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OTTO O. BINDER SCIENCE WRITER SPACE SPECIALIST
OTTO O. BINDER
STUDIO, FRIENDS LAKE ROAD
CHESTERTOWN, N. Y. 12817
518 - 494 - 3582
October 19, 1970
Mr. Russ Conklin
221 E. California Ave
Las Vegas, Nev. 89104
Dear Mr. Conklin:
Enclosed are carbon copies of two more articles about Ted Owens, the PK Man, which will appear in SAGA magazine in March and April 1971. They reveal much more about Ted Owens than the previous two articles, which I presume you have seen.
In being the writer who has made a study of Ted Owens and his career, plus having had the privilege of seeing all his personal diaries from 1963 to date, I think I can state his qualifications and the wide variety of his talents with some degree of accuracy.
First of all, Ted Owens is no "charlatan" or faker about his PK powers. In his diaries are too many cases where he has controlled and even created lightning storms or other sensational events, to be denied. All of them are documented, with signed affidavits of officials and witnesses. His ESP messages from the SI's (Saucer Intelligences) all "hang together" in a remarkable way, as the enclosed articles show.
I wish to stress also that Ted is a member of Mensa (I saw his official membership card), the group of high-IQ people who comprise the top 2% of the human race in intellect. And of course it is obvious that Mensa is not likely to fooled into accepting any kind of "kook" or self-deluded "psychic" into their carefully selected organization. If Ted is a crackpot, so are all the geniuses of Mensa, which include many psychologists, psychiatrists, and scientists of all types. I wanted to make this clear to distinguish Ted from the so-called "contactees" who claim to have spoken with people in flying saucers and even ridden in their craft (which Ted has never claimed to do).
Now, I am not sure what sort of "contract" you had in mind for Ted, whether as an entertainer, PK performer, or colorful personality or what. He can be any of those, and other things too. Let me give a brief rundown as to the possibilities...
BOOKS ARTICLES SCI-FI COMICS UFOLOGY
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Entertainer. Ted as you know "projects" before any audience. He has a striking personality, resonant voice, forceful manner--all the earmarks of a top lecturer or stage entertainer. He is an adept at knife-throwing and has performed for night-clubs and also at the Ringling Circus in this capacity. More than that, he has worked up a repertory of "parlor tricks" that always enthrall any group at a small party, including hypnotism. He successfully taught his own methods of hypnotism and autosuggestion (a fat notebook is filled with all his data and classroom statistics) to many thousands in Dallas, Texas, before the AMA inevitably and relentlessly campaigned against "quacks" who cure more people than doctors--had him "disbarred" in a court action with trumped-up charges. Anyway, he can use hypnotism as an entertaining act without running into them again.
Ted is also a crack pistol-shot, fencer, karate expert, and dancer (he taught in one of Arthur Murray's dancing classes). I'm giving all the sidelights of career in that I'm not sure just which would be of interest in Las Vegas. He has mastered no less than 50 professions--stage magician, jazz drummer, boxer, bodyguard, private investigator, fortune teller, life-guard, speed typist, court shorthand expert, and many more.
PK Performer. In this, Ted could excel. He was originally the "rainmaker" and has documented proof of the many rainstorms he produced in drought areas, plus various lightning storms on "order", not to mention hurricanes.
But his PK powers extend into other more subtle areas--seeing the future and telling fortunes, predicting world-wide events, or relaying ESP messages from space. No doubt Ted can also "tailor" his PK powers into other fascinating areas that would impress an audience.
PK Healer. This would be a more difficult role for Ted to take up but it is on record that a girl with a smashed skull was given up for dead until Ted used his amazing PK powers to keep her alive. She lives today. Recently, Ted flew to California to use his healing arts on a three-year-old girl dying of leukemia and at this writing she is two weeks beyond the death date given by her attending doctors.... a true "miracle cure". Ted's famous "PK disks", sent to thousands utterly free, are healing power and literally hundreds of letters attest to the miracle cures that followed for many grateful and saved people. Certainly there is some kind of healing power flowing from Ted and his disks.
The above are mere sketches of Ted's possibilities, but the important thing is Ted's terrific personality. I have seen letter after letter unabashedly proclaiming how "impressive" he is, how "inspiring" his words are, what an "amazing person" he is, how his "genius" shines forth, and so on and so on. You can tell each writer was simply bowled over by the sheer magnetic quality of Ted's presence. He "electrifies" people and can catch the undivided attention of any audience the moment he smiles and opens his mouth. For what comes out is always astounding, compelling, awe-inspiring. All this leaped out of his diaries, too.
