The loss of hope and the increasing brutalization are, unfortunately, not the only evils that have befallen Western civilization since 1914. Through honouring our covenants, we enable God to pour out the multitude of promised blessings associated with those covenants. However, is not excessive melancholy just as undesirable, and as much of a stumbling lack in the path of spiritual progress as, for instance, excessive drinking—or any other fault? What is being gained by these self-demeaning tactics? Is anyone benefiting from them? The time has come to ask himself these questions. Certainly, he is not alone in having made mistakes—everybody makes them! If everybody continued to punish themselves over and over again, needlessly remaining on the level of their own errors, consider what would happen? What then is to be done? Only when he is willing to change his attitude towards it, will his gloomy situation improve. He must make a deliberate attempt to cultivate happiness! Just as he raises the window shade in the morning to allow sunshine to pour into the room, so he must open himself to the higher power and let hope invade his heart! Jesus Christ taught through stories and symbols—a mustard seed to teach the worthy of souls, a prodigal son to teach the character of God. His parables were symbols through which He could teach deeper lessons to those who had “ears to hear.” However, those not seeking the deeper meaning would not understand. #RandolphHarris 1 of 18

As long as he continues to cling to despondency and to misunderstand, he is shutting out God and preventing His message from reaching him. Every say is a new day, with new possibilities of a fresh, determined, and more courageous approach to all daily difficulties. Let him forget the past, and start planning for a happier tomorrow! No one else can do this for him, but he can draw faith from the knowledge that his efforts will count towards his joyful resurrection. When God the Father offered His Only Begotten Son as a sacrifice for us, Jesus Christ Himself became the highest symbol of our Father in Heaven’s undying love for each of us. Jesus Christ became the Lamb of God. We have the privilege and blessing of being invited into a covenant relationship with God, in which our own lives can become a symbol of that covenant. Covenants create the kind of relationship that allows God to mold and change us over time and life us to become more closer to the Saviour, drawing us closer and closer to Him and our Father and eventually preparing us to enter Their presence. It is an heroic and stoic goal to set before a man, that he shall not be dependent upon others for his happiness and that he shall be emotionally self-sufficient. However, it is a goal reachable by and, in the present kind of faulty human society, useful to, only the few. #RandolphHarris 2 of 18

Each person on Earth is a beloved son or daughter of God. When we choose to be part of a covenant, it enhances and deepens our relationship with Him. As we make covenants with God, our relationship with Him can become much closer than it was before our covenant, and it enables Him to bless us with an extra measure of His mercy and love, a covenantal love referred to as hesed in the Hebrew language. The covenant path is all about our relationship with God—our hesed relationship with Him. Our Father wants a deeper relationship with His sons and daughters, but it is our choice. As we draw nearer to Him through a covenant relationship, it allows Him to Draw nearer to us and more fully bless us. If man reaches finality of decision and recognizes that enlightened self-discipline is to be achieved and not resisted, he takes the first step to true happiness. So long as we believe that some other person is essential to our happiness, so long shall we fail to attain that happiness. Happiness is not the monopoly of the successful One of the happiest men I ever knew was an aged tramp who wandered from poorhouse to poorhouse across the country. His eyes were blazing with a strange light. Happiness? It is so important and so necessary? Are not strength, understanding, and peace of mind more indispensable to a human life? #RandolphHarris 3 of 18

When inner conflict goes out, inner harmony comes in. There can be no happiness without such harmony. Only they who have brought all the different sides of their being into equilibrium, as well as they who have lived filly between opposite poles of human experience, can appreciate the quest for serenity over the quest for happiness. Goethe in Europe was one man who appreciated this superiority. It is as erroneous to expect perfect happiness through another person as it is to expect perfect salvation. Each must find the one or the other for himself in himself. No one else can bear such a great and grave responsibility, or ought to bear it. No human relationship can adequately or properly be substituted for what everyone must in the end do for himself. He who asks for happiness asks for something he cannot and shall not get while his body breathes. The wise man does not ask more from life than it can yield him. If it cannot give happiness, it can give peace. “Are you happy?” is a question people often ask him. However, he has not sought happiness. He has sought to find out why he is here and to fulfill that purpose. The aim of getting as much person happiness as one can out of ever situation is no longer the dominant one. Other and loftier aims now coexist with it in some cases or even displace it in others. #RandolphHarris 4 of 18

During no one’s lifetime are all desires fully realized. To look for a happiness that is complete is to look in vain. It is more philosophic to look for peace of mind. Happiness may leave a man in a single moment or come to him in the same way. However, if he identifies it solely with the ego and nothing more, only then can this happen. If a man has inner peace, he does not have emotional disturbances or mental agitations. Who then, really enjoys living—the disciplined philosopher who has the peace, or the undisciplined sufferer from the agitations? The emotions are uppermost in primitive man. With time and evolution, reason begins to mix with them and eventually to rule the lower ones. With further time and further evolution, intuition appears as the fruit of the finer ones. This is the place of emotional life in man. Few persons can separate—in their consciousness—emotion from thoughts. The capability of doing so is essential both to self-knowledge and to self-conquest. Therefore, it is important to every Self-actualized Christian. We must keep the emotional issues separate from the intellectual ones. However, this is not to say that the intellect is to live an emotion-proof existence. Such separation always needs to be kept up only so long as the lack of it is likely to impair the quest of truth. #RandolphHarris 5 of 18

This danger arises only during the earlier stages of man’s seeking. When he has attained a balanced personality, cultivated a serene disposition, and master the egotistic urges within himself, then emotion and reason join forces with intuition in producing the quality of intelligence. Henceforth, he feels what he thinks and thinks what he feels, his emotions are rightly directed and his thoughts are truthfully formed. They work together harmoniously, satisfactorily, and unitedly. He who seeks to arrive at the truth about a matter must banish his personal inclinations and egoistic desires about it during the time that he contemplates it. He must make his emotions submit to the facts which displease them and he must compel his reasoning to accept the conclusions which surprise them. Otherwise, his emotions may betray him and his reasonings delude him, so that white will appear black and illusion will appear as reality. There is a special quality which we will do well to develop during this particular period in which we live, and that is calmness. For whenever we turn our gaze, we perceive great upheavals of thought and emotion, great stirring of violent passion and bitter hatred, mass excitement and mob restlessness. In such a disturbed atmosphere we are liable to be swept off our feet against our better judgment and may thus injure the true interests of ourselves or of our country. #RandolphHarris 6 of 18

