The East End of the Ojai Valley where at the point where the Thacher Creek disappears into the "forest" Billie Berri lived from 1945 to 1997 and Jon Dieges lived 1977 to 1997. — The East End of the Ojai Valley where at the point where the Thacher Creek disappears into the “forest” Billie Berri lived from 1945 to 1997 and Jon Dieges lived 1977 to 1997.

Jon relaxing with Cocker Spaniel Honey V having a cup of coffee. — Jon relaxing with Cocker Spaniel Honey V while having a cup of coffee.

No Me, Know Me, No Meat (Excerpts)

The 1970 self-published second best seller at the Berkeley Ecology Center after Euell Gibbons' "Stalking the Wild Asparagas"--Frances Moore Lappe worked across the street at the U.C., Berkeley, School of Social Welfare at the time and could have seen a copy that might have inspired her to write the million best seller "Diet for A Small Planet." — The 1970 self-published second best seller at the Berkeley Ecology Center after Euell Gibbons’ “Stalking the Wild Asparagas”–Frances Moore Lappe worked across the street at the U.C., Berkeley, School of Social Welfare at the time and could have seen a copy that might have inspired her to write the million best seller “Diet for A Small Planet.”

No Me, Know Me, No Meat pages 4-5 No Me, Know Me, No Meat pages 6-7 No Me, Know Me, No Meat pages 8-9 No Me, Know Me, No Meat pages 10-11 No Me, Know Me, No Meat pages 12-13 No Me, Know Me, No Meat pages 14-15 No Me, Know Me, No Meat pages 16-17 No Me, Know Me, No Meat pages 18-19 No Me, Know Me, No Meat pages 20-21

My home since January 1999--East Half is a new addition I built by hand, and the West Half is the original bedroom I was born in in 1944 with a sound and privacy wall constructed in it next to our original family home built in 1939-1940. — My home since January 1999–East Half is a new addition I built by hand, and the West Half is the original bedroom I was born in in 1944 with a sound and privacy wall constructed in it next to our original family home built in 1939-1940.

Bucky Fuller was one of my mentors 1966-1969 when I transcribed and edited two of his major speeches at the time--one we published as an issue of our student "Journal of Environemental Design" (JED5) and the other was published in the "Daily California" the UC, Berkeley, Student Newspaper — Bucky Fuller was one of my mentors 1966-1969 when I transcribed and edited two of his major speeches at the time–one we published as an issue of our student “Journal of Environmental Design” (JED5) and the other was published in the “Daily Californian” the UC, Berkeley, Student Newspaper–photo I took of him at the Berkeley Community Theater Speech 1969.

Billie holding Olga Oriole who wastoo "imprinted" to fly away on her own — Billie holding Olga Oriole who was too “imprinted” to fly away on her own

Olga’s Song (Excerpts) copyright 1998 & 2014, Jon Dieges:

Prologue Olga’s Song Prologue 2-5-2005

Epilogue OlgasSongDraftEpilogue

Appendix I: Remote Viewing Diary of Billie Berri, 1921-1997

INTRODUCTION TO THE REMOTE VIEWING DIARY OF BILLIE BERRI, 1980-1987:

Beginning in 1980 Billie Berri experienced what parapsychologists have labeled “Remote Viewing,” the telepathic capacity to see scenes in one’s mind that are elsewhere, even thousands of miles away.

No satisfactory scientific explanation has yet been developed for this ability, yet some people, like Billie, had it to such a degree that it was overwhelmingly transformative of her life.

It was like becoming a “human tuning fork” and developing the ability to detect the light of a flashlight amongst the stars in the night sky, as she described it to me.

From the beginning I said to her “If someone is trying to tell you something, for God’s sake listen!”

What was extraordinary about her experience is that it came about due to her great love for the Hooded and Bullock’s Orioles and Black-headed Grosbeaks that came to her feeders.

In the end she came to realize she was literally seeing through the eyes of these birds while they were migrating to and from Ojai.

With my strong urging she kept a detailed daily diary of her remote viewing during the Spring and Fall Migration Periods.

These voluminous notes are accessible within this page through click-on links to pdf files of her notes.

In additon, after her death, with the settlement of her estate, I obtained the possession and copyright for this material and have converted her “data” into maps I have hand drawn showing the Fall and Spring Migration of her beloved birds.

