Forbidden Science 4: The Spring Hill Chronicles: Journals of Jacques Vallee 1990-1999 by Jacques Vallee

Author:Jacques Vallee [Vallee, Jacques]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781949501056
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Publisher: Anomalist Books
Published: 2019-06-19T22:00:00+00:00

Part Fifteen

WILD CARDS

11

Hummingbird. Monday 1 January 1996.

A new year is here and technology rages on. Anyone returning to Silicon Valley after a two-year absence would be astonished at the rapid changes, first among them the new cultural attitudes and escalated prices. Confusion about psychic research is a case in point. Our friend Dr. Keith Harary was on television today, interviewed by a former San Francisco mayor about his role as “a psychic for the CIA.” The man kept asking if psychics could win the lottery! Similar confusion is rampant whenever aerial phenomena are discussed, occasionally creating mental collisions that fascinate me.

In one recent case an abductee reports seeing human arms and legs piled up like firewood in a corner of a dark room, lit by a blue glow. Ufologists take it at face value. To me the scene has a stunning mytho-poetic connection to Germanic fairy tales where a hero spends the night in a haunted castle; little men force him to play bowling games as they knock down bones using human heads that keep dropping down the chimney. In the tale a horrible being reassembles itself out of members that have appeared chaotically. Is that clear enough?

Hummingbird. Friday 5 January 1996.

John Petersen just called me about the strategic plans of Bigelow’s new National Institute for Discovery Science (“NIDS.”) He outlined ten ambitious tasks followed by a thinkpiece in the style of management consultants, with words like “broad assessment of plausible futures… (1)”

Hummingbird. Saturday 6 January 1996.

Skeptical of Petersen’s approach, when we have not even listed basic facts, or researchable issues, I drafted a two-page letter to NIDS asking Bob Bigelow what was actually funded and what results were sought. I also recommended the appointment of a public information officer as a focal point for the media. Within an hour John Petersen was calling me: planning had started out well, he said but Kit, like me, had reacted negatively. “This strategy business is a waste of time,” he’d said, rather upset. “Why do you want to plot future scenarios?” Petersen flew back to Washington in a foul mood:

“Bigelow is working on four real estate deals, each worth 100 million dollars, so he doesn’t pay much attention to the Institute. His assistant McDuff has been putting together a security plan and a computer plan. When he took it to Bigelow his proposal was shot down, so he’s just sitting there with nothing to do.

Hummingbird. Sunday 7 January 1996.

Bob Bigelow called this afternoon, answering my queries. Petersen wanted $40,000 to orchestrate a strategic plan for the Institute. Bob stopped him: “We’d have become bogged down. I’ve applied the brakes because we don’t have the right management in place yet.”

Leading parapsychologist Dean Radin has moved over to the consciousness research lab funded by Bigelow at the University of Nevada: “He’ll do the daily research, concentrating on the psychomentum work, which implies a scrying environment. As you know we have three open positions, two for consciousness and one for aerial phenomena. The hardest thing

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