Lehal Library

I went on. If there is a group mind, there possibly could be a species-wide one - having some kind of memory . . . which individuals could link into . . . Axelrod interrupted. "Are you speaking about some kind of Akashic record or something like that?" He now DTD seem nervous. "No, not exactly. Some kind of species memory storage - maybe at the DNA molecular level. I know this idea makes scientists throw up, but so does any aspect of Psi." I paused to see if this passed inspection by Mr. Axelrod. He was very quiet and so I couldn't tell. But finally he said "continue." "There has been a lot of interest as to why the coordinate thing should work. I've discussed it with Dr. Jacques Vallee, the famous Ufologist along the lines of information theory. "Certain theories regarding information hold that it exists everywhere as sort of a cosmic thing. And if one had an 'address' for it, one could link into it, like a computer that can find information if there is a correct address for it." "Are you suggesting," Axelrod asked, "that the mind is a computer that can link into . . ." "Well, something like that, but not at the intellectual level. There actually must be lots of mind layers that function differently." "But why should coordinates function . . .?" Axelrod mused, almost to himself. "Hell, in a cosmic sense, if one has a round ball or a planet, and if one wants to divide it up, one will assign what amount to longitudes and latitudes. These will divide the ball into segments. If Intelligence exists as a universal, then this would be the best universal way to divide up a planet so as to know where one is on it." "This is a matter of triangulation. Is this not how illegal radios are found * by sending out two or three cars with antennae that can get a triangulated fix. I saw this in a World War II movie . . .". "'Universal'?" Axelrod asked. Now a "hot" magnetic thing seemed to come out of him. "Why did you use that word?" Well, why NOT I thought. "Well, the best evidence we have for telepathy, for example, is that it seems to be universal to our species. People experience it regardless of their different cultures, their different backgrounds. If we assume that Intelligence can be universal, we also have to assume that Intelligence also has to have sensing factors that also are universal." Having said my piece, I awaited Axelrod's comment. He just sat looking at me in an odd kind of way. Suddenly I got the idea: Aha, he has some coordinates in the Soviet Union he want me to look at. After all, everyone else had them.