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The short and sweet of it: I read the 1988 edition with Ray's commentary. The book was a very good read for my purposes, my goal was to gain some insight about Ray (at least the early years) and learn more about the Marian apparitions which I did (I knew a little about Fatima but nothing on Beauraing, Garabandal, and Zeitoun with some great photographs in the book). As far as the odds of prediction by the "Source"/ Ray of the attempted assassination of the Pope as you know are not even slim to none. I think Ray has something special that makes him unique and fascinating in his research (uap, paleontology, etc). Thank you for helping bring some of his work to lightI'll be interested in hearing your review. Ray's prediction of an attempt on the life of the Pope, (to the day?) seven years before JPII is enough to cause one to ponder the odds...
How did the novel go and what was your writing schedule like? Did you do a lot of advance planning to make things move along faster?I'm in the middle of National Novel Writing Month at the moment (37 000 words done out of 50 000!) but just before bed I have been re-reading The Island of Doctor Moreau. Read through it a few times for my thesis last year on H.G. Wells. It feels good to be reading his stuff for fun and not to have to be making notes.
Confrontations by Jacques Valleé. Currently reading the chapter about liquid metal falling from the sky. Neat.
You start out thinking that some sightings are real. Then you keep reading about it, more and more, and learn about the high strangeness. It blows your friggin mind, man. The high strangeness stuff tends completely to annihilate the reasoning centers of some minds. It did mine. It's just so bizarre and wild and out-there, so completely disconnected from the reality we're accustomed to, that it breaks the incredulous part, the skeptical part, of your UFO reasoning center.