ae Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000500230002-2 BIOPEYSICS : rey av es OR Th PLAUCIBIT “kY 0” TS PHYSIC LD BASIS FOR wON-PRECOGNITIVG SXPRI-G2 GORY PEROIPTION (052) FRED BAG The issue is not whether tho »henomene of extre-sensory sercept— ion exists, but rather, if electromegnetic or other »vhysicel theories adequately describes any or all of the »nhenomona. " Blectromasnetic theories “or the vhenowena cetually oredste © their onnosition by more then three centuries. ‘part from Cartesian arcunents Leacing to @uclism 2nd aeterislism, the “mental radio" models have trafitionally end even recently been onposed u on ot lesst the four follovring grounds. — First, that elthoush the high correlsetion between the electrical activity of the brein and body with many vei vhenoaena is well established, the brain does not cnmit coherent onergy or radiation Getectable more then 2 few centimeters from the skull. Second, what enersics are enmitted loss their vover very ranidly, eccorcing to the ovticel, or inverse to tho square of the distence rule, and such can not account for televathic vhenomens vhich occur over Gistances of housanés of kilometers, Third, Ba theories cannot explain the "con thru" card deck cloirvoyance phenomens. Fourth, cny. exolainetion of precosnition carnot »vossibly be slectromacnetic. Let it be conceded that the third end fourth objections sre valic end well taken. JTlowover, cs will be shown, there is new evicence that suvercedes the first two objections. Although soine researchers in this field adhere to en oaly-one osi nhonomena aocsl, ‘re do not. Annerently to sone, since Ba thoories did not account for ell the nhonomens., it es xrerently did not account for sny of it. ‘ithouch it was our originel intent to »vresent now evidence for the vleusibility of clectromegnetic radistion being the vhvsiccl basis for non-vrecognitive omtre-sonsory perceotion, souetine betiveen the berinning of our reseorch, sbout 2 yeer ogo, ened the vresent, it be- came annarent to this researcher that thore is little thet is vera vhysiccl chout come esn vhonomena, Because we find thet nerenvsycholosy ‘ay be reconciled vith avehology, the tio synthesized unon cl=ssicol physics ond neuro- vhysiolosy, this morogranh hes been eltered only in style, cut not in content vith res»oct to its steted vurnose. Unon the follovinge cuotation rests the foundction of this thesis. Minolly, extra-sensory vercention onc sensory vor cention onyesr to be weh alike excent in the reletion of the subject to the stimulus. “hen sensory vercention is tested at 2. low level of stimulus intensity woich «rex the »vroccess more comnersble to EP, there is indication that it is subject to some of the influences now ‘mown to effect TOP verformance,' J.B. Rhine (November, 1940) Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000500230002-2
ape p Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000500230002-2 » MILLORY OF Bven before the seventeenth century, the toxics of consciousness enc conmunication vere of centr-l SSsue to nobturel philosoohy end theolory. The nhonomena enllec ox "PA Soneory sercention by some, end Dio--information “v others hee tong history of being ‘cnowm by many different nones in mrny oul tus gs :nd overy historicsl tin It hed, by thie time, been well cononst cr-tecd tr t men's consciousness wes interdonendont es well uxon his diolowy end vhysiology, ence that these in turn wero influenced by the rhysicecl environnen* iB flthougsh in retros sect the issuc concerns itsolf with the deta Corived frou vhyveies, »~hysiolosy ane nsyeholoc*, tne brict survey »resentec hore shovs cuite clocrly thet the investicctions wunéder- teken vere done so mnder the rotion th=t the »honomena observed in we one soxecialty wos not roeletad to onomomone. oo 88e 24 in ovher svecial- tios. This becowes very sornront when letoer on; radio vhenonone, eg nracticed by electronic ons ineors ond roa10 Aheno jena wita reencet to esn, Deny littlo rolstion to c.ch other, in the nincs of the vrincive1 ssrensvcholosiccl investir-tor: of the aid- Sventieth century, Tif “Leult to se. thon the very first clectronernetic irst occurred, decsuse the nhenouone is described in words that pred mocern sciontific terminologies. fonro~os of the syocifie issue at hand, tho first mention of cnv yhenomena relevant to the sereention one Jar emission of elcetricecl or mepnetic enersy by ths hunen orcanism occurs with Poreceleus (1493-1541). Hews & ohvsicien ene renute@ly a navehic heslor es vell, and he belicved thet meonetien vas ec nyeterions but nevural foree, that like tho stars influenced *he hwacn body, even a5 a distcnee, by 2 sudtle en Revlon thet »ervaded soreco, (Boring,1929) Freneis Bacon (1561-1626) in ayvive Cylvarun, or & Naturel, History ~9rovides sovers] accounts of orecosnition and tolsvethy, noting thet thov wore neture e1 _Dhonomeone ene whet it belonged to a cless of onerations ~ Horm tons, @ “tronsiis “ions, " end influences, which Nwork ab a2 dis? -onee, but not at touch. 