Part II: Brief Background-Overview of Documented Spiritual-Psychic Experiences:

Preface to help understand my story of the bizarre synchronicity with the FBI and Spiritual-Psychic Experiences

Offhand one might first think anyone who predicted assassinations would be a bit "odd," eccentric, or even a bit off as well. However, a review of "documented" predictions or precognitive perceptions reveals that, while the number of examples are limited, by far, the most prevalent and frequent type of documented experiences are warnings or predictions of assassinations or deaths of leaders: assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Jeane Dixon; assassination of Julius Caesar by a seer-high priest as well as in his wife's dream the night before; assassination of Abraham Lincoln via his own nightmare; assassination of Assyrian King Sennacherib documented in the Old Testament 2 Kings 19:6b-7; Catholic Saint Liguori went into a coma at the same time that his pope lay on his death bed; Nostradamus' famous quatrain 35 is viewed as predicting-prophesying the death of a French king at a jousting tournament. 

Both the psychologists, Dean Radin and Daryl Bem, argue vigorously that instinctual processes are involved with many spiritual-psychic experiences, and of various designs Daryl Bem's experiments focused on precognition of sexual stimuli by far outperformed all other designs. Daryl Bem's precognition experiments have been performed a large number of times resulting in repeated successful precognition experiments, even though the experiments had different designs. An article summarizing a Meta-analysis stated that "The complete database comprises 90 experiments conducted between 2001 and 2013. These originated in 33 different laboratories located in 14 countries and involved 12,406 participants." (1.) By far Daryl Bem's best performing design was 'the precognitive detection of erotic stimuli' (1.) 

Relative to the issue of spiritual-experiences rooted in instinctual processes there are a couple of 'documented psychics' who are relavent to that question. First there is the TV Long Island Medium Teresa Caputo, who is, in my view, remarkably consistent. Frequently,her clients or subjects will thank her profusely for helping them to gain closure with their powerful emotions connected with departed loved ones. That would seem a clear indication that Theresa Caputo is performing a group related finciton in conncting with and helping others and so implicating instinctual processes (compassion, empathy, need to belong). 

Secondly, the famous documented healer and Christian spiritualist Edgar Cayce (active roughly from 1925 to 1945), had a documented record of healing others. LInda Caputi, author and mother of an epileptic daughter, documented that Edgar Cayce healed and "cured" 8 epileptics - and that was in the day and age whcih was devoid of any medications for epilepsy whatsoever. It should be noted that in this day and age of modern medicine and incredible technology - and even with modern medication - absolute "cures" are almost unheard of and it is generally understood that modern medicine which largely just "manages" epilepsy.

Of my own spiritual-psychic experiences - while it should be said that, in my roughly thirty eight years of experiences, the couple of dozen or so spiritual-psychic experiences actually occurred rather haphazardly, nearly every one could best be described as "perceptions of threats to the group." Of course, these experiences must be orignating in and rooted in instinctual process, and perhaps better understood as my personal-human variation of animal alarm calls. 

Of my spiritual-psychic experiences, I have one very detailed and remarkable "once in a lifetime" transcendental spiritual experience which comparatively speaking was exceptionally detailed: group, fabricating bombs, money, woman, death, identification of the weathermen manifesto, "New York." What makes the experience especially remarkable, in my view, that the last line of the "what a nightmare" stream of consciousness included the "Mustard Seed Parable" because, it coudl be argued that the Mustrard seed Parable is a "divine insight" because it dovetails perfectly with the statement "spirit creates meaning" found in the Synthesis-Consensus of Viktor Frankl, Carl Jung, William James, and Emile Durkheim. Carl Jung, perhaps, stated the synthesis consnsus best when he stated that "spirit [spirutla processes] give menaing to [his] life!" 

The Mustard Seed Parable of the Kingdom of Heaven, which is found in Mark and Matthew, is deceptively simple. The Mustard Seed blossoms and grows into a very beautiful and wonderful Mustard Tree. In a metaphor for "Transcendental Spirit" "Spirit" gives life meaning which is parallel to the Spirit in Genesis, as in Genesis 1:2 , which is the agent fo creation and brings life to the world - and man.  

Furthermore, besides my once in a lifetime spiritual-psychic experience, I have had a couple detailed dreams as well as a couple dozen other precognitive dreams or perceptions. Most f those should really be called "tags" - defined as a central action with one or two details - as opposed to full blown predictions. Of those perhaps 6 or 7 are documented (by email) 

Brief Overview and Background of Spiritual-Psychic Experiences:

Preface - Energy in Narratives and Stories!

