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other parapsychologists have, and in print -- in one case, believe it or not, in the JOURNAL of the ASPR itself). After the third formal experiment, Janet and I went to a local coffee shop for hamburgers. There we discussed this miserable little storm with a stream of mighty four-letter invectives. I felt like a flea-bitten dog. But this event was a "learning experience" regarding being directly in the field of fire. I was to benefit from it in the difficult years ahead. At first I thought this event was merely the product of a few scumbaggy minds. Later I found it indicative of something far more insidious, even diabolical -- as we’ll see somewhere ahead. Unfortunately, this little miserable event blighted my overviews about parapsychology proper, at times perhaps even unfairly so. But such Machiavellian intrigues went on within all the organizations I reviewed in the preceding chapter -- ALL of them. And all of them suffered internally because of intraorganizational persecutorial gossip. The noble and brilliant Madam Blavatsky, for example, was actually ejected from Theosophy proper, the very organization she had founded. Chapter 26 THE FIRST OUTBOUND REMOTE VIEWING EXPERIMENT