't about the samo time, Ven Eolmont (1577-1544) orisinctod the coctrins of enimal necnetisa, by teaching thot asenetie fluids rz edited from all men, end sv be guided by the will £0 inflvence tho minds ond bodies of others, (Gudrs A contom-orary of the cbhove vas Gilbert, vho in 1609 vublished ce ame te arincivally ¢« treetise on the lodestone, Gilbert con- cluded | he “+ the cun end carth wave both MANO bE , the diurnel roetion f the oarth Csyendont unon thet marnetisn. Uo clso studiod the shononc ono. of “electrics”, but aid not coneluéc thot there was eny rolotions*in betyecon meenetiom ond electricity, Aecin, vo ®ind snotber otoemt et e vchyvsierl or mochonical exolenction of tho “senomona ~rith Glonvill (1636-1520) vho cou*les a vorid-soul hysothoeis with tho observation that“ .. the ezitated ports of ths Brein (beget) > notion in the vroxincs Acther: it is eronoscterd throueh tho liouid scediun, ce ve see th: motion ‘which is esus!d by o stone thromm into the ~ateor." (Gudas,1961) It shouled be uncersatood thet at this timo »shilosovhers, who “ore tha true forerunners of the vsevchologists, were devoting the issue of vhothor e metovirliss or s.itualist moéel most accurately secounter Tor men's bohovior ond Cconselousnose., The cauestion uhich wes celsindlot br Cortesion Cusliecy is still relevent, and is Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000500230002-2
a* ae B Approved For Release 2900/08/07: CIA-RDP96,00787R000500230002-2 3 atill boins Gobetod to@ayr,. It is oovious, even to this outhor, that matericlistie (actther. ono) noGels aro necesssrily inconmlets with resect to our dohaviors -ne our iaont4+ jES8. ecordingsly, the velid- ity of the mind-body question. is 2 elmore god, the vor: of the ~7- 7 a philosonhers of the »ost-Ronzissenee is ositl rolovent today, but ve must ness aver tho history of vhtilos ionhy ane concontrat: on the history of the nhysies List models, ‘nton Mesmer. (1734-1818) wes 2 Vioness ~hysicion vho wag cblo _to effeet cures both uvon peychonsurotic CGisturbances cnd vhysiologicsa ones by che use of hyonotismn, which “Mesmer claimed vas @opendent unon a ohonomens of animal mosnotiom. His wore is vovy innortant to the question of consciousnesa end control becouse it stimulated not only verans ychologicnl inouiry, but stimuleted the vork of Proud and June into the unconseisrsness es voll. Tho iss Ue thon os nov, wes whether the cures thas Mosmer successfully comMloted wore cus to sons outside nevehokinesiceLilcea Sor co, that is eloctromeen:tism. or vhother they wero cue to 3u>Liminel sus°-cstions, Obviously the vsvchosomatic controversios are raised. Mosner hingc-lf at - Firey used motal bar marnots to »roducod his eff¥eets, but- Late oy roerntod fro their us ond came to denend solely on hig own "aninel ar ngnotism. nae use of ‘lesmor's. notoreity & selcntivic confission was set ux in 1784. - investieate tho matter. The comiseion concluded that Mogmor': animal meen tian and neturclly oceuring macnetisn (of the lodostone vericty) wore not similer shonomone end “Msene. Loll into disrevute. fs is cbout this some time thet “enimel cloctricity® is first observed. br Gelvani in L780, Ic discovorsd that frog's lers, when commeocted to tvo dissimilar mote Le, twitch d os. tho sill alive. Inter he creatze the first "wot b- rttery by connoctir & in sories a large number of “rog's lors, This vos in 1794. It is only lator het Volta ercates sleetricity fro> en inorgonic bottery, It is en oft heard observetion thet mony of mon's tochnologicel inventions are but orojoction= of his om biolos, By 1827 Ohm had suecoss: Sully Sormuletod tho Lays of simole eloctricsl circuits, the so lave orc ahill in use todar, ‘The major brorkthrough in ahvreies” of tho ninoteenth conturr cas the dlecovory by Parccar in 18% 51 thet on alvetricral current could be originsted by moving a nn Ehrovgh a arene tic field. It was tho first reclicotion of the unity cloctrbity snd msgnetien. It vag en ia the noxt vear that tho. foohngdans he a edvenend sur: “ieiontly yor Morse to dowonstrate telegrovhy, vhereb? codod sienels were carried over long diatonees br usc of exble- (tronemission line) actine like lov frooueney luwned aeromneter ovetone, OW greet tncortance