The Atlanta Constitution from Atlanta, Georgia • 240

iillDgDil(iS When they arrived, she said, her life began to change. She says it's the disk. She wears it night and day on a chain around her neck and, like many others, credits it with all sorts of unusual powers. Since becoming one of Ted Owens' Disk People, her life has taken on new meaning, she says. She's joined Ted Owens' small church SOTA (Secrets of the Ages) and plans, if she can ever lose several hundred pounds of excess weight, to take his special O.D.

(for "other training that will equip her as a Special Person. Becoming a Special Person, she says, means that she can actively take part in Ted Owens' great struggle in helping the Sis save America. But that's not all. There's no assurance that the Sis can really save America, first of all. Oh, they could, of course.

They're definitely not human, these creatures. In fact, though they can assume human or any other shape they want, their "real" appearance is like that of a grasshopper. And with their counterpart of a snap of the fingers, they could solve all the problems on earth. But they won't It's unethical a rule of the universe says: ONE RACE OF CREATURES MAY NOT INTERFERE WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANOTHER. So Americans will have to solve their problems by themselves, which means that they well might not solve them at all and that imminent disaster will overtake them probably in a nuclear holocaust Then what? Well, at the last moment the Sis, once they figure that they cannot save America and the world even with all the Special People preaching brotherhood and love and with occasional miracles by Ted Owens himself (he has a list of 302 documented miracles already, he says), then the Sis will put all the Special People aboard their UFOs and fly them consequences," a disaster that could wipe out 90 percent of the people.

To the literal-minded, all of this may sound rather preposterous. But to the mystically inclined, to anyone who believes in ghosts or spirits, for instance, it could be true, and because it plugs into very ancient notions of transcendent cosmologies plus all the futuristic scientism, it's a lot more credible than most beliefs. Besides, it's free. "NO GIMMICKS! NO MONEY SOLICITED!" It'S true that the coupon also offered Ted Owens' $5 book, "How to Contact Space People," for $3, and, to one side, another little square one could check to receive, for $1, "the remarkable SI Disk a beautiful plastic disk bearing the symbol of the Space Intelligences." Miss Mary Louise Uptaih, who lives in a small apartment in Atlanta's old hippie district on 10th Street, considered all this when she first encountered it six years ago, decided it was worth a try and signed it, then sent it off with $4 for both the book and disk. By Keith Coulbourn Free!" it said.

"No obligation." It was a full-page ad in Fate magazine offering to put anyone's name on the "space scroll." In fact, the whole ad was made up like a scroll with a small coupon in the lower right-hand corner. 'This space scroll would go directly to the Sis, which is Ted Owens' way of referring to the Space Intelligences, a race of brainy virtually omniscient creatures who have their headquarters in the middle of the earth, who actually inhabit another dimension and who also run around in UFOs. Ted Owens-the PK Man for psycho-kinetic) who lives in Cape Charles, says the Sis would know the moment anyone signed the coupon, of course, and would interpret it as a gesture of encouragement. The Sis would need all the encouragement and help they could get, Ted Owens says, because of their monumental task: saving America from "an impending disaster of terrible scope and Look into Reynolds Wrap and save The 75-ftsize Reynolds Wrap now has worth of coupons inside the roll rjZ' A Hi Vt 'vSv get big savings on 4 big-name products. 2(ft off on Cricket Disposable Butane Lighters.

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