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diff --git a/congratulations.otx b/congratulations.otx index 1caf637..4e84d58 100644 --- a/congratulations.otx +++ b/congratulations.otx @@ -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. -Following the usual occult practice, I will begin with the abstract and move gradually into the concrete. +\label[abstractconcrete]\wlabel{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. @@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ This was in early October. % EIGHT \nonum\sec EIGHT -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. +\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.} 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. @@ -539,7 +539,7 @@ I asked if she had experienced any success with this astral projection, and she % TEN \nonum\sec TEN -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?} +\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?}} 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. @@ -655,7 +655,7 @@ At the time, this woman told me, the people who had experienced this sound calle % SEVENTEEN \nonum\sec SEVENTEEN -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. +\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. They told me that this \sc{ufo} Studies Institute which had been listed in the paper was actually Charlie Giftie. @@ -1560,7 +1560,7 @@ I will not go into gruesome detail, but I will list the correspondence: \begitems\style a * My marriage was violent, and in the course of this mutual battle I sustained cuts and bruises, had my clothes ripped off several times and was a part of accusations and counter-accusations of adultery and psychic fraud: this parallels several of the violent sex scenes in the book \ld\ How exactly, you will never know, Rosie! * Since discovering a book on Gestapo practices in the library of a close associate in 1970, I have had fears about Nazi association with government employees. The combination of juggling the crazy Nazi publishers in Canada and tales of a Nazi spy ring in Fox-Knipscheer's book with my latent concern with private Gestapo sadism led me not to mention this possibility in my original article. -* The California scene of call girls, strange eccentric rich ladies and cocktail parties is exactly the same as the California scene in which (as I once privately felt) several mutual friends of myself and Ben Shenks are now going to hell in a handcart. Shenks may deny this, (p. \pgref{shenksshrug}) but James Fox would not deny it. If it is actually true, as Shenks reports, that James Fox has become a \dq{loud Christian.} +* The California scene of call girls, strange eccentric rich ladies and cocktail parties is exactly the same as the California scene in which (as I once privately felt) several mutual friends of myself and Ben Shenks are now going to hell in a handcart. Shenks may deny this, (p. \pgref[shenksshrug]) but James Fox would not deny it. If it is actually true, as Shenks reports, that James Fox has become a \dq{loud Christian.} \enditems What is it like to disappear? I do have some idea what it might be like not to exist: physically be non-existent, and yet retain the ability to register memory and sensation. Once I worked psychically with a woman who was afflicted by a \dq{wailing} spirit. In the course of trying to identify this spirit and ascertain motives for this bedevilment, which included thoughts of violent sex and depressive presence, a sense of \dq{wailing,} a name, and then several identifying characteristics came across to me psychically. @@ -1587,7 +1587,7 @@ So: what does this touching little episode of a bisexual spirit have to do with Simply, it is a case of a person's consciousness being altered by the presence of an entity from the astral dimension. -In this case, thoughts of this entity were causing unusual sexual ideas, and the sense that there was a depressive \dq{wailing} in this woman's vicinity. This is not so different from cases of \sc{ufo} contact, when contactees state (p. \pgref{chestwake}) \dq{I woke with a touch on my chest and went to the window,} or (p. \pgref{lightstation}) \dq{I saw the light at home before being called by the station.} +In this case, thoughts of this entity were causing unusual sexual ideas, and the sense that there was a depressive \dq{wailing} in this woman's vicinity. This is not so different from cases of \sc{ufo} contact, when contactees state (p. \pgref[chestwake]) \dq{I woke with a touch on my chest and went to the window,} or (p. \pgref[lightstation]) \dq{I saw the light at home before being called by the station.