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@@ -47,11 +48,14 @@ passages in connection with a review in a magazine or newspaper.
 
 This book is for the members of the international psychic community
 who anonymously, and often at their own expense, provided information
-on books, pamphlets, UFOs, states of altered consciousness and the
+on books, pamphlets, \sc{ufo}s, states of altered consciousness and the
 whereabouts of individual contactees.
 
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 \chap Acknowledgment
 
 The manuscript of this book has been through three versions, including two revisions. These revisions consisted of the formalization of my original longhand notes into a coherent manuscript, and the further editing and tightening of this manuscript for intelligibility and literal accuracy. Coherence, of course, is all in your mind. Wherever your mind is.
@@ -72,756 +76,314 @@ At that time, I contacted a local \sc{ufo} data collector who told me that he wa
 
 Something had happened to me, but I was not sure exactly what had occurred. I began to take books on \sc{ufo} phenomena and technical books on electro-magnetism out of the library. During the time I was catching up on my reading, I experienced strange dreams related to \sc{ufo} lights, and several times woke from sleep and walked to the window, feeling that \sc{ufo} presences were outside, and that they wanted me to communicate with them.
 
-These presences were hypnotically compelling. At one time, I actually heard a humming \dq{generator} sound in conjunction with my waking from sleep. Another person in the house also heard this sound. It has never been explained to me in terms of naturally-occurring electrical phenomena. In the book which follows, I attempt to render and discuss unusual states of mind which a \sc{ufo} contactee may undergo. These may include feeling \dq{alien} as an individual, unreasonable anger, elation or depression, enhanced ESP abilities, and the development of alternate technological systems.
+These presences were hypnotically compelling. At one time, I actually heard a humming \dq{generator} sound in conjunction with my waking from sleep. Another person in the house also heard this sound. It has never been explained to me in terms of naturally-occurring electrical phenomena. In the book which follows, I attempt to render and discuss unusual states of mind which a \sc{ufo} contactee may undergo. These may include feeling \dq{alien} as an individual, unreasonable anger, elation or depression, enhanced \sc{esp} abilities, and the development of alternate technological systems.
 
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 ---Touch my finger.
 
 ---Okay.
 
----Hey, I'm a Martian! . . . Surprise! You're pregnant!
-International Children's Joke
-
-By now, there have been so many \sc{ufo} sightings, that it is no longer
-necessary to begin a book on this topic with an apology. Strange flying
-objects have been seen all over the world. Speculation on the identity of
-these objects has ranged from mystical views heralding the coming of
-the mythical beast of the Apocalypse to serious efforts by astronomers to
-devise an intergalactic signal which indicates the presence of intelligent
-life.
-
-Effort in this direction has included psychological treatment of the
-UFO experience, with diagnoses ranging from schizophrenia to sexual
-frustration. In Jung's thought, the \sc{ufo} was a fiery archetypal symbol
-
-. . of what? The symbolic significance of the \sc{ufo} has not so far been
-satisfactorily explained.
-
-In this book, I am going to skip this diagnostic debate altogether, and
-concentrate on the human effects of \sc{ufo} experience, as I have observed
-2 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} R'EALITY
-
-them in the course of two years of interviews with purported UFO
-contactees.
-
-As a practicing psychic reader and surrealist poet, people have been
-my major field of interest since 1969, when I held my first job as a
-newspaper reporter. I enjoy talking to people and telling them things
-about themselves via ESP, as well as documenting human behavior
-(sometimes satirically) in my writing. In this capacity, I am primarily
-concerned with the effect which \sc{ufo} sightings are having on the private
-lives of those contactees I have encountered; at first in the course of
-casual meetings, and then as part of the deliberate research which has led
-to this book.
-
-First, I suppose I should state my own credentials in this matter.  am a
-""contactee." I saw my first \sc{ufo} light in 1973, while standing outside in
-the cold waiting for a train in Swampscott, Massachusetts. Since I was at
-that time returning from a Spiritualist Church service, I recognized the
-phenomenon to be directly similar to '""spirit light"" phenomena which 1
-sometimes experience while giving a psychic reading, or as part of
-spontaneous mediumistic occurrences popularly known as ''seeing a
-ghost."
-
-This \sc{ufo} was a light exterior to me, which I actually saw physically.
-It appeared suddenly in the sky, dilated, and came toward me rapidly,
-then became a V-shaped formation of smaller lights on the opposite side
-of the sky. This formation disappeared and I saw nothing else in the sky.
-Five or ten minutes later, a light appeared down the tracks which 1
-thought was the train light, but this light disappeared and no train
-arrived.
-
-When the train finally came, I boarded it silently, and went directly
-home. I felt that as well as seeing a light in the sky I had experienced an
-altered state of consciousness analogous to trances and/or states of
-psychic insight, and I was extremely frightened.
-
-For twenty-four hours (or longer) I was in a state of shock. During this
-time, I phoned the local paper and stated that I had seen a UFQ. A
-reporter on this paper had previously interviewed me on aspects of my
-work as a playwright, and so my sighting got published. I did not tell this
-reporter that I had been on my way back from a Spiritualist Church
-service, since I felt for some reason that this sighting should be recorded,
-
-
-and was afraid that she might think I had suddenly gone crazy and was
-imagining myself to have had some sort of religious revelation.
-
-Subsequent to the publication of my \sc{ufo} report, several other people
-living in the vicinity of Ipswich, Massachusetts (where I was then living:
-the train runs from Boston through Swampscott to Ipswich) came up to
-me on the street and told me that they had also seen \sc{ufo} lights in the
-area north of Boston.
-
-Encouraged by this concensus that I was not crazy, I also filed a verbal
-report and drawing of this sighting with the \sc{ufo} Data Collection Center
-in Northfield, Illinois. Again, I left out the connection with spiritualism, lest my report be discounted. Later, I did send another report to
-Northfield which mentioned my altered state of consciousness during
-the sighting, but only subsequent to reading Jacques Vallee's book
-Passport To Magonia, in which such fantastic effects are discussed.
-
-At the time that I filed this second statement, 1 was in a rather
-kamikazi state of mind. I felt that I had no choice but to express myself in
-terms which sounded insane, and that this present insanity had better be
-confined to a limited audience, lest I lose my credibility as a psychic,
-and also a certain number of my friends and associates, whom I judged
-to be in no mood to hear about strange dilating lights in the sky.
-
-It was during this time of embarrassment that 1 found I had made two
-peculiar friends. I have since drifted out of contact with both of them,
-but in the year 1974 they were very important to me.
-
-One of these gentlemen claimed to be an ex-FBI agent from California. He operated a ham radio out of a seaside location north of Boston
-and ran an ad regularly in the alternative papers, announcing '"UFOs
-outside of our normal visual range." This listed the names and numbers
-of various government officials and advised the public to give them a
-call.
-
-About three or four months after my Swampscott sighting, 1 was
-feeling I needed to talk to someone about UFOs, no matter how strange
-they might be, and I called the number listed in this outrageous ad. Lobo
-and I had an extended conversation, and I decided to trust him. He came
-to my house in Ipswich bearing xeroxed literature on psychiatric coercion and a number of word-of-mouth horror stories on contactees and
-psychics who had been confined to mental institutions or forced to take
-4 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
-
-psychiatric or medical treatment against their will.
-
-This instilled in me both an active caution about fully revealing my
-UFO-associated inner experiences to any psychiatrist and, concomitantly, doubts as to this FBI-ham's sanity. After all, what person in his
-right mind would place such an odd \sc{ufo} ad, and then arrive bearing
-literature on lobotomies and clinical drug abuse? I did feel, however, on
-the human level, that Lobo would not harm me, and would listen to some
-relation of the true nature of my \sc{ufo} experience.
-
-Itold this man that I felt I had been communicated with on a telepathic
-level, and perhaps even "'altered'" chemically or mentally in a way which
-I did not fully understand. He was sympathetic, if a little wild-eyed,
-telling me that he was in short-wave contact with people all over the
-world who reported similar experiences. For reasons best known to
-himself, this FBI-ham told me several times-about one of these people: a
-nurse in Atlanta, Georgia who had developed the ability to move objects
-psychokinetically subsequent to \sc{ufo} contact. He mentioned no psychiatric problems in conjunction with this nurse, but evidently had either
-seen her abilities firsthand or somehow had come to believe absolutely
-in their reality.
-
-My other peculiar \sc{ufo} friend during the year of 1974 was a young
-man who has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals since the age of
-fourteen, when (as he relates it) he freaked out at a private prep school
-subsequent to playing one of the witches in Macbeth. Bethiwitch told me
-that directly after the staging of this play he became violent in English
-class and told his instructor that he was a wife-beater and a bastard.
-
-At this time in history, I cannot relate for sure whether this witch's
-English instructor was a wife-beater and a bastard. It is certain that after
-this nervous breakdown my friend was shunted from one custodial
-facility to another, emerging at age twenty-one slightly crazed and
-claiming to be psychic.
-
-I was at that time giving an acting class which advertised '""exchange
-of the psychic energies'' as a means of energy transferral between actors.
-Bethiwitch wanted to enroll in this class. At that time he was in bad
-physical condition from too many strange diets and found himself
-estranged from society.
-
-I interview each of my students before admitting them to a class on
-
-
-psychic development, and our first interview was held at a deli on
-Massachusetts Avenue in Boston, just across the street from a natural
-foods restaurant which for some reason Bethiwitch did not want to enter.
-
-I had mentioned nothing about my \sc{ufo} encounter, but immediately
-this tall emaciated young man wanted to discuss UFOs. He would not
-leave the topic alone. Also, he told me details of my dreams. Specifically, he described my recent dream of a vegetable planet. I had recently
-made several small sculptures of people emerging from flowers and
-vegetables, and this had been based on a series of dreams and visions
-concerning faces and beings which were partially plants. Bethiwitch,
-though I had never talked with him before, told me all about these
-dreams and visions, and also about the fact that he had once lived on a
-planet where people were partially flowers. He told me we had lived
-there together in another lifetime.
-
-Along this line, Bethiwitch also claimed to be the world's first
-psychic sex therapist. Embarrassing as it was at the time, he was able to
-tell me correctly the most intimate details of my sexual preferences and
-correctly described my present, past and then future lovers. He has been
-right so far. This correct narration of my sex life proved to me beyond a
-shadow of a doubt that, while undoubtedly spaced-out, Bethiwitch was
-also impressively psychic.
-
-Along with all of this personal information, he wanted to give me
-details on UFOs. He would not leave the topic alone. Though I had told
-him nothing of my \sc{ufo} encounter, he talked at length about UFOs in the
-Boston vicinity and telepathic contact with UFOs. Between Lobo and
-Bethiwitch, I got quite an education in 1974. I will divide what I learned
-into two categories: the abstract and the concrete.
-
-Following the usual occult practice, I will begin with the abstract and
-move gradually into the concrete.
-
-Hopefully, at the end of this volume I will not have concrete overshoes
-and be at the bottom of Boston harbor.
-
-Like Lobo and Bethiwitch, I am wholly mental in my peculiarities. I
-use no hard drugs, belong to no subversive organizations and indulge in
-only noncommercial sexual activities. However, the way in which I
-perceive reality has been permanently changed by my \sc{ufo} contact.
-
-In 1974, I was not yet aware of how completely my perceptions had
-6 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
-
-been altered, only that something strange had happened to me and that
-this alteration was somehow due to a dilating white light which I had
-seen in the sky shortly after Christmas in 1973.
-
-There were times when I doubted my sanity. I knew I was sane, and
-yet I doubted my sanity: I had engaged in telepathic intercourse with a
-UFO ---or had I? Whether or not this had been a spaceship, or some very
-powerful sort of spirit contact, it became increasingly evident that I
-would have to be dealing with the reality of my altered mental state.
-
-This had begun to include heightened ESP and awareness of ""energy
-states" around objects and people. Also, I was having dreams and
-waking meditative states during which I simply "felt"" again the UFO
-presence without seeing it.
-
-Clearly, it was not wise to become assaultive against those who did not
-share this alteration of perception, or to stop random passersby on the
-street while pointing to the sky and insisting: "We are not alone."
-
-As arecent contactee freakout, the first survival tactic which I learned
-was deliberate lunacy. Bethiwitch, with all of his highly-dramatized
-tales of fantastic astral journeys through outer space, had a great deal to
-teach me in this area. So did the surrealist and dada artists of the 1920s
-and 30s. As a trained writer and theatre artist, I was able to give the
-essence of this contactee experience what I believe is its first artistic
-form: The Witch City Whiz Bang, which was issued off the Magik Mirror
-Press during the bicentennial year of 1975-76 in the town of Salem,
-Massachusetts, scene of the famous witch trials.
-
-During that year, I had an occult store in Salem which was basically a
-year-long celebration of the destiny of the United States as linked to
-expanded perception. The one-dollar bill bears the great seal of the
-United States, which shows to all an eye atop a pyramid, meaning the
-building of concrete items by the use of psychic perception. While in
-Salem, I built the Witch City Whiz Bang. My Whiz Bang cited the old
-Captain Billy's Whiz Bang Joke Book and (with a certain degree of black
-humor) degrees of expanded perception within the context of the execution of Giordano Bruno, a Renaissance thinker who claimed there was
-life on other worlds. .
-
-In my case, it was either public entertainment or private mayhem.
-During the year of 1974 and into 1975, I had learned to accept as regular
-
-
-daily occurrences lights appearing here and there in my house, telepathic messages to "'look outside the window: we are here," followed by
-newspaper reports of \sc{ufo} sightings in the area, and last but not least let
-me mention a high-pitched ''generator whine'' which was heard clearly
-by my husband after I woke him from a deep sleep to assert that my
-extra-terrestrial friends were just outside the window.
-
-My marriage did not survive this situation. Clearly, I was not insane
-and could take care of my daily activities, could even conceal portions of
-my experience in order to seem rational, but I had become a different
-person with a set of mental experiences different from my husband's
-usual experiences and different from most people's inner and outer
-experiences.
-
-I was beginning to feel more at home with Lobo and Bethiwitch, and a
-few older psychics and spiritualists who have managed to maintain a
-dual existence within such groups as the Spiritualist Church and the
-Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship. Notice the word "'spiritual." Does this
-mean ''supernatural'" or "'holy"? Or what does it mean to have commerce with spirits?
-
-An elder of one of these organizations told me a very interesting story.
-I will repeat this more or less verbatim: '"There was a little girl who
-could tell the future. She had a box with a bird on the top and every time
-she wanted to tell the future she would take out the box and consult the
-bird. One day, a group of people who wanted to be able to tell the future
-stole this box, but when they opened it they found that there was nothing
-inside, and the little girl told them the future."" Which was probably that
-they would not be able to tell the future. At one time, I had considered
-calling this book: Two Years in the Bird Box.
+---Hey, I'm a Martian!\ld\ Surprise! You're pregnant!}
+\Qs{International Children's Joke}
+
+\midinsert 
+\cent{\picw=3.5in\inspic{img\slash bestwishes.png}}
+\endinsert
+
+By now, there have been so many \sc{ufo} sightings, that it is no longer necessary to begin a book on this topic with an apology. Strange flying objects have been seen all over the world. Speculation on the identity of these objects has ranged from mystical views heralding the coming of the mythical beast of the Apocalypse to serious efforts by astronomers to devise an intergalactic signal which indicates the presence of intelligent life.
+
+Effort in this direction has included psychological treatment of the \sc{ufo} experience, with diagnoses ranging from schizophrenia to sexual frustration. In Jung's thought, the \sc{ufo} was a fiery archetypal symbol \ld of what? The symbolic significance of the \sc{ufo} has not so far been satisfactorily explained.
+
+In this book, I am going to skip this diagnostic debate altogether, and concentrate on the human effects of \sc{ufo} experience, as I have observed them in the course of two years of interviews with purported \sc{ufo} contactees.
+
+As a practicing psychic reader and surrealist poet, people have been my major field of interest since 1969, when I held my first job as a newspaper reporter. I enjoy talking to people and telling them things about themselves via \sc{esp}, as well as documenting human behavior (sometimes satirically) in my writing. In this capacity, I am primarily concerned with the effect which \sc{ufo} sightings are having on the private lives of those contactees I have encountered; at first in the course of casual meetings, and then as part of the deliberate research which has led to this book.
+
+First, I suppose I should state my own credentials in this matter. I am a \dq{contactee.} I saw my first \sc{ufo} light in 1973, while standing outside in the cold waiting for a train in Swampscott, Massachusetts. Since I was at that time returning from a Spiritualist Church service, I recognized the phenomenon to be directly similar to \dq{spirit light} phenomena which I sometimes experience while giving a psychic reading, or as part of spontaneous mediumistic occurrences popularly known as \dq{seeing a ghost.}
+
+This \sc{ufo} was a light exterior to me, which I actually saw physically.  It appeared suddenly in the sky, dilated, and came toward me rapidly, then became a V-shaped formation of smaller lights on the opposite side of the sky. This formation disappeared and I saw nothing else in the sky.  Five or ten minutes later, a light appeared down the tracks which I thought was the train light, but this light disappeared and no train arrived.
+
+When the train finally came, I boarded it silently, and went directly home. I felt that as well as seeing a light in the sky I had experienced an altered state of consciousness analogous to trances and\slash or states of psychic insight, and I was extremely frightened.
+
+For twenty-four hours (or longer) I was in a state of shock. During this time, I phoned the local paper and stated that I had seen a \sc{ufo}. A reporter on this paper had previously interviewed me on aspects of my work as a playwright, and so my sighting got published. I did not tell this reporter that I had been on my way back from a Spiritualist Church service, since I felt for some reason that this sighting should be recorded, and was afraid that she might think I had suddenly gone crazy and was imagining myself to have had some sort of religious revelation.
+
+Subsequent to the publication of my \sc{ufo} report, several other people living in the vicinity of Ipswich, Massachusetts (where I was then living: the train runs from Boston through Swampscott to Ipswich) came up to me on the street and told me that they had also seen \sc{ufo} lights in the area north of Boston.
+
+Encouraged by this concensus that I was not crazy, I also filed a verbal report and drawing of this sighting with the \sc{ufo} Data Collection Center in Northfield, Illinois. Again, I left out the connection with spiritualism, lest my report be discounted. Later, I did send another report to Northfield which mentioned my altered state of consciousness during the sighting, but only subsequent to reading Jacques Vallee's book \bt{Passport To Magonia}, in which such fantastic effects are discussed.
+
+At the time that I filed this second statement, I was in a rather kamikaze state of mind. I felt that I had no choice but to express myself in terms which sounded insane, and that this present insanity had better be confined to a limited audience, lest I lose my credibility as a psychic, and also a certain number of my friends and associates, whom I judged to be in no mood to hear about strange dilating lights in the sky.
+
+It was during this time of embarrassment that I found I had made two peculiar friends. I have since drifted out of contact with both of them, but in the year 1974 they were very important to me.
+
+One of these gentlemen claimed to be an ex-FBI agent from California. He operated a ham radio out of a seaside location north of Boston and ran an ad regularly in the alternative papers, announcing \dq{\sc{ufo}s outside of our normal visual range.} This listed the names and numbers of various government officials and advised the public to give them a call.
+
+About three or four months after my Swampscott sighting, 1 was feeling I needed to talk to someone about \sc{ufo}s, no matter how strange they might be, and I called the number listed in this outrageous ad. Lobo and I had an extended conversation, and I decided to trust him. He came to my house in Ipswich bearing xeroxed literature on psychiatric coercion and a number of word-of-mouth horror stories on contactees and psychics who had been confined to mental institutions or forced to take psychiatric or medical treatment against their will.
+
+This instilled in me both an active caution about fully revealing my \sc{ufo}-associated inner experiences to any psychiatrist and, concomitantly, doubts as to this FBI-ham's sanity. After all, what person in his right mind would place such an odd \sc{ufo} ad, and then arrive bearing literature on lobotomies and clinical drug abuse? I did feel, however, on the human level, that Lobo would not harm me, and would listen to some relation of the true nature of my \sc{ufo} experience.
+
+I told this man that I felt I had been communicated with on a telepathic level, and perhaps even \dq{altered} chemically or mentally in a way which I did not fully understand. He was sympathetic, if a little wild-eyed, telling me that he was in short-wave contact with people all over the world who reported similar experiences. For reasons best known to himself, this FBI-ham told me several times-about one of these people: a nurse in Atlanta, Georgia who had developed the ability to move objects psychokinetically subsequent to \sc{ufo} contact. He mentioned no psychiatric problems in conjunction with this nurse, but evidently had either seen her abilities firsthand or somehow had come to believe absolutely in their reality.
+
+My other peculiar \sc{ufo} friend during the year of 1974 was a young man who has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals since the age of fourteen, when (as he relates it) he freaked out at a private prep school subsequent to playing one of the witches in Macbeth. Bethiwitch told me that directly after the staging of this play he became violent in English class and told his instructor that he was a wife-beater and a bastard.
+
+At this time in history, I cannot relate for sure whether this witch's English instructor \e{was} a wife-beater and a bastard. It is certain that after this nervous breakdown my friend was shunted from one custodial facility to another, emerging at age twenty-one slightly crazed and claiming to be psychic.
+
+I was at that time giving an acting class which advertised \dq{exchange of the psychic energies} as a means of energy transferral between actors.  Bethiwitch wanted to enroll in this class. At that time he was in bad physical condition from too many strange diets and found himself estranged from society.
+
+I interview each of my students before admitting them to a class on psychic development, and our first interview was held at a deli on Massachusetts Avenue in Boston, just across the street from a natural foods restaurant which for some reason Bethiwitch did not want to enter.
+
+I had mentioned nothing about my \sc{ufo} encounter, but immediately this tall emaciated young man wanted to discuss \sc{ufo}s. He would not leave the topic alone. Also, he told me details of my dreams. Specifically, he described my recent dream of a vegetable planet. I had recently made several small sculptures of people emerging from flowers and vegetables, and this had been based on a series of dreams and visions concerning faces and beings which were partially plants. Bethiwitch, though I had never talked with him before, told me all about these dreams and visions, and also about the fact that he had once lived on a planet where people were partially flowers. He told me we had lived there together in another lifetime.
+
+Along this line, Bethiwitch also claimed to be the world's first psychic sex therapist. Embarrassing as it was at the time, he was able to tell me correctly the most intimate details of my sexual preferences and correctly described my present, past and then future lovers. He has been right so far. This correct narration of my sex life proved to me beyond a shadow of a doubt that, while undoubtedly spaced-out, Bethiwitch was also impressively psychic.
+
+Along with all of this personal information, he wanted to give me details on \sc{ufo}s. He would not leave the topic alone. Though I had told him nothing of my \sc{ufo} encounter, he talked at length about \sc{ufo}s in the Boston vicinity and telepathic contact with \sc{ufo}s. Between Lobo and Bethiwitch, I got quite an education in 1974. I will divide what I learned into two categories: the abstract and the concrete.
+
+Following the usual occult practice, I will begin with the abstract and move gradually into the concrete.
+
+Hopefully, at the end of this volume I will not have concrete overshoes and be at the bottom of Boston harbor.
+
+Like Lobo and Bethiwitch, I am wholly mental in my peculiarities. I use no hard drugs, belong to no subversive organizations and indulge in only noncommercial sexual activities. However, the way in which I perceive reality has been permanently changed by my \sc{ufo} contact.
+
+In 1974, I was not yet aware of how completely my perceptions had been altered, only that something strange had happened to me and that this alteration was somehow due to a dilating white light which I had seen in the sky shortly after Christmas in 1973.
+
+There were times when I doubted my sanity. I knew I was sane, and yet I doubted my sanity: I had engaged in telepathic intercourse with a \sc{ufo}---or had I? Whether or not this had been a spaceship, or some very powerful sort of spirit contact, it became increasingly evident that I would have to be dealing with the reality of my altered mental state.
+
+This had begun to include heightened \sc{esp} and awareness of \dq{energy states} around objects and people. Also, I was having dreams and waking meditative states during which I simply \dq{felt} again the \sc{ufo} presence without seeing it.
+
+Clearly, it was not wise to become assaultive against those who did not share this alteration of perception, or to stop random passersby on the street while pointing to the sky and insisting: \dq{We are not alone.}
+
+As a recent contactee freakout, the first survival tactic which I learned was deliberate lunacy. Bethiwitch, with all of his highly-dramatized tales of fantastic astral journeys through outer space, had a great deal to teach me in this area. So did the surrealist and dada artists of the 1920s and 30s. As a trained writer and theatre artist, I was able to give the essence of this contactee experience what I believe is its first artistic form: \bt{The Witch City Whiz Bang}, which was issued off the Magik Mirror Press during the bicentennial year of 1975--76 in the town of Salem, Massachusetts, scene of the famous witch trials.
+
+During that year, I had an occult store in Salem which was basically a year-long celebration of the destiny of the United States as linked to expanded perception. The one-dollar bill bears the great seal of the United States, which shows to all an eye atop a pyramid, meaning the building of concrete items by the use of psychic perception. While in Salem, I built the \bt{Witch City Whiz Bang}. My \bt{Whiz Bang} cited the old \bt{Captain Billy's Whiz Bang Joke Book} and (with a certain degree of black humor) degrees of expanded perception within the context of the execution of Giordano Bruno, a Renaissance thinker who claimed there was life on other worlds. 
+
+In my case, it was either public entertainment or private mayhem.  During the year of 1974 and into 1975, I had learned to accept as regular daily occurrences lights appearing here and there in my house, telepathic messages to \dq{look outside the window: we are here,} followed by newspaper reports of \sc{ufo} sightings in the area, and last but not least let me mention a high-pitched \dq{generator whine} which was heard clearly by my husband after I woke him from a deep sleep to assert that my extra-terrestrial friends were just outside the window.
+
+My marriage did not survive this situation. Clearly, I was not insane and could take care of my daily activities, could even conceal portions of my experience in order to seem rational, but I had become a different person with a set of mental experiences different from my husband's usual experiences and different from most people's inner and outer experiences.
+
+I was beginning to feel more at home with Lobo and Bethiwitch, and a few older psychics and spiritualists who have managed to maintain a dual existence within such groups as the Spiritualist Church and the Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship. Notice the word \dq{spiritual.} Does this mean \dq{supernatural} or \dq{holy}? Or what does it mean to have commerce with spirits?
+
+An elder of one of these organizations told me a very interesting story.  I will repeat this more or less verbatim: 
+\Q{There was a little girl who could tell the future. She had a box with a bird on the top and every time she wanted to tell the future she would take out the box and consult the bird. One day, a group of people who wanted to be able to tell the future stole this box, but when they opened it they found that there was nothing inside, and the little girl told them the future.}
+\noindent Which was probably that they would not be able to tell the future. At one time, I had considered calling this book: \bt{Two Years in the Bird Box}.
+
+\vskip 0.5em % TODO is this a real skip
 
