Reality Checking—Alternate Perceptions Magazine, April 2023
Can we tame the Poltergeist?
The Evolution of Psychic Awareness following Anomalous Encounters
by: Brent Raynes
In Timothy Green Beckley’s UFO Review magazine back in 1983 there was an interview that he had done with Harold Sherman, a highly respected figure in the field of parapsychology and the founder of the internationally respected ESP Research Associates Foundation out of Little Rock, Arkansas. In this interview, Sherman shared with Beckley details about a UFO contactee that he had met who was able to produce impressive psychic feats.
“There is a remarkable woman who came to visit me in the Ozark Mountains,” he stated. “Her name is Greta Woodrew. She has written a book, On A Slide of Light. She has been possessed by an alien civilization. Gretta can do anything Uri Geller can do. She was with us for a few days. At one point, she went to sit down at the dining room table and all the silverware began to jump and bend. She waved her hands to break the magnetic lines of force and said that since she has been in contact with these higher beings, she has been walking around with a magnetic field. If she isn’t careful, it affects the objects she comes in contact with. We have sterling silver spoons that are all doubled up, which she didn’t even touch with her hands. She took three spoons of equal size, piled them on top of each other and said, “I’m going to tell one of them to shrink. The middle spoon shrank before our eyes.”
Photo of spoon that Greta Woodrew PK bent for Lindy Tucker in restaurant. Photo credit: Lindy Tucker
Photo of Greta Woodrew (right) and Lindy Tucker (left) at Greta’s home back in the mid-1980s. Photo credit: Lindy Tucker
“Greta and I had 35 years of friendship after meeting her at a global meditation at the home of medical doctor and parapsychologist Andrija Puharich back in August of 1977,” long time paranormal researcher Lindy Tucker just shared with me. “It was a gathering of unusual people he had found with certain gifts that he called ‘space kids.’ It was the first meditation of its kind to create a cohesive beacon of light to the heavens to show our concern for the earth. Greta was an added bonus to our group of twenty-four, with her humor, her husband and her family. There was great excitement in the air.”
“Shortly after introductions and some meditations, she and her husband Dick, came to visit me and my husband in our motorhome located on Andrija's property. Within minutes of chatting, Greta became animated and started talking to us about incredible things. We were a bit flummoxed and taken aback, and her husband Dick was just as surprised and told us we were meeting Zeoker, a botanist from another planet. (I had previously grown a 75-pound cabbage in my garden and had a green thumb, of which she/he had no idea, so I listened intently.) I found out later I was the first person outside of their family to meet one of her alternate personalities, which created a casual and lifelong bond. As Greta and I walked back to the house cajoling, she passed her fingers in front of my nose and gave me a blast of ‘pine essence’ from Zeoker.”
“I could barely believe the magic of it.”
“Several days later as we all went to North Carolina for further meditations, Greta was playing with a spoon outside the kitchen while we waited for dinner, and she bent it in front of me....her first spoon! She gave it to me, and I observed her bending another large soup spoon she had just put her hand over without touching it one day during lunch in a very fancy restaurant, encouraging me to put it in my purse for healing when I got back home. I remember I was hesitant to steal the spoon! LOL. I still have it!
“There were many unusual things her family had to adjust to. A year later, we met at her brother's house in Miami and Greta was chuckling because her brother Sandy got to witness her metal bending powers. There, over at the fireplace, were Sandy's cast iron poker and shovel all twisted up. Of course, we laughed and laughed. It was all pretty amazing.”
“Several years after this my husband and I were thinking of having a family, but wondered if we should, with all the earth changes coming. Greta wrote and encouraged us, saying all we needed was LOVE, and that everything would be allright, so when our daughter Summer was born, Greta wanted to be her Godmother, and continued in that role until her passing back in 2010, never forgetting her birthday and showering her with gifts.” “As fellow Sagittarians, we never forgot each other’s birthdays either.”
“Greta was just one of the many unusual people I have met in my long journey here on earth. She was a mentor and a friend, sharing love and laughter on a much higher plane.”
Anyone wishing to learn more about Lindy’s work, experiences and remarkable journey in this field should visit her website: http://www.beepingufos.com/
I learned from Dr. Jacques Vallee how he was summoned on a confidential basis to study some of the early remote viewers who came to play significant roles in the Stanford Research Institute’s psychic studies as researchers were discovering that a high number of them claimed UFO sightings, and so naturally there was some interest in bringing Vallee in on this as he was a noted scientist who was deeply involved in the study of the UFO phenomenon. Two of the most well-known psychics in the program then, who claimed some pretty extraordinary UFO experiences, were Ingo Swann and Uri Geller.
