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This morning I opened the latest issue of the New Scientist and found myself reading that a SECOND universe is apparently out there beyond our own. I have to admit that I was, quite simply, knocked speechless. This is because, when I was talking to the Master of the Key, he said that there were universes beyond our own. However, at the time, I rejected his statement as obviously incorrect, and changed the subject.

There was, in 1998, not the slightest indication anywhere in physics or cosmology that there could be other physical universes. So when he said, “There are more galaxies in your universe than there are stars in your galaxy, and more universes in the firmament than there are galaxies in your universe,” (P.67) I listened politely and changed the subject.
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Last week, Dennis Kucinich nearly ruined his presidential candidacy by admitting during the last Democratic debate that he had not only seen a UFO but been moved by the experience. Jimmy Carter then reiterated his often-stated comment that he does not know what he saw in 1969?that it was a moving light. The U.S. media reacted to Kucinich?s statement, intentionally elicited by Tim Russert, in the same way that the debate audience reacted?with chuckles. Kucinich courageously expanded on his previous comments at Drexel University, again eliciting laughter.

Kucinich was extraordinarily brave, but his admission not only of what he had seen but what he had felt–the visitors reaching to his mind–has marginalized him even further.
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Well, it finally happened. For the first time since becoming host of Dreamland in 1999, I have had a fight with a guest on the air. As you know, I cultivate a very special approach to my guests. In order to draw them out and make them feel at home, I’m unreservedly enthusiastic about their ideas. I keep my own beliefs to myself.

The result is that I’m sometimes attacked by listeners who think that my efforts to encourage my guests are an endorsement of their assertions. But I figure that’s a small price to pay for being virtually the only large interview program out there where guests are actively drawn out so that listeners get to hear their real beliefs–often, things that they literally never say elsewhere.
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Since writing this journal, I have been astonished to find that many people are taking it to indicate that I believed that the White House would be destroyed by a nuclear weapon over the weekend of August 18-19. How anyone could read something so ludicrous into my words I cannot imagine. But I would like to add this to the journal, from a posting that I made on my message board today, August 22, on one of the threads that contains this misunderstanding.

I wrote:

“I am completely at a loss to understand why people think that my journal on this subject was predicting that the White House would be nuked last weekend. Where did I say that? What I did say was, “And I would hardly be surprised to find that nothing particularly extraordinary happens next weekend.”read more