Berthold Eric Schwarz, M.D.
Psychiatrist with UFO / Paranormal Interests, LSD Studies
"Can Telepathy Cause Illness?"
"Can Telepathy Cause Illness?"
Berthold Eric Schwartz, M.D.
Berthold Eric Schwartz, M.D., a psychiatrist with paranormal interests, including UFOs, contactees, doppelganger effect, Men In Black and other paranormal events associated with UFOs. His presence at MRU makes it a pioneering institution in this arena. Consultant, Brain Wave Laboratory, Essex Co. Hospital Center, Cedar Grove, New Jersey, Consultant to FLYING SAUCER REVIEW.
In 1971 the US psychiatrist published an account of 500 psychic interactions between him and his two children, Lisa and Eric. He was an expert on the effects of LSD on hypnotically-induced seizures. He wrote Parent Child Telepathy. In Medical Times, Oct. 1968 he presented four examples of allegedly close contact with UFOs.
(1970). Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 39:338. Psychoanalytic Review. LVI, 1969: Synchronicity and Telepathy. Berthold Eric Schwartz. Pp. 44-56. This paper is a very readable account of four telepathic experiences which are quite convincing. All have to do with death, destruction, and hostile omnipotence. Another reason for not discussing or writing about telepathy is the very real damage that it can do to the people involved. Truth is, among many things, an emotional reality or telepathic awareness between two people.
Ufo-Dynamics: Psychiatric and Psychic Dimensions of the Ufo Syndrome (Paperback), 1989 by Berthold Eric Schwarz, 560 pgs. Men in Black, "bigfoot" like humanoids, poltergeist effects accompanying UFO encounters, witnesses with histories of psychic experiences, "channeled" messages, everthing but the Garuda.
Many ufologists think parapsychology is irrelevant to UFOs...after all they already *know* that they are "nuts and bolts" spacecraft piloted by "flesh and blood" EBE's. (the "X files" and the MJ-12 documents tell them so!) Many parapsychologists think that ufology is beneath their loftly standards of scientific rigor (perhaps so, but that doesn't make them any more welcome as CSICOP meetings). As a result some interesting cross-fertilization is missed. Like or not, poltergeist phenomena, crypto-zoa (e.g. "Bigfoot"), apparitions, intrude upon abduction experiences and ufo encounters like night follows day, and any ultimate explanation of one will probably explain the others. Dogmatic advocates of the extraterrestrial hypothesis are continually embarrased by this fact and frequently sweep such "extraneous details" out of their accounts. Skeptics highlight them and say "see, UFOs lead to all sorts of nonsense therefore *they* are nonsensical." Schwarz grasps the nettle firmly and tries to understand the vast spectrum of paranormal experience of which UFOs are only one part.
For Medical Times, Dr. Berthold Eric Schwarz, eminent psychiatrist, examined scores of UFO "observers," decreed that they are not psychotic, not suffering hallucination, not publicity-seekers. "More, on the contrary, fearing ridicule, are embarrassed to testify to what they saw."
Notably, Dr. Schwarz and his colleagues find among mental patients a total absence of any such "observations." So, concludes Dr. Schwarz, "These reports are neither conscious nor unconscious fabrication. What they say they saw they think they saw!"
Dr. Berthold Schwarz (Psychiatry), of Vero Beach, Florida, is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, among many others. He has contributed over 100 articles to professional journals and has published over a dozen books, including, along with UFO DYNAMICS, Parent-Child Telepathy, Parent Child Tensions, The Jacques Romano Story, Psychic-Nexus, The Psychic Nexus. 0-86140-287-1 xviii, 186pp. illus. You CAN Raise Decent Children, and others. Physiological Aspects of Henry Gross's Dowsing, by Berthold Eric Schwarz; in Parapsychology, Vol. IV, No. 2, 1962-1963. SCHWARZ, BERTHOLD E., M.D. (chron.) * Can Telepathy Cause Illness?, (ar) Fate May 1969. Psychic-Nexus ; Psychic Phenomena in Psychiatry and Everyday Life, Schwarz , Berthold Eric, 1980, 964, 30/9/2542. Schwarz, Berthold Eric. Parent-Child Telepathy: Five Hundred and Five Possible Episodes in a Family; A Study of the Telepathy of Everyday Life.
http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:bGgzAgQykaMJ:www.nidsci.org/pdf/schwarz.pdf+Berthold+Eric+Schwartz&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=67&gl=us
UFOs: Delusion or Dilemma
Ufo-dynamics : psychiatric and psychic aspects of the ufo syndrome / Berthold Eric Schwarz. - 3. updated and revised ed. - Moore Haven, Fla. : Rainbow Books, 1988. - 560 s. : ill.
Orig.udg.: Ufo dynamics : psychiatric and psychic dimensions of the ufo syndrome / Berthold E. Schwarz. - Moore Haven, Fla. : Rainbow Books, 1983. - 2 bd. (561 s.): ill.
Af indholdet: Ufos: delusion or dilemma? - Ufos in New Jersey. - Gary Wilcox and the ufonauts. - Ufo occupants: Fact or fantasy? - Possible ufo-induced temporary paralysis. - �Beauty of the night�. - The Port Monmouth landing. - Woodstock ufo festival, 1966. - Ufo landing and repair by crew / by Ted Bloecher. - Berserk: A ufo-creature encounter. - The twilight side of a ufo encounter / by Brent M. Raynes. - The Maine ufo-encounter: Investigation under hypnosis / by Shirley C. Ficket. - Comments on the psychiatric-paranormal aspects of the Maine case. - The men-in-black syndrome. - Talks with Betty Hill. - Ufo forum, with P.M.H. Edwards, Rupert H. Mac Neill, Peter M. Millmann and B.E. Schwarz. - A scientific commentary prepared by Brian C. Cannon. - A psychiatrist looks at ufos. - Saucers, psi and psychiatry. - The ethical ufologist. - Stella Lansing�s ufo motion pictures. - Stella Lansing�s movie: Four entities and a possible ufo. - Stella Lansing�s clock-like ufo patterns. - A ufo motion picture experiment (at Betty Hill�s �landing field�). - Clinical observations on telekinesis. - Postscript: Predictable impredictabilities.
An obscure District of Columbia corporation called Mankind Research Unlimited (MRU) and its wholly owned subsidiary, Systems Consultants Inc. (SCI), operated a number of classified intelligence, government and Pentagon contracts, specializing in, amongst other things: "problem solving in the areas of intelligence electronic warfare, sensor technology and applications." MRU's "capability and experience" is divided into four fields. These include "biophysics - Biological Effects of Magnetic Fields," "Research in Magneto-fluid Dynamics," "Planetary Electro-Hydro-Dynamics" and "Geo-pathic Efforts on Living Organisms." The latter focuses on the induction of illness by altering the magnetic nature of the geography. Also under research were "Biocybernetics, Psychodynamic Experiments in Telepathy," "Errors in Human Perception," "Biologically Generated Fields," "Metapsychiatry and the Ultraconscious Mind" (believed to refer to experiments in telepathic mind control), "Behavioural Neuropsychiatry," "Analysis and Measurement of Human Subjective States" and "Human Unconscious Behavioural Patterns." <>Employing some old OSS, CIA and military intelligence officers, the company also engages the services of prominent physicians and psychologists including E. Stanton Maxey, Stanley R. Dean, Berthold Eric Schwarz plus many more. MRU lists in its Company Capabilities "brain and mind control." (15) Despite vehement claims by MRU's chairman that it is not a "front organization for any branch of the United States Government..." (16) one must treat these claims with a great deal of skepticism.
MEN IN BLACK
A Classic Case
http://www.newpara.com/Men%20In%20Black.htm
from UFO DYNAMICS: Psychiatric and Psychic Dimensions of the UFO Syndrome BOOK I
by Berthold Schwarz, M.D. (Psychiatry)
Reprinted with the permission of Rainbow Books
Copyright 1983, 1989 by Berthold Eric Schwarz
In 1971 the US psychiatrist published an account of 500 psychic interactions between him and his two children, Lisa and Eric. He was an expert on the effects of LSD on hypnotically-induced seizures. He wrote Parent Child Telepathy. In Medical Times, Oct. 1968 he presented four examples of allegedly close contact with UFOs.
(1970). Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 39:338. Psychoanalytic Review. LVI, 1969: Synchronicity and Telepathy. Berthold Eric Schwartz. Pp. 44-56. This paper is a very readable account of four telepathic experiences which are quite convincing. All have to do with death, destruction, and hostile omnipotence. Another reason for not discussing or writing about telepathy is the very real damage that it can do to the people involved. Truth is, among many things, an emotional reality or telepathic awareness between two people.
Ufo-Dynamics: Psychiatric and Psychic Dimensions of the Ufo Syndrome (Paperback), 1989 by Berthold Eric Schwarz, 560 pgs. Men in Black, "bigfoot" like humanoids, poltergeist effects accompanying UFO encounters, witnesses with histories of psychic experiences, "channeled" messages, everthing but the Garuda.
Many ufologists think parapsychology is irrelevant to UFOs...after all they already *know* that they are "nuts and bolts" spacecraft piloted by "flesh and blood" EBE's. (the "X files" and the MJ-12 documents tell them so!) Many parapsychologists think that ufology is beneath their loftly standards of scientific rigor (perhaps so, but that doesn't make them any more welcome as CSICOP meetings). As a result some interesting cross-fertilization is missed. Like or not, poltergeist phenomena, crypto-zoa (e.g. "Bigfoot"), apparitions, intrude upon abduction experiences and ufo encounters like night follows day, and any ultimate explanation of one will probably explain the others. Dogmatic advocates of the extraterrestrial hypothesis are continually embarrased by this fact and frequently sweep such "extraneous details" out of their accounts. Skeptics highlight them and say "see, UFOs lead to all sorts of nonsense therefore *they* are nonsensical." Schwarz grasps the nettle firmly and tries to understand the vast spectrum of paranormal experience of which UFOs are only one part.
For Medical Times, Dr. Berthold Eric Schwarz, eminent psychiatrist, examined scores of UFO "observers," decreed that they are not psychotic, not suffering hallucination, not publicity-seekers. "More, on the contrary, fearing ridicule, are embarrassed to testify to what they saw."
Notably, Dr. Schwarz and his colleagues find among mental patients a total absence of any such "observations." So, concludes Dr. Schwarz, "These reports are neither conscious nor unconscious fabrication. What they say they saw they think they saw!"
Dr. Berthold Schwarz (Psychiatry), of Vero Beach, Florida, is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, among many others. He has contributed over 100 articles to professional journals and has published over a dozen books, including, along with UFO DYNAMICS, Parent-Child Telepathy, Parent Child Tensions, The Jacques Romano Story, Psychic-Nexus, The Psychic Nexus. 0-86140-287-1 xviii, 186pp. illus. You CAN Raise Decent Children, and others. Physiological Aspects of Henry Gross's Dowsing, by Berthold Eric Schwarz; in Parapsychology, Vol. IV, No. 2, 1962-1963. SCHWARZ, BERTHOLD E., M.D. (chron.) * Can Telepathy Cause Illness?, (ar) Fate May 1969. Psychic-Nexus ; Psychic Phenomena in Psychiatry and Everyday Life, Schwarz , Berthold Eric, 1980, 964, 30/9/2542. Schwarz, Berthold Eric. Parent-Child Telepathy: Five Hundred and Five Possible Episodes in a Family; A Study of the Telepathy of Everyday Life.
http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:bGgzAgQykaMJ:www.nidsci.org/pdf/schwarz.pdf+Berthold+Eric+Schwartz&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=67&gl=us
UFOs: Delusion or Dilemma
Ufo-dynamics : psychiatric and psychic aspects of the ufo syndrome / Berthold Eric Schwarz. - 3. updated and revised ed. - Moore Haven, Fla. : Rainbow Books, 1988. - 560 s. : ill.
Orig.udg.: Ufo dynamics : psychiatric and psychic dimensions of the ufo syndrome / Berthold E. Schwarz. - Moore Haven, Fla. : Rainbow Books, 1983. - 2 bd. (561 s.): ill.
Af indholdet: Ufos: delusion or dilemma? - Ufos in New Jersey. - Gary Wilcox and the ufonauts. - Ufo occupants: Fact or fantasy? - Possible ufo-induced temporary paralysis. - �Beauty of the night�. - The Port Monmouth landing. - Woodstock ufo festival, 1966. - Ufo landing and repair by crew / by Ted Bloecher. - Berserk: A ufo-creature encounter. - The twilight side of a ufo encounter / by Brent M. Raynes. - The Maine ufo-encounter: Investigation under hypnosis / by Shirley C. Ficket. - Comments on the psychiatric-paranormal aspects of the Maine case. - The men-in-black syndrome. - Talks with Betty Hill. - Ufo forum, with P.M.H. Edwards, Rupert H. Mac Neill, Peter M. Millmann and B.E. Schwarz. - A scientific commentary prepared by Brian C. Cannon. - A psychiatrist looks at ufos. - Saucers, psi and psychiatry. - The ethical ufologist. - Stella Lansing�s ufo motion pictures. - Stella Lansing�s movie: Four entities and a possible ufo. - Stella Lansing�s clock-like ufo patterns. - A ufo motion picture experiment (at Betty Hill�s �landing field�). - Clinical observations on telekinesis. - Postscript: Predictable impredictabilities.
