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ELSEWHEN
Volume Two
ISSUE #9
Exploring Mysteries of Time and Space
Number Three
In this Issue:
What Are Ghosts?
Time Travel in Literature
The Crossover
Glimpses of the Fourth Dimension
Fortean Research on a Budget - Tip #1
Plus Much, Much More...

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ELSEWHEN
THE QUARTERLY PUBLICATION OF
THE TEMPORAL ANOMALY RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
Volume Two
Number Three
ISSUE #9
DISCLAIMER:
Editor
Mark R. Gardner
Assistant Editor
Sandra Dunn
Contributors to This Issue
Gary Dornbusch
Kimberly Wajer
Joy Barish
Hugh Trotti
Tom Luce
Lee Walsh
Donald Haines
Gary Mangiacopra
Krista Steiner
The views and opinions in this issue of
Elsewhen, unless otherwise stated, are those of the author
and are not necessarily those endorsed by the Editor or
the Temporal Anomaly Research Association.
This Issue of ELSEWHEN Is Dedicated to the Memory of
The brave young men and women
who gave their lives to free Kuwait
during
Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm.
May your sacrifice never be forgotten.
ELSEWHEN is published quarterly by the Temporal Anomaly Research
[AD] Association, P.O. Box 20173, Keizer, OR 97307-0173.1991 by T.A.R.A.
Price per copy is $1.75 in the U.S. T.A.R.A. is not operated for profit.
POSTMASTER: Send address changes to T.A.R.A., P.O. Box 20173,
Keizer, OR 97307.
From the Editor's Desk
Things are not always what they seem.
Phaedrus
Greetings! Welcome to the ninth issue of
Elsewhen. Starting this issue, we are going to
start calling Elsewhen a quarterly "publication"
instead of a newsletter. We feel that we have
definitely graduated from the realm of the
newsletter. The day when this humble
publication becomes a full-fledged journal or
magazine may not be all that far away. (Keep
your fingers crossed!)
Although the format of Elsewhen will
remain mostly the same, we will be adding
some things that were conspicuously absent
during Elsewhen's run as a newsletter-namely
news about the organization and more
illustrations. We hope to keep you, our loyal
readers, informed as to what we've learned
and discovered.
This issue will be mailed early, because I
will be gone during the month of September.
(I didn't think you would want to wait until
the first week of October for this issue.) I
will be on a research trip to Great Britain. I
hope to come back with lots of photographs
and material for this publication. I think you
will be pleased. Wish me luck!
Now for the big news... Although my
original intention had been to create an
organization devoted to exploring just
temporal anomalies, T.A.R.A. quickly grew
into a fortean organization. So, to confirm
our dedication to the exploration of mysteries
of Time and Space, we'll be changing the
name of this organization to The Strange &
Unusual Phenomena Research Association
(S.U.P.R.A.). Other than a change of name,
though, we are still the same great bunch of
people you've come to know and trust.
Bill Harkonen has decided to move on to
other things. I want to thank him for all he's
done for us. Taking his place will be the
talented and energetic, Sandra Dunn.
There is some interesting material in this
issue, including the first parts of a couple
continuing features. I hope everyone finds at
least one item that they will enjoy.
following issue is also shaping up very nicely.
Please let us know how we're doing. Enjoy!
The
Mark Gardner
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VISIT TO THE CRYPTOZOO
by Kimberly Wajer
THE SAGA CONTINUES
Lakes the world over are reportedly inhabited by
"serpent-like" beasts. These animals have been popping
up generation after generation, drawing the attentions of
thousands of people. In more recent history another such
case has arisen. To the ranks of Ogopogo and Nessie we
can add Icky.
For approximately the past decade people have been
spotting a "lake creature" in Lake Erie. The reports
have been sporadic but, once again, in the closing months
of 1990, they have resurfaced. The name "Icky" came
from the recently proposed "proper" name for the
creature.
Sightings describe Icky as being 30 to 35 feet long and
having humps (or moving by "humping through the
water").
People have not stopped at descriptions, though. On
the southwest shores of Lake Erie a case of Icky-mania
has set in. The owner of a local restaurant on the lake
made a mock-up of Icky with tires and vent duct. He tied
it to the end of the restaurant's pier.
The crowning glory, however, comes in the actions of
the owner of the Huron Lagoon Marina: This man has
put out a $5,000 reward for the capture of the creature.
He also managed to secure a $50,000 reward from the
well-known firm of Lloyd's of London. The conditions
state that the money will be given to the person who
brings in "an unknown and uncataloged aquatic species"
whose dimensions are given at a minimum of 30 feet long
and 1000 pounds. The creature is to be brought alive and
preferably unharmed to the holding facility constructed for
it at the Huron Lagoon Marina.
Good luck monster hunters!
THE OTTAWA COUNTY PANTHER:
FACT OR PHANTOM?
Something's afoot in Ottawa County, Ohio, and
surrounding areas. No one seems to be able to get a
grasp on it, though.
Since the Spring of 1990 reports have surfaced of a
large, black, cat-like animal, thought by some to be a
panther, roaming the countryside. Several photographs
have been released which are supposedly of the animal,
but all are fuzzy and indistinct. One man has a cast of a
paw print he claims is from the panther.
So what is this mystery really? Sightings so far have
come from most of Ottawa County with no real pattern or
logical sequence. Where does it go? Is the animal really
a panther? No zoo or private owner has reported a
missing cat. Such cats are more often than not raised in
captivity and, if they escaped, may not know how to fend
for themselves. This animal has survived for most of the
year now, from the reports coming in. What does it eat?
A panther would need to eat more than just the local
squirrels and rabbits to survive. No large animals have
been reported as killed or maimed as far as I know.
Several theories have been advanced to explain the
mystery. Some people claim it is nothing more than an
extremely large house cat prowling around. Others say it
is a dog or a cougar that has wandered into the area.
In any case, as spring approaches, I am waiting to see
if the panther (or at least the rumor) survived the winter.
[Editor's Note: These articles were contributed last
fall. Hopefully we will have some updates to these
two items in the near future!]
Type
FORTUNE-TELLING
Aeromancy
Aleuromancy
Arithmomancy
Axiomancy
Bibliomancy
Capnomancy
Catoptromancy
Cartomancy
by Mark Gardner*
Using or By Means of...
Air
Flour
Numbers
A floating or turning axe
A book
Smoke
Mirrors
Cards, especially Tarot
Lines and shape of the hand
Chiromancy
Cleromancy
Ciromancy
Lots or chances
Coscinomancy
Crystallomancy
Dactylomancy
Geomancy
Hepatomancy
Hydromancy
Kypomancy
Lampadomancy
Meilomancy
Metoposcopy
Necromancy
Nephelomancy
Oneiromancy
Phabdomancy
Physiogmancy
Pyromancy
Wax
Sieve
Crystal gazing
Pendant ring
Earth or sand grains
Animal livers
Water
Tea leaves in a cup
Lamps
Location of moles
Lines on the forehead
Corpses
Clouds
Dreams
Divining rod
Face
Fire
* based on an idea by Gary Dornbusch
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THINGS THAT GO BUMP...