 I did not feel particularly spiritual while I was in this bird box. I felt
 confined and confused and not fully in control of my personal mind set.
 Something alien was communicating with me. In this respect, Lobo was
-of immeasurable assistance. He tipped me off to the \sc{ufo} Hotline. This
+of immeasurable assistance. He tipped me off to the \e{\sc{ufo} Hotline}. This
 was then a rather esoteric organization run out of Hammond, Indiana, by
 several dedicated people whose backgrounds continue to remain obscure
 to the public.
 
-At any rate, Lobo brought me the \sc{ufo} Hotline literature interleaved
-8 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
-
-with more horror stories about psychiatric abuse and told me to be sure
-and subscribe to this service, but to keep away from psychiatrists. As
-usual.
-
-It seemed like a reasonable service to have in my bird box of a
-bicentennial occult store (The Magik Mirror: across from the Witch
-House Historical Landmark, Salem, Massachusetts) so I did send in the
-requisite fee.
-
-Upon subscription, I not only received my \sc{ufo} window sign, bumper
-sticker and investigator's pin, but was awarded a "UFO investigator's
-manual'' with my name embossed on the first page just inside a square
-see-through aperture.
-
-Encouraged by all this rigmarole, as one of my first formal acts of
-deliberate lunacy, I sent the \sc{ufo} Hotline 'firess release to the Salem
-News, expecting the same thundering silence that similar releases have
-occasioned from some of the larger papers.
-
-I was not to receive this silence. Several days after I sent the release
-(motivated, as I have said, not by prophetic vision, but by the cold-blooded
-desire to commit deliberate lunacy), a reporter phoned me at my
-apartment in Lynn, Massachusetts and with great excitement told me
-that UFOs had been sighted ovcr the North Shore area the veryuday the
-paper received my announcement. Would I care to comment?
-
-I scarcely knew what to say. I knew that it seemed to the papers as if I
-had had advance knowledge of the sightings, as linked with the Hotline,
-but this was not the case. I felt as baffled as the reporter, who subsequently came down to the Magik Mirror and did a very complimentary
-article on my "'spaced-out" condition.
-
-During the time I spent in this bird box, I was also occupied with other
-projects and did not concentrate overtly on UFOs, though my store was
-logging about one sighting per week, with a heavier concentration over
-the North Shore area in the Spring of 1976.
-
-It was early in 1976 that I met a man who had experienced a UFO
-sighting and subsequent nervous breakdown while in the military. In
-response to his experience, I wrote a short article entitled *"Contactee,"
-which was published in Ufology magazine, then the slick-backed journal
-of the \sc{ufo} hotline.
-
-The necessity of expressing Monroe's experience reawakened the
-
-
-reporter in me, and I immediately wrote an independent article on UFO
-perception entitled '"The Astrebus." This has been published in the Fall
-1977 issue of Pursuit magazine about a year and a quarter after its
-original composition.
-
-I wrote *"The Astrebus' (which deals with the circumstantial aspects
-of \sc{ufo} contact and advances the idea of a language which is an active
-rebus) in somewhat of a fever which lasted about twelve hours on a
-Spring evening in 1976.
-
-Looking back on this sudden journalistic productivity, I find it
-strange. At the time, however, it seemed the natural and logical thing
-simply to stay up all night and write a ten-page article on states of
-heightened perception and ability as related to \sc{ufo} contact.
-
-At about this same time, I woke up with the name of Warren Sequoia
-(the names have been changed in this book to preserve the other-worldly
-quality) firmly in mind, went to Gnostica magazine, discovered he had
-done areview of The Invisible College by Jacques Vallee, called a friend
-in California (with whom I had never discussed Sequoia) asked for
-Sequoia's address and sent him a xerox copy of ""The Astrebus."
-
-Sequoia certainly must have been amazed! He rallied, however, with
-several collages relative to mental development which I am still trying to
-decipher logically.
-
-It was certainly a help to me in my situation of deliberate lunacy to
-discover another deliberate lunatic---if Sequoia's lunacy is actually
-deliberate.
-
-Recently I received another communication from him, reading ''don't
-let THEM immanentize the escaton," on the front near the address. On
-the reverse, Sequoia had written *'Dear Genie: nice to hear from you
-again. . .' Near this sentiment was pasted the purple word Fnrd, and the
-entire thing was signed *'sincerely, Warren Sequoia."" The same to you,
-baby.
-
-During the time I was experiencing this upsurge of article-writing
-coupled with the sincere desire to raise hell, I was also experiencing an
-upsurge of creativity in other areas.
-
-1 completed one entire novel (about \sc{ufo} contact) which will be
-published in 1979 by Anthelion Press; gave three or four prepared
-lectures of about forty-five minutes in duration and engaged in a public
-10 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
-
-debate with individuals from a certain "UFO Two" group. These
-lectures were on spirit contact, but this debate took on definite theological resonance, and in this capacity I actually found myself standing up in
-a public lecture hall and speaking about the teachings of yoga and pranic
-energy systems, a topic I had not anticipated.
+\vskip 0.5em % TODO is this a real skip
 
-This outburst brought me still more unexpected publicity.
+At any rate, Lobo brought me the \e{\sc{ufo} Hotline} literature interleaved with more horror stories about psychiatric abuse and told me to be sure and subscribe to this service, but to keep away from psychiatrists. As usual.
+
+It seemed like a reasonable service to have in my bird box of a bicentennial occult store (The Magik Mirror: across from the Witch House Historical Landmark, Salem, Massachusetts) so I did send in the requisite fee.
+
+Upon subscription, I not only received my \sc{ufo} window sign, bumper sticker and investigator's pin, but was awarded a \dq{\sc{ufo} investigator's manual} with my name embossed on the first page just inside a square see-through aperture.
+
+Encouraged by all this rigmarole, as one of my first formal acts of deliberate lunacy, I sent the \e{\sc{ufo} Hotline} press release to the \e{Salem News}, expecting the same thundering silence that similar releases have occasioned from some of the larger papers.
+
+I was not to receive this silence. Several days after I sent the release (motivated, as I have said, not by prophetic vision, but by the cold-blooded desire to commit deliberate lunacy), a reporter phoned me at my apartment in Lynn, Massachusetts and with great excitement told me that \sc{ufo}s had been sighted ovcr the North Shore area the veryuday the paper received my announcement. Would I care to comment?
+
+I scarcely knew what to say. I knew that it seemed to the papers as if I had had advance knowledge of the sightings, as linked with the \e{Hotline}, but this was not the case. I felt as baffled as the reporter, who subsequently came down to the Magik Mirror and did a very complimentary article on my \dq{spaced-out} condition.
+
+During the time I spent in this bird box, I was also occupied with other projects and did not concentrate overtly on \sc{ufo}s, though my store was logging about one sighting per week, with a heavier concentration over the North Shore area in the Spring of 1976.
 
-Representatives of this "'UFO Two" group, believing that they could
-translate themselves materially into another continuum while still in
-their human bodies, came to my store in Salem asking me to attend their
-lecture at Salem State College.
+It was early in 1976 that I met a man who had experienced a \sc{ufo} sighting and subsequent nervous breakdown while in the military. In response to his experience, I wrote a short article entitled \dq{Contactee,} which was published in Ufology magazine, then the slick-backed journal of the \sc{ufo} hotline.
 
-This group has been documented and discussed in Brad Steiger's
-book The Gods of Aquarius. They were among the most offensive
-individuals I have ever encountered.
+The necessity of expressing Monroe's experience reawakened the reporter in me, and I immediately wrote an independent article on \sc{ufo} perception entitled \dq{The Astrebus.} This has been published in the Fall 1977 issue of \jt{Pursuit} magazine about a year and a quarter after its original composition.
+
+I wrote \dq{The Astrebus} (which deals with the circumstantial aspects of \sc{ufo} contact and advances the idea of a language which is an active rebus) in somewhat of a fever which lasted about twelve hours on a Spring evening in 1976.
+
+Looking back on this sudden journalistic productivity, I find it strange. At the time, however, it seemed the natural and logical thing simply to stay up all night and write a ten-page article on states of heightened perception and ability as related to \sc{ufo} contact.
+
+At about this same time, I woke up with the name of Warren Sequoia (the names have been changed in this book to preserve the other-worldly quality) firmly in mind, went to \jt{Gnostica} magazine, discovered he had done a review of \bt{The Invisible College} by Jacques Vallee, called a friend in California (with whom I had never discussed Sequoia) asked for Sequoia's address and sent him a xerox copy of \dq{The Astrebus.}
+
+Sequoia certainly must have been amazed! He rallied, however, with several collages relative to mental development which I am still trying to decipher logically.
+
+It was certainly a help to me in my situation of deliberate lunacy to discover another deliberate lunatic---if Sequoia's lunacy is actually deliberate.
+
+Recently I received another communication from him, reading \dq{don't let \sc{Them} immanentize the escaton,} on the front near the address. On the reverse, Sequoia had written \dq{Dear Genie: nice to hear from you again\ld} Near this sentiment was pasted the purple word \e{Fnrd}\ednote{Fnord?}, and the entire thing was signed \dq{sincerely, Warren Sequoia.} The same to you, baby.
+
+During the time I was experiencing this upsurge of article-writing coupled with the sincere desire to raise hell, I was also experiencing an upsurge of creativity in other areas.
+
+I completed one entire novel (about \sc{ufo} contact) which will be published in 1979 by Anthelion Press; gave three or four prepared lectures of about forty-five minutes in duration and engaged in a public debate with individuals from a certain \dq{\sc{ufo} Two} group. These lectures were on spirit contact, but this debate took on definite theological resonance, and in this capacity I actually found myself standing up in a public lecture hall and speaking about the teachings of yoga and pranic energy systems, a topic I had not anticipated.
+
+This outburst brought me still more unexpected publicity.
 
-I suppose that because I was an eccentric¢ in a small town with a UFO
-sign in my window, they thought I would be sympathetic to this sort of
-immediate ascension. I was not, but felt I should attend their lecture
-anyway.
+Representatives of this \dq{\sc{ufo} Two} group, believing that they could translate themselves materially into another continuum while still in their human bodies, came to my store in Salem asking me to attend their lecture at Salem State College.
 
-When I got there, I found myself suddenly debating eight people, or
-was it ten (they come in pairs), during the question-and-answer period.
+This group has been documented and discussed in Brad Steiger's book \bt{The Gods of Aquarius}. They were among the most offensive individuals I have ever encountered.
 
-I heard myself quoting everything from ancient Indian literature to the
-New Testament, and actively taking the position that these Twos had
-mistaken negative spirit contact and meditative states of mind with
-actual journeys off this physical planet. A confusion of planes!
+I suppose that because I was an eccentric in a small town with a \sc{ufo} sign in my window, they thought I would be sympathetic to this sort of immediate ascension. I was not, but felt I should attend their lecture anyway.
 
-This is reflected recently in the confusion among the gurus of the
-transcendental meditation business as to whether they actually are flying
-or just fly in their minds, or are levitating or just levitate in their minds.
-Although represented in the press as evidence of a sharpster mentality,
-this dilemma may represent a very important and natural confusion.
+When I got there, I found myself suddenly debating eight people, or was it ten (they come in pairs), during the question-and-answer period.
 
-After my unexpected public debate was over, I felt lightheaded and
-faint and rather puzzled. I felt that the issue of astral transport versus
-spaceships was important, but not that important. Why had I been so
-adamant?
+I heard myself quoting everything from ancient Indian literature to the New Testament, and actively taking the position that these Twos had mistaken negative spirit contact and meditative states of mind with actual journeys off this physical planet. A confusion of planes!
 
-The next day, a reporter from yet another of the local papers arrived at
-the Magik Mirror to interview me on UFOs. He stayed to have a psychic
-reading and wrote a very complimentary article documenting my psychic accuracy and mentioning that I thought there was a link between
+This is reflected recently in the confusion among the gurus of the transcendental meditation business as to whether they actually are flying or just fly in their minds, or are levitating or just levitate in their minds.  Although represented in the press as evidence of a sharpster mentality, this dilemma may represent a very important and natural confusion.
 
+After my unexpected public debate was over, I felt lightheaded and faint and rather puzzled. I felt that the issue of astral transport versus spaceships was important, but not that important. Why had I been so adamant?
 
-areas of psychic perception and \sc{ufo} manifestation.
+The next day, a reporter from yet another of the local papers arrived at the Magik Mirror to interview me on \sc{ufo}s. He stayed to have a psychic reading and wrote a very complimentary article documenting my psychic accuracy and mentioning that I thought there was a link between areas of psychic perception and \sc{ufo} manifestation.
 
-As I look back upon this bicentennial springtime activity (a play of
-mine, The Blues Deduction, was also at this time being produced in
-Boston), I seriously wonder how I could possibly have done all this
-demanding and unusual mental activity without going bananas.
+As I look back upon this bicentennial springtime activity (a play of mine, \playtitle{The Blues Deduction}, was also at this time being produced in Boston), I seriously wonder how I could possibly have done all this demanding and unusual mental activity without going bananas.
 
