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Info-ParaNet Newsletters Volume 1 Number 385
Info-ParaNet Newsletters Volume I Number 385
Friday, April 5th 1991
Today's Topics:
New Affiliate
Continuum
Submit your articles!
New Affiliate
Sheriff's Deputy Denied Promotion
Fcc Modem Charge
Re: Rick Redux
Thought for the day
Hello & Have You Heard???
Fcc Modem Charge
Re: Rick Redux
Network Difficulties
Thanks, Jerry!
Malcolm Puddy
A SETI Update
THEY'RE HERE!!!!
''The Search For Schroedinger's Cat''
SS433
Resonant Coil Implications?
Serios Business
(none)
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From: ParaNet.Information.Service@f4.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (sm)
Subject: New Affiliate
Date: 2 Apr 91 00:34:00 GMT
This is to welcome a new member to the ParaNet family. Please welcome Mike
Keithly. He will act as ParaNet's Archivist (Librarian). Mike is located in
the Denver area.
ParaNet ALPHA-THETA(sm)
Mike Keithly
303-933-7184 (2400)
Michael Corbin
Director
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From: Clark.Matthews@paranet.FIDONET.ORG (Clark Matthews)
Subject: Continuum
Date: 2 Apr 91 06:14:00 GMT
*** P a r a N e t C O N T I N U U M ***
Continues ...
CONTINUUM is back!
ParaNet's newsletter of UFOlogy, online communications, paranormal
studies and research is resuming publication.
An exciting forum for an array of interests -- and a handy resource
for finding:
-- Current UFO events and symposia
-- Computer bulletin boards
-- Study groups
-- Contact groups
-- Researchers and research organizations
-- Writers and more.
Complimentary copies of CONTINUUM's premiere issue will be available
to ParaNet participants and other interested parties for the price of
postage.
Thereafter, CONTINUUM will be available by subscription only, mailed
First Class within the U.S. Please inquire via NetMail for more
information and subscription rates, including overseas rates.
Send mail to:
* ParaNet Alpha 1-303-431-8797 -- address echomail to Michael Corbin at
9:9/0 (ParaNet) or
1:104/422 (Fido) or
mcorbin@scicom.alphacdc.com (Internet)
* ParaNet Pi 1-201-451-3063 -- address echomail to Clark Matthews at
9:1012/4 (ParaNet) or
1:107/816 (FidoNet) or
P.O. Box 3934, Jersey City, NJ 07303-3934
* James Roger Black on InterNet at
shemtaia.weeg.uiowa.edu!jrblack (Internet)
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From: Clark.Matthews@paranet.FIDONET.ORG (Clark Matthews)
Subject: Submit your articles!
Date: 2 Apr 91 06:20:00 GMT
*** P a r a N e t C O N T I N U U M ***
C A L L F O R S U B M I S S I O N S
CONTINUUM is back!
ParaNet's newsletter of UFOlogy, research, online communications, and
paranormal studies is resuming publication -- and calling for
submissions.
We are seeking articles of 500 to 3000 words for the premiere issue,
which is scheduled for publication in July 1991.
Publication will be quarterly. Payment will be in copies.
*** S U B M I S S I O N D E A D L I N E ***
May 15, 1991
Send submissions to:
Clark Matthews
The Wrong Number BBS
P.O. Box 3934
Jersey City, NJ 07303-3934
*** E D I T O R I A L S U B M I S S I O N S ***
SUBMIT ANYTHING!
We don't PROMISE to publish it, but if your topic interests you as a
UFO buff, we think it's a safe bet that others in our "circle" will
share your interest.
Science fiction. Science fact. UFO/paranormal history. Scaly-eyed
skepticism. A book review. A television critique. An interview.
The results of your last physics experiment. You name it: If it
interests you, it will probably interest us and your compeers here.
And it's welcome in CONTINUUM.
Registered copyrighted material will be protected but we do assume a
grant of non-exclusive serial rights from you, the author, upon
submission and before delivery of complimentary copies. You must
inform us of other, pending rights sales upon submission.
