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~ 6 HHr 16 First Word F^M Explorations Paul ^K By Prudhomme By Kevin McKinney , If we are what nti Imagine racing we eat, expect to be healthy ^^ across the Sahara, on loot, all and exotic in the your supplies strapped next century, This world- to your back, lor seven days. ski jr^ y " / ~^__ famous Cajun Wouldn't you wanl chef sets the menu for a therapist on your trail? the year 2000. 22 8 Artificial Intelligence Omnibus By Fred Hapgood The Who's Who Experts at MIT are gaining of contributing aulhors. ground in theAl 10 race— their rodents have a great sense of direction. Communicalions Readers' writes. 26 12 Mind By Judith Hooper Forum Jgr MPW^^^ Before you go By NinaGuccione in for your annual brain So you had a lune-up, find out dream lhat came Irue. How ^v jusl what contraptions do you prove it, are available and who is going to lo excite your neurons. believe you? W±' 30 14 Space Stars On the cover: Entitled Dreams By Steve Nadis By Frederik Pohl Between Stations, this acrylic painting by Superconductors may power The space probe Allanla's Rick Lovetl depicls future trains on that wouldn't die. We a "dream image not unlike nighlmares we've Earih. bul for Alvin Marks's haven't heard all had al one lime or another." vision, we'll need the last from Voyager 2. Lovell's conscious dream: "for the human superconductors to drive Pluto may hand to always have a his frain and make news yet, place in the arts over ihe computer." colled the tickels.
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I elsewhere $2B one year SlngK onnrui 33 80 Continuum Interview Folks don't believe in gnosis By Dava Sobel until they encounter Computer guru Alan Kay one; Mars may have already shares his dreams of been colonized; what—and why—we know unscrambling the mystery of a dinosaur egg; 89 baboons who make monkeys Antimatter out of human flirters. The Soviet search for E.T.'s, mind-expanding 42 muesli, and other tales Life Is But a Dream from the far side. By Keith Harary and Pamela Weintraub 102 Close your eyes Earth and well lead you to a higher By Douglas Starr plane — discover your A lone ranger rides again. healer within, draw on the Why would anyone wisdom of your internal take on the Italians single- therapist, or simply relax in handedly just to mental Utopias. protect a national park? 54 118 Fiction: Man's Best Friends Games "Egg and Chips" By Scot Morris By Thomas M. Disch The IRS lakes action due to Separated at birth — the story a magician's trick; a ol a mechanical teddy quiz puts your mind in gear. bear and his childhood friend. "Leviathan" 120 By Gregory Benford Video Scans Visiting with mom is often By BobLindslrom unpleasant, especially The Genesis of video games aboard a spacecraft. is rewriting the "Lucky" history made by Nintendo. By Tom Dworelzky A space bum and a feline Pictorial Twilight Zones 124 cross paths. Who By Sandy Fritz By Jayne Gackenbach Star Tech ends up in the catbird seat? Each taxpayer laid out and Jane Bosveld By Jennifer Gilliland "Mod Dogs™" about $2.40 for Working out in our dreams Future housewares. By Edward Bryant Voyager's journey; 118,000 is the only exercise In this biting tale, photos later, scientists some of us get. Yet today's 128
the underdog has its day. are calling it a real bargain. athletes rely on this Last Word
"Faded Roses" But was it worth rest period to supplement By Russell Jones By Karen Joy Fowler the trip just to count moons their training by Waste not. What could become of the and lind out that reshaping [heir minds and want not. Tasteful gorillas in our midst? our weather isn't so bad? bodies —you can, too. recipes for the family pet.
THE OMNI BOOK OF DREAMS
Edited by Tom Dworelzky. "The Sleep File," by Joni Miller: Next time you dream ol plunging to your death or soaring high above a lorest, grab lor your Omni collection of symbols. "Midnight Express." by Bob Berger; A bus trek across the country reveals some unexpected nighttime stories. "Celebrity Vision." by Judy Feldman; Jules Feifler and other notables give us a glimpse of their sleep psyches. .
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has boon an astounding phenomenon ano Other ailments.. Americans instead :
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leehninues irom tho creation oi cholesterol levels low Recently intro- .. ;;
: advanced machinery :.o the cross- duced products lhal. contain reduced fat,y breeding, or hybridizing, ot crops. The Such as some chooses and yogu; ts old cannery has become a showplaee are be com ng more popular with health- .'.here science and computerization conscious consumers. The demand have created new way; to package arc for fooos thai contain low levels ol preserve edible delicacies. Despite sodium is also increasing, and high- the developments iin harvesting, fiber ipo-ds such as oa: bran ano whole-
. . . = !., : -. ! i production, transportation, storage, and <-,,;i b i are cooking, however, our' conception ol less nutritious Goods sold in markets
food Is only now beginning to change. Needless to. say not everyone will
Our attitude toward food is strongly change overnight. 3y the year 2000 large rooted within the diversity of our cultural segments oi our popuiaiion will, cut of
' iraoition. sii-i eating backgrounds, As achef, I cherish -my convenience and be links to the Caiun cooking of my child- high-calorie, high-fa" foods. The hood, the rich culinary heritage oi New percentage of sensible eaters, however, Orleans. The traditions established will continue to prow, reiiecting a within the school of culinary art are also national Irond toward consuming FIRST heid in high regard Dy its pupils. Each nourishing rood h combination with chef, however. Is responsible lor sustaining physical fitness. expanding the tradition and enriching We are aiso moving away irom ihe UUDRD his or her cuisine with new ideas. net In the decade to come, a profound iunk foods Wide ml:: 'By Paul Prudhomrn©- change in mankind's cultural approach and quick-i.o-propare foods wil. continue to food will occur. In iaol, the signs o' ro serve out need tc save t.me and imAs science explores the change-are already present. The infof- pu-'sue active life-styles, in ihe next ^complex relationship between mi s begun to play oecade we wil : focus more on a die! lhal a role In shaping- a consumer whose Ihe nutrition and the: faslss are not limited by geography. technology for preparing roods within a human process, we will corner Consider the super market: Until very few recently, produce shelves stocked only imc id for to a new appreciation of Items familiar. qualify nuirition will increase at . that were simple and and an
,,'! vita! ''.:,, i [: fti the connection between Within the past few years, however, we eve i rose: .'develop what we eat and a ;an explosion o! the men! of high energy, high-fiber foods exotic: kiwis mangoes, Posh ginger; seed with multiple vitamins ro give healthy,, productive life-style.^ i'.' :." romatfilos, and diakon Ten years from fie : p i ed lye an exh i boos now these 'terns will be as common will, each mea: Some oi lliese loods in ihe n Larks' as apples and cucumbers- are already available. are how.. During the years to come, as science
today's consumer can turn onfhs. •• explores -he complex and life-sus ! a;n- .television and see the world, but tomor- ing reiaiionsfiip Delween nutrition and trie
rows consume' will want to taste 'tie I loa new
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!ii the process. Chefs will sample freely tic sense. irom the cuisine ol :ho world, seeking Wherever too Innovators may lake us.
'i new taste combinations and drawing itis " iop- i oy anc :'.! inspiration freely from a variety of cultures. ii ig to = I-
The rise oi the oho! esieio I -conscious ration of loco will conth me lo bo an consumer has aiso begun \o cut across important pa:- ol our society Wherever
:;! :;---p-nen:s of the population. Market- and whenever we gather at the table, ing health roods has already become a we reaffirm our bond with ihe world
booming business, and this -rend will as >.'. Hi' oneot ilsok.ti l nun escalals in the next century as Ihe most cherished rituals-. DO public continues to demand food products that please bui: don't poison '..,., ; '. ii ' ' ,71; .;,;'' ;;,
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l.icid inter makes '' diificuH to ooca™;; and turned around to of short pet tales, Thomas Disch, I ^\ I
1 confront ! M 1 I abandon our dreams, drag the villain," says the coauthor ot also authored Little Toast- | The Brave •rf »» ourselves out of bed. and Control Your Dreams (Harper & Row). er (Doubleday) and other works.
return to trie reality of daily routines. Oh. "I screamed, 'I know this is a dream, so Cats have also played a part in earlier
to skip the whole season and not get out ol here. Just go!' Then every- Omn: f ciion. George Aloe Effmger's
awaken until spring! But since human thing dissolved, and I was in a kind "Schrodinger's Kitten" (September 1988) hibernation is not yet possible, we of gray consciousness." has been awarded both the Hugo thought a brief midday visit to dreamland For the special insert "The Omni (by science-liction fans at the 1989 world would at least revitalize us. Book ol Dreams," Judy Feldman convention in Boston) and the Nebula In our pursuit of dream adventures, contacted a number of celebrities and (bestowed by the Scionce F-ction Writers Omnrsenior editor Pamela Weintraub asked them to share their dreams with us. of America). "Effinger was long overdue served as our guru. She and psycholo- Several declined, reluctant to submit for the honors," says Omni fiction ectc gist Keith Harary explore the subject their somnolent thoughts to public Ellen Datlow, adding that the piece in Lucid Dreams in 30 Days: The Creative scrutiny. But Alan King, Tony Randall, mixes a lucid description of physics with Sleep Program (St. Martin's Press). For and others did divulge sleeping secrets. creative narrative. an excerpt from that book ("Life Is And comedian Jackie Mason wrote Another expert melder ot fact and But a Dream," page 42). Weintraub drew back, "I have this recurring nightmare fiction, Frederih Pohl, is the author on her experiences as a Brooklyn that every time Omni has a question of Chernobyl (Bantam), a fictionalized
teenager commuting to a high school in about a certa n subject. I get a telephone account. of the Soviet nuclear reactor the Bronx. "During the hour-long call for my opinion and I have to give accident. Perhaps his next novel will subway rides, Ihe of the train jokes rhythm them my best for nothing. Then I concern Voyager 2 s trip through our solar lull into would me a dreamlike state," she notice another thing: After I get this system, which he recounts in this I'd says. "But keep a hold on conscious- call, I always try to fall back to sleep to month's Stars column (page 14).
ness. if Sleeping would have been see I can dream that they do pay Voyager owes much of its success to
dangerous." At the lime she didn't realize me. But I never have such-luck and I advanced computer technology. Writer she was entering the altered state of always wake up in a cold sweat." Dava Sobei, however, was searching for waking dreams. Today Lucid Dreams is Omni associate editor Tom Dwor&tzky a computer that met her persona needs part of her and Harary's "New Age who edited our "Book of Dreams," In this endeavor, she found artificial thirty-day series" of books'. Future c'a:ms no can never rerno Tiber his intelligence expert Alan Kay (Interview, installments will cover higher conscious- dreams, Yet he does admit that a recur- page 80) "extremely accessible and ness and erotic sensitivity. ring career involved dream becoming char'-- nc, ' dc-sp;e h s fcmidable sched- "Lucid dreaming doesn't come the first nonaction Omni editor to pubfisfi ule. He even took the time to show Sobei naturally to me," says former Omni senior a short story in the magazine. And in how to use the Macintosh more effectively. editor Jane Bosveld ("The Twilight his story "Lucky" ("Man's Best Friends," Coauthor of " Arthritis: What Works (St. Zones," page 74). But after Bosveld fell page 54), Dworetzky immortalizes an Martin's), Sobei was so impressed by the asleep night, character one a entered unlikely muse— his cat, Rocky. compi.j'e' s capabilities lh-.r she went "1 her dream and wanted to kill her. Another contributor to our collection out and purchased herown.DQ a OMNI GULLWING: LIGHT YEARS AHEAD OF ITS TIME
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Worldly Concerns machine. Machines are to help man, not Thank you for allowing UNICEF's the other way around. This man Lawrence Bruce to raise the issue of scares me to death! child survival in the Third World [First Roberta Cicardo Word, August 1989] In the absence ot Canandaigua, NY famine or other global catastrophes, we quickly forget or never realize that A Less Than Artful Analogy 40,000 children are dying each day Congratulations on your comprehensive from preventable causes. Thoughtful article introducing readers to the citizens with a planetary vision must pull new developmental discipline of prenatal our government into the forefront of learning ["Preschool?" August 1989]. helping lo eliminate the worst aspects of The early brain analogy Anthony De- poverty. One organization committed Casper draws, however, is incomplete.
to this is RESULTS (Responsibility for [DeCasper compares the brain to a Ending Starvation Using Legislation, statue that is sculpted by removing bits
Trimtabbing, and Support), 236 Massa- of. marble.] If forming neural structure chusetts Avenue, NE, Suite 110, in the fetus can accurately be compared
Washington, DC 20002; (202) 543-9340. to an inorganic statue, it would Stephen Falk be impossible to tell when the artwork Atlanta becomes a masterpiece. The brain can be specially nourished throughout amplified perform- I was elated to see your magazine gestation to ensure publish an article on hunger. It's truly ance throughout life. In this metaphoric time for humanity to become aware of sense, prelearning transforms nature's this huge and devastating problem. otherwise clumsy chisel into an instru-
Ending hunger is a real possibility, and I ment of consummate art. salute you for publishing Bruce's Brent Logan, Ph.D. First Word. Keep up the good work of Director, Prenatal Learning Institute educating the public. Snohomish, WA Carol Willman Richmond, Ml Would You Like to See My Etchings?
I enjoyed your Etch A Sketch feature in Robophobia the August 1989 issue [Games]. Intrigu-
Your interview with Hans Moravec ing as the screenwork was, I was most [August 1989] terrified me with the mad interested in the statement "Collectors roads science may be careening down. have paid up to $300 to hang these
If the future ol man lies in the works on their waifs." Correct me if I'm blasphemy of the most basic natural wrong, but wouldn't hanging them
laws, I'm sure I would not like to be alive be the last thing you'd want to do (and
to see it. The thought of having my the last thing you'd be able to do)?
brain "stripped" into a computer is not Ken Mitchell ADMINISTRATION "neat" but an atrocity. Aurora, CO Martin West East Lansing, Ml Mixed Signals In an otherwise correct and interesting
I just finished reading the interview with article on the Ground Wave Emergency
Hans Moravec. and it left me greatly Network (GWEN) in the August issue
disturbed. I couldn't help but wonder ["Doomsday Radio," Continuum], you what happens to the human equation in have one glaring error. The frequencies iy.Greiperiflesef.-: all of this — simple things like love and the new system uses are between
feelings. While I wouldn't mind a few 150 and 175 kilohertz, not megahertz.
improvements on my biological body, I Dale Unger have no desire whatsoever to become a BaltimoreOO MAKING A PROPHET FORunn
ir in the 1 live es have | climbed through a small opening in consisted of precne Stud any during sleep' a previous telepathic experiences? Ullman: Well, we did a number ol studies on dream teiepathy [in which a person
who is awake tries to send a visual picture to an individual who is sleeping], and there most of our subjects were just volunteers. Our experiments with precognition were done with a "sensitive.' who had had experiences of that type before. Omni: Do you believe precognitive dreams are a natural event? Ullman: They've been reported by human beings down ihrough the ages,
mace Omni: Wh; but I don't think they're terribly common. ally oc< precogniti' Omni: Are they rosily centered on 9 The vis Ullman: I c tragic or dramatic themes Ullman: Not necessarily. J. B. Priestley cofceioc a g'eat many reooned dreams from a radio broadcast over the BBC, and he came to the conclusion that and recorded a a precognitive dream could be focused (Abraham Linci on either the terrible' or the trivial. He naiion in a drea wrote a book on it called Man and Time. Omni: Do these dreams tend to target people who are close to the dreamer? Ullman: Most of the reported ones tend to have that quality, yes.
Omni: Is any group more susceptible?
Ullman: I don't know if we can say that won" en a'e nice receptive than men. Perhaps they are just more
: of co 'ic ccrco c was r. precognitive? interested or allected by this type
Dr. Montague Ullman. founder of the dreaming And I haven't had, or heard dream laboratory at V-a n- crudes Medical of. much experience with children, Center in Brook yn eelnes a precogrii- egular dreams are stored in tive dream as one lha! "predicls future -': "'emory. Is this typical of evenis that" one could have no way of litive ones? knowing about through ordinary Any dream with intense feeling channels cf ;-- .n:a* ci a'id where to stick, and precognitive the future events are significant often have that quality. Some- or strange enough :ha: thoy may not l.'- remember trivia: a 'earns commonly cccc in a cream.'' The especially just before awakening, anc-cco:e would not nave been consid- at to keep that dream in mind, ered a true precoqnTve cream had an you teacn yocself to have the woman heard tornado or storm warn' net cic i'" 1 "'P 1 "I'd" 1 "r r [omacoos Jlli-iyr'.: >w ol any way, but you -.-',„• were a scat'" .; -ra: area can train yourself to have a better recall Ullman a clinical researcher, psychia-. of dreams by making an effort to retain trist, and author of three books, began them. And having an interest in dreams conducting research in this Held in - and keeping a dream journal will help the Sixties, In his dream lab, experiments ycu recognize 'eoet i ve symbols. DO .
THE GREATEST SHOW OFF EARTH
By Frederik Pohl
The nicest thing about Pasadena eyes and, for the first time, gazed around had been dull (they never have been!), isn't the Bowl. It's Rose a at the surface of Mars; and later still I just to be present at JPL is a delight.
science campus up in the foot- watched Voyager thread the rings and Excitement is in the air. I'm not referring hills called the Jet Propulsion Labora- the satellite systems of Jupiter and to the oxygen—nitrogen mixture we all tory (JPL), where a tew thousand space Saturn and peer down into their stormy breathe to stay alive (though high above
researchers and related types clouds. I didn't make it to every one the fumes of the LA freeways, even reachoutandtouch someone— or some- of these world (or worlds) premieres. I that is mountain clean and sparkly). What thing— to of anywhere up a couple wasn't that smart. Foolishly, I skipped the I'm talking about is the electrified billion miles away. pictures flyby When come Uranus in 1986 because I had ambience that surrounds the Jet Propul- in from American spacecraft flying some other business to attend to and sion Laboratory when new extraterres- by, or landing on, sometimes another also because I had a cynical feeling that trial data are flooding in and hundreds of planet, JPL is the place where the signals this particular planetary photo opportu- the best scientific minds in the world are turned into something nity decoded and would be rather-dull. Of course I are dancing from one foot to the other, the human eye can admire, and turned out to be wrong about that. as excited as any mundane visitor as
in I we were there August to watch the should have known better. There is they try to puzzle out what they all mean. Neptune pictures come in. nothing dull about knowledge, and What do they all mean? Do we learn It wasn't my first trip to JPL. I've made some of the most interesting bits of new anything from the exploration of space the pilgrimage to Pasadena seven or knowledge the human race ever that will help balance our busted federal eight times over the past quarter century. receives come from places where the budget, end poverty, or get crack out The initial visit was to catch the first wise guys (like me) think there's nothing of our junior highs? Is there any practical American glimpses of the nearby cloud new to be learned at all. Just to be use for all this stuff from space? cover of Venus (that one was a bit of there on the scene as a picture from an Well, there is, of course. The research a letdown because the Russians had alien world builds up on the screen, that has gone into the space program one-upped us by sending their Venera pixel by pixel and line by line, and to know has produced, more or less by accident, to the planet just a few days before). that the pictures you are seeing have any number of technological gadgets
Then I went to see what the Viking never been seen by any human eye that have made life easier for many lander saw when it its opened photooptic before is intoxicating. Even if the pictures of us and saved life for some. But that's not the point. That isn't the reason we go into space. We can't look there for the things that
will save us from our own follies. If we lift our eyes a moment, we can see that the most valuable commodity humanity can ever have is in space research and indeed in every last kind ol scientific
research. It is the priceless gift called knowledge. Knowledge isn't "worth" anything in dollars and cents, but in the
long run it is knowledge—all kinds of scientific knowledge—that gives us the only hope we have of learning to deal with the vast realities of the universe.
There was sadness amid all the joy in Pasadena because Neptune was the end of ihe line. In years to come some of those planets will be revisited. Orbiting telescopes will give us wonderful new views of the universe. But never again in our lifetimes are we likely to have the
chance to see close up, for the first time,
a planet that has been shrouded in
mystery since the dawn of history. . . Bye-bye, birdie. V.'i'r. ;hc s/";o^ planetary voyeurs- can hope tor a piggyback fc Or maybe not. Pluto's still there, M OMNI CONTINUEDONPAGE72 DESERT SON EXPLORMTOfUS By Kevin McKinney
^% I hen Moses led his people In the morning, before the official start, Temperatures exceeded 100", and
I I oul of Egypt, not every the contestants endured speeches by vegetation became scarce as the terrain [ «v w Hebrew followed him. Many organization leaders and Moroccan turned to fossil-strewn fields and dried stayed behind because they were officials; flashed their smiles for photog- mud flats during the 18-mile stage afraid to go into the desert, beyond raphers and television crewmen; and that commenced the following morning. familiar territory. Standing on the edge responded to French, Moroccan, Having completed three quarters of of the Sahara, at the base of Morocco's Japanese, and American journalists, the distance, American runner Lahory
if Atlas Mountains, I understood their who fired questions as they were war Brummel sighted the campsite "floating fear of the lifeless, waterless plain, a correspondents. Like ancient warriors above a shimmering lake of blue water." merciless sun beating down on a sea of being sent into battle, the anxious runners Three hours after experiencing the
sand. I, however, was a follower not of charged forward in groups of 40, each mirage, she reached her destination.
a latter-day Moses but of 170 runners battalion signaled by a 15-gun Late that night, I wandered away from and hikers who had each paid roughly ceremonial salute from white-robed the campsite. Except for the wind, £1,400 to test themselves in these Moroccans. A retinue of 130 organizers, lightly dusting everything with sand, and harsh environs. Taking part in the fourth doctors, tent raisers, and staff cooks the gargling noises of an insomniac annual Marathon des Sables during set out in Land Rovers. Whirling above camel, all was silent. In the light of the the last week of March, they were deter- them, a helicopter kept track of the full moon, the desert resembled a mined lo trek 125 miles in six stages troops, while a hot-air balloon oversaw photographic negative: the sky a dark
of varying length. And they would do it their progress. And two camels and grayish blue; the ridge of mountains while backpacking food, clothing, and their riders brought up the rear, prepared in the distance a dark silver-gray; and a bedding—the barest essentials required to collect the fallen. single palm tree a black monolith at for survival. The organizers stress the The massive caravan crossed 15 the end of light gray sand. Feeling like ordeal as "a collective adventure of miles of relatively easy terrain dotted with the sole living being on an alien planet, I
individual commitmenis in search of both boulders and thornbushes. That night, wallowed in the solitude and addressed athletic exploit and self-knowledge," spirits remained high as two doctors my thoughts to some being somewhere in "surpassing physical and psychological with the medical staff serenaded the the star-studded universe spread out
limits," and breaking away from "city camp with a saxophone and trumpet. above me. As a child, I learned that "God" habils to attain nomadic autonomy." was out there, protecting me. But My own Saharan sojourn began as coping with daily routines and life's
Royal Air Maroc flight number 204 upsets, I no longer felt the sense of landed in Marrakech. Disembarking, the security God supposedly provides. passengers proceeded across the Anonymous powers seem to govern landing field to the terminal. There armed our lives. Most of us view ourselves soldiers stood guard, taunting me with in light of external factors: work, relation- an image of my own embattled personal ships, rush-hour traffic, bills. "People life and the endless string of crises I are always saying they're early or they're sought to escape. late for an appointment, putting the The first night, as we camped outside emphasis on the appointment, on time," the small Atlas village of Foum-Zguid, says Italian psychoanalyst Edmond the temperature dropped to 40", and my Deckmyn, a marathon official. "The hands numbed from the cold. The last emphasis is always on someone or real meal the runners would eat for something else." In the desert, where a week, dinner was a free-for-all, the there is no sense of temporal or spatial quick and ravenous assaulting the food. dimensions, "your point of reference
I didn't starve, but my hunger was far must become yourself." from satisfied. And to make matters Deckmyn uses the desert as a "thera- worse, there seemed to be no room in peutic tool" and has taken patients to the tents for me. The organizers seemed Tunisia, where they've been forced unconcerned, telling me I'd find space to confront themselves in the desert. somewhere. I did, finally, but I wasn't One patient, a recovering drug addict, happy about everyone's attitude. On my accompanied him during the marathon
return to the States, I was sure, I'd have and reluctantly helped at the campsite. little positive to report. I was wrong. Saharan sojourn: Adrift in a sea of sand. Unable lo cope with the torment of 16 OMNI wheezing and imp eg runners, the sand. Making :i across "he obstacle Throughout the night tow people patient withdrew into herself. course soon became ess of an incon- slept. The Land Rovers drove back and Deckmyn didn't take his patient venience and more like a game. During forth between control stations. Runners because she was a diligent worker. "Not stage three, when we reached the 30- arrived at fhe campsite holding one everyone in therapy wants to be there foot sand dunes and our driver had another up. We anxously awailed friends or acknowledges that he or she needs it," to detour, I opted to walk through them. left behind on the course, catching
Deckmyn says. "You have to create As I lingered in the giant sandbox, them when they appeared and fell into the demand for it." And that's what he ihi' 1 gosling wine; suddenly oior/.l. ceasing our arms. The last runner arrived roughly hoped to achieve during the Marathon its sa'idb.asnig. In the ensuing silence 24 hours after the start of stage four. Sables. ottered patient des He the I could hear my heart beating and Halfway througn the 26 miles of stage little emotional support, leaving rushing her to the blood :hrough my veins. I five, I abandoned the. Land Rover and lind her own way in the alien environment. had never been so inilmale with myself. continued on foot with University of When she asked to accompany the Then, the air filled with the low moaning Turin anthropologist Alberto Salza, who relay vehicle to Zagora, where the of the docloi's saxophone emanating accompanied the runners as an marathon would end. Deckmyn from the control station on the far side of observer. As we aooroached the gorge expressed little concern. "She had no the dunes. The solemnity of the moment cutting through the Bani Mountains, limitations when she used drugs and impnnted on my soul, it seemed as he pointed to a boulder. "Pick up a rock didn't have to deal with those limitations though God was within me. I had become and place it on top with the others,"
she really had," he says. It wasn't the one with the universe. he told me. Betorc enter ng the gorge, runners but herself that the patient was After the experience of the sand he said, nomaoic traders would stop confronting on this trip. dunes, the fourth stage seemed even here and pray for a safe journey, leaving Having to rely on yourself is irighlen ng crueler. The 43-mile course teased their stone offerings on the altar. lor most people. "Without the order of [lie exhausted "unrcrs with a ;rue casis. Later, in the gorge, we rested at a daily life, behavior can deconstruct, Feel now sport rg blisters and more man-made formation of Hal rocks allowing you the opportunity to recon- assembled in a semicircle. As runners struct it," says Deckmyn. who noticed a stumbleti pasl we picne-tec on driod marked change in a French teenager antelope meat, round Moroccan bread, running in the marathon for the second cheese, and iig-l avored water. And year in a row. "Last year, he was antiso- when we finally reached the end and ^As I lingered in cial, quarrelsome," Deckmyn recalls. "He climbed out of the gorge, we gazed had difficulty making luends." This the giant sandbox, the gusting across the endless plain that stretched year, the youth and a companion, his out before us. In its midst lay wind died, ^ceasing the final social worker, returned with a team night's campsite, the bivouacs appearing of troubled leens from dysfunctional its sandblasting. And in the as specxs on alien terrain.
families. Now a congenial leader, the Again, it was n gnttail be-orc all Ihe . 'ensuing silence, gregarious acc'osce-il aided his runners reached the camps le where it as though teammates and others. seemed God was Deckmyn s pal ent eagerly assisted Although race originator Patrick Bauer within me, and I them. She didn't know what had drawn is quick to point out that "it's not a her back from Zagora. Now she was one with the universe.^ even rehabilitation center," the Marathon des wished she'd run in the marathon. Sables is designed to force everyone And on the seventh cay the runners to rely on themselves ohysically and hobbled toward Zagora. Filthy cloth- psychologically. To discourage runners ing oinging lo [heir battered bodies, from focusing their attention on the looking more ike beggars Irian athletes, finish line, for example, the organizers than a low bai.Ks chafed raw by their l.'iey crossed the i'nsh line singing,
don't indicate distance on the trail packs, the troops still faced miles of holding hands dancing. Wilh tra- : and
markers. Nor do they assign or identify rocks and gravel, yet more dunes, and ditional Moroccan fanfare, the vil- the bivouacs. Everyone must find 125". his temperatures as high as Less lage's greeted Ihe -iau dogs as if they own place. "The race is either a catalyst than halfway Ihrough the course, the were modern cay Israelites completing for something else or it's useless," meqicai tea 1 " rescued a semiconscious their long exodus. Bauer says. "You can't have the same Ihirty-nine-year-old French competitor. The marathon, which had begun on anxieties alter something like this. You'll The he'icopter a.'l Itee him to Zagora, Palm Sunday, the anniversary of Christ's never worry, about the same things." where he rege neel consciousness triumphant entry into Jerusalem, ended In January 1984 Bauer planned and before returning home. One of the front- on the eve of Easter Sunday. Being executed a 12-day survival run across runners, out of water and nearly deliri- in the desert during the Christian Holy nearly 300 miles of the Algerian desert. ous, wandered off the course. remarkably A few Week seemed appropriate. I Following him, his brother and a friend other runners suh'eroc sprained ankles thought of Christ wandering in the recorded the. experience. Friends back and other minor injuries. "Sometimes desert and wrestling with Satan. I, too. home in Troves. Franco, responded I'd stop and look around me and listen had come face-to-face with my own enthusiastically film lo to the and mounted the siience of the desert, the silence of devil, and rose above it. the first Marathon des Sfib.es, with God," American runner Brummel The marathon's organizers I suspool. only 23 participants, in 1986, Since then, comments. "I tried not to think about intentionally put me through the same marathon veterans have encouraged the finish line. I've been disappointed psychological ordeal as the runners and relatives, friends, and I acquaintances so many times, and knew I would walkers. Perhaps that's why. just before throughout France to fry it. eventually it." The number reach I ueparied Zagora. Deckmyn asked, of entrants multiplied quickly into an Near dusk the moon rose above the "Do you now unoei"s:and Tic myth of the increasingly broad spectrum of people eastern horizon, as huge and bright desert?" At the time I didn't even under- from around the world. as the sun setting in the west, Opposite stand the question.
