ISSUE #132 Edited by Mia Feroleto and Alan Steinfeld CONTRIBUTORS: Ananda Bosman Kevin Briggs James Lee Byars David Cottrell Mia Feroleto Marilyn Gewacke Maria Gilissen Broodthaers Bruce Duncan and Bina 48 Fríða Kristín Gísladóttir Alex and Allyson Grey Karen Gunderson Rebecca Hardcastle Wright John Harrison lll Norie Huddle Erika Knerr Phoenix Lindsey-Hall David Louis A. Kirke Morgan Philippe Petit Lucio Pozzi John Red Cloud Jennifer Stein Alan Steinfeld Whitley Strieber CONSCIOUSNESS John van der Does and Tomma von Haeften Fumiko Wellington CONTACT CONSCIOUSNESS and CONTACT PUBLISHED BY: Mia Feroleto “Every group of friends is unknowingly representing a complex universe of thought and it is sufficient to have its members put on the page something, anything, for a whole world to be revealed.” - Lucio Pozzi Founder, New Observations LAWYERS: Ciri Johnson Mike Topp Publisher : Mia Feroleto Paul Hastings, LLP. John Johnston Cindy Tower Financial Advisor Muffet Jones Bernard Trevisano Polakoff & Michaelson, CPA Gerald Just Frederic Tuten Editors: Mia Feroleto and Shoshana Kalisch David L. Ulin Alan Steinfeld Past Guest Editors Susan Kandel Marina Urbach Keith Adams Steven Kane Terence Van Copy Editor: Susan Davis and Leah Poller Richard Armijo Diane Karp Elslander Christine Armstrong Alain Kirili Stephen Westfall Art Director: David Sorgman Stafford Ashani Hilary Kliros Christopher Williams Karen Atkinson Erika Knerr Martha Wilson Front Cover: Todd Ayoung Sabu Kohso Elemire Zolla PART-1 KK Kozik Jody Zellen Whitley Strieber | “Communion” Stephan Balint Mark Bartlett Gene Kraig Lisa Zwerling Susan Bee Kim Larsen Inside Front Cover: Tiffany Bell Linda Levit Shutterstock - KOSKA III | Illustration | Curt Belshe Daniel Libeskind Flying Lights Above a Field, Designing Maurice Berger Dacia Maraini Crop Circles Elena Berriolo Grazia Marchiano Bunita Marcus CONSCIOUSNESS Andrew Boardman Carol Martin Board of Directors: Mark Bobrow Brian Boigon Joseph Masheck Ananda Bosman Bruce Brand Harry Mathews Mia Feroleto - Chair Ginevra Bompiani Carlo McCormick John Harrison lll Bruce Breland Justin Melkmann Karen Gunderson Martin Bresnick Alan Moore Diane R. 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Saul Ostrow Sarah Drury John Roloff Joan Pierpoline Holger Drees Michael Roscher Lucio Pozzi Lloyd Dunn Grace Roselli Mira Schor Phillip Evans-Clark Frank Rubino Joshua Selman FaGaGaGa: Mark and Mel Corroto Barbara Rusin Frank Fantauzzi Steven Schiff David Shapiro Mira Schor Lynne Tillman Jim Feast Elizabeth Ferrer Joshua Selman Frederic Tuten Jane Fire David Shapiro Marina Urbach Steve Flanagan John Shaw George Waterman Roland Flexner Berta Sichel Stjepan G. Mestrovic Duncan Smith Copyright © 2018 & © 2019 by Mia Serge Gavronsky Tracy Smith Feroleto and the authors Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe Alan Sondheim Guerrilla Girls Susan Springfield Jennifer Golub Suzy Sureck To subscribe or support New Peter Halley Frederieke Taylor Observations, please contact Selma Holo Lynne Tillman the publisher at: Stuart Horodner PO Box 335, Chester, VT 05143 Gary Indiana http://newobservations.org Right: Abstract Expressionist Painting by John Harrison III John van der Does, Jennifer Stein, are left behind. I did receive a mes- with the possibility of machine sur- Kevin Briggs, David Louis, Whitley sage from my father on the day of passing man. Personal exploration Strieber, Norie Huddle, Ananda his funeral, one that rivaled the mes- inspired me to stick my toe into the Bosman, Marilyn Gewacke, John sage Elizabeth Kuber-Ross received waters of conference-organizing Red Cloud, Philippe Petit, Fumiko from her ex-husband after his death. which began with our weekend in Wellington, Alex and Allyson Grey, My father also left me an inheritance Vermont. Bruce Duncan and Bina 48, Shelly that allowed me to purchase my Reif, Frioa Kristin Gisladotti, Karen home in the Hudson River Valley in What was remarkable about our con- Gunderson, Lucio Pozzi and Erika Upstate New York where my spiri- ference in May is that people came Knerr for their extraordinary work and tual life would expand exponentially. from Canada and all across America enthusiasm for New Observations. I Beginning with a near-death experi- to attend. Washington State, Texas, would also like to thank editor Susan ence six weeks after moving in when Florida, Montana, Pennsylvania, New Davis and transcriber Linda O’Brien my car hit a patch of black ice while Hampshire, Arizona, New Mexico, for their