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About John Fitzpatrick's statement that our lives were going to change, I think he was warning me that we were crossing the Rubicon, and there was no turning back. We were completely embracing the idea that the ivory-billed woodpecker still exists -- and putting our careers on the line. From that day on, we knew that this bird would be the focal point of our lives for years -- perhaps forever -- and it was a sobering thought.
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I'm thinking "Born Again" would be a more appropriate phrase.....
I think if only Fitz's life had changed. No body would have cared. But he took an awfully lot of people down with him.
I just think that once Mary Scott saw the Ivory-billed with the help of a psychic that should have been the red flag that made them go back and look at that blurry video one more time.
I mean do you really want your name on a paper that verifies the work of a psychic? Maybe it's just me, but I think there were a lot of hints from god telling them not to go down this path.
But once they did, it sure has been fun.
I just think that once Mary Scott saw the Ivory-billed with the help of a psychic that should have been the red flag that made them go back and look at that blurry video one more time.
Didn't she actually see the Ivory-billed several times only with the help of her own mind, and the time she used the psychic was actually a bust? Either way, that all happened before they ever got the video.
Crossing the Rubicon? Hmmmm...I think Fitzcrow should have told his crew that they were going "A Bridge Too Far".
Let me get this straight. Are you actually arguing with me the timing of the psychic and the blurry video? Hello?! Anyone home up there? Maybe you can get a Science Express paper out of this?
Yes!!! Mary Scott saw "the Ivory-billed several times only with the help of her own mind".
Only with the help of her own mind! I don't know if you meant it like that, but truer words have never ever been spoken.
If this was Birdforum dot Net we could keep this timing of the psychic angle going for weeks. Tim Alwood could chime in once in a while with logic, but we wouldn't have to let that stop us.
Let me get this straight. Are you actually arguing with me the timing of the psychic and the blurry video? Hello?! Anyone home up there? Maybe you can get a Science Express paper out of this?
Yeah, I am arguing it with you. Seems to me that we're all interested with the truth here. Mary Scott, who first got involved with Ivory-billed due to Kullivan's report, brought the psychic along during the Pearl River search. The pyschic wasn't involved with her Arkansas sighting. It was Bob Russell (though I could be wrong with the name) who took her there and who also apparently never believed her. So it's not like the paper was verifying the work of a psychic. It may have indirectly verified the work of someone suffering from some kind of psychosis, but not a psychic.
Things are screwed up enough as it is. We don't need someone re-writing history on top of it.
Only with the help of her own mind! I don't know if you meant it like that, but truer words have never ever been spoken.
Oh, don't worry, that's exactly what I meant. Nice to see that you're paying attention.
Mary Scott did see a lot
But yes I may have forgot
When “I see it” she had yelped
Whether the psychic had helped
But I suppose it doesn’t matter
Her reputation can’t get much fatter
She saw the bird 3 or 4 times
Paranormal aids are not crimes
Before Ms Scott, the bird was just a corpse
Do fortune tellers not use mind warps?
Bend space and time to screw your mind
To the point that the days are intertwined
So give the psychic his do
Only thru him do sightings accrue
Wait a minute. That's not the story.
Mary is with a group. But they aren't finding the bird. So she gets out her cell phone and calls the psychic, the fellow tells her that the bird is sensing "too much energy from the group and they need to lower the energy". Or somethun' like that. So Mary walks away for the group to lower the energy and she sees one of the most fantastic sights of her life.
Isn't this the story? If not, then an awefully lot of people are retelling it wrong around here.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0926524178/103-6059642-1631843?v=glance&n=283155
Jack "Kewaunee" Lapseritis, M.S., is a Holistic Health Educator and Master Herbalist with a background in anthropology, psychology, and conservation. As a world authority on the Bigfoot-Sasquatch phenomenon, he has meticulously researched the subject for the last 40 years. Mr. Lapseritis is a social scientist, a Master Dowser, and both a Bigfoot and ET "contactee."
As a world traveler, an amateur naturalist and backpacker, Mr. Lapseritis spent five years out of the country in England, East Africa, Japan, and later immigrated to Australia. In 1973, he conducted en ethnographic study in conjunction with the Colonbian Institute of Anthropology in Bogota, living amongst the Tukuna Indians of Upper Amazonia.
In 1979, Mr. Lapseritis was first telepathically contacted by a Sasquatch and ET simultaneously, which was the shock of his life. To further complicate matters, the contact changed him and he developed psychic ability overnight, which triggered a spiritual transformation. At the time, he was Assistant Director of an urban Indian agency, worked as a hypno-therapist and had been lecturing at the Medical College of Wisconsin and was ill-prepared for such a happening.
"Kewaunee" has been a guest on over one hundred radio and television talk shows
Get Kewaunee Lapseritis out in them swamps and we can end this charade. Who better to find the IBWO than a man who derives his psychic powers from Bigfoot itself?
Mary do paraphrase her web site actually saw 2 Ivory Bills in Arkansas at the White River. Her companions (maybe Russell) missed it. I believe it was March 2003.
