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diff --git a/congratulations.otx b/congratulations.otx index e710fdb..e7c3eb0 100644 --- a/congratulations.otx +++ b/congratulations.otx @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ At that time, I contacted a local UFO data collector who told me that he was mor Something had happened to me, but I was not sure exactly what had occurred. I began to take books on UFO phenomena and technical books on electro-magnetism out of the library. During the time I was catching up on my reading, I experienced strange dreams related to UFO lights, and several times woke from sleep and walked to the window, feeling that UFO presences were outside, and that they wanted me to communicate with them. -These presences were hypnotically compelling. At one time, I actually heard a humming \dq{generator} sound in conjunction with my waking from sleep. Another person in the house also heard this sound. It has never been explained to me in terms of naturally-occurring electrical phenomena. In the book which follows, I attempt to render and discuss unusual states of mind which a UFO contactee may undergo. These may include feeling \dq{alien} as an individual, unreasonable anger, elation or depression, enhanced \sc{esp} abilities, and the development of alternate technological systems. +These presences were hypnotically compelling. At one time, I actually heard a humming \dq{generator} sound in conjunction with my waking from sleep. Another person in the house also heard this sound. It has never been explained to me in terms of naturally-occurring electrical phenomena. In the book which follows, I attempt to render and discuss unusual states of mind which a UFO contactee may undergo. These may include feeling \dq{alien} as an individual, unreasonable anger, elation or depression, enhanced ESP abilities, and the development of alternate technological systems. \break @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ Effort in this direction has included psychological treatment of the UFO experie In this book, I am going to skip this diagnostic debate altogether, and concentrate on the human effects of UFO experience, as I have observed them in the course of two years of interviews with purported UFO contactees. -As a practicing psychic reader and surrealist poet, people have been my major field of interest since 1969, when I held my first job as a newspaper reporter. I enjoy talking to people and telling them things about themselves via \sc{esp}, as well as documenting human behavior (sometimes satirically) in my writing. In this capacity, I am primarily concerned with the effect which UFO sightings are having on the private lives of those contactees I have encountered; at first in the course of casual meetings, and then as part of the deliberate research which has led to this book. +As a practicing psychic reader and surrealist poet, people have been my major field of interest since 1969, when I held my first job as a newspaper reporter. I enjoy talking to people and telling them things about themselves via ESP, as well as documenting human behavior (sometimes satirically) in my writing. In this capacity, I am primarily concerned with the effect which UFO sightings are having on the private lives of those contactees I have encountered; at first in the course of casual meetings, and then as part of the deliberate research which has led to this book. First, I suppose I should state my own credentials in this matter. I am a \dq{contactee.} I saw my first UFO light in 1973, while standing outside in the cold waiting for a train in Swampscott, Massachusetts. Since I was at that time returning from a Spiritualist Church service, I recognized the phenomenon to be directly similar to \dq{spirit light} phenomena which I sometimes experience while giving a psychic reading, or as part of spontaneous mediumistic occurrences popularly known as \dq{seeing a ghost.} @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ In 1974, I was not yet aware of how completely my perceptions had been altered, There were times when I doubted my sanity. I knew I was sane, and yet I doubted my sanity: I had engaged in telepathic intercourse with a UFO---or had I? Whether or not this had been a spaceship, or some very powerful sort of spirit contact, it became increasingly evident that I would have to be dealing with the reality of my altered mental state. -This had begun to include heightened \sc{esp} and awareness of \dq{energy states} around objects and people. Also, I was having dreams and waking meditative states during which I simply \dq{felt} again the UFO presence without seeing it. +This had begun to include heightened ESP and awareness of \dq{energy states} around objects and people. Also, I was having dreams and waking meditative states during which I simply \dq{felt} again the UFO presence without seeing it. Clearly, it was not wise to become assaultive against those who did not share this alteration of perception, or to stop random passersby on the street while pointing to the sky and insisting: \dq{We are not alone.} @@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ Buddy says he witnessed this alien object landing while he was walking in a rura My own experience has been that these phenomena are a-logical. They are real, a-logical, and related to the use of the faculties which we -have labeled \sc{esp} and psychokinesis. UFOs do seem to cause mental +have labeled ESP and psychokinesis. UFOs do seem to cause mental effects similar to those associated with telepathy, precognition and hypnosis. @@ -364,13 +364,13 @@ The following is a series of actual UFO encounters related to me by people who v % ONE \nonum\sec ONE -\date{6\slash 24\slash 77} +\date{6/24/77} Having decided to arrange these UFO sightings in chronological order, I went early to my office this morning and opened my file, which I thought was in chronological order. I found, to my surprise, that the early part of my file is not in chronological order, but grows more chronological as time goes on. Apparently, right after moving from Salem I paid little attention to exact sequence. -The first note which comes to hand is dated 10\slash 26\slash 76 and is signed by Joy Summery of Andover, Massachusetts. In this note, which was slipped under my door, Ms. Summery asks me for information on my UFO group and tells me that there is a lot of interest in UFOs in Andover. +The first note which comes to hand is dated 10/26/76 and is signed by Joy Summery of Andover, Massachusetts. In this note, which was slipped under my door, Ms. Summery asks me for information on my UFO group and tells me that there is a lot of interest in UFOs in Andover. I called Joy Summery on the phone and told her that I had no UFO group, but would be interested in any information on UFO sightings. She told me that there was a group of people meeting in Andover who had experienced visions of beings descending to bring news of global catastrophe. Her voice was trembling, and I felt that she had been profoundly affected by some sort of experience. I declined Joy Summery's invitation to join her UFO group, but told her that plenty of other people in this area had been having visions of global catastrophe. @@ -388,13 +388,13 @@ When Helen checked with friends, she found that others in the same neighborhood % THREE \nonum\sec THREE -On 10\slash 21\slash 76, Larry Sands, the director of the Shin Psychic Center, came to my office and told me that a friend of his who is a radio announcer had taken a news call the night before about a UFO sighting in Bellingham, Massachusetts, a small town near Boston. I called this announcer, who told me that several people had seen multi-colored lights in the sky and had called the police and the radio station. +On 10/21/76, Larry Sands, the director of the Shin Psychic Center, came to my office and told me that a friend of his who is a radio announcer had taken a news call the night before about a UFO sighting in Bellingham, Massachusetts, a small town near Boston. I called this announcer, who told me that several people had seen multi-colored lights in the sky and had called the police and the radio station. He also told me that there was word that this UFO had shown up on a radar screen at Logan airport, but he could not definitely confirm this radar sighting. -According to Petersen, the actual event had taken place a week previously, on 10\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 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. +According to Petersen, the actual event had taken place a week previously, on 10/12/76 at about one or two o'clock in the morning. He 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 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 10/12/76 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 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. +I called the Bellingham police department on 10/22/76 and talked to the officer who had seen the UFO. Sgt. Mullhaven told me that \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. @@ -409,18 +409,18 @@ They saw something unusual. % FOUR \nonum\sec FOUR -I have here now a note to myself dated 9\slash 15\slash 76. This concerns the UFO sighting made by the woman who wrote to me on the \dq{have a happy day} Melaril blank. +I have here now a note to myself dated 9/15/76. This concerns the UFO sighting made by the woman who wrote to me on the \dq{have a happy day} Melaril blank. \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.