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1974, Vol. 1, pp. 3-10
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IMPLICATIONS OF META-PHYSICS FOR
PSYCHOENERGETIC SYTEMS
JACK SARFATT
-International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
The laws of physics, as we know them, are all
formulated in terms of the concept of space-time.
However, space-time is a concept of limited validity.
The general theory of relativity predicts the gravita-
tional collapse of space-time to a "singularity."
That is, the concept of space-time as a collection of
localized point-like events self-destructs or spon-
taneously breaks down. The conventional laws of
physics are transcended. Professor John A. Wheeler
(1974) has called this the "mutability principle."
In particular, concepts of energy, momentum and
angular momentum are not even definable in a
spatially closed universe nor are they even generally
conserved in the presence of curvature. Conserva-
tion laws are the result of symmetry properties of
space-time and curvature generally destroys these
symmetries. The conservation of chergy is not an
ultimate immutable truth of modern theoretical
physics.
If space-time is not fundamental but is a derived
order from something more fundamental, then
what is the primordial "pregeometry" from which
space-time is created ? It is the Quantum Principle.
The full meaning of quantum theory is still in the
stage of being born. In my opinion, the quantum
principle involves mind in an essential way along
the lines suggested, by Parmenedes and Bishop
Berkeley, und-others. Professor Eugene Wigner
(1972) has said that the next revolution in theoretical
physics will occur when the properties of mind are
explicitly included in the equations of quantum
theory. Psycho-energetics will not be properly
formulated until the deeper meanings of the quan-
tum principle are further clarified. Wheeler has
suggested that the quantum principle can be for-
mulated as a logical calculus of two-valued "yes-no"
'72/ propositions. Professor Roger Penrose (1969) has
made some progress on how the combinatorics of
yes-no propositions implies three-dimensional struc-
ture of space. A more basic question is who or
what is the "participator" formulating the pro-
position from which matter existing in space-time
is derived. Mind appears to be the function of low -.
entropy, highly organised dissipative structures of
matter in space-time that are held far from thermo-
dynamic equilibrium by the negative entropy flow
of matter and energy (I. Prigogine, 1972). Mind
creates matter and is also a function of matter.
This is a self-consistent process or "bootstrap"
characteristic of non-linear processes.
The quantum principle transcends local concep-
tions of space-time and is intrinsically nonlocal in
character. Professor David Bohm (1974) has said
that conventional formulations of quantum
mechanics imply that individual quantum particles
cannot generally be isolated from the unbroken
wholeness of the entire universe. A quantum
potential provides a ubiquitous and universal
interconnectedness among all parts of the whole:
Even when the classical potential vanishes (so that in the
usual interpretation of the theory it is said that the two
particles do not interact) there is still a "quantum inter-
action" between them which does not approach zero as
(X) - X:) -- the separation between the two particles --
approaches macroscopic dimensions and which depends on
the quantum state of the whole system (Bohm and Hiley,
1974).
In my view, the Bohm-Whey (1974) quantum De Broglie
potential proceeds from a self-organising principle
which creates space-time and is also, at least in
part, manifested as a functional order connected
with non-cquilbrium disspative structures. It is not
clear whether this correlation is fundamental or
fortuitious. That it is the former is a basic pre-
til
judgement of the reducitonist metaphysics dominat-
ing the mainstream of modern science.
An idea of the utmost significance for the develop-
ment of psycho-energetic systems that is implicit in
the above considerations is that the structure of
matter may not be was The first hint of this of conscious;
independent
is dimly seen in the "Copenhagen interpretation"
of quantum measurement as "reduction of the
wavepacket." The idea becomes more explicit in the
Einstein-Rosen -- Poldolsky "Paradox" in which two
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widely separated noninteracting particles are cor-
related by the nonlocal quantum potential:
It would follow that somehow the measurement of the
momentum of the first particle actually "put"' this particic
into a definite state of momentum p. while it."put". the
second particle into a correspondingly definite correlated.
state of momentum p - P1. The paradoxical feature. of
this experiment is that particle 2 somehow seems to ":know"
into which state it should go, without any interaction that
could transmit information (Bohm and -Hiley, 1974):
The paradox is explained by the effective long-
range instantaneous interaction between the two
particles brought about by the quantum potential.