An obscure District of Columbia corporation called Mankind Research Unlimited (MRU) and its wholly owned subsidiary, Systems Consultants Inc. (SCI), operated a number of classified intelligence, government and Pentagon contracts, specializing in, amongst other things: "problem solving in the areas of intelligence electronic warfare, sensor technology and applications." MRU's "capability and experience" is divided into four fields. These include "biophysics - Biological Effects of Magnetic Fields," "Research in Magneto-fluid Dynamics," "Planetary Electro-Hydro-Dynamics" and "Geo-pathic Efforts on Living Organisms." The latter focuses on the induction of illness by altering the magnetic nature of the geography. Also under research were "Biocybernetics, Psychodynamic Experiments in Telepathy," "Errors in Human Perception," "Biologically Generated Fields," "Metapsychiatry and the Ultraconscious Mind" (believed to refer to experiments in telepathic mind control), "Behavioural Neuropsychiatry," "Analysis and Measurement of Human Subjective States" and "Human Unconscious Behavioural Patterns." <>Employing some old OSS, CIA and military intelligence officers, the company also engages the services of prominent physicians and psychologists including E. Stanton Maxey, Stanley R. Dean, Berthold Eric Schwarz plus many more. MRU lists in its Company Capabilities "brain and mind control." (15) Despite vehement claims by MRU's chairman that it is not a "front organization for any branch of the United States Government..." (16) one must treat these claims with a great deal of skepticism.
MEN IN BLACK
A Classic Case
http://www.newpara.com/Men%20In%20Black.htm
from UFO DYNAMICS: Psychiatric and Psychic Dimensions of the UFO Syndrome BOOK I
by Berthold Schwarz, M.D. (Psychiatry)
Reprinted with the permission of Rainbow Books
Copyright 1983, 1989 by Berthold Eric Schwarz
UFO Report
Date: 10-25-73 Place: Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Investigator: Berthold Eric Schwarz, M.D., Consultant, Brain Wave Laboratory, Essex Co. Hospital Center, Cedar Grove, New Jersey, Consultant to FLYING SAUCER REVIEW.
This case is perhaps the most interesting and many-faceted of the 188 Pennsylvania creature sightings included in Case Number 4. It began at nine o’clock at night, when a young farmer, called Stephen Pulaski in the report given in FLYING SAUCER REVIEW, and at least fifteen other witnesses saw a bright red ball hovering over a field near them. Stephen grabbed a 30.06 rifle, and he and two ten-year old neighbor boys went to investigate it. Stephen’s auto headlights dimmed as he neared the object, and as the object descended towards the field, Stephen’s German Shepherd, back at the house, became very disturbed. The object was now bright white, and appeared to be about 100 feet in diameter.
It was buzzing much like a lawnmower would.
They stood watching the object on the ground, and then the neighbor boys saw something walking along by the fence. Stephen thought it looked like two bears, and he fired a tracer bullet over the “bears” heads. The creatures were very tall, one 7 feet, the other over 8 feet tall. These measurements were easier than usual to get because the entities were silhouetted against the fence and so could be accurately judged. They were hairy and long-armed, with greenish-yellow eyes. They made a noise like a baby whining. A smell like “burning rubber” was present. Stephen, realizing that these creatures were not bears and that they were coming nearer to him, fired over the entities’ heads once more and, when they kept on coming, fired directly at the larger creature.
When the creature was hit, the glowing 150 ft. diameter object disappeared from the field, instantaneously, and the motor noise stopped. The two creatures turned around and walked back towards the woods. In the field where the object had been was a glowing area about 150 feet in diameter, which was gone by the next morning. While it was still there, a State Trooper who came to investigate the story went up to within 200 yards of it, then stopped, went back to call in the UFO researcher Stan Gordon. The Trooper felt that Stephen was so disturbed that it was better that he be watched—and Stephen wouldn’t go near the glowing area.
It was 2 a.m. when Stan Gordon’s Study Group team and Stephen and his father went back to the landing site. The animals were acting scared, and Stephen’s dog was tracking something which no one could see at the edge of the woods. Suddenly Stephen began rubbing his head and face and looking as though he were about to faint. Several people approached him, but he threw them off, growling like an animal and flailing his arms. His own dog ran towards him and Stephen attacked the dog. Two of the investigators also experienced some feelings of lightheartedness and difficulty in breathing at this point.
Stephen continued running around, growling and swinging his arms, and then collapsed in a manured area, face-down. He lay there for a time, then began to come to himself, and said, “Get away from me. It’s here. Get back.” Sulfur-like odor was noticed. Stephen and the group got away from the area, but Stephen kept mumbling that he would protect the group. He said he saw a man in a black hat and cloak, who told Stephen, “If Man doesn’t straighten up, the end is near.” The man also told Stephen, “There is a man here now, who can save the world.” Needless to say, the investigators present felt quite concerned about Stephen’s health, and it was here that Dr. Schwarz was called in.
Dr. Schwarz’s subsequent psychiatric study of Stephen yielded results that he feels point clearly to the incident having occurred just as reported, for indeed it would be terrifying for a man such as Stephen, used to a very practical and realistic type of life, to shoot and hit an 8-foot antagonist which then was not harmed in any way. The numerous other witnesses to the various phases of the incident also bear out its having happened. Who was the man in black, and what do the predictions about Mankind really mean? That is a matter for interpretation. But that Stephen had the experience has been thoroughly documented.
Investigator: Berthold Eric Schwarz, M.D., Consultant, Brain Wave Laboratory, Essex Co. Hospital Center, Cedar Grove, New Jersey, Consultant to FLYING SAUCER REVIEW.
This case is perhaps the most interesting and many-faceted of the 188 Pennsylvania creature sightings included in Case Number 4. It began at nine o’clock at night, when a young farmer, called Stephen Pulaski in the report given in FLYING SAUCER REVIEW, and at least fifteen other witnesses saw a bright red ball hovering over a field near them. Stephen grabbed a 30.06 rifle, and he and two ten-year old neighbor boys went to investigate it. Stephen’s auto headlights dimmed as he neared the object, and as the object descended towards the field, Stephen’s German Shepherd, back at the house, became very disturbed. The object was now bright white, and appeared to be about 100 feet in diameter.
It was buzzing much like a lawnmower would.
They stood watching the object on the ground, and then the neighbor boys saw something walking along by the fence. Stephen thought it looked like two bears, and he fired a tracer bullet over the “bears” heads. The creatures were very tall, one 7 feet, the other over 8 feet tall. These measurements were easier than usual to get because the entities were silhouetted against the fence and so could be accurately judged. They were hairy and long-armed, with greenish-yellow eyes. They made a noise like a baby whining. A smell like “burning rubber” was present. Stephen, realizing that these creatures were not bears and that they were coming nearer to him, fired over the entities’ heads once more and, when they kept on coming, fired directly at the larger creature.
When the creature was hit, the glowing 150 ft. diameter object disappeared from the field, instantaneously, and the motor noise stopped. The two creatures turned around and walked back towards the woods. In the field where the object had been was a glowing area about 150 feet in diameter, which was gone by the next morning. While it was still there, a State Trooper who came to investigate the story went up to within 200 yards of it, then stopped, went back to call in the UFO researcher Stan Gordon. The Trooper felt that Stephen was so disturbed that it was better that he be watched—and Stephen wouldn’t go near the glowing area.
It was 2 a.m. when Stan Gordon’s Study Group team and Stephen and his father went back to the landing site. The animals were acting scared, and Stephen’s dog was tracking something which no one could see at the edge of the woods. Suddenly Stephen began rubbing his head and face and looking as though he were about to faint. Several people approached him, but he threw them off, growling like an animal and flailing his arms. His own dog ran towards him and Stephen attacked the dog. Two of the investigators also experienced some feelings of lightheartedness and difficulty in breathing at this point.
Stephen continued running around, growling and swinging his arms, and then collapsed in a manured area, face-down. He lay there for a time, then began to come to himself, and said, “Get away from me. It’s here. Get back.” Sulfur-like odor was noticed. Stephen and the group got away from the area, but Stephen kept mumbling that he would protect the group. He said he saw a man in a black hat and cloak, who told Stephen, “If Man doesn’t straighten up, the end is near.” The man also told Stephen, “There is a man here now, who can save the world.” Needless to say, the investigators present felt quite concerned about Stephen’s health, and it was here that Dr. Schwarz was called in.
Dr. Schwarz’s subsequent psychiatric study of Stephen yielded results that he feels point clearly to the incident having occurred just as reported, for indeed it would be terrifying for a man such as Stephen, used to a very practical and realistic type of life, to shoot and hit an 8-foot antagonist which then was not harmed in any way. The numerous other witnesses to the various phases of the incident also bear out its having happened. Who was the man in black, and what do the predictions about Mankind really mean? That is a matter for interpretation. But that Stephen had the experience has been thoroughly documented.
Berthold Eric Schwarz, M.D., a psychiatrist with paranormal interests. In 1971 the US psychiatrist published an account of 500 psychic interactions between him and his two children, Lisa and Eric. He was an expert on the effects of LSD on hypnotically-induced seizures. He wrote Parent Child Telepathy.In Medical Times, Oct. 1968 he presented four examples of allegedly close contact with UFOs.
(1970). Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 39:338. Psychoanalytic Review. LVI, 1969: Synchronicity and Telepathy. Berthold Eric Schwartz. Pp. 44-56. This paper is a very readable account of four telepathic experiences which are quite convincing. All have to do with death, destruction, and hostile omnipotence. Another reason for not discussing or writing about telepathy is the very real damage that it can do to the people involved. Truth is, among many things, an emotional reality or telepathic awareness between two people.
Ufo-Dynamics: Psychiatric and Psychic Dimensions of the Ufo Syndrome (Paperback), 1989 by Berthold Eric Schwarz, 560 pgs. Men in Black, "bigfoot" like humanoids, poltergeist effects accompanying UFO encounters, witnesses with histories of psychic experiences, "channeled" messages, everthing but the Garuda.
Many ufologists think parapsychology is irrelevant to UFOs...after all they already *know* that they are "nuts and bolts" spacecraft piloted by "flesh and blood" EBE's. (the "X files" and the MJ-12 documents tell them so!) Many parapsychologists think that ufology is beneath their loftly standards of scientific rigor (perhaps so, but that doesn't make them any more welcome as CSICOP meetings). As a result some interesting cross-fertilization is missed. Like or not, poltergeist phenomena, crypto-zoa (e.g. "Bigfoot"), apparitions, intrude upon abduction experiences and ufo encounters like night follows day, and any ultimate explanation of one will probably explain the others. Dogmatic advocates of the extraterrestrial hypothesis are continually embarrased by this fact and frequently sweep such "extraneous details" out of their accounts. Skeptics highlight them and say "see, UFOs lead to all sorts of nonsense therefore *they* are nonsensical." Schwarz grasps the nettle firmly and tries to understand the vast spectrum of paranormal experience of which UFOs are only one part.
For Medical Times, Dr. Berthold Eric Schwarz, eminent psychiatrist, examined scores of UFO "observers," decreed that they are not psychotic, not suffering hallucination, not publicity-seekers. "More, on the contrary, fearing ridicule, are embarrassed to testify to what they saw."
Notably, Dr. Schwarz and his colleagues find among mental patients a total absence of any such "observations." So, concludes Dr. Schwarz, "These reports are neither conscious nor unconscious fabrication. What they say they saw they think they saw!"
Dr. Berthold Schwarz (Psychiatry), of Vero Beach, Florida, is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, among many others. He has contributed over 100 articles to professional journals and has published over a dozen books, including, along with UFO DYNAMICS, Parent-Child Telepathy, Parent Child Tensions, The Jacques Romano Story, Psychic-Nexus, The Psychic Nexus. 0-86140-287-1 xviii, 186pp. illus. You CAN Raise Decent Children, and others. Physiological Aspects of Henry Gross's Dowsing, by Berthold Eric Schwarz; in Parapsychology, Vol. IV, No. 2, 1962-1963. SCHWARZ, BERTHOLD E., M.D. (chron.) * Can Telepathy Cause Illness?, (ar) Fate May 1969. Psychic-Nexus ; Psychic Phenomena in Psychiatry and Everyday Life, Schwarz , Berthold Eric, 1980, 964, 30/9/2542. Schwarz, Berthold Eric. Parent-Child Telepathy: Five Hundred and Five Possible Episodes in a Family; A Study of the Telepathy of Everyday Life.
http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:bGgzAgQykaMJ:www.nidsci.org/pdf/schwarz.pdf+Berthold+Eric+Schwartz&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=67&gl=us
UFOs: Delusion or Dilemma
Ufo-dynamics : psychiatric and psychic aspects of the ufo syndrome / Berthold Eric Schwarz. - 3. updated and revised ed. - Moore Haven, Fla. : Rainbow Books, 1988. - 560 s. : ill.
Orig.udg.: Ufo dynamics : psychiatric and psychic dimensions of the ufo syndrome / Berthold E. Schwarz. - Moore Haven, Fla. : Rainbow Books, 1983. - 2 bd. (561 s.): ill.
Af indholdet: Ufos: delusion or dilemma? - Ufos in New Jersey. - Gary Wilcox and the ufonauts. - Ufo occupants: Fact or fantasy? - Possible ufo-induced temporary paralysis. - �Beauty of the night�. - The Port Monmouth landing. - Woodstock ufo festival, 1966. - Ufo landing and repair by crew / by Ted Bloecher. - Berserk: A ufo-creature encounter. - The twilight side of a ufo encounter / by Brent M. Raynes. - The Maine ufo-encounter: Investigation under hypnosis / by Shirley C. Ficket. - Comments on the psychiatric-paranormal aspects of the Maine case. - The men-in-black syndrome. - Talks with Betty Hill. - Ufo forum, with P.M.H. Edwards, Rupert H. Mac Neill, Peter M. Millmann and B.E. Schwarz. - A scientific commentary prepared by Brian C. Cannon. - A psychiatrist looks at ufos. - Saucers, psi and psychiatry. - The ethical ufologist. - Stella Lansing�s ufo motion pictures. - Stella Lansing�s movie: Four entities and a possible ufo. - Stella Lansing�s clock-like ufo patterns. - A ufo motion picture experiment (at Betty Hill�s �landing field�). - Clinical observations on telekinesis. - Postscript: Predictable impredictabilities.
