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@@ -1199,286 +1199,135 @@ After writing this entry, I was sitting staring into space, thinking, when I saw
 
 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 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\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\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 \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-\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
-otherwise, does resemble \sc{ufo} manifestations. This seems too neat.
-
-I feel at this point that I am involved with a strong trickster entity of
-the sort which was associated with the Fox mediums earlier in this
-century and has manifested in connection with other famous mediums
-who used their abilities in strictly commercial pursuits, or as part of
-some bilko operation. If psychic abilities are used in this way they must
-inevitably attract earthbound entities who wish to manipulate on the
-material plane. This is either because they have some sort of unfinished
-business or for sadistic reasons. Or am I being too traditionally moral?
-
-I warned Torres about the possibility of this sort of spirit and told him
-that his reaction to this news was his own business in the sense that I did
-not plan to take any action to rid him of -this entity, as I have done in
-several cases of people who have come to me bedeviled by spirits.
-Unless he requests my further assistance, the entity is all his and he is the
-entity's.
-
-Definitely, I will cease my "healing" treatments, as I believe that the
-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\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
-Bogota, Colombia. Since the \sc{ufo} photo was taken in South America,
-this is extremely interesting. Also, of course, Torres comes from South
-America, as did his late uncle.
-
-There are episodes of sadism in this book and several passages which
-describe Nazis who hide by fundamentally changing their physical
-appearance. This has resonance for me of Pinto's strange opera Gardenia and relates for me also to an organization in Canada which is now
-publishing information on what is described as Nazi occultist\slash \sc{ufo}
-activity during World War II. I have just received their information.
-Additionally, Fox-Knipscheer has studied at several European universities, according to the book jacket blurb. I wonder if he was ever in
-Scotland. Descriptions of the dilletante-like life in California mirror
-some of my own recent experiences there, which I described in my poem
-Trip 1011. Departure 4031. This was completed less than a month ago.
-
-As a subplot in Operation Dancing Dog, there is a husband who
-encourages his wife to have extra-marital affairs due to the fact that he is
-impotent. There are a few funny scenes with regard to this. This
-impotent husband seems in this respect to share the self-effacing mentality of 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\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\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
-
-
-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
-purposes, which had gotten (in matters of the pendulum and ectoplasm)
-quasi-experimental.
-
-This judgment about my cloudy channels hit a trigger nerve. By this
-time, all matters of healing and \sc{ufo} photos have been forgotten by
-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
-\sc{ufo} activity to spiritualistic and seance manifestations.
-
-There is something very peculiar going on as far as manipulation of
-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.
-
-Yet why am I allowed to penetrate the situation at this time? If these
-entities can cause me to locate a library book with a humorous relationship to my dilemma and Torres' psychological problems and also, as I
-believe, channel Torres' healing energies mediumistically, why am I
-being left clear to write this article?
+\rightline{5\slash 10\slash 77}
+\vskip 0.5em
 
-So: what happened?
+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 \dq{psychic center} specializing in \dq{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 \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-\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 otherwise, does resemble \sc{ufo} manifestations. This seems too neat.
+
+I feel at this point that I am involved with a strong trickster entity of the sort which was associated with the Fox mediums earlier in this century and has manifested in connection with other famous mediums who used their abilities in strictly commercial pursuits, or as part of some bilko operation. If psychic abilities are used in this way they must inevitably attract earthbound entities who wish to manipulate on the material plane. This is either because they have some sort of unfinished business or for sadistic reasons. Or am I being too traditionally moral?
+
+I warned Torres about the possibility of this sort of spirit and told him that his reaction to this news was his own business in the sense that I did not plan to take any action to rid him of -this entity, as I have done in several cases of people who have come to me bedeviled by spirits.  Unless he requests my further assistance, the entity is all his and he is the entity's.
+
+Definitely, I will cease my \dq{healing} treatments, as I believe that the 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.
+
+\rightline{5\slash 12\slash 77}
+\vskip 0.5em
 
-TORRES REBUS 5\slash 28\slash 77
-Pieces:
+\bt{Operation Dancing Dog} was located in the library. It turns out to be a pulp mystery about international intrigue, parts of which are set in Bogota, Colombia. Since the \sc{ufo} photo was taken in South America, this is extremely interesting. Also, of course, Torres comes from South America, as did his late uncle.
 
