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@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ This instilled in me both an active caution about fully revealing my \sc{ufo}-as
I told this man that I felt I had been communicated with on a telepathic level, and perhaps even \dq{altered} chemically or mentally in a way which I did not fully understand. He was sympathetic, if a little wild-eyed, telling me that he was in short-wave contact with people all over the world who reported similar experiences. For reasons best known to himself, this FBI-ham told me several times-about one of these people: a nurse in Atlanta, Georgia who had developed the ability to move objects psychokinetically subsequent to \sc{ufo} contact. He mentioned no psychiatric problems in conjunction with this nurse, but evidently had either seen her abilities firsthand or somehow had come to believe absolutely in their reality.
-My other peculiar \sc{ufo} friend during the year of 1974 was a young man who has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals since the age of fourteen, when (as he relates it) \label[bethiwitchfreakout]\wlabel{he freaked out at a private prep school subsequent to playing one of the witches in Macbeth}. Bethiwitch told me that directly after the staging of this play he became violent in English class and told his instructor that he was a wife-beater and a bastard.
+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) \txtpt{bethiwitchfreakout}{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.
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ Along this line, Bethiwitch also claimed to be the world's first psychic sex the
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.
-\label[abstractconcrete]\wlabel{Following the usual occult practice, I will begin with the abstract and move gradually into the concrete.}
+\txtpt{abstractconcrete}{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.
@@ -228,9 +228,9 @@ It was certainly a help to me in my situation of deliberate lunacy to discover a
Recently I received another communication from him, reading \dq{don't let \sc{Them} immanentize the escaton,} on the front near the address. On the reverse, Sequoia had written \dq{Dear Genie: nice to hear from you again\ld} Near this sentiment was pasted the purple word \e{Fnrd}, and the entire thing was signed \dq{sincerely, Warren Sequoia.} The same to you, baby.
-\label[aftersecond]\wlabel{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.}
+\txtpt{aftersecond}{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.}
-\label[salemnovel]\wlabel{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.
+\txtpt{salemnovel}{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.
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ But, wasn't I already a deliberate lunatic? The author of \booktitle{The Witch C
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, \label[salemdream]\wlabel{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?}
+Shortly after I had classified this experience, \txtpt{salemdream}{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.}
@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ I called Joy Summery on the phone and told her that I had no \sc{ufo} group, but
Helen O'Laughlin is a young black woman who sometimes reads tea leaves. Shortly after I moved into my office, she came nervously in to see me and told me that she and several other people had seen \sc{ufo}s in Roxbury, the black section of Boston.
-\label[chestwake]\wlabel{Helen told me that she had been lying down with her boyfriend, half asleep, when she felt physically \dq{touched} by something which hit her in the chest. She woke and went to the window.} Up in the sky was a bright green light which was moving around in a jerky way.
+\txtpt{chestwake}{Helen told me that she had been lying down with her boyfriend, half asleep, when she felt physically \dq{touched} by something which hit her in the chest. She woke and went to the window.} Up in the sky was a bright green light which was moving around in a jerky way.
Her boyfriend, Helen says, saw a \dq{white shadow} in the room at the same time.
@@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ He also told me that there was word that this \sc{ufo} had shown up on a radar s
According to Petersen, the actual event had taken place a week previously, on 10\slash 12\slash 76 at about one or two o'clock in the morning. He could not remember specific details of this sighting, but gave me the name of a local paper which had carried a more detailed story. When I called the \journaltitle{Milford Daily News}, a woman gave me the name of a police officer who had witnessed the \sc{ufo}. She also told me that subsequent to publication of the news of this Bellingham sighting an individual identifying himself only as \dq{an astronomer} had called the paper to report that any bright light in the sky on 10\slash 12\slash 76 must have been the star Sirius.
