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     A bit late but a whopper of an issue (and I do say so myself) tho I have yet again let precious writing time slip by. But what of it . . . I hope the collective contents of this installment ring at least a couple of your personal bells.

     So let me ramble on with the introductions strewn throughout the following

 - T A B L E of C O N T E N T S -

MAIN ELFIS ISSUE SEVEN page:

ARCHIVE ARTICLES:

Hallucinogenic Hypno-Vision and the Plasmatic Cells of Gaia

Unidentified Flying Amoeboids - both by Andrew Gaze

     Synchronisticly, while preparing work for my own massive article undertaking known as "UFOs-Hermeneutic Messengers of Gaia-Ecology of the OverMind" (to begin soon!) I came across an old issue of JK's zine DHARMA COMBAT which featured articles of Jeff Lewis' I had read within the pages of CRASH COLLUSION magazine. It also featured two pieces by one Andrew Gaze who is surely of the EXCLUDED MIDDLE bunch somehow. His two articles cover the SPACE ANIMAL/CRITTER hypothesis of UFOs and the title is so close to my aboved mentioned article that I can only assume I must have unconsciously grokked the title for I had never actually read it before now. The synchronicity continued with the discover of last installments articles on the Space Animal Theory (augmented by John Walker's updated use of Hal Puthoff and company's Zero Point Energy / Vacuum research). 

     Moving right along to. . . 

MR. BAGGINS' CORNER:

EHE AutoBiography
Part TWO: On the Making of a Consumate Child Actor
Part THREE: The Clarence Incident

PSI'D Kick From The Past part TWO:

More CARGO CULTURE:
     The Gallery is open this week with new exhibits

     In the Gallery you will find more black & white comic strips of recent past history including the classic American Express Alien and New Yorker humor. Also on display are some images for that sultry X-Phyles mood and a bite into the UFO/Alien Merchandise campaign, just in time for All Hallows Eve. "MwooAhAhAaahhh!"

     Artificial Sun - Lighting System or Hoax Device?

     Recently their was talk on the UFO UpDates Mailing List concerning a certain type of hoaxed ufo sightings of the "distant light" variety via helium balloons, florescent tubes, and fishing line (at its basest level) in connection with crop circle hoaxing as well. This reminded me of the time me and several friends had the wool pulled over our eyes in just such a way by one of the many pranksters amongst our group. The "ufo" remained so for just under five minutes as we hooted hollered and compared what we were seeing before breaking out the binocs. Thanks to a nearly full moon, the objects hanging around, and especially the binocs we didn't succumb to an extended bout of the heebeegeebees. That and the fact that the prankster himself, once located, faked disinterest. So to bring us back suffice to say that the UFO UpDates list discussion on said topics reminded me to add the ARTIFICIAL SUN lighting system to the site. If you wanna catch a more recent use of the lights look for the inevitable rebroadcast of MTV's Extreme Sports & Music festival which was video-taped live in Zilker Park on the south side of the river in downtown Austin some time back.

REVIEWS:

     Last year's release of the movie FAIRYTALE: A TRUE STORY prompted this ReView of the Fairy case investigated by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini.

PROJECTS: UFO-University "The Visible College"

     In FORBIDDEN SCIENCE, the journals of Jacques Vallee, he tells of a meeting of the then members of their "Invibile College." (Aptly named for the terrible stigma attached to interest in UFOs at the time [and surviving to this very day]) In this particular meeting the congregated scientists were grumbling over the need for a VISIBLE COLLEGE, however they were immediately struck with the daunting details of funding, ego and hierarchy which most often lead to the present state of ill-funded and ill-managed  projects, organizations and networks that makeup the emerging global ufo research community.
     Well I am just enough of an optimist to think I can pull it off! So, begin very soon expect to see details materialize on the evolution of UFOU - "The Visible College" - Earth's First UFO University; featuring multidisciplinary investigation into UFO sightings, UFO witnesses, the phenomena of perception & consciousness, physical science approaches to UFO trace evidence, instrumented ufo research, as well as a whole host of UFO investigatory tools and soft science approaches including anthopological / folkloric reports.
     In the meantime . . . . go check out the first installment of the UFOU

     UFO GUIDE:
          and its intro to RPVs, UAVs, M-P/Ds and other Radio Control Vehicles

DREAMTIME NOW!
     Lucid in Lovecraftian DreamLands by Thom Laaki

     And concluding this issue, we have a long-time hurricane-of-a-friend, Thom Laaki, whose insightful thoughts and experiences he is finally sharing with our ELFIS readers. Thom recounts his recent plunge into the PreAtlantean Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft and company while Lucid in a dream. Check it out!

And until next time . . . "See Ya In The DreamTime, NOW!"

SMiles