by Linda Brown » Wed Aug 21, 2013 4:18 am
I wrote this a long time ago.... when I was introducing the first " The Good-Bye Man".... the words I used then still apply and so I am reposting this and plan to also post it on the Unhypnotized Channel on the thread that Lady of Light has so graciously granted me over there.
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IN SEARCH OF THE COMPLETE STORY
Thomas Townsend Brown was a brilliant man. He is creditied with being one of the important and mysterious scientific figures of the 20th century. He was also my father. From childhood on, I served as his virtual shadow, working first as his lab assistant and then as his secretary, on and off, until his death on Catalina Island , October 27, 1985.
At the end of his life, Dad quietly organized his material, shut down his recorders, and saw to the final dispersal of his special papers. I wondered if he was accepting defeat (after what I saw as his lifelong struggle to obtain recognition for his work) but there was no sadness in his actions. He set about a purposeful completion of these final tasks and, with everything in order, slipped away from us a few days later. It was left to me to gather up his notebooks and papers, and pack them in his well-worn black steamer trunk. Seventeen years passed before I opened that trunk again.
When author Paul Schatzkin approached me in November 2002 with a proposal for writing the definitive T. Townsend Brown biography, I agreed, but with some reluctance. My perspective on my father was so intensely personal that I thought that I would be little help in developing the bigger picture, and both my brother and my mother had passed away in the intervening years. With Mothers' passing, the greatest storehouse of information on my Dads' life was lost to us, and there was no one else left to help tell Dad's story. Or so I thought.
It took Paul six years to complete
Defying Gravity, The Parallel Universe of T. Townsend Brown. He owes much of his epic 600-page effort to the assistance of two surprising sources. He code named them "Morgan" and " Boston" and I owe both of those men my undying gratitude. Their contributions of inspiration and information caused me to rethink all of my original assumptions about my father and his lifetime accomplishments.
First and foremost, I realized that Dad actually saw a great many of his most cherished concepts put into action.
I learned that both of my parents had roles during World War II that they never spoke to me about. Roles with others that definitely shaped all of our lives now.
I learned how my Father worked diligently to develop leading edge technology that could be introduced to the general public ( The Ionic Breeze as one example) but simultaneously kept other aspects of that work well hidden.
I learned that he was a pioneering scientist for an agency so secret that its existence was not even acknowledged until 1992, and that because of ongoing projects, much of his work remains classified even today.
I have discovered that the elegant touch of his genius becoming more and more recognizable in the release of previously dark material. This is resulting in a resurgence of interest in the scientific corridors that he loved so much. And I believe that this will be an ongoing process and that some of the details included in my effort here might be some assistance in that.
" The Good-Bye Man" is a memoir of the journey that began when I started my quest to help Paul understand new information which was coming in his direction...but this little book has no actual ending. Its concluding pages close one era but open another, And a door appears now for me, and all of us, that I never knew was there.
I invite you to join me .
Linda Brown.
He caught it before I got up today. 
