We start off with Ark whose comments have two carets (>>) mine have one (>)
> > Have been reading early C sessions.
> > Making notes.
> > Thought need to read all and memorize and
> > think over and decide what to do with all
> > this. Doing is needed. But what kind of?
>
> I don't exactly know either, yet. All I can think to do at the
> moment is just continue to amass information, thinking that, at some
> point some piece will be added to the system that will cause it to do
> the "reorganizing" of my thinking for me.
[...]
> > So I was reading these C sessions again, the very first
> > ones, the first six of them. Have been thinking, have been
> > making some little computing - why is it so that a large
> > mass needs 18 years of time. How large is the mass?
>
> Well, I don't know. Perhaps you ought to make a list of questions as
> you come across these things...
>
> > My naive computing tells it can be 10 million tons. Can it
> > be so?
>
> Honey, I don't even have a CLUE!!! I can't even conceive of that much!
>
> > But WHY there is a relation between gravity wave and comet cluster?
> > WHY?
>
> Well, they said that there is not always. That it just happens to be
> that the "grand cycle" is coinciding with the comet cluster at THIS
> time, so it is cycles within cycles...
>
> > Yes, but what can we do NOW? TODAY?
>
> As they once answered this question this way: "Knowledge input on a
> continual basis..."
>
> And, I am doing the best I can to do this!!!
>
> > Thinking a little bit about planets and cataclysms.
> > We know 3600y is the period. Suppose that is true. Then
> > when will it be? 2012? How is wave related to comets?
>
> There is more on that in a later session... in several of them, in
> fact... it all needs to be edited together...
>
> > Why? What can we do in order not to be food?
>
> I think that the idea is to be able to accumulate sufficient
> knowledge energy and "technique" to be able to "create" a different
> universe, to foil the plan of the Lizzies... to "pierce the spider,"
> or the "weaver of the web." Or, to weave a different web... I am
> not sure which analogy works best.
>
> There are some other thoughts I have about it sort of teasing at the
> back of my mind, but they are not in the realm of articulation yet...
That evening (my time) Frank came over and was rather excited about what was going on in the media. It seems that the Phoenix Lights sighting from March 13, 1997, was generating a lot of attention in the mainstream news.
> The Phoenix Lights was a mass UFO sighting which occurred in Phoenix, Arizona, and Sonora, Mexico...
>
> Lights of varying descriptions were reported by thousands of people between 19:30 and 22:30 MST, in a space of about 300 miles (480 km), from the Nevada line, through Phoenix, to the edge of Tucson.
>
> There were allegedly two distinct events involved in the incident: a triangular formation of lights seen to pass over the state, and a series of stationary lights seen in the Phoenix area. The United States Air Force later identified the second group of lights as flares dropped by A-10 Warthog aircraft that were on training exercises at the Barry Goldwater Range in southwest Arizona.
>
> Witnesses claim to have observed a huge V-shaped (several football field sized), coherently-moving dark UFO (stars would disappear behind the object and reappear as it passed by), producing no sound, and containing five spherical lights or possibly light-emitting engines. Fife Symington, the governor at the time, was one witness to this incident. As governor he ridiculed the idea of alien origin, but several years later he called the lights he saw "otherworldly" after admitting he saw a similar UFO. [...]
>
> There was minimal news coverage at the time of the incident. In Phoenix, a small number of local news outlets noted the event, but it received little attention beyond that. But on June 18, 1997, USA Today ran a front-page story that brought national attention to the case. This was followed by news coverage on the ABC and NBC television networks. The case quickly caught the popular imagination and has since become a staple of UFO-related documentary television, including specials produced by the History Channel and the Discovery Channel.[^68108]
What strikes me as curious today[^68166], as I am writing about this, is the fact that the Heaven's Gate Cult suicides occurred exactly 13 days later on 26 March 1997.
Anyway, back to the past: I wrote to Ark about this discussion with Frank:
> There was a news show on while I was talking to Frank and he
> turned it up so I could hear it and it was a VERY serious discussion
> of the sightings in Phoenix in March. They had scientific "experts"
> telling how it could NOT be anything simple and ordinary. Before, it
> was always the other way... they would tell all the reasons why it
> MUST have an ordinary explanation.
>
> Frank said that there are 4 to 5 shows about it on television every
> day now, and that yesterday there was a "scientific" discussion where
> one scientist opined that, from what we know about sociology and
> tribal behavior among species of animals, we cannot but surmise that
> any aliens that would make contact with us would be anything but
> aggressive and UNfriendly!
