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CONTENTS

For March, 1964

THE DANGERS OF SILENCE ..................................................................................... 2

THE CLOCK THAT CONQUERS TIME ..................................................................... 4

THERE IS A TRAIL... ...................................................................................................... 5

WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING .................................................................................... 7

world report ........................................................................................................... 8

UNIT HOLDS CONCLAVE IN GROVE ....................................................................... 12

Poets corner .......................................................................................................... 13

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ......................................................................................... 14

PERSPECTIVE ............................................................................................................... 15

book reviews ............................................................................................................ 16

THOUGHT FOR THE MONTH ..................................................................................... 16

bulletin board ........................................................................................................ 17

THE STAFF

EDITOR ........................................................................................... Dr. DANIEL W. FRY

asst. editor ............................................................................. cleve twitchell

circulation manager ........................................................... edna basmajian

staff artist ................................................................................... gus tanasale

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THE DANGERS OF SILENCE

Several years ago, this magazine carried an editorial entitled "The Right to Know." In this editorial it waspointed out that in any "Government of the People, by the People and for the People," an absolute

prerequisite of success is the availability to the people of all possible knowledge and information relatingto any problem concerning which decisions must be made, even though the actual decisions are made bythe people's elected representatives. Thus the concept of "the right to know" is inherent in any suchgovernment. It was also pointed out that ever since the United States became involved in World War II,and especially during the last ten years, the concept of "the right to know" has been replaced almostentirely in our Federal Government by the military concept of "the need to know." Under this system, thetroops, or the people, are told only so much as their officials feel is necessary or desirable for them toknow. This, of course, has been the philosophy of dictatorship throughout the ages, and the lengths towhich it has gone in this country is one of the most dangerous situations with which we are faced today.

Immediately after the assassination of the late President Kennedy,

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the American people were assured, over and over again, and by the highest authorities in the land, thatthere would be a complete and detailed investigation of the crime, and ofallof its implications, by eachof three separate and independent agencies, the Dallas Police Force, the Federal Bureau of Investigation,and a Congressional Committee especially created for that purpose. It was continually emphasized thatall data obtained by each of these three agencies would immediately be made public through newspapers,radio and television, regardless of the nature of the data. The public was exhorted not to indulge in anyspeculation upon any possible implications until all evidence was made available. A few days after thesereassuring promises, newspapers carried the headline "Dallas Police Clamp Lid on Investigation."

Nothing more was heard from the Dallas Police except their announced conclusion that Lee Oswald hadcommitted the crime alone and without the knowledge or assistance of any other person or group.

If the evidence obtained actually supported this conclusion, your editor fails to see any reason whatever to"clamp the lid" on data which merely justified the original allegation of the investigating agency.

It is not the nature or the custom of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to report its findings to the public,and this case was no exception to the rule. After having, apparently, completed their investigation, it wasmerely announced that the findings were in substantial agreement with those of the Dallas Police. The"ball" was then, ostensibly, passed to the Congressional Investigating Committee. A few days after this

committee began its work, newspapers and radio carried the statement that the results of this investigationwould probably "never be released to the public, at least not during this generation." Again the inevitablequestion, why? And again there is no answer.

Why should three separate agencies, every member of which is employed by and paid by the public, alldeliberately violate their solemn pledge to their employers to make available all data as soon as it wasobtained? And how can any reasonably intelligent citizen of these United States be expected to refrainfrom speculation in view of these facts?

Your editor, with the able assistance of several other persons has

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carefully gathered, evaluated, and attempted to coordinate all of the data which has been released to thepublic through television, radio, newspapers and magazines, and has viewed repeatedly all releasedtelevision sequences of the event itself. This effort, which required many hours of time and a great deal ofcareful consideration, did not lead to any firm conclusion as to who shot John F. Kennedy, how he wasshot or why. It did lead to the inescapable realization that the publicly announced conclusions are totally

incompatible with much of the announced data upon which these conclusions were presumably based.One or the other simply has to be incorrect, or at least woefully incomplete.

To outline for the reader the numerous inconsistencies in the testimony, the mechanical impossibility ofthe alleged sequence of events, the sudden change in attitude of several officials, and of the wife of theaccused, the apparent abandonment of the promised post mortem trial of Lee Oswald, etc., would requiremany more pages than are available in this magazine, and would serve no specific purpose at this time,

but so long as the iron curtain of admitted secrecy hangs over this case, the public is certain to speculate.

