On The Air with Thomas Jacobson Channeling 'Dr. Peebles' in Los Angeles 1980s

During the years from 1980 to 1995 when Thomas Jacobson was trance channeling 'Dr. Peebles,' he was a recurring guest on the "Open Mind" radio show hosted by Bill Jenkins on mainstream AM talk radio station KABC.  Don and Linda Pendleton interviewed Bill Jenkins while writing their case study To Dance with Angels (1990).  The three paragraphs that follow are the Pendletons' introductory statements to this portion of the book.

As of the time of this writing, Dr. Peebles via Thomas Jacobson has had considerable exposure on the nation's airwaves, both radio and television, primarily in talkshow formats as a guest.  Needless to say, Thomas was usually presented with no great seriousness, often as an object of humorous curiosity and for entertainment value.  But we were fortunate in tracking down the first broadcaster to bring this phenomenon to the attention of the public, more fortunate in obtaining a personal interview with Bill Jenkins, the irrepressible host of KABC (Los Angeles) TalkRadio's "Open Mind" show.

The transplanted Texan is tall and lean, bronzed and handsome, a veteran broadcaster who has experienced all the usual excuses to become cynical and hardened to the human situation yet retains a boyish enthusiasm and an undiminished zest for life.  The product of a fundamentalist upbringing, he first told us about his reluctance to become identified with a weekly radio show devoted to a serious investigation of the paranormal and the occult, then he related his first meeting with Thomas Jacobson.

Thomas had been brought to his attention by a friend, and he'd set up an interview at the studio to determine if Thomas might a suitable guest on "Open Mind," a three-hour phone-in talk show aired live each Saturday evening.  Bill had been busy screening some confidential material that had been supplied by another prospective guest—a man in North Carolina—which proved to be so fascinating that he'd forgotten about the appointment with Thomas.

Thomas Jacobson 

Bill Jenkins

The following passage is the portion of chapter 8 "On The Air" presenting the firsthand account of Bill Jenkins about his interaction with Thomas Jacobson and the transcendental communicator who regularly spoke through him, 'Dr. Peebles.'  Two other popular 1980s Los Angeles talkshow hosts are mentioned: London-born Michael Jackson (birth year 1934) and psychiatrist/author Dr. David Viscott (1938-1996).  The latter is a subject of the second part of this article.  The "North Carolina material" mentioned is a collection of audio recordings from Dr. George Meek in the field of what is now known as 'Instrumental Transcommunication" (1, 2).

So this is all amazing to me and I'm just trying to determine in my mind if I want to put this [North Carolina material] on the air, you see, to this large audience—they would think that Bill has gone really off his coot because . . . well, see, you may not always believe what the guest has to say but you can't just sit there and take potshots at him—at his academe, his research, his whatever.

What I mean is, how in the hell am I going to sit here and tell Edgar Mitchell that you didn't communicate mentally with somebody down at Cape Canaveral from space—I mean, give me a break!  You know, if the audience wanted to do that, that's their prerogative, they can do that.  I can't.

So that was all really kind of heavy on my mind.  It was the first time I'd gone through [the material from North Carolina].  I hadn't talked to anybody about it.  I had secreted myself back in one of the studios.  I didn't want anybody to hear this information because it was very confidential.  I didn't know what it was all about anyway.

Well, I'd gone out to get a cup of coffee—and there was [my friend] and Thomas.  I had forgotten that I had made an appointment for them to be there at eleven o'clock. That's when Michael [Jackson] gets out of Studio D and goes over to Studio C.  The idea was that we would then go into Studio D and Thomas would go into trance; you know, to show me [what he does].

So anyway we met outside and went through the usual tentative introduction sort of thing then immediately into the studio.  We sit down and chat just a minute about innocuous things, then Thomas goes into trance; you know, mumbles this little prayer or whatever—and I am thinking what the hell?—then out comes this booming, almost comical, voice that almost blows me out of the studio—I mean, you've met Thomas, such a calm, quiet man—but then boom!—here's this . . . whatever.

He goes through this short metaphysical, uh, whatever that he goes through in introducing himself, this little preamble, then he gets right on my case.

He says—and I'm sitting there with eyes like saucers, I guess—he says, [mimicking] "Bill, I want you to know that we've been encouraging you from the other side."  Like, "We've been working with you for a long time, and you're doing a marvelous job.  There are a lot of us here (in the damned studio!) and there are some off-earth ones [here] too."

I say, "Some what?"

He says, "Off-earth ones."

"What's off-earth ones?"

"Why do you think you're so interested in the flying saucers?  You think you did that because of your Texas boyhood?"

[Bill had previously worked on a documentary movie about UFOs.]

I admitted that I'd often wondered about that, and he said, "Let me tell you something about that Spiricom device [the North Carolina material] you've been working with, and George Mueller."

I am thinking oh wow! because I encountered that material just fifteen minutes earlier and—well, he told me all about Mueller and what a [character] he was—he was this, that, and the other thing, then he tells me, "Oh, by the way, they've lost contact with him for a while.  He says he's moved to another vibratory level, which is one way to put it.  And he's just having some instruction there."

But he goes on to say, "But actually they're going to regain contact with him through a trance medium in Colorado."
  
Then he starts telling me about my family, about Brandy—the dog—and all of this other stuff.  I mean, he went into all kinds of stuff.
  
Well, you must know what this was doing to me.  I had agreed to see the guy just out of courtesy, and now here he's . . . I mean . . . well, okay, I had invited Dr. David Viscott [who also does a show from KABC] to come down.  He did.  Right away Dr. Peebles says, "Oh, hi, David.  You know we've been coming to you right along with that book you've been writing on spiritual psychology, and . . ."
  
Well, now David's eyes are this big, his mouth is open, and he is speechless—and if you know David, you know how unlikely that is.  He has never mentioned this new book to anybody, not ever—you know, he's already got all of these best sellers kicking around and—but he's sitting there wide-eyed and speechless.

 

Dr. Peebles is saying, "You know, David, you ought to really go ahead and use some of that stuff on your show.  We know you're concerned about what your peers will say and the religionists but . . . Would you have any questions now?"
 
But David is sitting there stunned and speechless—I swear to God, David Viscott speechless—he actually had paralysis of the throat, he didn't ask Dr. Peebles anything.
 
So he just says, "Well, all right, good-bye, God bless you all," and Thomas breaks the trance.
 