Soviet scientists and doctors have long recognized that mental patients produce various forms of psi, such as projective thought forms and various forms of GESP, even though they are ill, most chronically. The psi seems to become not only a symptom of their mental disorder, but a condition in itself. It is all in the medical literature, but is considered a delusion when the patient claims people “read his mind.”
At first, the patient/percipient experiences synchronicity at an alarming rate, and then eventually the telepathic mechanism becomes obvious to them. Dr. Berthold Eric Schwarz wrote in the July 1985 Para-UFOlogy Forum (now Alternate Perceptions), in response to an article I wrote in a previous issue: “By understanding the intricacies of your own mind as the telepathics unfold, many of the so-called synchronistic events, which are really unadulterated telepathy, come into focus and become much more involved and excitingÉ As Stan Morrison indicates and as is obvious in all of these cases, the experimenter is part of the experiment.” It becomes obvious when one studies these cases that major phenomena can develop. The big question is what came first: the psi or the physical phenomena, e.g., UFOs?
Apparently the level or frequency on which telepathy often operates is just below the threshold of perception. But to the patient/percipient, the sender, everything is happening at a fully conscious level. Those around him or her are totally oblivious to the psychic situation, though they are being subliminally affected by the sender. They unknowingly take part in veridical hallucinations and events wherein the sender’s belief system is reinforced by the actions of those who are around him or her. Their telepathic state eventually focuses on those on television, and seems to occur instantaneously and beyond the laws of conventional physics. (This TV phenomenon has been considered a very popular delusion among schizophrenics) On rare occasions, those involved (psychiatrists, social workers, etc.) consciously recognize what is taking place with the patient/psychic agent.
An Interview with Berthold E. Schwarz, M.D.
by Michael E. Tymn Few people still living in this realm of existence have been involved in the study of Psi, or ESP, however we label it, longer than Dr. Berthold E. Schwarz, now a resident of Vero Beach, Florida. In his 1968 book, A Psychiatrist Looks at ESP, Schwarz, a long-time Academy member, offers psychiatric case reports on the lives of three individuals, each with psychic ability. In the Introduction to the book, he states that “the facts of psychical research are more urgently in need of serious study today than ever before.”
Berthold E. Schwarz, MD. Among his other books are The Jacques Romano Story; Psychic Nexus: Psychic Phenomena in Psychiatry and Everyday Life; Parent-Child Telepathy; Miracles of Peter Sugleris; Psychiatric and Paranormal Aspects of Ufology; and UFO-Dynamics. He is the co-author of several other books and of 185 scholarly or scientific articles, including many in the Journal of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies.
A graduate of Dartmouth College, Dartmouth Medical School, and Bellevue Medical Center, New York University, Dr. Schwarz practiced in New Jersey before moving to Florida in 1982. In addition to being a long-time member of the Academy of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies, he is a Fellow of the American Society for Psychical Research, a Fellow of the American Association for The Advancement of Science, and a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. I recently put some questions to him by e-mail:
When and how did you become interested in ESP and paranormal phenomena?
“Hearing the Dunninger radio broadcasts when I was a child fascinated me, as did my father’s occasional accounts of a railroad worker’s telepathic demonstrations before the Kiwanis Club, and more so my mother’s ‘private conversations’ with her best friend who frequently wondered about various mediums, fortune tellers, etc. My mother was down-to-earth, open minded, and frequently advised Edith in so many words that she, Edith, had as much ability as those she consulted and should ‘be herself.’ I also read about psi and was later jolted by my mother’s telepathic apprehension of my brother, Eric, being killed in action in WWII when I was on leave from the Navy while in medical school.
“During internship, I heard more about Henry Gross, the Maine dowser, from friends and books, and wanted to meet him. Then, during my fellowship in psychiatry, I had contact with some psi gifted patients which made me more curious and led to further readings on the subject. Later, in private practice, I expanded the practical aspects of telepathy in psychotherapy and embarked on the in-depth studies of gifted paragnosts. On a field trip to Kentucky with dowser Henry Gross, I also studied the ordeals by serpents, fire and strychnine in the Holiness people. Other super paragnosts that I got to know well were Jacques Romano, Joseph Dunninger, Arthur Ford, Gerard Croiset, and Professor Tenhaeff’s extraordinary paragnost from the Netherlands when he visited the United States.
“Also, Kreskin, my New Jersey neighbor, and I became friends. In those years I also reported on a series of parent-child telepathic experiences from my own family. In addition to these varied projects and in some instances concomitant electrographic researches (EEG), UFO’s and its psychiatric paranormal aspects captured my attention. The latter centered largely on Stella Lansing and her UFO motion pictures and the renowned abductee Betty Hill, whom I first met at a UFO conference.”
In what area of ESP was your initial focus?
“My initial focus was on the nonagenarian-telepath-genius Jacques Romano who could demonstrate a variety of telepathic skills and who beyond that had a most creative mind. It was uplifting to be with him for what happened, was happening or would happen around him. This led to an enhanced awareness of psi with my patients and also with my wife and two children, plus frequent telepathy with my parents. By making near ab initio records of the telepathic exchanges between patients and myself largely in face-to-face psychotherapy plus other circumstances, and becoming familiar with the extensive psychiatric literature on psi, and meeting some of the leading figures in those areas, I found my situation similar to the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale of the Emperor’s New Suit of Clothes, i.e., how could anyone in this field who cared to examine (and experience) the wealth of psi data possibly miss the boat? … the surprises, challenges, intrigues, and above all potentials for understanding.”
How did your friends and colleagues react to your interest in ESP?
“Fortunately, my family and friends shared my interests in psi and also participated in many experiences with me and in their own lives. My neighbor, Bartholomew A. Ruggieri, a distinguished pediatrician who co-authored a book on child-parent relationships with me, got to know many of the gifted people/paragnosts who visited my office; and Bart also shared and wrote about some of his newly acquired psi awareness with his patients and with myself. My psychiatric colleagues were always respectful and treated me kindly. My practice was active and even though many of my referring physicians knew of my psi research, they continued to send me patients, some with remarkable psi aspects. At no time was I ridiculed, and to the contrary, when I had ‘Romano parties’ or Dunninger visits to my home/office my physician-colleagues-attendees were most appreciative and to this day some who are still living ask about events of long ago and what subsequently happened. Indeed, the experiences at the ‘parties’ might have changed their lives.”
Among the various cases you have personally studied, which do you consider the most interesting?
“When I moved to Florida in 1982, I thought that my psi researches were at an end but synchronicity intervened and I became immersed for the past twenty-five years in studying two spectacularly psi gifted people. My formal studies of Joe A. Nuzum of Pennsylvania have included his mental psi, i.e., telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and his physical psi, i.e., virtuoso metal bending and its derivatives, such as transposition of markings/inscriptions of metallic surfaces, genuine escapes from various restraints, psi induced combustion, telekinesis, levitation, variegated matter through matter feats and teleportation. Through synchronicity I met Katie, a Florida housewife who had many diverse psi abilities, and in the course of our sessions developed apportations and the presumed materialization of ‘gold foil’… actually, on analysis, copper and zinc… upon her body and sometimes on the bodies of others including myself, and when entranced illiterate Katie would also write the quatrains of Nostradamus in its English translations with Greek, Latin, and French phrases. Recently, her son, James, who had been observed through the years, discovered a carving of a mammoth on a fossilized mammoth bone that he found during his paleontology diggings. Sandwiched in between these years I also studied Peter Sugleris and his super psi abilities, including a well documented, videographed and recorded episode of a Peter’s levitation in his mother’s backyard.”
Which case would you rank second?
“Stella Lansing, a Massachusetts housewife, had taken hundreds of movies of UFO’s. I was with her many times when she was filming, and also saw many of her films. The UFO pictures sometimes overlapped…in dividing frames…an optical impossibility. She also, beginner’s luck, separately filmed a UFO-like craft and its four occupants; and once when with Stella, I filmed and apparently out of nowhere came a nocturnal mystery auto with strange alternating signaling headlights. In addition, Stella had many paranormal experiences, films and audiotapes. Her friend Fran, when with Stella and alone, obtained similar UFO psi filmic percepts as once did my son, Eric. Stella provided many clues to the UFO mystery and offered insights about the phenomena. I am indebted for the expert assistance of Fortean photographer, August C. Roberts, Joseph Dunninger, ufologists Brent Raynes, and Shirley Fickett, my son Eric and others. Everything is relative and it is difficult to rank something “second”… some of the best examples can not be reported, as they are too personal, or must be consigned to footnotes or the “time capsule.”
Do you see your colleagues in psychiatry today as being any more open minded than they were 50-60 years ago? What about the rest of the world? Are they any more accepting today than back then?
“My psychiatric colleagues always have their hands full with their patients, and although friendly towards me, most were not interested in paranormal research. Had they bothered to look into it further like my neighbor, Dr. Ruggieri, I think that they too would have had their eyes opened, and found the subject to have practical value in behavioral states, telesomatic reactions and ‘healing.’ In Florida a colleague attended a Joe Nuzum demonstration and also once came to a Katie session. I regret how I failed to interest my county medical society to have Joe Nuzum perform at one of their meetings, or to have Katie appear at a state psychiatric conference. I miss my colleagues-friends and famous researchers Jule Eisenbud, Jan Ehrenwald, Nandor Fodor, Joost Meerloo, Ian Stevenson and Montague Ullman, who in their magnificent works opened whole new vistas for psi exploration and medicine, and whose seminal thoughts are still waiting wider acknowledgement and exploration. Although these luminaries have all passed on, I am sure that new psychiatric researchers will enter the field, for psi is as inviting today as in the past, and there is no reason why, for example, many of the spectacular, but so sadly missing for so many years, phenomena like materialization of whole body forms with speech, movement, thought and levitations, should not reappear, be investigated and understood with new techniques and instruments. Is medicine, and psychiatry in particular, ready for such a potential explosion of knowledge? As in the past, there are deep psychological resistances. The road is bumpy yet it can be traversed.”
What are your thoughts on Super Psi? Do you think it can explain messages coming through mediums and otherwise defeat the survival hypothesis?
“Before considering Super Psi, it might behoove the experimenters to become thoroughly familiar with the telepathy of everyday life. A psychiatrist, if so interested and trained, is in an exceptional position to undertake this task. He/she will have the challenges of having an assortment of telepathic transactions between his patients and himself, as well as spilling over into the sessions with other patients and into their lives outside formal sessions. Many of these episodes, by experts already mentioned, have been written up but I particularly recommend the classic, Encyclopedia of Psychic Science by the psychoanalyst, Nandor Fodor. In my opinion this is still the most comprehensive, best book ever written on psi. Psi research can become engrossing in its demanding attention and memory attributes but it can also be rewarding in understanding the complexity of thought, how it originates, is shared, and influences behavior, decisions, creative invention, and bodily functions. For example, my own early volley of telepathic drawing experiments graphically show how psi might operate in surprising, unintended, sometimes proscopic ways. Indeed, how it might and does happen in everyday communications. Life and much of its complexity can be dissected. Although Super PSI can be an explanation and be involved, for example, with experimental book tests as done by Dunninger, Joe Nuzum and others, it does not denigrate nor rule out other possibilities. There are many examples of Super Psi versus discarnate-other dimensional communications in the literature, and I applaud your excellent, recently published, The Articulate Dead. Although not in the league of some of your exquisite examples, I have had some personal experiences which might make Super Psi less likely, if not inexplicable, compared to alternative hypotheses, including survival. Such psychiatric examples might include my articles connected with the deaths of Gertrude Ogden Tubby and Nandor Fodor. Some of the best examples are so personal that they are saved for the ‘time capsule.’ They might be spectacular and meaningful to the experient but not interesting to the reader who would have to connect all the dots…not as easy or scientifically appealing as studying and documenting measured physical psi, e.g., levitation or telekinesis, matter through matter.”
Many of the early researchers held that the medium’s spirit control was a “secondary personality” capable of telepathically feeding back information. How do you feel about that?
“When I first met Nandor Fodor he told me how he had solved the origin of Eileen Garrett’s spirit control (Uvani), but before Dr. Fodor could elaborate he died. Although the personality of the medium is often the main feature of the communication in many cases this is clearly not always the case. It is almost too far fetched to try and fit it into that notch, i.e., multiple personality…forms of dissociation, than to utilize the spirit control hypothesis. Joe Nuzum and Katie when entranced frequently alluded to the source of their communicators, as ‘spirits,’ or with names of deceased people known to them,, or in general terms as Katie’s ‘the watchers,’ or for Nostradamus, the ‘old guy.’ In many cases it is more plausible to accept on face value the identification claims of the communicator, as you have done recently in your article on Mrs. Piper’s Phinuit, than to go to abstruse-alternative meandering. Some of Joe Nuzum’s most spectacular experiences, which I have transcribed, involved communications with deceased, and for which the ‘secondary personality feeding-back telepathic’ explanation would take unusual gyrations as a suitable explanation. For example, at a Joe Nuzum performance, a woman wrote the name of her deceased husband on a piece of paper, placed it on a table which then levitated. After gliding back to the floor the woman examined the paper. In her deceased husband’s handwriting it said, ‘Please Honey, don’t go.’ The woman was slated to go to Iraq for a job. Later, Joe learned that the husband, while working in a steel mill, fell into the furnace and was consumed (JNT XVI: 248-250).”
What do you see as the future of parapsychology and psychical research?
