During the spring of 1966, the vision of the late John F. Kennedy, the
martyred President of the United States, appeared to me on three
separate occasions, in three different places, and engaged me in lengthy
disquisitions about the condition of man, the dangers apparent in his
present estate, and what must be done to avert them.
I made it clear during these conversations that I was very dubious about
the value of anything that I might be able to do, but John F. Kennedy
assured me that for a number of reasons, which he explained, I was the
likeliest person to proceed with this assignment.
I have lost none of the doubts which assailed me during these
conversations. If anything, they have increased. First of all, I can
offer no evidence to a mechanist or materialist society that the
conversations took place. They must start or fall according to the
information which they contain. There are no signed documents; there is
no blurred photograph of an evanescent mist which I could claim to be
the spirit of John F. Kennedy returning to his present mode of being. I
cannot even say that I actually SAW John F. Kennedy during these
conversations.
The physical, or rather, non-physical, circumstances of these encounters
were quite simple. On each occasion, I was engulfed by a strange
radiance in which the physical world disappeared, and I was serenely
aware that I was in the Presence of John F. Kennedy. There was absolute
peace, and I was under the impression that nothing ever had or ever
could disturb us in these surroundings. It was as though one had
attained a state of ultimate beauty, and had left behind forever all the
cares of earth.
