Jamie MacGregor
Names: Jamie MacGregorJames Somerled MacGregorDaft JamieProfessor MacGregorJamiethe Scotthe Scotsman
First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 16 (15)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Intervention
- Ch 16Jamie is a twenty-year-old Islay native with strong psychic talents, given a bursary at the University of Edinburgh; he is bored, wretched and homesick.
- Ch 16Jamie climbs Arthur's Seat when tension builds, and there he recovers his lost ability to travel out of body.
- Ch 16Jamie can use telepathy ('the Speech'), clairvoyance, psychokinesis and out-of-body travel, but unreliably, and he tires of the endless testing.
- Ch 16Jamie argues that psi research is futile until people with strong, controllable psychic powers are born, comparing current researchers to moles trying to study stars.
- Ch 35In 1991 MacGregor revealed the first practical application of mind-power, vindicating Denis's theories and opening a lasting rift in humanity.
- Ch 37Jamie is a professor leading EE research at Edinburgh University; he is a strong psychosensitive, six feet three, and furious at the CIA's attempt to recruit his team.
- Ch 37Jamie decides the only safe course is to hold a public media demonstration of EE at Edinburgh University, probably by autumn, accepting the risk himself.
- Ch 38MacGregor is a Scottish professor whose researches perfected mental programming for remote clairvoyant viewing, practiced by at least thirty people connected with Edinburgh's Parapsychology Unit.
- Ch 38MacGregor plans a world media briefing around 22 October 1991 to announce and demonstrate psychic espionage.
- Ch 38MacGregor is an idealist who wants to abolish military secrecy to prevent nuclear war; he is fearless, unbribable, professionally unassailable and personally blameless.
- Ch 38An attempt was made on MacGregor's life in April 1991, and several state security agencies surveil him intensively.
- Ch 39MacGregor, an older colleague of Denis, planned a public demonstration of operant powers tied to a political proposal and sought Dartmouth's cooperation.
- Ch 40Jamie wakes on the day of the public EE demonstration with a queasy stomach and sinus headache, and cures the headache with self-directed redactive commands.
- Ch 40Jamie holds the Arthur Koestler Chair of Parapsychology at Edinburgh and learned EE from his grandmother in the Isles.
- Ch 40Jamie cannot perceive individual mental signatures or auras at a distance, unlike seekersense adepts.
- Ch 40Jamie fears the demonstration may fail, but Gran tells him doubt poisons the powers; he resolves to step in if Nigel or Alana have problems.
- Ch 40Edinburgh professor who stages a global press demonstration of EE, proving trained people can remotely view anything anywhere.
- Ch 41MacGregor decided to go public with the demonstration soon, partly because someone tried to kill him in April.
- Ch 41An operant with strong coercive ability tried to attack MacGregor in an alley with a needle coated in ricin; an unknown man in a duffelcoat scared him off.
- Ch 41MacGregor argued that humans are all one race, 'Homoterrestris', who survive or perish together, not Homo sapiens versus Homo superior.
- Ch 43The Soviet General Secretary suggested MacGregor be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
- Ch 50Jamie leads the Parapsychology Unit group and proposes that unbidden precognition might be instigated by angels, a theory he attributes to Denis Remillard.
- Ch 56Jamie MacGregor is an antiaggression operant on the platform; his announcement was the subject of the Edinburgh press conference.
- Ch 60Peace Prize laureate in 2002 with Tamara Sakhvadze; responds to Lucille with a humorous mental cartoon begging for a grant.
- Ch 73Professor Jamie MacGregor will demonstrate at the Metapsychic Congress a mechanical aura-detection device, tested at the University of Edinburgh, meant to classify newborn operants' faculties.
- Ch 75Jamie MacGregor is demonstrating a prototype bioenergetic-field detector at 1:30 that day.
- Ch 77Jamie reports every air-bus has been sabotaged while crews ate, leaving the delegates unable to evacuate.