Now, in that first session, he told me about the research I was doing, about the "channeling" I was doing—and that was the first time I could put a name to it, to my craziness—he used the names of my family, my dogs, he intimated a problem that my wife and I were having, he told me about a problem my kids had been having.  As I look back now, I didn't know they were having that kind of problem at the time and he didn't exactly call it that, so I didn't tumble to it, but I know that was what he referred to.  He told me about everything that was going on at the radio station—which is a real soap opera all the time, believe me—and how the show had developed because of the influence they [Spirit] had been giving me—that they were trying to work very closely with me but I wasn't listening too well and all that, and on and on.
 
So need I say that obviously Dr. Peebles went on the air the next possible air date.  Which, sadly, was about three months later.  That was the first slot I had open, the first time I could get him on the air. He was an enormous success.  You know, I was a little worried at first—I mean, this is weird stuff, really, and we are talking wide audience, but God, he was an instant smash.
  
On that first show some of the promotion people were there, and you know we had the lights kind of low and you stay away from Thomas while he's in trance.  But at a news break they turned up the lights a little but so they could take some pictures—and Dr. Peebles got right on their case: "Don't you change the environment around here!  Turn it back down!  I'm really concerned about my channel, he's trying to stomp back in here anyway as it is."
 
Said, "We just wanted to take some pictures."
 
He says, "No flashbulbs!"  Says, "Bill, you've got to tell these people this is something special going on."
 
I said, "Well, I really really think so."
 
I'd been listening carefully to the reaction of the people on the phone lines while we were on the air.  You could hear them go, "aahhh aahhh" [sharp intake of breath] and you knew that he was hitting it right on the head.
 
It was interesting the way he does it, because he talks at many levels at the same time.  If he is talking to someone else, I'm hearing one thing but you the person is hearing another.  I remember we had a party over here [at Bill's home].  It was all the KABC people.  Would you believe it was Christmastime and this house had eight-five or ninety people in it?  It was raining outside, so it was all inside, and it was getting a little tight.
  
[Thomas went into trance and produced Dr. Peebles, who wowed the guests with direct interchanges.]
 
Another friend of mine asked Dr. Peebles a question that night about their friend Nefertiti.  Nefertiti was a dear friend of theirs and they had lost contact.  So Dr. Peebles went through a whole dissertation on Nefertiti's character and the whole thing, and that they would never see Nefertiti again, that she'd gone off to do some other things that she wanted to do, and the whole stuff.
 
Now, I knew that Nefertiti was their cat, which they'd lost some time before that.
 
So I said afterward to these friends, "Well you know he can't bat a thousand."
 
They said, "Oh, no, he was right on target with everything he said."
  
His appearance on "Open Mind"—and there were many, I think maybe nine or ten—all of his appearances, that's when we had the most telephone calls to this station—you know, the busy signals—well, "Open Mind" always had the highest level of that, the busy signals.  The line was always full.  But Dr. Peebles aroused that audience more than any of the other guests, ever.  So in that respect he was something else.
 
People want to run him for president.  They love 'im. You know, you just—you just fall in love with this guy.  I always felt sorry because I tried to devote a lot of time to Thomas as well—and Thomas is a very interesting and engaging guy and he improved, by the way, over the years, as himself, as he was learning to handle himself on the air, in his own processes—he became very engaging himself, in time. But during the first few appearance he was awed by it.  Well, you know you've got this thing running around in your head, Dr. Peebles and . . .
 
But Dr. Peebles, you know, what a character, he just wouldn't put up with anything.  Like during the news breaks and some of those long waits, he would sometimes leave.  He'd say, "I don't want to put up with this, watching you all go pee."  He says, "I'll just be floating around; I'll be back," and he would just go off and leave Thomas sitting there.
  
But I think one of the most dazzling displays of the paranormal happened right on the air one night.  The space shuttle was in flight.  One of its missions was to deploy two different communications satellites, the Westar VI and the Palapa B-2.  They had put up the Westar VI and they had lost it.  It was gone.  They couldn't find it anywhere.  I mean, all of these sophisticated earth-tracking stations, the thing wasn't there.  It was gone.
  
So during—I think it was the ten o'clock news break, as is usual I just toured back and went through the wire room—a routine to make sure that somebody hadn't shot Reagan again or whatever—and here was this bulletin that had just cleared the wire.  They'd found the Westar VI but it had just been completely destroyed—you know, just in a thousand pieces, there in space, just total space junk.  And NASA was at a loss.  They couldn't figure out what'd happened to it; it was a total mystery.
 
So we came back on the air, and the first question—I didn't even tell Thomas that I had this bulletin—this caller said, "You know, Dr. Peebles, we've just lost one of our communications satellites that the shuttle crew deployed.  What happened there?"
 
He said, "Just a moment"—the way he does, you know, where the hell does he go?—he goes somewhere to get the answers and he's usually back in a few seconds.
  
This time he came back and said, "You know, this is going to be really strange because some of the off-earth ones are tinkering with that satellite right now, so don't worry, it will be back."
 
Well, I'm looking at this bulletin that it's destroyed; right?
  
But he's still saying, "They'll find it.  And not only that, they're going to send off another one and they're going to lose it too.  And the off-earth ones are going to tinker with it and then they'll bring it back—and if your scientists are smart, they'll look and see what's going on there because they'll get a lot of information from what the off-earth ones have been doing with them when they get them back in another flight or two."
 
So I—very diffidently—read the bulletin.  On the air.
  
So he says, "Ah! Well! Believe AP or believe Dr. Peebles, we don't care.  We love you anyway."
 
I said, "Well, what bout it?  Are we to believe AP or should we believe you, Dr. Peebles?"
 
He says, "I'm just telling you what I've got here.  But, Bill, Dr. Peebles can make mistakes too.  But I don't think so, not on this one."
 
So the next morning I'm driving to work and they had launched the Palapa B-2.  I said, "Ohhh, they're gonna lose it."
 
And sure enough by the time I got to work, been there about an hour, bulletin came in, they had lost the Palapa B-2 as well.  Now they're both gone.
 
A day later they found them both.
 
They're both up there; they've got 'em tracked!
 
Two shuttle missions later they retrieved them.  Woo!  Let me get—let me read you a letter I received: "Dear Bill, I feel like I know you after listening to you on 'Open Mind' for so long.  My favorite was Dr. Peebles.  I taped your session with him after the spacecraft blew up.  I've worked at Hughes for eighteen years and I helped design and test Westar VI and the Palapa B-2.  So I was very interested when they were recovered.  I'm sending you a copy of an internal letter we got, December 7, 1984.  Sure like to meet you" and etcetera.
  