“The data of psychical research are as challenging and momentous as ever. They demand attention and revived investigations using new techniques from many scientific disciplines. Paradoxically, it seems it might be that the physicists…‘objectivist-materialists’…will be the ones to pry open psi’s secrets with the exciting developments of quantum theory. Yet this does not leave out the still pressing need for concomitant psychiatric-paranormal research, since these studies involve people, emotions, rapport, behavior, the unconscious with the trance and forms of dissociation, neurosciences and biology. Reexamined data from the past as well as more recent discoveries such as those by Eisenbud on thoughtography, Stevenson on reincarnation, and precognition in the neglected ‘chair tests’ with Croiset by the late professor Tenhaeff all merit renewed attention. Similarly future parapsychological considerations should include the spectacular filmic recorded ‘Psi Physics’ obtained by Wm. Edward Cox in his SORRAT researches, and the equally compelling, companion, spiritistic, motivation factors reported by leading SORRAT protagonists, Alice Neihardt Thompson in her The Great Adventure Handbook for Living. All these explorations in addition to electronic voice phenomena (EVP) and related instrumental trance communications (ITC) although written up largely in popular forms have not received the attention they merit in parapsychogical and other scientific journals.
“The future might have been delayed but it cannot be denied. The medical-practical applications of psipsi discoveries on philosophy is no less provocative than its implications for psychopathology, behavior, ethics, conscience development and pointing to new ways of studying mankind. Perhaps an overlooked key to the understanding of psi in the study of immune mechanisms and its role in causation (telesomatic), defense, ‘cure’ - healing and or amelioration of diseases can be further explored. The medical sciences are equipped to investigate and analyze these cases. The influence of might be synchronicity, a psychic nexus aspect including and extending beyond telepathy and which might loom large for the future. The theme is developed in several books by English professor, SORRAT protagonist-paragnost, John Thomas Richards.”http://www.aspsi.org/feat/life_after/tymn/a086mt-a-Berthold_E_Schwarz_MD_interview.php
What's New with My Subject? An obscure District of Columbia corporation called Mankind Research Unlimited (MRU) and its wholly owned subsidiary, Systems Consultants Inc. (SCI), operated a number of classified intelligence, government and Pentagon contracts, specializing in, amongst other things: "problem solving in the areas of intelligence electronic warfare, sensor technology and applications." MRU's "capability and experience" is divided into four fields. These include "biophysics - Biological Effects of Magnetic Fields," "Research in Magneto-fluid Dynamics," "Planetary Electro-Hydro-Dynamics" and "Geo-pathic Efforts on Living Organisms." The latter focuses on the induction of illness by altering the magnetic nature of the geography. Also under research were "Biocybernetics, Psychodynamic Experiments in Telepathy," "Errors in Human Perception," "Biologically Generated Fields," "Metapsychiatry and the Ultraconscious Mind" (believed to refer to experiments in telepathic mind control), "Behavioural Neuropsychiatry," "Analysis and Measurement of Human Subjective States" and "Human Unconscious Behavioural Patterns." <>Employing some old OSS, CIA and military intelligence officers, the company also engages the services of prominent physicians and psychologists including E. Stanton Maxey, Stanley R. Dean, Berthold Eric Schwarz plus many more. MRU lists in its Company Capabilities "brain and mind control." (15) Despite vehement claims by MRU's chairman that it is not a "front organization for any branch of the United States Government..." (16) one must treat these claims with a great deal of skepticism.
In addition, going back over three decades, I corresponded extensively with psychiatrist Dr. Berthold Eric Schwarz, author of the two volume UFO Dynamics (which includes a chapter I wrote). Before entering ufology, Dr. Schwarz was also a noted parapsychologist, and his UFO book is filled with both UFO and seemingly interrelated paranormal data of high strangeness. He has gone out into the field and personally investigated numerous cases. One of the cases in this book is an “abduction” case in Maine which he worked on with myself and fellow researcher Shirley Fickett, and now you know what my chapter in the book was about (which originally appeared back in 1976 in England’s well- known Flying Saucer Review).
MEN IN BLACK
A Classic Case
http://www.newpara.com/Men%20In%20Black.htm
from UFO DYNAMICS: Psychiatric and Psychic Dimensions of the UFO Syndrome BOOK I
by Berthold Schwarz, M.D. (Psychiatry)
Reprinted with the permission of Rainbow Books
Copyright 1983, 1989 by Berthold Eric Schwarz
With MEN IN BLACK II, starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, due to appear in theatres this July, interest is hotting up again in the bizarre subject of 'men in black'--alien visitors who look like dead undertakers, and whose comings and goings are as mysterious as is their nature. One of the eeriest accounts ever of 'men in black' can be found in Dr. Berthold Schwarz's 1989 two-volume work, UFO DYNAMICS: Psychiatric and Psychic Dimensions of the UFO Syndrome (about this book, Robert Girard, president of Arcturus Books, the world's biggest UFO bookstore, says: "This is the classic study of UFO percipients and their parapsychological parameters, by one of the world's leading parapsychologists. Must reading.") UFO DYNAMICS is available from Rainbow Books, Inc., P.O. Box 430, Highland City, FL 33846, (863) 648-4420 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (863) 648-4420 end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (863) 648-4420 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (863) 648-4420 end_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting, FAX (863) 647-5951, Email: <[email protected]>. Excerpted with permission.
Flying Saucer Review recently published the account of a spectacular possible teleportation, involving two young men in the state of Maine. David Stephens, one of the protagonists, has been involved in some bizarre follow-up experiences which, hopefully, will be fully reported later. This account will be confined to an unusual Man-in-Black (MIB) experience that involved Dr. Herbert Hopkins, the skilled physician who conducted the hypnotic sessions with David Stephens. Dr. Hopkins is a 58-year-old family physician who lives in a beautiful coastal resort town of Maine.
For the purpose of this report I will try to present the happenings that involved him and other members of his family, using a narrative style based not only on quotations obtained from Mrs. Shirley Fickett's original letters and tapes sent to me shortly after the MIB visitation, but also telephone calls and direct interview with Mrs. Betty Hill who was also involved in the case, numerous telephone and written communications between Dr. Hopkins and me, and taped interviews with Dr. and Mrs. Hopkins, plus a brief meeting with his two sons and daughter-in-law, at his home in Maine, from 1:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on December 1, 1976. . Relevant aspects were also confirmed on interview of Mrs. Hill in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on November 30, 1976, and an interview of Mrs. Fickeft in Portland, Maine, on the morning of December 1, 1976.
I. Dr. Herbert Hopkin's Experience with a Man in Black
September 11, 1976. Time: 8:00 p.m. Saturday. This was the first time I had been alone in the house for an extended period of time. My wife and children had gone to an outdoor movie, which I dislike.
'The telephone rang and I answered it. A man's voice identified himself as the vice president of the New Jersey UFO Research Organization, and he told me he would like to talk to me about the David Stephens case. He asked if I was entirely alone and if it would be convenient for me to see him. I told him to come right up and I would talk to him. I did not even ask his name, which is very uncharacteristic of me, and also I never see anyone alone since my home and office have been broken into twice and since there is a great deal of illicit drug activity in this town at the present time--even the murder of a pharmacist.
'Immediately I went to the back door to turn on the light so that he could see his way in from my parking lot. Just as I turned on the light, I saw this man dressed in black coming up the porch stairs. I saw no car, and even if he did have a car, he could not have possibly gotten to my house that quickly from any phone. Strangely, at the time I did not think of this but opened the door for him without even asking who he was. I do not do things this way ordinarily. He did not introduce himself, but simply came in. He was about 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighed perhaps about 140 pounds. He wore a black derby, a black jacket, black tie, white shirt, black trousers and shoes. I thought, "He looks like an undertaker." I was struck immediately by his immaculate attire. His suit had not a wrinkle and fitted him like a clothing store dummy. It didn't fill out his legs and arms. The crease in his pants was perfect and razor sharp. The suit looked as if he had just put it on. Everything about him seemed to be super-perfect. He asked if he might sit down and I said "Yes." As he sat down, the crease in his trousers even at the knees did not flatten but stood out.
'He removed his hat and I saw that he was completely hairless and had no eyebrows or eyelashes. He had a smooth face with no hair follicles. He had a small nose set low, and small ears, set low. His head and face were of a dead-white color and his lips were a vivid red in stark contrast to his white face. His eyes were not remarkable --couldn't tell the color, I must have been 12 feet away from him. I remained calm and unafraid as I appraised him. I wonder why? As he asked me about the Stephens case, I noted that he spoke in an expressionless, monotone, scanning speech. His voice--he spoke English, flawless, with no accent, but no sentences, no phrases, just a series of words. His voice was completely neutral and passive.
'After I told him about the Stephens case, he said, "That's just what I thought." As I was telling him about the case, he idly put the backs of the fingers of one hand against his lips (he wore gray suede gloves), I noticed that the bright red of his lips had become smeared and the backs of his gloved fingers were stained red! This character was wearing lipstick!
'I thought, "This is some kind of a queer." His mouth was a perfectly straight slit, which he hardly opened. I didn't see any teeth. His head seemed to blend into his collar. He had a receding chin, and he did not move his head at any time; he didn't turn his head, nod, or anything. His head was perfectly stationary with the upper part of his body. As a matter of fact, I'd say with his entire body, except his legs.
'He then told me that I had two coins in my left pocket, which was true, a dime and a penny. He told me to take one of the coins and hold it out in the palm of my open hand. I took the penny because it was the larger of the two coins. Perhaps a 25-cent piece would have been better. I placed the shiny new penny on the palm of my extended hand and looked towards the strange man. He said, "Don't look at me, look at the coin." I did, and the shiny new penny was now a bright silver color. He told me to keep looking at the coin; as I did so the coin slowly became light blue in color, and then it began to become blurred to my vision. My hand was in sharp focus, but try as I might I could not seem to focus on the silver-blue penny. It became more blurred, became round like a little blue fuzzy ball, and then became vaporous and gradually faded away. All the time this was going on I felt and heard nothing. I looked at him and said, "That was a neat trick." I felt eerie at this and asked him to make the coin return. He said, "Neither you nor anyone else on this plane (not planet) will ever see that coin again."
'He then asked me if I knew why Barney Hill died, and I told him that I assumed it was the result of a long illness. He told me that this was not the case, that Barney Hill died because he knew too much. He then asked me if I knew how Barney Hill had died, and I told him I understood that he died of a heart attack (wrong information, I was to find out later). He then told me that this was not correct, that he had died because he had no heart, just as I no longer have a coin. This frightened me. He then told me that I had tape recordings of the Stephens case and also correspondence relating to this case. I said that this was true. He then ordered me to destroy the tapes and any other correspondence and literature I might have pertaining to UFOs in any way, or I would suffer the same fate as Barney Hill. He said he would know when I had done this, but did not say that he would come back.
'As he spoke his last words, I noticed that his speech was slowing down. Slowly, and a bit unsteadily, he got to his feet and said, very slowly, "My energy is running low--must go n o w--g o o d-b y e." He walked in four steps to the door and I opened it for him. He clung tightly to the railing as he went down the steps, one foot at a time--one foot down, then the other next to it, before taking the next step--not one foot after another. I watched him as he very unsteadily and slowly walked to the corner of the building and the driveway. He was so unsteady I thought he might fall. I saw a very bright light shining up the the driveway and thought that it must be coming from his car--but there was no light there when he arrived. The light was definitely brighter than automobile headlights and was bluish-white in color. I immediately rushed to the nearby kitchen window and looked out to watch him, but I didn't see or hear anything and the light was gone. I rushed out to the front porch but saw no car leaving.
'He walked in a different direction from the driveway--80 degrees opposed to the direction that he came in. I can't remember seeing his shadow. And walking out that way there is no way we could get out because the house is on one side of the driveway and the hedge on the other. The hedge is dense and he'd have a hard time getting through it, especially in his weakened condition. When he didn't appear there, I went out the front door on to the front porch and stood there looking for some time, watching the driveway, waiting for him to come out, but he didn't appear, and no car left the driveway. Two or three cars passed by on the street in the meantime, and I didn't think to look up.
I was much shaken and left all the lights on. The interview took only a matter of minutes. Oh, I don't know--twenty minutes. At no time was there any odor. When the man came to my house, the dog (half shepherd and half collie) barked, then put his tail between his legs, and hid in the closet (unusual behavior). A mother cat and four newborn kittens and a Persian cat were apparently not affected.
'When my two sons and wife returned from the drive-in movie, about one and one-half hours later, I told them of this experience. My oldest boy suggested we examine the driveway for marks and he got a flashlight. We went out and found in the very middle of the driveway a series of marks that looked like a small caterpillar tractor tread. The marks were about four inches wide and continued for only about a foot and a half. There was nothing except this single set of marks. No automobile could have possibly made them because the driveway is too narrow for a car to get over far enough so that its wheels would be in the middle of the driveway. Also, they were too deep and distinct to have been made by a motorcycle, and, also, they did not continue for any length greater than that mentioned above. The marks were gone the next day (no one had used the driveway in the meantime).
'We went back inside and my family urged me to do as the man said. I erased the four tapes and then physically destroyed them in the fireplace. I burned some articles on UFOs and believe I had cleaned out everything. I called Shirley Fickett and asked her to contact the National Enquirer and tell them not to publish anything (on the Stephens case). Oh, how I hated to destroy those tapes. They weren't hurting anyone, but I wanted to be safe and I was really terrified at this point. I slept well that night, but a week later I had recurring nightmares in which I would see this creature's face getting bigger and closer. The nightmares stopped after a week and have not returned. We have had a lot of trouble since with the telephone being cut off, clicks followed by background sounds indicating that there was an open line to another telephone somewhere, but never any voices. Also, people kept breaking in on phone calls. At the present time, however, the phone has not been disturbed any more. I hope this is the end!'