-one: Macer-Story, the author of "Notes on Torres." A psychic and
-surrealist poet, she is soon to be moving to New York City where she
-will be involved in the production of several plays. Recently, sensation
-has returned to an area in her arm which was previously numb. Additionally, she has learned to move the dowsing pendulum without touching it.
+There are episodes of sadism in this book and several passages which describe Nazis who hide by fundamentally changing their physical appearance. This has resonance for me of Pinto's strange opera \playtitle{Gardenia} and relates for me also to an organization in Canada which is now publishing information on what is described as Nazi occultist\slash \sc{ufo} activity during World War II. I have just received their information.  Additionally, Fox-Knipscheer has studied at several European universities, according to the book jacket blurb. I wonder if he was ever in Scotland. Descriptions of the dilletante-like life in California mirror some of my own recent experiences there, which I described in my poem \poemtitle{Trip 1011. Departure 4031.}\ednote{is this consistent} This was completed less than a month ago.
 
-Two: Torres is a Latin American expatriate who has been in this country
-for fifteen years. He has a \sc{ufo} photo which was taken in South America
-in 1969. He believes he is a psychic healer, and was touching Macer-Story's
-upper arm at the time sensation returned to the nerve. He also
+As a subplot in Operation Dancing Dog, there is a husband who encourages his wife to have extra-marital affairs due to the fact that he is impotent. There are a few funny scenes with regard to this. This impotent husband seems in this respect to share the self-effacing mentality of \playtitle{Gardenia}, and actually there is quite a gruesome scene in \bt{Operation Dancing Dog} about a man with an eye injury who must wear patches over both eyes. Is a Dancing Dog much like a chess-playing pigeon?  Torres did write a short play about a chess-playing pigeon. Did Fox\slash Knipscheer ever expect such an exegesis? I really cannot come to any decision about the final meaning of all this, except that it seems to be quite definitely resonant with meaningful coincidences which go nowhere.
 
+\rightline{5\slash 16\slash 71}
+\vskip 0.5em
+
+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 \dq{channels were not clear.}
 
-directed and encouraged Macer-Story to attempt moving the pendulum
-by psychokinesis.
+\dq{You are not lying,} he told me. \dq{But your channels are not clear} I 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 purposes, which had gotten (in matters of the pendulum and ectoplasm) quasi-experimental.
 
-three: Fox-Knipscheer lives in California and has written a novel of
-international intrigue entitled Operation Dancing Dog. There are significant parallels between Operation Dancing Dog and details of Torres'
-and Macer-Story's writings and private lives. Fox-Knipscheer's novel
-was located as the result of a seance.
+This judgment about my cloudy channels hit a trigger nerve. By this time, all matters of healing and \sc{ufo} photos have been forgotten by 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 \sc{ufo} activity to spiritualistic and seance manifestations.
 
-four: Bill Babaloo has just traveled to London. Ben Shenks has just
-traveled to Detroit. They report that they have been enjoying themselves
-immensely. Neither has any detailed knowledge of '"Notes on Torres."
+There is something very peculiar going on as far as manipulation of 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.
 
-five: New York City. Plays and music. Strange people.
+Yet why am I allowed to penetrate the situation at this time? If these entities can cause me to locate a library book with a humorous relationship to my dilemma and Torres' psychological problems and also, as I believe, channel Torres' healing energies mediumistically, why am I being left clear to write this article?
 
-six: A spirit or \sc{ufo} entity (or entities) influencing Torres and Macer-Story.
+So: what happened?
 
-NEW YORK ' BOJSTON CALIFORNIA
+\centerline{{\typoscale[1200/]\sc{Torres Rebus} 5\slash 28\slash 77}}
 
-©)
+{\parintent=0pt
 
-DIAGRAM TWO
+\e{Pieces:}
 
-QUESTION: Why Torres? ANSWER: He is a medium who enjoys spirit
-contact. He was being used.
+\e{one:} Macer-Story, the author of \dq{Notes on Torres.} A psychic and surrealist poet, she is soon to be moving to New York City where she will be involved in the production of several plays. Recently, sensation has returned to an area in her arm which was previously numb. Additionally, she has learned to move the dowsing pendulum without touching it.
 
-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
-pendulum by psychokinesis.
+\e{Two:} Torres is a Latin American expatriate who has been in this country for fifteen years. He has a \sc{ufo} photo which was taken in South America in 1969. He believes he is a psychic healer, and was touching Macer-Story's upper arm at the time sensation returned to the nerve. He also directed and encouraged Macer-Story to attempt moving the pendulum by psychokinesis.
 
-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.
+\e{three:} Fox-Knipscheer lives in California and has written a novel of international intrigue entitled \bt{Operation Dancing Dog}. There are significant parallels between \bt{Operation Dancing Dog} and details of Torres' and Macer-Story's writings and private lives. Fox-Knipscheer's novel was located as the result of a seance.
 
