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A RESEARCH PROGRAM WIOSE GOAL IS TO UNAMBIGUOUSLY
RESOLVE THE QUESTION AS TO WHETHER OR NOT
This is
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YURI GELLER
DIRECT
BRAIN PERCEPTION
and
DIRECT BRAIN ACTION
EXIST
Submitted by Captain Edgar D. Mitchell, USN
prepared by Henry (Andrija) Puharich, M.D., Editor
NOTE: THIS IS NOT
A "CONTRACTOR" PROPOSAL
BUT, RATHER, A GENERAL
BACKGROUND PAPER BY A MAN
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Preface
of the thoughts and feelings of some forty-two men and
This proposal represents the editor's collation
women from many disciplines who have been trying to ration-
alize the phenomenon of direct brain action. In addition
to many informal conferences, they have met in two formal
conferences. The first was the International Conference
on Exploring the Mergy Fields of Mon, November 19 - 22,
1970, sponsored by Wainwright House, Rye, New York, and
Life Fergies Research, Inc. New York, New York. : The
1971, St. Paul de Vence, A.M. France, sponsored by the
Parapsychology Today: A Geographic View, August 25 - 27,
second was the Twentieth Annual International Conference,
Parapsychology Foundation, Inc., New York, New York.
The ideas expressed at these conferences are now
beginning to crystallize as the result of two events. The
first is the discovery of a person, Uri Geller, who has
been able to repeatably demonstrate under rigid scientific
control the power of direct brain action. The second
event grows out of Captain Edgar D. Mitchell's mofficial
Apollo 14 ESP experiment. Captain Mitchell has undertaken
to mobilize and organize the resources required to study
direct brain action. Mr. Geller has agreed to be one of.
the first of several experimental subjects for this study
These two events are now being brought to the attention of
the scientists above mentioned in order to examine the
experimental and theoretical problems involved. The present
proposal represents a first draft attempt by the editor, and
is now being circulated for review, criticism, and consensus.
The editor takes the sole responsibility at this time for
this draft proposal. It will be several months before the
Scientific Advisory Committee, and Research Committee are
fully formed, and informred, and can assume responsibility
for a Final Proposal under Section VI, Program Alpha, Phase
II, and a long term Research Plan and Program. If the editor
has taken any undue liberties in reporting, formulating con-
cepts, or use of names, or institutions, he has done so
solely in the interests of expediting the formulation of a
research program, and hurbly requests understanding for any
transgressions that may have occurred.
Andrija Puharich, M.D.
Editor
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Abstract
This proposal deals with the general problem
of the interaction of mind with material systems, and
more specifically with the action of mind upon material
systems which is called direct brain action (DSA) .
A 24 year old Israeli male has been investigated
under field research conditions for six months, and it
has been concluded that he possesses the power of direct
brain action. It is now proposed to bring him into a
laboratory situation to be studied by a group of scientists.
An experimental design is proposed which should
yoAld an
unambiguous answer to the question as to whether or not
direct brain action exists as a part of the laws of nature.
Preliminary data and conclusions with respect to
DBA indicate that this power can be a useful tool with
which to re-examine some of the basic laws of physics. The
rather simple experiments proposed herein would appear to
have profound implications for the clarification of basic
theories about the universe, and the place of man within
such theory. /
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Contents
Preface
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Abstract
· page c
I.
Introduction to the Research Program
· page 1
II.
Introduction to the Status of Scientific
Parapsychology
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III.
Proposed Research Program
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IV.
Immediate Research Program
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V.
Results of Program Alpha -- Phase I.
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VI.
Program Alpha, Phase II, Research Design .
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VII. Anticipated Outcome and Further Research
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Appendices
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I. INTRODUCTION TO THE RESEARCH PROBLEM
We are so accustomed to getting information about the world
around us through seeing, hearing, touching, and other natural or
artificial sensors that it rarely occurs to us that this my not be
the only way to receiving knowledge. When we want to do something,
to carry out an action, we do it through our muscular system -- the
tongue, the hand, the feet, etc. It rarely occurs to us that personal
action may be carried out by any other means than these transducer
systems.
Yet the modern technique of direct brain stimulation (DES)
has shown that it is possible to stimulate the brain directly with
electrical pulses to produce a sensation, or to initiate an involun-
tay action. DBS is a state-of-art laboratory technique today which
will be increasingly used in the future in practical applications.
There are still other direct brain effects which are not state-
of-art, and in fact may be considered rare. In the world today there
are people, perhaps in the hundreds, who claim an extraordinary capa-
bility for direct perception of information, and direct bicenergy
action on material systems. Direct perception may be defined as the
acquisition of information by a person by direct brain perception
(DSP), i.e. without stimulation of the sensory channels or any other
know bio-transducer. Direct bicenergy transfer may be defined as
the initiation of a physical effect by direct brain action (DBA) with-
out using any known physical interaction processes.
There is empirical as well as some experimental evidence to
show that DEP and DRA powers exist in certain people. These people
are little understood by humanity at large, and more specifically less
so by science. Yet it is believed by students of those phenomena that
a knowledge of, and control over such human powers, is of the greatest
consequence to mankind. Why has this field of knowledge been so
neglected if it is of such great importance for man's welfare?
Scientists who have examined the evidence for direct brain
action (DBA) believe that the phenomenon is of basic importance, and
rustibe studied intensively in order to find out if known laws of
nature are involved (electromagnetism, gravitation, etc. ) or whether
we have the opportunity to discover a new law of nature. A clear
resolution of this one problem would do more to mobilize the interest
and resources of science and philosophy toward answering a basic question
than any other approach now known.
Scientists in the USSR have recognized the pressing importance
of these questions, particularly the question of "can thought move an
object?", while scientists in the USA, generally speaking, have not.
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Wstom countries, and the USA, need not, and should not lag in research
rad possible application of DA.
