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Since the early
1960's there have been reports
on intelligence applications
of human biocommunication experiments
at-a-distance which have been performed
within eastern
bloc countries.
It
is conjectured that the background for these
reports
is
related
to
several
decades of biocommuni cation research
in the USSR
which began flourishing notably
in
the
1920's,, and which has
produced provocative
results.
The possibility of human
biocommunicatiori
at -a -distance
has always presented
an
intel lectural
difficulty to
U.S. -trained scientists, not
only because of pre-
conceived
ideological
constraints,
but also due to
a
lack of
an unified theory
from which mechanisms
and hypotheses could
be suggested.
The primary message of
this commentary on
the subject
is that some
recent
physics theory and corroborating
experimental
data
lend
support and encouragement to the idea that there is
a physical
basis
for observed biocommunication at-a-distance experimental
results.
Further,
evaluation
of some recent psychiatric research
has suggested the method by which the
events associated with biocommunication phenomena,
and the timing of their occurrence,
may
be objectively observed with electrophysiological measurements.
Although the
theoretical
considerations which
lead
to this position
involve
a new twist on
a
historical
argument involving electromagnetic principles, tfeere
are several
important
and significant differences
between
the
ideas
now being offered and that involving
the
"mental-radio"
position.
First,
for biocommunication between
any two points on
the earth,
there
is
no
prediction of
an
inverse-square-law or falling of the effect
with distance, which
is consistent with what
has
been observed experimentally.
Second,
electromagnetic shielding will
not
reduce or eliminate the
biocorcrauni cation-
event taking place between
the individuals concerned, no matter whether either one
or both are completely and independently surrounded
by shielding.
Again,
this
prediction
is
consistent with experimental
results.
Third, there
is
no suggestion
that the
"sender" of information somehow employs
a radiative transmission mechanism
such that he/she
can
communicate directly with the "receiver."
In
fact, the
designations
"sender"
and
"receiver"
in
the
usual
information connotation are
both
inappropriate and misleading.
Instead,
the phenomena of bio communication at-a-
distance
is more
likely
to
involve
an
instance of complementary brain states and
ongoing temporal
processes.
The chain of reasoning
regarding
the physical
basis
for human biocommunication
at-a-distance
involves
the characteristics
of the terrestrial electromagnetic
(EM)
field
and biological
phenomena which
are purported
to be related to, and dependent
upon,
this electromagnetic
field.
These
biological
phenomena encompass several
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concepts,
namely,
bioentrainment over evolutionary time, maintenance of normal
. physiolc>9 ica l functioning,
and neurological
timing phenomena.
The first and
third of these concepts
are immediately relevant to this review and will be
touched
upon
briefly,
after introducing
some
key information about the terrestrial
EM field.
In
general,
one may categorize the
terrestrial
EM environment
as having
three aspects,
or components:
electrostatic
field, magnetostatic
field, and
dynamic
EM
field.
Only the
latter
is of immediate concern.
There has been a
theoretical
prediction,
and experimental
verification, of a discrete set of
continuous,
global
EM frequencies.
These frequencies can be thought of as resonant
mode frequencies of
a
spherical
cavity whose outer and inner walls are
the
ionosphere
and
the surface of the earth,
respecti vely .
They are the only continuous natural
frequencies available on
the earth
(all
others
are
intermittent)
and the first five
resonant modes
fall
in
the
ELF region at approximately 8,
15, 20,
26,
and 32 Hz.
Biological
experimentation
has demonstrated that the human organism
is
sensitive
to various aspects
of static
and dynamic
EM fields,
taken singly
and
in combination.
This sensitivity may
be demonstrated from molecular to
whole organism levels of physiological
organization and appears to be
a strong,
and non-linear,
function
Of
intensity
and
frequency.
If one
focuses on the terres-
trial
EM resonant mode frequencies,
it may be noted that the first five resonant
(and
dominant)
frequencies
span
the
‘’biological"
frequency range
seen
in Customary electro-
encephalograph
(EEG)
recordings
for normal
individuals.
In particular, the range
covering
the
local
variation of the
first resonant mode frequency
is approximately
the
same as that for the
human
EEG alpha
rhythm.
These considerations lead# to the
first postulate-that there
is
human neurophysiological
bioentrainment
to the
resonant frequencies previously mentioned.
The bioentrainment
is presumed to
follow
a development coincident with man's
own evolutionary development.
This
view entails
the notion that
individual
maturation phenomena
eventually result
in
the neurologically mature organism being sensitive and resonantly responsive to
the
EM fields,
magnitudes,
and
frequencies associated with the resonance characteristics
Additionally,
it
is
postulated
that the bioentrainment
idea
includes
a developmental
and evolutionary response to the characteristics of the terrestrial electrostatic
and magnetostatic fields,
but
this
is outside the immediate concern of this
review.
