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Jack O'Brien
jobrien@alltel.net

Jack was born in Chicago, Illinois on November 9, 1925. His family moved to his grandfather's farm in the Ozark mountains of northern Arkansas to weather the post depression era after the 1928 Stockmarket Crash, and later to the nearby town of Harrison During WWII, Jack spent two years in the Army from 1944 to 1946, serving as a statistical clerk in the Philippine Islands, then returned to complete a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He then entered the die casting industry, working in various engineering and management positions in three companies until 1972 when he formed the Shamrock Engineering Company to develop and manufacture efficiency improving devices for the die casting and plastic injection molding industry. This company was sold in 1989 when he retired. He was granted 8 patents primarily on the devices his company still manufactures.

Innovative ideas run in his family. His grandmother's father developed the first "all in one" work station for making bread which was copied and sold by several furniture manufacturers. Her husband patented the first riding plow with an innovative blade depth adjustment. An uncle patented the first interconnected door mechanism for opening and closing a set of garage doors with one hand. Jack's father developed an innovative device to speed up installing spokes on bicycle wheels.

Jack has a single engine fixed wing and a helicopter pilot's license. He built a Rotorway Exec two-place helicopter.

Jack married Rosalie Phifer in 1954, whom he had known from late childhood, and who lived five blocks away. However they started dating only after he had moved to Little Rock to manage a die casting company there. Most weekends he would fly his Taylorcraft plane low over her house on his way to the Harrison airport, letting her know he would soon be calling her for a date. They moved back to Harrison a year after they were married. They have two grown children, who each have two children. His wife died in January 2000.

He has been aware of a growing intuition, starting with a premonition at the age of 11 of his father's death, and years later his "seeing" and talking with the guests of honor at funerals he attended, which included receiving substantiating information from them, indicating this was not "all in his head". This increasing intuition played an important roll in his development of the patented devices the company he founded still manufactures. The current series of psychic adventures began with his working with Devas (Nature angels) as described in the first story of this Website.

The adventures he has had are described in this URL. He had a stroke 2 and a half years ago, but he can walk with a cane. He is working on getting a crystalline body which is supposed to allow him to ascend without dieing. He will let you know when that happens. We are all working on getting one. He is 82 1/2 years old.
His avocation for years has been playing bass in Country/Western and Jazz bands.