Likewise, if you submit work-in-progress, your unpublished copyright
will be respected but a grant of non-exclusive serial rights is
expected in exchange for editorial and development work and before the
delivery of complimentary copies. (Heck, we might even improve it!)
*** P L A N N E D T O P I C S ***
Planned articles in the coming issue include:
* The Fatima Enigma
* Online listening post -- best of the ParaNet echoes
* The Philadelphia Experiment: Build It in Your Basement?!
* ParaNet -- 5 years and counting...
* UFO History
* UFO current events
* Handy UFO classifieds
* And more...
*** M A G A Z I N E H I G H L I G H T S ***
* Free classified public notices of:
-- UFO events and symposia
-- Computer bulletin boards
-- Study groups
-- Contact groups
-- Researchers and research organizations
-- Writers and more.
Maximum ad length 40 words, including address and zip code. Dues-
based membership organizations and sponsors of symposia may advertise,
but free classified ads cannot offer anything for sale.
Space for free classifieds is limited, and the offer does not apply to
display advertising. The management reserves the right not to publish
ads.
It's definitely "un-commercial", but we're committed to keeping the
the "bulletin board" concept alive in the UFOlogical community. So we
want CONTINUUM to be a helpful resource for its readers -- just like
ParaNet is for its users. What goes around, comes around, in other
words.
Complimentary copies of CONTINUUM's premiere issue will be available
to ParaNet participants and other interested parties for the price of
postage.
Thereafter, CONTINUUM will be available by subscription only, mailed
First Class within the U.S. Please inquire via NetMail for more
information and subscription rates, including overseas rates.
Best,
Clark Matthews Michael Corbin James Roger Black
Editorial Director System Administrator Contributing Editor
Send netmail to:
* ParaNet Alpha 1-303-431-8797 -- address echomail to Michael Corbin at
9:9/0 (ParaNet) or
1:104/422 (Fido) or
mcorbin@scicom.alphacdc.com (Internet)
* ParaNet Pi 1-201-451-3063 -- address echomail to Clark Matthews at
9:1012/4 (ParaNet) or
1:107/816 (FidoNet) or
P.O. Box 3934, Jersey City, NJ 07303-3934
* James Roger Black on InterNet at
shemtaia.weeg.uiowa.edu!jrblack (Internet)
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From: Clark.Matthews@paranet.FIDONET.ORG (Clark Matthews)
Subject: New Affiliate
Date: 2 Apr 91 07:49:00 GMT
> This is to welcome a new member to the ParaNet family. Please
> welcome Mike Keithly. He will act as ParaNet's Archivist
> (Librarian). Mike is located in the Denver area. >
Welcome Mike!
Who's that knocking at my Door?
Best,
Clark
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From: Jim.Speiser@f37.n114.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Jim Speiser)
Subject: Sheriff's Deputy Denied Promotion
Date: 29 Mar 91 17:03:00 GMT
> Can you cover it for ParaNet?
>
Consider it covered. Hard Copy's cameras rolled yesterday. Details and
possible interview to follow.
Jim
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From: Jim.Speiser@f37.n114.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Jim Speiser)
Subject: Fcc Modem Charge
Date: 2 Apr 91 16:20:00 GMT
>
> Subject: MODEM TAX
>
Mike:
Its my understanding from past discussions of this very article, that this
issue is (so far, at least) non-existent. It seems that it might be the first
urban legend of the Information Age. It has come up several times before on
other echoes, and the word is that no such article has ever appeared in the
New York Times, and that the FCC is not considering such a move. That's my
recollection, anyway. Perhaps someone else could track this down more
thoroughly for us.
Jim
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From: Jim.Delton@paranet.FIDONET.ORG (Jim Delton)
Subject: Re: Rick Redux
Date: 3 Apr 91 04:25:00 GMT
Do you ever read Calvin in the comic strips? If you do you have seen
him using his transmorgafier lately. His explanation of how his most
recent experiment ended is a case study in exactly the sort of
"theorizing" many UFO buffs engage in.
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From: Michael.Corbin@f4.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Michael Corbin)
Subject: Thought for the day
Date: 3 Apr 91 05:56:00 GMT
--THERE IS MORE GOING ON THAN OUR SENSES PERCEIVE--
Our view of the world is primarily made up of what
we have perceived through our five senses. What we
personally know of the world we have either seen, touched,
tasted, smelled or heard.
