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Chapter 7 THE EVENT IN LOS ANGELES During August and September 1976 I traveled several times between SRI and Los Angeles. I went to La-La Land to pursue yet another of the many kinds of studies I had undertaken hopefully to increase my understanding of higher human functions. I had several good friends in La-La Land, and I was staying in the house of one of them. This was a certain Conrad W. who had many extraordinary qualities. One had the feeling that Conrad was a kind of uncomplicated "old soul," who was somewhat out of place in a modernist society that had become dramatically detached from even remote elements of wisdom. Conrad seemed to absorb insightful information by telepathic osmosis. He was articulate about many things, but very laid back and with a subtle sense of humor. In other words, he was delightful to be with. I was also in touch with the marvelous researcher, Dr. Shafica Karagulla, and her research companion. Dr. Viola Neal, both of whom have passed on. Shafica was a neuropsychiatrist who had broken with mainstream psychiatry to establish the Higher Sense Perception Foundation, and had published in 1967 her famous book, Breakthrough to Creativity. Viola was a notable clairvoyant whose psychic mapping of human biofields and psychic diagnosis of diseases had been confirmed by doctors and in hospitals. Viola and Shafica were very kind to me in many ways. Their combined knowledge levels seemed extensive, even endless. One had the impression that their consciousnesses were existing in some higher frequency range - from where they could look down into the dross of average human life. And in this dross, this dynamic duo could perceive conspiracies everywhere at work conspiracies erecting invisible prisons into which human abilities were incarcerated and destroyed. Beyond this, the two were plugged into the unofficial torn-toms of science central and its many fringes which included parapsychology, governmental plans and plots, and the carryings-on of contemporary mystics and occultists.