WHAT ARE GHOSTS?
by Mark Gardner
Cold spots in a room, things moving in your peripheral
vision, unexplainable noises or the actual sight of an
apparition. These and other things are attributed to
ghosts. One of the ways the dictionary defines "ghost" is
"the soul of a dead person, appearing to the living in
bodily likeness."
Yes, I am a skeptic when it comes to many subjects
and with good reason. Before you dismiss my objectivity
on this subject, though, be aware that I have personally
seen and felt things which one might call ghosts. So, with
that in mind, let's try to get to the bottom of just what
these elusive spirits are.
First of all, I have great difficulty accepting that ghosts
are the "souls" of dead people. Why? In our Judeo-
Christian background we are taught basically that after a
person dies they go to either the "Good Place" or the "Bad
Place". You really cannot be a Jew or a Christian if
don't accept this. Anything else is heresy. Can you really
believe that God would make some poor soul wonder
around, trapped and/or forgotten on Earth?
you
Another major flaw in the idea that ghosts are souls is
the great number of sightings of animal ghosts. Again, the
Judeo-Christian tradition holds that Mankind is a special
creation and that humans are the only ones with souls.
Somebody is wrong. Either animals have souls or they
don't. There are just too many sightings of ghost dogs,
cats, horses, and so on, to dismiss this so easily.
But the damning evidence against the soul theory is
the fact that ghost ships, trains, planes, and even entire
villages are seen. There is no way you can convince any
rational person that an artificial object can have a soul.
This is ridiculous. And while I'm on this track, how about
clothes? How can a disembodied soul have clothes? The
simple matter is that it can't, because clothes are man-
made. A real soul would be nude (if it has any form at
all). Free of the body, there is no need for clothes!
No, it is obvious that the real explanation for ghosts
lies elsewhere. Unlike many other mysteries, though, the
phenomenon of ghosts probably has no single answer.
Some logical explanations for the ghost mystery are in the
"scientific realm" and others are not. Let's talk about
these ghostly manifestations and try to explain them.
It is very obvious that optical games of nature, such as
reflections and tricks of light and shadow, are a big cause
of "ghosts". I have personally experienced this several
times. A perfect example is the "ghost" seen in a window
in the movie Three Men and a Baby. It was just the
reflection of a life-sized cardboard cutout of one of the
film's characters, played by Ted Danson.
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Another great source of "ghosts" lies in the human
mind.
Often, if we desperately want or need to see
something, we will see it. Since it is a creation of our own
minds, other people, of course, will not see anything. This
is the source of many UFOs, religious "miracles", and
ghosts. The tendency to see or hear something out of the
ordinary is accentuated when one is under great emotional
strain, such as the loss of a loved one. I believe this is the
cause of family members or pets that appear to grieving
people after their deaths. Of course, mental illness and
hallucinations probably explain some ghost sightings.
People are natural-born liars. Lots of the hauntings
are pure fabrication. There was nothing there in the first
place. This might be more common than we realize.
The "loop of film" behavior of many apparitions seems
to prove that there is no conscious "soul" present. The
scene looks as if it is just a movie. You can't interact with
a movie and the people in the movie can't interact with
you. This is how many "ghosts" behave. Somehow an old
scene is repeated. How? Well, there are two broad
possibilities here: Either the scene is "psychically" part of
the surroundings and is "played back" occasionally or a
temporal anomaly is able to "project" a past scene through
time into the present. Thank God these are
occurrences, otherwise most of this world would be
completely uninhabitable!
rare
There is a possibility that we have shared this world of
ours with another race of entities since the dawn of time.
They have never been very numerous and, unlike humans,
these Others have no static form. They occasionally like
to play games with us. It is very possible that our legends
of nature spirits, elves, fairies, demons, etc., can be at least
partially attributed to these Others-our "planetmates".
The
No, I don't think dead people and animals, and long-
gone man-made things come back to haunt us.
explanation lies elsewhere. The existence of "real" ghosts
will always remain a possibility, but the evidence for them
is not very convincing.
The Mysterious Wheat-Spinners
by Kimberly Wajer
Something's got farmers all wound up-and it isn't
cattle rustlers. Overnight, it seems, large, near-perfect
circles have been found flattened in farmers' fields in the
U.S., Great Britain, and elsewhere. The crops, however,
have not necessarily been damaged. In many cases they
continued to grow-sideways!
No one has found the explanation for these circles, but
theories abound. Many people think they are caused by
whirlwinds coming down at night over the fields. Others
think they are caused by landing UFO's. A few support
the idea that the phenomenon is the result of some sort of
magnetic disturbance. Some think they are merely the
work of overzealous groundhogs! I support the theory
they are meteorological phenomena, but don't think
whirlwinds are an adequate explanation.
Will they continue? We can only wait and see.
Maybe we'll catch the culprit in this mystery.
I

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SUBJECT: TIME TRAVEL
by Mark Gardner
Part I: In Literature
One of the most popular themes in science fiction has
been time travel and/or the changing of history. Whether
this cracking of the time barrier occurs with the use of a
time machine, the power of the mind or a "malfunction" in
the fabric of Time itself (a time warp, etc.), millions of
readers during the past century have enjoyed reading
books and stories involving it. Time has always fascinated
Man and, regardless of what philosophers or scientists
have said, we still don't understand what Time really is
and how it works. In this first of a series of related articles
I will present examples of time travel and changed history
in written literature. Since it would be impossible to
discuss all of the hundreds of books and thousands of
short stories involving time travel, I have selected some
that I feel are fairly representative of the richness of time
travel in science fiction.
The most obvious place to start is with H.G. Wells'
The Time Machine. One of the most well-known and
beloved of the classics, the story revolves around a
Victorian scientist and inventor who discovers the secret
behind Time and constructs a time machine. The
unnamed time traveler eventually makes a journey to
802,701 A.D., where he discovers a garden-like world
where Man has regressed into two forms: The Eloi and
the Morlocks. The frail, child-like Eloi are simple
vegetarians, while the pale, nocturnal Morlocks are
cannibalistic-preying on the helpless Eloi. After his time
machine is stolen by the Morlocks, the time traveler
searches ancient, overgrown ruins for tools or weapons to
help him recover his machine. Meanwhile, he saves the
life of a female Eloi named Weena and gains a permanent
companion. After a week or so the time traveler recovers
his machine only to apparently lose his beloved Weena to
the carnivorous Morlocks. He zooms forward a million
years or so to find a desolate, dying planet bathed in the
light of a huge red sun. After surveying the end of the
world, he returns to his own time, where he recounts his
adventures to a group of disbelieving friends. Disgusted,
he returns to his laboratory and departs with his time
machine, never to be seen again. Although this story was
written decades ago, it still fascinates today.
Unfortunately, it's hard to believe that a man without
computers, advanced electronics and nuclear power could
build a time machine in 1900.
