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us that the specialty of the house was catfish with "churk" sauce, which some of us had ordered. The only plausible place that our host could have accessed that word was from the minds of the five of us who had just experienced it for the first time, half an hour before. (In a follow-up investigation, I discovered that there is no such thing as "churk" sauce. The restaurant manager explained that our waitress was from El Salvador and doesn't speak English very well. The sauce was really "jerk" sauce, and appeared that way on the menu.) This event is therefore an example of almost pure telepathy, in that the only possible other source for "churk" would be retrocognitive clairaudience! (This is the experience of psychically hearing something that had occurred in the past.)
In sharing these personal experiences, I do not think for a moment that they substitute for laboratory research. However, I do think that researchers have a unique perspective to bring to the interpretation of their own experiential psi data. As psi researchers over the past two decades, our accomplishment has been the discovery that psi is no longer elusive. It can be called upon when needed. Our task now is to discover where this phenomenon comes from.
Over my thirty years of work in psi research, my goal has become twofold: first, to develop the capability to integrate psychic abilities into my life. Through this, I hope to gain the knowledge to allow me greater contact with that life-sustaining extended consciousness, the source of psychic healing and all other psi  our community of spirit. My colleague in parapsychological research, Dr. Bill Roll, calls this concept of our interlinked selves the "longbody." 15 He tells us that this concept originated with the Iroquois Indians, who used it to refer to the great web of living connections among tribe members both living and dead.
Secondly, as a scientist, I am convinced that we significantly misunderstand our universal interconnectedness, and the place in the universe of space-time where we appear to be residing. Parapsychological researchers were the first to devote their scientific energies to exploring the nature of this, our nonlocal universe. I hope to continue to help us find our place, and to make these connections.

 
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