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diff --git a/congratulations.otx b/congratulations.otx index 1372e3e..7ce2b13 100644 --- a/congratulations.otx +++ b/congratulations.otx @@ -831,827 +831,374 @@ It looked like my friend the clown had brought me luck in the course of our mime % TWENTY-TWO \nonum\sec TWENTY-TWO -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 \sc{ufo} phenomenon -itself. +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 \sc{ufo} phenomenon itself. -I did not realize at the time that I approached this counter that I was -going to become a \sc{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 \sc{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: -"Special \sc{esp} privileges on Friday and Saturday nights for the \sc{esp} -guest and spouse." +\Q{"Special \sc{esp} privileges on Friday and Saturday nights for the \sc{esp} guest and spouse."} +I wonder if this has anything to do with Giftie's monolith (Section 17)? -I wonder if this has anything to do with Giftie's monolith (Section -17)? +Itis easy to see that I have been \sc{ufo}ed by a Parker House Hotel memo Just as I was about to describe how I became a \sc{ufo} in the process of purchasing cigars. -Itis easy to see that I have been \sc{ufo}ed by a Parker House Hotel memo -Just as I was about to describe how I became a \sc{ufo} in the process of -purchasing cigars. - -Really: the Executive Services Program representative just walked -right in here. +Really: the Executive Services Program representative just walked right in here. % TWENTY-THREE -\chap - -7\slash 1\slash 717 -The difference between the Parker House \sc{ufo} and my transformation -into a \sc{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? - -I doubt very much that his hotel chain printed the \sc{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 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 -"significant' in some way. - -This was similar to the feeling of *'significance" which I recognize as -being part of the psychic reading situation, when I am relating communications which '"mean something" to an individual, all of this -apprehended by \sc{esp}. - -For some reason, I began in the art supply store to talk to Karnstedt -about my mathematical ideas as these relate to \sc{ufo} phenomena, particularly in the area of time\slash space anomaly. He told me that he himself -was involved with \sc{ufo} research, and was in fact planning to attend an -upcoming international \sc{ufo} conference in Acapulco, Mexico. - -Then Karnstedt produced his energen. An energen is a small circular -device made of metal. It resembles, appropriately, a small flying saucer -with a circular plate on the bottom and the top and a central compartment. - - -s - -Karnstedt told me that he also had recently been in Los Angeles, -demonstrating his energen. This device, he told me, ionizes the atmosphere of a room as the sun ionizes the atmosphere, producing a more -healthful environment. He told me that this energen also does have some -effect on states of consciousness. - -There was an energen in the art store, ionizing the atmosphere. At the -time I was talking to Karnstedt, I did not fully recognize the significance -of this encounter. As so often happens with information and\slash or added -perception gained by unusual means, the data is so unusual and so -unexpected that the logical faculties must take time to sort and assimilate -the new experience before it can be of any material use. - -Therefore, at this time I am writing myself a note which reads: -"Karnstedt: the energen as time\slash space changer'" and I will place this -note at the bottom of a stack of papers on my desk. These papers are -notes for this book which I have arranged in chronological order. I have -just written to Karnstedt asking if he knows anyone who would be -interested in reading this book, and he should answer at about the time I -have finished re-drafting this stack of notes. - -So that: these notes are in chronological order, including the note -which I 'have taken out of chronological order and placed at the end of the -stack, to cover an event which has not yet occurred. Remember that -previous to this encounter in the art store, I had never seen Karnstedt -before, never heard of the energen and had no idea that I would ever find -myself explaining my theories of time alteration in a San Francisco art -store with a ""60% off'' sign in the window. - -At the time of our conversation, I exchanged addresses with Karnstedt, who told me to keep in touch and that he was in contact with a -writer\slash editor on psychic topics who lives in San Francisco. I will call -this writer\slash editor Simon Herrick. - -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: \slash \slash 2 OFF or else and bears at the foot of the -pages this motto: "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. - - -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: - -*""Simon Herrick! I see Simon Herrick in the air all around you!" - -Certainly, I had no idea that the energen would be able to impress -Simon Herrick into the air all around me. - -Sequoia told me that he did not want to talk in any detail about his -\sc{ufo} encounter, and that seemed to be a dead end to my inspiration that I -should for some reason speak to Sequoia directly. - -Perhaps the purpose of this visit was that his wife should prophesy -upon the name of Simon Herrick. Subsequent to visiting Sequoia, my -sense of significance and mental alteration receded, leaving me a bit -tired and subdued. - -I went on with my ordinary social activities as planned and left San -Francisco the following Sunday. - -Before I left, I dropped by the art store to see Karnstedt again. I still -did not fully understand our connection, but told him that Sequoia's wife -had prophesied upon the name of Simon Herrick, thus in some way -reinforcing the significance of whatever it was that had turned me into a -\sc{ufo} on April Fools Day. +\nonum\sec TWENTY-THREE -I wonder how Karnstedt will reply to the letter I wrote yesterday. +\rightline{7\slash 1\slash 77} +\vskip 0.5em -TWENTY-FOUR -Next in my file is *"Truth Declassified," a brochure which I received in -response to my query on Nazi \sc{ufo}s (Section 15). This brochure asks the -question: ''Did the Nazis, with their secret weapons, 'buzz' the Capitol -in Washington in 1951 in order to intimidate the US government?"' +The difference between the Parker House \sc{ufo} and my transformation into a \sc{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? -This is quite a question. +I doubt very much that his hotel chain printed the \sc{esp} services memo specifically for my whimsical use at this moment. -I did order the book \sc{ufo}s: Nazi Secret Weapon from Frankie's -reference and found it to be dedicated to the "'unsung and often-maligned heroes of the Second World War."' +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. -There seems to be some confusion or connection here between \sc{ufo}s +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}. -and war activities. -It is a widely circulated rumor that Hitler himself was mediumistic +For some reason, I began in the art supply store to talk to Karnstedt about my mathematical ideas as these relate to \sc{ufo} phenomena, particularly in the area of time\slash space anomaly. He told me that he himself was involved with \sc{ufo} research, and was in fact planning to attend an upcoming international \sc{ufo} conference in Acapulco, Mexico. +Then Karnstedt produced his \e{energen}. An energen is a small circular device made of metal. It resembles, appropriately, a small flying saucer with a circular plate on the bottom and the top and a central compartment. -and deeply into astrology and other occult activities. The Nazi swastica -itself is the reversed occult symbol for the four dimensions: time, and the -three dimensional locations, which are also of importance to mathematicians. +Karnstedt told me that he also had recently been in Los Angeles, demonstrating his energen. This device, he told me, ionizes the atmosphere of a room as the sun ionizes the atmosphere, producing a more healthful environment. He told me that this energen also does have some effect on states of consciousness. -\sc{ufo}s: Nazi Secret Weapon does not mention this fact, but ends with a -very useful appendix of newspaper clippings which have been duplicated from English language newspapers exactly as they were published, right down to the ragged corners. These clippings have datelines -from all over the world. +There was an energen in the art store, ionizing the