The letter, the memo, to Hughes employees communications group, from an associate manager of the Commercial Systems Division: "We recognize that there is an intense interest in the two recovered spacecraft.  Unfortunately, however our recovery contract with the owners of the spacecraft severely limit our freedom to display the spacecraft or to discuss their condition.  Accordingly, I ask your cooperation in observing the following conditions during the time the spacecraft are in our custody: there is to be no access to the spacecraft by anyone who is not an employee of Hughes, and there is to be no access to the spacecraft by Hughes employees who are not directly involved in the performance of the recovery services.  In addition, all requests for information about the recovery or the condition of the spacecraft should be referred to the S&G public relations' etcetera."
 
But there it was, on the air, one of the most dazzling displays [of clairvoyance].  I'm looking at the AP bulletin that they blew up and, "Well, you can believe AP or you can believe Dr. Peebles.  I don't care.  I love you anyway."
  
Beneath a banner headline, the Los Angeles Times on February 4, 1984, reported that the Westar VI communications satellite deployed by Challenger was feared lost.  A follow-up story on February 5 voiced the official fear that the satellite had blown up and disintegrated into space junk.   "One theory is that it exploded as the onboard rocket was ignited."
 
Another Times story on February 7 reported: "A second communications satellite launched from the space shuttle Challenger sputtered and failed to reach its orbit Monday, stunning space officials with the third major setback of the mission.
 
"The satellite, called Palapa-B2 and owned by the government of Indonesia, spiraled up from the shuttle early Monday in what appeared to be a perfect launch, but then flamed out prematurely."
 
A story carried in the February 9 edition said that an investigating team was moving to impound parts of solid-fuel rocket propulsion systems from around the nation in an effort to determine what caused the two commercial satellites deployed by Challenger to sputter and go astray moments after being launched from the space shuttle.
 
A story in Aviation Week & Space Technology in its edition of February 13, 1984, reported that NASA was studying plans to recover the two useless satellites by the space shuttle during the next year.
  
Aside from a mention that the two satellites had been recovered later that year, we have found no further information on the Westar VI and the Palapa B-2.
 
But we'd already decided to believe Dr. Peebles.

This topic is continued in Part 2 of this article.

 

On The Air with Thomas Jacobson Channeling 'Dr. Peebles' . . . (Part 2)

During the 1980s 'Dr. Peebles' spoke through trance channeler Thomas Jacobson as a guest on the "Open Mind" radio show hosted by Bill Jenkins in Los Angeles, as reported by Don and Linda Pendleton in their Thomas Jacobson/'Dr. Peebles' case study To Dance with Angels (1990).  Presented in this article, a portion of chapter 11 "The Dance of Consciousness" describes another KABC talkshow host's witnessing of this channeling: psychiatrist and author David Viscott, whose books include The Making of a Psychiatrist (1972), How to Make Winning Your Lifestyle (1973), The Viscott Method (1984) and How to Live with Another Person (1988).  The reader will find that when called upon to provide a statement about Thomas Jacobson and 'Dr. Peebles,' David Viscott attested to the significance of the channeling yet was unable to articulate a definition or explanation about the nature of the channeling phenomenon observed.

This photograph of David Viscott (1938-1996) appeared on a package of audio tapes.

   

Don Pendleton wrote that David Viscott was "a brilliant and highly successful psychiatrist" and mentioned him having told listeners 'we are all psychic.'  " . . . David Viscott's brain . . . has some mysterious and magical connection with my brain and your brain as well as everyone's with whom he is processing information . . . to know David Viscott is to know that there is more to the story than brilliant deductive techniques alone."

At the time of publication of To Dance with Angels, the Pendletons noted: "His KABC TalkRadio 'David Viscott Show' is aired nationally and has a listener base of several million in the Los Angeles area alone.  A few years back, he had a Saturday night show at KABC immediately preceding Bill Jenkin's 'Open Mind.'"  In 1992/93 there would also be a local television show "Night Talk with David Viscott" that was televised following "Saturday Night Live." 
 
After previously describing the first meeting between David and Thomas Jacobson, the authors reported in chapter 11 about what apparently was the second meeting on December 10, 1983, "when David moved from his studio at the conclusion of his broadcast that night and joined Bill and Thomas for the first hour of 'Open Mind.'"  The following passage begins with David's quoted response after conversing with 'Dr. Peebles' about David's career in the near future although this discussion is not included in the transcript.
 

David's response: "I have a lot of affection for you, my friend.  It is remarkable how you speak to that hidden wish that I have to be meaningful to a lot of people and help them with a better, more honest, and open life.  I have a feeling of solidarity with what you say."

We [the Pendletons] had the feeling, there, of a great meeting of minds.

The Doc replied: "God bless you.  You will find that your life personally, intimately in your private thought, will confront the issue of vulnerability and exposure on a public and private level.  This was an important decision for your soul, for in the distant past you have been in a similar position as a great healer, revered, who was quite inaccessible in private.  You will find that there must be a merging of the philosophy with the life demonstration, privately as well as publicly.  You're working nicely on that already; it's one of your personal creeds and teaching, of course.  And yet it does remain part of your continued growth.  You will be called upon by many, high and low; you'll be called upon to be the master teacher, you'll be called upon to be the Christ energy, as well as many others—and your need, of course, is to help everyone understand that they are the Christ energy.  God bless you.  David, you do that very well."

Bill Jenkins commented: "He was obviously speaking in the terms that we know you and the audience knows you; you're very well-known in Los Angeles.  But it seemed to me that he was speaking very very intimately to you, there, as well.  Am I correct?  The things that are foremost in your mind that you don't really share with us?  You want to air yourself a little bit here?"

David Viscott very soberly and with obvious strong feeling replied: "My goal is a simple goal, and it's to make my own life the model of everything that I preach and believe.  I have no dark closets in my life; I'm exactly what I seem to be, and I'm the same way on the air as off the air."

JENKINS: I can attest to that.

VISCOTT: I don't claim to be special; I claim to be what I think everyone is when they try to be giving—and to try to come from love is the constant struggle of my life and to be giving of what I know, and to try to help other people make their lives an example of the best they can be.  If we all did this, that's how the New Age would be ushered in.