Unfortunately, our senses are limited, therefore our view
of the world is limited. This is not a problem unless we
start believing that what we perceive is all there is to be
perceived. IT IS NOT!
>From Life 101.
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From: Jerry.Driscoll@p0.f30.n134.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Jerry Driscoll)
Subject: Hello & Have You Heard???
Date: 30 Mar 91 13:21:00 GMT
In a message of <26 Mar 1991 17:52>, Elizabeth Anderson (1:134/30) writes:
EA> Hello again, Clark!
EA>
EA> Here's some poop on the Nahhani National Park. Established
EA> 1972; World Heritage Site. 120 species of bird; 32 of mammal.
EA> River - 320 kms; park area 4700 kms. Hot springs and Viriginia
EA> Falls, 100 m deep. Ice caves.
EA>
EA> Nearest town is Fort Simpson, NWT. Your best bet would be to
EA> write to the Fort Simpson Chamber of Commerce, Fort Simpson,
EA> NWT, Canada and ask for information.
EA>
EA> Personally, I find the stuff about bigfoot/feets being there
EA> kinda hard to believe - there are not a lot of people up there
EA> to report things, and the phenomenon seems to be human-centred.
EA>
EA> I looked at some maps - no roads. Hope this helps.
EA>
EA> Elizabeth
EA>
EA> P.S. Great stories about a lost gold mine and headless
EA> prospectors, though!
Hi Clark... This is Jerry, I cannot understand why you are having a problem
with ZMail.. I am using ZMailQ 1.12 over here, and it runs fine... in a year
and a half of using it, I have had only one BADPKT.000, and I am not convinced
that it was ZMailQ's fault. I am sending this to you as I have access to the
offline reader (Msged/Q 1.52b) and Elizabeth does not... Hope that you have
better success with this message.
Jerry
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From: Michael.Corbin@f4.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Michael Corbin)
Subject: Fcc Modem Charge
Date: 3 Apr 91 16:17:00 GMT
> Its my understanding from past discussions of this very article, that
> this issue is (so far, at least) non-existent. It seems that it might be
> the first urban legend of the Information Age. It has come up several
> times before on other echoes, and the word is that no such article has
> ever appeared in the New York Times, and that the FCC is not considering
> such a move. That's my recollection, anyway. Perhaps someone else could
> track this down more thoroughly for us.
You and Jim are right. I posted in haste. Sorry.
Mike
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From: Michael.Corbin@f4.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Michael Corbin)
Subject: Re: Rick Redux
Date: 3 Apr 91 16:18:00 GMT
> Do you ever read Calvin in the comic strips? If you do you have seen
> him using his transmorgafier lately. His explanation of how his most
> recent experiment ended is a case study in exactly the sort of
> "theorizing" many UFO buffs engage in.
Please elaborate.
Mike
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From: Michael.Corbin@f4.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Michael Corbin)
Subject: Network Difficulties
Date: 3 Apr 91 20:58:00 GMT
This is to let you know that we have experienced a hardware problem with one
of our major hubs in Oklahoma. Rod Wilson has the system back up and running,
and things will return to normal in the very near future.
Thank you for your patience.
Mike
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From: Clark.Matthews@paranet.FIDONET.ORG (Clark Matthews)
Subject: Thanks, Jerry!
Date: 4 Apr 91 04:01:00 GMT
> here, and it runs fine... in a year and a half of using it, I
> have had only one BADPKT.000, and I am not convinced that it
> was ZMailQ's fault. I am sending this to you as I have access
> to the offline reader (Msged/Q 1.52b) and Elizabeth does
> not... Hope that you have better success with this message.
>
Hello Jerry & thanks for the replay of the message. Please tell
Elizabeth that I will contact Ft. Smith Chamber of Commerce to see
what (if anything) gives in the park.
To this day, I am confounded by what happened with my ZmailH 1.14
routines. They worked splendidly until about 2 weeks ago. I had
some very useful, custom NODE and MAP statements that all worked
fine. Then it started tossing every message into Bad Messages.
