6.8 Discussion of Schedule Table

      The various time lines in the schedule table in Section 6.0 provide an estimate of the length of time to be spent on each of the five major areas of concentration and documentation for each of the seven phases of effort.

      The dashed time lines for parapsychology for Phase IV and Phase V correspond to the situation in which relatively poor parapsychological results characterize the ritualistic efforts of Phase I, Phase II, and Phase III. If this occurs, then as discussed in Sections 5.5, and 6.1 through 6.6, special attention will be devoted to structuring the rituals of Phase IV, Phase V, and Phase VI such that conditions favor the occurrence and observability of synchronistic phenomena.

      For interim documentation note that two weeks are allocated for Phase I, Phase III, and Phase V, and a full month is allocated for Phase II, Phase IV, and Phase VI. The reason for longer documentation periods for Phases II, IV, and VI is to permit recording the results of the work for a six-month phase and to construct an overall account of a year's effort.

      For the five major areas of concentration there will be a great deal of overlaping of effort. The time lines for these items in Table 1 represent the periods when the greatest amount of effort will be dedicated to each item. For example, Table 1 shows Analytical Thinking and General Knowledge for Phase II extending from the beginning of the second week in the seventh month to the end of the ninth month, and also covering the twelfth month which is dedicated to interim documentation preparation. This is not meant to imply that during the eleventh month the rational mental faculty will be completely put on ice so that the wild maenads of the creative imagination are permitted total freedom for a full thirty days (or so). It simply means that the core of the burden for the analytical mind will occur during the first three months and the last month of the six-month effort.

      The one idea that Table 1 is most specifically designed to convey is that each of the five areas of concentration are to be given serious attention, and that care will be exercised to assure that a proper mix of them is utilized.