This is an extraordinary story which I’ve thought about posting on a number of times over the years ever since I first stumbled upon it way back when, yet something else always came along…. anyway, the conversation on the zoom Wave reading last Saturday brought it sharply back to mind, so I’ve at last taken the opportunity to lay it out here for forum members who may never have come across it before.
I find the interface between the infamous deeds of November 1963, the web of human led monstrosity that surrounds it and the playing out of some game or code emanating from behind the curtain, anomalous and highly suggestive. I suspect there is something in this story that holds a missing key regarding the whole JFK mosaic and may also serve as a tool for further conversation around the whole subject of anomalous information in general and how it may be suggestive of key missing pieces in the overall mosaic picture, especially on such a well worn path as this one is.
The mosaic frame in question is perhaps how our reality interfaces with another bridging, symbolic reality that in itself may represent an even larger mosaic of reality than the one we know. The prism I’m going to use is the assassination of President Kennedy. Like many here I have researched this subject in great depth over the years and despite all the work I recognize that somehow something essential is always elusively missing from one’s true understanding of how it fits into the wider scheme of things beyond the obvious geopolitical and economic drive of encroaching neo-liberal ‘fascism’ i.e. 3rd density pathocracy.
To say the obvious in passing – he was killed 22nd November – 22/11. Double 11 and 33. Codes of illusion and delusion. I will post anon something relating to the ancient religion of Maya which I think has some interesting perspectives on the ‘reality’ of illusion, our role in making it ‘reality’, its way of immersing us like fish in water and how, when we see beyond or through or know the illusion, it must reveal itself. And how that revealing is written into its ‘rules’ and in fact is going on all the time – if we but look for it.
I have the idea that this story is somekind of 'trickster' joke with near full revelation on the whole ghastly truth...
INTRO
This story is not that well known even among hardened JFK researchers and this version is I think the most complete in its attention to detail. It comes from H.P. Albarelli Jr’s A Secret Order: Investigating the High Strangeness and Synchronicity in the JFK Assassination, of itself a very interesting and un-sensational walk through of the topic (though you wouldn’t believe so from the garish summary below from Amazon).
Of all the events covered in the title this one stood out a mile for me as being of immense value in terms of spotting the billowing curtain of high strangeness that haunts this case under cover of all the grotesque events surrounding that November day, 1963 and that we have sadly come to know so well.
For this post I’m going to edit the full chapter dedicated to this story into a linear narrative though my accompanying commentary may digress. I hope not to have edited out any important detail on the way that carries with it the weight of implication of the whole – for the devil is in the detail as we all know, especially when it comes to any potential high strangeness at play.
The chapter was created by the author after he undertook no less than 11 interviews with the subject over an eight-month span and multiple written communications by email with the subject signing off on the final draft for accuracy.
ADELE EDISEN
So first meet the woman in question, Adele Edisen.
(so we have an interesting ethnic background and historical context straight away.
Adele was an exceptionally bright science student at school with a near photographic memory and extraordinary retentive ability allowing her to recall the most minute details of her study (a lifelong gift and one essential to the credibility of this whole story).
(Chicago University seems to pop up regularly with regard to the development of the psychopathic ideology behind the rise of the NEOCONS and in particular the influence of Leo Strauss (1899–1973), a refugee from Nazi Germany who taught at the University of Chicago (1949–1958) and whose schizoid ideology can be boiled down to ‘might is right’ and who ended up teaching/mentoring such delights as Paul Wolfowitz and Abram Shulsky).
(There doesn’t seem to be any readily available information on his role in the army of occupation – but it would be interesting to find out what that was and most importantly who he interacted with when there).
(This is where it starts to get interesting as Dr. Robert Galbraith Heath was one of the poster boys of CIA mind control experiments with a terrible legacy that we will come back to anon. But for now from the dreaded Wikipedia for a basic cover up biography :)
(graduation picture)
At Tulane University, the NINDB awarded Adele a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship, enabling her to pursue her work. As Adele recalled:
“I continued my research on monosynaptic excitation and inhibition and was published in two medical journals. My husband began his private practice of psychiatry, and we began our family of three children...”