As Carl Jung, William James, and others have emphasized "symbols" are not empty concepts but truly possess and contain energy. For instance, the American Flag is an excellent illustration, because as most Americans will tell you, especially veterans, the American flag can invoke very strong and powerful emotions - and energy. So, when a story gets read, the inherent symbols release emotions and energy into human consciousness. The story that I relate is truly bizarre - in my personal view, and some very powerful symbols such as the FBI, political extremism and terrorism, historical cycles, spiritual and religious symbolism, Spirit, "Transcendental Intelligence" or God, Political Power as in both Bush Presidents, the CIA, and others. What is really bizarre is that I had nothing to do with any of the many synchronicities. I didn't deal the cards, I just play them. My perception is that these "synchronicities" are "collective synchronicities!" 

Personally, I can't shake the feeling that perhaps there is an unconscious collective decision making going on - as in unconscious "script or narratives" creation - or perhaps even "destiny" creation, in a sense - taking place. Of course, this is way beyond my personal control. I am, perhaps, like a small sailboat on a very very big ocean at the mercy of a spiritual, psychological, and religious tempest. And I tell you I have no idea what all this synchronicity means in truth and reality. But I am sure all this synchronicity is significant in some shape, fashion or form.In any case I do feel the story should be told. 

Part III: The Beginning - The Once in a Lifetime Spiritual-Psychic Experience

"What a nightmare - Mustard Seed" Transcendental Spiritual-Psychic Experience

One reason, I personally find the concept of "acausal synchronicity" attractive is due to some personal life experiences having to do with some frequent synchronicities with the FBI over the course of a lifetime. My spiritual journey began in 1981, in Toledo, Ohio. I had a premonition about an attempted assassination of President Reagan and I brought it up with a very nice young woman named TJ. After debating the issue for a time, I did finally screw up the courage to call the FBI to warn them. The FBI agent who answered the call, of course, told me that I should call the Secret Service. At the time, consciously I was an atheist with some very strong beliefs antagonistic to psychic spirit, prophecy, Christ or God. Needless to say my call to the FBI started an internal conflict. The emotional struggle and the internal conflict over the question of spiritual-psychic experiences became an intense spiritual-emotional struggle that really needed to be addressed in some way or another.  

After another premonition I resolved to write my premonition down and put an end to the fight. After writing it out I resolved to warn the FBI about my perception of an upcoming terrorist attack. I notarized the stream of consciousness which, at first glance, strikes a person as the ravings and rantings of an utter madman. The "What a nightmare" rather uninhibited and completely Unconscious stream of consciousness heavy in symbolism with "angels," "prophets," as well as some Jungian type symbolism about a "jungle," "snakes," and "monkey screams." As I headed to the FBI office in Toledo, Ohio, I thought to myself for moment, "This is utter insanity!" Then, I said to myself rather wryly: "Well,...... - if I am actually, in truth, "insane," then, at least, I'll be going in style!" The intense internal struggle had reached such strong levels and produced enough pain and anguish, that I didn't care anymore. I just wanted "it" over, one way or the other.

When I walked into the Toledo, Ohio FBI office, the FBI agent glanced at my stream of consciousness right away, and I felt a knot in my stomach when I saw his eyebrows lift, just a little. There aren’t a whole lot of the sentences which could be said to be straightforward statements in the very wild and utterly uninhibited “What a nightmare” stream of consciousness. As soon as I sat down with the FBI agent in a small cubicle, I pointed out those few lines to the FBI agent: “a group with money fabricates a terrible bomb,” and the line which had “a woman and money are keys” in it. And when I got to the line that said ‘New York or Miami’ I asked the FBI agent which he thought it would be. He angrily snapped, “How the HELL should I know, it is your dream!” I hastily pointed out “New York.” The interview was over that quickly.My "What a nightmare" warning-prediction, notarized on October 18,1981, turned out to be very accurate and detailed: group, money, fabricating bombs, New York, death, "22 were assembled", women, as well as identifying and the Weathermen manifesto in the title.

Besides these explicit details, there appears to be some symbolic synchronicities in the "Mustard Seed" precognitive stream of consciousness. The statements were: “Time is at hand! Time is at hand, Angels said.” and “Fight Hard, Die Well! A prophet spoke!” could be construed to symbolize the deaths of the two policemen and the Brink's guard. The angels declaring, "Time is at hand," could be seen to symbolize the deaths of the two policeman who were killed by the Weathermen terrorists, while the prophet’s statement, “Fight Hard, Die Well” could be said to symbolize the one Brink’s guard who was killed. In this symbolic interpretation, the angels that symbolize the policemen could in this allegory be said to outrank the “prophet” who seems to have 'prophesied' the death in the "Fight Hard, Die Well" statement. There is a sense of unreality or surreal feeling about all this. 