+\e{four:} Bill Babaloo has just traveled to London. Ben Shenks has just traveled to Detroit. They report that they have been enjoying themselves immensely. Neither has any detailed knowledge of \dq{Notes on Torres.}
+
+\e{five:} New York City. Plays and music. Strange people.
+
+\e{six:} A spirit or \sc{ufo} entity (or entities) influencing Torres and Macer-Story.
+
+\midinsert
+\centerline{\picw=3.5in\inspic{img/diagramtwo.png}}
+\cskip
+\caption/f[diagramtwo]
+\endinsert
+
+\vskip 2em
+
+\sc{Question:} Why Torres? \sc{Answer:} He is a medium who enjoys spirit contact. He was being used.
+
+\sc{Question:} What happened? \sc{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 pendulum by psychokinesis.
+
+\vskip 2em
+
+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.
 
 More significantly, I have discovered that I have the ability to move
 the dowsing pendulum by psychokinesis without touching it. I knew
-before this contact that I could move the pendulum by PK while holding
-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\slash Fox. This
-entity has written a novel with significant correspondences to my life
-situation and peculiarities of Torres and \sc{ufo} intrigue, though \sc{ufo}s are
-not mentioned specifically in the book.
-
-PLEASE CONSULT DIAGRAM TWO
-
-This complex of events has been a little unsettling. In my journal right
-after these happenings, I wrote down some speculation about Satanic
-entities, but I do not now believe I have suffered any ill effects from this
-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\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\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."
-
-Subsequent to sending this article off to the Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained, I was beset by further psychokinetic
-phenomena.
-
-I have retained my ability to move the pendulum at will without
-touching it, but also seem to be the focus for such diverse and unexplained events as the bathroom toilet paper rack flying off the wall with a
-loud crack while I was in the next room talking to a friend on the phone,
-inexplicable stoppages of machines in banks as they process my checks
-and deposits, failure of the ignition of buses toward which I am running,
-and (last but not least) the occasional ability in myself to heal minor
-ailments such as a sprained wrist and mild flu by the laying on of hands.
-
-All of these incidents of mental effect on the physical are directly
-
-
-related to the ancient occult teaching that there is a circulation of
-"pranic" or psychic energies through the physical body. These are
-mental energies which interpenetrate the physicai, and they are able to
-activate events materially in a way which has previously been unexplained.
-
-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 \sc{esp} and spirit communication may be permanently enhanced.
-
-Because in the modern Western world we have little or no education in
-pranic contact: what is likely to happen during pranic communication,
-and what it actually feels like physically, the percipient either of a
-strange craft using pranic energy for manifestation or of a strong \sc{esp}
-and\slash or mystical experience is apt to feel shame and embarrassment.
-
-This is because (as in rain therapy; which I will hear more about on
-July 7) \sc{esp} or pranic thinking is physical in effect. This physicality of
-pranic thinking is the basis of theories such as the orgone theory
-advanced by Wilhelm Reich and the sex magic rituals and sensually-oriented
-ceremonial practices of witchcraft and primitive spiritist religions.
-
-Traditions of shamanism and jazz music also involve a physicality
-imbued with pranic content.
-
-Obviously, physical attraction and energy transfer played a part in my
-contact with Torres (Section 30). Was this sexual attraction? Here we get
-to a central embarrassment.
-
-This concerns the fact that like the head, the feet, the ears and the
-eyeballs, the gonads are part of the physical fleshly mechanism. They
-are highly sensitive and arc apt to be slightly activated by an influx of
-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\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
-
-
-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
-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 \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
-
-It is easy to see how a sudden inrush of the pranic energies without any
-preparation (either through active meditational practices or simply by
-having read information about pranic awakening) would frighten and
-embarrass the unwary \sc{ufo} contactee or the unprepared mystic on Easter
-Sunday.
-
-In South American and Mexican folk traditions, the ability to physically channel pranic energies is sometimes called *'the powerful hand."
-
-As in sufic and yogic thought, the physical event or aetuality is
-primary and overpowers any attached intellectualization. Thought is
-transmitted by the touch of the physical hand, which is able to channel
-the "psychic" or pranic energies.
-
-This touch can also be administered at a distance as (by analogy) the
-rhythms of music can awaken a physical response in another body by
-"touching" the ear.
-
-The sound itself does not touch the ear, but it is a vibratory ratio and
-series of relationships which touch the ear, by the mediumship of the air
-activating a similar vibratory response in a distant mechanism.
-
-I have found that in making the pendulum move without physically
-touching it, this analogy of '"'touching the air" is helpful. I flex my
-muscles against the air with a swaying motion, and the pendulum moves