George Pal and Joe Morhaim wrote an excellent
sequel to this story, entitled Time Machine II. It is
revealed that the time traveler-now said to be named
George-returned to the future where he rescued Weena
and helped the Eloi to defeat the Morlocks. He taught
the Eloi how to fend for themselves and took Weena as
his wife. The Prologue begins with George and his very
pregnant wife rushing back to his own time, so that he can
prove his story once and for all. Unfortunately, nearly at
their destination, the machine begins to break apart and
they are thrown into the middle of the Blitz-41 years later
than intended! A German raid is in progress and the
couple are killed by shrapnel. Born and orphaned at the
same moment, their infant son is rescued by an American
ambulance driver. The scene is witnessed from across the
street by James Filby, the son of one of George's friends,
who's been waiting and watching forty years for the time
traveler's return.
The scene changes to the recent past and the now
adult war orphan. Raised in an orphanage in America,
the young man, Christopher Jones, has grown up to
become a scientist like his deceased father. Meanwhile,
the now elderly Filby has spent the last 29 years trying to
track down George's son. A British detective finally tracks
him to Cal Tech-he's an associate professor in physics.
Filby is the executor of George's estate and has kept his
eye on the property since the war. Jones travels to
England where he meets Filby and learns about his father.
The estate turns out to be a pile of rubble on a weed
infested lot. Like a man possessed, Jones begins to
excavate the property in order to find clues to his father's
discoveries. He eventually finds his father's notebook and
the wrecked remains of the time machine. Jones is
determined to prevent his parents' deaths. Weeks later,
after building a new and improved version of the time
machine, Jones travels back to 1941, where he witnesses
his parents' deaths and his own birth. Half in shock, he
moves forward to 802,701 A.D. where he encounters the
parents he never knew and tries to warn them of their
fate. George won't believe that Christopher is his son and
storms off. Saddened, Jones moves forward to the end of
the world his father had once seen. He is separated from
his time machine and almost killed by giant crabs and a
man-eating spider. He joins up with a band of primitive
cave dwellers-apparently the last specimens of humanity.
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After finding a long-lost cache of super-weapons,
Jones helps the cave people defeat an organized assault by
giant, intelligent insects. He returns to his time machine,
only to find his parents waiting for him. They now believe
he is their son and have been searching throughout Time
for him. George proposes that they go back in Time
together and change history, preventing the decline of
Mankind. Just then giant crabs surround them, killing
Jones and crushing his time machine. The horrified father
leaps into his machine with Weena-now in labor-and
heads back to undo this future. With the knowledge
provided by his son, George goes back in Time and stops
the time machine the instant before it would have broken
apart. The date is May 4, 1945. The war is over and
Christopher is born to living parents, canceling the
previous history where George and Weena died in 1941
and Jones died in the claws of a giant crab. This is a good
story about how attempts to change the future don't
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Another example of the past being changed by the
future, occurs in Thrice Upon A Time by James P. Hogan,
which appears to have been inspired by Gregory Benford's
classic book Timescape. In Hogan's book an American
scientist, Murdoch, is summoned to his grandfather's
isolated castle in Scotland. Sir Charles, a genius in
theoretical physics, has found a flaw in the law of
conservation of energy. It seems that in any process a
very tiny increment of energy escapes back through time!
By using this "tau" radiation, he discovers a way to send
messages into the past. Later, Murdoch and his friend
and colleague, Lee, discover messages apparently sent by
them that they never sent! This brings up the idea of
alternate futures and/or worlds. In the meantime,
Murdoch meets and falls in love with Anne, a beautiful
scientist. Then disaster strikes! An advanced reactor has
been unknowingly emitting microscopic black holes,
causing mysterious deaths around the world, and
threatening to combine into a massive black hole that will
destroy the Earth. Murdoch and Anne send back a
warning through Time to have the reactor shut down
before it can do what it did in this present. The message
is received, changing history so that the reactor was shut
down and Murdoch and Anne never met. Some time
later, in this new timeline, a mysterious neurological
disease begins striking down people around the world,
including Lee. It is eventually tracked down to a mutated
virus and an antidote is created. Unfortunately, one batch
of the antidote is bad and a number of people die from it.
The only cure is then rejected by the rest of the world. In
desperation, Murdoch sends another message warning
about the faulty batch of antidote. Catastrophe is averted
and history is changed again with a successful inoculation
of everyone. Destiny is fulfilled, though, when Murdoch
gets another chance to meet Anne the third time around.
Cryptozoic! by Brian W. Aldiss is a strange book
involving time travel. The people of the 21st Century have
developed a method of traveling back in Time called mind
travel. This is accomplished by the use of a drug called
CSD. This enables one to travel back in Time, the farther
back, the easier. You can't change history, because no
matter where you go you are invisible to the creatures of
that time period and you can't actually touch anything, due
to the entropy barrier. Edward Bush, a young artist, has
spent the last 2½ years sketching scenery in the Devonian.
He's employed as a recorder by the Wenlock Institute.
He meets a fellow traveler-an uninhibited, young lady
named Ann-and they travel together to the Jurassic. Ann
disappears. Followed by a mysterious woman and
harassed by Ann's former companions, Bush decides to
return to the present. There he's shocked to find his
mother is dead and the military has overthrown the
government. He is forced to become a sort of mind travel
patrolman and is sent back to assassinate an enemy of the
When he finally gets to the right time
government.
period, he finds that things are not what they seem. He is
shocked to find Ann here. Feeling that she's betrayed
him, he shoots her, apparently killing her. After a
confusing period of not knowing who the Good Guys are
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and who the Bad Guys are, Bush crosses paths with
himself, and is eventually rescued by the mysterious
woman and three men. Discovering that Ann is still alive
and the gun a fake, he throws in with the group and mind
travels back to the beginning of the Earth. There they are
met by the mysterious woman and a crowd of people.
The woman reveals that she is Edward and Ann's
Then the book gets weird when it is
granddaughter.
suggested that everything we see is backward and that we
are actually created by worms in the ground, dug up, come
to life, grow gradually younger, and eventually return to
the womb to be absorbed. This ridiculous ending and a
number of other faults, like how you can carry objects
when you are mind traveling, ruin what is otherwise a
unique story.
Written in 1965, The Ship That Sailed the Time Stream
by G.C. Edmondson deals with unintentional time travel.
An experimental U.S. Navy ship conducting anti-
submarine research off the coast of California is struck by
lightning. After a period of disorientation and the
sensation of falling, the crew discovers they are now in the
North Atlantic. Evidently, the lighting strike and the new
equipment on board combined to spatially displace them.
Shocking as that seems, they are even more shocked to
find themselves being attacked by Vikings. They've gone
back in Time! They defeat the Vikings, rescue a Spanish
slave girl and then repeat the jump by sailing into a storm.
This time they've jumped forward a couple of centuries,
only to be captured by the Moors. After escaping, they
sail off and jump again to the time of the Romans. After
a series of adventures here, they jump one more time and
arrive back where they started from. Other authors have
written similar stories about people jumping from time to
time. There's been TV shows with this basic idea, but
that's in another article.