Whereupon she became a fulltime stay at home mother of 3 and Edisen began his private practice of psychiatry.
(Let’s pause there:
Monosynaptic excitation and inhibition: The Yin and Yang of the Brain
(Back in the late 50’s-early 60’s we have to forgive the eager Adele for her fascination with understanding the inner workings of the human brain/mind interface which perhaps clouded her value judgement system in terms of the kinds of directions her research would lead, especially in the hands of the evil and nefarious. It’s clear that from very early on, her work – cutting edge at the time – attracted a lot of unpleasant interest that she wasn’t to appreciate in the context we now have post MK/ULTRA and all that has gone on since (and is even now today playing out to its fullest and darkest extent)).
(Note that CIA contractor Dr. Sidney Harris was in full awareness and involvement regarding her new position and we can assume was serving as a knowing interface between her work and the agencies - both military and CIA - that were showing great interest in her work on mammalian synaptic inhibition and excitation and guiding her successful career path. The fact that they started her off on her new path day one of the year of Kennedy’s murder may be pure coincidence… but in the scheme of this story it is safe to say one should not take anything at face value…)
I find the interface between the infamous deeds of November 1963, the web of human led monstrosity that surrounds it and the playing out of some game or code emanating from behind the curtain, anomalous and highly suggestive. I suspect there is something in this story that holds a missing key regarding the whole JFK mosaic and may also serve as a tool for further conversation around the whole subject of anomalous information in general and how it may be suggestive of key missing pieces in the overall mosaic picture, especially on such a well worn path as this one is.
The mosaic frame in question is perhaps how our reality interfaces with another bridging, symbolic reality that in itself may represent an even larger mosaic of reality than the one we know. The prism I’m going to use is the assassination of President Kennedy. Like many here I have researched this subject in great depth over the years and despite all the work I recognize that somehow something essential is always elusively missing from one’s true understanding of how it fits into the wider scheme of things beyond the obvious geopolitical and economic drive of encroaching neo-liberal ‘fascism’ i.e. 3rd density pathocracy.
To say the obvious in passing – he was killed 22nd November – 22/11. Double 11 and 33. Codes of illusion and delusion. I will post anon something relating to the ancient religion of Maya which I think has some interesting perspectives on the ‘reality’ of illusion, our role in making it ‘reality’, its way of immersing us like fish in water and how, when we see beyond or through or know the illusion, it must reveal itself. And how that revealing is written into its ‘rules’ and in fact is going on all the time – if we but look for it.
I have the idea that this story is somekind of 'trickster' joke with near full revelation on the whole ghastly truth...
INTRO
This story is not that well known even among hardened JFK researchers and this version is I think the most complete in its attention to detail. It comes from H.P. Albarelli Jr’s A Secret Order: Investigating the High Strangeness and Synchronicity in the JFK Assassination, of itself a very interesting and un-sensational walk through of the topic (though you wouldn’t believe so from the garish summary below from Amazon).
Reporting new and never-before-published information about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, this investigation dives straight into the deep end, and seeks to prove the CIA’s involvement in one of the most controversial topics in American history. Featuring intelligence gathered from CIA agents who reported their involvement in the assassination, the case is broken wide open while covering unexplored ground. Gritty details about the assassination are interlaced throughout, while primary and secondary players to the murder are revealed in the in-depth analysis. Although a tremendous amount has been written in the nearly five decades since the assassination, there has never been, until now, a publication to explore the aspects of the case that seemed to defy explanation or logic.
Of all the events covered in the title this one stood out a mile for me as being of immense value in terms of spotting the billowing curtain of high strangeness that haunts this case under cover of all the grotesque events surrounding that November day, 1963 and that we have sadly come to know so well.
For this post I’m going to edit the full chapter dedicated to this story into a linear narrative though my accompanying commentary may digress. I hope not to have edited out any important detail on the way that carries with it the weight of implication of the whole – for the devil is in the detail as we all know, especially when it comes to any potential high strangeness at play.
The chapter was created by the author after he undertook no less than 11 interviews with the subject over an eight-month span and multiple written communications by email with the subject signing off on the final draft for accuracy.