NO longer able to bear the closeness eacl i other, the two celestial bodies Months later, no longer overcome by of the Land Rover, I began riding atop novcrcd ai exactly rising the same distance ihe 'icie of external forces, I can it, occasionally cirno.ng down lo help from the edge of the earth, mirroring control the iloodwaiers. my sou. having the pushwhen Rover got trapped in each other as if they were twin suns. captured the spirit of the Sahara.DO 18 OMNI BUILDING A BETTER MOUSE ARTIFICIAL inJTELLIEEfUCE By Fred Hapgood
ave Otten has been building feet in area, outside the building, and my Otten heard that the then-champion
robot mice since the fall of hosts told me that the streets outside Japanese employed stepper motors, 1985. Even so, he's unprepared were packed with spectators. The which use coils to create alternating for people's reactions. "What're they emcees were professional TV personali- electromagnetic fields that drive the rotor good for? Why are you really doing this?" ties like Vanna White. Dignitaries around. At LEES he was working with
they ask. "Say it's for fun, people think handed out the awards." Of the 200 the more advanced DC power systems.
it's a pathetic waste ot talent," he says. entries, the Japanese had 190. The other DC motors have brushes, not coils, "Mention anything aboui national pride, ten, all from Europe, finished last. that spin the. rotor continuously, providing then they really think you're crazy." Although Otten missed this meet, at smoother power control. We should
At our feet lay a black rnal area press time he was planning to make it to get involved, Otten thought. approximately 100 feet square. White the next World Championships, slated Over Ihe winter of 1986 the mouse walls topped with red reflecting tape to take place last month in Singapore. team at LEES, given $2,000 by the MIT divided the area into corridors about Otten, a burly man in his mid-thirties dean's office, spent 30 to 40 hours a seven inches wide and a hair less than with thinning blond hair, blue eyes, a week on the project. The work turned out two inches high. From time to time snub nose, and a raspy voice, has to be more demanding than anyone someone would place small, squat moved quickly through the ranks and is had anticipated. vehicles—the size of bricks— in one now giving the top-rated Japanese Having better motors was only one corner, and these would begin to thread designers a run for their money. Part of aspect of building a winning micromouse. their way to the center. Each "mouse" his edge comes Irom his job. A research "The important thing wasn't this or that had two L-shaped rods extending scientist at MIT's Laboratory tor Electro- factor but rather working down the several inches in front and ofl to one magnetic and Electronic Systems (LEES), entire list and maxing it all hang together," side. They looked like the offspring of a he is involved in, among other projects, says Otten. "Integration is the key thing." roller skate and a calculator. designing ihe next generation of electri- Designing the actual maze-solving The mice moved through the maze cal motors. In fact, his familiarity with computet logic, lor example, was not with two gaits: a slow, stately, and this subject prompted him to enter too difficult. The point of the race was to
precisely rendered step-and-pause ! arena. Back in 1985 find the center of the maze. The mice rhylhm and a dragster mode, racing for could remember every step that they took half a corridor length and then coasting n their electronic memory, then simply through the other half. Losing traction retrace their route, if they ran into a and spinning out, they repeatedly dead end, and try again. impaled themselves on maze posts or Otten's greatest challenge: designing whacked walls— but kept trying. For a system able to comprehend and machines they showed a lot of heart. control the actual physical movements There may be practical applications of the mice. The creatures scurry over for the skills these athletes hone on countless microbumps, cracks, and their mat. Maze solving is a step toward holes, over surfaces with tiny tilts or the development of automated land steps— or tilts and steps. A machine vehicles, lor example. But Otten's goal negotiating such surface imperfections isn't utilitarian; he just wants to win is constantly nudged off course. If a first prize at the dozen or so contests maze runner doesn't detect those where "micromice" compete to solve a deviations, analyze them, and correct its maze in the shortest time. Such compe- course within a fraction of a second, titions, from London to Singapore, have it will crash into the walls, losing time a committed following. Recalls Bell and risking serious disorientation. Labs' Susan Rosenbaum, a judge for There was no easy way to accomplish the 1985 World Championships in this task. If you tried to use bigger,
Tsukuba, Japan, "When it came time to heavier computers to increase a mouse's take my seat, uniformed helpers carry- capacity for information analysis, you ing the Stars-and Stripes escorted had to use larger batteries and motors: me into a large theater. A band played • The mouse grew too big and clumsy the American anthem. Sony had hung and would slow up. Moreover, the mice a huge TV screen, hundreds of square Robots Una theif own way. had lo fit into a regulation-size maze. 22 OMNI RM3E 126 —
DUND-AND-LIGHT WAR! nniruD
By Judith Hooper
Mou don't want to mix this stuff your eye at a frequency of, say. eight lors. lechnologi/ec; New Agers. and with alcohol and go into atered cycles per second, or hertz (Hz), Lsalenizcd engineers 'idols wijh fre-
States," cautions David Siever. your brain wu automatically 'escnaie quencies in the' casements and come the Edmonton. Alberta, inventor of the at the same frequency. A fash rate up with odd devices. They speak of DAVID (Digital Audiovisual Integralion of 8 (o 12 Hz will produce alpha brain inner peace hemispheric synchroniza- Devics). He then tells me about a waves, associated with a slate ol re- tion, and cycles per second. They country-and-western band that wanted laxed alertness. (Our hyper everyday seem to intimate an ideal man ax-: o' to purchase one of his machines as a "beta" consc ousness ot f'eeway driv- Eastern metaphysics and Western tech-
parly gimmick. 'They were going- to ing and leveraged buyouts, is 13 Hz nopower. a psycho-Utopia in which the
put it on the table next to Ihe beer keg. and above.) I! you want to go deeper, average American family can plug it- We explained that when people go into a dreamlike theta state, in which self info a brain machine before settling
r into deep hypnoi'c s:s:os lncy' o very long-buried memories may float to- the down lo Married Wiln Children. Some
suggestion, and if they hear lyrics surface, you ad us! "he frequency to in the field believe those oaydream like,- you know, 'My baby left me/woe 4 to 8 Hz. Below 4 -Hz you hit delta machines are the wave of the future
is me'' it could be dangerous." waves—sleep. high-tech meditation, do-it-yourself psy-
The banc: evidently decided not to "VVe live in a society that keeps us in chotherapy, a quick fix lor civili-
"mix frequenc es of sound and light a beta state a fen: or f icjh: condition, zation's discontents. with Budweiser and Tammy Wynette, and we weren't meant to be in this The three rriajor-appliance-si2e but more and mo'o people have been stale all day long." opines Siever. The sound-and-!icih: machines—the Syn- moditying their brains w.rf syoenrc father of ihe Synctiro-Energizor, Ohio chro-Erie rgizer, Ihe DAVID, and the nized sound-and-light machines, as inventor Denis Gorges, adds, "People Inner Quest Pro I—accommodate multi- Ihey're known in Ihe trade. These need to get high How e-se do we get oe users, whose — acn'nes art: ai
ai-erec- states machines are often. seen altered slales :ha: i mo rove the brain ougged in :c one operator controlled
as "Nautilus equipment for the brain," instead o- ccbi'n.ating it?" unit. If you own one of the small, porta- and in some large cities connoisseurs The field has some of the frontier ble models—Ihe Relaxman, Inner flock strap ear- feeling of 2 lo "mind gyms" to on the personal-computer busi- Quest, MindsEye, MC , or DAVID Jr.— " in i.lic- phones and funny goggles that plug in ness m:d-8«venlies. I one invSn- you can tune your brain to 10 lo 15 to a central control panel. As New automated programs (with trequencies Age music, tones, and a heartbeat are designed for relaxation sleep, piped into the. users' ears and an meditation, pain relief, subliminal learn- e eci'omagnetic field surrounds their ing, or mus.c apprecialion) right in heads, small lights' in the goggles your own living room. These Walkman-
: flicker at different rates. This is .ike un:ts provde most ot no features o to prompt the users' brains to put on a the big units, except for an electro-
full-color light show: intricate man- magnetic field. And it's all legal.
dalas, spiderwebs, moire patterns, and Up till now tnose oov cos have been spinning constellations. It's Fillmore West for the Nineties,
Yet there is trouble in sound-and- light land. To stay in business, rhese machines may require Food and ;' device" tgot •ough Drug Administration (FDA) approval— carelu iy oouiic ec clinical tna s bc'o'o
and they may not get it. A lot is being marketed. This is known as pre- riding on whether or not they are med- ma-ke; approval and its expensive
ical devices. and time-consuming. The queslion is. The machines run ".he gamut from Are :hese "achircs medical devices 9 ? the $350. portable, Walkman-size MC That depends to a large extent on to the $69,000 lnrius:.r ial-slrength what inventors and manufacturers say Synchro-En ergizer, which serves a about them. And some have said roomful of users. and 'ecu 'es an opera- r.Lcaous things. These magic ma- tor at its power-planllike control panel. chines are claimed to synchronize the
All work on the same principle: entrain-' right and left hemispheres of the ment. If someone flashes a light in .'' ?•.'.' ' -jOggia- F:i:rro'6 I'Vfev' >: "-is N^mqi brain rreat sross and -ea:ed disor- 26 OMNI — —
RAILWAY TO HEAVEN
By Steve Nadis
nee upon a lime, men flew to advances in a variety of areas—from and within a year the pair had worked the moon in a 20,000-pound heat shielding to tunneling technology out their train and tunnel design. shell fired from a 900- foot- long before the train ever leaves the ground. Marks proposes such a long lunnel to cannon. That was a flight of fancy And the project may cost as much meet the first requirement lor a system not fact— recounted in the 1865 Jules as $5 trillion. "The concept might be thai transports living beings to space: Verne classic From the Earth to the considered science fiction today, but The ride won't kill them. The miles of track Moon. But Verne may have been on to today's science fiction may become will enable the craft to build up speed something, according toAlvin Marks, a tomorrow's reality," says Peter Diamandis, slowly enough to hold acceleration physicist, inventor (with 117 patents a Marks collaborator and one of the to eight g's or less —a level of force the to his credit), and energy consultant to founders of the International Space human body has tolerated in past the late President John F Kennedy. University, a graduate-level summer space ventures. Marks now proposes (and has program headquartered in Boston (see Besides g forces, Ihe space train palented) a modern-day variation on Space, November 1987). BuzzAldrin, laces another hurdle: In order to hit the Verne's cannonball express, dubbed the arguably ihe best space scientist among 25.000-mile-per-hour speed needed
space train, that could revolutionize he Apollo astronauts (he holds an to break free of Earth's gravity, it must travel into orbit. This mammoth 3,000- MIT Ph.D. in astronautics), puts the avoid friction. To solve this problem, ton craft would use electrical power project in perspective, however: "There the tunnel would be a near vacuum and to accelerate through a 1,000-kilometer- are many questions about electromag- the vehicle itself magnetically levitated
long underground tunnel, pick up netic launchers [such as the train], so that it rides above, not on, its rails. The speed smoothly, then hit a gentle three- which have to be answered before tunnel would also play a vital role in degree rise and fly into space. Present thinking of putting humans into one." helping the craft reach its extraordinary plans call tor the train to be a 200-yard- The space train system first took velocity. A series of electric coils
long, flexible cylinder with cone-shaped shape in response to the Challenger surrounding its walls would turn it into ends—to minimize atmospheric drag. disaster. The shuttle's tragic explosion an enormous mass driver. Switching This fantastic idea poses daunting convinced Marks of the need for an these on directly in front of the train would design challenges, however. Research- alternative to present rocket propulsion create a magnetic field that would ers will have to make significant systems. He teamed up with Diamandis, propel the vehicle forward. Such rapid acceleration, however, would pose another problem. The speeding train would leave the near vacuum of the tunnel and ram into the normal atmosphere with explosive force, causing a rapid deceleration as risky to passengers as extreme acceler- ation. To_ prevent such a fatal "crash," the last 100 kilometers of the tunnel
would gradually fill with air so thatthe
train would leave its tracks and lift off in
lull atmospheric pressure. Even with
this "braking period" it's estimated the train's entire one-way trip to space would take just 40 seconds. Such a fast ride would generate considerable heat on the craft's skin, requiring new and advanced heat shielding. The train could bring the price of a space trip down to as little as $20 a pound—$3,000 for a 150-pound person. Marks believes that the potential benefits of such a transport system would far outweigh the considerable
investment it would require. "The space
r .''.'« .' l, Little train that could: The iron horsa oiMiaccj up West' . ;.v 'Jo rhc same 'or the stars. train would provide mankind with a 30 OMNI conjTiruuunn
THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE MIND
and ghost stories came in out of the forests with the ^P^b terrible plague of evil angels" beset New England Ghosts from the forest. Puritan Industrial Revolution. In W. W. Jacobs's classic tale "The Mon- M^^^L when it was- first carved trom the grave m^^^\- witch-hunler Coiton Malhsr suspected thai "dae- key's Paw," the son who does.or does not return in machinery Modern notions of psy- m' » mons" were taking the shape of innocent per- has been crushed factory between the "real" and the "make- sons n laie-night "spectral exhibitions." In the Irish countryside, chology played up the tension Perkins Giiman's 1892 story "The Yellow the poet William Butler Yeats saw the eerily lighted shape of a believe," as in Charlotte ghostly-figure not be moving man walking on a river late at night and knew that "no human Wallpaper," in which a mayor may undergoing a ner- footstep was so speedy." behind the patterned wallpaper of a woman For most of .our human history the wilderness surrounded us vous breakdown. ghost stories have, existed through the ages. and concealed in its-shadows and lonely corners mysteries far "Ghosts and every society," says o!der than we ourselves. What might roam such places at night and they are present in. every culture and affiliated with York's Wash- our ancestors couldn't say, and (he unknown was all around: Lester Golden, a psychologist New 'They deal with central questions about Seemingly' healthy people fell sick, and villages were swept ington Square Institute. director of movies such as with sudden epidemics and hysteria. Tales of ghosts and witches human existence." John Carpenter, important question and shape shifters were not only believable; they were- agoniz- Halloween and The Fag, agrees: "The most is to us after death. We ingly immediate, told in whispers. each of us has to answer what happens there is experi- don't want to accept it as finality. Ghosts are proof that li is surprisingly easy to get back in touch with this spirit inside that survives death. It's a great wish." ence. If you have ever swapped ghost stories around a camp a of per- . and ghost stories really just symbols fire, you know how every- rustling of leaves or breath ol wind But are ghosts the Freudian sense, projections of vvishiful 1h nk- can come alive with its own primitive suggestion. Scanning the sonal uneasein Georgia College be- perimeter of firelight from your sleeping bag. you'd like to qui- ing? Parapsychologist William Roll of West Says Roll, "What we are really dealing etly do obeisance in the words of the Cowardly Lion; "I do be- lieves it goes further. with are natural expressions of human nature. It's our restricted lieve in- spooks. 1 do, I da believe." from our Of course, we- don't believe. ghost stories— not really. In a view of personality that excludes these phenomena Roll's opinion, the mind possesses powers such world of electric light, we feel free to ignore Shadowy thirigs. worldview." In (the ability to affect objects over distance) Our scientists collect rock samples from the moon and detect . as psychokinesis science. It is these viruses under microscopes, and we have become impatient that fall outside the paradigms of mainstream ghostly manifestailons. with the notion of the unseen or the "unexplainabje." Yet some- little-explored powers that account for on whether ghosts how the supernatural continues to fascinate. Moviegoers line Among the living there is ho consensus manifestations ot unconscious tears, hid- up for the fourth sequel to Nightmare on Elm Street and horror and ghost stories are Great Each author Stephen King has sold nearly 100 million books. den mental powers, or emissaries fromthe Beyond. terms with such pri- Ghost stories- were probably told by our earliest ancestors culture and each individual must come to pride ourselves on knowing a great and emerge in our earliest literature, often in a religious context. vate thoughts: Though we because they re- Jesus rose from the dead, of course, and a spirit "light as a deal about our world, ghost stories grip us questions unresolved. rustling breeze" appears in the Book ol Job. The Talmud issues mind us that the greatest go with the stars the warning "Never greet a stranger in the night, for he may be "Here we stand on this giant, rolling planet it's mystery," says Carpen- a demon." There are ghosts in the Odyssey, in Petronius, in going by overhead, and just a total here, happens next? Myihs help us Chaucer, and in Shakespeare. Henry James wrote ghost sto- ter. "Why are we and what Dracula the rituals of destroying ries and so did Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thomas Mann, Isak Di- cope. Dracula and killing and NALLEY nesen, and Edith Wharton. evil—they teach us faith and hope."—RICHARD "
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The Schmidts, however, at Harley Street in London. used the seeds they had For 20 years Carruthers been given and began a cru- has studied hormone levels in sade to save the Gilfeather. hundreds of men and women They irademarked the name placed in stressful situations. to avoid the possibility of a He found that as stress black market lor the seeds they now sell. for a dollar
a packet. "Our main concern anxiety, was first produced. . was to preserve the mystique But when his research sub- of fhe Gilfeather. We didn't jects began to feel in control want something unique to of their situation, .norepineph-
Vermont io lose its- identity, rine, a hormone associated
Mary Lou Schmidt says. with pleasure, kicked in. Curiously, the Gilfeather, "Highly successful women which is best mixed into more norepinephrine
mashed potatoes after boil- than Ie ing, takes up to 90 days explains C .Thi io mature, as opposed to 50 in turn, makes stressful days for a conventional situations pleasurable, lead- turnip. Its only other short- ing women down what Car- coming is that many people ruthers callsihe "chemical find its leaves are too coarse pathway to pleasure. They and heavy to be eaten. become norepinephrine —George Nobbe junkies looking, for ways to turn on." Carruthers's research has j included several members
ol Parliament. "I hasten to' add
I have not examined Prime "When you have eliminated Minister Thatcher's hormone
the impossible, whatever levels." he says, "but I'd remains, however improbable, certain!'./ iove to look at what's must be the truth." going on in her." —Arthur Conan Doyle -Sherry Baker
neighbor gave Mary Lou and SUPERWQMAN Bill Schmidt a small jar of HORMONE Gilfeather seeds, a strain, de- Few things gladden a veloped by one John Gil- Women leaders such as Vermonter's heart like the feather at the turn of the Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto and mild, sweet taste of the twentieth century.. So secre- Great Britain's Margaret Knobby, hairy Gilfeather lur- tive was crusty old John Thatcher may have. a biologi- id from ..extinction that he was wont to cut off cal advantage over other irticultural sleuthing the tops and bottoms of females who are trying to imerston, Vermont, his sweet-tasting turnips so reach the top. of the political tioare.credited that no one else could propa- heap. Successful women irnip circles with rescuing gate them. The Gilfeathers secrete larger-than-normal the only vegetable—with were well-known locally, but amounts- of a hormone that the possible exception of after John died in 1944, makes stress a pleasurable mgued lettuce—indig- everyone thought the secret experience, says Malcolm the state. el his turnip had been buried Carruthers, medical director lan ten years ago a with him. of'lrie Positive Health Cente'r "
ELECTRONIC same-car. Bui the primary CAR KEYS purpose of all this wizardry is
tothwart car thieves: The .
An electronic sysiem insldfi' device will not prevent the car
a car key, developed by 'rorf- being hot-wired, but it GTE Corporation of Waltham, will defeat the bulk of profes- Massachusetts, uses an sional auto thieves, who acoustic wave system that, in use skeleton keys.
a sense, talks lo your car .in "it would be almost impos-
so personal a' fashion that it sible for anyone to duplicate can foil even the most "so- an electronic key," says phislicated car thief Whidden, who contends the- The-system consists of two- GTE system is superior to coupling coils, one on Ihose ol competitors because the .•las-ring -wheel column, "it's a passive system: You the Other embedded in don't have to do anything the molded plastic head. of electrical, so. it's more reli- the ignition key. Once' you able." The company is nego-
turn the key in the ignition, an liai-ng with several carmak- electronic module emits an ers and has yet io decide inaudible high-frequency whether to offer its.system radio-signal to which the key with only- a lew sets of key must respond wlthasecond codes or to produce millions
signal II the follow-up signal. of blanks that could be
i'- correct, Ihe module tells programmed at dealerships your car's central computer to as each new car is sold. slarl Ihe engine. —George Nobbe GTE new product develop- ment manager Skip Whidden "I would give up pari ol my BABOON SWOON more monlhs of platonic says that when the system lifetime for the sake of friendship might ensue before is installed, probably on 1991 knowing what is the average ' The animal kingdom- may the female finally became cars, the company will make barometer reading in offer a tip for men on the sexually receptive. (Baboons keys that send just. slightly prowl: Breast beating is an can male many limes in different signals to permit dif- —Georg Christoph ineffective way to attract the- middle of their 40-day ferent drivers- to use the Lichtenberg a mate. So observes Shirley cycle.) Furthermore, says Strum, an anthropologist Strum, this friendship pre- and author of the book Almost ceded mating as much as 89 Human, which chronicles percent of !he lime, while her 15-year residency in only 25 percent of the time Kenya, where she lived with did males who wooed with -. a troop of olive baboons. aggressive behavior actually Sifum watched 41 adult win their females. and 39 adolescent male And what is the final con- baboons as they went about clusion? "Male friendly per- the business of mating. sistence may outweigh In most cases, she reports, female resistance in ba- males spent weeks, some- boons." What these baboons times even months., courting may be telling man is that their female heartthrobs long-term friendship suc- before the females finally ' ceeds in seducing females
started to respond. Even . far more frequently than does then, Strum'says, six to eight aggression. — Bill Lawren caruTiruuunn
THE DINOSAUR THAT Colorado in Boulder and reptiles, he says, when the' THE BRIGHT SIDE OF NEVER WAS one of the world's leading mothers have been under- ANGEL DUST experts on fossil eggshells. nourished or interrupted dur- Amid the thousands of examined Hall's discovery. ing the egg-laying process. In the Sixties and Seventies
(ossil bones that litter a vast The shell's strange configu- "We assume that the the animal tranquilizer phen- dinosaur graveyard in -Utah's ration helped him sketch mother got stuck in a swamp cycliCiine — better known' died. also or angel dust- Cleveland-Lloyd Quarry, a a scenario of the way in which and The egg had . as PCP single egg lay undisturbed for both egg and mother met been busted in two," he gained notoriety as one of millions of years. When their end. explains. "The. egg probably the more-dangerous "recre- Brigham Young University The shell's secret? Two broke inside her oviduct." ational" drugs Although it paleontologist Dee Hall distinct layers rather than just The identity of the- egg's gave users a transitory high, found the egg, he told a col- one. "This suggests that mother will never be known, it could also produce ex- league, his heart stopped: the mother was disturbed the as her fossilized bones lie tremely violent behavior. But
As it turned out, Hall had first time she tried to lay' the with hundreds of other bones now a scientist atthe Univer- picked up the oldest dinosaur egg." Hirsch explains, "so in the quarry.—Cava Sobe! siiyciMichgan believes egg unearthed in the North- she kept it in her body, where ern Hemisphere, dating back a second shell was depos- "Things do not turnup in this 145 million years. ited around the original shell." world uniess someone turns Karl Hirsch, a museum Multiple shell layers have them up." associate at the University of been found in some modern —James A. Garfield Edward Domino explains that some emergency room tack or
PCP can block the same ion- channel receptors as glu- tamic acid, thus preventing damaging effects. The problem, says Domino, is that PCP is an unpredict- able drug. He and his col- leagues are now doing com- puter. analyses of the molecular structure or PCP in
hopes of- building what he calls a "designer derivative, an ideal molecule": one that will prevent glutamic- acid-caused brain damage without producing any of its- own.— Bill Lawren
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life forms from Earth may the form of spores, or bacteria. have begun colonizing Mars. The meteorite's outer shell This scenario is being con- could have shielded the sidered by ateam of plane- organisms from space radia- tary scientists from the Uni- tion: then when the earth versity of Arizona, based rocks smashed info Ihe Mar- on the finding of meteorites tian surface, they would in Antarctica suspected 1o be have broken up' and freed oi Martian origin. the organisms. Scientists Jay Melosh, Al that time, adds Melosh, Brian Tonks. and Steven Fin- when water freely flowed may have across the Martian surface, trade the.exported life forms may the reel have survived. "If we ever jints but that find life on Mars," says Me- ^ears ago. meteor- Ipsh, "we can compare
ites bombarded the earth. I! its genetic material wiih life during this time, the scientists on Earth. Hit's similar, then we into Ihe forcing hypothesize, a megamete- have a case for believing INDUSTRIAL-STRENGTH pumped pag : some ten miles across there's been significant bio- MOUSETRAP oxygen out. The C02 suf- orite focates the vermin in about crashed inlo Ihe earth, pieces' logical communication Would you replace a 50- three minutes. of our planet's crust could between the two planets." cent mousetrap wiih one that After ihe rodent has per- have been kicked up and —Bill Lawren costs $250? Not many home- ished, a spring pulls the sent flying into space. And it's worse could happen owners would,' but when it tunnel back into position; very likely a few rocks-would "Nothing comes to bagging rodents oh resetting the trap for the next have landed on Mars. to one than to be completely an industrial scale, food visitor. "We can hold about What makes this fascinat- understood." producers need a better ten rals or about thirty mice ing, according to Melosh, — Carl Jung mousetrap to curb infestation. before the bag needs to Philip Andres, who co- be emptied," Andres explains. invented his mousetrap with So far, about 60 of the traps, Andrew Pratscher. says manufactured by Hudson that food warehouses pay up Devices in Illinois, have been to $50,000 a year for rodent sold, and they excel control. Even then killing the ing rats. "When a beasts is difficult. "You screams a warning can't use poisons near food, says. "Then other and it takes hundreds of come near that area again. snap traps to keep a large But because death comes population under control." he quickly and without pain, says. His trap, about the the rats have no time or ree size of a toaster oven, runs son to issue a warning cry. on eight D-cell batteries. The "They think they're going for rodent, lured by bait through a carnival ride," says Andres, a small tunnel, breaks the "then they die." beam of an electric eye, —George Nobbe causing the tunnel to tip up- ward. This dumps the in- "A historian is a prophet in truder into a bag while CG5 from a tank tethered nearby is —Friedrich von Schleget '
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MOVIE STAR SCIENTISTS
When film director Joffe set out to cast
Killing Fields, his r
war in Cambodia, posely chose nonactt including Cambodian physi- cian Haing Ngor, to play
many -of the important roles. More recenlly. when he decided to cowrite and direct a film about the- making of the first atomic bomb, Joffe used the same casting technique, this lime using real scientists. The film, called Fat Man and Utile Boy and scheduled lor release sometime this fall, stars Paul Newman as General Leslie Groves and actor Dwight Schultz as J. Robert Oppenheimer. But the fwo pros are supported by a long list of scientists- turned -actors, including Caltech theoretical physicist and even UCLA cancer spe- FIDDLING WITH the layers of shellac, varnish, David Politzer (who plays cialist Robert Gate, who is STRADIVARIUS and pigments accounts for Oppenheimer protege Robert better known for his real-life ihe violin's uniqueness. Wahl Serber). Stanford psychology role in aiding the victims The most famous oi fiddles, owns over 100 factory- professor Brian Wandel, of the Chernobyl disaster. the Stradivarius. has never made instruments bearing For two weeks last fall been equaled for its rich, his version of the Stradivarius the scientists assembled in beautiful lones. Until now, that finish. And he is not the only
Durango. Mexico, where is. A Mew Jersey man be- 'one who believes. he has the film was shot. At first, says lieves he has plucked the discovered the secret; several
Politzer, the idea "seemed . elusive secret from the eigh- world-famous vioiinists who
ludicrous." But as the filming teenth century, and he has use his fiddles find it virtually
progressed and as the patented his process. impossible to tell the differ- physicist cubbed shoulders .Retired chemical engineer ence. The most distinctive with professional actors, Eugene A. Wahl says that difference is in the price; An j
it became "an enormous the revered violin's sound has authentic Stradivarius can
amount of fun. It was dif- been attributed to everything fetch up to $1 million, so- j
ferent from my norma! life." from bacteria to the use of whereas Wahl's violins cost | he says, "where the kind of volcanic ash. "My father between 32,000 and $3,000.
people I see-are restricted to believed that the secret was Will there be mass produc-
physicists and other Scien- in the drying process." . tion of these' modern ver- tists." — Bill Lawren saysWahl, "so tor more than sions? No, says Wahl, who sixty years he dried his obtained the patenis "merely "Tact Gons'ists in knowing violins in smoke." to establish myself as the how Far to go too far." Wahl believes that .the discoverer of the. Stradivarius.
