PSYCHICBABBLE(sm)
by Marcy J. Gordon
New Moon in Gemini 1996 Issue
Random Summer Thoughts
Introduction
Greetings USED KARMA readers! As I write this (on the new Moon in Taurus) I am struck by the realization that the period from new Moon in Taurus through the new Moon in Leo are the longest days of the year. The link between lack of sunlight and depression has been well-documented through studies of residents of mountain valleys and senior citizen homes. Light therapy is widely-used as a palliative for depression in senior citizen homes during the dark winter months. Numerous studies indicate that depressed people respond quite well to light therapy. Therefore, the long days around the summer solstice provide an opportunity to absorb additional spiritual light as our bodies luxuriate in the emotional upliftment resulting from the absorption of increased sunlight.
The Power of the Elements
It is interesting to note that in tropical Jamaica there is a fruit called the Juneapple that only flourishes during the month of June. It has never been successfully cultivated, either outdoors or indoors, in any other month. The Juneapple is extremely sweet and succulent. While pondering this mystery, it occurred to me that perhaps there is a connection between the Juneapple's sweetness and the fact that the longest days of the year occur during the month of its namesake. How does this work?
The Bible instructs us to be awed by the fact that plants grow from seeds:
“For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater.” Isaiah 55:10.
Because most of us live so far from the earth, and so separate from the process of planting and growing our own food, that we tend to lose sight of the amazing ability of the plant kingdom to take sunlight (the fire element) and, with the assistance of water, air and earth (the other elements) turn that sunlight into food. No member of the animal kingdom can do that! Thus the four elements (fire, water, air and earth) enable the plants to sustain the lives of the animals and to preserve the integrity of the earth's crust.
Can it be that the Juneapple's succulence and sweetness is a direct function of the increased sunlight this plant receives during the month of June? Is there something about June's long days that allows the plant to create more sugar? Can it be that the extra light of June is necessary for this fruit to mature? Does the Juneapple react to other planetary bodies, such as the moon (full in Sagittarius during the month of June) and the transits of the planets? My intuitive answers to these questions is a resounding “YES!” Please write to me at the address below and tell me what you think about this hypothesis.
The Evaporation of Privacy in the Censorship Debate
All of us as netizens are no doubt aware of existing and proposed governmental regulation severely limiting our personal privacy. Limitations on personal privacy effectively result in limitations on free speech. Increasingly employers are reserving the right to read employee's e-mail. Some employers have software enabling them to not only track the web sites visited by employees, but to track the amount of information downloaded from those sites. One of the effects of the breakup of AT&T back in the early 80s was to enable U.S. government spy agencies to implement technology enabling them to tap ALL of our telephone lines electronically.
We have got to become aware of how much information about all of us is stored electronically by public and private agencies. If you have a major credit card, there is an enormous amount of your personal information stored by the credit card issuer. Credit information is routinely passed from issuers to credit reporting agencies. The Social Security Information retains a lot of personal information about each of us -- this is why all Americans are required to obtain social security numbers. If you subscribe to magazines or order goods over the telephone (or the Internet) using a credit card, your name and address is routinely sold as part of commercial mailing lists. Information about your buying habits and reading interests is stored, sold and distributed every day.
In the United States, all school children are given batteries of standardized tests in the eighth grade. The Wechsler standard IQ (intelligence quotient) test is given at this time. All of this information is distributed to the federal government. Those individuals scoring above 140 on the Wechsler IQ test are in the top 2% of the intelligence distribution. These people are considered “statistical outliers” because their performance on the Wechsler IQ test is statistically outside the rest of the population distribution. This top 2% is comprised of individuals whom the government classifies as “super-intelligent.”
This information is handed over to the CIA, the NSA and other covert government spy agencies that the public does not yet know about. (However, since Pluto is now in Sagittarius this information will become public at some point during this transit.) Why? Because the super-intelligent people are the ones the government wants to recruit from. The government illegally tracks these people. Since I am one of them, and since I am pyschically sensitive, I am well aware that the government knows where and when I went to school, every place I have ever worked and the dates that I worked there, along with an inventory of the organizations I give money to and my political activities.
Once a government agency determines that an individual is a recruitment candidate, they send an operative after that person to get to know them and make a determination as to whether this person is right for recruitment. I was visited by such an individual from the CIA in the late 70s shortly after I graduated from college. The operative assigned to my case concluded there was no way I would be interested in working for the CIA, as my politics are much too progressive and my disapproval of the illegal conduct routinely undertaken by government spy agencies, especially as directed at U.S. citizens, is all too readily voiced.
