Ivete Barbosa is well-known within the Suns family. She often spends extended parts of the season in the Valley, cooking traditional family meals and rooting on her son. She overcame a bout with a serious illness a few years ago but has suddenly fallen gravely ill.

Barbosa arrived in Tucson with the team Monday night but left after the team gathered for a precamp dinner. He is likely to miss the entire stay in Tucson, which runs through Saturday, and Suns general manager Steve Kerr said there is no immediate timetable for his return.

“We’re going to give him as much time as he needs. Family comes first,” Kerr said. “Our thoughts and prayers are with them at this difficult time.”

Guard Steve Nash called it an awful situation. “I am really sad for Leandro. I love his mom and hopefully she is going to fight through.”

STARTING SLOW

Amaré Stoudemire took part in about the first half-hour of the morning session before bowing out to give his left ankle a rest. He spent the rest of the time on the stationary bike and doing strengthening exercises. In the evening, he took part in the running with his teammates.

“I feel good. I did more than I thought I would,” he said. “Right now there isn’t a lot of soreness, but I’m trying to take precautionary measures. I don’t want to overdo it. I’m pretty much day to day.”

Porter said it’s too early to tell if Stoudemire will be able to play in Friday night’s scrimmage.

BAD MEMORIES

Shaquille O’Neal stepped into McKale Center for the first time since 1991, when Arizona routed his LSU Tigers by 20 points, holding him to only eight points. O’Neal ran into Arizona coach Lute Olson in the halls Tuesday and the two reminisced about the game.

“We got smoked,” he said. “I remember the fans were energetic and they just demolished us. I was doubled and tripled all day. I had Brian Williams (the late Bison Dele) in front of me, Sean Rooks behind me and Ed Stokes around me. It wasn’t a good day.”

BONUS SHOTS

Forward Alando Tucker jammed his right thumb during the evening session. He had it heavily wrapped but said he didn’t expect to miss any time.

Porter invited his college coach and longtime friend Dick Bennett to camp and joked that he likes the relationship better now that it is coach-and-coach instead of player-coach.

“I don’t get those late night phone calls about what I didn’t do in a game, but we still talk a lot about the game,” he said.

Porter said he felt the team came to camp “in pretty good shape” and came through the first day — that ended with the players running gassers for every missed free throw — very well. “I have to change that around because they didn’t run that many,” he said. “There were too many free throws made.”

There seems to be some sibling rivalry going on between the Olsen twins.

An insider tells In Touch Weekly, "Ashley really wants to be a respected businesswoman and be taken seriously. MK does too, but she hasn't been willing to give up her lifestyle and act like an adult for their job." "Ashley came to a difficult decision. She decided that MK should not be involved with The Row. She asked her sister to step back from her current responsibilities until she has her personal life together."

Asked more specifically to list the expenses that resulted in the $184,152 deficit in the governor’s office accounts, she cited two. She said the administration planned to sublet to Guam an empty office the state has maintained in Washington for years at a cost of $2,000 a month, but the paperwork took longer than expected to go through. She also cited Carcieri’s hiring of former U.S. Solicitor General Theodore B. Olson — the lawyer who successfully argued the case that put George W. Bush in the White House — to help the state in its fight to keep control of 31 acres owned by the Narragansett Indian tribe.

Carcieri hired Olson as lead lawyer for his office shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court agreed in February to decide whether the Department of Interior can take 31 acres just north of Route 1 in Charlestown into trust on behalf of the Narragansett Indians. Trust status would remove the land from most state and local laws, placing it under tribal and federal control.

Olson was to be paid a flat $200,000 in installments from the governor’s contingency account: $100,000 last year and the rest this year, according to the governor’s former press secretary, Jeff Neal. According to Kempe, that did not play out as anticipated.

Didache

Didache = teaching, ie “the teaching of the apostles” though not really.

We knew this writing existed but didn’t have a copy until 1873, when it hit the headlines and made the front pages of the papers, because it came from about 100AD and gives a detailed discussion of life, practice, and beliefs in the apostolic churches.  There were big expectations of what it might say.

It starts with section on ethical teaching.  Claims two paths for us – the path of life and the path of death.  Life = very strict docetic code for morality, death = the opposite.  What is disturbing: there is nothing explicitly Christian in the whole section, eg no justification by grace.  Strongly legalistic. 

Not the teaching of the apostles! 

Lesson: validates what Paul says in Galatians 1: “So quickly turning from the gospel to another gospel, which isn’t a gospel at all.”  Here is another instance of this, though not in Galatia.  The Didache was a very popular work that is thorough legalism. 

It also shows that 100AD is no golden age, but a tough time for the church.  Legalism was rife, church plagued with problems.  They weren’t all heavenly martyrs.

Later on, it deals with a problem of how to deal with itinerant preachers and apostles.

There were two types of church leaders: itinerant prophets who followed Paul’s model, and church leaders attached to one congregation permanently.  Both were equally respected.  But unlike Paul, some of the itinerant prophets started living off the churches they were visiting.  The Didache respects the ministry of the itinerant prophets but gives advice on how to deal with them.  It is practical but quite legalistic – eg, if he asks for money or food, kick him out.

Final section – apocalyptic.  Important because in the Apostolic Fathers the return of Christ is shockingly prominent and forcefully moulding how they live.  

The Shepherd of Hermas

Hermas if anything was more influential than Didache.  The most popular and influential.  A sort of apocalyptic work and very, very long.  Don’t bother reading it!  The author: Hermas has a series of visions he received concerning the state and nature of the church in his day.  He seems to write with a tone when someone is trying to be religious, eg the book of Mormon.  Not so with Paul’s letters, for example! 

First half: receives visions and interpreted by a female figure who represents the church.  Second half: interpreted by his guardian angle who assumes the form of a shepherd – hence name of book. 

Begins by telling of time when he used to be a slave of a beautiful mistress named Rhona.  He once saw her bathing in the river in the centre of Rome and lusted after her.  She then presumably dies and appears in a vision from heaven and condemns him for sinning against her.  He is not sure how he has sinned and is surprised; then he wonders how then he can be saved – how can he propitiate God?  So the rest of the book is about the possibility of forgiveness. Main vision he sees is a tower built on water, ie, on top of baptism is built the church.  Shows us a very high view of baptism at the time in many circles. Clarifies the main concern of the book: can you get forgiven after baptism?  Ie Baptism washes away your sins, so if you sin again, can you get forgiveness?  Hermas says, yes, you can sin once more.  There is only one repentance for God’s forgiven.  This gracelessness encouraged postponing baptism till as late as possible; eg Constantine didn’t get baptised until just before he died.  So you become a Christian, live as you like, and get baptised just before you die.  If you recover you may as well get martyred! 

Also: he sees some angelic builders removing stones from the tower = removing believers for their sin.  Also round stones that don’t fit = rich believers who must have their riches chopped off before they can fit it. 

Then come 12 commandments, mostly pragmatic and moral.  The 6^th commandment is Pallagianism throughout.  What is faith?  There are two angels that accompany a person, one of righteousness and one of wickedness.  Trust the works of the former and to do them you’ll live to God.  The 10^th commandment: clothe yourself with cheerfulness; God likes cheery people and dislikes sorrow!  Cf Paul’s theology of joy, which is very different to cheerfulness.

Ends with 10 parables – lessons to be learned from trees, twigs etc.  Apparently contain “wisdom”.  Claim we can do good works above and beyond what God commands – later called works of supererogation at the time of the Reformation.  Believed by medieval Roman Catholicism and rejected by Protestants (see Article 14 of the Church of England’s 39 Articles). 

So Hermas’ understanding: the gospel is a new law from God; faith isn’t sufficient to be justified.  You need to do good things.  Demonstrates a very popular movement from a gospel of grace to a harsh legalism in the beginning of the 2^nd century. 

An aside: in ‘The Story of Christian Theology’ by Roger E. Olson (core reading for UCCF staff study), Olson says Hermas thinks Jesus is the incarnation of the Holy Spirit.  Mike Reeves: Olson is hasty in jumping to that.  When people at this time spoke of the Spirit, it is often unclear whether they mean a Spirit or The Holy Spirit. 

