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diff --git a/congratulations.otx b/congratulations.otx index 8fdc68c..5239f4d 100644 --- a/congratulations.otx +++ b/congratulations.otx @@ -678,7 +678,7 @@ He wrote back to me denying that he had been under the influence of any negative Speaking of California, I have here before me now the first notes on a sighting which I am going to deal with in more detail later on in this book. -Specifically, these details will be entitled \dq{Notes on Torres.} This Torres incident constitutes a puzzle of an inter-relationship which I am still trying to unravel. No one so far has been able to explain satisfactorily the events which are described in Section 30 (\pgr{torres}). It was a real monolith of an experience, and I think it is best---as the whale did to Jonah---just to spit the entire troublesome incident up whole, in all its irritation and embarrassment. +Specifically, these details will be entitled \dq{Notes on Torres.} This Torres incident constitutes a puzzle of an inter-relationship which I am still trying to unravel. No one so far has been able to explain satisfactorily the events which are described in Section 30 \pgr{torres}. It was a real monolith of an experience, and I think it is best---as the whale did to Jonah---just to spit the entire troublesome incident up whole, in all its irritation and embarrassment. Alonzo Torres came into my office in the early Spring of 1977 wanting to discuss his personal experiences with psychic phenomena. He told me that other members of his family have psychic sensitivity, and that his father has been seen in other parts of the city while sleeping at home. @@ -688,7 +688,7 @@ Torres told me that he himself once saw a ball of white light appear next to the I told him that this was entirely possible, and Torres then volunteered that he had a \sc{ufo} photo which had been taken near Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela. -This photo (\ref[torresphoto], \pgr{torresphoto}), he said, had been snapped by one of his cousins when a \sc{ufo} manifested to a group of people who were traveling on an excursion bus near the lake. It was taken in 1968, Torres told me, but his relatives had waited until 1970 to have it developed. He was reluctant to bring this photo to my office, although he was ready to quite enthusiastically discuss the possibilities of \sc{ufo} and spirit contact. He told me that his mother had been reluctant to develop this film and then when it was finally developed did not want to show the photo to anyone outside the family. Torres felt that showing the photo to me might be a violation of her confidence. In connection with such niceties of thought, he talked to me for a long while on the mechanics of human destiny. +This photo (\ref[torresphoto], p. \bpgr{torresphoto}), he said, had been snapped by one of his cousins when a \sc{ufo} manifested to a group of people who were traveling on an excursion bus near the lake. It was taken in 1968, Torres told me, but his relatives had waited until 1970 to have it developed. He was reluctant to bring this photo to my office, although he was ready to quite enthusiastically discuss the possibilities of \sc{ufo} and spirit contact. He told me that his mother had been reluctant to develop this film and then when it was finally developed did not want to show the photo to anyone outside the family. Torres felt that showing the photo to me might be a violation of her confidence. In connection with such niceties of thought, he talked to me for a long while on the mechanics of human destiny. \dq{I am here,} he told me, \dq{inevitably. Though I think I have the choice to do or not to do anything at all---such as pick up my coat or close the door---there is no choice. It is all pre-ordained.} @@ -1351,7 +1351,7 @@ Mark Simons works professionally as a psychiatric nurse. He showed me his identi After I had looked at his card and indicated that I thought it was valid and would trust him, Mark gave me his personal calling card, on which he is identified as \dq{occult historian.} -This gave me a bit of a jolt as in the novel which I wrote so quickly after my \sc{ufo} experiences in Salem (\pgr{salemnovel}) there is a pivotal character named Benjamin X. Emery who remembers being a cosmic historian on another planet during another lifetime and (as is Mark Simons) now is significantly concerned with Earth as one of the only water-bearing planets, designated in my novel intergalactically as Oceana. +This gave me a bit of a jolt as in the novel which I wrote so quickly after my \sc{ufo} experiences in Salem \pgr{salemnovel} there is a pivotal character named Benjamin X. Emery who remembers being a cosmic historian on another planet during another lifetime and (as is Mark Simons) now is significantly concerned with Earth as one of the only water-bearing planets, designated in my novel intergalactically as Oceana. Not only that, Rosie! \ld\ but Mark Simons resembles my character Benjamin X. Emery both in personality and inclination. @@ -1455,7 +1455,7 @@ And now, once again: Congratulations to myself! Just before I called Simons I checked my mailbox, which contained a letter from Ben Shenks telling me that he had read his copy of \dq{Notes on Torres} and telling me that I was incorrect, that he had no romantic interest in me. -In terms of telepathic correspondences, he did not mention any romantic interest I might have had in himself truly, Ben Shenks, but went on in this letter to tell me that the actor James Fox who played opposite Mick Jagger in the pseudo-Satanic movie \filmtitle{Performance} has become a \dq{loud Christian} and suggested that I consider this Fox in the list of Satanic possibilities (\pgr{fox}) mentioned in \dq{Notes on Torres} (Section 30). \txtpt{shenksshrug}{Shenks says he finds this article on Torres \dq{quite definitely resonant with meaningful coincidences which go nowhere.