We should remember that to keep a cool head is the way to act wisely and successfully, whereas to yield to hot impulsiveness is to act rashly and often wrongly. We should also remember how unfortunate younger folk of Germany were cunningly swept into the Nazi current of blind impulses and become the bomb-fodder for the insatiable ambitions of Mr. Hitler. Let this be a lesson on the need and value of calm judgment and levelheadedness. We may also draw a further lesion from Germany, that is, the importance of practicing food will to all. Had it realized this virtue, the continent of Europe could never have arrived at the present unhappy condition of its people. The more we try to be kindly and helpful to others, no matter what class or creed they belong to, the more others are kindly and helpful to us. Therefore, even from the purely selfish point of view it, pays good dividends to practice goodwill. Moreover, it will help us as much as anything else to get on in life, for it will bring friends, gratitude, and even opportunities. Once engaged on this Quest, it becomes necessary to attend closely to the emotional and mental movements within himself, rejecting the lower ones and consenting to the higher. He must study carefully the differences between them, so that he may be able to recognize them. #RandolphHarris 7 of 18

Not through fearing their bad effects, but through willing consent to the truth that his real being is above them and that it is better to live in reality than in illusion he must come to the discipline of passion and emotion. God sets the conditions and obligations of the covenants we make. When we choose to enter into that relationship, we witness to Him, through the symbolic actions of each covenant, that we are willing to abide by the conditions He has set. Through honouring our covenants, we enable God to pour out the multitude of promised blessings associated with those covenants, including increased power to change and become more like our Saviour. Jesus Christ is at the center of all covenants we make, and covenant blessings are made possible because of His atoning sacrifice. Ultimately, we can look to the example of the Saviour, who prayed so very often. However, it has always been intriguing to me that Jesus Christ felt the need to pray at all. Was he not perfect? Well, I have come to realize that He too with us, wanted to “seek [the Father’s] face, believe His Word, and trust His grace. Time after time, He retreated from society to be alone before piercing Heaven with His prayers. At other times, He prayed in the company of a few companions. Then He would seek Heaven on behalf of multitudes who would cover a hillside. #RandolphHarris 8 of 18

The first script programming takes place during the nursing period, in the form of short protocols which can later be worked into complicated dramas. Usually, these are two-handed scenes between the baby and his mother, with littler interferences from onlookers, if any, and with such breast-fed titles as “Public Performance,” “It is Not Time Yet,” “Whenever You Are Ready,” “Whenever I Am Ready,” “Hurry Up,” “He Who Bites Gets Brushed Off,” “While Mother Smokes,” “Pardon Me, The Phone Rang,” “What is He Fussing About?” “There is Never Enough,” “First One Then The Other,” “He Looks Pale,” “Let Him Take His Time,” “Is He Not Amazing,” “Golden Moments of Love and Content,” and “Lullaby.” Slightly more complicated are the corresponding bathroom scenes in the same families: “Come and See How Cute,” “It is Time Now,” “Are You Ready,” “You Can Just Sit There Till You Do,” “Hurry Up,” “Naughty Naughty,” “While Mother Smokes,” “While Mother is on the Telephone,” “Enema Tube,” “If You Don’t I’ll Give You Castor Oil,” “Here is Your Laxative,” “You Will Get Sick If You Do Not,” “Let Him Do It His Own Way,” “That is a Good Boy,” “That is a G-o-o-d Boy,” and “I Will sing While You Are Doing It.” Three-handed protocols are more frequent at this stage, including: “I Told You He Was Not Ready,” “Do Not Let Him Get Away With That,” “I Will Make Him Do It,” “You Try,” “You Are Disturbing Him,” “Why Do You Not…Yes, But,” and “He is Sure Coming Through This Time.” The Phantom in the Bedroom, may begin to appear: “Dr. Spock Says,” “Tessie Had Her Trained By the Time,” and “Sister Mary Was Only.” In later life these will become “Freud Says,” “Nancy Always Has One,” and “Helen Has It Every Night.” #RandolphHarris 9 of 18

It is already fairly predictable who the winners and the losers will be. “Is He Not Amazing?” reinforced two years later with “That is a God Boy” will usually do better than “What is He Fussing About?” reinforced one year later by “Enema Tube”; similarly, “Lullaby,” first at nursing and later in the bathroom, will probably prevail over “While Mother Smokes.” Already the feeling of O.K.ness or not-O.K.ness, which separates the now and future princes from the now and future frogs, is being implanted, and several types of frogs and princes (or for the ladies, goose girls and princesses) are being set up. “Is He Not Amazing?,” the Forever Prince with the success script, is often but not always the first-born. The Conditional Prince, “Come and See How Cute,” or “Hurry Up,” for example, can remain a prince as long as he stays cute or hurries up. The Conditional Frogs, “He Who Bites,” “Naughty Naughty,” or “He Looks Pale Needs a Laxative,” can stop being frogs by not biting or not looking pale; the Doomed Frogs, on the other hand, will hardly ever make it with anybody. Touching are the frogs who try not to care “While Mother Smokes” or “Has a Highball.” Only a disaster can turn the Forever Princes into frogs; only a miracle can transform the Doomed Frogs into princes. There are three conditions necessary and sufficient for psychotherapy. They are: empathy, unconditional regard, and congruence or genuineness. “Congruence,” implies that the therapist attempts to drop any personal or professional artificiality, any maneuvers or postures, and the he be himself. #RandolphHarris 10 of 18

In our work with schizophrenics this condition has become more and more important. Gone are formulas—even that most characteristic of client-centered modes of responding, which was called “reflection of feeling.” As the term “empathy” implies, we strive as always to understand and sense the client’s feelings from his own inward frame of reference, but now we have a wider scope of different behaviours with which therapists respond to clients. In fact, I believe that it was in part the undesirable tendency toward formulas and stereotyped ways of responding which led to the formulation of the condition of “congruence” as essential. To “be himself” has also meant that the therapist has become more expressive. The therapist much more often expressed his own feelings, his experiencing of the moment. The client expresses himself, then naturally the therapist’s present experiencing consists largely of an empathic sense of the client’s meaning. However, when the client offers no self-expression, the therapist’s momentary experiencing is not empty. At every moment, there occur a great many feelings and events in the therapist. Most of these concern the client and the present moment. The therapist need not wait passively till the client expresses something intimate or therapeutically relevant. #RandolphHarris 11 of 18