The USA particularly has lagged because conservatives in the
scientific establishment have held to the taboo that these subjects
do not lend themselves to scientific study. . But twenty years ago it
was held that hypnosis could not be handled scientifically, yct this
talxxo has been broken by the pioneering work of Arons, Wolberg, etc.
Fifteen years ago it was held that iran's sex life could not be studied
scientifically, and this taboo has been abolished by the pioneering
work of Kinsey, and by Masters and Johnson. Ten years ago it was be-
lieved by many scientists that man could not survive in the vacuum and
zero-gravity of space; this taboo died when a man stepped onto the sur-
face of the moon. Five years ago it was held that man could not live
without his own heart, and we are now watching this taboo slowly vanish
as surgeons transplant human hearts, and medical engineers design im-
plantable artificial hearts.
Today it is still extremely difficult to have any research
results in DBA and DBP accepted and published in scientific journals.
Yet there are many competent and prestigious scientists who are actively
interested in this kind of research, and who are willing to devote more
of their time and effort in a well-organized major scientific effort.
In the next two sections we will briefly describe the nature of the
scientific work that has been done in DEA and DSP, where we stand today,.
and what could be done to advance basic scientific knowledge.
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II.
INTRODUCTION TO THE STATUS OF SCIENTIFIC PARAPSYCHOLOGY
A number of historical events have occurred which may give
birth to a scientific approach to DRP and DBA. The observation of
the Count de Puysegur that his "thoughts" could put another person
in hypnotic trance (1785) culminated in Charcot's experiments during
the 1360's which showed that a person could be hypnotized at a distance
to do specific things (when he was totally unaware that someone was
trying to hypnotize him). These observations led to the twentieth
century studies in statistically controlled telepathy experiments
associated with the names of Zener, Rhine, Pratt, Soal, and others.
Scientific efforts along the same lines in the USSR followed
more closely the original work of Charcot and Janet. Bekhterev (1920's)
and Vasiliev (1932) proved that hypnotic control over animals was
practical, and was feasible in humans. Both schools concur in the
conclusion that a person can transmit a mental command to another
person by means of direct information transfer where the sender
initiates DBA, while the percipient responds with DBP. It is to be
understoxl here that the distinction between DBA and DEP is purely
arbitrary and is useful for discussion purposes only.
Pure DEA studies were inspired by prodigies such as D.D. Home
(1033-1986), who was able to move objects solely by montal control ,
and was able to physically float in the air (levitation). Such physi-
cal feats, and many others gave rise to distinguished research organ-
izations like the British Society for Psychical Research. This im-
pulse culminated in Twentieth Century studies of the effect of mind
on natter in motion, psychokinesis, more particularly in statistically
controlled effects of the mind on dice, associated with such names as
Rhine, McConnell, Forwald, and others.
In general, in the USSR under the reigning belief in Marxist
dialectical materialism, DBP and DBA were interpreted in purely mater-
ialistic terms -- although without any scientific foundation. In the
West scientists were unsuccessful in explaining DBP and DBA in mater-
ialistic terms, and openly achtted that these phoncmona were not e-
compassed by known scientific laws. This has been wrongly interpreted
by some to mean that Western Science was dominated by some kind of
idealistic philosophy of parapsychology. The truth is that not
enough is known about DBP or D33 to lend support to any sound theory.
We are still woefully short of facts, and more observations and data
collection are urgently needed.
By the time of the late 1940's enough data was on hand, how-
ever, to convince some people that major support for, and inquiry
into, was required for scientific parapsychology. This was initiated
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by the Parapsychology Foundation of New York under the leadership
of the Hon. Francos Payne Bolton, and the late Fileen J. Garrett.
As nearly as one can sunlise from Russian resorts, the USSR began
to encourage research into DRP in the 1930's. No comparable interest
or support was shown by Nestom nations in these phenomena.
As. carly as 1952, certain American scientists were approached
by official representatives of the United States Government and asked
for advice with respect to the reality, repeatability, and feasi-
bility of telepathy. Comisel was given, and some reports submitted.
Additionally, several studios were reported before responsible scien-
tific groups. -
1 (1-1)the United States Office of Naval Research in 1952
gave a grant to the Duke University Parapsychology Laboratory for a
study on homing pigeons with respect to orientation behavior.1 (j)
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The United States Air Force initiated research in this area
but was unable to successfully complete the work for many complex
reasons, although several projects reached an advanced stage.2
Three scientists, then living on the West Coast, worked
closely with a group of faculty members at Stanford University and
organized an Ad Hoc Committee to stimulate DEP research. 3 The Committee
made a formal approach to the then (1960) Provost of Stanford Univer-
sity, proposing that the Thomas Welton Stanford Fund for Psychical
Research be used to support an ESP research program. This request
was tumed down.
In 1962, one of the scientist participants in this proposal
was an advisor to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration,
Biotechnology and Human Research Office, Washington, D. C.
In this
capacity he helped to initiate a requirement for studies in the field
of novel means of bio-information and bio-energy transfer by humans.
This program was announced at the 1963 Paris meeting of the Intema-
tional Astronautics Federation. It generated considerable interest
mong the scientists present. " Newspaper accounts of this proposed
program had a negative effect on influential members of the United
States Congress. . Congressional pressure then was brought to bear
on the top officials of NSA, and as a result, the program was can-
celled. 5-6
Those who had worked to bring about the above program included
representatives from leading universities, industry, and agencies of
the United States Government. /
The above group, under the leader.
. of the late Andrew
G. Haley, one of the founders of the Americ. ... Rocket Society, sub-
sequently formed an Ad Hoc Committee in Washington, D. C. (1964)
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which met for a year in monthly meetings. This Committed's
work is reflected in several outstanding reports and lectures.
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The Committee, after a year, came to the conclusion that neither
the United States Government, industry, nor universities were
prepared to support rajor research on Direct Brain Perception and/
or Direct Brain Action phenomena at this time.
