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I am way past Francis .  I started with Frank Kepple, then Francis, then Franklin, then Keppler, Koepple, Keppel, Copple, Cepple.  Then I just searched through every single Kepple record I could find in Europe with name varation I could find, then broadened it to the entire world.  Then I tried to find any engineer deaths in Nice, France or the UK between 2005 and 2006.  Then I reran the entire original search in case I missed a record somewhere.  I used several different sites to run the records.  Then yesterday when I saw chandos@email.com I looked up Chandos, from there I ran a history on everyone in the Lyttelton family (They hold the Chandos British Title).  Also tried to locate any records of any Kepple with an engineering degree or who worked as an engineer.

I might try down the horse trainer route, does anyone know what type of classes he was teaching?

First off I would like to thank Xanth for the additional information.  While that last post of his doesn't really help with his identity, it does help to clear up some of the strangeness surrounding his final posts.  I spent some time this evening looking into what chandos might mean from his email alias.  It most likely, given he was from the UK, appears to be a reference to some British titles, only one still in use is Viscount Chandos held by the Lyttelton family.  I looked through their records (not hard to find as they are British nobles) and not surprisingly none of them appear to be a likely match for our Frank Kepple, though the current generation of Lyttelton's were born around the 50's and 60's.

Second thing I would like to say is I tried to be very careful in my initial post not to imply Frank's experiences or knowledge he shared was false.  I don't think the idea that Frank Kepple was really not Frank Kepple is really far fetched for anyone who has read his posts.  When it came to his PMR life he seemed to hold most things close to the vest.  He did not even share his AP experiences with his wife for many years.  If he was a professional in a scientific field, I do not think it is unreasonable for him to not want to risk his real name getting attached to thousands of posts on AP.  Only thing that is kind of odd is why use a false name and not just an alias?  But who knows.  I also must admit there is a chance he really was named Frank Kepple and his records don't show up for some unusual reason, who knows maybe he was born somewhere else and moved to the UK.  Though I doubt this chance is very large.  When you take into account the fact he was married, had I believe more than one higher education degree in engineering and also taught, chances are some record would have popped up.

So whenever I read a book, even nonfiction books, I spend at least a little bit of time researching who the author is.  I believe it is important to know where someone comes from and it clues you into their motivations and you can gain a lot more from your reading.  Not to mention you can objectively verify things they have said are true about themselves.  This is especially important when what they write comes from personal experience.  After all if you walked into a classroom and the professor said he had a Ph.D in Physics, but you discovered he really had only a high school diploma, you probably would not listen to what he said much.

So after reading Frank's phasing method I decided to figure out who he was thinking it would eat up an hour or two of my life.  That was not to be the case.  Literally dozens of hours have gone into this.  In case you don't know Frank Kepple came onto the forums in 2002.  I don't know what he originally wrote as his first 600 or so posts were deleted from the Astral Pulse servers (servers did not have the storage back then they have now I am guessing and posts were not kept forever).  His last post was on September 17, 2005 and his last recorded login was October 6th, 2005.  Nine years after his abrupt disappearance he is probably still known as the greatest online contributor to the world of Astral Projection.  Most notability he is known for the phasing model of projecting, along with a structure of consciousness which is rooted in the Focus system Monroe created.  Just like Monroe Frank Kepple gave his profession as audio (and mechanical I believe) engineer.  I do not know if his age was ever stated anywhere but He did claim to have over 20 years of OBE experience (in 2002) and said his first reading of Journeys was in 1977.

So now that we all know who Frank Kepple is, who really is/was Frank Kepple.  Franks last posts are, to me, a little strange.  He talks about having computer issues in a series of posts at the end of July and early August, then nothing until mid September when he says some health issues came up (I'm not sure if these health issues are documented in any posts previous to his last 3 posts or not).  Then nothing.  If you take his posts at face value the obvious conclusion is that he probably passed away, which is the most popular view on his fate.  I am going to try and keep this post filled as much as possible with only facts so I will not give an opinion on this.

What I will state though is that I believe there was never any such person as Frank Kepple, Married audio engineer from the UK.  Fact is several hours of searching through birth and death records show the last person even close to a Frank Kepple was a Frances C Kepple, born 1902 and died 1956.  I also looked into the last name Kepple and searched for various variations of it (Kopple, Koeplle, Koeppel, Keppler) and nothing.  Given he was married there should be at least a birth and marriage certificate.  I also searched through the French records as I know he had posted he was living in Nice, France around the time he stopped posting.  Again nothing, though these records are much less organized and complete than the UK records.

An interesting side note is the only record of any Frank Kepple in the UK is a television character from the movie, Bernard and the Genie.  This movie was aired on BBC in 1991, released in a limited edition on VHS 2 years later and has never been aired or released since.  If you have never seen it there is a copy of the whole movie on youtube and it is actually a pretty entertaining movie starring Alan Cummings.  Frank Kepple is a friendly elevator operator who is a habitual liar.  The main character tells him about everything going wrong in his life and Frank tells him a tall tale to cheer him up.  Then the main character says is that real Frank, to which Frank Kepple replies, no no it isn't.  This is either here nor there as far as evidence for anything just something I found very interesting as the only UK record of a Frank Kepple.

Really this proves nothing but points in the direction of strong evidence now existing that there never was a Frank Kepple, enginner, from the UK in a time period that would line up with the Frank Kepple of these forums.  What that means for how you choose to go about what you take from his posts is up for each and everyone to decide.  This is in no way meant to be a Troll against the memory of Frank, only a presentation of some interesting facts.

Lastly, it is worth noting there is one sole picture of Frank Kepple I have been able to find.  It was taken by Stephen C. (who posted here as Eol007) of London.  He states on his meetup UK page he met Frank Kepple in person and this picture was taken around 2004 (5 years ago in a 2009 article).  You cannot get a good look of Frank's eyes from the photo as he is looking at the camera but his eyes are tilted back into his head.  This would be strange if not for Frank's outspoken use of rolling his eyes back into his head as a Projection technique.

If anyone who was around during Frank's time has any additional information, or if anything in this article is written in error, please send me a message and it will be corrected.

If anyone is wondering about my motivates it is merely to share the findings of a lot of hours searching for who this Frank guy was.  I feel the fact that his identify cannot be confirmed is worthy of noting.