} Although I have now written to Andrew Galligan for his copy of the Air Force manual on \sc{ufo}s and also to the mixed-up Nazi contingent in Canada for additional information on whirling fan-shaped discs, I really do not feel that this information---although perhaps reassuring as documentation in my files---is going to be of much help in understanding the \sc{ufo} reality. @@ -1634,18 +1634,18 @@ I really do not know what is the most constructive thing to do with the copy of There is no earth-shattering news in this package. which contains pages 455--468 of the 1968 volume and a typewritten transcription of the same chapter from the 1970 volume. -Chapter 33, 1968, is entitled \essaytitle{Unidentified Flying Objects}. and Chapter 33, 1970, is entitled \essaytitle{Unidentified Aerial Phenomena}. It these are indeed Air Force documents, and I have no reason to believe that Galligan could or would falsify this writing. then there seems to have been a real advance in thinking on the part of the Air Force during the years 1968--1970. +Chapter 33, 1968, is entitled \essaytitle{Unidentified Flying Objects}, and chapter 33, 1970, is entitled \essaytitle{Unidentified Aerial Phenomena}. It these are indeed Air Force documents, and I have no reason to believe that Galligan could or would falsify this writing. then there seems to have been a real advance in thinking on the part of the Air Force during the years 1968--1970. -On pages 6 of the typewritten copy of Chapter 33, 1970, it is stated: +On pages 6 of the typewritten copy of chapter 33, 1970, it is stated: \dq{The \sc{ufo} problem must now compete on its scientific merit with all the other pressing scientific problems facing mankind.} -Strangely, I find myself in complete agreement with these purported words from the Air Force, and with their change in terminology. We have not been witnessing flying objects. We have been witnessing aerial phenomena. Furthermore, folks: this is quite definitely a scientific problem. It is one of the most pressing scientific problems facing mankind. On page 466 of Chapter 33. 1968, it is stated that: \dq{One thing that must be guarded against in such study is the trap of implicitly assuming that our knowledge of physics (or any other branch of science) is complete. An example of one such trap is selecting a group of physical laws which we now accept as valid, and assuming they will never be superseded.} +Strangely, I find myself in complete agreement with these purported words from the Air Force, and with their change in terminology. We have not been witnessing flying objects. We have been witnessing aerial phenomena. Furthermore, folks: this is quite definitely a scientific problem. It is one of the most pressing scientific problems facing mankind. On page 466 of chapter 33, 1968, it is stated that: \dq{One thing that must be guarded against in such study is the trap of implicitly assuming that our knowledge of physics (or any other branch of science) is complete. An example of one such trap is selecting a group of physical laws which we now accept as valid, and assuming they will never be superseded.} I'had never expected to find myself in agreement with the Air Force on this topic, but here I am: I am in absolute agreement with this statement on the \dq{trap of implicit assumptions!} I find, as Pontius Pilate once stated in another context, no fault with the Air Force, as the Air Force is represented in this document. -I completely wash my hands, however, of any controversy as to what exactly was meant or intended by these purported chapters. I have them here in front of me, and I am going to discuss them as literature. as I discussed Giftie's eight-page form letter on his \sc{ufo} sighting. (p. 32)\ednote{ref} +I completely wash my hands, however, of any controversy as to what exactly was meant or intended by these purported chapters. I have them here in front of me, and I am going to discuss them as literature, as I discussed Giftie's eight-page form letter on his \sc{ufo} sighting. (p. \pgref[giftiesection]) -At the end of Chapter 33, 1970, there is a defense of the \essaytitle{Condon report} and \booktitle{Project Blue Book}. These government-sponsored \sc{ufo} investigations have been publicly criticized by several well-qualified experts in the \sc{ufo} field, most notably J. Allen Hyneck of Northwestern University, who was a member of the original Project Blue Book before it disbanded. +At the end of chapter 33, 1970, there is a defense of the \essaytitle{Condon report} and \booktitle{Project Blue Book}. These government-sponsored \sc{ufo} investigations have been publicly criticized by several well-qualified experts in the \sc{ufo} field, most notably J. Allen Hyneck of Northwestern University, who was a member of the original Project Blue Book before it disbanded. In his book, \booktitle{The \sc{ufo} Experience, A Scientific Inquiry}, Hyneck criticizes the Condon Committee for several reasons. Most notably: disorganization and factionalism among the participants, and failure to act significantly on data relating to the few residual sightings for which there is absolutely no conventional explanation. @@ -1658,7 +1658,9 @@ Let me suggest two very interesting possibilities: first, that these people invo \nonum\sec FORTY-ONE \date 7\slash 18\slash 77 -Lest I fall into this same \dq{trap of implicit assumptions,} I would like at this time (moving, as stated in the introductory chapter, page 5,\ednote{ref} paragraph 4, from the abstract into the concrete) to suggest several explanations for problems