However this requires us to ask: can the quantum
potential carry a signal ?
The mere fact of interaction does not necessarily give rise
to the possibility of carrying a signal. Indeed, a signal has,
in general, to be a complex structure, consisting of many
events, that are ordered in definite ways (Bohm and Hiley,
1974).
. Bolim and Hiley leave the question unanswered.
I suggest the meta-physical hypothesis that the
quantum mechanical wave function is a property
of the self-organising principle which creates space-
time. The prefix meta here refers to Gerdel's Sl
ideal reference for the need for reference outside the
Closed system of physical theory for the
"elecidoulity
of pron
Allaway This leads to new predictions
of a psychoenergetic nature that can be tested in
the laboratory.
According to conventional interpretations of the
.quantum principle, if we shoot an electron or
photon beam through a double slit and allow the
scattered beam to fall on a detecting screen, then
the exact place of impact of an indivdual photon
or electron cannot be predicted. Only the proba-
bility of a particular place of impact can be pre-
· dicted. To test this particular prediction requires
the use of a good statistical sample insolving a vl
large number of photons or electrons. However,
according to Dirac, the probability aspect of the
quantum principle is not a collective property of the
interactions between the several electrons or pro-
.tons i.e. cach photon (electron) "interferes with
itself." This is "proved" by observation of double-
. slit interference patterns even when the incident
flux of photons or electrons is so low that on the
average only one photon or electron is present in
the experimental apparatus at any one time. The
existence of Bohm's quantum potential may imply .
"that Dirac's interpretation is not quite correct
though it points to a profound truth.
.
The explanation of the quantum phenomenon.is
outside the scope of the conventional understanding
of the quantum principle. That is, the quantum
principle as usually interpreted is a description of
how the world works rather than an explanation of
why it works the way it does. Einstein always
maintained that quantum theory was incomplete
and that God did not play dice with the universe
Wheeler (1974), in a philosophical application of
" Geedel's theorem on the decidability of mathe-
matical propositions has said:
No theory of physics that deals only with physics will ever
explain.physics.
Therefore, meta-physical statements are absolutely
vital for the evolution of physics (which like all
evolution proceeds as a sequence of instabilities of
almost stationary states of dissipative structures
that amplify small fluctuations) or indeed of any
system of ideas that is still "alive." Einstein. also
thought it proper to inquire into the space time
"identity" of an individual electron in a discon-
tinuous quantum jump. In Bohr's interpretation of
the quantum principle such a question was not
meaningful and the quantum jump occurred "out
of time." Both men were possibly correct. In a
new interpretation of the quantum principle Created
by Wolf and the author (1999), the distinction
between the relativisticaly invariant proper time is
made explicit. Feynman showed how to combine
the continuous space-time world-line with the
quantum principle. Each continuous world-line or
space-time history is assigned a complex probability
amplitude. All possible histories of the universe
occur and interfere with each other. The regions of
constructive interference of the manyK inter-
penetrating universes /gives the most probable
"classical" history of the "universe" as we know it
in usual states of consciousness. This is referred to
as the Feynman-Dirac Action Principle which is
perhaps the most aesthetically satisfying conven-
tional formulation of the quantum principle on the
descriptive level. Feynman's space-time path inter-
pretation of the quantum principle shows that an
electron can be scattered backwards in time by an
electromagnetic vacuum fluctuation (Figure la).
