10/28/25
I continue to proofread my new book, "The Sacred Carol," and I continue to find errors! Most of what I'm doing is just fine-tuning the way things are worded, to make it read more comfortably. But I've also, sadly, disproved several of my "smoking guns." Better for me to catch them now, than a skeptic to catch them later!

What happened is that, having made the decision to start with small presentations, rather than pour money into internet advertising, I started preparing graphics of the words I've deciphered from Charles Dickens' handwritten manuscript. I had scrutinized these things backwards and forwards with ChatGPT-5; but still, I intepreted some of them wrongly. I think I've lost five or six of them, now.

On the other hand, it means that those remaining are strong. I can defend them to anyone. Individually, some of them can be argued with, but not if one takes them in the aggregate. And some of them can stand on their own.

I gather that right now is the time to create this book; not necessarily the time to promote it. I got my rejection, this morning, from esoteric publisher Samuel Weiser. If they don't understand it, who else will? I think doing small groups--assuming I can arrange any--will help me hone my speaking skills. Now is not really a time when I want to stand out, online, anyway.

I've written to one organization I spoke to about five years ago, and I haven't heard back. I don't know, but I think the problem is that what I'm saying now seems so outrageous, that nobody can believe me even if they wanted to. It's the old story. I've pretty-much said all I can say about it, but it's a continual revelation to me, just how profound this prejudice is. If you challenge any deeply-embedded social myth, you have to be crazy. It doesn't matter what you can prove, because nobody is going to look at your evidence. If you literally have a alien named Bob in your closet, nobody is going to open the door to that closet. Because everybody knows you can't possibly have an alien named Bob in there.

Why? Because everybody knows aliens don't like the name Bob.

I'm too tired to be writing this. It's just that it never fails to amaze me, how much evidence you can actually have without a single person believing you long enough to look at it--because of "what we all know."

Sincerely,

Stephen Sakellarios, M.S.