I get my feed from 9/0, where nothing was changed. It continued to
work with Fido, but 95% of my traffic is ParaNet, so I had to bail
out of Zmail in the interest of keeping the echos echoing.
I have just completed the migration to Imail 1.10 and am
now experiencing no problems whatever. In fact, Imail managed to
recover many, many bad messages and posted them correctly. It's an
excellent program, extremely zone-smart, and it sets up with menus
that are almost foolproof (I am living proof of the foolproofness).
So far, so good...
Best,
Clark
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From: amix.commodore.com!vanth!jms
Subject: Malcolm Puddy
Date: 4 Apr 91 06:32:26 GMT
From: vanth!jms@amix.commodore.com (Jim Shaffer)
Does anyone know anything about someone named Malcolm Puddy? He was a
British scientist who filed patents for something he called a 'stardrive.'
The government terminated his patents and he later committed suicide. This
was all just last year, but I only heard about it last week.
The patents were titled 'Stardrive Type 1A' and "Stardrive Type 1B" and
were registered in London on 1 October 1990 and 23 October 1990
respectively. One of the patent numbers was 9021280. The patents were
terminated on 21 November 1990. I've been told that this means that the
patents aren't even available to the public, and that it quite often means
that the Ministry Of Defence is interested in them.
That, unfortunately, is all I've heard, and all the person who told me has
heard (despite the fact that he lives in England.) The implication was
that Puddy was the latest in the series of mysterious deaths in England,
but I can't remember if the company he worked for was mentioned (or if he
worked for a company at all.) I have no idea what was meant by
'stardrive,' or what the circumstances of his death were.
* From the disk of: | jms@vanth.uucp | 'You know I never knew
Jim Shaffer, Jr. | amix.commodore.com!vanth!jms | that it could be so
37 Brook Street | uunet!cbmvax!amix!vanth!jms | strange...'
Montgomery, PA 17752 | 72750.2335@compuserve.com | (R.E.M.)
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From: amix.commodore.com!vanth!jms
Subject: A SETI Update
Date: 4 Apr 91 06:46:25 GMT
From: vanth!jms@amix.commodore.com (Jim Shaffer)
+From: ParaNet.Information.Service@f4.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (sm)
+
+Silvio Conte (R-MA): 'We don't need to spend $6 million this year
+to find evidence of these rascally creatures. We only need 75
+cents to buy a tabloid at the local supermarket. Conclusive
+evidence of these crafty critters can be found at checkout
+counters from coast to coast. [Mr. Conte then entered into the
+Congressional Record five articles on UFOs from tabloid
+publications.]
I had heard Conte was unfriendly to the concept, but I didn't know it was
this bad. But didn't he die a couple months ago?
(Incidentally, on Usenet all my articles go out with 'Organization: The
Search For Terrestrial Intelligence' in the header.
* From the disk of: | jms@vanth.uucp | 'You know I never knew
Jim Shaffer, Jr. | amix.commodore.com!vanth!jms | that it could be so
37 Brook Street | uunet!cbmvax!amix!vanth!jms | strange...'
Montgomery, PA 17752 | 72750.2335@compuserve.com | (R.E.M.)
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From: well.sf.ca.us!ddrasin
Subject: THEY'RE HERE!!!!
Date: 4 Apr 91 06:49:23 GMT
From: ddrasin@well.sf.ca.us (Dan Drasin)
*
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+
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// <o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o>
* // ''"""\_______/"""""
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From: amix.commodore.com!vanth!jms
Subject: ''The Search For Schroedinger's Cat''
Date: 4 Apr 91 06:59:32 GMT
From: vanth!jms@amix.commodore.com (Jim Shaffer)
+From: Clark.Matthews@paranet.FIDONET.ORG (Clark Matthews)
+
+If you want to read about other dimensions, try The Search for
+Schroedinger's Cat.
And after you've done that, read the file REALITY.ASC from KeelyNet, on
Bohm's holographic model of the universe and Pribram's holographic model of
the mind. Excellent work! (Maybe Clark or I should post it, although it's
not UFO-related. Comments?)