The electron moving backwards in time is
detected as a positron of opposite charge but same
mass moving forwards in time. The scattering event
is detected as the annihilation of an electron-
positron pair. Wolf and the author have added a
new process in which the electron is scattered
"outside of its light cone" into a tachyonic worid
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Electron Space- time
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Path, Going
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TIME Path, Describe
The Quantum Jump
The Electron Moves
IN IMAGINARY
space
TIME
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line in which the electron velocity(V)is greater than
the speed of light c. (See Figure 1b). The tachyonic
segment of the electron's world line is detected as
an instantaneous discrete quantum jump which can
take zero real coordinate time as measured in the
laboratory. The electron has a continuous space-
time identity in the quantum jump. Both The proper
time becomes
along the tachyonic piece of world line,
along you cancisatynimusimy Furthermore , the
dynamical Action which determines the phase of
the probability amplitude of the electron's world-
line or history is proportional to the proper time.
Therefore, the quantum jump or tachyonic piece of
the world line introduces an exponental decay or
growth of the probability amplitude. The tachyonic
contribution to the action defines a quantum
irreversible entropy for each quantum jump.
Exponentic
Quantum particles do not radiate photons when
moving with speed v less than c "inside their light
cones." Photons are created in a Cerenkov process
on the tachyonic path of the world-line outside the
light-cone where v is greater than c. This is a new
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therefor the curvature ) has two kinds of contributions from the rower thers fermer .
One is on or unside lightcome (VSC) The other is outside the light come (V>C)
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le mans og IC/24/9/by J. Sompet) there may be a connection between Me
guantes potential and the curvature .
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interpretation of Bohr's frequency condition of
1913 in which electrons in bound atomic orbits
(stationary states) do not radiate. Radiation and
absorption only occur in the quantum jumps
between orbits. But what about Maxwell's electro-
magnetic theory which predicts that an accelerating
electron With v gmmer than, c-radiates., This is
simply the classical limit of for closely spaced +
"continuum" states. The seemingly smooth time-
like (i.e. v less than c) accelerated world line of the.
radiating free electron upon closer inspection is
composed of a jagged curve of time-like and tachy-
onic pieces. (See Figure 2). Photons only appear
along the tachyonic segments.
We need a third idea in order to explain the
mystery of the quantum principle since, as Einstein
realised, the quantum theory is incomplete. We
must formulate a principle which tells us why an
individual quantum particle makes a quantum
jump into the tachyonic world line at any particular
".coordinate time and place. Thus we introduce the
Participator meta-principle: the determining factor
for an individual quantum jump is associated with
the volition of the participator. Generally the col-
lective will of the participators is unfocused and
incoherent, giving the seemingly random character
of quantum probability. The implication here is
that there are states of consciousness which can
Time
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Space-LIKE
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+ In a spatially closed universe all states have discrete energy eigenvalues ..
Therefore , this land of cosmology dictates the universality of Bohr's
frequency condition on the microscale.
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autor Brownian movement of '
quantum particles.
Thus the electron or photon is buffered about in a
random Brownian motion probably created by the
subconscious mental functioning of living systems.
So, if Wheeler's substitution of the idea of the
."participator" for that of the "observer" is to be
taken seriously, then some component of the quan-
tum probability involves the turbulent creative
sublayer of ideas in the mind of the "participator."
The participator in a particular quantum experi-
ment in a physics laboratory can be the experi-
menter himself, though on the deeper level of
quantum interconnectedness it must also include
the general range of all living systems. All conscious
systems, independently of their spatio-temporal
locations relative to the experimental apparatus,
make incoherent contributions to the total nonlocal
quantum potential felt by the individual photons
or electrons.
The subquantum Brownian movement of the
hidden variable theory of Bohin and Vigier in the
nonlocal version is "mental" in origin, proceeding
from the uncoordinated and incoherent mental
activity of the participators everywhere and every-
when. The random character of quantum events
is not transmitted by signals propagating in space-
time in the usual sense but is a gestalt property of
the unbroken wholeness of the universe, which
transcends the conservation of energy and other
generators of flat space-time symmetrics. The
"hidden variables" of Bohm and Vigier and the
hidden "heat reservoir" of De Broglie are found
in the nonlocal functional order of the participator.
