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Thus MT wound up inside indeed, rendering Hal O.'s projection to the interior of a subterranean desert base (issue 6, Jan.—Feb. 1990 of TNTC) as a first-hand report, deriving the ultimate graphics seen in the first frame from a parallel "pop—in" that makes Hal's exploit the fictive version of an actual account rather than empty conjecture. This fact itself can be inferentially validated by comparing an artist's rendering of a real photograph taken by ex-employee "Thomas C." of one of the verboten interiors of the Dulce facility, published in the same Matrix II (page 191)—a freehand copy of that drawing is rendered above for comparison to the comic-—strip cell. Note the small details such as gutter—like louvres in the floor, the perforated strips of paneling on the wall, the virtually identical clock dials, screens, cabinets, doorway and obliquely angled hall (indeed the perspective suggests that MT "appeared" at virtually the same point the photo was taken—for "sensitive" reasons the possibility that he may have picked up a psychic impression of the photo must be discounted)—meaning that he'd succeeded momentarily in penetrating the subtle—energy barrier which, by testimony of those who've so far talked, is known to have been installed to detect just such astral interloping. The existence of any such photo, artist's rendering of such a photo or indeed of the very books Matrix IJ and its predecessor, were of course unknown at the time since the strip was produced in December of 1989 for the Jan.—Feb. issue, and MT first obtained a copy of Matrix I in September—just in time to prep on the provincial "state-of-the-art" re the whole business of alien—government intercourse before trekking to the convention. A Hokey Ogle 45 seldom "deliberately" used; after a substantial preliminary period— many years ago—of cultivating and bringing them under control, all further use of such faculties out of "personal curiosity" or for the sake of psychism per se, was abandoned in favor of the larger object of spiritual development. Indeed both AAA and MT had come to consider the arbitrary exercise of such systems as...well, hokey (and this even in the face of AAA's truly extraordinary power of "aura reading"—see issue 9, May 1990, What Is The Mother Current?). Such "bias" may have been the aggravated result of witnessing the wanton trivialization of "psychic" faculties in the endless streaming of New Age dilettantism, where any "impression" whatsoever was taken as tantamount to divine decree. In any case, it was not with premeditation or malice aforethought that MT discovered himself, the very first day on the morning of the press conference, in the surprising process of employing just such a faculty generally abjured as "hokey"! It certainly would not have occurred to him of his own accord, to ogle the auras of the speakers as they came by turns to the platform. He was jotting notes with the rest of the press, and indeed the first few speakers went by without an inkling of the idea crossing his mind. However the third speaker to be introduced by host Beckley was Betty Luca Andreasson of "Andreasson Affair" fame, one of those few we'd come there specifically to see. As her name was called, MT looked up from his notes; she and her husband Bob were mounting the dais. He stepped back against the platform—length board in which the rostrum was framed, and she moved forward into the docket to speak. As she did so the most apparent aura sprang forward from the faint field surrounding things, limned against the 96 T-Bird_Vs_The_Flying_saucers.htm verisimilitude from the inside—so to speak). Such secondary faculties (i.e. psychism, projection etc.) were