Author Jim Jensen personally knew Uri Geller and was extremely impressed with his abilities and was skeptical when he was told that there was a Brazilian psychic who could potentially outperform Geller’s abilities. That psychic was named Thomas Green Morton. He made two separate investigative trips to Brazil to meet him in person and was indeed astonished by his abilities.
Here is a YouTube interview I did with Jim telling about his encounters with the Brazilian psychic, who also displayed several artifacts that were affected by psychokinesis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SoojOHzyKE&list=UUnMHdGp7l2aPiS913fc79Mw&index=17
Denise Uchoa Slater, the granddaughter of the famous Brazilian Military General Alfredo Moacyr Uchoa, an acclaimed parapsychologist and UFO investigator, also had extraordinary personal experiences along with family members with this psychic, included in an article I wrote in the February 2022 issue of this magazine: https://www.apmagazine.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1798&Itemid=53
But let’s not sell Uri Geller short. Not in the least. Clinical psychologist and parapsychologist Jeffrey Mishlove, Ph.D., shared with me extraordinary things he and others had witnessed in Uri’s presence. “There were many occasions on which I witnessed rings, forks, and spoons being bent. One of the most interesting things that Uri did on occasion, certainly many times, he would ask somebody, ‘Give me a bean sprout.’ He’d hold it in his hand and you could watch that bean sprout right in front of your eyes, as if time was being accelerated right in the palm of his hand, and on one occasion, I had a good friend, Brent, Saul-Paul Sirag, who was a physicist and a writer, and he was with Uri in New York and he wanted to surprise Uri. He gave Uri a bean sprout rather than a bean and told Uri ‘Make the time run backwards,’ and Uri closed his hand over the bean sprout and when he opened it up it was a whole bean instead of a sprout.” Jeffrey wonders if the most powerful psychic/alien contact experiencer known to us today may have been a man named Ted Owens, who he researched and investigated quite extensively. I wrote an article on Ted Owens in the April 2022 issue and even interviewed Jeffrey about Ted Owens for the July 2022 issue: https://www.apmagazine.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1862&Itemid=53
Jeffrey Mishlove reminds us that “when a psychic event takes place, such as a poltergeist outbreak, we often automatically blame it on some outside agency instead of realizing our own complicity.” I am reminded of the Excluded Middle’s Greg Bishop’s perspective that where a lot of anomalous phenomena is concerned we may well be psychic “co-creators.” Tennessee Ufologist Angela Sheer, who took hemisync training at the Monroe Institute, would periodically tell me that we’re more powerful than we think. Some years ago, a Kenneth Batcheldor, head of the psychology clinic at a hospital near London, England, stated that many people involved in these psychic situations suffer from “ownership resistance.” In author Lyall Watson’s Lifetide (1979) he went into Batchelder’s work and conclusions, explaining how with an Ouija board it takes two to play it, or how in a séance setting too the participants will tend to blame one of the other participants rather than take responsibility for their own possible involvement.
“One of the best ways around this, Batcheldor found, was a technique he calls ‘artifact induction,’” Watson wrote. “Without the knowledge of the other members in the group, he deliberately and secretly moves the table himself by ordinary muscular force. This gets the others excited, ready to believe in what is happening, and soon, ‘The phenomena, at first superimposed on artifacts, gradually strengthen until they are clearly paranormal.’ In the end, he and his group were able to levitate heavy tables and even a piano without touching them at all.”
“As the group grew more adept, other unintended phenomena began to intrude. Small foreign objects began to fall out of nowhere like classical ‘apports.’ One stone four inches in diameter was sent to a London museum for analysis and never heard of again. Batcheldor got a bewildered note from museum officials saying the rock had disappeared.”
We may argue however that perhaps there is an independent psychic entity/intelligence that doesn’t necessarily want us to be able to easily identify its role in energizing and directing such manifestations. It’s been suggested by a number of researchers in the past that in some of these anomalous experiences an intelligence presents experiences that have some conformity to our cultural, social and spiritual beliefs and backgrounds, making such episodes easier for us to accept. Of course, as with Batcheldor’s “artifact induction” concept it might only require a bit of a nudge of our neural circuits for such an outside agency to operate along both objective and subjective lines and indeed “co-create.”