Perhaps some of the answers will emerge from the forthcoming trial of Jack Ruby, if that too does not gounderground. In any event we shall follow it with the greatest interest and attention.

THE CLOCK THAT CONQUERS TIME

There is a place where the month of September has 55 days! The place is the planet Mars where thehours, days, months and years have quite different meanings than they do here on earth. As each newspace shot brings closer the day of interplanetary travel scientists are busily seeking the ways to reconcileand overcome these differences in time.

Planet astronomers have been able to assemble the largest amount of data on the planet Mars. It's believedthat Mars will be the first planet to be visited by earthlings.

The day on Mars is similar to our own, except that it's 2.7 per cent longer. Since Mars is about one and ahalf times as far from the Sun as our own Earth, this means that it takes nearly twice as

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long for the planet to make its orbital journey around the Sun. Thus there are 687 Earth days in one Marsyear!

Scientists have already devised a Mars calendar that will come in very handy for the first earth explorersto set foot on the planet. The Mars year has been divided up into 12 months, each month with a name thesame as ours, but with one difference. Up there the month will be about twice as long as ours. The oldrhyme will have to be changed on Mars to 55 days bath September, March, June and December, and allthe rest have 56.

Like earth, Mars has a leap-year but up there it's December that gains the extra day. A day is added onMars every three out of five years, instead of every one out of four as happens on Earth.

Dr. I. M. Levitt, director of the Franklin Institute's Fels Planetarium in Philadelphia. has invented a clock

that actually conquers time. Engineered and constructed by the Hamiliton Watch Company this ingeniousspace timepiece not only demonstrates the difference between Earth and Mars time but it also records the

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hour, date month and year on both planets. The astronaut who blazes a trail to Mars will make good useof this new kind of clock to integrate the time on Mars and Earth so he'll be able to gauge to the exactsecond the time he has to disembark for his homeward journey.

What will be the effect of space time on the first pioneers that cross the Mars frontier?

Scientists are able to estimate that the journey from Earth to Mars will take about 260 days. The travelerswill have to judge "day" and "night" purely with their watches for, you see, in space the sun shinescontinuously.

The timekeeper aboard the space ship will record the passage of days with his watch. When five dayshave gone by the ship will have traveled about one million miles. From this distance, the Earth below willappear about as small as the moon now looks to us.

Seventy days later these hearty space pioneers will don dark glasses and gaze excitedly out of theportholes of the space ship. Their eyes will be dazzled by a spectacular sight-the Earth and its moon will

be visible against, a flaming background of the Sun.

Four Earth months and about 40 million miles from home, the space pioneers will still be receiving radiobroadcasts which will be beamed to them from a special transmitter set on one of the space stationsorbiting the Earth.

Ten days before the space ship is close enough to be caught by the gravitational pull of Mars, its crew willbe at work unloading unneeded cargo and carefully determining the rate of speed.

Some twenty-four hours before the ship enters orbit around Mars, passengers will be able to look out ofthe portholes and see a huge, vari-colored disk which will seem four times the size of the Sun. It will bethe planet Mars.

As the ship descends into Mars' atmosphere the speed will be reduced to 120 miles per hour for landing.The heavy craft will touch dawn and the passengers, well protected in pressurized suits, will step out ofthe craft in which they have been "living" for about a year and literally float down to the surface due tothe very weak gravitational pull.

Mars time will really play havoc with the ages of the passengers. A young man who would have been 21on earth will go back in time and find himself at age 11 again.

An elderly man, who has reached the age of 70 on earth, will suddenly get back his youth and findhimself a robust 38 again. A passenger who has been accustomed to a nine-to-five work day on earth willfind that on Mars he'll be putting in an extra 12 minutes a day. But there's a nice bit of consolation forhim. A two-week vacation on Mars will span four Earth weeks!

Thus will man, with the help of his space clock and his vast amount of scientific knowledge, conquer timeas well as space.

-Alfred K. Allen

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THERE IS A TRAIL...

There is a trail that leads to health, harmony and happiness. It has many windings and there are deceptivedetours. And it is not for everybody, by any means, an easy trail.

