http://iowacomicbookclub.com/author/jeff/page/2 These next five definitions offer few surprises. I will add that I don’t think psychosis is purely emotional, but can have physical causes too. And that John obviously saw psychic and occult terms as part of ufology.
The next set of definitions includes one that John never completed; he must have thought that “planetoid” should be mentioned, but hadn’t decided what to say about it.
As far as I know, there’s no such thing as a “true paranoid,” but many degrees and kinds of paranoids, who often resist neat human classification. Those who hear voices are generally defined as paranoid schizophrenics. The “plus machine” is new to me; maybe some reader more versed in the ufological literature knows where it came from. And I note that John’s edit in the definition for “pockets” changes it from a belief to a fact. That may be just a stylistic choice, to avoid having to qualify all these definitions, rather than an indication of his own acceptance.
We come to the end of the O entries now. “Overshadow” is a particularly disturbing idea, I think.
The term “operator” comes from the 1958 book Operators and Things, by Barbara O’Brien. The name was a pseudonym; I don’t think her identity was ever revealed. The book is subtitled “The Inner Life of a Schizophrenic,” and describes a six-month schizophrenic episode, in which the author battles her threatening inner voices, who call themselves “operators,” and her a “thing.” It’s a compelling first-person account of the disease, although I suspect it could be at least partially fictional. Ace paperbacks reissued it in its line of books on UFOs and the supernatural, with the requisite spooky cover design, touting it as “strange, amazing, unbelievable yet true.” John apparently saw the operators as UFO occupants.
O’Brien includes a glossary of her own in the back. Her definition of “operator” is: “A human being with a type of head formation which permits him to explore and influence the mentality of others.”
The next batch of definitions is more substantial. He links the Indian mounds to the fairy mounds of Irish folklore (Sidhe being the Irish term for fairies), explains “negative factor,” proposes a “negative universe,” and offers the term “neurot,” which is new to me. He left MPE undefined: it could refer to Maximum Permissible Exposure, or the Max Planck Institute of Extraterrestrial Physics, or something else.
Sorry for the delay in posting. I was having scanner trouble, but it’s fixed now.