>
> Then, there was a German scientist who was urging that we find a way
> to protect our "art and knowledge and elite peoples..." or something
> like that.
>
> Another who was saying that contact with aliens was "inevitable," and
> then a tape recording of Admiral Inman, (secretly recorded) was
> played where he said that eventually the public would have to know.
>
> So, Frank says it is absolutely UNBELIEVABLE the amount of
> information - the saturation of the TV stations - with all of the
> alien stuff...
>
> So, I became rather terrified that you would not get here in time...
> But, anyway, I am trying to stay calm about it. We will certainly be
> following the subject next Saturday WITHOUT any interference.
A little later I wrote:
> Well, I am a little more settled, but I have to admit that my stomach
> is churning and I feel almost in a state of panic.
>
> And, on top of everything, Percy escaped by digging his way out under
> the front of the house, went out and a car hit him. Thankfully, it
> was not going fast and he was just struck sort of a sideways blow. I
> think he must have run into the car from the way {my son} described it.
> He was after a cat. He is in the kitchen and he seems to be alright,
> but it was VERY upsetting. All I need right now is to have to pay a
> vet bill to have the dog mended!!! I can't even afford to have one
> of the kids mended if it was necessary. So, that's it. When Percy
> goes, no more dogs that we can't afford to keep!
>
> So, I feel like pacing the floor and wringing my hands just now, but
> I will be better after a bit. I will take a melatonin and settle
> down to read myself to sleep.
>
> Which reminds me, I have a little clip-on lamp that I mounted on the
> headboard of the bed for reading and it really helps a lot. And, it
> is handy to have it right there to turn out when one is ready to go
> to sleep. No getting up to reach the lamps! You will like it... if
> we ever get to use it... and aren't invaded by aliens first and
> carried off to concentration camps or something!
>
> I am okay.
> I just sometimes get a little crazy because all I ever really wanted
> was to have a nice, happy life with my ONE, and my children, and make
> jelly and garden a little and be kissed at night and enjoy music and
> art and books... and kiss the ones I love and feed them and give them
> love and support and make everything nice and pleasant and peaceful
> and happy....
>
> Of course, I had this funny little glitch in my personality that made
> me want to KNOW everything... and made me dissatisfied with anything
> less than what was true...
>
> So I feel like Pandora who has opened the box that can never be shut
> again...
>
> But, I guess no pain, no gain.... without all of that, there would
> not be YOU, and that is worth ANYTHING and EVERYTHING.
>
> So, it will be fine, as you say... but how much I wish I could wake
> up the world to what is happening... but they simply don't want to
> know. Even Terry and Jan still think it is all still sort of a funny
> game.
>
> I will go to bed now so that you can get to work. I know that there
> is a LOT you have to do, and you also need to be alert at ALL times
> for any and all unexpected things...
>
> And when I wake up, hopefully I will be in a frame of mind where I
> can type and get some things done. It is not the time to baby myself
> just now. There is too much to do.
>
> So, I will get in the bed, and try to read until the melatonin
> works...
I went to bed but not long after I was up again for awhile because my son was having an asthma attack. It was probably a combination of the upset of the dog's accident and the dog's presence itself. I think it is most interesting that in the session we just had the previous night, the Cs had specifically signaled about the dog and my son's asthma and I had just commented about not being able to afford to take any of the kids to the doctor. After I had things under control, I sent a quick message to Ark and went back to bed:
> I have been up with {my son} who was having a rather serious asthma
> attack. He kept saying he was fine and didn't need anything, but I
> could hear him coughing and struggling to breathe, so I got up and
> took care of things. He is better, and ought to be able
> to get some sleep, poor baby.
>
> Now, I am going back to bed. I can hardly hold my eyes open!
The following morning, I responded to an account of Ark's doings while I was sleeping:
> It is so funny for you to be doing so many things while I sleep. I
> know that we are rather used to it, but it still feels funny to be so
> out of sync with our time.
{...}
> I am still trying to remember this strange dream I had and can't get
> it back. I remember one part where I was getting messages from you
> and they were on slips of paper, delivered by a third party. Then,
> there was something about books and knowledge and that it DID
> something in a certain way if the books were stacked on the shelves
> just so. But, I can't remember. Well, maybe it will come back to me
> later. It rather seems like it was a sort of cosmic shield.
My 2 bits FWIW