The letter of Diagnetus & The letter of Barnabus to follow, along with Justin Martyr.  

this may hard for survivors of this abuse to read, you may want to read it with a support person

All crimes are alleged

(some of this information may be old)

http://members.aol.com/smartnews/fivecases.htm  The Law and Mind Control - a Look at the Law and Government Mind Control Through Five Cases Looks at Cia vs Sims, United States vs Stanley, Orlikow, et Al vs United States, Kronisch vs United States et Al, Heinrich, et Al vs Sweet, et al

On August 22, 1977, John C. Sims, an attorney, and Sidney M. Wolfe, M.D., the director of the Public Citizen Health Research Group, filed a request with the Central Intelligence Agency seeking certain information about MKULTRA. Invoking the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. ßß 552, Sims and Wolfe sought the grant proposals and contracts awarded under the MKULTRA program and the names of the institutions and individuals that had performed research.149 SUBPROJECTS / 80 INSTITUTIONS / 185 PRIVATE RESEARCHERS" Between 1953 and 1966, the Central Intelligence Agency financed a wide-ranging project, code-named MKULTRA, concerned with 'the research and development of chemical, biological, and radiological materials capable of employment in clandestine operations to control human behavior.' The program consisted of some 149 subprojects which the Agency contracted out to various universities, research foundations, and similar institutions. At least 80 institutions and 185 private researchers participated. Because the Agency funded MKULTRA indirectly, many of the participating individuals were unaware that they were dealing with the Agency". Id. 161-162.

III. ORLIKOW VS UNITED STATES - CIA SETTLEMENT OF SOME CLAIMS
One researcher known to have been funded by the CIA's front organization, the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology, was Dr. Ewen Cameron.

* Ewen Cameron and the Allan Memorial Institute - Subproject Subproject 68 funded by CIA from March 18, 1957 to June 30, 1960
Without conceding liability, in 1988 the CIA agreed to pay $750,000 to settle a case brought on behalf of nine plaintiffs who were subjected to federally funded mind control experiments sponsored by the CIA and conducted by prominent psychiatrist Ewen Cameron, M.D. The experiments included heavy does of LSD, electroshock and psychic driving. Beyond Nuremburg, ABA Journal March 1997, p.26.

* What the Senate Congressional Record says of the CIA funded experiments conducted by Cameron under MKULTRA
Information on Cameron's experiments and the CIA's effort to stonewall settlement of the legal case filed by nine of Cameron's victims is contained in the Senate Congressional Record:
Orlikow v. U.S. Cite as 682 F.S. 77 (D.D.C. 1988) Mrs. David Orlikow, et al., Plaintiffs, V. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant. Civ. A. No. 80-3163. U.S. District Court, District of Columbia. 1/19/88 "The facts submitted in this case are labyrinthine and generally not disputed. The pivotal issue, however, pertaining to whether Dr. Cameron's research was medically sound therapy or experimentation, is plainly in dispute. In their Amended Complaint the plaintiffs allege, (1) negligent failure of supervision and control over CIA employees, (2) negligent and reckless funding of hazardous experiments, (3) liability for CIA funding of medical malpractice...A brief overview of the case will provide the context in which this action arose...In 1955, the CIA set up a secret front organization, known as the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology (SIHE), to fund further studies. CIA employee, Dr. John Gittinger and Dr. Wolff from Cornell, assisted in the program formation. Approximately a year later, Dr. Gittinger read an article, published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, written by Dr. Ewen Cameron from the Allen Memorial Institute of Psychiatry, and entitled Psychic Driving...The article prompted him to invite Dr. Cameron to submit an application for SIHE research funds...On March 4, 1957, the CIA approved the Cameron grant as MKULTRA Subproject 68 for the period of time from March 18, 1957 to June 30, 1960." http://www.michael-robinett.com/private/orli-01.htm and linked pages

Lawsuit paints LSD experiment as journey to the mind's frontier by Jim Bronskill and Mike Blanchfield - Southam Newspapers Ottawa - "To Dr. Ewen Cameron, Canada's prisons seemed like a logical place to conduct experiments on what strange new drugs could do to the human mind. In 1953, the McGill University psychiatrist wrote to the second in command of Canada's prison service to see if he had any insights into "the pharmacological, psychological and surgical suppression or obliteration of certain functions of behaviour as a research tool." http://groups.yahoo.com/group/psnews/message/370

LSD "guinea pig" wins key court victories - By JIM BRONSKILL and MIKE BLANCHFIELD Southam Newspapers OTTAWA - "The federal government and a former prison psychologist have confessed to battery and negligence for giving LSD to a teenaged inmate in the 1960s. The admission by the government and psychologist Mark Eveson in Ontario's Superior Court of Justice is a key victory for former prisoner Dorothy Proctor in her three-year battle for compensation. A total of 23 female inmates were administered LSD as part of a 1961 study at the now-defunct federal Prison for Women in Kingston, Ont. At 18 and serving a three-year robbery sentence, Proctor received at least one dose of the powerful hallucinogen in a 1.5-metre-by-2.5-metre windowless basement segregation cell, lit by a single bulb with only a mattress and a hole in which to pass bodily waste. In 1998, Proctor sued the government and former Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) officials for giving her the drug, saying it has caused brain damage and terrifying hallucinations."

National Post 6/10/04 BRAINWASHING VICTIM WINS $100,000 RULING - Montreal clinic experimented with electroshock by Jeff Heinrich "A woman has been awarded $100,000 in compensation after receiving controversial electroshock treatment in a Montreal psychiatric institute in 1953. "I'm stunned," Gail Kastner, 70, said yesterday. After some reflection she added: "I'm pleased and I'm numb." The shock treatment turned the then 19 year old honours student into a woman who sucked her thumb, talked like a baby, demanded to be fed from a bottle and urinated on the floor. She was ostracised by her affluent family and ended up living in poverty. Ms. Kastner was left out of a 1994 federal compensation package for other victims of brainwashing because she was deemed to have undergone less intense treatmet that had fewer long-term effects. Now, a Federal Court judge has reversed that decision and awarded her $100,000, the same Ottawa granted a decade ago to 77 other victims of Dr. Ewen Cameron, the director of the Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal.
In 2000, Ms. Kastner sued the Allan Memorial for $4.2 million, but lost. She tried to appeal, but with no success. The federal compensation doesn't nearly equal what she could have won. "It begs the question: if I'm awarded now, why was I turned down in my lawsuit?" said Ms. Kastner, who lives alone on a guaranteed income supplement of $1000 a month. 253 of Mr. Cameron's other patients also had their claims rejected. Carried out from 1950 to 1965, Mr. Cameron's now-discredited"de-patterning" program of massive electroshock therapy and drug-induced sleep was funded by the CIA and Canada's Health Department....In 1953, Ms. Kastner was a 19 year old honours student from a wealthy Montreal family. Suffering from mild depression and anxiety, she was admitted to the Allan Memorial twice for short stays and given electroshock treatments - 63 in all. She was also put into comas by being injected with insulin and given different drugs to induce sleep. The goal was to "de-pattern" her brain so she could recover and lead a normal life." http://web.archive.org/web/20031221193346/http://www.tourolaw.edu/2ndCircuit/July98/97-6116.html

Kronisch v United States
"UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT REVISED August Term, 1997 (Argued: 1/30/98 Decided: 7/9/98 ) Docket No. 97-6116 GLORIA KRONISCH, Executrix of the Estate of Stanley Milton Glickman, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SIDNEY GOTTLIEB, in his individual and in his official capacities, RICHARD HELMS, in his individual and in his official capacities, and JOHN DOES, unknown agents of the Central Intelligence Agency, Defendants-Appellees. Before: CALABRESI, CABRANES, and HEANEY, Circuit Judges. Appeal from judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Kimba M. Wood, Judge), granting summary judgment for defendants. Plaintiff alleges that he is one of the victims of tests conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency in the 1950s in which lysergic acid diethylamide was administered to unsuspecting persons. Affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded....granted defendants' motion for summary judgment on the bases that plaintiff had failed to establish a genuine issue of material fact as to liability, that his claims were time-barred, and that the court lacked personal jurisdiction over Gottlieb and Helms."

"As described by the Church Committee Report, In order to meet the perceived threat to national security, substantial programs for the testing and use of chemical and biological agents-including projects involving the surreptitious administration of LSD to unwitting nonvolunteer subjects ...were conceived, and implemented. These programs resulted in substantial violations of the rights of individuals within the United States."

