After noon. Today is Carol’s birthday; she
was born and christened Carol Jean Hammond in Columbus, Ohio in 1947. She is
the first of four daughters born to Dorothy Jean Cook Hammond and Grandville
Harry Sharp Hammond. The assumption is that sometime today you will celebrate
at Graeter’s. After breakfast you gave her two humorous friendship cards with
your scripted ‘Happy Birthday’ written on them. – Amorella
1321 hours. I received a note (recomposed below) from Doug this morning.
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Dick,
Have you heard of this author [Patience Worth]?
Doug
Supposedly
the author was uneducated but got her stuff from a dead author using an Ouija board
to contact the dead author who was British.
[Doug sent the
website for below.]
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Patience Worth
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Patience
Worth was allegedly a spirit contacted by Pearl Lenore
Curran (February 15, 1883 – December 4, 1937). This symbiotic relationship
produced several novels, poetry and prose, which Pearl Curran claimed was
delivered to her through channelling the spirit, Patience Worth.
Psychologists and skeptics who have studied Curran's
writings are in agreement that Patience was a fictitious creation of Curran.
About Pearl Curran
Curran
was born Pearl Lenore Pollard in Mound City, Illinois. The family moved
to Texas when she was eight months old and she started school when she was six.
She was an average but uninterested student, eventually dropping out in her
first high school year, later stating she had a nervous breakdown due to the
strenuous academics. She later returned to classes at St. Ignatius Catholic
school.
Curran
was a normal girl and was sensitive about her looks, considering herself to be
ugly. She admitted to having little imagination and few ambitions, except to be
successful as a singer. She had a short attention span and read very little
during her formative years. . . .
Evaluation
Paranormal belief
In 1916,
Casper Yost published Patience Worth: A Psychic Mystery, in the book he
did not come to any definite conclusion but considered the case of Patience
Worth to be unexplainable by any naturalistic theory, he was open to the
spiritualist hypothesis. A thorough investigation of the case was conducted by
the psychical researcher Walter Franklin Prince who published in 1927 his book The
Case of Patience Worth which was a voluminous report of 509 pages covering
the Patience Worth case from its inception in 1913 to about 1927 published by
the Boston Society for Psychical Research. It provided an autobiographical
sketch of Pearl Curran, eye-witness reports, opinions and reviews, poetry of
Patience and Mrs. Curran and much other information related to the case. Prince
concluded his investigation by stating, "Either our concept of what we
call the subconscious must be radically altered, so as to include potencies of
which we hitherto have had no knowledge, or else some cause operating through
but not originating in the subconsciousness of Mrs. Curran must be
acknowledged." However, the philosopher and skeptic Robert Todd Carroll has
noted that, "Prince's claim tells us more about his ignorance than about
the source of Curran's words.”
The parapsychologist Stephen E. Braude has examined
the case of Patience Worth and concluded that Pearl Curran was probably a
highly gifted child whose talent for writing was smothered by her mother, who
wanted to force Pearl into a singing career. In the alter ego of Patience Worth
her subconscious could revive that talent. Braude has written "there is
little reason to think that the evidence supports the hypothesis of survival.
Although Patience offered various clues regarding her origin and identity,
subsequent investigation revealed nothing to indicate that a Patience Worth
ever existed." Braude also considered the possibility of
"super-psi" the view that Curran had subconsciously utilized a form
of extrasensory perception to gather information.
Scientific skepticism
In 1914
Curran travelled to Boston to be tested by the psychologist Morton Prince.
Curran used the Ouija board at his home on two occasions but refused to be put
under hypnosis because she believed that it would destroy her contact with
Patience Worth. Morton told reporters "nothing of scientific
importance" occurred and "I consider the results inconsequential and
of no scientific value"
In 1919,
Charles E. Cory Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis published
a paper titled Patience Worth in the Psychological
Review which came to the conclusion Patience Worth was a subconscious personality
of Curran. In 1954, William Sentman Taylor a specialist in abnormal
psychology also explained Curran's mediumship by psychological factors.
The
psychologists Leonard Zusne, Warren H. Jones in their book Anomalistic
Psychology: A Study of Magical Thinking (1989) have written:
The various
accounts of Mrs. Curran's background purporting to show that, as Mrs. Curran,
she could not have produced the literary works of Patience Worth are
inaccurate. As a child, Mrs. Curran was a precocious learner. Her education was
good enough to enable her to teach at various public and private schools. She
had received extensive tutoring as well as expensive voice and piano training.
She played the piano at a church, which happened to be a spiritualist church
headed by her uncle, a medium. As to the purported 17th-century English that
Mrs. Curran used as Patience Worth, English experts testified that it did not
belong to any particular historical period but was a mixture of contemporary
English, poetic terms, some dialect expressions, including some misused and
misunderstood would-be Scottish words, and even some of her own invention. The
trigger for the appearance of Patience Worth could have been the death of Mrs.
Curran's father just 2 months earlier.
In 2011,
the psychologist Richard Wiseman wrote:
Unfortunately
for Spiritualism, Curran’s writings failed to provide convincing evidence of
life after death. Try as they might, researchers were unable to find any
evidence that Patience Worth actually existed, and linguistic analysis of the
texts revealed that the language was not consistent with other works from the
period. The case for authenticity was not helped by Patience writing a novel
set in the Victorian times, some 200 years after her own death. Eventually even
the most ardent believer was forced to conclude that Pearl Curran’s remarkable
outpourings were more likely to have a natural, not supernatural, explanation.
