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OF THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY
1 DECEMBER 1976
INCLUDING THE PROGRAM OF THE
1976 WINTER MEETING AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY
20-22 DECEMBER 1976
gSESSION FC: THEORETICAL PHYSICS
Wednesday morning, 22 December 1976
K Physics Lecture Hall 101
at 9;00 A.M.
Hi lelon R. Quinn, presiding
FC 9
Direct
Perception of Remote
Geographical
Locations .
H.
E. PUTHOFF
and
R, TARG, Stanford
Res.
Inst.--Sincc 1972 wc
have
been
investigating
facets of human
perception
that appear
to
fall
outside
the
range of well-understood
pcrceptual/processing
capabilities.
Of particular
interest
has
been
a human information-accessing capability
that we
call
“remote
viewing.”
This phenomenon
pertains
to
the
ability of certain
individuals
to
access and
describe, by means of mental
processes, informa-
tion
sources blocked from
ordinary perception, and
generally accepted
as
secure
against such
access.
In
particular,
the phenomenon we have
investi-
gated most
extensively
is
the
ability
of a
subject
to view remote
geographical
locations up
to
several
thousand km
distant from
his
physical
location given
only
a known person on whom
to
target.
We have
recently
carried out
coast
to
coast experiments
using
a computer
to
interface with
individuals
whose remote
perceptual
abilities have been
developed
sufficiently
to allow
them
to
describe—often
in
great
detail- -geographical
or
technical
material
such
as
buildings,
roads, and
natural
formations.
Our accumulated
data
indicate
that
both
specially
selected and
unselcctcd
persons can
be
assisted
in
developing remote
perceptual
abilities up
to
a
level of useful information
transfer.
FC 10
Some Physical Models Potentially Applicable
to
Observed Perception Data .
E.A.
Rauscher,
Lawrence
Berkeley Laboratory —The purpose
of
this
investigation
is
to utilize
the
remote perception experimental data
base
to deduce what physical principles
govern
the
accessing of
remote,
sensorily shielded
information.
The
data base appears
to be stable enough
to allow us
to make
some definitive statements
about the correlation of
this
data with principles
and content
of physics.
We examine
the constraints represented by
this data
in relationship
to three major physics principles:
Poincare' (Lorentz)
in-
variance,
analyticity
(causality)
and unitarity.
We
examine
in detail some specific Lorentz
invariant models
as well
as some quantum mechanical models,
such as Bell's
inequality.
In relationship to the spaeial
and
temporal
properties
of
this
data.
^Consultant to Stanford Research Institute
1.
H.E
.
Puthoff
and
R.
Targ,
IEEE,
64,
329
(1976).
FC 11
EEG Cor relates
to Remote
St imuli Unde r Conditions
of Sensory
ShfeldinV,,
R.
TARG,
li
.
E.
PUTHOFF and
E.C.
MAY,,
Stanford
Res.
Inst.—We report evidence
for
a correlation
between direct physiological measurement
and
a remote
light stimulus blocked
from ordinary perception.
In pi-
lot studies with
a selected subject,
a strobelight was
placed 9m from a subject
in a steel enclosure in
a sec-
ond
room.
EEG was recorded,
and
fast-Fourier-transf orms
(FFTs) were obtained.
FFTs
of
the 168
intermixed peri-
ods of flash and no-flash conditions showed
that
the oc-
currence
of
the light flash correlated significantly
(p
<0.03) with
a decrease in 9-11 Hz EEG production.
Two formal studies were
then carried out,
each consist-
ing of
runs
of
trials making use of a battery op-
erated
lamp
to eliminate any possibility
of electro-
magnetic interference
(EMI)
associated with
a conventicn-
al flash lamp.
These studies again show significant
correlations between EEG output and light flash stimulus.
In
the first study
the 9-11 Hz EEG power again decreased
during
the stimulus condition
(p
<0.02);
in
the second
study the EEG output increased during
the stimulus con-
dition
(p
<0.01).
Although
the subject was not able
to guess
the stimulus condition,
the observed changes
are consistent with a response on the part of
the sub-
ject,
albeit at
a noncognitive level of awareness.
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