-I called the Bellingham police department on 10\slash 22\slash 76 and talked to the officer who had seen the \sc{ufo}. Sgt. Mullhaven told me that \label[lightstation]\wlabel{he had seen at home before being called by the station a multi-colored light in the sky which was flashing on and off.} This was visible, Mullhaven told me, for about five hours and was seen from several locations. He gave me the name of the night dispatcher who had taken the original calls.
+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 \txtpt{lightstation}{he had seen at home before being called by the station a multi-colored light in the sky which was flashing on and off.} This was visible, Mullhaven told me, for about five hours and was seen from several locations. He gave me the name of the night dispatcher who had taken the original calls.
When I finally reached this dispatcher on the phone, he was cooperative and told me that something had indeed occurred concerning a light in the sky which was seen simultaneously from several different locations in the area.
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ They saw something unusual.
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 \dq{have a happy day} Melaril blank.
-\label[rectangles]\wlabel{Jane Franklin describes this sighting as having taken place near Reading, Massachusetts on Wednesday, September 8, at approximately 7:45 P.M.\ \ She was driving her car down Concord Street in North Reading when she noticed two bars of light traveling along with her, 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.}
+\txtpt{rectangles}{Jane Franklin describes this sighting as having taken place near Reading, Massachusetts on Wednesday, September 8, at approximately 7:45 P.M.\ \ She was driving her car down Concord Street in North Reading when she noticed two bars of light traveling along with her, 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\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 symptoms in conjunction with her sighting. However, she writes that the night after seeing these rectangular bars she \dq{had a hard time falling 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.}
@@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ This was in early October.
% EIGHT
\nonum\sec EIGHT
-\label[marooncoat]\wlabel{A woman wearing a maroon coat came into the Psychic Center one winter morning and stood nervously about three yards from my door. She could not be persuaded to enter my office or to come close to me physically at all.}
+\txtpt{marooncoat}{A woman wearing a maroon coat came into the Psychic Center one winter morning and stood nervously about three yards from my door. She could not be persuaded to enter my office or to come close to me 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 \sc{ufo} sighting.
@@ -528,16 +528,16 @@ After they got home, they heard on the radio that 4 woman somewhere else in the
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. 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.
-\label[difficultybreathing]\wlabel{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 brown eyes and bluish-white skin who cannot breathe in this atmosphere. There is something mixed with this air which they cannot inhale or contact without first being innoculated, she told me.} This seems reasonable, considering that---as related in the Salem woman's dream \pgr{salemdream}---chemical pollutants in the atmosphere may cause cancer.
+\txtpt{difficultybreathing}{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 brown eyes and bluish-white skin who cannot breathe in this atmosphere. There is something mixed with this air which they cannot inhale or contact without first being innoculated, she told me.} This seems reasonable, considering that---as related in the Salem woman's dream \pgr{salemdream}---chemical pollutants in the atmosphere may cause cancer.
% TEN
\nonum\sec TEN
-\label[pondbox]\wlabel{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. \dq{When state officials enlarged the hole in the ice,} reports the \journaltitle{Boston Globe}, \dq{They found no square black object or radioactivity\ld\ the state fish and game department took a sample of rock and sand from the pond for laboratory analysis. Otherwise there is nothing left to the story. Except: what made a hole three feet in diameter, perfectly rounded, the black hole in ice eighteen inches thick?}}
+\txtpt{pondbox}{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. \dq{When state officials enlarged the hole in the ice,} reports the \journaltitle{Boston Globe}, \dq{They found no square black object or radioactivity\ld\ the state fish and game department took a sample of rock and sand from the pond for laboratory analysis. Otherwise there is nothing left to the story. Except: what made a hole three feet in diameter, perfectly rounded, the black hole in ice eighteen inches thick?}}
What indeed? I deeply regretted that I had been out of town at the time. On a different metaphysical errand, I had to be in touch with the Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained, and asked them if they had noted this event. They told me that they had indeed moted this unexplained event, and somehow in the course of the same phone call it evolved that I was requested to write an article on conceptions of time for the relativity issue of \journaltitle{Pursuit} magazine.
