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Mind Over Matters
The Frontiers
of Physics Conference
Reykyavik,
Iceland—
At a five day meeting here,
the
”1977 Frontiers
of Physics
Conference',’
scientists from the
United States,
France,
Great Britain,
Denmark and Sweden
have presented laboratory data confirming the existence
of the human mind as playing
a role
in physical
events.
For the first
time,
experimental physicists have agreed
with their theorist colleagues that the findings
on the
workings
of the mind can possibly be integrated
into
a
coherent theory of the universe.
Data for experiments conducted over the past five years
confirmed the ability of a human being
to view a scene
anywhere on earth whether occuring now or in the future
and to bend metal
or move an object suspended on a wire
pendulum while seated
several, yards away.
The new evidence upsets
the long-established assertion by
physicists that human mentation cannot affect large-scale
physical
experimentation.
In mathematical
equations
the
problem has been avoided by reference
to experimenters
as
"observers"
external
to and independent
of the objects
of
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of their attention.
In the 19th century it was held that such an observer clocked
or measured a phenomenon
"but
in no way interfered with
it.
With the development
of quantum mechanics by Werner
Heisenberg
in the mid-1920's,
a possible active role
of
the observer was admitted as an uncertainty at
a micro-level
state
or
in sub-atomic processes,
but held to be
so
inf initessimal that
it
could not be measured.
The findings
of the conference,
sponsored by the ORB Foundation
of London,
England,
and attended by some forty participants
representing industry and the humanities
as well
as science
and technology,
now strongly suggest
that
the experimenter's
own mental activity may well affect
the
outcome
of their
ex-
periments
.
The perceptual experimental
data was provided by laser
physicist Russell Targ
of the Stanford Research Institute
at Menlo Park California.
Targ reported that human subjects
studied together with Dr.
Harold Puthoff
were able,
while
sitting
in a laboratory on the west
coast
of the United States,
accurately to locate human targets
as far away as New York City
and describe their locations and actions.
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Targ concluded that distance
in no way affected the accuracy
of perceptions
or their resolution and that such "distant
viewing"
could not be shielded or screened by any known
substance thus
far.
More
importantly,
said
Targ,,
the data collected suggested that
the ability to
see
at a distance
is by no means
limited to
the so-called psychically gifted but
is accessible to almost
anyone
A typical experiment
in the Targ-Puthoff series
involved a
25 year old medical student residing
in California who described
the location of his
target:
a dry fountain
in Manhattan's
Washington Square Park.
Other subjects accurately depicted
underground caverns
in the mid-West and the Superdome
in
New Orleans,
Louisiana,
USA.
Dr.
John B.
Hasted, head
of the Department
of Physics
at London
University’s Birkbeck College,
described his
10,000 observations
more than a dozen English children who could bend metal,
as
measured by sensitive strain gauges while seated several
yards from them.
Others caused distant hanging objects
to bend
and twist.
' Similar experiments have been successfully carried
out
in six other laboratories throughout
the world,
reported
Hasted.
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Dr.
Olivier Costa de Beauregard,
Director of Research at the
Centre National
de la Recherche Scientifique
in Paris,
who
specializes
in relativistic and quantum mechanical theory
commented,
"Measured by all rigorous criteria
of science,
the experiments were meticulously performed on the basis
of tight protocols and appropriate methods
of evaluation.
They should reasonably convince anybody."
Theoretical support for "mind over matter"
was offered by
Costa de Beauregard and by Dr.
Richard Mattuck of Copenhagen
University's
jzfrsted Institute as well
as by Dr.
Evan Harris Walker,
mathematician at the
U.
S.
Army Aberdeen Proving Ground
in
Maryland and Professor Elizabeth Rauscher,
of the University
of California at Berkeley.
Further evidence for the capacity of the human mind to affect
metal was furnished by Eldon Byrd,
researcher at the
U.
S.
Naval Surface Weapons Center's White Oak Laboratory in Silver
Spring
,
Maryland.
Byrd elaborated on the extraordinary ability
of
a wide variety of geographically dispersed subjects
to
alter the properties
of nitinol
,
a peculiar nickel-titanium
alloy which once bent
out
of
shape,
can revert back to
its
original form under certain temperature conditions.
After nitinol 's
"mind treatment"
the metal no longer retained
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Accoustical emissions from grain structure
in metal,
inaudible to the human ear but. instrumentally recordable,
were reported by experimental physicist Ronald Hawke of the
Lawrence Livermore Radiation Laboratory in California.
The
sound emissions occured
in the presence
of subjects concen-
trating on the metal though, thus
far,
the effects are too
slight
to be definitely attributable to mind action.
Dr.
Wilbur Franklin,
Professor of Physics
at Kent State
University in Ohio summarized over fifteen types
of physical
experiments designed to
test reports
of other scientists
about
the effects
of mind on laboratory instruments.
Franklin
has found effects which are not
easily explained by known
physical force fields.
In the Loftleidir Hotel,
site
of the
conference,
one
psychically gifted participant stunned Icelandic newspaper
and television reporters by causing stainless steel
coffee
spoons
to bend measurably within seconds without physical
contact
In order to avoid misapplication of the new findings,
an
ethical statement by conference scientists was made.
It
affirmed formally that they would never allow the application
of their work to further human conflict and at all times would
respect and protect the rights and integrity of the human beings
through whom they were able
to study the new processes.
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