The group has been in operation for fourteen years and we've had well over a thousand inquiries and well over a thousand Members come and go. Since so many Members have joined lately, perhaps it would be of use to review what has been going on and put things in perspective and take a look at the future.

1975: The fore-runner group to the PSI SIG had been operating for over a year as the "Telepathy SIG", under the direction of Rosemary Leibo (Member #001), who conducted several long-distance telepathy experiments with varying degrees of success.

1976: The group continued for a short period under Mary Wittenberg, then I volunteered to do the work in late 1976. Our first newsletter for the Telepathy SIG contained all of four pages and was mostly a monologue by your Prez-Ed, covering:
the status of the group, setting of annual dues at $2;
a discussion on ESPAT as Extra-Sensory Perception And Transmission; my experiences with the Washington DC Local SIG with group symbol telepathy and Delphi-type consensus psiwork and the Dayton Local SIG with more groupwork on meditation and psychometry; a book review on

Edgar Mitchell's PSYCHIC EXPLORATION: A CHALLENGE FOR SCIENCE; some theories about how psi realities might work with relative frequencies in time; and a roster of Members given to me by Mary.

1977: Correspondence from Members increased dramatically, as did the size of the newsletter. We acquired a mimeograph machine and a manual, and then an electric, typewriter to do the copy; the newsletter grew from a few pages to the twenty pages that have become the standard. Dues were raised to $7 yearly or $2 quarterly. Membership grew quickly to 90, but the rolls were shrunken to 55, of whom only your Prez- Ed (Member #007) and Trustee Dick Uhen (Member #005) remain. The June issue began copyright. Many of the Members who were carried over from the Telepathy SIG declined to renew when dues were raised. I expanded our special interest from only telepathy to include all of the topics under the broad scope of "the psychical sciences and arts", it became apparent that there were numerous and varied views and interests, to say nothing about the lively discussions about what was what. Although we did not have much interest in fields such as astrology and numerology, there were some topics that came and went, such as Kirlian photography, biorhythms, pyramid power, UFOs, animal psi, and spontaneous human combustion.
In the January 1977 issue of the "Psychic Science SIG Monthly Newsletter and Journal", we listed some seventeen topic areas in a poll of Member interests. The following issue showed the results and relative popularity of the subjects. With some variations and refinements, the list has been kept up-to- date with the LIKE survey; Members have shown about the same levels of interest in about the same subjects.
In February, we had many very good contributions to the Psi-M from Members: Rosemarie Lane described an out-of-body experience and an astral travel dream that brought in the topic of symbology and Cirlot's DICTIONARY OF SYMBOLS; Elly Fithian commented on simultaneous lives in a timeless reality with the oversoul notion; Naomi Jones sent in a guide for healing (since passed to Skiba); and Skiba's description of the Denver local SIG's activities. This last item calls for comment- we have, from time to time, attempted to have local chapters of the PSI SIG, but, so far, it hasn't really caught on, due, I suppose, to the lack of a geographical concentration of stable Members. Even here in Dayton, our once- a-month meetings draw only a few Members- some local Members haven't attended for years. I try to keep track of other local groups; they seem to just come and go, lasting for maybe a year or so and then dissolving. Fred Davis had a Chapter on Long Island for a while, as did Don Gates in Dallas. I really believe that this is a potentially fruitful area, but it would need a lot of work for somebody in each Chapter.
The March issue contained book reviews by Book Review Editor Janeth DeGraw covered PSYCHIC PHENOMENA, by Bradley & MEDICINE POWER by Brad Steiger & THE LINK by Matthew Manning + mentions of OUT OF THE BODY by Black and THE GHOST OF FLIGHT 401 by Fuller; a recommendation from Naomi Jones on THE MIRACLE OF METAPHYSICAL HEALING by Evelyn Monahan; recommendation from "M.W." (forgot who that was) on Ostrander & Schroeder's HANDBOOK OF PSYCHIC DISCOVERIES; a mention by Louisette Castonguay of aura - viewing goggles with "Dr. Kilner's own dicyanin coal-tar dye for filters"; a contribution from George Kaywood on a fairly long ouija board session with "Bacon", concerning who wrote the Shakespeare material. A Safety input from the Editor covered in advertent slips into altered states, such as glimpsing the future when the traffic light is red and seeing it as green.
The April issue was done on our first mimeograph, an A.B.Dick 430, which was destined to see a half million cranks of the handle before it was retired and replaced by an electric machine donated by the owner of the STOCKYARDS restaurant here in Dayton. This was later replaced by one purchased from a church, which broke and as replaced by one donated by Mr. diSalvio, owner of a bicycle shop in a south Dayton suburb. Rosemary Leibo contributed her bio, with an emphasis on family psi. Comments from Matt Wright covered the lab finding that the brain's alpha waves, that are 10-14 Hz and mentioned so often in psi literature, are actually counter-productive for psiwork, as reported by the Air Force's Aeromedical Research Laboratory; seems that the psi waves are more linked to theta waves of lower frequency, 8-10 Hz. Also mentioned was Ormond McGill's book on STAGE HYPNOTISM, in which he discusses the use of a high frequency oscillator (off-stage) for inducing a trance state.