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OTTO O. BINDER SCIENCE WRITER SPACE SPECIALIST
October 19, 1970
OTTO O. BINDER
STUDIO, FRIENDS LAKE ROAD
CHESTERTOWN, N. Y. 12817
518-494-3582
Dear Mr. Conklin:
As a follow-up to my recent letter, I just want to mention a few very significant items regarding Ted Owens and his weirdly "magnetic" appeal to any and all audiences...
Ted has been on many radio and TV shows through the years and in every case the station was startled at the phenomenal flood of mail that came in. Same with SAGA magazine. The editor, Martin S. Singer, will corroborate the fact that Ted's two articles (Aug/Sep 1970) brought in the most mail they ever had.
Along with this is the uncanny but true fact that Ted received at least a dozen letters (I've seen them) in which the reader said "something compelled him" to go out and buy SAGA. Martin Singer, however. He notified myself that the SI's would send down a "ray" to compel many people to buy those issues!
Getting back to radio shows, Ted did so good one night on a Philadelphia station that the station managers cancelled other shows and kept Ted on for four solid hours. I don't think even Jack Benny or Billy Graham can make that claim.
Speaking of Billy Graham, I think if Ted were ever given the right national hookup he could "out-evangelize" Graham by ten to one---and I don't mean religion. Ted would give more "meaning" to life, and to the mysterious workings of God, than any hellfire-and-brimstone mouthings of the fundamentalists. Ted would get down to the fundamentals beneath their fundamentals.
Ted's letters to me are marvels of clarity, profoundness, and humaniterianism. He's a rare soul. Give him his chance on the proper national forum and I think He'll run away with the country...and take them to the stars. To the SI's.
I hope that happens. I hope he gets "converts" by the thousand and millions. I hope he gets the chance to found his Church of Sota and expound the Wisdom of the Ages to mankind---from the mouth of the SI's, who may really be the SA's, Space Angels, appointed by a Higher Power to help a sick, sick world, via Ted Owens. So, I sincerely hope his "break" comes.
With All Sincerity,
BOOKS ARTICLES SCI-FI COMICS UFOLOGY
P.S. I'm of a "scientific" nature but not
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As Dr. Arnold Zakow said, astrophysicist who checked all of
Ted's alleged PK feats, Ted Owens may be the "most brilliant
mind on earth today" and one of its greatest "psychics". Dr.
Zackow, a researcher into phenomenology and the paranormal,
never questioned Ted's PK powers but pronounced them all as
genuine manifestations of someone in direct contact with beings
far superior to earth-people. Namely, the SI's, from whom Ted
derives his fantastic powers.
I've written at such length about Ted Owens on my own,
simply because I believe this man deserves to be known and
acknowledged for his strange and wonderful powers, which could
be of great benefit to the world at large---if he is ever
given the chance. His talents are hidden under a bushel, sadly
enough.
I trust this is of some help to you in connection with the
unknown contract you mentioned. You can, of course, show this
letter to whomever you wish. Below are some of my background
data as a writer for 35 years.
Sincerely,
[Signature]
---Short stories published: over 500 in various magazines.
---Books include VICTORY IN SPACE, CAREERS IN SPACE, RIDDLES
OF ASTRONOMY, THE PLANETS, THE MOON, ROCKETS AND SPACE TRAVEL,
ATOMIC ENERGY, AND Many more scientific works.
---Contracted as an educational writer by NASA in 1965.
---Two books and dozens of articles exploring the UFO
phenomenon.
---Science articles contributed to LIVING HISTORY OF THE
WORLD (encyclopedia) and other year-books.
---A science-fiction story, as representative of 20th cen-
tury thinking, buried in both time-capsules of the New York
World's Fairs of 1939 and 1965.
---Fourteen stories in world-wide anthologies.
---The story "I, Robot" used in an accredited English-course
textbook distributed through Macmillan Publishers to high-schools
of America.
---Articles on psi-phenomena in several magazines.
---Honorary member of American Rocket Society and a dozen
other space or science oriented groups.
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November 14, 1974
ALL CONTACTS
As you will all 40 know, from this xerox file...Otto Binder Just died. He'd spent years accumulating material and documents re my work...checking it all out...etc., and intended to write a book about it, and my life. Obviously, now he cannot.
I just drove up to his home in Chestertown, NY, and retrieved the material from his widow, Ione.