In 1985 I conducted some independent research into the FBI. My research protocol was to apply for employment with the FBI. I was in my third year of law school. A notice was posted in the career development office that an FBI recruiter was coming on-campus and anyone could sign up for an interview, so I did. The recruiter informed me that, at that time, the FBI was looking to recruit people in the following four categories: lawyers, women, data processing professionals and veterans. He also told me that the FBI selected applicants based on a point system, and that individuals in any of these categories would receive additional points for membership in the designated classes.
Before entering law school I worked as a computer programmer, technical writer and consultant. I am female and was about to graduate from law school. Since I fell into three of the four special recruitment categories, and since I possess an IQ located squarely within the super-intelligence spectrum, I should have been a shoe-in for a special agent position with the FBI. The recruiter was very excited by my background and recommended me for a second interview in the FBI office in Philadelphia. (Do you suppose he would have received a commission if the feds had hired me?)
I attended the FBI office dog-and-pony show. They told us about the FBI, showed us some promotional videos and administered what they described as “an aptitude test.” There were eight parts to the test. Two of those parts were timed, and the other six parts were untimed. The timed parts consisted of basic reading comprehension. We were asked to read a few paragraphs containing a fact pattern. Then we waited for five minutes. Next we had to answer some questions concerning the fact pattern we had read five minutes before. As a lawyer, I am trained to analyze fact patterns, and to notice and remember details. The other six parts were untimed because they contained standard psychometric instruments used in conventional psychology in this country for years.
As an undergraduate in the 70s I had taken time off from school to do research at a teaching hospital that was an affiliate of Harvard Medical School. Part of my job involved administering standard psychometric tests, coding them and entering the results into a computer. During the fifteen months that I held that job, I coded hundreds of tests. Needless to say, I am well aware of how these tests are scored. In addition, I took these tests for a social psychology course and am acquainted with my own test scores.
When I realized that the untimed portions of the FBI's “aptitude test” consisted of standard psychological testing tools, I realized that I could complete the test to assure that I would be hired. I decided, however, that it would be much more fun (and much more valuable to my research) to simply answers the questions truthfully and see what happened. The result was that I received a letter from the Bureau a few weeks later informing me that I did not score high enough for consideration, but that I could apply for employment again in the future.
It is clear that I was rejected solely on the basis of my scores on the psychometrics. Why? Because I test out as a highly independent, original and deeply moral thinker. I also test very high on sensation-seeking, creativity and empathy. Let's face it people -- the FBI is NOT looking to recruit independent, creative, original thinkers who will act on their own according to their personal moral dictates. The FBI is looking for robots. They are looking for authoritarian types that will follow orders without question. In fact, they are actively looking to recruit individuals with marked criminal tendencies, because deception and duplicity are critical to spy work. Moral people are not good at deception and duplicity.
The truly insane thing about the FBI's recruitment policies is that the FBI is deliberately NOT selecting the smartest and most talented people. This fact is illustrated by some of my own personal experience in being repeatedly investigated by the FBI. The first time the FBI illegally tapped my telephone was in 1981. How did I know my telephone was being tapped? In 1981 the government wiretapping equipment was audible on a telephone line. The technology currently used by the FBI is not audibly detectable. Did the FBI throw the old equipment away? No -- they sold it to countries such as Israel and Nigeria. How do I know? I have friends in these countries, and when I speak to them on the telephone I hear the same clicks I heard on my telephone in 1981.
In 1981 I did some volunteer work for the American Indian movement. We were attempting to publicize illegal conduct by the FBI on an Indian reservation in the Black Hills of North Dakota. In 1992, the entire story was released in a major Hollywood motion picture production called “Thunderheart.” When I saw the movie I was shocked and disturbed that the government had illegally investigated me for trying to publicize the truth about illegal government action.
In 1985, shortly after my initial FBI interview, I was on my way home from school when I noticed a man in the driver's seat and a woman on the passenger side in an illegally parked car right next to the building I lived in. From their body language, I observed that these people were in the process of falling in love. When I tuned into them psychically, this information was confirmed. So there I was walking down the street looking at these people and thinking “Isn't that sweet?” When I got within three feet of the car, the man spotted me in the rear view mirror and then nudged the woman. She hurriedly gathered up her belongings, got out of the car and said “Thanks for the ride. See you in the office tomorrow.”
