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parents, ungrateful, unholy,
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4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather
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godliness but denying its
power. Have nothing to do with them.
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learning but never able
to acknowledge the truth.
8 Just as Jannes and
Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men
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depraved minds, who, as far as
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Know your
enemy and know yourself;
in a hundred battles,
you will never be defeated.
When you
are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself,
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winning or losing are equal.
If ignorant both of your
enemy and of yourself,
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Alnor, William M. (Winter/Spring
1990) Christian
Research Journal News Watch. Margarita,
http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/cri/cri-jrnl/web/crj0065a.html
Ebon, Martin. Amplified
Mind Power Research In The Former
http://www.biomindsuperpowers.com/Pages/Ebon1.html
Kasten, Len. Psychic Discoveries Since The Cold War
http://www.atlantisrising.com/issue14/ar14psychic.html
Sharma, L K. (Friday,
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Parapsychology and Self-Deception in Science
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Christian Research Journal
News Watch
by William M. Alnor
from the Christian Research
Journal, Winter/Spring 1990, page 5. The Editor-in-Chief of the Christian
Research Journal is Elliot Miller.
In the
A full-blown New Age occult revival is taking place in the
Although in recent months U.S. mission agencies have
been allowed to ship as many Bibles as they want into Russia, and although
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev pledged support in allowing free practice of
religion in the country during his recent meeting with the pope, there is much
evidence to suggest that New Age occultism is fast becoming the religion -- or
pseudoscience -- of choice for the Russian people.
It is certainly true that in recent months many
Western evangelists have been in
Most observers say the revival is partly
due to the spiritual suppression imposed on the people since the 1917 Russian
Revolution; leaders now
realize that they cannot
extinguish the personal quest for spiritual meaning.
Others say interest in the occult has been fanned by
economics; such New Age themes as ESP, reincarnation, psychic healing, and UFOs sell papers and find a
ready market in the Soviet citizenry. As an August 1989 Associated Press
dispatch noted, the Russians have historically been taken by the occult and
fantastic stories:
"Since the days of the wild-eyed monk Rasputin, hypnotist and confidant at the court of
the last czar,
Russians have been intrigued by the occult and fantastic, and stories about
UFOs, vanished planets and ESP have always had an eager audience."
Whatever the reasons, here are some of the facts
surrounding the Soviet psychic revival:
The most popular man in the Soviet Union is not
Gorbachev, according to an October 12 front page story in the
According to the Inquirer, "Kashpirovsky has
the nation in thrall."
When he appears on national TV, "Soviet citizens drop everything. People
halt work and leave dinner tables. The next morning, his eerie talent is the
talk of rush-hour subways." Under the dark-haired man's "steely gaze and hypnotic voice, they say, tumors shrink,
scars disappear and surgery is performed [sometimes live on national
television] without anesthetic."
During the press conference, government officials
treated reporters to several film clippings of Kashpirovsky's sessions.
(Presently he does two regularly scheduled TV "seances" a month;
additional appearances, live or taped, are broadcast
every week or two.) In some of the clippings, people offered testimonials to
his power, saying their tumors shrank, scars and
birthmarks faded, and pains disappeared. The Inquirer went on to say that
Kashpirovsky is close to "becoming a personality cult," as he received 20
bags of mail -- about 40,000 letters and telegrams -- from Russians during the
preceding two weeks.
Kashpirovsky is careful to say his abilities
are nonreligious.
The state, which has sponsored psychic
research by the military for decades, is more than willing to sponsor the
occult in other parts of Soviet society as well. Frequent articles on occultic themes and UFO
activity have even been appearing recently in state-run newspapers like Pravda,
and also in the one-million circulation daily newspaper Socialist Industry, a
vehicle of the Communist Party's Central Committee. And James Oberg, writing in
the January 1990 Omni magazine, said that in Moscow's Cosmos Pavilion, the
Soviet Union's "museum" of relics from the dawn of Soviet space
flight, one of the main and best attended exhibits is concerned with
psychic powers and aliens.
Oberg also noted that in the era of glasnost,
"a vigorous UFO culture [which often associates itself with the New Age
movement] has
blossomed across the
From the West, various New Age organizations have
been making inroads into the
Politically, Esalen has clearly seized upon the
opportunities created in the
According to the 1990 Annual Directory Edition of
the New Age Journal, other groups involved in New Age-oriented citizens
diplomacy programs with the Soviets are the Citizens Exchange Council, the
Earthstewards Network, the Institute of Noetic Sciences, the Promoting Enduring
Peace group, US/USSR Bridges for Peace, and Youth Ambassadors of America. The
One prominent Western mystic who is a disciple of
Transcendental Meditation
and is intensely involved with the Soviets is Deepak Chopra. Author of three New Age
books --
including the recent Bantam best seller, Quantum Healing -- Chopra has recently been
given the go-ahead to start several Ayurvedic (ancient Indian) medicine centers in
In an interview published in the September/October
Starlite Times (one of New York City's leading New Age magazines), Chopra said
he gave a presentation on Ayurveda and TM to the USSR's Institute for
Preventative Medicine,
which led to another presentation partially sponsored by the Academy of
Sciences.
Later, Chopra said, the Russian health minister invited him to make still
another presentation -- and that ended with his signing a contract to teach
medicine in the
"The most exciting thing for me is the idea of
completely influencing millions of people through Ayurveda in the
All of these developments create difficulties
for the fragile but fast-growing church in
Weapons Arrests and "Doomsday
Talk"
Since early July, three high-ranking Church
Universal and Triumphant (CUT) members have been arrested on weapons offenses. In each case, the members
were attempting
to stockpile weapons in preparation for an anticipated nuclear holocaust.
One of those arrested was Edward Francis, the
husband of sect leader Elizabeth Clare Prophet. Francis was sentenced on
December 15, 1989 to one month in jail and three months' house detention for his role in a
conspiracy to buy enough weapons and paramilitary supplies to arm a 200-member
church army.
Law officials say they broke up the plot on July 7
when Vernon Hamilton, the former chief of the church's Cosmic Honor Guard (i.e.,
its security),
was arrested in Spokane, Washington after purchasing weapons under a false
name. He was
apparently planning to ship them to the sect's 33,000-acre encampment in
Later, on October 13, CUT staff member Frank Black
was arrested transporting two more Barrett semiautomatic weapons to
Although Mrs. Prophet and CUT officials claim they
didn't have anything to do with the attempted weapons purchases, published
reports -- and statements by Francis -- make clear that it was Mrs.
Prophet's "revelations" of a coming nuclear war with the
But in mid-November, the church succumbed to media
pressure and gave reporters a tour of one of the underground shelters. Ten
of them, capable of holding about 1,400 people, were nearing completion, according to the November
19, 1989
Mrs. Prophet,
often referred to as "Guru Ma" by her estimated 150,000 followers, has had
difficulty pinpointing the date of the supposed apocalypse. According to Mrs.
Prophet's doomsday scenario, the
According to published reports, Mrs. Prophet arrived
at the October 2 doomsday date through "El Morya," one of many
"ascended masters" (superhuman entities inhabiting a higher
dimension) that are said to speak through her. When that date came and went, Mrs. Prophet
said the prayers of sect members had postponed the event, and December 31 was
the new date. But she added an immediate qualifier, according to the November 3
All the talk of weapons and doomsday has further
galvanized local residents against the sect; some have compared CUT's
presence in the area to the building of Jonestown in
CUT bought the 12,000-acre Forbes
Ranch from recently deceased multimillionaire Malcolm Forbes in 1981, and in 1986 moved its
headquarters there from
Rajneesh Dies of Heart Failure
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, the self-proclaimed "rich
man's guru"
who once
tried to take over a town in Oregon before being deported from the U.S. in 1985, died of a heart attack at age 58 in his native India on January 19.
Rajneesh came to the U.S. in
1981 and, the following year,
established a commune and would-be city known as Rajneeshpurum near rural
Antelope,
After pleading guilty to two counts of immigration
fraud, Rajneesh was deported and became an international pariah -- he was rejected from
settling in Asia, Europe, South America, and the
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Ebon, Martin. Amplified
Mind Power Research In The Former
http://www.biomindsuperpowers.com/Pages/Ebon1.html
Amplified Mind
Power Research
In The Former
by Martin Ebon
NOTE OF INTRODUCTION
Martin Ebon is a well-known figure in parapsychology
circles. From 1953 to 1965 he was administrative assistant of the Parapsychology
Association in
There is another aspect of Martin, though, which in
my opinion makes him one of a kind, for he is much more than just a
parapsychologist. He speaks several languages, and is also a lifelong researcher/writer/analyst
regarding political and scientific developments of Eastern European countries, the
former Soviet Union, and post-Communist
His credentials along these lines are impressive.
Following service with the
His deep interests in parapsychology, plus esteem of
him as an exacting political journalist, made him a "natural" when
official suspicions arose that the
In addition to Martin's many books on matters
parapsychological, he published: WORLD COMMUNISM TODAY; MALENKOV: STALIN'S
SUCCESSOR; a biography of ERNESTO ["Che"] GUEVARA; PSYCHIC
WARFARE (1983);
THE ANDROPOV FILE (a biography of the former head of the KGB); and THE SOVIET
PROPAGANDA MACHINE (1987).
His most recent book is KGB: DEATH AND
REBIRTH (1994),
which examines and documents the evolution of the new Russian "KGB" after the old
Soviet KGB was officially pronounced dead in October 1991. As the U.S. Secretary of State,
Warren Christopher, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: "We don't have
illusions about the Russians. We understand that the intelligence service may have
changed its name
- but it has probably not changed its method of operation." [See Martin Ebon,
In my long-term experience of him, Martin has never been pro
or con political enthusiast of any kind. He has always been a non-emotional documentarian
of the first water,
aided by a dignified, penetrating mind and vast experience in world, European and East European
affairs. He and I had often discussed the "gap" in American
awareness regarding the
nature of Soviet mind-research, a gap made enduring because of Western
intelligence agency and media reluctance to fair open knowledge about that research or its evolutionary
background.
Although it took some doing on my part, Martin
finally agreed to provide this paper for this website after I impressed on him
that no
one else could, would or was qualified to do so for the sake of posterity. Of all the essays and
papers in this biomind database, this one is of signal importance - for it provides
the historical, causative link as to why the intelligence agencies,
antipathetic to psi research, were eventually forced into responding.
This paper was to go beyond the Cold War years and into what has
happened to the KGB-sponsored research since the fall of the
I must now take this opportunity to express my
deepest and most enduring gratitude to Martin and his fabulous, equally
knowledgeable wife, Chariklia Sophia Ebon (1921-1996), who put up with me for
so many years since I first met them in 1971. Your friendship would have been
more than enough. But your mentorship in all respects, and including so very
many difficult situations and decisions I was forced to make, prevented me from
making far more mistakes than I did. So, Martin and "Koutsie", you
have deeply honored me with your countless kindnesses and often did so far beyond the
call of duty.
Ingo Swann
AMPLIFIED
MIND-POWER RESEARCH IN THE FORMER SOVIET
Soviet Cold
War Biophysics and Biocommunications Research
By Martin Ebon
TOPICAL AREA: Developmental psi/Cold War psi warfare
gap
KEY TERMS: Consciousness, psychic research, bio-physics, bio-
communications, telepathy,
mind enhancement, KGB, CIA, mind-boosting, amplified mind power
ABSTRACT: The background of the Soviet Cold War psi-research
effort is summarized under the headings of: The Toth Incident; The American
Fear of Psychic Warfare
and the Credibility Gap; A Brief History of the Soviet Research Machine; The
Novosibirsk Connection;
The
KGB Takes Control;
Centers of USSR Psi Studies; Three Major Directions Within the Soviet Research
Machine (Code by Telepathy, Boosting the Human Brain, Amplified Mind Power); Washington's
Dilemma;
Outline of 1952 CIA Project on ESP; Congressional Response, 1981.
*
THE TOTH
INCIDENT
In
Toth had first met the Russian biophysicist earlier
in the year. While Petukhov seemed eager to show his scientific findings to
Toth, the correspondent felt that his work was "only theory and far
too complicated" for a newspaper story.