atmosphere. At the time I was talking to Karnstedt, I did not fully recognize the significance of this encounter. As so often happens with information and\slash or added perception gained by unusual means, the data is so unusual and so unexpected that the logical faculties must take time to sort and assimilate the new experience before it can be of any material use. -Otherwise, the composition of \sc{ufo}s: Nazi Secret Weapon seems a -little crazy to me. The author has indeed achieved some sort of an -insight, but due to prejudices stemming from World War II has not been -able to make this insight cohere. > +Therefore, at this time I am writing myself a note which reads: \dq{Karnstedt: the energen as time\slash space changer} and I will place this note at the bottom of a stack of papers on my desk. These papers are notes for this book which I have arranged in chronological order. I have just written to Karnstedt asking if he knows anyone who would be interested in reading this book, and he should answer at about the time I have finished re-drafting this stack of notes. -Mattern-Friedrech describes the German nation as a colony either -from the German-speaking ''Saturnanians'® or ''the outer earth -beachhead of the inner earth civilization." +So that: these notes are in chronological order, including the note which I 'have taken out of chronological order and placed at the end of the stack, to cover an event which has not yet occurred. Remember that previous to this encounter in the art store, I had never seen Karnstedt before, never heard of the energen and had no idea that I would ever find myself explaining my theories of time alteration in a San Francisco art store with a "60\% off" sign in the window. -I wrote to my correspondent at the publishers of \sc{ufo}s: Nazi Secret -Weapon, asking the following questions. The following answers were -written in below the questions, and my original letter was returned: +At the time of our conversation, I exchanged addresses with Karnstedt, who told me to keep in touch and that he was in contact with a writer\slash editor on psychic topics who lives in San Francisco. I will call this writer\slash editor Simon Herrick. -: Are you aware of the psychic factor in \sc{ufo} contact? -Yes. +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.} -: How do you deal with this in your operations? +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. -: By accepting that a certain percentage of \sc{ufo} sightings are of that -origin. +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: -: How did you become interested in UFQs? +\Q{"Simon Herrick! I see Simon Herrick in the air all around you!"} -: Through (unintelligible word) with German engineers who worked -on \sc{ufo}s during World War II. +Certainly, I had no idea that the energen would be able to impress Simon Herrick into the air all around me. -: Have you or members of your staff seen \sc{ufo}s? +Sequoia told me that he did not want to talk in any detail about his \sc{ufo} encounter, and that seemed to be a dead end to my inspiration that I should for some reason speak to Sequoia directly. -No! +Perhaps the purpose of this visit was that his wife should prophesy upon the name of Simon Herrick. Subsequent to visiting Sequoia, my sense of significance and mental alteration receded, leaving me a bit tired and subdued. -: Have you any knowledge of Nazi activity linking the "occult'" and -"mediumship"* with \sc{ufo} or war planning activities? +I went on with my ordinary social activities as planned and left San Francisco the following Sunday. -Yes. +Before I left, I dropped by the art store to see Karnstedt again. I still did not fully understand our connection, but told him that Sequoia's wife had prophesied upon the name of Simon Herrick, thus in some way reinforcing the significance of whatever it was that had turned me into a \sc{ufo} on April Fools Day. -My correspondent added that he was ** going to Europe this summer to -contact \sc{ufo} specialists and related people." +I wonder how Karnstedt will reply to the letter I wrote yesterday. + +% TWENTY-FOUR +\nonum\sec TWENTY-FOUR -Along with Mattern-Friedrech, the author of \sc{ufo}s: Nazi Secret -Weapon, I cannot make all of this information cohere, except simply to +Next in my file is \dq{Truth Declassified,} a brochure which I received in response to my query on Nazi \sc{ufo}s (Section 15). This brochure asks the question: \dq{Did the Nazis, with their secret weapons, \sq{buzz} the Capitol in Washington in 1951 in order to intimidate the US government?} +This is quite a question. -> O0P0 PO POPO +I did order the book \bt{\sc{ufo}s: Nazi Secret Weapon} from Frankie's reference and found it to be dedicated to the \dq{unsung and often-maligned heroes of the Second World War.} +There seems to be some confusion or connection here between \sc{ufo}s and war activities. -remember the story told to me by the woman in the maroon coat (Section -8) last winter. She says that she saw a circular aircraft over the Danube -River in Hungary during an air raid alert in 1944, +It is a widely circulated rumor that Hitler himself was mediumistic and deeply into astrology and other occult activities. The Nazi swastica itself is the reversed occult symbol for the four dimensions: \e{time, and the three dimensional locations}, which are also of importance to mathematicians. -Was this aircraft a similar sighting to the one she later experienced in -the United States, or was it a Nazi secret weapon? +\bt{\sc{ufo}s: Nazi Secret Weapon} does not mention this fact, but ends with a very useful appendix of newspaper clippings which have been duplicated from English language newspapers exactly as they were published, right down to the ragged corners. These clippings have datelines from all over the world. -Is it possible that a Nazi functionary familiar with secret circular -aircraft, then mentally disturbed by the German defeat, might be more -likely than most of us to admit the real possibility of \sc{ufo}s, the circular -aircraft that keep turning up in news photos all over the world? +Otherwise, the composition of \bt{\sc{ufo}s: Nazi Secret Weapon} seems a little crazy to me. The author has indeed achieved some sort of an insight, but due to prejudices stemming from World War II has not been able to make this insight cohere. -I have drawn below (Figure 2) the image of a circular spinning object -with windows, standing still. This is similar to the *"'Flugetrad" or -"wingwheel"" designed by the Nazis for vertical takeoff, which is -included in Mattern-Friedrech's book. These objects are not the same, -but they are similar. One of the most important aspects of their similarity -is that they look more different standing still, than when blurred into a -solid ellipse while spinning. +Mattern-Friedrech describes the German nation as a colony either from the German-speaking \dq{Saturnanians} or \dq{the outer earth beachhead of the inner earth civilization.} -At this point, I am going to take off from this book for the fourth of -July weekend, during which I plan to write a short surrealist children's -play entitled My Sandwich Exploded. +I wrote to my correspondent at the publishers of \bt{\sc{ufo}s: Nazi Secret Weapon}, asking the following questions. The following answers were written in below the questions, and my original letter was returned: -This was requested by a friend of mine who does children's plays in -New York City, and I feel that I should get it done before I have to spend -any time retyping this manuscript. +{\def\Q{\llap{Q:}}\def\A{\llap{A:}}\narrower\parindent=0pt\parskip=0pt +\Q Are you aware of the psychic factor in \sc{ufo} contact? -STOPPED FAN -(Figure Two) +\A Yes. +\Q How do you deal with this in your operations? -TWENTY-FIVE -7\slash 5\slash 77 -On July 4th, while I was busy redrafting My Sandwich Exploded, the -phone rang and a man told me that he had seen my ad on \sc{ufo}s and -wanted to report a \sc{ufo} sighting. +\A By accepting that a certain percentage of \sc{ufo} sightings are of that origin. -He told me that he links \sc{ufo}s with psychic phenomena and that the -psychic sensation he connects with \sc{ufo}s is like '"walking through the -rain in a rubber suit." +\Q How did you become interested in UFQs? -Connected with this sensation, he has developed something which he -calls "'rain therapy." By the use of rain therapy, this man claims he can -help people psychologically and cure minor aches and pains. +\A Through \e{(unintelligible word)} with German engineers who worked on \sc{ufo}s during World War II. -I told Simons that I could meet him to talk about rain therapy on July 7 -and he became excited and told me that \sc{ufo}s were due to be sighted in -Maine on July 7. +\Q Have you or members of your staff seen \sc{ufo}s? -I found this conjunction of events and mformatwn interesting, and a -bit disturbing, as I had just spoken on the phone with a friend from New -York who is going to Maine on vacation and will be passing through -Boston on July 8. +\A No! -Also, the sensation of '"'rain falling through the body" is remarkably -like the sensation which I feel when I am channeling pranic energy, as -described in ""Notes on Torres"' (Section 30). In fact, last yearsI wrote a -song on this topic. It is a jazz mantra, which goes: +\Q Have you any knowledge of Nazi activity linking the \dq{occult} and \dq{mediumship}* with \sc{ufo} or war planning activities? +\A Yes.