"The record shows that Bureau of Narcotics Agent George White, who was asked by Gottlieb in 1952 to work on LSD research for the CIA, see Declaration of Sidney Gottlieb ¶¶ 4 (April 23, 1996) ("Gottlieb Declaration"), conducted LSD experiments on unsuspecting persons in New York City. White may have given LSD to unwitting friends in his New York City apartment in November 1952, and beginning in June 1953 he administered LSD to unsuspecting persons (typically drug informants and prostitutes) with whom he came into contact in his work as a narcotics agent. See Kronisch III, 1997 WL 907994, at *6 n.8... See Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the Senate Committee on Human Resources on S. 1893, 95th Cong., 1st Sess. 204 (Sept. 20 and 21, 1977) ("Kennedy Committee Hearings") (testimony of Sidney Gottlieb)."
"Church Committee Report at 391. MKULTRA records were destroyed in January 1973 by TSD personnel acting on the orders of Gottlieb, who in turn had obtained approval from Helms."
1977 hearings

Project MKULTRA The CIA's Program Of Research In Behavioral Modification http://web.archive.org/web/20061211010611/http://www.peyote.com/jonstef/mkultra.htm

1977 Senate Hearing on MKULTRA Cover Page http://web.archive.org/web/20030803120717/http://www.pjproject.org/Mkultra/

1977 Senate Hearing on MKULTRA Opening Remarks "Some 2 years ago, the Senate Health Subcommittee heard chilling testimony about the human experimentation activities of the CIA. The Deputy Director of the CIA revealed that over 30 universities and institutions were involved in an "extensive testing and experimentation" program which included covert drug tests on unwitting citizens "at all social levels, high and low, native Americans and foreign." Several of these tests involved the administration of LSD to "unwitting subjects in social situations." http://web.archive.org/web/20030625045041/http://www.pjproject.org/Mkultra/project.html

http://www.apa.org/monitor/nov02/pc.html Mind control: psychological reality or mindless rhetoric? "Mind control is the process by which individual or collective freedom of choice and action is compromised by agents or agencies that modify or distort perception, motivation, affect, cognition and/or behavioral outcomes. It is neither magical nor mystical, but a process that involves a set of basic social psychological principles. Conformity, compliance, persuasion, dissonance, reactance, guilt and fear arousal, modeling and identification are some of the staple social influence ingredients well studied in psychological experiments and field studies. In some combinations, they create a powerful crucible of extreme mental and behavioral manipulation when synthesized with several other real-world factors, such as charismatic, authoritarian leaders, dominant ideologies, social isolation, physical debilitation, induced phobias, and extreme threats or promised rewards that are typically deceptively orchestrated, over an extended time period in settings where they are applied intensively....has also been reported that the CIA put into practice nearly 150 projects--collectively termed MKULTRA--to develop various forms of exotic mind control, including the use of LSD and hypnosis."
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/psnews/message/794  The Covert Captive - An Investigative Report of the Inhumane Use of former U. S. Assistant Attorney, Eugene L. Stone by the CIA. Hayward B. Shepherd, 1994 The book is on a CD in PDF format, available for $20.00 incl S + H from Shepherd Media Engineering, 111 Pheasant Lane, Summerville, SC 29485. http://www.shepmedia.com E-mail : CovertCapt@earthlink.net page 123 "MKULTRA, A Codeword project started in the 1950 s to study interrogation techniques and the use of drugs as tools in the techniques. At that time MK was frequently used as a prefix if there was a military application. ULTRA was the codeword used by British Intelligence for their WWII super secret project which was able to decode German cryptographic messages. Perhaps the originator of this codeword considered that the work being done with mind control was also that super secret." page 150 "In the fall of 1959 the CIA shuffled people around, hired an assortment of researchers in the field of mind control, and finalized a long range plan for expanding its mind control technology....office was to coordinate with Covert Operations to find a mission which would be ideal for testing a programmed Agent....idea of using Gene Stone as the first subject remained unquestioned. This was now near the end of the Eisenhower administration, and despite a number of blunders, the CIA was riding a high in prestige and funding. All involved in planning were firmly confident that by 1965 they would be ready to deliver a programmed Eugene Stone to Covert Operations."

http://web.archive.org/web/20021202165513/http://www.africa2000.com/IMPACT/gottlieb.html The man who hand-carried to Leopoldville (Kinshasa) 'lethal biological material' cultured specifically to kill Patrice Lumumba...Sidney Gottlieb...Dr Gottlieb joined the CIA in 1951 as chief of its technical services division. Two years later he was made responsible for a literally mind-manipulating project called MKULTRA, ironically along the same lines as Nazi scientists had experimented upon Jewish and other prisoners."

Some Declassified Mk-Ultra Project Documents http://www.michael-robinett.com/declass/c000.htm

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/radiation/dir/mstreet/research/docs/precis.txt  Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Exp. - Brief Descriptions of Doc. Collections The Coldest Warrior - 12/16/01 - "As the CIA's sorcerer, Gottlieb had also attempted to raise assassination to an art form. Out of his labs had come a poisoned handkerchief designed to do in a Libyan colonel, a bacteriological agent for a Congolese leader and debilitating potions intended for Cuba's Fidel Castro. (None of these toxins are known to have found their mark.) Hounded by reporters, congressional investigators and his victims, Gottlieb had virtually vanished from Washington in the mid-1970s...But Olson's death didn't end CIA-funded experiments with LSD... according to records made public in the mid-'70s, the funding and scope of that research expanded. Many of the details will likely never be known. Gottlieb had destroyed the MK-ULTRA files just before retiring. The records might be "misunderstood," he had said." Washingtonpost.com

Mid-century deaths all linked to CIA? New evidence in Olson case suggests similarities with other incidents 9/4/01 - "In 1998, WorldNetDaily first reported on the CIA's secret behavior-modification program MK-ULTRA, which included experimentation with LSD on unsuspecting subjects. Authors H.P. Albarelli Jr. and John Kelly's new book ("A TERRIBLE MISTAKE: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Cold War Experiments") deals with the mysterious death of one alleged subject, Dr. Frank Olson....(in) the authors' third for WorldNetDaily, Albarelli and Kelly reveal new evidence that suggests a possible link between Olson's death and several other similar deaths in the same time period." http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=24305

Are you one of the thousands of people used as a human guinea pig by your own government during the Cold War? A Nation Betrayed is the culmination of documentation obtained from over 18,000 pages of declassified documents and testimony from survivors of these experiments.  Rutz's book gives us a first hand view of a government in such fear of communism that it loses sight of the safety of it's own people. To counter the threat of communism, the CIA conspires to build the perfect spy from our country's innocent children. After being imported for their knowledge and expertise, some of the same Nazi scientists and doctors who performed grizzly experiments carried out in the death camps during World War II join forces with the U.S Government in these efforts. Her book walks us through her horrifying journey of experimentation and training by her CIA torturers beginning at the age of four as part of the government sanctioned Bluebird/Artichoke and MKULTRA Projects. Using electroshock, drugs, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, and insidious trauma, our government performs Mind Control experiments on her and other innocent children. The objective is creation of a Manchurian Candidate-a sleeper assassin-as well as instilling skills in ESP and remote viewing.

A Nation Betrayed also shows how our own tax dollars paid doctors and hospitals to conduct Cold War research with chemical and biological warfare materials and radiation. Why hasn't our government been held accountable not only for these atrocities, but for dumping chemicals at sea, testing chemicals on unsuspecting U.S. populations, administering LSD to unwitting soldiers, feeding radioactive cereal to retarded children, and other unthinkable acts in the name of national security?
A Nation Betrayed is a must read to educate the Nation about these abuses, because our silence conveys a powerful message to those in power. Without the necessary changes, history is doomed to repeat itself.
Table of Contents and Preface can be read at http://www2.dmci.net/users/casey Book contains a complete Index. Email Carol Rutz at casey@dmci.net with questions.
Publication Date: July 2001 - Retail Price: U.S. Dollars - $15.95 from Fidelity Publishing P.O. Box 365, Grass Lake, MI 49240-0365, Size: 5 ½ x 8 ½, 262 pages, Trade Paperback, Author: Rutz, Carol - ISBN: 0-9710102-0-X - Add $3.95 Shipping in Continental U.S. - Query for shipping to other locations.

In the United States, the American public have had the knowledge of the CIA's Top Secret Program, MKUltra, and its experimentation in Mind Control on adult volunteers and unwitting subjects. Now, we have a well-documented, verifiable account of not one, but two childrens' long untold stories of being CHILD subjects of Project MKUltra.

In the new book, "Secret Weapons: Two Sisters' Terrifying True Story of Sex, Spies and Sabotage," we find the horrific, yet, informative narratives of Cheryl and Lynn Hersha, as they describe tortuous programming beginning at the tender ages of four and six years, and continuing into adulthood. Their harrowing accounts are supported by the fact-finding, breakthrough research of Dale Griffis, PhD., (a private investigator best known for his 25 yrs. of work in Ritual Abuse), and investigative journalist, Ted Schwarz, (who has authored over 100 books, countless magazine articles and other written media, including works on Dissociative Identity Disorder, True Crime Stories, and authorized biographies.) A must-read for all who believe in the inherent worth of every human being, and the triumph of the human spirit over the worst evils man can perpetuate against the very young it should be compelled to protect, be it by morality, ethical conduct, law, or common human decency. A riveting, heart-wrenching expose whose time has come.