In theory these maps can be printed out and taped together into a grand composit map covering Southwestern America, Baja California, and the western mexican states of Sonora and Sinaloa.

Neither of us had ever traveled in these parts of Mexico.

Yet Billie’s Remote Viewing was so accurate that I would keep all maps away from her in order not to put thoughts in her mind by mistake.

Only after she completed a diary entry would I show her the applicable map as a sort of positive reinforcement.

During the eighties I acquired a huge collection of U.S.G.S. Topographic maps for the U.S. stretch of the bird migration, as well as similar ones for Western Mexico and Baja California.

Once Billie came up with the names of two towns that I could not find anywhere on the maps I had–Toro and Zubiate.

She was able to pinpoint where where they were and the closest towns before and after on the Migration Path, but I was not able to find them.

Only when I finally purchased the most up-to-date National Geographic Map of Mexico did I find these two towns, and they were exactly where Billie said they were.

It will be tedious for visitors to this website to read through all her notes and the maps I made based on them, but the effort will reward you greatly.

The shear volume of evidence contained within her diary puts her feat of telepathy beyond the usual scientific method questions of random chance, “blind” studies, similar to using placebos in drug testing, reproducibility of results or the so-called criticism of evidence as being “merely” anecdotal.

If you take the time to wade through her notes, “merely anecdotal” would hardly be an applicable description.

Shortly after her Remote Vewing experiences began I told her it was nearly useless information unless she could pin down the exact coordinates of the location of the birds at any particular time.

In response she was able to not only pick out the names of towns, highways, but streets as well, giving the exact names of the street corner signs at an intersection.

Once I had to drive to San Diego and a couple of other times to Los Angeles and parts of Riverside, Orange, and San Bernardino Counties in the early eighties and made a point to take photos of many of the same locations Billie had seen and written down notes about before–I have scanned these film prints and placed them next to the relevant entry in her Diary.

In the end she experienced what has been popularly called “burn-out.”

Finally she just could not do it anymore and the diary entries dribbled off from1987 to 1990.

It was just too draining mentally and physically, and her life was falling apart in other ways.

Billie and I always wanted to co-author a book on this, but now cyberspace books-on-line have enveloped and overtaken us and the “blogosphere” rules the day.

Publishing her Magnum Opus on the Internet seems to make more sense than trying to get a publisher to print a book of it.

Example of Remote Viewing Verification:

A Photograph requested by Jon Dieges taken years later by Jon Dieges' client Roz K. when she was in the area visiting their son in VIsta nearby. — A Photograph requested by Jon Dieges taken years later by Jon Dieges’ client Roz K. when she was in the area visiting their son in VIsta nearby.

DIARY is organized in Chronological Order 1980-1987:

When the telepathic impressions first started for Billie, they seemed to come out of nowhere.

They came so fast she jotted them down on the only paper handy such as a paper towel, making them nearly illegible.

This situation was corrected as soon as possible.

Very soon she became a very good reporter, answering Who? What? When? Where? and What was the weather like there?

Soon she told me one of the strangest things ever shortly after this Remote Viewing phenomenon began.

What she said could be partly explained by the fact that nearly 3/4 of the 1000-mile Oriole migration is in Western Mexico and Baja California.

Someone spoke to her in her mind in Spanish, which she knew a little of from spending time in San Miguel Allende in the 1940’s.

When she told me about it she said she didn’t know how to translate “recibirse” into English.

Subsequently I found out “recibirse” mostly applies to receiving a degree from a university.

So, putting that fact together with what she was able to translate, the voice said to her: “I remember you; to receive a degree in bird migration, listen to me and I will show you the way;” en Espanol, “Yo te recuerdo; recibirse en la migracion de los pajoros, escuchame y te indicare la ruta.”

“Way” could have a double meaning here of “method” as well as “route” but in Spanish “ruta” does not the double meaning; nevertheless, “the voice,” knowing the recipient of this “mensaje” spoke English, could have known that, once translated, the double meaning would be obvious.

A triple meaning could also have been intended since “the way” could also have referred to a spiritual path or journey, which it certainly became.

