Lecture for "Eyes of Learning" Summer 1998 A simple verbal statement is a series of symbols which may be interpreted in a variety of ways depending upon the perceptual capacity and level of focus of the individuals hearing or reading the words. As one whimsical example of this variable interpretation, consider the Bob Dylan lyric:” O momma: can this really be the end...to be trapped inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues again?” Obviously, as most people interpret this lyric, it refers to the boredom of a musician on tour in Alabama and Tennessee. But when I first heard this lyric in the mid-sixties I thought that Dylan was singing:”...to be trapped inside a mobile...” i.e.: a hanging mobile sculpture “...with the Memphis blues again.” This is because my sensory perception “travels” automatically in a poetical way and I can mentally spin inside mobile sculptures if I am in the mood. It would be quite a dilemma to be trapped inside a kinetic sculpture in the Memphis museum of art. So when I hear eccentric interpretations of my own poems or books, I remember that all people do not automatically have the same frame of reference upon which to hang any simple statement. I assume in my work that there exists a multidimensional reality which the developing consciousness of humanity imperfectly perceives. I include myself in this collective development process and I do not assume, simply because I may be the scribe or poetical narrator of any idea or experience, that therefore I must have the ultimate or fixed interpretation of the situation I am rendering. My job is to present a communications experience which actually communicates the essence of the event or idea upon which I am focusing. Aspects of that experience may remain perplexing to me. As a simple illustration of this concept, remember that it is possible to paint a portrait or make a true verbal description of a person whose intimate motivations are never specifically disclosed. This may actually be an accurate portrait. It is not an analysis; it is a description of observed characteristics. In my writing about expanded consciousness and the supernatural, I am a journalist. I keep journals of interdimensional experiences. I do not design experiments which create interdimensional events. I have occasionally participated in experiments conducted by analytical technicians or psychologists but this is not the major part of my work. I feel that technicians who attempt to study interdimensional events by statistical or “control batch” protocol often do not clearly understand their inevitable role within these events and the connections from time previous and time future which also may play a role in the present results they are measuring. Actually, it is not always designated “scientists” who make unanticipated scientific discoveries. As the many corporate employees who have developed corn flakes, generic pharmaceuticals and cars which work know from experience, a true technician will not always know “why” a procedure works--only “that” it works. Simple working procedures should be sufficient for human progress in both arts and sciences. The test of a new, commercial product is not “why” it flips over and answers the phone but that it reliably flips over and answers the phone. Nothing else is actually required by the person who benefits from this invention or discovery beyond adequate “use” of the knowledge.. Over-analysis of interdimensional or “supernatural” events may actually obscure accurate observation and documentation of these events. It is possible that the poverty of focused attention to these situations has created a luxury of time wherein extra doodads of quasi-scientific function are permitted to clutter the landscape. What does it take to document a bird flying by the window? A camera, a notebook and pencil and in the optimum circumstances two witnesses. This is actually all that is necessary also to document a flying apple, six ghosts dancing the minuet in Hoboken, or anomalous aerial manifestations resembling spaceships. Whether or not the interdimensional events affect the film in the camera oddly is a moot point here. It is simply necessary that some event occur to the film, the notebook and the memories of the witnesses in order to establish that some, unexplained event did occur. This is what “documentation” really is in essence. The process is simple. But sometimes, when actually faced with surprising events, it is difficult to be simple. The mind wants to “fill in” the blanks and get in control of the ultimate pattern of the situation immediately. This “rush toward judgment” will inevitably complicate matters in the long run. When doing documentary coverage of interdimensional incidents,I have often been told by observant East Coast communications professionals:”You are basically laid back. Do you realize how casual you look ?I feel like I’m somewhere in California. How can you say this so calmly?”The fact is that--in situations of clairvoyant investigation--I am paying attention interdimensionally and so my total attention is relaxed slightly from strict monitoring of the material characteristcs of the rattling bones in the near vicinity. I have come to the conclusion that certain forms of “materialism” and “skepticism” are mental conditions which have resulted from the secular attempt to find a numinous “cause” behind events which is not emotionally based or perceived but which is. in a profound inner paradox, divinely objective. But the medieval scholastics recognized a form of emotional perception they called the “higher affects” and which these academically religious people--using a zen-like attention to inner process--did link to areas of experience which in the modern day are called esp, pk, remote viewing and so on. I suggest that undue attention to material verification in the skeptical sense is simply a lack of awareness of the “higher affects” and/or a culturally-conditioned embarrassment of these deeply felt but inexplicable conditions of inner causality. How often has the compassionate observer noticed when discussing anomalies or the supernatural with a self-professed “skeptic” that this skeptical individual also seemed to emotionally and unreasonably link interdimensional perception with low level “romance difficulties” or “stupid religious beliefs”? In actual fact, such a nominally “skeptical” individual is simply asking for help in understanding that emotions of aversion and preference do “cause” events to happen and that affective causality cannot always be materially predicted or conditioned. An unruly dimension of experience enters the material picture here. It’s not the simple, old question here:”Do you marry for love or for money?’ but the question of “luck” of affinity and of necessity. Not “for love or for money”? But “what sort of love” and “what sort of money”? The fact is that even the most accurate calculations on a robotic slide rule cannot exactly predict where the next bolt of lightning will strike in a storm; but that someone without any careful and calculating preparation may instinctively know when to run down the stairs into the cellar just before the random bolt of lightning hits the VCR. I once knew a humorous student of the behavioral systems of Dr. Skinner who had read about government-funded research into the use of trained pigeons to trigger bombing devices in fighter aircraft. These pigeons were rewarded by tasty bird food for pecking the “red alert” button when blips on a radar screen entered a certain area of the target map. No, my friends: this is not surrealist drama. This is documented behavioral research. The psychologists were seeking a way to make objective target decisions during wartime. They thought that if the pigeons were conditioned to peck the target only by tasty bird food all emotional errors in judging where the target was located would thus be eliminated. At any rate, this humorous young man decided to try this same line of conditioning with women he wished to induce to reveal their “red alert target areas” in a way which was objectively fruitful but did not require any deeply negociated emotional commitment. In actual fact, he deliberately rewarded positive response to sexual foreplay with tasty snacks,. Initially, as he tells it, he did have some success in inducing on target lovemaking by the use of small gourmet appetizers. But eventually this house of cards collapsed when the ladies all seemed to remember other engagements which were not visible near the pizza tray. In other words, an inner causality emerged which had no basis in strictly non-emotional appetite reinforcement. This strange behavioral experiment, conducted by a playwright with training in psychology, actually happened. As a fellow playwright, I was told about it by the perpetrator after the “pigeon-feeding” routine had collapsed. It was ridiculous but he did make an interesting experimental discovery. “People sometimes have ideas independent of direct sensory input”. This seems elementary but --in this era of body language and color-oma therapy--it does need to be specifically considered. An idea is not necessarily the product of the five senses--any idea. It need not be a mystical or telepathic idea. Perhaps a previous appointment to play tennis held silently in the mind while eating popcorn. When so-called “behavioral scientists” deny the causality of information arriving into the cognition of the individual by telepathy, they must also implicitly deny the causality contained in expectations of the future and memory of events and environments not directly in the present event space of the individual who remembers and/or expects according to ideas which have non-sensory content. It is a simple fact that individuals with a “memory” or “expectation” in mind are not wholly enclosed within the physical continuum which materialists seek to manipulate in order to control behavior and perception.. A moment of common sense thought will yield the realization that only persons with extreme memory disability or persons experiencing a medicated mind/body state would actually be so cognitively limited to the mere three-dimensional event space that simple body language and/or verbal trick cues would in truth serve to govern and/or predict specific behaviors. This may be the reason that behaviorally-oriented psychologists do often utilize medications as well as elaborate, materially-oriented “trick cues”. Of course, the idea that becoming medicated by a physical substance will absolutely enhance or control mental capacities in also extremely materialistic at base. Is the rational way to achieve interdimensional perception simply to alter the physical organs of three dimensional perception? Or--if the source of ideas perceived is really multi-dimensional and/or extra-sensory--will medicated“lens adjustment” of the three-dimensional “ five senses” simply provide a distorted, materially altered view of the interdimensional information as this is being registered by the conscious brain of the physical mind/body system? This discussion has been about the impact of interdimensional information on human cognition. What about the interdimensional participation of “Intelligences” which are not human ? I have dealt with the possibility of an alternate terrestrial history which includes contact with interdimensional Intelligences in my book LEGACY OF DAEDALUS. This approach to human history is more complete than familiar histories simply because the “Engineering Angels” known to us as gods, goddesses and daemons who mysteriously choose to interact with people are included not as novelties but as real players in the unfolding historical drama. Additionally, it is my opinion that persons with an advanced knowledge of these Intelligences have quietly co-existed with the mainstream of humanity since before the spectacular fall of the so-called “Atlantean” civilization which most intellectually honest scholars realize must have pre-dated the ruins of ancient civilizations archeologists now investigate globally. LEGACY OF DAEDALUS is a work of metaphysical history. It has a non-fiction bibliography. In addition, I have written a play entitled THE FALL OF ATLANTIS which is an expressionist work drawing parallels between the hypothetical excesses of Atlantean technology and the environmental excesses of our present technically-implemented global nightmare. In my most recent book THE DARK FRONTIER I discuss contemporary interdimensional events, including a CIA bibliography on flying saucers recently released over the Internet, in this historical context. I write this from the narrative perspective of myself as a journalist who perceives events with an interdimensional perspective. I am aware, as I indicated at the beginning of this talk, that my approach in this book is not conventionally “scientific”.I do not bill myself as a scientist. I do make technical speculations in my work on the nature of multidimensional time and the effect of conscious energy to electronic devices. Without any apologies to the scientific establishment, I can say I am a technician who has experimented with sorcery. Remarks by E.Macer-Story Starpeople Lecture "Eyes of Learning" June 4 Hicksville, L.I.