Quotes from the book: "By the time Cheryl Hersha came to the facility, knowledge of multiple personality was so complete that doctors understood how the mind separated into distinct ego states, each unaware of the other. First, the person traumatized had to be both extremely intelligent and under the age of seven, two conditions not yet understood though remaining consistent as factors. The trauma was almost always of a sexual nature..." p. 52

"The government researchers, aware of the information in the professional journals, decided to reverse the process (of healing from hysteric dissociation). They decided to use selective trauma on healthy children to create personalities capable of committing acts desired for national security and defense." p. 53 - 54

The book also contains a variety of documents on mk-ultra and different projects as well as reports to the Presidential Committee on Radiation and Mind Control, including information on the five Canadians' lawsuit against the U.S. Government.

Government Research into ESP & Mind Control - By T. Porter - "Hypnosis, drugs, and psycho-surgery; separately and combined, were the tools of this quest for the ultimate truth serum on the one hand, and the capability to create an agent who could not have his or her mission tortured out of them, or even be aware that they were carrying secret information given to them in an altered state of consciousness. More and more sophisticated drugs were experimented with, such as LSD, Ketamine, and Psilocybine." http://www.freedomdomain.com/mindcontrol/mkultra01.html

26 July 1963 - MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence -SUBJECT: Report of Inspection of MKULTRA - "The next phase of the MKULTRA program involves physicians, toxicologists, and other specialists in mental, narcotics, and general hospitals and in prisons, who are provided the products and findings of the basic research projects and proceed with intensive testing on human subjects." This may be heavy for survivors to read. http://cryptome.org/mkultra-0003.htm
The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, the entire book, is online at http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/marks.htm

The Observer - 2/14/99 - The Observer Life Page; Pg. 32 - "...In 1952, Stanley Glickman was a promising young painter studying in Paris. Then one night he shared a drink with some fellow Americans, and his life fell apart. Did the CIA spike his drink with LSD?" by Russ Baker http://www.russbaker.com/Life-The%20Observer%20Magazine%20-%20Stanley%20Glickman%20and%20CIA/Life-The%20Observer%20Magazine%20-%20Stanley%20Glickman%20and%20CIA.htm

Brainwashing and the CIA - Washington 25, D. C. - Office of the Director - 25 Apr 1956 Memorandum For: The Honorable J. Edgar Hoover Director, FBI - Subject: Brainwashing....(signed) Allen W.Dulles Director - A Report on Communist Brainwashing "...He tends to identify by expressing thanks to his captors for helping him see the light. Brainwashing can be achieved without using illegal means. Anyone willing to use known principles of control and reactions to control and capable of demonstrating the patience needed in raising a child can probably achieve successful brainwashing....The first letter and attachment are from Declassified Documents 1984 microfilms under MKULTRA (84) 002258,published by Research Publication Woodbridge, CT 06525....The second letter and attachment are from the Warren Commission documents. http://web.archive.org/web/20011214062825/http://www.newphys.se/elektromagnum/physics/KeelyNet/biology/mind4.asc

United States District Court Northern District of California Wayne A. Ritchie, Plaintiff, V. United States of America, Defendant. No. C 00-03940 MHP MEMORANDUM & ORDER Motion to Dismiss/ Motion for Summary Judgment "As explained in this court's July 12, 2001 Memorandum and Order, plaintiff, a former Deputy United States Marshal, alleges that he was unwittingly given food or drinks that were laced with lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) or another psychoactive drug while attending a holiday party. Following this intoxication, and after visiting several bars, plaintiff initiated an armed robbery. Plaintiff was then taken into police custody where he wrote a letter of resignation. Plaintiff alleges that he was a victim of a national federal program called "MKULTRA" for the research and development of drugs to alter human behavior. Plaintiff maintains that he "first suspected that he might have been surreptitiously drugged" when he read Dr. Stanley Gottlieb's obituary in the newspaper on March 15, 1999. Compl. ¶ 23. He found additional support for his suspicion in April 1999 when he read a diary entry of George White, an agent of the Bureau of Narcotics and allegedly the operating head of the CIA's "mind-altering program" in San Francisco." ""Defendant contends that plaintiff's claims are barred by laches. To prevail, defendant must demonstrate that plaintiff "inexcusably delayed the pursuit of [his] claim," causing prejudice. United States v. Marolf, 173 F.3d 1213, 1218 (9th Cir. 1999). For the reasons discussed above, defendant has failed to prove that plaintiff knew or should have known that his injury was caused by LSD before he read Dr. Gottlieb's obituary in March 1999. Absent this proof, the court cannot find plaintiff's delay "inexcusable." Defendant's motion is denied."

Lawsuit claiming CIA put LSD in vet's drink in 1957 can proceed 5/24/04 San Francisco (AP) "A former deputy U.S. marshal and Marine Corps veteran who claims the CIA slipped LSD into his drink in 1957 as part of a mind-control project offered enough evidence to send his $12 million lawsuit to trial, a federal judge ruled Monday. Chief U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel ruled in favor of Wayne Ritchie, citing an apparent admission from a former CIA operative. "I drugged guys involved in about 10, 12 (instances)," former federal narcotics agent Ira Feldman, who worked for the CIA's Project MKULTRA, told Ritchie's lawyer in a sworn deposition in February 2003. "I didn't do any follow-up. ... You just back away and let them worry like this nitwit, Ritchie." Ritchie, 75, believes he may have been a guinea pig for the CIA's MKULTRA project, in which LSD and other drugs were given to hundreds of unsuspecting Americans during the Cold War. Ritchie believes his drinks at a 1957 office Christmas party attended by a federal agent involved in the project were spiked. The government denies drugging Ritchie..." http://www.sacbee.com/

http://www.aches-mc.org/
http://www.aches-mc.org/mind_control.html
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RADIATION EXPERIMENTS (PUBLIC MEETING)
March 15, 1995
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/radiation/dir/mstreet/commeet/meet12/trnsc12a.txt

Tapes of the speeches at BTC are available from: Repeat Performance,2911 Crabapple Lane, Hobart, IN 46342, 219-465-1234. To order, ask forthe BTC show, 4/11- 4/13, 1997,

Claudia Mullen, R.N., "Giving Testimony Regarding Survival as a Government Mind-Control Victim: My Testimony and the Backlash" Tape 14

Valerie Wolf, BCSW,ACSW,BCD, "Assessment and Treatment of Survivors of Sadistic Abuse" 2 tapes, $15, Tape 18-AB

For $15 you can get a video tape of the ACHES-MC survivors and professionals making statements followed by Claudia, Chris and Valerie Wolf giving their testimony at the Presidential Hearings in March 1995.ACHES-MC, Advocacy Committee for Human Experimentation Survivors - Mind Control, Transcripts of Claudia's and Valerie's BTC Chicago workshops are available at http://www.mk.net/~mcf/ckln-hm.htm http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/radio/ckln05.htm

MK RADIO 12 - Interview with Valerie Wolf, Claudia Mullen, Chris Ebner. They expand on their testimonies with information about the CIA doctors and locations allegedly involved in their experimentation and abuse.

Claudia Mullen http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/radio/ckln07.htm

Valerie Wolf
http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/radio/ckln11.htm

The radio series Mind CONTROL IN CANADA is on CKLN 88.1 FM. This radio series is on Canadian involvement in U.S. CIA and military mind control programs and the alleged links to ritual abuse. For information on how  to receive a transcript of the entire interview: CKLN-FM Radio, 380 Victoria Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5B 1W7, Phone: (416) 595-1477, Fax: (416) 595-0226
The following article came from the testimony at the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments by Claudia Mullen, a survivor of  alleged government sponsored mind control and ritual abuse.

all crimes are alleged

"Statement to Presidential Report on Radiation, Claudia S. Mullen, March 15, 1995.
I was born in 1950 and by the age of 7; I thought I was already accustomed to being an abused child. I was wrong. Nothing could have prepared me for what was to follow.

Between the years of 1957 and 1984, I became a pawn in a government scheme, whose ultimate goal was mind control and ultimately to create the "perfect spy". All through the use of chemicals, radiation, drugs, hypnosis, electric shock, isolation in large tubs of hot or cold water, sleep deprivation, brainwashing; and verbal, physical and emotional abuse. By the time I was 9, I was also being sexually abused and humiliated as a coercive technique.