-\label[fluidice]\wlabel{I had already entitled this time concept \essaytitle{Fluidice: Time as a Function of Prana,} and coincidentally all of my diagrams did concern a square (potentially-disappearable) box of time.}
+\txtpt{fluidice}{I had already entitled this time concept \essaytitle{Fluidice: Time as a Function of Prana,} and coincidentally all of my diagrams did concern a square (potentially-disappearable) box of time.}
This article appeared in the Spring 1977 issue of \journaltitle{Pursuit}.\fnote{This essay has been included in the appendix..} I do not know how hot a large fluid ice box would be in this continuum, but I do link flexible time boxes to living thermo-nuclear bodies such as the sun.
@@ -649,7 +649,7 @@ At the time, this woman told me, the people who had experienced this sound calle
% SEVENTEEN
\nonum\sec SEVENTEEN
-\label[giftiesection]\wlabel{I} have a note here upon which I have pasted the small ad clipping from a newspaper. This ad reads in part: \dq{New England: a hotbed of alien activity.} A need was stated in this ad for \sc{ufo} reports, so I called the number listed and got an answering service.
+\txtpt{giftiesection}{I} have a note here upon which I have pasted the small ad clipping from a newspaper. This ad reads in part: \dq{New England: a hotbed of alien activity.} A need was stated in this ad for \sc{ufo} reports, so I called the number listed and got an answering service.
They told me that this \sc{ufo} Studies Institute which had been listed in the paper was actually Charlie Giftie.
@@ -712,7 +712,7 @@ However, all was not lost!
In the course of this photographic tirade, I did find out one valuable piece of information: the \dq{8} or \dq{B} which appears faintly in the dusky background of the Torres \sc{ufo} photo is a bleed-through from the film backing and not due to fakery or madness in the composition of the picture.
-\label[colorxerox]\wlabel{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) I went down the street and had a copy of the picture made on a color xerox machine.}
+\txtpt{colorxerox}{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) 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 \filmtitle{Star Wars}, but I do retain several fascinating copies of this photo, the original of which I did return to Torres.
@@ -1006,7 +1006,7 @@ This light was large, not a meteorite, and might have been a weather satellite.
% TWENTY-SEVEN
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-Next in my file is a highly unusual clipping from the Boston \journaltitle{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 14, who were chased by a hairy, nine-foot tall creature near Hollis, New Hampshire. Laid out beside this story is another story which occurred within the same span of time. \label[figureeightbeing]\wlabel{This tells of two Dover, Massachusetts teenagers who saw a small, monkey-like figure with a \dq{figure 8 head} standing on top of a broken stone wall. This being was said to have had bright orange eyes.}
+Next in my file is a highly unusual clipping from the Boston \journaltitle{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 14, who were chased by a hairy, nine-foot tall creature near Hollis, New Hampshire. Laid out beside this story is another story which occurred within the same span of time. \txtpt{figureeightbeing}{This tells of two Dover, Massachusetts teenagers who saw a small, monkey-like figure with a \dq{figure 8 head} standing on top of a broken stone wall. This being was said to have had bright orange eyes.}
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@@ -1037,7 +1037,7 @@ The letter I received in return was from a quizzical R. Martin Wolf. He wrote: \
\break
\vskip 2em
-\centerline{{\typoscale[1400/]\caps\rm\label[torres]\wlabel{Notes on Torres}}}
+\centerline{{\typoscale[1400/]\caps\rm\txtpt{torres}{Notes on Torres}}}
\vskip 1em
\centerline{\e{Diaries and Diagrams on \sc{ufo} Contact}}
@@ -1158,7 +1158,7 @@ I was moved just now to do some automatic writing myself, and got the phrase: \d
Torres has told me that subsequent to one of his \dq{inspired} piano sessions his hands bled from so much hard playing. I wonder what he actually sounded like.