During the carly 1960's some scientists had quietly
initiated modest research projects without any major support
and without any fixed center of activity. iwo of them went to
Brazil and reported on their finding that the phenomena of the
healer, Arig, were genuine. 12-18 ..
Investigations were undertaken
with the psychic, Peter Hurkos, and he was judged worthy of fur-
ther study. Two of these scientists carried out field work in
Mexico on several curanderos, and the use of teonanacatl for the
induction of DBP. "This work was supported by a grant from a
West Coast university. 19-21
A healing project was carried out
in cooperation with a leading lay religious group.
The above field and laboratory studies convinced the
scientists involved that a great deal could be accomplished in
this field of research with modest means by maximal utilization
of ingenuity. However, since the participants were based in
various parts of the U.S., it became apparent that some form
of organization was needed to keep the scientists more closely
knit in purpose, ideas, and action.
Life Energies Research, Inc. sponsored an International
Conference, "Exploring the Energy Fields of Man" in November
1970. (See Appendix II for a list of the participants. ) The
conference was called to examine the possibilities of carrying
cut research in the energy fields of man which have intrigued
scientists and laymen alike for generations.
It was the consensus of the distinguished individuals
participating in the conference that the many and diverse exper-
iments in parapsychology had failed to scientifically explain
these phenomena and had failed to produce an organizational
vehicle capable of generating long term continuity of research
and scientific interest. Che of the major reasons for the
lack of sustained research into the areas of direct brain per-
ception and direct brain action has been the lack of a stable,
well endowed, professionally credible organization to sponsor
and promote such research. This is not to say that existing
organizations have not done a good job. We are simply point-
ing out that they have not been able to achieve that independence,
that escape velocity, which makes possible sustained free inquiry.
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PROGRAM
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Thursday,
Nov. 19)
Friday,
Nov. 20
Morning
PANEL DISCUSSION ON THE AURA, INCLUDING REVIEW OF CURRENT RESEARCH
chaired by Robert Jeffries, Ph.D.
Shafica Karagulla, M.D.
Charles T. Tert, Ph.D.
Mrs. Dora Van Gelder Kunz
Afternoon
A PANEL OF SCIENTISTS EXAMINES THE AURA
chaired by Richard Wilson, Ph.D.
Walter N. PAhnke, M.D., Ph.D.
Robert W. Laidlaw, M.D.
Edward Naumov, Ph.D.
Arthur Young
Evening
A TRIBUTE TO FILEEN GARRETT . Robert W. Laidlaw, M.D.
DINNER SPEAKER - Jord M.R. Delgado, M.D.
Film of Heeler, Arizo . Andrija Puharich, M. D.
A Healer looks at llealing - Ambrose Worrall
Saturday,
Nov. 21
Morning
PANEL DISCUSSION ON PSYCHIC HEALING, INCLUDING REVIEW OF CURRENT RESEARCH
chaired by Aristide HI. Esser, M.D.
Bernard Grad, M.I.
Lawrence I. LeChan, Ph.D).
John C. Piertakos, M.D.
Afternoon
A PANEL OF SCIENTISTS EXAMINES PSYCHIC HEALING
chaired by Andrija Puharich, M.D.
.Evening
DINNER SPEAKER - Edward W. Bestin, Ph.D.
Open Discussion, chaired by Walter N. Pahnke, M.D., Ph.D.
Morning
PANEL DISCUSSION ON THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE AURA AND PSYCHIC HEALING
chaired by Gerald Feinberg, Ph.D.
Afternoon
Principal Discussant, Abraham Pais, Ph.D.
SUMMING UP: REACTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH
Appointment of Ad Hoc Committee
Sponsored by . ..
and
WAINWRIGHT HOUSE
November 19 - 22, 1970
EXPLORING THE ENERGY FIELDS O
International Conference
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Sir Alister Hardy, F.R.S.
Nikolai Kozyrev, Pa.D.
Joint H. Heber, M.D.
Aristide H. Esser, M.D.
Sunday,
Nov. 22
Evening
SOCIAL HOUR - 6 p.n.
DINNER SPHARER - Andrija Puharich, M.D., Conference Chairman
INTRODUCTORY TALK . Gerald feinberg. Ph.D.
AURA DEMONSTRATION - Ronald Bredley

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Individuals working on various projects involving tele-
pathy and psychokinesis are widely scattered and lack a central
information clearing house. There is no organization comparable
to the American Cancer Society, or the Heart Fund, to raise money
and serve as a public catalyst for research in the area. The
dominance of the power of rationalism in American life has on
the one hand convinced the public that there is a logical explana-
tion for all human phenomena, and on the other hand discouraged
scientific inquiry into areas of human behavior that did not
promise immediately pragmatic results.
As a result scientists have generally directed their re-
search into areas which were easier to justify publicly, and
which theoretically at least would yield more practical results.
Basic research in business and industry can only be justified if
it is directed to the development of new product, communications
system, or if it will add to our overall national security. Pe-
search into telepathy, precognition, or even psychokinesis has
been too rarified in nature for the average Congressman or execu-
tive to accept. And because parapsychology has for more than
100 years been the stepchild of the scientific community, it has
also attracted a number of charlatans who have discredited those
persons genuinely interested in pursuing scientific research.
The current status of parapsychology in the scientific
world was best expressed by the 1969 President of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Dr. Bentley
Glass.
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In commenting on the application of The Parapsychology
Association (PA) for affiliation with the AAAS, Dr. Glass said,
"The Committee on Council Affairs (of AMAS) considered the PA's
work for a very long time. The Committee came to the conclusion
that it is an association (the PA) investigating controversial or
non-existent phondmana; however, it is open in membership to
critics and agnostics; and they were satisfied that it uses
scientific methods of inquiry; thus that investigation can be
regarded as scientific. "24
Most people will accept the necessity of spending money
to finance medical care, train more doctors, build new hospitals,
and even to develop new medical techniques. But they have little
if any knowledge of the potential medical importance of basic
biological and medical research even in such relatively utilitarian
fields as the study of hormones that control human growth. The
need for basic research into areas of Direct Brain Perception and
Direct Brain Action is perhaps even more difficult to conceptualize,
especially since a key portion of such research involves the
study of individuals who possess paranormal powers which are
viewed with considerable scepticism by the majority of scientists
and laymen.