-There were, of course, episodes of stress. I do remember sending a
-critic for the Real Paper (one Arthur Friedman) a Finast pound cake
-coupon. This was apropos of a negative review on a play that another
-critic accused me of plagiarizing from Robert Lowell. The accusation of
-plagiarism was rescinded (by Stephen Schiff of the Phoenix, who
-received no free coupon) but perhaps it would have been more to my
-advantage if I claimed that Lowell wrote the play and I wrote The Big
-Knockover.
+There were, of course, episodes of stress. I do remember sending a critic for the \journaltitle{Real Paper} (one Arthur Friedman) a Finast pound cake coupon. This was apropos of a negative review on a play that another critic accused me of plagiarizing from Robert Lowell. The accusation of plagiarism was rescinded (by Stephen Schiff of the \jt{Phoenix}, who received no free coupon) but perhaps it would have been more to my advantage if I claimed that Lowell wrote the play and I wrote \playtitle{The Big Knockover}.
 
 It is just as likely, Schiff.
 
-Obviously, part of my increased productivity and cantankerousness
-had to do with continued psychic perception of the continued near
-presence of the powerful beings which we call UFOs.
-
-We are conditioned to believe that the phenomena which I was
-experiencing ''just don't happen." I think that without the sense of
-humor engendered by surrealism and dada, T might now be blankly
-wandering the streets, pointing to the sky and declaring "'they really
-exist,' or some such nonsense.
-
-The closest I actually came to insanity was just subsequent to sending
-a copy of ""The Astrebus" to Warren Sequoia. At this particular time, 1
-woke up in the middle of the night startled. Something had made a sharp,
-cracking sound in the bedroom. I heard my son in the next room say
-"Mommie"' in his sleep, and [ was aware of the presence of something in
-my apartment. I listened intently and heard no more sounds, so I thought
-I would go to the window and look for a light, as I had wakened once or
-twice to see distant lights in the sky.
-
-Before I was able to put this into action, however, a moving light
-appeared on the wall opposite the bed. I was filled with the conviction
-that this light was a UFO, that it made no difference where I was, that
-they could come anywhere, that they needed no craft, but could operate
-astrally or ""mentally," in the way spirits operate.
-
-A spiritualist would have called this moving Tinkerbell-like light a
-12 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
-
-"spirit light," but I felt a more powerful presence than is usually
-associated with spirits of the deceased, and I was frightened.
-
-At any rate, I certainly know that most psychologists would entitle my
-conviction about small \sc{ufo} lights that penetrate walls and talk to me in
-my mind a form of madness. Therefore, reminded of Lobo's literature
-on fly-by-night psychiatry, I did not call a psychiatrist.
-
-I called Ben Shenks, a psychic who lives in California. "'Ben," I told
-him, "UFOs came to me in my room." '"Congratulation, Genie," he
-replied. "That's wonderful."" "But Ben," I insisted, "'they were here."
-"Yeah."
-
-Ben listened patiently to my description of the light. He believed me,
-he said, but he had nothing to say. There was really nothing to be said
-about this \sc{ufo} light: ""You lead an interesting life. I wish I led such an
-interesting life." 
+Obviously, part of my increased productivity and cantankerousness had to do with continued psychic perception of the continued near presence of the powerful beings which we call \sc{ufo}s.
+
+We are conditioned to believe that the phenomena which I was experiencing \dq{just don't happen.} I think that without the sense of humor engendered by surrealism and dada, T might now be blankly wandering the streets, pointing to the sky and declaring \dq{they really exist,} or some such nonsense.
+
+The closest I actually came to insanity was just subsequent to sending a copy of \dq{The Astrebus} to Warren Sequoia. At this particular time, I woke up in the middle of the night startled. Something had made a sharp, cracking sound in the bedroom. I heard my son in the next room say \dq{Mommie} in his sleep, and I was aware of the presence of something in my apartment. I listened intently and heard no more sounds, so I thought I would go to the window and look for a light, as I had wakened once or twice to see distant lights in the sky.
+
+Before I was able to put this into action, however, a moving light appeared on the wall opposite the bed. I was filled with the conviction that this light was a \sc{ufo}, that it made no difference where I was, that they could come anywhere, that they needed no craft, but could operate astrally or \dq{mentally,} in the way spirits operate.
+
+A spiritualist would have called this moving Tinkerbell-like light a \dq{spirit light,} but I felt a more powerful presence than is usually associated with spirits of the deceased, and I was frightened.
+
+At any rate, I certainly know that most psychologists would entitle my conviction about small \sc{ufo} lights that penetrate walls and talk to me in my mind a form of madness. Therefore, reminded of Lobo's literature on fly-by-night psychiatry, I did not call a psychiatrist.
+
+I called Ben Shenks, a psychic who lives in California. \dq{Ben,} I told him, \dq{\sc{ufo}s came to me in my room.} \dq{Congratulation, Genie,} he replied. \dq{That's wonderful.} \dq{But Ben,} I insisted, \dq{they were here.} \dq{Yeah.}
+
+Ben listened patiently to my description of the light. He believed me, he said, but he had nothing to say. There was really nothing to be said about this \sc{ufo} light: "You lead an interesting life. I wish I led such an interesting life." 
+
 This was some comfort.
 
-The next morning, there was a report on the radio (or was it the
-newspaper) that another \sc{ufo} had been sighted in the North Shore area.
-The connection to my private experience was obvious, but who could I
-tell?
-
-Certainly not the newspapers. In the context of my previous activity,
-any mention of this event might be taken as a wierdo bid for publicity.
-
-But, wasn't I already a deliberate lunatic? The author of The Witch
-City Whiz Bang? Yes. But there are limits even to deliberate lunacy.
-Public talk of \sc{ufo} lights in my bedroom might certainly brand me as
-hysteric.
-
-Deliberately, then, I decided like the Air Force to classify this unusual
-experience Top Secret, and filed it away in my \sc{ufo} memory system, for
-later information retrieval.
-
-Shortly after I had classified this experience, a woman came into my
-store in Salem saying that a \sc{ufo} had come to her in a dream. *'Congratulations," I told her, smiling, ""That's wonderful! Do you remember any
-news?"'
-
-"Cancer,"" she replied, ""is due to a chemical imbalance in the atmosphere. Things come to me like that. I''m psychic."
-
-There seemed to have been no other message. It was reasonable, I
-thought, to suspect that cancer might be due to a chemical imbalance in
-
-
-the atmosphere.
-
-I did not tell this woman about my recent late-night experience with
-psychical \sc{ufo} lights because I felt that this might be frightening.
-
-There was something about her dream and her very presence at this
-moment of time (she talked at length about the connection between UFO
-sightings and psychic sensitivity) which was profoundly unsettling to
-me: it seemed like an old-fashioned omen, a signal of some sort that I
-was on the right track.
-
-Previous to taking the lease on my store, while I was still married and
-living in Ipswich, I had dreamt about UFOs. It was a vivid and unusual
-dream, which made a strong impression on me. I had not kept this
-particular experience top secret, but had related it to a few of my UFO
-associates.
-
-In fact, I had been telling this dream to quite a few people in
-conjunction with the heavy incidence of \sc{ufo} sightings in the North
-Shore area.
-
-At the time of the dream, I was trying to decide whether to have an
-office in Salem or an office in Boston. In this dream, I had gone to
-Boston to give a lecture on psychical phenomena. The landscape was lit
-with a yellowish, dangerous-street sort of a light. I was inside at firstin a
-school building where students were sitting on steps and on the floors of
-corridors.
-
-The event seemed to be over and no one was interested in me. [ went
-outside to get a taxi, but there was no transportation and I missed my
-train and could not get back until morning.
-
-The dream abruptly shifted, and I was entering my house at about
-seven-thirty in the morning. No one was there, and there was a note on
-the floor which read: '""UFOs were here. You have missed the UFOs."" As
-mundane as the details of this vision may seem, it was one of the
-~ strangest impressions [ have ever experienced. I can still feel the warmth
-of the sunlight on my back as I picked up the note.
-
-During the week subsequent to this dream, I signed the lease for my
-location in Salem. About a year later, I did indeed teach a class in
-Boston, in an atmosphere similar to the one in my dream. This class was
-in playwriting. I was a last-minute substitute for another writer and
-found the majority of my students uninterested in writing, and more
-interested either in psychotherapy and/or socializing.
-14 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
-
-Certainly, if I had chosen this atmosphere over my personal
-enterprises I would have been in trouble. Additionally, during the early
-part of the Fall sessions I had to take a taxi back from the train station in
-Lynn. It was a rainy season, and I did not always get back on time. My
-dream had reflected these events exactly.
-
-It was during the late summer of 1976 that I decided to do serious UFO
-research, rather than letting people drift in and out of my location with an
-occasional siory.
-
-It was difficult to decide how to do this research. I knew that I was
-going to have an office in the Friendly Tearoom and Shin Psychic
-Center. This is in an area of maximum downtown traffic. What should I
-do? Should I hang out a sign asking for local sightings? Should I
-advertise in the \sc{ufo} journals? How should I advertise in the local
-papers? How much should I tell people about my actual intentions? By
-now, I was as serious as a secret agent, back in my kamikazi frame of
-mind.
-
-The day that I signed the contract on my office space, both of my
-clocks had lost twenty minutes. I had christened this space the UFO
-Registry (as distinct from the International \sc{ufo} Registry) and I do
-associate time anomalies with \sc{ufo} contact. I felt that this clock stoppage was an encouragement to continue, that I was on the riéht track.
-
-I wanted to avoid the ''we are not alone'' fanatics, and get genuine
-stories from people who had seen UFOs, had dreamed of UFOs and
-perhaps were in receipt of psychical communications from UFO
-entities.
-
-It is difficult to get genuine stories of this sort by advertising that
-UFOs can do something funny to time and that your clocks have stopped
-working several times in conjunction with \sc{ufo} sightings. In fact, while
-I was writing up the report of the Monroe sighting which was published
-in Ufology, a cuckoo clock which was lying on its side on one of the top
-shelves in my pantry began to tick loudly.
-
-This clock runs by weights and there is no ordinary way such a clock
-can run at all by lying on its side.
-
-I had heard the ticking while in the living room and followed the
-sound to the pantry. It did not occur to me immediately what was making
-this sound, since [ had several months ago shoved this clock (which was
-not working) back onto the top shelf with a few odds and ends.
-
-
-Imagine my surprise to find it ticking! About thirty seconds after I had
-located the source of the sound, it stopped ticking and has not run since.
-
-I was so distressed by this occurrence that I wrote to the Maimonides
-Dream Laboratory in Brooklyn telling them of the connection between
-my cuckoo clock and time anomalies connected with \sc{ufo} sightings on
-the North Shore.
-
-I received back a polite note indicating that this might be possible and
-telling me that they would file my observations. I assume they did file
-this letter, under M (for Mad) or perhaps under U (for Unidentified), or
-maybe S (for Schizophrenic) or was that Surrealist? OK: S for Surrealist.
-Hello there. Rosie. Whoops! Was that a flying object?
+The next morning, there was a report on the radio (or was it the newspaper) that another \sc{ufo} had been sighted in the North Shore area.  The connection to my private experience was obvious, but who could I tell?
+
+Certainly not the newspapers. In the context of my previous activity, any mention of this event might be taken as a wierdo bid for publicity.
+
+But, wasn't I already a deliberate lunatic? The author of \bt{The Witch City Whiz Bang}? Yes. But there are limits even to deliberate lunacy.  Public talk of \sc{ufo} lights in my bedroom might certainly brand me as hysteric.
+
+Deliberately, then, I decided like the Air Force to classify this unusual experience Top Secret, and filed it away in my \sc{ufo} memory system, for later information retrieval.
+
+Shortly after I had classified this experience, a woman came into my store in Salem saying that a \sc{ufo} had come to her in a dream. \dq{Congratulations,} I told her, smiling, \dq{That's wonderful! Do you remember any news?}
+
+\dq{Cancer,} she replied, \dq{is due to a chemical imbalance in the atmosphere. Things come to me like that. I'm psychic.}
+
+There seemed to have been no other message. It was reasonable, I thought, to suspect that cancer might be due to a chemical imbalance in the atmosphere.
+
+I did not tell this woman about my recent late-night experience with psychical \sc{ufo} lights because I felt that this might be frightening.
+
+There was something about her dream and her very presence at this moment of time (she talked at length about the connection between \sc{ufo} sightings and psychic sensitivity) which was profoundly unsettling to me: it seemed like an old-fashioned omen, a signal of some sort that I was on the right track.
+
+Previous to taking the lease on my store, while I was still married and living in Ipswich, I had dreamt about \sc{ufo}s. It was a vivid and unusual dream, which made a strong impression on me. I had not kept this particular experience top secret, but had related it to a few of my \sc{ufo} associates.
+
+In fact, I had been telling this dream to quite a few people in conjunction with the heavy incidence of \sc{ufo} sightings in the North Shore area.
+
+At the time of the dream, I was trying to decide whether to have an office in Salem or an office in Boston. In this dream, I had gone to Boston to give a lecture on psychical phenomena. The landscape was lit with a yellowish, dangerous-street sort of a light. I was inside at first in a school building where students were sitting on steps and on the floors of corridors.
+
+The event seemed to be over and no one was interested in me. I went outside to get a taxi, but there was no transportation and I missed my train and could not get back until morning.
+
+The dream abruptly shifted, and I was entering my house at about seven-thirty in the morning. No one was there, and there was a note on the floor which read: \dq{\sc{ufo}s were here. You have missed the \sc{ufo}s.} As mundane as the details of this vision may seem, it was one of the strangest impressions I have ever experienced. I can still feel the warmth of the sunlight on my back as I picked up the note.
+
+During the week subsequent to this dream, I signed the lease for my location in Salem. About a year later, I did indeed teach a class in Boston, in an atmosphere similar to the one in my dream. This class was in playwriting. I was a last-minute substitute for another writer and found the majority of my students uninterested in writing, and more interested either in psychotherapy and\slash or socializing.
+
+Certainly, if I had chosen this atmosphere over my personal enterprises I would have been in trouble. Additionally, during the early part of the Fall sessions I had to take a taxi back from the train station in Lynn. It was a rainy season, and I did not always get back on time. My dream had reflected these events exactly.
+
+It was during the late summer of 1976 that I decided to do serious \sc{ufo} research, rather than letting people drift in and out of my location with an occasional siory.
+
+It was difficult to decide how to do this research. I knew that I was going to have an office in the Friendly Tearoom and Shin Psychic Center. This is in an area of maximum downtown traffic. What should I do? Should I hang out a sign asking for local sightings? Should I advertise in the \sc{ufo} journals? How should I advertise in the local papers? How much should I tell people about my actual intentions? By now, I was as serious as a secret agent, back in my kamikazi frame of mind.
+
+The day that I signed the contract on my office space, both of my clocks had lost twenty minutes. I had christened this space the \sc{ufo} Registry (as distinct from the International \sc{ufo} Registry) and I do associate time anomalies with \sc{ufo} contact. I felt that this clock stoppage was an encouragement to continue, that I was on the right track.
+
+I wanted to avoid the \dq{we are not alone} fanatics, and get genuine stories from people who had seen \sc{ufo}s, had dreamed of \sc{ufo}s and perhaps were in receipt of psychical communications from \sc{ufo} entities.
+
+It is difficult to get genuine stories of this sort by advertising that \sc{ufo}s can do something funny to time and that your clocks have stopped working several times in conjunction with \sc{ufo} sightings. In fact, while I was writing up the report of the Monroe sighting which was published in \jt{Ufology}, a cuckoo clock which was lying on its side on one of the top shelves in my pantry began to tick loudly.
+
+This clock runs by weights and there is no ordinary way such a clock can run at all by lying on its side.
+
+I had heard the ticking while in the living room and followed the sound to the pantry. It did not occur to me immediately what was making this sound, since I had several months ago shoved this clock (which was not working) back onto the top shelf with a few odds and ends.
+
+Imagine my surprise to find it ticking! About thirty seconds after I had located the source of the sound, it stopped ticking and has not run since.
+
+I was so distressed by this occurrence that I wrote to the Maimonides Dream Laboratory in Brooklyn telling them of the connection between my cuckoo clock and time anomalies connected with \sc{ufo} sightings on the North Shore.
+
+I received back a polite note indicating that this might be possible and telling me that they would file my observations. I assume they did file this letter, under \B{M} (for \B{M}ad) or perhaps under \B{U} (for \B{U}nidentified), or maybe \B{S} (for \B{S}chizophrenic) or was that \B{S}urrealist? OK: \B{S} for \B{S}urrealist.  Hello there. Rosie. Whoops! Was that a flying object?
 
 Now: back to my arrangements.
 
-I simply put an ad in one of the alternative papers to the effect that I
-was giving psychic readings, discussing magic and collecting information on \sc{ufo} sightings. I also put the sign \sc{ufo} Registry out on the street
-marquee downstairs.
-
-Initially, I felt some unease at perhaps being confused with the
-International \sc{ufo} Registry (publishers of Ufology and the \sc{ufo} Hotline
-material) but since my sign said: ''UFO Registry: Eugenia Macer-Story,"" I gradually began to realize that there would be no confusion,
-since the average man or woman on the street has never heard of the
-International \sc{ufo} Registry.
-
-No one coming to the Shin Psychic Center and Friendly Tearoom
-really expects any liaison with the United Nations, except one woman I
-saw for a psychic reading recently, who felt somehow that UFOs might
-unite the world.
-
-Action taken against acommon enemy, Theresa thought, might bring
-the warring nations of earth closer together. I told her that I thought we
-might have to leaflet Africa and Indochina, just to let them in on the
-campaign underway. However, as a matter of fact, a pencil jumped off
-my desk all by itself while I was talking to Theresa, and I did not really
-know how to interpret this occurrence. I picked it up off the floor. It
-seemed the most logical action at this time, just to pick up this flying
-pencil from where it had landed and put it back onto the desk.
-
-Previous to closing my bicentennial celebration at the Magik Mirror
-in Salem, I had placed an ad in the Salem News asking for eyewitness
-16 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
-
-testimonials on the recent rash of North Shore sightings. I did receive
-several letters in reply to this ad. One of these letters was from a woman
-who said that she had seen a rectangular box flying next to her car. This
-note was written on a piece of Melaril notepaper. (Melaril, for the
-uninitiated, is a tranquilizer sometimes used in treating symptoms of
-psychosis.)
-
-I wrote back to this woman asking her what exactly she was flying
-high on at the time that she saw this rectangular box flying along beside
-her car. Nothing, she replied, indicating that she was a veterinarian's
-assistant, and had just jotted down news of her sighting on the first piece
-of paper that came to hand.
-
-Happy little animals up there in Salem! I wonder if what she could
-possibly have seen was a transdimensional kennel.
-
-There has been quite a bit of agitation recently in the small parapsychological journals as regards strange cattle mutilations in the
-Southwest United States. Several reporters have made an attempt to link
-these inexplicable butcherings with \sc{ufo} activity. I am sure that nothing
-is impossible, but I do wonder what visitors from outer space would
-want with the ears and rear ends of cattle.
-
-This veterinarian's assistant from Salem probably did see a flying
-rectangular object made of light, just as a graduate student in engineering I talked to in Salem probably did see the complex crystal rotor he
-describes seeing on a hillside in Northern New England.
-
-Buddy says he witnessed this alien object landing while he was
-walking in a rural, grassy area. A prominent part of the ship which
-manifested itself to Buddy was a trans-dimensional rotor constructed
-from a crystal substance strange to Earth. This rotor possessed certain
-technical properties of interest. At the time I talked to him (Spring 1976)
-Buddy was trying to get these strange new properties down into some
-logical form. I wish him the best of luck.
+I simply put an ad in one of the alternative papers to the effect that I was giving psychic readings, discussing magic and collecting information on \sc{ufo} sightings. I also put the sign \sc{ufo} Registry out on the street marquee downstairs.
+
+Initially, I felt some unease at perhaps being confused with the International \sc{ufo} Registry (publishers of \jt{Ufology} and the \jt{\sc{ufo} Hotline} material) but since my sign said: \dq{\sc{ufo} Registry: Eugenia Macer-Story,} I gradually began to realize that there would be no confusion, since the average man or woman on the street has never heard of the International \sc{ufo} Registry.
+
+No one coming to the Shin Psychic Center and Friendly Tearoom really expects any liaison with the United Nations, except one woman I saw for a psychic reading recently, who felt somehow that \sc{ufo}s might unite the world.
+
+Action taken against acommon enemy, Theresa thought, might bring the warring nations of earth closer together. I told her that I thought we might have to leaflet Africa and Indochina, just to let them in on the campaign underway. However, as a matter of fact, a pencil jumped off my desk all by itself while I was talking to Theresa, and I did not really know how to interpret this occurrence. I picked it up off the floor. It seemed the most logical action at this time, just to pick up this flying pencil from where it had landed and put it back onto the desk.
+
+Previous to closing my bicentennial celebration at the Magik Mirror in Salem, I had placed an ad in the \jt{Salem News} asking for eyewitness testimonials on the recent rash of North Shore sightings. I did receive several letters in reply to this ad. One of these letters was from a woman who said that she had seen a rectangular box flying next to her car. This note was written on a piece of Melaril notepaper. (Melaril, for the uninitiated, is a tranquilizer sometimes used in treating symptoms of psychosis.)
+
+I wrote back to this woman asking her what exactly she was flying high on at the time that she saw this rectangular box flying along beside her car. Nothing, she replied, indicating that she was a veterinarian's assistant, and had just jotted down news of her sighting on the first piece of paper that came to hand.
+
+Happy little animals up there in Salem! I wonder if what she could possibly have seen was a transdimensional kennel.
+
+There has been quite a bit of agitation recently in the small parapsychological journals as regards strange cattle mutilations in the Southwest United States. Several reporters have made an attempt to link these inexplicable butcherings with \sc{ufo} activity. I am sure that nothing is impossible, but I do wonder what visitors from outer space would want with the ears and rear ends of cattle.
+
+This veterinarian's assistant from Salem probably did see a flying rectangular object made of light, just as a graduate student in engineering I talked to in Salem probably did see the complex crystal rotor he describes seeing on a hillside in Northern New England.
+
+Buddy says he witnessed this alien object landing while he was walking in a rural, grassy area. A prominent part of the ship which manifested itself to Buddy was a trans-dimensional rotor constructed from a crystal substance strange to Earth. This rotor possessed certain technical properties of interest. At the time I talked to him (Spring 1976) Buddy was trying to get these strange new properties down into some logical form. I wish him the best of luck.
 