 
Viscott said that "the only vision I ever had was a voice that said, in the second grade in Miss Donnell's class, it said, 'Someday, David, you will tell people what they really feel inside.'"  When Bill Jenkins said to him "So Dr. Peebles was pretty much on target with you, then, in a very very close way," David responded: "Yes, it—it's a bit freaky folks."
 

Another meeting was on May 12, 1984, when David stayed over at KABC to guest on "Open Mind" for what Bill announced as "a special, special night indeed" with Thomas and Dr. Peebles.  Another guest, via telephone hookup from Franklin, North Carolina, was George Meek, inventor of the "Spiricom" and head of the Life Beyond Death Research Foundation.

Before Thomas went into trance, George Meek came on to state: "I had a private session with Thomas and Dr. Peebles about two months ago, and I was most impressed.  I've studied mediumship abilities in many countries for the past fourteen years, and Dr. Peebles is one of the most knowledgeable and enlightened spirit persons I have talked with."

JENKINS: I noticed from the transcript that you sent me that most of your questions were very, very scientific and—

MEEK: They were, and it's very rare indeed that such questions can be asked of a spirit entity.  Of further interest, Bill, when I returned to my offices here in North Carolina from guesting on your show several weeks ago, my secretary told me that at last she had started to catalogue my library, and she'd come across a book that Dr. Peebles had written in 1869.  It has been published in several languages.  My English language edition had been re-published in New York City in 1903—at which time Dr. Peebles was said to be eighty-two years of age.  It is titled Seers of the Ages—with a subtitle, Spiritualism Past and Present.  As revealed in the book, Dr. Peebles himself was highly clairvoyant and skilled as a medium, which helped him in his writing and his lectures.

Dr. James M. Peebles

Later during the broadcast, Bill Jenkins again brought up the topic of the book written by Dr. Peebles with George Meek continuing to participate in the conversation via telephone.

The Doc replied: "Yes, this is my writing literally; however, I cannot take full credit for it, in that I entered into trance states, of automatic writing, of inspired writing, and ponderance in the meditational state.  It was a collective effort by several dozen others.  Many of the individuals mentioned in this book simply spoke directly to fill in some of the details that I never would have had time to research myself, as well you know from reading the book.  However, we have a great desire here not to put attention upon my personality, for as I speak as Dr. Peebles I bring forward other aspects of other personalities as well, and we believe that the content of what we speak is the relativity.

The transcript of the broadcast that evening shows how Dr. Peebles delighted in being humorous at times, quipping about his relationship with a "Spirit Brother" given a personal greeting in Seers of the Ages: "Aaron was one who facilitated my channel.  Aaron was a medium who was never understood as a medium.  He was almost taken off to the insane asylum a couple times, for example.  However, due to the influence of some of his friends—in Parliament, for example—he was not carted away . . ."

The Pendletons wrote that during the show "Dr. Peebles did a past-lives sketch on David that included a Druidic influence as well as many others."

 

Bill Jenkins was the first to comment on that.  He said, "David, you've been around."

David replied in very subdued tones, "You know what's really strange?  The home we lived in just prior to moving out to California was owned by people who were Druids.  What I had uncovered on the property was a lot of their symbolic materials and went about restoring them, just because I seemed to have an affinity for it."
 

JENKINS: Now you understand.

VISCOTT: Yes.

DR. PEEBLES: It's all true, my friends.  Just surrender to it.  Goodness gracious.

Later, after Dr. Peebles had departed and Thomas again was present, Bill Jenkins remarked: "David, it's good to have you here—talking to David Viscott—whose opinions on matters such as this we have the highest kind of regard for.  I know this is the second or third time you've seen Dr. Peebles.  What is your candid reaction to this?  Are we experiencing some sort of an act, or is this really going on?"

Viscott replied: "Well, the thought I had before you asked the question, in looking at this, and in reference to the way he was reacting, is that the sensitivity of the entity is just—without making any judgment about its reality—or the other-statedness of Tom's consciousness—is that the sensitivity of the reality, and this is just forgetting Thomas, is very very high.  It's higher than Thomas's.  I'm sorry, Thomas, but it is—well, you know, you look at him and he's different.  There was an aura around Tom's head during this whole thing.  And it's not there now.

David was perhaps being humorous himself in regard to the aura yet he went on to say:

I'm thinking that this is an extremely sensitive entity whatever its origin.  Whether his reading of my life as a former Druid or a great warrior is only symbolic, it is a read which has an extremely high accuracy.
 

. . . there is a higher sense of knowing, but it—but there is something . . . just weird about this, everybody.
 
All three men laughed about that, then David added, "It's very difficult and I'm normally a clear person, and I'm having trouble with this—because it's your darned reality box, Bill—and it's wanting to maintain, you know, what I'm here for—which is clear and untainted; [I don't want to be] leaping over into anything.  But something happened here that is not quite right."
 
Three years later the experience is still "not quite right" to this brilliant mind—but it would seem that David Viscott is still mulling the possibilities.  Here is a statement that he gave us:
 

Mediums are always a fascination because they illuminate a part of consciousness we cannot study objectively.  Without speculating on the source of Dr. Peebles's energy, the manifestation itself is entertaining, often illuminating, and usually outrageous; another piece of evidence for a case which has not yet been decided definitively.

Thank you, David.  We appreciate your candor and your courage.  God keep.

 

One learns from To Dance with Angels that Thomas Jacobson once had his own weekly radio show on KFOX, Redondo Beach, California, during which Dr. Peebles responded to telephone calls from the broadcast audience.  The title of the show was "Journey to the Heart."  Chapter 12 of the book presents a transcript of conversations of Dr. Peebles from recordings of these radio broadcasts.  This is how the caller 'Sandra' is greeted —

 

DR. PEEBLES: God bless you, Sandra.  Well, you're a beautiful soul, and you are properly trying to take responsibility in your life.  You are trying to be the creator rather than the victim.  You are trying to create your own reality, your own experience, and we tip our hat to you.  Actually you're doing a very good job.  However, as you communicate with people you've forgotten a little bit about the student inside of you.  In your desire to be the mature being that you are, you have lost sight at times, my dear, of the child within.  And you feel embarrassed and apologetic about the child within your being—the universal child within you.

Here is another excerpt from this conversation:
 

DR. PEEBLES: . . . We've watched you and we're very proud of you, my dear; keep it up.  It's just that in taking responsibility, don't isolate yourself again, and in trying to create your reality, my dear—all of you listening—that only happens through harvesting, integrating the different points of view around you.  That is how you create peace on Earth and peace inside of yourself, not trying to get people to agree with you.  You understand me.