As Bohm and Hiley point out:
Any attempt to assert the independent existence of a part
would deny this unbroken wholeness. . . . This does not
necessarily mean that the subsystems are always spatially
smaller (localised) than the system as a whole. Rather. what
characterizes a subsystem is only its relative stability and the
possibility of its independence of behaviour in the limited
context under discussion.
Stapp (1971) has reached similar conclusions in a
study of Bell's inequalities within an S-matrix
formulation of the Quantum Principle. The com-
bined implication of these ideas is that : the quantum
mechanics of individual quantum particles is the
generally incoherent field of consciousness of all
the "participators" who themselves "interconnect"
to generate the unbroken wholeness of the universe.
Combining the ideas of both Wheeler and Bohm
would suggest that this unbroken wholeness must
be not only self-organizing but also self-creating.
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whose volitiona_Control is such that they can
impress a coherent structure on the usually inco-
herent Brownian motion felt + ingle quantum
particles. On a superficial level of analysis, such
demonstrations appear to "violate" the "laws" of
a physics which are defined in terms of limitations
that we are only beginang to understand. Such are
the problems presented by the scientific observations
of Uri Geller to date. If the explanation of Geller's
abilities lies in the direction outlined, he should be
capable, by an act of will, and at a distance be able
to repeatedly control the precise place of impact of
single electrons of photons in the above-mentioned
double-slit experiment of quantum mechanics.
This is a crucial test and could easily be conducted
as a laboratory experiment. Indeed it may be that
many seemingly "miraculous" phenomena, such as
those that have been reported frequently through-
out history, can in principle be related to the
framework of the quantum principle when pro-
perly understood. Further research along these
lines could conceivably begin to demonstrate the
how of such phenomena since Wheeler's "muta-
bility" principle carried to its logical conclusion
suggests the transcending of biological laws in so
far as they can be reduced to physical laws. There-
fore, if mutability is right there is an inherent
flexibility in a wide range of both physical and
biological phenomena e.g. stability of metal struc-
ture, aging etc.
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The quantum potential is universal, affecting all
quantum particies in the same way. The universality
of the quantum potential is closely connected with
the universality of gravitation and the curvature
of space-time. Indeed, the incoherent structure of
the quantum interconnectedness can be identified
with the "zero point" quantum mechanical vacuum
fluctuations of the geometry of space-time. The
volition of a particularly strong "participator"
impresses a coherent pattern on the vacuum
fluctuations which is then detected as a "particle"
of matter. It was originally thought that quantum
vacuum fluctuations in the geometry of space-time
were only important on the practically inaccessible
scale of 10-33 cms. The finite ranged strong gravity
theory of Abdus Salam and co-workers shows that
these vacuum fluctuations are possibly important
on a scale of 10-13 cms. due to the Yukawa
exchange of a meson with two units of quantum
spin having a mass of about 10-24 grs. However,
the principle works for spin 2 particles of lower
mass. For example, the Yukawa exchange of a
. + The quantum potential can be expressistin terms of No Niemann curvature Leur
provided that the queenture were function is premainly a prequest field in
the service of De Broglie's double solution a Bolani's 1952 version of Lichen
Viviables in quantums Mary, The Brown interpretation of Newwe function and a
probability wive is secondary applying for a thermal equilibrium distribution
of the hidden variables ( see I C/ ?4/9 J. Soft) Q.M. as a community ofevent
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leptoniel
.spin 2 state of a bound electron-position pair
would give a super strong Isassis gravity, of range
10-11 cm. with a high frequency cut-off of about
1 Mev. which is consistent with the observed Lamb
shift of the S-level of atomic hydrogen predicted
by quantum electrodynamics. One can envision an
effective biogravitational field due to the Yukawa
exchange of very low energy (order of 1 ev.) col-
- lective elementary excitations in biological materials
.which would give a massive gravitational range of
about 10-4 cm. which is of the same scale as
functional biological units ..
..