Mrs. Madeline Hopkins, R.N, the physician's wife, and their two sons and daughter-in-law, verified the account. Mrs. Hopkins recalled how surprised her two sons and she were when they returned home: "All the lights were on--on the porch, the front room, everywhere. I said that something was going on, so John (son) came in to find out. We saw my husband at the table which had a gun on it. I asked what went on? He started telling us the story. I said, "Well, what good was the gun if he made a penny disappear?" I wish I had been there. But then, if I had been there, I don't think he (MIB) would have come.'
II. Strange man and woman visit Dr. Hopkins son and daughter-in-law
Dr. Hopkins continued: 'Here is a transcript of the strange case of John and Maureen Hopkins, my eldest son and his wife.
'Friday, September 24, 1976. Time of phone call 7:30 p.m. (dark). Weather: clear, dry and cool. Air quiet. Phone answered by Maureen.
Conversation: name given as Bill Post. Party calling knew her name, and called her by her name, said he was the friend of a friend who knew John, but did not state who that person was. He stated that they were from Conway, New Hampshire, and were at King's department store in Biddeford. He asked if they were busy and if they were alone, and he wanted to know if he and his companion could come to visit. There was a pronounced buzzing on the phone and the man's voice sounded distorted. He wanted to know where they could meet and asked, "Isn't there a McDonald's (fast food restaurant) close by you?" He said he was at King's shopping center and that he could get there in 5 minutes. This would be impossible even under ideal conditions; also, this was a Friday evening and the traffic on U.S. Route 1 was very slow and congested in this area. It would take at least 25 to 30 minutes at this time and under these conditions to get from King's to McDonald's. He said he would recognize John's white van. (John's white van was disabled, in the garage, and he was using his mother's green Chevy, which the man did not know about.)
'It took John 3 minutes to get to McDonald's as it is quite close. When John drove into McDonald's a young man walked over to him and said, "Hi, John." The window was down and he extended his hand into the car to shake John's hand. He had previously described his car to Maureen over the phone and said it had temporary New Jersey plates on it. John recognized the car as described and noticed that it did have temporary New Jersey plates, but the plates were devoid of any letters or numbers, merely saying: "Temporary, N.J., 1975." The man asked John where could they talk, and John suggested their mobile home. John asked the man to follow him, but they got separated due to a traffic light changing. John slowed down and saw the man's car cutting across the parking lot, going in back of the building, and coming out the driveway and stopping right in back of him. Evidently this person was very familiar with the territory and knew how to take a shortcut and to circumvent the red light. The car followed John to his mobile home.
'The man had a female companion. They were both Caucasian and appeared to be in their mid-thirties. He was about 5 feet 8 inches tall, medium build, about 160 pounds. He had dark hair, but short and smoothly slicked down, a style not seen for many years. He wore a tan, short-sleeved shirt with matching buttons, open at the collar, no tie. His trousers were dark brown, neatly pressed, and had wide cuffs. Style of shoes was not noticed. He wore dark-rimmed glasses. His nose was small with two nostrils, brown normal-appearing eyes, medium-size ears set far back. Ms voice was high-pitched and had a nasal quality. His complexion was light. He was very talkative without really saying much of anything, and he was quite fidgety.
'His woman companion was about 5 feet 8 inches tall, 150 to 160 pounds, with a pronounced potbelly. She had small firm breasts set very low, below the costal margin, and wore no bra. She wore a plain white blouse, black and white checked skirt of an unknown material (seemed it may have been plastic), nylon stockings, black shoes, the slip-on type with small heels which we do not see now. She talked very little, with a whiting voice. She had excessive makeup by today's standards, including very red lips. When she stood up, she seemed quite off-center in relation to the way her legs seemed to join her hips. She walked with very short steps as did her male companion, and leaned forward as though she might fall. She wore no glasses, and her blue eyes appeared to be normal: her nose had a sharp pointed ridge. She had small ears set well back, and very light blonde hair pulled back in a bun. Both presented a rather old-fashioned appearance, perhaps of 20 or more years ago.
"When John and the strangers arrived, Maureen was looking at a Jacques Cousteau underwater TV show which was still on. The man commented that the type of submarine being used was elementary. He downgraded it and indicated that the underwater work being shown was child's play.
'Then while Maureen was in the kitchen, and he was alone with them, John asked them to sit down. The man turned to the girl and said, "Yes, Jane, I guess we can sit down for a little while, can't we?" John asked them if they would like something to drink (non-alcoholic), and the man answered, "We don't drink, take drugs, or anything." John then said that he meant soft drinks like Coca Cola. Both accepted Cokes but did not even taste them.
The man asked John if he watched TV much and what he watched. The man and his companion seemed startled when John told them that both he and his wife watched TV frequently. It was difficult for John to explain to them that he and his wife did most things together. The man said that he knew where John's father lived and asked him if he talked to his father very much and what they talked about. He kept at this point, asking: "Well, did you talk about anything else?" He never got to the point of the three-letter-word I choose not to mention.
'He then said, "The sky is very clear tonight," and said, "You are going to be in amateur radio [no equipment visible, but John, like his father, was involved]. What are you going to use your transmitter for?" When John told him, he asked, "Is that all?" He asked what kind of literature John and Maureen read. John told him that they read many different things but did not elaborate, and the visitor answered, "Yes, I know."
'John went into the kitchen where Maureen was preparing something to eat and asked her to come back with him because he did not want to be alone. Reluctantly she joined them. The man asked John what he did and John told him he was a musician, and the visitor seemed puzzled. While questioning John, he kept pawing and fondling his female companion while repeatedly asking John if it was all right to do this and if he was doing it right.
'John left the room to answer the phone, and the man asked Maureen to sit beside him on the couch, but she refused. While John was on the phone, the man also asked Maureen how she was made. She said, "Oh, what do you mean?" He said, "I mean, how are you built?" She answered: "Well, I guess I'm built just like any other girl." Then he asked her if she had any nude pictures of herself so he could see how she was built and to study the pictures. She was upset and refused, saying, "Certainly not," that she had none. John returned to the room and that was the end of that part of the conversation.
'The man said to John: "You are going to New Jersey." John did have plans to go to New Jersey, but he had not said so to this couple. The man told him to forget the route that the Automobile Club had given to him and that he would tell him how to get there. He then told of a detailed and complicated way to get to New Jersey, which avoided turnpikes and other well-traveled ways and, instead, used all out-of-the way back roads and numerous detours. Later, out of curiosity, John tried to check out some of these roads and found some of them discontinued, some of them rerouted, and some of them no longer considered back roads but now improved main roads.
'That was the end of the visit. The female stood up and said she wanted to leave. Her male companion also stood up but did not start to leave. She repeated to him several times that she wanted to leave, but he did not move. Finally, she said to John, in apparent desperation: "Please move him; I can't move him myself." He was standing closer to the door than she was, but not blocking her exit.
'John finally said, "Well, I think you'd better go now," and tried to calm her down. There were no obstacles--he, she, and the door were in direct line, and apparently the only way she could go to the door was to go directly to it through him: he had to move. The man seemed to want to sit down again, but suddenly left, followed by the female, walking a perfectly straight line, exactly over the spot where he had been standing. They didn't even say goodbye.
'My oldest son had not been able to sleep for a week prior to this visit and for a week after that. I prescribed some Dalmane for him. He said it didn't do much good. However, there was no apparent effect on my other son, wife, or daughter-in-law. Approximately a few weeks after the visit, the man telephoned and spoke to Maureen. He apologized for anything he might have done that seemed inappropriate or out of place, or if they didn't like the way he acted. He was sorry for that and said it wouldn't happen again. He asked if they could please talk some more. However, Maureen just cut him off by saying she didn't want anything to do with people like them.'
Dr. Berthold Schwarz (Psychiatry), of Vero Beach, Florida, is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, among many others. He has contributed over 100 articles to professional journals and has published over a dozen books, including, along with UFO DYNAMICS, Parent-Child Telepathy, The Jacques Romano Story, Psychic-Nexus, You CAN Raise Decent Children, and others.
BERTHOLD E. SCHWARZ Berthold E. Schwarz, MD, 85, of Vero Beach, Florida and Green Pond, New Jersey, died Thursday, September 16, 2010 at VNA Hospice House. Born in Jersey City, NJ on October 20, 1924, Dr Schwarz was a proud veteran of the United States Navy. Dr Schwarz received his A.B. from Dartmouth College in 1945 and graduated from Dartmouth Medical School and the N.Y. University College of Medicine in 1950. He interned at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, Hanover, NH and then completed a Fellowship in Psychiatry at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine 1951-1955. He also received a M.S. in Psychiatry at the University of Minnesota. Certified in Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, he was a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a member of various other medical and scientific organizations. After spending nearly 25 years in private practice in Montclair, NJ he moved to Vero Beach in 1982 and continued in private practice for over 20 years. In addition to being a long- time member of the Academy of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies, he was also a Fellow of the American Society for Psychical Research, a Fellow of the American Association for The Advancement of Science, and a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Schwarz was also a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, among many others. He has authored over 185 scholarly or scientific articles, including many in the Journal of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies. Dr Schwarz also published a number of articles on psychiatric, psychoanalytic and electrophysiological subjects. He contributed to professional journals and published over a dozen books including "A Psychiatrist Looks at ESP". Among his books are "The Jacques Romano Story"; "Psychic Nexus: Psychic Phenomena in Psychiatry" and "Everyday Life; Parent-Child Telepathy"; "Miracles of Peter Sugleris"; Psychiatric and Paranormal Aspects of Ufology; and "UFO- Dynamics".
Berthold Eric Schwarz’s extensive interviews with the late Betty Hill (see obituary in FT195:24 and many earlier references). Although Betty was best known for her abduction by aliens in 1961, Schwarz’s work indicates that she also had a huge number of ghostly and supernatural experiences. It was while giving lectures about her abduction that Betty kept seeing a person in the audience who resembled her friend Raymond Fowler. At the time, he was a UFO investigator who is now best known for his long-standing investigation of the Betty Andreasson abduction case. [1]
More amusingly, Betty recalled seeing a man following her as she and her mother took a trip to Montreal to record a TV programme. When they saw that he was staying at the same hotel her mother had a word with him. It’s not recorded what she said, but that evening the man turned up at the hotel dining room wearing a false moustache that promptly fell into his soup. [2]
We might speculate that all the strange happenings experienced by Betty – which included trouble with the telephone and postal services along with break-ins and visitations by mysterious men – indicated that, as she toured the UFO lecture circuit sharing stories of her now-famous abduction, she was being closely monitored.
2 Berthold Eric Schwarz, ‘Talks With Betty Hill: 2 – The Things That Happen To Her‘, Flying Saucer Review, Volume 23, Number 3, 1977, pp.12-13.
ALL PUBLICATIONS IN REVERSE CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
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[ 0 | 0 ] Schwarz, Berthold Eric. (1983) UFO-dynamics: Psychiatric and psychic dimensions of the UFO syndrome Moore Haven, FL: Rainbow Books.
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[ 0 | 0 ] Schwarz, Berthold Eric. (1980) Psychic-nexus: Psychic phenomena in psychiatry and everyday life New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.
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[ 0 | 0 ] Schwarz, Berthold Eric; Ruggieri, Bartholomew A.. (1971) You can raise decent children New Rochelle, N.Y: Arlington House.
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[ 0 | 0 ] Schwarz, Berthold Eric. (1968) The Jacques Romano story New York: University Books.
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(1970). Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 39:338. Psychoanalytic Review. LVI, 1969: Synchronicity and Telepathy. Berthold Eric Schwartz. Pp. 44-56. This paper is a very readable account of four telepathic experiences which are quite convincing. All have to do with death, destruction, and hostile omnipotence. Another reason for not discussing or writing about telepathy is the very real damage that it can do to the people involved. Truth is, among many things, an emotional reality or telepathic awareness between two people.
Ufo-Dynamics: Psychiatric and Psychic Dimensions of the Ufo Syndrome (Paperback), 1989 by Berthold Eric Schwarz, 560 pgs. Men in Black, "bigfoot" like humanoids, poltergeist effects accompanying UFO encounters, witnesses with histories of psychic experiences, "channeled" messages, everthing but the Garuda.
Many ufologists think parapsychology is irrelevant to UFOs...after all they already *know* that they are "nuts and bolts" spacecraft piloted by "flesh and blood" EBE's. (the "X files" and the MJ-12 documents tell them so!) Many parapsychologists think that ufology is beneath their loftly standards of scientific rigor (perhaps so, but that doesn't make them any more welcome as CSICOP meetings). As a result some interesting cross-fertilization is missed. Like or not, poltergeist phenomena, crypto-zoa (e.g. "Bigfoot"), apparitions, intrude upon abduction experiences and ufo encounters like night follows day, and any ultimate explanation of one will probably explain the others. Dogmatic advocates of the extraterrestrial hypothesis are continually embarrased by this fact and frequently sweep such "extraneous details" out of their accounts. Skeptics highlight them and say "see, UFOs lead to all sorts of nonsense therefore *they* are nonsensical." Schwarz grasps the nettle firmly and tries to understand the vast spectrum of paranormal experience of which UFOs are only one part.
For Medical Times, Dr. Berthold Eric Schwarz, eminent psychiatrist, examined scores of UFO "observers," decreed that they are not psychotic, not suffering hallucination, not publicity-seekers. "More, on the contrary, fearing ridicule, are embarrassed to testify to what they saw."
Notably, Dr. Schwarz and his colleagues find among mental patients a total absence of any such "observations." So, concludes Dr. Schwarz, "These reports are neither conscious nor unconscious fabrication. What they say they saw they think they saw!"
