Well, mom another year older,  Happy birthday.  You now have 13 great grandchildren.  1 great great grandson and another one will be born any time this month.  Hope you are behaving.   You are kinda out numbered with your ex husbands around. 

This is from m autobiography.

Phil

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Penny Looney became a family friend after we moved from Houston to Pasadena. Penny was often described as a “character”. That was true. She was gregarious, and had a great sense of humor. She also had a gift, although she occasionally joked it might be a curse. Penny had psychic abilities. She sometimes called herself a spiritualist. She noticed this as a child. While she could do many different paranormal things, she was best at assessing someone's medical problems through the use of her spirit guide. Penny had no medical training, but she could describe medical conditions which other people had. She said her spirit guide Tronteodontis (spelling?) would tell her what was wrong with someone. She could psycometrize (spelling?), meaning she could pick something up and get impressions from it.

Mom once went over to Penny's house for a visit. When she had to go to the bathroom, Penny advised her there was a poltergeist in there. Mom didn't believe her. After the toilet flushed itself three times all by itself, Mom was a believer.

Penny joked that she had known me since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. When I was doing the Overview program at KULF in Houston, I asked her if she wanted to be on the radio. She liked the idea, and I set it up. Before the show, I asked one of the people who worked at KULF, if they would join us later. I did not tell them what it was for. (I am not using this person's real name to preserve their privacy. I'll call him Hector) Since Penny had known me for so long, it didn't think it would be fair for her to do any prognosticating on me. When Penny was doing a “reading” on someone, she went into something like a trance, with her eyes closed. It was not really a trance, but that is the closest description I can think of. She would contact her spirit guide, and then she would ask the person she was reading to give her some very basic facts about themselves. Penny says she seldom remembered what it was she said during a reading. She usually told people to bring a tape recorder with them, because she wouldn't remember afterwards. During the first half of the hour long interview (live on tape), we talked about all kinds of things. The spirit world, life after death, and all kinds of “new age” or spiritual things. The KULF recording studios had big glass windows. About halfway through the program, I noticed my prearranged guinea pig walk by. I waved them in.

Hector (not his real name) walked in and sat down. I told him to answer any questions Penny might have, and then to comment on what he was told. Penny asked him his name and when and where he was born. Hector responded and then looked at me quizzically. Penny then went into a medical reading. She started with his head and slowly worker her way down. She seemed to actually feel each thing she would mention. She told Hector that while he didn't get many headaches, when he did, it was like someone had put a metal band around his head, and then started tightening it. She said coffee would often trigger the headaches. Hector looked at me in amazement. Since he didn't say anything, I asked him if that was true. He swallowed and weakly said it was. Penny then went on to describe several other, very specific, medical issues, all of which Hector said were exactly correct. When Penny got to the groin area, she looked a bit different. She said she could not talk about this area right now. We would have to talk about it later. Penny then mentioned a few other minor medical issues before she was finished. I asked Hector how accurate Penny had been. He said he had never met her before and had no idea why he was coming into the studio. He then said he had always been a skeptic about paranormal stuff. But, everyone one of the very specific medical issues Penny has described were completely accurate. I thanked Hector, and he left the studio. We continued the interview for the remaining ten minutes of the hour.

As soon as the “on air” light went off, Hector came back in. He asked Penny what it was she couldn't talk about earlier. She said she didn't remember, but she would go back “down to level” (her expression for her condition during a reading), and Hector could ask about it. Penny went back into a trance. Hector then asked what it was they could not talk about. Penny said she had been told not to speak earlier because they were in public (radio program), and this was a very personal matter. She reached toward her groin and looked very uncomfortable. Penny then said about two weeks earlier, Hector had ruptured one of his testicles. She actually said which one, but I cannot remember which it was. Hector looked stunned. I should say here that Penny only saw Hector take a few steps before he sat down during the interview. I had seen Hector many times during the previous two weeks, and there was nothing obvious about such an injury from his outward appearance or movements. Penny then went on to say that if Hector followed his doctor's advice, he should have a complete recovery. She then said that was all there was. Penny came back up from “level” and asked us what she had said, and why she could talk about it earlier. I told her. She asked Hector if she had been correct. Hector looked at me, then Penny, then me again. He then told Penny that only he, his mother, his girlfriend and his doctor knew that he had ruptured one of his testicles about two weeks ago.

