Talk:Taylor Caldwell
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I have asked permission to use the new biography details that I have contributed, if they tell me I can't then I will remove it. Jaycey
- Please don't re-add the copyrighted material until such time as the owner of the information gives you permission to use it. You must ALSO make sure that they are aware that if they give permission, they are releasing the information under the GFDL license, which allows the information to be modified mercilessly, and spread about the Internet and elsewere. RickK 07:36, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)
- OK, I think what I'll do then is to do a complete rewrite in my own words, using facts from their piece and from other sources I already have, would that be OK? I don't really mind if anyone pinches that, and in any case I can use it to update the Society's pages. In the meantime, I also placed my contribution into a temporary area (as advised) and I now can't find that - can someone help me please? (It's the first time I've ever been on here.) It was a lot of work and I don't want to lose it. Thanks! Jaycey
I have just received an email from Petri Liukkonen in which they say "Thank you for your interest in my page on Taylor Caldwell. Please, feel free to use it any way you want. It is a honor.", which as you can see gives me permission to use their piece here. However, I have replied to them, drawing their attention to the GFDL, and requesting their final go-ahead after having made themselves aware of this. I hope to hear from them today. If they say 'yes', can I reinstate my original piece (which I have found in the history area) incorporating the latest changes which have been made to it? Jaycey 13/6/05
- PLEASE NOTE that I now have full permission to use/reprint/expand upon the Pegasos article in any way I see fit, also Petri Liukkonen has been made aware of the GFDL. (To all those who obviously don't believe me, please feel free to write to him at "petri.liukkonen@kuusankoski.fi"!) I also have some proof that TC wrote "Romance of Atlantis" when she was 12, unfortunately I cannot currently lay my hands on the appropriate book that tells the story - as soon as I have found it, I will state this here. (And a thank-you to Morwen for doing something constructive to my page!) Jaycey
Jcwinfer now known as Jaycey
To last contributor - please provide firm evidence for your new material and cite your sources otherwise I shall continue to remove it. (I have never heard of any of these allegations and I run the TCAS). Jaycey 3 July 2005 21:26 (UTC)
Jaycey, my source is Taylor Caldwell's FBI file, specifically section 11. See page 26, an internal FBI memorandum: "Miss CALDWELL has been making her "predictions" for many years and I am not aware of where she gets the inspiration for these predictions. However, she apparently believes herself to be something of a clairvoyant." Pages 28 and 29 of the same section are a set of newspaper clippings from the Buffalo Evening News detailing her predictions for the year 1970. Page 30 is another internal FBI memorandum which includes the text: "Caldwell claims to have clairvoyant powers; on one occasion she advised an FBI Agent after President Kennedy's assassination that she had, prior to Kennedy's death, seen his funeral on a turned-off television set."
I hope this is of help. I'm sorry I didn't specify my source.
SCM
- Hmm fair enough, I do have this link and have examined some of these FBI pages myself - I was sceptical because when TC was having her past-life regression theory with Jess Stearn, even though he found the sessions very successful, she still stated that she found them completely untrustworthy and didn't believe a word of the things she had actually said. She may have 'softened up' a little as she got older, and in fact her last husband seems to have been a very esoteric and rather strange character who would probably have encouraged this sort of thing. I am going to rearrange the main article so I may reinsert your pieces then - I don't like words like 'apparently' and 'claims to have' even from an FBI file - however I will put back anything that seems have to a firm evidential base. Watch this space.... Jaycey 4 July 2005 12:31 (UTC)
Well, an official FBI memo could hardly state as fact that she did have clairvoyant abilities. :) Agreed, this is something that merits thorough research. My information on her support of the white minority government in Rhodesia was also derived from her FBI file: section 6 includes a flyer promoting an organization calling itself FRI, "Friends of Rhodesian Independence", with Taylor Caldwell listed as president. Glad if this has been of any help at all. SCM
[edit] On Taylor Caldwell as a psychic and references to previous lives
My name is Jeffrey Caldwell Fried. I have the middle name "Caldwell" because I was named after my grandmother, Taylor Caldwell (Janet Combs was her name when she was married to her first husband, my grandfather). In WikiPedia, and a number of other web resources, I have read several references to my grandmother's psychic abilities and her previous lives. In addition i have the "privilege" to have been mentioned, albeit indirectly, in the book by Jess Stearn as someone purporting to have had a previous life. I do not have any recollection of having told any such story, and, i have no recollection of Taylor Caldwell having made reference in my family's presence of any previous life or psychic ability. My grandmother frequently tempered reality with her fantasies.
What i can report is the damage she caused to her own two children and granchildren. As an example, i still remember how over dinner she informed my brother and myself that she had told my mother to have an abortion instead giving birth to us. For a woman of letters she was definitely not an interesting conversationalist, rather she was given to tirades about the imagined communists and liberals that were ruining her country giving it over to the weak, many of whom put food on her table by purchasing her books.
Why am i writing this? Because after reading a number of websites that refer to her in glowing terms, i think it is time that someone showed the other side of Taylor Caldwell.
[edit] misleading story of suicide
There seemed to be a misleading info that she committed suicide. Does anyone how and why this circulated? --Jondel 06:26, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