} +In her reply to my question on tranquilizers, which is dated 9/17/76 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.} -Just below my note about Jane Franklin's letter, I have written another note to myself, dated 9\slash 23\slash 76. This note reads: \dq{Sign contract for office downtown. When I return to Lynn, both my electric clocks are twenty-five minutes slow.} +Just below my note about Jane Franklin's letter, I have written another note to myself, dated 9/23/76. This note reads: \dq{Sign contract for office downtown. When I return to Lynn, both my electric clocks are twenty-five minutes slow.} % FIVE \nonum\sec FIVE -Diana Bradley reports, in a letter dated 9\slash 8\slash 76: \ldq{Dear sir: I am writing to you in regard to your letter in the \journaltitle{Salem Evening News}. About a month ago on a Thursday night around 9:30 my boyfriend and I were driving down old Swampscott Road in Salem heading toward Swampscott. In the sky I noticed a very strange-looking craft. I asked my boyfriend if he thought it might be a plane. He said it definitely was not. We watched it for a few minutes. Then he took me home to my apartment. +Diana Bradley reports, in a letter dated 9/8/76: \ldq{Dear sir: I am writing to you in regard to your letter in the \journaltitle{Salem Evening News}. About a month ago on a Thursday night around 9:30 my boyfriend and I were driving down old Swampscott Road in Salem heading toward Swampscott. In the sky I noticed a very strange-looking craft. I asked my boyfriend if he thought it might be a plane. He said it definitely was not. We watched it for a few minutes. Then he took me home to my apartment. When I got in, I told my mother about it. It was saucer-shaped. It had a lot of lights blinking on and off in sequence. Red and white lights. My mother and I looked for it and found it. It was hovering over Swampscott and Salem for about an hour and a half that I know of. About 11 P.M. it started to head toward Marblehead very slowly. When it reached the ocean, it took off like a bolt of lightning. I never saw anything move so fast in my life. @@ -460,14 +460,14 @@ Actually, according to source books, Helios lent Ph\ae ton his chariot and he dr Ph\ae ton must only have made this spectacular trip one time. In the sculpture that we were discussing, he is attended by a company of muses and the fires from his chariot do not seem to be very dangerous. -\date{6\slash 26\slash 77} +\date{6/26/77} I decided to skip the weekend before continuing with this entry. The information which comprises this book has been collected over a period of two years, and yet I still do find it difficult to cope with these realities in any concentrated dosage. There seems always to be the necessity to make a joke or small talk. After we had discussed Greek mythology for a while, the man in red trousers told me that he had seen a strange unidentified light over the Aegean sea, which lies between Greece and Turkey. This was during a recent trip abroad and he was at this point traveling on a ship of some sort out among the smaller islands\ld \vskip 1em -\date{\e{The real 6\slash 27\slash 77}} +\date{\e{The real 6/27/77}} Actually, I cheated and wrote the preceding before taking off for the weekend, while I 'still had all of these thoughts of chariots straight in my head. During the actual weekend, I did go to see the science fiction film \filmtitle{Star Wars} with my six-year-old son. While we were waiting for the large red curtain to pull back on the semi-circular screen, he suggested a new concept in motion pictures: the rocket movie. @@ -493,7 +493,7 @@ This woman was short, plump and grey-haired. She appeared to be in her fifties a This woman spoke in heavily-accented but educated English, and was trembling. It seemed that she was afraid of her experience with UFOs, but felt impelled to speak about them nevertheless. -On the preceding Saturday, 12\slash 28\slash 76, at nine or ten at night, she said, she had seen a reddish, circular light turning around, jumping to a new location, and then turning around again. +On the preceding Saturday, 12/28/76, at nine or ten at night, she said, she had seen a reddish, circular light turning around, jumping to a new location, and then turning around again. She was able now to call this a UFO, she told me, but in 1944 during World War II, when she had seen such phenomena in Hungary near the Danube River, she had not known what to label this sort of circular aircraft. @@ -545,7 +545,7 @@ Certainly, such a box would not remain for long on the bottom of William McCarth % ELEVEN \nonum\sec ELEVEN -\date{6\slash 26\slash 77} +\date{6/26/77} I would now like to talk about the interconnected sightings which were referred to me by Helen in the early Fall. Or are these really inter-connected? @@ -629,7 +629,7 @@ After we had talked for a while about psychic phenomena and UFOs, Frankie volunt Frankie said that he would not mind, but that first he would have to locate one of his letters. He could not remember where he had put this and said he would call me back. -In return for his calling me back, I said that I would do an \sc{esp} experiment with him. At 8 P.M. that night I would place an ordinary sewing needle on the surface of a glass of water and by long distance psychokinesis Frankie would cause this needle to float. +In return for his calling me back, I said that I would do an ESP experiment with him. At 8 P.M. that night I would place an ordinary sewing needle on the surface of a glass of water and by long distance psychokinesis Frankie would cause this needle to float. I was a bit paranoid about Frankie's possible mental abilities as connected with neo-Nazi activities, since I had actually seen a flash of spirit light while talking to him on the phone, but at exactly 8 P.M. the needle sank. It precipitated directly to the bottom of the glass and remained at the bottom of the glass. @@ -638,7 +638,7 @@ When Frankie called me back the next day he was upset to hear about the behavior % SIXTEEN \nonum\sec SIXTEEN -\date{6\slash 29\slash 77} +\date{6/29/77} A secretary of about thirty-five years of age came into my office wearing pink corduroy pants. She had originally been interested in a psychic reading, but when she saw the UFO sign on my door she was interested in talking about a sighting in Pennsylvania during which several people experienced a high-pitched whining sound which vibrated the inner ear. @@ -834,9 +834,9 @@ It looked like my friend the clown had brought me luck in the course of our mime I break here to start the second part of the narration of this same incident since at the time of approaching the counter of this San Francisco art store to purchase one small package of cigars I switched identities and became not passively a contactee, but actually the UFO phenomenon itself. -I did not realize at the time that I approached this counter that I was going to become a UFO manifestation. I accomplished this, however, shortly after receiving the change from a one-dollar bill, which I had tendered to James Karnstedt (his real name). Right now, I am going to knock off this California narration for today to write a letter of response to the man from the Parker House hotel chain who came into my office this morning asking me to refer my clients from out of town to their \sc{esp} Executive Services Program. A portion of his memo is quoted below: +I did not realize at the time that I approached this counter that I was going to become a UFO manifestation. I accomplished this, however, shortly after receiving the change from a one-dollar bill, which I had tendered to James Karnstedt (his real name). Right now, I am going to knock off this California narration for today to write a letter of response to the man from the Parker House hotel chain who came into my office this morning asking me to refer my clients from out of town to their ESP Executive Services Program. A portion of his memo is quoted below: -\Q{\dq{Special \sc{esp} privileges on Friday and Saturday nights for the \sc{esp} guest and spouse.}} +\Q{\dq{Special ESP privileges on Friday and Saturday nights for the ESP guest and spouse.