Conjuring Gretchen
by Larry W. Bryant

This book-length retrospective essay retraces the tribulations and survival heroics of the late United Methodist minister Carroll E. Jay, whose practice of hypnotherapy in pastoral counseling sessions engendered fierce religion-based persecution from his own parishioners in Rockingham County, Va., back in the early seventies. When Pastor Jay went public with an account of his wife's series of hypnotic regressions to determine the origin of a disembodied soul speaking through her, he and she incurred almost unbearable harassment orchestrated in the mountain town of Elkton.

About the Author

Larry W. Bryant, who enjoyed a 36-year career in writing and editing for U. S. Army publications before his retirement, operates the Washington, D. C., office of the public-interest group Citizens Against UFO Secrecy from his home in Alexandria, Va. He is a contributor to both FATE and UFO Magazine.