NOTES: According to PN, this message was evidence that “the Overmind is starting to show signs of ebbing in and out of consciousness, possibly due to the draining effect of attacks by forces wishing to undermine it.” That interpretation may have been fuelled by the decreasing number and frequency of the messages. By the time of his death, communications appear to have ceased altogether; PN’s final notes indicate that he had received no new messages for several weeks. He appears to have become increasingly anxious about this, fearing that the Overmind had found another “channel” through which it preferred to communicate – or, worse still, that he had somehow betrayed it to the “forces of darkness.”