To wrap up Part I, I will briefly mention a handful of
other stories that you might find of some interest. In
Michael Moorcock's Behold the Man a disturbed individual
with zealous religious leanings goes back to witness the
Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Upon arrival his time machine
is destroyed irreparably. The man is shocked to find no
Jesus and so steps into the role himself. Of course, he is
eventually tried by Pontius Pilate and crucified, thus
preserving the flow of history. In Ward Moore's Bring the
Jubilee, the hero of the story lives on a parallel Earth with
the exact same history up until the American Civil War.
On his world, though, the South won the war. The hero
goes back in Time to witness a crucial battle in the war.
He accidentally sets in motion a series of events that
results in the North winning the battle, and ultimately the
war. Thus he is trapped in a world with a different history
than he grew up with. Most likely "our" world. In Lest
Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp the hero of the
story is transported back to the 6th Century A.D., where
he single-handedly prevents the Dark Ages. But his
actions don't change our history, they create a "split" in
Time. Instead of one timeline, there are two parallel
times branching off from the point he entered. Another
alternate universe tale is The Alteration by Kingsley Amis,

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in which the Catholic Church never lost its dominance
over Europe-a world with no Martin Luther or a
Reformation. The Man Who Folded Himself by David
Gerrold deals with the idea of an infinite series of similar-
but-not-quite-the-same worlds. This idea was also
explored by Roger Zelazny in his five "Amber" stories,
including Nine Princes in Amber and The Guns of Avalon.
Although only a fair attempt, Philip Dick's Counter-Clock
World tells about a world where Time runs backwards, so
that the people are born in the grave, food is regurgitated
and unchewed, and children grow younger until they
return to the womb. This theme has been explored by
many authors. It is too bad that Dick ruins the story by
having the characters thinking "forward", when they
couldn't. In the story "By His Bootstraps" by Robert
Heinlein, the hero of the story is yanked into the future
through a "time gate" operated by a mysterious old man.
He has a series of adventures involving overlaps in Time.
Eventually, he sets up a "time gate" and becomes the old
man that he once met-a circular time paradox. An
excellent novel is A World Out of Time by Larry Niven. In
this book the main character travels to the galactic center
at nearly the speed of light-most of the journey spent in
suspended animation. At the center of the galaxy he finds
a massive black hole and uses the gravity to swing him
back home. He gets back to Earth, only to find that 3
million years have elapsed since he left-that's where the
story really begins. This is an example of the time dilation
effect theorized by Einstein. Red Shift by Alan Garner
involves communication up and down the timeline through
of the mind. The main character finds himself
the power
drawn to the lives of three men in widely different periods
of England's history-all of them connected through a
In the same vein is the enjoyable A
Stone Age axe.
Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley, in which an English girl
has the inexplicable ability to travel back and forth to the
time of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Other books you might want to look at are Keith
Laumer's classic Dinosaur Beach, Robert Silverberg's The
Time Hoppers and Up the Line, Clifford D. Simak's
Mastodonia, Tim Powers' The Anubis Gates, Matthew J.
Costello's Time Warrior series, and John Brunner's very
clever Times Without Number. I will close by
recommending Sir Fred Hoyle's October the First is Too
Late, in which something goes wrong with Time, leaving
different parts of the world in different time periods.
LOOK AT THE LITTLE PEOPLE
every night. It was in a very dangerous area which
terrified her, as you can guess. I don't remember who this
woman was or where the area is, but it is still outstanding
in my mind that this lady met the proverbial black dog, so
well known in various parts of England. It is related to
the Black Shuck that haunts the villages in the valley
around about Geldeston. It is also known as the Hateful
Thing, the Churchyard Beast, the Hell Beast, the
Torrington Dog, etc. I got these names from a book I
purchased, 50 Great Ghost Stories by John Canning.
He mentions an area which was actually called Black
Dog. This animal was probably as big as a pony. It
haunted the neighborhood of Tiverton, England.
It is interesting that in The Encyclopedia of
Hobgoblins, Brownies and Other Supernatural Creatures by
the famed folklorist, Katherine Briggs, the black dog is
mentioned as phenomenon in England. She says they are
often the shape taken by a human ghost.
One was "laid" at Finstock in Oxfordshire with a pair
of clappers which were parted and put into the two
separate ponds in the village. It is said that the Black Dog
of Finstock will reappear when these come together.
A man was working near Warrington in England when
he saw a strange woman under an umbrella in a mist.
This lady vanished as soon as he spoke to her. Later he
heard footsteps in the hedgerow. Then two strange men
passed him, dressed in work clothes, speaking gibberish.
He said they were "notrightmen". A policeman later said
that there never was a worse road for an Irishman to walk
along than that one.
In May 1984, while in Ireland, we rented a small car.
While some miles from Limerick, with my husband at the
wheel, I perceived a red being by a hedgerow, probably
100 yards from the car. I thought it was just someone
waiting to cross the road. I wasn't thinking of fairies. The
figure twirled its arms and danced a bit, then promptly
dematerialized in the middle of the highway. I was the
only one that saw this. Needless to say, my husband saw
nothing but "a man crossing the road."
Note the hedgerow. I suppose I could have seen a
black dog, too. I could go on regarding the existence of
fairies and proof for them, but this alone was enough to
totally convert me to them.
I always say to myself, "Now if only we had been
closer, could I have made a wish?" A fascinating subject.
The Irish, from what I have read, have pretty much
relegated fairies to make-believe along with the
leprechauns, but I can assure them and you that fairies do
actually exist. I saw one.
"The Red Fairy, Black Dogs and Hedgerows"
by Joy Barish
A short time ago I read of a woman who had to visit
her sick husband in a veteran's hospital. She did this
The Next Issue of Elsewhen
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EYE ON THE NEW AGE
The Crossover
by Lee Walsh
Man is made in the image of God or his Creator,
whatever conception of a Creator that humans on this
planet envision. Because of the various beliefs, rituals and
conceptions, it is obvious the image is not a physical one.
Situated midway between the eyebrows is the ajna
chakra (or biji), called the "command center" and the sub-
cortical area of the brain. The stimulation of this center
gives great mental powers, including the ability to heal and
to absorb, retain and understand all ancient knowledge
that today's science does not know-a tap into "Universal
Mind" everyone's Creator. The Image of God.
Mind/Brain.
It is possible that there is a UFO connection to all of
this. If, as many believe, the Universal Mind/Creator
distributed differing kinds of life throughout the universe,
then it is possible that a totally consuming communication
can be established regardless of the degree of intelligence
or the time/space/distance factor.
As we learn more and more about the mind and brain,
we can understand fully the possibility and methods used
for the exchange of information between earthly humans
and the extraterrestrial. And, yes, it is also possible that
those who believe they are in direct communication with
their own personal "God" really are!
Over the past years many persons have reported being
"psychoprobed" and/or having some type of frontal lobe
modification or implanted device. However, this is one
area of the UFO/ET subject that is (for the most part)
ignored. As a wise man once said, "Just because you are
ignorant of the facts does not mean they cease to exist."