The May issue carried an editorial discussion on time as a wave frequency.
The June/July/August issue carried: a historical report; Rosemarie Lane discussed personal health anxieties as blocks to OBEs and symbology in psi visions; your Editor discussed physics of having a spiral scan TV picture instead of a raster scan & need for protection.
I realized that our most important goal and purpose as a group and as individual Members may be said to be education, that is, bringing the most satisfaction to the most Members at the least cost. We conducted a survey in the June issue, with results in the August issue, to explore five areas: the level of familiarity with 209 specialized jargon terms; sociocultural attitudes; levels of experience; and definitions of eighteen topical areas. The results were very useful, showing that the Editor should not assume that Members were very familiar with the topics (a lesson that he still finds difficulty with in his writing). We also conducted several free-choice telepathy experiments with varying degrees of success and provided reports. One was done as a "shot-in-the-dark" effort (which won't be repeated) and one was pre-planned, both with control groups. Targets included common household objects. Our first attempt at a code of ethics, the "ESPER PLEDGE", including a "hold the group harmless" clause and a prohibition against using psi for illegal activities, drew one comment, which wasn't very favorable and cast suspicion on the basic reality of psi. We began a new policy with the July issue, our first copyright. Our networking began with reviewing of the BRAIN-MIND BULLETIN. By the end of the year, we also had new Members Stan Korn, Roche Pouliot, Trustee Kathy Cook, Gene Lundholm, and Marilyn Skiba join us and they've been with us, some off and on, ever since. I still have five copies of the 1977 Yearbook, which contains copies of all of the newsletters, available; if you'd like to have one, write or call.
Book mentions (I hesitate to call them reviews) covered:
THE UNOBSTRUCTED UNIVERSE, by Stewart White; THE LIVES
AND TEACHINGS OF THE MASTERS OF THE FAR EAST, author unknown;
HIGHER SENSE PERCEPTION, by Dr. Shafica Karigula (noteworthy in that it described how several of the author's friends use auric perception in their medical diagnosis, but were reluctant to have this fact known);
THE LIVING BRAIN, by W. Grey Walter, known for his pioneering work in electroencepholography, noteworthy for the emphasis on having the brain very quiet, thermally and electromagnetically, for concentrated mental effort;
SPACE, TIME, AND BEYOND, by Bob Tolen (since lost from your library);
SUPERMIND, by John Taylor; PSYCHIC DISCOVERIES BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN, by Ostrander and Schroeder
ROOTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS, by Jeffrey Mishlove;
RADIATION, MAGNETISM, AND LIVING THINGS, by Dan Halacy;
SENTICS: THE TOUCH OF EMOTIONS, by Manfred Clynes;
THE HUMAN AURA, by Nicholas Regush;
SHUFFLEBRAIN, by Paul Pietsch; WILLIAM JAMES ON
PSYCHICAL RESEARCH, by Murphy and Ballou; and many others.
BRAIN-MIND BULLETIN carried an article on the works of Karl Pribam and David Bohm that addressed the notion that, in a hologrammic universe, "transmission" of information is meaningless, since the information exists in all time and space simultaneously- a direct contradiction of the scientific theories based on linear space-time concerning "action-at-a- distance".
A phenomenon called "leading to" was discussed by Edith Gilmore, in which she dreamed of finding a book and, the next day, was "led to" find it- self-fulflling prophecy? Jay Person related experiences in a healing class in which the healer-students "saw into" the patients' bodies.
Gene Lundholm related how he was not a healer, but helped a person who had 14 stitches in a torn finger heal in two days, using "suggestion". In August: Lynn Beckett discussed "the music", a beautiful phenomenon experienced by astral travellers; Tom Hersey, SIG Coordinator for a religiously-oriented SIG, discussed psi as an illusion; Mel White wrote on stage hypnotists enhancing psi pe rformance; editorial discussion of electromagnetism and psi; survey results. September featured: more survey results; Lundholm's discussion Max Freedom Long's Huna works and books; Margerit Muritz's personal experiences with healing, as verified by Kirlian photgraphy by Dr. John Hubacher of U. of Sou. Cal's Neuropsychiatic Institute; ALice Tobin, Coordinator of AMEN SIG discusses psi, especailly TM, as an aspect of religious experiences; Jeanne Ford related verifications of predictions by mediums.
More verbal survey responses came in for the October issue, which also had: definitions of terms from the ASPR's Educational Department; PSI SCENE discussion of the TV feature with Burt Lancaster, PSYCHIC PHENOMENA,; book reviews of TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD & LIFE AFTER LIFE; a discussion between your editor and Skiba on psychometry definitions; and a course outline for your Prez's Adult Evening School 12-week classes.

