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Chapter Eight On July 16, 1994, at our weekly Saturday evening sitting, we were all a bit excited at the latest news from space. Fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy were soon to begin a series of collisions with the planet Jupiter, an extremely rare “cosmic event. The impacts were supposed to continue for the next seven days, and I was very interested to see if this would have any noticeable effect on Earth. We were just sitting there with our fingers lightly on the planchette, the “question” inside me growing larger and larger as it had been doing for months, when suddenly the planchette began to move in slow, deliberate circles in a way we had never before experienced. “No”, he replied indignantly. “Put your fingers back. Let’s see what’s going on!" A funny pinching feeling and a tingle started at the back of my head that ran down my arm. The planchette began to move again slowly in a spiral. Spiral in and spiral out. We did the usual thing and said “hello!" That was not exactly usual. The usual response to “hello” was for the planchette to go to “yes”. It always took a bit for each entity to get “warmed up” and be able to move comfortably around the board. We were not recording either. In the transcript that follows, the questions are reconstructed from memory. The answers, however, were written down as received. A: Study. A: Mucpeor. We jerked our fingers away! I asked Frank: “Did you just do that?” Slowly, the planchette precisely and deliberately spelled “Hello.” As unusual as that opening was, we were not prepared for what was about to happen. Q: Do you have any messages for us? A: Keep doing what comes naturally. Q. (L) In what respect? Q: (L) What is your name?