To depart one moment for the UFO connection,
please consider the following:
►Lee Harvey Oswald:
"I was directed to shoot
Kennedy." He implied that this was through some sort of
implant or subliminal method.
▸ Jack Ruby: "I have an implanted device that made
me shoot Oswald."
▸ On the CH 6 TV evening news (El Paso, TX) July
19, 1987: "The CIA put a bug in the head of missing
Terry Waite."
► Brief news items concerning disoriented people
found loitering outside the White House: "I don't know
what I am doing here." "I just found myself standing
here. I don't know why.". - "I had the urge to come here."
This has all the implications of control. What might
have happened if they had not been interrupted?
Executed Gary Gilmore told of the government
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performing lobotomies and many others have reported
implanted devices for various "earthly" reasons.
Extreme
Out of all of this there is emerging a new kind of
pioneer, those who say that they are in contact with higher
intelligences and the communication is established through
the use of an implanted device. The crossover seems to
be taking place. It is accompanied by various methods but
preceding symptoms reported are the same:
fatigue (at odd times) coming on and disappearing quickly,
blinding headaches, insomnia, weakness in the legs
(especially in the knee area), blurred vision, chest pains, a
quick feeling as though being stuck by a pin (followed by
an itchy patch on the skin), and the dreams.
Most contactees or channels, spanning the past 30-year
period, would have us assume that all space brothers (as
they are lovingly called) are good. All earth brothers are
certainly not good, so it would be ridiculous to assume
that deliberate control by anyone would always be
beneficial, for a good cause, or even truthful. What price
will be paid for knowledge and the combining of the they
with the we?
Bob Renaud was a contactee in the 1960's and his
story was written at length in Flying Saucers magazine. He
was told (he reported) that ET's had a program of
psychoprobing key government people and also certain
private citizens. He was also told that scientific dogma
prejudices Man's thinking and limits progress. At that
time Renaud was given a discourse on Man's sexual
attitudes that stem from the Dark Ages and all the
misconceptions connected with them. I have noted the
sexual implication in many other early reports and that
posed a question: What are the implications re UFO,
mind, brain, implants, control, etc., especially now that
science has told us that there is a very distinct difference
between the male and female brain?
Wilhelm Reich was ridiculed and persecuted because
of his sexual theories. He was jailed, his books were
burned, and he died of a supposed heart attack, which
may or may not have been induced. It seems that the
ET's have always tried to communicate the values of
sexual energies and nobody paid much attention.
In the 1960's a man named Reinhold Schmidt told his
story about a psychoprobe device inside a spaceship. He
was taken to jail without a warrant and confined to a
mental hospital for several weeks for his trouble. His
experience is also described at length and with much detail
in Flying Saucers magazine.
Eighty percent of the human brain performs an
"unknown" function. Knowledge is selfishly kept by
scientists, religionists, and governments but it seems as
though some of it is being given to mere mortals. Are we
slowly being transformed into a part of the Whole; the
All? Or are we all being force-fed information that will
one day be triggered by an unknown someone
something?
or
The only thing that we are certain of is that there
ARE experiments; something is happening to the minds
and brains of certain (selected?) individuals.
It is possible that at least some of the ancients were
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had a way of communicating with what they called true an
untrue fiction. There are those who communicate in the
same way today, having the knowledge but afraid to
impart it as "truth".
...
Abductions, channeling, hypnotic regression,
experiences dealing with oddball things lumped into the
category of "paranormal". The problem remains that we
know who we are but we cannot be certain of who they
are. The possible crossover, the combination, may cause
either the enlightenment or the downfall of mankind but it
seems there are a few who must take the chance.
Lest this sound like an absolute impossibility (as it did
to me in the beginning), I add the following:
In an article in LOOK magazine (11/28/67), entitled
"The Dead Body and the Living Brain" by Oriana Fallaci,
it stated that Prof. Robert White, Director of the Dept. of
Neurosurgery at the Cleveland Metropolitan General
Hospital, said, "We can transfer the head of a man onto
the trunk of another man. I only know that today we
could keep Einstein's brain alive and make it function
normally... The only way to transfer the brain of one man
to another is to transfer the entire head. I could cool that
head and keep it alive while the body is dying and free its
arteries, and feed it blood through the T cannula and then
separate the head. It can be accomplished NOW with
existing techniques."
years
Science fiction? Hardly. It was scientific fact 23
ago! Why then, could something as simple as implantation
not be an almost perfect accomplishment today. With that
comes control.
Glimpses of the Fourth Dimension
by Donald Haines
Dr. Rudy Rucker introduces us to the fourth
dimension with a movie analogy in his book, The 4th
Dimension: Toward A Geometry of Higher Reality." "Most
modern ghost tales do not bring in the fourth dimension.
An interesting exception is Steven Spielberg's movie
Poltergeist. The 4-D aspect of this movie arises when balls
that are thrown into the closet of one room appear from
the ceiling of another room ... indicating a route through
the fourth dimension!" Rucker suggests further on in his
book that 4-D is not only a spatial concept involving
thrown balls and such, but rather, "...perhaps we ourselves
are, in some very real sense, beings of more than three
dimensions."
P.D. Ouspensky explains that concept using an appeal
to thought-provoking logic.² "If the fourth dimension
exists, one of two things is possible. Either we ourselves
possess the fourth dimension, i.e. are beings of four
dimensions or we possess only three dimensions and in
that case do not exist at all.
"If the fourth dimension exists while we possess only
three, it means that we have no real existence, that we
exist only in somebody's imagination and that all our
thoughts, feelings and experiences take place in the mind
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of some other higher being, who visualizes us. We are but
products of his mind, and the whole of our universe is but
an artificial world created by his fantasy.
"If we do not want to agree with this we must
recognize ourselves as beings of four dimensions ... we are
turned towards the third dimension with only one of our
sides, i.e. with only a small part of our being. Only this
part of us lives in three dimensions, and we are conscious
only of this part as our body. The greater part of our
being lives in the fourth dimension, but we are
unconscious of this greater part of ourselves. Or it would
be still more true to say that we live in a four-dimensional
world, but are conscious of ourselves only in a three-
dimensional world. This means that we live in one kind of
condition, but imagine ourselves to be in another."
Acceptance of Ouspensky's concept of reality as our
true state means that the fourth dimension is not only a
mathematical-space construct, but also a type of
consciousness. Rucker states that when you allow the
argument, then "...higher space can be viewed as a
background of connective tissue tying together the world's
diverse phenomena. If one moves towards higher and
higher conceptions of space, one is tending towards some
ideal 'Superspace' in which everything -- near and far, past
and future, big and small, real and imagined -- is together
in some great Unity."
I have talked with a number of people who have
undergone (or sincerely believed they had undergone)
UFO abductions, out-of-body, near-death, or religious
experiences. However, the most interesting experience
I've heard happened to a man -- we'll call him Bill
has undergone something that may be similar to these
other events or may be very different. He appears to have
had a 4-D experience.
who
How would a 4-D being see a 3-D world? A human
being's retina is a two-dimensional disk of nerve endings.
