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Well, what’s so “mysterious” about a flood? What’s so happy about most of the population of the planet being wiped out of existence? How can you call that “glad tidings?” The key seemed to be held in the concept of the Ark. My search for the true meaning of Love, Salvation, Faith and Eternal Life was, essentially, a search for the meaning of the Ark. Metaphorically speaking, there is no better expression of this search than the story of Noah and the Ark. All quests of life and love and existence can be expressed in this story of a man, faced with the destruction of his world - and in this case, it was literally destruction of the entire world, or so the story goes - and he set about building an Ark. The next question was, of course, exactly what is this process of Metamorphosis, and exactly what constitutes an Ark of safety? At this point, a friend of ours died, and we fell heir to a trunk full of books. Among them was a small paperback. I will never forget the feeling that came over me when I read None Dare Call it Conspiracy, by Gary Allen. Everything in this book just slotted into place with the teachings of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky that Man is asleep and under the control of an “Evil Magician”. I realized that the Evil Magician was a metaphor, at least in part, for political and historical control systems. This realization was, once again, devastating to my illusions. As Gary Allen suggests, without any intelligent control, 50% of the time events would occur in social, cultural and political spheres leading to great benefit for all. Factoring in intelligent decisions to do good would bring this average even higher. I could clearly see this wasn’t reflected in our reality. Man hasn’t stopped killing his brother; he has just developed more efficient and mechanical means of doing it. Putting Allen’s ideas together with Gurdjieff’s, it seemed merely the result of certain “mechanical” laws of the Universe that humans refer to as “good” and “evil”. These laws were cyclical and could be better expressed in terms of physics. That is one of the threads I followed to the idea of Cosmic Quantum Metamorphosis. I finished the research and notes for The Noah Syndrome on December 16, 1986. I went out and bought an old manual typewriter and began to type up my book from notes in longhand. By the time I was done with the manuscript, I was a real hot-shot on that old manual typewriter! 45 High Strangeness — Part One Why? Who or what is influencing events to the negative?