Instead, he can draw on hos own momentary experiencing and find there an ever-present reservoir from which he can draw, and with which he can initiate, deepen, and carry-on therapeutic interaction even with an unmotivated, silent, or externalized person. Also, “congruence” for the therapist means that he need not always appear in a good light, always understanding, wise, or strong. I find that, on occasion, I can be quite visibly stupid, have done the wrong thing, made a fool of myself. I can let these sides of me be visible when they have occurred in the interaction. The therapist’s being himself and expressing himself openly frees us of many encumbrances and artificialities, and makes it possible for the schizophrenic (or any client) to come in touch with another human being as directly as possible. However, it would seem that many of the erstwhile guidelines for therapeutic behaviour have disappeared. Only the basic attitudes are specified, not how one manifests or expresses them. If one knows how to function effectively, one has a sound basis for the development of a healthy personality. The ability to perceive reality as it “really is” is, therefore, fundamental to effective functioning. It is considered one of two preconditions to the development of the beautiful and noble person. Our need systems heavily affect our ability to perceive reality—we often perceive what we want to see rather than what is really there. #RandolphHarris 12 of 18

Our behaviour is always undertaken with reference to the Worlds as we believe it to be. Unless we somehow learn from individuals how the World appears to them, what they are paying attention to, how they interpret the things they see and hear, and what their expectations are regarding the World about them–we can hardly make sense out of anybody’s behaviour. If we see someone run in terror from an automobile engine as it starts up, because the automobile is simply something to get us from place to place, we will be puzzled. However, if the person is a primitive who has never seen an automobile, that person may perceive it as a punishing instrument of the gods that is about to engulf someone. If we know how the person perceives the situation, we can understand the situation better and offer help. Unless the person takes steps to verify them, a person’s perceptions and beliefs will be inaccurate or distorted. Reality contact is not a given; it is an achievement! Efficient contact with reality must be worked for, because there are powerful forces at work at all times, tending to distort perception, thinking, and recall. One thing people do not perceive, however, is that a cause of the deterioration of the Western civilization is connected precisely with its greatest achievements. #RandolphHarris 13 of 18

Since technology has advanced so rapidly, Western people have a standard of living which would have seemed unthinkable one hundred and fifty years ago, or even forty years ago, for that matter. However, the satisfaction of real and legitimate needs has changed into the creation and satisfaction of a powerful drive, namely “Commodity hunger.” Just as depressed individuals often are seized by a compelling desire to buy things or in other cases to eat, modern man has a greedy hunger for possessing and using new things, a hunger which he rationalizes as an expression of his wish for a better life. If they are not directly enriching to life, he claims that the things he buys help him to save time. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he saves, and spends one part of his income to kill the time he is so proud of having saved. We see this phenomenon most clearly in the richest country of the World, in the United States of America. However, it is quite clear that the trend in all other countries is the same. The goal everywhere has become maximal production and maximal consumption. The criterion or progress is seen in the figures for consumption. This holds true for the capitalist countries as well as for the communist countries. In fact, the rivalry between the two systems seems to center around the question of which can produce a higher level of consumption, rather than a better life. #RandolphHarris 14 of 18

As a result, man in the industrialized countries transforms himself more and more into a greedy, passive consumer. Things are not provided to serve the perfection of man, but man has become the servant of things, as a producer and as a consumer. Things have gotten so bad that people are willing to let their hands be pulled being their back and have the cuff slipped on. As they ride to the county jail in a squad car, over the goods and services they stole out of greed, they think about how efficient the process is. As radio messages crackle back and forth between the cruiser and headquarters, they stand under the hard glare in front of a reception panel. The door of a hold cell clicks open and slips shut behind them. There is a concrete floor with no benches. The guards gather around in New Testament style and look curiously, laughing at the new martyr. “For you, we throw away the key. If we have it our way, you’ll never get out. Their cellmate, dozing, head on knees, is roused to interest. “How come they tell you that, man. What you done? “God knows,” he replies. Then came those weary, lonesome jailhouse blues, thinking about how he will not be in his wife’s arms tonight due to consumer greed. The industrial system has had very unfortunate effects in still another direction. #RandolphHarris 15 of 18

The method of production has dramatically changed since the beginning of last century. Production, as well as distribution, is organized in big corporations which employ hundreds of thousands of workers, clerks, engineers, salesmen, etcetera. They are managed by a hierarchically organized bureaucracy, and each person turns into a small—or large—cog in this machine. He lives under the illusion of being an individual—while he has turned into a thing. As a result, we observe an increasing lack of adventurousness, individualism, willingness to make decisions and take risks. The goal is security, to be part of the big powerful machine, to be protected by it, and to feel strong in the symbolic connection with it. All studies and observation of the younger generation show the same picture: the trend to look for safe jobs, not to be concerned so much with high income but rather with satisfactory retirement provisions; the tendency to marry young and to shift quickly from the haven of the parental family to the haven of matrimony; cliché thinking, conformity and obedience to the anonymous authority of public opinion and of the accepted patterns of feelings. I supposed it is a better life than being confined to N tank, protective custody for bad actors, noncooperators, snitches, low-riding arm robbers, messianic acid head, baby robbers and assorted sex thieves, while someone softly calls threats down the tier at fearful titillated inmates trembling in the corner of the cell in the cold prison mist. #RandolphHarris 16 of 18

The Sacramento Fire Department provides timely, accurate, and relevant information to the residents of Sacramento regarding fire safety, emergency preparedness, and department activities. They aim to ensure the safety and well-being of the community by enforcing fire codes, conducting inspections, and saving lives and property of the citizens of Sacramento. “I’m only at Engine X a month, and at that time I’m an eager beaver because I want to do the best I can and want to be right at the front. I mean, I’d rather be the pipe man, not the backup man, but they rotate all the jobs, so it’s a big letdown when I’m not the pipe man, because that’s obviously the best job. We went to a fire in a run-down hotel. The fire was in one apartment on the sixth floor, and we got word that one of the occupants might still be in the apartment. There were no standpipes or sprinklers, so we stretched a line up the aerial ladder and into an adjacent window. And we picked the right window. There’s a tremendous amount of smoke in there, and everybody’s got their masks on, because you couldn’t move in there without them. Everybody’s moving around trying to make a search as well as stretching the line further in. And I bump into that occupant. I put my arms around the guy and drag him out into the hallway. He survived.” #RandolphHarris 17 of 18