}} Perhaps, as I discussed with Karnstedt, they are leading toward some sort of synchronistic performance of events. +In terms of telepathic correspondences, he did not mention any romantic interest I might have had in himself truly, Ben Shenks, but went on in this letter to tell me that the actor James Fox who played opposite Mick Jagger in the pseudo-Satanic movie \filmtitle{Performance} has become a \dq{loud Christian} and suggested that I consider this Fox in the list of Satanic possibilities \pgr{fox} mentioned in \dq{Notes on Torres} (Section 30). \txtpt{shenksshrug}{Shenks says he finds this article on Torres \dq{quite definitely resonant with meaningful coincidences which go nowhere.}} Perhaps, as I discussed with Karnstedt, they are leading toward some sort of synchronistic performance of events. So: done! It has been done, Shenks! I have included the actor James Fox in my list of possible Satanic identities. @@ -1484,7 +1484,7 @@ Galligan added, in connection with rain therapy, that he has been to psychiatris \dq{Oh,} I answered, \dq{are you aware of the ionization effect during rain? In my notes I have already postulated that you are probably hypersensitive to the electrical changes in the atmosphere which always occur in conjunction with precipitation.} -Galligan referred me to Wilhelm Reich and his idea of the \dq{energy accumulator.} Briefly, Reich had the idea that orgone energy (Section 30, \pgr{orgonereich}) has to be personally accumulated within a chamber of some sort (the phone booth, the slicker, the pyramid, the station wagon) in order to draw corresponding orgone energy from the atmosphere, or to set up a connection between the individual and trans-dimensional sources of orgone energy. +Galligan referred me to Wilhelm Reich and his idea of the \dq{energy accumulator.} Briefly, Reich had the idea that orgone energy (Section 30, p. \bpgr{orgonereich}) has to be personally accumulated within a chamber of some sort (the phone booth, the slicker, the pyramid, the station wagon) in order to draw corresponding orgone energy from the atmosphere, or to set up a connection between the individual and trans-dimensional sources of orgone energy. This seems to me to be a lot like the ancient idea that the best channel for mediumistic communication is a person whose inner concerns are known clearly. This is the basis of L. Ron Hubbard's Scientology program, though he applies the clearing of inner processes to a procedure called auditing. @@ -1540,7 +1540,7 @@ Why visit the Bermuda Triangle? You can disappear right here at home. You don't Because sudden expansion of consciousness by influx of pranic energy into the nervous system will activate that strongly-implanted memory. You may become hypersensitive to pain as well as to pleasure and philosophical profundity. -In the throes of this painful hypersensitivity, you may go out into your car and turn on the carbon monoxide (\pgr{jessupsuicide}) or try to strangle your professor during a discussion of Macbeth (\pgr{bethiwitchfreakout}). You might also write an incomprehensible paper on your strange experience with psychic healing (Section 30!) or (worse!) call all of the newspapers and report that your orgone collection cabinet cures cancer (\pgr{orgonereich}), which is what Reich went to jail for claiming. +In the throes of this painful hypersensitivity, you may go out into your car and turn on the carbon monoxide \pgr{jessupsuicide} or try to strangle your professor during a discussion of Macbeth \pgr{bethiwitchfreakout}. You might also write an incomprehensible paper on your strange experience with psychic healing (Section 30!) or (worse!) call all of the newspapers and report that your orgone collection cabinet cures cancer \pgr{orgonereich}, which is what Reich went to jail for claiming. But \ld\ oh no! \ld\ not me, Rosie! @@ -1548,13 +1548,13 @@ As a result of the strong pranic influx which I experienced during the course of 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. -At the time I wrote the article \essaytitle{Notes on Tcrres,} I did not feel ready to expose this fact. In the course of redrafting this book, I have changed my mind. +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. 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, (\pgr{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, \pgr{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. @@ -1581,7 +1581,7 @@ 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 (\pgr{chestwake}) \dq{I woke with a touch on my chest and went to the window,} or (\pgr{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 \pgr{chestwake} \dq{I woke with a touch on my chest and went to the window,} or \pgr{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. @@ -1637,7 +1637,7 @@ Strangely, I find myself in complete agreement with these purported words from t 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. (\pgr{giftiesection}) +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. \pgr{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. @@ -1662,19 +1662,19 @@ 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 (\pgr{pondbox}). +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. \pgr{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 \dq{disjointed,} but offering to swap information on my Hungarian contact in the maroon coat (\pgr{marooncoat}) 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 \pgr{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 (\pgr{simonsdox}, \bpgr{bunkxerox}) to place much confidence in such a blindfold trade. +Are you kidding? I have been burned on these carnival grab-bag deals once too often (p. \bpgr{simonsdox}, \bpgr{bunkxerox}) to place much confidence in such a blindfold trade. Is it really of any importance whether or not a smail black object fell through the ice? Or where it came from? Or what it was made out of? Or how hot it was when it fell? 