Metaphysics is a study designed to explain universal things not reached by materialistic science; thoughin attempting a simple definition one faces the possibility of confusion. While employing logic,metaphysical teachings must reach intuitive perceptions. It is not a package deal and it cannot be reducedto a condensed version.

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As objective factors become more complex and bewildering, the need for subjective understanding grows.There must be some center where one may find quiet; a bomb shelter does not fulfill the need. Sensingthis growing demand, many schools have appeared, many teachers have arisen. What may one believe,

whom may one follow

There is no one syllable answer. Nor, really, is the solution found in books or courses. The truth is aninner truth. It already exists, potentially. At best, study and teaching but, serve to vivify and quicken a

basic knowledge, a fundamental ability. All may possess it, or the primal seeds, but in many instances theseeds are buried far too deeply for stimulation now. Those who seek will find that for which they arequalified.

The study of metaphysics leads to a recognition of principles. Universal principles indeed, yet presentedin various guises by different schools and teachings. And along the way are inviting sidetrails. Scenictours to mysticism, occultism, spiritualism, and other phases. Here, too, is knowledge, but only if there becomprehension to receive and understand and translate that knowledge to self wisdom.

We seek. Not magic. Not miracle. But truth as we are capable of knowing and receiving Truth. For it isnot one-word, but as diverse as the growth and enlightenment of the individual who seeks. Nor is theanswer in words, which are tuning forks sounding emptily until they meet responsive mind and heart.

The comprehension of metaphysical teachings depends entirely on receptivity. The mind gropes, bendingto every breeze that wafts invitingly. The spirit answers that which it recognizes. The principles of Truthare known to thousands who have never heard of the term itself.

Metaphysical wisdom is not the dried bones of truth bleaching in philosophical gullies. It is notintellectual apprehension. It is not logic. It is the grasping of that which is infinite, and its necessaryusage. Metaphysical wisdom is more than KNOWING-it is USING, DOING.

We bide on the way and we emphasize terms. Consciousness. Involution, evolution. Meditation.Principle, Karma. Spirit.. God. Life. We magnify words: love, loyalty, faith, goodness. We grow

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weary with much striving. Comprehension is not a stagnant pool reflecting shifting shapes.Comprehension is an inner light that glows brightly without definition or words. We know.

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But only understanding may confirm. The mind weaves back and forth, it queries, it wants answers. Theremust be intellectual satisfaction of mental demands. Truth holds no conflict with thought. The error is tosuppose that. Truth evolves from thought, as a stalactite. The mind reinforces but does not cause, Truth.

We must sift our reading and studying, intent not upon the intricate meaning of the particular teacher, but

of that which builds our own inner light. We do not. strain impurities by our minds but by our intuitiveperception. The mind, however scrupulous, may be deceived. Once again, Truth is not clad in definitegarments. None of us are in the identical stages of development; we view the kaleidoscope from slightlydivergent viewpoints.

Our studies may be complex, as deep, as we wish. They may include side-trips and detours alongwhatever bylanes meet our fancy. A lifetime would not encompass any single aspect. Yet let us not thinkthat metaphysics need be complex. Nor that the trail has a fixed destination. Somewhere along the waywe find, and suddenly recognize, the particular landmark that is ours. We have reached, for all practical

purposes, journey's end. We know. We have achieved an inner flash and the buzzer sounds. We know.

But, and yet again, to KNOW is not, enough. We then must grow, develop, as we use that which we nowrecognize. Knowledge itself is static. Only through wise, continued application do we achieve the realmeaning of our Truth, and the inner riches that may now be ours in unlimited and ceaseless supply.

-B. Coursin Black

WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING

From "THE UFO INVESTIGATOR," NICAP, 1536 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C.-January-

February, 1963.

Some space races are undoubted far superior to us, according to Brig. Gen. John A. MaDavid, USAF,Director of Communications Electronic for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The statement was made in an A.F.approved speech at Milliken University, Decatur, Ill.

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General McDavid said we must be prepared for the future. "Our relation to other life in the universe is a

part of this future, for as the British interplanetary scientist and author, Dr. Arthur C. Clarke, believes,`there can be little doubt we will ultimately come into contact out, in space with races more intelligentthan our own!