When I researched the articles of the New York Times about the Weathermen attack, when I saw that people had died, it crossed my mind that these people were very "real" people. At times, there is a feeling, or perhaps better phrased - an aura - of unreality and a sense of all being surreal. At the time I wrote the "What a nightmare" warning i was clearly deeply emotionally involved, as the statement "Fight Hard, Die Well" would clearly indicate. It was almost as if, in my mind, I was actually there, somehow - in the moment when it happened. The statement "Fight Hard Die Well" sounds over the top and way too over dramatic and theatrical. However, the question crossed my mind, "What should one say if one knows someone real will die a violent death? 

While there are a limited number of documented predictions-warnings of assassinations, the notarized, precognitive "What a nightmare" warning is, compared to historically "documented" spiritual-psychic experiences is, without question rather exceptional in detail and accuracy. When compared to Old Testament prophets such Ezekiel or Jeremiah ('foe to the north" & 70 year exile) as well as modern psychics who made predictions such as the documented psychic Edgar Cayce, Nostradamus, or Jeane Dixon, It has much more detail than any other to the best of my knowledge and, to the best of my knowledge. Furthermore, the What a nightmare warning, again, to my knowledge, appears to be the only written documented warning-prediction about terrorism.

Perspective: The Mustard Seed and The Holy Spirit

After many, seemingly endless at times, years of anguish, doubts, existential fears, and excruciating soul searching and self-examination, I finally reached the realization that the Mustard Seed spiritual experience was, without doubt, an expression - and, in a sense, a product - of the Holy Spirit. Several Christians agree with that that experience is a reflection of the Holy Spirit. There are several reasons for arriving at that conclusion. The first would be that the amount of detail in the transcendental "Mustard Seed" Spiritual experience is actually phenomenal - and unprecedented. 

Furthermore, at that moment in time, I was "consciously" an atheist and consciously pretty seriously believed that psychic, prophecy, as well as angels, miracles, and God were "superstitious nonsense" - which is the "norm" of psychology. Carl Jung stated that "spirit" [spiritual process] is an 'autonomous unconscious process' with a capability similar to the conscience that would have the ability to over-ride the ego to take action. I would say I am walking proof that Carl Jung was right. I should mention briefly that Fraser Watts pointed out that of people reporting positive experiences in one study of spiritual experiences, 24% of them were atheists, which would also provide solid evidence that Jung was right that spiritual process are largely unconscious. 

Another piece of the puzzle would be that, as everyone who knew me then - including myself - would have told you: "Charlie Peck," at that particular moment of time could not psychologically or physiologically possibly have written out the truly exceptionally detail precognitive transcendental spiritual experience, without some transcendental or external force or influence of some kind. It is interesting, when I went over this with a psychology professor, he agreed that what happened was outside 'free will.'

Another reason for my personal understanding of the Holy spirit is that, besides referring to angels, prophets, nuns, additionally, the last sentence of the transcendental stream of consciousness had a reference to the "Mustard Seed Parable" - which, in the end, I personally realized that it was a "divine" insight, since it fit so perfect into that situation and answered a very powerful drive to understand the experience. It is ironic that it took me 36 or 37 years to really grasp the significance of the "Mustard Seed Parable. I didn't graps the significance of the Mustard Seed Parable until I stumbled across the "synthesis-consensus of Viktor Frankl, Carl Jung, William James, and Emile Durkheim who agree unanimously that "spirit" [spiritual processes] "creates meaning and a sense of reality." 

The Mustard Seed Parable is deceptively simple. A "Mustard Seed" is planted, then it grows into a wonderful Mustard Tree. The Parable of the Mustard Seed Mark 4. 30 Then He said, t "To what shall we liken the kingdom of God? Or with what parable shall we picture it? 31 "It is like a mustard seed which, when it is sown on the ground, is smaller than all the seeds on earth; 32 "but when it is sown, it grows up and becomes greater than all herbs, and shoots out large branches, so that the birds of the air may nest ..."

In a metaphor of the Kingdom of Heaven to Transcendental Spirit, then, the meaning of the parable lies in the growth, the life-spirit and the creation of meaning. That is, my Mustard Seed Transcendental Spiritual Experience was the Mustard Seed and resulted in a growth in my personal understanding and this was a major force in "meaning creation!"  In Exodus there is also a reference to "spirit" creating knowledge (i.e. trades, etc.) (meaning) On top of that it is the Spirit that breathed life into man.  Of course, later Christ stated in John 5:6 that "Spirit is Truth" and truth, of course, easily translates to "meaning" or "meaning-structure." "meaning" in Sense of the synthesis-consensus that "spirit" [spiritual processes] create meaning and a sense of reality. Furthermore, that is consistent with the Gospels theme in often portraying the Holy Spirit as the "Spirit of Truth." 