to the oresent issus is the rosults of on oxporimont carricd out by the oeyehophvsicist Wel holt in 1850, Phefore this date the mind -body complex was thousht to ect togother, eimultencously end instante: sn.0ud, “t or near the speed of light. taich vac then know to be about 300,000 7 m/sec. The functions of the neryes ° vere reasonably understood at this tine, both anatomically and neychologiexlly, but it vas almoess unive: selly assumed that the norves, Like Morse 16 cables, transmitted their @atn at the snead of ligh"., "oo his sur crise, one mony others ag well, Holmholtz found thot the sve:c of nervous sravasation vas 50 m/sec, not only many mesgnituces elover thon lipht, but even slover than the sneod of sound in air. Mot here was 2 new iaa Cc, Yor men vase ror only mind end borly, 1 co om - $ rol « 1 o« . ne wast olso not instantencous in either hie nercontions or his Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000500230002-2
Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96- 00787R000500230002- 2 SLOPE ICS HISTORY: 1859--1926 4 reactions, thet is, his control. Yervin's evolwsionary theory of 1859 nvoc initatod ae fcitions 1 controversy concernins, tho rise of mochenistic aetoriclis tic) ovhilocovhics of vhycies, biolovwv ena history, The schism botveen science ond thoology is in vert ro- svonsible for the founding of the mxreosychologicel anc nsaychical rosesrch socictios Late rinoteenth century. Bernstein in 1866 deseribod tho nerve impulse as a weve of norvbive eleetricity oassine slong the fizer. By 1871, he shoved teot the imnulss sorced from the negative insido of the fiber to yonitive outside. In cédition it ves underetood ot tuis tiac that norves reouired oa refroetor™ neriod betore being ebhle to fire ceoin. B Tourovhnyetolo vcr thin tine bac identified sx sei¥ic sonsory end sotor nourel location in the brein cnt con'ral norvouy estou. Pescoll's soustions a»meared in 1864 losding to the crection of redio wera Nrocusney ole oc sromamne vic rociation in 1888. y 1895 ‘areoni tes oble to broaderst and reeoive over a cistancoe of sovern kiloveters, ond succeded in treamsaitting ccrose the Atlontic Ococen iecl thsoory of esp is the im 1905, Of importance to tho biovhys eanoarnee in 1900 of Plenek's lev, which accuretoly describes the enorey snectra of sloctromecsnetic enorgice ceitted fron an object of = given temnerosturec. “or mon thet tenmoerasure is 310°X, Sir Tillicm Crookes (Rhine, 1934) attonunts to exvlein the nearenornal nhenomens ashi eh frcqucney vibrotions of os other gsoneroted bv the noleculer sction of tho brein." (1867) At shout this some tins, ome srimontacion besed woon ‘enor! s (1854) and Fechner's (1851) 2 eve of shinulus intonsity nd the throshold of sonsitivity cr lc log R) confirm tho exist nce of sub- Liminel (bolowthyr ogholé ) congitivity. Myor's, who coined the vord ‘tolencthy!, in ort beesuse lio bed en invo est in 'wireloss - telegranhy! «lio nostulates she ‘subliainel conscloumnese! “reud C B09) VAS intoros” od in how tho ener functioned in elotion to Grooms, thouesh he never vckrovledrat she phonomens of orecognition, in Loon Prout aceanted the ovistence oa tho “so- esllce ecevlt scioness." The “ea Bons dream vors stu ies of | Jung (1916) ood others et this tino indiesto thet the dress is tho most frequont ste of consciovsnes: on “hich ~evchic vl shenomens. OCCULr 4 Becoun ting for two thirds of all spontaneous psi. | Interostines 1 enouch, thob although inkorsnt in the voerehical, shonomen-, in cll its veriow For Me, yroecodes thet historically of the interest in -~noaletice sereholo’ ios ips conturion, the 1914-1918 wer coperentlv vhimul-ted,for 2 brief tins, wore interest in the Lotter than the former. tetvecn 1911 °nd 1926 various regio envineers hee found that the srovnration of refio cvreves wes devencont unon many Verio such as. sunsnot cveloet, the time of ne dor, the scocson of tho yoar, cte. Tyo of the most imoortena’ varirblos in brosdcasting are the froauency of the sign-l ond the cancition of the lonosphere at. a siven time with rsnee* to that. froceucney. Thooroticsl modcls an? ommiriesl é@et- >oth confirmed thet clectrome natie radiation intensity ot © given distance (long h) ig ©. *unction of the vavo- Leneth, and doos not noces erily cininich invouse orovortionsl to tho seuere of the distenesc, the ovtiesl lew for virible light | vey longths, The nunerie sl aossuroc of “hte muetion obteinod from the formules evrileble in 1911 ene 1925 Go not vary cnoprocaiuly from the necoote*s numavicsl vwalucs uiot toc ay (1975) | Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000500230002-2