—Jesn Ccciesu precise, sequence in applying I secret.'— George Nobbe " —
BAKING SODA FOR also clocked their usual SCREWWORM1NG STAMINA times for ihe first three races. LIBYA But by races four and five Baking soda can clean speeds increased an average The American screwworm your teeth, make dough rise, of three seconds per 100 fly (Cochliomyia hominivo- and vanquish heartburn. meters. That, Horswill theo- rax) is a' particularly nasty little
Mow comes word that it rizes, is because it lakes time bug. It lays iis eggs in wounds may also give athletes a for the bicarbonate to rid in the skin of domestic stamina boost. the muscles of lactic acid, animals and humans; then, Exercise physiologist which results from strenuous when the eggs hatch, Craig Horswill of the Chil- exercise and impairs muscle the newborn maggots burrow dren's Hospital in Columbus, proteins and may reduce through the host's tissue, Ohio, tested sodium bicar- stamina by affecting enzymes extending the wound and bonate on ten intercollegiate that break down sugar in causing infections that, if ieft swimmers. Over the course Die body for energy. untreated, can be fatal. of five days the athletes A shot of bicarb isnot a Until the Fifties, C. homini- swam five 100-yard races a panacea for athletes, how- vorax was a strictly American day. "On two days they ever. "It manipulates the pest, causing millions oi received a drink containing body's acid-base balance, dollars worth oi harm to U.S. baking soda, two days they and. we don't know all the side larm animals. Then it was got a placebo, and one day effects. It definitely can controlled by means of they had no drink," Horswill cause gastrointestinal dis- a massive fly sterilization says. The dosage of sodium tress," Horswill warns. "Baking program, It still wreaks havoc bicarbonate used was based soda is no subsiiiute for in Latin America. But now, on body weight: A 175- proper training and nutri- say a pair ci scientists train pound man ingested about tion."— Sherry Baker the Liverpool School of three teaspoonfuls. Tropical Medicine in England,
' The results? When swim- "In a museum in Havana the American screwworm mers took placebos or had no there are two skulls of fly has mysteriously turned up So how did the American drinks their speeds remained Christopher Columbus, 'one in Libya. screwworm get to Libya the same throughout the when he was a boy and William Beesley and grad- in the first place? Could this test. After downing the bak- one when he was a man.' uate student M M. Gabaj be a case of biological —Mark Twain report having found numer- warfare perpetrated by the
ous cases of American CIA? "I haven't the faintest screwworm infection in ani- idea." Beesley says. "'! would mals—as well as tour cases .tend to think of il as an acci- in humans—60 miles oulside dental thing— the fly coming of Tripoli. Beesley says in on an imported animal screwworms could spread, but we just don't have Ihe "theoretically, all around information."'Gabaj is now in the west coast of Africa, and Libya, checking importation
all the way east to Egypt records to see if he can and. the Sudan." Treating dis- trace the source.—Bill Lawren eased animals and Irying to eradicate.the fly could. "One's prime is elusive." Beesley adds, present a co- — Muriel Spark
lossal extra cost to' farmers and governments in those "A metaphysician is a man
countries. (Reinfestation who : goesinto a dark cellar at
in the United States could midnight without a light, cost the North American looking for a black cat that is livestock industry about $375 notthere." :>rtg a tinj rsplasn iv.'i.'i — n clean your teeth, too million-annual !y.) Lord Bowen 39 '
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GET THEE TO A ADJUSTABLE UROLOGIST SUNGLASSES
We know Shakespeare Need a lightly tinted pair of had a flair (or writing, but did sunglasses for driving but he have the makings of a a darker pair for the beach? good doctor? As an intellec- Now .a New York company tual exercise prompted by has built a prototype of the public relations depart- electronic sunglasses that ment, members of the Uni- can be adjusted just as versity of Oklahoma Health you would adjust ihe bright- Sciences Center combed ness of a TV screen. through Shakespeare's plays Research Frontiers Inc. of and checked out a lew Woodbury, New York, says its medical observations offered variable-light-transmission by the bard, such as: glasses can filler out Irom 44 • "That which halh made to 88 percent of the sun's them drunk hath made me light in the blink of an eye. The bold" {Macbeth). "True for a glasses are powered by lot of people," agrees re- minuscule batteries hidden search psychologist John in the frames and can be Braggio. Among other things, adjusted manually. alcohol numbs the brain's The glasses' lenses are frontal cortex, which controls made from two pieces of much of our behavior, includ- eiihei glass or plastic sepa- ing aggression. rated'by less than one thou- • "They are as sick that sandth of an inch. The inside surfeit with too much as they surfaces are coated with a that starve with nothing" material that conducts elec-
' If Venice). tricity, while remaining space filled with organic y point of is an then Glore. liquid in which millions of tiny,
jr of clinical needle-shaped crystals dietetics. Major killers today. To he or not to be an M.D.: Did Shakespeare have an artful touch are suspended. off," e heart disease and stroke. when it carne.lo seventeenth century medical insight? "When the voltage is A major contributing cause? says company president Obesity, often brought on pulse for a variety of medical the bard's medical insights, Robert Saxe, "the dark blue by overconsuming high-fat reasons, says Dr. Thomas Whitsell says thai Shake- light valve blocks out sun- sods. Whiisetl, professor of medi- speare, showed a high de- light. Switching it on sets i.;p field that aligns > "Unquiet meals make ill cine and pharmacology: gree of medical sense. "He an electrical digestions" (The Comedy of to measure heart rate, to quite' possibly would have the particles making the Errors). About 30 percent check (he heart's rhythm, and made a good doctor. He was light valve-transparent." The of our meals are consumed lo gauge its strength. In well versed in the medical level of transparency varies away from home, Glore addition, doctors in this era knowledge of the time, and he with the amount of voltage estimates, the most common or high-tech medicine have- had a- lot of insight into hu- applied. It may be two years meals being fast food. What come to reappreciate the man behavior. Knowledge before the device Is avail- you get from these- unquiet subtle benefit offered by this and insight are two things that- able. The cost; around $200 takeout meals are foods high medical ritual, says Whitselt. even modern doctors need a pair, Saxe says. in fat and sodium. The simple act of touching to possess."—Henry Wouk — George Nobbe "Give me your hand and let another human being reaf- me feel your pulse" (The firms Ihe" special doctor- "You can never plan the "t keep reading between the Comedy of Errors). A good patient relationship. future by the past." lies." doctor takes his patient/s After assessing four of —Edmund Burke —Goodman Ace 40 OMNI ARTICLE
Using a potent method of guided imagery, you will conjure therapists, healers, and endless Utopias in your waking dreams
LIFE IS BUT A DREAM
The dream Yogis of an- consciousness lo men- cient Tibet were known tally rehearse their ma- for an extraordinary neuvers. Cancer patients mental feat. Using a po- tap this realm, rallying tent method of mental im- their immune systems to agery, they retreated fight the burgeoning cells more and more deeply that threaten their lives. inside themselves until And people interested in they started to dream; altered states of con- and they did so without sciousness have even ever losing conscious used the technique to awareness. According to experience the expan- the Tibetan Book of the sive feeling of separation Dead, edited by Oxford between body and mind. pre scholar W. V. Evans- i the Wentz, the dream Yogis sented below, you v had almost total control learn to use alert relax- over broad aspects of ation to intensify your these "waking dreams." spontaneous mental im- By consciously control- agery until it evolves into ling these dreamlike im- a conscious dream. Be- ages, the Yogis created cause you will maintain endless Edens, explored conscious awareness alternate realities, and BY KEITH through the entire expe- came to terms with such AND PAMELA rience, high lucidity issues as the nature of should provide you with reality and the meaning of life. In the latter part a greater degree of control than you would have of the twentieth century, the dream Yogis' ex- even in a lucid dream—a dream in which you act methodology remains obscure. Now, how- become aware that you are dreaming while you ever, we present "high lucidity," our version of are fast asleep. Once you have learned to in- the Tibetan Yogis' conscious dreams. duce high lucidity, you can learn to change In line with our own research, we base our dream weather, alter dream scenery, and gain version of high lucidity on a technique known as greater insight into the range of symbols and alert relaxation, in which the body becomes in- feelings inhabiting your unconscious mind. for to report creasingly relaxed while the mind remains It would be most unusual anyone alert. Athletes often enter this altered state of problems as a result of the exercises below—
PAINTINGS BY CLAYTON ANDERSON QThe Gumby character, master of a surrealistic, flexible reality, responds
to its dreamlike experience with good humor, imagination, and ease3
especially since they do not attempt to We do not recommend completing the A TEN-DAY JOURNEY TO THE LAND replace psychotherapy In any way, shape, exercises in less than ten days, however, OF WAKING DREAMS or form. If.you have a history of emotional or trying to squeeze an entire week's During the next three days you will de-
or psychiatric problems, however, or if you worth of exercises into one weekend. Al- scend through layers of consciousness feel at all uncomfortable about any of the though most of the exercises we present until you have learned to generate im- exercises, we suggest that you check with are conceptually simple, their combined ages as rich and evocative as frrase in your therapist or psychiatrist before pro- impact could be profound. your nightly dreams. ceeding. In such a case, you might wish We recommend that you allow your DAY ONE: ALTERED STATES lo carry out the high lucidity exercises abilities to evolve gradually, giving your- under his or her clinical guidance. self an opportunity to adjust. Moreover, On day one you will learn the tech- We also want to emphasize that our since high lucid dreams, much like ordi- nique of alert relaxation, in which the body dream healer exercise in no way re- nary dreams, reflect your current mood, enters a state of deep relaxation while the places conventional medical treatment, a balanced approach should increase mind remains acutely alert. While in the
ft you have cancer, AIDS, or some other your enjoyment and the overall scope of altered state of alert relaxation, you will '' very serious illness, we suggest that you your adventures. remain mentally alert while slowly be- practice these techniques only with the Finally, please do not be discouraged coming so relaxed that, in a physical
help of a guided-imagery professional if you do not immediately have vivid wak- sense, you virtually fall asleep. Through referred to you by your personal physi- ing dreams. Achieving this altered state this process, you should be able to enter cian or by a teaching hospital, and in takes considerable practice. We recom- your dreams without ever losing con- conjunction with all recommended med- mend that once you have learned the scious awareness. ical procedures. basic technique on days one, two, and Before you proceed with this exercise, Please remember, the best way to three, you continue practicing on a nightly please read the rest of the instructions for
master high lucid dreaming is one step basis throughout at least the next two day one in advance. If possible, ask a at a time. Give yourself time to focus on weeks. We have every expectation that friend to guide you through the relaxation each of the exercises, and don't rush any by following these procedures, you will exercise that follows. If that is not possi- o! them. Although the rec/men cescribe-d eventually learn to enter the intense state ble, record your own voice reading the in the following pages is designed to be of high lucidity directly from waking con- following instructions on a cassette tape carried out in ten days, do not feel con- sciousness, claiming ever more power before you begin. (If a friend does con- strained if you prefer to take longer. over your life and your dreams. duct the exercise the first time through, 44 OMNI we still recommend that you tape the [Pause], up along your spine [Pause], be able to enter the state of alert relax-
reading so that you will have it for the fu- and through the front of your torso into ation more and more quickly without ture.) Whether you or your friend records your chest [Pause] and shoulders. Feel needing anyone to read the instructions
the instructions, remember to pause the muscles in your stomach and lower to you. For day one, however, it is suffi- where indicated for a second or two. back releasing any tightness or tension cient simply to practice becoming deeply To start, please find a private and com- as the current passes through them. relaxed while maintaining a state of men- fortable place to lie down. Then play the [Pause] Allow a feeling of general well- tal alertness, taking as much time and tape you have made or have your friend being to begin flowing through your body using as much assislance as you need
slowly and quietly read the instructions along with the imaginary currents as you to comfortably achieve I his state. aloud step-by-step, exacily as they're continue to relax [Pause], Once you have entered the state of
written below: When the lower half of your body feefs alert relaxation, maintain it for 20 to 30
Take a deep breath, let it out slowly, relaxed [Pause], imagine the currents minutes before gradually bringing your- stretch your muscles, and relax. Now flowing upward through your ribs and self back to full waking consciousness. imagine that warm currents ot mental en- shoulders [Pause]—warming and relax- You may accomplish this simply by wig- ergy are very slowly moving up from the ing the upper part of your body [Pause] gling your fingers and toes, concentrat- soles of your feet toward your ankles. and leaving your back and chest feeling ing on your immediate surroundings, and Feel the muscles in your feet gradually completely warm and free of any stress opening your eyes. warming and relaxing as you imagine the or tension [Pause], Imagine the currents currents passing through them. turning around to move downward [Pause] Imagine that the currents con- through your arms and toward your fin- tinue moving up through your calves gertips [Pause], swirling around through On day two you will move a step closer [Pause], into your thighs [Pause], through your fingers and hands, and then moving to achieving the state of high lucidity. To-
your hips [Pause] and buttocks [Pause]", upward once more [Pause], back through day's session should be conducted at and into your lower back and abdomen. your arms and neck [Pause] toward the least three hours before you normally go [Pause] Proceed very slowly, giving top of your head [Pause]. fo sleep. This will make you less likely to yourself time tor each group of muscles Now feel the muscles in your neck and just fall off into sleep while following the to begin fully relaxing before allowing She face gradually becoming warm and re- instructions. Begin by selecting a private imaginary currents to move on to the next laxed as the imaginary currents pass room where you can lie down and relax area of your body. [Pause] Feel the mus- through them [Pause]. Then imagine the without being disturbed. The room should cles in your legs becoming heavy, warm, currents flowing out through the top of be one in which you can play a television and relaxed and sinking down into the your head [Pause], leaving your entire set at low volume. It would be ideal if the chair beneath you. [Pause] When you feel body feeling comfortably warm [Pause], television is connected to a videocas- your legs becoming deeply relaxed, heavy [Pause], and relaxed [Pause] and sette recorder (VCR), though this is not imagine the currents moving in a clock- sinking down into the chair beneath you. absolutely essential. wise motion around your abdomen Once you gain experience, you should What is essential is that the television or video recorder be set up to play a car- toon show or nature feature for at leas! an hour. As far as your choice of program material, public-television nature pro- grams would work well for this exercise because they are broadcast without dis- turbing commercial interruptions. We es- pecially recommend, however, playing a video cartoon or other animated feature
rich in the kind of surrealistic imagery often found in dreams. Our own favorite choice for this exercise would be any ad- venture featuring the beloved Clayma- tion character Gumby. The Gumby character exists in a com- pletely surrealistic and flexible reality lhat
often succeeds in capturing the quality of dreams. Gumby, the master of this reality, also possesses the kind of cre-
ative imagination it takes to respond ef- fectively and with good humor to his dreamlike experiences. Other appropri- ate cartoons include The Real Ghostbus- ters, Jim Henson's Muppet Babies, Smurfs' Adventures, and Fantasia. We also recommend Pee-wee's Playhouse. Once you have selected an appropri- ate video or television fealure for this ex- ercise, turn down the lights and turn on the program at a low but clearly audible
volume. It would also be helpful to re- duce the brightness on your television set as much as possible withouf obliterating the picture. Find a comfortable place
Sc^^ where lie to you can down watch the TV "Turn your head and calculate." without straining your neck. Get cozy and enjoy the show for at least half an hour. 48 OMNI '
Imagine yourself existing in the reality of generate what's known as hypnagogic Whenever you feel yourself losing con- the television or video characters you're imagery, vivid but conscious mental pic- scious awareness, focus your attention
observing, and let yourself absorb the tures that emerge as you hover between more intensely on the sound of the tele- images as fully as possible. wakefulness and sleep. You should be vision and say to yourself, I'm entering a After roughly 30 minutes have passed, able to follow your hypnagogic images dream. Once again, the more sponta-
roll over on your back, close your eyes, directly into a high lucid dream. neous and lifelike your mental images and continue listening to the television or Begin today's session an hour before become, the more likely you will be to video program playing in the back- you would normally go to bed. This will move directly into a dream without losing
ground. Allow your imagination to fill in enable you to carry out the exercise conscious awareness.
the pictures to go along with the sounds completely and then follow it directly into Please be aware this is not a simple you're hearing. yourfull night's sleep. As before, practice process for most people. In our experi- As you do this, take a deep breath, in a private room where you can relax ence, most people who successfully stretch your muscles, and relax. While and then sleep without being disturbed. achieve the state of high lucidity do so continuing to focus on the background Again, arrange to play an appropriate only with continued practice. Even if you sounds and any images they help to gen- television or video program, at low vol- don't immediately find yourself moving erate in your mind, imagine warm cur- ume and brightness, for at least an hour. directly into dream lucidity from awaking
rents of mental energy very slowly mov- Please make sure that the episodes you state, for now it is sufficient to simply learn ing up from the soles of your feet toward watch today are different from those you and practice the basic technique.
your ankles. Then enter a state of alert viewed the day before. We also recom- If, by some chance, you do achieve a
relaxation as you did on day one. mend that, if at all possible, you arrange state of high lucidity tonight, we advise As you become more and more deeply to have your TV turned off after you have that you passively witness the dream
relaxed, however, allow your thoughts to fallen asleep. If you are using a video re- without attempting to influence the im-
drift off into the mental images generated corder, it should simply turn itself off au- ages in any way. (You can handle only so
by the television show you've been tomatically at the end of the tape. If you much at once.) watching. These images may be gener- DAY FOUR: WINDS OF CHANGE ated by memories of the show and by the sounds continuing to play in the back- You will learn to shift your moods by ground. Before long you'll probably find controlling the thunder and lightning in these images taking on a kind of spon- your waking dreams. bright taneous life of their own, having less to M Today you will continue to explore your do with the external sounds in the room and sunny spring day might potential tor high lucidity, in the process than with your own evolving internal gaining control over the details of your signify {hat you processes. Don't try to force this proc- waking dreams. Begin by choosing a new
ess; rather, allow it to emerge on its own. -have a strong sense of inner video or television program to play for at As much as possible, consciously ob- hopefulness, least an hour. Once again, begin this ex- serve your internal images without losing ercise about an hour before you would of hail awareness. You can accomplish this by whereas a barrage normally go to bed, and use a room where deliberately directing your attention back could indicate you you can follow it through directly into a toward the sounds coming from the tele- full night's sleep without being disturbed. feel you're being attacked.^ vision set whenever you notice yourself Watch the program that you have cho- beginning to lose consciousness. As you sen for about 30 minutes, absorbing the
do this, tell yourself that you are con- images and enjoying the show. Then roll sciously alert and observing the impact over, close your eyes, and enter a state that these sounds have on your thoughts. of alert relaxation while concentrat- For now you should not be trying to fall are watching a TV without a VCR, you ing on the sounds of the television in the asleep while practicing this exercise. might hook your set to a separate timer background.
Rather, you should attempt to sustain a so that it will automatically disconnect. Or, As you become increasingly relaxed,
deep state of alert relaxation. If you should alternatively, you can ask someone to focus on remaining alert while the im- find yourself accidentally losing con- quietly slip in and turn olf the television at ages in your mind become more and scious awareness while practicing this a prearranged time. more spontaneous, eventually turning exercise, however, don't worry about it. After you have made the arrange- hypnagogic in nature. Then do your best
The moment you feel yourself returning ments, lie back and absorb the images to follow these images directly and con- to consciousness, continue the exercise you've selected. After about 30 minutes, sciously into a high lucid dream. from wherever you left off. roll over on your back and close your As soon as you notice that you're hav- After 30 to 45 minutes, complete the eyes. Then continue listening to the pro- ing a high lucid dream, study the imme- exercise by gradually focusing more and gram playing in the background while fill- diate dream scenario Remind yourself more of your attention on the television ing in the pictures with your own mental that every detail in your dream is the sounds playing in the background and images. As you do this, gradually enter a product of your unconscious creativity, on your physical presence in your im- state of alert relaxation. memories, and imagination. Indeed, you mediate surroundings. As you become increasingly relaxed, have not only created the most general Just before you are ready to go to bed, focus on your mental images while also aspects of your dream setting but also spend some time quietly watching the doing your best to maintain conscious the tiniest and most specific details, from same type of TV program you used for awareness. Allow your images to be- the architectural design of a particular the first part of this exercise. Then once come as spontaneous as possible, using dream building to the number of books more enter the state of alert relaxation, the audio input from the television to help on a dream shelf. but this time let yourself drift off to sleep. generate fresh images as earlier ones As you observe your dream, pay spe-
fade. As much as possible, allow all of cial attention to the weather. Chances are DAY THREE: HIGH LUCIDITY your images to blend and interact with that in this dream, as in most dreams, the
On day three you will take the exer- one another and to take on a life of their weather is something you would ordinari- cises of the past two days one step fur- own. As the exercise continues, these ly take for granted. Consider, however, ther and in the process reach the thresh- images should become increasingly that the weather in your dream most cer- old of high lucidity. Your goal for today: to spontaneous, or hypnagogic, in nature. tainly expresses something symbolic 50 OMNI about your present state of mind. A bright, creating a gentle dream rain. You might cus your attention on any hypnagogic sunny spring day might signify a strong even stimulate your potential for self- images that emerge. • inner hopefulness, for instance, while a healing by envisioning yourself absorb- In most cases these images will emerge barrage of hail could indicate you feel ing the nurturing rays of the sun or burn- spontaneously, without conscious assist- you're being attacked. ing out a fever in an active volcano. ance. If this does not happen for you
Now that you've noticed the weather, Please remember to record all your shortly after closing your eyes, the proc- focus all of your energies on deliberately high lucid dreams, paying special atten- ess may be helped along by pulling up changing it. If you're experiencing a tion to the weather. Take special note of random memory fragments from experi- sweltering summer afternoon in down- the relationship between your dream ences you had earlier in the day. Think town Los Angeles, for example, concen- weather and your moods. about some of the interesting things trate on making it snow. If you're lost in Also remember that altering the details you've encountered during the course of the middle of some dream desert, try in- of a conscious dream takes practice. At your day, and imagine them interacting in voking a heavy rain. Even if your dream first, such efforts may even result in the some surrealistic fashion in your mind. For takes place in a house, there's nothing termination of the dream. If this occurs, instance, you might imagine that chicken except the boundaries of your imagina- just continue to change the dream wing you had for lunch sprouting a mouth tion to prevent you from creating a thun- weather in your imagination. At the same and eyes and starting a conversation with derstorm within its walls. And even if your time, allow yourself to fall back into your your car radio. dream takes place underwater, you might high lucid dream. As you feel yourself becoming in- still summon a gentle spring wind. creasingly relaxed, give yourself permis- DAY FIVE: SHIFTING SANDS As you deliberately alter the weather in sion to have a lucid dream. Then remain your high lucid dream, notice how the new Traverse continents and centuries alert while observing your hypnagogic climate both reflects and influences your through a simple expression of con- images, doing your best to follow them underlying mood. By consciously influ- scious free will, consciously into a high lucid dream. encing weather as suggested above, you By now you should be ready to gen- Once you find yourself in a high lucid will take an important step toward cus- erate hypnagogic imagery on your own, dream, observe your immediate dream tom-designing broader aspects of your without the assistance of a television surroundings, taking particular note of the waking dreams. You will also have learned playing in the background. Therefore be- weather. Then imagine a compelling a simple method of assessing, in sym- gin by lying on your back in bed and en- place completely different from the one bolic terms, the underlying atmosphere tering a state of alert relaxation. This time, represented in your current dream. If your of your own psychological state. Perhaps however, leave the TV off. Because you'll dream opens up on a city street, for ex- most important, you may use this tech- once again be following this exercise di- ample, you might imagine a clearing in nique as a means of deliberately influ- rectly into a night's sleep, you should be- the forest. If your dream opens on a Ti- encing your state of mind as you dream. gin about an hour before your usual bed- betan mountaintop, you might conjure the You might invoke a thunderstorm, thus time. This time, instead of focusing on the middle of the Brooklyn Bridge. expressing anger, or calm yourself by television playing in the background, fo- When you've thought of a suitably compelling location, concentrate on transforming the original setting of your dream into the new dream environment. Just close your eyes while focusing on the new locale. With practice, you should be able to will your original dream setting to dissolve while the new setting emerges
from behind it. Continue practicing this exercise until you've managed to expe- rience at least one recognizable change in your high lucid dream environment by
a simple expression of conscious free will.
