My Library

"THEY keep track of all notable psychics. They have for years. They've had dark programs for a long time. Everyone knows that. They're probably just interested in your progress at the ASPR. They ALREADY know everything else about you." I mulled this over. "You mean some kind of surveillance? In psychic stuff? But who ARE they?" Ruth smiled calmly. "Well, one never knows for sure." Ruth then took me to lunch at the Press Club just near her apartment. Once there, I had collected my senses enough to ask: "But surely THEY can do their stuff without anyone knowing about it, can't they?" "Oh, yes. So they WANT you to know you are under scrutiny. That's how they work. They want to find out how you will behave." After I had worked my way through this bit trying to decide if it was true or not, I decided it represented a challenge of some kind. I was angry, and embarrassed, but this mysterious event did constitute a perhaps positive scandal -- if interpreted the way Ruth had done. The problem was that with only a few exceptions, those who inhabited the field of parapsychology would not interpret it in this light. The upshot of this was that I determined to begin the FORMAL OOB experiments at the ASPR -- and let hang out whatever was to flutter from them.