Toth reported that, as best as he could recall,
Petukhov asserted that certain particles of
living cells "are emitted" when such cells divide, that they can be
"detected and measured and that these radiating particles can carry
information." Their function could "explain the basis for telepathy"
and related phenomena.
*
To Toth, Valery Petukhov seemed "like a serious
scientist."
According to a card he handed the reporter, he was Chief of the
Laboratory of Bio-Physics at the State Control Institute of Medical and
Biological Research.
He had been recommended to Toth by a dissent Soviet
scientist who later emigrated. At their first meeting, the
*
Months passed. In mid-June 1977 Petukhov phoned
Toth. The biophysicist told Toth that his experiments had succeeded. He planned
to describe them in a formal scientific paper; but, as Soviet
authorities would certainly refuse to publish his work, he wanted to
translate the paper into English and give it to Toth for publication in the West.
At the rendezvous, Petukhov took a manuscript from
his briefcase. It contained over twenty typewritten sheets, complete with
charts and photos of charts. It looked like a complex, comprehensive scientific
paper, well-documented, appropriately technical.
*
Toth never managed to get a real look at the paper;
for it was at that moment a melodrama began, when a Soviet-made Fiat braked
sharply at the curb.
The car was filled with five plainclothesmen who
jumped out and quite unceremoniously pulled Toth inside.
Robert Toth's account stated: "Our car drove
through red lights and down one-way streets the wrong way to a militia
(police)
station. My captors were firm and polite, offering me cigarettes.
I was ushered into a room with an inspector who
declined my requests to phone the
*
In addition to the Foreign Ministry official and a
KGB agent, a man named Sparkin, the police inspector summoned a senior
researcher of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Professor I.M. Mikhailov. Mikhailov was asked to
provide expert testimony on the paper Petukhov had given to Toth, which the
police were now treating as "evidence."
Specifically, Professor Mikhailov stated: "The
article beginning Petukhov, Valery G., from the word of `micro-organism
self-radiation' to the words `by means of vacuum particles in space' states
that within the content of living cells are particles . . . and these particles
are grounds for discussing the fundamental problems of biology in the context
of biology and parapsychology. There is also information about the uses of such
particles. This material is secret and shows the kind of work done in some
scientific institutes of our state."
*
It was this last sentence that raised the eyebrows
among observers of Soviet parapsychological studies throughout the world.
Earlier,
Yet the Mikhailov testimony in the Toth incident
directly contradicted the
*
Professor Mikhailov's testimony on the Petukhov
paper and Toth's police interrogation at the
At last, a representative of the
*
Toth's
The following Tuesday, Toth had a telephone call
from another
"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is authorized
to state the following to the American Embassy:
"On the 11th of June of this year Robert Charles
Toth was apprehended at the moment of meeting a Soviet citizen, Petukhov Valery
Georgiyevich, which took place under suspicious circumstances. When
apprehended, the American journalist was found to have materials given to him
by Petukhov, containing secret data.
"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs informs the
American Embassy that in conformity with established procedure, Toth will be
summoned for interrogation by the investigatory organs, in connection with
which his departure from
*
Within the hour, a polite KGB agent, wearing a
flowered shirt and gray suit, arrived, asked Toth to identify himself, and told
him to come to the State Security's Lefortovo center for interrogation. He was
advised of Articles 108 and 109 of the Criminal code, and that he did not
have diplomatic immunity.
After two days of confusing interrogation, Toth was told: "Parapsychology
as a whole may not be secret information. But there could be fields of science within parapsychology
that are secret.
It is not for me, as it's a matter for experts, to say what is secret, and what
the scientist has stated that the materials you received are a secret. And you
received them under circumstances where your behavior and the information seems to be a breach of our law."
*
After the second interrogation Toth was told that he was no
longer needed.
The
The Toth incident was reported world-wide, and the
The incident then passed into oblivion, and most
were none the wiser. But intelligence analysts understood that Toth had gotten
into his hand, if only for a few moments, one of the tips of the enormous
iceberg of top secret
Soviet research into psychic powers of the human mind.
THE AMERICAN
FEAR OF PSYCHIC WARFARE
AND THE
CREDIBILITY GAP
Some years before the Toth incident, American
intelligence analysts had begun noticing a Soviet secret police (KGB) trend,
shortly after 1967,
indicating serious interest in what is called "parapsychology" in
the West.
*
This trend began when the KGB's far-flung operations came under the direction of
Yuri
Andropov, named
General
Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party in late 1982.
But even the KGB, for all of its experience, large
staff, skills, and high-priority status, had not developed a clear-cut policy
toward psychic experiments; conflicting attitudes within its leadership
appeared to have caused erratic actions.
This was well illustrated when agents arrested
Toth and
thereby revealed
that secret
research was, in fact, taking place at government institutes.
*
When columnist Jack Anderson reported early in 1981
that a
laboratory in the basement of the Pentagon was devoted to parapsychological
experiments,
his comments were heavy with ridicule and sarcasm.
*
Anderson's assistant, Ron McRae, alleged in an
article on "Psychic Warfare" (in THE INVESTIGATOR, October 1981) that
"the
Pentagon is spending millions on parapsychology in a crash program to end
McRae, who was doing research for a book on U.S.
government projects in psychic studies, said the
He wrote that its agents, as well as CIA staffers,
had been "required to take courses in mind control" at universities in the
Although such claims at the time bore earmarks of exaggeration, they were none the less indicative of
intense American interest in psi warfare possibilities.
*
But American media accounts of psi warfare spread alarm
and amusement,
and an ideological battlefield erupted, not only in the
On the ideological battlefield of international
Marxism, the
controversy about parapsychology, by whatever name, had gone on for two
decades; it showed no signs of abating.
*
Typical of those who regarded psychic studies as
ideological heresy
was Soviet
mathematician-physicist Dr. Alexander Kitaygorodsky, who had categorized
clairvoyance, precognition, and psychokinesis as "supernatural" and thus outside
"the domain of the natural sciences." Writing in the Moscow periodical NAUKA I
RELIGIA (Science and Religion), an atheistic magazine, Dr. Kitaygorodsky stated
as long ago as March 1966:
"To me, there is no doubt whatever that those who relate such fairy tales
are frauds, mystificators or, at best, grossly deceived. Men have believed in
miracles for centuries, and for centuries there have existed charlatan and
impostors, conscious or unconscious. And the struggle against such deception of
the human mind has gone on for centuries, and in each century it has to begin
anew."
*
But in the same magazine, science writer Leonid
Fillipov took the opposite view and cited Marxist gospel to prove his point.
He asked: "Does Professor Kitaygorodsky
seriously believe that the frontiers of physics have been reached?" He cited
scientific breakthroughs in radioactivity, quantum theory, and lasers, and
wrote: "What if telepathic phenomena conform to some new, as
yet undiscovered laws which do not contradict already known rules governing
electrons?"
Fillipov added: "Rejecting a priori the possibilities of telepathy and
other processes still unfamiliar to science amounts of rejecting Lenin's idea
that, on any given level of scientific development, our knowledge of
the work remains incomplete."
*
But beyond viewing-with-exaggerated-alarm, ridicule-cum-hyperbole and
credibility
gap lie the realities of psychic functions, for good or ill.
To obtain the correct perspective, let us keep in
mind that parapsychology can play only a supporting role in the
It must, therefore, be seen as one element
within a large and diffuse defensive-offensive research apparatus. Psychic elements might well be
integrated into, rather than operating separately from, other
scientific or military projects.
*
A major attraction for planners is the promise of
financial and organizational shortcuts: Why engage in high-cost armaments, for example, if one or
several psychics might influence personnel in the enemy's missile
silos, as a DIA
report suggested? The costs of military hardware are a heavy burden in national
economies in the East as well as in the West -- and ESP is cheap.
A BRIEF
HISTORY OF THE SOVIET RESEARCH MACHINE
The origins of the Soviet research remain
a mystery at
best, mostly due to gaps in accessible documentation.
In any case, it would be clear that the research and
attempted development of specific useful psi powers of mind proceeded at the
start under severe ideological difficulties.
Thus it is not easily understandable how,
and especially why,
the Soviet research machine achieved the monumental extent it did by about
1977.
*
Soviet efforts to harness telepathy
(mind-to-mind communication), telekinesis (better known as psychokinesis, the influence of
the human mind on matter),
or any other psychic ability, needed to overcome strong ideological objections
from Marxist theoreticians.
Pragmatists, even those highly placed in scientific
or government circles, needed to justify their hopes for psychic experiments in
acceptable ideological terms.
Historically, Western parapsychology was rooted in
nineteenth-century efforts to find scientific proof for such traditional
religious beliefs such as life after death.
And as psychic phenomena retain the mysterious
air of the unknown or unexplored, many Marxists accused Western parapsychologists of
propagandizing
religio-folkloric
"superstition"
-- and of advocating soft-headed "idealistic" concepts, in contrast to the strictly
"materialistic" approach promulgated by Karl Marx and V. I. Lenin.
*
Such criticisms had been voiced, on and off, for
some twenty years in the
*
As we examine analyses of Soviet
research, this continuing ideological conflict must be kept in mind. But there can be little
doubt that the extent of the Soviet effort did become enormous.
In 1978, an American intelligence
report was declassified and released, although it had originally been scheduled for
declassification in December 1990.
*
The report was entitled "Controlled
Offensive Intelligence Agency (DIA), Task Number T72-01-14.
In part it read: "The
"Many scientist,
*
In continuing, the report of the Defense
Intelligence Agency asserted that the
It noted that Soviet researchers had explored "detrimental
effects of subliminal perception techniques" that might even be "targeted against
the
*
The report stated: "The potential applications
of focusing mental influences on an enemy
through hypnotic telepathy have surely occurred to the Soviets . . . Control and
manipulation of the human consciousness must be considered a primary goal."
*
At this point, the reader should again be cautioned
that the ideological controversy about the study and use of psychic potentials
in the
"Hypnotic telepathy," of which the DIA
report spoke, may well have been one of the target areas of Soviet research,
but little
current information
on its status was available.
*
However,
In the past, Russian researchers had experimented
with telepathy-at-a-distance, a technique of
intriguing potential.
THE EARLY
ORIGINS
It was quite likely that the early origins of the
Soviet research machine may have begun with the work of Bernard Bernardovich
Kazhinsky, a student in Tiflis (now
*
In February, 1922, Kazhinsky was invited to address the All-Russian
Congress of the Association of Naturalists, a top scientific organization perhaps equivalent to the American
Institutes of Mental health today.
The topic of his lecture was HUMAN
THOUGHT-ELECTRICITY,
and he
quickly published a book under the same title. Having been invited to address the
All-Russian Congress, it would be clear that the Congress supported and funded
Kazhensky's work, while his research thereafter apparently became classified.
By 1923, he had published his early
findings in a
book entitled THOUGHT TRANSFERENCE. This book attracted favorable attention among important
brain researchers at the time.
*
More visible and easier to document was the work of
Professor Leonid L. Vasiliev, later to become Chief of the Department of
Physiology at
the University
of Leningrad.
Born in 1891, Vasiliev had been a student of
Leningrad physiologist Vladimir M. Bekhterev who had established the Leningrad
Brain Research Institute.
His granddaughter, Natalia P. Bekhtereva, had joined the Institute in 1921, and
ultimately became its director.
*
Vasiliev became a member of the Committee for
the Study of Mental Suggestion the following year.
"Mental suggestion," or
hypnosis,
became central to his interest. In 1928, he visited
*
Vasiliev established an ideological
basis for the Soviet research in several books, lectures, and articles. His basic thesis was the
experimental facts of telepathy, for example, should be examined from a physiological (or
material) viewpoint,
so that they could not be exploited by advocates of "religious
superstition" (or an idealistic view-point). He was criticized as providing a
pseudo-scientific framework for a return to idealism under the mantle of Marxist dialectical
materialism.
*
His major and influential book BIOLOGICAL
RADIO COMMUNICATION
was published in
Kazhinsky concluded that "experimental
confirmation of the fact that communication
between two people, separated by long distances, can be carried out through
water, over air and across metal barrier by
means of cerebral radiation in the
course of thinking, and without conventional communication
facilities."
