1992 March Psi-M Page 31

TWO SENIOR-LEVEL CASE STUDIES IN

TOPIC AREA # 6: GROUP RETROCOGNITION WITH

TOPIC AREA # 5: GROUP REMOTE VIEWING AND

TOPIC AREA #17: GROUP MEDIUMSHIP

Your group has had a local group in the Greater Dayton or Miami Valley area for many years. The group's Vice-President, Kathy Cook, has been involved over time with heading up our annual gatherings when we had them years ago and has kept a hand in our monthly meetings at Rich's home, usually attended by a half-dozen Members and friends. We meet the second Sundays at six o'clock and generally just talk about our favorite interest and other topics, with little or no set programs .

The last two meetings were quite a departure from the usual - we had requests for actual working applications of psi in real-life situations - casework, if you will. Although Kathy and I have done some haunting investigations from time to time, there was an added perspective with these two in that they were of great concern to the survivors as the persons who had died were close relatives. The sessions were so productive that I feel you might be interested in what happened, so you might pick up some information to use for yourself.

It should be said at the outset that those of us who do the casework have been interacting together for many years. Rosa, Kathy, Jo and I all took studies under Bert and Irene Kennedy back in the late seventies. Brigitte has been actively involved in Tarot reading and has been working with us for several years. We all feel very much at ease and comfortable working together and know each others' styles and talents and have developed an overall method of doing group-work as a team. This helps a great deal to enhance the results as compared to any one of us trying to work solo.

In the first case, Rich was called by a man who had seen a listing in one of those catalogues of groups. His story was that his wife had been killed by an unknown assailant over a year ago and the police had never solved the case. He was concerned that he was being viewed as a prime suspect. After explaining our amateur status to him, I accepted the work with the usual conditions of ethics. He indicated that any information we came up with would be passed over to the authorities. He then sent a scarf and a piece of jewelry and some newspaper clippings that described the case to me, as psychometry tokens.

Now, it should be said that, whereas the topical area listing is very abbreviated, the intent has been that each area in the sequence contains all of the previous areas. As an example, psychometry with tokens, # 10, contains the practice as combined with the

# 4 dowsing and # 5 remote viewing and # 6 retrocognition. It's oftentimes not clear-cut that there is one and only one mode of psi operating, in fact, it's more often mixtures and combinations. In these cases, it seems to be a matter of "general clairvoyance/ mediumship" in a group. The interactions between the participants is likely more important than the specific methods for the modes.

After informing all of the regulars of what was on the agenda, we met and passed around the items and discussed the situation. Jo and Brigitte and Rosa and Kathy and I tacitly agreed to give it a go and settled in to gradually attuning to whatever we could discern. I kept up a pattern of subjects to focus on as we went along.

As we tuned in more and more, we each spoke out our "get": the scene, the description of the assailant, the weapon, dropping the weapon in the bushes, his car, his apartment, the street name and number, and so on. The composite picture that emerged

was that a young person, sandy-red hair, green-eyed, slight build, generally passive personality had a need for money for drugs and had seen the light on in the office where the victim was working late on Saturday night. He accosted her and demanded money, but was refused. He struck her and stole her purse, discarding it later in the bushes outside of the small office building. He drove off in his older gas-guzzler type of car, which he was very fond of. The suspect was about 30 or so, lived alone in a simple apartment, had difficulty holding onto jobs, liked his beer, had a small circle of acquaintances, no steady girl-friend. His clothes were a light green jacket over a striped shirt with slacks. After the act, he disassociated from recognizing his actions and wiped it from memory. I should mention that Rosa had a dissident opinion that the assailant was the survivor-husband and that the descriptions we came up with were possibly of him when he was younger.

After a time, we mutually expressed the feeling that it was over. The whole session took about an hour for preparation and an hour for the meditation.

Afterwards, I listened to the audiotape and sketched a mural of our findings. A copy of the audiotape and the mural was sent to the requestor. No reply has been received nor any acknowledgment.

( This is typical- few clients express any thanks, usually they're disappointed that we didn't comply with expectations.)

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The second session on the following month was generally the same, yet varied significantly. A local Mensan called to ask about attending the meeting and I gave her a description of our usual meeting and directions. Kathy called to ask for another investigative reading session at the request of the family. It should be said that, given the very wide variety of situations, we rarely have any real clues as to how any of the sessions will turn out.

My first clue as to the nature of the session was when Rosa exclaimed that I'd better come and greet the guests - eight of them! As the hostess with the mostest, Rosa handled the whole situation with great aplomb, as they say. Although Jo was missing for the session, the other team members pitched in with an hour or so of general getting to know each other.

We explained how psi worked and probed for any adverse aversions and worked to get the whole group into a receptive and conducive mood. Rosa broke the informal training with an announcement that the food was ready and we took a welcome break.

We reconvened and began the work. Kathy led us in prayer with hands held and we opened up. A picture emerged of a mature, younger woman living with a friend. She tripped and then fell off of the back porch, tried to break her fall, jabbed herself in the hand on an unknown object, went back into the house and took a bath, whereby she slowly bled to death in the tub. The family suspicions of her live-in friend were dispelled and a general feeling of relief was evident.

Over the hour-long session, it seems that each person had a particular piece of information that applied to him or her in a special way. The image of the sailboat brought a choked-up cry from one, another cried to hear about a jewelry box, another was impressed by another item, and so on. I was impressed with the realization that a person who was on drugs had no clear memory or knowledge of what was happening; the symbolic imagery was that of a dark-green swirling vortex with an ugly black spot in it.

Overall, it seemed very much like a grieving-healing session. At the conclusion, the family members expressed their heart-felt appreciation; the visiting Mensan expressed a polite interest. So, one wonders how much can be done in the way of applications?

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