GENERAL MIGRATION ROUTE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TO AND FROM THE OJAI VALLEY:

WEBSITEdiaryMapOfSouthernCaliforniaWithMigrationRouteHighlightedInOrange

This is the only photo, about 1976, we were able to get of the mother Hooded Oriole we called "Lemon-yellow Mother" who was the mother of "Olga Oriole" the heroine of our story--Olga was reborn in the wild in the Spring of 1976, lived eight years while mated to "Most Beautiful" and raised over thirty children with him and died at Williams Spring in the Quitobaquito Oasis in the southern arizona desert during the Spring Migration of 1983. "Most Beautiful" died the year before in July of 1982 after the last set of children were born--when he knew his heart was giving out after eight years, he went to the "Secret Spring & Waterfall" just to the east which had pure water coming from deep in the ground and was just remote and slow enough that the adjoining ranch could not use it for their citrus irrigation--there "MB" took his last drink of water and curled up to pass away. — This is the only photo, about 1976, we were able to get of the mother Hooded Oriole we called “Lemon-yellow Mother” who was the mother of “Olga Oriole” the heroine of our story–Olga was reborn in the wild in the Spring of 1976, lived eight years while mated to “Most Beautiful” and raised over thirty children with him and died at Williams Spring in the Quitobaquito Oasis in the southern arizona desert during the Spring Migration of 1983. “Most Beautiful” died the year before in July of 1982 after the last set of children were born–when he knew his heart was giving out after eight years, he went to the “Secret Spring & Waterfall” just to the east which had pure water coming from deep in the ground and was just remote and slow enough that the adjoining ranch could not use it for their citrus irrigation–there “MB” took his last drink of water and curled up to pass away.

FIRST ARRIVALS OF ORIOLES 1974-1979:

1) WEBSITEdiaryfirstOrioleArrivalsbeforeNineteen80

A view of the snow-capped mountains surrounding the East End of the Ojai Valley, the "home" of most of the birds that are the subject of this story. — A view of the snow-capped mountains surrounding the East End of the Ojai Valley, the “home” of most of the birds that are the subject of this story.

SPRING 1980:

2)1980SpringThursdayMarch6

3) WEBSITE3rd1980SpringFridayMarch7

4) WEBSITE4thsubIntroRVdiarypage1

4) WEBSITE5th1980SpringSaturdayMarch8p1

6) WEBSITE6th1980SpringSaturdayMarch8p2a

7) WEBSITE7th1980SpringSundayMarch9p1

8) WEBSITE8th1980SpringSundayMarch9p2

9) WEBSITE9th1980SpringMondayMarch10p1

10) WEBSITE10th1980SpringMondayMarch10p2

Billie with Duffy Lewis at Charles Butler's 90th Birthday Party — Billie with Duffy Lewis at Charles Butler’s 90th Birthday Party.

FALL 1980:

11) WEBSITEdiary1980FallTuesdayAugust26

12) WEBSITEdiary1980FallMondaySept8

13) WEBSITEdiary1980FallTuesdaySept9

14) WEBSITEdiary1980FallTuesdaySept9part2

15) WEBSITEdiary1980FallWednesdaySept10

16) WEBSITEdiary1980FallThursdaySept11

17) SundaySept21Nineteen80

18) SundaySept21Nineteen80p2

19) MondaySept22Nineteen80p1

20) MondaySept22Nineteen80p2

21) TuesdaySept23Nineteen80

22) Nineteen80noday

Note: the page numbers added to Billie’s notes refer to the page in the Thomas Guide to Streets for that county in California. They were invaluable in searching for what sometimes seemed “a needle in a haystack.”

No Me, Know Me, No Meat (Excerpts)

Olga’s Song (Excerpts) copyright 1998 & 2014, Jon Dieges:

DIARY is organized in Chronological Order 1980-1987:

SPRING 1980:

FALL 1980:

SPRING 1981:

FALL, 1981, Part One:

FALL, 1981, Part Two:

SPRING 1982:

FALL 1982:

SPRING 1983:

FALL 1983:

SPRING 1984 :

SPRING 1985 and FALL 1985:

SPRING 1986 and FALL 1986:

SPRING 1987, FALL 1987, SPRING 1988, FALL 1988, SPRING 1989, FALL 1989, SPRING 1990 and FALL 1990:

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