Round Robin 1946

Robert Gibson Jones, cover for Amazing Stories, December 1945

Year Two of Meade Layne's "The Round Robin" continues the focus on Spirits, Mediumship and Psychicism, while adding to the areas of interest such subjects as the Shaver Mystery, Max Freedom Long's "Huna" Research, and growing fears of Atomic Catastrophe. Also in this year, 1946, the yet unnamed "Flying Saucer", here referred to as Lokas, Kareeta, Corrida, is brought into the borderland view by a San Diego sighting on the evening of October 9, first reported to Mr. Layne by none other than Mark Probert, the voice of the Inner Circle!

Round Robin 1945

The polestars of the first period of BSRA activity were Psychicism, Occultism, and Spiritualism, marking out a focus on efforts to conduct practical experimentation with Vitic and Spiritons, and to open channels for discussion about the techniques of Qabala, Yoga, and other occult forms. Toward that end and in service of such purpose, the Round Robins of 1945 shuffled occult and psychic research notes and letters from associates alongside book reviews and feature stories of Forteana and mediums the likes of Edgar Cayce, Franek Kluski, and Carlos Mirabelli, the final product interspersed with Meade Layne's oft-biting editorials and copious quotables from his favored poets, scientists, scholars, and thinkers.