}} I wonder if this has anything to do with Giftie's monolith (Section 17)? @@ -847,15 +847,15 @@ Really: the Executive Services Program representative just walked right in here. % TWENTY-THREE \nonum\sec TWENTY-THREE -\date{7\slash 1\slash 77} +\date{7/1/77} -The difference between the Parker House UFO and my transformation into a UFO lies primarily in the area of awareness and intention. For example: why on earth did a functionary of the Parker House arrive conveniently into my office on 6\slash 30\slash 77 with a convenient example for this book? +The difference between the Parker House UFO and my transformation into a UFO lies primarily in the area of awareness and intention. For example: why on earth did a functionary of the Parker House arrive conveniently into my office on 6/30/77 with a convenient example for this book? -I doubt very much that his hotel chain printed the \sc{esp} services memo specifically for my whimsical use at this moment. +I doubt very much that his hotel chain printed the ESP services memo specifically for my whimsical use at this moment. On the other hand, when Jim Karnstedt returned my change and then asked me why I was wearing the word \sc{Magick} on my sweatshirt and if I meant by that metaphysical magick or stage magic, I felt a definite shift in my consciousness and the sense that what I was going to say would be \dq{significant} in some way. -This was similar to the feeling of \dq{significance} which I recognize as being part of the psychic reading situation, when I am relating communications which \dq{mean something} to an individual, all of this apprehended by \sc{esp}. +This was similar to the feeling of \dq{significance} which I recognize as being part of the psychic reading situation, when I am relating communications which \dq{mean something} to an individual, all of this apprehended by ESP. For some reason, I began in the art supply store to talk to Karnstedt about my mathematical ideas as these relate to UFO phenomena, particularly in the area of time\slash space anomaly. He told me that he himself was involved with UFO research, and was in fact planning to attend an upcoming international UFO conference in Acapulco, Mexico. @@ -873,7 +873,7 @@ At the time of our conversation, I exchanged addresses with Karnstedt, who told It occurs to me now that it must have been strange for Karnstedt to receive my name on my then just hot-off-the-press surrealist stationery, which reads on the masthead: \e{½ OFF or else} and bears at the foot of the pages this motto: \dq{Here I am. Farewell, body of the sphynx.} -Like the hotel chain with their \sc{esp} executive services program, I really had not designed the stationery for this encounter, but it was certainly appropriate. +Like the hotel chain with their ESP executive services program, I really had not designed the stationery for this encounter, but it was certainly appropriate. Later on that April Fools Day evening, after finally locating Warren Sequoia in his villa overlooking the flatlands of Berkeley, we were all engaging in casual small talk when his wife, who is psychic, suddenly interjected: @@ -912,26 +912,26 @@ Mattern-Friedrech describes the German nation as a colony either from the German I wrote to my correspondent at the publishers of \booktitle{UFOs: Nazi Secret Weapon}, asking the following questions. The following answers were written in below the questions, and my original letter was returned: -{\def\Q{\llap{Q:}}\def\A{\llap{A:}}\narrower\parindent=0pt\parskip=0pt -\Q Are you aware of the psychic factor in UFO contact? +{\def\qQ{\llap{Q:}}\def\qA{\llap{A:}}\narrower\parindent=0pt\parskip=0pt +\qQ Are you aware of the psychic factor in UFO contact? -\A Yes. +\qA Yes. -\Q How do you deal with this in your operations? +\qQ How do you deal with this in your operations? -\A By accepting that a certain percentage of UFO sightings are of that origin. +\qA By accepting that a certain percentage of UFO sightings are of that origin. -\Q How did you become interested in UFQs? +\qQ How did you become interested in UFQs? -\A Through \e{(unintelligible word)} with German engineers who worked on UFOs during World War II. +\qA Through \e{(unintelligible word)} with German engineers who worked on UFOs during World War II. -\Q Have you or members of your staff seen UFOs? +\qQ Have you or members of your staff seen UFOs? -\A No! +\qA No! -\Q Have you any knowledge of Nazi activity linking the \dq{occult} and \dq{mediumship}* with UFO or war planning activities? +\qQ Have you any knowledge of Nazi activity linking the \dq{occult} and \dq{mediumship}* with UFO or war planning activities? -\A Yes.\par} +\qA Yes.\par} My correspondent added that he was \dq{going to Europe this summer to contact UFO specialists and related people.} @@ -956,7 +956,7 @@ This was requested by a friend of mine who does children's plays in New York Cit % TWENTY-FIVE \nonum\sec TWENTY-FIVE -\date{7\slash 5\slash 77} +\date{7/5/77} On July 4\textsuperscript{th}, while I was busy redrafting \playtitle{My Sandwich Exploded}, the phone rang and a man told me that he had seen my ad on UFOs and wanted to report a UFO sighting. @@ -1054,7 +1054,7 @@ The letter I received in return was from a quizzical R. Martin Wolf. He wrote: \ \vskip 1em -TORRES REBUS 4\slash 21\slash 77 +TORRES REBUS 4/21/77 \e{Pieces:} \e{one:} Macer-Story is collecting data on UFOs to write a book. This is publicly known. She has just been to California, where she visited old friends. The environment in California is markedly different from her office environment in Boston. In California, she talked with several experts on UFO activity and altered states of consciousness. @@ -1100,7 +1100,7 @@ It is my hope that the Torres journals will help to prevent some of this needles \centerline{\sc{Please Consult Diagram One}} -\date{4\slash 27\slash 77} +\date{4/27/77} Torres called just a split second after I had hung up the phone after talking to another man who was delayed in coming over for dinner. He seemed morose and wanted his UFO photo back. Probably on the subconscious level he was picking up telepathically that I was interested in another man. @@ -1108,7 +1108,7 @@ Also, he told me that the pianist who had played the Beethoven concert he sponso Again I asked him to contact his cousin in Argentina (the one who took the picture of the UFO) and ask for details as to why his mother and cousin were on that particular sightseeing trip. Also I asked for any strange dreams or paranormal details which his mother or cousin might remember. -\date{4\slash 28\slash 77} +\date{4/28/77} Torres gave me another healing treatment, holding my upper arm in his hands. At a certain point, he said he felt a particularly strong influx of energy, and I could feel that the surface of his palms had actually grown hotter, like raising the adjustment on a heating pad. @@ -1128,11 +1128,11 @@ I gave Torres back his UFO photo, keeping a couple of color xerox copies stashed Due to my own laughter, I am also learning more about Torres' strange sense of humor. He told me he had written a short piece (I'm not sure if it's a story or a play) entitled \dq{The Sale of a Dead Man.} This is supposed to be some sort of takeoff on Miller's \playtitle{Death of a Salesman}. Torres told me that he eventually changed the title \dq{Sale of a Dead Man} to \dq{Juanita,} so I assume that this is another of his unfortunate women, probably selling a dead man down the river. Additionally, he told me that when he was an altar boy the kids used to try and make him laugh while he was assisting at communion, and that in order to discourage this he would force the sharp edge of the patin against their throats as they were taking the host. In retrospect, he admitted, this is not as funny as it seemed at the time. -\date{5\slash 4\slash 77} +\date{5/4/77} Today I got a letter from Edinburgh University indicating that they have no name on record which corresponds to the information which came through from the entity claiming to be the music teacher. I felt very depressed about this, especially as there had been an incident which was negative during a reading earlier in the day. -A man had asked me in a \dq{twenty-questions} and \dq{\sc{esp} quickie-quiz} spirit where he would be traveling outside the country. I read where he would be traveling in the future and he told me where he had been traveling in the past and told me that I was mistaken about where he had been when I had been telling him not where he was but where he perhaps might find himself. +A man had asked me in a \dq{twenty-questions} and \dq{ESP quickie-quiz} spirit where he would be traveling outside the country. I read where he would be traveling in the future and he told me where he had been traveling in the past and told me that I was mistaken about where he had been when I had been telling him not where he was but where he perhaps might find himself. This can be frustrating. I know that spirits sometimes give erroneous information, either as a joke or as a carrot before the horse to get people around into a position which might not have been anticipated. I received the information in the Torres seance not from my own psychic faculty, but from some other entity or source of information. So I am going to pursue the idea that some \dq{Kinkaid?