This winter's afternoon, I sit
here in my third-floor, lacquer-washed
little glass box.
The boss is away, and there is
just enough work, if I forget
the filing, to fill
half
the time until five.
(I find, somehow, that I can
always forget the filing.)
And so, I write.
When I'm done, I will take
these shaped-and-crafted,
thoughtful words,
and print them…
I've gotta be up front here, I have no reliable sources for the following information. What I've pieced together I've picked up here and there as rumor and various mad scribblings of people who used to be, or at least claim to have been, involved with Scientology. The Church of Scientology is infamously tight-lipped about these things, with much information being distributed by disgruntled former members. It took decades before anyone outside the Church had even heard…
Facilitated communication is a method for a helper, or facilitator, to assist a person with both motor difficulties and an inability to speak to communicate by helping the disabled person type responses to questions by feeling subtle movements and gestures the disabled person is trying to make, but cannot perform independantly due to the disability.
If this sounds a bit like using a Ouija board to you, you're not alone.
Facilitated communication caused a big sensation in…