ADELE EDISEN
So first meet the woman in question, Adele Edisen.
Born as Adele Elvira Uskali Edisen (1928-2017), she was the daughter immigrants from Finland who came to America in 1917. Her father had been a soldier in Finland’s war for independence from Russia. Captured and imprisoned, he escaped and made his way to New York where he met his future wife, a professional singer who had also emigrated from Finland, as well as eventually being Adele’s birthplace. Adele’s father became a merchant seaman and spoke several languages, including Russian and Spanish.
(so we have an interesting ethnic background and historical context straight away.
Adele was an exceptionally bright science student at school with a near photographic memory and extraordinary retentive ability allowing her to recall the most minute details of her study (a lifelong gift and one essential to the credibility of this whole story).
In 1948, aged 20, in a philosophy class at the University of Chicago she met her future husband Clayton Byron Edisen.
(Chicago University seems to pop up regularly with regard to the development of the psychopathic ideology behind the rise of the NEOCONS and in particular the influence of Leo Strauss (1899–1973), a refugee from Nazi Germany who taught at the University of Chicago (1949–1958) and whose schizoid ideology can be boiled down to ‘might is right’ and who ended up teaching/mentoring such delights as Paul Wolfowitz and Abram Shulsky).
Edisen had just returned from active duty with the U.S. Army Occupation Forces in Germany.
(There doesn’t seem to be any readily available information on his role in the army of occupation – but it would be interesting to find out what that was and most importantly who he interacted with when there).
Recalls Adele:
“He copied my notes on Aristotle as he had missed part of the class. One thing led to another and we fell in love. We married before he had been admitted to medical school at the University, and we lived in pre-fabricated veterans housing on campus all through our following years, he in medical school and internship at Billings Hospital and I in the Department of Physiology.”
Upon graduation in 1954 from the University of Chicago (Ph.B., Liberal Arts, and Ph.D., Physiology) Adele and Edisen both ended up in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, chaired by Dr. Robert Heath, at the Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, Louisiana.
(This is where it starts to get interesting as Dr. Robert Galbraith Heath was one of the poster boys of CIA mind control experiments with a terrible legacy that we will come back to anon. But for now from the dreaded Wikipedia for a basic cover up biography :)
(graduation picture)
Robert Galbraith Heath (9 May 1915 – 24 September 1999) was an American psychiatrist. He followed the theory of biological psychiatry that organic defects were the sole source of mental illness, and that consequently mental problems were treatable by physical means. He published 425 papers and three books. One of his first papers is dated 1946.
Heath founded the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology at Tulane University, New Orleans, in 1949 and remained its chairman until 1980. He performed many experiments there involving electrical stimulation of the brain via surgically implanted electrodes. He placed DBS electrodes into the brains of more than 54 patients. It has been suggested that this work was financed in part by the CIA and US military.
Heath also experimented with the drug bulbocapnine to induce stupor, and LSD, using prisoners in the Louisiana State Penitentiary as experimental subjects. He worked on schizophrenia patients, which he regarded as an illness with a physical basis.
At Tulane University, the NINDB awarded Adele a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship, enabling her to pursue her work. As Adele recalled:
“I continued my research on monosynaptic excitation and inhibition and was published in two medical journals. My husband began his private practice of psychiatry, and we began our family of three children...”
Whereupon she became a fulltime stay at home mother of 3 and Edisen began his private practice of psychiatry.
(Let’s pause there:
Monosynaptic excitation and inhibition: The Yin and Yang of the Brain
To make a working nervous system, only two forces are necessary: excitation and inhibition. Excitatory signaling from one cell to the next makes the latter cell more likely to fire. Inhibitory signaling makes the latter cell less likely to fire.
At chemical synapses in the brain, glutamate and GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid) are transmitters for excitation and inhibition, respectively… glutamate and GABA are the Yin and Yang of the brain... in principle, a nervous system of only a handful of neurons and two transmitters - excitatory and inhibitory - is possible.