I was exploited unwittingly for nearly three decades of my life and the only explanations given were: "That the end justifies the means"and "I was serving my country in their bold effort to fight communism".I can only summarize my circumstances by saying, they took an already abused 7 year old child and compounded my suffering beyond belief. The saddest part is- I know for a fact; that I was not alone! There were countless other children in my same situation and there was no one to help us….until now.

I have already submitted as much information as possible;  including project names, dates, subproject numbers, names of those people and agencies involved; functions and types of subjects being used. I am able to report this to you in such graphic detail; because of both my photographic memory and the arrogance of the doctors involved, who were certain they would always control my mind and my behavior. The process of recalling these atrocities certainly not an easy task; nor is it without some danger to my self and my family. However, I sincerely hope you will hear me  out and have read the backup documents. To me….the risk is worth taking.

Dr. L. Wilson Greene, who claimed to have received 50 million dollars to his army chemical and radiological corporation, as part of TSD (Technical Science Division) of the CIA; once described to my monitor, Dr. Charles Brown, "That children were used as subjects because they were more fun to work with and cheaper too. They needed lower profile subjects than soldiers or government people, so only young willing females will do….besides" he said, "I like scaring them…they and the agency think I'm a God…creating subjects and experiments for whatever deviant purposes SID (Dr. Sidney Gottlieb) and James (Dr. James Hamilton) can think up.

In 1958, I was to be tested they told me by some important doctors coming from  a place called the "Society" (The Human Ecological Society). I was told to brave and cooperate though the tests might hurt. I was also instructed not to look at anyone's face too hard and to ignore names. This was a secret project and I would be asked a lot of questions; then given "shots, X-rays and a little jolt of electricity….but to be brave and all those things would help me forget". Naturally, as most children do, I did the opposite and remembered as much as I could!

A Dr. John Gittenger  tested me and Dr. Cameron  gave me the shocks and Dr. Greene  the X-rays. Then, I was told by  Sid (Dr. Gottlieb),"I was ripe for the big A"  - meaning artichoke, I learned later. By the time I left to go home, just like every other time from then on, I would recall nothing of my tests or the different doctors. I would only remember what explanations Dr. Robert G. Heath (of Tulane Medical School)  gave me for the odd bruises, needle marks, burns on my head and fingers and even the genital soreness. I had no reason to believe otherwise. Already, they had begun to control my mind!

By the next year when I turned 9; I was sent to a place in Maryland called Deep Creek Caverns to learn how "to sexually please men". I was taught  also how to coerce them into talking about themselves and then I had to prove my accurate recall. Richard Helms, Dr Gottlieb, George White and Morse Allen all  planned on entrapping as many officials, agency targets, heads of academic institutions and foundations. Later if the funding started to dwindle or the head of the agency - John McCone decided he could no longer tolerate children being tortured, abused and shot full of biologicals and radiation; then he would be forced to continue the projects at all cost. I was to become a regular little "spy" for them after that summer, entrapping many unwitting men, with the use of hidden cameras. I was only 9 when this began.

Twice I overheard conversations concerning a place or part of the agency  called ORD (Office of Research and Development)  run by Dr. Greene, Dr. Stephen  Aldrich, Martin Orne and Morse Allen. Once a crude remark was  made by Dr. Gottlieb about a possible leak over in New Orleans East, involving a large group of retarded children who werebeing given massive doses of radiation. He asked,  why Wilson was "so worried about a few retarded kids? After all, they would be the least likely kids to spill the beans!"

The second time I heard Dr. Martin Orne, who was  the "director of the scientific office" and later changed to Institute for Experimental Research, (in order to keep more funding coming from different sources for the radiation and mind control experiments). Dr. Orne  suggested" stepping up the amounts of all the stressors used on the subjects, such as chemical, biologicals, increasing the volts and length of the electric shock treatments, hypnosis and sexual humiliation" (the blackmail portion of the projects). He  stated, "it needed to be done faster, then get rid of the subjects, as it was asking for "us" to come back and haunt them, by remembering." Dr. Heath at first refused but more of the doctors agreed; although some seemed sincerely horrified at what they either witnessed or heard about.

Dr. Orne  demanded that "executive action" be taken. When one of my "splits"; as they referred to my dissociated personalities, asked him (Dr. Orne) what "executive action meant?" ; he  replied, "it means we get rid of the little bitch….you! Don't you get it? You simply disappear, John (Dulles) can  order that at any time; and even Mac (John McCone) would never even know what happened to you!"

There is much more I could tell you about government sponsored research  including; project names, subproject numbers and the people involved with each. Also, I could include the facilities used, humiliating tests and other forms of torture/abuse utilized. However, I think I've given more than enough information to recommend further investigation of all mind control research projects - especially as they involve so much use of radiation.

I would love nothing more than to say I had dreamed all this up and need just to forget it…but that would be a tragic mistake! Not only that - it would be a lie. All these atrocities did occur to me; and to countless other children. And all under the guise of "defending our country"!

It is because of the cumulative effects of exposure to the radiation, chemicals, drugs, torture and subsequent mental and physical distress; that I have been robbed of the ability to work; and even bear children of my own! It is blatantly obvious that none of this was needed; nor should it have ever been allowed to take place at all.

The only means we have to seek out the awful truth and bring it to light (no matter how disgusting) is by opening whatever files remain on all the projects; through another Presidential commission. This time it seems the focus should be more on mind control and brainwashing research funded by our own tax dollars!

I believe this once great nation of ours has a right to know just what is fact and what is fiction. It is our greatest protection against the possibility of this ever happening again. If, by some chance, it has continued to this day, it needs to be stopped!

Now, I leave this matter in your capable hands. I can offer no more than what I have given you today…the truth! Thank you for your time.
Claudia Stewart Mullen (Chrystal Stone) - March 15, 1995

She has short stories available (one is autobiographical) through Red Heart Press, 1712 Milan St, New Orleans, LA 70115. A video tape of the hearing is available from: Missoulians for a Clean Environment, P O Box 2885, Missoula, MT 59806, 406-543-7210.

During work hours, Gunner is Blaine police officer Greg Rowe's partner. The rest of the day, Gunner is Rowe's dog.

Since June, Rowe and Gunner, a nearly 2-year-old German shepherd, have cruised Blaine each night as the city's first K-9 team since the 1970s.

The K9 program was brought back this year as part of a department expansion that's gone along with Blaine's expansion, said interim Police Chief Chris Olson, who added that the department would like to add at least two more K9 teams to cover the clock.

The officer and his dog share an obvious bond, born of days of training and long, dark hours sharing a graveyard shift punctuated by bursts of activity. Seven months into their partnership, Gunner still is settling into home life with Rowe's wife, Janet Running Rowe, and daughter, Kayla (plus two other dogs, a cat and a fish), where the relationship is a bit more complicated.

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Police Chief Rick Olson and two of his officers presented the Sandwich City Council with information about the nonlethal weapons during a committee as a whole meeting Monday.

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Going green together online - Happy Frog directory helps green businesses connect
by Rosalind Duane Special To North Shore News - Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Dave Olson is declaring war on paper coffee cups.

"And this is coming from a guy who loves his coffee and hates remembering to take one of those travel mugs, hates remembering to rinse it out and hates remembering to clean it," he says.

Olson notes that the switch is on to cloth shopping bags, and organic foods, but paper coffee cups and plastic water bottles still need to be done away with.

Five years ago, Olson, a North Vancouver resident, says he got funny looks when he used his own canvas bag for grocery shopping, but these days, options other than the ubiquitous and environmentally unfriendly plastic bags are popping up all over the place. Similarly, 10 years ago, it was difficult to find fair-trade, organic coffee, but that has also changed.

Along with consumers, businesses both big and small are also paying more attention to sustainable practices. It is getting easier (read cheaper) for companies to change their internal practices to include measures such as office recycling, and to offer incentives to employees to walk to work or carpool.

For the past 10 years, Olson has been working in online marketing and has noticed a definite shift in the way business is being done; even big-box stores are highlighting their "green" features.

"It shows that big companies are following the little companies, which is a real big paradigm shift really because 20 years ago, 10 years ago, that certainly wasn't the case," he says.

While working in the business world, Olson has also been taking pictures and writing blogs in support of his passion for the environment. About six months ago, he joined in the creation of an online green business directory called Happy Frog.

He says the opportunity to help develop what he calls a "green community" allowed him to put some structure around the grassroots journalism that he was doing.