General McDavid added, "Before long, people may be forced to realize and accept as a fact that this earthis only an infinitesimal grain of sand in an infinite universe, that the human is one of many forms of lifewith which God is concerned and that others are far superior to us."

"And if this is true," he warned, "our meeting with other types of existence in other places in the universequite likely will increase the potential element of conflict rather than reduce it ... This imposes an evengreater burden of leadership on your generation," he told the Milliken University students.

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In the winter issue of Oomoto, official organ of Oomoto (Universal Love and Brotherhood Association)of Japan, we read of the 11th Congress of the World Association of World Federation, which met inTokyo last August. At this congress Rev. Yasuo Sakurai, President of Oomoto, delivered an addressentitled: "On Moral Aspects of World Federation."

After a presentation of several factors of expediency that call for One World, Rev. Sakurai said, "Thewhole creation is actively one great life body based on cosmic creative will. Moreover its activity obeysan established law, and an existence without law is not permissible ... In view of such a great universewhere lawless activities and existence are not permitted, we must adapt the human society to theconceptions of the guiding principles of world federation."

"Man's life has been given by God, Who is the Creator of the Universe. This life bestows equal dignity.To mar this, or to take this away is the utmost felony. When we reflect on the past history of humansociety according to this basic principle, we cannot but admit the fact that a great deal of blundering has

been committed. Moreover, man cannot live alone. As long as lives of others are dependent upon him, hisexistence is only possible by the aid of other powers, such a social structure as will mutually exist for all

members should be created. Herein lies common morals, and a regulation

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by `law,' for the principle of live-and-let-live should be stipulated. But the morality and the `law' shouldnot be such as distort or suppress man's life. It is love and wisdom that lie at the root of human activities,and the growth and conservation of life and the development. of vital power make progress by them. Loveand Wisdom must not become egoistic, but be universal love and altruistic In the human community,social peace cannot be realized without the priority of universal love.

"Therefore human society ought to adopt `natural law' based upon the cosmic principles as its foundationof law, and universal love attained by love and wisdom, that is, the idea of universal love and brotherhoodshould be morally observed as a common criterion. This attitude will create `justice' in human society.The world federation will not be able to secure eternal peace without obeying this `law' and morality ...

World report

Past Life Remembered

(Express News Service, Budaun, India, Jan. 2, 1964)

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Sunil Dutt, the four year old son of Mr. Chadammi Lal Saksens ofBareilly, is said to remember his previous birth.

The parents were puzzled when the child began to refuse to do theirbidding. With a seriousness worthy of a grown-up person he asked

his parents not to bother him and get the work done by his servants.The parents never took him seriously about "his servants."

When his father took him to a school for admission, little Sunilrefused to study there. He said that he would study in his own school

at Budaun. When asked about his school, he said that he was Seth Krishna and that he owned a school inBudaun. ('Seth Shrikrishna, founder of the Seth Shrikrishna Intermediate College, Budaun, died in 1951).

The astonished parents brought him here on December 29. Sunil

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at once recognized the college building. The little boy entered the college without any guidance andrushed towards the Principal's room but was disappointed to see a "stranger" in the Principal's chair. (ThePrincipal whom the late Seth had appointed was removed from service after the Seth's death.)

The child was then taken to the Shri Krishna Oil Mill where he rushed to the "gaddi" and sat on it as theSeth used to do. Then he called for Shafaat, an old servant and inquired about his wellbeing.

All of a sudden he rushed to the house in the mill where the Seth used to live and asked about "his wife"-Mrs. Shakuntia Devibut was sad to know that after the Seth's death his widow had started living with theSeth's adopted son in Mohalla Birampur. When shown a family photograph, Sunil recognized his past selfand other members of the Seth's family.

Sunil recognized Mr. S. D. Pathak, former Principal of S. H. College, among 30 people and rushed to himand sat, comfortably on his lap. Suuil then told his father, Mr. Saksena, that he would like to be taught byMr. Pathak.

Later Sunil was taken to the residence of the Seth's widow. When they met they stood gazing at eachother, tears trickling from their eyes.

When asked if he knew Mr. J. D. Shukla, JCS, who was the District Magistrate in 1947-49, the child

replied in the affirmative. When shown a group photograph he recognized Mr. Shukla, who is nowCommissioner of Allahabad division.

