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WOW! Here Puthoff was talking about BASIC life processes, and was including psi phenomena among them. PROCESSES! And processes at the fundamental quantum level, processes which, if faster than light, might help account for the instantaneous perceptions I had noted during the ASPR experiments. Well, I had never encountered this view in parapsychology (as it existed at that time.) I was not a quantum physicist, of course, but I felt from my own experiential levels that I completely understood what Puthoff was talking about. In reading his ideas, I felt I was reading a version of my own concepts. So. If you had been in my position and hunting for knowledge that might help elucidate complicated things, and all other things considered, what would you have done? I didn't need to decide to write Puthoff. I just sat down and did it with a letter dated 30 March 1972. After saying that Cleve Backster had suggested I be in touch with him, I wrote: "I have been working for several months now in two directions, firstly at the American Society for Psychical Research on trying to increase visual capacity by extrasensory modes, and secondly at City College with Dr. Gertrude Schmeidler on certain psychotronic and psychokinetic effects.