November of our first year covered contributions of teaching materials from Gene Lundholm and Dr. A. J. Lewis (Psychic Self-Regulation Foundation). Also included were: more discussion on definitions of psychometry, with Lundholm contributing notions; experiences by Valerie Shouldis and Bill Alarid and Laurel Hampel; and book reviews from DeGraw on THE OCCULT by Colin Wilson, COMING OF SETH, & COMPANIONS ALONG THE WAY.
The December Psi-M featured: a bio by your Prez; kickoff of the Yearbook project; Castonguay's auric experiences; a description of Lundholm's classes; Shannon Hamelin's telepathic experiences; and final wrap-up for the survey responses.

1978:
January Psi-M covered: new Members; the ASPR's listing of educational courses; Betty Gregory's poem, "A Thing of Gold"; and various PSI-SCENE items. The February issue inaugurated the title of the newsletter as "Psi-M", named so after I read "I AM FROM SIAM", a children's book about Siamese cats who had a special talent for sitting very still while sending their minds out. Features were: coverage of the ASPR's "fly-in" experiment, in which your Prez and others contributed by using remote viewing to perceive a group of objects on a table at the ASPR headquarters; results were judged and published and a fun learning experience was enjoyed. Telepathy experiments tapered off. We had an article published on the front page of the Mensa BULLETIN about "PSI-Q", raising the question, "Do we use psi on I.Q. tests?", so that publicity boosted our Membership over 90. Joiners included 23 current Members-John Attamack, Neil Block, Joan Campbell, Miriam Carroll, Sherm and Jan Cowdrey, Fred Davis, Bert Earl, Dick Easton, Barbara Ekleberry, James Jacobson, Sannie Patch, Rosemarie Patterson, Jim Preuss, Trustee Ellen Rogers, Bruce Singer, Devin Starlanyl, Ed Strong, Brigitte Welsh, Walter & Mary Jo Uphoff, Norma Walton, and Leon "Woody" Woodworth.
We had a Membership Drive in conjunction with a display at the Mensa A.G. in Cleveland and we published our draft Constitution in the June/July Psi-M. The Groups Officer, Paul Victor, provided a print-out of 400 Mensans who had indicated an interest in our topics. Devin Starlanyl commented on uses of psi in medicine, such as using a green foam imagery to clean out sores, and Jim Preuss related an aversion experience. PSYCHIC SCENE covered "Man On a Swing", a TV show about Bill Boshears, noted Cincinnati psychic who was the subject of the original book, THE GIRL ON THE VOLKSWAGEN FLOOR, which depicted how a psychic who tried to help police ended up by being accused of the crime because he knew too much. Also covered the Uphoff's outstand ing new book NEW PSYCHIC FRONTIERS. Carol Gore reported on the phenomenon of "the eyes", often seen in meditation.
The August Psi-M carried info on: prediction on membership was exactly on target; Dottie Goudy suggested a binder for Psi-Ms; Dan Conroy reported on Tm Siddhis experiences; Teresa Myers wrote on past-life regressions; Ardie Hunt held meetings; and Rita Kautz commented on combustion PK. We took the big step of establishing By-Laws and incorporating on September 20th, which I consider to be our "Legal Birthday", with Trustees Peter Lewis, Donald Ranville, Ellen Rogers, and Richard Uhen as an educational and scientific research charitable organization. We then obtained recognition by the Internal Revenue Service as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt and 509(a)(2) member- supported organization. This required me to keep tight tabs on finances for reporting to the government, but it also h elped allay my concerns about handling the group's funds. Then, we obtained a bulk mailing permit from the U.S. Postal Service to help keep dues costs down; our mailing costs were cut from sixty ceents per issue to about three cents. I also obtained a Teaching Certificate and began teaching adult evening school courses in the psychical sciences; the course curriculum was included in the November issue and became the foundation for the Handbook/Mindbook. Betty Gregory and I began our two-year long experiments with deep guided meditation. Wilma Kupfer's book reviews covered PK: A REPORT ON THE POWER OF PSYCHOKINESIS, MENTAL ENERGY THAT MOVES MATTER, by Micheal Brown, with comments on metallurgical analysis of a Geller- fractured ring and THE P SYCHIC HEALING BOOK, by Wallace & Henkin. I should mention that the Psi-M logo for this time period featured a cartoon of a head with an M- like bust of "Sy", a sort of mascot who had a "third eye" in the forehead- it was dropped in May of '79- still, I sort of liked the pixie. We began a notion of having Area Coordinating Editors, ACEs, to act more-or-less as centers of excellence in writing for Topical Areas: Woody Woodworth contributed several articles on dowsing; John Attamack contributed as ACE for out-of-body experiences, OBEs and wrote articles on his; Kathy Cook took on healing and Barbara Jean Rogers did the auric perception and mediumship.
November saw the first Member Address Roster with Member Numbers assigned to help keep track of who was where with 161 Members listed. An in-depth discussion of transition and incarnation was featured. American Mensa conducted a survey under the guidance of Max Fogel on M's attitudes and experiences with things psychical. The response was almost a thousand and showed a very high level of interest. I had thought that the survey was done in response to a proposal I had submitted; however, it turned out to be a promotional gimmick done in cooperation with the NATIONAL ENQUIRER. Still, it showed the generally high level of interest among Mensans that persists to this day, a source of frustration, in a way, that so many are interested, but s o few do anything about it in an organized way.
There was no December issue for 1978.

1979:
We began the "Psy-Sci" SIG Library with copies of BRAIN/MIND BULLETIN, ASPR Journals and Newsletters; THETA, from the Parapsychological Research Foundation; PARAPSYCHOLOGY REVIEW, from the Parapsychology Foundation; PSI-NEWS; PSI SEARCH, from the Parapsychological Association; DIA REPORT ON SOVIET AND CZECHOSLOVAKIAN RESEARCH; PSYCHICAL RESEARCH, by William James; NEW REALITIES periodical; and other books. Of particular interest was Ingo Swann's STAR FIRE; he was one of the Stanford Research Institute'S leading psychics and the book described highly interesting aspects of developments and potential applications of psi, such as telepathically-controlled vehicles (fighter airplanes).
It was clear long ago that there is no single reference that is kept up to date, that is suitable for use as a textbook for learning about and learning how to practice psi, that combines all of the best available in the literature, and that conta ins our combined PSI SIG Member experience. In 1979, with dues at $7, we began the Handbook/Mindbook Project. For the following several years, we had a Handbook/Mindbook that was set up as a more-or-less permanent volume that captured the best of Psi -M and added information for learning. It grew to over 200 pages and was sent out to each Member; Membership grew to 240.
Our networking grew with addition of: PSI NEWS, by the Parapsychological Association (PA); THETA, from the Psychical Research Foundation (PRF); SPECULA, from the American Association of Meta-Science (AAMS); New Frontiers Center, from Walt and Mary Jo Uphoff, including a cover feature of spoon-bending; and the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR). We also tried to network with the Premonition Center folks, but they folded shortly. We began "PSYCHIC SCENE" as a regular feature.

1980:
We had our first Annual Colloquiuum in September, with a couple of dozen attending and enjoying the participation, experiments, presentations, and fellowship. Dues raised to $8. Membership grew past 280 then settled back to 240 after renewals. We acquired special Psi-M loose-leaf binders, complete with logo (seen in the photo of me on the inside cover). Mensa had "International Special Interest Groups", ISIGs, and we were one, but the notion died out. We adopted our "Psi-M" logo as a standard, with the unusual "M", because I felt it was more consistent with the notion of a round table than the square table shown in the Mensa logo. The Mensa BULLETIN printed my letter to the Editor asking how round the Mensa table was, to which the response was that a fourth of Mensans are psychologist, a fourth are computer buffs, a fourth are engineers, and only one fourth are, as usually promulgated by Mensa, a "cross-section of the population". So that explained why most Mensans are not the gregarious party people found at gatherings, which typically appeal to only a small percentage of the overall Mensa Membership. I guess you could call it the germ of the LSI notion, at least it was in my mind. I still feel that, despite the unbalanced publicity given to local groups and gatherings, the overwhelming majority of Mensans find their enjoyment in SIGs, "away from the madding crowd", as it were. I compare the Mensa BULLETIN, at 33 pages, to the Journal of the System Safety Society, which has only a thousand Members and dues only slightly higher, that also has a 33-page publication and wonder if we might benefit from a BULLETIN that combines SIG and Local Group pubs? I still consider the fact that the local groups are legally separate from AML to be a major strategic blunder on the part of upper management, the AMC.
We did an experiment on predicting the impact area for the Skylab satellite, but the results were nothing to crow about. Also experienced quite a debacle when Marion Towner proposed "Project Who?", about reading photos with psychometry and, after we got involved and published the photos and report forms, found that she had intended them for private publishing and refused to divulge the results. Very embarrassing and difficult to explain. Further investigation revealed that she was quite ill a t the time. Lesson learned from that was to get all greements for projects in writing and well understood before any activities are commenced.
We also began a scholarship contest; this was dropped when we found that few, if any, young folks were interested in the psychical sciences, since there were no potential employment opportunities. This seems to be a most unfortunate situation, given the potential, but, aside from writing and conducting experiments and teaching courses, it's true, as my son and daughter who help out with the Psi-M production can attest.