Now...I must write the book myself. No other author in the world that I know of, except Otto...could write it. If you had read the Saga articles, then you understand why. Somehow...no matter how abstract the action...Otto understood all of it. None of the other top authors...let alone the scientists...understand as much as Otto did. He could grasp it.
Well, I've lived it. And worked with it...and with the UFO entities...for over ten years. No one in the entire world...can understand the UFO "mind"...and actions...as I can. I've worked with them...also I am "part" of them, having had my brain modified by them...so that their telepathic communications lodge in my brain, then are "interpreted" by the human part of my brain for the human race. Thus...if Otto cannot write the book, with all of his specialized knack and know-how...then I am the most qualified to do so.
It will take me a good, full year to write it...perhaps more. During this time I need all the help, financially, that you can give me. I have no income at all. Except what some good person contributes to help keep me going, occasionally.
So from now on...any amount you can send in to help keep me going...to get this tremendously important book for the human race written and published...please send it.
Since I am the only one of my kind...a "modified" man, or a human type the SI's call "future man"...then all of the astounding things that have happened to me in my life; my childhood; my adventures; how I got this way...must be recorded for posterity.
It would be utterly tragic for the human race...if anything happens to me before this coming book, by me, is completed and published.
Sincerely,
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OTTO O. BINDER
STUDIO, FRIENDS LAKE ROAD
CHESTERTOWN, N. Y. 12817
518 - 494 - 3582
Agreement
Subject---book tentatively titled - MY LIFE AS PK MAN by
Ted Owens as told to Otto Binder.
The arrangements shall be $2000 advance paid by Ted Owens
to Otto Binder, plus an additional $500 when the manuscript
is half done, and $500 when the ms is completed.
We also agree that upon publication, all proceeds shall be
divided as follows......
Otto Binder..................50%
Ted Owens....................20%
**Millie Miller...............15%
**George Delavan..............15%
# 238 Olmstead St., San Francisco, Cal. 94134
** 109 Ashland Ave, Des Plaines, Ill. 60016.
All rights will be reserved to Ted Owens.
Otto O. Binder Date
Ted Owens Date
BOOKS An.
OTTO O. BINDER SCIENCE WRITER SPACE SPECIALIST
OTTO O. BINDER
STUDIO, FRIENDS LAKE ROAD
CHESTERTOWN, N. Y. 12817
518 - 494 - 3582
October 19, 1970
Mr. Russ Conklin
221 E. California Ave
Las Vegas, Nev. 89104
Dear Mr. Conklin:
Enclosed are carbon copies of two more articles about Ted Owens, the PK Man, which will appear in SAGA magazine in March and April 1971. They reveal much more about Ted Owens than the previous two articles, which I presume you have seen.
In being the writer who has made a study of Ted Owens and his career, plus having had the privilege of seeing all his personal diaries from 1963 to date, I think I can state his qualifications and the wide variety of his talents with some degree of accuracy.
First of all, Ted Owens is no "charlatan" or faker about his PK powers. In his diaries are too many cases where he has controlled and even created lightning storms or other sensational events, to be denied. All of them are documented, with signed affidavits of officials and witnesses. His ESP messages from the SI's (Saucer Intelligences) all "hang together" in a remarkable way, as the enclosed articles show.
I wish to stress also that Ted is a member of Mensa (I saw his official membership card), the group of high-IQ people who comprise the top 2% of the human race in intellect. And of course it is obvious that Mensa is not likely to fooled into accepting any kind of "kook" or self-deluded "psychic" into their carefully selected organization. If Ted is a crackpot, so are all the geniuses of Mensa, which include many psychologists, psychiatrists, and scientists of all types. I wanted to make this clear to distinguish Ted from the so-called "contactees" who claim to have spoken with people in flying saucers and even ridden in their craft (which Ted has never claimed to do).
Now, I am not sure what sort of "contract" you had in mind for Ted, whether as an entertainer, PK performer, or colorful personality or what. He can be any of those, and other things too. Let me give a brief rundown as to the possibilities...
