It may seem odd that this exploration of alphanumeric synchronicity would have anything to do with ETs, much less with the admittedly questionable practice of using a Ouija board. Nevertheless, that is really how it all began back in 1967. In later years I've come to consider the possibility that the event may actually have been simply me and my two companions accessing the realm of archetypes in the archives of what Carl Jung called the Collective Unconscious. But at the time this series of events took place we didn't know about such concepts. So as far as we were concerned this simply seemed to be exactly what it appeared to be: contact with extraterestrial humanoids. Then again, considering the strange dream one of us had before this all began, it just may have been exactly what it appeared to be. The scenario surrounding the dream turned out to be very similar to what today is known as the "alien abduction" phenomenon. In any case, here is an excerpt from The Secret of Nine which gives a glimpse into what occurred. The CD offers the complete story in detail as a means of leading the reader into what subsequently became a full blown exploration of the mysterious number 9 and the world of alphanumeric synchronicity.
GREK-5: THE ALIEN CONTACT?
It was early evening, some weeks later, and Edie was napping on the couch. Tom and I were sitting at the dining room table trying to get the Ouija board to do something. It moved around, almost reluctantly, stopping at a letter here and there, but as usual, for Tom and me, it wasn't cooperating very well. We were about to give up on it, when suddenly it began to move more deliberately. It spelled out a word: SPECTOR. Then it paused a moment and spelled out another word: MIND. Again, a momentary pause and then a third word: YOU. Pause. EARTH. Pause. Then it did something different. It spelled out: GREK 5 using a very deliberate motion. It spelled the letters G-R-E-K as it normally would. That is, the heart shaped planchette moved in a graceful circular motion as it went from letter to letter. Then, in a very deliberate manner, it moved to the center of the board and turned so that the tip of it pointed toward the bottom of the board. The numbers 1 through 0 are printed along the bottom edge of the board. The planchette poised itself at the center of the board and then moved in a straight line directly down to the 5 where it paused again. At this point, we took our hands off the planchette, sat back and lit up a cigarette. We both were a little astounded simply by the fact that the thing was actually working for us. It was usually such a tedious struggle for Tom and I to get it to do much of anything. Tom looked at me.
"What?" I asked.
"You're not going to believe this." he said.
"What? What is it?" I prodded.
He shook his head as if to deny to himself whatever it was he had just realized.
"What?" I asked again.
"I think I know what that is." He paused. "In fact, I'm sure of it."
"What what is? What are you talking about?"
"Grek. That was the word in my dream."
"What dream?"
"Remember, I told you about that dream I had about hiding behind some big rocks and we were shooting at people riding by on horseback?"
"Oh, yeah. I remember. So, what are you getting at?"
"Remember, in the dream I yelled, 'Look out! The somethings are coming!', but I couldn't remember what the word was?"
"Yeah."
"It was the Greks! 'Look out! The Greks are coming!' " He was serious but then he laughed as he realized how crazy it sounded.
"Are you kidding me?" I asked, not yet sure that he wasn't just pulling my leg.
Still realizing how insane it sounded, he insisted that was the word he hadn't been able to remember.
"I'm serious! I know it sounds crazy, but that's what the voice shouted out in my dream."
He convinced me. I knew Tom well enough to know when he was kidding around and when he wasn't. He wasn't kidding.
"Okay. Well let's try it again." I said, anxious to see what would happen. "Ask if that was the word that was in your dream."
"You ask it!" he said.
I laughed. "Okay," I said.
We put our fingertips lightly on the planchette. I asked the question aloud.
"Is Grek the word that Tom heard in the dream he told me about?"
The planchette began to move. I anticipated that it would go to the YES which is printed in the upper left corner of the board, or to the NO which is in the opposite corner. We were surprised, however, when it spelled out: SPECTOR. Then it paused and spelled out: MIND. We looked at each other. This was familiar. Then it spelled: YOU, and then: EARTH, and then: GREK.
Then, as before, it went to the center of the board, turned, in a very deliberate manner so that it was pointed toward the bottom of the board, and moved straight down to the 5. We were puzzled. I asked again,
"Is Grek the word that was in Tom's dream?"
The planchette continued to move now in it's usual circular motion. It spelled out another word: SPECTOR-1. When it went to the 1, it did not use the same kind of rigid, deliberate motion as when it went to the 5. It simply moved in the normal manner. Then another word: GOD. And it continued, pausing after each word:
TIME. LOVE. PAX. SPECTOR 11. XESTAO. GOD-9. FIRSON. LASON. HABITON. KNOWLEDGE. BABION. DIX. None of this made any sense to either of us.
"Are these words supposed to mean something to us?" we asked.
Again the planchette responded:
SPECTOR. MIND. YOU. EARTH. GREK-5. SPECTOR-1. GOD. TIME. LOVE. PAX. SPECTOR-11. XESTAO. GOD-9. FIRSON. LASON. HABITON. KNOWLEDGE. BABION. DIX.
We wrote the words down and tried again. The result was the same; the exact same words in the exact same order. We organized them in the form of a list in the order in which they came. It seemed like a puzzle of some kind; nineteen words, always in the same order. Some were in English and some were not but we didn't know what they were. We took up the challenge, trying to make some sense of this puzzle. We woke Edie from her nap and told her what had been happening. We showed her the list of nineteen words and the three of us tried to see what we could make of it. We noticed that some of the words looked almost like Latin. Tom was pretty sure, for example, that PAX was Latin for the word "peace". We also noted that the eighth word on the list was TIME and that the figure 8 is a symbol for eternity. The thirteenth word, GOD-9, was interesting in that the 9th word was LOVE, making it reminiscent of the concept that God is Love.
The more we examined the puzzle, the more we saw. Or were we just reading things into it? For instance, the seventh word was GOD. The number seven is considered a holy number. GREK-5 was, appropriately enough, the fifth word. Still, what did it all mean, if anything? (At this point, I want to inform the reader that this is not an entirely accurate recounting of the nineteen words as they were presented to us. The words we are uncertain of are numbers 14, 15, and 17. Regarding numbers 14 and 15, Tom seems to have some recollection of them being something like "food" and "shelter", or some words representing those concepts. On the other hand, he does agree with me that the words FIRSON and LASON were, indeed, given to us at some point during this "vocabulary" session. At the same time, I also recall the "food" and "shelter" discussion, but cannot recall how they fit into the list, if at all. Regarding the word, KNOWLEDGE, we're sure it is in the correct place on the list, but we cannot recall the actual "Grek word" which was used to represent that concept.)
After about three hours we had exhausted our collective wits. Finally, someone suggested we try the board again. This time Edie and I put our hands on the planchette. It began to move the instant we touched it. We didn't even have a chance to ask a question.
"WELCOME SPECTORS. YOU HAVE PASSED THE TEST."
The story continues on the CD and dovetails into a discussion about a similar incident experienced by none other than the famous psychic "spoon bender", Uri Geller. The "coincidences" of the details are remarkable and thought provoking.
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