This struck me as weird. After all, a minute ago they were falling in love and now she suddenly has to leave? Then I noticed the woman entering the building next door. I thought, “That's odd. I know everyone in this neighborhood and I've never seen her before.” I did not give the incident any further thought until three days later, when I came out my front door to see the same people in the same car, parked illegally in the same spot, only now they looked like something out of every cop movie you have ever seen. They were wearing trenchcoats and reading the newspaper. Once again, the man spotted me first, nudged his partner, she hastily gathered up her things and went into the building next door. Then I noticed that the car had U.S. Government plates!
So here the FBI would not hire me, a super-intelligent female lawyer with years of data processing experience, but they hired two people who were so stupid that they were trying to spy on me in an illegally parked car with U.S. Government plates! How inept can you get?
For years I laughed over the idiocy of this incident. Then something happened this week that made me laugh even louder, and provides additional insight into the misguided thinking of our illustrious Bureau. The other night at about 11:30 I looked out my window and saw what, at first glance, appeared to be a homeless person sitting on a bench. I immediately caught a vibe that this person was not homeless, but was in fact an FBI agent, so I got my binoculars for a closer look. Several things were wrong.
First, he was trying to settle himself inside cardboard boxes on a bench. I have seen plenty of homeless people sleeping in cardboard boxes on the street or in a park, and I have seen plenty of homeless people sleeping on benches, but I have never seen a homeless person attempting to sleep in boxes on a bench. In addition, there were too many boxes (real homeless people don't use that many), and all of the boxes were clean (real homeless people often have dirty ones). As I observed him, he was compulsively wiping his nose and arranging plastic bags inside of one another. His behavior didn't feel right. He looked as if he was trying to hard to impersonate a homeless person.
As I was observing him, he looked directly at me. I held his gaze for a few moments and tuned into him psychically. I received a blast of anger and cold hatred (which was understandable, since I had obviously spotted him). Twenty minutes later I looked out the window again. The boxes were now on the ground, and the plastic bags were neatly stacked to the side. Sitting on the bench was an expensive black leather bag that looked very much like a camera bag. The agent was holding a shiny long metal cylinder that looked very much like professional audio surveillance equipment. As a professional musician, I can recognize audio recording equipment when I see it. The agent saw me (he was, after all, holding brand-new recording equipment), gathered up his equipment and ran off, leaving the boxes on the ground. He could have at least had the decency to remove his garbage from a public street!
Naturally, I wanted to know why the feds were spying on me this time. The psychic answer I received beautifully illustrates my thesis on the dysfunctionality of government spy agencies. Here is the story. In December of 1994 I read in the New York Times that a friend of mine had been arrested for international money laundering. I had no idea my friend was involved in these activities. The article said the bust was the result of a three year investigation by the FBI, the Secret Service and the DEA. (My intuitive reaction upon reading this was that the investigation had in fact been occurring for five years, not three.) Therefore, my friend's phone had been tapped for five years, so my phone was tapped, and the government had recorded all of our conversations.
Because I spent five years as a corporate Wall Street lawyer, and because of my friendship with someone the FBI believes to be a criminal, the FBI believes -- logically but incorrectly -- that I was involved in my friend's alleged criminal activities. Yet if anyone from any of the agencies involved had actually listened to the tapes of my conversations with my friend, they would have known right away that I was not involved in any criminal activities. Aside from the fact that I do not know the first thing about laundering money (the subject is not taught in law school), this kind of activity goes against everything I believe in, as is readily apparent to regular readers of this column. Yet the government, funded by our hard-earned tax dollars, has spent a large amount of money in the last two decades spying on me and invading my privacy, with no apparent benefit.
If the government spy agencies had any sense, they would recognize the true nature of my psychic gifts and hire me as a consultant to help them catch real criminals. If they were REALLY good spies, they would read this column regularly and take me up on my offer. And if, by chance, my intuition has erred, I would like to congratulate any government agents reading this column for their intelligence and perspicacity in finally doing some decent investigating. And if, by chance, any of you government agents are “X-Files” types, I will be most happy to donate my psychic services to help you solve real cases involving real crimes and help you catch real criminals. You know where I live. You know my telephone number. You know my e-mail address. Come talk to me!!!
Copyright 1996 Marcy J. Gordon. All rights reserved. The author wants you to know you are free to copy and distribute this article for noncommercial purposes, provided you reproduce it in its entirety and credit the author. For permission to reprint selected portions, please contact the author at mgordon@pipeline.com.