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subconscious poltergeist activity unnecessary. He had long ago reached the conclusion that the Nine are a reality, and that our Earth has been observed by space men for thousands of years. He believes that the Earth has reached a point in its history where the Nine feel that slightly more intervention is necessary’. And, after quoting the views of Puharich and Joyce Petschek, I go on: ‘I found all this convincing up to a point. Nothing is more obvious than that Puharich and Mrs. Petschek are totally sincere in everything that they say. Does that mean that I am convinced of the existence of the Nine? Obviously not’.
    By the time I met him, Puharich had already been involved in another astonishing adventure with the ‘space people’; it is described in detail in a book called Prelude to the Landing on Planet Earth (1977) by Stuart Holroyd.
    After the break with Geller—which came shortly after the events described in Uri— Puharich began to receive more messages from the Nine via a medium named Phyllis Schlemmer. This time, no ‘miracles’ took place—at least, nothing more spectacular than the dematerialisation of Phyllis Schlemmer’s earring, and its rematerialisation a few hours later. Puharich, together with an Englishman named Sir John Whitmore, were assured that, together with Phyllis Schlemmer, they were now the channels for the energies of the Nine, and that their task was to avert a world war that would start in the Middle East when Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria launched an attack on Israel.
    This time, the messenger of the Nine was a being who called himself Tom (short for Atum), who spoke via Phyllis Schlemmer, while she was in a trance. The three of them travelled around the world, meditating and praying in various hotel rooms to avert world catastrophes—for example, a meditation in Moscow apparently averted the assassination of Yasser Arafat at a press conference in Cuba.
    But the main purpose of the Nine was to announce a mass landing of UFOs on Earth, which would last for nine days, and would finally convince the human race of the reality of the space beings.
    According to Tom, the purpose of the Nine is to bring about an alteration in the consciousness of ‘planet Earth’, which has become a kind of bottleneck in the universe. ‘This planet was originally created to teach [human beings] balance between the spiritual and the physical world, but in this physical world they got involved in the material world, and so [they] never evolve beyond the belt of this planet . . . It is important for the level of consciousness of this planet to be raised’.
    But, by the time Puharich, Whitmore, and Phyllis Schlemmer had averted another Middle East war by meditating in a hotel room overlooking the Golan Heights, ‘Tom’ had apparently forgotten about the mass landing on planet Earth.
    It is, of course, easy to dismiss Puharich as a gullible romantic, led astray by ‘spirit messages’ that probably originated in the medium’s unconscious mind. Yet, when we take an overall view of his experiences, it becomes difficult to maintain this attitude. The first messages from the Nine came in 1952 via Dr. Vinod. In 1956, they seemed to be confirmed by the encounter with Dr. Charles Laughead, who passed on more messages from the Nine. This certainly seemed to suggest that the Nine were not a creation of Vinod’s unconscious.
    So, when the Nine again spoke in a Tel Aviv hotel room while Geller was in a trance, Puharich had every reason to believe in their genuineness. If he had any doubts, the ‘miracles’ that followed must have removed them. UFOs that hover at the end of the street, tape recorders that record without being touched, cassettes that dematerialise in front of the eyes—these are enough to convince anyone that he or she is dealing with real forces.
    Here I have to admit that my own attitude has changed since I first read Uri in 1974, and wrote my own book The Geller Effect a year later. At that