The bewildered parents of Sunil did not allow the child to be photographed. They rushed him back toBareilly and no one was allowed to question him further.

Mysterious Objects Seen in Sky

(New Zealand Herald, January 9, 1964)

Following the reporting of a strange flying light traveling at high speed over Muriwai beach on Tuesday

night other Aucklanders have reported seeing mysterious moving lights, brighter than any stars.

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Mrs. Eileen Nibloch, of Vincent Rd., Northcote, and Mr. E. Hurley were looking for the American Echosatellite when they saw a bright light traveling in the opposite direction. A neighbour, Mrs. H. Hena, alsosaw the object traveling due east.

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Mrs. Nibloch said: "It was traveling very fast and we saw it for only about a minute. It was definitely nota falling star.

"We know the movements of the satellites quite well. It passed overhead and disappeared in just a flash.We couldn't believe our eyes. It looked as though someone had speeded up a satellite, but it was brighter."

A young Auckland man on holiday in Waihi said he saw a similar light on Saturday night. He preferred toremain anonymous. His description, while not tallying with the "zig-zag" course reported by Mr. and Mrs.J. Eyre, of Swanson, at Muriwai, tallied perfectly with the Northcote report.

"I was fishing at night, talking to some people when their daughter said `Oh, look, there's a shooting star,"he said. "But it kept on going."

The light was traveling north to south very fast. "Satellites just don't go so fast," said the man. It was lessthan a minute in crossing the sky."

The light was traveling at about 75 degrees.

Phantom Plane Sends Message

PENDLETON, Ore. (UPI)-A radio message from a phantom plane that hasn't been flying for 23 years hadaviation officials mystified today.

It started Wednesday when a plane identifying itself as a Cessna with the registration number 1540Mradioed the control tower for permission to make a simulated instrument. approach. Permission wasgranted and a few minutes later the tower talked to the pilot about weather conditions, which weregenerally good.

The plane never appeared.

Efforts to contact it by radio failed and three planes went up in a vain attempt to locate it. They halted the

search at dark.

In the meantime, the Federal Aviation Agency in Oklahoma City was asked to trace the registrationnumber. The FAA replied it was issued to a military aircraft that was taken out of service in 1940.

Puzzled officials discounted the possibility of a prank, but said the pilot could have accidentallytransposed his registration numbers and then landed somewhere else.

No planes were reported missing in the region.

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Fireball Seen

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(AP)-A fireball has streaked across the Pacific Northwest sky, apparently heading toward south centralWashington but not reaching the earth. Observers from such widely separated points as Missoula, Mont.,and Everett, Wash., reported sighting the object about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. The meteor was describedvariously as red, white, green, orange and creamy.

Other reports came from Auburn, Spokane, Pasco, Seattle, Pendloton, Buckley, Eugene, Salem andPortland.

Astral Abnormality

(From The Data Capsule, August 1963)

Flying Saucers-are they myth or fact?

Two UTC employees are convinced that there was something strange in the sky one night a few weeksago and they call it an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO), for lack of a better label.

Dot Micali, of Photography, viewed the "object" from West San Jose at. about 7:30 p.m. She reports thatit was very bright and surrounded by a light green cloud, similar in appearance to a rocket she saw firedabout 7 months ago. Joe Cappels, of Publications, was also intrigued by the "object." He saw it from hiscar on the way home and watched it for about 20 minutes between 7:30 and S p.m.

Cappels, who insists that he "makes no claims," saw the UFO at first in a horizontal position, cigar-shaped, shining, and just hanging in the sky. As he watched, it. hovered and then started rotating, firstturning so one end pointed down and then in the opposite direction. Using the last few feet of film in hismovie camera Cappels photographed the object with a telephoto lens as it started moving horizontally.

As the sun was setting, he saw three jets, silhouetted by the sun, approach the slowly-moving object frombehind. Suddenly, the object "took off" on a diagonal path and disappeared into the distant sky at "anincredible rate of speed."

The Air Force officially states that only 2% of the UFO's reported are actually unidentifiable. Themajority of UFO's, says the staff of Project Bluebook, are "astro objects," which means they are merelymeteors, comets, planets or stars which under certain visual conditions appear metallic. . .

