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In December '93 I penned a piece entitled PKD, The Unicorn and Soviet Psychotronics, which addressed–among other things–Soviet mind control experiments utilizing technologies discovered by Czech inventor Nicola Tesla around the turn of the century. PKD, of course, was Philip K. Dick, the late great speculative fiction novelist, who believed many strange things had happened to his head during the '70s, one such event being an alien invasion with just this type of Tesla technology. Phil later came to believe this Soviet mind control experiment upon his temporal lobe had developed into something far more strange (if that was at all possible) when an alien entity consisting of pure information skyjacked these psychotronically produced Soviet projections, using them to beam extraterrestrial messages of a benevolent nature into Phil's oft befuddled mind.

"The Unicorn"–as he was known to friends and fellow researchers–was none other than Ira Einhorn, a prominent figure in the new age counterculture of the late sixties and seventies. Phil and Ira became acquainted through the auspices of Co-Evolution Quarterly, later renamed The Whole Earth Review, a by-product of former Merry Prankster Stewart Brand's revolutionary brainchild, The Whole Earth Catalog. Within the letter section of CoEvolution Quarterly, Dick and Einhorn initiated a dialogue on Soviet psychotronics & mind control, and its far reaching implications. Shortly afterwards, Einhorn's girlfriend and fellow researcher Holly Maddux's dismembered body parts were discovered in a steamer trunk in Einhorn's Philadelphia apartment, and Einhorn charged with her murder.

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