"We're really hosting the community conversation about these green and sustainability minded topics," he says of the directory, which lists various environmental and sustainable-minded businesses from across the province. While the idea for Happy Frog started out as a directory, it has evolved to include reviews and tips from users, and piece by piece, more interactive elements have been added. Olson and his team have also gathered a group of non-professional writers and photographers to attend the upcoming Epic Sustainable Living Expo and report back to the site with photos, stories and podcasts. He says the website is the "social media partner" for the fair, and he wants to profile vendors that may not otherwise be featured in the mainstream media.

Olson notes that over the years as he has been attending and reporting on wellness fairs as a hobbyist, he has learned that by telling stories and letting people know each other's points of view a lot of progress can be made.

Letting businesses in on the conversation is another aspect of the directory that Olson is excited about. Once listed in the directory, business owners can access their listing and add their own blog. Olson says beyond regular print ads, the online blogs allow business owners to be "authentic" and tell their story.

Each business chosen to be included on the website has to be B.C.-based and has to fit into one of the Happy Frog categories, which include Arts and Culture, Eco Travel, Food and Beverage, Fashion and Beauty and more. Olson and his team then look at what the company is selling and make sure that the company is at least making an effort toward sustainability practices.

"The other big requirement is that they are willing to say publicly, 'We're trying to get better. We're trying to learn how to be sustainable,'" explains Olson.

He adds that the vendors listed may still have improvements to make, but just because the owners aren't walking to work and wearing recycled burlap for clothes, the business can still be considered.

"We want to be inclusive and help people make those first couple of critical steps."

Olson says although it's easy to get cynical about the amount of change that still needs to occur, every little bit helps.

"The little changes beget bigger changes and really snowballs into all of a sudden you find yourself eating organic, shopping with bags, not taking that paper coffee cup, and if we reach a critical mass of people doing that all of a sudden real positive change happens. So it's really a shift in thinking and habits that starts small and gets bigger," he explains, adding that his hope for the website is to get people communicating in an authentic, honest manner about environmental issues.

For more information, visit the Happy Frog website at www.happyfrog.ca.

© North Shore News 2008

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Guess what they found?  That's right.  The psychologists reported there was "absolutely no evidence" linking the two and that teen crime is actually on the decline.

They discuss their study in more detail in a recent interview on X-Play.  You can watch the video of the interview here.   Openeducation.net interviewed with Dr. Cheryl Olson on the study.  You can read the interview here.

The psychologists also stated that any studies linking the two tended to examine only the short term reactions of young players immediately after they've played a violent video game and that a "leap of faith" is required in order to draw any sort of long term correlation.

Their study turned up some interesting and revealing facts.  For example, male teens who play 15+ hours of M-rated video games a week were at the same level of risk of getting into trouble or engaging in bad behaviour than male teens who did not play video games.  Olson made a point to say that the game playing in this context was a "risk marker" and not a cause for getting into trouble.  

Another revealing fact is that the commonly held notion that a growth in video game sales and popularity is linked with a growth in youth violence is a myth.  The two trends have been moving in opposite directions since 1993.  As video game sales grow, youth violence is actually on the decline.

This study puts into question the numerous claims by parents groups and fools like Jack Thompson that video games are the cause of a lot of the youth violence.

Thank you for praying for Tyler. He recovered from his cough without getting pneumonia (which he is more susceptible to with his lung disease), and he slept well every night without being bothered with coughing! We felt the answers to your prayers for him!

The outreach to our friends in the German community is this weekend. We are taking Ralf and Gabi to the Candlelight Dinner tomorrow night (Feb. 22). We appreciate your prayers for God to open Ralf's spiritual eyes so he realizes his need of salvation and comes to the point of trusting in Jesus for eternal salvation. We pray that what he hears tomorrow night will help to bring him closer to taking this step of faith.

Please also pray for the 80+ BFA students (and many adults) that are involved in performing in different ways and in the presentation of the outreach.

Joyfully Serving Him,

Tony and Melody Olson

Travis, Karyn, Tyler and Analyssa

We are...

♥ Serving missionary families in 49 places of ministry in Europe, Asia, Africa, Russia, and the Middle East so they can remain in fruitful ministry and have peace that God is meeting the needs of their children.

♥ Teaching high school Geography and World History and caring for these students who will be many of our future Christian leaders all over the world.

♥ Leading the History Department at Black Forest Academy.

Thank you for your prayers for our family and for Ralf this weekend. Unfortunately, Ralf was unable to come to the Candlelight Dinner on Friday (our school's outreach to our German community). He is trying to recover from major knee surgery and re-injured his knee this past week. The specialist in Basel, Switzerland said he could see him late Friday afternoon (5:30), so Ralf couldn't come with us. He said that with the knee the way it was he wouldn't have been able to sit for hours at the Dinner anyways. (He promised not to play soccer for 6 months before the next Candlelight Dinner so this doesn't happen again :) ) This was a disappointment to us, but we know God has other ways of bringing Ralf to the realization of his need of accepting Jesus as his savior. We didn't attend the Dinner (alone), but instead prayed for the impact of it and those that attended and also got some needed extra sleep.

Pray for our missionary kids this weekend! This is the weekend of their High School Retreat. About 250 Missionary kids as well as staff will go to a retreat center and have some relaxing fun times together and deepen their relationship with God.

Thank you for your interest and prayers!

Joyfully Serving Him,

Tony and Melody Olson
Travis, Karyn, Tyler and Analyssa
We are...

--Serving missionary families in 49 places of ministry in Europe, Asia, Africa, Russia, and the Middle East so they can remain in fruitful ministry and have peace that God is meeting the needs of their children.

--Teaching high school Geography and World History and caring for these students who will be many of our future Christian leaders all over the world.

--Leading the History Department at Black Forest Academy.

Charles Olson

Projective Verse

(projective (percussive (prospective

vs.

The NON-Projective

(or what a French critic calls “closed” verse, that verse which print bred and which is pretty much what we have had, in English & American, and have still got, despite the work of Pound & Williams:

it led Keats, already a hundred years ago, to see it (Wordsworth’s, Milton’s) in the light of “the Egotistical Sublime”; and it persists, at this latter day, as what you might call the private-soul-at-any-public-wall)

Verse now, 1950, if it is to go ahead, if it is to be of essential use, must, I take it, catch up and put into itself certain laws and possibilities of breath, of the breathing of the man who writes as well as of his listenings. (The revolution of the ear, 1910, the trochee’s heave, asks it of the younger poets.)

I want to do two things: first, try to show what projective or OPEN verse is, what it involves, in its act of composition, how, in distinction from the non-projective, it is accomplished; and II, suggest a few ideas about what that stance does, both to the poet and to his reader. (The stance involves, for example, a change beyond, and larger than, the technical, and may, the way things look, lead to new poetics and to new concepts from which some sort of drama, say, or of epic, pehaps, may emerge.)

First, some simplicities that a man learns, if he works in OPEN, or what can also be called COMPOSITION BY FIELD, as opposed to inherited line, stanza, over-all form, what is the “old” base of the non-projective.
(1) the kinetics of the thing. A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem itself to, all the way over to, the reader. Okay. Then the poem itself must, at all points, be a high energy-construct and, at all points, an energy-discharge. So: how is the poet to accomplish same energy, how is he, what is the process by which a poet gets in, at all points energy at least the equivalent of the energy which propelled him in the first place, yet an energy which is peculiar to verse alone and which will be, obviously, also different from the energy which the reader, because he is a third term, will take away.

This is the problem which any poet who departs from closed form is specially confronted by. And it involves a whole series of new recognitions. From the moment he ventures into FIELD COMPOSITION— put himself in the open— he can go by no track other than the one the poem under hand declares, for itself. Thus he has to behave, and be, instant by instant, aware of some several forces just now beginning to be examined. (It is much more, for example, this push, than simply such a one as Pound put, so wisely, to get us started: “the musical phrase,” go by it, boys, rather than by, the metronome.)

(2) is the principle, the law which presides conspicuously over the composition, and, when obeyed, is the reason why a projective poem can come into being. It is this: FORM IS NEVER MORE THAN AN EXTENSION OF CONTENT. (Or so it got phrased by one, R. Creeley, and it makes absolute sense to me, with this possible corollary, that right form, in any given poem, is the only and exclusively possible extension of content under hand.) There it is, brothers, sitting there, for USE.

