ok... here is what Tom shared with me (us).
He knew Marianne through a guy named Bill Pawelec, now deceased, who was co-host of Nightsearch Radio a decade ago (he's not sure how the two met, perhaps he had her on a show). Bill was a contractor for govt underground facilities and interested in many subjects. Bill had read one of Tom's articles and contacted him in '01 and was on his radio show and this led to phone chats and he was introduced to Marianne. Apparently Marianne was interested to learn more about the symbols that she saw and thought maybe Tom might know something which he didn't.
The last time he spoke with Marianne was in '02 and he heard that she had a leg amputated a couple yrs later from diabetes complications and has not heard anything since.
Marianne is the daughter of a guy who was friends with Andre Puharich, who visited often and they would have high level discussions when Marianne was still a kid. At 12 she had the UFO encounter that induced her blindness and afterwards she had nonstop streams of archetypes enter her mental field, unable to sleep for days at a time, and it took several yrs for her to get a handle on them to regain a normal sleeping pattern. She also experienced kundalini that was very severe.
She believes that she was ejected into hyperspace and kind of had a space-inversion, flipped 180 degrees where a mole on her neck moved to the other side of her neck. She also experienced limited conbustion - flames would shoot our her back and burn her clothes (he refers to Hindu myth). She was also friends with Betty Hill.
Eventually she realized that the symbols had meaning, especially telling of the people she interacted with and world affairs. She learned to use them, developed T-bar etc that Swerdlow puts out.
They met when Swerdlow was in prison for embezzlement while being a social worker. She taught him what she knew but withheld half of it because she didn't fully trust him. He started his career from what she taught him.
Tom tells that he heard later from another source (not defined) that Stewart met someone in jail, a cellmate who believed himself to be a Montauk Boy and informed Stewart all about the Montauk Project conspiracy. Tom doesn't know if that is actually true, it's just what someone told him.
Marianne taught Tom about color and T-bar balancing and a few other techniques in 2001 and has recognized that Stewart teaches most of them.
Tom did spend time on the phone w/Marianne listening to her describe the archetypes, wrote them down and tried to make sense of them as she didn't understand them all herself.
He says that he can personally confirm from direct contact w/her that "she knew all the Swerdlow archetype and hyperspace techniques before he did and she's been around the block a lot longer, is genuinely blind, can see archetypes and did know people like Puharich." By the time that they talked, Marianne was in her older years at the time of '01/'02, living in Manhattan or Maryland (he can't remember which, would have to dig out his notes) and he's not even sure she is alive (which we know she is).
Marianne worked w/other reserachers including Richard Hoagland, anyone who has anything to do with hyperspace as that's what she's been trying to figure out all these years.
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Well, I don't know anyone other than Stewart that teaches those particular symbols.
Anyway, that's the scoop for the day... sorry for any typos, I was in a hurry.