He added: "One important feature of the
above-mentioned experiment is worthy of attention. The
electromagnetic waves accompanying the thought-formation process (visual
perceptions) in the inductor's brain reached the cells of the indicatee's
cortex after having traveled a long distance, not only in the air and through
water but also through the hull of a submarine.
"This would justify the following conclusions:
1) these electromagnetic waves were propagated spheroidally, not in a narrow directed
beam; 2) these waves penetrated though the submarine hull, which did not block them,
that is, it did not act as a `Faraday cage'."
*
Kazhinsky noted that a radio receiver in the marine
laboratory of the Soviet scientific research vessel VITYAZ had been
unsuccessful in intercepting electric waves emitted in the water by the torpedo
fish.
He added that: "the radio receivers in the
submarine did not intercept these waves. This prompts the conclusion that some
electromagnetic waves of a biological origin possess yet another, still unknown,
characteristic which distinguishes them from conventional radio waves. It is possible that our ignorance
of that particular characteristic impedes further development of research work
in that field."
*
Vasiliev noted in another book EXPERIMENTS IN
DISTANT INFLUENCE
(which first appeared in Moscow in 1962) that while official denials of the shore-to-submarine
experiment
suggested "a certain caution," nevertheless "This experiment
showed - and herein resides its principal value - that telepathic
information can be transmitted without loss through a thickness of water, and
through the sealed metal covering of a submarine - that is, through substances which
greatly interfere with radio communication.
"Such materials completely absorb short
waves and partly absorb medium waves, the latter being considerably attenuated, whereas the factor (still unknown to us) which
transmits suggestion penetrates them without difficulties."
*
Many have claimed that the infamous NAUTILUS story
of 1959 in the
However, by 1959, some four decades after the Soviet
research had already begun, presumably their machine
would not have needed such a prod.
The NAUTILUS was the world's first
nuclear powered submarine, launched in 1954 and christened by First Lady Mamie Eisenhower, wife
of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The NAUTILUS made its first voyage under the
North Pole in 1958.
Soon afterward, French accounts claimed that while the submarine was cruising deep in Arctic
waters it received telepathic messages from a research center
maintained by the Westinghouse Corporation at Friendship, Maryland. The
*
However, several sources in
The reports held that such major
The aim was to develop thought
transmission by telepathy, to record and produce telepathic signals, and to determine
the amplitude and frequencies on which telepathy operated.
*
According to the French sources, President
Eisenhower had received a study prepared by the Rand Corporation of
The report was said to recommend studying the use of
telepathy to establish communication with submarines, particularly
those cruising in waters under the Polar Ice Cap where radio communication channels
were particularly difficult.
*
Westinghouse's Friendship Laboratory allegedly
undertook just such an experiment with the U.S.S. NAUTILUS, linking one person on
Land (the sender or inductor) with another person in the submarine (the receiver or inductee), while the vessel was submerged.
Representatives
of the
The original French reports fixed the
starting date as July 25, 1959. The tests continued daily for a total of sixteen days. The person in charge was
identified as Colonel William H. Bowers, director of the Biological Department
of the Air Force research institute and the man who directed the experiments at
Friendship.
Later accounts identified the sender or inductors as
"Smith"
a student at
*
The procedure was designed to have Smith transmit
"visual impressions" twice daily at specified times.
Using methods developed by J. B. Rhine at the
Parapsychology Laboratory, Duke University, Durham, N.C., a controlled timing device
shuffled one thousand ESP cards in a revolving drum in such a manner as to drop
five cards on a table, one at a time, at one-minute intervals. Smith pricked
each card up as it came out of the drum, looked at it, and sought to memorize
the image. At the same time, he drew a picture of the symbol (square, cross,
star, wavy lines, or circle) on a piece of paper before him.
Each test thus produced a sheet of paper covered
with five symbols. Smith sealed each paper into an envelope, which Col. Bowers
locked into a cage.
*
At the same time, a Navy lieutenant, identified as
"Jones," sat isolated in a stateroom on the NAUTILUS, functioning as
the recipient of the images Smith sought to convey by telepathy.
Twice daily Jones drew five symbols on a sheet of
paper, choosing from among the same symbols used by Smith. He placed the sheet
inside an envelope, sealed it, and turned it over to his superior, Captain
William R. Andersen.
The captain wrote the time and date of the
experiment on
the envelope and put it into a safe in his own cabin. During the
sixteen-day experiment period, Jones saw no one else except for
one sailor who brought him meals and performed other routine services.
*
The final segment of these events, as reported in
The envelopes were removed from the commander's
sage, sent by car under escort to the nearest military airfield, flown to
*
I was put off by these reports, particularly by the
high score ascribed to these experimental subjects, and by their all-too-typical
American names.
On the other hand, the
Dr. Peter A. Castruccio, director of the company's
newly organized Astronautic Institute, had spoken of the ESP studies as "very
promising," with the caution that "a lot more work must be done
before we can come up with anything practical."
*
I questioned W. D. Crawford, Staff Section, Air Arm
Division of Westinghouse, on the project and he said that "while
these studies have scientific value, any conclusion at this time would be
premature and inconclusive."
These statements were published in the NEWSLETTER of
the Parapsychology Foundation (January-February 1959), as was a report that
*
The NAUTILUS story is often referred to as
hoax, since the
French and other sources remain unconfirmed. However, the telepathic part of the story might
have added
interest to the Soviet effort, already four decades long by 1958.
*
In any event, in Paris, a prominent member of the
Institut Metapsychique International, Raphel Kherumain, collected articles on
the NAUTILUS story and mailed them to his long-time professional friend, Leonid
Vasiliev.
Whether of fact of hoax, the
implications that the Americans MIGHT be conducting ESP experiments did enter into the ongoing
monolithic research machine which influenced the lives of countless men and
women, and caused expenditures which by 1983 were supposed to amount to $500 million
annually.
THE
Across the Ob River from
The building that housed the department could only be entered
if one knew the code, changed each week, that opened
the main door's lock.
The "No. 8" operation was
devoted to experiments in information transmission by bioenergetic means.
*
As part of its program, physicists
sought to discover the nature of "psi particles," the elusive elements that some Soviet
scientists regarded as essential to the function of such psychic techniques as
biocommunication and bioenergetics.
*
When the No. 8 project was established in
1966, some sixty
researchers
were brought
to
One of them, Dr. August Stern, provided an account of the
department's operation after he migrated to
He told the NEW YORK TIMES that the project's
director, a Soviet officer, Vitaly Perov, had shown special "deference to
two visitors," presumably KGB officers, "who came in the early days" of the
project "to check on the installations."
*
Theory and application of psi principles were part
of the experiments. Stern dealt with aspects of theoretical physics, designed to solve the
enigma of psychic
energies flowing between living things.
*
The center's elaborate
equipment, he
said, had "cost many millions." In line with other Soviet experiments, the
This type of experiment was similar to a rumored
test in which baby rabbits were taken down below sea level in a Russian
submarine, the killed, while the mother rabbit remained ashore, her reactions
monitored by measuring brain and heart functions.
*
Project No. 8 included telepathy-type
distance experiments among people.
Inductors, or senders, were stimulated in one group
of rooms, while recipients were placed elsewhere, their responses monitored on
closed-circuit television.
The center also undertook the study of
electromagnetic forces in person-to-person and mind-over-matter experiments. Among laboratory
animals used in the project were monkeys.
*
Stern recalled further details: "There were
also experiments
with photon waves,
in which frogs' eyes were used as a more sensitive measuring instrument
than a machine.
Another experiment involved putting
bacteria on two sides of a glass plate to see whether a fatal disease could be
transmitted through the glass. It was reasoned that if this could be done, it
would show that photons - light particles - accounted for some inexplicable
forms of communication."
*
Stern did not succeed in the project
he had been assigned,
and which he regarded as a legitimate scientific challenge. In fact, the whole of No. 8 was dissolved in
1969, although
it was much too early to achieve definitive results.
Stern concluded that the shut-down reflected "a change
in attitude of power balance in the Kremlin." Presumably,
*
Stern's recollections concerning
photon waves have since been confirmed. Three researchers at Novosibirsk's Institute of
Clinical and Experimental Medicine and at the Institute of Automation and
Electrometry (Siberian
They were Vlail Kanachevy, Simon Shchurin, and
Ludmilla Mikhailova. Their experiment, designed to establish photon
communication between cells of living organisms, has been listed in the State
Register of Discoveries by the Committee for Invention and Discoveries, which
functioned under the
An English translation of their paper appeared in
the JOURNAL
OF PARAPHYSICS
(Vol. 7, No. 2, 1973) as "Report from
Their experiment indicated that cells could communicate
illness, such as a virus infection, despite the fact
the cells were physically separated.
The tests showed that when one group of cells was
contaminated with a virus, the adjacent group - although separated by quartz
glass - "caught the disease." When regular glass was used to separate
the two cell groups, the non-contaminated cells remained healthy.
*
The experimenters linked their idea to the concept
prominent in Soviet bioenergetics research: the existence of unknown communication channels in
living cells for the transfer of information - "a language of waves and
radiation,"
as Shchurin called it.
The medical researcher added these comments: "Why should information on all the processes of life be necessarily
transmitted by chemical means, which are certainly not the most economical methods? After all, any chemical
change is primarily an interaction of electrons, complicated formations that
carry a reserve of energy. In colliding with a substance, they would either
transfer this energy to it or radiate it in the form of photons, or light
particles.
"Today there are no
methods for studying the specific character of photon radiations, the constant
normal radiation or normal cells. We decided to evade the ban imposed by
physics by creating an artificial situation. We subjected cells taken from an
organism to extreme effects to observe the character of radiations emitted by
them, That the cell radiated photons was known. But perhaps
the cell was able to perceive them, too? Our experiments provided the answers to this
question."
*
The barrier of quartz glass permitted neither
viruses nor chemical substances to travel between the two vessels inhabited by
the cells. Yet, as Shchurin picturesquely put it, "the affected cells
virtually cried out loud about the danger" when they were attacked by the
virus, and "their cry freely penetrated the barrier of quartz glass which
permitted ultra-violet waves to pass.
Something highly
improbable happened.
These
waves were not only perceived by the neighboring cells, they also conveyed the sickness to the neighboring cells."
*
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Melpathur Narayana Bhattathiri
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melpathur_Narayana_Bhattathiri
Narayana's dear vyakarana guru, Achyuta Pisharati,
was struck with paralysis. Unable to see his pain, by yogic strength and by way
of Gurudakshina, Bhattathri is said to have taken the disease upon himself and relieved his guru.
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The Narayaniyam of Narayana Bhattatiri
http://acharya.iitm.ac.in/mirrors/vv/literature/narayaniyam/naraint.html
The circumstances which led
to the composition of the Narayaniyam by Bhattatiri in his 27th. year are as
follows. His Guru in Sanskrit grammar, Achyuta Pisharoti, fell victim to a severe attack of paralysis and suffered
unbearable pain. Bhattatiri, the devoted
disciple that he was, could not bear the suffering of the Guru. He
therefore fervently prayed that the disease may be transferredº to him
and his Guru freed of suffering. It happened as he wanted and soon, while
Pisharoti recovered, the fell disease made
Bhattatiri a cripple.
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Sreebhagavathy Spiritual
Publication.
Vol III. Issue 1. October 2004 – March 2005.
Perumbavoor, Kerala: Arsha Vidyapeedam.
How the process of
transfer...overlapping...mapping...is done...in any case...according to the
Hindu scriptures...is explained in detail...in Malayalam...
Written around 0901 p.m. Monday, March
05, 2007
Revised around 0904 p.m. Monday, March
05, 2007
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Although the No. 8 project was shut down and
sections of it transferred to other cities, animal research in information
transmission continued in
A
The most complete account of the Speransky
experiment appeared in PARAPSYCHOLOGY IN THE
*
As a toxicologist, Speransky's primary
interest was the impact of poisons on living organisms; the
mind-to-mind reaction among the mice was encountered accidentally. Speransky's "upper
mice" lived on in the fourth-floor laboratory, while the "lower
mice" were kept in the basement.