Rucker believes that a 4-D being's retina would be a 3-D
sphere of nerve endings. Consequently, "A 4-D creature's
'seeing' me would consist of the excitation of a person-
shaped pattern of nerve endings in the little ball of his
retina. Each point in my body sends a light ray ana to a
single point in the 4-D creature's retina." Each point does
not mean just skin area, but rather each part of
my body.
Rucker continues, "...a 4-D creature should be able to
look down at me and, at one glance, see every square inch
of my skin, the inside and outside of my stomach, the
convolutions of my brain, and so on."
How did Bill describe his experience? "I was at work,
sitting in a chair with no one else in the room. Suddenly,
I was transported, suspended above a field. This was not
an out-of-body experience. I was there. Something turned
me, perhaps to allow me to view the scene.
"The beauty and intensity of the colors were
remarkable. Grass, bushes, trees were unlike anything I
had ever observed. I 'saw' more than the surface of the
vegetation. I also knew everything about it. I knew all
there was to know. I could see the grass, but at the same
time see the cell structure. Every bush, every blade of
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grass there were without counting them.
(A feat
sometimes credited to savants.) I was not viewing this
from a distance. I was inside.
"I can't describe the brilliance and intensity of the
colors. I was overwhelmed. The only comparison I can
think of would involve looking at color in a dark room and
then having bright sunlight shine on the object. It was a
night/day difference from normal.
"I was again turned and saw a magnificent animal
coming out of a wooded area. It was beautiful. I could
see its cell structure and the blood rushing through its
veins. I could have told you everything there was to know
about this animal; a dog that was not a dog. It was more.
Its blood had perfect flow and movement. The dog, as
everything else, had no size. It was both big and small.
There was a type of communication with the animal that
didn't include words."
During all this Bill didn't feel that he was out of
control. He was not upset or afraid. He didn't resist. It
felt perfectly normal to be in this situation. (Thoughts
expressed by many who have undergone near-death.)
Suddenly he heard a voice, but it wasn't a voice. The
voice was "injected" into him. The words relieved him of
all stress. As Bill puts it: "I don't know what it meant,
but it answered all of my questions. 'They choose because
I choose they choose'." (Strange messages are reported
also by others in unexplainable circumstances, for example,
UFO abductees.)
an
Going through a list of the five senses, sight was
predominant in this experience. Hearing was
awareness rather than sound. Although he did not touch,
he was touched. He was not conscious of smells or taste.
In 3-D time the incident probably took no more than a
few seconds, perhaps it was instantaneous. In 4-D "...it
could have taken days." He had no real concept of time.
This is the most vivid experience Bill has ever had.
Was it a religious experience, a metaphysical experience, a
"Yes, all and more." Bill doesn't understand the
meaning of the words but believes it was the voice of God
with a capital "G". He is a very devout Christian.
***
Others have related events that include some aspects
of Bill's experience. For example, in a near-death
encounter, Betty Malz describes what she saw and heard.³
"I seemed to be barefoot, but the complete outer shape of
my body was a blur and colorless. Yet I was walking on
grass, the most vivid shade of green I had ever seen. Each
blade was perhaps one inch long, the texture like fine
velvet; each blade was vibrant and moving....I was part of a
universal experience....Communication between us (she
believed it was with an angel) was through the projection
of thoughts....We all seemed to be on some universal
wave-length."
In this instance the descriptions of colors and
communication much the same as they did in Bill's
appear
However, there is no mention of Rucker's 4-D
case.
aspects.
Of course, it's doubtful that Bill's retina somehow
went through a physical change. Perhaps something else
happened, something involving Ouspensky's view of a 4-D
world. This event occurred during a traumatic period of
Bill's life. Unusual events began 15 years earlier with an
hour of missing time while on an auto trip from college to
his home. "It left me physically shaking."
Other bizarre events happened over the years: A
"spoken" number sequence (523 016 484), déjà vu,
precognition, and a blue-light woman.
The woman, a
shimmering light, was beautiful, very shy and appeared in
his room at night about 7 or 8 times over the five years
preceding the 4-D event. She would touch and wake him,
The touch produced a sense of warmth,
then retreat.
unlike most contacts with ghosts.
Bill's life has stabilized over the last few years, and the
Unusual has stopped. What's his reaction? Would he like
to go through a repeat performance? "In a way; I do miss
the luminous woman. She was beautiful."
If
Rucker and Ouspensky may be onto something.
one moves toward higher and higher concepts of space,
many mysteries might blend together in some great Unity.
Certainly anomalies and mystery subjects such
poltergeists, UFOs, ghosts, rains of rocks, déjà vu, strange
animals, men-in-black, and so on, could fit that Unity.
REFERENCES:
(1)
as
The 4th Dimension: Toward a
Rucker, R.
Geometry of Higher Reality. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin Co. Inc., 1984.
(2)
Ouspensky, P.D.
"The Fourth Dimension." A
New Model of the Universe. 1931. Reprint. New
York: Random House, 1971.
Malz, B. My Glimpse of Eternity. Old Tappan,
N.J.: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1977.
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OFF THE BOOKSHELF
"Raiders of the Lost Spaceships"
There are lots of unusual and creative theories and
beliefs, many of which have seen print. The chief trouble
with most of them lies with the "proof" adduced, rather
than with the opinion.
That seems to be the case with Zecharia Sitchin's
book The 12th Planet (New York: Avon Books, 1978
paperback, 436 pp.). Approaches previously seen in
Velikovsky (planetary crashes and upheavals) and in von
Däniken (alien cosmonaut "gods") are here combined in
a story of mankind's first civilization in Mesopotamia. The
Sumarians in this volume have alien spacemen to thank
for their progress.
The idea of alien spacemen (or "creatures") is not
impossible, even though the Earth is more hidden in the
universe than the proverbial "needle in a haystack". As
we have seen, the problem is in finding the proof.
Sitchin's book is beautifully illustrated in the effort to
support his contentions and the author has gone to great
effort to put his claims forward in a convincing manner.
In this writer's opinion, the proof adduced fails to convince
a reader with some knowledge of the ancient world, but
the book itself remains interesting despite that drawback;
the wealth of illustrations brought forward is interesting in
itself, regardless of the author's accuracy of explanation
concerning what is pictured.
Some examples of explanations that do not convince
the reader:
1. Figure 15 on page 36 shows a man receiving some sort
of "radiation" treatment (claimed on p. 35), but the
simpler view is that a corpse being burned is shown (see
drawing below).
2. Figure 69 on page 144 is claimed to depict a rocket in
the sky (claimed on p. 142). This figure may show instead
a comet; one thinks of the way Halley's Comet is shown
on the tapestry celebrating William the Conqueror's
invasion of England in 1066. Which view is more likely?