 My own experience has been that these phenomena are a-logical.
 They are real, a-logical, and related to the use of the faculties which we
-have labeled ESP and psychokinesis. UFOs do seem to cause mental
+have labeled \sc{esp} and psychokinesis. \sc{ufo}s do seem to cause mental
 effects similar to those associated with telepathy, precognition and
 hypnosis.
 
-After two years of lively, on-the-street research, I do not agree with
+After two years of lively, on-the-street research, I do not agree with those who see this connection and then dismiss these phenomena as real but generated from the individual or group subconscious. There is intent to these landings, visions and strange communications, and if this intent is the intent of the collective unconscious of the human race, then we are definitely trying to tell ourselves something.
 
+Perhaps we are trying to communicate to ourselves that we are being visited from outer space.
 
-those who see this connection and then dismiss these phenomena as real
-but generated from the individual or group subconscious. There is intent
-to these landings, visions and strange communications, and if this intent
-is the intent of the collective unconscious of the human race, then we are
-definitely trying to tell ourselves something.
+The following is a series of actual \sc{ufo} encounters related to me by people who voluntarily came into my office in Boston to report their sightings. I have changed the names since I promised the people who confided in me that I would change their names, but the personalities, events and effects of these sightings are substantially as related to me by the contactees involved. I have made no attempt to order these events logically or by any category of encounter whatsoever. I simply present these following \sc{ufo} narrations in chronological sequence:
 
-Perhaps we are trying to communicate to ourselves that we are being
-visited from outer space.
+\sec ONE
+\rightline{6\slash 24\slash 717}
 
-The following is a series of actual \sc{ufo} encounters related to me by
-people who voluntarily came into my office in Boston to report their
-sightings. I have changed the names since I promised the people who
-confided in me that I would change their names, but the personalities,
-events and effects of these sightings are substantially as related to me by
-the contactees involved. I have made no attempt to order these events
-logically or by any category of encounter whatsoever. I simply present
-these following \sc{ufo} narrations in chronological sequence:
-
-ONE
-6/24/717
-Having decided to arrange these \sc{ufo} sightings in chronological order, I
-went early to my office this morning and opened my file, which I
-thought was in chronological order.
+Having decided to arrange these \sc{ufo} sightings in chronological order, I went early to my office this morning and opened my file, which I thought was in chronological order.
 
 I found, to my surprise, that the early part of my file is not in
 chronological order, but grows more chronological as time goes on.
 Apparently, right after moving from Salem I paid little attention to exact
 sequence.
 
-The first note which comes to hand is dated 10/26/76 and is signed by
+The first note which comes to hand is dated 10\slash 26\slash 76 and is signed by
 Joy Summery of Andover, Massachusetts. In this note, which was
 slipped under my door, Ms. Summery asks me for information on my
-UFO group and tells me that there is a lot of interest in UFOs in Andover.
+\sc{ufo} group and tells me that there is a lot of interest in \sc{ufo}s in Andover.
 
-I called Joy Summery on the phone and told her that I had no UFO
+I called Joy Summery on the phone and told her that I had no \sc{ufo}
 group, but would be interested in any information on \sc{ufo} sightings.
 She told me that there was a group of people meeting in Andover who
 had experienced visions of beings descending to bring news of global
 catastrophe. Her voice was trembling, and I felt that she had been
 profoundly affected by some sort of experience. I declined Joy Summery's invitation to join her \sc{ufo} group, but told her that plenty of other
 people in this area had been having visions of global catastrophe.
-18 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+
 
 TWO
 Helen O'Laughlin is a young black woman who sometimes reads tea
 leaves. Shortly after I moved into my office, she came nervously in to
-see me and told me that she and several other people had seen UFOs in
+see me and told me that she and several other people had seen \sc{ufo}s in
 Roxbury, the black section of Boston.
 
 Helen told me that she had been lying down with her boyfriend, half
@@ -838,7 +400,7 @@ in the evening. She gave me the names of;several of these people, and
 also of a friend who had seen a \sc{ufo} light in Arizona.
 
 THREE
-On 10/21/76, Larry Sands, the director of the Shin Psychic Center,
+On 10\slash 21\slash 76, Larry Sands, the director of the Shin Psychic Center,
 came to my office and told me that a friend of his who is a radio
 announcer had taken a news call the night before about a \sc{ufo} sighting in
 Bellingham, Massachusetts, a small town near Boston. I called this
@@ -850,18 +412,18 @@ radar screen at Logan airport, but he could not definitely confirm this
 radar sighting.
 
 According to Petersen, the actual event had taken place a week
-previously, on 10/12/76 at about one or two o'clock in the morning. He
+previously, on 10\slash 12\slash 76 at about one or two o'clock in the morning. He
 could not remember specific details of this sighting, but gave me the
 name of a local paper which had carried a more detailed story. When I
 called the Milford Daily News, a woman gave me the name of a police
-officer who had witnessed the UFO. She also told me that subsequent to
+officer who had witnessed the \sc{ufo}. She also told me that subsequent to
 publication of the news of this Bellingham sighting an individual identifying himself only as *'an astronomer'* had called the paper to report
-that any bright light in the sky on 10/12/76 must have been the star
+that any bright light in the sky on 10\slash 12\slash 76 must have been the star
 Sirius.
 
 
-I called the Bellingham police department on 10/22/76 and talked to
-the officer who had seen the UFO. Sgt. Mullhaven told me that he had
+I called the Bellingham police department on 10\slash 22\slash 76 and talked to
+the officer who had seen the \sc{ufo}. Sgt. Mullhaven told me that he had
 seen at home before being called by the station a multi-colored light in
 the sky which was flashing on and off. This was visible, Mullhaven told
 me, for about five hours and was seen from several locations. He gave
@@ -876,7 +438,7 @@ was in the sky for five to six hours and was witnessed by several private
 citizens and three police officers.
 
 It is difficult for me to understand how this light could possibly have
-been the star Sirius. In his book Gods of Aquarius, Brad Steiger mentions the visionary connection of UFOs to the star Sirius, speculating on
+been the star Sirius. In his book Gods of Aquarius, Brad Steiger mentions the visionary connection of \sc{ufo}s to the star Sirius, speculating on
 beings who may have come from the vicinity of this star.
 
 I doubt that three non-visionary patrolmen could seriously have
@@ -886,7 +448,7 @@ star Sirius.
 They saw something unusual.
 
 FOUR
-I have here now a note to myself dated 9/15/76. This concerns the UFO
+I have here now a note to myself dated 9\slash 15\slash 76. This concerns the \sc{ufo}
 sighting made by the woman who wrote to me on the '*have a happy
 day'' Melaril blank.
 
@@ -898,10 +460,10 @@ above the car. Franklin pulled over to the side of the road and switched
 off the engine for a few minutes. Then these rectangular bars of light
 seemed to disappear.
 
-In her reply to my question on tranquilizers, which is dated 9/17/76
+In her reply to my question on tranquilizers, which is dated 9\slash 17\slash 76
 and was written on ordinary paper, Franklin states that she is not on
 medication of any kind and experienced no unusual physical or mental
-20 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+
 
 symptoms in conjunction with her sighting. However, she writes that the
 night after seeing these rectangular bars she ''had a hard time falling
@@ -909,12 +471,12 @@ asleep because the vision of what I saw was uppermost in my mind. I can
 still see a very vivid description of what I saw in my mind."'
 
 Just below my note about Jane Franklin's letter, I have written another
-note to myself, dated 9/23/76. This note reads: *'Sign contract for office
+note to myself, dated 9\slash 23\slash 76. This note reads: *'Sign contract for office
 downtown. When I return to Lynn, both my electric clocks are twenty-five minutes slow."'
 
 FIVE
 
-Diana Bradley reports, in a letter dated 9/8/76: *'Dear sir: I am writing
+Diana Bradley reports, in a letter dated 9\slash 8\slash 76: *'Dear sir: I am writing
 to you in regard to your letter in the Salem Evening News. About a month
 ago on a Thursday night around 9:30 my boyfriend and I were driving
 down old Swampscott Road in Salem heading toward Swampscott. In
@@ -925,7 +487,7 @@ for a few minutes. Then he took me home to my apartment.
 When I got in, I told my mother about it. It was saucer-shaped. It had a
 lot of lights blinking on and off in sequence. Red and white lights. My
 mother and I looked for it and found it. It was hovering over Swampscott
-and Salem for about an hour and a half that I know of. About 141 P.M. it
+and Salem for about an hour and a half that I know of. About 1:41 P.M. it
 started to head toward Marblehead very slowly. When it reached the
 ocean, it took off like a bolt of lightning. I never saw anything move so
 fast in my life.
@@ -986,11 +548,11 @@ Shortly after  had moved into my office in Boston, a man in red trousers
 interrupted me as I was writing. I was irritated at this interruption, but
 since I had left the door ajar, I let him come in. He talked enthusiastically
 about the large pseudo-Greek sculpture which I keep leaning against my
-office wall. We discussed the possible significance of UFOs in terms of
+office wall. We discussed the possible significance of \sc{ufo}s in terms of
 symbolic chariots of the gods:
 
 Phaeton was the son of Clymene, a sea nymph, and Helios, the god of
-22 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+
 
 the sun. Against his father's advice, Phaeton drove his chariot too fast
 and plummeted into the ocean. That is why, as the ancient Greek
@@ -1007,7 +569,7 @@ Phaeton must only have made this spectacular trip one time. In the
 sculpture that we were discussing, he is attended by a company of muses
 and the fires from his chariot do not seem to be very dangerous.
 
-6/26/77
+6\slash 26\slash 77
 
 I decided to skip the weekend before continuing with this entry. The
 information which comprises this book has been collected over a period
@@ -1021,7 +583,7 @@ Aegean sea, which lies between Greece and Turkey. This was during a
 recent trip abroad and he was at this point traveling on a ship of some sort
 out among the smaller islands . . .
 
-The real 6/27/77
+The real 6\slash 27\slash 77
 
 Actually, I cheated and wrote the preceding before taking off for the
 weekend, while I 'still had all of these thoughts of chariots straight in my
@@ -1031,7 +593,7 @@ red curtain to pull back on the semi-circular screen, he suggested a new
 concept in motion pictures: the rocket movie.
 
 In the rocket movie, the audience---while waiting for the entertainment to begin---is actually transported into outer space as the theatre
-itself levitates into another time/space continuum. Of course, since my
+itself levitates into another time\slash space continuum. Of course, since my
 son is six years old, these were not his actual words, but I believe I am
 conveying the idea correctly. Lights down! Throw away your clocks!
 
@@ -1039,7 +601,7 @@ conveying the idea correctly. Lights down! Throw away your clocks!
 There is no space and the film is beginning!
 
 In Star Wars, intergalactic battles are being conducted by strange-looking monsters and robots with very human feelings. This is the
-difference between the typical science fiction thriller and the UFO
+difference between the typical science fiction thriller and the \sc{ufo}
 reality: The thrust of sci-fi has always been the desire to animate
 machines, cold asteroids and pink-spotted sea monsters with the human
 significances of fable. So far as I can perceive, there is nothing comfortably human and understandable about the \sc{ufo} entities I have heard
@@ -1070,25 +632,25 @@ physically at all.
 
 Rita Warnock, who runs the Friendly Tearoom, had rapped on my
 door and told me that there was someone outside who wanted to report a
-UFO sighting.
+\sc{ufo} sighting.
 
 This woman was short, plump and grey-haired. She appeared to be in
 her fifties and was wearing a matching maroon coat and hat. "'I saw on
-TV, you know: what they call these now . . . UFOs," she told me. ""And
-24 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+TV, you know: what they call these now . . . \sc{ufo}s," she told me. ""And
+
 
 then I was walking by and saw your sign and I thought I would come in
 here."
 
 This woman spoke in heavily-accented but educated English, and was
-trembling. It seemed that she was afraid of her experience with UFOs,
+trembling. It seemed that she was afraid of her experience with \sc{ufo}s,
 but felt impelled to speak about them nevertheless.
 
-On the preceding Saturday, 12/28/76, at nine or ten at night, she said,
+On the preceding Saturday, 12\slash 28\slash 76, at nine or ten at night, she said,
 she had seen a reddish, circular light turning around, jumping to a new
 location, and then turning around again.
 
-She was able now to call this a UFO, she told me, but in 1944 during
+She was able now to call this a \sc{ufo}, she told me, but in 1944 during
 World War II, when she had seen such phenomena in Hungary near the
 Danube River, she had not known what to label this sort of circular
 aircraft.
@@ -1103,7 +665,7 @@ down toward the earth. Within this cloud, there was a smaller, circular
 ship which was shining in the sun.
 
 Three days later, while walking again by the Danube near an arcade,
-this woman and several other people---including a police officer ---saw
+this woman and several other people---including a police officer---saw
 the brownish-grey ship again. But at this time no one knew what to call it
 or what it really might be doing. She said she thought at that time that it
 might be a Nazi secret weapon of soine sort.
@@ -1120,9 +682,9 @@ She stared at this ship for a while and then ran down the street to get
 other witnesses, but the corner store was closed and when she turned to
 start back the ship was gone.
 
-After telling me of these phenomena, this woman ---still agitated ---
+After telling me of these phenomena, this woman---still agitated---
 told me that she had read the Bible carefully to try to account for these
-things and could only conclude that--- as was predicted in the Revelations
+things and could only conclude that---as was predicted in the Revelations
 
 
 of St. John---we are now experiencing the end of the world.
@@ -1130,7 +692,7 @@ Certainly, if we do have visitors from outer space, this is the end of the
 world as we know it.
 
 NINE
-On December 31st, 1976, just prior to the performance of my mummer's
+On December 31\tss{st}, 1976, just prior to the performance of my mummer's
 play New Day at the Psychic Center as part of the citywide First Night
 celebration, a heavy-set young woman came into my office and wanted
 to talk about astral projection.
@@ -1162,12 +724,12 @@ by the water to look for her dog.
 This heavy-set young woman told me that her cousin Frank had
 experienced strange dreams the night after this summer sighting, but
 will not talk about them. He was sixteen years old at the time that the
-blue discs flew over. 1 asked this woman, who is in her late twenties, if
+blue discs flew over. I asked this woman, who is in her late twenties, if
 she herself had experienced any strange dreams connected with this
 sighting, and she admitted that she had not only dreamt of \sc{ufo} entities,
 but subsequent to her sighting had tried to astral project herself out
 toward these entities.
-26 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+
 
 I asked if she had experienced any success with this astral projection,
 and she told me that she had seen in her concentrations beings with
@@ -1176,7 +738,8 @@ or contact without first being innoculated, she told me. This seems
 reasonable, considering that---as related in the Salem woman's dream
 (p. 12)---chemical pollutants in the atmosphere may cause cancer.
 
-TEN
+% TEN
+\chap
 
 While I was out of town in January, a square black object fell through the
 ice of William McCarthy's pond in Wakefield, New Hampshire.
@@ -1207,7 +770,7 @@ Certainly, such a box would not remain for long on the bottom of
 William McCarthy's pond.
 
 ELEVEN
-6/26/77
+6\slash 26\slash 77
 
 I'would now like to talk about the interconnected sightings which were
 
@@ -1256,7 +819,7 @@ and told me that he had experienced another odd incident in January of
 
 He was driving through New Hampshire when an airplane flew low
 over his car. He felt curious about this particular plane for some reason,
-28 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+
 
 and looked up.
 
@@ -1274,7 +837,7 @@ TWELVE
 One of the most interesting sightings which I have collected was reported to me accidentally by a railroad engineer who was looking for a
 new apartment.
 
-1 was in the Psychic Center earlier than usual, talking to actors who
+I was in the Psychic Center earlier than usual, talking to actors who
 were about to rehearse a scene from my play Eye of Fire, when the phone
 rang. On the other end of the line was a rather gruff-voiced individual
 who told me that he was calling about the apartment ad. When I told him
@@ -1290,7 +853,7 @@ phone giving psychic readings and doing \sc{ufo} research.
 
 This engineer then told me that he once saw colored lights flashing in
 the sky over around the railroad yards. He is convinced these lights were
-UFOs. We made an appointment for him to come in and talk about his
+\sc{ufo}s. We made an appointment for him to come in and talk about his
 sighting, and I hung up the phone and went back to the actors. Five
 minutes later, the phone rang and a gruff voice said: ""I'm calling about
 the bungalow."
@@ -1301,7 +864,7 @@ show up to talk about his sighting in more detail. Later on, I found out
 that Rita Warnock was indeed renting a bungalow and had put the
 
 
-Psychic Center's number into the real estate section of the Globe. So |
+Psychic Center's number into the real estate section of the Globe. So I
 had indeed contacted a genuine railroad engineer, and not a crank caller.
 I hope he found a bungalow with a good plumbing system. I have terrible
 trouble with my drains.
@@ -1314,7 +877,7 @@ at a relative's house.
 She woke and tried to place the source of this assault, but no one was
 in the room. This woman told me that she was shocked and frightened
 right after she woke, but cannot remember any strange dreams or odd
-behavior associated with her mini-UFO experience.
+behavior associated with her mini-\sc{ufo} experience.
 
 FOURTEEN
 I picked up a stack of papers and found I had misplaced a more detailed
@@ -1332,7 +895,7 @@ and smaller and then the sun came up.
 Both Donna and her brother seem to have been buzzed by a *'plane"
 of some sort which turned into a star, but there is absolutely no reason to
 suppose that they invented these incidents. Particularly, Donna's statement that the ""plane might hit the star'' shows an interesting suspension
-of the usual time/space continuum.
+of the usual time\slash space continuum.
 