In some experiments, the upper mice were starved, in
others, they were nourished. Out of the thirty experiments, results in
twenty-seven were positive: Non-starving mice responded to the suffering of
their "friends," who were several stories removed; in only three cases were the
results negative.
*
Refining his methodology, Speransky engaged in
additional series of experiments, varying sex, weight and other
variables.
He found that the "biological significance of
the rapid increase in weight if mice which received signals about starvation
from their `friends' is clear: a danger of starvation
has to give them an additional stimulus to be sated."
In other words, telepathy-like signals warned the
non-starving mice that food was short, so they increased food consumption and
storage within their bodies.
*
Speransky drew this conclusion: "Undoubtedly,
mentioning that the transmission of information occurred beyond ordinary
channels of perception will remind the reader of such notions as telepathy,
extrasensory perception, and `biological radio-communication.' It is possible
to suppose that the transmission of information about starvation pertains to
this type of phenomenon? We think so, but cannot strictly affirm it at present.
It is only clear that the transmission of information about starvation in
conditions of our experiments goes beyond ordinary forms of interaction of
animals. Therefore, we propose to call it extraordinary transmission of
information."
*
Actually, related phenomena had been recorded by Western
researchers. Sir Alister Hardy, Professor Emeritus of Zoology and Comparative
Anatomy at Oxford University, had considered the possibility that telepathic
communication among animals might even affect evolution and adaptation.
In an essay on "Biology and ESP,"
Professor Hardy suggested that animal habits might be spread by
"telepathic-like means," and that a "psychic pool of
existence" might function among members of a species by some method
"akin" to telepathy.
*
Speransky linked his findings about communication
between mice to work done by Gulyaev with his auragram on humans, by Sergeyev in human brain
activity, and by Presman on the influence of electromagnetic fields upon living
organism. A. S. Presman's work, notably his book ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS AND LIFE (New York, 1970), is
internationally known.
*
One rare positive reference to
parapsychology-related work to appear in (what was) an East German
publication was
printed in NEUE DEUTSCHLAND, the East Berlin daily published by the Socialist Unity
Party, May 15, 1982.
In an article on "Man, Animals and
Magnetism,"
Professor Hans Weiss and Dr. Jurgen Hellebrand discussed the question
of whether a correlation between electromagnetic fields and life processes
does, in fact, exist.
They found that the views of physicists, chemists, and biologists vary greatly.
*
They cited Presman's work, notably his references to
the
apparent ability of snails and birds to orient themselves through the earth's
magnetic field.
The two authors denounced popular claims for magnetic healing devices as
"clearly humbug," but stated that in such fields as food production
further basic research "may permit developments leading to practical
applications."
*
As a leading research center,
Kogan reported on this experiment, in absentia, to a
meeting at the
*
However, Kogan noted that the recipient in the
Siberian city, "did not have an assortment of items before him," as
was arranged later during the Moscow-Kersh tests, so he "could not give
specific names for the object he saw telepathically.
Kogan said that the
*
In one such test, the transmitting telepath in the
Soviet capital was asked by supervising scientists "to suggest an object
they had chosen randomly." Six segments of test were used to transmit
images of six different objects. Half of these tests gave positive
results.
THE KGB TAKES
CONTROL
During the Cold War it became a commonplace
observation that the Committee for State Security (KOMITET GOSUNDARSTVENNOI
BEZPASTNOSTI, or KGB
for short) permeated Soviet society at all levels.
Its role in psi research was, clearly, a minor aspect
of KGB activity.
The KGB's uneasy role in psi research illustrated
that it was not, and could not have been, a monolithic agency. Its sometimes contradictory aims, as well as its enormous
domestic and international scope and diversity, made total
efficiency impossible.
*
Western analyst have
concluded that the KGB took control of Soviet studies in parapsychology no
later than 1970.
More precisely, the agency appears to have taken a serious
interest in the field
during this period, and its involvement after that became more active
and consistent.
*
The KGB's alternately benign and hostile attitude
toward psychic studies is well illustrated by the rise, fall,
and resurrection
of the bioenergetics laboratory attached to Moscow's A. S. Popov
Scientific-Technical Society for Radio Engineering, Electronics and
Communication (known as NTORES, the acronym of its Russian name).
The original initiative for the Popov lab came from
members of its Bionics Section in 1965, who suggested a series of
telepathy experiments
under the label "biological communication."
*
The new section met on October 11, 1965, and
developed a three-point program:
(1) study and analysis of international
literature on the subject;
(2) a synthesis of spontaneous
telepathic phenomena previously observed; and
(3) a plan for laboratory-controlled telepathic
experiments.
*
The resulting Laboratory for Bio-Information functioned on
two levels, private and
official. The
core of the operation was a team of unpaid volunteers, who were permitted to work
on premises leased by the Popov institute, and whose activity was
"officially authorized."
The little band of parapsychology enthusiasts inside the
Bio-Communication Laboratory was well aware that they operated under official scrutiny, that at least one KGB operative was a staff member
and other regularly reported to the agency.
Much of their work was clearly visible, such as the
long-distance telepathy experiments, but other studies were never published.
*
Among the unpublished studies was the work of Yuri
Korabelnikov and Ludmilla Tishchenko-Korabelnikova, a
husband-and-wife team who organized more than eight thousand clairvoyance
tests.
They placed different geometric designs of numbers
inside opaque envelopes. According to the group's compilations, the two
psychics were able to name
about 70 percent of the images correctly, compared to 20 percent expected by probability.
*
In addition to the existence of rival
"idealistic" and "materialistic" cliques, there was a continuous
effort on the part of publicity-conscious Edward Naumov to push for more research
in psychokinesis,
while the laboratory's director, Professor Kogan, favored
telepathy experiments.
Barbara Ivanova, then employed as a government
translator, engaged in a series of experiments that included remote-viewing and distant
healing.
Larissa Vilenskaya, impressed by the performances of Rosa Kuleshova,
investigated dermo-optic vision and developed techniques for teaching this
ability.
*
One of Ivanova's early students, Boris Ivanov,
eventually denounced her as bringing an "idealist" taint to healing
research.
Ivanov himself specialized in "charging" water with
"bio-energy,"
a technique that had long been examined by a Canadian researcher, Dr. Bernard
Grad of
After Ivanov left the Popov laboratory
to continue his studies at the
*
The KGB reorganized the Popov
laboratory in 1978
along
lines that favored military-oriented research.
The new unit, under the direction of academician
Yuri Kobzarev, was established after three years of soul-searching.
Professor Kobzarev was considered by
*
As such, he occupied the position of an academic
figurehead for
the new Laboratory for Bio-Electronics, while the day-to-day functions of the unit rested in the firm hands
of his deputy, a KGB functionary who had been active within
the old laboratory and was instrumental in its eventual dissolution.
*
Debates regarding "inhumane" projects often arose. Determined to
avoid these, the authorities did not permit within the unit's secretariat, its council,
or the laboratory team, the presence of anyone who might oppose "inhumane"
projects.
*
To enforce this policy, a strict
screening process
was established, complete with "Rules for Admittance to Membership in the
Central Public Laboratory for Bio-Electronics" (December 7, 1978).
The rules specified that all potential staff members
had to be interviewed by the lab's directors, commit themselves in writing to
adhere to the rules, file two passport-type portrait photographs, and submit a
statement of three to four pages showing "familiarity with bio-electronic
problems."
The laboratory, in tern, established a file on each individual and issued an identity
card.
*
Once admitted to the staff, members were
forbidden to give lectures or publish papers "without the laboratory's
prior permission."
They were not permitted to "engage in any research concerning the
structure, or the improved quality of biofields" outside
the laboratory,
without the prior permission of the Scientific-Technological Section.
*
In order to widen the geographic scope of
bio-electronic research,
Popov institutes in Leningrad, Kiev, Alma Ata, Kishinev, Taganrog, Minsk, and
Tallin were urged to establish similar laboratories and engage
psychics for experiments.
In addition to KGB guidance of the
Bio-Electronics Laboratory, the military was well represented among its
officers. The full extent
and purpose of the military interests remains vague due to lack of
documentation.
The military presence, however, was known to be large.
*
Among eighteen members selected on October 31, 1978,
two were senior scientists at the Soviet Ministry of Defense: Jan I. Koltunov and
Nikolai A. Nosov; a third, Mikhail A. Sukhikh, was a Candidate of
Military Sciences at the Ministry of Defense.
*
An appraisal of the KGB's role in Russian
parapsychology
must be acknowledge that the agency was an
ever-present fact of Soviet life, rather than an omnisciently sinister force.
Thus, when we observe that the KGB slowly tightened
its hold on psi studies, it simply means that - with a lot of backing and
filling - it started to
take the psychic potential seriously, examined it more closely, and began to guide
its use toward serious application.
*
Evidence for this interest can be found in diverse
areas.
When émigré August Stern reported on the carefully
guarded operations of a laboratory in Novosibirsk, he made two significant
references to the KGB's role in the operation of this unit in particular and in
psi studies in general.
He expressed the belief that two visitors who had
inspected the
*
Stern understood in 1974 that all psi tests had been
curtailed, except for the "secret KGB laboratory," but when he was told that something
"important" and "very dangerous" had been discovered in the
course of these laboratory experiments, Stern said, "I never believed it. How can the
KGB do effective research? They need real scientists."
Speaking from the elitist viewpoint of a scientists, Stern may well have underestimated
the results that can be achieved under police pressure, if not guidance.
*
One American researcher stated bluntly: "The KGB simply
discovered or decided that parapsychology phenomena are real, that they work,
that all
theoretical wrangling be damned, and that the only thing that counts are results - and they just went ahead,
full steam, to get more reliable results to suit their "specific
aims."
*
The pattern that emerged of the KGB's rule in Soviet
psi research was one of increasing secrecy about actual research with the USSR, accompanied
by fluctuating tolerance of encouragement of the exposure of peripheral,
irrelevant, or even inaccurate information concerning Soviet studies.
Three stages in this process can be identified; they
were influenced by the role and policies of Yuri A. Andropov, who held the post of KGB chairman
from 1967
to 1982. On
November 12, 1982, Andropov was named General Secretary of the Communist Party
of the
*
The "golden age" of Soviet psi research, the first
stage of its
contemporary development, lasted through most of the 1960s.
It began with Professor Vasiliev's spirited advocacy
of the research he had long proposed; it became obscured after Andropov took
control of the KGB, which intruded more firmly into scientific activities,
including the monitoring, supervision, and actual conducting of experiments.
*
From mid-1968 on, and quite noticeable by 1970, contact
between Soviet psi researchers and their colleagues abroad began to dry up. By 1975, the
Laboratory for Bio-Communication was disbanded.
Publication of findings by such
authorities as Professor Kogan ceased, while rumors concerning secret KGB-operated
laboratories circulated.
This was a period of transition, with new plans made, blueprints
prepared, staff
tentatively selected,
some
projects at least publicly abandoned, and other pursued in an exploratory,
probing, and even confused manner.
*
The KGB's influence on scientific research generally
had been uneven. While it had the task of assuring maximum ideological and
political loyalty among scientists, it had to also encourage optimum
productivity.
This called for a relatively open
exchange of information,
including a monitoring of scientific developments abroad. But the sheer
volume of data in science and technology available openly - at meeting, in
journals and books - in the
*
Even so, the skilled manpower needed to evaluate,
analyze, and apply such data was limited. Soviet scholars found KGB censorship
of incoming mail uneven and heavy-handed; publications were often simply stolen
in transit and sold on a specialized black market.
*
Soviet science, arts, and literature experienced a
"thaw" of several years during the regime of Nikita Khrushchev. When
direction of the KGB was taken over by Andropov, controls over Soviet society
were tightened;
flexibility, unpredictability, and changes in policies thereafter characterized
the agency's operations.
*
In 1975, foreign observers detected a distinct
tightening-up of KGB and Communist Party control over the academy.
The weekly magazine
The magazine quoted one analyst as saying "It
is right up there with Stalin's death and the reversal of Khrushchev's reforms,
because it destroys the only important island of independence left in the
country."