BOOKS ARTICLES SCI-FI COMICS UFOLOGY
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Entertainer. Ted as you know "projects" before any audience. He has a striking personality, resonant voice, forceful manner--all the earmarks of a top lecturer or stage entertainer. He is an adept at knife-throwing and has performed for night-clubs and also at the Ringling Circus in this capacity. More than that, he has worked up a repertory of "parlor tricks" that always enthrall any group at a small party, including hypnotism. He successfully taught his own methods of hypnotism and autosuggestion (a fat notebook is filled with all his data and classroom statistics) to many thousands in Dallas, Texas, before the AMA inevitably and relentlessly campaigned against "quacks" who cure more people than doctors--had him "disbarred" in a court action with trumped-up charges. Anyway, he can use hypnotism as an entertaining act without running into them again.
Ted is also a crack pistol-shot, fencer, karate expert, and dancer (he taught in one of Arthur Murray's dancing classes). I'm giving all the sidelights of career in that I'm not sure just which would be of interest in Las Vegas. He has mastered no less than 50 professions--stage magician, jazz drummer, boxer, bodyguard, private investigator, fortune teller, life-guard, speed typist, court shorthand expert, and many more.
PK Performer. In this, Ted could excel. He was originally the "rainmaker" and has documented proof of the many rainstorms he produced in drought areas, plus various lightning storms on "order", not to mention hurricanes.
But his PK powers extend into other more subtle areas--seeing the future and telling fortunes, predicting world-wide events, or relaying ESP messages from space. No doubt Ted can also "tailor" his PK powers into other fascinating areas that would impress an audience.
PK Healer. This would be a more difficult role for Ted to take up but it is on record that a girl with a smashed skull was given up for dead until Ted used his amazing PK powers to keep her alive. She lives today. Recently, Ted flew to California to use his healing arts on a three-year-old girl dying of leukemia and at this writing she is two weeks beyond the death date given by her attending doctors.... a true "miracle cure". Ted's famous "PK disks", sent to thousands utterly free, are healing power and literally hundreds of letters attest to the miracle cures that followed for many grateful and saved people. Certainly there is some kind of healing power flowing from Ted and his disks.
The above are mere sketches of Ted's possibilities, but the important thing is Ted's terrific personality. I have seen letter after letter unabashedly proclaiming how "impressive" he is, how "inspiring" his words are, what an "amazing person" he is, how his "genius" shines forth, and so on and so on. You can tell each writer was simply bowled over by the sheer magnetic quality of Ted's presence. He "electrifies" people and can catch the undivided attention of any audience the moment he smiles and opens his mouth. For what comes out is always astounding, compelling, awe-inspiring. All this leaped out of his diaries, too.
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OTTO O. BINDER SCIENCE WRITER SPACE SPECIALIST
October 19, 1970
OTTO O. BINDER
STUDIO, FRIENDS LAKE ROAD
CHESTERTOWN, N. Y. 12817
518-494-3582
Dear Mr. Conklin:
As a follow-up to my recent letter, I just want to mention a few very significant items regarding Ted Owens and his weirdly "magnetic" appeal to any and all audiences...
Ted has been on many radio and TV shows through the years and in every case the station was startled at the phenomenal flood of mail that came in. Same with SAGA magazine. The editor, Martin S. Singer, will corroborate the fact that Ted's two articles (Aug/Sep 1970) brought in the most mail they ever had.
Along with this is the uncanny but true fact that Ted received at least a dozen letters (I've seen them) in which the reader said "something compelled him" to go out and buy SAGA. Martin Singer, however. He notified myself that the SI's would send down a "ray" to compel many people to buy those issues!
Getting back to radio shows, Ted did so good one night on a Philadelphia station that the station managers cancelled other shows and kept Ted on for four solid hours. I don't think even Jack Benny or Billy Graham can make that claim.
Speaking of Billy Graham, I think if Ted were ever given the right national hookup he could "out-evangelize" Graham by ten to one---and I don't mean religion. Ted would give more "meaning" to life, and to the mysterious workings of God, than any hellfire-and-brimstone mouthings of the fundamentalists. Ted would get down to the fundamentals beneath their fundamentals.
Ted's letters to me are marvels of clarity, profoundness, and humaniterianism. He's a rare soul. Give him his chance on the proper national forum and I think He'll run away with the country...and take them to the stars. To the SI's.
I hope that happens. I hope he gets "converts" by the thousand and millions. I hope he gets the chance to found his Church of Sota and expound the Wisdom of the Ages to mankind---from the mouth of the SI's, who may really be the SA's, Space Angels, appointed by a Higher Power to help a sick, sick world, via Ted Owens. So, I sincerely hope his "break" comes.