1981:
The January/February Psi-M featured book reviews by Wilma Kupfer on the HANDBOOK OF PARAPSYCHOLOGY, an extensive work covering many aspects of the formal approach, and Ring's AT THE HOUR OF DEATH, on the commonality of reports of NDEs. John Attamack contributed an article on OBEs with comments on some old rules, such as having the head to the North, doing OBE during certain hours of the day or in certain body positions or with certain diets, to the effect that none of them were really effective nor prohibitive. "Psychic Scene" covered SHUFFLEBRAIN, by Pietsch, in more depth, including his remark on the commonly-accepted notion that the brain has areas devoted to certain functions only needs revision to include the hologrammically-distributed functions; "You can't get the beer out of the barrel without a bung!". A quote at the bottom of one page sums it up: "More powerful than the tread of mighty armies is the Idea whose Time has Come-" Victor Hugo.
Barbara Christy contributed a very thoughtful tome covering a range of subjects with a focus on reincarnation and mastery and a spontaneous healing session with a shower of sparkling light-entities. Mike Ross also sent in a piece on "The Physics of Mind-Body Duality" that brought out links to tachyon theory, as espoused earlier by Martin Ruderfer. Our LIKE surey had 29 subjects, including: models and theories of the mind and psychic realities; and defense and protection. The H/M addition centered on healing and health maintenance from the control system viewpoint, so that illness is seen as a lack o r failure of control. It was noted that current non-psychical theories of the mind required that each and every thought and memory must be composed of physical entities in the brain, whether they be electro- chemical molecular configurations or currents of magneto-electricity. Hmm? March & April saw a Psi-M that announced a PSI SIG A.G. meeting in Louisville for June. 100+ new Members joined. Randall Kryn wrote on "Swinging Your Feelings", an exercise for the mind. Attamack gave an in-depth report on the Psychical Research Foundation's Founder's Day Conference on Consciousness and Psi, including: Honorton's work with computer psi games; Kautz's talk on the famous Rosemary case of xenoglossy where a person channelled extensive information from the ancient Egyptian times, with the only explanation available as to the vowel sounds used by the Egyptians; Rao on meditation showed a high degree of linkage between those two subjects; Schmeidler spoke on the oddness of the observation that intense frenzy or deep trance produced the same psi effects; and a presentation by Ring on NDEs. Scott Flood related an anecdotal experience with a revenant, "Boris", in his school who did several poltergeist performances with the electrical controls for the performing arts auditorium and stage. Sam Windsor suggested the use of doodling with soft chalk on textured paper while in a day-dreamy state to get an image of a Guide. Woodworth wrote on dowsing with L rods and pendulums, with an emphasis on aura-dowsing.
May was a single-month issue with a rather unusual suggestion from my guides for a bumper sticker- "PSYCHICS DO IT WITH FORETHOUGHT" -. Kryn's "Techniques" column covered the five no-no's: no regret; no shame; no guilt; no blame; no sympathy, meaning to avoid getting over-involved to the point that, as an example, a healer gets sick from the patient. Woodworth had more on dowsing. Mensa politics came in for some serious discussion, concerning mostly the problem of having various individuals attempt to control things according to their personal whims, still a serious problem! Eve Gregory wrote on the overall wonderment of the hum an being as regards her "transformational experience" and embellished the issue with her poem, "Gnomon". Harvey Wendt told of a librarian who was able to type out a new card for him with his name, address and phone number when she thought he had spo ken the information to her and he had not; she said it had happened before with others and was quite puzzling. The A.G. in Louisville was reported as a great success-dozens attended and had a great time. Your Prez-Ed contributed a H/M piece on "Psychometry with Telepathic Perception" theory, procedures, and practice in pairs and groups.

The cover for the June/July Psi-M featured a quote from the report of the Congressional Science and Technology Committee on what was called the "consciousness technologies". "Research on the Physics of Consciousness" concluded with four questions :
- Is funding adequate?;
- What is the credibility of such research?;
- How does the public perceive it?;
- What should the Federal role be?.
The question was raised concerning possible psychical catastrophes, but was not specifically identified as to what this might be.
My first time at the Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association, in Syracuse, New York, under the auspices of SUNY college there was reported on by one who was suffering from the cultural shock of having papers presented every fifteen minutes for several days. Our own Psychic Science SIG gathering was well-attended and we did everything from group telepathy and precognition to Yai Chi, or meditation in motion, with Jovita Sutherland. The H/M entry was an expanded set of definitions of terms. Barbara Rogers contributed a H/M input on "Mediumship", on making contact, using trance as an aid, dangers and protective measures. September was a typical issue: more on OBEs by Attamack, with a rating of various books on the subject; more on H/M inputs by Prez on "Precognition/ Premonitions/ Prophecies", with comparisons with rare accidents, followed by an extensive auto biographical sketch, which was intended to further acquaint PSI SIG Members. A highlight of the issue was an in-depth Members Survey, with two pages of questions on everything from dues to popularity of various parts of the Psi-M to advertising to services and future planning. The results were invaluable for managing the group.
The October issue showed a lag, being published in December. Survey results showed that half of the Members favored dues of $10 and half favored dues of $15, as compared to the current dues of $9.
The November/December issue was devoted to the Membership Roster.