} may have taught at some Edinburgh University or prep school in the British Isles. (I had originally gotten England, not Scotland, as the location of the school, but could find in the listings no Edinburgh College or School of note in England.) @@ -1142,7 +1142,7 @@ I can definitely move the pendulum on my own (or by mediumistically-generated en He suggested that we try to see if spirits were present in connection with the moving of the pendulum. I did a meditation for safety and protection, and requested the aid of the spirits. The pendulum did move a bit in response to this, but became less the focus of attention than the fact that I spontaneously began to address this pendulum in broken Spanish. I do not usually speak Spanish, though I do know some of the language from college. Subsequently Torres and I saw several dark spots of some shadowy substance moving cloudlike across the floor. This had the shape of a large cloud, then a formation of several smaller clouds. Definitely there is some very strange spirit (UFO manipulation via the astral?) activity connected with this entire operation. It is certainly beyond my understanding at this point. -\date{5\slash 5\slash 71} +\date{5/5/71} It has occurred to me that the name \dq{Fox} which occurred as an auxiliary name to the Edinburgh communication may be of importance. I now feel psychically that the name Fox may have slipped through to me accidentally as part of the real spirit entity impersonating the fictional Kinkaid. I connect Fox with sadistic aspects of this earthbound entity which haunts Torres, and sometimes manifests through his personality. In my concentration on the entity who is not from Edinburgh I saw two prominent images: one of a man having intercourse with several women in succession, throwing them over his shoulder as in an assembly line, and the other of someone smashing a woman''s face into a pie plate. I connect this definitely with the strange Torres' writings on women, one of which is quite proudly the result of automatic writing. Who was or is Fox? @@ -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. -\date{5\slash 6\slash 77} +\date{5/6/77} \txtpt{fox}{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 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.} @@ -1172,7 +1172,7 @@ Additionally, I am now reminded of the famous (now infamous) Fox family spirit r However, the Knipscheer with pseudonym Fox, though living, seems to be the entity indicated at this time. It is really beyond coincidence to find a K-sounding name linked with \dq{Fox} and the very idea of \booktitle{Operation Dancing Dog}. I hope I can logate the book. -\date{5\slash 1\slash 717} +\date{5/1/717} Torres calls agitated. He tells me an Uncle of his has died in South America. He wants to know if this is possibly the reason for the recent ectoplasmic and shadowy clouds which were seen in connection with my suddenly speaking Spanish. I tell him no. The date of the ectoplasmic appearances does not correspond to the date of his Uncle's death. He comes over to my apartment. We concentrate and the penduluin moves. Several ectoplasmic shapes are seen. He asks me about his dead uncle and ! bring through several evidential details psychically, but Uncle is not present in spirit. @@ -1192,7 +1192,7 @@ 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 UFOnaught 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. -\date{5\slash 10\slash 77} +\date{5/10/77} 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 \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 UFOs had been sighted along the East Coast on the day of our first ectoplasmic manifestation. This probably did happen, but I did not see any word of the sighting in the Boston papers. Torres seemed very interested in the idea that the drifting shadows of ectoplasm had resembled mini-UFOs. It is true that in context of the original 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 UFO manifestations. This seems too neat. @@ -1202,7 +1202,7 @@ I warned Torres about the possibility of this sort of spirit and told him that h 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 UFO photograph. -\date{5\slash 12\slash 77} +\date{5/12/77} \booktitle{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 UFO photo was taken in South America, this is extremely interesting. Also, of course, Torres comes from South America, as did his late uncle. @@ -1210,7 +1210,7 @@ There are episodes of sadism in this book and several passages which describe Na 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 \booktitle{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. -\date{5\slash 16\slash 71} +\date{5/16/71} 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 \dq{channels were not clear.} @@ -1228,7 +1228,7 @@ So: what happened? \vskip 1em -\centerline{{\typoscale[1200/]\sc{Torres Rebus} 5\slash 28\slash 77}} +\centerline{{\typoscale[1200/]\sc{Torres Rebus} 5/28/77}} {\parindent=0pt\parskip=1em @@ -1291,11 +1291,11 @@ I have retained my ability to move the pendulum at will without touching it, but 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 physical, and they are able to activate events materially in a way which has previously been unexplained. -In an article written for \journaltitle{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 UFO contact, it is the pranic energy circulation which is affected and sensitivity to \sc{esp} and spirit communication may be permanently enhanced. +In an article written for \journaltitle{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 UFO contact, it is the pranic energy circulation which is affected and sensitivity to 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. +Because in the modern Western world we have little or no education in pranic contact: what is likely to happen during pranic communication, and what it actually feels like physically, the percipient either of a strange craft using pranic energy for manifestation or of a strong ESP and\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 \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. +This is because (as in rain therapy; which I will hear more about on July 7) ESP or pranic thinking is physical in effect. This physicality of 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. @@ -1307,7 +1307,7 @@ Since in the modern Western culture we are sex-titillated in general, the slight 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. +In traditional Eastern teaching, the awakening of such pranic sensitivities and the awareness of 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 UFO contactee or the unprepared mystic on Easter Sunday. @@ -1324,7 +1324,7 @@ I have found that in making the pendulum move without physically touching it, th % THIRTY-ONE \nonum\sec THIRTY-ONE -\date{1\slash 1\slash 77} +\date{1/1/77} Still waiting to hear from Karnstedt about his energen. Still waiting to talk about rain therapy, which I will be doing this evening. @@ -1341,7 +1341,7 @@ So while I am still waiting for word on the more benign aspects of interdimensio % THIRTY-TWO \nonum\sec THIRTY-TWO -\date{7\slash 8\slash 717} +\date{7/8/717} My interview with Mark Simons, the rain therapy man, was overwhelming. As with \dq{Notes on Torres,} I do not feel that I now have the ability to analyze this experience for any \dq{significance} or logical rationale. @@ -1379,7 +1379,7 @@ Mark searched his room, he says, but could find no trace of this light, or any o Later on that night, he became aware that he was not the same person as he had been formerly, but---as he describes it---had experienced a \dq{change of personality}, during which he acquired an identity which is functional in terms of cosmic plan. -Mark Simons told me that he believes he had called me on July 4 and then come to my office on July 7 for a specific purpose. He told me that he was born on Easter Sunday in 1928. In 1928, Easter Sunday fell on April 8. Written in numbers, this date is 4\slash 8\slash 28. Written in numbers, the date of our conversation was 7\slash 7\slash 77. +Mark Simons told me that he believes he had called me on July 4 and then come to my office on July 7 for a specific purpose. He told me that he was born on Easter Sunday in 1928. In 1928, Easter Sunday fell on April 8. Written in numbers, this date is 4/8/28. Written in numbers, the date of our conversation was 7/7/77. \dq{Four sevens,} Mark Simons informed me, \dq{make twenty-eight.