-\label[fox]\wlabel{\date{5\slash 6\slash 77}}
+\txtpt{fox}{\date{5\slash 6\slash 77}}
I felt like looking up \dq{Fox} in the card catalogue of the library and (incredibly!) found the name of James Fox, the pseudonym of a writer named James Knipscheer (a K-sounding name, indeed!) who has written a novel entitled \booktitle{Operation Dancing Dog}. This is the only book by Knipscheer-Fox shelved in the Boston Library. This title has resonance of the idea of manipulation of human beings by \sc{ufo} entities. Also, as a typical American adventure novel, I suppose it does contain elements of violence. It was unavailable on the shelf, so I put in a request order.
@@ -1295,7 +1295,7 @@ In an article written for \journaltitle{Pursuit} magazine previous to my encount
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 \label[orgonereich]\wlabel{the orgone theory advanced by Wilhelm Reich} and the sex magic rituals and sensually-oriented ceremonial practices of witchcraft and primitive spiritist religions.
+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 \txtpt{orgonereich}{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.
@@ -1385,7 +1385,7 @@ Mark Simons told me that he believes he had called me on July 4 and then come to
In the course of our conversation, Mark told me about someone named Maurice K. Jessup. He felt that Jessup had been murdered, and that \label[jessupsuicide]{the circumstances of his murder had been made to look like a suicide.}
-\label[happyeaster]\wlabel{According to Simons, Jessup had written three letters entitled the \dq{Allende Letters} which had to do with \sc{ufo} contact. Jessup sent these letters to an Admiral at the Naval offices in Washington (I am relating this story now as it was told to me, without making any attempt at verification, which is impossible) with the inscription \dq{Happy Easter!} written on the envelope.}
+\txtpt{happyeaster}{According to Simons, Jessup had written three letters entitled the \dq{Allende Letters} which had to do with \sc{ufo} contact. Jessup sent these letters to an Admiral at the Naval offices in Washington (I am relating this story now as it was told to me, without making any attempt at verification, which is impossible) with the inscription \dq{Happy Easter!} written on the envelope.}
Whether or not Jessup actually did this, I find Mark's description of the \e{Happy Easter} memo to be significantly like the \e{Congratulations} motif, which has been the working theme of this project since I first received the high sign from California.
@@ -1395,7 +1395,7 @@ These terms, according to Simons (remember: I have absolutely no way to check th
I don't know. I am simply relating this story as it was related to me. If it is true, of course, it is outrageous.
-Simons once again broke off his narration on \sc{ufo} phenomena to tell me that gypsies have for years known about these forcefields and vortex 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 \label[simonsdox]\wlabel{the xerox of a document entitled: \booktitle{Introductory Space Science, volume II, Department of Physics, United States Air Force Academy}, which someone had lightfingered off the premises of the Air Force Academy in Colorado several years ago.}
+Simons once again broke off his narration on \sc{ufo} phenomena to tell me that gypsies have for years known about these forcefields and vortex 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 \txtpt{simonsdox}{the xerox of a document entitled: \booktitle{Introductory Space Science, volume II, Department of Physics, United States Air Force Academy}, which someone had lightfingered off the premises of the Air Force Academy in Colorado several years ago.}
Fetchingly, Simons has interleaved his copy of this document with decals and newspaper clippings which advertise unusual ariel phenomena from the non-military and secular point of view.
@@ -1455,7 +1455,7 @@ And now, once again: Congratulations to myself!
Just before I called Simons I checked my mailbox, which contained a letter from Ben Shenks telling me that he had read his copy of \dq{Notes on Torres} and telling me that I was incorrect, that he had no romantic interest in me.
