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words of a war correspondent coming back from a crisis in the Middle East who had no biased knowledge of the conflicts there — “All I saw was how it happened and I cannot be any less vague.” This lack of reference to things commonly reported before really seems to have left me without the assistance of evidence, witness or even a substantiating story. If it had not been for my knowledge of High Strangeness and the Oz Factor, I would not have put a word of this into writing and maybe decided upon psychiatry after all. Now that I read back over what I’ve written I begin to see the tangibility in some of the intangible things described. Maybe it isn’t possible to actually bring you into the realm of a dream but I can at least try to tell you how it might work. My original reason for defining these things was to try to connect with a tiny minority of paranormal experiencers that have had these interactive psycho- dramatic episodes in order for them to say “Hey, there really is something in what you’ ve come across.” As my story developed, I realised I could do more than just that. What I have described could perhaps open up and establish a less-talked-about angle in UFOlogy. I don’t intend to win over the majority who will understandably doubt my story but at least I might help make concrete the psycho-astral side of the phenomena for later generations to consider. None of this actually helped; it just left me pondering in the indecisive limbo at the time. The outcome had made it difficult to put a full stop on this saga knowing that the full stop could never be accurately positioned. Not a week would go by where I didn’t feel the strange sensation that more of the puzzle was surfacing thus more of the saga had to be added or re-written. I didn’t feel old enough to have harboured such a mysterious past with chunks that didn’t look like my own. There were times when it made me wonder whether I had been jumping in and out of other people’s lives from other dimensions because the recollections didn’t often appear to be from the past Iknew. It wasn’t long after the time I believed I had completed my book that I read about something in the newspaper that had always fascinated me; the relationship between man and ape. An unidentified animal had been reported somewhere in the world (an interesting phenomenon related to UFOlogy where creatures are witnessed as being either unclassified or ridiculously out of place) that brought about the topic of evolution and genetics. A “man- monkey” was said to have been spotted by a number of people in Delhi India, an animal that had no reason to have been there or even in existence. 119