} This is correct, but four eights made thirty-two, so that the date of Mark's birth is significantly rendered even, whereas the date of our conversation, being a combination of 49 and 77, is significantly odd. @@ -1420,7 +1420,7 @@ I have not noticed that I turn on in a rainstorm. Although, as I mentioned, it i % THIRTY-THREE \nonum\sec THIRTY-THREE -\date{7\slash 9\slash 77} +\date{7/9/77} Feeling impatient and also exhilarated by the possible importance of an Air Force document on UFOs, I called Karnstedt in California to ask if he knew anyone who had been studying the official intrigue attached to UFO research. @@ -1447,7 +1447,7 @@ Oh yeah! What an interesting coincidence that was \ld\ I felt like calling Karns % THIRTY-FOUR \nonum\sec THIRTY-FOUR -\date{7\slash 11\slash 77} +\date{7/11/77} Feeling encouraged by my recent use of the telephone, I think today I will call Mark Simons and ask for more details on the murder of Maurice K. Jessup. @@ -1490,7 +1490,7 @@ This seems to me to be a lot like the ancient idea that the best channel for med I have a letter from a local Scientologist recommending to me their para-Scientology division. She tells me that during the process of auditing \dq{a lot of (psychic phenomena) can be verified and experienced.} -The process of sorting, remembering and consciously dealing with personal concerns builds the ability to sort, remember and deal with ideas which are coming in from the general atmosphere by \sc{esp}, and implements the ability to distinguish between personal fantasies and genuine psychical communications. +The process of sorting, remembering and consciously dealing with personal concerns builds the ability to sort, remember and deal with ideas which are coming in from the general atmosphere by ESP, and implements the ability to distinguish between personal fantasies and genuine psychical communications. This is true metaphysically. @@ -1546,7 +1546,7 @@ But \ld\ oh no! \ld\ not me, Rosie! As a result of the strong pranic influx which I experienced during the course of my association with Torres, and the spirit entities associated with Torres, memories of painful experience were activated through the novel \booktitle{Operation Dancing Dog}. -Fox-Knipscheer's novel, whether I located this volume by use of subconscious \sc{esp} or as a result of spirit manipulation of my faculties, is directly relevant to several of my own ;very painful and conflictive memories. +Fox-Knipscheer's novel, whether I located this volume by use of subconscious ESP or as a result of spirit manipulation of my faculties, is directly relevant to several of my own ;very painful and conflictive memories. At the time I wrote the article \essaytitle{Notes on Torres,} I did not feel ready to expose this fact. In the course of redrafting this book, I have changed my mind. @@ -1605,9 +1605,9 @@ 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 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. -\txtpt{learntobreathe}{Just as a newborn baby must instantly learn to breathe, a UFO contactee must instantly learn to perceive by \sc{esp}. This is because the 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 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 UFO contactee must instantly learn to perceive by ESP. This is because the UFO lights are making constructive use of the bio-plasmic energies which we recognize in effect as ESP and psychokinesis.} In order to \dq{see} or in some other way perceive a 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. +This warping may leave certain individuals permanently capable of unusual feats of ESP or psychokinesis. In others, it causes temporary clairvoyance and\slash or strange dreams. In less secure individuals, a UFO sighting may cause severe psychological distress. For example: give a child of six or seven years an unusual toy---say, a flying sphere. Work it first, to show the child that it does fly, but then hand it over to the kid without any further instructions. @@ -1622,7 +1622,8 @@ What is the source of the UFO enigma? As has been documented in photographs published in newspapers from all around the world (republished for your reference in journals such as \journaltitle{Flying Saucer Review}) the source of the UFO enigma seems to be an unidentified flying sphere. In connection with these spheroid manifestations, people are also experiencing strange dreams. \dq{seeing} unusual shapes or creatures, and incurring a marked psychological after-effect which in its most negative manifestations can lead to obsession with UFO lights, and delusions of personal \dq{difference} and importance. \nonum\sec FORTY-ONE -\date{7\slash 16\slash 77} + +\date{7/16/77} \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.} @@ -1650,7 +1651,7 @@ Subsequently, in an interview for \journaltitle{Fate} magazine in June of 1976, Let me suggest two very interesting possibilities: first, that these people involved with actively investigating the UFO phenomenon may have been receiving telepathic information which they were ill-equipped to understand, and secondly that these investigators were looking for the wrong thing in examining the data, and thus suffered diffuse and disturbing stress due to the inner knowledge that the UFO photos and data which they were examining did not relate to \dq{craft} or \dq{flying objects} at all, but to a sort of alien manifestation beyond their immediate conscious comprehension. \nonum\sec FORTY-ONE -\date 7\slash 18\slash 77 +\date{7/18/77} 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 \bpgr{abstractconcrete}, % paragraph 4, % TODO keep? from the abstract into the concrete) to suggest several explanations for problems in apprehension of UFOs. @@ -1693,7 +1694,7 @@ I assume that these manifestations are not supposed to dead-end in the vision it % FORTY-TWO \nonum\sec FORTY-TWO -\date{7\slash 19\slash 77} +\date{7/19/77} So that, appropriately, I have just received my reply from Karnstedt, which was addressed in large pink italic letters and contained within the envelope a postcard showing the full moon over San Francisco. @@ -1705,11 +1706,11 @@ Before going home to my mailbox to find the full moon over San Francisco, I had She told me to be sure and include in my writeup the news that UFO entities are blue and that their skin is surrounded by a blue light. -This vision might be of interest to those who are searching for a clue to the \sc{esp} force in the ultra-violet light range, where the frequency of vibration is faster. As I will explain in Section 46, I do not connect the pranic energies with anomalies in electromagnetic time\slash frequency. Certainly, these anomalies might show up more easily in an area of vibration wherein the pulsing interval is shorter. +This vision might be of interest to those who are searching for a clue to the ESP force in the ultra-violet light range, where the frequency of vibration is faster. As I will explain in Section 46, I do not connect the pranic energies with anomalies in electromagnetic time\slash frequency. Certainly, these anomalies might show up more easily in an area of vibration wherein the pulsing interval is shorter. -This heavy-set lady at the psychic center further told me that she connects UFOs with the electrical blackout in New York City on 7\slash 13\slash 77, an odd date indeed from the numerological point of view. +This heavy-set lady at the psychic center further told me that she connects UFOs with the electrical blackout in New York City on 7/13/77, an odd date indeed from the numerological point of view. -\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.