-In terms of telepathic correspondences, he did not mention any romantic interest I might have had in himself truly, Ben Shenks, but went on in this letter to tell me that the actor James Fox who played opposite Mick Jagger in the pseudo-Satanic movie \filmtitle{Performance} has become a \dq{loud Christian} and suggested that I consider this Fox in the list of Satanic possibilities (\pgr{fox}) mentioned in \dq{Notes on Torres} (Section 30). \label[shenksshrug]\wlabel{Shenks says he finds this article on Torres \dq{quite definitely resonant with meaningful coincidences which go nowhere.}} Perhaps, as I discussed with Karnstedt, they are leading toward some sort of synchronistic performance of events.
+In terms of telepathic correspondences, he did not mention any romantic interest I might have had in himself truly, Ben Shenks, but went on in this letter to tell me that the actor James Fox who played opposite Mick Jagger in the pseudo-Satanic movie \filmtitle{Performance} has become a \dq{loud Christian} and suggested that I consider this Fox in the list of Satanic possibilities (\pgr{fox}) mentioned in \dq{Notes on Torres} (Section 30). \txtpt{shenksshrug}{Shenks says he finds this article on Torres \dq{quite definitely resonant with meaningful coincidences which go nowhere.}} Perhaps, as I discussed with Karnstedt, they are leading toward some sort of synchronistic performance of events.
So: done! It has been done, Shenks! I have included the actor James Fox in my list of possible Satanic identities.
@@ -1494,7 +1494,7 @@ The process of sorting, remembering and consciously dealing with personal concer
This is true metaphysically.
-\label[nervouschemistry]\wlabel{Galligan's perceptions also have a physiological basis. In the human body, ionic balance is maintained in the neural system by an interchange of charge between sodium and potassium ion. These sodium (Na) and potassium (K) fluids do not actually mix in the cell, but are separated by a semipermeable membrane.}
+\txtpt{nervouschemistry}{Galligan's perceptions also have a physiological basis. In the human body, ionic balance is maintained in the neural system by an interchange of charge between sodium and potassium ion. These sodium (Na) and potassium (K) fluids do not actually mix in the cell, but are separated by a semipermeable membrane.}
The coding and efficiency of the nervous system has intimately to do with this ionic balance.
@@ -1605,7 +1605,7 @@ Since Saul had been regularly persecuting the Christians, he took this voice to
It is usual to suppose that the light on the road to Damascus was not a real light, that this symbolizes Saul's conversion. As we might say, \dq{the light dawned,} and he changed his views. The \sc{ufo} contactees with whom I have spoken have had no such dramatic conversion experience. They seem to have seen a real and non-religious light. However, this real light has in some cases caused a \dq{rebirth} experience which is not mystical or symbolic. This \dq{rebirth} is not within the province of the military. It is an introduction to astral dimensions, a birth into expanded perception.
-\label[learntobreathe]\wlabel{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 \dq{see} or in some other way perceive a \sc{ufo} light or \dq{craft,} the contactee must participate in what our science fiction writers have called a \dq{warping} of the ordinary time\slash space continuum.
+\txtpt{learntobreathe}{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 \dq{see} or in some other way perceive a \sc{ufo} light or \dq{craft,} the contactee must participate in what our science fiction writers have called a \dq{warping} of the ordinary time\slash space continuum.
This warping may leave certain individuals permanently capable of unusual feats of \sc{esp} or psychokinesis. In others, it causes temporary clairvoyance and\slash or strange dreams.
@@ -1624,7 +1624,7 @@ As has been documented in photographs published in newspapers from all around th
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-\label[bunkxerox]\wlabel{I really do not know what is the most constructive thing to do with the copy of chapters from \booktitle{Introductory Space Science, volume II. Department of Physics, Air Force Academy} which I have now received by mail from Andrew Galligan.}
+\txtpt{bunkxerox}{I really do not know what is the most constructive thing to do with the copy of chapters from \booktitle{Introductory Space Science, volume II. Department of Physics, Air Force Academy} which I have now received by mail from Andrew Galligan.}
There is no earth-shattering news in this package. which contains pages 455--468 of the 1968 volume and a typewritten transcription of the same chapter from the 1970 volume.
