I recently got a chance to tour George Griffith around Fantasy of Flight and share my Vision of where we’re headed. George has been connected to The Monroe Institute (TMI) since just before its founder, Bob Monroe, passed away at 80 in 1995. George is the current Chairman of the Board and was recommended by the President, Skip Atwater, he needed to meet me and visit Fantasy of Flight as a “must see” stop! I was honored both Skip and George took the time to come by and see the potential of what we’re trying to accomplish.
During George’s visit, I also got a chance to tell him about the progress on my Book “The Journey Never Ends,” which is a ten-Program chronicle of my exploration of consciousness experiences at TMI over a two-year period. I’ve pretty much finished the beginning of the Book and am narrowing down on the editing of the ten-Program Chapters. Most of this process is just going over and over the material making small editing changes. My main hurdle will be to corral in all this information into a great summary, which I currently have in rough form. I made significant progress on a recent vacation while in the mountains of Utah and am looking forward to finding the time to finish it up. There will be a number of approvals I’ll need to get from The Monroe Institute, as some of the information in the Book included is proprietary.
I feel this Book has tremendous potential to help the Monroe cause as well as anyone that reads it. I hope to have a completed manuscript before the end of the year to submit for their approval. Regardless, of whether it becomes public, or not, it was an amazing journey for me that was nothing short of phenomenally transformational!
Kermit
I had the opportunity to show one of my Monroe Institute Trainers, Franceen King, around Fantasy of Flight last weekend. Franceen was a trainer for three of the eleven Monroe Programs I took over the last few years and has the second longest tenure as a Monroe Trainer of almost two and a half decades. I gave her the Vision Tour and let her sit in the Po-2 and Spirit of St. Louis reproduction and listen to the Audio Experiences for each plane. Later, I flew Airplane of the Day in the Fiesler Storch and gave her a ride. Between making fly-bys for the crowd, I pointed out Orlampa from the air.
I had the pleasure to show Skip Atwater and his wife Fay around Fantasy of Flight recently. Skip was the head of the Top Secret Remote Viewing called Star Gate. It was a Black Project he ran from 1977 through 1988 and was a psychic espionage program run by the US government to counteract the program the Russians had. Remote Viewing was used as part of our intelligence gathering efforts and became a useful tool once they understood how it worked and developed it.
My last flyable airplane on display in Miami was a Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bomber. Over the years, the Hurricane damage was repaired with the intention of flying it to Fantasy of Flight. Well, last week was the big date to test fly the aircraft and hopefully bring it up. I had last flown the TBM since just before the Hurricane over 15 years ago and needed to get recurrent at the same time I was test flying the airplane as the FAA requires a re-currency check on any airplanes over 12,500 lbs. The first flight went great and my only concern was I had recently been flying my little Grumman Wildcat fighter and when I got the TBM off the ground I thought the control stick had somehow been set in concrete! I couldn’t believe how heavy the controls were compared to the Wildcat. It all slowly came back to me and I became comfortable very quickly.