Connections
- friend ofNigel Weinstein
- family ofGrannygrandmother
- family ofJeanhusband and wife
- ally ofNigel Weinsteinworks for him
- has memberAlana ShaunavonEE adept on his team
- enemy ofThe Unknown
- related toJamie's rescuersaved him from the Unknown
- member ofUniversity of Edinburgh
- enemy ofPRD
- family ofColinolder brother
- related toAlana Shaunavondoctoral student of
- ally ofDenis
- family ofDavidfather
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 16Jamie's out-of-body visit to Islay
After climbing Arthur's Seat, Jamie regains his out-of-body ability, flies to his family's home on Islay and talks telepathically with Granny, who urges him to persevere and warns him a friend is coming.
- Book 1 · Ch 16Nigel rescues Jamie and they discuss psi research
Nigel finds Jamie in the fog and drives him back. Jamie argues psi research is futile until strong psychics evolve, and persuades Nigel to work with him on training clairvoyance after his degree.
- Book 1 · Ch 37CIA approaches Nigel
CIA agents offered Nigel two million pounds and veiled threats; he refused and set their cases alight, prompting Jamie and Nigel to decide on an early public EE demonstration.
- Book 1 · Ch 37Attack in the close
Walking home, Jamie is mentally compelled into an Old Town close by an operant assassin with a tube weapon, but a burly stranger grabs him and drives the attacker off.
- Book 1 · Ch 37Jamie and Jean plan protection
At home Jamie tells Jean, who suspects the rescuer was also operant. She advises countermeasures against the intelligence agencies.
- Book 1 · Ch 38Maurer reports on MacGregor to the PRD
In Zürich, Maurer shows the PRD documentary proof of MacGregor's clairvoyant viewing research and the planned 22 October media demonstration, warning it will destroy banking confidentiality. The directors are dismayed.
- Book 1 · Ch 39Rift over the Edinburgh demonstration
Rogatien learns telepathically that Denis has yielded to MacGregor's plan for a public demonstration; they quarrel and become estranged.
- Book 1 · Ch 40Jamie's astral journey to Islay
Before the demonstration, Jamie spots Arkhipov watching his house, then travels out of body to Islay where Gran reassures and blesses him in Gaelic.
- Book 1 · Ch 40EE demonstration begins
Watson introduces MacGregor, who explains EE and Nigel Weinstein, then a live San Francisco link shows Kemp endorsing parapsychology.
- Book 1 · Ch 40California card experiment
Nigel Weinstein in Edinburgh remotely views and writes down three sealed cards held in California; all three are confirmed correct to the audience's uproar.
- Book 1 · Ch 40Alana exposes Maurer's weapon
Alana in Auckland views Maurer's verse, then sees his camera is a weapon. Journalists tackle him and smash it; he is arrested.
- Book 1 · Ch 40Sakhvadze's call from Alma-Ata
Tamara Sakhvadze phones in illicitly, endorses the demonstration, declares an end to state secrecy and invites the world to a congress in Alma-Ata.
- Book 1 · Ch 43Psi-Eye and disarmament summit
After the Psi-Eye plan was delivered to both capitals, a Summit was held, SALT was updated and signed, and nuclear disarmament began, with both superpowers behaving honestly.
- Book 1 · Ch 50Shooting outside the Greyfriars pub
After lunch an elderly fanatic quoting scripture machine-guns Alana and Jean outside the pub; Alana dies instantly and Jean dies in Jamie's arms.
- Book 1 · Ch 50Nigel burns the gunman
Nigel sets the assassin ablaze in the churchyard; Jamie smothers the flames, and Nigel attacks him before being flung against a tree. Nigel is arrested.
- Book 1 · Ch 56Pyotr's birthday feast
Pyotr's family and guests celebrate with a lamb's head feast; Denis rescues it by coercion. Tamara privately explains Kremlin politics and organizes nine minds to protect the General Secretary.
- Book 1 · Ch 77Denis proposes a pacifist grand metaconcert
Besieged in the chalet, Denis tells the delegates that Victor and Kieran are behind the attack and proposes a worldwide non-coercive metaconcert to reach the attackers' hearts, if the group chooses to uphold the Ethic.