CENTERS OF
The limited information and massive disinformation available regarding the KGB
takeover of Soviet psi research did not in itself contribute to an in-depth
analysis of the Soviet psi research machine, especially when its large size was
considered, along with the known extent of its multidiscliplinary activities.
For example, through privileged sources available to
me, I was able to confirm by 1983, that the arms and functions of the machine were so
extensive as to include all of the following twenty-nine research centers.
A. S. Popov All-Union Scientific and Technical
Society of Radio Technology and Electrical Engineering, Moscow; Laboratory of
Bio-Information, 1965-1975; Laboratory of Bio-Energetics, established 1978.
Scientific Research
Institute of General and
Baumann Institute of Advanced
Technology,
Institute of Energetics,
State Instrument of
Moscow Institute of
Aviation.
I. V. Pavlov Institute,
Department of Geology,
Interdepartmental Commission
for Coordination of Study on the Biophysical Effect,
Adjunct Laboratory of
Medical and Biological Problems,
A. A. Uktomskii Physiological Institute,
Leningrad Polytechnic
Institute, Department of Cybernetics.
University of Leningrad,
Bekhterev Brain Institute.
Research Institute of
Psychology,
Pulkovo Observatory,
Filatov Institute, Laboratory of the Physiology of
Vision,
Scientific-Industrial Unit
"Quantum,"
Institute of Clinical
Physiology,
Scientific Research
Institute of Biophysics, Department of Cybernetics, Puschino.
Institute of Psychiatry and
Neurology,
Institute of Automation and
Electricity, Special Department No. 8, Siberian
Institute of Clinical and
Experimental Medicine,
THREE MAJOR DIRECTIONS
WITHIN
THE SOVIET
RESEARCH MACHINE
Although the full extent of the discoveries and
details of the Soviet research have remained shrouded in deep secrecy before
and after the end of the Cold War, it has been possible to identify three major directions
- CODE
BY TELEPATHY; BOOSTING THE
HUMAN BRAIN;
and AMPLIFIED
MIND POWER.
These early alarmed American analysts, and partially account for the American
responses.
CODE BY
TELEPATHY
The most spectacular experiments undertaken by the
The two men first discovered each
other's capabilities in thought transference when they met socially. Even before the Popov research
group arranged formal tests, their skills attracted a mixture of curiosity,
awe, and doubt in
*
The first long-distance experiment took place in 1966, with Kamensky staying in
*
The first, modeled after tests pioneered in the
United States by Dr. J. B. Rhine at the Parapsychology Laboratory of Duke
University, employed a deck of cards made up of five different geometric
symbols: cross, circle, star, wavy lines, and square.
The newspaper account did not provide details on the
experiment's design, nor did it publish specific results.
It concluded, however, that "the number of
correct identifications of symbols was higher than correct random
identifications, as computed according to the theory of probability."
The report said, "The reception of other
symbols was disturbed by considerable associative interference," a condition
that would be "reduced in the future."
*
The second experiment aimed at the transfer of
images of concrete objects. The paper reported that
The
The former, because no
miracle occurred, because there were no perfect identifications.
The latter, because the experiment demonstrated the
reality of the phenomenon and produced valuable data, both positive and
negative, which pointed up the need for continued research."
*
A follow-up experiment, this time between
The Popov group set out to design an experiment that
would (a) be suited to the skills of its telepathists, (b) utilize emotional
elements, and (c) achieve specific information transmission.
*
The problem faced by the
*
The answer was provided by Dr. Genady Sergeyev, then
a staff member of the A. A. Uktomskii Physiological Institute in
Sergeyev, who had been a World War II radio operator
stationed in the Baltic region, decided that a short outburst of emotion
might have sufficient impact to form the Morse Code
equivalent of a letter of the alphabet.
*
The experimental design called for a message of
aggressive emotion lasting fifteen or thirty seconds to act as the equivalent
of a dot in Morse Code, while a message of forty-five seconds was to
be the equivalent of a sash.
To generate sufficient violence, Kamensky was instructed to
imagine
that he was giving
Mikolayev a severe beating, lasting wither the short of the long period.
*
The experiment did not assume that
Rather, it was designed to be registered by his brain
and/or cardiovascular system.
To measure these effects of the telepathic
transmission,
BOOSTING THE
HUMAN BRAIN
The work of Professor Ippolite M. Kogan, who
directed the Bio-Communication Laboratory of the Popov Institute in
But either Kogan or his successors may well have
continued this work,
The AiResearch Manufacturing Company, in its January
14, 1976 report to the
The report added: "Kogan posed to many interesting and challenging questions for himself
and his colleagues not to have delved into them further. Based on the well-known
predilection of Soviet physicists to solve difficult and challenging problems, and their excellent
training in modern physics, the possibility that a team of Soviet physicists is at work to
systematically uncover and learn the physical mechanisms of
parapsychological events is highly probable."
*
The California research group used the term Novel
Biophysical Information Transfer (NBIT) to label the telepathic aspects of psi
when it stated "Had Kogan not presented such a clear and sound proposal
six years ago, one might have wondered if Soviet physicists have any interest
at all in novel biophysical information transfer (NBIT) mechanisms. Clearly, if one could
find out where Kogan is working and what he is doing, this question would be
answered."
*
But Kogan had not been heard from
since his
Kogan's background in the theory and
practice of radio-electronics, together with his dramatic tests in long-distance
telepathy, made his research particularly significant to studies in the
transmission in Very Low Frequency (VLF) and Extremely Low Frequency (ELF)
radio waves.
These research areas were of specific
interest to shore-to-submarine communications. The AiResearch study made the following
points:
"Assuming that the
"Also, they must have been
instrumental in developing sensors to monitor fluctuations in the human body's
electric and magnetic fields, and they may have a team of scientists studying the
properties of bio-organic molecules and their response to electromagnetic
ELF/VLF radiation."
*
The report suggested that Soviet
researchers
were using electronic means for boosting telepathic communications. "The Russians may now be
implementing the next logical step," it said, "namely to reinforce, enhance or aid NBIT in certain trained or gifted individuals after having discovered the basic communication
carriers."
How
could such enhanced
telepathic or clairvoyant ability be utilized?
The
most dramatic means possible, despite its science fiction connotations, is tuning in on people's minds.
*
Less precisely focused monitoring was well under
way. The
Soviet Union operated
an elaborated an elaborate eavesdropping network, with several monitoring stations
on the eastern seaboard of the United States, to record radio-telephone
conversations among U.S. government agencies, private corporations, and
individuals.
The monitoring of more intimate
communications, even "thought reading," can be seen as an extrapolation
from these undertakings - particularly if it can extend to the
mind-reasoning of prominent decision-making officials.
*
It may be taken for granted that
The AiResearch report noted: "If experiments which generate special
ELF/VLF waves are being conducted,
it may will travel across the world."
It added that these frequencies may be
"undetectable by the usual relatively broadband frequency detectors," and commented: "It is rational
to assume that the Soviets pursue the investigation of various physical
methods that might serve novel biophysical information transmission mechanisms. Whether or not
ELF/VLF mechanisms explain parapsychological events may be a moot question, if these
mechanisms can be utilized for human information transfer."
*
In other words: If it works, who cares what
you call it?
*
To discover the "carrier mechanism" of
this capacity, the AiResearch team undertook what it called "a short
speculative study" and decided that three methods were "compatible
with current modern
physics."
These included:
(1) Very Low Frequency (VLF) and Extremely Low
Frequency (ELF) electromagnetic waves;
(2) Neutrinos, based on the photon theory of
neutrinos;
(3) Quantum-mechanical *****(UI
- I think the sign is alpha???) waves, based on schizo-physical
interpretation of basic QM [Quantum Mechanics] theory.
The report said that experiments in the United
States and the Soviet Union in this field point to the ELF/VLF mechanisms, but
"the other two possibilities cannot be ruled out."
*
Whether one uses such terms as NBIT,
bio-communication, or the handy word telepathy, there is an awesome fascination
in the prospect
that a single mind may be monitored, or
thought transference between two people intercepted, on an extremely low
frequency receiver.
Medical electronics have perfected
apparatus that come close to the frontier of such uses.
*
For years, Russian neurologists and
psychologist had treated the human mind as little more than a complex
electro-chemical apparatus. As such, they felt, it could function as the
"recipient" of information or as an
"inducer" of energies.
With
skill, these faculties might be manipulated: made more sensitive, more
powerful, more responsive to outside influence.
*
In his book entitled THOUGHT TRANSFERENCE, Kazhinsky had concluded that the human
nervous system incorporates the elements of its own historic evolution.
He wrote: "Like all other parts of the living
organism, nerve elements and nerve circuits perform adaptive and protective
functions; that
is, they
adapt the organism to the influence of the environment, as well as to the
influences of environmental factors.
"They have undergone changes and
improvements for many
thousands of years.
Nature
took care to equip all living matter with highly delicate nerve structures that
have resulted in great improvement of all vital functions. Electromagnetic
transmission of mental information over a distance is a vital function of the
nervous system.
"This leads to a logically justified idea: the human
central nervous system (including the brain) is a repository of highly sophisticated
instruments of biological
radio communication,
in
construction far superior to the latest
instruments of technical radio communication.
"There may exist `living'
instruments of technical biological communication still unknown
to contemporary radio engineering. A thorough and original laboratory study of such `living'
instruments may help us raise radio
communication to an
unprecedentedly high level, placing entirely new and vastly improved radio facilities at its disposal."
*
Kazhinsky disagreed with those who regarded the telepathic
ability as a remnant from man's earlier stages of evolution.
Instead, he maintained that "the phenomenal capacity of a person to exert
a mental influence over others from a distance is still in an embryonic
stage."
He added: "Those
who believe that this brain capacity is moribund, degenerating, etc., are wrong. On the contrary, it is
the beginning of a new and higher stage of development of the human mind, on a new and firmer
foundation, based
on biological radio communication. This hypothesis is confirmed by a simple
law of nature: the
more a capacity is exercised, the keener it will become and the greater man's power over nature will be."
*
Kazhinsky's concepts were, in several ways, a prototype of
some Soviet thinking
in this field.
He notes the "insignificantly low energy emitted by the
brain of the `biological radio transmitter' in the transference of sensations and experiences over distance."
He urged that efforts be made to develop instruments that can
duplicate the
`remarkably delicate and perfect natural instrument" that the brain
represents in functioning
as such a transmitter.
Kazhinsky bolstereds his arguments with a quotation
from V. I. Lenin, "Sensation is the resulting effect of matter on our sensory
organs." (MATERIALISM AND EMPIRIO-CRITICISM, Moscow, 1953).
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Personal Note
He urged that efforts be made to develop instruments that can
duplicate the
`remarkably delicate and perfect natural instrument" that the brain
represents in functioning
as such a transmitter.
There is a low cost option...to
transform a man out there...into a superhuman...by making him a celibate for
life...and train his mind...to elevate to higher levels...
In our world...we don’t have shortage of
men...
You can train any number of men...that
widely available cheap resource...especially with rampant unemployment...
But then you will have to throw away
that materialist attitude...and take on...embrace...the spiritual attitude...to
develop weapons of the mind...
Written around 0909 a.m. Tuesday,
March 06, 2007
Revised around 1200 p.m. Tuesday,
March 06, 2007
You may initially gun in...with high speed to develop such forbidden...formidable
weapons...but the sad thing is...you can never use them...nor can any human...for
the gods decide...
Written around 0913 a.m. Tuesday,
March 06, 2007
For it will be like having a gun...with
you...which if fired...will destroy the target...and its surroundings...as well
as YOUR surroundings...including YOU...with recoil...
Action...reaction...
Written around 1203 p.m. Tuesday,
March 06, 2007
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*
By 1961, Vasiliev's psychiatric colleague, Professor K.I.
Platonov, was able to address a Kharkov meeting on telepathy and recall
experiments he had conducted in 1924 at the All-Russian Congress of
Psychoneurologists, Psychologists and Teachers in Leningrad.