Wheeler's consideration of quantum geometro-
dynamics and the "spread of the wave-packet in
"super space" that show the usual ideas of causality
and simple time order breakdown on the scale of
the Planck length for quantum fluctuations in the
geometry. However, the exchange of massive. spin
2 "gravitons" in the particular case of the con-
jectured biogravitational field imply that this
breakdown in time ordering could occur on the
scale of 10-4 cms. which puts it within the range
of human perceptive and conscious mechanisms.
The quantum principle even suggests a mechanism
for holographic information storage in the human
nervous system. The storage may be in the frequency
modulation of the phase of a room-temperature
organic super-conductor. The coding and decoding
of the information would occur by means of the
Josephson effects. Such a model has many impli-
cations for areas of research such as Kirlian
photography, healing and the "laying on of hands"
etc. These matters will be taken up in a future
publication.
In summary, it may well be that classical defini-
tions of energy and its conservation will shortly
have to be either expanded or superseded in ways
that allow physics to handle a much richer kind of
universe. This revision would appear to be one that
is fundamentally linked with an understanding of
biological systems and further, a deep appreciation
of the role of the "participator" and his conscious-
ness. As Wheeler recently remarked:
"We will understand how simple the universe is when we
recognize how strange it is."
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D.pgh Uri Geller demonstrated the bending of metal and the triggering.
of a geiger counter tube by psycho-energetic means in a series
of controlled and repeatable tests conducted by Prof John Hasted
at Birkbeck College, University of London on 21 and 22 June, 1974.
Participants and witnesses to these tests included Professor David Bohm ,
Dr. Jack Sarfatt , Dr. Ted Bastin , Dr. Keith Birkinshaw, Dr. Arthur Ellison,
Arthur koestler, and Arthur C. Clarke. Hasted and Bohm are
preparing a detailed report for publication.
[ Acknowledgements : I wish to Thank Dr. Fred A. Wolf and Brendan O' Regan
for Their assistance in preparing this paper for publication,
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A Comment.
BRENDAN O'REGAN
with
" The debate regarding the "true" nature of progress
in science seems to have gained considerable ..
momentum in recent decades. It is not without
interest that this should be occurring at about the
same time that science is having to confront a
number of extremely difficult problems. Whether
"one chooses the framework of Kuhn's -(1962)
paradigms or Holton's (1973) themata, for example,.
it would seem that one of the most useful things
· such debates could provide might be some guidance"
for science (and scientists) when they find them-
selves faced wih a build-up of anomalies or other
unexpected phenomena. As Kuhn so aptly phrases:
it:
One of the things that a scientific community acquires with
a paradigm is a criterion for choosing problems that, while
the paradigm is taken for granted, can be assumed to have
solutions. To a great extent these are the only problems that
.the community will admit as scientific or encourage its
members to undertake. Other problems, including many that
had previously been standard, are rejected as metaphysical,
; as the concern of another discipline, or sometimes as just
too problematic to be worth the time.
For example, the problems suggested by the anoma-
lies of psychic research have the dubious distinction
of having been rejected, at one time or another, on
all' three grounds suggested by Kuhn above.
However, as Kuhn also points out, perhaps we
should not be too surprised at this since:
Discovering a new sort of phenomenon is necessarily a
complex event, one which involves recognizing both thet
something is and what it is. . .. Only when the reicvant
conceptual categories are prepared in advance, in which
case the phenomenon would not be of a new sort, can dis-
covering what occur effortlessly, together, and in an instant.
