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$aff|1-Eegads, it's so damned spooky, it's...



$ffa|2-Scene Psyke!







$aff|1-is the truth out there?  Or is it in here...?


$fff                              by Freak/NFA
$99b                       with additional notes from
$fff                            Phil!96/Ex-Scene
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What's  this  Scene Psyke (tSP) then?  Well, perhaps not all of you will
have  noticed but I'm willing to bet that a lot of you, particularly the
swappers  and  mail-order  users, will remember something similar that's
happened to you...  Anyway it's probably easier for me to recount my own
experiences  and those of my colleague, Mr.  Phil!96, than to attempt an
explanation straight away.
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Just  a  couple  of weeks ago it occurred to me that I hadn't heard from
Phil!   for  a  while,  and just two days later there was a jiffy on the
door  mat  from  the  man himself, it had been 2-3 months since our last
communication, so why now?
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Another  occurrence:   I  silently  cursed  a man who I'd sent the fully
registered  version of Balls!  to in advance of any payment, and thought
"I  could  do with some cash, pity I didn't get so-and-so's".  That same
day  I  visited  the  P.O.Box  and found this man's payment, and ANOTHER
cheque as well.
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This isn't confined to the scene though, as I had a letter from a friend
in Sheffield just two days after wondering what she was up to, and there
was no way she could have known what I was thinking.
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Phil! also detailed a couple of bizarre events, one relating to myself:
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  " ...many  is  the time I have sat on the bus on the way home from
    work  and  thought  "Hmm..   aint  heard  from Freak lately, etc
    etc.." and when I get home, there is your jiffy on the gas meter
    cupboard  waiting for me!  Yup, this has happened to me too - at
    least  4  or  5 times!  Infact I havent heard from anyone in the
    scene  for  months  and  the  day  I  received your disk, I also
    received a postcard from Horror.  Spooky.                        "
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Also  on the subject of shareware games that he'd written, which reveals
disturbing parallels with one such item above...
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  " ...Another  strange  phenomena was when I used to get orders for
    my  games..   After the initial "surge" (yeah, right) of orders,
    weeks  would  pass with not one order then 3 would come the same
    morning..  Then nothing for yonks again..                        "
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One  possible  theory is that the human subconcious is busy working away
day  in  day  out, week after week, assimilating and correlating all the
data  from every single thing that we do and - when a certain pattern of
events  occurs or a certain time has elapsed - triggers one of the above
ideas and the related event happens.  It would have happened anyway, but
our subconcious decided that "now" was the optimum time to gently remind
us  about  it,  and  as  few of us know what our subconcous is up to, it
seems very spooky indeed.
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Unfortunately, Phil!  goes some way to wrecking this theory with another
tale  which  may  or may not be related, in which a third (and as you'll
see, disinterested) party makes such a prediction:
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  " Years ago, in the C64 / Compunet days, my modem bust.  I sent it
    to some company for repair and it was taking bloody weeks to get
    fixed  so  I  was  thinking  of  phoning  em up.  My brother was
    chatting  to  one  of  his  contacts  shortly after and for some
    reason  he just said "Dont worry, you'll get it back tommorrow".
    My  brother mentioned it to me cus it was a pretty strange thing
    to  say  considering  this guy has no connection with company or
    shit...  The  next morning the post came and went so I went back
    to  sleep, only to be woken a few minutes later by the post van,
    delivering, you guessed it, the repaired modem...                "
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Another  theory  is  that it's not a coincidence at all, but it's a very
real  form  of Psychic ability, although it's unclear as to whether it's
an  active or passive thing.  The person (myself or Phil!  or any of you
who experience similar coincidences) is either:
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[a] - picking up the thoughts of another person, i.e the person who is
      doing the writing/sending, indicating a passive ability, or...
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[b] - influencing the thoughs of another person, which would appear to
      indicate an active ability.
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In  all  honesty  I think it's more likely to be [a], because there have
been  times when I've wished and wished that someone would write or that
there  would  be  another cheque in the post, but to no avail.  However,
when  I  *think* of something, rather than *wishing* for something, then
more often than not something comes of it.
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I  also  think it's more likely to be [a] because by far the majority of
instances involve people I've known for some time, and so it may be that
I'm  thinking on "their wavelength", and at times when I'm occupying the
majority of their thought processes then there's that connection.
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I'm  extremely  interested  to  hear  if  anyone  else  has  had similar
experiences,  not  just one but a whole slew of them, such as myself and
Phil!  have.  If you have then detail as many as you can remember, DON'T
make  them  up,  and  send 'em in to us at The Word.  You never know, we
might just have found something and it could be a major scoop!
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Send mail to:   The Word - tSP
                P.O.Box 42,
                Grimsby,
                N.E.Lincolnshire.
                DN33 1RY
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