\par} + +My correspondent added that he was \dq{going to Europe this summer to contact \sc{ufo} specialists and related people.} + +Along with Mattern-Friedrech, the author of \bt{\sc{ufo}s: Nazi Secret Weapon}, I cannot make all of this information cohere, except simply to remember the story told to me by the woman in the maroon coat (Section 8) last winter. She says that she saw a circular aircraft over the Danube River in Hungary during an air raid alert in 1944, + +Was this aircraft a similar sighting to the one she later experienced in the United States, or was it a Nazi secret weapon? + +Is it possible that a Nazi functionary familiar with secret circular aircraft, then mentally disturbed by the German defeat, might be more likely than most of us to admit the real possibility of \sc{ufo}s, the circular aircraft that keep turning up in news photos all over the world? + +I have drawn below (\ref[stoppedfan]) the image of a circular spinning object with windows, standing still. This is similar to the "Flugetrad" or "wingwheel" designed by the Nazis for vertical takeoff, which is included in Mattern-Friedrech's book. These objects are not the same, but they \e{are} similar. One of the most important aspects of their similarity is that they look more different standing still, than when blurred into a solid ellipse while spinning. + +\midinsert +\picw=3.5in\inspic{img/stoppedfan.png} +\cskip +\caption/f[stoppedfan] Stopped fan. +\endinsert + +At this point, I am going to take off from this book for the fourth of July weekend, during which I plan to write a short surrealist children's play entitled \playtitle{My Sandwich Exploded}. + +This was requested by a friend of mine who does children's plays in New York City, and I feel that I should get it done before I have to spend any time retyping this manuscript. + +% TWENTY-FIVE +\nonum\sec TWENTY-FIVE + +\rightline{7\slash 5\slash 77} +\vskip 0.5em + +On July 4\tss{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 \sc{ufo}s and wanted to report a \sc{ufo} sighting. + +He told me that he links \sc{ufo}s with psychic phenomena and that the psychic sensation he connects with \sc{ufo}s is like \dq{walking through the rain in a rubber suit.} + +Connected with this sensation, he has developed something which he calls \dq{rain therapy.} By the use of rain therapy, this man claims he can help people psychologically and cure minor aches and pains. + +I told Simons that I could meet him to talk about rain therapy on July 7 and he became excited and told me that \sc{ufo}s were due to be sighted in Maine on July 7. + +I found this conjunction of events and mformatwn interesting, and a bit disturbing, as I had just spoken on the phone with a friend from New York who is going to Maine on vacation and will be passing through Boston on July 8. + +Also, the sensation of "rain falling through the body" is remarkably like the sensation which I feel when I am channeling pranic energy, as described in "Notes on Torres" (Section 30). In fact, last year I wrote a song on this topic. It is a jazz mantra, which goes: + +\Q{\parindent=0pt\parskip=0pt\def\nudge{\hskip\parindent} light keeps falling through the holes in the sky +\nudge light keeps falling through the holes in the sky light keeps falling through the holes in the sky -light keeps falling through the holes in the sky -on the intergalactic line -I like to lie on the seat while I ride +\nudge on the intergalactic line I like to lie on the seat while I ride +\nudge I like to lie on the seat while I ride I like to lie on the seat while I ride -to watch the light fall through the sky -I've got a penny with a Jupiter sign +\nudge to watch the light fall through the sky I've got a penny with a Jupiter sign +\nudge I've got a penny with a Jupiter sign I've got a penny with a Jupiter sign -and you better believe: that penny is mine - - +\nudge and you better believe: that penny is mine light keeps falling through the holes in the sky +\nudge light keeps falling through the holes in the sky light keeps falling through the holes in the sky - -light keeps falling through the holes in the sky -on the intergalactic line +\nudge on the intergalactic line} We'll see what happens on July 7. % TWENTY-SIX -\chap +\nonum\sec TWENTY-SIX -On May Day 1977 I met by chance a local theatre entrepreneur in a coffee -shop where I was loitering before crossing the street to go on to an -organizational meeting. +On May Day 1977 I met by chance a local theatre entrepreneur in a coffee shop where I was loitering before crossing the street to go on to an organizational meeting. -We were headed for different theatres. He asked me what I was doing, -so I told him (among other bits and pieces of gossip) about my research -on \sc{ufo}s. +We were headed for different theatres. He asked me what I was doing, so I told him (among other bits and pieces of gossip) about my research on \sc{ufo}s. -We had never discussed \sc{ufo}s before, though we had talked about the -occult and black magic. He is a person I don't see very often, really the -friend of a friend who moves in another area of acquaintance. +We had never discussed \sc{ufo}s before, though we had talked about the occult and black magic. He is a person I don't see very often, really the friend of a friend who moves in another area of acquaintance. -Spontaneously, he told me that he and his wife the night before had -seen a greenish pulsating light which expanded in the sky and then -proceeded directly downwards. +Spontaneously, he told me that he and his wife the night before had seen a greenish pulsating light which expanded in the sky and then proceeded directly downwards. -This light was large, not a meteorite, and might have been a weather -satellite. He emphasized that this probably might have been a weather -satellite, but he was not sure exactly what he had seen. There is no doubt -that this light was unusual, as well as my extended conversation with the -sightee, whom I do not know very well. +This light was large, not a meteorite, and might have been a weather satellite. He emphasized that this probably might have been a weather satellite, but he was not sure exactly what he had seen. There is no doubt that this light was unusual, as well as my extended conversation with the sightee, whom I do not know very well. % TWENTY-SEVEN -\chap - -Next in my file is a highly unusual clipping from the Boston Herald -American dated May 16, 1977. This details the story of a retired maintenance man from Dracut, Massachusetts and his two sons, aged 12 and -14, who were chased by a hairy, nine-foot tall creature near Hollis, New -Hampshire. Laid out beside this story is another story which occurred -within the same span of time. This tells of two Dover, Massachusetts -teenagers who saw a small, monkey-like figure with a "'figure 8 head" -standing on top of a broken stone wall. This being was said to have had -bright orange eyes. +\nonum\sec TWENTY-SEVEN +Next in my file is a highly unusual clipping from the Boston \jt{Herald American} dated May 16, 1977. This details the story of a retired maintenance man from Dracut, Massachusetts and his two sons, aged 12 and 14, who were chased by a hairy, nine-foot tall creature near Hollis, New Hampshire. Laid out beside this story is another story which occurred within the same span of time. This tells of two Dover, Massachusetts teenagers who saw a small, monkey-like figure with a \dq{figure 8 head} standing on top of a broken stone wall. This being was said to have had bright orange eyes. % TWENTY-EIGHT -\chap - -On May 17, a man who said that he had attended meditation sessions at -the Cayce Foundation in Virginia Beach left a class which Larry Sands -was conducting just outside my office and told me that he had experienced a \sc{ufo} sighting while at