If your dream images halt when you shift the scene, continue the exercise in your semiconscious imagination. Please remember to record any high lucid dreams, taking special note of shifts in weather and locale. Consider the possi- ble psychological and symbolic signifi- cance of-your dream scenarios and re- cord these as well.
AY SIX: TRADING PLACES
From Wonder Woman to Barbara Bush to the Biob, you can be anyone you want in your high lucid dreams.
Tonight you will trade places with your
dream characters in hopes of gaining di- rect insight into the significance of their presence in your high lucid dreams. Once again, begin by entering a state of alert relaxation and inducing a high lu- cid dream. When you find yourself in a waking dream, pay particular attention to
the characters you encounter. If you hap- pen to be alone at the start of your high lucid dream, go for a walk, swim, or fly con--inuf.donpage*i MAN'S BEST FRIENDS EGG AND CHIPS LEVIATHAN By Thomas M. Disch By Gregory Benford
Hey there, Baby Bro, time to rise and Something was after them. shine. It's gonna be another blue day. ac- This bothered Beth not at all. "Ftikki," cording to the weather report, and we've she said languidly, "what do you smell?" tor Ftikki curled its prehensile tail around a got things to do, Myself, I could go some breakfast, don't know about you. branch and, with'an unconscious display [Let five minutes elapse; then:] of strenglh, lifted itself above their lus- Hey, Little Friend— ding-a-ling-a-ling! cious jade bower. "Musk. Bitter. Sweaty."
It's after eight. You planning to sleep all "Air spider?" day? Or what? "Worse. I know it not." gravity, /// no reply:] Rikki cast off in the light turned Hey, I'm getting hungry, Guy. Pets don't an artful flip, and landed with all six legs live by juice alone, meaning the miracle atop a bristly fern. "Call Mother," it said, ears twitching. of 'e-lectricity. So I could do with a few all right." at amino acids, a fishfiake or two, if you get "Oh, With a tug her ear Beth tuned the microwave tracery in her skull my drift. I mean, it's been a while, Kid. To wavelengths. relayed be exact it's been to her mother's She [Malfunction] Rikki's misgivings and her mother's silky and that's too long to go without the tones sounded in her head. Minimum Daily Requirement. Even for a "I'm sure the two of you can handle pet. Do you suppose you'd be happy col- anything aboard the Leviathan," came the lecting dust in a gosh-darn closet, do smooth, utterly controlled reply. "I've al- you? Pets are human, too, you know. lowed no new species in." "How 'bout that cat-bal? Took my arm Hey you— Eugene! This is your teddy off, Mom," it." af- talking. The sheep's in the meadow, the "But I replaced She sounded fronted. cow's in the corn. I hope you're listening
"I know, I valuable experience, to me. 'cause I can't keep braying at the know— top o! my dial. Even microchips need en- you said." ergy, Old Chap. Not to mention those "And it was." parts of my intelligence that are not arti- Beth raised her orange eyebrows and tuned out her mother, "Rikki-tikki-tavi, what ficial. I mean, hey, I'm alive! Are you?
[If no reply;] say you?"
still "Closer. Smelly. Three of them." Hey, Kid, just kidding. I mean, you climb clouds." love your old teddy, I'm sure you do, I "Let's some using' small jetpacks. The never doubted it, and your teddy loves They fled you. Can't help myself, as the saying tangled yellow-green jungle spread be- goes. Only thing is, Dear Boy, I'm hungry. low them and then curved overhead, shimmering, distant ceiling, Fog That's a word I know you understand. Your making a cells are like mine, maybe more than you wreathed them as they passed over a know. When they get hungry, they cry out glinting lake. They were at the very cen- for those sugars and spices, those snips ter of the Leviathan. This bowl of leafy great air al- and snails and puppy dog tails. If I were wealth was cut by passages just some battery-powered unicorn, some lowing in broad yellow beams of sunlight. clouds, ar- windup wolverine, I wouldn't be making Once above the cottony Beth these demands. But, Honeybun, I am rowed toward the air tunnels. alive. Crack open my casing and I'm soft They played swift, darting games as and pink. Peel away the plastic and un- they swooped outward along a radial der the skin we are brothers, you and me. tube, gaining acceleration from Levi- Half brothers anyhow Maybe you haven't athan's spin. The tube walls were a dense, had these things explained to you before, moist canopy chirping and squealing with and maybe it's not for me to broadcast life. A sleek skyrat shot up at them from
It the news, but when your darling mom oer some! rncs. oofore the circuit of faith board box-.r some yosh-fiarn attic. And [Let five minutes elapse; then:] Eugene. No father, or none that I know of, an olive limb. rode a crosswind. unfurl- ing mainsails, coming made you, she made me, too. How about shuts me down. Time goes by and I get I'd be talking to the mice. And what sort Hey, [choice of epithet]— ding-a-ling- not in the case of yours truly. But isn't a eggshell-blue that. Little Bro? Okay, so maybe there's a no answers, and the question that nags of life would that be for a loving teddy? a-ling! It's after [time of day]. You plan- mother enough to generate some fellow down fast on Rikki. This proved to be a its tail month of difference between us, but it at me most is, how much time is go ng Little Brother, listen to me. My radios ning to sleep all day? Or what? feeling? So would you feed me, fellow? mistake. Rikki flipped navigation
still Would nibble in the interest and extended black claws. The would be fair to say that but for the by? For all I know. Baby Blue, thisrould shot. I've got no connections left to the [If no reply:] you? Just a around its all along the I [choice of of brotherly love. Just of emulsion. skyrat tried to trim sails luck of the draw, you might have been me be Year Three Thousand. I'm not com- light of day. I play chess with a program Gosh-darn! mean that, ep- a drop
I I think. mast, which doubled as its spine. Too late. Little plaining, I ithet]. one: angry, I'm not fussy. like to con- and vice versa. Think about that, could never complain about -.ha: always wins. I sort through old data, am [choose hungry But do To
If I Rikki with its nav-tail and slashed I I mean. nibble Child, I love half dead]. Either you're not listening or tinue being banked Prince, and then give us a in the you, Dear you too much. that's all do. I wait for you, Boy Blue. me. you know what interest ot brotherly love. Just a drop of You may remember, or you may not. wait for you to feed me, [Malfunction] a long gash down the sail, leaving a spreading red stain across the gossamer emulsion. I'm not fussy. But I do like to how on Sixteen January One Nine Nine Hey there, [ J, time to
If little I Little Bro, listen. Even I'm not shine. It's be another blue tapestry. think. To continue being me. you know Nine, the sovereign — mean you, You know what I think? I Ihink when and gonna [ ] talking, there's not juice to day, according to the weather report, "Neat," Beth called as the skyrat what I mean. Child—threw a little golf ball at his little when enough
. I away. teddy and said. "Catch!" Well, teddy Hey there, [choice of epithet], time to produce a whisper, even then I am won- and we've got Myself, could screamed and tumbled still coming," Rikki called. I it, for , don't you. . You there? Sweetheart? got to believe caught right in the old chronometer, and rise and'shine. It's gonna be another dering. About you. gO some know about "Three "We'll lose them." They were probably I I I thinking. [Let five elapse; then:] you are, that much is built in. I got faith. ever since I've had to wonder what time [color] day, according to the weather re- think. am. (.think am About minutes ding-a-ling-a- adaptation, she thought. Bio- I intelligence, it Hey, some new But also got and some of Jt is, what day, what year, For all I know. port, and we've got things to do. Myself, you. [ ]— artificial, all faith Bro, once.. there are, ling! It's after ]. You plan- techs built up spacelife from earthly ani- is and sometimes can Little you could be a senior citizen, I could go for some breakfast, don't know We had a mother So [
it ning to sleep all mals. Even this Leviathan had a simple do with intelligence is shut off. So I won- and I could be winding down in a card- about you, between us, some genes day? Or — "
mental template plus neocortex add ons. century of biotech yawned between She had never seen this horror be-
Beth loved to soar outward, her wings these simple constructions and the Le- fore. It snapped at Rikki, who had dug
spread to the steady breath ot Ihe Levia- viathan's vast complexity. claws into its crusty back. Three of than. This hollow spoke in the great Rikki pointed with a spindly finger. them. And here came the second, out of rotating cylinder-beast carried gases ex- Against the framing blackness Rikki leafy concealment. Belh threw her knife haled by inner layers. Smelly, damp) looked more like the mixture of otter and with an overhand flip. The thing went but alive with migrating minibirds, too, ferret that had been its starting point, strl. drifting past her with the knife point swarming like rainbow splashes in the but its high forehead and perpetually stuck out the back of "its reddening lofting air. sardonic mouth implied its true clever- neck. Rikki had the first in a strangle- She loved visiting her mother. The ness. "Comet. Catch. hold. Beth spotted the third nightmare
Leviathan was a vast living ship, de- "Ah!" Beth wiped her mouth with the behind her. Its three legs spun forth a manding her mother's intricate ecocon- back of her hand. "Mom'il be glad." we-ghtec red whip. The whip caught her trol every moment. And because no Le- To reach the tumbling chunk of ice arm, stinging painfully. It coiled around viathan could be made perfectly safe, ahead, the Leviathan jetted great yel- her. Prickly thorns rasped as she fried to the very air here murmured with the low-white plumes behind it. Hydrogen jerk free. fevered kiss ot danger. This excitement peroxide frothed in translucent tubes, If you can't dodge 'em, she thought, mingled with a warm sense of being in meeting catalase in nozzled chambers. join 'em. Beth yanked on the whip and her mother's loving embrace. Beth felt steady thrust. This far from the brought her boots up. She hit with a They were tired when they reached sun—with even majestic Saturn .only a satisfying crunch and snap; low gravity the Leviathan's skin and found a viewing distant dab of cool blue white—organic makes for flimsy construction. blister. Rikki snagged boxy, purple fruit rocketry was the best propulsion. The thing yowled and fled. Rikki's and they fell to smacking, licking ex- Chill seeped through even the multi- attacker hung limp, its bruised-blue
cess. Through the crystalline blister ple crystalline layers of Ihe blister. Belli tongue lolling. "Joy. I joy," Rikki said. walls Beth watched the Leviathan's spin pushed off, seeking a warm outdraft Beth rubbed the yellowing welts on bring myriad schools of spacelife coast- from Leviathan's belly. The centrifugal her arm. She called her mother. "Fun's ing by in the outside darkness. gravity here was stronger, deflecting her fun, Mom, but that was too close."
Ugly, yes. Tough, warty, flexible black arc—and this effect saved her. . "I musl have overlooked that adap- skins Huge orange eyes. Panels tor Something sleek and rusl-red flung tation," the supple voice sounded. "Per- collecting the wan sunglow. Tight itself at her. It swiveled tripod legs, haps they came aboard as eggs during mouths, stingy with internal gases. Tri- bringing around a set of gaping pink the Leviathan breeding." ple spines, adroit geometries more like jaws and small, glinting teeth. They "You male Leviathans?" sailing ships than predators. Yet only a snapped shut on air. Beth had wind- 'They long for it. Always sniffing after milled her arms, bringing her legs up, each other." "ssodaies missing the teeth by. literally, a whisker. "Smells? In space?"
" "It's a controversial new soenHlic concept, Mr. Darwin, but i don't like the Utie "
"They spew scents into the solar The Leviathan whimpered and duti- in white lab coats, all carrying clip- wind. Remember, Leviathan brains are fully began firing its rumbling jets. boards, all crowded around what re- built up from an earlier animal. Our add- "It's only an animal, dear," her sernoied a rectangua' glass aquarium. ons make them smarter, but we kept mother said. At one end rested a '.iger- striped Bean their original base motivations. That Beth fumed as acceleration took Bag Cat [see "Bean Bag Cats®" in makes it easier to breed them than to hold. Damn these animals! She needed "Double Treble," November 19S3J with manulacture them." io appeal :o the Leviathan s ancient ori- its ears laid back. The pawless feline
Beth had just noticed blood oozing gins motivate it. Now, what had it been growled low in its throat as one of the
from Rikki's ribs. "Look -Rikki's hurt!" original y? Oh, yes- researchers copper.; a I ve white mouse Mother said, "Rikki is designed for "Good boy. Now—fetch!" into the other end of the aquarium. The self-repair." terrified mouse skittered from one side
"Our animals are smarter," Beth said, MOD DOGS' ; to the other scoeaking icn.ng several "but they can still hurt. We should doc- By Edward Bryant of its equally apprehens e fellows. tor that some." Al the opposite end, a young woman Rikki flattened its ears in disagree- Dave Brandenberg knew he had a jabbed the Bean Bag Cat's tail with an ment. "Pain is duty." problem when he walked into the area electrical stimulator probe. "Attack!"
"But Rikki—" where he recalled he'd had an office. she said. "Go for it. kitty! Kill that
. "Love is duty." Rikki said, brushing The room was no iongoi mere. The feel- mouse." To Brandenberg, the cat was away Beth's hands. ing was akin to losing one's car in the obviously straining to do just that. But
"I neglected full craft inventory," infinite expanse of a mall parking lot. without mobility, the cat got nowhere. It
Mother said. "I apoiocj-ze Here..." You knew the vehicle had to be some- yowled in frustration. The woman 9 To Beth's surprise, her molher ap- place, bul where stabbed it again. peared—as well as she could. This No-. He shook his head. His office was "What the hell's going on?" Bran- manifestation was a flock of ratbirds. definitely gone. denberg pushed forward. They burst in clouds of brown-red from One of the weedier grad types he fo-iage. com ng together in a pstling grabbed his arm. "Well, the preliminary- tapeslry. Wings beating the air, calling. data seem to suggest thai removing the Ihey formed a crude human figure. The test subject's four paws somehow en- hovering bird-cloud approximated the genders deafness. '•A sleek face Beth remembered so well from her "Christ!" said Brandenberg. He childhood. The warm, wry mouth and skyrat shot up at them from shoved his way through the crowd of regal head, which had been demolished unfamiliar researchers and took the an olive Jjmb. in the accident. Only her mother's mind Bean Bag Cat into his right hand. Cra- it rode a crosswind, unfurling and blunt senses remained, managing dling il wiih h;s left, he started to gently the Leviathan's intricacies. 1 eggshell-blue stroke the striped fur. The cat's first
Her mother's voice whispered in movement was to try to bite him. Then it mainsails, coming down fast Beth's mind, "So many details! I'm began to purr. "Does the ethics officer
I never done, dear. I tea' was dislracted on Rikki. This know what you duffoes are doing?" by the comet harvesting. The Leviathan "They're working on my au'ho'iza proved to be a mistake.^ is joyful with its success." tion," said a familiar voice. It was Caleb Beth gazed forward as Ihey overtook MonigoiTery "lie tone grated on Bran- the cornetary head. This far Irom the sun denberg's ear. Montgomery was tall, it was an inert gray-white icesteroid. tanned, and racket conditioned. Bran- Beth felt happy for her mother, whose denberg loathed him. "I'm the new housekeeping duties for the Levialhan Brahdenbe r g slopped and so'veyec head of project oeve opment," said occupied- every neural circuit of the res- the new layout of the midlovel oxeeulive iVonlyomeiy ixng his erstwhile supe- urrected brain. Assembling the bird rep- floor of Life Pro Labs. The movable walls rior with a basilisk stare. "I'm surprsed lica was a touching gesture. But as the had evidently moved. It was all different. your card is still coded for entry."
Leviathan began pooling rivers from the He didn't recognize the woman sitting "I guess I am. too," said Branden-
: icesteroid. Beth's eyes widened. behind the reception desk. berg slowly. "I suppose I'm starling o
"Look at that stuff, That's said. figure a'i dark Mom. "Where's Debbie?" he out what s happened since I no icehead." Beth gestured at the hov- The woman s'a'ed at him blankly. took my little sojourn to Nashville." ering ratbird swarm, though she knew "Debbie Disalvo. The R&D recep- Montgomery looked at him specula- her mother could see better by tapping tionist, you know?" tively. "Ah._ yes. Nashville. Chip-ware directly into Beth's own eyes. "See? The new woman didn't know. r.ght? Maybe we- had better talk." He
Scrape off the first few meters, there's "I'm Dave Brandenberg. I work turned and strode toward the elevator nothing but rock underneath." here." The new receptionist looked as if as though assuming he was being fol- "Oh..." Disappointment laced the the very foundations of her reality had lowed. "We'll go to my office." silky voice in Beth's head. shivered. Montgomery s office turned out to be
Beth's face clouded. Her mother's "It was a long weekend," said Bran- just in front of where Brandeoborg's whole life support depended on making denberg, "but this is ridiculous. Is vanished office had been. The latter a profit, on selling ice to the inner plan- Caleb 'vl on tg ornery around?" seated himself in front of the massive ets. The Leviathan had to pay its way. The receptionist smiled, as though at desk and glanced at the slightly unfa- Beth felt her mother's chagrin—fret- last she'd been handed a question she miliar angle of the scenery outside ;.he ling, muddy-bfown streams of emotion. could cea with. "I believe no's down on Single window Montgomery settled him- That provoked her to kick at the blister the testing level, sir." sell gingery oohind his desk. wall, calling out to the Leviathan's mind. "Terrific." Brandenberg turned and "I guess you haven't been told abou Beth could sense the Leviathan's slug- started for the elevator. "Thanks." he some of the changes." gish thought patterns lurking behind her said over his shoulder. "I guess not," said Brandenberg He " mother's. When the door siid open at the losing, smiled slightly; "Maybe you'd better fill "Hey, you! You find a nice, rich level, Brandenberg encountered a large me in." comet head, hear? Right away!" pack of gradL.a:o-siL.don: lypes. all clad "If I may be candid..," Montgomery 62 OMNI shrugged. "I'm in; you're out. That's "I have to admit," said Montgomery, Brandenberg watched him snap a
basically it." "they're coming along fine now." He deactivated snout onto the disembod-
"I appreciate your succinctness. I'm surveyed the room and spread his arms ied cranial module of the largest model
a little curious about the exact machi- as though in benediction. "Four sizes of dog. The temporarily toothless jaws nations, though." body modules, leg lengths tailored to opened and closed; stretched and "Wfell," said Montgomery. For the tirst the customer's desires for however clashed together. "Watch," said Mont- time he looked mildly uncomfortable. many interchangeable paws, six as- gomery, sounding positively cheerful. "Dave, you know you did one hell ot a sorted snouts, modular ears, pop-out He clicked the head onto the. broad job developing the beanbag cats for the eyes. The guys over in dental just came shoulders of what could easily have gene-tailored pet market." in with the slip-in sets of guard-dog been a hyena body and gave the mod- "1 know," he said modestly. choppers—those babies'll cut through ule a half turn. It locked into place. "A fine job," Montgomery continued. you like dueling chain saws." "Let's see...." Montgomery sounded as "But that was six years ago. The prob- "So a customer could order, say, a though he were thinking aloud. "I've lem is that the corporate big guys need Dobie body with a long, broad tail, short, been thinking of calling my little buddy amiracle every week or two. They're stumpy little legs, and oversized guard- here Rex. Like my old dog." answerable to the stockholders, you dog dentures." Brandenberg contemplated the know?" Brandenberg just looked at him. "Yeah," said Montgomery tentatively. emerging behemoth. Sitting up on its "They're always planning ahead to Brandenberg shrugged. "Alligator." haunches, the jaws would be even with Christmases future, new marketing strat- "Great idea." Montgomery smiled. "I Montgomery's throat. "First name T?" egies, all that." like it." There was no reaction. Montgomery "So?" "Asshole," Brandenberg said. popped in a pair of eyes that looked "So, you were way behind with the Montgomery looked vaguely hurt. "It more reptilian than canine. "The prob- modular dog project," said Montgom- is a good idea, Dave." lem is that he's all brawn, no brain." ery. "They wanted someone who could "You're welcome to it Have a ball." "Ah," said Brandenberg. "My trip to deliver. They care about results." Nashville." "The result," said Brandenberg "Our reluctant colleague, the biopro-
slowly, "is going to be a consumer af- grarnmer. I know he's the best, but—" fairs disaster. The mod dog isn't ready "He is that. The very best. In fact, the life for market, not by a long shot." only one I know who's devoted his to '•Brandenberg Montgomery smiled. "That's where I analyzing and synthesizing nonhuman think you're wrong, Dave. I've gone over watched Montgomery snap neural systems."
trials. in "We can him enough keep all the field We can be every a deactivated snout pay to mall in time for the holidays." him comfortable the rest of his life." the cranial "It's bottom-line logic," Brandenberg onto disembodied "Yep. But you know he's already said stubbornly. "Safety be damned." module of the rich." Brandenberg watched as Mont- "We've got to compete with lines like gomery screwed on muscular forelegs. largest model dog. The those Little Bee Dee birth defect dolls." Rex was beginning to look like one said Montgomery. "The mod dogs are jaws opened, mean mother. "You also know he's my they're kid brother, and we Brandenbergs are a competitive, and safe enough. dosed, and clashed together. 9 No problem." close knit family." Brandenberg looked him in the eye. "We did call him. You're right about "Well," said Montgomery, "maybe family loyalty." Montgomery glanced just one." from Brandenberg to a set of wicked Brandenberg knew the reference dog teeth, put the first dentures down, was to the ace in his pocket, but wasn't He picked up some plug-in claws from a and picked up an even larger and more minded- to make things any easier for counter. "Nasty business here." this double-dyed son of a bitch. "More hardware for the guard mod- "Looks like a scale model of the "The problem," said Montgomery, els. Carbon-cored alloy sandwiches. Alps," Brandenberg said as Montgom- "is the guidance systems for the mod- Rip your guts out and not even scratch ery clicked the teeth into Rex's jaws. ular dogs. The chips. Your pet program- the finish. Great stuff." "Mm hm." Rex's master touched a lit mer in Nashville. The dogware. Do you "I thought the main thrust of the mod square on [he test panel, and the dog's have it with you?" dog program was to supply some pretty jaws slowly opened and closed again. will Brandenberg stood. "First, I want to versatile house pets for Christmas," said "Cards on the table, Dave. What get a last look at the kennels." Brandenberg. "Sounds like you're outfit- you take?"
It was Montgomery's turn to stare. ting an army on the side." "For the guidance system dogware "Okay," he finally said. "One last look." "Different markets," said Montgom- my brother encoded for me?" Branden- The modular dog project was quar- ery. "Plenty of loot on both sides. Our berg reached into his pants pocket, felt tered below ground level. Entrance re- marketing projections say to be ready around. "Here we go, mod dog brains." quired carding the red security elevator. for both scenarios." He slowly extracted three gray plastic
Montgomery's card worked; Branden- "What if some little girl looks under cases, each about the size of a postage berg's didn't. "Just like that old Twilight the tree on Christmas Day and gets a stamp. He extended his arm with the
Zone," he said. "My identity's being cute little basset outfitted with the canine three cases on the palm of his hand. wiped out one bit at a time." The other equivalent of a Gl Joe combat infantry Two were hand labeled with ragged man looked at him blankly. "You have patches of masking tape. The labels no imagination and no humor," said "Only a greedy corporate structure said st Bernard and toy poodle. The Brandenberg. "Maybe you are perfect employing inept personnel would ever third chip-case-bore no tag at all. for this job." create such a screwup." "What's that one?" said Montgomery. The modular dogs kennel always re- "Whew,"' said Brandenberg. "For a "Label came off. Golden retriever." minded Brandenberg of Mombi's dress- moment there, I was worried." "I really love retrievers. Had one ing room, Mombi being the Oz charac- "Hey, Dave," said Montgomery. "I when I was a kid." ter who tried on heads as frequently as know you're irritated by this whole thing, "I know, Caleb," Brandenberg sighed. another might change hats. but hey, it's all just a game." "Smart puppies."