Dr. Berthold Schwarz (Psychiatry), of Vero Beach, Florida, is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, among many others. He has contributed over 100 articles to professional journals and has published over a dozen books, including, along with UFO DYNAMICS, Parent-Child Telepathy, Parent Child Tensions, The Jacques Romano Story, Psychic-Nexus, The Psychic Nexus. 0-86140-287-1 xviii, 186pp. illus. You CAN Raise Decent Children, and others. Physiological Aspects of Henry Gross's Dowsing, by Berthold Eric Schwarz; in Parapsychology, Vol. IV, No. 2, 1962-1963. SCHWARZ, BERTHOLD E., M.D. (chron.) * Can Telepathy Cause Illness?, (ar) Fate May 1969. Psychic-Nexus ; Psychic Phenomena in Psychiatry and Everyday Life, Schwarz , Berthold Eric, 1980, 964, 30/9/2542. Schwarz, Berthold Eric. Parent-Child Telepathy: Five Hundred and Five Possible Episodes in a Family; A Study of the Telepathy of Everyday Life.
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UFOs: Delusion or Dilemma
Ufo-dynamics : psychiatric and psychic aspects of the ufo syndrome / Berthold Eric Schwarz. - 3. updated and revised ed. - Moore Haven, Fla. : Rainbow Books, 1988. - 560 s. : ill.
Orig.udg.: Ufo dynamics : psychiatric and psychic dimensions of the ufo syndrome / Berthold E. Schwarz. - Moore Haven, Fla. : Rainbow Books, 1983. - 2 bd. (561 s.): ill.
Af indholdet: Ufos: delusion or dilemma? - Ufos in New Jersey. - Gary Wilcox and the ufonauts. - Ufo occupants: Fact or fantasy? - Possible ufo-induced temporary paralysis. - �Beauty of the night�. - The Port Monmouth landing. - Woodstock ufo festival, 1966. - Ufo landing and repair by crew / by Ted Bloecher. - Berserk: A ufo-creature encounter. - The twilight side of a ufo encounter / by Brent M. Raynes. - The Maine ufo-encounter: Investigation under hypnosis / by Shirley C. Ficket. - Comments on the psychiatric-paranormal aspects of the Maine case. - The men-in-black syndrome. - Talks with Betty Hill. - Ufo forum, with P.M.H. Edwards, Rupert H. Mac Neill, Peter M. Millmann and B.E. Schwarz. - A scientific commentary prepared by Brian C. Cannon. - A psychiatrist looks at ufos. - Saucers, psi and psychiatry. - The ethical ufologist. - Stella Lansing�s ufo motion pictures. - Stella Lansing�s movie: Four entities and a possible ufo. - Stella Lansing�s clock-like ufo patterns. - A ufo motion picture experiment (at Betty Hill�s �landing field�). - Clinical observations on telekinesis. - Postscript: Predictable impredictabilities.
Soviet scientists and doctors have long recognized that mental patients produce various forms of psi, such as projective thought forms and various forms of GESP, even though they are ill, most chronically. The psi seems to become not only a symptom of their mental disorder, but a condition in itself. It is all in the medical literature, but is considered a delusion when the patient claims people “read his mind.”
At first, the patient/percipient experiences synchronicity at an alarming rate, and then eventually the telepathic mechanism becomes obvious to them. Dr. Berthold Eric Schwarz wrote in the July 1985 Para-UFOlogy Forum (now Alternate Perceptions), in response to an article I wrote in a previous issue: “By understanding the intricacies of your own mind as the telepathics unfold, many of the so-called synchronistic events, which are really unadulterated telepathy, come into focus and become much more involved and excitingÉ As Stan Morrison indicates and as is obvious in all of these cases, the experimenter is part of the experiment.” It becomes obvious when one studies these cases that major phenomena can develop. The big question is what came first: the psi or the physical phenomena, e.g., UFOs?
Apparently the level or frequency on which telepathy often operates is just below the threshold of perception. But to the patient/percipient, the sender, everything is happening at a fully conscious level. Those around him or her are totally oblivious to the psychic situation, though they are being subliminally affected by the sender. They unknowingly take part in veridical hallucinations and events wherein the sender’s belief system is reinforced by the actions of those who are around him or her. Their telepathic state eventually focuses on those on television, and seems to occur instantaneously and beyond the laws of conventional physics. (This TV phenomenon has been considered a very popular delusion among schizophrenics) On rare occasions, those involved (psychiatrists, social workers, etc.) consciously recognize what is taking place with the patient/psychic agent.
An Interview with Berthold E. Schwarz, M.D.
by Michael E. Tymn Few people still living in this realm of existence have been involved in the study of Psi, or ESP, however we label it, longer than Dr. Berthold E. Schwarz, now a resident of Vero Beach, Florida. In his 1968 book, A Psychiatrist Looks at ESP, Schwarz, a long-time Academy member, offers psychiatric case reports on the lives of three individuals, each with psychic ability. In the Introduction to the book, he states that “the facts of psychical research are more urgently in need of serious study today than ever before.”
Berthold E. Schwarz, MD. Among his other books are The Jacques Romano Story; Psychic Nexus: Psychic Phenomena in Psychiatry and Everyday Life; Parent-Child Telepathy; Miracles of Peter Sugleris; Psychiatric and Paranormal Aspects of Ufology; and UFO-Dynamics. He is the co-author of several other books and of 185 scholarly or scientific articles, including many in the Journal of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies.
A graduate of Dartmouth College, Dartmouth Medical School, and Bellevue Medical Center, New York University, Dr. Schwarz practiced in New Jersey before moving to Florida in 1982. In addition to being a long-time member of the Academy of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies, he is a Fellow of the American Society for Psychical Research, a Fellow of the American Association for The Advancement of Science, and a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. I recently put some questions to him by e-mail:
When and how did you become interested in ESP and paranormal phenomena?
“Hearing the Dunninger radio broadcasts when I was a child fascinated me, as did my father’s occasional accounts of a railroad worker’s telepathic demonstrations before the Kiwanis Club, and more so my mother’s ‘private conversations’ with her best friend who frequently wondered about various mediums, fortune tellers, etc. My mother was down-to-earth, open minded, and frequently advised Edith in so many words that she, Edith, had as much ability as those she consulted and should ‘be herself.’ I also read about psi and was later jolted by my mother’s telepathic apprehension of my brother, Eric, being killed in action in WWII when I was on leave from the Navy while in medical school.
“During internship, I heard more about Henry Gross, the Maine dowser, from friends and books, and wanted to meet him. Then, during my fellowship in psychiatry, I had contact with some psi gifted patients which made me more curious and led to further readings on the subject. Later, in private practice, I expanded the practical aspects of telepathy in psychotherapy and embarked on the in-depth studies of gifted paragnosts. On a field trip to Kentucky with dowser Henry Gross, I also studied the ordeals by serpents, fire and strychnine in the Holiness people. Other super paragnosts that I got to know well were Jacques Romano, Joseph Dunninger, Arthur Ford, Gerard Croiset, and Professor Tenhaeff’s extraordinary paragnost from the Netherlands when he visited the United States.
“Also, Kreskin, my New Jersey neighbor, and I became friends. In those years I also reported on a series of parent-child telepathic experiences from my own family. In addition to these varied projects and in some instances concomitant electrographic researches (EEG), UFO’s and its psychiatric paranormal aspects captured my attention. The latter centered largely on Stella Lansing and her UFO motion pictures and the renowned abductee Betty Hill, whom I first met at a UFO conference.”
In what area of ESP was your initial focus?
“My initial focus was on the nonagenarian-telepath-genius Jacques Romano who could demonstrate a variety of telepathic skills and who beyond that had a most creative mind. It was uplifting to be with him for what happened, was happening or would happen around him. This led to an enhanced awareness of psi with my patients and also with my wife and two children, plus frequent telepathy with my parents. By making near ab initio records of the telepathic exchanges between patients and myself largely in face-to-face psychotherapy plus other circumstances, and becoming familiar with the extensive psychiatric literature on psi, and meeting some of the leading figures in those areas, I found my situation similar to the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale of the Emperor’s New Suit of Clothes, i.e., how could anyone in this field who cared to examine (and experience) the wealth of psi data possibly miss the boat? … the surprises, challenges, intrigues, and above all potentials for understanding.”
How did your friends and colleagues react to your interest in ESP?
“Fortunately, my family and friends shared my interests in psi and also participated in many experiences with me and in their own lives. My neighbor, Bartholomew A. Ruggieri, a distinguished pediatrician who co-authored a book on child-parent relationships with me, got to know many of the gifted people/paragnosts who visited my office; and Bart also shared and wrote about some of his newly acquired psi awareness with his patients and with myself. My psychiatric colleagues were always respectful and treated me kindly. My practice was active and even though many of my referring physicians knew of my psi research, they continued to send me patients, some with remarkable psi aspects. At no time was I ridiculed, and to the contrary, when I had ‘Romano parties’ or Dunninger visits to my home/office my physician-colleagues-attendees were most appreciative and to this day some who are still living ask about events of long ago and what subsequently happened. Indeed, the experiences at the ‘parties’ might have changed their lives.”
Among the various cases you have personally studied, which do you consider the most interesting?
“When I moved to Florida in 1982, I thought that my psi researches were at an end but synchronicity intervened and I became immersed for the past twenty-five years in studying two spectacularly psi gifted people. My formal studies of Joe A. Nuzum of Pennsylvania have included his mental psi, i.e., telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and his physical psi, i.e., virtuoso metal bending and its derivatives, such as transposition of markings/inscriptions of metallic surfaces, genuine escapes from various restraints, psi induced combustion, telekinesis, levitation, variegated matter through matter feats and teleportation. Through synchronicity I met Katie, a Florida housewife who had many diverse psi abilities, and in the course of our sessions developed apportations and the presumed materialization of ‘gold foil’… actually, on analysis, copper and zinc… upon her body and sometimes on the bodies of others including myself, and when entranced illiterate Katie would also write the quatrains of Nostradamus in its English translations with Greek, Latin, and French phrases. Recently, her son, James, who had been observed through the years, discovered a carving of a mammoth on a fossilized mammoth bone that he found during his paleontology diggings. Sandwiched in between these years I also studied Peter Sugleris and his super psi abilities, including a well documented, videographed and recorded episode of a Peter’s levitation in his mother’s backyard.”
Which case would you rank second?
“Stella Lansing, a Massachusetts housewife, had taken hundreds of movies of UFO’s. I was with her many times when she was filming, and also saw many of her films. The UFO pictures sometimes overlapped…in dividing frames…an optical impossibility. She also, beginner’s luck, separately filmed a UFO-like craft and its four occupants; and once when with Stella, I filmed and apparently out of nowhere came a nocturnal mystery auto with strange alternating signaling headlights. In addition, Stella had many paranormal experiences, films and audiotapes. Her friend Fran, when with Stella and alone, obtained similar UFO psi filmic percepts as once did my son, Eric. Stella provided many clues to the UFO mystery and offered insights about the phenomena. I am indebted for the expert assistance of Fortean photographer, August C. Roberts, Joseph Dunninger, ufologists Brent Raynes, and Shirley Fickett, my son Eric and others. Everything is relative and it is difficult to rank something “second”… some of the best examples can not be reported, as they are too personal, or must be consigned to footnotes or the “time capsule.”
Do you see your colleagues in psychiatry today as being any more open minded than they were 50-60 years ago? What about the rest of the world? Are they any more accepting today than back then?
“My psychiatric colleagues always have their hands full with their patients, and although friendly towards me, most were not interested in paranormal research. Had they bothered to look into it further like my neighbor, Dr. Ruggieri, I think that they too would have had their eyes opened, and found the subject to have practical value in behavioral states, telesomatic reactions and ‘healing.’ In Florida a colleague attended a Joe Nuzum demonstration and also once came to a Katie session. I regret how I failed to interest my county medical society to have Joe Nuzum perform at one of their meetings, or to have Katie appear at a state psychiatric conference. I miss my colleagues-friends and famous researchers Jule Eisenbud, Jan Ehrenwald, Nandor Fodor, Joost Meerloo, Ian Stevenson and Montague Ullman, who in their magnificent works opened whole new vistas for psi exploration and medicine, and whose seminal thoughts are still waiting wider acknowledgement and exploration. Although these luminaries have all passed on, I am sure that new psychiatric researchers will enter the field, for psi is as inviting today as in the past, and there is no reason why, for example, many of the spectacular, but so sadly missing for so many years, phenomena like materialization of whole body forms with speech, movement, thought and levitations, should not reappear, be investigated and understood with new techniques and instruments. Is medicine, and psychiatry in particular, ready for such a potential explosion of knowledge? As in the past, there are deep psychological resistances. The road is bumpy yet it can be traversed.”
What are your thoughts on Super Psi? Do you think it can explain messages coming through mediums and otherwise defeat the survival hypothesis?
“Before considering Super Psi, it might behoove the experimenters to become thoroughly familiar with the telepathy of everyday life. A psychiatrist, if so interested and trained, is in an exceptional position to undertake this task. He/she will have the challenges of having an assortment of telepathic transactions between his patients and himself, as well as spilling over into the sessions with other patients and into their lives outside formal sessions. Many of these episodes, by experts already mentioned, have been written up but I particularly recommend the classic, Encyclopedia of Psychic Science by the psychoanalyst, Nandor Fodor. In my opinion this is still the most comprehensive, best book ever written on psi. Psi research can become engrossing in its demanding attention and memory attributes but it can also be rewarding in understanding the complexity of thought, how it originates, is shared, and influences behavior, decisions, creative invention, and bodily functions. For example, my own early volley of telepathic drawing experiments graphically show how psi might operate in surprising, unintended, sometimes proscopic ways. Indeed, how it might and does happen in everyday communications. Life and much of its complexity can be dissected. Although Super PSI can be an explanation and be involved, for example, with experimental book tests as done by Dunninger, Joe Nuzum and others, it does not denigrate nor rule out other possibilities. There are many examples of Super Psi versus discarnate-other dimensional communications in the literature, and I applaud your excellent, recently published, The Articulate Dead. Although not in the league of some of your exquisite examples, I have had some personal experiences which might make Super Psi less likely, if not inexplicable, compared to alternative hypotheses, including survival. Such psychiatric examples might include my articles connected with the deaths of Gertrude Ogden Tubby and Nandor Fodor. Some of the best examples are so personal that they are saved for the ‘time capsule.’ They might be spectacular and meaningful to the experient but not interesting to the reader who would have to connect all the dots…not as easy or scientifically appealing as studying and documenting measured physical psi, e.g., levitation or telekinesis, matter through matter.”