Virginia Beach. He connected this -sighting with an alteration of his perceptual system. - -This Cayce man had been meditating heavily for several days and -walked out onto the beach. When he looked up into the sky, he saw first a -large orange light and then a shower of shooting stars. This caused what -he described as a ""spasmodic reaction' of his entire nervous system. He -spoke several times of physical spasms as connected with his visionary -experience. - -TWENTY-NINE -A few days after I had talked to this man about his experience at the -Cayce Foundation in Virginia Beach, a woman in her early twenties -called me on the phone and told me that she had experienced psychical -phenomena, but was afraid to talk about these phenomena, because the -circumstances were embarrassing. - -I told her to write me a letter about her experiences. These are sections -five and six of Mary Beth's Letter: *'5) I fell asleep and saw a light, -yellow wheel turning within me. 6) I went into a state of bliss Easter -Sunday at the Charles River. I could perceive matter vibrate and the air -vibrated and sparkled like the moon shining off of tiny wavelets in a -lake. I perceived how I was another forcefield in the universe, and part of -everything." +\nonum\sec TWENTY-EIGHT + +On May 17, a man who said that he had attended meditation sessions at the Cayce Foundation in Virginia Beach left a class which Larry Sands was conducting just outside my office and told me that he had experienced a \sc{ufo} sighting while at Virginia Beach. He connected this sighting with an alteration of his perceptual system. + +This Cayce man had been meditating heavily for several days and walked out onto the beach. When he looked up into the sky, he saw first a large orange light and then a shower of shooting stars. This caused what he described as a "spasmodic reaction" of his entire nervous system. He spoke several times of physical spasms as connected with his visionary experience. + +% TWENTY-NINE +\nonum\sec TWENTY-NINE + +A few days after I had talked to this man about his experience at the Cayce Foundation in Virginia Beach, a woman in her early twenties called me on the phone and told me that she had experienced psychical phenomena, but was afraid to talk about these phenomena, because the circumstances were embarrassing. + +I told her to write me a letter about her experiences. These are sections five and six of Mary Beth's Letter: \dq{5) I fell asleep and saw a light, yellow wheel turning within me. 6) I went into a state of bliss Easter Sunday at the Charles River. I could perceive matter vibrate and the air vibrated and sparkled like the moon shining off of tiny wavelets in a lake. I perceived how I was another forcefield in the universe, and part of everything.} Why would anyone be ashamed of these perceptions? Congratulations, Mary Beth, on the beauty of your thought. -Perhaps Mary Beth was ashamed because she also felt a spasmodic -reaction of her nervous system and a cosmic rain of light falling through -and not-through her body. Such a symptom might psychiatrically be -classed as a symptom of neural disorder or psychosis. Actually, if a -person is really experiencing some communication from the astral -regions (which utilizes pranic energies independent of Earth time and +Perhaps Mary Beth was ashamed because she also felt a spasmodic reaction of her nervous system and a cosmic rain of light falling through and not-through her body. Such a symptom might psychiatrically be classed as a symptom of neural disorder or psychosis. Actually, if a person is really experiencing some communication from the astral regions (which utilizes pranic energies independent of Earth time and space) this communication is going to have some effect on the nervous system. -space) this communication is going to have some effect on the nervous -system. +Mary Beth did mention at one point in her letter that she had once felt a ghostly lover's touch and kiss on her cheek as she slept. It seems that Mary Beth's system, like the systems of many psychic mediums, somehow registers thought physically. +% THIRTY +\nonum\sec THIRTY -Mary Beth did mention at one point in her letter that she had once felta -ghostly lover's touch and kiss on her cheek as she slept. It seems that -Mary Beth's system, like the systems of many psychic mediums, somehow registers thought physically. +I had a strange experience with the physical effect of thought on my nervous system which I detailed right after the event in a quickly written journal-article which I entitled \essaytitle{Notes on Torres.} I sent this to Pursuit magazine of the Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained, which has published several of my speculative articles. -THIRTY -I had a strange experience with the physical effect of thought on my -nervous system which I detailed right after the event in a quickly written -journal-article which I entitled ''Notes on Torres."" I sent this to Pursuit -magazine of the Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained, which -has published several of my speculative articles. +The letter I received in return was from a quizzical R. Martin Wolf. He wrote: \dq{I think the best thing we can do is wait and see what happens with all the diverse cosmic characters who are presently involved in your research concerning the whole inter-relationship\ld\ I do not doubt that something is going on, I just can't see getting to the bottom of it until we know something more\ld} At this time I am willing to volunteer some further information, but first read \essaytitle{Notes on Torres}: -The letter I received in return was from a quizzical R. Martin Wolf. He -wrote: "'I think the best thing we can do is wait and see what happens -with all the diverse cosmic characters who are presently involved in your -research concerning the whole inter-relationship . . . I do not doubt that -something is going on, I just can't see getting to the bottom of it until we -know something more . . ."> At this time I am willing to volunteer some -further information, but first read '"'Notes on Torres:" +\break +\vskip 2em +\centerline{{\typoscale[1400/]\caps\rm\label[torres]\wlabel{Notes on Torres}}} +\vskip 1em +\centerline{\e{Diaries and Diagrams on \sc{ufo} Contact}} -\label[torres]\wlabel{NOTES ON TORRES} -Diaries and Diagrams on \sc{ufo} Contact +\vskip 2em -"Door, where'd you learn all this?" ----Catullus +\Q{{\it "Door, where'd you learn all this?"}} +\Qs{Catullus} -by E. Macer-Story -Copyright 1977 E. Macer-Story -All right reserved +\vskip 1em + +\rightline{by E. Macer-Story} +\rightline{Copyright 1977 E. Macer-Story} +\rightline{All right reserved} + +\vskip 1em TORRES REBUS 4\slash 21\slash 77 -Pieces: +\e{Pieces:} -one: Macer-Story is collecting data on \sc{ufo}s 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 +\e{one:} Macer-Story is collecting data on \sc{ufo}s 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 \sc{ufo} activity and altered states of consciousness. +\e{two:} Torres is a Latin American expatriate who has been in this country for fifteen years. He has a long-standing interest in spiritism. Once sponsored a medium who performed music in concert. Has written an odd play about the chess master Capablanca playing chess with a live pigeon. Capablanca's girl friend then becomes jealous and there is a wild disturbance. He has a \sc{ufo} photo which was taken in South America in 1969. It seems to be genuine. He says his mother and cousin witnessed the \sc{ufo} and took the picture. He believes he is a psychic healer and wants to demonstrate this by giving Macer-Story healing treatments. -experts on \sc{ufo} activity and altered states of consciousness. +\e{three:} Bill Babaloo and Ben Shenks who were once editors for \sc{Playboy} live in California. They work separately. Shenks introduced Macer-Story to Babaloo. Babaloo has written on \sc{ufo}s both fictionally and non-fictionally. Also, Babaloo is into aspects of spirit contact and Crowleyesque magic. Shenks is writing a book on psychic healing. He has a certain degree of romantic interest for Macer-Story and together they went to an unconventional gathering on April Fools Day at which alternate lifestyles were practiced actively. Macer-Story has written a poem about her trip to California entitled \poemtitle{Trip 1011\slash Departure 4031}. + +\e{four:} Leonardo Pinto is a friend of Torres who lives in New York City. They have tried seances. Pinto claims Guiseppi Verdi appeared to him at age thirteen and has written an opera by inspiration which he titles \playtitle{Gardenia}. This is about an ugly woman who