SANDRA: Uh-huh, yes, I do.

DR. PEEBLES: Yah, bit of the preacher in Dr. Peebles, isn't there?  Yah, I like to flap these lips on my channel, you know.  It's fun to talk in the human body.  God bless you.

Perhaps the most idiosyncratic response came when caller 'Elaine' asked about transmigration/[people] "coming back as animals," saying, "I just can't accept that in my mind.  I wanted to hear what you have to say about it."

DR. PEEBLES: Yes.  Well, it's true, it's absolutely true; however, there is a little bit of dogma in some of those books you've been reading.  However, you are also correct, too, my dear, because there are human spirits who don't change.  There are many, many human spirits who have never become an animal.  Many, many animal spirits who never became and never will become a human.

However, there are many who have done both.  It is simply an act of choice.  It is usually, I might add, a mature choice, giving you a larger, more rounded perspective—not only of intelligence, but of the true nature of love.

For, you see, in the animal community they do have a soul, and they do have intelligence—no, they don't have the ability to articulate, to do much deductive thinking and reason as you understand it—but, you know, I wouldn't become too proud of those particular faculties.  They really aren't the point.  Love and enlightenment is not accomplished through knowledge.  It is accomplished through love and intimacy.

So next time you're around an animal, not only look into that animal's eyes—let the animal look into your eyes and feel the loving spirit that has so little demand inside.  Your heart will relax and you will understand a new consciousness.  You understand me.

ELAINE: But we do have a choice.  We're not forced to reincarnate as animals, like these people that have done mass murders of animals, they wouldn't be forced to go back into an animal, then.

DR. PEEBLES: No, they wouldn't, but it would be strongly suggested to them, for maybe a few hundred years.  You see, on the spirit side you have a higher perspective as an individual.  Eventually you will see that you want to do something, that you have to do something, and eventually through your free will you decide, I'm gonna do it.

So someone like you just mentioned who's been cruel to animals—on the higher perspective will say, "Goodness gracious, I see what you mean—they are a living, breathing soul; they have feelings and emotions; I didn't know that, I thought they were a biological robot here for my pleasure.  So now I want to understand them, and I will become an animal because at this moment of my higher perspective I don't feel that pride, I don't feel like I would be a lesser being."

Here is the portion of the transcript involving caller 'Marion.'
   

MARION: I talked to you about a month ago, Dr. Peebles, and I have to say you were completely right.  You told me to have my mouth checked for an infection.  I had just been to the dentist a little before that so I knew there was nothing wrong but . . . well, there was, and if I hadn't taken care of it I would have had a very bad infection in my gums that would probably have caused the loss of some teeth.

DR. PEEBLES: Give yourself the credit, my dear.  It was you who asked the question and you who followed up.  God bless you.

MARION: I didn't ask; you just told me.  Anyway, thanks, and now I'd like to ask you about—I'm in a relationship and it's been back and forth and I don't know what to do anymore.  Do you feel that what I'm doing is okay, or . . .

DR. PEEBLES: Do you feel free to give a first name of the other party?

MARION: Oh, yes, uh, Bill.

DR. PEEBLES: All right, just a moment here.  [Pause.]  Well, you know, you must, of course, follow your own heart, Marion, and you're to understand that you could pay more respect to your own feelings—not only your feelings of fear but the feeling of curiosity and attraction to be with this man.

I would suggest this relationship is not complete, it's not over, there's a little more exploration here, and that you are worthy of each other's further attention.  I would say that the main problem here, really, is that you have hesitated in expressing yourself with him.  So ask yourself how can I be much more honest, much more quickly.

Now I know that later on—hours later, weeks later—you're very honest, but I'm talking about right now, in a given subject or exchange with Bill, how can you be very honest and then—point two, of course—allow him to respond the way he wants to.  And then you won't feel that you're in prison, you won't feel like he's controlling you and denying you and holding you back.  It's only yourself, my dear.  You understand me?

MARION: Yes, I do, Dr. Peebles.

DR. PEEBLES: What do you feel about that?  What you gonna do?

MARION: Well, I'm just going to have to say my feelings at the time instead of just never saying anything until—just like you said—until a week later.  You're right.

DR. PEEBLES: Yah.  You see, really the value is not in the discovery of truth—because actually everything has some truth somewhere—the value is in the process of seeking truth.  The value is in the exchange through you.  That's why the delayed communication is very unfulfilling and frustrating to all concerned.  You see?

MARION: That's true.

DR. PEEBLES: Yah.  So just let it out and let him come back the way he wants to.  And when he comes back the way you don't like, you just let it out again, exactly what you feel.  See what I mean?  Don't try to be loving and spiritual!  Just be honest, and you'll automatically be loving and spiritual.  You understand me.

MARION: Yes I do, Doctor.

DR. PEEBLES: God bless you.  It's a good relationship.  Don't you leave it yet, there's more to explore.

MARION: Oh, thank you, Doctor.  Bye-bye.

The book also includes written testimonials from people about their interaction with Dr. Peebles, among them some radio show listeners.  'Arnette' had asked for career advice about her job in the advertising industry.  The response included Dr. Peebles mentioning: "If you just left this place, you'd re-create the same experience elsewhere, my dear."  As a result she commented: "The next day, I changed my perception about my job . . . the feeling that I wasn't supposed to be there started to dissolve.  I became more enthusiastic and expressive.  This led to recognition, praise, and joy in my work . . . I consider this entire process a miracle.  Thank you, Dr. Peebles!"

The Thomas Jacobson/'Dr. Peebles' Channeling Case

The authors of the nonfiction channeling case study To Dance with Angels: An Amazing Journey to the Heart with the Phenomenal Thomas Jacobson and the Grand Spirit, "Dr. Peebles" (1990) recalled that they first became acquainted with 'Dr. Peebles' listening to the KABC-Los Angeles radio show "Open Mind," a Saturday late night program hosted by Bill Jenkins.  "Linda was fascinated by Dr. Peebles from the first time she heard him . . . I was impressed, too . . ."  The couple left Saturday nights free so they could listen to the show with Dr. Peebles being the standout recurring guest among an assortment of unusual people.  The Pendletons mention that "Open Mind" guests included "UFO contactees, crystal freaks, astrologers, psychics, and all the court jesters who have migrated to the southwestern United States in recent years."  (Examples of the voices of Dr. Peebles and channeler Thomas Jacobson are provided with audio recording links in a recent blog article.)