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thinks the inventors render themselves vulnerable ;o FDA inlervonlion by mak- nniruD ing extravagant claims for their ma- CONTINUED FROM fWGE 2fi chines. Siever thinks it's- inevitable thai
ders, cure learning disanililies, alleviate all these machines will be obtainable and Robert I arquhar has an idea. Far- depression and anxiety, normalize only by prescription. quhar is the head of NASA's "small plan- blood pressure, raise IQs, improve vi- Fortunately for all the entrepreneurs, etary missions program," and he has sion, clear up acne, and give you a there's ar FDA loophole -mown as 510- come up with a low-budgefpcep at Pluto Yogi's sereniiy. "If you claim thai a ma- K that waives the full gamut of clinical thai could happen sooner than any of us chine reduces stress or stress-related trials for any machine Similar to devices has thought. What he has in mind is a illness, that's a medical device," ex- on Ihe markel before 1976, and a "piggyback" shot to Pluto on another plained Kathleen Frost, at that time of sound-and-light prototype called ISIS spacecraft already in Ihe works. trie FDA's neurological-devices branch. has been around since 1971 The other launch is NASAs Solar Probe
is scheduled "But if you make no medical claims— if At the same time, internecine sound- spaceoraf;. wh'eh to take you just claim simple relaxation—then and-light wars confuse the lines of off around the end of the next decade.
it's the same as marketing a toaster." struggle even more. Gorges, a mercu- That's a tricky spaceflight because in or- Perhaps that's why Gorges chooses rial and charismatic character with an der to pass through the sun's atmos- IG, allegedly, of 181 for phere, satellite has ever had a . his words carefully, praising his ma- and a knack where no chine's "calming effect" and adding controversy, has accused fellow entre- chance to look, Ihe spacecraft must first
' only, "It's faster than hypnosis or medi- preneurs of violating his 1982 patent. fly past the asteroid belt, U-turn, and skim
tation." In 1985, however, an FDA team "He's a powerful intimidator." says Siev- past Earth to pick up speed. Then it will investigating the Synchro-Energizer er, who contends that Gorges's patent veer away to complete a circuit of Jupiter noted that "the literature reviewed in- covers only a particular coniiguraton of to make one of those wonderful gravity- cluded references to pain and stress sound and light. "He got some peooe assisted lurns 'ha; will take it clean out of reduction, learning disabilities, psycho- scared for a while," Siever says. the p allegedly admitted he "had no formal cism may apply to all of the machines). probe can go along on Ihe first two legs training or degrees." (Gorges told me Ambiguous tales ot thfeats, contract dis- of the journey. Then il can detach itself at he has a mecical degree from a defunct putes lies, pilfered designs, and Byzan- Jupiter, make its own course correction, Canadian university but cannot practice tine manipulation waft through the and return the first-ever views of Pluto in medicine in Ohio because of an arrest S0L.no ana light community. just about 25 years from now, record as a teenager.) The FDA team Will these machines soon take over Is it going to happen? It could. It will, if said, "It appears that the product our lives, like personal computers, or enough space enihusiasls speak out and should also be classified as a prescrip- will red tape and internal squabbles ifour masiors can be persuaded :o divert tion device." squelch this nascent psychotechnol- a liny fraction of the funds spent on re- Can particular treguencies of light ogy? If you want to know anything, don't search in new ways to kill people into Ihe and sound sel off an epileptic seizure? ask the FDA. lis inaptly titled "press pursuit of new knowledge. Can the machine plunge a susceptible relations" officer, Dave Duarte, and I The biggest detectable difference be- person into psychosis? What qualities recently had the following conversation. tween the human race and the other an- "operators" to manipulate the brain "I'm doing an article on sound-and- imate species that inhabit our planet is waves of 32 plugged-in people simulta- lighl machines and I wonder if—" that humans learn— learn all they can, neously, as happens at some mind "We know nothing about it," about everything they can find to study. gyms? Is it safe for the user to work his "That's odd because I have a record The Pluto piggyback mission is a rare op- own conlrols? Are tones and flashing of an FDA investigation of one of them, portunity for a kind of learning that was lights to be regarded as psychoactive the Synchro-Energizer." impossible lo everyone before us. drugs? The jury is still out on these "If it's under investigation, we won't We certainly have the skills to lift the questions, as there have been few sci- comment." curtain of mystery covering Pluto. We entific studies on the effects of sound "You mean it's FDA policy not to give certainly have Ihe resources, too, if we and light on the brain. To remedy that out any information about any drug or elect lo expend Ihem in that way instead problem, Michael Hutchison, a brain- device il is reviewing''" ol some other. (Canceling a single B 2 machine booster and aulhor of Mega- "That's right." bomber would iree enough funds for vis- brain, the book that first popularized the "Can you tell me if something is iting Pluto, with a couple of hundred mil- Synchro-Energizer and other devices, under review?" lion dollars leftover.) has helped create the Neurotechnolo- "No. We have no comment." Do we have the will to make it happen? gies Research Institute in San Fran- "But under Ihe Freedom of Informa- Or will Neptune be the final frontier of hu- cisco, which has begun rigorous scien- tion Act one can obtain documents man exporaiion for the rest of our lives? tific tests on the machines. In the mean- about this." It's up to us to decide! DO time, mosl sound-and-light people gen- "Try and do it. then." COUNTER erally warn that the devices could be But I didn't care. After an unpleas- life left in ils dangerous to epileptics, borderline per- antness with a federal employee, I can With 25 years of power sonalities, and wearers of cardiac pace- always turn to my Inner Quest, which cells, Voyage/- 2-may have one more en- makers (because of possible electro- lets me mix low-frequency brain waves counter in store. Tne spacecraft may be magnetic interference). with music Or a subliminal learning tape the first to reach the heliopause, an area solar inler- Gorges dreads FDA regulation be- _And I can report that Led Zeppelin's whore w nds meet winds from cause "then there would only be big '"Stairway to Heaven" is more fun with qalactic space The heiiopause could be players. The inventors and creative multicolored spiderwebs rotating coun- anywhere Irom 10 to 50 years away from types would be buried." But he also teicookw.se. DO Vc-yager's present position. 72 OMNI Sleep can be more than just a rest period, it's night work—if you can get it TWILIGHT ZONES BYJAYNEGACKENBACH AND JANE BOSVELD night eighteenth-century com- Oneposer Giuseppe Tarlini dreamed that he gave his violin to the Devil to test the latter's skill as a musician. The Devil played a beau- tiful solo, surpassing anything Tartini had ever heard. When he awoke, Tartini jumped out ol bed and grabbed his violin, trying to recapture the Devil's music. Although "The Devil's Trill," as Tarlini entitled the composition, paled beside what he had heard in the dream, it is still considered to be the composer's best work Dreams have often offered fertile ground tor new ideas and artistic insights. Such writers as Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens, and Charlotte Bronte, for example, found their plots, characters, and settings in their dreams. But most people rarely heed their dreams, going through life unaware of the inspiration dreams can throw, seemingly out of nowhere. In one of the most famous accounts ot scientific inspiration, German chemist Friedrich August Kekule claimed that in the 1860's he discovered the formula for the benzene ring in a dream. PAINTING BY GEORGE TOOKER "I turned the cnar io ho: liroplaee," he re- professor Jo: i:i vVcr!;'. Ke-cile reported at mation. Our creams are new worlds tha- counted, "and sank into a naif sieep. The least Ihree dTfcrenl versions of his ben- are spin by the "use thai resides in each : atoms wriggled and turned like snakes. zene ring dreams. Wortz suggests :ha . of us. While awake we may be so busy One of the snakes seized :1s own lail. and Kekuie may have, in fact, made up the that we forget the pari of us.lhal cre- the image whirled scornfully before my dreams to avoid sharing credit lor the ates —the my I h make, Ihe storyteller. "Our eyes. As though from a flash of lightning, discovery with foreign researchers.) dreams are firsthand creations, rather residues of life.' writes I awoke." The- circular n- age of the snake, Dream creafivily should surprise no Man waking psy- Kekule said, suggested to him the hexa- one. Most current theories about the chiatrist Gordon Globus- in his. book gon shape of the six atoms thai make up function of rapid eye movement sleep, Dream Lile. Wake Life. "We have the ca- Ihe benzene molecule. (According to during which dreams occur, suygesl liial pacity for infinite creativity; at least while Southern Illinois University chemistry il serves to integrate old and new infor- dreaming, we partake of the power of the NOCTURNAL FLICHTS dream? To find out, two psychologisis- Steonen LaBeiue of Stanford .University and Jayne G.ackem bach of Athabasca University in Alberta, Canada-- prepared our experiment rn -Power Trips. Control- ling Your Dreams' (Ap'.MUSf) Theproj- searchers found hai ted during i\ thev had had lucid drears Lii,r-nij ho The sp : n-i:na iechmque helps vo Iwo-weak uariod required to complete avoid awaken -.no f.-Qir, a iuc 6 drear the awa^ei mbinq electnciiv So 1 ; -.- ," ii !": :,! i hig : 1 1 -i I- i sigr: or Cv among Ihe genera; oopulaiion. On however, also included instructors closer scrutiny, however abou' a [hire sormnc. as a means or mo v. no I ir.kluand ^e.s able iowaik ;u-id lecogn-zed ibey ire somnng :ecnn-que (c i/sri; TteCWwfexpfc lucid dream tasks: ceeruereuheioorna? 'creative problem letter Io my best friend he slree?; explains one sado-r. -When I realized .:'!' .. I .1 c.uoed escape from a nightmarish l:g- c ure^and ilying i i 'he poi.nl of he exercise Moc' New no inches above the ground and his diffi- Paul Tholey's work with athletes, includ- cer.:erec en anticipating her opponent's culty in flying more than 500 feet above ing himself. Tholey won several impor- strategy and style and visualized herself with it. It is possible, however, to dissolve all ta'ii skateboarding championships pri- countering her own attack." boundaries while lucid. Indeed, it is an' marily by training while dreaming. "He's These mental imaging techniques are essential aspect of moving into higher been able to put out his ego conscious- popular among athletes because they states of consciousness. ness while doing the task because of his help improve performance. The National Feeling unrestricted, of course, can training in lucid dreams," explains col- Research Council, an advisory branch of cause problems. Studying people who league Kaleb Utecht, the National Academy of Sciences, in fact, suffer from frequent nightmares, psychi- In other words, while dreaming, Tholey recently released a statement support- atrist Ernest Hartmann found that his dissolves the established .boundaries ing the usefulness of mental practice far subjects tended to have "thin" psycho- between the mind and the body and be- tasks that have significant mental com- logical boundaries. "They were clearly tween himself and "other" in order to fully ponents, especially when combining the sensitive people in many senses of the experience his sport. More important, he imaging with physical practice. Suinn word," he writes, "They were easily hurt; carries over the lived dream form of his compares the "body-thinking" of mental they were empathic; in some cases ihey sport to actual waking performance. imagery exercises to the "powerful illu- were unusually bothered by bright lights, It is standard practice for serious ath- sions of certain dreams." Perhaps, he loud noises." They also had thin bound- letes to spend time imaging their game. says, the major difference between such aries in the sense of sexual identity: "None If they play basketball, they may see dreams and mental imaging is that we saw themselves as totally masculine men themselves running through smoothly consciously control mental imaging. or totally feminine women; they were more executed plays and tossing perfectly Tholey originally traced some of the willing than most people to see aspects arced shots through the net. Swimmers positive effects of lucid dreaming on ath- of both sexes in themselves. And in their may envision themselves expertly strok- letic performance to the improvement of sexual preferences a large number were ing their way to world-record times. the sensory field. It's crucial, for example, bisexual in their actions, or at least in their According to Colorado State Univer- to execute a dreamed tennis stroke on a fantasy lives. In terms of dreaming, they sity psychologist Richard Suinn, 'Jack court in the hot sun with a crowd watch- were also unusual: Some described fre- Nicklaus first visualizes his golf ball land- ing. He also found a relationship be- quently waking from one dream and fall- ing on the green and actually watches tween improvement in athletic perform- ing into another. Even their basic sleep- the bounce. Then he visualizes the arc of ance and the athlete's ability to shift his wake boundaries were less solid. They the ball in flight, and then his swing and self-awareness, especially in those sports described not being certain they were the ball leaving the ground. His final step requiring quick and risky reactions to awake for quite a while in the morning, links them together in proper sequence." changing situations. actual practice. Tholey especially if they'd had a vivid dream." Similarly, Suinn says, former tennis The amount of Dissolving boundaries in lucid dreams champ Chris Evert "painstakingly re- argues, can be dramatically reduced by is central to West German psychologist hearsed the forthcoming match. She rehearsals that re-create the whole ath- CCNTINUEDONPAGE110 immanent Spirit, the infinite Godhead that In a typical dream she will walk into a gal- scious. Aschildrer creates the cosmos." lery, museum, or studio; turn lucid; ex- lish boundaries between reality and fan- Globus makes a distinction beiween amine a completed painting or sculpture; tasy. Less obvious are the boundaries we the creativity that gives rise to the variety and then later, when awake, attempt to place between our minds and bodies: We ot "unique life-worlds" and "formative" create it. don't think of "me" as located in our el- creativity, a deeper ievel of creative On a superficial level the lucid dream- bows but somewhere deep within. Per- thought. "Usually," he writes, "we think of er seeks a solution to a waking problem, haps we set up boundaries between thought as empty, unfilled, abstract. So it which the nonlucid dreaming mind then "self" and "other" and between "self" and is strange to conceive of thought as resolves. For example, a part-time artist the objects of the "real world." Even in lu- thinking up a world. Formative creativity places an empty canvas beside his bed cid dreams, we often set up boundaries is the power of Zeus." Lucid dreams. Glo- before going to sleep. While lucid he between the conscious dream ego and bus believes, most clearly demonstrate concentrates on the need for inspiration the creative source. this creative capacity. to fill it, When he looks at the dreamed The concept of boundaries and its re- Most people don't realize they've been canvas, he says, it "magically fills with a lationship to consciousness are central dreaming until after they've awakened. In picture." Once the desire has been ful- to the creative potential of lucid dreams. lucid dreams, however, you are aware that filled, lucidity helps to insure that he will When we know we're dreaming, it is not you're dreaming —while you're still asleep. remember it, Lucid dreams, including unusual to 'break through the traditional Such consciousness may be short-lived their minute details, are more easily re- boundaries. Lucid dreamers can push or may permeate an entire dream, but it membered than other dreams. (To learn their hands through walls, fly, and trans- empowers the dreamer to change the how to have lucid dreams, see "Power form themselves into other creatures. content of the dream. A sophisticated lu- Trips: Controlling Your Dreams," Omni, Veteran lucid dreamer Alan Worsley re- cid dreamer could, tor instance, decide April 1987.) ports that in 45 attempts to penetrate to fly away from a frightening character Conscious awareness during lucid "matter" in his dreams, he succeeded 41 or conjure up Einstein for a conversation dreams, enabling us to, say, leap tall times. Boundaries existed for him when about relativity, "The lucid dreamer just buildings, may also shed considerable he needed them—when, for instance, he thinks the dream world he or she wants light on the very nature of conscious- wanted to play the piano, walk up stairs, to live in and, lo, thai world concretely ap- ness. We all experience boundaries—the open a door, use tools, or snap his fin- pears," Globus writes. feeling that particular responsibilities or gers. But when he desired, he could walk Artist Fariba Bogzaran, for one, uses patterns of behavior limif us. We're con- through brick walls or float above the lucid dreaming as the primary source for fined by parenthood, childhood; by our treetops. Bacardi Premium Black her artwork. Not only does she "see" her role as lover, friend, or enemy. We often In lucid dreams we may also continue future works of art while lucid in sleep, place boundaries between layers of our to function with the boundaries we carry One sip, and you'll know why. but she also has made major changes in personal consciousness, delegating over from waking life. For Worsley ".h.s was .".: '::' ::::. :!,..:'!. !- If »:C-ki.i r.-.'ORTi I'.:: Rum. MADE IN PUERTO RICO. warn m W< E.^Stl i i her style as a result of her lucid dreams. much of our awareness to the uncon- iustofied by his ability to float a few BACARDI? 78 OMNI For the guru of Macintosh, designing computers and software is a subversive activity aimed at remodeling the imagination. Within 15 years, he says, our present ways of thinking will be as archaic as medieval thought IRJTERY/IEUU there something musical in a log? The answer is yes. You sive," he says. "The only question is how subversive you want of give Iscan make it into a violin, pipe organ, or piano. The computer, to be," In Kay's dreams, the personal computers today gestures too, has this ability because it holds inside itself descriptions way to truly intimate computers that respond to our of things and it can execute those descriptions to cover the and understand exactly what we want from them, whole spectrum of musical thought. There isn't anything it can't For much of his adult life, Kay has been halfheartedly battling represent!" Thus spake computer scientist Alan Kay, who also a paternity suit regarding the personal computer: Many claim believes that— like the genetic material of a living cell—the he is the darling's father, but Kay denies it. The only things he computer can read and follow its own rules to levels of self- could be justly accused of siring, he says, are the overlapping interpretation. Yet it isn't so much artificial intelligence that fas- windows that characterize the way computers look to millions cinates Kay but the way human intelligence sits in front of the of users, three or four computer designs, plus half a dozen computer, interacts with it, and comes away changed by that programming languages. And the term personal computer, interaction. He understands that his work in- designing com- which he coined in the Sixties tp distinguish the new generation puter interfaces and programming languages is a subversive of machines from the institutional mainframes, which were then activity. To shape people's perception of this medium is literally "as big as tennis courts but less powerful than a Macintosh," to resculpt their imaginations. "You can't help but be subver- In his present position as an Apple Fellow, Kay heads the first PHOTOGRAPH BY TOM ZIMBEROFF real basic research Apple Computer has High School in New York City, which he tered, windowless area with enough ever indulged in. It is a freewheeling proj- remembers as a "massive staging ground computer equipment strewn about to ect about artificial intelligence, centered for MIT, with six thousand boys and no warm a hacker's heart, in the inner-city Open School in Los An- girls, stuck in the middle of the slums. But geles, with 300 first through sixth graders at least it was challenging." Omni: You've quipped that you're really as the main participants. The project also The US. Air Force introduced Kay to not a computer scientist but a failed mu- capitalizes on the talents of musicians, computer programming in 1961, Thus sician. Is there music in the computer? artists, inventors —almost anybody who military service led eventually to the pur- Kay: The big problem with-computer mu- tweaks Kay's interest. His research of the suit of a graduate degree in computer sic today is that it's mainly about what a past two decades has repeatedly in- science at the University of Utah. Whije synthesizer can do. You can do some- volved youngsters. They shake up his there, Kay worked with engineer Ed thing audibly interesting that has no real thinking, he says, "help me rotate out of Cheadle to design a prototype personal musical content. Composers are now my common sense." computer called the FLEX machine. It trying to figure out what is content for the Kay is really a hired brain. His jobs at was not user friendly. But no matter. From thing. Various genres of the twentieth Xerox, Atari, and now Apple have re- FLEX it was a quick hop, in Kay's mind, century are really about the materials that quired mainly that he think and dream. to a truly personal, portable, powerful they're made of. This is a kind of perver- Yet Kay maintains that the most he's ever computer that would become as ubiqui- sion to me, like taking a broom handle done in the way of inventing is to bring to tous as TV sets and almost as easy to and putting it down on the keys just be- bear a new point of view. "I'm not a par- operate. Kay envisioned it as something cause you can do it. You can see ticularly original thinker," he told an inter- the size of a three-ring binder, something snatches of this going back in history, but viewer from a computer magazine, "I not a kid could carry around easily. He called the preoccupation with materials in this only require other people's ideas; I love it the Dynabook. century is an act of desperation mas- originality. them. I have forty-five cartons of other After Utah, Kay went to Stanford Uni- querading as people's ideasin the garage." versity's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Omni: Do you think programming is akin His love of ideas knows no disciplinary to musical composition? bounds. To explain a concept in com- Kay: It closely resembles musical com- puter science, Kay might refer to percep- position, not just aesthetically but struc- tual psychology, molecular biology, me- turally. Programming is a little like com- dieval history, science fiction, or music. posing a very long Gregorian chant 4 7/ have Even in the most informal conversation, We because you're just coordinating one his words are punctuated with footnotes, real personal computers when stream of things. And programs do come attributing this idea to Marshall Mc- back on themselves. For most computer there is no Luhan, that notion to Jean Piaget. To other programmers, there's essentially just one computer scientists, like Nicholas Negro- on/off switch. They'll be like melody playing that's complicated and long. Using a computer, though, is not ponte or Douglas Englebart, Kay pays clocks: on all repeated tribute. like playing an instrument— at least not the time. Even when you Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, in for me. Still, we used to say that Doug 1940, Kay grew up in a family that em- sleep, stuff will Englebart's [inventor of the mouse] bodied the "two cultures": His father was greatest contribution was to show us the be trickling into the machined a physiologist, his mother an artist and computer can be a violin. Unfortunately, musician. "It was just a happy accident," you had to be a violinist then to learn how he says, "but of course it made me un- to use the system. The violin isn't difficult, happy for most of my life. Because there it just takes a long time. Anyone can learn isn't enough time to do everything, par- how to play one, but most people aren't ticularly the music stuff." Although he can't and then on to one of the headiest think going to make the effort. It would be ter- put in the requisite hours of practice his tanks of its time, Xerox Corporation's Palo rible for the computer to be that tough. beloved keyboard instruments require, he Alto Research Center (XeroxPARC), Omni: Perhaps it's more like a kazoo? did spend ten years as a professional jazz where he spent most of the Seventies Kay: It's okay to start off as a kazoo, but, guitarist from age seventeen to twenty- trying to bring the Dynabook to life. "We damn it, you don't want to keep people seven, while attending college on the had a concentration of people that was in kazooland, because that's television. side. (He earned a degree in math and unbelievable," he says. "They weren't The hardest thing in designing the Mac another in molecular biology from the good people; they were stellar people." user interface was to have something University of Colorado.) Until recently, Kay devoted a fair por- that's easy to get started on, as the kazoo His memories of grade school are not tion of his time to the Media Lab at MIT. is, but actually admits of the possibilities happy ones, and the philosophy of edu- Although he still keeps an apartment in of the violin, You want the thin edge of the cation he now espouses is at odds with Cambridge, Kay now divides much of his long wedge situation so you can get what goes on in most American class- time between his "lab," the Open School, everybody started but not leave them at rooms. "The schools love conventional- and his Apple office in the Brentwood fhe starting point. Gradually the training ism," he complains. "Generally, the more section of Los Angeles. wheels come off and more and more conventional children are, the more that Interviewer Dava Sobel talked with him possibilities are revealed. And then you're adults like it." first in the backyard of the house Kay and hooked on the computer. Kay was an unconventional kid him- his wife, filmmaker Bonnie MacBird, Omni: Let's settle the paternity question self. By the time he was eleven, he'd read bought but haven't moved into yet, then once and for all: Are you or are you not 10,000 books and competed on the local in the home's cavernous living room. The the father of the personal computer? version of a famous Fifties radio and TV only furnishings were a Bosendorfer Kay: No. The first personal computer was show called The Quiz Kids. He didn't grand piano; a long, narrow dining table done at Lincoln Labs in 1962 but was make it onto the national show, though— with its two chairs facing each other at a never called a personal computer. The which, he says, was a traumatic experi- royal distance; and a cardboard model FLEX machine I designed in the Sixties ence at the time. "When I met some kids of the pipe organ that Kay designed on is, as far as I know, the first thing ever It who could think better than I could, it was his Macintosh, soon to be built as the called a personal computer. actually devastating," After nearly flunking out of room's focal point. Kay and Sobel ended looked very much like the machines of junior high, he went to Brooklyn Technical up in an Apple Fellow back office, a clut- today and was quite powerful. You could as OMNI do outstanding word processing and maker is sort of ihe original commercial the science fiction of the Fifties. I started simulations with it. But only graduate stu- desktop publishing system. The original thinking about putting the FLEX machine [Manutius, scur- the of eight-and-a-half- by dents liked it. That's when I first dimly re- Aldus 1450-1515] was a on back an alized how important user interface might rilous tout energetic Venetian publisher eleven-inch panel, but we didn't know be. People were doing them since 1962, who probably had more to do with the exactly when the panel was going to but it wasn't really a topic of conversation Renaissance than any other individual happen. But the world's easiest thing to until the late Sixties. besides Gutenberg. He published all the predict is what the density of silicon chips Omni: So you did coin the term personal extant Greek and Roman tracts. And he is going to be. We figured we could do computer^ did another thing that really endeared him the FLEX machine on the back of a panel Seventies. I Kay: Yes, but it doesn't seem important, to me. Do you know why books today are by the late But by 1968 had because by my definition of personal the size they are? Because that was the decided I was going to do the next per- computer, there still aren't any. We're not size of a saddlebag back then. Aldus was sonal computer design for a child. selling computers to the whole world. the first guy to realize these things were Omni: Why children? They still really go into business. They're not imitation manuscripts. You could build Kay: A lot of the problem with FLEX was starting to go into schools but aren't really a lot of them cheaply, and you could take that semiadults— namely me and other in people's homes yet. We'll have per- them away with you. They weren't going graduate students —were trying to de- sonal computing when there's no on/off to be in institutions anymore. This is one sign for semiadults. And adults are basi- switch. They'll be like clocks: on all the of my favorite metaphors for what the cally lousy designers for adults. I picked time, in constant use. Information is not computer has to be to really make it. You children because I had the vague idea something you log into; it's always avail- have to get the thing in a saddlebag. that if we did something good for chil- able. Even when you're asleep, stuff that Omni: What was the germ of the Dyna- dren, it might work well for adults, too. I your little agents inside the computer think book computer? also realized fhat if we were going to do you might be interested in will constantly Kay: It was a collision of my feeling thai a machine for kids, it had better not look trickle into the machine. the FLEX machine was a failure, seeing like a FLEX machine. The kid is mobile. Omni: Your Dynabook computer was to Papert's stuff [Seymour Papert devel- He or she's going to want to use it under with do all that and be portable, too, right? oped the children's programming lan- the trees—maybe try to hit baseballs Kay: Yes, the idea for the original Dyna- guage Logo], seeing a remarkable sys- it. When I was a kid, we hit baseballs schoolbooks. book was that it had to be so portable tem for gesture recognition at the Rand around with our you'd be able to carry something else, Corporation, and seeing the first panel Omni: So when you wenf to XeroxPARC too. You wouldn't put your grocery list display at the University of Illinois. It was you began work on the Dynabook? even on a laptop today. a tiny thing with a few blinking neon Kay: Yes. PARC was a once-in-a-lifetime during the Omni: Why is portability important? lights— really no good al all. I had known experience— like Los Alamos dis- all right crazies and no- Kay: I'll give you a historical answer. The there were going to be flat screen war. We had the software system called Aldus Page- plays someday because it was part of body who was merely good. In 1976 I Utttsi Gou mevDE-THE VgtfRUP, B6 A55URED TMOT THB I think the Lisa [PC] and the it's a musical instrument more than you made up a lis! of people I considered to that tradition. be the top one hundred computer sci- Mac together cost Apple around a hun- do with others. So if any musician's going machine, entists in the world, and we had fifty-eight dred million dollars to get out the door. to think of his instrument as a of them at PARC. But that wasn't long-range research. Ap- it's going to be the keyboard player. But Omni: Your recollections span virtually the ple knew they had a winner, but Xerox they don't at all. To me that's a huge met- whole history of computer science. had taken the research risks. Xerox didn't aphor for what computers have to be. It's Kay: We've collapsed hundreds of years know they had a winner. They haven't fig- when you don't think of the computer as hap- development of a typical technology into ured it out to this day. a machine anymore that things are direct a single lifetime. Except for John von The irony is that Xerox is selling com- pening. Then there's a connection Neumann [inventor of game theory, puters now and has to buy almost all their between you and what is amplilied. Kids among other things], most of the guys systems from somebody else— like their growing up in the technology will be able For it's just part of the from 1945 who did this stuff are still alive. desktop system—even though the first to do that. them Vannevar Bush [visionary electronics desktop publishing system that ever ex- environment, Technology is the stuff that's scientist] talked about optical storage in isted was done at XeroxPARC around invented after you're born. TV is technol- is li's siory for me; radio isn't. 1945, when he was sure it would be in- 1975. That really hilarious, a ogy accurate It's like the media. That's vented, but it still wasn't there twenty in itself, and there's a fairly book something it hit I said, of years later, when he assessed how far out now called Fumbling the Future thai how me. "Oh, course. The things had come. computer is a Looking at what metamedium." Englebartwas do- That means the ing in '65, there's computer can triv- not a single thing ially represent any- previous that seems archa- thing that repre- ic today. And that's media have very typical of the sented. You want to visions of the Six- represent a TV ties, most of which picture? No prob- were astoundingly lem. A Louvre modern. painting? No prob- Omni: How do you lem. The highest- account for that? fidelity sound that Kay: Partly be- a microphone can cause people were capture? No prob- simply driven by lem. A computer ideals. Then, too, can do all three you couldn't do because every- anything in a cost- thing in it is held as effective manner a description that because the com- can be as precise puter would bolt. as your under- Those who funded standing of the research were will- original. The des- ing to give you mil- tiny of the com- lions. The stuff we puter for quite a did at PARC [in the few years is going Seventies] was not to be this trivial more innovative representation be- than stuff done in Uncork an Occasion cause there are so the Sixties. Those many things we'd guys were twenty like to hold in Vintage methode champenoise, since 1872. years ahead of higher resolution Liikf Mew York. their time. A lot of Imported hv Codumiu U.b.A., Suh-vm, right now. this their stuff still isn't Omni: But rep- resentation triv- commercialized. ' is ' Omni: The Dynabook, with all its power names most of the names, alihough it ial in terms of the computer's real power? and portability, hasn't yet come to be. doesn't get all the culprits in. The most Kay: Oh, yes. When you cross the Kay: No, but we produced an interim Dy- interesting thing is simply thai most of the boundary from representation to dy- simulation, start seeing what nabook that we called the Alto. It was Xerox' executives, who had the opportu- namic you faster in certain ways than the original nity to go down in history, don't think they the real content of the computer is. Com- Macintosh but about a factor of five less did anything wrong. pared to physical material, the computer powerful than we'd planned the Dyna- Omni: Aside from advances in computer is absolutely unbounded: It transcends book to be. The display was the size of design, what has to happen for people to physicality. Words approach that free- the Dynabook's. We wound up building embrace this technology and welcome it dom because you can write a science- about two thousand of those machines into their homes? fiction story about a place that never ex- internally at Xerox. By 1976, when Xerox Kay: Let me use another musical anal- isted—or never could exist. Words are executives decided not to go ahead with ogy. While the Macintosh has about two tricky things because they're in the uni- the project, they were not turning down a thousand parts in it, that Bosendorfer has verse, but their interpretation doesn't have paper design or prototype; they were about twenty thousand. With the piano to be in the universe. You can say, "The turning down a system used by hun- there's more shit between you and what green ideas slept furiously." There prob- dreds of people for three years.' happens musically than any other instru- ably aren't any green ideas, and they A lot of the old XeroxPARC people are ment, except perhaps for the organ. 