occasionally flows through them. So I was now suspect -- although no one seemed to know what for. And as most people realize, where facts are not available our species has a penchant to fill them in with imagination. In this way, I thus became an irritant within the introverted parapsychological subculture -become some outside official interests seemed to be focusing on me for some unknown reason. Chapter 22 MRS. RUTH HAGY BROD - JANUARY, 1972 - The next morning was not an ASPR working day. So I went to visit Ruth Hagy Brod and told her of the situation. I had a certain amount of savvy regarding all of this, of course -- and Cleve Backster had certainly hinted at it earlier. But I needed to talk it out with someone whom I knew did know how things like that worked. And now it is my great pleasure to introduce Ruth (and her husband, Al Brod,) so that they do take their wonderful place among all the other people who were so kind and supportive during my early years in the "field" -- and without whom I would have been scrambled into soggy fish cakes long ago.