The Sacramento Fire Department is committed to providing the highest level of service to the community by ensuring safety and preparedness. You can help save lives by donating to the Sacramento Fire Department. We are blessed with a great and noble heritage that offers a pathway to truth that veers dramatically from the so-called ways of the World. We need to remind ourselves about the value of heritage, so we do not underestimate its worth.  I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.  We all have life events that, when we recall them years later, acquire new and important meaning. Please raise your children to love America and to love God and Jesus Christ. It is essential to buy American made cars and other goods and services produced in America. As always, in order to ensure tranquility on our community, respect law and order and treat your elders with dignity and respect. Make a point to be a good neighbour as to keep harmony in the community. We are imperfect people trying to follow the perfect example of Jesus Christ. We love each other, help each other, and try to follow Jesus’s teachings the very best we can. In any community of Saints, we all work to serve each other in the best way we know how. Our work has a higher purpose because it is work to bless others and to build the kingdom of God. #RandolphHarris 18 of 18

The Winchester Mystery House

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Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. Many good, and stupid, American gimpel willingly landed on the sticky twig which was specially pruned by the Democrats to capture them. Democrats pass acts or decree which have the most devastating consequences, yet nobody bears the responsibility for it. No body can be called to account. Sanctuary cities have brought a catastrophe upon America. In Aurora, Colorado Venezuelan gangs have commandeered apartment complexes, are holding tenants hostage, and collecting rent. When our cities have police departments, it is unfathomable that things like this can happen. However, some of the problems associated with Venezuelan gang activity is taking place in properties that are under out-of-state ownership whose transgressions with code violations and criminal activity may have preceded the migrant crisis. Yet, experts are telling us that citizens all over the country are living in fear because the winter is approaching soon, the border is still open, and this crime wave will only get worse. Is it at all possible actually to call to account the leaders of a parliamentary government for any kind of action which originated in the wishes of the whole multitude of deputies and was carried out under their orders or sanction? #RandolphHarris 1 of 19

The devastating influence of this parliamentary institution might not easily be recognized by those who watch the Democratic controlled TV news media, unless he has learned how to think independently and examine the facts for himself. This institution is primarily responsible for the crowded inrush of mediocre people into the fields of politics. Confronted with such a phenomenon, a man who is endowed with real qualities of leadership will be tempted to refrain from taking part in political life; because under these circumstances the situation does not call for a man who has a capacity for constructive statesmanship but rather for a man who is capable of bargaining for the favour of the majority. Thus, the situation will appeal to small minds and will attract them accordingly. The narrower the mental outlook and the more meager the amount of knowledge in a political jobber, the more accurate is his estimate of his own political stock, and thus he will be all the more inclined to appreciate a system which does not demand creative genius or even high-class talent; but rather that crafty kind of sagacity which makes an efficient town clerk. Indeed, he values this kind of small craftiness more than the political genius of a Pericles. Such a mediocrity does not even have to worry about responsibility for what he does. #RandolphHarris 2 of 19

From the beginning he knows that whatever be the results of his “statesmanship” his end is already prescribed by the stars; he will one day have to clear out and make room for another who is of similar mental caliber. For it is another sign of decadent times that the number of eminent statesmen grows smaller and smaller the more the individual political has to depend upon parliamentary majorities. A man of real political ability will refuse to be the beadle for a bevy of footling cacklers; and they in their turn, being the representatives of the majority—which means the dunder-headed multitude—hate nothing so much as a superior brain. For footling deputies, it is always quite a consolation to be led by a person whose intellectual stature is on a level with their own. Thus, each one may have the opportunity to shine in debate among such compeers and, above all, each one feels that he may one day rise to the top. If Peter be boss today, then why not Paul tomorrow? This new invention of democracy is very closely connected with a peculiar phenomenon which has recently spread to a pernicious extent, namely the cowardice of a large section of our so-called political leaders. Whenever important decisions have to be made, they always find themselves fortunate in being able to hide behind the backs of what they call the majority. #RandolphHarris 3 of 19

In observing one of these political manipulators, one notices how he wheedles the majority in order to get their sanction for whatever action he takes. He has to have accomplices in order to be able to shift responsibility to other shoulders whenever it is opportune to do so. That is the main reason why this kind of political activity is abhorrent to men of character and courage, while at the same time it attracts inferior types; for a person who is not willing to accept responsibility for his own actions, but is always seeking to be covered by something, must be classed among the knaves and the rascals. If a national leader should come from that lower class of politicians the evil consequences will soon manifest themselves. Nobody will then have the courage to take a decisive step. They will submit to abuse and defamation rather than pluck up courage to take a definite stand. And thus, if needs be, nobody is left who is willing to risk his position and his career in support of a determined line of policy. One truth which must always be borne in mind is that the majority can never replace the man. The majority represents not only ignorance but also cowardice. And just as a hundred blockheads do not equal one man of wisdom, so a hundred poltroons are incapable of any political line of action that requires moral strength and fortitude. #RandolphHarris 4 of 19

Democratic rule taking place in these modern times are similar to what America went through after the first World War. The First World shattered two thousand years of hope, but it did not destroy it. Men rallied their energies and tried to take up the task where it had been interrupted in 1914. Many believed that the League of Nation, much like the 2024 president elections in America, would bring about a new era of peace and reason; others, that the Russian revolution would overcome its Czarist heritage and would develop into a true humanist-socialist society; aside from this, people in the capitalist countries believed that their system would follow a straight line of economic progress. The years between 1929 and 1933 shattered what was left of these hopes. In direct comparison, people who that Donald Trump will once again ascend to the office of president and quail the unrest in American cities, and that he will, once again, make American prosperous. In the past, the capitalist system showed that it was not capable of preventing unemployment and misery for a large part of the population. In Germany, the people permitted Mr. Hitler to come to power. In Russia, after Mr. Stalin had transformed the revolution into a conservative state capitalism, he initiated a system of terror which was consider ruthless. #RandolphHarris 5 of 19