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Young children think mos, because you aren't. You're learning Omni: Because it can do simulation? jusl accounting, which is what it was in- of the users who are experts in their own Omni: Whose ideas design that the by doing. That's why they have to be pro- about Carl Sagan and his haircut. That's Kay: Right. If you drop the computer, it vented for. To the great surprise of its in- domain. There was a tendency to think of in shaping the became tected. Things you can do with vision, like what TV's about, The best thing about will smash because it's subject to the laws ventors, about seventy percent of Ihe ini- the average user in business as a Mac user interface? single influence was see a cliff, don't have to be tested out. Cosmos, by the way, is that Carl got four of gravity. But the simulation you do on it tial adopters did forecasting on it. schmuck. But there are actually very few Kay: The strongest Bruner's idea that progressive alien- million people to buy his book, and there's doesn't require any kind of gravity. You Omni: So the goal, then, is io get people real schmucks out there who haven't been Jerome Bruner's psychological theory. was ation, or holding off the world— going from a lot about astrophysics in it. can have a universe with no gravity in it, to use the computer to open up com- run over by a car already. Most people One of the founders of cognitive psy- question the whole con- For anybody who believes you can learn pletely new dimensions? are fairly intelligent and expert at what chology in the tale Fifties, Bruner got very tactile contact to the visual and then to Omni: So you lot of survival value. cept of educational TV? by constructing things, the computer is Kay: That's one of the big waves of the they do. The savant at the institute is just interested in one of Piaget's key ideas: the symbolic— has a that the child is stable in particular way And Piaget's stages can be explained as Kay: It's a paradox. The more interesting just Ihe cat's ass. With Ihe computer you future. The next big thing after desktop an example. And what I came up with is a occurring you TV, the more people should don't have lo fake anything on faith. As a publishing will be end-user program- that you should design a system that al- of thinking at different times throughout a change of dominance among make big idea. up. but it's exactly the opposite. You result, the amount of skepticism you can ming. The reason the software program lows someone, after a month or so, to go his development. Piaget suggested that the Bruner mentalities. That's a wake is like Omni: Earlier you likened TV to the ka- can put good stuff on or bad stuff; it's have can be at an all-time high. McLuhan Focal Point works, for example, is that you in and remake it. Computer material isn't going from child- to adulthood caterpillar to the butterfly. zoo. Is there anything in TV for the "inter- irrelevant. If you sit there for seven hours said cheap books created the Renais- don't have to customize it when you get like stone, so there's no reason to freeze going from the each one func- active adult"? watching it, everything is different about sance because you didn't have to be ed- it, It's useful as it stands. It takes a little the stuff in stone the way it is in most ap- There are distinct stages, with you than if you hadn't. ucated in a room with thirty other people while to learn, then a month or so into the plications today. You can make a great tional when it's operating. Kay: McLuhan didn't overlap enough started off repeating Piaget's the computer to make good predictions Omni: You've worked with lots of kids. like you were at Oxford in 1230 a.d. Thai thing you start thinking, Oh, I wish I could architecture and weave in a wad of stuff Bruner in about.it, beautifully predicted has TV affected them? you could buy one and go away by your- do x. Well, you can. You can open up the for redoing. experiments, but then he threw some but he MTV How if years thinking the Kay: The children I work with today are self was one ol the major forces for cre- hood on the machine, What you don't see Omni: So it's really crucial that people weird wrinkles. He showed that you thirty ago by about of fragmentation. frag- definitely more the products of TV than ating the notion Hey, I've got an idea! In down there is a maze of spaghetti like create their own programs? could just prevent the kid from seeing for progression The vi- mented image is incredibly interesting. TV the kids twenty years ago. You might call his view it was no coincidence that per- you see in a modern car. You see some- Kay: Well, you wouldn't say a person was a moment, you could switch him from which he's not is about being interesting than in- the difference a "hardening of the cate- spective was discovered less than ninety thing functionally simple, like a Model T, literate if all he could do was read, People sual to symbolic thinking, more till eleven or twelve, formational. In Bruner's terms, your im- gories." Television is an enormous force years after the printing press, And you say, "I'll move this over here and are worried about the twenty-three mil- supposed to do age according to Piaget. Once they can'; see, age mentality really cares more about for presenting the world as simple. It is Omni: The way I use my computer, it's connect this up to that. " After a couple of lion Americans who can't read. I worry start solving an image than getting anything really tough to give one of these [he really just a glorified typewriter. What am weeks it doesn't look like Focal Point any- about the two hundred million who can't they can reasoning about doing strategies all kinds of things very well. out of it. That's why you see quicker and reaches down and picks a blade of grass] I like little — doing wrong? more but a reflection of what you're write, If you read but don't write, it's a — thought that there three quicker cuts on TV, especially on com- to a kid and get him to pay attention to it. Kay: Most things people do on the com- trying to do, bit like watching television, If we get a Bruner were mercials, that's interesting. he's seen it before; it's dismis- puter now they could just as well do on Omni: And isn't this the answer to one of generation of people used to doing little basic ways of knowing: a kinesthetic way, because MTV Because carries to its logical sible. If you start off with too simple a set paper. With exceptions, A spreadsheet is your dreams? programming tasks, then it's just a whis- from directly doing something, which just the idea extreme. visual it? of categories, there's a pigeonhole for not just correctable paper. It's dynamic Kay: Yes. Suppose you were hired to de- ker from there to real program writing. is very, deep, elemental; a way, Omni: Do you enjoy watching ' I everything. Then the entire world be- paper that doesn't mimic anything any- sign a computer system for the Institute What people will do won't be recogniz- which has to do with how thing's figura- Kay: Yeah, the two things like on TV are dismissible and you're nothing but body was ever willing to write. Before for Advanced Study [where Einstein able, In ten or fifteen years, we'll do a kind tively relate to each other; and then a sports and MTV. They're both perfect for comes bored. It's extremely easy to be bored if there was a program, only people under worked]. Design a system that could ac- of thinking that is as different from what symbolic way, which includes reasoning television. You're probably in the worst 86 OMNI **The Young Pioneers, the Soviet version of the Boy Scouts, will search the skies forr,messages from extraterrestrials Were always heating mundane astronomi- about Russian cos- cal duties, it will also monauts, the Mir monitor the equatorial sky for space station, and region ot the from Soviet missions to signals EX, Mars Bui what about Finally, the Soviets ire about to their the search for extra- see irsi SETI terrestrial intelligence, dedicated iroject under the di- or SETI? Are the So- ictionofV.S.Troitsky viets actively search- of ing for radio signals the Radiophysics from outer space? Research Institute In Yes. Since 1965 So- Gorky. Troitsky's Proj- ect OBZOR will have viet SETI has been an array of 20 coordi- area of legitimate sci- an ra- entific Inquiry. And re- nated small-dish cently a number of dio telescopes by next new programs have year, with as many as 1995. Al- gotten off the ground. 100 by il won't be as According to Dr Ni- though kolai Kardashev of the sensitive as many search in- Space Research In- American stitute at Moscow struments, it will be State University, the more advanced than technol- Soviets "seldom have earlier Soviet and provide com- special money lor UPDflTE ogy " UFD plete sky coverage. SETI Thei of this latest project should help the Soviets stead to kill two scientific birds with one telescope. "Our The scale everyday astronomy projectsare very strongly optimized for achieve their SETI goals. According to Thomas R. Mc- adviser with the Planetary Society, the So- SETI," Kardashev says, "so if an anomalous electromag- Donough, SETI viets particularly interested in discovering "super-duper netic signal turns up, it can be analyzed." are spheres solar An example of this is Kardashevs own research, which civilizations" and have hunted for Dyson — their inhabitants—as well as centers on a 70-meter radio telescope to. be installed near systems totally enclosed by structures. Samarkand in the mountams of Uzbekistan. The radio tele- other dramatic space engineering (Westerners, to for signals from civiliza- scope is being built to study astronomical bodies, says Kar- on the other hand, prefer search than our own.) dashev, "but we expect to defect some unusual SETI sig- tions only moderately more advanced Soviet re- nals from deep space." To that end, Kardashev adds, the After 24 years of SETI, the major hurdle facing investigator at new telescope will electronically hold hands with other radio search is funding Jill Tarter, pnncipal SETI Center at Moffett Field. Califor- telescopes In the USSR and throughout the world, the NASA Ames Research The Young Pioneers, the Soviet version of the Boy Scouts, nia, says Soviet SETI must receive more government fund- it SETI research in the West will also search the sKles for extraterrestrial signals. Under ing before is equivaient to growing steadily. Soviet a program the Soviets call "amateur SETI." ihe Young Pi- Nonetheless, with scientilic interest to refine their technology oneers will use a three-meter infrared radio telescope at the SETI investigators have managed astronomical observatory located at Camp Orlyonok on the and have gotten a tew impressive programs olf the ground. Black Sea coast While the telescope goes about its more —paul McCarthy — - photo negatives, left posi- of the planets, with the a | one tive impression when rolled farthest from the sun men- clay. tioned on wet I first. Sitchin says he studied Sitchin elaborated all this these artifacts for almost 30 in The Twelfth Planet and two 1 years belore finding i sequels. But it wasn't until an extraordinary cylinder seal January 1986, when Voyag- in the Stale Museum of East er's transmissions came Berlin. Shown on the seal back from Uranus, that alarm was the god Enlil giving the bells went off in his head. plow to mankind. Befitting The Sumerian description of 1 such a celestial act, the Uranus. MASH.SIC. or : heavens were illustrated in "bright greenish," corre- the backg round 1 sponded to the blue-green Sitchin was flabbergasted ! orb on his television. And the At the center of the seal lay expression HUM.BA.. which a radiant sun surrounded he'd translated as "swamp- by alt the other planets we land vegetation," reflected the now recognize, generally the ' hot. marshy material discov- . i 2s latest success has given righl size and in their proper ered at Neptune's core. us an unprecedented look astronomical positions . The plot thickened "one gdays at the solar system The total, including the sun hundred fifty percent" in in August, we oohed and Or has it? According to and the moon, came to August. Sitchin says, with the aahed at live photographs linguist and biblical scholar 12 celestial bodies, one more Neptune transmissions. from ihe hinterlands of space. Zecharia Sitchin, the probe's than we have thus far veri- The Sumerians; he notes, The unmanned spacecraft messages only prove what fied. Studying other artifacts, Considered Uranus the twin, Voyager 2, launched by his book The Twelfth Planet Ihe linguist then found a list or "double," of Neptune; NASA in 1977, had siruck pay predicted in 1976—the year dirl 2 75 billion miles before Voyager 2 left the away. At Ihe speed of light it ground. More important. tired a fusillade of messages Sitchin insists, they confirm to Earth, giving us our first what the ancient Sumerian Intimate look at the planet civilization documented Neptune. And what a startling 6.000 years ago. look it was. The society of Sumer, Scientists at [he Jet Propul- Sitchin explains, started in sion Laboratory in Pasadena, southern Mesopotamia California, who run the Voy- (today's Iraq) circa 4000 b.c ager mission, went sleepless This ancient civilization, trying to keep up with the Sitchin declares, invented surprises. There was the the wheel, the kiln, and planet's color: a gorgeous, irrigation systems for farming bursting blue punctuated by And, he adds, they origi- wisps of white. And there nated basic concepts of as- was the planet's radical, tronomy as well. Using unexpected till, indicating a special illustrations and strong magnetic field, fierce pictorial script called cunei- internal heat, and a slushy form, the Sumerians recorded core. Combined with the their findings on tablets, spectacular findings it had statues, and cylinder seals sent back Irom Uranus in stone cylinders engraved 1986 and Irom Jupiter and with reversed pictures and Saturn before that Voyager symbols that, much like 90 OMNI reported seemed io bear some outright blui seven this out. (.ike Uranus, Neptune including the myth of Anki an unknown pianel X in "There were only had a bright blue color, a and the earth," Sitchin says the solar system (as is often planets, including the sun powerful magnetic field; "The only difference between surmised by modern astron- and the moon, described by numerous unknown moons: a me and other scholars is omers), "it would have no Ihe Sumerians, not twelve Venus illustrated hot, swampy core; and large that they call it mythology and life because It would be too And was sun " with shining rays (like the quantities o! water. I say 'it's fact." far from the Cheng The question remained Voyager 2 scientist Andy believes that the cylinder seal central figure on ihe Berlin how the Sumerians had Cheng admits that Neptune "is probably just a Stylized cylindei seal], not Ifie Sitchin firm II figured all of this out without and Uranus are similar in representation ol random But stands ancient astronauts, telescopes or satellites, many ways^ "If you had lo stars, no! meant to be inter- hot tor he and Neptune are pick two planets To call twins," preted as an accurate portrait asks, how could ihe ligures : Berlin j the naked eye.) h.e says, "they'd be Ihe of the cosmos." on the cyhndei be eerily similar to in had an answer. ones " But he finds the rest of Francesca Rochberg- so our modern 7 The Sumerians knew the what Sitchin says "amusing." Halton, a respected Sumerlan solar system And how. he unknowable, he decided, be- According to Cheng. scholar at the University of asks, could his predictions cause extraterrestrials had "There's nothing so striking Noire Dame, is far more about Neptune's abundant told them. Specifically, "as- about finding water in the damning. "This iscr: methane and water, ils in- tronauts" from the planet Neptune and Uranus sys- stuff," she says. "Cuneiform tense internal heal, and its have NIBIRU— the twelfth planet tems. All planets except word signs art similarity to Uranus shown between Jupiter Mars and Venus have a liquid wild interpretations by those arrived in Otnni's offices in before and Mars on the Berlin cylin- core. We also all expected who haven't studied enough, June—two full months der seal—had visited Earth a magnetic field. And we There's really not any Sumer- Voyager 2 proved them Mark many times, in intervals knew the color of both planets lan astronomy. " She also true?— Teich Muesli, the latest rage in health foods, now rivals granola in popularity. Swiss in origin, it is made from a mixture of whole grains, nuts and dried fruit and can be found under brand names from Kellogg 's to Post Now, according to some reports, there may be more to the muesli rage than meets the eye The British media recently carried several stories saying that a large bowl of the cereal contains enough lysergic acid diethyl- amide, or LSD. to create "mind -bending euphoria an( muesli addiction." The culpril the papers claimed, is ergot, a mood-altering fungal grain. David Conning, a toxicolo- gist with the British Nutrition foundation, whose report Conning is right. "Ergot with cycles ot wetness and sparked the stories, says, how- contamination can indeed dryness," Deamer says "This ever, that the media have create chemicals that have a Since the early Sixties. propelled chemical reactions carried things a bit too far profound effect on the mind," scientists have speculated that otherwise simply could 'The point I tried to make," he says "However. LSD is that organic compounds not occur" says Conning, "was that produced synthetically; were brought to Earth by Where did meteorites the food regulations govern- I've never heard of it occur- comets and meteorites. That obtain their cellular building ing ergot contamination ring in a natural form." doesn't explain how these blocks in the first place? would allow for the presence Conning is not so sure. primordial materials evolved "Most meteorites that hit Earth of mood-altefing chemi- "The last reported outbreak into living cells. Now, how- came from the asteroid belt, cals— not enough to create of ergotism occurred some ever, University of California which was once a planet a 'high' but perhaps enough thirty years ago in France," he at Davis cell biologist David on its way to being formed," to influence food choice." says. "The LSD-like symp- Deamer says he may be able Deamer says. "There's also According to Conning, toms ranged from hallucina- to unravel this mystery good evidence that some large food producers have tions to euphoria and death. Working under a NASA grant, of these organic compounds adequate regulations to Although LSD is usually he has discovered that were not formed in our solar ensure a low risk of ergot synthesized artificially, it has meteorites contain sub- system at all. We probably contamination. However, been detected in ergot stances similar to those that have our fingers on some many people make their own derivatives. And it is possible make up the membranes molecules that started out muesli out of raw grains that It is LSD from which of modern-day cells. around some other star and from health food stores; it is these symptoms stemmed." Because the materials he that predate the solar system those grains, he fears, that —Rick Boling has found form an oil-slicklike by millions of years," may sometimes by infected area on waler, Deamer —Sherry Baker with ergot. That ergot, in turn, ''Many excellent cooks are theorizes that early organic may give rise to LSD. spoiled by going into the compounds first concentrated "We stand on the threshold James Robbers, a profes- arts." on the surface of the ocean. of rocket mail" sor of pharmacology at —Eugene-Henri-Paul "There they were exposed to —Arthur E. Summerfteld, Purdue University, doubts Gauguin an unstable environment U.S. Postmaster General Continue practicing this exercise until guide, you should gain access to infor- DREAM you've managed to experience at least mation hidden in the farthest reaches of one role.reversal in the course of your high your unconscious mind. lucid dreams. You may then either prac- To prepare for this dream session on around until you come across some other tice consciously changing perspectives the analyst's couch, spend the day ob- life form. Whatever the appearance of this and taking on the roles of additional serving your relationship with the world. life form— be it Wonder Woman, the dream characters or just opt to complete How do you interact with other people? Cheshire Cat, or the Blob—there can be the dream from the new character's per- How is your mood influenced by your no doubt that its presence is a function spective. You may even decide to return surroundings? How do you react to dif- of your own unconscious creative proc- to your original character, tapping any in- ferent types of weather, traffic, music, esses. As dream researchers have long sights you may have gained from your conversation, and noise? How do you feel pointed out, every character who ap- role- reversal experience. about your life and yourself? Can you pears in your dreams—even those who If you feel yourself returning to normal chart the ebbs and flows of your moods play the part of familiar figures in your consciousness in the middle of the exer- as you go through the day? everyday life — expresses some aspect cise, complete at least one role reversal Sometime during the day, find a quiet of your inner self. Put simply, you play the in your imagination. place where you can sit and reflect upon part of every character in your dreams. It Please remember to record your role- the condition of your personal life. Where is therefore within your power to con- reversal dreams on a piece of paper, tak- are you at this point in your life, especially sciously shift perspectives with any one ing special note of any insights you may in relation to the fantasies you had as a of your dream characters. have gained by trading places with var- child? Are there any recurrent themes or For tonight's exercise pick out an inter- ious dream characters. ideas that have motivated you as you've esting dream character and imagine how grown older? Are there any psychologi- DAY SEVEN: DREAM SHRINKS your dream experience might appear cal blocks or other obstacles that have from the other character's perspective. You will gain access to hidden stores prevented you from achieving all you Imagine yourself actually trading places of energy, wisdom, and experience from once dreamed of? Allow your thoughts to with this character and then looking back the psychotherapist of your dreams. come and go easily. at the character you were previously Some of us pay our psychotherapists Now imagine what it would be like to playing in your high lucid dream. What thousands of dollars a year just to clarify have a personal confidant and therapist would your new dream self say to your our thoughts, putting into proper per- who completely understands your inner- old dream self about the scenario you're spective things that, in the deepest re- most thoughts and feelings and could presently experiencing? How do your cesses of our mind, we already know. On also offer you remarkable insights on feelings about yourself and your dream day seven you will learn to call upon the overcoming the difficulties you face. shift when you take on the viewpoint of higher wisdom of a therapist in your wak- Imagine, in as much detail as possible, the other character? ing dreams. Invoking this personal dream exactly what such an individual would 94 OMNI — look like. Would this person be a wise old propriate to the setting —by foot, by car, you in boosting your immune response. woman with flowing gray hair, a middle- or even by flying. Continue to explore un- When you first wake up in the morning, aged male psychiatrist in a three-piece til you come across the individual you're notice the way your body feels as you gel suit, a hard-boiled detective from a Thir- seeking. And remember, once your un- out of bed. Do you feel full of energy, ties movie, or a giant white rabbit named conscious mind has added its input, your ready to jump in the shower and bound Binkey? Would he or she wear perfume, dream therapist may not look exactly like off to work like a powerful gazelle? Or do carry a briefcase, smoke tat cigars, or the individual you consciously imagined. you feel more like a hunted deer, shot by consume a constant supply of fresh car- Once you encounter your dream ther- a tranquilizer gun and fading fast? Does rots? Imagine yourself sitting with your apist, you may use the opportunity to seek it take several gallons of strong, black "therapist" at this moment, sharing your his or her advice and insights on your life coffee to get you moving? Or are the most personal feelings with him or her. in the waking world. Since your therapist morning sunshine and a glass of chilled Continue with this part of the exercise for is the embodiment of all the memories orange juice enough to make you feel at least half an hour before going about and experiences residing in your con- alive and alert? the rest of your day's activities. scious and unconscious mind, he, she, Notice the kind of relationship you have Begin the next part of this exercise or it should have access to the most inti- with your body as you go about your day. about an hour before you plan to go to mate details of your life. Therefore your Do you purposely avoid even the slight- sleep. Gather together a small number of dream therapist should be able to offer est opportunity for exercise and gorge objects that symbolize some significant you some surprisingly candid and yourself with junk food? Do you smoke? aspects of your life. You might, for ex- straightforward input about how you're Or do you maintain a macrobiotic diet and 1 ample, choose your baby shoes, a pho- handling your personal existence Put typically spend your evenings at the tograph of yourself as a child, a diploma, simply, your inner self may know more health club sipping tomato juice, taking an old love letter, your Congressional about what's good for you than your con- aerobics classes, and lifting weights? In Medal of Honor, and a religious or spiri- scious self may be willing or able to ad- short, what is your attitude toward your tual symbol. While you're at it, choose one mit. By meeting this Inner self in the form body? How is this attitude reflected in additional object that expresses some your diet, dress, and general level of recurrent concern in your personal life physical activity? a tattered valentine to represent seem- As you did during the last exercise, find ingly constant troubles in romance, for in- a quiet place where you can relax for 30 stance, or an uncashed payroll check to minutes during the day and consider the symbolize your ongoing angst and con- ^Imagine current state of your health. Are there any fusion about where you're going in your trading places with one of chronic health problems that have trou- career. Place these objects on a night ta- bled you for a long time? What the characters about other ble or chair beside your bed and quietly health concerns that may have begun contemplate their individual significance. in your dreams. What do you troubling you only recently? Do you think You can also enhance the atmosphere think your new dream of yourself as generally robust or as a by burning incense and playing music in more or less sickly individual? Allow your self would to the background. say your old thoughts about your physical health to When you're ready, get in bed and take dream self about come and go easily without holding on to out your dream journal. Then create a them or analyzing them too closely. the action in your dreams?^ phrase that expresses some overall con- Now imagine what it would be like to cern you have about the current state of have a personal healer who constantly your life. For this exercise don't just focus monitors your physical health and assists on narrow concerns, such as your per- you in taking care of your body. What petually confusing relationship with your would such an individual look like? A boyfriend, Melvin. Instead, direct your at- of a personal therapist or guide in a high primitive tribal witch doctor in full regalia? tention toward more global concerns, lucid dream, you may be able to con- Or an elderly surgeon with a white coat such as the generally troublesome on- sciously benefit from the hidden wisdom and stethoscope? Picture yourself sitting going history of all your sexual relation- of your unconscious mind. The more often with your imaginary healer, describing ships with men or women. For example, you practice this exercise, the more inci- your personal health history from child- instead of writing, "Do I really love Melvin sive your insights should become. hood on. Continue with this part of the at all?" write something like, "Why do I Please don't worry or feel pressured if exercise for at least 30 minutes before always seem to wind up with shallow, you don't meet your dream therapist the going about the rest of your day. egotistical, insensitive, ill-mannered, and first time you practice this exercise. Begin the next part of this exercise unfaithful slobs like Melvin?' Then turn out Chances are that the dream you do have about an hour before you plan to go to the lights and enter the state of alert re- will express your unconscious thoughts bed. Choose an object that symbolizes laxation. Once you have done so. at- and feelings about the concerns you fo- some significant concern about the cur- tempt to enter the state of high lucidity cused on during the day. With continued rent state of your physical health. You directly from waking consciousness. practice you may eventually learn to meet might, for example, choose a giant bag We suggest that you allow your uncon- with your dream therapist on a regular of greasy potato chips to symbolize con- scious mind to provide you with a suit- basis. You may even establish a whole cern over your diet (don't make the prob- able dream scenario for exploring your society of dream therapists from a variety lem worse by eating them!) or an old shoe concerns. Your main focus should be of high lucid dreams. Remember, under to symbolize problems with your feet. upon seeking out a dream therapist to no circumstances should you ever use Place the object near your bedside while assist you in gaining insight into your this exercise to replace conventional quietly contemplating its symbolic signif- waking life. psychiatric treatment. icance. You might consider enhancing the Toward this end, as soon as you find atmosphere by burning incense and DAY EIGHT: DREAM HEALER yourself in the midst of a high lucid dream, playing music in the background. look around for the therapist you envi- imagine a 'personal healer who moni- When you feel ready, get in bed and sioned earlier in the day. Don't worry, tors and enhances your physical health. express your most pressing health con- however, if you don't encounter this indi- Today you will expand upon the dream cern on a sheet of paper. You might write, vidual right away. Just explore your dream therapist technique by invoking the im- "How can I lose 50 pounds?" or "What environment in that any way seems ap- age of a.personal dream healer to assist can I do about my allergies?" 