-at a distance. Physically-pranically I am sending the thought "sway-flex""\ednote{hyphenated?} into the pendulum string, but this is not an intellectual idea.
-
+before this contact that I could move the pendulum by \sc{pk} while holding 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\slash Fox. This entity has written a novel with significant correspondences to my life situation and peculiarities of Torres and \sc{ufo} intrigue, though \sc{ufo}s are not mentioned specifically in the book.
+
+\centerline{{\typosize[1100/]\sc{Please Consult Diagram Two}}}
+
+This complex of events has been a little unsettling. In my journal right after these happenings, I wrote down some speculation about Satanic entities, but I do not now believe I have suffered any ill effects from this 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\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\slash \sc{ufo}naught in another context. Perhaps we could do an act together. In a sense, we already have.
+
+\hbox to \hsize{\hrulefill}
+
+\vskip 2em
+
+So endeth \dq{Notes on Torres.}
+
+Subsequent to sending this article off to the Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained, I was beset by further psychokinetic phenomena.
+
+I have retained my ability to move the pendulum at will without touching it, but also seem to be the focus for such diverse and unexplained events as the bathroom toilet paper rack flying off the wall with a loud crack while I was in the next room talking to a friend on the phone, inexplicable stoppages of machines in banks as they process my checks and deposits, failure of the ignition of buses toward which I am running, and (last but not least) the occasional ability in myself to heal minor ailments such as a sprained wrist and mild flu by the laying on of hands.
+
+All of these incidents of mental effect on the physical are directly related to the ancient occult teaching that there is a circulation of \dq{pranic} or psychic energies through the physical body. These are mental energies which interpenetrate the physicai, and they are able to activate events materially in a way which has previously been unexplained.
+
+In an article written for \jt{Pursuit} magazine previous to my encounter with Torres (Section 10) I place the pranic link with the electromagnetic spectrum as occurring within the area of time-frequency. In \sc{ufo} contact, it is the pranic energy circulation which is affected and sensitivity to \sc{esp} and spirit communication may be permanently enhanced.
+
+Because in the modern Western world we have little or no education in pranic contact: what is likely to happen during pranic communication, and what it actually feels like physically, the percipient either of a strange craft using pranic energy for manifestation or of a strong \sc{esp} and\slash or mystical experience is apt to feel shame and embarrassment.
+
+This is because (as in rain therapy; which I will hear more about on July 7) \sc{esp} or pranic thinking is physical in effect. This physicality of pranic thinking is the basis of theories such as the orgone theory advanced by Wilhelm Reich and the sex magic rituals and sensually-oriented ceremonial practices of witchcraft and primitive spiritist religions.
+
+Traditions of shamanism and jazz music also involve a physicality imbued with pranic content.
+
+Obviously, physical attraction and energy transfer played a part in my contact with Torres (Section 30). Was this sexual attraction? Here we get to a central embarrassment.
+
+This concerns the fact that like the head, the feet, the ears and the eyeballs, the gonads are part of the physical fleshly mechanism. They are highly sensitive and arc apt to be slightly activated by an influx of 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\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 \dq{turn on.} I sense their psychic energy. Perhaps this is 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 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 \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. 
+
+It is easy to see how a sudden inrush of the pranic energies without any preparation (either through active meditational practices or simply by having read information about pranic awakening) would frighten and embarrass the unwary \sc{ufo} contactee or the unprepared mystic on Easter Sunday.
+
+In South American and Mexican folk traditions, the ability to physically channel pranic energies is sometimes called \dq{the powerful hand.}
+
+As in sufic and yogic thought, the physical event or aetuality is primary and overpowers any attached intellectualization. Thought is transmitted by the touch of the physical hand, which is able to channel the \dq{psychic} or pranic energies.
+
+This touch can also be administered at a distance as (by analogy) the rhythms of music can awaken a physical response in another body by \dq{touching} the ear.
+
+The sound itself does not touch the ear, but it is a vibratory ratio and series of relationships which touch the ear, by the mediumship of the air activating a similar vibratory response in a distant mechanism.
+
+I have found that in making the pendulum move without physically touching it, this analogy of \dq{touching the air} is helpful. I flex my muscles against the air with a swaying motion, and the pendulum moves at a distance. Physically-pranically I am sending the thought \dq{sway-flex}\ednote{hyphenated?} into the pendulum string, but this is not an intellectual idea.
+
+% THIRTY-ONE
+\nonum\sec THIRTY-ONE
+
+\rightline{1\slash 1\slash 77}
+\vskip 0.5em
 
-THIRTY-ONE
-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.