While all this was happening, the approaching World War was already becoming visible on the horizon. The power which had begun in 1914, which had been followed by the systems of Mr. Stalin and Mr. Hitler, now came to its full fruition. The Germans initiated it by their air attacks on Warsaw, Amsterdam, and Coventry. The Western allies followed by their attacks on Cologne, Hamburg, Leipzig, Tokyo and, finally, with the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In hours or minutes, hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children were killed in one city, and all this with few scruples and hardly any remorse. Indiscriminate destruction of human life had become a legitimate means for attaining political goals. The process of increasing brutalization had done its work. Each side brutalizes the other, following the logic “if he is inhuman, I must (and can) be inhuman too.” The war ended, and there arose a new flicker of hope, of which the foundation of the United Nations was a symbol. However, soon after the end of the war the new power force continued. The weapons of destruction became ever more powerful; now both sides are able to destroy at least half of each other’s population (including more of their educated populations) in one day. Yet the consideration of the possibility of such mass destruction had become commonplace. Many on both sides were fighting to prevent the final act of madness; groups of men and women who followed the tradition of science, of humanism and of hope. #RandolphHarris 6 of 19

However, million had succumbed to the process of the new power force, and many more were just apathetic, and escaped into the trivialities of the day. The purpose of learning history is to honour our heritage and learn from the things that happened in the past so we can repeat the good and avoid the bad. Historical monuments mean different things to different people, and some that are seen as negative, actually started off as representing something good. In destroying property and removing historical artifacts, we are defacing our culture and disrespecting something other hold as a prideful symbol. Regardless of what the masses believe something to stand for, often times, there is something sacred in the artifact. Even if something is said to represent evil, when we remove or deface these cultural relics, we are erasing part of our heritage and forgetting what we stand for. For instance, some people could find a statue of a freedom fighter offensive, while others many see it has a symbol of good. If it were removed from society, we would forget the history of why it was erected, and eventually people might forget the past, and repeat mistakes. While it is important to be inclusive and represent all cultures, it is evil to destroy someone else’s heritage and culture. #RandolphHarris 7 of 19

Growing out of client-centered therapy and especially its application with hospitalized schizophrenics, there is now emerging a mode of psychotherapy which centers on the “experiencing” of the two persons in the therapy interaction, rather than on the discussed verbal contents. This development is similar to recent trends in other orientations: there is a strong tendency to emphasize the interaction in psychotherapy, to emphasize that two human beings are involved, and to focus on the concrete subjective events occurring in these two persons, rather than only on the verbal contents being discussed. Basic to this development is the view that psychotherapy involves “experiencing” (by whatever name), a somatic inwardly felt process, the manner and meanings of which are affected by the interaction. Some attention is being given to the theoretical problem of how inwardly felt bodily events can have “meaning,” be “explored” and “symbolized,” and how these concrete implicit “meanings” can be affected and changed by interaction. Now that psychotherapy is widely thought to involve a concrete feeling process, we are less specific about the (still vital) role of cognitive symbols and exploration. The different orientations use different cognitive vocabularies, yet their patients and clients appear able to work with any of these vocabularies. #RandolphHarris 8 of 19

Apparently, any good vocabulary can be employed as a symbolic tool for good vocabulary can be employed as a symbolic tool for “working through” and interacting. It appears that personality difficulties lie in the “pre-conceptual” meanings of experiencing—that they are concrete, and that they are amenable to symbolization and change through interactions using any of the many different therapeutic vocabularies we have. Apparently, it is not so much a question of just which vocabular you use, but rather how you use it. If used in “direct reference” to experiencing, then more or less any vocabulary can be well employed. If used as abstract explanatory substitutes for the individual’s experiencing, no cognitive vocabulary will engender much constructive personality change. Of course, this is an opinion which awaits much more research support than we have so far, but it is a widespread current trend in therapeutic thinking. Not only the best use of words, but also the best use of therapist behaviours, would seem to depend not so much upon just what the therapist behaviour is, as on how the behaviour relates to and affects the individual’s experiencing. The attempt to specify just what therapists should and should not do tends today to concern not so much what behaviour is used, but more just how it is used. Furthermore, this “how” concerns how the behaviour relates to the experiencing of the two persons. #RandolphHarris 9 of 19

“Subverbal” communication always sounds mysterious—how is anyone to know what the client means when he cannot say what it is. The specification I would like to offer concern not “what” the client means (and not how we can guess “what” he means). The specifications concern how client’s and therapist’s words can be employed to point at and refer to experiencing. Philosophy says that the marriage state is necessary for most people, the less advanced. It also says that even for the others, the more advanced, the smaller love of two persons mating can coincide with, and remain within, the larger lover of the individual for the Higher Self. Of course, if the relationship is a successful and harmonious blending of the two personalities, only then is this possible. For some people, marriage does take away from the higher life, but not for others. It all depends upon the two individuals concerned in it as to which of these results will come about. Marriage hinders some aspirants because of the distractions and burdens it imposes, but it helps others because of the release from tormenting thoughts involving pleasures of the flesh which it may give. When sensibly fitted into the framework of a spiritual understanding of life, marriage need not be a bar and success may be achieved. #RandolphHarris 10 of 19

It is true that men who are lonely or young or romantic are likely to marry a young woman with whom propinquity has brought them in touch. In such cases, he puts an illusion around the woman to the pressure of desire. When the illusion goes and the facts show themselves, he is left alone with the hard lesson of discrimination. The situation can repeat itself with the victim being the woman. Many marriages are based on calculation, not on love. They are business transactions bearing social of financial rewards, not emotional ones. Yet if animated by goodwill, they may be successful. One man who seemed to make no spiritual progress generally, and little progress in meditation particularly, found the situation completely altered when he adjusted himself to a new attitude towards his wife. She was a shrew and a scold, hostile to his higher aspirations and quite Earthy. He was several times on the brink of leaving her but be thought of responsibility toward their growing children restrained him. He did leave her mentally and bitterly resented her presence in his life. When he was taught how to bring a new viewpoint to bear upon his marriage, he began to regard it as a perfect opportunity for the better development of his character and his wife as an unwitting instrument for the better control of his mind. He learned to accept her in his life without complaint. #RandolphHarris 11 of 19