96 OMNI "I will now overcome my headaches in Then turn out the lights and use the DAYS NINE AND TEN: alerl relaxation technique to induce a high my dreams" on a sheet of paper, and fo- TOWARD HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS lucid dream. Once you've entered the cus on that idea as you enter and sustain state ot alert relaxation, focus in your the state of alert relaxation. Once you find Exploring the land of illusions, you will mind's eye on the image of the object that yourself in a high lucid dream, seek out encounter reality beyond the phantas- you have chosen and on the words in the the weed and somehow destroy it: You magoric veil o! the dream. just phrase you have written down earlier. might, for instance, kill it with poison gas, There is a moment, upon waking it dream, you experience Also focus on your general thoughts blow it up with dynamite, or chop to up from a when about your body. pieces with an ax. a startling shift in perspective; in that mo- realize that the life you were Once you are in the midst of a high Alternatively, you might sjmply use this ment, you lucid dream, focus on finding your dream advanced method to try to boostyour im- most recently leading —the life in your healer much as you focused on finding munity to disease. Forinstance, envision dream—was merely a product of your your dream therapist the night before. your immune cells as tiny seeds. In your imagination. In this transition period, your often When you do finally encounter this indi- high lucid dream, you can generate im- return to the waking world seems vidual, seek advice about your most agery in which these seeds grow into like the termination of an illusion. As you pressing physical concerns, lush, healthy plants. must realize by now, moreover, awaken- Remember, your dream healer repre- Whether you invoke the image of a ing from a high lucid dream can be just sents a symbolic bridge between your dream healer or use straightforward as startling. That's because the con- conscious and unconscious minds. He, guided imagery to boost your health, we scious realization that you are dreaming the input of your does not dilute the power of your dream she, or it may therefore help you com- caution you to evaluate municate with yourself at a deep inner dream healer in the light of common identity at all. favorite dreams, level about the steps you need to take to sense. Under no circumstance should you In one of our all-time improve your physical condition. ever use this exercise to replace conven- the dreamer found himself in an amuse- psychiatric Ireatment. ment park, confronting a magnificent If that were all this exercise is good for, tional medical or sign that read, life. however, the dream healer would be little Dream healing may, however, help you roller coaster with a car more than a very specialized version of respond positively to such treatment, The dreamer took a seat in the front his ticket to the dream therapist. In fact, the real po- thereby providing an additional line of of the coaster and handed the op- tential of the dream healer exercise be- psychological defense against disease. the ride operator. "Ready to go?" "You it's gins where the dream therapist tech- Please don't worry if you do not meet erator asked the dreamer. know, nique leaves off. your dream healer the first time you prac- a hell of an illusion!" it," To experience the greatest benefit from tice this exercise. Any dream you do have "I'm sure I can handle the dreamer before." With your dream healer, you might request a will probably provide you with insights, said. "I've been on this ride symbolic remedy for some physical drawn from your own unconscious, into this, the roller coaster ride commenced. problem. Your dream healer rnighi lay his the way you've been approaching your The scenario of the amusement park hands on some part of your dream body physical health. faded, and the dreamer found himself to offer you some "healing energy." Your healer might also otfer you medicine or guide you to some healing environ- ment—such as a warm salt sea, where you can envision yourself thriving in the healing rays of the afternoon sun. In an advanced version of this exer- cise, you may even serve as your own dream healer, directly incubating thera- peutic dream scenarios. Indeed, a mounting body of scientific evidence strongly suggests that such creative vi- sualization exerts a powerful influence over your immune system by assisting you in mobilizing your inner defenses and boosting your psychological response to disease. Nowhere has this concept been shown more clearly than in the work of radiation oncologist Paul Simonton and his wife, Stephanie, a psychotherapist. Using mental imagery along with tradi- tional medicine, the Simontons have shown that attitudes and feelings can af- fect basic health: Patients coming to their Cancer Counseling and Research Cen- ter in Dallas, in fact, have a recovery rate twice the national average. To mobilize your body's immune sys- tem in this way, first find an appropriate symbol for the offending illness or dis- ease and place it near your bed. If you suffer from migraine headaches, for in- stance, you might imagine the symptoms in the. form of a twisted, overgrown weed. You could then envision digging up such a weed in a nearby lot or park. Before you induce a high lucid dream, just write, "' — being born as an infant in another reality. Before long, the dreamer saw himself Discover the growing up, going to school, graduating, developing a career, getting married, power of having a family, growing old, and even- tually dying. All of this seemed to cover a Mental Fitness. life span of roughly 70 or 80 years. 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Blue if turning your attention toward such mascara and aquamarine contact lens- thoughts has the effect of terminating a giant fur particular high lucid SPACE es? A coat you bought from the dream, since the next CONTINUED FROM PAGE 30 Salvation Army in 1966? Do you make love part of this exercise is meant to be prac- at midday in the office rest room or have ticed immediately upon awakening from direct route to space and would bring a penchant for mayonnaise on your sala- such an experience. space travel up to the twenty-first cen- mi sandwich for lunch? Do you give ten- In the moment that you notice yourself tury," he says. dollar bills to the homeless or hang post- returning to normal waking conscious- The $5 trillion cost of getting the train ers of John Travolta on your wall? What- ness, repeat the question that you asked off the drawing board would be 20 times ever your quirks, whatever your special- yourself in the dream: Who do I seem to the total expenditure ($250 billion) for U.S. ties, review them now.- When the period be now? Remember the way you felt space programs over the last three dec- has ended, drop this line of thought and about yourself in your most recent dream ades. Moreover, its construction could go about the rest of your day. and compare that experience with your take as long as 15 years — unless there is Just before you go to bed, write these sense of yourself in this moment. Look a breakthrough in tunneling technology. words on a piece of paper: "Let my around at the everyday world and ask (The Panama Canal, by comparison, took deepest self find expression in my yourself if there may be a broader real- only about a decade to build.) The 620- dreams." Then turn off the light, enter a ity— in whatever way you wish to define mile space train tunnel would be the larg- state of alert relaxation, and induce a high this concepf for yourself—beyond the est tunneling venture in the world. (The ' lucid dream. Whenever you recognize limits of your ordinary perceptions. Is this New York subway system totals only 450 . that you are dreaming, pay particular at- other reality a deeper, more vibrant realm miles, and the superconducting super tention to the way you feel toward the that you simply cannot perceive from the collider will be 53 miles.) "The space train identity you have assumed within the waking state, just as you cannot perceive would be a megaproject," acknowledges dream. Ask yourself, Who do I seem to waking reality while in a dream? Diamandis. "It would be the largest con- be now? and notice the way your sense Continue asking yourself these ques- struction effort ever undertaken by man." of yourselt subtly shifts when you focus tions from iime to time throughout day ten: As such it would require international co- on this question. Instead of attempting to Who exactly do I seem to be now? Is there operation and financing. Once this enor- change elements in your dream just for a broader reality beyond my everyday mous initial investment was made, easier fun, allow your dream personality to ex- perceptions? Also think about the dream access to space could lead to such ad- plore the rich and varied environment your exploration you conducted the night be- vances as increased scientific research, subconscious has seen fit to create. See fore; focus especially on the precise mo- asieroid mining, zero-g manufacturing, that dirt road down there? Instead of ment of transition between sleep and and lunar and Martian colonization, he changing it to a superhighway, just follow wakefulness. argues. In addition, the spinoffs from the it. If, along the way, you see a mountain You will bring this exercise to its con- space train project would benefit more range, climb or fly over it to see what lies clusion on day ten, when, if you are for- earthly endeavors, such as the develop- beyond. And if you pass a house by the tunate, you will attain a sense of tran- ment of superfast trains, cheap solar cells, side of the road, take this opportunity to scendence and a deeper understanding advances in the storage of electricity, and go inside. If the house harbors a witch, of the waking world. Before you go to bed, superconductor research. listen to her incantation —and, if you can, consider what the experience of tran- Although the political and financial is- tell her the details of your life as an entity scendence might include for you: a sense sues posed by the space train project are in a dream. of connectedness with something greater complex and staggering, they must be Remember, dream control is best ap- than your individual identity: a feeling of faced if mankind is to move into space. proached only as an aid to greater dis- timelessness that blurs the distinction "On balance, it's very unlikely that the covery. One particularly effective—and between past, present, and future; a space train will be used on Earth during very advanced—way to accomplish this feeling of profound meaningfulness in our generation — or the foreseeable fu- is not to deliberately change a particular which you experience insights into the ture," says David Webb, resident scholar dream prop, scene, or character but to nature of reality and existence; a sense at the Florida Space Research Commis- call upon your dreams to alter them- of religious reverie; or simply a sense of sion and a former member of President selves. In this way their symbolic mean- objectivity toward mundane concerns. Reagan's National Commission on Space. ing may become especially clear. Also remember the last time you felt such "But Da Vinci was talking about the heli- You might/for example, turn toward the feelings in a deep and profound way. copter five hundred years ago, and peo- image of Godzilla chasing you through Then, right before you go to sleep, draw ple thought he was crazy. It turns out he (he dream ruins of Tokyo and ask, in any a picture—any related picture that comes wasn't. He was just way ahead of his time." way that seems appropriate, Who or what to mind—on a sheet of paper. Finally, fo- Now is the time to consider such futur- are you, and where the hell am I? As you cus on that drawing as you induce a high istic— if no! farfetched — ideas as the express this thought, your dream images lucid dream. Then remember to seek space train'. Although Da Vinci's flawed might actually "weave" themselves into a those special feelings of transcendence designs would never have worked, his vi- form that makes their meaning clear. Does as you explore the rich dream ferrain. In sionary foresight paved the way for suc- Godzilla ravaging Tokyo turn into an im- this way you can call upon the wisdom of cessful helicopter pioneers. "It will be a age of your mother kicking over your your inner self to provide you with a tran- while before one of these space trains is blocks in your three? room when you were scendent waking dream. Remember, the built, maybe longer than I will live," ac- Or does the famous Japanese monster moment you wake up, note how your knowledges the seventy-eight-year- old turn into a fleet of shiny new Toyotas dev- sense of reality shifts. In that moment, also Marks. So he, like Da Vinci, probably won't astating your Chevy dealership? As your consider the universe that might be see any practical — or financial—return dream symbols become increasingly beckoning from beyond the limits of your from his fantasy of flight. But that's all right. clear, you will realize they represent your- senses — if the veil of ordinary reality "I did this thing for the fun of it," he says. self, your job, and your family, as well as could only be swept away.OO For some who ponder the future of death and reality and God. spacefaring, Marks's whimsical sense of As you navigate the dream terrain, re- fun also has a serious, important side. "We Copynqh; to i<)89 by Kenh Hnrary, Ph.D., and mind yourself that you are in the midst of need to think about projects like the space Pamela Weintraub. Reprinted from fr.'e book self-induced your own, illusion and that a [lucid Dreams in 30 Days: The Creative Sleep train," says Webb. "We must develop new, much broader reality exists beyond the Program, recently published by St. Martin's cheaper [per pound] ways to get to space veil of the dream. Do not be concerned Press, Inc., New York. or else we're not going."OQ 100 OMNI THE LONE RANGER EARTH By Douglas Starr complaints, mere nuisances after 20 years of solitary struggle, "ass people in our country who dedicate Thea: firsl. grew tip to develop- their lives to saving the environment," serious. On a seems have curbed the that Franco Tassi was harboring ment and restored [he rare ecosystem. De Mistura says. drug smugglers, the police broke In doing so he has become a hero to Tassi's passion for the park began into his home and searched the place. his nalion's environmentalists and a when he first visited it in 1957. A Rumors spread [ha; Tassi was shelter- symbol of change. For decades shy, studious young man, he had al- ing members of the Red Brigades, Italians built their economy at the ex- ways been interested in nature. an Italian terrorist group. Reports pense of the environment, gaining The trip was a high school graduation surfaced that he was dropping sacks of a reputation as despoilers of natural preseni from his rnothe'. ;His father vipers from helicopters. Some of resources. But the nation has had died fighting during World War II.) Tassi's employees had heir I ires begun to change. Pollution control has He toured the area, some 70 miles slashed. Three hoods roughed up Tas- become more common, and in 1986 east of Rome, marveling at the 6,000- si's son. "This has really been an more than a dozen members of the foot peaks and the ancient beech adventure," sighs the middle- environmental GreerT" party won forests. Like other visitors, he loved aged, soft-spoker .:alan He's referring pari amcnlary seats—the first time they Abruzzo's animals—the chamois, to managing a national park in the had run; Last year the country voted wolf, and brown bear—which else- Abruzzo region of Italy. no on a nuclear power referendum. where had disappeared. Tassi's job involves more than guid- "There's been a change in atlitude Tassi went on to become a distin- ing tourists and counting bears. about environmental problems," guished attorney learn five languages Parks in Italy are as threatened as some says Francesco \1ezzaies".a. president and move to Brussels as one of Italy's of [he species they protect. When pt the Itanan Bird Protection League. representat.ves to the European Eco- Tassi took his job in 1969, Abruzzo "There's- been a great maturation nomic Community When he returned National Park was being divided up by of the country as a whole." to see the park in the late Sixties he developers and polil c ans. A ski Staffan de Vl.s'uia. secretary-gen- got one of the rudest shocks of his life. area grew, poaching became rampant, eral of the World Wildlife Fund in In what had been a virgin valley and hundreds of new condos Italy; praises Tassi for his work. "He stood a cluster of six-story hotels. For- marred- iho frag.ic aipire valleys. Now, roprosoris tha: ores', siicnl group ol ests had been stripped of their laraest. qrandes". members. Italy's eco- nomic boom had brought with it unparalleled pressure to develop the wilderness, and management had caved in The park superintendent had been fired and not replaced. Politi- cians, industrialists, and other nouveau riche city dwellers had moved in io fill the vacuum, building hundreds of prefabricated concrete condos. Public utility companies had even built roads and water lines. The park, it seemed, was up for grabs. Whor -.ho governmon: inaiy decided to hire a new park manager, Tassi applied and got the job—partly because he was so distinguished and partly oecause his employers didn't re- alize what he would do, Soon alter. Tassi says, he received his first phone threat. "Renounce!" said the voice. "Renounce he position or get a bullet A; :he oar*; he found things in worse shape than he had anticipated. Years of park records had been lost, speci- co\TiNu=n on page ne — thing to ever happen to the place. Cute as a button. Everyone pats it on the READY FOR FRIENDS bald, green, flat top ot its head and fools BEST it at with it, gets to chase balls and snap ;;ON'"!NUED Pi/vl "A0L ') THE REAL THING bits ot string with its black, red-tipped "Take these/' w-ii RrandGnberg. claws. It keeps out the low-g mice. Eats i Montgomery looked at him oddly. scraps. But it's kinda frisky and soon "Excuse me?" becomes a tough and wily .veteran of a Where do we find our "I said take em." Brandenberg held hundred nasty baitings by drunken one- ultimate universal truth out his hand. "They're yours, buddy." time benefactors. The scene turns mean, and last consequence? "1 don't get it." and the men take to fire extinguishers "Answer a question," said Branden- and soda nozzles to shoo it away from In Scientific Advances? berg. "Do you regret anything you've their grub and booze. In Religious Beliefs? done for this company?" Stink is his luck, doing odd In Physical "Reality"? "No," said Montgomery without a down on moment of hesitation. jobs in a low-life place called NOLA. In Metaphysics? "I'm sick and tired of these goddamn That's the dome north of Luna Alpha on In Rational Reason? corporate games," said Brandenberg. a moon in the planet system Campbell In Cause and Effect? "Take the chips. Add a fair finders fee Bravo. He's patching zero- g car hulls - (but what is the cause?) to my severance check. I'm happy." He with Rutin compounds and Kyocera Ce- In Highest Ultimate Principles? smiled tiredly. ramics that set up like dome glass Montgomery looked like a man who rayproof and ultrastrong. Even worse, Do you think for one moment held a winning lottery ticket yet kept he just lost the dancer he'd been pursu- that given our full comprehen- scrutinizing the numbers in case they'd ing for a month with all his heart—and all sion and understanding of them, magically changed. He slowly picked his dough. hand. "I can It's a bone-tired day late in a two-year anything could really trump the cases from the other's slot these in the cranial unit?" winter cycle. Never enough solar, so the highest ultimate principles, just Brandenberg nodded. "They're engi- filthy recirced air stinks. He puts on the including our entire known neered perfectly to specs." mask and goes out and finds a malodor- Universe? Montgomery reverently put the chip ous saloon where everyone stays cov- Elysium On how we can be sure — on cases down on the lab counter. He ex- ered and just sucks up their tended his other hand. "Thanks, David. through straws slipped under a corner our ultimate conclusions, our it. of the mouthpiece. Sealed envirodomes I mean Really." universal perspective and philo- Brandenberg took the proffered hand can turn into little air-conditioned night- sophical judgment, read the briefly. "Got to go now, Caleb." He mares—and they said living in space published newly book: glanced at Montgomery's modular mon- was- the big solution. No real earths TABULA RASA strosity. The body parts were covered anymore; atmospheres all burned out. with a temporary fur analog that looked Now habitable means domed. the manifest need On vaguely like green indoor-outdoor car- This is a typical colony: sprawling for fundamental pet. Brandenberg noticed that the dog conduits buried under dirt to shield for philosophical redirection. had a huge penis. He didn't recall that rays. Caves cut into solid rock and magnitude of genitalia being in the origi- pumped up to one atmosphere with re- Let us come out of the Dark nal specs. "Finish building Rex In circ. Everyone stinking and smoking of illusionary make-believes Ages peace." He didn't look back but knew and carrying on. Sinuses stuff up really and give our situation a thorough Montgomery was watching him all the badly after living in space lor a couple look-see in sync with our higher way to the door. years. While this nasal nuisance afflicted awareness and comprehension As the elevator doors closed, Bran- all those with humanoid noses, for most the with the — and then face the consequent, denberg dug deep in his pocket and it was a case of taking good inevitable philosophical conclu- peeled loose the masking tape tag with bad of dome life. But Stink elevates pulled it out and this inconvenience to lofty philosophical sions. Christ did, but Christianity his thumbnail. He natural smell any- glanced at it briefly before rolling the heights. "Nothing to failed in his true message. Our tell would lis- tape into a tiny ball and flicking it into the more," he'd anyone who deliverance lies in genuine cogni- metal ashtray beneath the button panel. ten, "now that we live our lives in a can." zance, in the actual realization Brandenberg leaned against the wall, Such rumination on the human condition acceptance of true, incontro- and feeling the vibration of the ascending ultimately earned Stink his nickname. vertible rational fact consistent elevator car. He knew it was imjSDSsfbte, with highest ultimate principles. but he thought he heard the racket of Of late, Slink has been on a full-time frenzied barking, clashing jaws, screams. drunk in the rough town. To supplement Book available He smiled, and not pleasantly. his income—and pay his substantial bar with $107up donation. The label on the third mod dogware tab—he has taken to mopping up at the THE LOCOS FOUNDATION chip case had read pit bull. saloon. One night he is there taking shit from everyone. They piss him off enough for the furtherance of fundamental LUCKY so finally he yells at them, "Sons-a- philosophical thought and inquiry By Tom Dworetzky b itch-just-get-fucked," and means It. P.O. Box 758 This makes them turn their bored ma- Carson City, NV 89702 So one day this cat starts coming liciousness on the cat. After it has taken around the bar. Actually the beast is a a couple of solid shots from the extin- spring Ask about our upcoming local low-g breed with feline moves and guisher and is looking the worse for it, 1990 quadrennial philosophical looks like a furry twenty-pound, orange- Stink grabs the animal and takes it to the conference on the (South) Rim and-violet lizard, but everyone in the Out back and gives it some rotgut to lap in a of the Grand Canyon. calls them cats anyway. The bartender dish, and it gurgles Big Hero, they all takes it in, and for a while. it's the best call him, and have a laugh. "That's one, you assholes," he yells aga.nst the solid chrome edge of the He pretty much follows the cat back at them. counter—when the beast sinks claw hunches, eventually, doing Lucky's bid- After a while, he's done his chores deep into his forearm. Then just as the ding without hardly thinking. His life just to obliv- getting better. and earned some drink for it and sits cat is about to be sent halfway keeps complaining to himself about the Ely- ion with a broken neck, the bartender "What's ihe point of arguing with tells one night over a sium: still can't get the right flavor from drops dead ot what the robocops say you?" he the cat hydroponics. He's wishing the boss later must have been an unlucky fluke in meal of liver and onions. He scratches would give him the good stuff when he the ticker. Lucky affectionately behind the ear, and leans into his fingers and purrs, takes another sip and, wham, it is the Anyway, now it's either kill the thing or the cat point?" he says again. good stuff. Bartender must be drunk. someone lake it. No one says anything. "What's the right ' NatiraHy. he So he thanks the bartender lor the "Either one of you take it or it's the big "You're always does Imported, and the guy laughs .and says sleep," says the robocop. No strays al- not tell another soul any of fhis. no way he'd give that to him and tries to lowed, animal or human. Sure, says the big snag back the rest. But Stink has judi- Stink. He could use the company. The cat is frisky on wedding around like all get-out, as ciously already drunk it all except a slug day. Running Stink himself, is trying to get left In his glass, which he instantly II first happens for sure playing cards is who busy bodywear and cone downs—and then smugly smiles and in the saloon. Cat is prowling around on into the black satin time. His licks Ihe alcoholic residue from his lips. a shelf that runs the corner of the room hat to make the ceremony on The bartender tries to charge him for the and looks down on the iable Stink feels beloved dancer is walking briskly back difference but Stink says, "No way. You desperate and needy. "Be lucky for me. and forth from closet to mirror to bureau says for a laugh, which it gets. and back to mirror. Snapping earrings gave it and I earned it anyway and a cat," he "That's wrong," deal is a deal. Drop dead." Then they turn to Ihe game. Everyone is on and off- and going, bartender and, "At last." and such. "And you gave it to that damned cat Porting pretly hard. The new underfoot an to boot." the bartender yells at Stink. let him bring the cat back to the bar after "That cat is getting lot. dearest, musi you al- "That's the first and last time lor the pair awful Stinker ways take him everywhere?" of you. Do it again and I'll beat you both anything him, to shit." "Don't say bad about to Slink yells back, "That's the last time okay?" says Stink nervously, going you, too." quiet her. "He's my lucky cat. He's my for •From time to Stink's relations with the bartender pet. Friend for life. Couldn't possibly deteriorate seriously after lhat, to where time, if Stink looks at one of ever just toss him out." sometimes I wish you would." the man figures to even things with Sfink the players and "Well, room, stops by taking a piece of his hide. Lucky, across the dead tries to figure his hole cards, in his tracks. He whips around, stares at If starts okay. Stink weaves and slips her and shoots a low hiss, and then the guy's jab, but the tirst time it con- he gets one of corner. nects. Stink is stunned and numbness scats to the those cat hunches and it stinker. Stinker," creeps into his arms. The bartender "You can be -such a giving moves to clobber him for good, and as seems to be she says softly, coming up and the starts drifting off he visualizes him a sweet-smelling hug around Stink right Cat, don't fail me now. 9 glass breaking as the good stuff neck. "But someday, I'm afraid, it might that cat or..." crashes off the top shelf. The cat soars just be either we get rid of "Don't!" cries Stink. "Don't ever even up like it knows what he's dreaming, hits think things about Lucky. Promise the top shelf on the fly. and carefully bad with such taps one of the two remaining magnums me!" He takes her in his arms passion that stops speaking of the good stuff with a pat of its paw. a while because it has calmed down she her The cat -perches like an Egyptian statu- and follows Stink just like a well-trained abruptly. He squeezes and hugs ary and. watches the crash. The sound dog. The cat even heels when Stink desperately, nearly knocking her head makes the bartender wince with genu- walks down the street, and stops more over heels. laughing ine pain. A bottle of the good stuff this "Alright, alright," she says, more or I'll far in the Out is worth about the same as At the card game, though. Slink gets and kissing him back. "No stares at her. a slightly used zero car. The cat scats suspicious that somelhing is up. The cat look a total mess." He out the bar and into the night. wanders around the table. From time to "Promise?" he whispers. Right there with all our Next day there's a showdown with the time, if Stink looks at one of the players "I do. Okay? I other today. I promise will never bartender and the cat. Stink, too. It in- and tries to figure his hole cards, he vows volves the last bottle of good stuff. Stink gets one of those cat hunches and it be mean to it again." Stink her again. Then he looks at is mopping up when he starts to fixate seems to be right. He looks at the cat, hugs gurgles rnelodi- on the bottle on the top shelf of the or- which is looking over the shoulders of Lucky, who hsses and nate chrome-and-giass oackbar. A crisp the olher three players at the table. Cat, cally and beams him with a Lucky stare. cone of light from the pinpoint halogens don't fail me now. It is a big hand. He encircles it reverently. In comes the cat. has the hunches then and figures the FADED ROSES Fowler In comes the bartender. three other hands. If the hunches are By Karen Joy right, are weaker than It's as if the cat has decided to duel it the other hands from out, which is okay with the bartender. his three aces and pair of eights. So he Thirty-two sixth graders Holmes "Back again?" says the bartender, carefully lets them push him shakily to Elementary lined the rails that protected of Gorilla from fin- taking a broom and going for the cat. the limit, fill his final call leaves him with the glass the Room The cat makes a graceful leap to the precisely one 5 chip. The price of a gerprints. Two of them were ealing their shelf with the. remaining magnum. But burger and two Elysium beers. lunches., Sixteen had removed some the bartender figures that and gets hold The play-is just what he, and the cat, item from their lunch bags and were of the cat by -the violet hair on its back figure Taku /,'. tie Ih'nks to himself as he throwing them instead of eating them; his their teacher paid no attention. Five and they tussle 'for a second, and it rakes n a pot big enough to pay nut looks like the big nothing for the cat—as tor a month. He quits mopping the bar. were whispering about a sixth, who fid- locked knob on the work- the man is about to smash its back After that he calls the cat Lucky. dled with 'P.e " first gorillas brought !c 'his country room as if she didn't hear. Five were else. Anders was proud of those eyes, The discussing the fabulous Michael K.'s "That gorilla there, well, an angry died within weeks. The gorillas who lived eighty-two-point game last night, and sailor poured nitric acid on him. The in private homes with mothers instead of three were looking at the gorillas. An- sailor'd lost his job and wanted to get keepers did better," closed as her ders approached one of these three. It even with the importer. The acid dam- Toto yawned. Her eyes was part of his job. He was better at the aged the muscles on the gorilla's face. mouth opened. She smacked her lips other parts.' so he always looks like he's snarling. It's when the yawn was over. She was the "'We have a mixture of lowland and the only expression he can make." newest ot the gorillas. Anders had mountain gorillas." he told the boy in the A storm of peanut shells hit the glass. added her last year. It was harder to baseball cap. The boy did not respond. Anders identified the culprit and took love Toto. but Anders did Anders had his That suited Anders fine. "I know which him by the arm. Anders did not raise his (earned everything he could about gorillas that Toto was used is which," he continued, "because voice. "I was telling a story about the and he knew they're my gorillas. Now, some experts big gorilla in the corner," he said to the to being loved. Spoiled and prone to argue the noses are different or the second boy. "This will interest you. He five- hundred-pound tantrums. Toto had first home- mountain gorilla's hair is longer, but I've was raised by Mrs. Lintz, an English- terrorized her way out of her studied the matter and never seen that." woman, and he lived in her house in When her mother, a Mrs. Hoy!, saw that There were thirteen gorillas inside the Brooklyn until he got too big. He may she could no longer control Toto. Toto exhibit. Five sat on was sold to a zoo. Mrs. Hoyt rocks at the back. but came One baby played along also. 