Beau "Peepless" Kitselman

Alva Lasaile Kitselman....

Beau was one of Townsend's closest friends and associates  and. like Townsend,  his tracks through history are, nearly invisible. Appropriate for a man whose intelligence codename was "Sandcastle" in honor of the  thoroughness and speed with which he could create and erase full blown operations.

Like Townsend, "Beau's  brilliance was noted and reported upon at a young age. This son from a Midwestern barbed-wire fence dynasty was reportedly named as one of the five most intelligent children in America in a national magazine story on IQ measurement.  There were some differences between the two geniuses, however. Beau's mind was entranced with statistics, symbols, codes, and languages, while Townsend's was far more taken with measurable and observable physical forces. Nevertheless, something clicked between them. They were particularly tickled with each other's sense of humor, playing out elaborate Abbot and Costello routines for one another before proceeding through revolving doors.

The two say they met sometime in World War II.  Beau claimed that he spent the war in a hotel on the Atlantic coast, listening to foreign language radio intercepts while Townsend always told of requisitioning a hotel on the Coast for a U.S. Navy radio/radar school.  I believe that they may have met there .

I also believe that Beau was part of the intelligence network that William Ogletree described in the oral history entitled The Making of a Radioman.  Ogletree was put into a radio intercept listening post at the Cavalier Hotel on a special assignment for the FBI (or so he was told). We now know that, in order to operate his pre-war intelligence network in the United States, William Stephenson had to work with and through the FBI.)

Beginning in March of 1941, Ogletree reported that he often picked up late-night German-language transmissions ending with AL  K, an unusual sequence of letters. Mr. Twigsnapper (aka Reilly/Boston/Garrity) has said that the copies of these same messages were sent straight to Stephenson's British Passport Office in New York City.

But all of this is a bit of a digression from the story I started to tell about Beau Kitselman and his interest in time. The Time Teachers had its genesis in Kitselman's 1933 effort to to record and analyze the statistical outcome of 5000 coin tosses. As he says in the preface, he decided to make the boringly repetitive process a bit more entertaining by trying to guess the outcome of each toss.  He was astounded to see that he had guessed right more often than might have been statistically expected. He wrote that these results, and later experiments, established beyond all reasonable doubt that the average person can predict the near term future events slightly more often than random. What bothered Kistelman most, I think, was not that the best scientific minds had no way of explaining how such an impossible outcome could occur, but that they had no interest in discovering the answer.

After his persistent contemplation of the problem, he was eventually able to derive the "how"of it for himself.  Although he said the answer would be difficult to explain in words, he offered a rough metaphor of it. Simply put, it's the Russian doll idea: we live in nesting dimensions.  Our three-dimensional world exists in a four-dimensional time-space wrapped  in a five-dimensional something, and enveloped by ...so on.  And thus, TA-DA!  Time is relative!

But that poly-dimensional math came later for him.  Before he reached those conclusions, he thought that the only way we humans could ever learn to use our precognitive ability would be by learning to master a "feel" for time's working in our lives.  When he realized that feeling could only be gained by quieting the inner noise, he found himself  on a sudden and surprising spiritual quest.  He was soon devouring ancient Sanskrit and Chinese manuscripts in the original languages. By the time he wrote The (undated) Time Teachers he had translated many basic precepts of Buddhism.  It is these enumerations that form the bulk of his manuscript.

Beau was to be an active and practicing mystic forever afterward.  We can trace his path from Buddhism through early Dianetics, (before he split with L. Ron Hubbard over Hubbard's intent to "sell" it as Scientology) and finally into a Hawaiian Huna association with the teachings of Max Freedom Long.

But Beau never stopped being a mathematician.  He develop early programming languages, ran the first computer lab for the University of California at San Diego and created what is referred to as "Kitselman Math." These formulas are believed by advanced students to be the key to replicating much of Townsend's work, and some of them are being applied in the various "citizen-operated" (as oppose to military-funded) R & D projects that are now underway.

To my knowledge, Kitselman's "time formulas" are not among any of the extant papers, but the watchwords for this project, are "Wait for it!"  We have learned that once a request has been formulated, the answer will come from some often unexpected quarter, sooner or later. The latest crop of new research resources was discovered by forum member Pladuim in, of all places, the archives of a West Virginia public library.  But that is another topic for another post.