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Third, to link the new field into a multidisciplinary approach -- and which was sadly lacking in the existing approaches to it. Indeed, the idea that the phenomena were exclusively of psychological origin was just a theory that had taken hold somewhere back in time. It was an assumption, nothing more. There really ought to be a physics connection to them, a biological connection, a neurological one. Perhaps there were connections no one had yet discovered. Puthoff had been thinking of the term PSYCHOENERGETICS, so I suggested that we spend a few hours erecting a new box-and-flow organizational chart based in that concept -- and relate that concept to the multidisciplinary approach. Puthoff made his daily telephone session short when we got to SRI. We then got some paper, pens, 3 x 5 index cards, retired into an unused conference room and spent several hours envisioning a completely new field replete with novel nomenclature. Finally, we were able to put all the cards together into a box-and-flow chart made up of six standard paper pages scotched-taped together. The whole of this was thrilling. My archive copy of this first restructuring was later stolen in 1973 from my office at SRI. But I have a copy of the second one -- and which I’ll present in due course. While driving me to the San Francisco airport, Puthoff returned to the topic of a second visit. "No way, Jose," I replied. "Well," he smiled with usual optimism, "maybe I’ll make you an offer you can’t refuse." On the plane I enjoyed three Vodka and Sodas on the rocks and mulled over the SRI experience.