@@ -1633,7 +1633,7 @@ Chapter 33, 1968, is entitled \essaytitle{Unidentified Flying Objects}, and chap
On pages 6 of the typewritten copy of chapter 33, 1970, it is stated:
\dq{The \sc{ufo} problem must now compete on its scientific merit with all the other pressing scientific problems facing mankind.}
-Strangely, I find myself in complete agreement with these purported words from the Air Force, and with their change in terminology. We have not been witnessing flying objects. We have been witnessing aerial phenomena. Furthermore, folks: this is quite definitely a scientific problem. It is one of the most pressing scientific problems facing mankind. \label[implicitassumptions]\wlabel{On page 466 of chapter 33, 1968, it is stated that: \dq{One thing that must be guarded against in such study is the trap of implicitly assuming that our knowledge of physics (or any other branch of science) is complete. An example of one such trap is selecting a group of physical laws which we now accept as valid, and assuming they will never be superseded.}}
+Strangely, I find myself in complete agreement with these purported words from the Air Force, and with their change in terminology. We have not been witnessing flying objects. We have been witnessing aerial phenomena. Furthermore, folks: this is quite definitely a scientific problem. It is one of the most pressing scientific problems facing mankind. \txtpt{implicitassumptions}{On page 466 of chapter 33, 1968, it is stated that: \dq{One thing that must be guarded against in such study is the trap of implicitly assuming that our knowledge of physics (or any other branch of science) is complete. An example of one such trap is selecting a group of physical laws which we now accept as valid, and assuming they will never be superseded.}}
I'had never expected to find myself in agreement with the Air Force on this topic, but here I am: I am in absolute agreement with this statement on the \dq{trap of implicit assumptions!} I find, as Pontius Pilate once stated in another context, no fault with the Air Force, as the Air Force is represented in this document.
@@ -1709,11 +1709,11 @@ This vision might be of interest to those who are searching for a clue to the \s
This heavy-set lady at the psychic center further told me that she connects \sc{ufo}s with the electrical blackout in New York City on 7\slash 13\slash 77, an odd date indeed from the numerological point of view.
-\label[blackoutcoincidence]\wlabel{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.}
+\txtpt{blackoutcoincidence}{On 7\slash 13\slash 77, there was a massive blackout in New York City, causing looting and extreme inconvenience. Details of this blackout can be found by consulting any reputable newspaper file. At any rate, it happened.}
On this same day, this heavy-set young woman told me she had gone outside to fix the exhaust pipes on her motorcycle when she felt psychically odd in some respects and an old fracture in her leg separated, laying her up for awhile and motivating her to hang around the psychic center and do some talking.
-She attributes the reactivation of this old injury to an influx of energy which she says has channeled her life back into a quieter sort of activity. She told me that she had been doing construction and demolition work, including plaster-boarding and plumbing installation. \label[construction]\wlabel{I found this interesting, since yesterday's section on more highly evolved creatures with a strange sense of humor was written on the bus to New York City, where I met with a contractor who is redoing the interior of my loft there. The more practical side of my mind at this time is filled with thoughts of construction and demolition.}
+She attributes the reactivation of this old injury to an influx of energy which she says has channeled her life back into a quieter sort of activity. She told me that she had been doing construction and demolition work, including plaster-boarding and plumbing installation. \txtpt{construction}{I found this interesting, since yesterday's section on more highly evolved creatures with a strange sense of humor was written on the bus to New York City, where I met with a contractor who is redoing the interior of my loft there. The more practical side of my mind at this time is filled with thoughts of construction and demolition.}
While we were talking, the woman who had been afflicted with a wailing bisexual spirit (she is the daughter of the woman who manages the Friendly Tearoom) spoke up from across the table and told me that on the news just after the blackout there had been word that \sc{ufo}s were sighted near White Plains, N.Y.