Many of the early researchers held that the medium’s spirit control was a “secondary personality” capable of telepathically feeding back information. How do you feel about that?
“When I first met Nandor Fodor he told me how he had solved the origin of Eileen Garrett’s spirit control (Uvani), but before Dr. Fodor could elaborate he died. Although the personality of the medium is often the main feature of the communication in many cases this is clearly not always the case. It is almost too far fetched to try and fit it into that notch, i.e., multiple personality…forms of dissociation, than to utilize the spirit control hypothesis. Joe Nuzum and Katie when entranced frequently alluded to the source of their communicators, as ‘spirits,’ or with names of deceased people known to them,, or in general terms as Katie’s ‘the watchers,’ or for Nostradamus, the ‘old guy.’ In many cases it is more plausible to accept on face value the identification claims of the communicator, as you have done recently in your article on Mrs. Piper’s Phinuit, than to go to abstruse-alternative meandering. Some of Joe Nuzum’s most spectacular experiences, which I have transcribed, involved communications with deceased, and for which the ‘secondary personality feeding-back telepathic’ explanation would take unusual gyrations as a suitable explanation. For example, at a Joe Nuzum performance, a woman wrote the name of her deceased husband on a piece of paper, placed it on a table which then levitated. After gliding back to the floor the woman examined the paper. In her deceased husband’s handwriting it said, ‘Please Honey, don’t go.’ The woman was slated to go to Iraq for a job. Later, Joe learned that the husband, while working in a steel mill, fell into the furnace and was consumed (JNT XVI: 248-250).”
What do you see as the future of parapsychology and psychical research?
“The data of psychical research are as challenging and momentous as ever. They demand attention and revived investigations using new techniques from many scientific disciplines. Paradoxically, it seems it might be that the physicists…‘objectivist-materialists’…will be the ones to pry open psi’s secrets with the exciting developments of quantum theory. Yet this does not leave out the still pressing need for concomitant psychiatric-paranormal research, since these studies involve people, emotions, rapport, behavior, the unconscious with the trance and forms of dissociation, neurosciences and biology. Reexamined data from the past as well as more recent discoveries such as those by Eisenbud on thoughtography, Stevenson on reincarnation, and precognition in the neglected ‘chair tests’ with Croiset by the late professor Tenhaeff all merit renewed attention. Similarly future parapsychological considerations should include the spectacular filmic recorded ‘Psi Physics’ obtained by Wm. Edward Cox in his SORRAT researches, and the equally compelling, companion, spiritistic, motivation factors reported by leading SORRAT protagonists, Alice Neihardt Thompson in her The Great Adventure Handbook for Living. All these explorations in addition to electronic voice phenomena (EVP) and related instrumental trance communications (ITC) although written up largely in popular forms have not received the attention they merit in parapsychogical and other scientific journals.
“The future might have been delayed but it cannot be denied. The medical-practical applications of psipsi discoveries on philosophy is no less provocative than its implications for psychopathology, behavior, ethics, conscience development and pointing to new ways of studying mankind. Perhaps an overlooked key to the understanding of psi in the study of immune mechanisms and its role in causation (telesomatic), defense, ‘cure’ - healing and or amelioration of diseases can be further explored. The medical sciences are equipped to investigate and analyze these cases. The influence of might be synchronicity, a psychic nexus aspect including and extending beyond telepathy and which might loom large for the future. The theme is developed in several books by English professor, SORRAT protagonist-paragnost, John Thomas Richards.”http://www.aspsi.org/feat/life_after/tymn/a086mt-a-Berthold_E_Schwarz_MD_interview.php
What's New with My Subject? An obscure District of Columbia corporation called Mankind Research Unlimited (MRU) and its wholly owned subsidiary, Systems Consultants Inc. (SCI), operated a number of classified intelligence, government and Pentagon contracts, specializing in, amongst other things: "problem solving in the areas of intelligence electronic warfare, sensor technology and applications." MRU's "capability and experience" is divided into four fields. These include "biophysics - Biological Effects of Magnetic Fields," "Research in Magneto-fluid Dynamics," "Planetary Electro-Hydro-Dynamics" and "Geo-pathic Efforts on Living Organisms." The latter focuses on the induction of illness by altering the magnetic nature of the geography. Also under research were "Biocybernetics, Psychodynamic Experiments in Telepathy," "Errors in Human Perception," "Biologically Generated Fields," "Metapsychiatry and the Ultraconscious Mind" (believed to refer to experiments in telepathic mind control), "Behavioural Neuropsychiatry," "Analysis and Measurement of Human Subjective States" and "Human Unconscious Behavioural Patterns." <>Employing some old OSS, CIA and military intelligence officers, the company also engages the services of prominent physicians and psychologists including E. Stanton Maxey, Stanley R. Dean, Berthold Eric Schwarz plus many more. MRU lists in its Company Capabilities "brain and mind control." (15) Despite vehement claims by MRU's chairman that it is not a "front organization for any branch of the United States Government..." (16) one must treat these claims with a great deal of skepticism.
In addition, going back over three decades, I corresponded extensively with psychiatrist Dr. Berthold Eric Schwarz, author of the two volume UFO Dynamics (which includes a chapter I wrote). Before entering ufology, Dr. Schwarz was also a noted parapsychologist, and his UFO book is filled with both UFO and seemingly interrelated paranormal data of high strangeness. He has gone out into the field and personally investigated numerous cases. One of the cases in this book is an “abduction” case in Maine which he worked on with myself and fellow researcher Shirley Fickett, and now you know what my chapter in the book was about (which originally appeared back in 1976 in England’s well- known Flying Saucer Review).
MEN IN BLACK
A Classic Case
http://www.newpara.com/Men%20In%20Black.htm
from UFO DYNAMICS: Psychiatric and Psychic Dimensions of the UFO Syndrome BOOK I
by Berthold Schwarz, M.D. (Psychiatry)
Reprinted with the permission of Rainbow Books
Copyright 1983, 1989 by Berthold Eric Schwarz
With MEN IN BLACK II, starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, due to appear in theatres this July, interest is hotting up again in the bizarre subject of 'men in black'--alien visitors who look like dead undertakers, and whose comings and goings are as mysterious as is their nature. One of the eeriest accounts ever of 'men in black' can be found in Dr. Berthold Schwarz's 1989 two-volume work, UFO DYNAMICS: Psychiatric and Psychic Dimensions of the UFO Syndrome (about this book, Robert Girard, president of Arcturus Books, the world's biggest UFO bookstore, says: "This is the classic study of UFO percipients and their parapsychological parameters, by one of the world's leading parapsychologists. Must reading.") UFO DYNAMICS is available from Rainbow Books, Inc., P.O. Box 430, Highland City, FL 33846, (863) 648-4420 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (863) 648-4420 end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (863) 648-4420 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (863) 648-4420 end_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting, FAX (863) 647-5951, Email: <[email protected]>. Excerpted with permission.
Flying Saucer Review recently published the account of a spectacular possible teleportation, involving two young men in the state of Maine. David Stephens, one of the protagonists, has been involved in some bizarre follow-up experiences which, hopefully, will be fully reported later. This account will be confined to an unusual Man-in-Black (MIB) experience that involved Dr. Herbert Hopkins, the skilled physician who conducted the hypnotic sessions with David Stephens. Dr. Hopkins is a 58-year-old family physician who lives in a beautiful coastal resort town of Maine.
For the purpose of this report I will try to present the happenings that involved him and other members of his family, using a narrative style based not only on quotations obtained from Mrs. Shirley Fickett's original letters and tapes sent to me shortly after the MIB visitation, but also telephone calls and direct interview with Mrs. Betty Hill who was also involved in the case, numerous telephone and written communications between Dr. Hopkins and me, and taped interviews with Dr. and Mrs. Hopkins, plus a brief meeting with his two sons and daughter-in-law, at his home in Maine, from 1:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on December 1, 1976. . Relevant aspects were also confirmed on interview of Mrs. Hill in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on November 30, 1976, and an interview of Mrs. Fickeft in Portland, Maine, on the morning of December 1, 1976.
I. Dr. Herbert Hopkin's Experience with a Man in Black
September 11, 1976. Time: 8:00 p.m. Saturday. This was the first time I had been alone in the house for an extended period of time. My wife and children had gone to an outdoor movie, which I dislike.
'The telephone rang and I answered it. A man's voice identified himself as the vice president of the New Jersey UFO Research Organization, and he told me he would like to talk to me about the David Stephens case. He asked if I was entirely alone and if it would be convenient for me to see him. I told him to come right up and I would talk to him. I did not even ask his name, which is very uncharacteristic of me, and also I never see anyone alone since my home and office have been broken into twice and since there is a great deal of illicit drug activity in this town at the present time--even the murder of a pharmacist.
'Immediately I went to the back door to turn on the light so that he could see his way in from my parking lot. Just as I turned on the light, I saw this man dressed in black coming up the porch stairs. I saw no car, and even if he did have a car, he could not have possibly gotten to my house that quickly from any phone. Strangely, at the time I did not think of this but opened the door for him without even asking who he was. I do not do things this way ordinarily. He did not introduce himself, but simply came in. He was about 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighed perhaps about 140 pounds. He wore a black derby, a black jacket, black tie, white shirt, black trousers and shoes. I thought, "He looks like an undertaker." I was struck immediately by his immaculate attire. His suit had not a wrinkle and fitted him like a clothing store dummy. It didn't fill out his legs and arms. The crease in his pants was perfect and razor sharp. The suit looked as if he had just put it on. Everything about him seemed to be super-perfect. He asked if he might sit down and I said "Yes." As he sat down, the crease in his trousers even at the knees did not flatten but stood out.
'He removed his hat and I saw that he was completely hairless and had no eyebrows or eyelashes. He had a smooth face with no hair follicles. He had a small nose set low, and small ears, set low. His head and face were of a dead-white color and his lips were a vivid red in stark contrast to his white face. His eyes were not remarkable --couldn't tell the color, I must have been 12 feet away from him. I remained calm and unafraid as I appraised him. I wonder why? As he asked me about the Stephens case, I noted that he spoke in an expressionless, monotone, scanning speech. His voice--he spoke English, flawless, with no accent, but no sentences, no phrases, just a series of words. His voice was completely neutral and passive.
'After I told him about the Stephens case, he said, "That's just what I thought." As I was telling him about the case, he idly put the backs of the fingers of one hand against his lips (he wore gray suede gloves), I noticed that the bright red of his lips had become smeared and the backs of his gloved fingers were stained red! This character was wearing lipstick!
'I thought, "This is some kind of a queer." His mouth was a perfectly straight slit, which he hardly opened. I didn't see any teeth. His head seemed to blend into his collar. He had a receding chin, and he did not move his head at any time; he didn't turn his head, nod, or anything. His head was perfectly stationary with the upper part of his body. As a matter of fact, I'd say with his entire body, except his legs.
'He then told me that I had two coins in my left pocket, which was true, a dime and a penny. He told me to take one of the coins and hold it out in the palm of my open hand. I took the penny because it was the larger of the two coins. Perhaps a 25-cent piece would have been better. I placed the shiny new penny on the palm of my extended hand and looked towards the strange man. He said, "Don't look at me, look at the coin." I did, and the shiny new penny was now a bright silver color. He told me to keep looking at the coin; as I did so the coin slowly became light blue in color, and then it began to become blurred to my vision. My hand was in sharp focus, but try as I might I could not seem to focus on the silver-blue penny. It became more blurred, became round like a little blue fuzzy ball, and then became vaporous and gradually faded away. All the time this was going on I felt and heard nothing. I looked at him and said, "That was a neat trick." I felt eerie at this and asked him to make the coin return. He said, "Neither you nor anyone else on this plane (not planet) will ever see that coin again."
'He then asked me if I knew why Barney Hill died, and I told him that I assumed it was the result of a long illness. He told me that this was not the case, that Barney Hill died because he knew too much. He then asked me if I knew how Barney Hill had died, and I told him I understood that he died of a heart attack (wrong information, I was to find out later). He then told me that this was not correct, that he had died because he had no heart, just as I no longer have a coin. This frightened me. He then told me that I had tape recordings of the Stephens case and also correspondence relating to this case. I said that this was true. He then ordered me to destroy the tapes and any other correspondence and literature I might have pertaining to UFOs in any way, or I would suffer the same fate as Barney Hill. He said he would know when I had done this, but did not say that he would come back.
'As he spoke his last words, I noticed that his speech was slowing down. Slowly, and a bit unsteadily, he got to his feet and said, very slowly, "My energy is running low--must go n o w--g o o d-b y e." He walked in four steps to the door and I opened it for him. He clung tightly to the railing as he went down the steps, one foot at a time--one foot down, then the other next to it, before taking the next step--not one foot after another. I watched him as he very unsteadily and slowly walked to the corner of the building and the driveway. He was so unsteady I thought he might fall. I saw a very bright light shining up the the driveway and thought that it must be coming from his car--but there was no light there when he arrived. The light was definitely brighter than automobile headlights and was bluish-white in color. I immediately rushed to the nearby kitchen window and looked out to watch him, but I didn't see or hear anything and the light was gone. I rushed out to the front porch but saw no car leaving.