Furthermore, in the Judeo-Christian tradition, which also overlaps with some Islamic beliefs, the “Spirit” originates in the form of “Life-Force” in the Biblical Creation Story of Genesis. Genesis 1:2 states, "The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters." Only a little further in the Bible, Genesis 2:7 states: “Then the Lord God formed a man[a] from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.” The Islamic version of the creation of man mirrors the Judaic version: "When thy Lord said unto the angels: lo! I am about to create a mortal out of mire, And when I have fashioned him and breathed into him of My Spirit, then fall down before him prostrate." (Qur'an. Ch 38- vrs 71&72) which describes the spirit of God moving above the waters in the act of creation. 

I should note that "Spirit" as "Life-force" is a nearly universal symbol-idea or archetype found throughout the world's cultures and among all the earliest primitive and prehistoric cultures - on every continent and in every human culture, from Native American cultures, to Australian Aborigines, to Polynesian, Chinese, Japanese, and so forth. The Chinese refer to “life-force” energy as 'Chi' which symbolizes the vital life force energy of the Universe. Qi or chi is central to the Taoist worldview and practice or worship. Similarly, in Japan, "life-force' is named “ki,” In Hinduism, life-force is “prana” or “shakti.” Ancient Egyptians called it “ka.” In some places of Africa, “life-force” is known as “ashe,” and in Hawaii it is known as “ha” or “mana.” In Buddhism, there are several concepts that relate to "life force and energy." In the Buddhist Pali Canon, vinnana is one of three Pali terms that refers to the mind. also, the word, Vijnana (Sanskrit) is translated as "consciousness," "life force," "mind," or "discernment."

The list of names for "spirit" as "life-force" are almost endless. These are just a few. Jung pointed out that the origins of the idea-symbol of spirit as life-force were likely in the observation of early humans that absence of breathing at death represented the departure of a "life-force" of the person. That is borne out by a linguistic analysis which shows a worldwide correlation that the word for spirit has roots in the word for breath in nearly all the cultures of the world. Genetic research has demonstrated that certain traits of "Religiosity" are inherited. It would seem very probable that the human unconscious - or collective unconscious (the concept that Jung advanced - would have an inherited idea-symbol for "spirit" as "life-force" or in Jungian terminology an archetype of the "spirit as life-force." I should highlight, that in that context, my Personal Transcendental Mustard Seed Spiritual Experience may not be as wild and "out there" as one might ordinarily think.   

I do have an obligation to note that if there is the idea-symbol of "spirit" as a "life-force" buried deep in the recesses of human consciousness - and that materialists are rather frivolously advocating (with no substantial evidence to speak of as well as some serious methodological flaws) through norms and teachings that "spirit" and spirituality is "superstitious nonsense" then it would seem an inevitable conclusion that these "scientists are probably screwing around with things they really shouldn't-ought to be doing - in my view.      

Comparative View: The Force, Holy Spirit, and Collective Consciousness!

The idea of the Holy Spirit would seem necessarily include the idea of Spirit-Consciousness most likely parallel in ways to Durkheim/Jung's concept of collective consciousness. Several references to the Holy Spirit refer to the concept of "wind" - which, of course is very present and active in the world. So my view of the Holy spirit as being in the world and pervasive through human consciousness would seem well founded. In general, from the Mustard Seed experience, My sense of the experience is that the experience reflects an intricate inter-connectivity with life, others, and transcendental spirit. 

Though, the Holy Spirit predates Star Wars by thousands of years, the idea of the Holy Spirit in terms of Energy and Force makes a lot of sense. pervades believe that spiritual and religious emotions - and spirit - pervade this consciousness. Furthermore and perhaps more importantly, it seemed clear that the information I came up with in the Transcendental Spiritual Mustard Seed ExperiencComparativee had to have come from a source outside myself - some kind of Transcendental Spirit or Intelligence. The concept of "spirit" is prevalent in every 'primitive' religion I had researched, in one form or another, and is present among all the modern major religions. Judaism actually has a concept of the Holy Spirit, which they call Ruach Hakodesh. Similarly, Islam has the idea of a Holy Spirit, which they call Ruh al Qudus.

Carl Jung stated that he believed that "spirit" was an "autonomous unconscious process" which had enough 'force' or emotional power to motivate or move a person. Jung stated that “From the psychological point of view the phenomenon of spirit, like every autonomous complex, appears as an intention of the unconscious superior to, or at least on a par with, the intentions of the ego. If we are to do justice to the essence of the thing we call spirit, we should really speak of a “higher” consciousness rather than of the unconscious, because the concept of spirit is such that we are bound to connect it with the idea of superiority over the ego-consciousness.” (in CW8: 643) Viktor Frankl also believed that "conscience" was intimately connected with "spirit" and empowered an individual into independent action. 