1982:
Jan./ Feb. responses to the survey questionnaire that combined the work of Dr. Haraldsson on religiosity and psi and Dr. Kolb's work on learning styles, the LSI survey;
PSYCHIC SCENE featured an input from BRAIN-MIND BULLETIN by psychologist Sandra Seagal, who found that a human voice had three electrically distinctly-identifiable components that corresponded to various personalities: similar to LSI styles.
H/M inputs on precognition used Sean O'Donnell's excellent FUTURE MEMORY as a basis for developing skills in this topic (unfortunately, his book was borrowed and kept by someone). Sean gave practical guidance for increasing precognitive skills in increments. Woodworth's "Meditation", "Insights Into OBEs" by Attamack,
March: "Techniques" by Kryn emphasizing love,
Ted Owens on PK, emphasizing imagery and the nuclear clock;
Jan DeGraw on continuity of life;
Ellen Rogers and Edith Gilmore on lucid dreams;
Attamack on "reality-changing".
report on the SPIRICOM Project, involving electronic amplification of psi from a revenant who had mastered electronics while in the flesh, with fields at around 20-30 MHz. Several books were reviewed.
April: A report was provided on the local Dayton PSI SIG's meetings.
Bill Watson predicted "Poland will be free.";
Phyllis Cusick wrote on "A Search for Truth";
May- covered a review of Anne Armstrong's work as published in IRIDIS, one of our network pubs;
Wilma Kupfer reported on Madeleine L'Engel's WRINKLE IN TIME, which told of the adventures of children and a wise woman and tessaracts;
Arlene Hobbs gave follow-up to the predictions on Poland and local meetings in Denver with controlled telepathy experiments and speaker Rose Alexander.
setting up groundrules and volunteer-seeking for the telepathy experiment, with our first set of card symbols. The coded message to be sent was in Esperanto by Dr. Zamenhof, to avoid the usual associations of English:
Sur neutrali lingva fundamento,
Komprenante unu le alian,
La popoloi faros en konsento
Uno grandan rondon familian."
which translates as:

On a neutral lingual foundation,
Understanding one another,
The people shall form in agreement
One great family circle."

The message was sent out over an extended period and showed a few hits, as reported in the September issue.
July/ August Holmes-Rahe Social Readjustment Scale, which didn't fair very well as regards responses; survey questionnaire on experiences with revenants, after Dr. Thelma Moss's work, which, unfortunately, was never responded to by Moss;
Attamack wrote on spoon-bending at Cambridge as a first-timer;
We had our first LIKE survey questionnaire form with the "Experience" category added to the "Interest" aspect. It also had a category for "Knowledge", which has since been dropped, until we can identify such.
This seemed to be fairly popular with Members and was of immense value to your Prez-Ed for figuring out where we stood in general.
September Local SIG forming under Sheila Conner in Southeast Michigan (folded later);
Lundholm on the psychical aid to police;
The telepathy results included beating the odds by five of ten teams: Conner and Atwood; Earl and Woodworth; Jones and Herman; Reichle and Bradley; and Uhen and Watson. Great work! Some of the other teams had problems with scheduling, etc. The card-letters "O", "F", "S", and "N" seemed to be best for sending and receiving;
Precognition guidelines for H/M by Rich;
I discontinued the H/M as an item to be given to each new Member, because it became too costly to send out in addition to the Psi-M, even with dues at $12.50 for the H/M and the newsletter.

1983:
The October '82 Psi-M was published in March '83 and was devoted almost entirely to the PSYCHICAL SCENE; a feature was a reprint of the work of Dr. Micheal Symonds, who trains advanced psychics. He worked on cold reading and the Freudian psychology for selecting potential trainess, avoiding depressives or schizophrenics in favor of compulsive hysteric personalities.
The November '82 Psi-M (pub April '83) had more of the usual and our one and only paid advertisement. Membership down to 140.
The December '82 issue was devoted to the Membership Roster, including a roster of network organizations.
The January '83 Psi-M (pub August) had an extensive report on automatic writing by Phyllis Cusick.
The remainder of the issue was devoted to a H/M Table of Contents and financial reports.

February in November featured a reprint of an article by Dick Sutphen on "Cult Conversion Tactics", which gave excellent clues and cautions, plus a report on subliminal communications in conversion. Your Prez-Ed did an input on the Simple Common Model for structuring an information system. Also covered Kundalini a la Bentov.

1984:
With the extended delayed schedule, Psi-M was "adjusted", so that March of '83 was converted to March '84. This worked for a year, through February of '85. This issue introduced the Meyers-Briggs Type Inventory, MBTI, with about 120 multiple-choi ce questions, as a tool for partially explaining or dealing with personality types and psi interest or performance. The MBTI identified folks as composites of four kinds: Intriverts versus Extroverts; Intuitives vs. Sensing; Thinking vs. Feeling; and Judging vs. Perceiving. Introverted Intuitive folks seemed inclined towards psi, but make up only 1% of the population. The issue also had a report from William James's PSYCHOLOGY on "The Will as a Critical Control System Element" by your Editor. 137 Members.
The April Psi-M a review of an article by Dr. Michael Thalbourne, of the James McDonnell Research Laboratory in St. Louis, which was published in the March/April newsletter PARAPSYCHOLOGY REVIEW, of the Parapsychological Foundation. Your Prez gave a talk at the SEMMantics, which was received warmly.
Donna Hesler invited me to talk with the local "Parents Without Partners" group a couple of times, which led to some nice evenings with a dozen or so folks at her home. One experience still has my attention. At the beginning of the third talk, I got a strong urge with repeated clear images of a series of playing cards, the 2, 4, 7, 8, and Queen. I wrote them down in my Handbook binder and then took out my deck of oversized playing cards, a " Texas Deck". I passed them around to the attendees and asked them to cut the deck and took out the top cards from the bottom stacks of the cut and set them on the floor. After nine cuts by 9 people, I displayed the target card list and then I turned over the cards: a pair of 2's, a pair of 4's, a pair of 8's, and 3 Queens. Then I cut a 7. After I'd talked for a half hour or so, a man asked, "Now, you don't have to answer this, of course, but, for the record, that WAS just a card trick, wasn't it ?". Well, what could I say? I wouldn't even know how to set it up as a trick. It seems there's usually about 10% who just haven't developed any awareness at all, and it's like explaining what green looks like to someone who is color-blind.
The issue also featured extended in-depth information on how-to meditate. Well-known (in L.A., at least) psychical healer Rosalyn Bruyere was featured in a reprint of an interview with her from the Holmes Center's publication "Science of Mind". The issue made a serious plea for feedback and inputs from the Members, as material for publication was lacking.
May '84 covered our network publications.
I should mention that we had a Membership Drive in '84 that swelled the rolls to about 400 Members, in conjunction with a reduced dues of only $3 for six months. This mistake caused quite a few problems in the schedule and 90% of the Members who cam e in at the reduced rate didn't stay around when the regular dues came into play. Membership dropped to 150.
The June and July/August issue covered my deep guided meditation experiments, DGME, with Betty Gregory on the subject of the peak experience of "going to the mountain". We got a disk drive for the computer; all of the Psi-M material has been saved from this issue. September continued the DGME reports on "The Power and The Gift".
October had a description of the Factor Formula, which described psychical functioning as depending upon several factors, including the person, the environment, and the method/technique. Editor contributed an article on a channelled healing lesson. Radio psychic Dyann Zinn gave us her advice on learning and living with psi.
November 84 -FORUM Letters from: Lillian Mason, raising many questions; Frank Pollard on ideas for telepathy tests; Woody Woodworth on suggestion and diet; Betty Franklin on telepathy, tools, progress; Judy Wall on aura vision experiment. Secti on 3 continued with expansions of the Common Model Factor Formula. Two more problem-solving teams are announced. Handbook/Mindbook Section 4: New Ideas is initiated with responses to member questions in structured format (and more questions). 1985 Annual Interest & Experience Survey Form was included as your tool for advising of your nterests.
December's Psi-M featured a review of the Mensa Member Interests as shown in the Mensa Register:
1,010 for psychic phenomena;
730 for parapsychology;
620 for ESP; 200 for telepathy; and
120 for psi.

