10-18-2019, 02:17 PM
I knew Mark Comings for several years before his marriage to Elisabeth Targ. I worked with him at the "ISSO" laboratory in San Francisco... or rather, we set up a facility for him to use to reproduce his claimed Berkeley crystal experimental phenomenon as well as some other projects he pitched to the lab coordinator who was at that time a NASA scientist. But Mark did not spend more than a few minutes in "his" lab and of course never reproduced anything of interest other than lots and lots of verbiage. He had 2 uncanny powers: He could cause computers and test equipment to fail just by walking past them, and he could hold even educated people in hypnotic fascination while he talked about his conjectures and delusions. (I on the other hand could make faulty equipment start working again by touching it, and could bore whole classrooms of students into falling asleep within ten minutes. So I know whereof I speak.)
I had moved on to other things by the time Elisabeth found out about her glioblastoma and married Mark out of some kind of desperation. During her last days at Hayfields, Mark was around, as well as many other friends of hers. I was dismayed by his attitude towards the whole thing, and that was the last I saw of him.
Later on I tried to find him and found out that he had gotten involved with something called the "Hathor Ascension Movement" led by Gabrielle Hathor (aka Gabrielle Wilson, Maha Devi, others) which later morphed into the "Mahi Ascension Movement" and "Ananda Health Resort" cult. A lot more of this story can be found in comments at https://forum.culteducation.com/read.php?12,27266,53744
I have no idea where he is now, whether he is alive or dead. Certainly the obituary for "Mark David Comings" that has been linked is not the same fellow at all.
I had moved on to other things by the time Elisabeth found out about her glioblastoma and married Mark out of some kind of desperation. During her last days at Hayfields, Mark was around, as well as many other friends of hers. I was dismayed by his attitude towards the whole thing, and that was the last I saw of him.
Later on I tried to find him and found out that he had gotten involved with something called the "Hathor Ascension Movement" led by Gabrielle Hathor (aka Gabrielle Wilson, Maha Devi, others) which later morphed into the "Mahi Ascension Movement" and "Ananda Health Resort" cult. A lot more of this story can be found in comments at https://forum.culteducation.com/read.php?12,27266,53744
I have no idea where he is now, whether he is alive or dead. Certainly the obituary for "Mark David Comings" that has been linked is not the same fellow at all.