nurses a nobleman and falls inlove with him. He is blind, and when a surgeon is able to cure him, she substitutes a beautiful woman in her place, so that he will never know she is ugly. Torres and Pinto fancy this opera as mystical. + +\e{five:} Macer-Story is planning a trip to New York City in conjunction with relocating in the city. She knows artists and unconventional people in that environment. New York is associated by Macer-Story with plays and music. + +\e{six:} A spirit entity claiming to be a Scottish music teacher who died in 1923 comes through to Macer-Story in a psychic sitting with Torres. He says he has taught in the British Isles at a school called Edinburgh. He gives a K-sounding name like Kinkaid, or Kavanagh, also Macer-Story is aware of the name Fox as connected with this entity. The context of this contact was Macer-Story holding the music manuscript of one of Pinto's inspirational compositions. Pinto was not present. + +Note in % +%the following diagram +\ref[diagramone] that these various pieces are not really connected except associationally. + +\midinsert +\centerline{\hbox to 3.5in{\parfillskip=0pt Boston \hfill New York \hfill California\par}} +\centerline{\picw=3.5in\inspic{img/diagramone.png}} +\cskip +\caption/f[diagramone] +\endinsert + +\sc{Question:} What has caused this nexus to register consciously? + +\sc{Answer:} Torres. \sc{Question:} Why Torres? + +By the time I had decided to keep some record of events surrounding the Torres \sc{ufo} sighting, these events had already grown so complex that I decided to make an informational diagram rather than attempting to represent this situation in a wholly linear and sequential way. + +This article will contain two informational diagrams: one drawn previous to the journal of my relationship with Torres and one drawn as a summary of this experience. + +I do not feel that I can present this entire occasion without including personal details about Torres and about myself, so I have changed his name and the location of the \sc{ufo} sighting, which actually did take place in South America in 1969. + +Though I have changed Torres' name, the dates and auxiliary information are accurate to the best of my knowledge. The novel which is mentioned in the journals is an actual novel and you may want to go to the library and check it out. Perhaps you might be able to see even further synchronistic correspondences in meaning, plot structure and personality description. I hope so. + +By now, I am so close to this material that I find it quite difficult to do more than simply present informational diagrams, supplemented by my journals. I-have retained sequentially all of my mistakes and misinterpretations, so that you can see how complex the \dq{contactee} situation can become. + +Since the \dq{\sc{ufo}} entities operate by the use of pranic energy, many of the auxiliary effects of prolonged contact are in the area of psychokinesis, mood and idea change, and telepathy. Unprepared contactees might believe that they are experiencing a descent into madness. Persons experiencing this sort of communication might also, as they have in the past, be tempted toward radical pronouncements, dangerous activities or suicide. + +It is my hope that the Torres journals will help to prevent some of this needless agitation. + +\centerline{\sc{Please Consult Diagram One}} + +\rightline{4\slash 27\slash 77} +\vskip 0.5em + +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 \sc{ufo} photo back. Probably on the subconscious level he was picking up telepathically that I was interested in another man. + +Also, he told me that the pianist who had played the Beethoven concert he sponsored (a performance done by spiritual direction) is back intown and was recently in London. I asked Torres to ask this musician if he knows any Scottish music teachers, there perhaps being some overt connection to the seance entity which came through as regards Torres music, and identified itself as Scottish. + +Again I asked him to contact his cousin in Argentina (the one who took the picture of the \sc{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. + +\rightline{4\slash 28\slash 77} +\vskip 0.5em + +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. + +Subsequently while riding home in the subway I was able to hang onto the rail by voluntary control of the muscles of my lower arm, which would not have been possible several weeks ago, although I have had voluntary control of my hand and fingers since shortly after my injury. Additionally, in this session, Torres was interested in my ability to move the dowsing pendulum by psychokinesis. + +I did this while holding the pendulum in my hand and he insisted \dq{experimentally} that I support my arm (not the injured arm) on a surface, so that there would be no possibility of unconscious cheating by small muscular movements. + +I did this and, much to my surprised superstition, was able to move the pendulum. Then Torres suggested that I suspend the pendulum off the edge of the desk without touching it and try to move it. I could not do this, although it got very still and trembled a little. Then he suggested that I touch the cord where it rested against the top of the desk (we had pinned down the cord with a coffee cup) and try to send my energy along the cord. + +Immediately when I did this, the pendulum started swinging as it had when I held it suspended from my hand. I assume that either I have some sort of psychological hangup about having to touch the pendulum cord, or the pranic energies are being somehow physically keyed, as in Torres feeling (is this partially a sexual hangup?) that he has to touch my arm to heal me. He does not feel that he can heal a person without touching them first. Or is this just in my case? He did tell me that a cancer patient he had prayed for in some way had undergone remission of symptoms. + +Somewhere in the process of moving this pendulum, the entire situation of \sc{ufo} photo, psychic healing, Torres' infatuation with me and now my onset of psychokinesis became so funny that I began to laugh hysterically (which sometimes happens when I get an insight while meditating: frequently the mechanism of these \dq{paranormal events} when contrasted with what is expected or thought to be normal is as funny as a movie like \filmtitle{Dr. Strangelove}, wherein everyone is responding to contradictory rational motivations which combine to produce a bizarre, sometimes explosive result). + +This time while I was laughing I discovered that my own hilarious energy release was contributing to the ease with which I was able to make the pendulum move while it was hanging from the table. + +I gave Torres back his \sc{ufo} photo, keeping a couple of color xerox copies stashed away in my book file. (I do plan, barring synchronous interruption, to complete a book on personal contactee experiences.) While checking his photo for damages, Torres told me that other exposures on this particular roll of film had .also shown numbers on the backing, indicating that the one showing on the Torres photo is probably due to a delay in developing the film. (Or unusual radiation during the time of the sighting?) + +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. + +\rightline{5\slash 4\slash 77} +\vskip 0.5em + +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. + +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.) + +Perhaps the librarian in Edinburgh might have access to information on small schools which is not available in catalogues in Boston. Torres gave my arm another healing treatment and I felt a slight pressure inside the muscle but no spectacular effects. I noticed that I myself could cause the warm, waking sensation to occur in the nerve by holding my own arm and concentrating. I wonder if I could heal myself, but this seems somehow onanistic. \dq{Physician,} however, said Jesus, \dq{Heal thyself.