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 \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 qualify as humanoid, must possess a face of some sort with recognizable eyes, nose and mouth. Or approximations thereof. (\pgr{figureeightbeing}) +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 qualify as humanoid, must possess a face of some sort with recognizable eyes, nose and mouth. Or approximations thereof. \pgr{figureeightbeing} 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. @@ -1752,7 +1752,7 @@ Any thought given to the behavior of Nazi military personnel during World War II Not to mention a bit hilarious. -In Hyneck's book \booktitle{The \sc{ufo} Experience: A Scientific Inquiry}, he mentioned Condon's joking behavior, (Condon was, I hope you will realize, the \e{head} of this investigative committee) detailing: \dq{\ld Condon phoned the governor of Utah to apprise him of the predicted landing (by a person \sq{in contact} with extraterrestrials) of a rectangular shaped \sc{ufo} on the salt flats at Bonneville\ld} (See \pgr{rectangles}, this book, for word of a real rectangular \sc{ufo}.) \ld\ In another instance he (Condon) passed information to Washington with a straight face about an offer (for three billion dollars) made to him by an \sq{agent of the third universe} to construct a spaceport so that ships from this universe could land in our world. +In Hyneck's book \booktitle{The \sc{ufo} Experience: A Scientific Inquiry}, he mentioned Condon's joking behavior, (Condon was, I hope you will realize, the \e{head} of this investigative committee) detailing: \dq{\ld Condon phoned the governor of Utah to apprise him of the predicted landing (by a person \sq{in contact} with extraterrestrials) of a rectangular shaped \sc{ufo} on the salt flats at Bonneville\ld} (See p. \bpgr{rectangles}, this book, for word of a real rectangular \sc{ufo}.) \ld\ In another instance he (Condon) passed information to Washington with a straight face about an offer (for three billion dollars) made to him by an \sq{agent of the third universe} to construct a spaceport so that ships from this universe could land in our world. For some reason, Condon's alleged behavior appeals to my theories on the extraterrestrial sense of humor. @@ -1768,7 +1768,7 @@ What really happened in this case is that I got lost on my way to Steve's new ap 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\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.} 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. @@ -1792,13 +1792,13 @@ Additionally, for the twenty minutes just prior to the actual electrical failure I have not seen Lobo since 1975, and am very curious as to why he called at exactly this time. I told him that I had written most of a book on \sc{ufo}s since I saw him last, and was just now writing a passage about the New York City blackout. He told me that he understood that it is technically possible to build some sort of wave-propagating, ionization machine which jams transmitters, but Lobo did always indulge in wild speculation. In the realm of hard practicality, I just talked to my contractor, who feels that there are too many safety hazards in the loft under consideration to make it worth my investment. -Viva: construction and demolition! (\pgr{construction}) +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. 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. -I know I have said this before (\pgr{mentalstates}) and I am going to say it again in context of my strange behavior preceding an event of which I had no conscious pre-knowledge, but which might have been dangerous to me personally: the unusual antics surrounding the Air Force \sc{ufo} Investigations described by J. Allen Hyneck show mental alteration of a sort which I have come to associate with mental alteration due to \sc{ufo} contact and\slash or the influence of powerful spirit entities. As I have indicated in discussing Andrew Galligan's \dq{Happy Easter} message (\pgr{happyeaster}), these entities (and I assume at this point, Rosie, that we are dealing with real \e{alien entities}, whether these be creations of the collective unconscious, satanic spirits or visitors from another galaxy) are intelligences with a highly-developed mental capacity and a strangely distinct sense of humor. +I know I have said this before \pgr{mentalstates} and I am going to say it again in context of my strange behavior preceding an event of which I had no conscious pre-knowledge, but which might have been dangerous to me personally: the unusual antics surrounding the Air Force \sc{ufo} Investigations described by J. Allen Hyneck show mental alteration of a sort which I have come to associate with mental alteration due to \sc{ufo} contact and\slash or the influence of powerful spirit entities. As I have indicated in discussing Andrew Galligan's \dq{Happy Easter} message \pgr{happyeaster}, these entities (and I assume