Dear Marcia,

I was not personally offended by your posting. It was, as I mentioned, scientifically accurate. I described my background and a tiny fraction of my experiences so that others may mentally allow for the possibilities of other co-existing realities that they may or may not get to experience directly.

Prior to visiting India nearly almost yearly between 1980 and 1990, my belief systems did not allow for the reality of some things that I came to know are really real. I came to know and interact with an incredibly wise and, apparently, all-knowing man. He answered every question BEFORE I could state them out loud. He told me, with total accuracy, about friends and family that had never been to India and just didn't believe in "such things", such "absurd nonsense." In October of 1986 he told me, off the cuff, that the US stock market would set record highs in January of '87. (I believe that my dates are accurate here, but am not totally certain; just my best recall.) I thought, at the time that he was joking. He wasn't. I did not "play the market" based on his forecast, but did notice his uncanny accuracy.

Many others have reported experiences nearly identical to my own.

My operational understanding, my interim model, of psychic phenomena goes something like this.

All minds are, somehow, connected like radio or TV transmitters and receivers or TV sets. Under some conditions some people can spontaneously "transmit" and or "receive" the thoughts and mental images of others. I have even experienced this between a cat and myself.

In the cat instances it was simple visual images that were transmitted from me to the cat and from the cat to myself...different times and circumstances and exclusively visual. No language, no symbolism, no abstract concepts; just images. Sometimes extremely clear. The only ones I am ever willing to describe are those that could not have been explained by any other phenomena with which I am familiar. It always makes me smile, laugh out loud and experience a state of "wonderment". When I use the phrase "wonderful" with my friends and family it does not mean that everything is great or terrific or that I am feeling fine. Wonderful means that I am in a state of wonder, of awe, am marveling at what I am experiencing first hand. Of course, all of this is without any CERTAINTY as to exactly how it works. I suppose that if I had the total understanding of how it worked that I would no longer be in a state of wonder. It's a bit like your first rainbow. Wonderful, no? The Aurora Borealis; marvelous, no?

Hey, don't take me TOO seriously because I also think that Garfield the Cat is awesome and marvelous and really makes me laugh!

G'nite Marcia,

Hugh