Vasiliev, who was present during the original
Congress, published Platonov's account in his book. During a meeting of the
Congress's hypnological Section, a female subject, M., sat at the presidential table,
facing the audience, while Platonov stood behind a blackboard that hid him from
M., although he could be seen by the audience.
*
Platonov had told the audience earlier that, when he
silently covered his face with his hands, he would try to put the subject to
sleep hypnotically.
His report continued: "Having covered my face I
formed a mental image of the subject M. falling asleep while talking to Prof.
G. [who sat next to her on the dais]. I strenuously concentrated my attention
on this for about one minute. The result was perfect: M. fell asleep within a
few seconds. Awakening was effected in the same way.
This was repeated several times."
*
Platonov's observations included the finding
that, when he gave the subject the actual mental suggestion of saying "Go
to sleep" or just "Sleep!" he didn't get any results. But when he
wanted to conclude the experiment - he had positive results.
He noted that the subject woke up suddenly, "within
a few seconds after I had started mentally visualizing her awakening." Platonov emphasized that the subject
was "entirely unaware of the nature of the experiment."
*
Platonov said that his tests should prompt
scientists to take these phenomena "extremely seriously."
He concluded that his findings give researchers
"the right to search for means of finding a scientific, materialistic
grounding, not only for the phenomena of telepathically inducing sleep, but for many other
telepathic phenomena as well.
*
The crucial question was whether hypnosis/telepathy could influence men or
women who were unaware of being targets.
Many cases had been reported, similar to Platonov's
mental influence on the subject M., which seem to prove that the subject
can be hypnotized while unaware of the experiments.
It is likely that the pioneer work
done by Soviet scientists in this field has led to more intensive and wider
studies.
*
Soviet long-distance telepathy
experiments are a matter of record; we may assume that the "reinforcement"
or "mind
amplification" by hypnosis or drugs, of telepathic senders (inducers) and
receivers had been attempted in all types of telepathy tests.
By 1969, the growing evidence that the Soviets
were undertaking research into amplified mind power techniques led to the American
dilemma of how to respond to the "psi situation."
The American science community was not
predisposed to undertaking a significant step toward "psychic research," and
many government and intelligence leaders feared ridicule.
*
But at the very least it had to be determined if there was
any "potential threat" to American security if the Soviets had
developed an array of amplified mind power techniques.
*
After what may have been a lot of soul
searching, the CIA
responded in 1973
by funding a classified exploratory project at Stanford Research Institute
(SRI) placing it under the guidance of a physicist, Dr. H. E. Putoff.
For years, the CIA involvement
remained vague.
But in
1996, Puthoff
published a report entitled CIA-INITIATED REMOTE VIEWING PROGRAM AT STANFORD
RESEARCH INSTITUTE (JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION Vol. 10, No. 1. pp 63-76,
1996.) [NOTE: this document can be found in Section IV of this site.]
*
Up until 1973, it was commonly
understood that the American intelligence community had taken no interest in
psychic research or ESP.
But in
1981, the following document suggesting otherwise was declassified and released.
OUTLINE OF
1952 CIA PROJECT ON ESP
The following text, released by the Central
Intelligence Agency under the Freedom of Information Act, deals with a twofold
project designed to examine the potential use of extrasensory perception for
"practical problems of intelligence."
The author of the memorandum outlined a project of
at least three years in length and estimated the cost for its first year. The
project was envisioned as aiming at reliability and repeatability among
"exceptionally gifted individuals" and at the utilization of "scattered"
ESP results through "statistical concentration."
Names, telephone numbers, and other
items that might permit the identification of individuals or departments were
deleted by the CIA
at the time the document was released in 1981, and such deletions are noted in
the text.
There are no indications whether the project was
actually undertaken, nor is it clear whether the text is an interoffice
memorandum between two agency officials or was addressed to a CIA official by a
researcher working under a contract or grant outside the agency.
The memorandum is dated January 7,
1952, and its
full text follows without quotes:
If, as now appears to us established
beyond questions,
there
is in some persons a certain amount of capacity for extrasensory perception
(ESP), this fact, and consequent
developments leading from it, should have significance for professional intelligence
service.
Research on the problems of extrasensory perception (ESP), this fact, and
consequent developments leading from it, should have significance for
professional intelligence service. Research on the problems of extrasensory
perception has been in the hands of a few very workers and has not been
directed to the purpose here in mind, or to any practical application whatever.
However, having established certain basic facts, now, after long and patient
efforts and more resistance than assistance, it now appears that we are ready
to consider practical application as a research problem in itself.
There are two main lines of research that hold
specific promise and need further development with a view to application to the
intelligence project. These two are by no means all that could be done to
contribute to that end; rather, everything that adds anything to our
understanding of what is taking place in ESP, is likely to give us advantage in the
problems of use and control. Therefore, the Rockefeller-financed project of
finding the personality correlates of ESP and the excursions into the question of ESP in animals, recently begun, as well as
several major lines of inquiry, are all to the good.
The two special projects on investigation that ought
to be pushed in the interest of the project under discussion are, first, the search for and development of
exceptionally gifted individuals who can approximate perfect success in ESP test
performance,
and, second, in the statistical concentration of scattered ESP performance, so as to
enable an ultimately perfect reliability and application.
We have something definite to go on in each case,
and it is with this in mind that we are inclined to make a serious effort to
push the research in the direction of reliable application to the practical
problem of intelligence.
First, a word about the "special subject":
On a number of occasions, through the years, several different scientific
investigators have, under conditions of excellent control, obtained strikingly
long runs of unbroken success from subjects in ESP tests. The conditions
allowed no alternative. At least one of them occurred with the target cards and
experimenter in one building and the subject several hundred yards away in
another.
Due to the elusive, unconscious nature of ESP
ability, these
same subjects could not reliably repeat, and during the years of investigation
under the conditions of extreme limitations with which the work has had to be
done, it has not been possible to solve the problem of overcoming this
difficulty and bringing the capacity under reliable control. We have recently learned
of two
persons definitely reported to be able to keep up their rate of almost unbroken
success over much longer stretches of time. These investigations have been going on in
scientific laboratories, and from reports in our hands we have no
reason to question their reliability. We have not been able to bring the subjects here or
extend our investigation to the laboratories concerned. It looks, however, as
if in
these two cases the problem of getting and maintaining control over the ESP
function has been solved. If it has, the rest of the way to practical
application
seems to us a matter of engineering with no insuperable difficulties. Even if
there is anything wrong with one or both of these cases, this more
extended control must come eventually, we think, and we have had in mind many lines of
research, designed to try to bring it [about].
I shall not enlarge on the practical and
technological developments that would be followed in bringing a capacity, such
as that demonstrated in these card tests, of
getting information in a practical situation. It will be seen that if a subject under
control test conditions can identify the order of a deck of cards, several
hundred years away in another building, or can
"identify" the thought of another person several hundred miles away, the adaptation
to the practical requirements for obtaining secret information should not
give serious difficulty.
The other practice on which
research should be concentrated, we believe, is that of developing ways of
using small percentages of success in such a way that reliable
judgment can be made.
While we are still exploring the advantages of this instrument of application,
we have gone far enough to see how it is entirely possible and practical to use
a small percentage of success, above that expected by chance alone, so as to concentrate the
slight significance attaching to a given trial to the point where reliance can
be placed upon the final application to the problem in hand. I believe you went into
this matter thoroughly enough with [name of individual or unit deleted] that I
will not need to review her the actual devices and
procedures by which this concentration of reliability is brought about.
If we were to undertake to push this research as far and as fast as we
can reasonably
well do in the direction of practical application to the problems of
intelligence, it would be necessary to be exceedingly careful about thorough
cloaking of the
undertaking. I
should not want anyone here in the [word or words deleted], except [two names apparently
deleted] and myself to know about it. We are all three cleared for security
purposes to the
level of "Secret." I would perhaps feel bound to have confidential
discussion on the matter with [name or names apparently deleted]. Funds
necessary for the support of the work would understandably carry no
identification
and raise
no questions.
If there is no reason why there could not be, at any
time it was justified, a renegotiation of additional needs that might arise
that cannot be anticipated at this stage, I should prefer to proceed with some
restraint in estimating what such a project would involve in the matter of
funds. I shall estimate a research team of five persons working on this project
primarily. There will be no careful line drawn. Three will be a great deal of
exchange and, of course, no designation in the [several words deleted] a
separate unit. For our purposes at the moment, however, the [deleted] can
consider that such a test might consist of [names apparently deleted], a
well-qualified statistician and two research workers qualified not only to
handle groups of subjects but assist in the evaluative procedures as well. The total salary
estimate for these five people would be between $22,500 and $25,000. In order
to take advantage of mechanical aid in the statistical work and such other
matters as traveling expenses, it would be advisable to add $5,000 as a
conservative estimate. I think $30,000 would be well spent on the first year.
It is almost anyone's guess as to what the next year would lead us into, but it
would almost certainly be more and probably a great deal more. I doubt if it
would be profitable to try to fix it at this time.
Frustrated as we have been by having to
deal in short-term
projects and the
wastefulness of effort that accompanies the attempt to do long-term
research projects
on that basis, I am about ready to say that without pretty definite assurance
of at least a three-year program I should not want to try to assemble the personnel,
design and research program and
put the overall effort into what is really a major undertaking like this.
Much as I feel the urgency of having our country have as much a
lead as possible
in this matter, I do not think it is advisable to undertake it unless there is a
certain amount of confidence on both sides of the agreement, and these short-term grants-in-aid
are, after all,
usually
measures of limited confidence.
I might add that, while the Russians have both
officially and through their leading psychologists disapproved of our kind of
work, as they would have to do because of the philosophy of Marxian materialism, I have seen at
least one reference
to the fact that they have done experiments on our lines, giving a materialist interpretation. If you can give me any
information on this, I would appreciate it. Sometime we might discuss what the Nazis undertook to do ...
CONGRESSIONAL
RESPONSE, 1981
Between 1969 and 1981, classified documentation
regarding the Soviet psi research efforts had become abundant - but never released
into the public,
which remained ignorant of the "threat situation."
Congressional leaders, however, were provided copies
and extracts of the most sensitive documents.
The result was that in June 1981, the Committee on
Science and Technology of the
*
The report took note of "the
potentially powerful and far-reaching implications of knowledge in this field" and observed that the Soviet
Union "is widely acknowledged to be supporting such research at a far
higher and more official level" than is the case in the
*
The report submitted the following questions
"for congressional consideration": "Is funding for such research
adequate? What is the credibility of such research in the sciences, humanities,
and religions? How does the public
perceive the credibility of research in this field from both a subjective and
objective point of view? What should the Federal role in such research be and
what agencies are or should be involved in such research?"
*
These suggestions and questions were part of a
comprehensive SURVEY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ISSUES, PRESENT AND FUTURE,
commissioned by the committee.
*
In a section on "Research on the Physics of
Consciousness (Parapsychology)," it defined the issue this way:
"Recent experiments in remote-viewing
and other studies of parapsychology suggest that there
exists an `interconnectiveness' of the human mind with other minds and with
matter. This interconnectiveness would appear to be functional in nature and amplified by intent and emotion."
*
The report noted the history of studies in
parapsychology generally, and in telepathy and psychokinesis specifically, and
said: "Attempts in history to obtain insights into
the ability of the human mind to function in as-yet misunderstood ways goes back thousands of
years. Only recently,
serious and scientifically based attempts have been made to understand and measure the
functional nature of mind-mind and mind-matter interconnectiveness.
"Experiments on mind-mind
interconnectiveness have yielded some encouraging results. Experiments in
mind-matter
interconnectiveness (psychokinesis) have yielded less compelling and more enigmatic results. The implications of these experiments is that the human mind may be able to obtain information independent
of geography and time."
*
The report acknowledged there could be "no certainty
as to what results will emerge from basic and exploratory research" now
underway, so
that its potential importance and "its implications for the
*
One of these categories had to do with national
defense.
"In the area of national defense, there are
obvious implications of one's ability to identify distant sites and affect
sensitive instruments of other humans. A general recognition of the degree of
interconnectiveness of mind could have far-reaching social and political
implications for this Nation and the world."
