Category Archives: Defying Gravity – The Book

As outlined in an e-mail sent to registered members of this site earlier today, the online version of the first draft of Defying Gravity: The Parallel Universe of T. Townsend Brown is no longer available. Please visit "The Second Draft" … Continue reading →

…are now online. Chapter 80: Avalon rounds up the final years of the life of T. Townsend Brown.  It’s a lot of ground to cover, yes, but the patterns of his life are sufficiently established by now that repeating them … Continue reading →

When last we left the Brown family, Townsend had gone ahead to seek new opportunities to develop his magic fan — and whatever else the technology represents. Chapter 77: Strike Another Match follows Linda and Josephine’s travels as they push … Continue reading →

Chapter 76: FTM is now available.  Now that the two story lines have finally woven themselves together, it is time to face the Big Picture.  This chapter demonstrates how critical information has been passed along, and the challenge inherent in … Continue reading →

Today we greet the New Year with not ONE, but TWO installments of  Defying Gravity: The Parallel Universe of T. Townsend Brown. In Chapter 74: California Dreamin‘ we return to the Townsend Brown family in Philadelphia in 1966, witness the … Continue reading →

Chapter 72: First We Build A Fire follows Brown’s exploits from late 1957 into 1958, during which time he was employed as a consultant at  privately-funded laboratory operated by industrialist Agnew Bahnson, Jr.  This may be one of the best-known … Continue reading →

Chapter 71: Missing Daddy describes another chapter in the endless travels of Townsend Brown and his family.  It also explores his involvement in the mid-1950s with NICAP, the forerunner of all citizen UFO investigating organizations. Of greater interest though will … Continue reading →

Chapter 70: Look Ma, No Hands – Or Head demonstrates once again the difficulty of writing non-fiction when the really crucial facts of a story are simply not forthcoming, are hidden, or still classified.  There is a monumental challenge inherent … Continue reading →

Chapter 69: How Fast A Fat Pony may strike a reader at first as a lot of personal details that may not be of a whole lot of interest, but when you get to the end I hope you’ll see … Continue reading →