Some History of Matrix Software By Michael Erlewine

daughter Iotis baptized. Once there,we went around to the little cottageswhere the healers lived and visitedthose we had met at conferenceshere and there. Although I triedreally hard to be open to it, none ofthe psychic or „spiritualism‟managed to stick. It was, however,somewhat of an education.One of my favorite psychics wasElsie Vocovitch who lived right inAnn Arbor out on the west side.Elsie was a kindly woman and wewould visit her quite often either tojust sit and talk or to be part ofwhatever service or séance-likeevent she might be holding thatevening. I can remember that duringone séance I was told that my spiritguide was an Indian medicine mannamed “Drum Song.” Andsometimes on Sundays we wouldattend the spiritualist church thatElsie belonged to and check thatout. One of the features there wasthe giving of messages. Variouspsychics would come up front anddeliver messages for those in theaudience. They would actuallysingle you out and pull messagesout of the ether that werespecifically for you. Mostly theywere upbeat and always intriguing.Of course I would try my best tobend each message aroundwhatever I had going for me andwanted most to hear. In time, I beginto have problems with psychicpronouncements in general.I can remember one such statementhaving to do with a road and anoverpass in Ann Arbor. The psychictold me I had to be very careful ofthis particular overpass or I mighthave an accident. Well, you can besure that I never forgotten thatoverpass. Multiply that by ten ormore such pronouncements andyou might have a fairly healthy list ofthings you had to “watch out for.” Ifound this really annoying after awhile. And it also partook of what Icall the “chiropractor syndrome,”meaning that like chiropractors,psychics tend to make youdependent on them. You have tokeep coming back again and againto have your psychic temperaturechecked out and problems patchedup. After some considerableexperience, I gradually tuned awayfrom this kind of spirituality. Onebecomes too dependent on thepsychic as a person and, evenworse, the psychics seem to likethat.I am not sure how I rationalized myview of psychic readingsconsidering I made my living doingastrology readings for many years. Iam sure the public can‟t tell thedifference. For me the difference isthat (at least the readings I did)were one-offs and did not requirethat you come back for another one.And of course astrology is aboutcycles based on heavenly motionsthat reoccur rather than specificevents that are called up from theether or wherever. I can see thisdiscussion could get murky, so I willnot try to rationalize this with myselfright here in your presence. But it‟son my list of things to ponder.In the middle of all this scramblingfor money, doing readings, teachingclasses, and lecturing there wassomething else going on as well. Myinterest in astrology was deepeningand broadening. I had realquestions and I set about to find theanswers. After some years I wasable to move from log tables, pencil& paper to the 4-function calculator,pencil and paper, somewhere in theearly 1970s. That helped. Many ofmy questions required that I learnsome more about trigonometry and