This contrasted with
4,700 for computers;
4,000 for games;
4,000 for music;
3,700 for sci-fi;
3,000 for religion;
2,200 for writing;
2,000 for humor;
1,900 for psychology;
1,400 for creativity; and
1,200 for philosophy. - do we have a Membership Drive?
Handbook /Mindbook featured "New Ideas"; follow-up on Mason's notions on genes, brains, group psyches; "What Good Is Psi? - What Psi Is Good?" and "Ups and Downs on the Main Path of the Common Model".
FORUM FORUM featured: Lyle Branchflower organizes team;
Rosemary Leibo sends psychic photos; Jan & Sherm Cowdrey facilitate regressions; and Jeff Atwood forms investigative organization;

1985:
MARCH (published on delayed schedule in August.) Prez-Ed's Notebook -Members' status information, business improvements, team and survey status, and items of general interest. ARC scheduled.
Judy Wall reports on Targ and Puthoff's "Percept ual Channel for Information Transfer Over Kilometer Distance", published in the 1976 I.E.E.E. Proceedings;
Jo Sutherland reviews HEALING, by Dr. Nolen on phoney Norbu Chen, psychic surgery and Kathryn Kuhlman.
F O R U M inputs from: A "Thank you" from a student; Pollard questions communication devices; Atwood on investigation information needs; March-Force tries card-predicting; Earl gives ideas for meditating;
Woodworth comments on mediumship and other ar eas; and Cowdrey comments on regressions.
Definitions of terms for L.I.K.E. survey
April 1985 (This issue published on delayed schedule in October) Prez-Ed's Notebook -Member status information, program status, proposal for developing telepathy cardsets, report on PKMB. FORUM includes inputs from: Elfriede Grillmair on suicides for next issue;
Robin Leslie introduces and volunteers for research;
Jack Fiverson relates experiences with MIND RACE techniques.
PSYCHICAL SCENE features coverage of the Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association; C. Honorton & R. Berger on automated clairvoyance testing; C.H., R.B., et al on "first-timers" as participants; H. Schmidt on non-human influences on psi; McConnell & Clark on PK dice influence; Stanford & Kottoor on distractive interruption influence; Vassy on goal-gov erned psiwork; Jahn, Nelson, & Dunne on variances in PK;

Radin, May, & Thomson on validity of parapsychology tests; Radin, May, Thomson & Hubbard on Intuitive Data Sorting; Adams & Persinger on geomagnetic field perturbation effects. New computerized Infobase shows more for abstracts of Media Information Systems Center. Inputs on: MINDS WITHOUT BOUNDARIES, SECRET VAULTS OF TIME, MIND REACH, MIND RACE, and COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS. Financial Statements for FY85, Budget for FY86, etc.. MAY/JUNE 1985 (published on delayed schedule in December). Prez-Ed's Notebook introduces a "New Idea" in the form of a simple report card form for you to use for keeping track of your psi experiences, questions, and comments.
ROUND-TABLE FORUM includes inputs from Dean Radin, with request for volunteers, Gunther Vogl on networking internationally, Frank Pollard on cardsets, Wilma Kupfer on cardsets, Lawrence Earl on cardsets, Geller, and psychic vampires, Ellen Rogers on education, Bonnie Cooney on cardsets, Rich on impostor syndromes, Kathy Kane on psiwar and Ninja fans, and Kathy Marcantonio on astral travel. An article by Dr. Michael Symonds on Advanced Development of psychics and their Freudian personalities was reprinted.
H/M: Sequence of Development covers our course material as regards the overall pattern and rationale. Reviews of Maslow's last books and extracts of material from higher dimensions. Elfriede Grillmair reviews Martin's Dimensional Concept as applied t o suicide intervention. Holmes-Rahe Social Readjustment Scale is revisited with an updated SIG survey for you to participate in. Review Cards are included for you to use.

1986
Psi-M for July/August & September 1985 (published on delayed schedule in March 1986) featured a Prez-Ed's Notebook that introduced improvements & ideas. Ida "Bonnie" Cooney wrote on "Time and Paradoxes". Jeff Atwood wrote on apparitions and polt ergeists. Roundtable Forum had inputs from Woodworth on profits and sequence; from Bert Earl on the continuity of life and from Batten on apparitions.
"Of Disk Drives and Past Lives" by Rich drew parallels between identifying personalities and accessing computers and reported on channelling. Leon "Woody" Woodworth shared ideas on Force Field Detection and theories. Kathy Marcantonio presented plans for telepathy cardset promotions and ideas for improvements. Her improved Telepathy Cardset was pr esented for you to use with new symbols and colors.

Problem Solving Style Preference and Learning Style Inventory - An Update on results with a revised survey for you to participate with. Membership Renewal Time brings the application, with vote ballot.
October and November 1985 (published on delayed schedule in July 1986) Prez-Ed's Notebook introduces improvements & ideas. Round Table Forum has letters from Finkle, Brown, Amyx, and Earl Multiple Subpersonalities are revisited with new inputs on psychiarty and healing and suppression. Telepathy Cardset Project is off and running, with guidelines, records, and improved symbols. Personal and Social Development information lays out a path with other considerations.
The December '85 issue was devoted to the Membership Register and Roster.