Thus for some of us, it has always seemed more
potentially productive to examine the progress of
. research on paradoxes that have emerged within
the framework of conventional physics, for example,
especially if those paradoxes share some funda-
mental characteristics with the phenomena that
have been rejected. In this connection, it should be
obvious that many of the questions raised by
psychic research have much in common. with
problems in the areas of conventional measurement
theory and modern research into both quantum
theory and relativity research. Yet at the same time,
it has also been clear that an essential component
`would be being ignored by such an approach since
it would take no account of the fact that highly
complex biological living systems are involved in
psychic phenomena. The special problems posed
"By living systems, which are open and nonequili-
· brium systems, are now being given consideration
· in the work of Prigogine (1972) as well as in Eigen's
(1971) work on the "self-organization" of matter
in biological systems. It has also been obvious for
"some time that somehow, developments in these
different areas would have to be combined in such
a way that the consciousness of the observer-
participator is indeed part of the resulting theory
in a way that constitutes a genuine response to
Wigner's (1972) complaint that from the point of
view of quantum mechanics, consciousness is
completely unexplained. (in this connection, it is
interesting to note that Wigner expressed the view
that one of the only ways of solving this was to
find phenomena "in which the consciousness
modifies the laws of physics.") Given the diversity
of the kinds of information needing integration, it
is perhaps not surprising that the field of contendors
is not exactly crowded.
In the preceding paper, Sarfatt has presented
the beginning outlines for just how this integration
may yet be achieved. At the heart of his thesis lies
an interpretation of the nature of random events.
In particular he is suggesting that the cause of the
random behaviour of particles in Brownian motion
is directly linked with the volitional activity of the
sum of observer-participators. Recent research into
biofeedback has gencrated the distinction between
what has been termed "active" and "passive"
volition. Green (1972) has described this notion
and the implication in the present context is that
via the techniques of biofeedback training, which
seem to deal specifically with the training and
direction of passive volition, it may be possible to
set up an experimental situation which could
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maybe correlated
directly test the possibility of at least linking up
: specific subjective states with changes in the pattern
of events in the physical world. The research to
indicated date has clearly indicated that certain sets of sub-
jective states can be linked up with changes in the
pattern of behavior of the body, though there has
yet to be a systematic exploration of the idea that
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passive volitional states may reach "outside" the
. body in a manner at least analagous to the way
active volitional states do so-neither of which we
can explain.
The other aspect of Sarfatt's paper which may
spark some controversy is the suggestion that the .
discontinuity inherent in quantum theory involves
the electron undergoing its transition between
energy levels via a path involving a tachyonic
world line. Tachyons have yet to be actually detected
but their existence is a logical extension of existing
physical theory. Even if they are detected, it is not
yet clear how they will relate to psychoenergetic
theory, though strictly speaking, detection is the
wrong word since it implies that tachyons should
be "detectable" in the manner of a signal. The
concept of a signal does not necessarily apply at
speeds greater than that of light (Feinberg, 1967).
Since psychic phenomena seem to involve the
need for revision of our concepts of time, it may
be that the connection will be via some relationship
between the "time sense" of certain subjective
states and the complex time of the tachyonic
world line, though this has to be regarded as a
:completely speculative notion for the moment.
It would appear that it is also essential that some
model for the exertion of force by biological systems
is necessary for the further development of psycho-
energetic theory. This, of course, must be in terms
outside the normal active volitional extensions via
the action of the body. Rescarch in this direction
seems to have been a part of the Russian effort to
explain psychic phenomena for some time. In this
direction Sarfatt has suggested the possibility of
some form of biogravitational field which becomes
Nicht if organic room-temperature supercon-
ductors
we be found in biological systems. Some
work in this area is already going on and further
development of this notion could provide explicit
suggestions for further research.
However, the kinds of research needed here are
all both highly involved and requiring the attention
of the very best minds. Perhaps when the scientific
community at large realizes that the problems posed
by psychic research are already part of the very
fabric of science, rather than being some exotic
pseudo-scientific intrusion, the necessary research
effort can begin in earnest. In fact, it now seems
clear that if Wheeler's concept of the role of the
"participator" is to be fully explored, then physics
·
might have to invent psychic research, if it did not
already exist. Though clearly controversial in
many aspects, it is to be hoped that the challenges
and research suggestions in this paper will serve to suggestie
spark off scientific debate in the. constructive
direction in which it should always have been
moving.
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