* From the disk of: | jms@vanth.uucp | 'You know I never knew
Jim Shaffer, Jr. | amix.commodore.com!vanth!jms | that it could be so
37 Brook Street | uunet!cbmvax!amix!vanth!jms | strange...'
Montgomery, PA 17752 | 72750.2335@compuserve.com | (R.E.M.)
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From: amix.commodore.com!vanth!jms
Subject: SS433
Date: 4 Apr 91 06:59:58 GMT
From: vanth!jms@amix.commodore.com (Jim Shaffer)
Jim Greenen writes:
+Well Mike, from what I've been able to find out from other sources
+is that this object seems to have the ability to change course and
+speed. Which means it could be under intelligent control. Or simply
+a Unidentified Flying object. From what I'd heard is that there is
+more to SS433 then what the public is being told.
OK, but what exactly *is* SS433? (I mean, what's the official
classification. What class of objects is SSxxx ?) This is the first I've
heard of an astronomical object changing course and speed.
Could you also give a few more details, such as when and where it was
discovered? (I've read your later message to the effect that you don't
want to say too much, but there's got to be *something* that's a matter of
public record. The object has been given a designation, after all.)
* From the disk of: | jms@vanth.uucp | 'You know I never knew
Jim Shaffer, Jr. | amix.commodore.com!vanth!jms | that it could be so
37 Brook Street | uunet!cbmvax!amix!vanth!jms | strange...'
Montgomery, PA 17752 | 72750.2335@compuserve.com | (R.E.M.)
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From: amix.commodore.com!vanth!jms
Subject: Resonant Coil Implications?
Date: 4 Apr 91 07:00:21 GMT
From: vanth!jms@amix.commodore.com (Jim Shaffer)
(I'm catching up on some old mail, so I'll be quoting old articles in the
next few messages.)
+From: vm1.yorku.ca!YSCS1296
+
+I am not well-versed in physics higher than high-school levels. Can
+someone tell me exactly what can happen within the distorted space-time
+that this Resonant Coil produces? What are the implications? I suppose
+this ISN'T an anti-gravity device? Is it a pathway to ... folding space?
Let me start by saying that my physics isn't much better than yours -- but
then, some of this technology isn't accepted by current physics anyway!
Also, I haven't built anything like this.
OK, now, the way I understand it, although you could probably produce an
antigravity field with this coil, everything I've heard seems to indicate
that such a coil is supposed to be able to modify the fundamental
characteristics of matter itself. The power supply connected *between* the
two coils, with a strong dielectric separating them, seems to suggest the
Biefeld-Brown effect, which appears to be a unidirectional gravitational
force. But you can do that without coils. It's the fact that there's also
a magnetic field involved, not just an electric one, that suggests to me
that the coil does far more than generate gravity.
+Of course, it would help if someone(s) actually built it, and reported
+on it.
Well, it would cost a lot of money, and use a lot of power, and as Clark
said, there are rumors that it's dangerous. Even if it didn't do anything
bizarre, it would probably cause problems.
Also, if anyone is thinking about building one, I've heard that the plans
for the power supplies are questionable. I haven't analyzed them myself.
But get somebody who knows what they're doing to look at them. (Don't show
them the rest of the file though!)
+What about the anti-gravity device mentioned in the KRILL (eek) docs?
+Any substance to that claim?
I've heard it mentioned outside the Krill paper, but again I've never been
fortunate enough to see anything like it in operation.
I haven't looked at it for a while, but the Searle device seems to resemble
an N-Machine. The N-Machine isn't an antigravity device, it's a
free-energy device. (In fact, the way I understand it, it's 'just' a
Faraday homopolar generator with a higher-than-100% efficiency.) But the
basic concept seems similar, and the Searle device is obviously generating
a lot of free energy. I don't know why it levitates -- whether it's just
an electrostatic or electromagnetic effect, or whether it's doing something
'strange.'
* From the disk of: | jms@vanth.uucp | 'You know I never knew
Jim Shaffer, Jr. | amix.commodore.com!vanth!jms | that it could be so
37 Brook Street | uunet!cbmvax!amix!vanth!jms | strange...'
Montgomery, PA 17752 | 72750.2335@compuserve.com | (R.E.M.)