In the 1986 January/February/March/April issue of Psi-M (published in November), we had a "special" devoted to education, including a sketch of our "dream school", similar to the Guggenheim Museum, complete with spiral corridor that encircled t he 24 areas while going up the five levels. It included a discussion of the "Psi-Guide System", including guides for writing lessons and a detailed listing of the books and tapes in your lending library, with titles of the chapters in the books or the periodical's articles or an audiotape's topics. The "Psi-Guide" system began where our LIKE listing of topics left off, that is, with the notion that you could learn about the psychical sciences and arts better if the various topics were ordered according to a sequence from topics that were common and easy to topics that were rare and difficult, like the bricks and courses of a wall being like courses in learning. Many of the books contained information on various topics, so the overall listing was judged on the basis of the topic most-often written about in a book.
Next, I added in a listing system of various Steps, such as introduction, historical, sociological, applications, and so on. I referred to both the Dewey Decimal and Sears and other library reference and cataloging systems; it just seems so difficult to find books on the psychical sciences in a library!
This gave m a three-digit number like a telephone exchange or area code.

Levels of interest varied among you Members, so I added in ideas of having various levels of learning, which we've incorporated into our Level Area Coordinated Education system. It was based on the levels expressed in the LIKE survey and gradually clarified and defined more and more. The various levels of interest and experience were combined with Bloom's taxonomy and other gauges over time.
Theoretically, you could learn all of the topics at the Beginner level, then at the Junior level, and so on up to Professional level.

The Levels are:
Level 0-1, Beginner, wishing Knowledge to satisfy curiosity as in LIKE Interest Level 2 and Experience Level 1; you might visualize someone with a mental maturity of 6 to 20 years old, able to perform psi accurately 0% to 20% of the time, with les sons written in sentences of 16 or less significant syllables- the text for this level might be "Introduction to the Psychical Sciences and Arts";
Level 2-3, Junior, desiring Understanding, at least one experience as Interest Level 4 and Experience
Level 3; typified by "young Mensans",between 21 and 34 years old, able to perform psi accurately between 20% and 40% of the time, text might be "Foundations of PS&A";
Level 4-5, Senior, seeking Comprehension, Practice/Application in Personal Life, 35 to 48 years, 41% to 60% accurate, text of "Practical Applications";
Level 6-7, Master, wanting Evaluation Skills, applying and teaching, 49 to 62 years, 61% to 80% accurate, "Education and Evaluation of PS&A"; or
Level 8-9, Professional/Doctoral, comparable to interest level 9 and experience level 9- research,

development and investigation, "Advanced Topics".

Note on Measuring Success and Attainment
I should mention that the measure of our success is fairly easy to determine, if you consider how you describe your interest and experience and then measure how your experience grows over time to approach your desired level of interest. You could feasibly score your gain in terms of a point for each instance of gaining a level of experience in each topical area. As an example, if you had an interest level of 6 and an experience level of 3 in telepathy receiving and you increased your experience level from 3 to 5, you'd have gained two points. The whole idea is to accelerate this process.
Then, I added a simple numbering of the books and the chapters to the area code, with four digits, for either a paragraph of a book or article so I could enter them into a computer database. What I ended up with was a numerical code for identify ing the information in our library in a way that you could use for accessing the information. The numerical code looked like a telephone number, so it was named the "Telephone Sequence Number", or "telseq", pronounced "tell-seek"(some tell and some seek). The library booklist is arranged according to telseqs.

The underlying idea was that you could locate a book according to your interest, read it, and send in a book review to be printed in the Psi-M for sharing with the other Members. It was hoped that this would save time for the others. It seemed fe asible for you to get into the details and extract the information from each interesting paragraph, identify its content by telseq code and send it in for me to enter it into the database on the computer. I included a blank Review form in the Psi-M f or Members to use. As an example: begin with 011B01 as Book One about AWareness, Step of Overview, at the Beginning level; read chapters; re-identify chapters according to topic, subtopic, and level. As example, if paragraph "a" of Chapter 1 is about telepathy, then re-enter as 121B0101a. The "0101a" is

there to tell you which book and chapter and paragraph it was taken from, so you have a key for referencing throughout the lesson. All of the various paragraphs are entered into the database under 0101B, which is then extracted and re-written for you to access in the specific lesson for the topic, subtopic and level, that is, the packaged lesson.

Periodicals were to be managed about the same, except that chapters and paragraphs were to be replaced by year and month of the periodical.
Then, with the information loaded, I thought that I could have the computer sort through it all by telseq code and come out with all of the inputs, in order, for Members to use for learning. I haven't really pressed the issue with you in the past as regards having you do the extraction because, frankly, the workload for me to load it into the system and sort it and sythesize it is far from trivial, as you'll see later on.
In that earlier issue, I set down the overall plan of development of an extension of our Handbook/Mindbook, the Psi-Guide System" in phases:
Phase One was to be the library listing in Psi-Guide order of majority content- this has been done.
The next three phases involved extraction;
Phase Two was reading books by members to write book summaries, & publishing- this would involve at most about a hundred books and periodicals;
Phase Three continued analysis down to the chapter level for content-this would involve perhaps 2,000 chapters;

-- Phase Four was to get each specific notion, as in paragraphs- about 40,000;
The next two phases involved sorting the extractions and synthesizing lessons;
Phase Five was to sort and select the notions in sequenced order for learning-breaking down the 40,000 notions;
Phase Six was to be synthesizing the ordered sets into lesson packages; -The next two phases were to be trials;
Phase Seven was the testing and evaluating and using of the lesson packages;
Phase Eight improvement through the feedback from Phase Seven;
The last two phases were the results;
Phase Nine was the publishing of the evaluated and improved packages;
Phase Ten was continual maintenance/improvement.

In the time since then, I've been trying to follow the plan. Many Members have confirmed that they do want to meet others who think as they do, who want to do more than merely read books and be passive bystanders, who would like to participate in experiences that will help improve their learning, and who are tired of waiting for someone else to do something.

