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After a long period of silence, Elisabeth was able to coax a few hesitant sentences from Djuna. Again and again, Elisabeth asked her to describe her mental pictures of the secret place our San Francisco colleague would be visiting. "I see a small plaza with something round in the center. . . . Walkways extend out of the plaza but are connected to it. . . . Small buildings with pointed roofs . . . the buildings look similar and are connected together."
Elisabeth then asked her to drift up in the air and look down upon the site, a strategy that is often successful, probably because of its surprise value. Djuna said, "From above, I see a green circle with a light circle around it. . . . I see a white couch or divan. . . . I see the profile of an animal's eye, with pointy ears." 2
Two hours after Djuna gave her description, we called our colleague's answering machine in California to get the number of his target destination: the machine said, "number six." When we opened envelope number six, we saw that the target was, in fact, the merry-go-round on the little plaza at Pier 39 on the San Francisco waterfront. We found many dramatic correspondences between the target picture and what Djuna had seen: the merry-go-round, the wooden buildings with the pointed roofs, and even the wooden animals on the merry-go-round. Later, in the formal evaluation of Djuna's thirty-three comments about the target, we found that her associations were so significantly matched to this target that the odds of this occurring by chance were better than 200 to I. We were all very excited. We felt that we had indeed created a consciousness bridge. A picture of the merry-go-round and Djuna's sketch of it are shown in Figure 3. Her remarkable drawing of the animal's eye and ears is shown in Figure 4, next to a photo of one of the merry-go-round horses.
Djuna had described the target in Russian as a "cupola." A cupola, of course, is a decorative, dome-topped, cylindrical structure made of pillars and latticework that sits on top of many Victorian and Renaissance buildings. It looks a lot like a carousel, and might easily be mistaken for one under difficult viewing conditions. Djuna's comment reminded me of another time a remote viewer had spoken of a cupola. Remarkably, in that instance the actual target had also been a merry-go-round.

 
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