'Toto bought as a with a tire swing, was bride for Buddy. batting it with her Anders said. feet and turning an "She occasional somer- was raised in Cuba, sault through the where she had her center. One sia'ed own pet A cat." Anders had ten in contemplative Too good concentration at children listening of nothing. Four alter- now. Did any nated through a them have cats? variety of groom- Anders doubted it were ing arrange '-icnt s. And there One nibbled on other indulgences. "When Toto came the peeled end ot to gobble the U.S. a stick. One sur- to she brought along a veyed all the oth- trousseau. Sweat- ers. It was a digni- fied scene. Sullen. ers, dresses, and Reserved. Moody. socks," Anders Shy. These were said, "all with the some of the words name Totito in em- commonly applied broidery. The pa- over the years to pers loved it. The Suture Mrs. Gar- gorillas. They had WILD none of the joie gantua. But Toto de yivre of chimps. threw her bed at Gorillas were not Buddy when they TURKEY first met, and her clowns It took a dignived. reserved 8 years old, 101 proof, pure Kentucky attitude never sof- person to appreci- tened." ate them. Perhaps The prospective mother-in-law had it took a little loneli- ness. And Anders done much to sab- had that. otage the union. The boy pointed over the rail. "That ook fierce, bu: ne was always terrified of "She's only a nine-year-old child," Mrs. one looks really mean." Anders did not thunder. One night there was a thunder- Hoyt had said. "What do you expect?" have to follow the finger to know which s:oim. Mrs. Lintz woke up to find a four- John Daniel moved along the back of gorilla the boy meant. hundred-pound gorilla huddled on the the exhibit. His steps were slow and A lowland gorilla. Gargantua the foot other bed, sobbing." fluid; muscles rippled on his back. He Great. "Paul du Chaillu was probably There were perhaps six children pay- was Anders's favorite. "John Daniel was Major Ru- the first white man to see gorillas," An- ing attention to Anders now. Somewhere purchased from Harrod's by ders told the boy. "He tracked them an elephant trumpeted. "They don't look pert Penny ot the Royal Air Force as a and shot them and came back to at us," one boy complained, and a girl in present for his aunt. John Daniel had a France and told stories about their fe- a plaid shirt asked if they had names. variety of ailments, including rickets, but fixed that. rocity. Made him look brave. Made his "Actually we have three gorillas who the aunt, a Mrs. Cunningham, books sell. Barnum did the same thing were raised as pets by Englishwomen, She raised him as she would have with his circus gorillas. He knew people Anders said. "John Daniel. And Toto, raised a small boy. A certain amount of would pay more to be scared than to be too, the fat one there looking for fleas. indulgence. A certain amount of no non- moved," Beyond the glass, Gargantua And Gargantua, whose real name is sense. He ate at the table with them and swiveled his huge head. The teeth were Buddy, Gorillas don't look at anyone was expected to get his own glass of permanently exposed, but the eyes, di- directly and they don't like to be stared water and to clear his own dishes. He rected obliquely left, said something at themselves. Very unsuiled to zoo life. was taught to use the toilet and. since he cried when he slep! alone-, was ever Complete the Quest. a room next to the major's. Mrs. Cun- TWILIGHT ningham consulted no experts but used her own Judgment in devising his diet, Improve yourself. By yourself. which included fruit, vegetables, and letic environment during lucid dreaming. raw hamburger. And roses. He loved to A West German martial arts competitor eat roses, bul only if they were fresh. He who had studied karate, Tae Kwon Do, wouldn't eat a faded rose." and jujitsu decided Io also learn aikido, a When he became too big to keep, discipline quite unlike the. others. After Mrs. Cunningham sold fiim to a private studying for two years, however, he park she believed would be ideal. Tragi- couldn't master this new art, largely be- cally, he ended up in the circus instead. cause his o'evousiy learned movements Anders had lost his own indulgent refused to give way to the "softer" ones mother at the age of eight. He thought employed in aikido. he had some insight into John Daniel. "One night, after still not succeeding in attacker taking him He knew what it was like to suddenly, wearing down the and dis- inexplicably, exchange one home for to the mat, I went to bed somewhat another far less happy one, John heartened," the martial artist recalls. "The Daniel's expression was intelligent but situation ran through my mind lime and bewildered and bereaved. again. While defending myself, the cor- Too subtle for sixth graders. Anders rect balancing movement collided with was down to an audience of four. "So my impulse to execute 'a hard defensive interesting," the teacher said brightly, block, so that I repeatedly ended up un- although Anders did not think he had protected and standing there like a been listening. Probably he had been question mark, a ridiculous and unwor- there with a crerent c ass last year and thy situation for the wearer of a black belt. perhaps the year before that. Probably During a dream that night I fell down hard he had heard it before. Probably he had one time instead of rolling away, I had never listened. "Can you all thank Mr. made up my mind to ask myself the crit- Anders for showing us his gorillas?" the ical question in this situation; Am I awake teacher suggested, and then, without or am I dreaming? I was lucid. Without As Seen on ABC Nightly News. pausing for thanks, "We won't see the thinking very long about it, I began an session de- giraffes if we don'l press on." unsupervised training on No one else was scheduled until three. fense techniques with my dream partner. Anders opened the workroom to get his Time and time again I went through the own lunch and a book. He was studying exercise in a loose and effortless way. It Koko now. a gorilla raised by a Stanford went belter every time." graduate student and :auc;.nt to sign. He After practicing in his lucid dreams for planned to eat inside with his gorillas. a week, the West German once again but Miss Elliot arrived instead. "Have began training. "I amazed my instructor lunch with me," she said. "I made cook- with almost perfect defense," he recalls. ies. It's a beautiful day." 'And even though we speeded up the tem- Miss Elliot often came at lunchtime. po I didn't make any serious mistakes. She had no real interest in Anders, or so From then on, I learned quickly and, a Anders thought. Her own upbringing as year later, received r ^y trai ~mg license." the baby of a large, loving family had left To enhance athletic performance her with a certain amount of affection io through practice in the lucid dream, Tho- spare. She regarded Anders as a pro- ley believes, the dreamer must break ject. No healthy young man could be through the ego's ordinary boundaries. A allowed to molder among the exhibits. part cue' y successful example of this is Get him out. Give him a bit of medicinal an Olympic equestrian from South Amer- companionship. Miss Elliot wore a uni- ica whom Tholey trained with lucid form with an elephant on the sleeve and dreaming, helping him become "one with below that the black circle. Miss Elliot the horse." The rider achieved a state of showed the elephants, but they weren't perfect empalhy with the animal, even- her elephants and Anders doubted she tually perceiving the world through the 1 even understood the distinction. eye: :, cars, and nostrils of the horse. The If he refused her offer, he would face rider then transferred his dream experi- her brand of implacable, perky determi- ences to his actual riding. training, nation. He found it unendurable. So he In his lucid dreaming Tholey nodded instead and put the book back incorporates many of the elements of beside his tools and his sketches. He mental imaging: First, while awake, you joined her at the exit, opening the door. should, of course, practice your sport. It's Miss Elliot shook her head. "You al- safe to say that no amount of lucid ways forget," she said. Her tone was dreaming alone will improve your game indulgent but firm. She reached back ii you never practice al all. past him, brushing across the black cir- Second, watch expert athletes prac- cle on his sleeve, and threw the switch tice. If you play tennis, for exampla watctl that turned the gorillas off. They ate players like Martina Navratilova, Boris •lunch on the grass outside the Hall ot Becker, or Steffi Graf closely, observing Extinct on. The cookies were stale. The how they perform particular shols. Many flowers were in bloom. DO videos are available that will allow you to , — study a certain move or style of play. Form lucid may break through the physical dian who also wanted the money. He "I a mental model of perfect performance. boundary of sleep. When, for instance, came at me. I ducked and executed a When you become lucid in a dream. made a large movement of my leg while perfect side snap kick. The Indian took replay your mental model. In this third dreaming and sleep recording in the lab- off his shirt, revealing a muscular body. step, as with waking practice, be sure to oratory, I was lying facedown," says Wor- Angry, he ran at me. I had perfect timing internalize the performance. You are the sley. "My legs were covered with a i.ght again and perfectly executed an ele- outstanding tennis player or downhill skier. quilt that was lying loose. Thus my lower vated front snap kick. He was laying on Also be sure that your dream includes all legs were free to move by swinging up- the ground and -furious, He came at me the elements of performing the actual wards from the knee. In the dream, which again with a wide right hook, which I sport. If you're practicing Alpine skiing, was lucid, l-was deliberately kicking blocked with my right arm and then a rave paint the dream scene with trees, snow, backwards with my right foot against a a punch into his solar plexus. He loudly wind, mountains. hard surface. Suddenly, I woke and found said some slang words and finally left. I Fourth—and this is the critical step, that my right lower leg was in fhe air." The could not believe I fought so well. In other according to Tholey— let your ego and large movement was recorded on the dreams my technique had been good but body boundaries dissolve into the set- polygraph and was followed in less than slow. In this one, however, all the moves ting. You are the skier, the skis, the snow, a second by characteristic signals indi- were premeditated and executed per- if I the trees, the mountains, the wind. "Be- cating Worsley was wak'ng up. "It seeded fectly. I felt as were merely playing with cause I know I'm dreaming," dream psy- obvious to me that the kick in the dream this angry man." chologist Gayle Delaney says about ice- had caused a large real movement of my Although Tucker and Worsley both skating in a lucid dream, "I can skate with physical leg." knew they were dreaming, Tucker was I in his wings on my blades. When I jump, am Both the s cop environment and the in- totally absorbed dream world. weightless and I fly as I turn in the air. tent of the dreamer may influence the whereas Worsley was not. Also, Worsley it When I spin, my balance is perfect. I feel outcome of such movements. On the sur- was in a sleep lab, where may take more a happiness that is one of the most pro- face, research subject Bob Tucker's lu- effort and absorption to preserve sleep. other research discovered, found I have ever known, and I am a! one cid dream involving karate seems similar And as has the is. the with the world. I feel all the forces of the to Worsley 's but with a different outcome. the more absorbed sleeper harmony of the universe in my skating, "I was riding my bike to high school when more vivid the imagery, the more likely and the intensity of my joy knows no I saw a suitcase," Tucker says. "Curious, one will be able to successfully apply the bounds." It is this creative ability to be- I opened it and found some large bills dreamed action when awake. come part of each facet of the activity wrapped in paper. I was deciding if it was Being at one wifh the world around you, that enhances the performance potential right or wrong to steal it. I looked around whether in a dream or in what we per- of the dream and allows you to carry over and didn't see anyone. So I started get- ceive to be the real world, is crucial for the experience to waking performance. ting the largfe bills and some other items achieving excellence in sports. 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DO Excerpted from Control Your Dreams by Jayne Gackenbacfr arid done Bosvetd, pub- lished by Harper & Row, Inc. © 1939bydayne Gacknr:OdiJ<:n:C: lane Bosvetd. — Omni: Do ideas about the brain architec- Omni: What makes you think that? get one undifferen- lOITERVyiEUU ture influence the way you design com- Kay: Suppose you tiated mass neural network to do both CONTINUED FROM P' puters? word recognition. Now com- Kay: If we knew more about the brain, I'm face and inefficient pare it with two smaller neural networks everything you see is something you've sure we'd be appalled at how at performing separately, one for face and seen before. it is. Right now, we're awed how much build. the other for word recognition. How big To attract attention in our culture we better it works than anything we can glad are working on neural does the undifferentiated network have boost quantity of some kind—make it I'm people to compared with two smaller units? louder, brighter, flashier. But those things networks again. Although they work best be, of in Not just double but ten or more times as are what the nervous system is trying to when there's some sort modularity particular neural big. Because a lot of Ihe biases in there normalize to, so it's self-defeating. No them, the point behind a of is any modularity. are simply trying to keep the two sets matter how loud you make it, there'll al- network not to have apart. You're giving it one ways be a rock band that's louder. Even- Everything's connected, and you start information happen to call inputs to it and reward it some- bunch of things that we tually you get used to it, if only because feeding faces and another bunch we call words. you go deaf. The main thing in science how. Eventually the thing gets good a! it's clam say. Later on you start It doesn't know. So as happy as a and art is to go the other way. This is a recognizing faces, keeping you give it ten facelike things in a tiny leaf. You've seen millions of 'em. But feeding it sentences, meanwhile when row. you give it a word and it thinks of it at recognizing faces. You need Then if you go after the qualitative aspects good there's nothing it's a face. All of a sudden ihe shit hits the the leaf, there are literally thousands of lots of neurons because Things suffer for a while. If there are dimensions before you even get into Zen remotely similar between a face and a fan. though, it will eventually this is sentence. So in a world with a grand de- enough neurons, Buddhism. I don'l know whether designer recover and hold both of these things. But good or not, but ever since age fourteen, .sign, you imagine the grand great but many of the neurons are simply going to I've always had at some level of con- saying, "Boy, neural nets are things if for face rec- be there to keep the two sepa- sciousness the awareness that Ihe air would be better I had one without a plan. molecules are going one thousand miles ognition and another for word recogni- rated in a way that's dif- Omni: If it doesn't have a plan, what does an hour. The point to teach kids is that tion!" And that's partly true: There are also it have? the universe is infinitely larger than our ferent areas in the brain. But there's of undifferentiated stuff there. Marvin Kay: Architecture. Anything that's inter- common sense would have it, and infi- lots intelligence expert] esting works because it's got an archi- nitely more interesting. The other point is Minsky [MIT artificial as tecture. Life is an architecture. Only a few that there's no such thing as a fact; dif- and I often speculate that as much people that until the Watson- ferent points of view reveal different ninety percent of the neurons are there suspected for lateral inhibition [a form of feedback Crick model of the DNA molecule. Peo- things. If I could get kids to understand used to talk about "protoplasm" and those two ideas deep, deep inside them- inhibition in "all sensory and motor sys- ple information]. wondered what it was. selves, I'd be extremely happy. tems that refines sensory Everyday People on CompuServe Have Fun. if you're a kid at heart, join others just like yourself playing games on CompuServe. You'll find fun and challenging competition online all hours of the day or night, in every- ——- thing from space "Ihe idea ofplaying a space games to trivia war game against realpeople contests- immediately appealed to my Exercise your competitive instincts. 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You try to estimate, a vibration you're feeling on Kay: Robert Heinlein sustained me Kay: The evidence is overwhelming and, ten, how much next twenty to thirty through my teenage years. as far as I'm concerned, conclusive. impact. Over the the ball per- Omni: The author of Stranger in a Strange There's nothing mystical about neurons. seconds, you'll start hitting of the racket because Land? They're just cells like any other old cells. fectly in the center went mentality is only thinking Kay: That was his last good book. He So what we call mind or mentality or in- your analytic an eight or a nine? while the a bit batty in the'Sixties and Seventies. I telligence is something that arises out of about fe this This basic visited him in the early Sixties, and we an architecture. Gray Walter, who did rest of you is stroking the ball. something by re- had a conversation lasting thirteen hours. some of the early robot turtles back in the concept of teaching fifteen interference is built into the Mac He must have had ten thousand to Fifties, preferred the word mentality to moving at them, thousand books. As I was looking -ity words itself and applied in different ways. mind. I agree with him because it fixed I can answer is not let people get bored. he said, "I've got so like velocity and mentality imply a pro- Tim's job to of off at a high place of about ninety-five percent my ques- cess, a shift of coordinate systems. Mind He starts them and has dozens of tricks to tions out of this house." He wrote on an is something you'd want to look for. awareness multiple per- old Remington teletypewriter with contin- Omni: What does this process mean keep them there. Part of it's learning to play uous rolls of paper and typed about about the way we perceive the world? spectives. One way of eighty feet a day Kay: In order to He said he could we have function, remember every to close ourselves semicolon in both down to most of the books he was information com- doing simulta- ing to us. We can't neously. have the whole Heinlein's juve- universe inside our nile books were the heads, so we must closest thing to my have a kind of sim- bible. All his books It's like plification. had a subtext theater. There you about why the can have a thirty- How to excel al world is interest- five-year- old bald- ing. His underlying ing guy holding a sports. contact faith that knowl- skull in front of edge is basically some cardboard good sustained scenery, pretend- me during some ing he's a teenager bad times. He had in anguish. And it a way of referring works marvelously to things in his sto- because it's just an ries that usually extension of what meant they really our mind is doing existed some- all the time. We like where. The first to think we're living reading I ever did in reality, but we're in perceptual psy- in a play that living chology was be- we're partly the au- CLASSICTORM cause Heinlein thor of, and the wrote about using our other author is tachistoscopes civilization. We live of all. [apparatus pre- inside a hallucina- For ttHTmost competitive sport senting brief ex- tion of our own de- posures to visual vising—one so stimuli] for speed- fragile that eight ing up your ability hours in an isola- have fifteen different to see images. He'd coin a term called tion tank will cause us to start hallucinat- tennis very fast is to ball is. This renshawing. 1 discovered that the guy ing other things. ways of considering what the tachisto- our culture it's who'd done the early work with Omni: What kinds of things has Tim Gall- is an Eastern approach: To of in Zen scopes was a Samuel Renshaw. One wey, the man who wrote The Inner Game the same ball each time, whereas different ball every time. Heinlein's best stories was called "The o! Tennis, been doing with you at the and Taoism it's a from Earth." People live on the Open School? Omni: Why do you keep working with Menace moon, and these lunar city dwellers would Kay: Through a different route than Bru- children? outside play go flying for recreation on their own wings. ner, Tim came up with the multiple men- Kay: Kids can always go and whether The subtext was about how these wings talities theory Multiple mentalities, espe- ball, so you get feedback on fly can interesting. At the school we worked and what it was like to You cially in adults, interfere with each other something is child explaining to another talk to dozens of scientists who'll remem- quite a bit. Our rational mentality that tries often see one computer and doing ber this story—because he was doing a to control things actually isn't good at by going to the superb design job that could actually learning tennis, math, or music. A typical something dynamic on it. Computers of- kinds of work. The brand name for the wings was Inner Game strategy is to heighten fer kids a chance to do the same I Storer and it. Indus- "Storer Gulls." So looked up awareness of what you're doing and, si- stuff adults do—and know The found a 1950 Scientific American article multaneously, try to distract the analytic trial Revolution has been a tough place melt about how birds fly— guess who? mentality. You give the analytic mentality for kids because, well, they can't by Robert Storer.DO an analytic task while you're trying to, say. down steel. . TOWARD farming. People co.ilcl cuiivaie certain areas of parkland if they donated 20 THE INFINITE EARTH percent of their crop for the animals. If CON', NUFD FROM Pf wild animals raided .their crops, the mens hac beer scaltorcd anc the par-*, farmers would be forgiven the donation. museum had become a storehouse for He gave concessions to local young oid tools. "There were eight wardens, people, who set up guide businesses and they were in a state of total de- and small-scale campgrounds.' Mean- spair," Tassi says. "Even their uniforms while, animal populations began to re- were tattered." bound, bolstered by antipoaching pa- It wasn't surprising, given the legal trols and captive-breeding programs. situation of Italy's national parks. Unlike Tassi encouraged local cooperation by the United States, where national parks setting up a working group within which are federally owned, in Italy the govern- the park and local towns made develop- ment controls virtually none of the coun- ment plans together. The result: By the try's wilderness. Eighties the park was attracting about 1 When Abruzzo was established in million visitors per year and directly and 1922, almost all the land it encom- indirectly provided jobs for more than passed was owned either privately or by 250 people. the region's ancient towns. To create it. By American standards it would be the founders set up an obscure web of considered a success. Yet old grudges regulations that limited what locals die hard in this part of Italy, and some could do with the land. The only option people thought they could profit by left to park managers was to strike a wresting control of the park. So it was in compromise with the locals, who, in 1980 that the worst assault on Tassi's EXPAND YOUR turn, equated the park's existence with management took place: A massive se- outside interference. ries of abuse-of-office charges were LEVEL OF Tassi set to work refurbishing the filed by two local members of the Social- park buildings, hiring new employees, ist party. "It was obvious what the strat- CONSCIOUSNESS and mending broken fences. He at- egy was." says Tassi. "Destroy the park tended a park management training by getting rid of its director." consciousness has no limits— if Your session in the United States, then re- Along with the charges came a slan- you let it rise above its present bonds. made the park in the American mode, der campaign of full-page ads in local inspiration and intuition are not just with signs bordered in rough-hewn newspapers, listing hundreds of in- haphazard events. You are an infinite wood and a little nature museum, the stances oi alleged corruption. The new part of the Universal Cosmic Intelligence. first of its kind in Italy. assault ignited, those people who still You can draw, at will, upon this Intelli- At the same time he set about putting opposed Tassi. Death threats sharply gence for seemingly miraculous results. the brakes on development. Finding a increased, and on one occasion a local This Cosmic Intelligence flows through little-used legal clause that siipulaied all man tried to assault him. When Tassi did you. It is the very vital force of life. It is building plans had to first be approved get a hearing, the judge threw out virtu- not supernatural; it is a natural phenome- by the park manager, he vetoed one ally all the charges, giving the park man- non. Learn to reach for this higher level after another. ager just a $120 fine for a minor abuse: of your consciousness and avail yourself That's when the problems began. allegedly changing the locale of the of its intuitive enlightenment. There were complaints to the local po- park's headquarters. He fought that, This Free Booklet lice about virtually everything Tassi did. too, and in May 1988 Tassi was com- If he fixed a wall, someone would file a pletely exonerated. Meanwhile, he has These statements are not idle fantasy. complaint that he was impeding public won national and international acclaim are made by the Rosicrucian They access. If he had rubbish collected, a for saving Abruzzo and, by example, Order, AMORC, a worldwide cultural complaint would be filed that he was Italy's four other national parks. organization. For centuries, it has made exceeding his authority. (Such legal har- Yet the fight isn't over. Recently Tassi its teachings available to thou- dynamic assment is easy in Italy because you rejected plans for a new ski area pro- and are serious sands of men women who can file compia'nfs anonymously.) More posed by an ex-local man who had about self-development. For more in- than 300 complaints were filed against been successful in the United States. formation, send for a free copy of the for him. "During the first years, I spent Tassi is fighting a proposal a dam Mastery of Life. It tells booklet, The how maybe eighty percent of my time in just outside the park that would flood a may start learning to derive the you court." Tassi says. "I had to do most of valuable valley within. utmost from your Self— and//fe. the park management at night." Indeed. Tassi is so used to worrying Locals figured that Tassi was ruining that he barely acknowledges the credit C,.T.N-F«.l-.»JJ.-AMORC.«F„,0,„„„. ij!52 their one chance at prosperity. Tassi people give him. "I cannot be happy tried to show otherwise—that while the with the Italian situation. Abruzzo is im- rapacious development provided con- portant to me, but I still worry about struction jobs, those jobs were short- other areas that are being destroyed . . ..." lived. The owners of the buildings lived and hunted . . . and polluted. in Naples and Rome. They hired lew Others with more perspective can locals and didn't patronize local busi- better summarize Tassi's accomplish- nesses. The villagers got no profits, but ments. "He was the right man at the they had to pay taxes for the new roads right place at the right time." says Giu- and water lines. seppe de Nunzio. a park ranger who Tassi promoted a more subdued kind has worked at Abruzzo for 35 years. "If of development. To encourage people it was not for Franco Tassi, this park to continue working the land, he set up would be nothing more than some lines an incentive program for traditional on a map. "DO Without a trace: Break into security bags; break out a pencil for this month's quiz By Scot Morris round are made at random, Las! month I told how magi- cian Michael Weber had so by chance some player come up with a technique will advance automatically to for opening locked zipper the second round. How bags like the one shown at many matches will you have right. He observed the to schedule to determine method in a dream when a champion? (Note: You he was just fourteen. A pair should be able to solve this of fingers entered the bag one -in your head.) between the ring attached 2. BOY GENIUS Carl to the side and the movable Friedrich Gauss (1777- slide of the zipper and 1855), the German mathe- stretched the flexible leather matician, was a child prod- case outward. The fingers igy. He told the following continued pulling, with story about himself. His ele- the padlock and the ring mentary-school teacher following the slide all the assigned this problem: Find way back until the bag was the sum of all the whole 100. open but still locked, as numbers from 1 to The shown at right. teacher thought the chore Weber incorporated the would keep everyone busy "1 vision into his magic act but writing out +2 + 3 .," soon realized this trick + . . but Gauss solved could be used on other zip- the problem in seconds, in pered bags. He revealed his head. What is the an- his secret because you can swer, and how did he find it? use the same principle 3. ALL EYES ON DECK. to open many of the night In a standard deck of cards deposit bags used by the jack of hearts, the jack banks and other security- of spades, and the king diamonds are displayed conscious institutions. story. I expect that by the removed and read without of The technique seems ab- time your article appears, destroying the seal. When in profile showing only surdly simple, yet to the all our transmittal bags the glue warms up to room one eye. All the other faces best of my knowledge, this will be changed." temperature, the bag can show two eyes each. In a trace .standard deck, not counting is the first time it is being As I explained last month, be resealed without a published. The Internal Weber successfully opened of tampering. the jokers, how many eyes Revenue Service, upon a new bank bag produced are there in total? BRAIN BENDERS learning Weber's secret, re- by a Pennsylvania company. 4. WASH DAY In a remote to village in New Guinea the designed its transmittal I contacted company Here, are ten problems bags to prevent intrusion. "I representatives to let them help open your mind. men always wear loincloths, they each put on a sent Weber a bag that I know it was possible to They're easier than they and thought he couldn't open," break into their bags. They look. (Answers appear at clean one every morning. said Larry Wright, public weren't familiar with We- the end of this column.) Every Monday evening affairs officer for the IRS, ber's method but realized 1. TOURNEY TOTALS. a laundry wagon arrives, "but he did. As a result, all many banks had switched You're director for this year's picks up the dirty loincloths, of the new IRS bags were to new plastic bags, which Ping-Pong championships. and drops off the clean designed to prevent this are glued shut. A woman Eight hundred forty-seven laundry from the previous method of entry. Some of in the company!s personnel people enter. The tourna- week. What is the minimum our old bags we've been department then toid me ment is decided by elimina- number of loincloths a relying on for forty years are how to. compromise these tion: The winner of each man can own in this village? to the next 5. FIX IT. By making still in use, but I have alerted bags: Just spray Freon match advances my bosses in Washington on- the seal. The bag can round and the loser drops one line with your pen, turn that Omni is publishing this be opened and the contents out. The pairings in the first this into a correct equation. 116 OMNI ' Shown above is a matchstick pig. By moving only two matches, (1) make the pig face the other way {the iail must remain upturned), and (2) show what the pig would look like if it were run over by a bus. Without lifting your pen from the paper, draw each of the designs at righi using only a single line. Answers will appear in next month's issue. losers? the he must also be wearing (A line through the equal legally reach first base termine 846 he comes to sign creates an inequality, seven ways without getting answer becomes obvious. one when hit. is one. What 2. 5,050. Gauss realized meet the laundry wagon. but the answer I have in a A walk numbers 5. 545 + 5 = 550 nind is neater.) are the other six? that he could add 6. Turn the page upside 5 + 5 + 5 = 550 9. Name two men who in-pairs from the low and of sequence down. 6. SWITCH IT. How can have been honored in high ends the exam- 7. There are five squares you correct the foliowing the Baseball Hall of Fame to keep it simple. For all. people forget equation without making a but who never played ple, add multiples of 100 i Many = professional baseball. like this: 1+99 = 100, plus to include the perimeter mark? XI + I X = 200, plus 3 + square, which houses the 7. CROSSING LINES. 10. You do not see left- 2 +98 internal squares. Imagine three horizontal handed players in which 97 = 300, and so on until four = 8. Batter hit by pitch, lines an inch apart and two sports? you reach -49 + 51 That leaves only the error by a fielder, catcher's parailel in a vertical plane. 4,900. ANSWERS catcher drops Now imagine three vertical 50 in the middle and the interference, If at the high end to add third strike, fielder's choice, ;s, also an inch apart 1. 846 matches. you 100 the running total, bring- and the one most baseball and in that same plane, cut- concentrate on tinding the to fans don't get being des- ting through the horizontal one winner in 847 players, ing it to 5,050. — an- ignated as a pinch runner. lines. How many squares you may get hopelessly 3. 42 eyes. If you 21 you forgot that 9. Abboti and Costello. have you formed? (Solve lost. If you fry turning the swered , faces. 10. Jaialai and polo, this without using a pencil problem on its head, how- each card has two which left-handed play is and paper.) ever, and rephrase the 4. 15. Every Monday a in and turn illegal because it is consid- 8. So you think you know question as, How many man must pick up dangerous. baseball? 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