} +\txtpt{blackoutcoincidence}{On 7/13/77, 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. @@ -1717,16 +1718,16 @@ She attributes the reactivation of this old injury to an influx of energy which While we were talking, the woman who had been afflicted with a wailing bisexual spirit (she is the daughter of the woman who manages the Friendly Tearoom) spoke up from across the table and told me that on the news just after the blackout there had been word that UFOs were sighted near White Plains, N.Y. -I told her that I had not heard this particular news report and she told me that it had come in on the radio news some time in the evening on 7\slash 14\slash 77. On this particular news report, the UFO sighting was not linked to the blackout. The announcer simply reported the sighting of several UFOs near White Plains, N.Y. at the time of the blackout. +I told her that I had not heard this particular news report and she told me that it had come in on the radio news some time in the evening on 7/14/77. On this particular news report, the UFO sighting was not linked to the blackout. The announcer simply reported the sighting of several UFOs near White Plains, N.Y. at the time of the blackout. I have no way of checking this bit of gossip, but relay it for what it is worth. % FORTY-THREE \nonum\sec FORTY-THREE -Or perhaps I do have some sort of concomitant verification that pranic energies were in flux on 7\slash 13\slash 77\ld +Or perhaps I do have some sort of concomitant verification that pranic energies were in flux on 7/13/77\ld -\date{7\slash 20\slash 77} +\date{7/20/77} But before I go any further in describing this concomitancy, let me relate that the possibility of a White Plains UFO sighting at the time of this blackout troubled my sleep last night. @@ -1760,15 +1761,15 @@ Happy Easter, everybody! But I do agree with Hyneck that such outbursts are rather outre, as part of an investigation supposedly relevant to National Security. -As a practicing psychic reader, one of the liabilities which I experience is situational paranoia. This usually happens when my \sc{esp} channels are casually open for some reason and I become sensitive to any passing negative thought of a friend or acquaintance, no matter how trivial. During the last few years, I have gotten more conscious control of this unusual sensitivity, because I know that I am liable ta*experience this hypersensitivity. +As a practicing psychic reader, one of the liabilities which I experience is situational paranoia. This usually happens when my ESP channels are casually open for some reason and I become sensitive to any passing negative thought of a friend or acquaintance, no matter how trivial. During the last few years, I have gotten more conscious control of this unusual sensitivity, because I know that I am liable ta*experience this hypersensitivity. When I start feeling (for example) that my good friend Steve has insulted me because on a hot day (this happened yesterday) he had only ice water, beer, orange juice and white wine in the house, but no scotch whiskey\ld\ then I pull my mental processes to a halt and try to gain access to where these feelings of insult really are originating. -What really happened in this case is that I got lost on my way to Steve's new apartment, and had arrived about an hour late on one of the hottest days of the summer. Steve was slightly irritated, but masked his irritation beneath the hospitable offer of ice water, beer, orange juice or white wine. My \sc{esp} picked up his irritation and unreasonably construed his offer of a drink as an insult. I did not say anything at the time, but later on found myself brooding upon this insulting offer of a drink. +What really happened in this case is that I got lost on my way to Steve's new apartment, and had arrived about an hour late on one of the hottest days of the summer. Steve was slightly irritated, but masked his irritation beneath the hospitable offer of ice water, beer, orange juice or white wine. My ESP picked up his irritation and unreasonably construed his offer of a drink as an insult. I did not say anything at the time, but later on found myself brooding upon this insulting offer of a drink. After I had brooded for about twenty minutes and was on the verge of calling Steve and accusing him of devaluing my dramatic craftsmanship (Steve is also a playwright), I began to wonder if for some reason I might be situationally hypersensitive. -This was last evening, the same evening that validation of the White Plains 7\slash 13\slash 77 sighting was also nagging at the back of my mind. It was nagging at the back of my mind most particularly since, as I have detailed in a series of letters to R. Martin Wolf at the Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained, I had experienced radical mental alteration on Monday and Tuesday preceding the Wednesday evening blackout of New York City. Most significantly, I had called a friend who had sent me a rather complimentary letter on some of my occult writings \pgr{shenksshrug} at a quarter of nine in the moring to tell him that he had \dq{insulted my mathematics.} +This was last evening, the same evening that validation of the White Plains 7/13/77 sighting was also nagging at the back of my mind. It was nagging at the back of my mind most particularly since, as I have detailed in a series of letters to R. Martin Wolf at the Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained, I had experienced radical mental alteration on Monday and Tuesday preceding the Wednesday evening blackout of New York City. Most significantly, I had called a friend who had sent me a rather complimentary letter on some of my occult writings \pgr{shenksshrug} at a quarter of nine in the moring to tell him that he had \dq{insulted my mathematics.} After about five minutes of this unreasonable accusation, he hung up the phone. When he hung up the phone, I became even more upset and aware that something was \dq{wrong.} I went ahead with my appointments for the day, then wrote a letter of apology and tore up the letter. For the rest of that evening I was in a state of agitation. @@ -1794,7 +1795,7 @@ I have not seen Lobo since 1975, and am very curious as to why he called at exac Viva: construction and demolition! \pgr{construction} -As I was saying, then, before these interruptions and digressions, often mental content which is being perceived non-consciously by \sc{esp} or is for some reason too strange or outrageous to fit into the ordinary conscious norms, erupts into half-formulated emotional behavior. +As I was saying, then, before these interruptions and digressions, often mental content which is being perceived non-consciously by ESP or is for some reason too strange or outrageous to fit into the ordinary conscious norms, erupts into half-formulated emotional behavior. It is obvious from reading Hyneck's book and Mary Louise Armstrong's letter of resignation that they were personally agitated themselves, and also witnessing strange behavior, both on the motional and judgmental levels. This high incidence of mental oddity could possibly spring from influence on the Condon Committee which was coming in below the level of ordinary consciousness. @@ -1841,7 +1842,7 @@ Congratulations, Lobo! So nice to see you electrically once again! % FORTY-FOUR \nonum\sec FORTY-FOUR -\date{7\slash 21\slash 77} +\date{7/21/77} Lobo arrived this morning, one half hour late and looking relatively good. He told me that he could not stay long because he had just been evicted, his belongings had been thrown out onto the city dump, and at the moment he had four German shepherds (two adults and two puppies) outside in his car. @@ -1874,7 +1875,7 @@ I speculated that these entities might be using psychic mediumship to contact hu % FORTY-FIVE \nonum\sec FORTY-FIVE -\date{7\slash 22\slash 77} +\date{7/22/77} Meanwhile, I was late meeting Lobo back at my apartment due to an extended psychic reading. @@ -1931,14 +1932,14 @@ If---and now, here we go, Rosie!---the sub-atomic electronic energies which bind However, although the electric and magnetic fields are oriented differently, they share time frequencies, which is why the interaction of these electric and magnetic vectors forms a coherent material structure, which we have termed \dq{electromagnetic.} All matter, as can be seen by examination of the sub-atomic electronic interactions, is electromagnetic in nature. At regular points of sequential time there are Fluidice compartments along the electromagnetic continuum, at vibratory nodes of time-agreement. -At these Fluidice compartments, which are rigidly attached to the nodes of time\slash frequency agreement (ice), but do admit alteration by the time-independent pranic energy (fluid), there can occur an \e{insult} to the ordinary material continuum as the Fluidice time-compartment contracts or expands under the influx of prana. This insult is analogous to the exparision and contraction of material objects under a flux of temperature. Pranic influx into the Fluidice-compartment can cause the time\slash space effects which we call \dq{psychokinesis} or \dq{synchronicity.} Prana has no electromagnetic structure, but (as with heat) can be noticed by an alteration of electromagnetic structure. This pranic insult to the material continuum can be evident electrically as interference or strange voices on electrical equipment and\slash or the unusual states of consciousness which are associated with effects such as \dq{illumination} or \dq{inspiration.} Since this time insult also occurs sub-atomically, it can be seen to cause alteration of matter such as observed in psychosomatic illness, stigmata \pgr{smallpox}, and \dq{spirit} phenomena such as the inexplicable shattering of a mirror or the appearance of a bright ellipsoidal light in the atmosphere concomitant with idea alteration involving consciousness expansion and\slash or \sc{esp}. +At these Fluidice compartments, which are rigidly attached to the nodes of time\slash frequency agreement (ice), but do admit alteration by the time-independent pranic energy (fluid), there can occur an \e{insult} to the ordinary material continuum as the Fluidice time-compartment contracts or expands under the influx of prana. This insult is analogous to the exparision and contraction of material objects under a flux of temperature. Pranic influx into the Fluidice-compartment can cause the time\slash space effects which we call \dq{psychokinesis} or \dq{synchronicity.