I should highlight that my actions on October 18, 1981 could, in a sense, be viewed as living proof that Carl Jung was right. At the time of my notarized, precognitive "Mustard Seed" Transcendental Spiritual-Psychic Experience that consciously, my cognitive beliefs about spirit, spirituality, prophecy, and psychic were highly antagonistic to those ideas. In spite of that I manged to write up a - semi-conscious at least stream of consciousness, then, walk into a FBI office and go over it with a FBI agent though I had no cognitive belief in what I was doing and I also had no record at all. 

110 Million Americans have Spiritual-Psychic Experiences & "Normalcy"

The existential psychologists and editors, Park and Paloutzian, in the Handbook of the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, state "numerous survey studies in both the United States and Europe have demonstrated the normalcy of reports of religious experiences, including mystical experience (see Spilka, Hood, Hunsberger, & Gorsuch, 2003, pp. 307-312). Depending on the specific wording of the questions asked, anywhere from a third to a half of the populations affirm such experiences...While this correlational data does not provide evidence of that causes such reports, it does establish the normalcy of such reports and indicates social scientists have until recently ignored a common phenomena." (p. 67) 

Park and Paloutzian emphasize that the "reports" of spiritual experiences by people surveyed definitely do not prove the reality or physical existence of a "transcendental spirit," in any way. However, Park and Paloutzian do argue forcefully that the survey-studies do, without question, demonstrate clearly that spiritual experiences have a "normalcy." That is "spiritual experiences are OK" - which should have been the situation all along since the 'golden rule' in psychology is: I'm OK, You are OK. 

First, it is important to understand that William James, in his classic work, The Varieties of Religious Experiences, establishes that spiritual experiences create a "sense of reality." On top of that social psychology has 'proved' through experiments and studies that the human mind has a powerful "categorization" process in the human mind (Tajfel, Turner, Hogg, Abrams, Baumeister, and most every other social psychologist). So, in my situation with my notarized - an very real -  "Mustard Seed" Transcendental spiritual-psychic experience, the "categorization" process would without question categorized my real (and notarized) experience and categorized it as a transcendental spiritual-psychic experience.

The bottom line is that in my experience - as with, most likely almost all other spiritual-psychic experiences - my brain was doing exactly what it was supposed to an my worldview and understanding is perfectly healthy. 

Part III: Spooky Double Entendre FBI Synchronicities!

A "synchronicity" involving the FBI emerged with my first encounter with the FBI - with my brief exchange with the FBI agent in Toledo, Ohio on October 18, 1981. By fate, circumstance, or destiny, my mother's law office was located in the same building, directly next door to the FBI office. Beginning with that minor synchronicity, over the course of the next almost forty years, there were occurred several more coincidences or synchronicities with the FBI or FBI personnel, which considering the numerous amount of synchronicities with the characteristic of being very consist, seems, in my view, demonstrate a rather bizarre pattern of consistent sychronicities with the FBI. For the most part this has been (way) beyond my control, and thus are not artificial or contrived coincidences. 

It could get a little spooky at times. When I lived, temporarily, in Fredericksburg, Va. next to FBI Profiling pioneer and author John Douglas for a short time, while both of us were building houses. Of course this is something neither one of us planned, but was a chance coincidence that happened "acausally," as it were. 

Kathi (my wife) - Daughter of FBI agent

The most significant synchronicity that happened, would be the event when I met my (future) wife, Kathi, in 1984. Actually, it wasn’t until I had been with her for 6 months or so that I learned that her father had been a former FBI agent. Kathi, though at odds with her father, who had been an FBI agent while he was alive, seemed very proud of her father's status as an FBI agent and showed me on a couple of occasions the letter from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover congratulating her father on her birth.

Kathi, a lifelong and loyal Lutheran, as it turned out, has had several of her own spiritual-psychic experiences. Kathi views one of her spiritual experiences as being, in essence, a direct intervention by God. When she was pregnant with her second child by a prior husband, her doctor, on a routine checkup, informed her that the fetus had stopped growing, and told her that he highly recommended aborting the baby. She felt strongly she shouldn’t do that, so she prayed to God. When she went for her next checkup, the fetus had resumed growing. 

After I had been married to Kathi for some time and while our children were still relatively young, one day, she had a very strong feeling that she needed to go see her Aunt Katherine, who she hadn’t seen in a long time. When she went to go I asked her to take the children with her, but she felt strongly she should not, so she refused to bring any children with her. When she reached Aunt Katherine's house, she found her aunt dead on the kitchen floor. She also has had a couple other experiences like that. 

