass reported today."" New York Times
-9\slash 23\slash 77.
+I made an error in constructing the \sc{Torres Rebus} which is part of Section 30. In the play written by Alonzo Torres, he does not represent the chess master Capablanca as playing chess \e{with} a pigeon, nor is the girl friend of Capablanca jealous. Actually, according to Torres, the spirit of Capablanca enters a live pigeon, which is then able to play chess with a little boy. However, in Torres' play in any version, a pigeon certainly does play chess.
+
+Due to the unusual nature of my material, I may have made other errors of representation. Sometimes my mind (wherever itis) just would not go all the way around some of the fantastic details which were presented to me.
+
+If I have hurt anybody's feelings, I would like to apologize. In order to protect the mental health of various private individuals, I have used the real name of contactees and others only when this was specifically requested, or when the individual is already a public figure.
+
+Finally, I would like to assert that, while I certainly have no direct memory of living on a vegetable planet such as Bethiwitch describes in Section 1, we here on Earth do not presently know all there is to know about one of our primary life processes: photosynthesis.
+
+Plants somehow eat light, and we eat plants. Given human ignorance of this basic enigma, it is entirely possible that entities more highly evolved than human beings, arriving either from a distant planet or somehow from the mental dimensions of our own solar system, may possess faculties of \sc{esp} and psychokinesis which utilize some of the same time-strange energies which have been observed, but not explained, by modern chemistry and physies.
+
+To these entities, if they exist outside our own collective unconscious, human activity must seem bizarre and ridiculous. They certainly might want to study us.
+
+Perhaps the collective unconscious of the human race is studying itself. In that case, we are now enjoying global paranoia.\fnote{\dq{Soviet Scientists are baffled by a huge mass of light that flared Tuesday in the skies of Petrozavodsk in Soviet Karelia and hovered over the city in the form of a jellyfish sending down a multitude of fine beams, Tass reported today.} \jt{New York Times} 9\slash 23\slash 77.} However, I do not believe that the collective unconscious is responsible for \sc{ufo} phenomena.
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