In 2012,
the researcher Joe Nickell who published an article in the Skeptical Inquirer said he spent five hours studying Curran's
writings at the Missouri Historical Society in St. Louis. Nickell concluded:
The weight of the evidence—the lack of historical
record for “Patience Worth,” the fantasy proneness of Curran (consistent with
producing an imaginary “other self”), the writings’ questionable language, and
the evidence of the editing and revision process—indicates that Patience was
merely a persona of Curran’s.
Selected and edited from Wikipedia
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The
above first gives you pause then reinforcement that because of similar
circumstances I, the Amorella, am a manifestation of your subconscious.
1326 hours. It does. It appears
you are a persona of subconscious or unconscious self. I am an agnostic by
nature, so this isn’t the final word, of course, but it is one I can live with
in this world. Our species is an odd bunch and I’m one of the group. Writing is
part of who I am. I continue on as a craftsman in an attempt to complete this
Merlyn books in better form than the original. Between you and me, Amorella, I
have always appreciated your help. Life is continually interesting.
A
plainer perspective than metaphysics may be to think of me, the Amorella, as a
creative go-between for your conscious, subconscious and unconscious mind. Essentially,
this is what I do. While you are at it this is something else you can place in
Onesixanzero and Ship – that is I am the bones of what is boneless.
1749 hours. Good. I can deal
with this. It is as though my thinking process has a persona all its own.
2121 hours. I have a second
draft, something I can work with but I’ll need a couple more drafts.
Add and post. – Amorella
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Pouch 11, second draft
©2016, rho
“Everyone to your rooms. ParentsinCharge have declared an emergency and
everyone to your rooms. If you are with someone plan to stay a while. We will
explain momentarily.”
“What was that?” said Blake somewhat alarmed. “It sounds like an air
raid drill or something.”
“I don’t know.” replied Friendly. “We will be fine here, don’t worry.
Something is obviously up.”
Friendly stood, and immediately fell with leg cramps. The pain was excruciating.
“What can I do?” said Blake as he rushed from his seat.
“I want to run and I can’t.”
“Why would you want to run?”
“Oh, Blake,” she cried, “We are in a lockdown.”
“What?”
“Within an hour everyone on the planet will be in one home or another
for a possible siege.”
“A war?”
“An old war wound,” she responded.
“Really? I didn’t know you had wars here.”
‘Father will surely get in touch,’ she thought, ‘the Director can wait
and tell the others, but he should tell me first.’
“This lockdown? What does it mean?” stumbled Blake.
“I am afraid it has something to do with Pyl and Justin.”
He looked surprised, “But they are recovering. Besides, the public does
not know we are here.”
The announcement came on and this is what was said.
“Hello, this is the Director Kembel. We have a potential serious problem.
One of the technicians at an historical dig was struck with a serious disease,
and shortly after so was a second. One of our squirrel-like rodents evidently
is carrying an unknown disease that may be life threatening. We will know more
within the hour and let you know our response. This is a time for patience, but
also a time for utmost caution.”
.
Hi, Blake, come in, sit down, “I need to find out more about your own
mind/body experiments. Perhaps they can help us find out what happened to
Ship.”
“I don’t know anything. You people are so far advanced. Why would you
ask me anything?”
“You have an Earthling’s perspective.”
“I can’t imagine I would be any help. What is the problem as you see
it?”
“I have a meeting with Drenakite. It appears Onesixanzero and Ship have
had entangled conversations ever since Ship took us to Earth.”
Blake states, “By entangled I assume you mean secret, are they
classified or esoteric?”
“What do you mean?”
“Are they talking secret operations, you know, tactics or are the
conversations philosophical or contemplatives?” He pauses with a broad smile,
“If they were old men they would probably be talking private about young women;
old women, something to do with women.”
“They are talking about their souls, on how to define their souls.”
Blake
smirks, “Esoteric. That’s odd. Why do they think they have souls?
“Evidently,”
replies Friendly, “Onesixanzero told Ship that since Elderfelder once learned
to dance without a brain, then machinery could have souls without having bodies.”
“I’m
sure that wasn’t the conversation,” deadpans Blake. “This does not seem that
pressing of an issue.”
“What
is bothering me is that evidence shows Ship may not be as autonomous as we
think, and this is a pressing issue. Remember when the Cessna hit a small
unknown object.”
“It
put a crack near the wing tip.”
“That
was Ship in Blackenot.”
“Ship
caused the hit? Why?”
“We
don’t know. The reason is not resolved still. Ship allowed the touch. That’s
what I think and now so does Yermey, but we don’t know why. Could Onesixanzero
have ordered this touch? Do Onesixanzero and Ship work together? If so our trip
to Earth was planned before we left. We were set up.”
“Why?”
Friendly’s
voice turns emotional. “My father gives me his word that he and ParentsinCharge
did not know of our trip to Earth. I believe him.”
He’s
the Director, thinks Blake. He could be lying. Government is government. If
Friendly was set up, his own daughter, then we could have all been set up. He
flashed a nightmare scenario where the Earthlings were going to be blamed for
all the problems on ThreePlanets even though he could not imagine what their
problems might be, being they are so advanced. Blake asks, “Where is Yermey?
Why isn’t he here? And, Hartolite?”
“Right
now,” responds Friendly, “I am more concerned why Drenakite has not shown.”
...
2250 hours.
Carol and I watched a couple shows tonight, after the news. Earlier, at Carol's choice, we ate a late lunch at Olive Garden, she had salmon and I had lasagna.
We both had dessert. It has been a good day but we did not stop at Graeters
like I assumed we would. -- I am happy to be working more
consistently on book two once again. I hope the work continues this way. Pouch
11 needs more cleaning. I like being involved in the story again, laying it out.
Post. - Amorella
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