at this point, Rosie, that we are dealing with real \e{alien entities}, whether these be creations of the collective unconscious, satanic spirits or visitors from another galaxy) are intelligences with a highly-developed mental capacity and a strangely distinct sense of humor. These entities can operate through human beings mediumistically to cause strange behavior, and independently of the human psyche to cause psychokinetic phenomena. @@ -1810,7 +1810,7 @@ The plot of this coincidental novel was hilariously reminiscent both of quirky a This associative event is beyond ordinary coincidence. It is also funny and not-funny, like pulling the chair out from behind someone as they are about to sit down. Or opening a fracture in someone's leg so that she wants to return to the psychic center to shoot the breeze about the electrical blackout in New York City and construction and demolition work just as I am also concerned with psychic and possibly \sc{ufo} oddities concerning the blackout in tandem with my personal construction and demolition work. -This coincidence (\pgr{blackoutcoincidence}) is interesting and meat for speculation. It is also a little horrifying to think that this woman probably had a bone in her leg separate after an influx of energy which she quite definitely attributes to \sc{ufo} entities. +This coincidence \pgr{blackoutcoincidence} is interesting and meat for speculation. It is also a little horrifying to think that this woman probably had a bone in her leg separate after an influx of energy which she quite definitely attributes to \sc{ufo} entities. After my experiences with learning to move the pendulum by influx of pranic energy, I am in no position to doubt this story about her leg injury ex cathedra. @@ -1832,7 +1832,7 @@ It is and it is not funny that this woman's obsession with extraterrestrial cont As they used to say in my grandmother's day: \dq{Something must've gotten into these people.} -Chances are it was the same damn exira-sensory thing, Rosie! Like broken cuckoo clocks that go tick tick toc in the cupboard, lying non-functional on their sides! Or independently international photos of whitish ellipsoid aerial phenomena! (Consult \booktitle{Flying Saucer Review}, \booktitle{Ufology} or my own color xerox reproduction: \pgr{colorxerox}.) +Chances are it was the same damn exira-sensory thing, Rosie! Like broken cuckoo clocks that go tick tick toc in the cupboard, lying non-functional on their sides! Or independently international photos of whitish ellipsoid aerial phenomena! (Consult \booktitle{Flying Saucer Review}, \booktitle{Ufology} or my own color xerox reproduction: p. \bpgr{colorxerox}.) People have basically two choices, perhaps, in dealing with this sort of oddity: suppression of the extraordinary by pretending that it does not exist, or protection of the psyche by dealing with the unacceptable in a provisional pseudo-scientific way. However, I am proceeding down the third road here with quite a few other people. In fact, it is beginning to look to me like some sort of mental parade. @@ -1910,14 +1910,14 @@ At this point in his narration, Lobo began to laugh appreciatively, and went out I told Lobo that I did not remember volunteering, but that I was sure that I had experienced previous lifetimes on this planet. As far as coming down vibrationally into this particular time at this particular place, I am sure that I must have been drafted. Certainly, I did not invoke the expansion of my consciousness which began with my \sc{ufo} sighting in Swampscott in 1973. I told Lobo about the woman whose body had somehow registered the memory of the pox that had killed her as a teenage boy in another lifetime, and he frowned and told me that he remembered being in some sort of metallic compartment, and seeing the doors shut\ld\ but there was really nothing else available that Lobo could remember about this processing experience from another lifetime, except that he had been a volunteer to be incarnated to raise the consciousness of the spirits now incarnate on the Earth planet. -I told Lobo that Bethiwitch (remember Bethiwitch: my other 1974 \sc{ufo} companion?) had once told me that he and I had lived together in another lifetime on a vegetable planet. This, I have since speculated, could possibly be a planet with a different sort of carbon-dioxide life cycle. Beings with a carbon-dioxide-based respiration, for example, would have to take special precautions before breathing the air of earth (\pgr{difficultybreathing}). Possibly, one or the other of us then commented, everyone should take special precautions before breathing the air of earth (\pgr{learntobreathe}). Lobo and I then laughed for about ten minutes, staring at our coffee cups, and he asked me once again if now since I was divorced and he had once been a member of special sexual sensitivity and freedom classes in Berkeley, California, could he please put his arms around me. He told me it was nothing special, and so truthfully I told him that in my apartment it was little Berkeley, California on certain occasions, and that yes I was very curious about those special sexual sensitivity and freedom classes. +I told Lobo that Bethiwitch (remember Bethiwitch: my other 1974 \sc{ufo} companion?) had once told me that he and I had lived together in another lifetime on a vegetable planet. This, I have since speculated, could possibly be a planet with a different sort of carbon-dioxide life cycle. Beings with a carbon-dioxide-based respiration, for example, would have to take special precautions before breathing the air of earth \pgr{difficultybreathing}. Possibly, one or the other of us then commented, everyone should take special precautions before breathing the air of earth \pgr{learntobreathe}. Lobo and I then laughed for about ten minutes, staring at our coffee cups, and he asked me once again if now since I was divorced and he had once been a member of special sexual sensitivity and freedom classes in Berkeley, California, could he please put his arms around me. He told me it was nothing special, and so truthfully I told him that in my apartment it was little Berkeley, California on certain occasions, and that yes I was very curious about those special sexual sensitivity and freedom classes. While Lobo had his arms around me, he told me he could feel my mental vibrations and that it was like hearing beautiful classical music played with the pranic energies. I asked him if that was what he told all of the vegetables that he and his dogs drove around hugging in the name of sexual freedom and sensitivity, and he asked me if I could lend him about five or six aspirin since he had to go on to work at his job as a security guard down by the beach, and was having quite a headache in this situation just trying to breathe. Certainly! Any time. % FORTY-SIX \nonum\sec FORTY-SIX -Taking heed of the green insect which Zeena says she saw on her wall (\pgr{greeninsect}), I am now going to discuss some of the basic electronic properties of chlorophyl. +Taking heed of the green insect which Zeena says she saw on her wall \pgr{greeninsect}, I am now going to discuss some of the basic electronic properties of chlorophyl. The pranic breathing involved in the process of photosynthesis is basic to an understanding of \sc{ufo} activity. In discussing the pranic breathing of vegetable life, I am going to use terms directly derivative of traditional research on chlorophyl and the process of photosynthesis. @@ -1931,11 +1931,11 @@ 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 \sc{esp}. -This consciousness \dq{expansion} involves a real electrical alteration of the neural functioning (see \pgr{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 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. +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 @@ -1958,7 +1958,7 @@ Officially, it is said that a photon can never be located by exact measurement, If the foregoing wave\slash particle duality seems difficult to understand, it is probably because something is missing from the official description. -As I have said in my discussion of Fluidice (\pgr{fluidice}), I believe that concepts of time will have to be revised in order to account honestly for observed physical phenomena. +As I have said in my discussion of Fluidice \pgr{fluidice}, I believe that concepts of time will have to be revised in order to account honestly for observed physical phenomena. Time alteration is the only means by which the photon could possibly be in two places at one time and then subsequently register in one place at a different time. @@ -1996,7 +1996,7 @@ 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 \sc{ufo} light and did not know quite where to put my perceptions. Once again, in 1977, he appeared at just the right time to rescue me from the very real confusion and exhaustion which were holding back my composition of the rough draft of this book (\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 \sc{ufo} light and did not know quite where to put my perceptions. Once again, in 1977, he appeared at just the right time to rescue me from the very real confusion and exhaustion which were holding back my composition of the rough draft of this book \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}. 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. @@ -2006,7 +2006,7 @@ Likewise, it is off the wall scientifically to declare that there have been no \ 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. -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. +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. My son was not there with me and I told him nothing about the strange events which had occurred, but shortly after I returned home from this encounter he jumped out of bed in a sleepwalker's frenzy and urinated all over the floor. @@ -2108,7 +2108,7 @@ I have found that these experiences can have a profound mental result, both in t Of course, since I include the pranic energies in my view of the universe, my interpretation of information on electromagnetism, gravity and theories of numbers is going to differ from the standard interpretation. -However, previous to 1973, I had no strong interest in the mathematical aspects of philosophy. In fact, it was the least of my interests. Additionally, although I had worked as a reporter and playwright, I had really shown no interest in the personal essay. As of now, I am publishing personal essays. This trend of thought began (\pgr{aftersecond}) during the time I was experiencing my secondary \sc{ufo} contact in 1975. +However, previous to 1973, I had no strong interest in the mathematical aspects of philosophy. In fact, it was the least of my interests. Additionally, although I had worked as a reporter and playwright, I had really shown no interest in the personal essay. As of now, I am publishing personal essays. This trend of thought began \pgr{aftersecond} during the time I was experiencing my secondary \sc{ufo} contact in 1975. Something happened to my interests and abilities, beginning in December of 1973. Whatever it was that reintegrated my capacities, that reality is the reason for this book. |