in apprehension of \sc{ufo}s. +Lest I fall into this same \dq{trap of implicit assumptions,} I would like at this time (moving, as stated in the introductory chapter, page \pgref[abstractconcrete], % paragraph 4, % TODO keep? +from the abstract into the concrete) to suggest several explanations for problems in apprehension of \sc{ufo}s. + One of these problems is psychological. The other is practical. First of all, and concerning psychological problems, people in general have been conditioned to believe two things which are not true. One, that \sc{ufo}s are some sort of solid spacecraft with unknown but technologically-comprehensible powers of propulsion, and two, that it is going to be possible to \dq{validate} or \dq{invalidate} a \sc{ufo} sighting on the basis of contrast with conventional pheromena such as shooting stars, weather satellites and unusual military aircraft. @@ -1666,11 +1668,11 @@ Because of these erroneous expectations, which have been instilled by science fi Unidentified \dq{objects,} lights and paranormal occurrences such as electrical failure in a car engine coincidental with the appearance of small figure eight-shaped humanoids are all automatically placed within the \dq{science fact or science fiction?} framework and catalogued or not catalogued according to this arbitrary, binary distinction. -Reading the clipping on William McCarthy's Pond, for example, it is very difficult to tell at this late date whether someone was joking or deluded or whether a small black box did indeed fall through the ice and subsequently disappear (p. 26).\ednote{fix} +Reading the clipping on William McCarthy's Pond, for example, it is very difficult to tell at this late date whether someone was joking or deluded or whether a small black box did indeed fall through the ice and subsequently disappear (p. \pgref[pondbox]). Perhaps we all have been asking the wrong questions. -I have here in my hand a letter from the \booktitle{\sc{ufo}s: Nazi Secret Weapon} publisher in Canada telling me that my letter of inquiry to him as regarding the letter of protest published about his organization in one of the \sc{ufo} magazines, was "disjointed," but offering to swap information on my Hungarian contact in the maroon coat (p. 23)\ednote{fix} for information on Nazi occult activity during World War II. +I have here in my hand a letter from the \booktitle{\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 \dq{disjointed,} but offering to swap information on my Hungarian contact in the maroon coat (p. \pgref[marooncoat]) for information on Nazi occult activity during World War II. Are you kidding? I have been burned on these carnival grab-bag deals once too often (p. 79)\fixnote\ to place much confidence in such a blindfold trade. @@ -1678,7 +1680,7 @@ Is it really of any importance whether or not a smail black object fell through I submit at this point that it is our prejudices about what is supposed to be occurring which have led us to ignore the reality which is already with us. -Specifically, we have been conditioned to expect that if there are \sc{ufo}s they will be of some particular shape (triangular, circular, with or without exhaust pipe or special time-warp drive equipment) and manned by---or should I say "creatured"---by occupants with physical characteristics which are or are not humanoid. When people say "humanoid," they generally mean \e{physically} humanoid: two-legged, tail-less, one-headed, tool-manufacturing animals with thumbs installed at a ninety-degree angle to the index finger of a right and a left hand joined to two arms, which are used to build spacecraft and other devices for transportation. It is also assumed that these crafts-creatures, in order to quaiify as humanoid, must possess a face of some sort with recognizable eyes, nose and mouth. Or approximations thereof. (p. 49)\fixnote +Specifically, we have been conditioned to expect that if there are \sc{ufo}s they will be of some particular shape (triangular, circular, with or without exhaust pipe or special time-warp drive equipment) and manned by---or should I say \dq{creatured}---by occupants with physical characteristics which are or are not humanoid. When people say \dq{humanoid,} they generally mean \e{physically} humanoid: two-legged, tail-less, one-headed, tool-manufacturing animals with thumbs installed at a ninety-degree angle to the index finger of a right and a left hand joined to two arms, which are used to build spacecraft and other devices for transportation. It is also assumed that these crafts-creatures, in order to quaiify as humanoid, must possess a face of some sort with recognizable eyes, nose and mouth. Or approximations thereof. (p. 49)\fixnote In making the distinction humanoid or non-humanoid, then we suppose that occupants of \sc{ufo} craft are likely to have physical bodies. The only way to tell if anything is or is not humanoid (as opposed to spheroid, obloid or insectoid) is to take a look at the physical body of this thing and decide. If there are no physical bodies available, this is going to be a difficult decision. |