14:12:04 From Sally Fletcher : Do you identify with any characer? 14:13:57 From Michael Eager : Can you remind us folks who read the book some time ago what you describe in the book? 14:14:26 From JC Jackson Consulting : Life imitates art in your conceptualization of this implant, like AC Clark invented the Telstar type of communications satelite? 14:16:45 From JC Jackson Consulting : Is Commander Data an example of the end development of this? 14:18:38 From Steve Broe DTM : MS? PArkinsons? 14:19:52 From Doris Duncan : Do you have plans to write a sequel? What might be some of the highlights? 14:20:15 From Nick Kloski : Commander Data, for those who didn't know, is a sentient Android in one of the Star Trek TV Series 14:20:24 From Scott Hines : Do you know magicians or do magic yourself? I loved the scenes at the magicians' club. 14:21:16 From Nick Kloski : Rio Scale: https://www.astrobio.net/alien-life/the-rio-scale-quantifying-the-consequences-of-an-et-discovery/ 14:21:34 From Scott Hines : I wonder if Randi could figure out the alien tech :-) 14:21:59 From Rita Charles : Some members here think your initials here ( E.T.) are an admission that you are an alien. 14:22:12 From Karl Heuer : Lightspeed limit would seem to make it unlikely that aliens could visit us -- do you address the issue of how Vlad got here in the first place, or is that left unspecified? 14:26:07 From Barry Krasner : Did all of the alien technology in your book come from your ideas in the 60s? If so, you were way ahead of your time. Have you thought about other technological ideas that weren't in the book? 14:27:54 From Nick Kloski : does Vlad have a gender in the book? 14:29:28 From GLENDA FRANK : Does the alien look human? Does he take on human form? Why is he on Earth? 14:29:50 From Kathy : Is there a sense of how far ahead the alien technology is? I.e, how many iterations of Moore's law to reach that level of technology 14:32:55 From Nick Kloski : how does this book parallel Stranger in a Strange Land? 14:36:05 From Barry Krasner : Do you think that Vlad would have had the technology to wipe out deadly viruses and diseases? What about preventing old age? 14:36:17 From Rita Charles : Would you speak to the topic of Lucid Dreaming as a vital component of this book? 14:36:21 From Betty Hass : You bring up lucid dreaming. 14:38:34 From Pia Smith : You said you were waiting for somebody to write the book about the technology why did you want somebody to write a book about the technology. What were you hoping you would read? 14:39:22 From Nick Kloski : https://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/lucid-dreams-overview 14:39:31 From Scott Hines : But maybe lucid dreaming is also alien tech! 14:41:54 From Judy Unger : Define lucid dreaming 14:42:02 From Jean Domanski : Why did you choose the name Vlad? It reminds me a spies hiding in plain sight just as a spy might. 14:42:47 From Chris Boyd : Does the Nova Dreamer have any similarity to current technology? 14:44:10 From Sally Fletcher : Did some of the ideas for this book come to you while you were dreaming? 14:45:11 From Scott Hines : Vladimir is a very old name generally understood to mean "leader", too, so it has a very particular connotation. 14:45:34 From Scott Hines : Yes! Neuromancer! The Ur book on networked brains! 14:46:28 From Maggie : Is this book your Mythology? 14:47:13 From Milly Phillips : Do not be a leaf (Believe) 14:50:33 From Steve Broe DTM : Lucid dreaming = aware that you are dreaming while in the state. (Yes, what Marshall is saying) 14:53:31 From Judy Unger : How does VR fit into this concept of changing channels in your mind. Could it help in inmagining new realities? 14:57:33 From Milly Phillips : If I drink 1/4 cup coffee just prior to sleeping, I will lucid dream. Otherwise, it happens only randomly. 15:00:26 From Rita Charles : Vlad and Donald are doing astral travel together in In lucid dreaming states. Would you comme on the interplay of astral time travel and lucid dreaming. 15:00:44 From JC Jackson Consulting : One need not be a lifetime writer to produce a piece of written art? 15:04:44 From Chris Boyd : How did you choose "Paucri" for the name of Vlad's planet. 15:08:37 From Judy Unger : So is Vlad really here or is he part of a lucid dream? 15:08:52 From JC Jackson Consulting : The South American indigenes who gave us coffee consider our use of it to be an aberrant adiction, they only use it for religeous rites? 15:11:23 From Michael Eager : inception 15:13:10 From Maggie : This book sort of reminds me of Richard Bach's Illusions, an alien/celestial being teaching a human being an alternative reality/possibility..... 15:19:42 From Kathy : re. giving people a choice about new reality, have you seen that concept in Greg Egan's novel Diaspora? People can agree to temporary change of aesthetic sense to appreciate new art. But then have to revert to their original sense before deciding whether to make the change permanent. 15:20:19 From Scott Hines : Oh yes, Kathy! 15:20:55 From Scott Hines : Yeah, not real psychologists :-) 15:22:55 From Scott Hines : But as was said, you have written a real piece of art, and we, your fans, might write fan fiction based in your world in which there is a Dark Vlad, who comes from Vlad's planet and uses the alien technology to mess with humans instead of help them :-) 15:22:57 From Milly Phillips : "Reality is the perception" 15:23:14 From Chris Boyd : I'd like to comment on Nova Dreamer, biofeedback, and coffee 15:25:53 From Frank Nemec : Ed, it was good to hear more from you today than we've heard in 10 BIRG meetings! Thank you! 15:26:07 From Kathy : yes 15:27:07 From Nick Kloski : The closest I have experienced to a real-world lucid dream was using creation tools in VR. Like 3D art tools 15:28:13 From Scott Hines : Ah, he confesses that he was Vlad the Impaler! Before he learned how to be nice :-) 15:31:18 From Scott Hines : Ed is a lucid dreaming body builder!!!! 15:32:49 From jon burleson to SFRM Webmaster(Privately) : I've been wondering for months, how do you attach an image to yourself for zoom calls (like your mensa table logo)? 15:32:57 From Scott Hines : This is a much more polite BIRG meeting! 15:34:46 From Nick Kloski : Example of a VR creation tool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TckqNdrdbgk 15:35:19 From Maggie : Could someone post BIRG meeting info here? Please and thank you! 15:35:30 From Karl Heuer : Last week I had a borderline lucid dream -- I had a strong suspicion that I was dreaming, and tried to test it, but the test seemed to indicate that I was awake. 15:35:59 From Frank Nemec : http://www.bigideasreadinggroup.com/ 15:36:52 From Maggie : Thanks, Frank! 15:37:24 From SFRM Webmaster to jon burleson(Privately) : I'd have to look at the zoom website. 15:45:16 From Maggie : Do you have an ultimate goal of practicing lucid dreaming? 15:47:48 From JC Jackson Consulting : Are lucid dreamers using a hypnotic state to enter and control the dreaming? 15:48:27 From Maggie : LOL you now give me a great incentive to practice!! 15:51:04 From Frank Nemec : Thanks Ed and the gang! 15:54:40 From janice fincher : Where do you find your book 15:55:36 From Nick Kloski : https://smile.amazon.com/Confessions-Alien-Mythology-Third-Mlilennium-ebook/dp/B01N2ZJPRV/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=confessions+alien+et+marshall&qid=1596408924&sr=8-1 15:55:36 From Rita Charles : So I have July 30, 2020 edition. Brand new? 15:56:08 From Doris Duncan : Thank you, Ed, for discussing your book with us. I look forward to the possibility of a time travel book. 15:56:21 From Rita Charles : Not Bad news. BRAND NEW! 15:57:17 From jon burleson : Thanks from Norther Nevada Mensa (Reno)