Now (3) the process of the thing, how the principle can be made so to shape the energies that the form is accomplished. And I think it can be boiled down to one statement (first pounded into my head by Edward Dahlberg): ONE PERCEPTION MUST IMMEDIATELY AND DIRECTLY LEAD TO A FURTHER PERCEPTION. It means exactly what it says, is a matter of, at all points (even, I should say, of our management of daily reality as of the daily work) get on with it, keep moving, keep in, speed, the nerves, their speed, the perceptions, theirs, the acts, the split second acts, the whole business, keep it moving as fast as you can, citizen. And if you also set up as a poet, USE USE USE the process at all points, in any given poem always, always one perception must must must MOVE, INSTANTER, ON ANOTHER! So there we are, fast, there’s the dogma. And its excuse, its usableness, in practice. Which gets us, it ought to get us, inside the machinery, now, 1950, of how projective verse is made.

If I hammer, if I recall in, and keep calling in, the breath, the breathing as distinguished from the hearing, it is for cause, it is to insist upon a part that breath plays in verse which has not (due, I think, to the smothering of the power of the line by too set a concept of foot) has not been sufficiently observed or practiced, but which has to be if verse is to advance to its proper force and place in the day, now, ahead. I take it that PROJECTIVE VERSE teaches, is, this lesson, that the verse will only do in which a poet manages to register both the acquisitions of his ear and the pressures of his breath.
Let’s start from the smallest particle of all, the syllable. It is the king and pin of versification, what rules and holds together the lines, the larger forms, of a poem. I would suggest that verse here and in England dropped this secret from the late Elizabethans to Ezra Pound, lost it, in the sweetness of meter and rime, in a honey-head. (The syllable is one way to distinguish the original success of blank verse, and its falling off, with Milton.)
It is by their syllables that words juxtapose in beauty, by these particles of sound as clearly as by the sense of the words which they compose. In any given instance, because there is a choice of words, the choice, if a man is in there, will be, spontaneously, the obedience of his ear to the syllables. The fineness, and the practice, lie here, at the minimum and source of speech.

O western wynd, when wilt thou blow
And the small rain down shall rain
O Christ that my love were in my arms
And I in my bed again

It would do no harm, as an act of correction to both prose and verse as now written, if both rime and meter, and, in the quantity words, both sense and sound, were less in the forefront of the mind than the syllable, if the syllable, that fine creature, were more allowed to lead the harmony on. With this warning, to those who would try: to step back here to this place of the elements and minims of language, is to engage speech where it is least careless— and least logical. Listening for the syllables must be so constant and so scrupulous, the exaction must be so complete, that the assurance of the ear is purchased at the highest— 40 hours a day— price. For from the root out, from all over the place, the syllabe comes, the figures of, the dance:

“Is” comes from the Aryan root, as, to breathe. The English “not” equals the Sanskrit na, which may come from the root na, to be lost, to perish. “Be” is from bhu, to grow.

I say the syllable, king, and that it is spontaneous, this way: the ear, the ear which has collected, which has listened, the ear, which is so close to the mind that it is the mind’s, that it has the mind’s speed.... it is close, another way: the mind is brother to the sister and is, because it is so close, is the drying force, the incest, the sharpener... it is from the union of the mind and the ear that the syllable is born. But the syllable is only the first child of the incest of verse (always, that Egyptian thing, it produces twins!). The other child is the LINE. And together, these two, the syllable and the line, they make a poem, they make that thing, the—what shall we call it, the Boss of all, the “Single Intelligence.” And the line comes (I swear it) from the breat, from the breathing of the man who writes, att the moment that he writes, and thus is, it is here that, the daily work, the WORK, gets in, for only he, the man who writes, can declare, at every moment, the line its metric and its ending— where its breathing, shall come to, termination.

The trouble with most work, to my taking, since the breaking away from traditional lines and stanzas, and from such wholes as, say, Chaucer’s Troilus or S’s Lear, is: contemporary workers go lazy RIGHT HERE WHERE THE LINE IS BORN.

Let me put it baldly. The two halves are:
the HEAD, by way of the EAR, to the SYLLABLE
the HEART, by way of the BREATH, to the LINE

And the joker? that it is in the 1st half of the proposition that, in composing, one lets-it-rip; and that it is in the 2nd half, surprise, it is the LINE that’s the baby that gets, as the poem is getting made, the attention, the control, that it is right here, in the line, that the shaping takes place, each moment of the going.

I am dogmatic, that the head shows in the syllable. The dance of the intellect is there, among them, prose or verse. Consider the best minds you know in this here business: where does the head show, is it not, precise here, in the swift currents of the syllable? can’t you tell a brain when you see what it does, just there? It is true, what the master says he picked up from Confusion: all the thots men are capable of can be entered on the back of a postage stamp. So, is it not the PLAY of a mind we are after, is not that that shows whether a mind is there at all?

The elements of language are finite, but the poet through his attentiveness (PLAY of mind) is the person who makes use of words in a particular sophisticated way.

And the threshing floor for the dance? Is it anything but the LINE? And when the line has, is, a deadness, is it not a heart which has gone lazy, is it not, suddenly, slow things, similes, say, adjectives, or such, that we are bored by? For there is a whole flock of rhetorical devices which have now to be brought under a new bead, now that we sight with the line. Simile is only one bird who comes down, too easily. The descriptive functions generally have to be watched, every second, in projective verse, because of their easiness, and thus their drain on the energy which composition by field allows into a poem. Any slackness takes off attention, that crucial thing, from the job in hand, from the push of the line under hand at the moment, under the reader’s eye, in his moment. Observation of any kind is, like argument in prose, properly previous to the act of the poem, and, if allowed in, must be so juxtaposed, apposed, set in, that it does not, for an instant, sap the going energy of the content toward its form.

It comes to this, this whole aspect of the newer problems. (We now enter, actually, the large area of the whole poem, into the FIELD, if you like, where all the syllables and all the lines must be managed in their relations to each other.) It is a matter, finally, of OBJECTS, what they are, what they are inside a poem, how they got there, and, once there, how they are to be used. This is something I want to get to in another way in Part II, but, for the moment, let me indicate this, that every element in an open poem (the syllable, the line, as well as the image, the sound, the sense) must be taken up as participants in the kinetic of the poem just as solidly as we are accustomed to take what we call the objects of reality; and that these elements are to be seen as creating the tensions of a poem just as totally as do those other objects create what we know as the world.
The objects which occur at every given moment of composition (of recognition, we can call it) are, can be, must be treated exactly as they do occur therein and not by any ideas or preconceptions from outside the poem, must be handled as a series of objects in field in such a way that a series of tensions (which they also are) are made to hold, and to hold exactly inside the content and the context of the poem which has forced itself, through the poet and them, into being.
Because breath allows all the speech-force of language back in (speech is the “solid” of verse, is the secret of a poem’s energy), because, now, a poem has, by speech, solidity, everything in it can now be treated as solids, objects, things; and, though insisting upon the absolute difference of the reality of the verse from that other dispersed and distributed thing, yet each of these elements of a poem can be allowed, once the poem is well composed, to keep, as those other objects do, their proper confusions.

Which brings us up, immediately, bang, against tenses, in fact against syntax, in fact against grammar generally, that is, as we have inherited it. Do not tenses, must they not also be kicked around anew, in order that time, that other governing absolute, may be kept, as must the space-tensions of a poem, immediate, contemporary to the acting-on-you of the poem? I would argue that here, too, the LAW OF THE LINE, which projective verse creates, must be hewn to, obeyed, and that the conventions which logic has forced on syntax must be broken open as quietly as must the too set feet of the old line. But an analysis of how far a new poet can stretch the very conventions on which communication by language rests, is too big for these notes, which are meant, I hope it is obvious, merely to get things started.

Let me just throw in this. It is my impression that all parts of speech suddenly, in composition by field, are fresh for both sound and percussive use, spring up like unknown, unnamed vegetables in the patch, when you work it, come spring. Now take Hart Crane. What strikes me in him is the singleness of the push to the nominative, his push along that one arc of freshness, the attempt to get back to word as handle. (If logos is word as thought, what is word as noun, as, pass me that, as Newman Shea used to ask, at the galley table, put a jib on the blood, will ya.) But there is a loss in Crane of what Fenollosa is so right about, in syntax, the sentence as first act of nature, as lightning, as passage of force from subject to object, quick, in this case, from Hart to me, in every case, from me to you, the VERB between two nouns. Does not Hart miss the advantages, by such an isolated push, miss the point of the whole front of syllable, line, field, and what happened to all language, and to the poem, as a result?

I return you now to London, to beginnings, to the syllable, for the pleasures of it, to intermit:

If music be the food of love, play on,
give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
the appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again. It had a dying fall,
o, it came over my ear like the sweet sound
that breathes upon a bank of violets,
stealing and giving odour.