3. Figure 77 on page 160 is said (on p. 159) to depict a
"rocket" in a "silo". To anyone with a familiarity with
ancient Egyptian burial practices, the picture shows a
cross-section of a tomb. The chief evidence for the
"tomb" view would be that many pots of food (for the
future life) are shown and, far to Egypt's south, small
cone-like "pyramid" imitation tomb markers were
erected; this is likely to be the true nature of the author's
"nose-cone" of a rocket. The land far the south was
Napata and the place of the small, slender, conic pyramid-
like structures was Meroë. Of course, before the advent
of the huge pyramids with their temples where food could
be brought for the spirit of the dead, the practice was to
bury rulers with their own supply of food in many pots (in
the early "mastaba"-tombs). The place Meroë was south
of the second Nile cataract, some considerable distance
from the more settled parts of Egypt, yet close enough to
be affected by the more dominant culture and civilization
to the north. The Roman emperor Nero was said to have
sent a party of explorers to Meroë (cf. Michael Grant,
Nero, New York: Dorset Press, 1989, pp. 111-112).
Sitchin says (p. 159) only that the drawing was found in
the tomb of an "Egyptian governor of a far land".
4. Figure 22 on page 59 shows what scholars have called a
depiction of the "Mistress of the Animals" (from ancient
Crete). The author presents this as a depiction of
"Aphrodite" (p. 57). This may or may not be true, but
when an author makes flat claims that are not generally
accepted by scholars about a small matter, it may put in
doubt his views and opinions on other matters more
germane to his contentions. Indeed, some scholars may
believe the Mistress of the Animals would have been
cognate with Aphrodite and not with, say, Hera or
Artemis-but the author's contention would even then
remain a selective choice and not a designation that is
generally accepted and thought to be true by scholars.
Arbitrary interpretations abound.
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Despite one's rejection of the thrust of the author's
beliefs in this book, it remains true that the text is worth
looking into because of the numerous illustrations from
ancient cylinder seals. The author does not take
quotations out of context as Velikovsky was said to have
done and does not make use of "faked" proof as is
alleged of some authors. The problem here is that the
proof, presented carefully and embodying great effort, is
still not sufficiently convincing.
H.T. '90
H. H. Trotti
Drawing by the reviewer after Fig. 15 in Z. Sitchin's The 12th Planet,
page 36. Sitchin claims on the previous page that this depiction from
early Sumeria shows an example of "medical irradiation" of a person
H.H.T.
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THEORIES & IDEAS
MORE ON COMETARY IMAGERY
by Thomas A. Luce
This is a copy of Page 242 from E.G. Squier's book,
The Serpent Symbol, And the Worship of the Reciprocal
Principles of Nature in America (George P. Putnam, 1851).
NOTE TO CHAPTER X.
(Q.)
SOME writers upon the subject of Serpentine temples, or Dracontía,
have not hesitated in asserting that the Python of Delphi, the Dragon
of Colchis, and the "Dragon of the Hesperides," were not fabulous
but real monsters, neither serpents nor dragons, but serpent temples
and dracontia. It has even been suggested (Deane, Brit. Archg., vol.
xxv. p. 226,) that the "Dragon of the Hesperides" was none other
than the great serpentine temple of Karnac, itself! In the the same
catalogue have been classed the enormous dragons covering "acres" of
territory, mentioned by Iphicrates, Strabo, Maximus Tyrius, and Posi-
donius, of which Bryant remarks that "they could only have been
Ophite temples, enigmatically represented to excite admiration, being
uniformly measured by land measures."
"Ipbicrates," says Bryant, (Myth., vol. ii. p. 135.) "relates that in
Mauritania there were dragons of such extent that grass grew upon
their backs. What can be meant under this representation but a dra-
contium, within whose precincts they encouraged verdure?"
Again: "It is said by Maximus Tyrius, (Dis. 8. c. vi. p. 65,) that
Taxiles, a mighty prince of India, carried Alexander the Great to see
a dragon which was sacred to Dionusus, and itself esteemed a god. It
was of stupendous size, being in extent equal to five acres, and residing
in a low deep place, walled round to a great height."
• "Si-
milar to the above is the account given by Posidonius of a serpent
which he saw in the plains of Macra in Syria He says that it was
about an acre in length, and of a thickness so remarkable that two per-
sons on horseback, when they rode on opposite sides, could not see each
other. Each scale was as big as a shield, and a man might ride in at
his mouth." "One of the dragons in the neighborhood of Damascus,
which, according to Noonus, was overcome by Damascenus, an earth-
born giant, is described as being fifty acres in extent."-(Bryant's Anal.,
vol. ii. pp. 105, 142.)
Now we know the origin of the name "Damascus", the
capital of Syria. The Serpent-Dragon Symbol (cometary
imagery) and its symbolical worship can be traced to
wherever there existed a monument of civilization or
humanity.
Now it should be understood why I propose that
serpent-dragon symbolism (cometary imagery) is the
archetype for much of what the human race is today.
Vestiges of the terrifying experiences of the past can be
found in the present behavior of humanity. The red devil
of Christian tradition represents cometary imagery.
When E.G. Squier published The Serpent Symbol in
1851 he did not know that serpent-dragon symblism was
meant to represent cometary imagery.
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WATER INTO WINE
by Hugh Trotti
There is a tendency in our era to see things we don't
understand in terms of mental phenomena. Thus we may
mention Jungian archetypes or Joseph Campbell and the
"uplifting power" of myth. Sometimes it does seem as
though we have returned to the days of the armchair
theorist before Schliemann actually dug up Troy. A recent
example of this "symbolical" thinking was cited in the
Jan./Feb. issue of Archaeology magazine, in a film review
by Peter S. Allen. He mentions the efforts by a scholar to
see biblical miracles as not supernatural, but rather as
representing certain events in a symbolic way (the Pescher
method). Thus, when Jesus turns water into wine, this
really represents the presenting of the "Eucharist to a
wider audience" (op. cit., p. 72, article "The Riddle of the
Dead Sea Scrolls").
Very clever, and somewhat like the medieval way of
seeing everything real on Earth as symbolic of some
religious thing. Now, we have nothing against seeking
non-supernatural explanations for puzzles. And there may
be a simpler way to present the water-wine mystery.
We all know that the Greeks and Romans "tempered"
their wine with water. In that way they could have a
lengthy social evening without becoming drunk, and drink
and talk for hours in a civilized way.
It may not be as well known that the Greeks in the
great city of Alexandria, Egypt, had developed many
mechanisms of an "automaton" type. Not only was the
steam engine invented (a revolving sphere), but many
other types of moving and non-moving mechanisms <- we
remember the emperor Nero's organ, for example.
However, more to the point here, they had come up with
a container that was divided into two parts; one side held
water and the other side wine. It is very likely that small
versions of this device were in private homes of well-to-do
"pagans". (We know of the soda straw which is filled with
water, but which does not drain out when one's finger
closes the straw's end. The ancient two-part container
could easily work on the same principle, dispensing either
wine or water through the same spigot, depending on
where the server placed a finger over a hole.)
It would be very simple for such a device to be
misunderstood by early Christians. And, insofar as
Gibbon was right in his opinion that they really believed
pagan deities existed as "demons" (cf. Decline and Fall of
the Roman Empire), they may have considered such
changing of water into wine as demonic manifestations.