'He walked in a different direction from the driveway--80 degrees opposed to the direction that he came in. I can't remember seeing his shadow. And walking out that way there is no way we could get out because the house is on one side of the driveway and the hedge on the other. The hedge is dense and he'd have a hard time getting through it, especially in his weakened condition. When he didn't appear there, I went out the front door on to the front porch and stood there looking for some time, watching the driveway, waiting for him to come out, but he didn't appear, and no car left the driveway. Two or three cars passed by on the street in the meantime, and I didn't think to look up.
I was much shaken and left all the lights on. The interview took only a matter of minutes. Oh, I don't know--twenty minutes. At no time was there any odor. When the man came to my house, the dog (half shepherd and half collie) barked, then put his tail between his legs, and hid in the closet (unusual behavior). A mother cat and four newborn kittens and a Persian cat were apparently not affected.
'When my two sons and wife returned from the drive-in movie, about one and one-half hours later, I told them of this experience. My oldest boy suggested we examine the driveway for marks and he got a flashlight. We went out and found in the very middle of the driveway a series of marks that looked like a small caterpillar tractor tread. The marks were about four inches wide and continued for only about a foot and a half. There was nothing except this single set of marks. No automobile could have possibly made them because the driveway is too narrow for a car to get over far enough so that its wheels would be in the middle of the driveway. Also, they were too deep and distinct to have been made by a motorcycle, and, also, they did not continue for any length greater than that mentioned above. The marks were gone the next day (no one had used the driveway in the meantime).
'We went back inside and my family urged me to do as the man said. I erased the four tapes and then physically destroyed them in the fireplace. I burned some articles on UFOs and believe I had cleaned out everything. I called Shirley Fickett and asked her to contact the National Enquirer and tell them not to publish anything (on the Stephens case). Oh, how I hated to destroy those tapes. They weren't hurting anyone, but I wanted to be safe and I was really terrified at this point. I slept well that night, but a week later I had recurring nightmares in which I would see this creature's face getting bigger and closer. The nightmares stopped after a week and have not returned. We have had a lot of trouble since with the telephone being cut off, clicks followed by background sounds indicating that there was an open line to another telephone somewhere, but never any voices. Also, people kept breaking in on phone calls. At the present time, however, the phone has not been disturbed any more. I hope this is the end!'
Mrs. Madeline Hopkins, R.N, the physician's wife, and their two sons and daughter-in-law, verified the account. Mrs. Hopkins recalled how surprised her two sons and she were when they returned home: "All the lights were on--on the porch, the front room, everywhere. I said that something was going on, so John (son) came in to find out. We saw my husband at the table which had a gun on it. I asked what went on? He started telling us the story. I said, "Well, what good was the gun if he made a penny disappear?" I wish I had been there. But then, if I had been there, I don't think he (MIB) would have come.'
II. Strange man and woman visit Dr. Hopkins son and daughter-in-law
Dr. Hopkins continued: 'Here is a transcript of the strange case of John and Maureen Hopkins, my eldest son and his wife.
'Friday, September 24, 1976. Time of phone call 7:30 p.m. (dark). Weather: clear, dry and cool. Air quiet. Phone answered by Maureen.
Conversation: name given as Bill Post. Party calling knew her name, and called her by her name, said he was the friend of a friend who knew John, but did not state who that person was. He stated that they were from Conway, New Hampshire, and were at King's department store in Biddeford. He asked if they were busy and if they were alone, and he wanted to know if he and his companion could come to visit. There was a pronounced buzzing on the phone and the man's voice sounded distorted. He wanted to know where they could meet and asked, "Isn't there a McDonald's (fast food restaurant) close by you?" He said he was at King's shopping center and that he could get there in 5 minutes. This would be impossible even under ideal conditions; also, this was a Friday evening and the traffic on U.S. Route 1 was very slow and congested in this area. It would take at least 25 to 30 minutes at this time and under these conditions to get from King's to McDonald's. He said he would recognize John's white van. (John's white van was disabled, in the garage, and he was using his mother's green Chevy, which the man did not know about.)
'It took John 3 minutes to get to McDonald's as it is quite close. When John drove into McDonald's a young man walked over to him and said, "Hi, John." The window was down and he extended his hand into the car to shake John's hand. He had previously described his car to Maureen over the phone and said it had temporary New Jersey plates on it. John recognized the car as described and noticed that it did have temporary New Jersey plates, but the plates were devoid of any letters or numbers, merely saying: "Temporary, N.J., 1975." The man asked John where could they talk, and John suggested their mobile home. John asked the man to follow him, but they got separated due to a traffic light changing. John slowed down and saw the man's car cutting across the parking lot, going in back of the building, and coming out the driveway and stopping right in back of him. Evidently this person was very familiar with the territory and knew how to take a shortcut and to circumvent the red light. The car followed John to his mobile home.
'The man had a female companion. They were both Caucasian and appeared to be in their mid-thirties. He was about 5 feet 8 inches tall, medium build, about 160 pounds. He had dark hair, but short and smoothly slicked down, a style not seen for many years. He wore a tan, short-sleeved shirt with matching buttons, open at the collar, no tie. His trousers were dark brown, neatly pressed, and had wide cuffs. Style of shoes was not noticed. He wore dark-rimmed glasses. His nose was small with two nostrils, brown normal-appearing eyes, medium-size ears set far back. Ms voice was high-pitched and had a nasal quality. His complexion was light. He was very talkative without really saying much of anything, and he was quite fidgety.
'His woman companion was about 5 feet 8 inches tall, 150 to 160 pounds, with a pronounced potbelly. She had small firm breasts set very low, below the costal margin, and wore no bra. She wore a plain white blouse, black and white checked skirt of an unknown material (seemed it may have been plastic), nylon stockings, black shoes, the slip-on type with small heels which we do not see now. She talked very little, with a whiting voice. She had excessive makeup by today's standards, including very red lips. When she stood up, she seemed quite off-center in relation to the way her legs seemed to join her hips. She walked with very short steps as did her male companion, and leaned forward as though she might fall. She wore no glasses, and her blue eyes appeared to be normal: her nose had a sharp pointed ridge. She had small ears set well back, and very light blonde hair pulled back in a bun. Both presented a rather old-fashioned appearance, perhaps of 20 or more years ago.
"When John and the strangers arrived, Maureen was looking at a Jacques Cousteau underwater TV show which was still on. The man commented that the type of submarine being used was elementary. He downgraded it and indicated that the underwater work being shown was child's play.
'Then while Maureen was in the kitchen, and he was alone with them, John asked them to sit down. The man turned to the girl and said, "Yes, Jane, I guess we can sit down for a little while, can't we?" John asked them if they would like something to drink (non-alcoholic), and the man answered, "We don't drink, take drugs, or anything." John then said that he meant soft drinks like Coca Cola. Both accepted Cokes but did not even taste them.
The man asked John if he watched TV much and what he watched. The man and his companion seemed startled when John told them that both he and his wife watched TV frequently. It was difficult for John to explain to them that he and his wife did most things together. The man said that he knew where John's father lived and asked him if he talked to his father very much and what they talked about. He kept at this point, asking: "Well, did you talk about anything else?" He never got to the point of the three-letter-word I choose not to mention.
'He then said, "The sky is very clear tonight," and said, "You are going to be in amateur radio [no equipment visible, but John, like his father, was involved]. What are you going to use your transmitter for?" When John told him, he asked, "Is that all?" He asked what kind of literature John and Maureen read. John told him that they read many different things but did not elaborate, and the visitor answered, "Yes, I know."
'John went into the kitchen where Maureen was preparing something to eat and asked her to come back with him because he did not want to be alone. Reluctantly she joined them. The man asked John what he did and John told him he was a musician, and the visitor seemed puzzled. While questioning John, he kept pawing and fondling his female companion while repeatedly asking John if it was all right to do this and if he was doing it right.
'John left the room to answer the phone, and the man asked Maureen to sit beside him on the couch, but she refused. While John was on the phone, the man also asked Maureen how she was made. She said, "Oh, what do you mean?" He said, "I mean, how are you built?" She answered: "Well, I guess I'm built just like any other girl." Then he asked her if she had any nude pictures of herself so he could see how she was built and to study the pictures. She was upset and refused, saying, "Certainly not," that she had none. John returned to the room and that was the end of that part of the conversation.
'The man said to John: "You are going to New Jersey." John did have plans to go to New Jersey, but he had not said so to this couple. The man told him to forget the route that the Automobile Club had given to him and that he would tell him how to get there. He then told of a detailed and complicated way to get to New Jersey, which avoided turnpikes and other well-traveled ways and, instead, used all out-of-the way back roads and numerous detours. Later, out of curiosity, John tried to check out some of these roads and found some of them discontinued, some of them rerouted, and some of them no longer considered back roads but now improved main roads.
'That was the end of the visit. The female stood up and said she wanted to leave. Her male companion also stood up but did not start to leave. She repeated to him several times that she wanted to leave, but he did not move. Finally, she said to John, in apparent desperation: "Please move him; I can't move him myself." He was standing closer to the door than she was, but not blocking her exit.
'John finally said, "Well, I think you'd better go now," and tried to calm her down. There were no obstacles--he, she, and the door were in direct line, and apparently the only way she could go to the door was to go directly to it through him: he had to move. The man seemed to want to sit down again, but suddenly left, followed by the female, walking a perfectly straight line, exactly over the spot where he had been standing. They didn't even say goodbye.
'My oldest son had not been able to sleep for a week prior to this visit and for a week after that. I prescribed some Dalmane for him. He said it didn't do much good. However, there was no apparent effect on my other son, wife, or daughter-in-law. Approximately a few weeks after the visit, the man telephoned and spoke to Maureen. He apologized for anything he might have done that seemed inappropriate or out of place, or if they didn't like the way he acted. He was sorry for that and said it wouldn't happen again. He asked if they could please talk some more. However, Maureen just cut him off by saying she didn't want anything to do with people like them.'
Dr. Berthold Schwarz (Psychiatry), of Vero Beach, Florida, is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, among many others. He has contributed over 100 articles to professional journals and has published over a dozen books, including, along with UFO DYNAMICS, Parent-Child Telepathy, The Jacques Romano Story, Psychic-Nexus, You CAN Raise Decent Children, and others.
BERTHOLD E. SCHWARZ Berthold E. Schwarz, MD, 85, of Vero Beach, Florida and Green Pond, New Jersey, died Thursday, September 16, 2010 at VNA Hospice House. Born in Jersey City, NJ on October 20, 1924, Dr Schwarz was a proud veteran of the United States Navy. Dr Schwarz received his A.B. from Dartmouth College in 1945 and graduated from Dartmouth Medical School and the N.Y. University College of Medicine in 1950. He interned at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, Hanover, NH and then completed a Fellowship in Psychiatry at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine 1951-1955. He also received a M.S. in Psychiatry at the University of Minnesota. Certified in Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, he was a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a member of various other medical and scientific organizations. After spending nearly 25 years in private practice in Montclair, NJ he moved to Vero Beach in 1982 and continued in private practice for over 20 years. In addition to being a long- time member of the Academy of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies, he was also a Fellow of the American Society for Psychical Research, a Fellow of the American Association for The Advancement of Science, and a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Schwarz was also a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, among many others. He has authored over 185 scholarly or scientific articles, including many in the Journal of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies. Dr Schwarz also published a number of articles on psychiatric, psychoanalytic and electrophysiological subjects. He contributed to professional journals and published over a dozen books including "A Psychiatrist Looks at ESP". Among his books are "The Jacques Romano Story"; "Psychic Nexus: Psychic Phenomena in Psychiatry" and "Everyday Life; Parent-Child Telepathy"; "Miracles of Peter Sugleris"; Psychiatric and Paranormal Aspects of Ufology; and "UFO- Dynamics".
Berthold Eric Schwarz’s extensive interviews with the late Betty Hill (see obituary in FT195:24 and many earlier references). Although Betty was best known for her abduction by aliens in 1961, Schwarz’s work indicates that she also had a huge number of ghostly and supernatural experiences. It was while giving lectures about her abduction that Betty kept seeing a person in the audience who resembled her friend Raymond Fowler. At the time, he was a UFO investigator who is now best known for his long-standing investigation of the Betty Andreasson abduction case. [1]
More amusingly, Betty recalled seeing a man following her as she and her mother took a trip to Montreal to record a TV programme. When they saw that he was staying at the same hotel her mother had a word with him. It’s not recorded what she said, but that evening the man turned up at the hotel dining room wearing a false moustache that promptly fell into his soup. [2]
We might speculate that all the strange happenings experienced by Betty – which included trouble with the telephone and postal services along with break-ins and visitations by mysterious men – indicated that, as she toured the UFO lecture circuit sharing stories of her now-famous abduction, she was being closely monitored.
2 Berthold Eric Schwarz, ‘Talks With Betty Hill: 2 – The Things That Happen To Her‘, Flying Saucer Review, Volume 23, Number 3, 1977, pp.12-13.
ALL PUBLICATIONS IN REVERSE CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
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[ 0 | 0 ] Schwarz, Berthold Eric. (1988) UFO-dynamics: Psychiatric and psychic aspects of the UFO syndrome 3rd up-dated & rev. edition. Moore Haven, Fla.: Rainbow Books.
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[ 0 | 0 ] Schwarz, Berthold Eric. (1983) UFO-dynamics: Psychiatric and psychic dimensions of the UFO syndrome Moore Haven, FL: Rainbow Books.
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[ 0 | 0 ] Schwarz, Berthold Eric. (1980) Psychic-nexus: Psychic phenomena in psychiatry and everyday life New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.
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[ 0 | 0 ] Schwarz, Berthold Eric; Ruggieri, Bartholomew A.. (1971) You can raise decent children New Rochelle, N.Y: Arlington House.
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[ 0 | 0 ] Schwarz, Berthold Eric. (1968) The Jacques Romano story New York: University Books.
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