Thomas would go into trance, see, right there in the studio, and bring forth Dr. Peebles.  Now Thomas is an engaging guy, very bright and articulate and interesting, but this guy Peebles was spectacular.  He always appears with a rush of words delivered in a loud, clear, ringing voice that rises and falls in eloquently expressive patterns, almost musical in its color and richness.  It is a late-nineteenth century or early-twentieth-century voice, one that you would associate with the lectern or pulpit, cultivated during a time when a lot of store was placed on projection and elocution, a time before modern electronics and power amplifiers.


Thomas sits there, in a trance, for two hours or more while Dr. Peebles takes the calls and waits out the commercial breaks, kids with the host and keeps the radio audience alternately awed and chuckling.

The Pendletons decided to observe Dr. Peebles in person and schedule an appointment for a private evening channeling session.  There was a two month wait for "this appointment with spirit" for themselves and four other people they knew.  The location was a house in seaside Palos Verdes on April 8, 1987.  The channeler Thomas Jacobson was age 38 at the time and took the group to his study.  "This was not a séance.  The room was well-lighted, snug, comfortable . . . There was just this very nice-looking guy sitting there in a sweat suit with his eyes closed and hands folded on his lap, nothing moving but his jaws and lips, talking like God . . . Spirit has a great sense of humor and great wit . . . Spirit kidded us, lovingly chastised us, praised us, taught us, counseled us—individually and collectively—and tried his best to make us understand ourselves . . . I will say that he nailed us one hundred percent and forever changed the way we think about ourselves, our lives, our reality."

We did not directly encounter Dr. Peebles again until June 1, at which time we had intended to state our interest in writing about him and to request his permission and active cooperation.  But he already knew about it, and he had some ideas of his own to contribute.  We set up a series of interviews and went to work.  The result is what follows [in this book].

The Pendletons' research eventually acquainted them with the dates of the birth and death of James Martin Peebles: March 23, 1822 - February 15, 1922.
 

This Peebles was from a family that originated in Scotland, settled in Northern Ireland in about 1670, then emigrated to Massachusetts in 1718.  He was a leader in the Spiritualist movement in this country and abroad, authored about a dozen books, served briefly as consul to Turkey, had a friendship with Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain), and was regarded as an eloquent and persuasive orator.

One of three sons of a Congregationalist minister, Thomas Jacobson was born in Ohio and grew up in the small town of Rochester, Michigan.  He first planned a music career and his primary instrument was the clarinet.  He left college to join the marines and served for two years with the marine band at Parris Island, South Carolina.  He later worked as a policeman and salesman, eventually realizing that he needed to find something meaningful in life.  Thomas was 28 when he became a member of a group seeking enlightenment through meditation and 'direct inspiration through trance states.'  The teacher was a trance channeler and Thomas recalled: "Dr. Peebles had told me [through another medium] that he would be coming through me when I was ready.  I just said 'Sure' . . . I wasn't even convinced at the time that he was coming through him [the other channeler]."

'Ordin' was the first 'spirit personality' to come forth through Thomas.  Among the others was the female 'Miriam.'  At first Thomas was reluctant to have Dr. Peebles coming through himself:  "I wanted it to be some other spirit, not Dr. Peebles, because William was already channeling Dr. Peebles.  I didn't want the comparison . . . But over a period of about a year he kept coming on stronger and stronger, so I just quit fighting it."

The following are some excerpts from a question and answer 'Dr. Peebles' channeling session transcript presented in the third chapter of the book.
 

DON: When you are present, Dr. Peebles, expressing through Thomas, are you actually here with us?

DR. PEEBLES: Oh very much, yes.

DON: You are sensibly aware of the environment?

DR. PEEBLES: Well . . . some difficulty there, Don.  I—it's—I'm really locked into this body, and so I don't visually see you as you see each other.  When I'm out of this body I don't visually see you as you see each other.  I see energy patterns and waves, like heat off hot tar, but with color and change and movement—panorama, panoramic.  In my channel I see blackness.  However, I work with other spirits, and I am able to sense you through some of my channels . . . oh, you might call them psychic, sensory ah . . . ah . . . doorways of his brain, of his mind.  This is where the channel can be very valuable, very important, very significant.

DON: We have noticed in the past when you have been counseling an individual that often they will be across the room from you, while Thomas's eyes are closed—and they are perched on the edge of their chair and almost wringing their hands as you speak to them, pursing their lips and preparing to break in, to speak while you are speaking, and we have seen you pause, evidently aware of their desire, and give them permission to speak.  Is this . . . is that an example of the psychic sensitivity?

DR. PEEBLES: Yes.  It is not because of any physical vision.  It's because between all life there is connection, there is synchronicity, there is a field of energy that is disturbed or affected by every movement and every thought—and the thoughts, the emotions behind the physical wringing of hands or pursing of lips is much stronger and . . . the thoughts and emotions have a much more dramatic effect on the field of energy than physical movements.  And so in turn, it's like I'm on the end of the rope over here, and the rope is being shaken—and I can feel it, you see.


DON: Well, on a scale of zero to ten, with man at zero and God at ten, where on that scale is the spiritual realm?

DR. PEEBLES: Well, the spiritual realm of teachers—what humans perhaps too often would call master—is the nine, the realm of nine.  Ultimately, from the absolute highest perspective, we would have to take exception to your scale and remind you that everyone is always part of ten, everyone is ten, right now, no matter what their self-image, you see.  But from the place you're looking, the way you ask the question, the locality of the teachers that we are, and others, it is of nine.


DR; PEEBLES: The truth of the universe is that all things are one.  All things want to learn and thereby they expand.  As does the universe.

Following the June 1 session with Dr. Peebles, the Pendletons completed the first four chapters of their case study book by June 19, stating in the fifth chapter: "Meanwhile we have been conducting deep interviews with Dr. Peebles on a twice-weekly basis, gathering old tapes from radio and public appearances and copying them, transcribing these miles of tapes, reviewing the material, talking daily to Thomas by telephone (usually several times each day), conducting interviews both personally and by telephone with dozens of interested individuals . . . We have dined with Thomas several times since June 1 and attended (and taped) three of his public appearances."