That is why there are 2 bird paintings with the birds named after her.
That is why CLO set up ARUs near the area she claimed to have seen the birds.
Mary was unable to video tape or photograph the birds because you guessed it, it all happened so fast.
In her own mind, excellent!
Before Ms Scott, the bird was just a corpse
Kulivan should get the credit for reviving the corpse.
Ok, here's how Hitt put it in his great NY Times piece "13 Ways of Looking at an Ivory-billed Woodpecker"
I qoute,
Gallagher also tells the story of a ghost-chaser named Mary Scott, who had an Arkansas sighting a year before Gene Sparling, the kayaker, and was the first person to alert Gallagher to Sparling's account. Scott is a former lawyer who in midlife took up residence in a yurt near her parents' house in Long Beach, Calif. On one birding expedition, Scott took along a friend who knew an "ivory-bill whisperer." With the clairvoyant on the cellphone, the search party learned that the bird wanted to be seen but was troubled by the group's "energy." Scott eventually wandered off by herself and, she says, saw the bird. In fact, Scott has seen the bird quite a lot, so much so that she is openly scorned by other birders. "I must admit," Gallagher nevertheless writes, "I had come to believe strongly in her sighting."
With the clairvoyant on the cellphone, the search party learned that the bird wanted to be seen but was troubled by the group's "energy."
Perhaps the ivory bill, lurking in the deep underwater lair it evolved to inhabit in the mid 20th century, has the power to alter pixels as they are encoded in a video camera's memory banks.
This would explain quite a bit.
Ok, so when I asked "... do you really want your name on a paper that verifies the work of a psychic? ", you guys are saying that I have my timeline all wrong.
So what you are really saying is... what did Gallagher know of the psychic help to Mary Scott and when did he know it? But I think this is moot. I think I can prove (using the Zapruder-Luneau film) that the psychic's energy bounced off Ms Scott struck Mr. Gallagher in the ego, exited him and made a 90 degree turn, in mid-air mind you, and went down the hall, entered Dr. Fitzpatricks room and struck him senseless.
So see, I stand by my original statement,
"I just think that once Mary Scott saw the Ivory-billed with the help of a psychic that should have been the red flag that made them go back and look at that blurry video one more time."
...in mid-air mind you, and went down the hall, entered Dr. Fitzpatricks room and struck him senseless.
That is one magic loogie.
"I just think that once Mary Scott saw the Ivory-billed with the help of a psychic that should have been the red flag that made them go back and look at that blurry video one more time."
No, no, no. The timeline is still wrong. Mary Scott had all of her sightings before the video was made, so they really couldn't go back and look at the video one more time once she saw the bird, because they didn't have the video when that happened.
I love having free time.
"No, no, no. The timeline is still wrong."
No, there is nothing in my timeline that says that the video came before Mary Scott's sighting. In fact just the opposite. I'm saying that because Gallagher was so smitten by Ms Scott, he must have known about the psychic. So before they published the video and paper, I'm just saying they should have realized that the whole area was linked to Scott and psychic.
Therefore, they should have swallowed hard before publishing that paper.
And yes, that was one magical psychic loogie.
Do yurts have internet connections?
Here's how one book reviewer quoted Gallagher's book "The Grail Bird"
"Gallagher introduces us to people like
Mary Scott, who retired from her banking
career mid-stream to live in a yurt (yes,
yurt) in her parents' backyard in California,
so she could devote her time to searching
for birds no one has seen for lifetimes.
Thanks to Bob Russell of Minnesota, an
Ivory-bill believer from way back who infected
me with the search bug, I was with
Mary, and Bob, and several other birders
when she (maybe) saw an Ivory-bill in
Louisiana in 2000. I was there when the
animal psychic, a friend of someone in our
party, called us by cell phone from a
thousand miles away to say that the woodpeckers had told her we were making too
much noise in the woods."
I for one just think that this whole psychic thing says so much about our present predicament.
I for one just think that this whole psychic thing says so much about our present predicament.
Again, I'm not so sure about that. It's a bit of a distraction really. Why was Mary Scott there in the first place? Because someone else, someone regarded as possibly being 'reliable' reported an IBWO at that location a year or so earlier. CLO didn't go crashing headlong into Arkansas because of Mary Scott's report from there, either. It wasn't until a 'confirmed' sighting came from others. CLO may be wrong, but give them a little credit. Connecting them to the psychic is a bit of a smear campaign.
So before they published the video and paper, I'm just saying they should have realized that the whole area was linked to Scott and psychic.
Therefore, they should have swallowed hard before publishing that paper.
But the area wasn't linked to the psychic. That happened in Louisiana. The link between Scott and the Cache River is at best tangential (like this argument).
No, you guys are wrong
"I must admit," Gallagher nevertheless writes, "I had come to believe strongly in her sighting."
Mary Scott influenced and hyped up Gallagher. Gallagher had been the only one who "saw" that Fitz truly trusts. Mary and the Psychic may be the whole seed that started this fiasco to blossom.
It's a beautiful story and will make a fine start to the book one day.
....sniff....
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