 Additionally, I have noted down the news that her brother when eight
 or nine years old looked out a window at the factory roof opposite his
@@ -1340,12 +903,12 @@ apartment and saw something which he describes as a dome with a
 lighted rectangle beneath the arc and a triangle attached below the
 rectangle. He says he remembers this vision as if it were yesterday.
 
-I am intrigued by the two rectangular UFOs seen in this area (remember the vet's assistant who sent in the Melaril blank) and wonder if
-30 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+I am intrigued by the two rectangular \sc{ufo}s seen in this area (remember the vet's assistant who sent in the Melaril blank) and wonder if
+
 
 v
 
-we are wrong to stereotype UFOs as circular. Remember also the square
+we are wrong to stereotype \sc{ufo}s as circular. Remember also the square
 object that made a round hole in McCarthy's pond.
 
 FIFTEEN
@@ -1385,11 +948,11 @@ pulse on the wall opposite. I took this to be some sort of signal that this
 particular phone call was important, and congratulated myself upon this
 occasion.
 
-After we had talked for a while about psychic phenomena and UFOs,
+After we had talked for a while about psychic phenomena and \sc{ufo}s,
 Frankie volunteered that he knew a German expatriate living in Canada
 
 
-who has proof that UFOs were flying saucer-shaped aircraft manufactured by the Nazis during World War 11. He had made a small model of
+who has proof that \sc{ufo}s were flying saucer-shaped aircraft manufactured by the Nazis during World War II. He had made a small model of
 this aircraft for this man, Frankie told me, but a round object has trouble
 moving in a straight line because of its shape. This model would not fly
 more than a few yards.
@@ -1401,7 +964,7 @@ Frankie said that he would not mind, but that first he would have to
 locate one of his letters. He could not remember where he had put this
 and said he would call me back.
 
-In return for his calling me back, I said that I would do an ESP
+In return for his calling me back, I said that I would do an \sc{esp}
 experiment with him. At 8 P.M. that night I would place an ordinary
 sewing needle on the surface of a glass of water and by long distance
 psychokinesis Frankie would cause this needle to float.
@@ -1414,14 +977,14 @@ remained at the bottom of the glass.
 
 When Frankie called me back the next day he was upset to hear about
 the behavior of this needle, but he did give me the correct address of the
-publisher of UFOs: Nazi Secret Weapon along with the hope that I would
+publisher of \sc{ufo}s: Nazi Secret Weapon along with the hope that I would
 extend his personal greetings to the editor, which I did in general, and
 received in return much interesting information, which will be detailed
 later on.
 
 SIXTEEN
 
-6/29/77
+6\slash 29\slash 77
 A secretary of about thirty-five years of age came into my office wearing
 pink corduroy pants. She had originally been interested in a psychic
 reading, but when she saw the \sc{ufo} sign on my door she was interested
@@ -1431,7 +994,7 @@ experienced a high-pitched whining sound which vibrated the inner ear.
 They saw a light or noticed some other visual phenomena initially, but
 the main aspect of this Pennsylvania sighting was this peculiar vibration
 effect.
-32 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+
 
 At the time, this woman told me, the people who had experienced this
 sound called a university or some testing center in the area. She does not
@@ -1452,7 +1015,7 @@ the paper was actually Charlie Giftie.
 With a name like Charlie Giftie, I thought (this pseudonym closely
 approximates the real pseudonym) this has got to be a crackpot of some
 sort. Crazily, I left my name and number with the message service,
-indicating to Giftie that I was interested in UFOs and needed more
+indicating to Giftie that I was interested in \sc{ufo}s and needed more
 information on his Studies Institute.
 
 I received back in the mail a xeroxed document in the form of a letter.
@@ -1465,13 +1028,13 @@ Giftie stated that: ""statements made here may sound strange, but so is
 the \sc{ufo} phenomenon itself." He offered as examples of this strangeness: the Bible, The Origin and Destiny of Man by Edgar Cayce,
 Mysteries of Time and Space by Brad Steiger and Somebody Else Is On
 The Moon by George Leonard. Giftie also announced that he himself
-was about to publish a book entitled: UFOs and the USA or The
+was about to publish a book entitled: \sc{ufo}s and the USA or The
 Monolith's Prostitute. The Monolith's Prostitute was scheduled to be
 issued on Shape Press at some future date, and could be purchased in
-advance for $12.50.
+advance for \$12.50.
 
 I did not feel that I could afford to order Giftie's Prostitute in advance.
-However, 1 was intrigued by his statement that he had "instituted a
+However, I was intrigued by his statement that he had "instituted a
 one-million-dollar lawsuit against the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
 
 
@@ -1480,9 +1043,9 @@ rights involving merely reporting a \sc{ufo} sighting."
 
 Giftie stated in other parts of this form letter and during subsequent
 phone conversations that he had been illegally placed under restraint
-twice for insisting on the reality of UFOs. I do not know exactly what
+twice for insisting on the reality of \sc{ufo}s. I do not know exactly what
 Charlie Giftie did to deserve this restraint. Perhaps he stood in some
-public park and yelled: "UFOs and the USA! . .. The monolith's
+public park and yelled: "\sc{ufo}s and the USA! . .. The monolith's
 prostitute!"'
 
 If this was the case, then his confinement was certainly questionable.
@@ -1492,7 +1055,7 @@ concerned with the right of individuals to pursue their own form of
 happiness.
 
 If it makes Charlie Giftie happy to publish his own eight-page form
-letter, and/or stand up in public and warn of government corruption as
+letter, and\slash or stand up in public and warn of government corruption as
 linked with invasions from the moon, that is interesting and highly
 unusual, but in no way a basis for any sort of extended confinement,
 either in a jail or any mental institution. Congratulations on your
@@ -1516,11 +1079,11 @@ Speaking of California, I have here before me now the first notes on a
 sighting which I am going to deal with in more detail later on in this
 book.
 Specifically, these details will be entitled *""Notes on Torres."" This
-34 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+
 
 Torres incident constitutes a puzzle of an inter-relationship which I am
 still trying to unravel. No one so far has been able to explain satisfactorily the events which are described in Section 30. It was a real monolith of
-an experience, and I think it is best---as the whale did to Jonah ---just to
+an experience, and I think it is best---as the whale did to Jonah---just to
 spit the entire troublesome incident up whole, in all its irritation and
 embarrassment.
 
@@ -1543,7 +1106,7 @@ I told him that this was entirely possible, and Torres then volunteered
 that he had a \sc{ufo} photo which had been taken near Lake Marichibo in
 Venezuela. 
 This photo, he said, had been snapped by one of his cousins when a
-UFO manifested to a group of people who were traveling on an excursion bus near the lake. It was taken in 1968, Torres told me, but his
+\sc{ufo} manifested to a group of people who were traveling on an excursion bus near the lake. It was taken in 1968, Torres told me, but his
 relatives had waited until 1970 to have it developed. He was reluctant to
 bring this photo to my office, although he was ready to quite
 enthusiastically discuss the possibilities of \sc{ufo} and spirit contact. He
@@ -1560,18 +1123,18 @@ door---there is no choice. It is all pre-ordained."
 Perhaps.
 
 
-[ knew as I was talking to Torres that when he brought me this photo I
+I knew as I was talking to Torres that when he brought me this photo I
 was going to have it secretly duplicated.
 
 I told Torres that I wanted to keep this photo for several weeks to look
-at it, and that [ would return it to him as soon as [ had decided what I
+at it, and that I would return it to him as soon as I had decided what I
 thought about the object.
 
 A few days later, he brought me the photo, and the following morning
 at 8:30 A.M. I took it to a photographic duplication service.
 
 When I brought in this photo, the man behind the counter was hostile.
-He told me (incredibly) that he had done a paper on UFOs while in
+He told me (incredibly) that he had done a paper on \sc{ufo}s while in
 college and insisted that the picture was no good for submitting anywhere without a negative.
 
 I told him that I was not planning to submit it anywhere for proof, but
@@ -1583,7 +1146,7 @@ comments on the nature of photographic evidence that I might have
 blown a circuit on his photo-duplication equipment if this was July 1977.
 
 But it was then March 1977 and I had not yet experienced the strange
-UFO-connected downflux of psychokinetic energies which 1 detail in
+\sc{ufo}-connected downflux of psychokinetic energies which I detail in
 Section 30.
 
 However, all was not lost!
@@ -1595,17 +1158,17 @@ backing and not due to fakery or madness in the composition of the
 picture.
 
 Giving up the idea of obtaining a copy of this picture at any photographic service immediately (it takes several days to obtain a new
-negative) [ went down the street and had a copy of the picture made on a
+negative) I went down the street and had a copy of the picture made on a
 color xerox machine.
 
 The colors are a bit accentuated by this xerox process, and so the
-result looks Jike a still from a film like Star Wars, but 1 do retain several
+result looks Jike a still from a film like Star Wars, but I do retain several
 fascinating copies of this photo, the original of which I did return to
 Torres.
 
 It is an elliptical figure which manifested sideways in the sky, like a
 bright yellow plate balanced on the edge of one rim with a fried egg
-36 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+
 
 sunnyside up in the middle.
 Alsa, this UFQ does resemble the human female breast us it might be
@@ -1625,7 +1188,7 @@ adventures, it shows no evidence of rocket propulsion devices but seems
 simply to be hovering sideways in the air in front of a darkened horizon.
 
 Since I did promise Torres that this photo would not be published in
-this book, 1 have reproduced the color xerox copy in a pastel drawing,
+this book, I have reproduced the color xerox copy in a pastel drawing,
 lightening and browning the background a bit as it was in the original,
 which did not have such an accentuated color contrast.
 
@@ -1662,7 +1225,7 @@ a small plane became aware of its presence and abruptly changed course.
 I asked her to describe this unidentified object in more detail, and she
 told me that it was round on top with a section which came down at an
 angle from the domed section and squared off into a lower area with
-38 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+
 
 windows. These windows were perfectly square, she says.
 
@@ -1691,17 +1254,17 @@ object . . . or even a small glowing object.
 The second aspect of this paramedic's sighting which is of particular
 interest is that she is the fourth person in this area (the vet's assistant,
 William McCarthy, Donna's brother Michael) to report rectangular
-aspects of UFOs.
+aspects of \sc{ufo}s.
 
-Usually, contactees report saucer-shaped or ellipsoidal craft. UFOs
+Usually, contactees report saucer-shaped or ellipsoidal craft. \sc{ufo}s
 have been stereotyped as being round in shape, not square-cornered.
 Mrs. Monroe (Mrs. Kubouski's neighbor in Section 6) once told me that
 she had seen a craft which was domed at the top and the bottom with a
 strip of square windows in the middle. My mind boggled at the time she
 told me this because it was quasi-logically rejecting the fact that she and
-her son and her neighbor could have seen so many UFOs.
+her son and her neighbor could have seen so many \sc{ufo}s.
 
-[ don't know why I should reject any of these stories. After all, I have
+I don't know why I should reject any of these stories. After all, I have
 seen \sc{ufo} lights several times: once on the railroad tracks and once on
 the walls of my bedroom. There was no airplane in my bedroom at the
 time of my sighting, but I did hear a crack in the air which was audible to
@@ -1709,7 +1272,7 @@ both myself and my son in the next room.
 
 
 Disregarding the usual expectations of logic, time and space: some
-UFOs seem to signal before they manifest. If this is true, then they want
+\sc{ufo}s seem to signal before they manifest. If this is true, then they want
 to be seen and are deliberately appearing to certain persons in certain
 circumstances.
 
@@ -1727,7 +1290,7 @@ Landed. My immediate reaction to this advice was a heightened desire
 to get onto the elevator and get out of the building.
 
 Adamski was one of the early '"'contactees" who completely lost
-credibility by claiming to have experienced journeys to Mars ---or was it
+credibility by claiming to have experienced journeys to Mars---or was it
 the opposite side of the moon? I forget which location he flew up to in his
 ecstasies, but this has since been un-verified.
 
@@ -1752,7 +1315,7 @@ the title page of Adamski's Flying Saucers Have Landed.
 I would then have read a portion of the first volume, and maybe this
 would shut Shanti up with all of her talk of veracity as connected to
 changing modes of vibration and the necessity to heal my physical
-40 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+
 
 mechanism.
 
@@ -1763,7 +1326,7 @@ continuously about the vibrational levels of my physical mechanism.
 "You," she told me, *'will have to heal yourself before you can get on
 with this particular project anyway."
 
-[ found the news that I would have to heal myself distressing, since I
+I found the news that I would have to heal myself distressing, since I
 do have a few old nerve injuries and this exhortation to '"'heal myself"
 seemed an impossible command and redolant of Shanti's background of
 charismatic and pentacostal religions. She is an ordained minister of one
@@ -1782,7 +1345,7 @@ did perform as a \sc{ufo} on April Fools Day.
 This was in the course of a trip to California which I had been planning
 to take for several months. When I made my plans, I had no intention of
 acting as anyone's \sc{ufo} or even freaking out mildly into any aspects of
-UFO conduct.
+\sc{ufo} conduct.
 
 I had planned this trip as an occasion to scout out Los Angeles or San
 Francisco as a possible location for my activities. Also, I was going to
@@ -1792,16 +1355,16 @@ I did intend to query Warren Sequoia about his \sc{ufo} sighting in
 person, but that was just out of passing curiosity, as I had intended to
 confine my data collection to sightings within the Boston area.
 
-I felt reasonably unaltered mentally while in Los Angeles, where 1
-toured the city, decided to write a long poem (Trip 1011/Destination
-4031: now scheduled for publication in the Stone Soup East/West
+I felt reasonably unaltered mentally while in Los Angeles, where I
+toured the city, decided to write a long poem (Trip 1011\slash Destination
+4031: now scheduled for publication in the Stone Soup East\slash West
 Anthology, whenever they get together enough money to publish that
 anthology) and watched the Academy Awards on TV while eating a
 pizza with a group of unemployed actors.
 
 
 Upon arriving in San Francisco, I still felt reasonably unaltered, but
-then during the day on March 31st something got into me, much as I
+then during the day on March 31\tss{st} something got into me, much as I
 suppose something must have gotten into Shanti during the four days she
 was pestering me about Adamski and the vibrational levels of my bodily
 mechanism.
@@ -1809,7 +1372,7 @@ mechanism.
 Subsequent to finding out that the Dawn Horse bookstore had just
 inexplicably burned down, and while enjoying a maple nut doughnut
 just across the street from the damage, I began to have the idea that April
-Fools Day was in some way connected with UFOs. This came over me
+Fools Day was in some way connected with \sc{ufo}s. This came over me
 gradually. After finishing my doughnut, I noticed a sign in a camera
 store across the street which read Metaphysical Books.
 
@@ -1831,7 +1394,7 @@ it Ben Shenks? I am never able to keep those names I have invented
 straight in the composition, though I do have the real personalities
 firmly in mind.
 
-At any rate, [ called up Warren-Babaloo's friend, Ben Shenks and
+At any rate, I called up Warren-Babaloo's friend, Ben Shenks and
 informed him that after our scheduled dinner engagement on April Fools
 Day we simply had to go out and drop in on said Warren Sequoia.
 
@@ -1841,7 +1404,7 @@ address, but we did come up with a current telephone number.
 
 On April Fools Day morning, I got up, put on my red sweatshirt which
 reads MAGICK in large white letters, and as a deliberate lunatic went
-42 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+
 
 out and mingled with the crowds.
 
@@ -1855,7 +1418,7 @@ By the time that I wandered into an art supply store advertising "'60%
 off," I was abit tired and had completely forgotten that I was wearing my
 MAGICK tee shirt.
 
-On impulse, 1 believe I thought that I might take some art supplies
+On impulse, I believe I thought that I might take some art supplies
 back to Boston. I realize in retrospect that this was absurd. I needed no
 art supplies and had no reason for going into this particular store at all.
 Furthermore, my final purchase was not paper, pencil, portfolio or
@@ -1876,57 +1439,59 @@ itself.
 
 I did not realize at the time that I approached this counter that I was
 going to become a \sc{ufo} manifestation. I accomplished this, however,
-shortly after receiving the change from a one-dollar bill, which [ had
+shortly after receiving the change from a one-dollar bill, which I had
 tendered to James Karnstedt (his real name). Right now, I am going to
 knock off this California narration for today to write a letter of response
 to the man from the Parker House hotel chain who came into my office
-this morning asking me to refer my clients from out of town to their ESP
+this morning asking me to refer my clients from out of town to their \sc{esp}
 Executive Services Program. A portion of his memo is quoted below:
 
-"Special ESP privileges on Friday and Saturday nights for the ESP
+"Special \sc{esp} privileges on Friday and Saturday nights for the \sc{esp}
 guest and spouse."
 
 
 I wonder if this has anything to do with Giftie's monolith (Section
 17)?
 
-Itis easy to see that I have been UFOed by a Parker House Hotel memo
-Just as [ was about to describe how I became a \sc{ufo} in the process of
+Itis easy to see that I have been \sc{ufo}ed by a Parker House Hotel memo
+Just as I was about to describe how I became a \sc{ufo} in the process of
 purchasing cigars.
 
 Really: the Executive Services Program representative just walked
 right in here.
 
-TWENTY-THREE
-7/1/717
+% TWENTY-THREE
+\chap 
+
+7\slash 1\slash 717
 The difference between the Parker House \sc{ufo} and my transformation
 into a \sc{ufo} lies primarily in the area of awareness and intention. For
 example: why on earth did a functionary of the Parker House arrive
-conveniently into my office on 6/30/77 with a convenient example for
+conveniently into my office on 6\slash 30\slash 77 with a convenient example for
 this book?
 
-I doubt very much that his hotel chain printed the ESP services memo
+I doubt very much that his hotel chain printed the \sc{esp} services memo
 specifically for my whimsical use at this moment.
 
 On the other hand, when Jim Karnstedt returned my change and then
 asked me why I was wearing the word MAGICK on my sweatshirt and if
 I meant by that metaphysical magick or stage magic, I felt a definite shift
-in my consciousness and the sense that what 1 was going to say would be
+in my consciousness and the sense that what I was going to say would be
 "significant' in some way.
 
 This was similar to the feeling of *'significance" which I recognize as
 being part of the psychic reading situation, when I am relating communications which '"mean something" to an individual, all of this
-apprehended by ESP.
+apprehended by \sc{esp}.
 
-For some reason, [ began in the art supply store to talk to Karnstedt
-about my mathematical ideas as these relate to \sc{ufo} phenomena, particularly in the area of time/space anomaly. He told me that he himself
+For some reason, I began in the art supply store to talk to Karnstedt
+about my mathematical ideas as these relate to \sc{ufo} phenomena, particularly in the area of time\slash space anomaly. He told me that he himself
 was involved with \sc{ufo} research, and was in fact planning to attend an
 upcoming international \sc{ufo} conference in Acapulco, Mexico.
 
 Then Karnstedt produced his energen. An energen is a small circular
 device made of metal. It resembles, appropriately, a small flying saucer
 with a circular plate on the bottom and the top and a central compartment.
-44 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+
 
 s
 
@@ -1937,13 +1502,13 @@ effect on states of consciousness.
 
 There was an energen in the art store, ionizing the atmosphere. At the
 time I was talking to Karnstedt, I did not fully recognize the significance
-of this encounter. As so often happens with information and/or added
+of this encounter. As so often happens with information and\slash or added
 perception gained by unusual means, the data is so unusual and so
 unexpected that the logical faculties must take time to sort and assimilate
 the new experience before it can be of any material use.
 
 Therefore, at this time I am writing myself a note which reads:
-"Karnstedt: the energen as time/space changer'" and I will place this
+"Karnstedt: the energen as time\slash space changer'" and I will place this
 note at the bottom of a stack of papers on my desk. These papers are
 notes for this book which I have arranged in chronological order. I have
 just written to Karnstedt asking if he knows anyone who would be
@@ -1959,15 +1524,15 @@ myself explaining my theories of time alteration in a San Francisco art
 store with a ""60% off'' sign in the window.
 
