Editorial

Many thanks to all members who have sent me material recently. Most of it is too voluminous to be used and some of it will be well known to us all. It was nice to have sent on Irene F. Hughes' Golden Numbers form letter and to know that "It is always a strange feeling—opening letters from people whose desire is so clearly intense. At this very moment, your desire is priority #1. It is now '11:33' and your case has just been completed. As always, it gives me a warm feeling to see that once again the numbers reveal their hidden meanings so willingly to someone who asks from the heart." Incidentally my Golden Lucky Number is 11 and so my lucky times are 11 a.m. or 2 p.m.

Special thanks to Malcolm McLeary who has sent me an extraordinary collection of nonsense. This emanates from the 'Metaphysical Research' & Science of Ontology Centre in Christchurch. (To save you having to look it up, 'Ontology' means that department of Metaphysics concerned with the essence of things or being in the abstract). The bulk of this material is the "Melchizedek' Manuscripts on the 'Atomic' power of your subconscious mind. There is some confusion here since the accompanying blurb says that there are fourteen volumes of these (at $10 each) and each of 213 pages. However the volume which I have been sent is 'only' 86 pages long. However that is enough to throw up these gems: "Inertia is the rest state of the spirit, Motion is the Ertia of the spirit", "It is only when we leave the conscious mind that miracles happen" and "I am the knower of the known".

Helen Pennington has kindly sent me an excellent article from the New Scientist of 5 May. This is Susan Blackmore on "Visions from the dying brain". It is rather too long for the Newsletter but if anyone can not get it from their local library, I will send on a copy.

Lastly, there is a superb article by Polly Toynbee in the Guardian Weekly of 26 June on the new Doris, Doris Collins. It is very funny and very revealing, especially the fact that Doris One was regularly detected in cheating. Unfortunately it does not lend itself to summarising and the page size would not make photocopying easy. It ends ona very serious and important point: "Skeptics may laugh at all this as harmless fun, but the spectacle of many of the desperate people in her audience was a sad sight. Preying on the bereaved is a nasty business... Who knows what damage these messages may do to the vulnerable. It certainly makes coming to terms with death almost impossible for them. In the frantic hope of holding on to their dead, many become near addicts to these sugary little homilies and meaningless reassurances."