An unusual experience was mentioned by Don Pendleton as having occurred on June 19 in the context of him and Linda being amazed at their progress with the book:
 

We think we're getting help.  We have good reason to think that, and I even got the first direct evidence of it at three o'clock this morning when I staggered out of bed with something trembling on the tendrils of the barely conscious mind, went to the study, and with eyes hardly open scribbled in a strange handwriting the epigraph to this section of the book.  [as follows]
 

"There's nothing theoretical about thought.  It's the realest [sic] thing in the universe.  Thought moves and thought does.  It moves against and into.  It is a force, a thing, a reality."

—Source uncertain . . .

Don mentioned that upon waking again a few hours later and looking at the writing, he found differences from his customary handwriting and commented that he would never say "the realest thing."  He  recalled having only been marginally awake and a postscript at the bottom of the page "q.-p. psychic beehives," heavily underlined, was taken to mean that Don "should query Dr. Peebles about psychic beehives, whatever the hell that is."
 
The incident influenced Don in considering what is occurring during a channeling session —
 

Now, Dr. Peebles had told us that mind and soul are one and the same.  It is our souls that produce the thoughts that trickle through the dense matter of our brains to find expression in the matter universe.

He has told us also that Thomas is taken out of the body and held and nurtured while Dr. Peebles is present in that body.

Don Pendleton commented: "And I happen to believe that 'Dr. Peebles' is somewhat more than he has led us to believe he is.  I'm going to say it, Doc, and you can chide me later.  I believe that Dr. Peebles could be what has been referred to in Judeo-Christian literature as an archangel . . . I specifically asked him; he specifically declined to respond.  It is the only time I have ever known him to evade a question."  Presumably, the answer involving that question perhaps was untimely without all essential factors being known to the authors.  (For a perspective of transcendental communication from the Direct Voice communicator 'Mickey' who was regularly heard in the presence of medium Leslie Flint, read the blog article "Tapping the Force: Leslie Flint Recordings and Links".)

Don asked Dr. Peebles about the "psychic beehives" postscript to the automatic writing incident, saying, "Does this strike anything in you?"  Dr. Peebles related the metaphor to "my friend, Henry."
 

"The psychic beehives he talked about are his own symbols for my investigations when I was on Earth.  I was very fascinated by the possibilities of the psychic world and the psychic mind, and much of my work and research was dedicated to trying to formulate and categorize, organize, methodize the psychic possibilities so as to help people discover their own spiritual world."


"You'll find yourself waking up in the midst of your dream state and writing out a paragraph and a page that will give you your direction of writing for the entire week to come, sometimes for a month.  Henry, with your permission, is going to be a conduit for that, for he speaks the language of your mind.  He enjoys metaphors, he enjoys the art of suggestion, and he enjoys humor, and he's very sedate.  He says he respects you very much and you respect him very much.  He's very—he's a noble man."


"Henry was helping you to remember an ancient life in Tibet, where you were a priest of that culture, and this was in an ancient language, a mystical language . . ."


". . . it's a little poem, a little parable, of that culture that, I believe, was your own writing a long, long time ago, as a high priest."

Don wrote: "Linda, to her satisfaction, has found 'Henry'—Colonel Henry Steel Olcott—author, attorney, philosopher—who, with Helena Blavatsky and William Q. Judge, founded the Theosophical Society in 1875 and served as its first president.  Olcott and Peebles were longtime friends and associates . . . In one of the very rare books Linda has unearthed, Dr. Peebles speaks glowingly of his warm friendship with Olcott . . ."

Here is another passage from the fifth chapter.
 

If you have searched for love and found none, so turn with that pain to Dr. Peebles only to have him lovingly reproach you for having created within yourself conditions that numb you to the possibility of recognizing and responding to the love that is all around you, then you may go away complaining about the "generalizations" he handed you as a gift of love even though he has instructed you quite specifically as to the techniques for coming alive that put the creation of love and happiness back into your hands.

You wanted him to send you a lover.

He is telling you that he would gladly do so—indeed that all of life everywhere in the universe is devoted to that search—but to send you a lover while you are numb to love would be an exercise in futility.  He is telling you that all of life is sending lovers into your life every day in every way, yet you are not responding.  "Open your eyes and receive, my dear; we cannot open them for you, nor can we remove the numbness with which you have so carefully insulated yourself from the experience of love."

I have heard him say it fifty times in the past two weeks, in words to that effect, to a variety of people both male and female, in response to a variety of questions.  You must create your own reality.

You are doing so even when you shrug away wisdom in the further search for comfort.

The sixth chapter of the book begins:
 

As all great teachers of the past and present, Dr. Peebles relies heavily on metaphor, simile, analogy, and allegory in dealing with ideas that may be difficult to express in a more direct manner.

Within an  interview transcript in the seventh chapter, Dr. Peebles is asked about Earth and its biosphere as "sort of a living system . . . intimately responsive and, uh, interactive with the whole . . . Could you comment on that and perhaps relate it to the entire universe as a larger entity of somewhat the same nature?"  The response from Dr. Peebles begins "Yes; it is what we call synchronicity and the oneness of the universe" and concludes with the statement "And you are part of all life around you."

During the same conversation Dr. Peebles also commented: "There is a life force that is the intelligence of the universe, within plants for example, within the biological activity of the body . . ."  Other subjects discussed include sexuality, reincarnation, the expression "old soul," and the relationship between man and nature.  Here are some excerpts —

The nature of reincarnation, why one can in fact live so many lifetimes—hundreds and thousands—is because experience is the greater teacher.  Everyone knows what they should do for the most part, but, uh, it's another story to do it.


. . . an old soul is nothing more than a very slow learner.  [Laughter.]  Yes.  You could use that as one of the quotes in the front of the book.


I would say from our vantage point, consistently, one of the first areas of healing, resolution for individual breakthrough, individual growth, and experience of love, and for planetary healing, is the relationship between humans and the rest of nature, starting with animals.


[in response to the question "How many channels are you working with, at the present—working through?"]  Ah, well, let's keep it in North America for now.  That will keep it simple.  I work around the world through various channels and in North America, let's see, there are twenty-five different channels I come through.  There are others who are stretching for my presence and those that I work with and represent, and that's wonderful, but there's some more stretching to do before becoming effective channels.

It is mentioned concerning the Dr. Peebles transcript featured in chapter 7 (that includes observations about sexuality) "Thomas turned beet-red when he read the transcript of portions of this chapter."
 
Here are some of the overview paragraphs presented by the authors describing the teachings of Dr. Peebles in chapter 10.
  