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From: well.sf.ca.us!ddrasin
Subject: Serios Business
Date: 4 Apr 91 07:02:08 GMT
From: ddrasin@well.sf.ca.us (Dan Drasin)
Re: THE WORLD OF TED SERIOS (*Second* Edition), by Jule Eisenbud, M.
D., (C) 1989, published by McFarland & Co., Inc, Box 611,
Jefferson, NC 28640.
+ I loved the rest of your message, but could you encapsulate for us
+ just how Eisenbud overcomes the 'serios' charge <groan!> that
+ Serios used a 'gizmo' to create the "psychic photos"? It was my
+ understanding that whenever Serios was persuaded (usually with
+ great difficulty) to give up the gizmo (a cylinder in which it was
+ alleged he secreted small photographic slides), that he was
+ consistently unable to 'perform'.
Jim, you really have to read the book. The 'gizmo' (usually a small,
hollow cardboard tube) was evidently a kind of psychological crutch;
in *all* the years of research no one *ever* caught Serios with any
kind of device that could remotely explain the phenomena -- results
that were documented over and over and over by staff of the U. of CO
Medical School and others. In the end there was not a grain of
evidence for fraud, and many hundreds of photographs as evidence
of Serios' 'talents.' One of the key evidential factors was the
*distortions* of space and time in many of the photos --
'dream-like' or "imagination-like" distortions and seamless
composite images that positively could not have been faked by any
mechanical means under the circusmtances. Also, many photos were
made with the cameras at quite some distance from Serios, and in the
hands of the investigators. Some of the pictures appeared as if
taken from 'impossible' angles; from places where the cameras had
never been positioned. There's more, too. *Much* more. Including a
lot of pictures not previously published.
In the book, Eisenbud spends considerable time dealing with the
questions of belief/disbelief, scientific integrity, and attacks by
the popular press (notably, Popular Photography magazine) and of
course our old friend James Randi. Except for Eisenbud's annoying
tendency to indulge in encyclopedic, run-on sentences, the book is a
*very* good read.
If I could recommend only one book to our kneejerk skeptic friends,
this one would be it by a country mile.
***** (Five stars. Highly Recommended.)
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From: ecn.purdue.edu!lush
Subject: (none)
Date: 4 Apr 91 07:36:25 GMT
From: lush@ecn.purdue.edu (Gregory B Lush)
From: GBL
There have been several requests for research done into the areas
of the paranormal/psychic phenomena. I forgot that I know of an
excellent book on the subject.
A woman named Shafica Karagulla, M.D. wrote a book called
'Breakthrough to Creativity.'
DeVorss & Co.
P.O. Box 550
Marina Del Ray, CA 90291
1977
(This address is old so I don't know if it still works.)
She is a highly-respected neuro-psychiatrist who did research into
psychiatric treatments. She was to head one of the preeminent
research institutes in the nation, if not the world, when a friend
gave her a book about Edgar Cayce, 'Edgar Cayce, Mystery Man of
Miracles. She was impressed/confused by Edgar Cayce's ability to do
things such as remote viewing because she knew the
brain very well (she thought) and could not find a mechanism whereby
a human could do such a thing.
This set her off on a personal study of psychic phenomena. She found
many subjects (people) which she referred to as 'sensitives' who could do
remote viewing and other 'impossible' things. She found doctors who could
see a patient's aura and determine what was wrong before any conventional
diagnosis was necessary. In order to not be labeled eccentric or worse,
the doctors would do the required tests that would prove what they
already knew/felt. Other interesting examples were of people who had
special talents but did not know it. One was a woman who, when you would
describe a place to her such as the Great Wall, would get an image of
the place which would match perfectly the real appearance of the location.
She thought that everyone could do that so didn't think anything of this
rare ability.
Many other studies were done. This woman gave up an important position
within her field to fund these studies with her own money and stopped
working so she had no source of outside income. The book is an objective
account of her work.
Sincerely,
Greg Lush ( lush@ecn.purdue.edu )
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