| Karen was the name of the reception person, who sat | | | | researcher. I later ran in to a book of his at an account |
| behind the desk one Saturday morning around noon | | | | in Laguna Beach, but that was in another lifetime |
| when I dropped in. I had never heard about them and | | | | almost twenty years later. Karen explained that the |
| was actually planning to find the J.B. Rhine Institute or | | | | black cat was helpful in guiding Blue back from his |
| the Federation for Research on the Nature of Man | | | | travels. She was a few years older than me and a |
| (FRNM). I had stumbled in to the 'mother lode'. It wasn't | | | | handsome woman with lots of strength who acted as |
| necessary to come to these places to look for their | | | | if I was a bit of a nuisance at first. We talked, and it |
| literature or research. I could have found more than | | | | was clear she needed to impress me. I knew that |
| enough of that at the Association for Research and | | | | wouldn't be the act of someone who wasn't interested |
| Enlightenment library in Va. Beach. I wanted to | | | | in me. Still the moment didn't seem right that day to ask |
| experience these things first hand.Karen Getsla turned | | | | her out; and I listened and encouraged her to tell me all |
| out to be much more than a receptionist. There was a | | | | about herself. Needless to say I was quite impressed. |
| person in what had been the front living room in this | | | | She told me that she had worked on the FRNM |
| quaint converted house under the magnolias. He was | | | | project to communicate with the submarines below |
| on a bed and there was a cat and recorder in the | | | | radio contact range. I had read about this as one of |
| room. Karen explained it was Blue Harary, the most | | | | the better proofs of parapsychology and ESP. Still it |
| effective astral or OOBE (Out of Body Experience) | | | | wasn't the 100% proof that nay-sayers needed. |