He came to regard the marriage as a piece of Self-Created destiny to be worked out, in its own unpredictable time, by his fostering the needful qualities. He set to work upon himself and gradually unfolded patience, calmness, strength of will, and unselfishness. Within a few years, he not only became expert at meditation but also gained higher awareness. Nor was this all. In his work as an executive in a large commercial office involved in accounts, calculations, and business decisions, formerly he would easily become excited, irritated, or angry with subordinates over their mistakes, their inefficiency or stupidity. Now, he taught himself how to hold on to the inner peace found in periods of meditation until the time arrived when he could pass through the whole day’s activity without losing or disturbing it. If a woman has done all that was humanly possible to hold her husband and has failed, she must realize that acceptance of the inevitable—even the temporarily inevitable—is the only way to bear this painful result. The husband’s weaknesses may have found their expression in outer action. However, through the painful results of that expression, he may eventually discover a truer set of values. If she has tried to appeal to his better nature and failed, she must now let him do what he wishes and try the path of personal experience in the satisfaction of his desires, which is the common path for most people. #RandolphHarris 12 of 19

Otto Rank believed that the circumstances of birth itself, the “birth trauma,” are imprinted on the psyche of the infant and often reappear in symbolic form in later life, particularly as a desire to return to the blissful peace of the womb, as described by his disciple Fodor. If that were so, the fears and longings which arise from passing under that arch through which no man can ever pass again, nature’s original one-way street, would certainly appear as important elements in the script. Perhaps they do, but there is no reliable way to check it, even by comparing Caesarean births with normal ones. Hence the influence of the “birth trauma” on the life script remains in the realm of speculation. As a matter of fact, real-life scripts said to be based on the actual occurrences of Caesarean birth, like their theatrical counterparts, are unconvincing. As in Macbeth, the event is exploited as a mere play on words or a conundrum, a foetus ex machina, rather than forming the serious basis for a script. It is quite likely, however, that a child who is told later that he was a Caesarean birth, and can understand what that means, might incorporate that fact somehow into his scripts and elaborate upon it further when he learns who his distinguished predecessors were. A decision on this point awaits the collection of some good case histories. #RandolphHarris 13 of 19

In practice, the two most common “birth scripts” are the “Foundling Script” and the “Tom Mother Script.” The Foundling Script arises from the fantasies of adopted or even natural children about their “real” parents, and comes out as some version of the Myth of the Birth of the Hero described by Otto Rank in his book of that name. The Torn Mother Script is also common, and in my experience occurs with about equal frequency in both genders. The foundation for this script is the mother telling the child that she has been sickly ever since he was born; or in a more vicious form, that she was so badly torn by his birth that she has never been the same. His reaction, and his script, is based on his own observations in the matter. If mother has indeed been invalided or crippled all his life, then he feels compelled to take the full responsibility, and no amount of Adult reasoning will convince his Child that it is not his doing. If the impairment is not visible, however, and particular if someone in the family, such as father, implies or states that her illness is a fake, then the patient’s script will be heavily loaded with ambiguity, hypocrisy, and exploitation. Sometimes the mother does not make the accusation, but leaves it to father, grandmother, or aunt. #RandolphHarris 14 of 19

The script which evolves is then a three-handed one, with important messages and announcements, usually “bad news,” coming from a third party. It is easy to see that where the Foundling Script comes out as the Myth of the Birth of the Hero, the Torn Mother Script is the Myth of the Birth of the Villiam, one saddled from birth with the horrendous crime of matricide, or, more precisely matriclasty. “Mother died in childbirth (mine)” is almost too much for anyone to bear without good help. If mother was injured or has a cystocele, it is never too late to have it repaired, and the less said about it the better. “All human beings—male and female—are created in the image of God. Each is a beloved spirit son or daughter of Heavenly parents, and, as such, each has a divine nature and destiny. Children are an heritage of the Lord,” reports Psalms 127.3. Parents have a sacred duty to rear their children in love and righteousness, to provide for their physical and spiritual needs, to teach them to love and serve one another, to observe the commandments of God and to be law-abiding citizens. Husbands and wives—mothers and fathers—will be held accountable before God for the discharge of these obligations. #RandolphHarris 15 of 19

Whether or not the enlargement of consciousness is conducive to healthier personality depends upon several factors, including the projects to which a person is committed and the person’s ability to acquire skills commensurate with the enlarged awareness. Healthy personality rests upon competence, the ability to act effectively in pursuit of the gratifications and meanings that make life possible and worth living. If a person has become excessively aware of self and of the World, as sometimes happens with unwise users of psychedelic drugs, that person cannot deal effectively with everything of which he or she has become aware. Maslow was aware of this when he cautioned of the “dangers of Being-cognition.” The hyperconscious individual may arrive at a sense that all things are of equal importance and value. Such a stance is equivalent to valuelessness, and it results in paralysis of action. People of advanced age prepared to die may have such enlightenment, but it is not of much use to younger persons with a life yet to be lived. There is some optimum harmony among the magnitude of a person’s awareness of the World, the goals and projects to which that person commits his or her life, and the skills and capacities for enriches one’s sense of meaning and is accompanied by increased effectiveness at living a life-engendering existence, then such alteration is conductive to healthy personality; otherwise, it might be pernicious. #RandolphHarris 16 of 19

Another point of view that should be considered is that many forms of changed consciousness, particularly those that come from the use of chemical substances such as LSD and alcohol, are not really enlarged, expanded, or higher, but rather are simply changed, and changed in such a fashion to disguise reality and prevent the person from dealing with the problems of real life, of responsibility for others, and even of maintaining personal health and sanity. The nature of experience itself is such that it cannot be checked and validated by scientific methods; Castaneda’s experience cannot be validated by Don Juan. This is particularly true of reported experiences of “higher” consciousness and greater awareness of self. Substantiated evidence for this is difficult to develop. For some, this enlarged consciousness is the stuff of which dreams are made.  The Sacramento Fire Department has made dreams come true for many people. Their core values are professionalism, service, integrity, teamwork innovation, and courage. The Sacramento Fire Department is committed to providing excellence in all aspects of conduct and performance with the highest level of customer service. They uphold the public trust and conduct themselves responsibly by maintaining ethical standards by effectively and efficiently supporting their common goal of excellence through service. #RandolphHarris 17 of 19