services. Special thanks to driving to the dentist one morning, New York, Maryland, Massachusetts Whitley for the use of his historic to the arrival of a space ship out of and Vermont were all represented. painting on our cover. “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” People came from many sectors of outside my bedroom window one the work force as well. It was, in My personal journey as a conscious night, my perceptions were continu- essence, an almost random group individual began as a small child. ally challenged while my awareness of people who had assembled in From the age of two, I had an intense, grew in scope. Fortunately, I ben- Vershire, except for the fact that we intimate sense of God and the Divine efited from living in close proxim- were all interested in consciousness in the world around me. Possessing ity to the Anthroposophic Library in and contact. a deep love of animals and nature, Harlemville, New York which housed as a small child I reveled in walk- a treasure trove of esoteric mate- We began as a random group upon ing in the woods by myself, deep in rial that had been moved from the meeting on Friday afternoon and Bruce Duncan, the Executive Director of the Terasem Foundation, and Bina 48, the Hanson Robotics designed artificial intellegence robot, will be speaking thought and, I now suspect, prayer. Pierrpont Morgan Library in New York evening as people arrived. However, at our upcoming conference on Consciousness and Contact in May at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. The human Bina Rothblatt, wife of the by the time Monday morning rolled highest paid female CEO in America, Martine Rothblatt, downloaded thousands of thoughts, words, memories and ideas into her robotic counterpart. The That is a big word for a small child, City to a small Stanford White build- Rothblatts were at the forefront of the AI movement, developing Bina 48 almost ten years ago. New Observations Magazine will be taking a closer look at but children have a greater capacity ing relocated to the Hawthorne Valley around, the group had bonded to artificial intelligence in a future issue of the magazine. for the simple meaning of words. It is Waldorf community in Harlemville. form a cohesive whole filled with har- as adults that we tend to complicate I should add that when my car hit mony and goodwill shared by each MIA FEROLETO | JANUARY 2019 things. that patch of black ice in February throughout the weekend. Weeks later, of 1998, I hit the major electrical attendees reported back that they Having lived a mystical live from the pole in the area and had live electri- were still feeling a sense of euphoria time of my childhood, experience had cal cables on the other side of my in themselves and in their lives. If we taught me to expect the unexpected; windshield. The car was conducting could do it in Vershire, we can do it Walking Each Other Home however, I was unprepared for the 38,000 volts of electricity and I got in the world at large. twists and turns life would present out of the car. Luckily, intuition had Our next conference on conscious- tion on crop circles; and David Louis, who inspired us all beginning in 1997, when my father told me to exchange my penny loafers ness and contact will be held in May “We are all just with his talk on animal communication, which included died from cancer. He was a family for a pair of rubber boots that morn- of 2019 at the Pine Ridge Reservation talking to the animals in residence at the riding school. doctor, a practical man who was not ing. Those boots grounded the cur- in South Dakota, home of the walking each other Marilyn Gewacke covered CEV protocols and talked of drawn to anything esoteric or spiritual rent and saved my life. These events, Lakota Sioux clan. We will continue her personal experience through years of contact. other than trying to lead a good life and more, formed the foundation of home.” and taking good care of his patients. our exploration of the unseen and decades of study and a desire to share unknown on sacred land that belongs -Ram Dass Our final speaker, Alan Steinfeld, shared a captivating He and I had made an agreement with others searching for answers to overview of his experience as the creator and producer several years before his passing to a people who have not been divert- the question of what gives our lives ed from Mother Earth or Spirit. For of New Realities, an acclaimed program that has pre- that whoever died first would send meaning.