} + +I can definitely move the pendulum on my own (or by mediumistically-generated energies?) and perhaps I could also circulate healing energies. At any rate, Torres wanted me to try moving the pendulum as we had during the last session and so I suspended it from my table (at home now, not at my office) and showed him that I could move it slightly without touching string or table at all, and swing it quite definitely while pressing the string with my finger. + +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 (\sc{ufo} manipulation via the astral?) activity connected with this entire operation. It is certainly beyond my understanding at this point. + +\rightline{5\slash 5\slash 71} +\vskip 0.5em + +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? + +In connection with this aspect, I do remember that the man who depressed me yesterday concerning predictions of his future also argued with me about the future using just about the same deterministic terms Torres was using when I first met him. + +The words were so similar that I noticed it, since I was to meet Torres later that afternoon. So \dq{Fox} was trying to sabotage me before my meeting with Torres (perhaps) manifesting through the personality of another man who is slightly mediumistic. I will watch for this in the future. + +I think I should list what I have now accumulated as the manifested personality characteristics of Fox: sadistic, bizarre sense of humor not confined to women but including altar boys, pigeons and Guiseppi Verdi. Not to mention Capablance. Intelligent enough to throw up this morass of contradictions in a quasi-coherent way, and to deceive Torres consistently. Somehow connected with \sc{ufo}s or (and this is an interesting possibility) trying to throw me off the track of my research and into some bizarre relationship with Torres. + +In this case, I would now be meeting personally for the first time the \dq{anti-\sc{ufo} investigator} kind of entity often mentioned in accounts of \dq{men in black} or other threatening incidents to which contactees or investigators of sightings are subjected. + +I was moved just now to do some automatic writing myself, and got the phrase: \dq{you are not going to send the \e{plow} to the farmer: he has one.} What might this mean? I concentrated to get a meaning, and came up with the idea, as I had speculated with Torres during one of our earlier sessions, that any "musical" abilities coming through as part of piano sessions might very well belong to himself and Pinto as part of the automatic memory of their own nervous system. This entity might only be triggering their own abilities by an influx of energy, playing with them in this manner. + +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. + +\rightline{5\slash 6\slash 77} +\vskip 0.5em + +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 \bt{Operation Dancing Dog}. This is the only book by Knipscheer-Fox shelved in the Boston Library. This title has resonance of the idea of manipulation of human beings by \sc{ufo} entities. Also, as a typical American adventure novel, I suppose it does contain elements of violence. It was unavailable on the shelf, so I put in a request order. + +Also, I found in the catalogue a Norman Fox who died in 1960. This Fox wrote \bt{The Devil's Saddle}, among other Westerns. But \bt{The Devil's Saddle} (which was in the library) has a Calamity Jane-type figure in it and a happy ending, so I do not really find any significance in this particular coincidence, though there are a few fistfights out in the corral and at other locations. + +John Fox, who wrote a book entitled \bt{Christmas Night with Satan}, also seems like quite a long shot in terms of this particular dilemma. There is no other Fox listed with a K-sounding alternate name, so I am quite sure that Fox-Knipscheer is the author I should consult, though he is not yet dead. + +According to the card catalogue, Fox-Knipscheer is alive and living in California. So, whatever spirit was playing tricks with me at least has access to the Boston Public Library. + +Additionally, I am now reminded of the famous (now infamous) Fox family spirit rappings which started the seance craze earlier in this century. There are several books on this subject in the card catalogue under \dq{Fox,} but they were not in the library. I remember enough from previous readings about the Fox mediums to have now a question in my mind about the identity of the trickster entity, in terms of this now-deceased Fox family. There was some degree of violence and trickery in those manifestations. + +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 \bt{Operation Dancing Dog}. I hope I can logate the book. + +\rightline{5\slash 1\slash 717} +\vskip 0.5em + +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. + +Torres gives my arm another healing treatment. I do not feel a surge of energy into my arm as before, but both of us see an ectoplasmic shadow near the floor during the course of the healing. Probably, interest has passed from the healing to the ectoplasmic manifestations, and so they are manifesting. + +Torres at the end of this extravaganza became excited and wanted to found a \dq{psychic center} with me, but I refused. Though throughout our first acquaintance he seemed to have an unusually strong attachment for his mother, and called after each appointment to report his whereabouts to her, he lives (I have since discovered) with father, mother, sister, and brothers somewhere in the vicinity. He does have some psychological problem with women, and a transferral of sexual interest into what he calls healing. However, his mediumistic capabilities are real. Or are these my mediumistic capabilities? I asked Torres what the music sounded like when he plays the piano under spiritual direction and he told me that it came in bits and pieces, as if he was being used as an instrument by various spirits who were taking turns playing representative selections. + +I found his comprehension of this situation bizarre in the extreme. He seemed happy about it, but I would not personally find being gang-banged by spirits one happy event. + +Also, there was another strange incident. One of the ectoplasmic forms drifted over a copy of \jt{Esquire} magazine which was on my floor and Torres immediately picked up \jt{Esquire} and put it to one side, saying: \dq{It doesn't like this.} + +Later (and this actually, to my immediate hilarity, happened) another shadowy cloud materialized stubbornly over \jt{Esquire}, where Torres had moved it. Why was this? + +Evidently, some part of these manifestations have to do with sex. They also have to do with an entity or entities who possess a rather weird sense of humor. Or is this really so weird? I can conceive of some well-intentioned ectoplasmic entity trying to signal to me the basis of Torres or Torres\slash Fox\slash \sc{ufo}naught's derangement. I really do not feel that in this session I was being played with or manipulated mentally. It was the intention of the entity to signal us in some way. A name which came across to me psychically as concerned with the identity of spirits present was Dom or Dominick. Torres says this is not the name of his uncle and I do not know any one or thing named Dom or Dominick. I used to go to a bar in New York we called the Dom. This was during a rather wild period of my life. + +After writing this entry, I was sitting staring into space, thinking, when I saw a quick ectoplasmic manifestation flash by and disappear. Evidently Ms. Eck is my friend. Or is she? I say Ms. Eck now since when I was over at a friend's house previous to Torres' last visit, a figurine fell off the shelf for no apparent physical reason, in context of feminist discussion. It had been shoved off by some spirit. + +This figurine was of a man playing a guitar. I play the guitar professionally, and began to do this when I was in New York City. As I picked up the figurine and looked at it, I was filled with nostalgic thoughts about guitars. A different sort of music from Torres' classical music. Or was this Fox\slash \sc{ufo}naught leading me up the garden path again? I felt the need to trace the name Dominick in a very impersonal way. I looked up the name Dominick in a sourcebook on the occult and discovered that St. Dominick was a famous persecutor of witches. -Two: Torres is a Latin American expatriate who has been in this country -for fifteen years. He has a long-standing interest in spiritism. Once -sponsored a medium who performed music in concert. Has written an -odd play about the chess master Capablanca playing chess with a live -pigeon. Capablanca's girl friend then becomes jealous and there is a -wild disturbance. He has a \sc{ufo} photo which was taken in South -America in 1969. It seems to be genuine. He says his mother and cousin -witnessed the \sc{ufo} and took the picture. He believes he is a psychic -healer and wants to demonstrate this by giving Macer-Story healing -treatments. - -three: Bill Babaloo and Ben Shenks who were once editors for -PLAYBOY live in California. They work separately. Shenks introduced -Macer-Story to Babaloo. Babaloo has written on \sc{ufo}s both fictionally -and non-fictionally. Also, Babaloo is into aspects of spirit contact and -Crowleyesque magic. Shenks is writing a book on psychic healing. He -has a certain