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have discouraged me no end, yet I went into this course like a hungry man wanting information about the world around me. It seemed that any doubts or disadvantages were just secondary to this odd enthusiasm. Both mentally and socially, unexplained steps had been taken. For the first time I was taking a broader interest in the world rather than just my obsessive interests. I had made friends amongst peers and gathered a small circle of people with mutual interests. We shared a particular interest in conventional science and where it borders with the unknown. During breaks I would regularly engage with students about these subjects and how they touch upon areas that little is known about. How far can you break down atoms? Could they ever be magnified to the infinitely small where they perhaps exist as microscopic planets, populated by micro-entities? Naturally these interests would spread into areas such as the existence of God, the afterlife and higher species of life in the cosmos. During tea breaks, these subjects would be discussed fervently and I certainly surprised myself just how much I had to contribute. So many students seemed to have at least a passing interest in these matters and would occasionally join in the discussions but there would always be this “hardcore” of the liaisons consisting of just three--myself and another couple who I will call Paul and Wendy. It turned out that Paul and Wendy, a married couple from the Southwest coast were both members of a UFO organisation who attended conferences across the country. I expressed my own interest in these things without giving away any suspicion I had about possibly being involved (taking into account that suspicion was rapidly fading.) Paul and Wendy shared the same agnostic approach to the subject that I had recently developed, applying healthy scepticism where it was needed. None of us confessed to ever having unusual experiences ourselves but maintained that unwavering fascination in all things esoteric. Something was already forming in this relationship that would prove to be the seeds of a new organisation with new objectives to the world of the paranormal. What we all had in our approaches, particularly with UFOlogy was a hard-nosed “straight to the jugular” belief that wouldn’t waste time with sightings or disputable factors but focus more on the closer encounters and first hand accounts. In other words we spent very little time discussing the arguable hard evidence that initially come with these phenomena and homed in right on stories of alleged meetings with extraterrestrials and where ghosts really come from. For instance, it wasn’t enough that we might meet someone who claims to have seen a ghost, we wanted to know what the ghost had to say! Was it a conscious communicative entity or a manifestation of a possible 52