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AWAKENING HEALTH Going back to the Canadian filmmakers, clearly they really believed it so I didn’t question it, and then one week later it happened to me. It was an incident that literally changed my life and when it happens to you, you go from intellectual interest in a subject to being confronted with the truth of something, and that was the process I went through. Miriam: What was the incident? Paul: There was a message that I have determined to my mind certainly was from Forry after he died. He was an editor, and he took one of my documents when I was alone in the house, and dropped me a line, it was ink, a line of text. I knew the document had nothing strange about it, and while I was out of the room for a few minutes he blacked out four words with ink that was still moist. He blacked it out in a way that was precise, definite, targeted. You could see that those words were chosen. The fact that it was still moist and even the ink … at that time I didn’t know whether it was ink or paint or solvent or dye, but you could see it was in different levels of blackness. You could read the first two words still but the second two words were completely obliterated and I had to go back to my computer to the original file to see what it was. We never imagined a world with iPhones for example that could do all those things. It’s why science fiction writer Richard Matheson when I interviewed him, he knew Forry and he agreed with my conclusion that Forry was contacting me after he died. travagant predictions have actually become commonplace reality. Paul: That’s absolutely true. Forry Ackerman and his friend the very famous writer Ray Bradbury were saying back in 1930s that man would get to the moon in their lifetime and they were considered nuts, lunatics for actually believing that. Sometimes the people who are into imagination and science fiction, they’re looking into a future they think could exist and they look for the reasons that it could exist. How many things from Star Trek have become true – how about those communicators? We never imagined a world with iPhones for example that could do all those things. It’s why science fiction writer Richard Matheson when I interviewed him, he knew Forry and he agreed with my conclusion that Forry was contacting me after he died. He said, “Forry is correcting himself,” He had determined that he was wrong about that it’s all over like a light bulb going out when the body dies and he’s letting you know. Miriam: I have to admire your tenacity in getting to the root of it, from spectrometry to laser desorption analyses done on the ink, and the scientists are still puzzled. I also noted that the book starts with a sworn and notarized affidavit that it’s all true. It’s intriguing when we look back at science fiction of the past 50 or 75 years, how many of the things that were absolutely wild, over the top, ex- 10 | NEW CONSCIOUSNESS REVIEW He has let me know in so many ways I can scarcely count them. In the book I deal with about 140 different incidents, most of them since 2008, that I do not think can be explained. This is what makes the case such a unique one. I did go to scientists right away, like Dr. Jay Siegel, who is absolutely one of the top forensic chemists in the country; or Dr. John Alison, who spent three years on the problem and has been unable to duplicate or explain the many weird