degree of romantic interest for Macer-Story and together -they went to an unconventional gathering on April Fools Day at which -alternate lifestyles were practiced actively. Macer-Story has*written a -poem about her trip to California entitled Trip 1011\slash Departure 4031. - -Sfour: Leonardo Pinto is a friend of Torres who lives in New York City. -They have tried seances. Pinto claims Guiseppi Verdi appeared to him at -age thirteen and has written an opera by inspiration which he titles -Gardenia. This is about an ugly woman who nurses a nobleman and falls -inlove with him. He is blind, and when a surgeon is able to cure him, she -substitutes a beautiful woman in her place, so that he will never know -she is ugly. Torres and Pinto fancy this opera as mystical. - -five: Macer-Story is planning a trip to New York City in conjunction -with relocating in the city. She knows artists and unconventional people -in that environment. New York is associated by Macer-Story with plays -and music. - - -six: A spirit entity claiming to be a Scottish music teacher who died in -1923 comes through to Macer-Story in a psychic sitting with Torres. He -says he has taught in the British Isles at a school called Edinburgh. He -gives a K-sounding name like Kinkaid, or Kavanagh, also Macer-Story -is aware of the name Fox as connected with this entity. The context of -this contact was Macer-Story holding the music manuscript of one of -Pinto's inspirational compositions. Pinto was not present. - -Note in the following diagram that these various pieces are not really -connected except associationally. - -DIAGRAM ONE -Boston -New York California - -6@\ O¢----}-0 - -QUESTION: What has caused this nexus to register consciously? -ANSWER: Torres. QUESTION: Why Torres? - -By the time I had decided to keep some record of events surrounding the -Torres \sc{ufo} sighting, these events had already grown so complex that I -decided to make an informational diagram rather than attempting to -represent this situation in a wholly linear and sequential way. - -This article will contain two informational diagrams: one drawn -previous to the journal of my relationship with Torres and one drawn as a -summary of this experience. - -I do not feel that I can present this entire occasion without including -personal details about Torres and about myself, so I have changed his -name and the location of the \sc{ufo} sighting, which actually did take place - - -in South America in 1969. - -Though I have changed Torres' name, the dates and auxiliary information are accurate to the best of my knowledge. The novel which is -mentioned in the journals is an actual novel and you may want to go to the library and check it out. Perhaps you might be able to see even further -synchronistic correspondences in meaning, plot structure and personality description. I hope so. - -By now, I am so close to this material that I find it quite difficult to do -more than simply present informational diagrams, supplemented by my -journals. I-have retained sequentially all of my mistakes and misinterpretations, so that you can see how complex the "'contactee™ situation -can become. - -Since the "\sc{ufo}" entities operate by the use of pranic energy, many of -the auxiliary effects of prolonged contact are in the area of -psychokinesis, mood and idea change, and telepathy. Unprepared contactees might believe that they are experiencing a descent into madness. -Persons experiencing this sort of communication might also, as they -have in the past, be tempted toward radical pronouncements, dangerous -activities or suicide. - -It is my hope that the Torres journals will help to prevent some of this -needless agitation. b - -PLEASE CONSULT DIAGRAM ONE -4\slash 27\slash 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 \sc{ufo} photo back. Probably on the -subconscious level he was picking up telepathically that I was interested -in another man. - -Also, he told me that the pianist who had played the Beethoven -concert he sponsored (a performance done by spiritual direction) is back -intown and was recently in London. I asked Torres to ask this musician if -he knows any Scottish music teachers, there perhaps being some overt -connection to the seance entity which came through as regards Torres -music, and identified itself as Scottish. - -Again I asked him to contact his cousin in Argentina (the one who -took the picture of the \sc{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. - -4\slash 28\slash 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. - -Subsequently while riding home in the subway I was able to hang onto -the rail by voluntary control of the muscles of my lower arm, which -would not have been possible several weeks ago, although I have had -voluntary control of my hand and fingers since shortly after my injury. -Additionally, in this session, Torres was interested in my ability to move -the dowsing pendulum by psychokinesis. - -I did this while holding the pendulum in my hand and he insisted -"'experimentally'" that I support my arm (not the injured arm) on a -surface, so that there would be no possibility of unconscious cheating by -small muscular movements. - -I did this and, much to my surprised superstition, was able to move the -pendulum. Then Torres suggested that I suspend the pendulum off the -edge of the desk without touching it and try to move it. I could not do -this, although it got very still and trembled a little. Then he suggested -that I touch the cord where it rested against the top of the desk (we had -pinned down the cord with a coffee cup) and try to send my energy along -the cord. - -Immediately when I did this, the pendulum started swinging as it had -when I held it suspended from my hand. I assume that either I have some -sort of psychological hangup about having to touch the pendulum cord, -or the pranic energies are being somehow physically keyed, as in Torres -feeling (is this partially a sexual hangup?) that he has to touch my arm to -heal me. He does not feel that he can heal a person without touching -them first. Or is this just in my case? He did tell me that a cancer patient -he had prayed for in some way had undergone remission of symptoms. - -Somewhere in the process of moving this pendulum, the entire situation of \sc{ufo} photo, psychic healing, Torres' infatuation with me and -now my onset of psychokinesis became so funny that I began to laugh - - -hysterically (which sometimes happens when I get an insight while -meditating: frequently the mechanism of these ''paranormal events" -when contrasted with what is expected or thought to be normal is as -funny as a movie like Dr. Strangelove, wherein everyone is responding -to contradictory rational motivations which combine to produce a -bizarre, sometimes explosive result). - -This time while I was laughing I discovered that my own hilarious -energy release was contributing to the ease with which I was able to -make the pendulum move while it was hanging from the table. - -I gave Torres back his \sc{ufo} photo, keeping a couple of color xerox -copies stashed away in my book file. (I do plan, barring synchronous -interruption, to complete a book on personal contactee experiences.) -While checking his photo for damages, Torres told me that other exposures on this particular roll of film had .also shown numbers on the -backing, indicating that the one showing on the Torres photo is probably -due to a delay in developing the film. (Or unusual radiation during the -time of the sighting?) - -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 '"The Sale of a Dead Man." This is -supposed to be some sort of takeoff on Miller's Death of a Salesman. -Torres told me that he eventually changed the title **Sale of a Dead Man"' -to "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. - -5\slash 4\slash 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 "'twenty-questions" and "\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. - -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 "'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.) - -Perhaps the librarian in Edinburgh might have access to information -on small schools which is not available in catalogues in Boston. Torres -gave my arm another healing treatment and I felt a slight pressure inside -the muscle but no spectacular effects. I noticed that I myself could cause -the warm, waking sensation to occur in the nerve by holding my own arm -and concentrating. I wonder if I could heal myself, but this seems -somehow onanistic. '"'Physician," however, said Jesus, '"'Heal thyself." - -I can definitely move the pendulum