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the emphasis in research shifted toward
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Modern Parapsychology
AAAS Symposium
27 December 1970
Chicago
It is about 100 years since the carli-
est university studies and first research
developments occurred which led to
the founding of the Society for Psychi-
cal Research in London in 1882. Thus,
it seems appropriate to have a sympo-
sium on what is now called parapsy-
chology at the AAAS Annual Meeting
in Chicago. The founders of the so-
Fiety were exceptional persons. One,
Sir Arthur Balfour, later became
Prime Minister of Great Britain, and
another, Frederick Myers, wrote the
classic work in the field: In later years,
hree Nobel prize winners became presi-
Sents of the society, The American So-
-fety for Psychical Research started in
SSS as a result of ja visit of Sir
-Villiam Barreit to the United States.
The change in name to "parapsychol-
egy" was associated with a change in
-mphasis, around .930, from investiga-
ion of spontaneous cases to the experi-
mental, quantitatively evaluated study
if psychic phenomena. Parapsychology
an be considered as the study of in-
eractions between behaving organisms
nd their external environnient, which
-cour under conditions precluding par-
icipation of the sensorimotor system.
of convenience, such interactions are
allied psi processes. Psi processes, in
which the organism's behavior gives
vidence that information was received
non t's casitoament without the ise
: the race mired seavey, are designated
: 2SP. Psi processes, by which che
nvironment is altered without the use
At the symposium, the first two
speakers will discuss the status of para-
psychology in general and the place of
the field in the framework of present -:
day science. Then a panel composed of
representatives from seven centers of
parapsychological research in the
United States will discuss recent ex-
perimental programs.
One of the best known toples of ESP
research is the "sheep-goat" effect, or
the relationship between attitudes and
ESP performance. Briefly, "sheep," or
believers in ESP, guess at target cards
and usually obtain a score higher than
mean chance expectation, while "goats,"
or skeptics, tend to produce a score
lower than mean chance expectation.
Thus skeptics also seem to make use of
ESP, but in a negative direction ("psi-
missing"). Statistically significant results
on this general pattern have been ob-
tained by about a half dozen experi-
menters in the United States, Europe,
South America, and India. In another
series of studies of the psychology of
ESP, six experimenters out of nine
found that the magnitude of the ESP
effect increased significantly with the
use of hypnosis. Most good subjects do
not like long-continued runs of restrict-
ed card-guessing. Some ESP experi-
ments have therefore been designed to
make it possible to measure ESP effects
in free verbal responses while basing
the chance probability on the data
About the time of the founding of
Simple equipment is now available for
counting hits in predicting which of
four lights will be lit at randont laver-
aging 1/10 of a second later), when
the randomness is based on the radio-
activity of strontium-90. In one recent
study with such equipment 3 subjects
out of 100 showed very outstanding
results which, taken together, were very
improbable (P < 10-9). Special pre-
cautions were taken to prevent record-
ing errors, to check the randomness of
the generated numbers, and to elimi-
nate the possibility of fraud by the test
subjects. No known basis could be
found to account for the anomalous re-
sults. In other automated testing, Skin-
ner boxlike equipment, operating auto-
matically all night in a locked room in
France, has measured anticipation of
shock in mice which were forced to
jump an electrified barrier to escape a
random electric shock. Confirmation
of this result has now been obtained in
the United States.
Use of rapid-eye-movement tech-
`niques and the electroencephalogram
(EEG) allows recording of a subject's
dreams that occur when an agent, 100
feet away, looks at a picture, choken at
random after the subject is asleep and
effectively "tied down" in bed because
of the EEG connections. Independent
judges, acting blindly, have ranked
the correspondences between the pic-
ture and the dream transcript signif-
cantly higher than control pictures. This
has also been done with hypnotic
dreams. Research is just starting with.
physiological feedback effects on ESP
results. In another recent experiment.
the subject "dialed", his guesses onto
the ERG record sheet at the same ume
as his EEG waves were being registered.
In one statistically. very : significant
series, at least four scores higher than
15 occurred in calling on a standard.
25-card ESP deck, for which a score
of 5 is expected by chance. A number
of experiments have shown significant
correlations between parameters of os-
cipital alpha activity and ESP perform-
ance.
Other physiological recordings, such
as plethysmograph . vasoconstrictions
when an "agent-sender" was stimulated
than when he was not, even though
veloped, might be applied in dot-dash
themselves and is ethiet why's still thein- produced by a "receiver," were Mitger
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(Left) A subject being prepared for all-night sleep monitoring
at the William C. Menninger Dream Laboratory, Maimonides
Medical Center, Brooklyn. : (Above) A staff member in
another building concentrates on a randomly selected Mirpet
picture in attempts to influence the subject's dream content
through ESP.
Morse code to make possible transmis-
sion of messages by ESP. Other exper-
imental results suggest. that extrasen-
sory prediction may receive practical
application in business decisions by top
executives. in computer-scored ESP
tests o: 100 company presidents, ex-
travesty prediction on the FSP test
and corporate profits were related.
.
The effect of distance on ESP guess-
ing the location of 100 postcards has
been nicasured after elimination of the
effects of 25 mood and attitude vari-
ables. At first, different persons laid the
cards face down at four locations
around the world. Later one man trav-
eled to New York, Paris, New Delhi,
and Sydney to lay out the cards in such a
manner that none of the 57 subjects
knew where he was. Both experiments
showed 'a significant decline of ESP
scores with distance.