What we have suffered from, is manuscript, press, the removal of verse from its producer and its reproducer, the voice, a removal by one, by two removes from its place of origin and its destination. For the breath has a double meaning which latin had not yet lost.
The irony is, from the machine has come one gain not yet sufficiently observed or used, but which leads directly on toward projective verse and its consequences. It is the advantage of the typewriter that, due to its rigidity and its space precisions, it can, for a poet, indicate exactly the breath, the pauses, the suspensions even of syllables, the juxtapositions even of parts of phrases, which he intends. For the first time the poet has the stave and the bar a musician has had. for the first time he can, without the convention of rime and meter, record the listening he has done to his own speech and by that one act indicate how he would want any reader, silently or otherwise, to voice his work. It is time we picked the fruits of the experiments of Cummings, Pound, Williams, each of whom has, after his way, already used the machine as a scoring to his composing, as a script to its vocalization. It is now only a matter of the recognition of the conventions of composition by field for us to bring into being an open verse as formal as the closed, with all its traditional advantages.

If a contemporary poet leaves a space as long as the phrase before it, he means that space to be held, by the breath, an equal length of time. If he suspends a word or syllable at the end of a line (this was most Cummings’ addition) he means that time to pass that it takes the eye— that hair of time suspended— to pick up the next line. If he wishes a pause so light it hardly separates the words, yet does not want a comma— which is an interruption of the meaning rather than the sounding of the line— follow him when he uses a symbol the typewriter has ready to hand:

“What does not change / is the will to change”

Observe him, when he takes advantage of the machine’s multiple margins, to juxtapose:

“Sd he:
to dream takes no effort
to think is easy
to act is more difficult

but for a man to act after he has taken thought, this!
is the most difficult thing of all”

Each of these lines is a progressing of both meaning and the breathing forward, and then a backing up, without a progress or any kind of movement outside the unit of time local to the idea.

There is more to be said in order that this convention be recognized, especially in order that the revolution out of which it came may be so forwarded that work will get published to offset the reaction now afoot to return verse to inherited forms of cadence and rime. But what I want to emphasize here, by this emphasis on the typewriter as the personal and instantaneous recorder of the poets work, is the already projective nature of verse as the sons of Pound and Williams are practicing it. Already they are composing as though verse was to have the reading its writing involved, as though not the eye but the ear was to be its measurer, as though the intervals of its composition could be so carefully put down as to be precisely the intervals of its registration. For the ear, which once had the burden of memory to quicken it (rime & regular cadence were its aids and have merely lived on in print after the oral necessities were ended) can now again, that the poet has his means, be the threshold of projective verse.

II

Which gets us to what I promised, the degree to which the projective involves a stance toward reality outside a poem as well as a new stance toward reality of a poem itself. It is a matter of content, the content of Homer or of Euripides or of Seami as distinct from that which I might call the more “literary” masters. From the moment the projective purpose of the act of verse is recognized, the content does— it will— change. If the beginning and the end is breath, voice in its largest sense, then the material of verse shifts. It has to. It starts with the composer. The dimension of his line itself changes, not to speak of the change in his conceiving, of the matter he will turn to, of the scale in which he imagines that matter’s use.

I myself would pose the difference by physical image. It is no accident that Pound and Williams were both involved variously in a movement which got called “objectivism.” But that word was then used in some sort of a necessary quarrel, I take it, with “subjectivism.” It is now too late to be bothered with the latter. It has excellently done itself to death, even though we are all caught in its dying.

What seems to me a more valid formulation for present use is “objectism,” a word to be taken to stand for the kind of relation of man to experience which a poet might state as the necessity of a line or a work to be as wood is, to be as clean as wood is as it issues from the hand of nature, to be shaped as wood can be when a man has had his hand to it. Objectivism is the getting rid of the lyrical interference of the individual as ego, of the “subject” and his soul, that peculiar presumption by which western man has interposed himself between what he is as a creature of nature (with certain instructions to carry out) and those other creations of nature which we may, with no derogation, call objects. For a man is himself an object, whatever he may take to be his advantages, the more likely to recognize himself as such the greater his advantages, particularly at that moment that he achieves an humilitas sufficient to make him of use. It comes to this: the use of a man, by himself and thus by others, lies in how he conceives his relation to nature, that force to which he owes his somewhat small existence. If he sprawl, he shall find little to sing but himself, and shall sing, nature has such paradoxical ways, by way of artificial forms outside of himself. But if he stays inside himself, if he is contained within his nature as he is participant in the larger force, he will be able to listen, and his hearing through himself will give him secrets objects share. And by an inverse law his shapes will make their own way. It is in this sense that the projective act, which is the artist’s act in the larger field of objects, leads to dimensions larger than the man. For a man’s problems, the moment he takes speech up in all its fullness, is to give his work his seriousness, a seriousness sufficient to cause the thing he makes to try to take its place alongside the things of nature. This is not easy. Nature works from reverence, even in her destructions (species go down with a crash). But breath is man’s special qualification as animal. Sound is a dimension he has extended. Language is one of his proudest acts. And when a poet rests in these as they are in his proudest acts. And when a poet rests in these as they are in himself (in his physiology, if you like, but the life in him, for all that) then he, if he chooses to speak from these roots, works in that area where nature has given him size, projective size.

It is projective size that the play, The Trojan Women, possesses, for it is able to stand, is it not, as its people do, beside the Aegean—and neither Andromache or the sea suffer diminution. In a less “heroic” but equally “natural” dimension Seami causes the Fisherman and the Angel to stand clear in Hagoromo. And Homer, who is such an unexamined cliche that I do not think I need to press home in what scale Nausicaa’s girls wash their clothes. Such works, I should argue— and I use them simply because their equivalents are yet to be done— could not issue from men who conceived verse without the full relevance of human voice, without reference to where lines come from, in the individual who writes. Nor do I think it accident that, at this end point of the argument, I should use, for examples, two dramatists and an epic poet. For I would hazard to guess that, if projective verse is practiced long enough, is driven ahead hard enough along the course I think it dictates, verse again can carry much larger material than it has carried in our language since the Elizabethans. But it can’t be jumped. We are only at the beginnings, and if I think that the Cantos make more “dramatic” sense than do the plays of Mr. Eliot, it is not because I think they have solved the problem, but because the methodology of the verse in them points a way by which, one day, the problem of a larger content and of larger forms may be solved. Eliot is, in fact, a proof of a present danger, of “too easy” a going on in the practice of verse as it has been, rather than as it must be, practiced. There is no question, for example, that Eliot’s line, from “Prufrock” on down, has speech-force, is “dramatic”, is, in fact, one of the most notable lines since Dryden.

I suppose it stemmed immediately to him from Browning, as did so many of Pound’s early things. In any case, Eliot’s line has obvious relations backward to the Elizabethans, especially to the soliloquy. Yet O.M. Eliot is not projective. It could even be argued (and I say this carefully, as I have said all things about the non-projective, having considered how each of us must save himself after his own fashion and how much, for that matter, each of us owes to the non-projective, and will continue to owe, as both go alongside each other) but it could be argued that it is because Eliot has stayed inside the non-projective that he fails as a dramatist— that his root is mind alone, and a scholastic mind at that (no high intelletto despite his apparent clarities)— and that, in his listenings he has stayed there where the ear and the mind are, has only gone from his fine ear outward rather than, as I say a projective poet will, down through the workings of his own throat to that place where breath comes from, where breath has its beginnings, where drama has come from, where, the coincidence is, all act springs.

-- som er termodynamikkens 2. lov, som siger, at entropien altid vil vokse. Rodet. Energien forsvinder, varmen forsvinder, livet forsvinder -- og alting. Det brandvarme vil fise ud i skiden lunkenhed, de varmeste hjerter og de hedeste kys, og Alt er forgæves! Alt er forgæves! -- for der er ingen anden vej. Vi - som indbo i universet - er døende og vil dø. Det er så sikkert som amen i kirken.

Geoff Nicholson lufter flere gange i løbet af sin bog, "Sex Collectors", den idé, at SAMLERI er en slags protest eller oprør mod entropien. Altså: Mod døden. Tiden spreder, men samleren samler -- velvidende, måske, at projektet er futilt, for det hele vil spredes igen. Alle (bevidste) samlere bekymrer sig om, hvad der skal blive af deres samling(er), når de selv engang er døde.

Jeg er på vej i seng, men sidder og tænker på litteraten Ralph Maud, der har brugt adskillige år på at rekonstruere hele Charles Olsons bibliotek. Og på Henrik, selvfølgelig, som rekonstruerer sit eget. Eller hvordan-man-nu-siger.