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of the many session failures regarding my "perceptions," the work was efficiently organized and going well and many successful experiments had accumulated. The gossip about the experimental successes had energized everyone. As a result, the ASPR, somewhat an antiquated non-entity within the whole of parapsychology, was beginning to receive a great deal of renewed interest. I would not drag the reader through the details of the two great storms except for the fact that it was because of them I eventually decided to accept Dr. H. E. Puthoff’s invitation to visit Stanford Research Institute in California. As you will see ahead, without the stimulus of the two storms, I believe I would not have accepted the invitation. But there is another reason to reveal the details of the two storms here. For they demonstrate the traditional Western way to keep knowledge hidden about the superpowers of the human bio-mind. To wit: discredit and destroy experiments, evidence and individuals which might bring that knowledge to the surface. Such, of course, is typical of most skeptical tactics. And I knew this years before it came about that I could work as a test-subject in laboratories. But at the time in 1972, I was astonished to find the same tactics employed in parapsychological research itself. This Machiavellian issue was also occasionally to hound the work at Stanford Research Institute in the years ahead.