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Veritas: Roie had several groups - several in Melboume, about three of them in South Australia and at least eight of them in Sydney. Very few people realised she had that many groupsin 4 Sydney. Many of her initiates would not like to be named for quite obvious reasons. She was a very good teacher and was a very honest woman inasmuch as she spoke the truth. A lot of people hated her for it-and a lot of people found it disturbing because of her genuine clairvoyant ability. NEXUS: How else did you see her. clairvoyant ability demon- strated? U J ore A ty, Ui . Veritas: Quite easily, quite often. Although Roie didn’t often y; INGA ES EX. reap the rewards of her effort, she could actually see and pick io Ay , kis ‘winners’, which is classed as mundane clairvoyance - that’s the sort of thing people use clairvoyance for. She could often pick a winner with no trouble at all and quite often survive on that. Again, this is something Roie kept very quiet because it is an ability that not many people should know about - at least at that time. Roie’s sight was mystic in the true sense of the word. It wasn’t fragmentary. There are a number of people who are the LD UR SL most radical fragmentary clairvoyants and who occasionally Roie predicted the deaths of several dozen people we knew can actually get a certain continuity about their clairvoyance - long before they happened - and in what circumstances. but none with the amazing abilities that she had. I mean quite She had a very good cover; in her later years, Roie just phenomenal. Roie spent most of her life at it. She was good at played along with what the newspapers wanted. She played an it and hid a lot of her life quite deliberately because she could old theatrical has-been deliberately for the protection of her- not stand the vibes, let alone the behaviour, of other people. self and those around her. Much of what occurred from about Back in 1968, Roie and I went to a party at a house in 1966 onward was pure theatre on the part of Roie. Cleveland St, Sydney and about 60 people were there. She told In the year 1974 she had a number of visions which them there was going to be a fire in about 20 minutes and they appeared to be nightmares but were actually visions into. the should all get out. They all left the house and within about 20 future. minutes the electric wiring caught alight and there was a fire. Ina tribute to Roie’s insight the fire was put out by themannext NEXUS: Have any of the events in these predictions already door before the fire brigade could arrive. ° occurred? On another occasion Roie was invited to a friend’s party at a terrace house behind the Oxford Hotel in Sydney. It used to Veritas: Her first vision concerned the actual dismissal of the bea terrace of four houses - each had been brothels along time Whitlam Governmenton November 11th, 1975. From then on before. Roie refused to go because she said that they were she predicted with accuracy that our culture would fall into the charged and she’d ‘switch on the field’. But she went and it control of the banks - the banks would have more control over happened - the field switched on in this old terrace and all hell our lives and the political parties - which, of course, has turned broke loose; the windows fell out of their frames, the curtains out to be quite true. went up in flames, There was an old-fashioned loo downstairs 1989 was to be a key year in this development and from that burst and I’m not kidding, about four feet of toilet water about May 1989 things were going to get very bad. By that she went everywhere. All this happened at once and she was right meant the closing of industries, the sacking of thousands of - she'd walked intoa field and activated it quite unconsciously. Roie predicted the deaths of several dozen people we knew long before they happened - and in what circumstances. She had a very good cover; in her later years, Roie just played along with what the newspapers wanted. She played an old theatrical has-been deliberately for the protection of her- self and those around her. Much of what occurred from about 1966 onward was pure theatre on the part of Roie. In the year 1974 she had a number of visions which appeared to be nightmares but were actually visions into. the future. NEXUS: Have any of the events in these predictions already occurred? Veritas: Her first vision concerned the actual dismissal of the Whitlam Government on November 11th, 1975. From then on she predicted with accuracy that our culture would fall into the control of the banks - the banks would have more control over our lives and the political parties - which, of course, has turned out to be quite true. 1989 was to be a key year in this development and from about May 1989 things were going toget very bad. By that she meant the closing of industries, the sacking of thousands of Continues Over “Rosaleen Norton was born In Dunedin, New Zealand; accord- very creative. She was one of Australia's best-known surreal- ing to blographer Nevilie Drury and her sister in 1917, but there ists. Most people don't look at Role's work carefully and there- are other people who swear blind she was born In 1905. fore don't see the Inner meaning of it. She’s very subtle in the Certainly in 1958 when | first met her she was atleast 45. She was way she conveys things by symbolism and by the feel of the born into a fairly comfortable family but realised at a very symbol; instead of just looking at a symbol she knew how to young age that she was a Bohemian and that she’d never become the symbol to really understand symbolic art. conform with what they wanted. She set out to construct a life ; fj for herself as a very clever Bohemian lady and a witch. There are some reproductions published by Nevilie Drury She first came to public notoriety from about 1954 over and her own book which was republished by Walter Glover In various obscenity trials in Sydney and Melboume for the exhl- 1982 - The Art of Rosaleen Norton with poetry by Gavin Green- bition of what was then termed very lurid work, but was actually sleeves.” NEXUS New NEXUS: Did she found her own group or circle?