 At the time of our conversation, I exchanged addresses with Karnstedt, who told me to keep in touch and that he was in contact with a
-writer/editor on psychic topics who lives in San Francisco. I will call
-this writer/editor Simon Herrick.
+writer\slash editor on psychic topics who lives in San Francisco. I will call
+this writer\slash editor Simon Herrick.
 
 It occurs to me now that it must have been strange for Karnstedt to
 receive my name on my then just hot-off-the-press surrealist stationery,
-which reads on the masthead: //2 OFF or else and bears at the foot of the
+which reads on the masthead: \slash \slash 2 OFF or else and bears at the foot of the
 pages this motto: "Here I am. Farewell, body of the sphynx."
 
-Like the hotel chain with their ESP executive services program, I
+Like the hotel chain with their \sc{esp} executive services program, I
 really had not designed the stationery for this encounter, but it was
 certainly appropriate.
 
@@ -1983,7 +1548,7 @@ Certainly, I had no idea that the energen would be able to impress
 Simon Herrick into the air all around me.
 
 Sequoia told me that he did not want to talk in any detail about his
-UFO encounter, and that seemed to be a dead end to my inspiration that I
+\sc{ufo} encounter, and that seemed to be a dead end to my inspiration that I
 should for some reason speak to Sequoia directly.
 
 Perhaps the purpose of this visit was that his wife should prophesy
@@ -1998,36 +1563,36 @@ Before I left, I dropped by the art store to see Karnstedt again. I still
 did not fully understand our connection, but told him that Sequoia's wife
 had prophesied upon the name of Simon Herrick, thus in some way
 reinforcing the significance of whatever it was that had turned me into a
-UFO on April Fools Day.
+\sc{ufo} on April Fools Day.
 
 I wonder how Karnstedt will reply to the letter I wrote yesterday.
 
 TWENTY-FOUR
 Next in my file is *"Truth Declassified," a brochure which I received in
-response to my query on Nazi UFOs (Section 15). This brochure asks the
+response to my query on Nazi \sc{ufo}s (Section 15). This brochure asks the
 question: ''Did the Nazis, with their secret weapons, 'buzz' the Capitol
 in Washington in 1951 in order to intimidate the US government?"'
 
 This is quite a question.
 
-I did order the book UFOs: Nazi Secret Weapon from Frankie's
+I did order the book \sc{ufo}s: Nazi Secret Weapon from Frankie's
 reference and found it to be dedicated to the "'unsung and often-maligned heroes of the Second World War."'
 
-There seems to be some confusion or connection here between UFOs
+There seems to be some confusion or connection here between \sc{ufo}s
 
 and war activities.
 It is a widely circulated rumor that Hitler himself was mediumistic
-46 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+
 
 and deeply into astrology and other occult activities. The Nazi swastica
 itself is the reversed occult symbol for the four dimensions: time, and the
 three dimensional locations, which are also of importance to mathematicians.
 
-UFOs: Nazi Secret Weapon does not mention this fact, but ends with a
+\sc{ufo}s: Nazi Secret Weapon does not mention this fact, but ends with a
 very useful appendix of newspaper clippings which have been duplicated from English language newspapers exactly as they were published, right down to the ragged corners. These clippings have datelines
 from all over the world.
 
-Otherwise, the composition of UFOs: Nazi Secret Weapon seems a
+Otherwise, the composition of \sc{ufo}s: Nazi Secret Weapon seems a
 little crazy to me. The author has indeed achieved some sort of an
 insight, but due to prejudices stemming from World War II has not been
 able to make this insight cohere. >
@@ -2036,7 +1601,7 @@ Mattern-Friedrech describes the German nation as a colony either
 from the German-speaking ''Saturnanians'® or ''the outer earth
 beachhead of the inner earth civilization."
 
-I wrote to my correspondent at the publishers of UFOs: Nazi Secret
+I wrote to my correspondent at the publishers of \sc{ufo}s: Nazi Secret
 Weapon, asking the following questions. The following answers were
 written in below the questions, and my original letter was returned:
 
@@ -2051,9 +1616,9 @@ origin.
 : How did you become interested in UFQs?
 
 : Through (unintelligible word) with German engineers who worked
-on UFOs during World War II.
+on \sc{ufo}s during World War II.
 
-: Have you or members of your staff seen UFOs?
+: Have you or members of your staff seen \sc{ufo}s?
 
 No!
 
@@ -2065,8 +1630,8 @@ Yes.
 My correspondent added that he was ** going to Europe this summer to
 contact \sc{ufo} specialists and related people."
 
-Along with Mattern-Friedrech, the author of UFOs: Nazi Secret
-Weapon, 1 cannot make all of this information cohere, except simply to
+Along with Mattern-Friedrech, the author of \sc{ufo}s: Nazi Secret
+Weapon, I cannot make all of this information cohere, except simply to
 
 
 > O0P0 PO POPO
@@ -2081,7 +1646,7 @@ the United States, or was it a Nazi secret weapon?
 
 Is it possible that a Nazi functionary familiar with secret circular
 aircraft, then mentally disturbed by the German defeat, might be more
-likely than most of us to admit the real possibility of UFOs, the circular
+likely than most of us to admit the real possibility of \sc{ufo}s, the circular
 aircraft that keep turning up in news photos all over the world?
 
 I have drawn below (Figure 2) the image of a circular spinning object
@@ -2102,16 +1667,16 @@ any time retyping this manuscript.
 
 STOPPED FAN
 (Figure Two)
-48 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+
 
 TWENTY-FIVE
-7/5/77
+7\slash 5\slash 77
 On July 4th, while I was busy redrafting My Sandwich Exploded, the
-phone rang and a man told me that he had seen my ad on UFOs and
+phone rang and a man told me that he had seen my ad on \sc{ufo}s and
 wanted to report a \sc{ufo} sighting.
 
-He told me that he links UFOs with psychic phenomena and that the
-psychic sensation he connects with UFOs is like '"walking through the
+He told me that he links \sc{ufo}s with psychic phenomena and that the
+psychic sensation he connects with \sc{ufo}s is like '"walking through the
 rain in a rubber suit."
 
 Connected with this sensation, he has developed something which he
@@ -2119,7 +1684,7 @@ calls "'rain therapy." By the use of rain therapy, this man claims he can
 help people psychologically and cure minor aches and pains.
 
 I told Simons that I could meet him to talk about rain therapy on July 7
-and he became excited and told me that UFOs were due to be sighted in
+and he became excited and told me that \sc{ufo}s were due to be sighted in
 Maine on July 7.
 
 I found this conjunction of events and mformatwn interesting, and a
@@ -2154,16 +1719,18 @@ on the intergalactic line
 
 We'll see what happens on July 7.
 
-TWENTY-SIX
+% TWENTY-SIX
+\chap
+
 On May Day 1977 I met by chance a local theatre entrepreneur in a coffee
 shop where I was loitering before crossing the street to go on to an
 organizational meeting.
 
 We were headed for different theatres. He asked me what I was doing,
 so I told him (among other bits and pieces of gossip) about my research
-on UFOs.
+on \sc{ufo}s.
 
-We had never discussed UFOs before, though we had talked about the
+We had never discussed \sc{ufo}s before, though we had talked about the
 occult and black magic. He is a person I don't see very often, really the
 friend of a friend who moves in another area of acquaintance.
 
@@ -2177,7 +1744,8 @@ satellite, but he was not sure exactly what he had seen. There is no doubt
 that this light was unusual, as well as my extended conversation with the
 sightee, whom I do not know very well.
 
-TWENTY-SEVEN
+% TWENTY-SEVEN
+\chap
 
 Next in my file is a highly unusual clipping from the Boston Herald
 American dated May 16, 1977. This details the story of a retired maintenance man from Dracut, Massachusetts and his two sons, aged 12 and
@@ -2187,9 +1755,11 @@ within the same span of time. This tells of two Dover, Massachusetts
 teenagers who saw a small, monkey-like figure with a "'figure 8 head"
 standing on top of a broken stone wall. This being was said to have had
 bright orange eyes.
-50 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
 
-TWENTY-EIGHT
+
+% TWENTY-EIGHT
+\chap 
+
 On May 17, a man who said that he had attended meditation sessions at
 the Cayce Foundation in Virginia Beach left a class which Larry Sands
 was conducting just outside my office and told me that he had experienced a \sc{ufo} sighting while at Virginia Beach. He connected this
@@ -2241,7 +1811,7 @@ journal-article which I entitled ''Notes on Torres."" I sent this to Pursuit
 magazine of the Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained, which
 has published several of my speculative articles.
 
-The letter [ received in return was from a quizzical R. Martin Wolf. He
+The letter I received in return was from a quizzical R. Martin Wolf. He
 wrote: "'I think the best thing we can do is wait and see what happens
 with all the diverse cosmic characters who are presently involved in your
 research concerning the whole inter-relationship . . . I do not doubt that
@@ -2259,14 +1829,14 @@ by E. Macer-Story
 Copyright 1977 E. Macer-Story
 All right reserved
 
-TORRES REBUS 4/21/77
+TORRES REBUS 4\slash 21\slash 77
 Pieces:
 
-one: Macer-Story is collecting data on UFOs to write a book. This is
+one: Macer-Story is collecting data on \sc{ufo}s to write a book. This is
 publicly known. She has just been to California, where she visited old
 friends. The environment in California is markedly different from her
 office environment in Boston. In California, she talked with several
-52 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+
 
 experts on \sc{ufo} activity and altered states of consciousness.
 
@@ -2283,13 +1853,13 @@ treatments.
 
 three: Bill Babaloo and Ben Shenks who were once editors for
 PLAYBOY live in California. They work separately. Shenks introduced
-Macer-Story to Babaloo. Babaloo has written on UFOs both fictionally
+Macer-Story to Babaloo. Babaloo has written on \sc{ufo}s both fictionally
 and non-fictionally. Also, Babaloo is into aspects of spirit contact and
 Crowleyesque magic. Shenks is writing a book on psychic healing. He
 has a certain degree of romantic interest for Macer-Story and together
 they went to an unconventional gathering on April Fools Day at which
 alternate lifestyles were practiced actively. Macer-Story has*written a
-poem about her trip to California entitled Trip 1011/Departure 4031.
+poem about her trip to California entitled Trip 1011\slash Departure 4031.
 
 Sfour: Leonardo Pinto is a friend of Torres who lives in New York City.
 They have tried seances. Pinto claims Guiseppi Verdi appeared to him at
@@ -2334,10 +1904,10 @@ This article will contain two informational diagrams: one drawn
 previous to the journal of my relationship with Torres and one drawn as a
 summary of this experience.
 
-1 do not feel that I can present this entire occasion without including
+I do not feel that I can present this entire occasion without including
 personal details about Torres and about myself, so I have changed his
 name and the location of the \sc{ufo} sighting, which actually did take place
-54 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+
 
 in South America in 1969.
 
@@ -2350,7 +1920,7 @@ more than simply present informational diagrams, supplemented by my
 journals. I-have retained sequentially all of my mistakes and misinterpretations, so that you can see how complex the "'contactee™ situation
 can become.
 
-Since the "UFO" entities operate by the use of pranic energy, many of
+Since the "\sc{ufo}" entities operate by the use of pranic energy, many of
 the auxiliary effects of prolonged contact are in the area of
 psychokinesis, mood and idea change, and telepathy. Unprepared contactees might believe that they are experiencing a descent into madness.
 Persons experiencing this sort of communication might also, as they
@@ -2361,7 +1931,7 @@ It is my hope that the Torres journals will help to prevent some of this
 needless agitation. b
 
 PLEASE CONSULT DIAGRAM ONE
-4/27/77
+4\slash 27\slash 77
 Torres called just a split second after I had hung up the phone after
 talking to another man who was delayed in coming over for dinner. He
 seemed morose and wanted his \sc{ufo} photo back. Probably on the
@@ -2376,14 +1946,14 @@ connection to the seance entity which came through as regards Torres
 music, and identified itself as Scottish.
 
 Again I asked him to contact his cousin in Argentina (the one who
-took the picture of the UFO) and ask for details as to why his mother and
+took the picture of the \sc{ufo}) and ask for details as to why his mother and
 
 
 cousin were on that particular sightseeing trip. Also I asked for any
 strange dreams or paranormal details which his mother or cousin might
 remember.
 
-4/28/77
+4\slash 28\slash 77
 
 Torres gave me another healing treatment, holding my upper arm in his
 hands. At a certain point, he said he felt a particularly strong influx of
@@ -2421,7 +1991,7 @@ he had prayed for in some way had undergone remission of symptoms.
 
 Somewhere in the process of moving this pendulum, the entire situation of \sc{ufo} photo, psychic healing, Torres' infatuation with me and
 now my onset of psychokinesis became so funny that I began to laugh
-56 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+
 
 hysterically (which sometimes happens when I get an insight while
 meditating: frequently the mechanism of these ''paranormal events"
@@ -2442,7 +2012,7 @@ backing, indicating that the one showing on the Torres photo is probably
 due to a delay in developing the film. (Or unusual radiation during the
 time of the sighting?)
 
-Due to my own laughter, [ am also learning more about Torres' strange
+Due to my own laughter, I am also learning more about Torres' strange
 sense of humor. He told me he had written a short piece (I'm not sure if
 it's a story or a play) entitled '"The Sale of a Dead Man." This is
 supposed to be some sort of takeoff on Miller's Death of a Salesman.
@@ -2455,7 +2025,7 @@ would force the sharp edge of the patin against their throats as they were
 taking the host. In retrospect, he admitted, this is not as funny as it
 seemed at the time.
 
-5/4/77
+5\slash 4\slash 77
 
 Today I got a letter from Edinburgh University indicating that they have
 no name on record which corresponds to the information which came
@@ -2463,13 +2033,13 @@ through from the entity claiming to be the music teacher. I felt very
 depressed about this, especially as there had been an incident which was
 negative during a reading earlier in the day.
 
-A man had asked me in a "'twenty-questions" and "ESP quickie-quiz" spirit where he would be traveling outside the country. I read
+A man had asked me in a "'twenty-questions" and "\sc{esp} quickie-quiz" spirit where he would be traveling outside the country. I read
 where he would be traveling in the future and he told me where he had
 been traveling in the past and told me that I was mistaken about where he
 had been when I had been telling him not where he was but where he
 perhaps might find himself.
 
-This can be frustrating. 1 know that spirits sometimes give erroneous
+This can be frustrating. I know that spirits sometimes give erroneous
 information, either as a joke or as a carrot before the horse to get people
 around into a position which might not have been anticipated. I received
 the information in the Torres seance not from my own psychic faculty,
@@ -2486,11 +2056,11 @@ the warm, waking sensation to occur in the nerve by holding my own arm
 and concentrating. I wonder if I could heal myself, but this seems
 somehow onanistic. '"'Physician," however, said Jesus, '"'Heal thyself."
 
-1 can definitely move the pendulum on my own (or by
+I can definitely move the pendulum on my own (or by
 mediumistically-generated energies?) and perhaps I could also circulate
 healing energies. At any rate, Torres wanted me to try moving the
 pendulum as we had during the last session and so I suspended it from
-my table (at home now, not at my office) and showed him that 1 could
+my table (at home now, not at my office) and showed him that I could
 move it slightly without touching string or table at all, and swing it quite
 definitely while pressing the string with my finger.
 
@@ -2502,14 +2072,14 @@ that I spontaneously began to address this pendulum in broken Spanish. I
 do not usually speak Spanish, though I do know some of the language
 from college. Subsequently Torres and I saw several dark spots of some
 shadowy substance moving cloudlike across the floor. This had the
-58 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+
 
 shape of a large cloud, then a formation of several smaller clouds.
-Definitely there is some very strange spirit (UFO manipulation via the
+Definitely there is some very strange spirit (\sc{ufo} manipulation via the
 astral?) activity connected with this entire operation. It is certainly
 beyond my understanding at this point.
 
-5/5/71
+5\slash 5\slash 71
 
 It has occurred to me that the name '"'Fox™ which occurred as an
 auxiliary name to the Edinburgh communication may be of importance.
@@ -2541,13 +2111,13 @@ personality characteristics of Fox: sadistic, bizarre sense of humor not
 confined to women but including altar boys, pigeons and Guiseppi
 Verdi. Not to mention Capablance. Intelligent enough to throw up this
 morass of contradictions in a quasi-coherent way, and to deceive Torres
-consistently. Somehow connected with UFOs or (and this is an interesting possibility) trying to throw me off the track of my research and into
+consistently. Somehow connected with \sc{ufo}s or (and this is an interesting possibility) trying to throw me off the track of my research and into
 some bizarre relationship with Torres.
 
 In this case, I would now be meeting personally for the first time the
 
 
-'""anti-UFO investigator' kind of entity often mentioned in accounts of
+'""anti-\sc{ufo} investigator' kind of entity often mentioned in accounts of
 "men in black™ or other threatening incidents to which contactees or
 investigators of sightings are subjected.
 
@@ -2565,7 +2135,7 @@ Torres has told me that subsequent to one of his '"'inspired" piano
 sessions his hands bled from so much hard playing. I wonder what he
 actually sounded like.
 
-5/6/77
+5\slash 6\slash 77
 
 I felt like looking up ""Fox" in the card catalogue of the library and
 (incredibly!) found the name of James Fox, the pseudonym of a writer
@@ -2590,7 +2160,7 @@ that Fox-Knipscheer is the author I should consult, though he is not yet
 dead.
 
 According to the card catalogue, Fox-Knipscheer is alive and living in
-60 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+
 
 California. So, whatever spirit was playing tricks with me at least has
 access to the Boston Public Library.
@@ -2606,9 +2176,9 @@ those manifestations.
 However, the Knipscheer with pseudonym Fox, though living, seems
 to be the entity indicated at this time. It is really beyond coincidence to
 find a K-sounding name linked with "Fox" and the very idea of
-Operation Dancing Dog. 1 hope I can logate the book.
+Operation Dancing Dog. I hope I can logate the book.
 
-5/1/717
+5\slash 1\slash 717
 
 Torres calls agitated. He tells me an Uncle of his has died in South
 America. He wants to know if this is possibly the reason for the recent
@@ -2657,7 +2227,7 @@ Evidently, some part of these manifestations have to do with sex.
 They also have to do with an entity or entities who possess a rather weird
 sense of humor. Or is this really so weird? I can conceive of some
 well-intentioned ectoplasmic entity trying to signal to me the basis of
-Torres or Torres/Fox/UFOnaught's derangement. I really do not feel
+Torres or Torres\slash Fox\slash \sc{ufo}naught's derangement. I really do not feel
 that in this session I was being played with or manipulated mentally. It
 was the intention of the entity to signal us in some way. A name which
 came across to me psychically as concerned with the identity of spirits
@@ -2674,24 +2244,24 @@ figurine fell off the shelf for no apparent physical reason, in context of
 feminist discussion. It had been shoved off by some spirit.
 
 This figurine was of a man playing a guitar. I play the guitar professionally, and began to do this when I was in New York City. As I picked
-62 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+
 
 up the figurine and looked at it, I was filled with nostalgic thoughts
 about guitars. A different sort of music from Torres' classical music. Or
-was this Fox/UFOnaught leading me up the garden path again? I felt the
+was this Fox\slash \sc{ufo}naught leading me up the garden path again? I felt the
 need to trace the name Dominick in a very impersonal way. I looked up
 the name Dominick in a sourcebook on the occult and discovered that St.
 Dominick was a famous persecutor of witches.
-5/10/77
+5\slash 10\slash 77
 I have told Torres about my suspicions regarding the entity with which
 he is involved, as he tells me he is about to make a hare-brained
 investment in a ""psychic center"" specializing in ''pyramid power," an
 action which resembles his previous financial mishap regarding concerts
-by spiritual direction. He told me that his brother had told him that UFOs
+by spiritual direction. He told me that his brother had told him that \sc{ufo}s
 had been sighted along the East Coast on the day of our first ectoplasmic
 manifestation. This probably did happen, but I did not see any word of
 the sighting in the Boston papers. Torres seemed very interested in the
-idea that the drifting shadows of ectoplasm had resembled mini-UFOs. It
+idea that the drifting shadows of ectoplasm had resembled mini-\sc{ufo}s. It
 is true that in context of the original \sc{ufo} photo an ectoplasmic cloud
 which then divides and becomes a flotilla of little clouds drifting in the
 same direction, as if riding on a current of some sort, associatively and
@@ -2720,7 +2290,7 @@ effects derived stem partially from my own energies triggered somehow
 by the trickster entity working through Torres. In this context, I do not
 know what to make of the original \sc{ufo} photograph.
 