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But no one has volunteered to explain the strange object over the San Francisco area which appeared tobe chased by jets until it disappeared. And, the Air Force at Hamilton field in Marin County wonders towhom the jets belonged-they insist that they did not originate the chase.

Pyramid Activity

(From NewZealand Scientific Approach to Cosmic Understanding, 33 Dee Street, Timaru, N. Z., bi-monthly News Letter No. 26, May-June, 1963.)

"In Fred Stone'sPanaroma, April, 1963, (Australia) we read: "A friend who recently passed throughEgypt tells us that great activity is going on at the site of the Great Pyramid. The pyramid itself is now

surrounded by heavy barbed-wire entanglements to keep folks away.

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He was given to understand that. excavations which were apparent to him were being made UNDER thepyramid, and that they expected to find a temple there. However there is a UFO angle to this whichshould be of great interest to us, in that there is one contactee who claims that he was told and SHOWN aUFO which was buried under the Great Pyramid. Of course we cannot say whether this information iscorrect-only time will tell-but here's hoping we will be told what is discovered there.. ."

UNIT HOLDS CONCLAVE IN GROVE

The Vista Understanding unit held their regular quarterly "Understandorama" at Harmony Grove, theweekend of Jan. 25. A goodly crowd attended this gathering, and they were rewarded by delightfulweather and a very interesting and instructive panel of speakers.

Among those who lectured during the conclave were Fern Shaefer on the derivation and meaning ofwords; Riley Crabb with his concepts of possible events in 1964; Marie Hardy, the interpretation ofdreams, with examples of cases from the files of the late Edgar Cayce; Leyland P. Stewart, who spoke onthe dawning of the New Age, and Earl Williams, clairvoyant who gave a demonstration of answeringquestions while blindfolded.

Frank E. Stranges gave an inspiring address on the Flying Saucer

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controversy and his prophecies for the future as revealed to him telepathically.

This was illustrated by slides, as was the talk by Floyd Flowers, who spoke of his research in pictographs,or writings and drawings made by some of the ancient dweller on this planet, including the now famousinscriptions on the rocks above Harmony Grove.

Roland Hunt, author of several works on tone and color, gave a fine discourse on his research into thissubject, and the benefits to be derived health-wise by their use. John G. Blaylock, who is a regularattendant at all gatherings in Harmony Grove, displayed some wonderful colored slides of the visit of thenoted yogi, Kirpal Singh, followed by several pictures of a recent trip to Sequoia and Kings Canyon. Thefinal speaker was Russell Schofield, who gave another of his inspirational messages pertaining to the

New Age upon which we are entering.

-R. A. Crichton

Poets corner

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Look to the Stars

Look to the stars and know, Oh, questing soul,

As on we roll Through space,

There is a guiding hand

That shapes the land

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And holds each star in place.

And if this ball

Of sea and rock and Life

And man-made strife

Should fall

From out its orbit 'round the sun

Till Life be done,

What then?

Is God so small?

He still has all

The stars and planets in infinity

And with His boundless, true Divinity,

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Know He can carry on

Build a new sun

Or place his creatures on some far-off sphere.

Why not here

What do we fear?

Let our small souls unfold

Till, humble, bold,

We welcome any plan

God has for man.

-Mary Pansy Rapp

Automation

We conceived it, created it;

can we control it,

fingers on the keyboard, eyes on the dial ---

servant or master?

We shaped the tools foreshortening time,

denying distance;

our fabrications fanned our dreams

Weightless, we soar ...

Vision augments, grows planetary,

defying space;

our scope assumes Omnipotence ---

We tremble.

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-Jeanette Chappell

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LETTERS TO THE EDITORDear Sirs

I would like very much to see a copy of UNDERSTANDING, but do not know the price. Will you pleasetell me?

And here is a bit of verse. My husband laughed and asked why I did not try something with sense. I thinkit does have sense, considering the world of today. (We do too.-Eds.)

As the old ball we call the earth

Rolls round the fire known as sun,

We humans on it are as one

Be it fast or be it slow all together we must go.

Why not arrange affairs some way

That all together we may stay,

Not fall apart to fight and run

Then stand aghast at what we've done.

Sincerely,

-Mrs. Virginia Long, R. N

Dear Dr. Fry and Staff,

Understanding-one of the greatest words in the life of the human race! Misunderstanding, one of the mosttragic words in the life of the human race.