“When I was hired on, I was already an EMT 1. Then our department wound up getting into the EMS business. A private company that had provided the service for twenty years went out of business on two and a half hours’ notice. We picked up the ball, and we’ve had it ever since. We’ve had some pretty drastic cuts in manpower, but right now we have about a hundred thirty people on the line out of the stations, and the majority are EMT-certified to one degree or another, ranging from EMT 1 to paramedic. The folks on our medical units are paramedics, of course. However, everyone has to be a firefighter first. We have been involved in lots and lots of rescues, but the majority have been extrications and pretty basic things like that. Our medics are sometimes helicoptered out of town to do rescues. A lot of logging accident take place outside of our area up in the woods. We have an arrangement with the local helicopter service, so that if a helicopter rescue is necessary, our paramedics will be picked up by the helicopter, and they will go out and do what is necessary. Then they will transport the patient back. Two of our local hospitals have helipads; one has it helipad right up on the roof, so our paramedics can treat the patient all the way back to the hospital. #RandolphHarris 18 of 19

“We had one recue where a guy had a giant earth mover roll over on him. The guy was underneath tons and tons of equipment, and one of the guys went under there and treated him before they moved him. That was a pretty dangerous situation.” The Sacramento Fire Department stives to advance in their profession with new methods and technology to overcome fear through fortitude and accept the risk to protect others. You can help save lives by donating to the Sacramento Fire Department. In an effort to keep America a God loving and patriotic community, please raise your children to love America, love God and Jesus Christ. In order to help America become a creditor nation again, it is best to buy American cars and other American goods and services. To help maintain peace in our communities, please respect law and order and treat your elders with admiration, respect, dignity, and compassion. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under God, with liberty and justice for all. “O Say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light, what so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming, whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, o’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave o’er the land of the free and the home of the brave? O, thus be it ever, when free men shall stand between their loved homes and war’s desolation; blest with victory and peace, may our Heaven-rescued land praise the power that hath made and preserved us as a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, and this be our motto, ‘In God is trust.’ And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave o’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.” #RandolphHarris 19 of 19

The Winchester Mystery House

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Something caught my eye. Ahead of me, and so still I had not noticed, someone else was in the Grand Ballroom. A figure in white. A cold breeze touched my spine. It was a girl, dark hair loose around her shoulders. Cautiously I moved toward her. I was afraid that any noise would make her disappear. As I drew closer, I heard her soft, melancholic humming, a tune I had heard once before, although I could not remember when. A simple cadence, like that of a nursery rhyme, and somehow haunting. A few feet away, and the hair, the narrow shoulders, were familiar. Close enough to touch. The tune stopped. The woman seemed about thirty years old, had fair skin and hair, a trim figure, and was rather attractive. Her dress indicated good taste and a degree of wealth. It was in high fashion. The young woman then stood there looking at me, and vice versa. She seemed animated enough, but made no sound. Despite this, I had the distinct impression that the ghost wanted me to know something specific. The encounter lasted for ten or fifteen minutes, then the figure slowly disintegrated. The experience left me frightened and worried. In the following weeks, I felt an unseen presence all about the house, without, however seeing my mysterious visitor again. It seemed the woman was watching me as I worked. #RandolphHarris 1 of 8

I had no idea who the ghost might be. Could the ghost have some connection with the land itself, or perhaps with some of the antiques I treasured? About two weeks after the initial experience, I was studying in the library, which was located at the far eastern end of the house. Then I heard a loud noise reverberating throughout the house. It made me freeze with fright in the chair, when my niece Daisy ran into the library to ask what the noise had been. Upon investigation, I noticed a broken string on an antique zither hanging on the dining room wall. It was unlikely that the strong could have broken by itself, and if it had, how could it have reverberated so strongly? A few weeks went by, and the ghost’s presence persisted. By now, I had the distinct impression that the ghost was annoyed at being ignored. Suddenly, a crystal chandelier fell to the floor and shattered and a gas jet ignited. Sometime had passed. I began to hear footsteps upstairs, when there was no one about, and the sound of a marble being rolled across the hall. When the manifestations persisted, I would walk up to the foot of the stairs and ask, “Why do you not just come out and show yourself or say something instead of making all of those noises?” As if in answer, an upstairs door slammed shut and then there was utter silence. #RandolphHarris 2 of 8

After a moment’s hesitation, I dashed upstairs and made a complete search. There was no one about and the marble, which seemingly hard rolled across the floor, was nowhere to be seen. When Christmas rolled around, Diasy, Bretha Haas and myself had a séance. We joined hands and sat quietly in front of the fire place. Nothing happened for a while. Then Daisy, who had read some books on psychic phenomena, suggested that we needed a guide or control from the other side of life to help us, but no one had any suggestions. I decided to call William. As Daisy and Bertha were staring into the fireplace, I followed the direction of their eyes and saw what appeared to be some kind of light similar to that made a star in the night’s sky. It stayed on for a short time and then disappeared altogether. From that day on, I started to find curious objects around the house that had not been there a moment before. They were diamonds, emeralds, and sapphires. I collected them and put them in the safe. Several weeks later, Daisy inquired as to who the company was the previous evening. I informed her that there had been no quest at the house, but she insisted that a lady had entered her bedroom, sat on her bed and looked at her, and then departed. #RandolphHarris 3 of 8

 In order to calm her, I told her that she had probably dreamt the whole thing. However, Daisy insisted that she had not, and furthermore, she described the visitor in every detail. Appalled, I realized that Daisy had seen the same ghostly woman. Apparently, the ghost felt greater urgency to communicate now, for a few days later, after going to bed, the apparition returned to my bedroom. This time she wore a different dress than on first meeting, but it was still very fashionable. She was wiping her hands on an apron, stayed only for a little whole, and then slowly disintegrated again. The room seemed to be permeated with something terrible evil. I could neither see nor hear anything, but I had a feeling that there was a presence there and that it was very strong and about to overcome me. As I looked out into the hall, I saw on the wall a little red object resembling a human eye, and directly below it what seemed like half a mouth. Looking closer, I discerned two red eyes and a white mouth below. The vision remained on the wall for two or three minutes, and then vanished completely. I felt ghosts wandering about in my room, I actually heard one of them crying pitifully for two hours. Obviously, the distraught ghost wanted attention, and was determined to get it at all costs. #RandolphHarris 4 of 8