@@ -1736,7 +1736,7 @@ At the time of that sighting, I had called Raymond Fowler, who is a \sc{ufo} ent
Something now mentally is taking me back to my experience of unreasonable anger at Fowler. I reread Mary Louise Armstrong's letter of resignation to the Condon Committee, which is included in Hyneck's book. I was struck by the distress which lay behind this letter.
-\label[mentalstates]\wlabel{It seems to me quite possible that the people surrounding Ms. Armstrong had been experiencing unusual mental states. Clearly, Hyneck also made the same observation or he would not have gone to the trouble of composing a book on \sc{ufo}s which is so specific on confusion and disorganization and\slash or negligence in the United States Air Force Research.}
+\txtpt{mentalstates}{It seems to me quite possible that the people surrounding Ms. Armstrong had been experiencing unusual mental states. Clearly, Hyneck also made the same observation or he would not have gone to the trouble of composing a book on \sc{ufo}s which is so specific on confusion and disorganization and\slash or negligence in the United States Air Force Research.}
This brouhaha on \sc{ufo}s occurred in 1968, and the chapters of the purported Air Force manual which Galligan has supplied me with were printed in 1969 and 1970.
@@ -1748,7 +1748,7 @@ One of these traps concerns the belief that military personnel and those experts
Any thought given to the behavior of Nazi military personnel during World War II, for example, should call into question the idea of superior logical thought as being an implicit military characteristic. Quite a few of these personnel, including apparently the Canadian publishers of \booktitle{The Antarctica Theory} (yet to be released), believed quite seriously that the planet Earth was hollow and could be entered through Anlarctica.
-\label[condonirrational]\wlabel{Either several humans associated with the Condon Committee and Project Blue Book were suffering personal psychological stress simultaneously, or something had altered the consciousness of key members of this group, to make them unusually unreasonable and hypersensitive.}
+\txtpt{condonirrational}{Either several humans associated with the Condon Committee and Project Blue Book were suffering personal psychological stress simultaneously, or something had altered the consciousness of key members of this group, to make them unusually unreasonable and hypersensitive.}
Not to mention a bit hilarious.
@@ -1788,7 +1788,7 @@ She came on the line immediately, before the phone had rung at all and told me t
Additionally, for the twenty minutes just prior to the actual electrical failure, I had felt particularly zonked out and drained of energy.
-\label[lobocontact]\wlabel{And you are not going to believe this, Rosie\ld\ but\ld\ I lay down just now to take another rest as it is very hot and the content of this preceding passage is disturbing to me in several ways. While I was lying down, Lobo phoned (remember Lobo: one of my only two close \sc{ufo} buddies in 1974) after three years of non-contact, and we made an appointment to meet at my office tomorrow, at high noon.}
+\txtpt{lobocontact}{And you are not going to believe this, Rosie\ld\ but\ld\ I lay down just now to take another rest as it is very hot and the content of this preceding passage is disturbing to me in several ways. While I was lying down, Lobo phoned (remember Lobo: one of my only two close \sc{ufo} buddies in 1974) after three years of non-contact, and we made an appointment to meet at my office tomorrow, at high noon.}
I have not seen Lobo since 1975, and am very curious as to why he called at exactly this time. I told him that I had written most of a book on \sc{ufo}s since I saw him last, and was just now writing a passage about the New York City blackout. He told me that he understood that it is technically possible to build some sort of wave-propagating, ionization machine which jams transmitters, but Lobo did always indulge in wild speculation. In the realm of hard practicality, I just talked to my contractor, who feels that there are too many safety hazards in the loft under consideration to make it worth my investment.
@@ -1863,7 +1863,7 @@ While Zeena was attending the Psychic Institute in Berkeley, a member of a \dq{f
She rejected this claim because she felt that it was impossible to travel intergalactically without a space ship, and that his claims were \dq{off the wall} entirely.
