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SUBJECT: THE PHOENIX PROJECT FROM A GENIE FORUM FILE: UFO2501
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PART 4
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Filename: Phoenix4.Thd
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Type : Message Thread
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Author : Trevor Prinn
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Date : 08/03/92
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Desc : Some History on Jack Mathias
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I was quite interested in the Phoenix Project stuff until I read that
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Paranet had obtained it from Jack L Mathias. About a year ago Jack
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appeared in the Issues forum on Compuserve (CIS) with a couple of SF
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stories he had written under the name Jay Lewis, and was claiming to be
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true stories. They told of how he had been abducted by aliens on
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numerous occasions and had eventually been informed by them that he was
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himself an alien implanted into a human body and was, in reality, the
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husband (or something) of one of his abductors. He was trying to get
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them published as fiction but I didn't think he was likely to succeed.
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In subsequent messages in the forum he mentioned things like having
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broken into an underground alien base and getting into a (gun?) fight
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with the greys who occupied it. He also claimed to have been taught
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some mind control and ESP techniques by the friendly aliens from the SF
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stories. The first of these I recognised from an early novel by AE Van
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Vogt and when I asked him if it was called the cortical thalamic pause
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he confirmed it enthusiastically and near enough asked me which aliens
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had taught it to me. When I told him where it came from he replied that
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he had never read any Van Vogt, and that that author must therefore
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have had some alien contact similar to his own. I didn't believe the
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first part of that because I had already noted that the Jay Lewis
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stories showed some stylistic similarities to Van Vogt. I thought of
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writing to Van Vogt to get his opinion about the second part but
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decided that it would probably just annoy him.
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Later Jack posted some information about a further technique he had
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been taught that enabled him to carry out telekinesis. This also looked
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rather familiar and an hour spent poking around my quite extensive SF
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collection turned up Jack of Eagles by James Blish. Not only did this
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describe exactly the same thing in some detail but Blish also made a
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deliberate mistake when quoting the Blackett equation (a formulation of
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Heisenburg indeterminacy), which Jack had witlessly copied. I don't
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know if it was significant but both of these SF books were inspired by
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Count Korzybski's exposition of General Semantics, Science and Sanity.
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I posted a reply that included a reference to a scene in Jack of Eagles
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so that Jack could, if he wished, continue our game without letting on
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to the other forum participants, but he didn't reply and posted no
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further messages in the forum. Not long after that money trouble forced
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me to reduce my CIS usage to just a mailbox and distribution point for
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my shareware business so I didn't know that he had returned with more
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of this stuff. By coincidence, I intended to rejoin the Issues forum in
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a week or two anyway, so I hope he is still there peddling this Phoenix
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stuff - he gave me a few good laughs last time around.
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(Sorry if that was a bit long but you know how it is when you are
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assigning someone's character.)
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Trev Prinn
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