*
The congressional report noted that studies in
parapsychology had "received relatively low funding." It attributed
this to the fact that "credibility and potential yield of such research is
widely questioned, although less today than ever before."
It added: "Thus far, the quality of research
that even the strongest proponent of such research believe
is necessary has been lacking due in part to low funding."
*
Such cautious, obviously well informed appraisal of
parapsychology on the part of a congressional body was unprecedented. Until then,
Congress as a whole had not taken cognizance of ESP potentials in peace or war.
*
Only one of its members, Representative Charles
Rose, Democrat of North Carolina and a member of the Permanent Select Committee
on Intelligence, had shown long-range interest in psychic studies generally
and their
warfare potentials in particular.
*
Agencies of the Federal government sporadically
encouraged ESP research. But, given the ubiquitous nature of government
concerns, such efforts often seemed no more than an expression of personal
interests, the cautious
involvement of "closet parapsychologists" at various levels in one or another agency.
Individuals and groups that might want to follow the
ideas expressed by the staff report on science and technology were likely to be
held back by fear of ridicule, wither from within Congress or in the Media.
*
As columnist Jack Anderson had phrased it, the Central
Intelligence Agency had its "mouth watering" when it looked into Soviet
research on remote-viewing.
*
One of
McRae told another Washington writer, Randy
Fitzgerald, the article had convinced him "there were people in the
Pentagon who were really taking it seriously."
Anderson-McRae erroneously claimed that a psychic
task force, budgeted at $6 million per year, had been established in the
Pentagon "basement," and that the National Security Agency was
examining the use of extrasensory perception in its code-breaking work.
*
He wrote of "wacky projects" that covered
"ESP weapons that can brainwash or incapacitate enemy leaders by thought
transfer,
deliver nuclear bombs instantaneously thousands of miles away by psychic energy, or even create a protective `time warp' to make incoming Soviet
missiles explode harmlessly in the past."
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Cross Reference
Atharvaveda
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atharvaveda
The Hindus believe the mantras are highly powerful, the Atharvan
Pariśiśhthas (appendices) themselves state that specific
priests of the Mauda and Jalada schools should be avoided or strict
discipline should be followed as per the rules and regulations set by the
Atharva Veda.
It is even stated that women associated with Atharvān may suffer from abortions if pregnant
women remain while the chants for warfare are pronounced.
The Atharvaveda is considered by many to be a dark and
mystic science,
pertaining to the spirits
and the afterlife. In the Mahabharatha, when the Pandavas are exiled to the forests
for thirteen
years, Bheema,
being frustrated, suggests to Yudishthra that they consult
the Atharvaveda, and "shrink time, and hereby compress thirteen years to thirteen days..."
...
The AV also informs us about warfare.
...
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He added: "The CIA, though
historically less alarmist about the Red Menace
than the Pentagon spooks are, also has been monitoring Soviet ESP research and
pondering the possibility of less bizarre psychic weapons."
*
While the 1952 ESP project mentioned earlier may never
have been undertaken, it seems certain that the Central Intelligence Agency did engage in
psychic experiments.
One source of information on this subject is ex-CIA
employee Victor Marchetti, who wrote several books based on his fourteen years with the
agency.
*
Marchetti, who tended to be critical of the CIA's
activities, has said that it once sought to establish mediumistic
communication with the spirits of agents who had died.
He recalled that the agency's "scientific
spooks" were "progressing into parapsychology, experimenting
with mediums in efforts to contact dead agents, with psychics in attempts to
divine the intentions
of the Kremlin leadership and even with stranger phenomena."
*
Marchetti asserted that the CIA had tried to make
contact, through a medium, with Oleg Penkovsky, a colonel in the
Soviet Army who
had been one of its most valuable contacts during his lifetime.
On May 11, 1963, Penkovsky appeared before the Soviet Supreme Court
in
Penkovsky was a member of the Soviet State Committee
for the Coordination of Scientific Research Activities, with responsibilities
in domestic and international technological liaison and development.
Penkovsky had been an agent for Western intelligence
agencies, presumably British services as well as the CIA.
*
There is a simple kind of logic in trying to keep
in touch with such a valuable agent, even after
death.
It is speculative, of course, whether such contact can
actually be established, whether spirit communication can be specific and
reliable, could
be checked against information from other sources, or merely used to fill gaps
in existing data.
*
It may be regarded as imaginative rather than foolish to have tried to reach
someone like Penkovsky through a medium (or several mediums, cross-checking any resulting information
for correlations and deviations).
But the number of qualified mediums is limited; it would be difficult to
keep such an assignment secret, even if the mediums concerned did not know whom they were
expected to contact.
*
Marchetti said that, after Penkovsky had been
executed,
someone in the CIA had suggested: "Why don't we contact him?" and that this suggestion
had led to the agency's becoming "involved with mediums." He said, "They
began to contact our own dead agents, as well as dead agents from the other
side."
*
If the project expanded beyond an attempt to get in touch
with the spirit of Penkovsky, it may be assumed that at least some of the
mediumistic messages had been satisfactory or at least promising to CIA staff members. "There is
no indication that they have stopped," Marchetti said, "and no reason
why they would."
At any rate, Marchetti's recollections suggest that
the CIA had been alert to psychic potentials, no matter how unproved, in the service
of intelligence-gathering.
WERE THE CIA
EFFORTS JUSTIFIED?
The CIA was certainly justified in keeping an eye on
Soviet studies.
References have earlier been
made to a report on Soviet parapsychology commissioned by the Central Agency
from the AiResearch Manufacturing Company of
The research group's experts suggested that, in view
of Soviet studies, the
*
The report (January 14, 1976) advised that such studies
should be interdisciplinary, as this type of research "crosses so
many widely
different scientific disciplines."
The report noted that on Soviet researcher Professor
Gennady Sergeyev of
*
The AiResearch report traced reference to the
Sergeyev device in Russian scientific literature, while noting that "there is
reason to doubt the Russian claim."
It speculated that "it is possible that a
sensitive electric or magnetic sensor, or some combination of the two, would
detect electrical signals from a human body at a distance of five meters.
"Although it is unlikely that the output of
such an instrument would be a direct measure of the EEG, it would provide
information of interest to a police interrogator, such as the strength and rate
of the heartbeat, the tensing and relaxation of ,muscles,
the depth and rate of breathing, and perhaps the electrical properties of the
skin. The uses to
which the instrument would be put are reasons enough for official secrecy about
its operating principles."
*
The report noted Sergeyev's professional competence, concluded its analysis
with the assumption that Sergeyev's remote sensor "does exist: in
some form, and
examined the possible development of remote sensors by Soviet researchers, "following
the indicated lines of investigation."
Where, the report asked, could
Sergeyev's findings lead?
It made this cautious forecast: "Perhaps the Russians have, in fact,
developed such instruments; perhaps they are going to do so. Perhaps they have
tried and have not been successful.
Possible sensor developments discussed in the
following paragraphs are not meant to be exhaustive; rather, they are
speculative and offered as examples of what may or might be:
"A tuneable antenna for detecting
low-frequency, very-low-frequency, or extremely-low-frequency electromagnetic
radiation could be used.
The Russians believe both in mental telepathy and in a prosaic physical mechanism for it. The most
probable mechanism is
electromagnetic
radiation.
"A tuneable antenna could be used in two types
of experiments: trying to detect the radiation from the telepathic agent and trying to
generate radiation of the right frequency to interfere with telepathic
receptions.
"A neutrino detector may be used. Both the Russian Je. Parnov (NAUKA I RELIGIA, No. 3, pp. 44 to 49, 1966)
and the American Martin Ruderfer (NEUTRINO THEORY OF EXTRASENSORY
PERCEPTION, in
ABSTRACTS: 1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF PSYCHOTRONICS, Vol. 2, Prague, pp. 9 to
13, June 1973) have suggested neutrinos as the means of transmitting thought
from one mind to another.
*
One of the collaborators of the present study, J.
Eerkens, had a plausible hypothesis about the production and detection of
neutrinos that
could be experimentally tested by relatively modest expenditures for equipment and labor.
"A magnetic field or field gradient detector
could be used. The Russians and other Eastern Europeans are greatly interested in
dowsing, or finding ground water. A currently popular theory of dowsing is that
the
human body is sensitive to small changes (temporal and spatial) in the
magnetic field of the earth, such as might be produced by water near the surface of the ground. If the human
body can generate as well as sense magnetic fields, such a human
magnetism might be the basis of some form of thought transference or
psychokinesis."
*
In conclusion, the AiResearch study suggested five areas of
research as "the most
fruitful lines of investigation," as follows:
1. THE PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY OF AWARENESS
OF NBIT
This area includes such questions as what are the
modes of awareness that facilitate NBIT? How to select
and train individuals for high resolution and reliable performance? Which of the possible
transmission mechanisms can humans utilize for NBIT?
2. TRANSMISSION MECHANISMS
This area includes such questions as what are
possible NBIT transmission mechanisms? How is
information transmitted from the source to the recipient?
3. THE PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY OF HUMAN
TRANSDUCER MECHANISMS
In this area, research would be conducted on
physiology and biochemistry of reception and receptor mechanism.
4. STATISTICAL DEVELOPMENT
This area includes nonstationary analysis of random
data, deviation from normally distributed data, and new developments in
communication and information theory with respect to noisy channels.
5. DEVELOPMENT OF NON-CONTACT PHYSIOLOGY SENSORS
This area includes development of MEG, thermography,
low- frequency electric field monitors, and other sensors.
Translated from its technical terminology, the
report suggested to the CIA, or other
Such a study would, of course, be designed to
harness, control, boost, and direct telepathic and other psi abilities.
*
Among
The monthly DISCOVER (February 1982), which was
consistently skeptical of parapsychological claims, spoke of him as "one
of the capital's most visible and colorful politicians, and certainly one of the
wittiest."
It wrote: "An energetic foe of government waste
and boondoggles, Proxmire is perhaps best known for his Golden Fleece of the
Month Award, intended to publicize what the senator considers to be examples of
foolish federal spending."
The magazine concluded that the senator at times
displayed a "know-nothing attitude about science," but credited him with "being
bright enough to know that scientific curiosity had been responsible for many of the
civilization's greatest advances."
*
Imaginative research was given strong support by
President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983, when he advocated intensified studies in so-called
"Star Wars" technology.
The President spoke of futuristic means, designed to
"eliminate" nuclear weapons. Space-based lasers, particle-beam weapons, and similar devices
were publicly discussed. Yet open-ended exploration of antinuclear weaponry might well include "mind
amplification" and other psychic warfare elements.
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Reference
Kasten, Len. Psychic Discoveries Since The Cold War
http://www.atlantisrising.com/issue14/ar14psychic.html
PSYCHIC DISCOVERIES SINCE THE COLD WAR
by
Len Kasten
Index of Issue 14
In June of 1968 Sheila Ostrander, a Canadian, and
Lynn Schroeder, an American, were invited to attend an international conference
on ESP in
They did, also visiting
Up to that point, all we had to go on
was some very tentative research by Dr. Rhine at
The authors have become world authorities on these
subjects and are in great demand. Atlantis Rising was
fortunate to have the opportunity to interview them at John White's 1997 UFO
conference in New Haven,
Far from idle since 1971, the authors published Supermemory (
The revelations in all three books are nothing short of sensational, yet for over 25
years, the press and the public have barely noticed. Echoing the pattern found
with the UFO phenomenon, some believe the situation may suggest a world
cover-up. In
fact, the authors told us that they have now recognized that UFO secrets and
psi secrets seem inextricably linked. Uri Geller, after all, claimed to have
obtained his powers from extraterrestrial sources. The new book includes a
foreword by Geller in which he marvels that the press has taken little notice.
He mentions a press conference in 1977 at which Stansfield Turner revealed that
the
CIA had a parapsychology program in place, and had found a man who could see
through walls (Pat Price).
The
revelation created not even a ripple in the media!