Kathi also told me how after she had left home and gone out on her own (actually she was pretty much pushed out), she did a painting of a woman. When she went to college, she made a bust of a man. Later she met a couple through John and Karen who went to the Holy Comforter Lutheran church in Baltimore with her - who observed that they knew a couple - a man named Jim and a woman named Greta - who strangely bore some remarkable similarities to the painting and bust she had made (though done at different times). Kathi gave the painting and bust to John and Karen. Furthermore, Kathi also related how her mother seemed to "tune in" to political events from time to time. Her mother, just before the Cuban Missile crisis became public, went on a major shopping spree - stocking up big time on food, especially imperishable canned goods. 

I might also mention, in passing, that I also recently learned that an old high school friend turned out to be a lifelong Lutheran as well, who had also had a transcendental spiritual experience as an adolescent. Of course, though the 700 plus page comprehensive "Self and Identity Handbook that I have has not even one mention of spirit or spirituality, Stanley Hall's classic study of adolescents showed that spiritual experiences are fairly common during that period of life. 

I should stress that Kathi is an individual, who definitely identifies completely herself as a "Christian" - as well as a dedicated Lutheran -  who has been completely committed to Christ's commandment to "Love thy neighbor" and who has very strong code of ethics. At age 13, she spoke up at a church congregational meeting and spoke out against racism. At a very young age she was also an activist in the anti-Vietnam War. Kathi recounts how she took her infant son to an anti-war protest in downtown Baltimore at the War Memorial Plaza. She joined the SDS, the famous Students for Democratic Society Movement, which gained popularity during the anti-war protests of the 1960's. So it is kind of like a double entendre [double meaning] synchronicity that the "Weathermen" which appeared in my 1981 "What a nightmare" warning, were a violent splinter group of the SDS - coincidences within coincidences.   

Of course, being a total pacifist, Kathi was completely opposed to all violence, including the bombings of the Weathermen group. In a sense I'm the polar opposite of Kathi. For most of my life I have been on the political sidelines, and in high school I could probably have been described as being "politically stupid." I had a friend whose brother was in the SDS, but that is all I knew - and, when I was in high school, I actually had no idea what the SDS was, what it did - or that it had any politcal or social significance at all.  

Kathi,  having been a very committed pacifist and having been an anti-war activist and protester, gave her an understanding and some familiarity with FBI tactics-policies regarding surveillance of radicals. some of that understanding would be an emotional grasp learned through interactions with her who was a hard line loyalist FBI agent at the time. Kathi relates how her father pretty much 'saw' her almost as if she literally were one of those 'dirty commies' you found under every bed according to J. Edgar Hoover and the, then, official FBI Doctrine - which gave her a very intuitive understanding of my situation. 

Kathi was something of a 'rebel' who viewed herself as a Bohemian-artist, so she relates to the fact that I am something of a cultural dissident. what turned out to be helpful to me is that Kathi also understood that the FBI and the U.S. government does actually have a dark side, and that not all the employees of agencies are (or even ever were) "practicing" boy scouts. Analysis is something like 90% of the CIA, and I could probably talk with a CIA analyst about ideologies and Geertz's writing about politics in emerging countries with no problem. I seriously doubt if I would have much in common with CIA operations or covert intelligence agents, and prefer, actually, to keep it that way.  

The U.S. government, especially in light of all its unbelievably humongous assets in electronic surveillance can be not only intimidating and frightening, but at times even terrifying. So, it was very helpful that she understood my fears of the government, and, at times, she even expressed some sympathy and empathy, when I talk about questions of wiretapping, or how my computer was hacked with images of the former CIA Director and my 9/11 page. 

In fact, my sense of it is, that people have, to some extent, an innate fear of government - a fear that others people (or things) have power over you and can affect - or play with - your life in arbitrary and destructive ways. Fear was pretty bad at the beginning in 1981. It didn't help that there was pretty loud static on the phone line an my brother in law who was a lobbyist in D.C. had a wiretap machine which kept going off. As they say, when it comes to government, especially intelligence, paranoia is an occupational hazard. it took me years to develop a thick skin and a rather fatalist attitude that the government is going to do whatever it is that governments do, and there is nothing I can do about it.  

The cherry on the FBI-synchronicity-cake is that Kathi’s father, a former FBI agent, abandoned her and never once even sent her a birthday or Christmas card. It is incredibly crystal clear, in light of the fact that I got nothing from two FOIPA requests but got my "What a nightmare" warning, on a tip by an employee of the FBI/FOIPA by writing the Cleveland FOIPA office directly, that the FBI - in spite of the fact that I was doing exactly what I was supposed to and I was acting in good faith - that I was effectively abandoned by the FBI - in a simulacrum-synchronicity of Kathi’s former FBI-agent-father having abandoned her.

