Fresh from the X-Pac Conference, with Steve Bassett making one great catch after another as he tied up loose ends, we were lucky to have landed a great interview with former remote viewer and intelligence officer Major Paul H. Smith for a two-part story on some of the more intriguing aspects of the program. Smith’s forthcoming Tor/Forge book,
(October, 2004), will provide a treasure trove of insights into little-known aspects about this country’s use of the paranormal to surveill strategic sites during the Cold War.
Also noteworthy are columnist George Noory’s revelations about his aunt, the well-known advocate of higher sensory perception, Shafica Karagulla, M.D. The late Dr. Karagulla was a psychiatrist whose introduction to the possibilities of alternate reality came as the result of her work with the also famous Dr. Wilder Penfield in Montreal and her studies about the renowned Edgar Cayce and his own remote viewing of distant locations. This is the beginning of a series on remote viewing that will continue for the next couple of issues.
Joining us for this issue as well is my friend Joel Martin, a New York Times bestselling author who is probably best known for his debunking of the Amityville Horror hoax over twenty years ago. Yet, Joel himself became a victim of cruel irony after Father Malachi Martin was called in to exorcise the house and opened a deep well of evil spirits that enveloped many of the participants in the story.
In this issue, Joel introduces Sean Casteel’s article on Indigo Children and suggests that our country’s dualistic thinking regarding the paranormal was partly responsible for the terrible treatment this generation of children received in the public schools. Ritalin, contrary to popular bureaucratic belief and the caustic cacaphony of a chorus of ill-advised skeptics, mainly served to medicate away the natural creativity of many of these Indigo Children, leaving them frustrated, bored, unchallenged, and angry.
Our country’s intelligence services embraced the paranormal, exploited our population’s concerns over visitors from outer space invading our skies, while it vigorously denied the paranormal could be involved when it concerned children it wanted placid and sheepish, just so the bureaucracy could be satisfied.
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