The notion
of bioentrainment
is
not
at all
startling when we are reminded that
everything
from molecular binding
to the operation of human physiological units
and organs,
including
the central
nervous
system,
is based fundamental ly on electro-
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The next consideration
is
that the
resonant terrestrial
EM frequencies
might provide
a continuous clock frequency for neural timing functions; and also,
that these same frequencies may' act
as carrier waves and may contain Information
(as
is possible for any
EM frequency)
which
is significant for ordinary
(as
well
as
extraordinary)
human communication.
In
the absence of any clear anatomical
evidence of structures acting
as generators
to provide internal
clocks,
it
is
possible to conceive of
an alternative
in which the terrestrial" resonant frequencies
provide
ex ternal
clock frequencies
to which the neural
system has adapted during
evolutionary development,
and
to which
it
now responds
in
a manner analogous
to
a high
Q resonant circuit.
These timing signals might then belrsed for specific
neurological
functions
as well
as
to provide the basis for neural
coincident events
'
elsewhere
in the brain.
The notion
that
these same EM frequencies may carry
information which may be decoded and encoded
by the human brain via
field interactions
should
be assessed
in
light of the fact
that these low frequencies have extremely
long wavelengths
(e.g.,
10 Hz corresponds
to
a 30,000 kilometer wavelength).
Thus,,
the
concept
of human biocommunication utilizing these earth resonance frequencies
does not require
a
human
being
to somehow generate
low frequencies
for radiative
transmission without accompanying
physical
structures which are the
correlates
of
long antennas.
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It
is now relevant
to
turn
to the
field of psychiatric research add
consider some recently observed electrophysio'logical
phenomena involving timing.
It appears
that
individual
electrophysiological measurements made on
a normal
human
being display synchronous
isomorphic pattern changes and gradient discontinuity.
This behavior has
been technically defined
as
self- synchrony.
An additional
form
of synchrony
has
been
found,
however, which
is defined as interactive synchrony,
and
is particularly noteworthy for
its implications regarding human communication.
When
a. normal
speaker
is
involved
in
a conversation with one or more individuals,
the
listeners'
individual
self-synchronous pattern changes occur simultaneously with
those of the speaker.
No nonshared
changes
are
found
to occur during
interactive
synchrony.
When
a communicative sequence
is completed or interrupted,
interactive
synchrony disappears,
. leaving
intact
individual
self-synchronous behavior.
By now
it
should be clear how all
the
foregoing
is related to the consideration
of human
biocommunication at-a-distance.
If one couples the
idea of the resonant
frequencies
performing the
role of Information transmission frequencies to the
Phenomena of interactive synchronization,
there
is
the immediate syggestion
that
objectively measureable
EEG
interactive synchronization patterns could be observed
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between
two communicating
individuals whether they are two meters
apart or
thousands of kilometers
apart.
Due
to
the extremely long waveleritfths involved,
there will
be
no
fall
off of the communication with distance,
nor will ordinary
EM shielding techniques
have any effect
on
the
phenomena.
Similarly, the concept
of the terrestrial
EM resonance frequencies
as
low frequency carrier waves for
biocommunication does
not require
a
radiative transmission mechanism for long
distance communication generated
by
the
human
brain.
Finally,
some brief mention
should
be made that probably only ten percent
or
less of the human
population
has
a natural,
untrained capability to produce
positive results when
involved
in
biocommunication
at-a -distance experiments.
The reasons
for this are undoubtedly related
to the genetic constitution of the
individual,
plus
the development of each
individual
based on his own historical
environmental
experiences.
To
this
is added
the postulate that
t tie interactive
synchrony phenomena
previously mentioned
results
in the establishment of memory
patterns
which
the
brain
can
identify and
remember,
and so lead to the triggering
of complementary
brain
states during biocommunication events between individuals
who are well
known
This
is not the
pi
to each other from
a
long
history of previous associations,
ace
to
review U.S.
and
U.S.S.R.
research work in
foiocoromunication
at-a-distance
, except
to note that
the principles which have
been; reviewed here
are consistent with
all
known
results of this
type of research,
asnd that the
several
decades
of work
in the U.S.S.R.
by Vasil iev on telepathic: hypnosis are
particularly enlightening
in
this
regard.
The electrophysiological
approach of
Russian research
in
this
area
has
also yielded the purported observation of
coincident
EEG events
in
the
individuals
involved in
b iocommun i caiti on experiments
at a-distance--a
result which
is not surprising
in view of the hypotheses which
have been outlined
above.
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