 As far as synchronicity, when it comes to synchronicity with the FBI there seem to be wheels within wheels within wheels. It is striking to me that the odds of meeting a woman who had her own spiritual-psychic experiences so would be understanding about mine plus could grasp and understand my 'drive' to warn about an impending attack' as well as the governmental over-reach question would be without question somewhere between incredibly slim to none. The thing is that when we met, she was severely depressed because her kids had been 'snatched' - so she had no inkling of my "What a nightmare" experience. Our chance meeting was completely and totally random - extreme "acausality" as it were.

FBI Profiler John Douglas: Wheels Within Wheels

Most bizarre of all was a chance meeting with FBI Profiler and author John Douglas. While I was building a house for myself in Fredericksburg around 1997-1998, by chance or fate, I lived directly next door to the former FBI agent John Douglas, who was a pioneer in FBI profiling. I should mention in passing that the very first time I encountered John Douglas, he said rather spontaneously to me, "You know, in my line of work (profiling serial murderers) I can't come home and say to my wife, 'Gee, honey, you'll never guess what happened at work today.' I thought that was a little odd since that was the very first thing he said to me (except he worked as a FBI profiler) After thinking about it, I figured that if I were the one who had to look at the brutalized and mutilated bodies of murder victims, day in and day out, I would probably be a little eccentric too. 

The synchronicity-pinnacle of our chance encounter is that, John Douglas, in his book, The Mind Hunter, states unequivocally about psychic capability, “I’ve seen it work!” On one occasion when I spoke to him, he told me that Beverly Newton, a Fredericksburg psychic, had begun her career with a psychic awareness that happened to her at the birth of her first child was born. By chance, I also happened to meet a man who related a story about Beverly Newton to me. He told me that when he was in high school, a friend of his was told by Beverly Newton, that his pickup truck would have a problem on the way home - which played out to be correct! 

The Pre-9/11 Debacle

I should preface this discussion by saying that as Dean Radin pointed out in his book, there were a fair number of people who had premonitions, and I was far from the only one who had a precognition of 9/11. I had more difficulty with that than "What a nightmare" by far. I found out too late that anti-depressants kick me into manic episodes and I was in a really bad manic episode. In retrospect it is surprising I was able to cross the road without getting my butt run over. I tried four different times to "kick it out" - and failed, badly! 

1. I filed a complaint in U.S. District court against the Secret Service, for rather inexplicable reasons (even to me). I did manage to bring up "911" (as opposed to 9/11), which the court documents actually did seem to make a big issue of. The judge finally threw my case out as "psychobabble." I should mention that as I understand it the federal filing system would not, to my understanding readily lend itself to filing of psychic phenomena, as a matter of course, leaving me at the mercy of verbal 'knowledge.'  

2. By a sheer "coincidence" I happened to encounter a woman who was a member of the ARE whose husband was a former secret service agent, and even more significant, the woman gave haircuts to the head of the counter-terrorist group, and she asked if I wanted to talk to him. She brought that up because on a 'hunch' I had taken by "What a Nightmare" documents in with me to get a haircut (which I have never done before or since.) Nothing happened and unfortunately I never followed up with her. 

3.  I called the FBI headquarters but got shunted off to some "institute" and said to the woman, "this one is going to be bad." and hung up because telling her anything would have been a waste of breath.

4. I finally called the CIA and asked for the duty agent. I did get connected with someone, though it sounded like it was a cell phone of some sort which didn't make a lot of sense to me. I did try to warn them and said something about the "Twin Towers." The next day I watched as the emails disappeared one by one off the screen, and being already in a really horrific manic episode, completely flipped, of course. 

Reagan Assassination Attempt and "Spooky" Synchronicity between CIA Director Casey [pun] and the Famous Psychic Edgar Cayce

American assassinations are a bit twisted and bizarre. one of President Garfield's campaign promises was civil service reform, specifically the spoils system by which newly elected presidents would award federal office positions as rewards to followers. Ironically, Garfield was assassinated by Charles J. Guiteau, a disgruntled office seeker. The spoils issue had become quite a political hot button at the time. The attempted assassination of President Theodore Roosevelt was tried by John Flammang Schrank who was 'told' by the ghosts of President McKinley to take revenge on President Roosevelt. What makes it ironic is that President Roosevelt became president after the assassination of President McKinley by a anarchist-socialist. McKinley was a staunch capitalist and Teddy Roosevelt was the complete opposite - a progressive who advocated a square deal as opposed to the rigid and brutal repression by strict capitalists under McKinley. So, if there is a collective spiritual-psychic consciousness, then, it is possible there may actually be a grain of truth to that - an ultra conservative "spirit" - or archetypal unconscious social-political "norms" - getting supernatural revenge on those damned liberals??