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The foregoing summarizes some of
the work being done at the centers
which will be discussed by the panel.
Regarding the theoretical side, previous-
ly there have been too many theories
"trading one mystery for another.".
Now, however, hypotheses which can
be tested are appearing. After 100
years, it is about time, because the
above-mentioned results, if they are
real, need to be integrated into present-
day science.
E. DOUGLAS DEAN
Industrial and Management
Engineering Department.
Newark College of Engineering,
Newark, New Jersey
Speakers and Topics
Chairman: Gardner Murphy (George Washington University, Washington, D.C.), Parapsychology in the Frame-
work of Modern Science.
Robert van de Castle (University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia), Present Day Researe !.
in Parapsychology.
Panel: Current Research at Seven Centers of Parapsychological Research in the United States.
Gaither Pratt (University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia).
E. Douglas Dean (Newark College of Engineering, Newark, New Jersey).
Karlis Osis (American Society of Psychical Research, New York City).
Charles Honorton (Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York).
Gertrude Selmeidler (City University of New York, New York).
HAess: Schmidt (Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man, Durham, North Carolina).
Robert Morris (Duke University, Durham, North Carolina).
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This lack of understanding explains why there has been pro-
portionally so little research into such phonommna as DEP and other
paranormal human communication. Yet the subject itself involves noth-
ing less than our basic understanding of the human mind, and the un-
locking of age-old mysteries which have profound social and religious
significance in many areas of the world.
In terms of pure scientific interest the possibility of veri-
fying Direct Brain Action would be a discovery of immense importance.
An internationally renowned physicist from Rockefeller University,
spoke for many scientists at the conference on Exploring the Energy
Fields of Man when he said:
"I would like to entertain the view that this (Psychokinesis)
is in fact not so. I would like to say that I am led to this view
by the consideration that, first of all, there is no electromagnetic
effect, no magnetic effect, no electrical effect, no gravitational
effect, nor any cooperative molecular effect that can do what has been
said has been done."
He continued, "I would in fact like to go so far as to say
the following, that if . . . it is true that a person can 'will' a
loaf of bread of the table, or a piece of bread, an object, a little
piece, and I don't care if it is a needle which can be moved by one
millimeter, if that is true I would consider that one of the greatest
scientific discoveries of the century. "
During the flight of Apollo 14 in February 1971 Captain Eagar
D. Mitchell, USN, conducted an unofficial man-to-earth telepathy
experiment. Captain Mitchell aboard Apollo 14 concentrated on five
standard ESP-test symbols while four earth-based persons tried to
'guess" the order of symbol appearance in Mitchell's mind. The results
of this experiment were statistically significant.25 As a direct re-
sult of the successful outcome of this experiment, Captain Mitchell
resolved to devote all of his time to the resolution of the scientific
and organizational problems posed supra under Section II.
Captain
Mitchell has received enthusiastic support from many private persons
in the scientific and business world for his ideas and willingness
to serve in a leadership role. The direct issue of this new movement
is the cormittment on the part of man associated with Captain Mitchell
to a research program whose goal is to unambiguously resolve the question
as to whether or not Direct Brain Perception and Direct Brain Action
exist.
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PROPOSES RESEARCH PROGRAM
Participants at the Conference on the Energy Fields of Man
urged an immediate field research effort to attempt to verify the
psychokinetic abilities of certain individuals in Israel, the United
States, and Russia. the field research would be the first step toward
developing a full scientific study of these individuals (if warranted)
under proper scientific control in the United States. (See Section IV,
page 17, Immediate Research Program: DBA Program Alpha. )
It is proposed to undertake a field study immediately parallel
to Program Alpha as the second step in a two-year pilot research effort
to explore, catalogue, and verify various forms of paranormal human
energies and perceptions.
During the pilot program the primary emphasis of research will
be on the collection of data, and carrying out of controlled experiments
which will produce scientifically usable data on the alleged paranormal
energies (DBA) of individuals in areas such as healing, telepathy, and
DBP in general.
The research is being carried out under the auspices of two
committees. The pro tem members of these committees now include:
. SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Foward Bastin, Ph.D.
Gerald Feinberg, Ph.D.
Cambridge University
Columbia University
Wilbur M. Franklin, Ph.D.
Kent State University
Abraham Pais, Ph.D.
Rockefeller University
Charles Tart, Ph.D.
University of California
Richard Wilson, Ph.D.
Harvard University
Arthur Young
Foundation for the Study of
Consciousness
RESEARCH COMMITTEE
Cleve Backster
Manfred Clynes, Ph.D.
A. H. Esser, M. D.
Bemard Grad, Ph.D.
J. Wilfrid Hahn, Ph.D.
Edgar D. Mitchell, D.Sc.
William Tiller, Ph.D.
Backster Research Foundation
Rockland State Hospital
Rockland State Hospital
Allan Memorial Institute, McGill
University
Mind Science Foundation
United States Navy, NASA
Stanford University
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These two committees are also vitally concerned with developing
a theory of consciousness with predictive power testable by experiment.
However it was the conclusion of the confereos that primy emphasis
should at this time be placed on the collection of data and the conduct
of certain critical experiments, and a secondary emphasis on theory.
It is important to know that individuals with apparent DBA
abilities are immediately available for research. These include Sai
Baba (India), Uri Geller (Israel), and Pachita (Nexico). Considerable
scientific talent from the West and the East, and leaders from many
cultures are interested and have expressed willingness to cooperate.
Many members of the above two committees have worked directly
or under grant for agencies of the United States Government such as
the ABC, HEW, NASA, etc. and are, accordingly, sophisticated in program
conception, management and direction. The elements present in this one
small group could become the nucleus for a major research vehicle to
understand and make use of DEP and DBA phenomena.