on my own (or by -mediumistically-generated energies?) and perhaps I could also circulate -healing energies. At any rate, Torres wanted me to try moving the -pendulum as we had during the last session and so I suspended it from -my table (at home now, not at my office) and showed him that I could -move it slightly without touching string or table at all, and swing it quite -definitely while pressing the string with my finger. - -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 (\sc{ufo} manipulation via the -astral?) activity connected with this entire operation. It is certainly -beyond my understanding at this point. - -5\slash 5\slash 71 - -It has occurred to me that the name '"'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? - -In connection with this aspect, I do remember that the man who -depressed me yesterday concerning predictions of his future also argued -with me about the future using just about the same deterministic terms -Torres was using when I first met him. - -The words were so similar that I noticed it, since I was to meet Torres -later that afternoon. So *"'Fox" was trying to sabotage me before my -meeting with Torres (perhaps) manifesting through the personality of -another man who is slightly mediumistic. I will watch for this in the -future. - -I think I should list what I have now accumulated as the manifested -personality characteristics of Fox: sadistic, bizarre sense of humor not -confined to women but including altar boys, pigeons and Guiseppi -Verdi. Not to mention Capablance. Intelligent enough to throw up this -morass of contradictions in a quasi-coherent way, and to deceive Torres -consistently. Somehow connected with \sc{ufo}s or (and this is an interesting possibility) trying to throw me off the track of my research and into -some bizarre relationship with Torres. - -In this case, I would now be meeting personally for the first time the - - -'""anti-\sc{ufo} investigator' kind of entity often mentioned in accounts of -"men in black™ or other threatening incidents to which contactees or -investigators of sightings are subjected. - -I was moved just now to do some automatic writing myself, and got -the phrase: ''you are not going to send the plow to the farmer: he has -one." What might this mean? I concentrated to get a meaning, and came -up with the idea, as I had speculated with Torres during one of our earlier -sessions, that any "'musical'' abilities coming through as part of piano -sessions might very well belong to himself and Pinto as part of the -automatic memory of their own nervous system. This entity might only -be triggering their own abilities by an influx of energy, playing with -them in this manner. - -Torres has told me that subsequent to one of his '"'inspired" piano -sessions his hands bled from so much hard playing. I wonder what he -actually sounded like. - -5\slash 6\slash 77 - -I felt like looking up ""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 Operation Dancing Dog. This is the only book by -Knipscheer-Fox shelved in the Boston Library. This title has resonance -of the idea of manipulation of human beings by \sc{ufo} entities. Also, as a -typical American adventure novel, I suppose it does contain elements of -violence. It was unavailable on the shelf, so I put in a request order. - -Also, I found in the catalogue a Norman Fox who died in 1960. This -Fox wrote The Devil's Saddle, among other Westerns. But The Devil's -Saddle (which was in the library) has a Calamity Jane-type figure in it -and a happy ending, so I do not really find any significance in this -particular coincidence, though there are a few fistfights out in the corral -and at other locations. - -John Fox, who wrote a book entitled Christmas Night with Satan, also -seems like quite a long shot in terms of this particular dilemma. There is -no other Fox listed with a K-sounding alternate name, so I am quite sure -that Fox-Knipscheer is the author I should consult, though he is not yet -dead. - -According to the card catalogue, Fox-Knipscheer is alive and living in - - -California. So, whatever spirit was playing tricks with me at least has -access to the Boston Public Library. - -Additionally, I am now reminded of the famous (now infamous) Fox -family spirit rappings which started the seance craze earlier in this -century. There are several books on this subject in the card catalogue -under "Fox," but they were not in the library. I remember enough from -previous readings about the Fox mediums to have now a question in my -mind about the identity of the trickster entity, in terms of this now-deceased Fox family. There was some degree of violence and trickery in -those manifestations. - -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 "Fox" and the very idea of -Operation Dancing Dog. I hope I can logate the book. - -5\slash 1\slash 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. - -Torres gives my arm another healing treatment. I do not feel a surge of -energy into my arm as before, but both of us see an ectoplasmic shadow -near the floor during the course of the healing. Probably, interest has -passed from the healing to the ectoplasmic manifestations, and so they -are manifesting. - -Torres at the end of this extravaganza became excited and wanted to -found a ""psychic center" with me, but I refused. Though throughout our -first acquaintance he seemed to have an unusually strong attachment for -his mother, and called after each appointment to report his whereabouts -to her, he lives (I have since discovered) with father, mother, sister, and -brothers somewhere in the vicinity. He does have some psychological -problem with women, and a transferral of sexual interest into what he - - -calls healing. However, his mediumistic capabilities are real. Or are -these my mediumistic capabilities? I asked Torres what the music -sounded like when he plays the piano under spiritual direction and he -told me that it came in bits and pieces, as if he was being used as an -instrument by various spirits who were taking turns playing representative selections. - -I found his comprehension of this situation bizarre in the extreme. He -seemed happy about it, but I would not personally find being gang-banged -by spirits one happy event. - -Also, there was another strange incident. One of the ectoplasmic -forms drifted over a copy of Esquire magazine which was on my floor -and Torres immediately picked up Esquire and put it to one side, saying: -"It doesn't like this." - -Later (and this actually, to my immediate hilarity, happened) another -shadowy cloud materialized stubbornly over Esquire, where Torres had -moved it. Why was this? - -Evidently, some part of these manifestations have to do with sex. -They also have to do with an entity or entities who possess a rather weird -sense of humor. Or is this really so weird? I can conceive of some -well-intentioned ectoplasmic entity trying to signal to me the basis of -Torres or Torres\slash Fox\slash \sc{ufo}naught's derangement. I really do not feel -that in this session I was being played with or manipulated mentally. It -was the intention of the entity to signal us in some way. A name which -came across to me psychically as concerned with the identity of spirits -present was Dom or Dominick. Torres says this is not the name of his -uncle and I do not know any one or thing named Dom or Dominick. I -used to go to a bar in New York we called the Dom. This was during a -rather wild period of my life. - -After writing this entry, I was sitting staring into space, thinking, -when I saw a quick ectoplasmic manifestation flash by and disappear. -Evidently Ms. Eck is my friend. Or is she? I say Ms. Eck now since -when I was over at a friend's house previous to Torres' last visit, a -figurine fell off the shelf for no apparent physical reason, in context of -feminist discussion. It had been shoved off by some spirit. - -This figurine was of a man playing a guitar. I play the guitar professionally, and began to do this when I was in New York City. As I picked - - -up the figurine and looked at it, I was filled with nostalgic thoughts -about guitars. A different sort of music from Torres' classical music. Or -was this Fox\slash \sc{ufo}naught leading me up the garden path again? I felt the -need to trace the name Dominick in a very impersonal way. I looked up -the name Dominick in a sourcebook on the occult and discovered that St. -Dominick was a famous persecutor of witches. 5\slash 10\slash 77 I have told Torres about my suspicions regarding the entity with which he is involved, as he tells me he is about to make a hare-brained |