But, even if not, they would wish the unlettered populace
to believe they could do what the "pagans" could do, in
their competition for believing followers. Symbolism is
not needed to see the water-into-wine as a sort of brag
that "our religion could do that, too."
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RESEARCH TIPS
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and equipment of whatever kind one
old and new
may need or wish, at going prices or far less than one can
buy at the local camera shops.
As an amateur photographer who takes photographs
and does his own copy work, both for his own pleasure
and in the pursuit of his fortean hobby, I would have been
limited in what I could do if not for this photographic
magazine. Its ads and articles have helped immensely.
My first tip to budding fortean researchers is to get a
copy of this magazine and examine it for the type of
equipment that you think you might need. And always,
before you buy, get various books on photography and
study them for reviews on capabilities, limitations and the
cost factor. Always remember: "A picture is worth a
thousand words!"
Editor's Comments:
As someone who has taken thousands of pictures
here and overseas, I have compiled this list of the
minimum equipment I think one should take with them
on any serious field expedition:
✔ One 35mm camera with zoom lens, loaded with 200
or 400 speed color film
✔ One 35mm camera with standard lens, loaded with
100 or 200 speed color film
✓ A tripod (can be quite useful)
✓ A flash unit (and several sets of spare batteries)
✓ A haze filter for the standard lens (to cut down on
the glare on overcast days)
✓ A UV filter for the standard lens (to cut down on the
glare on very bright, sunny days)
✓ Extra batteries for the camera itself
✓ Lens cleaning cloth and a small, very soft camera (or
lens) brush (to keep the cameras clean)
As many spare rolls of film in the various speeds as
you can carry (just in case the opportunity of a
lifetime shows up)
✓ Optional: An autowinder for the camera with the
zoom lens (this might be useful in those cases
where a target might come and go quickly)
✔ Optional: Several rolls of black and white film (this is
a matter of taste; for light and dark contrast)
✔ Optional: Several rolls of color slide film (if you plan
to give a lecture or bore your relatives)
✔ Optional: Cable release (if taking long exposures)
Optional: Color filters (for "artistic" effects)
Optional: A macro lens for one of the cameras (if
you intend to take extremely close pictures of
something small to show detail)
✓ A camera bag with shoulder strap to carry the small
items and extra film.
All this may sound like a lot of equipment but it is
necessary if you want to do the job right. The value of
pictures to suppliment an article is substantial. I'm not
saying you'll win a Pulitzer Prize, but you never know.
Be sure to be completely familiar with all of your
equipment before going into the field. Practice,
practice, practice. If Nessie or Bigfoot rears up in front
of you, you don't want to have to spend 15-20 minutes
trying to figure out what to do. You may lose a great
M.R.G.
opportunity! Good luck and good hunting.
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LETTERS TO T.A.R.A.
Dear Mark:
I have always regarded precognition and poltergeist
phenomena as anomalies, as breakdowns of the usual and
prevailing patterns of phenomenal behavior. But
precognition and what appears to be a more fundamental
process, prefixion, are apparently anomalous in a sense
different from the fortean anomalies that have been your
main concern.
Prefixion can occur in an apparent out-of-body state,
thus seemingly requiring a species of desomatization.
However, one still functions in a body-and this is the
prefixional body (a very specific term applied to a specific
entity). Prefixional experiences may be considered as a
special type of dream-experience in which there may be
varying degrees of consciousness as well as varying degrees
of concordance with the future event to which it pertains.
You write about a fog in connection with temporal
anomalies. There is also a fog or mist that is met with in
the out-of-body state-one which may vary in density,
being either very slight (or faint) or very dense. I have
observed this effect in my own experiences. Telepathic
visions or hallucinations, which when suspended in midair
and resembling a hologram, may be surrounded by a faint
mist. Such a mist appears to be a concrete substance even
if it is in what we refer to as a subjective experience.
You must also consider the subjective aspects of
temporal anomalies. Our experience of time is based
upon our perception of the relative movements and
positions of objects in space. Space cannot be separated
from objects. One should use the term interspace rather
than space.
Objects, likewise, cannot be experienced
without the space they occupy. Atomic and subatomic
particles occur in
The astronomer's space,
space.
it now
appears, is becoming less and less a space, and more and
more a crowded composite.
Hi, Mark!
James Baker
Cleveland, OH
I've been thinking about your time theory and have
come up with some interesting speculations. They are
something which could eventually form the basis of a
book, perhaps in collaboration with you. But, for now, I
thought I would just present them in rough form.
In the Beginning, there were an equal number of
chronons and antichronons. In our universe, at least, the
antichronons proved unstable. They tend to decay at a
predictable rate. A unit would have started out with a
fifty-fifty percentage of chronons and antichronons, causing
no motion in time. As the antichronons decayed, the
percentage would change, resulting in forward time
motion. This creates a proper place in time for a unit and
a normal progressive speed (think of this decay as being
similar to radioactive decay).
The normal progression of a unit would thus be from
zero movement in time
when the forward-moving
chronons (Cs) and the backward-moving antichronons
(ACS) equalled each other to an ever accelerating time
speed, as the percentage of Cs to ACs increased.
Temporal anomalies occur because of the presence of
"free-floating" Cs and ACs. Units can be broken apart,
resulting in free-floating ACs; free-floating Cs would be at
a 100% level quickly and accelerate beyond us. These
ACs can become temporarily associated with a unit,
changing its percentage. Let's say you're in Oregon right
now with a normal percentage of 80% Cs. Some free-
floating ACs temporarily attach themselves to you, causing
your percentage to become 75% C. You will be
temporarily thrown back in time. The union is unstable,
however, so that the ACs will lose their association. This
will snap you back to your proper level of 80, where your
decay will continue at the normal rate.
ACs, Cs, gravity and electromagnetism (EM) seem to
be linked. The concept of necessary spatial travel in time
travel to account for the fact that the planet has moved
ignores the possibility that
time may
be linked
gravitationally to the planet, just as the atmosphere is. Just
as our atmosphere travels with us, it is possible that time
may do so also.
The electromagnetic link is also important. It answers
the question of structural integrity. If a geometrically
defined field of ACs were encountered, we would be far
more likely to find half of a Bigfoot than the whole thing.
Bio-organisms have clearly defined EM fields, to my
understanding. The organism in its entirety would be
affected; its basic structuring would define the field.
Window areas and the so-called vortices have been
proposed to show geomagnetic and possibly gravitational
anomalies. These would be areas where the break-up of
units would be more likely to occur, resulting in the
increased presence of ACs.
In the future, the result of all this might be
predictable, but not controllable time travel. It might be
possible to calculate for the presence of ACs, but not to
create them. Thus, the famous falling leaf pattern of
UFOs may be them locating the field of ACs. The time
traveler would quite possibly not even know for certain
when they are going, but returning to their same time
would be likely.
I'm looking forward to further discussion with you
about [these concepts]. It was your basic theory that
generated this and that is why future collaboration makes
good sense!
Bufo Calvin
Pittsburg, CA
[Some of Bufo's ideas make sense and I look
forward to working with him.
The Editor]
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