It appears essential that interested researchers, if they
are to be maximally effective, now have a central clearing house and
a central operations nucleus. This will require substantial financial
support. Only then can the full benefits of the current research be-
ing done in the United States, the proposed new research, and that
being done in various parts of the world, be coordinated and utilized
in a pragmatic, systematic, imaginative, comprehensive program into
these new aress of understanding of human nature and capabilities.
Captain Mitchell has undertaken the responsibility for organizing such
a research center.
TWO YEAR PILOT RESEARCH PROGRAM
It would be possible, and it is hereby proposed, that a com-
prehensive two-year pilot program be initiated. It could be under-
taken in sequential phases which would thereby limit the rate of
expenditures during this period. It is to be emphasized, however,
that a comprehensive study is desirable and necessary, and early
failures should not prejudice the comprehensive character of the studies.
During these two years, determinations would be made whether
specific projects in different parts of the world were worth pursuing
in full scale investigations in the U.S. If subsequent results were
in the positive, a strong case could then be made for the establishment
of a permanent institute for advanced study of DBP and DBA phenomena.
Such an institute could also serve as a clearing house for information,
a center for the meeting of specialists, and also a laboratory where
certain important experiments could be pursued.
During the two-year period, the following activities would be
carried out:
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Send teams of scientists to different parts of the world to in-
vestigate alleged cases of DBP and DRA talent, and to collect other
data about such persons.
2. Carry out experiments, correlate data, determine the basic know-
ledge of what the talent is, and how the talent can be studied.
3. Develop a full plan for continuing work in the five-to-ten year
period of the near future under institutional auspices.
4. Prepare a report which can serve as a reference book to DBP and
DRA talent and ongoing studies in the world.
The center for this effort should be selected on the basis
of a number of criteria, yet to be determined, but at present it is
preferred that existing facilities with an established scientific
organization be utilized. These might include:
1. A minimal, full-time research and administrative staff not to
exceed five principals plus auxiliary assistance.
2. Captain Edgar D. Mitchell'has clearly indicated that he would serve
as Project Leader for the organizing effort.
The Center must not be restricted by nationalistic security
considerations. It must be open so that it is easy to bring in different
types of people as may be necessary. The places where work is now go-
ing on that would be investigated during the two-year pilot program
period are listed below:
1. Israel. The direct brain action of Mr. Uri Geller. .
2. Brazil. Noted for several remarkable healers.
3.
India. The Phrigu Samhita manuscripts, and certain holy men such
as Sai Baba.
4. Indonesia. Communities that hereditarily practice telepathy and
other powers.
5. The Philippines. Shamanism and healers.
6.
Mexico. Plants and drugs used by the natives in direct brain per-
ception. Pachita (healer) .
7.
Russia. Biocybernetics research. Psychokinesis research.
8.
Czechslovakia. Psychokinesis research.
9.
China and Taiwan. Shamnirm. Taoist practice in direct forecasting;
sleep __ cast manuscripts; herbals.
10.
Rumania. Precognition.
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11. Netherlands. Study of Gerard Croiset's precognitive powers.
12. Cormany. Psychophysiological studies. Raudivo effect.
13. England. Research units at Oxford and at Cambridge,
14. Canada. The work of Dr. Bernard Grad on the transfer of the heal-
ing effect from man to animals and plants via wator.
15. United States. Various research units in New York, North Carolina,
Virginia, California, etc., studying people with DEP and DRA talents.
As a result of the reports submitted at the Twentieth Annual
International Conference of the Parapsychology Foundation (see follow-
ing two pages) the world-wide survey of available talent and re-
search programs has been completed. 20 This study has revealed the
existence of significant DBP and DBA talents in the world suitable
for scientific laboratory research.
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LAPSYCHOLOGY FOUNDATION.
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TWENTIETH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Le Piol, St. Paul de Vence, A.M., France
August 25-27, 1971
PARAPSYCHOLOGY TODAY: A GEOGRAPHIC VIEW
PROGRAM
DAY ONE-August 25
Chairman: Hans Bender
9:00 - 9:30 Introduction
Allan Angoff
Greetings
Eileen Coly
Frances P. Bolton
Tribute to Eileen J. Garrett
Andrija Puharich
9:30-10:00 "Parapsychological
Research in the United
Kingdom"
D. J. West (England)
10:00-10:30
"California: The
Psychic State" .
F. Dommeyer (U.S.A.)
10:30-11:15 Open Discussion
11:15-11:30
Inteimission
11:30-12:00
"Past and Present
Situation of Parapsychology
in Japan"
Soji Otani (Japan)
12:00-12:30
Open Discussion
12:30 - 2:30 Recess-Lunch
2:30 - 3:00 ."Parapsychology
in India"
Jamuna Prasad (India) .
3:00 - 3:30
"Parapsychology
in Turkey"
Resat Bayer .(Turkey)
3:30 - 4:15 Open Discussion
4:15 - 4:30
Intermission
4:30-5:00
"Parapsychology
in Israel"
H. C. Berendt ( Israel)
DAY TWO-August 26
Chairman: D. J. West
9:00 - 9:30 "Parapsychology
in Germany"
Hans Bender (Germany)
9:30-10:00
"Parapsychology in
Eastern Europe"
Milan Ryzl (U.S.A.)