Quite some years back, I read a book that explained how to do psychometry, the psychic art of holding an object that belongs or belonged to someone else and try getting impressions about them or the object. I seemed to get fairly good at it. A number of people were impressed. However, I wasn’t quite sure and comfortable with doing it. These impressions would just pop into my head and it was a psychological struggle to tell a genuine psychic impression from just my own imagination. One night, I was visiting with a group of people who I had given such readings (by that point I had seemingly advanced from needing to hold an object to just being in the presence of a person or site to give a read). On this particular night I felt compelled to try and prove to myself that this was for real. So I blurted out an outrageous sounding prediction, stating how at a specific time that night, if we went to a specific nearby location, we’d see a UFO. Well, myself and two others did just that, or, that is, we observed an odd, rather anomalous light phenomenon. It was a shaft of white light rising up into the air from behind trees in a distance. But unlike an ordinary light beam, where it’s instantly there, this rose up gradually. Then it would stop, and then move up a little further and stop. It did this several times, and then after striking a low-level cloud cover it began soon to reverse direction downwards, again stopping at points and then continuing, eventually disappearing from sight behind the trees. We observed this happen again, more than once.
Later, one of these people was with me standing in the driveway of my parents’ home. This person was going on about how one lady of the group was very highly impressed with my readings. I think it might have been with a chuckle that I said something like, “Look, I can’t just cause something to happen though like this,” suddenly pointing my forefinger off in the distance – where suddenly at that very moment there was a bright flash. We quickly piled into my car and I drove over to this location, to discover that a tree limb had fallen through an electrical line. I was like, “Look, a logical explanation.” My friend though was like, “But why did it happen at the precise moment you pointed right in its direction?”
I realized then I wasn’t going to win this argument.
It does seem as though certain groups of people with similar likes and interests come together and have a compatible chemistry, so to speak, where these paranormal and synchronistic phenomena seem more fluid. Certain locations too, what Keel called “windows,” may play a role also. Perhaps due to the presence of geomagnetic anomalies? In addition, the unique psychic make-up of certain individuals may increase the odds of anomalous manifestations. A heightened exchange between both right and left hemispheres of the brain, which may result in an increase in the size of the corpus callosum, and when in a deep altered state of consciousness, perhaps mediumistic, hypnotic, or whatever, they may exhibit increased psychic, intuitive awareness, as well as an unexpected change from their normal psychomotor behaviors. For example, the subject may switch temporarily from their normal right handedness to left handedness while in these altered states. Other odd things may also be noticed.
In early November 1976, a lady subject in southern Ohio who along with her husband had not only seen UFOs in the area, but she claimed to have observed a tall silver-suited humanoid figure that would periodically materialize in her home, wanted me to try giving her a psychic reading one day. Up to this point, her experiences seemed fairly positive it seemed. She wanted me to see if I could project ahead into the future to see what sort of events might be awaiting her there. Within a very short time she was telling me how her living room had about ten energy beings standing around in it. Human like outlines composed of energy, she said. I was sitting on a divan and according to the lady, one of the energy beings was standing behind me, partially in the wall! During this time, she felt a tingling sensation at the top of her head, that she has associated with the presence of UFO activity before.
I predicted that on February 6th she would find her mental functions changing, not like her own, rather like something computer generated. Later, in a phone conversation on February 8th, she told me that there had been a UFO sighting in Bethel, about 45 miles away, on February 6th. Then she said, “I’ve had really strange feelings since Sunday about it. They’re almost very apprehensive and frightening. It’s really weird.” Then she added, “I talked to the police down there and they said that they’ve had cattle missing and horses in the last few months.”
I had predicted interdimensional type activity and she described objects around the house disappearing or reappearing in another part of the home. Also flashes of light which she had seen before, but hadn’t seen in a while, had also begun reoccurring again as I had predicted. However, other events I’d predicted, like a formation of seven UFOs flying over her city that upcoming summer or an encounter with a ball of light releasing silvery threads, I never got word that those predictions had possibly come to pass.
Though I didn’t see her energy beings, which some might see as a reason for easy dismissal of her claims, the parapsychological literature on apparitions often contains this feature. The psychologist Carl Jung also called such events “psychoid,” and recalled an experience he had where four people were seeing a moon shaped orb hovering over the abdomen of a medium, while try as they might, they were unable to get Dr. Jung to see it. He felt that this kind of phenomenon probably happened in UFO cases too, which we now know they do, though for years Dr. J. Allen Hynek and others didn’t think so. In some instances, it seems as though a person from a different perspective doesn’t see a certain apparition or UFO maybe that someone else sees because one perspective is producing visible light and another may be producing perhaps invisible infrared or ultraviolet light. However, in some instances I strongly suspect the answer is even more complex and is in some way bypassing the usual optical route of perception, as in say an induced visionary kind of “seeing.”
Trying to connect all the dots between physics and consciousness and all of the anomalies that arise along the way is a massive challenge for the anomalous research community. There are so many differing beliefs that clash with one another.