Yet while the revelations in Psychic Discoveries did
not get wide publicity, they were nevertheless revolutionary. The impact on society has
yet to be fully appreciated. The discoveries of an obscure electrical repairman from the Black Sea city of
Before the publication of Psychic Discoveries, there
had been several books written about the unique and strange dimensions of the Great
Pyramid of
MIND WARS AND SOCIAL CONTROL
Without exception, all of the Soviet researchers
interviewed hoped that these discoveries would be used only for good, but
clearly recognized that many of them offered potential in intelligence and
counter-intelligence,
and that some could be used to make very destructive weapons and so did the CIA. Although we now know that
From the original version of the book, the world first
learned of an astonishing Soviet development the ability to control behavior
and consciousness telepathically! In the chapter, entitled The Telepathic Knockout,
the authors reported on experimentation dating from 1924 in which Soviet
scientists successfully placed subjects in hypnotic trances and awakened them
telepathically across thousands of miles. Once the connection was established, the subject's
behavior could be manipulated by suggestion, just as in face-to-face.
Typically, they can carry on conscious conversation and activity while in the
trance. In the new book we learn that the CIA has picked up this ball and
run with it.
But it was from the Czechoslovakians at the conference that the
authors learned of a discovery that promises to ultimately make twentieth
Century explosive weaponry seem as primitive as the horse and buggy the
psychotronic generator.
And while in
In the new edition we learn that former KGB
Major General Kalugin started talking in 1990. He claimed that Yuri Andropov gave orders to
move full speed ahead with psychic warfare in the early 70s, and obtained funding of
500 million rubles. The Soviets then developed sophisticated Pavlita-type
generators. Dr.
Nikolai Khokhlov, a Russian CIA operative, uncovered over 20 heavily
guarded, well-funded laboratories working on psychotronic devices for military
use in the 70s.
Some of this effort may have been cooperative with the
THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES
At least one
Perhaps the most bizarre development in memory
control was inspired by the
multiple personality disorder. Also in Supermemory, we learn
that the CIA can artificially seed multiple
personalities in the same body, each with its own memory bank not accessible to
the others. Gil Jensen, an Oakland, California, CIA doctor,
claimed that he created a personality named Arlene Grant in the body of famous
super-model Candy Jones in the 50s and 60s using hypnosis and memory-altering
drugs. Grant
was trained as a super-spy and given a complete memory history and top-secret
information which Jones knew nothing about. Whenever Jones went on celebrity
trips, Grant was summoned on the telephone through a series of electronic
sounds, and carried out her spy missions. The primary personality can never
reveal information from the secondary memory bank, even under torture, and
therefore makes the perfect spy. This program is now called Radio-Hypnotic
Intra-Cerebral Control
and is apparently based on Soviet discoveries related to electromagnetic
manipulation of the bioplasmic body.
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Cross Reference
Vastu Page 1
http://www.kanippayyur.com/VastuPage1.html
Literally,
vastu is derived from the word “vas”
meaning “to dwell” or “to reside”. Vastu is the dwelling place of mortals and
immortals – mortals like human beings, animals,
birds, plants and all other living things and immortals like gods, demigods, spirits etc. It is classified into 4
categories.
1. The earth (Bhumi), the habitat of all living
beings,
2. The buildings (harmya) for different activities,
3. The vehicles (yana),
4. The seats (sayana)
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UFO SECRETS REVEALED
By far the most sensational revelations coming out
of the post-Cold War
But the secrets eking out of the Soviet space
programs are even more exciting. Soviet Air Force Colonel Marina Popovich
showed photos of a fifteen-mile-long object flying near the Martian moon Phobos,
taken by the Soviet probe Phobos-2, at a conference in San Francisco in 1989. Russia's Luna
9 moon probe,
which landed in the
We conclude with a succinct and eloquent summation
of the situation by former astronaut Dr. Brian O'Leary, as quoted in Psychic
Discoveries, The cosmic Watergate of UFO, alien, mind-control, genetic engineering, free-energy, antigravity
propulsion, and
other secrets will make Watergate and Irangate appear to be kindergarten
exercisesƒBut, the truth will and must be known eventually.
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Reference
Sharma, L K. (Friday,
September 28, 2001)
http://www.100megsfree4.com/farshores/psywar.htm
An
unpublicised American weapon which can reach Osama bin Laden in his remote cave
is ESP, extra sensory
perception. Defence Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld did not
list it when he referred to
cruise missiles, camouflaged forces, bankers in pinstriped suits and computer
geeks.
The
last two are supposed to disrupt Osama bin Laden’s money supply through their
version of electronic warfare. These plans merited the attention of the
authoritative Defence Weekly.
Their
X-ray eyes were systematically used by the CIA and the Defence Intelligence
Agency. The
sketches provided by the “psychic spies” were accurate and they were able to
see hidden defence equipment in many remote places, an abducted American military officer in
The remote viewing programme was not some Oriental hocus pocus run
from the
The secret of the psychic spies
was let out by President Carter and then recorded by a TV documentary by the History Channel. The programme was terminated by Congress some years
ago but at least one psychic spy is available. He runs a private company in
association with his astrologer wife. He helps companies in divining precious
minerals. The
The Soviet scientists had
studied and demonstrated capabilities to
alter mind and to move objects without
touching.
•
Story originally published by:
DH
News Service via Deccan Herald,
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Reference
Parapsychology and Self-Deception in Science
http://www.ramcconnell.com/selfdeception.htm
Parapsychology and Self-Deception in Science
1983, 158 pages, 6" x 9", ISBN: 0-9610232-2-8, $10.00
Chapter 1, titled "Escape From Reality,
outlines this book, which was written in the spirit of the following excerpts:
"How important is scientific reality? How much
are we willing to pay to know it ourselves and to have others know it? . . .
"Each of us creates an imaginary
world as protection against its real counterpart, adding to it, piece by piece, over the
years, until we have a comforting montage. In this process we ignore
ideas that cause anxiety.
We welcome the familiar and avoid the unknown. This description is as true in science as in
the rest of life. Throughout our picture building we take care not to expose our
innermost thoughts lest they be challenged. In this way we ensure our mental
stability….
"How much is progress worth? Perhaps it comes
down to a question of values. Are we willing, like Lady Godiva, to ride naked
before our colleagues
so
that mankind may escape the toll of ignorance? Or do we treasure our
privacy above our sense of professional fulfillment? As scientists are we
engaged in a desperate search for reality, or are we members of
a comfort-loving elite, paid by society to play puzzle games with nature? These are questions that
might be asked of every scientist. They have a special relevance for
parapsychology.
Chapter 2 is a paper by a distinguished physical
scientist, C.K. Jen, who was born in 1906 in a remote village in North China,
received his graduate training in the U.S., and was trapped in South China
throughout World War II. At the time I knew him he was at Johns
On a lecture visit to the PRC prior to 1983, Dr.
Jen, at the invitation of his host colleagues, had participated in three
demonstrations of ESP involving a dozen young children, who successfully
identified concealed Chinese ideographs with nearly 100% accuracy.
His son-in-law, Dr. Lewis Jacobson, was at that time
a member of my faculty parapsychological advisory committee. Through him, I
learned of Dr. Jen's parapsychological adventure and suggested that it be formally reported
in the parapsychological literature.
When his paper was rejected for
publication by the Parapsychological Foundation of New York because it was
too spectacular to be believed, he graciously allowed it to be included in this book, which was then in
preparation.
In the light of my professional relations with C.K.
Jen and my personal relations with Lewis Jacobson and his wife, Dr Linda Jen
Jacobson, the daughter of C.K. Jen, Dr. Jen's paper must, in my judgment, be accepted
without reservation
as
establishing the widespread occurrence of high level ESP among Chinese children as described therein.
The importance of Dr. Jen's paper was magnified by a
paper "Parapsychology in the People's Republic of China: 1979 - 1989" by
Leping Zha and Tron McConnell (Journal of the American Society for Psychical
Research, 85, 119 - 143, April 1991). Dr. Zha, a physicist, was educated in
This 1991 paper, with 59 references to Chinese
research, begins
with a review of ESP among children under the Chinese name "Exceptional
Functions of the Human Body." The experimentation spread to educational and research
centers in large cities. On the basis of more than 500 trained scholars from
more than 100 centers, it was estimated that ESP could be evoked in about 50% of
children from roughly age 6 to 12, above which this seemingly innate ability disappears.
The publicity associated with the child ESP drew
critical attention, and, as a result, interest shifted to Qigong as performed
by adult,
highly trained "Qigong Masters" as a part of "Traditional Chinese
Medicine." Qigong divides into two forms: "internal energy
Qigong" (ESP) and "external energy Qigong" (PK). The
demonstrated effects resulted in high governmental and scientific interest both
favoring and opposing Qigong research. As a result of unseemly publicity surrounding this
controversy, the Party ruled in 1982 that all publicity on this topic must
cease.
From 1983 to 1986, research centered within the
On 29 November 2001, Dr Zha delivered a lecture titled "Review
of History, Findings, and Implications of Research on Exceptional Functions of
the Human Body"
at a five-day conference in Hawaii addressed to a mixed-level audience on
bridge building between science and alternative medicine.
In the hard copy draft available to me (26 pages in
length), Dr Zha
expanded
and continued his 1991 report. The new material described the opposition to external energy
Qigong after the
The publication of Dr. Zha's 2001 report will be
welcomed. Meanwhile, I am inclined to give credence to the report's delicately
handled account of gross PK. My interest in this account is made possible by my
knowledge of the experience of two professional scientists, well known to me,
who, to their own initial dismay, have produced "Uri Geller spoon
bending." In
one instance the phenomenon was repeated in my presence.
Chapters 3-5. In 1955 with R.J. Snowdon and K.F.
Powell, I published a tightly controlled dice experiment (Journal of Experimental Psychology, 50,
269-275).
Subsequently, assisted by T.K. Clark, I carried out an analysis of variance and
an extended study of target-face distributions among the 167,000 thrown die
faces. We prepared two papers whose findings we considered to be a major
contribution to the literature of experimental psychokinesis. Chapter 3 discusses the
rejection of these papers by the Journal of Parapsychology and The Journal of
the American Society for Psychical Research. The papers themselves follow in Chapters 4 and 5.
A condensation of these papers appears in Chapter 14 of my textbook Parapsychology
in the Context of Science.
Chapter 6 tells in detail how my colleague, Dr.
Thelma K. Clark, was required by an unfriendly faculty to spend 12 years
earning an interdepartmental doctor of philosophy degree in biophysics
and physiological psychology so that she might work with me in parapsychology. That the
hurdles were high may be inferred from the following:
Based on rat brain surgery, her doctoral research
led eventually to papers in Science, 190 (1975), 169-171, of which she was the
senior author, and to papers in Behavioral and Neural Biology, 25(1979),
271-300, and in Brain Research, 202(1980), 429-443, of which she was the sole
author.
The book closes in Chapter 7 with an invited lecture
I gave in 1982 at Cambridge University on the occasion of the 100th anniversary
of the founding of the (British) Society for Psychical Research and the 25th anniversary of
the founding of the Parapsychological Association.
I titled the lecture "Parapsychology, the Wild
Card in a Stacked Deck" As I summarized it then, "The runaway train
of history is whistling down the track upon us. If we have not heard it, that is because we prefer not to listen." I made a
number of predictions for the year 2000 (some of which have been fulfilled.)
In that lecture I regretted the false optimism of
the Global 2000 Report to the President, published in 1980. I accused its
authors of using a straight edge ruler to perform a miracle of loaves and
fishes. (They had merely extrapolated grain and ocean yields
from 1960, through 1975, to 2000.) As I saw it, the assumption implied
by the 1980 report was that "God will send a space ship to carry
our surplus population off to a new planet. To future historians this hope may be known as the white
man's cargo cult."
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“Thou belongest to That Which Is
Undying, and not merely to time alone,” murmured the Sphinx, breaking its muteness at last. “Thou art
eternal, and not merely
of the vanishing flesh. The soul in man cannot be killed, cannot die. It waits, shroud-wrapped,
in thy heart, as I waited,
sand-wrapped, in thy world. Know thyself, O mortal! For there is One within thee, as in all men, that comes and stands at the bar and bears witness that there IS a God!”
(Reference:
Brunton, Paul. (1962)
A
Search in Secret
Amen