10:00-10:45 Open Discussion
10:45-11:00 Intermission
11:00-11:30 "History and Development
of Parapsychology in
South Africa" M. Valkhoff (South Africa;
11:30-12:00
"Parapsychology in
South Africa"
J. Poynton (South Africa)
12:00-12:45 Open Discussion
12:45 - 2:45
Recess-Lunch
2:45 - 3:15
"Parapsychology in
the Nordic Countries
of Europe"
Jarl Fahler ( Finland)
3:15 - 3:45
"History of Psychical
Research in Switzerland"
Theo Locher (Switzerland)
3:45 - 4:30 Open Discussion
4:30 - 4:45 Intermission
4:45 - 5:15 "Parapsychology
in Argentina"
J. R. Musso (Argentina)
5:15 - 5:45 Open Discussion
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of Parapsychology
if ilolland"
Jan Kappers (Holland)
9:00-10:00 "Parapsychology in
Italy Today"
Piero Cassoli (Italy)
10:00-10:45 Open Discussion
10:45-11:00 Intermission
11:00-11:30
"Parapsychology in
France Today"
Yvonne Duplessis (France)
11:30-12:00
"Parapsychology
in Canada" . J. M. O. Wheatley (Canada)
12:00-12:45
Open Discussion
*0.45- 2:30
Recess-Lunch
2:30 - 3:00
"Parapsychology's Century
of Progress"
Joseph Rush (U.S.A).
3:00 - 3:30
"Protocommunication"
Andrija Puharich (U.S.A.)
3:30 - 4:15 Open Discussion
4:15 - 4:30 Intermission
4:30 - 5:00
Summary of
Conference
Emilio Servadio ( Italy)
5:00 - 5:15 Closing remarks
Allan Angoff
PARTICIPANTS
PRESENT FOR THE
PARAPSYCHOLOGY FOUNDATION, INC.,
NEW YORK (U.S.A.)
Mrs. Eileen Coly-President
The Hon. Frances P. Bolton-Vice President
Mr. Allan Angoff -- Administrative Secretary
Bmapsychological Research, Istanbul, Turkey
für Grenzgebiete der
Psychologie und Psychohygiene, Freiburg, Germany
De: HI. C. Berendt. President, The Israel Parapsychology
Society, Jerusalem, Israel
Dr. Piero Cassoli, Director, Centro Studi Parapsicologici di
Bologna, Italy
Dr. Frederick C. Dommeyer, Professor of Philosophy, San
Jose State College, San Jose. California, U.S.A.
Dr. Yvonne Duplessis, Institut Metapsychique
International, Paris; Centre d'Information de la
Couleur, Paris, France
Mr. Jarl Fahler, Director, Institute of Parapsychology in
Finland, Inc., Helsingsfors, Finland
Dr. Jan Kappers, Amsterdam Parapsychological Study
Circle; Amsterdam Foundation for Parapsychological
.Research, Amsterdam, Holland
Dr. Theo Locher, President, Vereinigung| für
Parapsychologie, Brugg bei Biel, Switzerland
Dr. J. Ricardo Musso, President, Instituto Argentino de
Parapsicologia, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Professor Soji Otani, The Japanese Society for
Parapsychology, Tokyo, Japan
Dr. John C. Poynton, Biological Science Department,
University of Natal, Durban, South Africa
Dr. Jamuna Prasad, President, Indian Institute of
Parapsychology, Allahabad, India
Dr. Andrija Puharich, Consultant on Medical Research.
Intelectron Corporation, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Dr. Joseph H. Rush, Physicist, National Center for
Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.
Dr. Milan Ryzl, Biochemist, San Jose State College, San
Jose, California, U.S.A.
Professor Dr. Emilio Servadio, President, Psychoanalytic
Centre of Rome, Italy
Dr. Marius F. Valkhoff, Professor Emeritus, Romance
Languages, University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, South Africa
Dr. Donald J. West. Institute of Criminology, University
of Cambridge, Cambridge, England
Professor J. M. O. Wheatley, Department of Philosophy,
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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IV.
IMMEDIATE RESEARCH PROGRAM: Direct Brain Action -- Program Alpha.
One of the recommendations of the participants in The Inter-
national Conference "Exploring the Energy Fields of Man" was that
direct brain action be studied immediately. The reasoning behind this
recommendation is as follows: If direct brain action (DBA), as reported,
is true, then there is no known physical explain for it. Therefore
DBA must be studied inmediatoly in order to have the necessary data in
hand for further analysis leading to a theoretical understanding of
the phenomenon and its place in nature. DBA lends itself readily to
scientific study because of its quasi-physical nature. The phenomenon
can be photographed, its force can be measured, and simple shielding
procedures can rule out which of the known energies are, or are not,
involved in DEA.
The scientific study has three phases:
A.
Locate individuals who manifest DBA. Field Research: Phase I
A world-wide survey has indicated that the best candidate for DBA
studies is Mr. Uri Geller of Tel Aviv, Israel. Preliminary data
indicates that Mr. Geller can, by direct brain action, fracture
metal pins, move mechanical clock hands, and move a compass needle
at will. See Section V., Results of Program Alpha, Phase 1, page 19.
B. Study individuals with DRA under the supervision of established
scientific authorities. Laboratory Research: Phase II
If Mr. Geller, or others, do possess DBA powers it is planned to
demonstrate, once and for all time that the phenomenon exists.
This can be done only by the supervision and authority of established
scientists. This group will establish the conditions for DBA vali-
dation, and then supervise the actual demonstrations. The place
at which the demonstration is to take place is yet to be chosen.
The experimental design for this research is given more fully under
Section VI., Program Alpha, Phase II.
C. Scientific Study of DBA. Institutional Research :: Phase III.
When Phase I is completed, and several subjects with DBA are
located, and these subjects have veen validated as to their DBA
powers in Phase II, the managers will be in a position to mobilize
the interest and talents of more scientists as described under the
Two Year Pilot Program. The nature of DRA and its program of re-
search cannot be formulated with any precision at this time. Cer-
tain general characteristics of the research can, however, be de-
lineated.
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a.
Shielding Studies.
In principle, the person with DBA powers will have interposed
between himself and his target object a shielding systom. The
shielding system . will be designed so as to block known
energy systems such as electromagnetic waves, electric fields,
magnetic fields, thermal fields, etc. This will provide data
as to which, if any, known energies are utilized in DZA.
b.
Optimization Studies
Those psychological and environmental factors that either en-
hance or depress DBA will be studied on animals and humans.