I am extremely interested in Understanding as the greatest need of the human race. We know that thereare many Understanding Units and some of them no doubt do excellent work, but are there any that areusing the Understanding Magazine as a study text toward better understanding?

I wonder if by printing this letter enough interest would be aroused to start a True Understanding Unit inthis area-a group that would use the Understanding magazine as a study and discussion text, primarily.

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I am rather dismayed at the, at least seeming, let-down of interest particularly in the "Flying Saucer" areaand related fields this last year or so. Maybe this is the opportune time to gather in the wheat, the Truesearchers of Understanding. Furthermore I believe such Units could be of great help to the Understandingmagazine as well as for Understanding as a whole.

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Correspondence from anywhere, anywhere in the world and beyond, would be most welcome.

Sincerely,

Wm. M. Duerst

6959 Kittyhawk Ave.

Los Angeles 45, Calif.

PERSPECTIVE

At times in our hectic daily lives we often stop and wonder where we are headed. Are our seeminglyfeeble attempts to help this world achieve a higher state of living, really wishful thinking or vainidealism? If we pause for a moment, we in the United States might remember one of our own constantsymbols of hope-she proudly stands, torch held high, welcoming the tired, the poor, the heavy-laden toour shores. This statue was a gift of understanding from across the Atlantic-an ever-mindful bond of tworevolutions in two widely separated areas of earth, fought to help mankind in his struggle for liberation.These wars of independence were fought by the "common man," not well trained and equipped armies.Money for the statue came in small donations from people throughout France-their gift ofcommemoration of one hundred years of freedom in our country. The base upon which she stands was

built with the pennies, nickels and dimes from people throughout our own country. Yes, our Statue ofLiberty, however her correct title, is "Liberty Enlightening the World."

In perspective, human donations of time, money and kindness, no matter how small, can and have builtlasting memorials in many forms throughout. history!

-Member of Merlin Unit

The time is at hand for all who are interested in a better world as lived by the Brothers, to put theirinstructions to work,

A correspondence course of information and instructions has now been assembled by George Adamski. Itis given in simple language that all can understand, and will not interfere with the student's faith. It

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The doctrines propagated within its pages are somewhat theosophical in nature. The chapters include:

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THOUGHT FOR THE MONTHThere's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. So youhave to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you've worked onyour own corner.

-Aldous Hvxley (from Think)

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San Jose Reports

New officers elected in January are: President, True Day; Vice-President, Sue Ann Gerlach, andTreasurer, James Curran. James Curran, in February, was the first of a series of planned monthlyspeakers. In addition to lectures the Unit, has commenced rehearsals on a dramatic production. This is anew approach to understanding, the outcome of which should prove interesting.

Understanding Book Club Activity

The January meeting, under the leadership of True Day, featured selected subject matter from thecombined edition ofThe White Sands Incident and To Men of Earth by Daniel W. Fry. The text of Alan'smessage was read and discussed with the purpose "that we who have the privilege of helping Dan carrythis message will better understand it and be able to explain it intelligently."

The February meeting featured Ruth Newell with a review of her bookThink in Rhythm (Rosa Lee).

Visitor From India

President Mary Bassamo of Unit #59 has been in correspondence with a friend in India who plans to visitthe Unit on his trip to the United States in February. The Unit plans include a booth at a spring Fair andmeetings to capitalize on interest created by newspaper publicity.

Record Attendance

Unit #15 of Inglewood, California, sends word that a. "packed

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house" of over 300 attended their January meeting, featuring George Adamski as speaker. They hope thesame will occur on Saturday, March 28th, when contactee Orfeo Angelucci will speak on "Ships andPeople From Other Planets."

News of Other Units

Mrs. Wilbert C. Eble of the Toledo Unit #45 writes that they recently hosted two speakers-Roy EugeneDavis and Wayne Aho. Unit #46 of Sacramento has had many speakers in recent months -George

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Adamski, Dr. E. E. Whitworth, Col. A. J. Burks, Dr. Irene Ilickman, Buck Nelson, Anne Armstrong, DickPotter and Riley Crabb.

December elections were held with Wallace Tripp the new President; Glenn Tssel, Vice-President; Mrs.Steele Goodman, Secretary, and Irene Kennedy, Treasurer.

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