} Prana has no electromagnetic structure, but (as with heat) can be noticed by an alteration of electromagnetic structure. This pranic insult to the material continuum can be evident electrically as interference or strange voices on electrical equipment and\slash or the unusual states of consciousness which are associated with effects such as \dq{illumination} or \dq{inspiration.} Since this time insult also occurs sub-atomically, it can be seen to cause alteration of matter such as observed in psychosomatic illness, stigmata \pgr{smallpox}, and \dq{spirit} phenomena such as the inexplicable shattering of a mirror or the appearance of a bright ellipsoidal light in the atmosphere concomitant with idea alteration involving consciousness expansion and\slash or ESP. This consciousness \dq{expansion} involves a real electrical alteration of the neural functioning (see p. \bpgr{nervouschemistry}). This ionic alteration under pranic influx changes the chemical nature of the neural mechanism in a way which is similar to, but not exactly the same as, chemical changes of the nervous system which have been observed in connection with the use of \sc{lsd} and mescaline. This time insult effect also contributes to the dual absorption effect which has been observed in chlorophyl pigment. This dual absorption effect has been documented and discussed by researchers all over the world, but never fully explained. It is fundamental to the process of photosynthesis, which is a basic life process. In response to the alleged warning \pgr{implicitassumptions} about traps of implicit assumptions and the non-absolute nature of all known physical laws, I would like (in context of the foregoing rapid descent\slash ascent into serious technicalities) to advance my own explanation for the unexplained time anomaly in the absorption process of photosynthesis. This concerns chemical transitions which, as observed, seem to be too \dq{rapid} for accurate observation or inexplicably \dq{simultaneous.} These are \e{insulted} chemical transitions. Photosynthesis is a life process and during this life process the chlorophyl-bearing plant is breathing prana. I will list first what is officially \e{not known} about photosynthesis: -\begitems\style a +\begitems\style a\itemskipamount=0.5em * \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. @@ -1974,7 +1975,7 @@ This time insult occurs at the intersection of electromagnetic vibratory time with the time-independent pranic energies. \nonum\sec CONCLUSION -\date{7\slash 24\slash 77} +\date{7/24/77} I am aware that in the preceding section on chlorophyl and time insult I have advanced a radical alteration in the description of the structure of matter. @@ -1988,7 +1989,7 @@ Sagan includes involuntary hissing behavior as evidence in man of the survival o I have seen a human being hiss like a cat, but the thought of a dragon never crossed my mind. -Perhaps Sagan has witnessed reptilian hissing in his close relatives and associates. If so, I think they might go for a bowl of warm milk and a little purina cat chow sooner than a tray of raw eggs and a few live game birds. Although, cobras do drink warm milk, don't they? And cats do catch live birds. At any rate, snake-like I am pulling the literary leg of Mr. Sagan in order to inch myself around to the fact that in the final chapter of his book on the evolution of intelligence (and after opening the possibility that more highly-developed life forms might be much different from human beings) he makes an \e{ex cathedra} denunciation of topics such as astrology, \sc{esp} and telepathic communication with more highly-evolved entities, possibly from another galaxy or plane of being. +Perhaps Sagan has witnessed reptilian hissing in his close relatives and associates. If so, I think they might go for a bowl of warm milk and a little purina cat chow sooner than a tray of raw eggs and a few live game birds. Although, cobras do drink warm milk, don't they? And cats do catch live birds. At any rate, snake-like I am pulling the literary leg of Mr. Sagan in order to inch myself around to the fact that in the final chapter of his book on the evolution of intelligence (and after opening the possibility that more highly-developed life forms might be much different from human beings) he makes an \e{ex cathedra} denunciation of topics such as astrology, ESP and telepathic communication with more highly-evolved entities, possibly from another galaxy or plane of being. I assume that astronomer Sagan includes in this blanket denunciation the communication with angels which has been reported by personalities as diverse as Immanuel Swedenborg, St. Bernadette of Lourdes, and my good old friend Lobo of America, who is a psychic medium. @@ -1996,15 +1997,15 @@ Lobo sees angels coming down from the sky in clusters. We discussed these angels Lobo himself (though he has his personal peculiarities, I have never seen him hissing) envisions part of his voluntary mission on this earth plane as the performance of \dq{interdimensional rescue work.} -He certainly did rescue me back in 1974, when I had really seen a UFO light and did not know quite where to put my perceptions. Once again, in 1977, he appeared at just the right time to rescue me from the very real confusion and exhaustion which were holding back my composition of the rough draft of this book \pgr{lobocontact}. Lobo's sudden appearances and disappearances are not really accidental or coincidental. They stem from his mediumship and psychic ability. Because he is an all-American drifter, he is absolutely free to be in the right place at the right time. I do not know for sure whether he always knows how he got into these places, but he is of good will and has \sc{esp}. +He certainly did rescue me back in 1974, when I had really seen a UFO light and did not know quite where to put my perceptions. Once again, in 1977, he appeared at just the right time to rescue me from the very real confusion and exhaustion which were holding back my composition of the rough draft of this book \pgr{lobocontact}. Lobo's sudden appearances and disappearances are not really accidental or coincidental. They stem from his mediumship and psychic ability. Because he is an all-American drifter, he is absolutely free to be in the right place at the right time. I do not know for sure whether he always knows how he got into these places, but he is of good will and has ESP. There is an ancient occult teaching about the \dq{ass that bears the sacraments.} A rather lowly-looking animal can be carrying valuable gold, if the strength of this animal can bear the weight. Psychics and mediums may not always intellectually understand what they are saying or why they are saying it, but frequently they can come up with valuable or life-saving information. Sagan speaks in his book about the possible destruction of \dq{creativity} in accidental brain damage, and very correctly states that this faculty might never be missed in a routine screening for damage, since most people are not highly creative. -I would like at this point to remind the professional skeptic that this same criterion can be applied to the psychic faculty. It is just as scientifically off the wall to test just anybody for \sc{esp}, and then declare there is no \sc{esp}, as it would be to test any citizen at random for creativity and inventiveness and then declare that there is no such thing as creativity \ld Or an operatic tenor\ld\ or an artistic person who can copy historical landmarks accurately\ld +I would like at this point to remind the professional skeptic that this same criterion can be applied to the psychic faculty. It is just as scientifically off the wall to test just anybody for ESP, and then declare there is no ESP, as it would be to test any citizen at random for creativity and inventiveness and then declare that there is no such thing as creativity \ld Or an operatic tenor\ld\ or an artistic person who can copy historical landmarks accurately\ld Likewise, it is off the wall scientifically to declare that there have been no UFO sightings involving pranic contact with more highly-developed intelligences by consulting a radio telescope or the findings of people whose specialty is astronomy. I go to a medical doctor to learn about the state of health of my body. I do not go to a medical doctor to learn about the piece of the