The balance between neural excitation and neural inhibition is crucial to healthy cognition and behavior. A brain dominated by glutamate would only be capable of exciting itself in repeated bursts of activity, similar to an epileptic seizure. Conversely, a brain dominated by GABA would only be capable of quiet whispers of activity, with little synchronization necessary for meaningful communication between brain areas. Healthy brain activity thrives in the middle area between these two extremes, where a balance between excitation and inhibition generates complex patterns of activity.
Because complex patterns of brain activity are thought to underlie flexible behavior and cognition, the ratio between excitation and inhibition - referred to as E/I balance - is becoming increasingly recognized as a crucial measure for assessing the fitness of any brain.
Both excitation and inhibition, acting alone, attract the brain toward distinct patterns of relatively simple activity. The balance of both creates a critical state, like the boundary between a gas and a liquid… the phenomenon is called self-organized criticality (SOC).
…SOC is thought to be important for brain function because it allows the brain a certain degree of flexibility. Just as a critical substance might flexibly switch between a gas and a liquid state, SOC might allow the brain to visit many different activity states.
Wherever SOC is observed in nature, it seems to produce complex activity across many temporal and spatial scales as a result of a slow process that builds energy and a fast process that dissipates energy. This complexity can be described by a pattern called a scale-free distribution. Unlike the normal distribution or “bell curve” we know from statistics class, a scale-free distribution has no mean or average.
…where excitation and inhibition are unbalanced (disease states can occur). Imagine building a pile from glass beads rather than grains of sand. The smooth beads do not stick well (as with sand), and the fragile pile collapses like a Jenga tower once it reaches a critical mass, never achieving true self-organized criticality. This is analogous to state of excessive neural excitation: synaptic inhibition is too weak to stop the storms of excitatory bursting that interrupt complex signaling and form seizures. Conversely, imagine building a sandpile using wet sand. The wet sand is sticky, resulting in few avalanches as the cohesiveness of the sand is too high. This is analogous to a state of excessive neural inhibition: Excitatory drive cannot overcome the suffocating grip of synaptic inhibition, hampering neural computations that depend on complex signaling.
In the near future, drugs that alter neuronal excitability may show promise in guiding the diseased brain towards E/I balance. Indeed, just as many spiritual practices advocate for maintaining an “inner balance,” a physical balance between opposing forces appears central to maintaining a healthy brain. The synergy between opposites observed in the brain reminds us that complexity requires a balance.
(Back in the late 50’s-early 60’s we have to forgive the eager Adele for her fascination with understanding the inner workings of the human brain/mind interface which perhaps clouded her value judgement system in terms of the kinds of directions her research would lead, especially in the hands of the evil and nefarious. It’s clear that from very early on, her work – cutting edge at the time – attracted a lot of unpleasant interest that she wasn’t to appreciate in the context we now have post MK/ULTRA and all that has gone on since (and is even now today playing out to its fullest and darkest extent)).
In approximately September 1962, by now Dr. Clayton Byron Edisen, became seriously ill with what was eventually diagnosed as acute cholecystitis, producing severe abdominal pain greatly impairing his ability to practice psychiatry. As a result Adele, decided to return to her research in neurophysiology and began searching for a position, and through the Department of Physiology at the Louisiana State University School of Medicine, was able to apply to the NINDB for a third-year level Postdoctoral Fellowship.
While awaiting word on her second fellowship, Adele began conducting research on a volunteer basis at the Department of Physiology. In December 1962, Dr. Sidney Harris, chairman of the department, notified Adele that he had received a telephone call from a Dr. Jose Rivera of the NINDB informing him that Adele had been awarded a one-year fellowship beginning January 1, 1963. Adele’s award included a salary and a small equipment grant for use in her on-going research on synaptic inhibition and excitation in the cat spinal cord.
(Note that CIA contractor Dr. Sidney Harris was in full awareness and involvement regarding her new position and we can assume was serving as a knowing interface between her work and the agencies - both military and CIA - that were showing great interest in her work on mammalian synaptic inhibition and excitation and guiding her successful career path. The fact that they started her off on her new path day one of the year of Kennedy’s murder may be pure coincidence… but in the scheme of this story it is safe to say one should not take anything at face value…)