My Library

But Puthoff was the diplomat-warrior who held the enormously complicated remote viewing "package" together -- a feat I could not have pulled off myself. Getting a little ahead of the story here, you will soon see my relationship with Puthoff was very bumpy at times. Therefore it is important to establish that our relationship was held together not because of affiliations of any kind, but by issues which were relevant to the larger picture of human potentials regarding the socially rejected superpowers of the human biomind. No matter how many fights we had in the future (and there were to be many), the issues functioned to bridge them. If, in reading the pages of this book, the concept of the larger-picture issues gets forgotten, then the essential real story of remote viewing will promptly pass down into the silly social dilemmas which surround all of the superpowers. Cleve Backster had given me certain papers by Puthoff. But I was determined not to be in touch with him because of the Scientology thing. It was Zelda Dearest who rather rudely resolved the situation for me. I described the situation to her over a game of Scrabble. She thought about it for a while -- and then said: "But aren't you subjecting him to the same prejudice you just underwent at the ASPR?" In her own way, Zelda could get to the nub of things as could Al Brod Dearest. "This isn't prejudice," I replied. "It's a serious issue."