great pranic spirit which animates my body. If I want to know where a star is, I will ask an astronomer. If I see an angel who speaks to me, I will most assuredly not ask what magnitude it is and how many light years distant it is and whether or not it has experienced the red shift lately or actually is a quasar. -Possibly, if a visitor from another galaxy appeared (like the Indians of South America, who confused the Spanish invaders with an angelic and godlike navigator who had visited the continent previously), and was using the pranic or \sc{esp} energies for communication, some psychics and religiously-minded people like Lobo of the sexual freedom league might confuse this visitor with an angel. +Possibly, if a visitor from another galaxy appeared (like the Indians of South America, who confused the Spanish invaders with an angelic and godlike navigator who had visited the continent previously), and was using the pranic or ESP energies for communication, some psychics and religiously-minded people like Lobo of the sexual freedom league might confuse this visitor with an angel. Other humans confronted with an unexpected influx of pranic communication might simply disbelieve this experience and forget it entirely, only to have the suppressed memory of this unusual encounter erupt via dreams and irrational waking behavior \pgr{condonirrational}. This can often happen with ordinary telepathic or spirit contact. For example, recently I went to visit some people near Boston who have a haunted house. This was a stressful encounter for everyone and involved negative spirit contact, some of it relating to effects on children. @@ -2020,9 +2021,9 @@ Anything is possible. I simply suggest that the daily behavior of those who claim UFO contact or any concomitant effect such as unexplained car engine failure coupled with one hour of amnesia should be watched for oddity: not the oddity of madness, but the oddity of shock or hysteria. -I have received, for example, a letter from Mrs. Betty Hill of the famed \booktitle{Interrupted Journey UFO} case. T had written to Mrs. Hill, telling her about my work and sending her an article I had written which connects UFO contact with \sc{esp}. She sent me back a very courteous letter admitting the possibility of \sc{esp} as a phenomenon, but stating that she had experienced no \sc{esp} as connected with UFOs. +I have received, for example, a letter from Mrs. Betty Hill of the famed \booktitle{Interrupted Journey UFO} case. T had written to Mrs. Hill, telling her about my work and sending her an article I had written which connects UFO contact with ESP. She sent me back a very courteous letter admitting the possibility of ESP as a phenomenon, but stating that she had experienced no ESP as connected with UFOs. -However, in this letter she stated a curious fact. She told me that she had experienced \sc{esp} as a child and in fact thought she had been mildly gifted with \sc{esp} \e{until} the date of 9\slash 19\slash 61, which was the date of her famous experience with \dq{capture} by a UFO. Obviously, her sighting had something to do with the \sc{esp} mechanism, or she would not have lost this particular esoteric ability (mild as it was in her case) during the shocked aftermath of her UFO contact. +However, in this letter she stated a curious fact. She told me that she had experienced ESP as a child and in fact thought she had been mildly gifted with ESP \e{until} the date of 9/19/61, which was the date of her famous experience with \dq{capture} by a UFO. Obviously, her sighting had something to do with the ESP mechanism, or she would not have lost this particular esoteric ability (mild as it was in her case) during the shocked aftermath of her UFO contact. It is odd that she would not notice this effect directly, after all the questioning she must have undergone. @@ -2044,9 +2045,10 @@ Actually, previous to this accident, I had written a ballad: \vskip 1em \centerline{{\it\ul{Knocking Out the En*Gynes with my Mojo UFO}}} +\nobreak \vskip 1em -{\parskip=0pt +{\typoscale[950/]\narrower\parskip=0pt \noindent Goodbye, transcontinental: I can't fly west no more @@ -2102,7 +2104,7 @@ I wonder if this is anything like the Bermuda Triangle. In his letter of August first, Galligan also mentions the theories of Wilhelm Reich, who postulated some sort of universal energy called orgone. Reich identified this energy with sexuality, and later went to jail for claiming that his \dq{orgone cabinet} (which he envisioned as an energy accumulator) cured cancer and other diseases. -As detailed in Section 30, I have not found the pranic energy involved in \sc{esp} and UFO contact to manifest any spectacular physical healing effect as a regular event. +As detailed in Section 30, I have not found the pranic energy involved in ESP and UFO contact to manifest any spectacular physical healing effect as a regular event. I have found that these experiences can have a profound mental result, both in terms of information and expanded consciousness. Speaking personally, since my UFO sighting in 1973 I have learned quite a lot about mathematical theory and the nature of the electromagnetic spectrum. @@ -2180,7 +2182,7 @@ This quote is from one of the early plays by Molière, the great French playwrig I do not claim at this time to have come to any final conclusions as to the nature of the phenomena which I describe. With regard to metaphysical and philosophical speculation, everything can be said to be in your mind. The question then remains: what is your mind, and where is it? -Alonzo Torres (who is written up in Section 30 and has suffered through various sorts of \sc{esp} slapstick) felt upon reading the manuscript of this book that I had been somehow unfair to him in judgments made about his psychological state at the time of our experiments with induced spirit contact and psychic healing. +Alonzo Torres (who is written up in Section 30 and has suffered through various sorts of ESP slapstick) felt upon reading the manuscript of this book that I had been somehow unfair to him in judgments made about his psychological state at the time of our experiments with induced spirit contact and psychic healing. \dq{I have a degree in psychology,} Torres asserted. \dq{I prefer not to make absolute judgments. I like to hold the facts in my mind, and weigh the possibilities.} @@ -2194,10 +2196,10 @@ If I have hurt anybody's feelings, I would like to apologize. In order to protec Finally, I would like to assert that, while I certainly have no direct memory of living on a vegetable planet such as Bethiwitch describes in Section 1, we here on Earth do not presently know all there is to know about one of our primary life processes: photosynthesis. -Plants somehow eat light, and we eat plants. Given human ignorance of this basic enigma, it is entirely possible that entities more highly evolved than human beings, arriving either from a distant planet or somehow from the mental dimensions of our own solar system, may possess faculties of \sc{esp} and psychokinesis which utilize some of the same time-strange energies which have been observed, but not explained, by modern chemistry and physies. +Plants somehow eat light, and we eat plants. Given human ignorance of this basic enigma, it is entirely possible that entities more highly evolved than human beings, arriving either from a distant planet or somehow from the mental dimensions of our own solar system, may possess faculties of ESP and psychokinesis which utilize some of the same time-strange energies which have been observed, but not explained, by modern chemistry and physies. To these entities, if they exist outside our own collective unconscious, human activity must seem bizarre and ridiculous. They certainly might want to study us. -Perhaps the collective unconscious of the human race is studying itself. In that case, we are now enjoying global paranoia.\fnote{\dq{Soviet Scientists are baffled by a huge mass of light that flared Tuesday in the skies of Petrozavodsk in Soviet Karelia and hovered over the city in the form of a jellyfish sending down a multitude of fine beams, Tass reported today.} \journaltitle{New York Times} 9\slash 23\slash 77.} However, I do not believe that the collective unconscious is responsible for UFO phenomena. +Perhaps the collective unconscious of the human race is studying itself. In that case, we are now enjoying global paranoia.\fnote{\dq{Soviet Scientists are baffled by a huge mass of light that flared Tuesday in the skies of Petrozavodsk in Soviet Karelia and hovered over the city in the form of a jellyfish sending down a multitude of fine beams, Tass reported today.} \journaltitle{New York Times} 9/23/77.} However, I do not believe that the collective unconscious is responsible for UFO phenomena. \bye
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