1987
The Psi-M for May/ June/ JUL/AUG 1986 was published in March '87. The Prez-Ed's Notebook introduced new Members and announced that we had, after considerable effort, gained support from United Way of some $1,200 ($500 from your Prez-Ed's donations "at the office") and requested suggested ways to use it. ROUNDTABLE FORUM features Member contributions.
"Forecast of the Future of Psi" by Frank Pollard; "Dowsing" by Trudy Loper. Aura Dowsing by Rich compared Soviet and Californian work. Telepathy Cardset feedback by Bob Riordan highlights a problem with verbal glare; a solution was offered by Rich. Fred Wiebe wrote on telepathy. Bert Earl on "the psychic hand". Jack Taube "anon" deja vu-past life experiences. Analysis of data on reincarnation suggests pattern of time lapse based on double-gestation period. Analysis of Member responses to LIKE survey shows relationship between experience and age. -PsI-Q?
Report on Parapsychological Association Convention, PAC, with fotos. PSIGUIDE Database Reports on PAC 86. Fotos Report on PSI SIG Colloquium. Psychical Healing section treats those with problems.
F.R.N.M. & S.E.N. offer help for those who experie nce untentional spontaneous opening up. Spirit photography and anecdote by Tom Smith Non-Random notes from Rich's Log. H/M adds "Social Common Model", hints at psi relationship. Additions to Library titles for 18 new books PSIGUIDE-Additions by Brown,Winkler, and Woodworth.
PSIGUIDE Periodical Reviews by Frank Pollard Definitions of Terms Used in L.I.K.E. Survey. Revised Telecards with Fork, Jam, Key, Letter.
Published June 1987: September & October 1986-- Prez-Ed's Notebook introduces new Members, trade-mark registration, name change balloting says "YEA". New dues rates go into effect from Combined Federal Campaign contributions, extending all Members' dues for an extra year.

RESEARCH: Your favorite topic of healing is discussed in depth.

ROUNDTABLE FORUM: features Member contributions of book reviews by Jane Winkler & Lillian Mason.- "Psi Stock Project" by Rich answers the question -"If You're So Psychical, Then Why Aren't You Rich?" positively. EDUCATION: A quick look at how PSI SIG supports the gifted. Handbook/Mindbook: update on Healing.
The workload was growing to the extent that putting out both resulted in a slip in the publishing schedule for Psi-M that was so late that the year from the September/October issue of '86 to the November/December issue of '87 was omitted entirely. Increasing dues to as high as $14 to cover the

costs proved to be unwise, because our Membership dropped to only 126 at one point, in '87, with renewals of even that number in doubt with a forecast of ony about 65 renewals. So, the dues were cut back to the $7 and a very time-consuming Membership Drive was undertaken in '87 that swelled our numbers to 500 (of whom half did not renew.). This involved sending out special invitation flyers to the 3,000 Mensans who had identified any one of six psi-related areas on their choices of special interests.

Although some Members seemed to feel that $14 was reasonable for what they were getting out of the group (and putting into it), it seemed that most did not want to spend that much. In short, I could not continue both the Psi-M and the H/M and, as time passed, the H/M grew more, to over 300 pages, and much of it was in need of re-writing and re-formatting. Another consideration proved to be significant; individual Members seemed to be interested in relatively specialized interests and levels of interest- few, if any, desired to know everything about everything all at once, so a complete H/M was not needed nor desired by most or our Members. It seemed that a better way was needed to satisfy the specific, individual desires of you and other Members. (Our latest attempt to find this out, the GLOBE survey in the last Psi-M, was almost a total flop -only three were sent in, about 1% return rate, so I still need to guess at what you want.)
November/December issue was the Register.

1988:
Jan./ Feb./ March covered: --Member Register Update-Prez-Ed's Column -Survey data shows numbers of interested M's geographically. -Learning Styles show patterns for occupationals, point to groupwork. -L.I.K.E. survey data shows who likes what how much.
ROUNDTABLE FORUM: -Pollard surveys psychical experiences during meeting; Stevenson questions precognitive ethics. -Meyers benefits from healing with TENS unit, subliminal audiotapes. -Patterson renews, comments on "giving permis sion" - Miura works Ouija board ethically - Thomas shares several experiences. -"Anon A" shares experiences, views on topical areas. - Bennett seeks telepathy partner. -Allridge announces psychic art symposium.-"Anon B" shares experiences - Earl shares notions, experiences on defense and healing. - Sheldon shares experiences on suicide, contacts, earthly Guide. - Media reports on Cook's and Strong's investigation of haunting.
PSYCHICAL SCENE: - Lewis reviews DOWSING: MIND OVER MATTER -"PSI DAT" database entries reflect additions to our library. -"PSIPERL" database gives reports on periodicals. -
NEW FRONTIERS CENTER Newsletter reports on audio & video taping of spirits.
April and May--ROUNDTABLE FORUM - Paul Stevenson covers two other organizations. - Jeff Atwood writes on "A Relaxation Technique". - Victoria Wofford contributes background, techniques. - Catherine May reports experiences, suggests Delphi groupwork. - Ross Sheldon contributes notes on parapsychology course. - Woody Woodworth comments on various items. - Lou Smith reports experiences and queries, with response by Rich. PSYCHICAL SCENE: - Mike Lightner reports on THE PSYCHIC DETECTIVES - RESEARCH IN PARAPSYCHOLOGY reports on Associational Remote Viewing by Puthoff, plus stock venture profit for charity. - HAL PUTHOFF shows theory for physical sea of energy - reservoir. MEMBER REGISTER ADDENDA.
RESEARCH REPORT: Data on Psi-Q and L.S.I. update - Geographical distribution of Membership plotted.

June & July/August 1988 (Published November 1988) Prez-Ed's Notebook covers recent events,

etc.ROUNDTABLE FORUM: Delphi Project still in the hangar- John Attamack invites interest in time travel-

Rich tries novel fund-raising without success- Art Applegate on religious aspects- Barb Ekleberry contributes to our library Burt Borrok on informal psi-learning classes. A student inquires about OBEs, age of a Soul- Rich writes on lightning. Marie Lewis on dowsing, negative rays. "Anon C" on life with psychical talents. Frank Pollard and Catherine May on potential PSI SIG works. Dominie Kazutoff on sensitivities, avocations. "Woody" Woodworth and "Bert" Earl on hostages in Lebanon, metaphysics, etc. John Duncan on military psychics, Steiner interview in BULLETIN. Wilma Kupfer on healing meditation. Frank Pollard on gathering program, and a philosophical poem. T. D. Lingo on temporal lobes, amygdala switch training. Graphic of LIKE Survey results. Jayne Gilbert is interviewed on "Thoughts on Health".

PSYCHICAL SCENE: A report on an audiotape for aiding in healing. Parapsychological Association Convention, PAC, report: Dr. Persinger on temporal lobes and geomagnetism.