Dr. Peebles comes to us as a graduate [of the 'school' of Earth], and he brings three "simple" tools as aids to our studies:

•  The first is Loving Allowance for all things to be, in their own time and place, beginning with your self.
•  The second is Increased Communications with all of life everywhere, and with respect.
•  The third is Self-Responsibility, for you are the eternal creator of your own experience, never the victim.


Evil, as a force or power, is notably absent from the world according to Dr. Peebles.  Whatever devils or demons may exist are created by human consciousness in this school of hard knocks—and everything that we perceive as evil is ultimately resolved in Spirit as an errant aspect of consciousness.

The book includes quoted perspectives of people who've interacted with Dr. Peebles during the radio broadcasts or public channeling sessions.  One of these private session attendees wrote:

This marvelous medium, Thomas Jacobson, in tandem with the wise and wonderful Dr. James Peebles, creates a living flesh-and-spirit catalyst for transformational growth.  The operative principles offered do work when earnestly applied, and there is a palpable love that emanates from both Dr. Peebles and Thomas.

In 1987, just prior to the observance of the Harmonic Convergence, I chanced to hear Thomas Jacobson channeling Dr. James Peebles on KFOX radio.  I was immediately struck by his power of insight and genuine compassion as he probed, counseled, and inspired troubled souls seeking guidance.

Immediately I resolved to attend a public channeling session at the Gathering Place, and for the next months I closely scrutinized this wonderful phenomenon of spirit possessing flesh and commanding the undivided attention of a roomful of strangers and admirers.

My earlier life of violence and imprisonment had prepared me to recognize a scam, but my "mean-streets smarts" and intuition told me that this fusion of Thomas and Dr. Peebles was genuine and positive and alive.

I can relate to Dr. Peebles's own history of some three hundred and fifty lives on this planet, learning and relearning the lessons of spirit and consciousness.  He has inspired me as perhaps no other entity could.  I love, respect, and honor this brilliant soul and his teachings.

Following my release from prison in 1963, I had become active on the political left and, subsequently, developed an elitist, "servant of the people" mindset.  I believed that I was better than others—different, handsomer, more creative, tougher, and brighter than anyone else.  My life was confrontive and I battled all who dared to differ with me.  It was an ages-old impulse that came easily and quickly, and it had gotten me into a whole lot of trouble.

In one of my private sessions, Dr. Peebles identified for me a life in Greece several thousand years ago where I was a prominent military authority.  In that life, I was responsible for the deaths of many who resisted my desire to impose Greek culture upon the world.  "You weren't cruel, just convinced," Dr. Peebles advised me, but intuitively this cut me to the quick and I wept, for I recognized that Grecian experience as the genesis of my intolerance of other points of view during this lifetime—and the recognition came at a very deep level of cognizance, so deep that there was no mistaking the carryover into this life.

  
At a public session on February 25, 1988, 'Bob,' the father of a man who'd recently committed suicide, asked how the two of them had been connected in the past.
  

Dr. Peebles immediately replied.  "You were brothers.  I believe you've dreamed of this, as well—uh, brothers in the distant past and you delighted in going through thick and thin together.  You saved each other's lives I don't know how many times!—ah, through thick and thin."

There then followed a large outline of their past lives together as Dr. Peebles elaborated many life cycles in which they began to draw apart and lose this very close friendship—a movement totally related to power issues—"who's in control?"  Then both began a cycle of loneliness, seeing others and avoiding them as mere performers in an act rather than as family members—then blaming others for the sense of loneliness—with much anger and frustration.  In one interesting series, Collin [the son] became Bob's father in the earthly environment and then his son, for a "balancing of the scales," and this brings us into current time.

Dr. Peebles continued: "There was a bit of conflict in this [present] life, but especially you are comrades of the deepest nature as souls who really just want to be strong and provide for the other and prove your love."

  
In another public gathering on June 24, 1986, Dr. Peebles spoke about individuals in context with the countries of the world and the ongoing predicament of creating one's reality.
  

Well, your governments—your governments that represent you nationally—are a reflection of what all of you have asked for and sought.  That is a desire for safety.  This is shared by all humanity, regardless of nationality, because all human beings have, remember, temporary illusions of separation.

What does that mean, temporary illusions of separation?  What is the impact of that reality?  Well, with separation there is a fear—there is an automatic belief that there are those things that are different from you—otherwise you wouldn't be separate from them, would you?

And if they are different from you, are they compatible?—must you not think about them?—must you not ponder them before you can be intimate?—and in the meantime, until you make that decision to be intimate, must you not protect yourself from possible threat in case they are not comfortable to your energy?

Well, that starts with the illusions of separation, which is an illusion, but it is a lived reality.  It is carried out as a reality in each and every day, and I don't mean Chinese on the other side of the world, I mean you: listening to these words.

The illusions of separation, then, is a personal experience—whether it be in Iran, Russia, Washington, D.C. and the White House, or in the country land of Minnesota.  It is a shared phenomenon upon which all governments are built.  All governments are built upon religion.  All religions are built upon not only the hopes but especially the fears of mankind; which predominantly there is that of survival: to survive, to continue.


How will you then create peace on Earth?  It is through peace within yourself.  How often have you marched?  How often have you written to your senators?  How often have you wanted in your mind to increase your communication for greater peace on Earth?  How often have you felt indignant at the increased terrorism and the nuclear warfare?

And then someone in ragged clothes the next day walks by you and asks you for a quarter; and you are offended; and you leave them.

You speak of love by healing the planet Earth; you speak of peace by eliminating weaponry; and then you ignore your brother next door.  To understand the nature of terrorism, to understand the nature of nuclear war, do not look to Washington, D.C.; do not look to Moscow; look within your own heart.

Understand your weaponry, understand your fears, so that you can empathize with Moscow and you can empathize with Washington, D. C., instead of the massive illusions of separation.  For only with the empathy can there begin to be union.

But then there's a new problem.  How do you define union?  Union is not collective agreement.  Union is allowance—indeed, fascination—with disagreement.  Lack of allowance of disagreement, and the force to create agreement, is lack of union.


Celebrate, celebrate—for you are eternal.  You cannot fail, and all the challenges of Earth are nothing but schoolbooks in a big school—a big classroom—called planet Earth, where you are guaranteed graduation, eventually—sometimes rather slowly for a few of us—us elderly souls of the planet Earth—wise but still reincarnating, aren't we.

To Dance with Angels is a book with 14 chapters, Introduction and Afterword.