My apologies to all in the delay of posting your comments, and responding. Six day work weeks and dealing with ill family members leave little time for cyberspace.
Ms. Brown, if I offended you or anyone else involved with your web site, I apologize, it was not my intent. When I took a brief look, probably to brief given the above, at your site, all I saw was a lot of negativity, at least in my view. I was hoping to find someone doing experiments and was disappointed, let that color my judgment I guess, sorry.
I do not know what may have transpired between you and Paul. Myself I do not really care, and will spend none of my energy on the issue. What I do care about is your fathers works.
I'm a hardware person by nature, I want to be able to set down at my workbench and see first hand how things work, and learn.
For example there is the new, exploding, field of Energy Harvesting. Your fathers work with Petrovoltaics leads the field by many decades, and with today's technology could be made practical, and ubiquitous.
Last year I can across a message by Paul that in effect said he could find nothing new related to your father. I sent him some information that I had obtained from Bill Moore, that I did not think Paul would have had, ultimately Paul said he had seen most of it and did not need it.
In corresponding with Paul he mentioned that your fathers scientific notebooks would be published subsequent to the book that Paul and you were working on (Are you working on one of your own now? I hope so.). Every few months I'd follow up with Paul and ask him how the book project was going. Last time I asked him, in early April, he told me the project was dead. To me the loss of the book was a minor annoyance. That it seemed like the notebooks are once again being suppressed and hidden away is profoundly disappointing.
Mr Moore told me this in a phone call, and this is a direct quote:
"Dr. Brown was a brilliant scientist, but he was a lousy business man. He double sold the right to the notebooks."
I asked him whom this other party was, to which he responded that he was not going to reveal who the party was, then he added "They are happy with the Status Quo, and believe the notebooks should not be made public."
To me that just fuels the conspiracy theories, that there is indeed something to hide, that your father was on to something big.
I think most of us would agree that today Status Quo needs to be radically upset, just listen to any news broadcast if you think Status Quo is good.
If you have your fathers notebooks in your possession, then publish all of them (along with your book?), and change the world for the better. Right now it is now within your power to do so, and show the world the brilliance of your father, once and for all.
Mr. Mars, Paul's "book" or "manuscript" if you prefer was an attempt, at least. Please let me know when your book or manuscript is ready, I look forward to reading it. The text you are talking of came directly from http://ttbrown.com/. As to my understanding of "reality", I suggest you read Virtual State Engineering and its Implications.
Mr. Szentjobi, I think I may have Dr. Paul LaViolette's book "Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion", in my library, I'll check it out with your correlation in mind, thank you.
Comment #5 Linda Brown at 05/17/09 02:50"I have a question for you and your readers ..... Why would PaulSchatzkin post such derogatory statements as in his 'Epic Fail' blog
and then turn around and self-publish the book 'Defying Gravity: The
Parallel Universe of T. Townsend Brown' without any editing or clean
up at all?"
I can only speak for myself. It is exceedingly rare that I have any
communication with Paul. I can only assume that Paul felt it was
better to put out what he hand than let it collect dust on a shelf,
which would further obscure your father's work, but did not feel he
had the time, or some missing information (the most likely of the
two), to complete it. Only Paul would know.
"Anyone should know that goes against the standard that the
industry expects and does not help book sales."
We are a on blog about Obscure Research, discussing an obscure
subject, to many at least. I find it hard to argue for conventional
anything myself. Convention only gets us more of what we have, is that
what you want to have more of? I don't.
"Why, after he has published and finished with his project is he
holding the material I trustingly sent him while he was writing the
book?"
Only he would know. However a quote from Mark Twain comes to mind:
"Never lend a book. That is how I got my library."
"Why has he shut his forum down so seriously that it is impossible
to interact with him as a writer?"
Don't know, didn't know that he did shut it down. I'm working
nearly 60 hour weeks, and trying to study for an upcoming
certification (should be doing that right now, but thought bringing
more attention to your father's work would help mankind in general),
and still trying to get some time on my workbench playing with things
to see how they really work (rather than what we are told). So I'm
not spending much time surfing forums of any type. I can only assume
Paul has similar time constraints in his life. Each of us has to
prioritize how we spend our time. I just found out last night that a
good friend had a stroke. Things like that make you reevaluate how you
want to spend your time. The subject of his message telling us about
his stroke was "Life Is Fragile", and I'll add it is all to short.
Where is the best place to spend your energy?
"Since he has a new book out there..."
I did not know he did, what is it?
"Would it be silly of me to think that this is a concentrated
effort on Pauls part to obscure the work and life of my father even
further?"
Intentional malice would seem unlikely.
"Why the next thought should not be ... that he was involved in a
conspiracy to do exactly what he has done... bury my Dads work even
further,an attempt (in vain) to obscure it even more thoroughly? Its a
fair question I think, given the turn of events."
I can only assume that I missed some recent "turn of events". While
I'd really like to be replicating your fathers work at my workbench,
as may others are wanting to do, we really don't know what your
fathers work exactly was. Others see it this way as well, see the
comment on Jan/15/2009:
"The story paints the picture of a man who was dedicated to his
work and his family, and probably torn between the two. This is the
story of a man that may be regarded as one of the pioneers of physics,
yet what he did is still classified, and records of his doings are
denied to exist at all."
Sure we all know about "Stress in Dielectricts" Et.Al., and even
obscurer research of your father's such as Petrovoltaics, but to my
limited knowledge no one knows what your father was really doing
behind closed doors. I think that is why Paul threw in the towel and
published what he had, and moved on. Again only he would know for
sure.
If you don't want your father's work be buried, rather by neglect
than malice, and lost in obscurity, then someone that was there needs
to come forward and tell us what he was doing. I'm sure publishing
all of his Notebooks would be a great step in the direction of more
wide spread recognition of your father's works.
Questions that need to be answered are what was classified, when,
where, why, and what records of classified research really do exist
today? Does it still need to be classified today? Is there some
repository of knowledge of such information that is yet to be found or
published?
"I appreciate the energy it will take to post this. Thank you, Bob"
You are welcome.
"Join us, if you wish, at http://ttownsendbown.com Linda Brown."
Alas other priorities are a bit higher on my list right now, thank you
for the invitation. When you do get your book published, and/or all of
your father's notebooks are released, please let me know. Doing that
would certainly get this higher up that priority list. What would get
it at the top of this list is if you or someone in your organization
needs a hardware or software designer to help replication any of your
father's work. I'd much rather get paid to stress some dielectrics,
than what I'm doing right now. With my background in Obscure and
hardware design, it would be fun to see where you and I can take your
father's work with today's technology...