-5/12/77
+5\slash 12\slash 77
 
 Operation Dancing Dog was located in the library. It turns out to be a
 pulp mystery about international intrigue, parts of which are set in
@@ -2731,7 +2301,7 @@ America, as did his late uncle.
 There are episodes of sadism in this book and several passages which
 describe Nazis who hide by fundamentally changing their physical
 appearance. This has resonance for me of Pinto's strange opera Gardenia and relates for me also to an organization in Canada which is now
-publishing information on what is described as Nazi occultist/UFO
+publishing information on what is described as Nazi occultist\slash \sc{ufo}
 activity during World War II. I have just received their information.
 Additionally, Fox-Knipscheer has studied at several European universities, according to the book jacket blurb. I wonder if he was ever in
 Scotland. Descriptions of the dilletante-like life in California mirror
@@ -2743,20 +2313,20 @@ encourages his wife to have extra-marital affairs due to the fact that he is
 impotent. There are a few funny scenes with regard to this. This
 impotent husband seems in this respect to share the self-effacing mentality of Gardenia, and actually there is quite a gruesome scene in Operation Dancing Dog about a man with an eye injury who must wear patches
 over both eyes. Is a Dancing Dog much like a chess-playing pigeon?
-Torres did write a short play about a chess-playing pigeon. Did Fox/
+Torres did write a short play about a chess-playing pigeon. Did Fox\slash 
 Knipscheer ever expect such an exegesis? I really cannot come to any
 decision about the final meaning of all this, except that it seems to be
 quite definitely resonant with meaningful coincidences which go
 nowhere.
 
-5/16/71
+5\slash 16\slash 71
 
 Torres calls me up complaining in a childish way that I once saw a flash
 of light from a car and called it a spirit. He told me that he had seen other
 psychic people in the interim and that my ''channels were not clear."
 
 ""You are not lying," he told me. "'But your channels are not clear"" I
-64 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+
 
 got angry and hung up the phone on him. Clearly, the implication was
 that in these transactions I was somehow defective in terms of his
@@ -2769,10 +2339,10 @@ Torres and he is hell-bent on seance phenomena. Unless he calls me
 again, I am just going to leave this as an example of a cul-de-sac
 experience in which all roads are related but lead nowhere, except to the
 overwhelming conclusion that there is something going on which links
-UFO activity to spiritualistic and seance manifestations.
+\sc{ufo} activity to spiritualistic and seance manifestations.
 
 There is something very peculiar going on as far as manipulation of
-humans. 1 was really put through my detective paces in tracing the
+humans. I was really put through my detective paces in tracing the
 seance communications. Even as I write this, I feel self-conscious about
 exposing just how thoroughly I was controlled or, at the very least,
 deluded.
@@ -2784,7 +2354,7 @@ being left clear to write this article?
 
 So: what happened?
 
-TORRES REBUS 5/28/77
+TORRES REBUS 5\slash 28\slash 77
 Pieces:
 
 one: Macer-Story, the author of "Notes on Torres." A psychic and
@@ -2823,7 +2393,7 @@ DIAGRAM TWO
 QUESTION: Why Torres? ANSWER: He is a medium who enjoys spirit
 contact. He was being used.
 
-QUESTION: What happened? ANSWER: UFOs or spirits or UFOs and
+QUESTION: What happened? ANSWER: \sc{ufo}s or spirits or \sc{ufo}s and
 spirits communicated to Macer-Story through Torres. They reinforced
 her insights as to the connection between \sc{ufo} sightings and psychic
 phenomena. Additionally, they taught her, through Torres, to move the
@@ -2833,7 +2403,7 @@ The sensation has returned into an area of my arm which has been
 numb for six years. This certainly assists me in playing the guitar,
 though it is not spectacular since I had been performing in public
 previous to this.
-66 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+
 
 More significantly, I have discovered that I have the ability to move
 the dowsing pendulum by psychokinesis without touching it. I knew
@@ -2842,9 +2412,9 @@ the string in my hand, but had not been able to move it otherwise.
 
 Materially, I now possess several color xerox copies of a \sc{ufo} which
 was sighted in 1969 in South America, and I have located a real living
-entity who answers to the composite name of K-sounding/Fox. This
+entity who answers to the composite name of K-sounding\slash Fox. This
 entity has written a novel with significant correspondences to my life
-situation and peculiarities of Torres and \sc{ufo} intrigue, though UFOs are
+situation and peculiarities of Torres and \sc{ufo} intrigue, though \sc{ufo}s are
 not mentioned specifically in the book.
 
 PLEASE CONSULT DIAGRAM TWO
@@ -2856,11 +2426,11 @@ experience. On the contrary, I seem to have benefited in ways which in
 another context might seem miraculous.
 
 I really do not believe that my subconscious in conjunction with the
-Boston Public Library could have supplied me Fox/Knipscheer's name
+Boston Public Library could have supplied me Fox\slash Knipscheer's name
 in the persona of a Scottish music teacher, unless I am more spaced out
 telepathically than I realize. My tastes do not ordinarily run to pulp
-mystery, but are more esoteric. I think I would like to meet this spirit/
-UFOnaught in another context. Perhaps we could do an act together. In a
+mystery, but are more esoteric. I think I would like to meet this spirit\slash 
+\sc{ufo}naught in another context. Perhaps we could do an act together. In a
 sense, we already have.
 
 So endeth "Notes on Torres."
@@ -2886,16 +2456,16 @@ activate events materially in a way which has previously been unexplained.
 
 In an article written for Pursuit magazine previous to my encounter
 with Torres (Section 10) I place the pranic link with the electromagnetic
-spectrum as occurring within the area of time-frequency. In \sc{ufo} contact, it is the pranic energy circulation which is affected and sensitivity to ESP and spirit communication may be permanently enhanced.
+spectrum as occurring within the area of time-frequency. In \sc{ufo} contact, it is the pranic energy circulation which is affected and sensitivity to \sc{esp} and spirit communication may be permanently enhanced.
 
 Because in the modern Western world we have little or no education in
 pranic contact: what is likely to happen during pranic communication,
 and what it actually feels like physically, the percipient either of a
-strange craft using pranic energy for manifestation or of a strong ESP
-and/or mystical experience is apt to feel shame and embarrassment.
+strange craft using pranic energy for manifestation or of a strong \sc{esp}
+and\slash or mystical experience is apt to feel shame and embarrassment.
 
 This is because (as in rain therapy; which I will hear more about on
-July 7) ESP or pranic thinking is physical in effect. This physicality of
+July 7) \sc{esp} or pranic thinking is physical in effect. This physicality of
 pranic thinking is the basis of theories such as the orgone theory
 advanced by Wilhelm Reich and the sex magic rituals and sensually-oriented
 ceremonial practices of witchcraft and primitive spiritist religions.
@@ -2914,13 +2484,13 @@ pranic energy into the body.
 
 Since in the modern Western culture we are sex-titillated in general,
 the slightest twinge in that area often becomes cause for a sex magick
-orgy and/or subsequent embarrassment.
+orgy and\slash or subsequent embarrassment.
 
 I have found that in the presence of genuine psychics, male or female,
 I do almost always feel twinges of what we here in the Western hemisphere term the "'turn on." I sense their psychic energy. Perhaps this is
-68 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
 
-because I am sex-crazed, or perhaps ---as the yogis and sufis have been
+
+because I am sex-crazed, or perhaps---as the yogis and sufis have been
 teaching all along---there are other dimensions to sensuality; areas of
 thought which do involve the channeling of pranic energies through the
 nervous system and thus feelings of bliss, light vibration such as Mary
@@ -2928,7 +2498,7 @@ Beth described (Section 29), and instances of physical energy transfer
 such as occurred in my encounter with Torres, to cause psychical healing
 and psychokinesis.
 
-In traditional Eastern teaching, the awakening of such pranic sensitivities and the awareness of ESP and psychokinesis is not always a
+In traditional Eastern teaching, the awakening of such pranic sensitivities and the awareness of \sc{esp} and psychokinesis is not always a
 happy event. Like birth, it can be confusing and painful both physically
 and mentally. The congratulations which are offered upon this occasion
 are always ambivalent. R
@@ -2961,21 +2531,21 @@ at a distance. Physically-pranically I am sending the thought "sway-flex""\ednot
 
 
 THIRTY-ONE
-1/1/77
+1\slash 1\slash 77
 Still waiting to hear from Karnstedt about his energen. Still waiting to
 talk about rain therapy, which I will be doing this evening.
 
 Meanwhile, speaking of mental alterations, my correspondents the
-Canadian Nazi publishers recently received some notoriety in the UFO
+Canadian Nazi publishers recently received some notoriety in the \sc{ufo}
 press.
 
 It seems that someone identified as connected with this organization
 has been interrupting other \sc{ufo} gatherings with something-or-other
 delivered as a loud harangue.
 
-I quote from a letter of protest: '"The book UFOs: Nazi Secret Weapon
+I quote from a letter of protest: '"The book \sc{ufo}s: Nazi Secret Weapon
 has no basis in fact, and seeks to perpetuate the myth that Adolf Hitler is
-still alive and is unleashing UFOs to force the world to buckle under to
+still alive and is unleashing \sc{ufo}s to force the world to buckle under to
 the Nazi criminals . . . They, and their numbers are few, have been
 ordered off the premises of a series of public auditoriums where they
 have been harrassing \sc{ufo} investigators who give lectures there."
@@ -2988,7 +2558,7 @@ Nazis another line and ask what they were saying when they interrupted
 these other \sc{ufo} investigators.
 
 THIRTY-TWO
-7/8/717
+7\slash 8\slash 717
 My interview with Mark Simons, the rain therapy man, was overwhelming. As with ""'Notes on Torres," I do not feel that I now have the ability
 to analyze this experience for any ''significance" or logical rationale.
 
@@ -2998,12 +2568,12 @@ as I write this it is raining.
 Mark Simons works professionally as a psychiatric nurse. He showed
 me his identification card with his color picture on it. This card is an
 ordinary, up-to-date work ID card. I suppose he has found it necessary to
-show this card to people before embarking on any discussion of UFOs
+show this card to people before embarking on any discussion of \sc{ufo}s
 and rain therapy.
 
 After I had looked at his card and indicated that I thought it was valid
 and would trust him, Mark gave me his personal calling card, on which
-70 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+
 
 he is identified as "'occult historian."
 
@@ -3020,13 +2590,13 @@ Benjamin X. Emery both in personality and inclination.
 If you want to find out about Benjamin X. Emery you can read my
 novel Project Midas, to be published in 1979 by Athelion Press.
 
-Non-fictionally, Mark Simons told me that he got interested in UFO
+Non-fictionally, Mark Simons told me that he got interested in \sc{ufo}
 research when he was younger due to an incident which had occurred ata
 family wedding, when his sister's hushand, who at that time was
 involved with military research of some sort, reacted violently to Mark's
-question on UFOs, telling him: "'Shut up on this subject, or I'll embarrass your sister."" Subsequent to this incident, Mark told me, he began to
-collect all the data and anecdotes on UFOs which he could gather. It was
-not until 1974, however, that Mark actually encountered any UFO
+question on \sc{ufo}s, telling him: "'Shut up on this subject, or I'll embarrass your sister."" Subsequent to this incident, Mark told me, he began to
+collect all the data and anecdotes on \sc{ufo}s which he could gather. It was
+not until 1974, however, that Mark actually encountered any \sc{ufo}
 phenomena. He was driving toward Randolph, Massachusetts on a
 Saturday night, going down Route 29 west toward Route 2%,
 
@@ -3065,13 +2635,13 @@ rain resembling forcefields, that entering an energy vortex feels like
 entering a ""wet field" as a sheet of rain hits your face or the wind makes
 a rain-vortex about your body.
 
-Then he went on to describe his mini-UFO sighting, an event which
+Then he went on to describe his mini-\sc{ufo} sighting, an event which
 Mark describes as ''changing his personality."
 
 He had just taken a shower and was lying in bed at home reading the
 book Impossible Possibilities by Jacques Berger and Louis Pawels,
 when he looked up and off to the side down the hallway adjoining his
-room and saw --- (at this point, Mark pulled a penlight flashlight from his
+room and saw---(at this point, Mark pulled a penlight flashlight from his
 pocket, depressed the end button, and slowly moved the light toward
 me)---a tiny light the size of an ordinary penlight moving toward him.
 This light accelerated quickly, hit him in the chest, dropped down into
@@ -3088,13 +2658,13 @@ functional in terms of cosmic plan.
 Mark Simons told me that he believes he had called me on July 4 and
 then come to my office on July 7 for a specific purpose. He told me that
 he was born on Easter Sunday in 1928. In 1928, Easter Sunday fell on
-April 8. Written in numbers, this date is 4/8/28. Written in numbers,
-the date of our conversation was 7/7/77.
+April 8. Written in numbers, this date is 4\slash 8\slash 28. Written in numbers,
+the date of our conversation was 7\slash 7\slash 77.
 
 "Four sevens," Mark Simons informed me, '""make twenty-eight."
 This is correct, but four eights made thirty-two, so that the date of
 Mark's birth is significantly rendered even, whereas the date of our
-72 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+
 
 conversation, being a combination of 49 and 77, is significantly odd.
 
@@ -3119,7 +2689,7 @@ Subsequent to Jessup's letter of congratulations to the U.S. Navy,
 terms from Jessup's works began---Mark Simons asserts---to appear in
 official memos issued by the government.
 
-These terms, according to Simons (remember: [ have absolutely no
+These terms, according to Simons (remember: I have absolutely no
 way to check this at this date) include such concepts as '"hyperspace'
 and '"'energy vortex."
 
@@ -3132,7 +2702,7 @@ manifestations, but that they would never reveal their mastery of psychic
 effects to a gorgio. I am a bit of a gypsy myself, and was about to tell him
 that gypsies could indeed be very persuasive mentally when Simons
 reached into the pile of books he had brought to my office and---in true
-gypsy fashion---brought forth the xerox of a document entitled: Introductory Space Science, volume I1, Department of Physics, United States
+gypsy fashion---brought forth the xerox of a document entitled: Introductory Space Science, volume II, Department of Physics, United States
 Air Force Acadenty, which someone had lightfingered off the premises
 of the Air Force Academy in Colorado several years ago.
 
@@ -3150,7 +2720,7 @@ me that this was true.
 
 Now, back once again seated in my office, I am going to copy section
 33.2, paragraph 6 of what is labeled Introductory Space Science, volume
-1I: **6. Poorly understood psychological phenomena. Psychologists are
+II: **6. Poorly understood psychological phenomena. Psychologists are
 the first to admit that there are many facets of psychic phenomena which
 have not been adequately explored. Few data are available to determine
 how these phenomena may relate to the \sc{ufo} problem, but one must at
@@ -3181,19 +2751,19 @@ I have not noticed that I turn on in a rainstorm. Although, as I
 mentioned, it is raining today as I write this section.
 
 THIRTY-THREE
-7/9/77
+7\slash 9\slash 77
 Feeling impatient and also exhilarated by the possible importance of an
-Air Force document on UFOs, I called Karnstedt in California to ask if
+Air Force document on \sc{ufo}s, I called Karnstedt in California to ask if
 he knew anyone who had been studying the official intrigue attached to
-74 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
 
-UFO research.
+
+\sc{ufo} research.
 
 He seemed amused and told me that he had just finished talking to a
-group of people who were planning a "UFO fair" in Oakland, California.
+group of people who were planning a "\sc{ufo} fair" in Oakland, California.
 
 I asked him if he needed any strolling players, and there was a short,
-incredulous pause, I had UFOed him again. Karnstedt then told me that
+incredulous pause, I had \sc{ufo}ed him again. Karnstedt then told me that
 they were planning to pull out all the stops at the \sc{ufo} fair, and that he
 himself might perhaps be seen wearing an aviator's helmet and goggles.
 
@@ -3212,7 +2782,7 @@ Herrick, but I do not know that this is really necessary. We seem
 somehow to be tuned into the same channel.
 
 Karnstedt told me that many people on the coast now feel that they are
-being used as mediumistic channels of some sort by UFOs or Some other
+being used as mediumistic channels of some sort by \sc{ufo}s or Some other
 form of highly-developed intelligence.
 
 I told him that I agreed with this, but did not remind him that when I
@@ -3235,7 +2805,7 @@ California connection develop without direct explanation.
 
 
 THIRTY-FOUR
-7/11/77
+7\slash 11\slash 77
 Feeling encouraged by my recent use of the telephone, I think today I
 will call Mark Simons and ask for more details on the murder of Maurice
 K. Jessup.
@@ -3251,7 +2821,7 @@ In terms of telepathic correspondences, he did not mention any
 romantic interest I might have had in himself truly, Ben Shenks, but went
 on in this letter to tell me that the actor James Fox who played opposite
 Mick Jagger in the pseudo-Satanic movie Performance has become a
-"loud Christian" and suggested that [ consider this Fox in the list of
+"loud Christian" and suggested that I consider this Fox in the list of
 Satanic possibilities. (p. 59) mentioned in *"Notes on Torres'" (Section
 30). Shenks says he finds this article on Torres ""quite definitely resonant with meaningful coincidences which go nowhere." Perhaps, as I
 discussed with Karnstedt, they are leading toward some sort of synchronistic performance of events.
@@ -3273,17 +2843,17 @@ arranged, if you will, to form an evolutionary history of your own
 experiences with the various worlds."
 
 This is exactly what I am attempting to do in Congratulations! The
-UFO Reality, although I have found in the course of this research that my
+\sc{ufo} Reality, although I have found in the course of this research that my
 evolutionary history does in fact intersect with quite a few other evolutionary histories, including Shenks'.
-76 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+
 
 He continues, without any knowledge of my conversation with the
-"UFO fair" contingent, to suggest: "It would take, then, a simple
+"\sc{ufo} fair" contingent, to suggest: "It would take, then, a simple
 introductory piece to string them plausibly together in a kind of exhibition."" Agreed! Before I got your letter, I agreed with you!
 
 EXHIBITION THIRTY-FIVE
 I asked Mark Simons (having finally put down my California correspondence and walked over to the local phone) if he had gotten my letter
-asking him to duplicate the purported Air Force manual on UFOs.
+asking him to duplicate the purported Air Force manual on \sc{ufo}s.
 
 He told me that he had gotten my letter and that he would send me this
 manual to xerox on the condition that I send him a notorized letter
@@ -3295,7 +2865,7 @@ wagon parked somewhere in Georgia. Hesays that he has seen the xerox
 of a coroner's certificate which states that death was due to monoxide
 poisoning. The verdict at the time of Jessup's death was suicide, but his
 friends felt differently. Galligan told me that Jessup was not the sort of
-man who would commit suicide. His book The Case For UFOs, which
+man who would commit suicide. His book The Case For \sc{ufo}s, which
 was issued in 1955 on Citadel Press (according to Galligan) was one of
 the first in the field and was primary in generating interest in such topics
 as the Bermuda Triangle mystery. N
@@ -3309,7 +2879,7 @@ Galligan added, in connection with rain therapy, that he has been to
 psychiatrists and psychologists in an effort to understand the mental
 changes which occur in him during a rainstorm. These experts have all
 told him that they feel that his desire to walk in the rain in a heavy rubber
-army-surplus slicker has to do with some sort of bizarre sexual disturbance. ] .
+army-surplus slicker has to do with some sort of bizarre sexual disturbance. I .
 