-\label[greeninsect]\wlabel{Then one day, while Zeena was meditating, she saw a small green insect on the wall. This green insect told Zeena that the space ships were coming. She felt somehow convinced by this experience, and then again while in Los Angeles had another contact with an unconventional \sc{ufo}.}
+\txtpt{greeninsect}{Then one day, while Zeena was meditating, she saw a small green insect on the wall. This green insect told Zeena that the space ships were coming. She felt somehow convinced by this experience, and then again while in Los Angeles had another contact with an unconventional \sc{ufo}.}
Zeena was talking with a Los Angeles clairvoyant when she saw a beam of astral light shoot out from his forehead. At the end of this beam of light was a whitish elliptical shape. This frightened Zeena and she left the room. Later, with this same clairvoyant, she felt that she had left her body, and was hovering near the ceiling of the room. She panicked, and when she felt herself being separated from her body was then violently drawn back into her ordinary sensory awareness. As Zeena once again entered her body, she found herself repeating hysterically: \dq{I'm saving my body for God. I'm saving my body for God.} Whatever this may mean in context---probably that her awareness had actually been separated from her body, in conjunction with the presence of alien spirit entities which might perhaps have tried to enter her vacant body mediumistically---it was subsequent to this out-of-body experience that Zeena began to feel that \sc{ufo} entities were helping her to channel and balance her energies.
@@ -1880,7 +1880,7 @@ Meanwhile, I was late meeting Lobo back at my apartment due to an extended psych
The woman I had scheduled for a mid-morning appointment turned out to have unusual problems as regards a case of smallpox in a past life. I did not know this initially.
-\label[smallpox]\wlabel{She told me that she had unexplained problems with scar tissue on one shoulder. This tissue had appeared overnight several years ago and was non-malignant. For some reason, this woman was certain that these scars (which I had not seen) were traces from a past life.}
+\txtpt{smallpox}{She told me that she had unexplained problems with scar tissue on one shoulder. This tissue had appeared overnight several years ago and was non-malignant. For some reason, this woman was certain that these scars (which I had not seen) were traces from a past life.}
I went looking back into her past lives and found that she had died at thirteen in the nineteen-twenties of a case of smallpox which had not been treated, due to the superstition of her parents. As soon as I had told her this, the young woman dramatically unbuttoned her blouse and showed me five or six raised markings which looked as if some force had modeled smallpox suppurations onto her skin. She was in her late teens, and was having emotional problems with her parents, when these model poxmarks appeared. I surmise that the emotional situation of parental restriction reminded her psyche of the former parental superstition, and that her own subconscious recollections built a physical reminder of her previous early death.
@@ -1939,7 +1939,7 @@ This time insult effect also contributes to the dual absorption effect which has
I will list first what is officially \e{not known} about photosynthesis:
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-* \label[absorptiondilemma]\wlabel{Differing sites in chlorophyl pigment absorb light at different rates, and selectively prefer differing frequencies of light, ranging the spectrum from blue to red. It is not known how or why these sites select the light.}
+* \txtpt{absorptiondilemma}{Differing sites in chlorophyl pigment absorb light at different rates, and selectively prefer differing frequencies of light, ranging the spectrum from blue to red. It is not known how or why these sites select the light.}
* Simultaneously, at sites distant (miroscopically) from one another, chlorophyl exhibits oxidation and reduction reactions which seemingly have no functional link, except their co-presence in one substance. The oxidation\slash reduction reaction is chemically ionic in nature and normally the reduction process releases an ion which is then absorbed during the oxidation process. Naturally, this sequence of liberation and absorptlon takes sequential time. It is not known how chlorophyl, during the process of photosynthesis, manages to dispense with sequential requirements and suddenly oxidize and reduce at the same time, in separate locations.
* When subjected to light stimulus, chlorophyl exhibits a time delay between initial illumination and response which indicates mediation by so-called \dq{dark responses,} which have not been fully understood.
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