With All Sincerity,
BOOKS ARTICLES SCI-FI COMICS UFOLOGY
P.S. I'm of a "scientific" nature but not
=== **Page: 4 of 6**
As Dr. Arnold Zakow said, astrophysicist who checked all of
Ted's alleged PK feats, Ted Owens may be the "most brilliant
mind on earth today" and one of its greatest "psychics". Dr.
Zackow, a researcher into phenomenology and the paranormal,
never questioned Ted's PK powers but pronounced them all as
genuine manifestations of someone in direct contact with beings
far superior to earth-people. Namely, the SI's, from whom Ted
derives his fantastic powers.
I've written at such length about Ted Owens on my own,
simply because I believe this man deserves to be known and
acknowledged for his strange and wonderful powers, which could
be of great benefit to the world at large---if he is ever
given the chance. His talents are hidden under a bushel, sadly
enough.
I trust this is of some help to you in connection with the
unknown contract you mentioned. You can, of course, show this
letter to whomever you wish. Below are some of my background
data as a writer for 35 years.
Sincerely,
[Signature]
---Short stories published: over 500 in various magazines.
---Books include VICTORY IN SPACE, CAREERS IN SPACE, RIDDLES
OF ASTRONOMY, THE PLANETS, THE MOON, ROCKETS AND SPACE TRAVEL,
ATOMIC ENERGY, AND Many more scientific works.
---Contracted as an educational writer by NASA in 1965.
---Two books and dozens of articles exploring the UFO
phenomenon.
---Science articles contributed to LIVING HISTORY OF THE
WORLD (encyclopedia) and other year-books.
---A science-fiction story, as representative of 20th cen-
tury thinking, buried in both time-capsules of the New York
World's Fairs of 1939 and 1965.
---Fourteen stories in world-wide anthologies.
---The story "I, Robot" used in an accredited English-course
textbook distributed through Macmillan Publishers to high-schools
of America.
---Articles on psi-phenomena in several magazines.
---Honorary member of American Rocket Society and a dozen
other space or science oriented groups.
=== **Page: 5 of 6**
November 14, 1974
ALL CONTACTS
As you will all 40 know, from this xerox file...Otto Binder Just died. He'd spent years accumulating material and documents re my work...checking it all out...etc., and intended to write a book about it, and my life. Obviously, now he cannot.
I just drove up to his home in Chestertown, NY, and retrieved the material from his widow, Ione.
Now...I must write the book myself. No other author in the world that I know of, except Otto...could write it. If you had read the Saga articles, then you understand why. Somehow...no matter how abstract the action...Otto understood all of it. None of the other top authors...let alone the scientists...understand as much as Otto did. He could grasp it.
Well, I've lived it. And worked with it...and with the UFO entities...for over ten years. No one in the entire world...can understand the UFO "mind"...and actions...as I can. I've worked with them...also I am "part" of them, having had my brain modified by them...so that their telepathic communications lodge in my brain, then are "interpreted" by the human part of my brain for the human race. Thus...if Otto cannot write the book, with all of his specialized knack and know-how...then I am the most qualified to do so.
It will take me a good, full year to write it...perhaps more. During this time I need all the help, financially, that you can give me. I have no income at all. Except what some good person contributes to help keep me going, occasionally.
So from now on...any amount you can send in to help keep me going...to get this tremendously important book for the human race written and published...please send it.
Since I am the only one of my kind...a "modified" man, or a human type the SI's call "future man"...then all of the astounding things that have happened to me in my life; my childhood; my adventures; how I got this way...must be recorded for posterity.
It would be utterly tragic for the human race...if anything happens to me before this coming book, by me, is completed and published.
Sincerely,
=== **Page: 6 of 6**
OTTO O. BINDER
STUDIO, FRIENDS LAKE ROAD
CHESTERTOWN, N. Y. 12817
518 - 494 - 3582
Agreement
Subject---book tentatively titled - MY LIFE AS PK MAN by
Ted Owens as told to Otto Binder.
The arrangements shall be $2000 advance paid by Ted Owens
to Otto Binder, plus an additional $500 when the manuscript
is half done, and $500 when the ms is completed.
We also agree that upon publication, all proceeds shall be
divided as follows......
Otto Binder..................50%
Ted Owens....................20%
**Millie Miller...............15%
**George Delavan..............15%
# 238 Olmstead St., San Francisco, Cal. 94134
** 109 Ashland Ave, Des Plaines, Ill. 60016.
All rights will be reserved to Ted Owens.
Otto O. Binder Date
Ted Owens Date
BOOKS An.
Collection
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