The next morning, the housemaid explained that she could not draw me a bath for the bathroom door was locked. Since the door can be locked only from the inside, and since this bathroom was attached to my chamber, I assumed that my ghost lady was at it again. When the bathroom door remained lock for an hour and my needs became more urgent, I went to the door and demanded in a stern tone of voice that the ghost open the door. There was anger in my voice and it brought quick results. Clearly the click of a lock being turned was heard inside the bathroom and, after a moment, I opened the bathroom door easily. There was no one inside the bathroom, of course. Who, then, had turned the lock—they only way the door could be opened? For a while, things went smoothly. A few weeks later, I felt ghost near me. I clearly heard the door-to-nowhere fly open and slam shut by itself, as if someone in great anger was trying to call attention to my presence. Immediately, I locked the door, and made sure there was no draft from any window. An instant later, it flew open again by itself. Now I attached the chain to the latch—but it did not seem to stop the ghost from fooling around with the door. With enormous force, it flew open again as far as the chain allowed, as if someone were straining at it. I glimpsed many horrors of awesome magnitude. The dead were reincarnated with dignified ceremonies. An enormous army connected with the fathomless darkness and horrible bygone struggles dominated my home. #RandolphHarris 5 of 8

There came a fateful night. Worn out with emotion, irresolution and despondency, I had retired early and fallen into such sleep as was still possible to me. In the middle of the night—something malign power bent upon the wrecking of my peace forever—caused me to open my eyes and sit up, wide awake and listening intently for I knew not what. At that moment came in through the open window a long, wailing sound like the cry of a lost child in the far deeps of the darkening wood! I climbed out of bed to see what the noise was. However, as I was walking toward the window, my legs felt awkward, as though the knee joints had loosened, my stride having no rhythm, no coordination. I staggered, each step jolting my body, my lungs seeming to jar against my rib cage. Gazing towards the window, the stark blueness of the sky dazzled me as hands grabbed my chest, a figure blocking my way. I would have collapsed had not those same hands steadied me. I blinked to clear the mist over my vision (caused by the sudden brightness, or fear’s teardrops?). Again, and nearer than before, sounded that unearthly cry upon my failing sense. Perhaps there was a wild beast in the house; perhaps it was a dream. For I was asleep. #RandolphHarris 6 of 8

Some hours later, as it afterward appeared, I awoke and lifting my head from my arms intently listened—I knew not why. There in the black darkness, recalling all without a shock, I strained my eyes to see—I knew not what. My senses were all alert, my breath was suspended, my blood had stilled its tides as if to assist the silence. Who—what had wakened me, and where was it? Suddenly, the bed shook, and at the same moment I heard, or fancied that I heard, a light, soft step—sounds as of bare feet upon the flood. I was terrified beyond the power to cry out or move. Perforce I waited—waited there in darkness through seeming centuries of such dread as one may know, yet live to tell. I tried vainly to speak the name of my beloved husband, namely to stretch forth my hand to learn is he was there. My throat was powerless, my arms and hands were like lead. Then occurred something most frightful. Some heavy body seemed to hurl against the wall, and at the same moment I heard and felt the fall of something upon the floor with so violent a thump that the whole house was shaken by the impact. This is the point at which terror turned to madness. By illumination from the moonlight, I vividly witnessed a ghoul dragging a dead woman toward the window. His claw fixed around her throat! #RandolphHarris 7 of 8

There was a blackness darker than before, and silence; and when I returned to consciousness the sun was high and the wood vocal with songs of birds. The body lay near the window, where the ghoul had left it when it was apparently frighted away. The clothing was deranged, the long hair in disorder, the limbs lay anyhow. From the throat, dreadfully lacerated, had issued a pool of blood not yet entirely coagulated. The ribbon with which it had bound the wrists were broken; the hands tightly clenched. Between the teeth was a fragment of the ghoul’s black cloak. Evil signs that occult entities were growing strong and numerous in the inner walls continued to manifest. There were sporadic irruptions of particularly hideous character in certain remote locations of the mansion—places where the paths had not been properly sealed or guarded. After that, greater precautions were taken, and many of the paths were closed for ever—though a few were left with sealed trap-doors for strategic use if the darkness ever broke forth in unexpected places; fresh rifts caused by the supernatural forces. Many séances had clearly foretold of the horror, and had resolved that none could escape it. The foray of vengeance by the monstrous entities to reoccupy the physical World was wakening. And always the shadow of nameless fear hung about Llanada Villa. I now have only two hundred acres, but when I bought the property, it was part of seven hundred and forty acres, and a hundred years ago it was about two thousand acres. #RandolphHarris 8 of 8

The Winchester Mystery House

People all over the World have moved into houses that seemed ordinary and pleasant, and spent years without ever encountering anything out of the ordinary. Then, one day, something happens to disturb their tranquility: a ghost appears, strange noises are heard, and a psychic presence makes itself known. Why is it that phenomena sometimes occur at times long after someone moves into an affected house? Of course, there are just as many cases where the ominous presence is felt they very moment one steps across the threshold. However, in cases where ghost make their presence manifest long after the new tenants have moved in, certain conditions have not been right for such manifestations to take place at the beginning. For instance, it may involve the presence of youngsters in the household who furnish energy for ghosts to appear. Or it may be that the shadowy entities remaining behind in the house are dimply aware of the new tenants, but wish to find out more about them before manifesting to them. Either way, once manifestations begin, the owner of the house has the choice of either ignoring them, fighting them—or coming to terms with them.

In the majority of cases, unfortunately, people simply think that by ignoring the phenomena or trying hard to explain them by so-called natural causes, the matter can be solved. Ignoring problems never helps, in any area of life. When it comes to psychic phenomena, the phenomena may become worse, because even the most benighted ghost, barely aware of its predicament, will become more powerful, more restless, by being ignored. Along with the mansion, there once existed several other houses on the Winchester Estate, along with gazebos. However, as acres of land were sold off, and the City of San Jose required the gates to be moved back by twenty feet, some other structures had to be demolished. Today, Mrs. Winchester’s beautiful mansion rests on four acres of land. As the group of friends roam the mansion’s halls, they come face-to-face with somebody who warns them: “Run! You have to escape before it’s too late!” But little do they know, the owner is a vampire who has been secretly gathering a collection of otherworldly creatures. Now those creatures have broken free and are after us all!

Please come and enjoy a delicious meal in Sarah’s Café, stroll along the paths of the beautiful Victorian gardens, and wonder through the miles of hallways in the World’s most mysterious mansion. For further information about tours, including group tours, weddings, school events, birthday party packages, facility rentals, and special events please visit the website: https://winchestermysteryhouse.com/

Please visit the online giftshop, and purchase a gift for friends and relatives as well as a special memento of The Winchester Mystery House. A variety of souvenirs and gifts are available to purchase. https://shopwinchestermysteryhouse.com/