Of all the assassinations in America, the Reagan assassination attempt had to have been, by far, the most bizarre. Ronald Reagan was a Hollywood actor who had become the President of the United States. Hinckley, the man who attempted to assassinate Reagan was obsessed with Jody Foster, a Holly wood actress, and attempted the assassination of President Reagan to win the love of Jodie Foster, who was a Hollywood actress. If that wasn't bizarre enough, Ronald Reagan, as Governor of California, had passed legislation providing psychiatry huge amount of financial resources. It's like with President Garfield, the same social-political forces which made psychiatry an issue and brought Reagan to provide psychiatry large funds were the same social-political forces which apparently set Hinckley in motion. Lastly I would comment that Hinckley I believe was right wing and Reagan was right wing. Similarly Oswald who was left wing assassinated a left wing president . the same social-political forces that brought JFK to power would seem to be the same forces that motivated Oswald.        

On top of that, Herbert W. Bush was Reagan's vice president, had been a former CIA Director. My father and I went to the same school as both Bush presidents. So, it seems really bizarre - and Beyond! - that a Phillips Andover Academy graduate called the FBI in Toledo, Ohio and warned them about the impending assassination attempt on President Reagan. My parents were both heavily engaged in Republican committees and all that, and they met both Bush's as well as president Reagan. My read is that all those political connections played against me, partly because my parents (God bless them) were very "Establishment" types.

On the other hand, I am, if anything, a serious cultural dissident more akin to the Steppenwolf character in Herman Hesse's novel who proudly proclaimed, "Ah, but it is hard to find this track of the divine in the midst of this life that we lead, in this besotted humdrum age of spiritual blindness, its politics, its men! .... And in fact, if the world is right, if this music of cafes, these mass enjoyments and these Americanised men who are pleased with so little are right, then I am wrong. I am crazy."  (p. 48 - 49) 

In any case, there are some days I scratch my head and ask myself, "how on earth did I get mixed up with this crazy-wild way out and beyond bizarre synchronicities?" It's pretty mind-boggling if you ask me. I know there is a message from God in there somehow - I just have absolutely no idea what the message could possibly be in all that mind-boggling coincidences-synchronicities. I still have no idea how I got entangled in all this craziness.

Synchronicity Between CIA Director Casey and Famous Documented Psychic Edgar Cayce

Lastly, it might seem that there might be a little twist of synchronicity in the fact that in 1981, when I gained some 'spiritual' self-awareness , and I 'warned' the Toledo, Ohio FBI about the impending Reagan Assassination attempt, William Joseph Casey (1913 – 1987) was the Director of the CIA (1981 to 1987) . Of course, perhaps the most famous psychic, would be the documented psychic Edgar Cayce, who was active from roughly 1925 to 1945. I should say 'coping' with the reality of governmental agencies can be quite intimidating at time - and even frightening. It was a bit disconcerting when I read Woodward's book about intelligence and read that CIA Director Casey was an absolute fanatic about protecting President Reagan. 

My 'imagination' had a field day (actually several) thinking over what some 'unbeliever' at the CIA (Casey was, in fact, a paranoid) might think if they learned I had any foreknowledge of the Reagan assassination attempt. I would say it was sort of like being at a Las Vegas casino and having ten jackpots hit at the same time - with all sorts of bells, whistles, and sirens wailing, as well as the flashing of blinding lights. I should highlight the fact that my warning to the FBI about the Reagan assassination attempt was far less detailed than my "What nightmare" warning. My impression is that legal technicalities wouldn't ordinarily have stopped CIA Director Casey - not even for a New York second. 

In dealing with things, the "unknowns" are sometimes what makes situations and things difficult and hard to come to grips with. One of the hardest lessons I learned, was that when you are dealing - or coping - with the "reality of things like the "government" or government agencies, you are not dealing primarily with an objective reality, but you are dealing with how you "view" and how you emotionally grasp the reality. That principle probably applies to religious beliefs as well as political beliefs, as well. My mantra became: "Governments are going to do whatever governments do and there really isn't anything you can do about that." 

While generally when you talk to three different people you will get three different answers, some people, in my experience, do have some pretty 'wacky ideas about 'psychic' from time to time, and, I do, on occasion, get some rather adverse and irrational reactions. On top of that, I must confess that my personal impression of government 'intelligence' is that when you get to certain levels of national intelligence, some (not all) of the people connected with national security do not think like 'ordinary' people, and do some things I personally wouldn't consider rational - from personal observations, that is.