We had more response from the public about this program than any other show we had ever done before, or since at KULF. One of the responses I got was from a teacher at Pasadena High School. He asked if Penny would be willing to come and lecture some of the students about paranormal phenomena. I check with Penny, and she said she'd love to. She really enjoyed telling people about such things, and how they could improve their own abilities. A month or so later, Penny and I went to Pasadena High School and met the teacher. Sixty students were in one of the larger classrooms. About five or six other teachers were also there. Penny told everyone about her life, and gave them some descriptions about many different paranormal things. She had brought a modified Polaroid camera, and she did some examples of Kirlian Photography. Several of the students put their fingertips on the modified camera, and then when the film was developed, you could see an electrical area around where their fingers were. Penny would then interpret some of what she saw. One of the students was missing his hand from just below the wrist. I opened a brand new pack of film myself, and loaded it into the camera. No one else had touched it. He put his wrist on the edge of the camera opening. When the photo was developed, you could see where his wrist was. You could also see what appeared to be several fingerprints exactly where fingers would normally be in a hand of his size. The students was very excited. He said this was proof that he really did have phantom limb syndrome.

Next Penny talked to the class about auras. She explained what they were, and how to look for them. She said you could see them around most living things. The ones around humans were the easiest to see, She asked if anyone had seen one before. A few hands went up. She then said we were going to help them see some auras. I was standing next to Penny during all of this. We pulled down the white projector screen in the front of the classroom. This was just the standard screen used to show movies on in the classroom. She ask our host teacher if we should be able to see any colors around a white piece of paper held up in front of the white screen. The teacher said we should only see a shade of gray from the shadow the lights cast on the screen. As she held the paper in front of the screen, she asked if anyone saw any other colors right then. No one said they did. Penny then told everyone what she was going to do. She would hold up the white paper, and count 1 – 2 – 3. On 3, she would use her abilities to project a color into the aura around the paper. As she said 3, she wanted everyone who saw the aura to shout out what color it was. Penny said I helped give her strength or power. I'm not sure what I was doing, but I held her left hand and thought powerful thoughts. I know that sounds a bit corny, but I was doing this in the way Penny had taught me to do it. Penny held up the paper and said, 1 - 2 – 3. Almost in unison, everyone in the classroom yelled out the same color (yellow, red, green, or blue – I don't remember which). This was followed by cheers and applause. We did this several times, and the responses were always the same from the crowd, except for just one student. The colors were different each time. Finally, Penny told everyone she was going to do something a little different, Everyone should just look at the aura and see what it did. Penny held up the paper and said 1 – 2 – 3. I was still facing the crowd holding Penny's left hand. As she said 3, I saw the faces of the crowd all move in unison. It appeared the aura was moving. Based on their movements, the aura went across the wall and then up to the ceiling. She then said she was tired and stopped. The students and teachers were very excited, and it was a fun afternoon.

Penny also taught classes on how to develop your paranormal skills. She had quite a few dedicated followers, if that is the correct term. She never claimed she was the source of her gift. She always gave credit to God. It was just channeled through her. At various times during her life, promoters tried to get her to go on tour. The man who arranged all of Uri Geller's tours was one of them. Uri Geller was a well-known psychic from Israel. Penny did not want to travel. Her husband Bud had been a drummer, and she saw how being on the road had affected him. Penny did do individual readings. She bought an old parking meter. She would crank it up to 55 minutes. When the needle clicked over to 0, your time with her was up.

Doing the psychic things with Penny was very exciting and interesting. But, beside that, Penny was also a good friend, and she was fun to be around.

Happly Birthday mom.