My Library

As psychologists say most people do, some of them presented an official public side -- but there is also a hidden side conducted in private and secrecy. Several books, I think, have rather recently been written about this. Hal Puthoff and I twice talked on the telephone, and both times he repeated his invitation to come to SRI. But I now had a second reason not to go. I told him of the sudden upsurge in vile gossip. "If I come there," I said, "you will have an alcoholic, faggot, mind-manipulator on your hands, one who also seduces elderly wealthy women. I'm sure you don't want such an odious creature under your wings." In any event, I had firmly decided to slip out of the work at the ASPR and get back to my real life. I told him of this intent, and said "No. Thanks for your offer, but I'll not come there." I was not the first to undergo the "gossip torture treatment," as I sometimes referred to it. When Bob Monroe published in his first book that he could pinch female asses while out-ofbody, the gossip exploded that if he could do THAT he could do all the rest, too. Soon two or three women surfaced who claimed that they had been taken wonderful and satisfying advantage of by him while HE was roaming about in a lusty out-of-body state. He was also accused of invading and reading minds, and mind-controlling situations to his own advantage.