 "Why then," asks Andrew Galligan, ""did I develop this enjoyment of
 the rain at nine years of age? I have always liked to walk in the rain in a
@@ -3342,7 +2912,7 @@ auditing ""'a lot of (psychic phenomena) can be verified and experienced."
 
 The process of sorting, remembering and consciously dealing with
 personal concerns builds the ability to sort, remember and deal with
-ideas which are coming in from the general atmosphere by ESP, and
+ideas which are coming in from the general atmosphere by \sc{esp}, and
 implements the ability to distinguish between personal fantasies and
 genuine psychical communications.
 
@@ -3360,7 +2930,7 @@ with this ionic balance.
 In an elementary chemistry textbook which I have just picked up from
 the floor, it is stated: '"When an ionic solid is placed in water, an
 equilibrium is established between the ions in the saturated solution and
-78 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+
 
 the excess solid phase."
 
@@ -3370,7 +2940,7 @@ the material that has been placed in the water. Considering the nervous
 system of Galligan, (as it is contained within his skin) to be an ionic
 solid composed of sodium and potassium ions, it can be easily seen that
 when Galligan walks out into the watery solution of a rainy day, the ionic
-density of the atmosphere is going to affect his sodium/potassium
+density of the atmosphere is going to affect his sodium\slash potassium
 registry system, thus causing a change in perceptions registered within
 the nervous system. (N2,02, Ar, CO2, H2, Ne, He, Kr, Ze) +YH20) =
 (air) + (H+ + OH-)
@@ -3384,7 +2954,7 @@ Pegasus. Above this crest, says Galligan, there is the motto: "'I long to
 see the things which are above."
 
 I am reminded in this connection of a poem by Paddy Kavanagh
-entitled Pegasus. 1 was fortunate enough to have had the poet himself
+entitled Pegasus. I was fortunate enough to have had the poet himself
 recite Pegasus to me in its entirety at a cocktail party, so I have retained
 strong feelings of irony concerning the Irish winged horse.
 
@@ -3402,7 +2972,7 @@ their rowdy bargaining, not one turned."
 The tinkers seem to know an old horse when they see one.
 
 Perhaps this is why Galligan fecls that the gypsies must know so much
-about UFOs.
+about \sc{ufo}s.
 
 THIRTY-SIX
 Now that we are floundering in possible rational and physiological
@@ -3412,7 +2982,7 @@ utterly irrational.
 
 They are irrational in the profoundest sense that anything can be
 irrational: the \sc{ufo} reality does not fit our standard notions of what a
-UFO should be.
+\sc{ufo} should be.
 
 It is not like Star Wars. It is not like sexual repression. It is not like
 orgone containment. It is not like psychic healing. It is not like any
@@ -3437,7 +3007,7 @@ memory. You may become hypersensitive to pain as well as to pleasure
 and philosophical profundity.
 
 In the throes of this painful hypersensitivity, you may go out into your
-80 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+
 
 car and turn on the carbon monoxide (p. 72) or try to strangle your
 professor during a discussion of Macbeth (p. 4). You might also write an
@@ -3453,7 +3023,7 @@ with Torres, memories of painful experience were activated through the
 novel Operation Dancing Dog.
 
 Fox-Knipscheer's novel, whether I located this volume by use of
-subconscious ESP or as a result of spirit manipulation of my faculties, is
+subconscious \sc{esp} or as a result of spirit manipulation of my faculties, is
 directly relevant to several of my own ;very painful and conflictive
 memories.
 
@@ -3511,7 +3081,7 @@ She thought this wailing spirit might possibly have been bisexual.
 This condition might explain both the odd sexual thoughts bedeviling
 the girl, and the sense of ostracism and estrangement which had continued after death.
 
-"'How do I die?'" this spirit asked me, ''No one can see me. How do 1
+"'How do I die?'" this spirit asked me, ''No one can see me. How do I
 die?"'
 
 I advised this particular wailing spirit that it become less concerned
@@ -3520,11 +3090,11 @@ advice, it has no longer been wailing.
 
 THIRTY-EIGHT
 So: what does this touching little episode of a bisexual spirit have to do
-with UFOs?
+with \sc{ufo}s?
 Simply, it is a case of a person's consciousness being altered by the
 presence of an entity from the astral dimension.
 In this case, thoughts of this entity were causing unusual sexual ideas,
-82 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+
 
 and the sense that there was a depressive ''wailing'* in this woman's
 vicinity. This is not so different from cases of \sc{ufo} contact, when
@@ -3533,10 +3103,10 @@ window," or (p. 19) *I saw the light at home before being called by the
 station."
 
 Although I have now written to Andrew Galligan for his copy of the
-Air Force manual on UFOs and also to the mixed-up Nazi contingent in
+Air Force manual on \sc{ufo}s and also to the mixed-up Nazi contingent in
 Canada for additional information on whirling fan-shaped discs, I really
 do not feel that this information---although perhaps reassuring as documentation in my files---is going to be of much help in understanding the
-UFO reality.
+\sc{ufo} reality.
 
 THIRTY-NINE
 Suppose you were shown something you had never seen before, something really new. How would you feel? Afraid? Exhilarated? Intimidated? Helpless like a baby?
@@ -3545,7 +3115,7 @@ Probably, you would feel vulnerable, irritated, excited and full of
 wonder-dread or dreadful wonder.
 
 I think it is significant that just after I had talked to Karnstedt about the
-UFO fair in California, someone else called me to talk about  'rebirth''
+\sc{ufo} fair in California, someone else called me to talk about  'rebirth''
 in California. 
 Incidentally, whoever was on the phone that day has never called back
 to make a definite appointment. Either he got waylaid in Provincetown,
@@ -3580,20 +3150,20 @@ mystical or symbolic. This ''rebirth'" is not within the province of the
 military. It is an introduction to astral dimensions, a birth into expanded
 perception.
 
-Just as a newborn baby must instantly learn to breathe, a UFO
-contactee must instantly learn to perceive by ESP. This is because the
-UFO lights are making constructive use of the bio-plasmic energies
-which we recognize in effect as ESP and psychokinesis. In order to
+Just as a newborn baby must instantly learn to breathe, a \sc{ufo}
+contactee must instantly learn to perceive by \sc{esp}. This is because the
+\sc{ufo} lights are making constructive use of the bio-plasmic energies
+which we recognize in effect as \sc{esp} and psychokinesis. In order to
 ''see'' or in some other way perceive a \sc{ufo} light or ''craft,"' the
 contactee must participate in what our science fiction writers have called
-a ''warping'' of the ordinary time/space continuum.
+a ''warping'' of the ordinary time\slash space continuum.
 
 This warping may leave certain individuals permanently capable of
-unusual feats of ESP or psychokinesis. In others, it causes temporary
-clairvoyance and/or strange dreams.
+unusual feats of \sc{esp} or psychokinesis. In others, it causes temporary
+clairvoyance and\slash or strange dreams.
 
 In less secure individuals, a \sc{ufo} sighting may cause severe psychological distress. For example: give a child of six or seven years an
-unusual toy ---say, a flying sphere. Work it first, to show the child that it
+unusual toy---say, a flying sphere. Work it first, to show the child that it
 does fly, but then hand it over to the kid without any further instructions.
 
 Some children will ask for further information. Others will tinker with
@@ -3608,7 +3178,7 @@ going back to the source of the enigma.
 FORTY
 What is the source of the \sc{ufo} enigma?
 As has been documented in photographs published in newspapers
-84 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+
 
 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
@@ -3618,7 +3188,7 @@ after-effect which in its most negative manifestations can lead to obsession wit
 importance.
 
 FORTY-ONE
-7/16/77
+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.
@@ -3628,10 +3198,10 @@ 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 [ have no reason to believe that
+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.
+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
@@ -3689,19 +3259,19 @@ 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
-86 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+
 
 objects'" at all, but to a sort of alien manifestation beyond their immediate conscious comprehension.
 
 FORTY-ONE
-7/18/77 '
+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 UFOs.
+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
-UFOs are some sort of solid spacecraft with unknown but
+\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
@@ -3725,7 +3295,7 @@ subsequently disappear (p. 26).
 
 Perhaps we all have been asking the wrong questions.
 
-I have here in my hand a letter from the UFOs: Nazi Secret Weapon
+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
@@ -3746,9 +3316,9 @@ 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
-UFOs they will be of some particular shape (triangular, circular, with or
+\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,''
+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
@@ -3770,7 +3340,7 @@ 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
-88 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+
 
 Earth development) who amuse themselves with long capes and robots.
 What we may have on hand are entities much further along on the
@@ -3782,8 +3352,8 @@ 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/non-humanoid dead-end debate, there is
-the weather satellite/non-weather satellite dead-end debate. If our cosmic jokesters can signal attention with low-flying planes which are
+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
@@ -3804,7 +3374,7 @@ vision itself, but represent in themselves a form of communication: a
 
 FORTY-TWO
 
-7/19/77
+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.
@@ -3819,7 +3389,7 @@ 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, 1 had met accidentally the lady whom I had unexpectedly met
+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
@@ -3827,20 +3397,20 @@ 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 UFO
+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 ESP force in the ultra-violet light range, where the frequency of
+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/frequency. Certainly, these anomalies might show up more easily in an area of vibration
+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 UFOs with the electrical blackout in New York City on 7/
-13/77, an odd date indeed from the numerological point of view.
+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 7/13/77, there was a massive blackout in New York City, causing
+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.
@@ -3856,7 +3426,7 @@ 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.
-90 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+
 
 ¢
 
@@ -3866,22 +3436,22 @@ 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 UFOs were
+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
-7/14/77. On this particular news report, the \sc{ufo} sighting was not
+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 UFOs near White Plains, N.Y. at the time of the blackout.
+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 7/13/77 . . .
-7/20/77
+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.
@@ -3894,7 +3464,7 @@ 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
-UFO enthusiast living in Wenham, Massachusetts, and was angered by
+\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.
 
@@ -3907,15 +3477,15 @@ 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 UFOs which is so specific on confusion
-and disorganization and/or negligence in the United States Air Force
+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 UFOs occurred in 1968, and the chapters of the
+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 UFO
+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
@@ -3930,7 +3500,7 @@ 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/or emotional mental alteration.
+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
@@ -3946,13 +3516,13 @@ 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
-92 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+
 
 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
-UFO on the salt flats at Bonneville . . "° (See p. 19, this book, for
-word of a real rectangular UFO.) . . . In another instance he (Condon)
+\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
@@ -3966,13 +3536,13 @@ 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 ESP channels are casually open for some reason and I become sensitive to any
+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 [ start feeling (for example) that my good friend Steve has
+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
@@ -3982,11 +3552,11 @@ 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 ESP picked up his irritation and unreasonably construed
+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 [ had brooded for about twenty minutes and was on the verge of
+After I had brooded for about twenty minutes and was on the verge of
 calling Steve and accusing him of devaluing my dramatic craftsmanship
 
 
@@ -3994,7 +3564,7 @@ calling Steve and accusing him of devaluing my dramatic craftsmanship
 be situationally hypersensitive.
 
 This was last evening, the same evening that validation of the White
-Plains 7/13/77 sighting was also nagging at the back of my mind. It was
+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
@@ -4012,7 +3582,7 @@ 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/or armed warfare.
+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
@@ -4022,18 +3592,18 @@ 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! [ didn't break any windows!"" and hung up the phone.
+going to arrest me! I didn't break any windows!"" and hung up the phone.
 
-For the rest of the day, 1 was flooded with thoughts about arrest,
-violence and the unjust accusation that [ had done something wrong, so I
+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, 1
+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
-94 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+
 
 called the woman from whom I was planning to rent loft space.
 
@@ -4050,13 +3620,13 @@ 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 UFO
+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
-UFOs since I saw him last, and was just now writing a passage about the
+\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
@@ -4066,7 +3636,7 @@ 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 ESP
+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.
 
@@ -4083,10 +3653,10 @@ 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 UFO
-contact and/or the influence of powerful spirit entities. As [ have
+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 [ assume at this point, Rosie, that we are
+(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.
@@ -4098,7 +3668,7 @@ 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, [ was
+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
@@ -4120,7 +3690,7 @@ 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
-96 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+
 
 her leg separate after an influx of energy which she quite definitely
 attributes to \sc{ufo} entities.
@@ -4132,18 +3702,18 @@ 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 UFOs and was motivated to practice
+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 ''UFO presence'" and
+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 UFO
+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 UFOs.
+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.'
@@ -4154,13 +3724,13 @@ 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 UFO
+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 UFOs arrived on that evening from
+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.
@@ -4195,7 +3765,7 @@ look to me like some sort of mental parade.
 Congratulations, Lobo! So nice to see you electrically once again!
 
 FORTY-FOUR
-7/21/77
+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
@@ -4207,7 +3777,7 @@ 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.
-98 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+
 
 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
@@ -4217,8 +3787,8 @@ 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, [ asked Lobo if he knew anything about the Canadian
-publishers of UFOs: Nazi Secret Weapon. He looked puzzled, then
+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.
@@ -4229,7 +3799,7 @@ 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. UFOs, Zeena claimed, were assisting her to channel and balance
+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
@@ -4269,7 +3839,7 @@ 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 UFO.
+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
@@ -4282,7 +3852,7 @@ 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
+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.
 
@@ -4292,7 +3862,7 @@ nature.
 
 I speculated that these entities might be using psychic mediumship to
 contact human beings because they have no physical bodies and cannot
-100 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+
 
 manifest on this material continuum, but Zeena argued with me, saying
 that her instructions were coming from real beings with a real physical
@@ -4307,8 +3877,8 @@ my theories of time alteration under pranic action, which will be
 explained in section forty-six.
 
 FORTY-FIVE
-7/22/717
-Meanwhile, 1 was late meeting Lobo back at my apartment due to an
+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
@@ -4335,13 +3905,13 @@ previous early death. '
 This (as must be obvious) was a highly unusual reading in a number of
 
 
-respects, and [ was thinking about it strongly on my way back home
+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 1 kept on walking I watched this thing meander a bit and then
+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
@@ -4377,7 +3947,7 @@ 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.
-102 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+
 
 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
@@ -4417,7 +3987,7 @@ 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, 1 did not invoke the
+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
 
@@ -4430,7 +4000,7 @@ 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
-UFO companion?) had once told me that he and I had lived together in
+\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,
@@ -4450,7 +4020,7 @@ 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 1 could lend him
+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.
@@ -4460,7 +4030,7 @@ 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.
-104 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+
 
 The pranic breathing involved in the process of photosynthesis is
 basic to an understanding of \sc{ufo} activity. In discussing the pranic
@@ -4488,7 +4058,7 @@ and the vertical representing the pranic or mental energies which intersect the
 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
+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
@@ -4508,20 +4078,20 @@ compartments along the electromagnetic continuum, at vibratory nodes
 of time-agreement.
 
 At these Fluidice compartments, which are rigidly attached to the
-nodes of time/frequency agreement (ice), but do admit alteration by 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/space effects which we call ''psychokinesis' or "'synchronicity."
+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/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
+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/or ESP.
+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
@@ -4533,13 +4103,13 @@ 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
-106 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+
 
 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/ascent into serious technicalities) to advance
+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
@@ -4552,7 +4122,7 @@ 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/reduction reaction is chemically ionic in nature and normally
+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
@@ -4572,7 +4142,7 @@ 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/or other
+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
@@ -4593,7 +4163,7 @@ 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/particle duality seems difficult to understand, it
+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
@@ -4604,7 +4174,7 @@ 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/particle dilemma can be seen as one of the time insult
+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,
@@ -4622,7 +4192,7 @@ This time insult occurs at the intersection of electromagnetic vibratory
 time with the time-independent pranic energies.
 
 CONCLUSION
-7/24/77
+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.
@@ -4630,7 +4200,7 @@ 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
-UFO sighting in 1973. This technical reading has been primarily in the
+\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,
@@ -4658,9 +4228,9 @@ 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. [ do not know about Sagan, but I
+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 1 do not know actually
+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.
 
@@ -4676,7 +4246,7 @@ 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, ESP and telepathic communication with more
+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
@@ -4694,16 +4264,16 @@ 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."
-110 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+
 
 He certainly did rescue me back in 1974, when I had really seen a
-UFO light and did not know quite where to put my perceptions. Once
+\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 ESP.
+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
@@ -4715,8 +4285,8 @@ destruction of ''creativity" in accidental brain damage, and very correctly stat
 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 ESP, and then declare there
-is no ESP, as it would be to test any citizen at random for creativity and
+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
@@ -4737,14 +4307,14 @@ 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 ESP energies for communication, some psychics and
+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 |
+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.
@@ -4762,12 +4332,12 @@ 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
-UFO contact is likely to urinate all over your floor, although this may
+\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 UFO
+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.
@@ -4775,17 +4345,17 @@ 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 ESP. She sent me back a very courteous
-letter admitting the possibility of ESP as a phenomenon, but stating that
-112 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+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 ESP as connected with UFOs.
+
+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 ESP as a child and in fact thought she had been mildly
-gifted with ESP until the date of 9/19/61, which was the date of her
-famous experience with ''capture'" by a UFO. Obviously, her sighting
-had something to do with the ESP mechanism, or she would not have lost
+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.
 
@@ -4793,7 +4363,7 @@ 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
-UFO press in order to make the situations depicted seem plausible and
+\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
@@ -4806,16 +4376,16 @@ 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/or spirit
+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/absorption dilemma which I have mentioned as point
+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/
+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.
@@ -4836,18 +4406,18 @@ Jong.
 
 Actually, previous to this accident, I had written a ballad:
 
-Knocking Out the En*Gynes with my Mojo UFO
+Knocking Out the En*Gynes with my Mojo \sc{ufo}
 
 Goodbye, transcontinental: I can't fly west no more
 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 UFO
+I am knocking out the en*gynes with my mojo \sc{ufo}
 
 Goodbye tender romance: chains vibrate in the locks
 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 UFO
+SO: I am knocking out the en*gynes with my mojo \sc{ufo}
 
 Met my lover down in Soho: he got stranded on a train
 
@@ -4859,7 +4429,7 @@ Mojo knocked out the en*gynes: I have cooked my bobbie sox
 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
-1 am knocking out the en*gynes with my mojo UFO
+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
@@ -4868,7 +4438,7 @@ extra-sensory method of persuasion so important to gypsies and street
 people.
 
 Mojo is a sort of charisma, but it is specifically related to iuck and the
-114 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+
 
 ability to persuade by hypnotic means. Some have identified mojo with
 sex, but though mojo includes (of course!) sexual persuasion, this
@@ -4888,7 +4458,7 @@ 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."
 
-1 wonder if this is anything like the Bermuda Triangle.
+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
@@ -4897,7 +4467,7 @@ for claiming that his ''orgone cabinet" (which he envisioned as an
 energy accumulator) cured cancer and other diseases. N
 
 As detailed in Section 30, I have not found the pranic energy involved
-in ESP and \sc{ufo} contact to manifest any spectacular physical healing
+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,
@@ -4937,7 +4507,7 @@ THE END
 As was dictated by events
 September 2, 1977
 New York, N.Y. 10011
-116 °  CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+
 
 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
 
@@ -4981,7 +4551,7 @@ the nature of the phenomena which I describe. With regard to metaphysical and ph
 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 ESP slapstick) felt upon reading the manuscript
+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.
@@ -5006,7 +4576,7 @@ 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
-118 CONGRATULATIONS! THE \sc{ufo} REALITY
+
 
 protect the mental health of various private individuals, T have used the
 real name of contactees and others only when this was specifically
@@ -5021,7 +4591,7 @@ 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 ESP and psychokinesis which utilize some of the
+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,
@@ -5030,10 +4600,10 @@ 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 UFO
+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
-9/23/77.
+9\slash 23\slash 77.