The techniques of direct brain stimulation (DES) , psychophysiologi-
cal methods, and psychopharmacology will be employed in these
studies.
c.
Manipulative Studies.
From the results of the (a) Shielding and (b) Optimization
Studies, certain conclusions will emerge, and hypotheses for-
mulated. These hypotheses will be put to experimental tests in
which DBA will be manipulated in order to obtain clear cut
answers leading to the formulation of theory. It is hoped that
this phase of research on DRA will indeed initiate a revolutionary
era in the scientific study and understanding as to the nature
of man.
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OGRAM ALDIIA -- PHASE I
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PRELIMINARY REPORT ON DBA EFFECTS DEMONSTRNMED BY URI GELLER
by Andrija Puharich, M.D.
Uri Geller was bom on December 20, 1947 in Tel Aviv, Israel. He
lived in Israel from 1947 to 1959. He lived in Cyprus from 1959 to 1965.
He returned to Israel in 1965 to serve in the Amy having by that time
completed a high school education. He served with distinction as a para-
trooper, and saw action in the battle for Jerusalem during the Six Day
Kar of 1967. He was wounded in action bofore Jerusalem and was discharged
from the Army in 1968. Re worked as a translator in a clothing factory
during 1969 handling Hebrew, English, Hungarian and Greek correspondence.
In the latter part of 1969 and early 1970 Mr. Galler worked as a photo-
grapher's model, and in April 1970 he became a stage performer.
?
His psychic development began at the age of 7 when he repeatedly
observed that he could move the hands of his wrist watch by willing the
event. He also noticed that it was easy to "guess" what others were think-
ing. As a result of being ridiculed by his peers for such unusual be-
havior, he decided to keep his powers as a personal secret in order to
be accepted as a "normal" boy. He succeeded in keeping this secret well-
hidden until he passed his 22nd birthday, when as a direct result of be-
ing thrown into contact with show business people while working as a model,
he began to show mentalist "tricks" to his colleagues. In March 1970, he
was asked to do shows of his "tricks" for small private parties, all of
which led to his being approached by an impressario who persuaded Mr. Geller
to try a career on stage. By April 1970 Mr. Goller had become a sensation
in Israel working on stage, in night clubs and in Army shows.
His act at this time consisted of simple telepathy with numbers,
words, and drawings; breaking metal objects by his "will power"; and moving
clock hands. His work came to the attention of Dr. Puharich through a pri-
vate report submitted by an Israeli Army Officer, Simcha Shilony. Dr.
Puharich studied Uri Geller in Israel during three separate trips:
A. August 17 - 25, 1971.
Under rigid scientific control Uri Geller demonstrated the following :..
DBA tests
1.
Breaking a gold ring held in another person's clenched fist
solely by the agency of mental concentration.
2.
Concentrating on a pair of bimetal-type thermometers, and selectively
making the temperature rise 6 to 8 degrees F. on one or the other
instrument.
3. Starting broken clocks and watches solely by concentration.
4. . Moving the hands of a watch forward or backward without any phy-
sical contact with the watch.
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90% accuracy in telepathy tests where Dr. Puharich would think
of 3-digit numbers.
Summary
The results were sufficiently impressive to warrant a more in-
tensive study.
B.
September 20 - 29, 1971.
Dr. Puharich returned to Israel from England in order to pursue
the inquiry, and to make arrangements with Geller for a more defini-
tive scientific study. The tests cited under Section A supra were
all repeated. Each test was replicated five times. The DBA tests
were 100% repeatable. The DSP tests showed 90% overall accuracy on
the part of Geller using different subjects as telepathic agents.
Arrangements were made with Geller to resume the research on the
17th of November 1971 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
C. November 17, 1971 to April 14, 1972.
Dr. Puharich studied Goller during this period in Israel both
in the laboratory, and during his stage appearances. The results
can be summarized in terms of frequency of occurrence, and repeata-
bility.
1. DBA.
Breaking Metal Objects.
Frequency: 102 times
Repeatability: 94% (98)
2. DBA.
Moving Clock Hands.
Frequency : 56
Repeatability: 90% (51)
3. DRA. Repairing Broken Watches.
Frequency: 36
Repeatability: 77% (28)
4. DBA. Moving Compass Needle.
Frequency: 30
Repeatability: 83% (25)
5. DBA. Dematerialization of Metal Objects.
Frequency: 20
Repeatability: 75% (15)
6. DRA. Rematerialization of Objects from Test 5.
Frequency: 20
Repeatability: 60% (12)
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There is no question in the mind of the principal investigator, Dr.
Pubarich, that Uri Geller possesses a power of the action-at-a-
distance which is called direct brain action. Thase I of Program
Alpha has been successfully and conclusively completed. Uri Geller
is now ready to be tested under Phase II of Program Alpha.
An illustration of Geller's DRA talent is given in the follow-
ing newspaper article reporting on independent tests done by Dr. Friedbert
Kargor, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Munich, West Germany.
The glossy photograph on page 28 is a close-up of Dr. Karger's ring
after DBA by Uri Geller.
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Mann mit geheimnisvollen Krallen:
Uri Geller, det .. Unte mucho"
aiment die Wissenschaft den „Unheimlichen" unter die Lune. Was ist das Geheimnis des Mannes, der mit
undenen Augen Auto fährt und dem es gelang, eine Seilbahn in 140 Meter Höhe zum Stillstand zu zwingen
Uri Geller: Phänomen,
Scharlata
lalan oder Super-An
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The man with the mysterious powers. Uri Geller the uncanny one.
Super-natural powers or just a trick? Uri Geller bends a ring with-
out touching it.
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Marks of reworking on ring: Physics engineer Manfred Lipa
TEXT
Heading:
"Uri Geller: phenomenon, charlatan, or super-artist?"
Subheading:
"Now science locks at the 'uncanny one' under the magnifying
glass. What is the secret of this man who drives cars blind-
folded and who successfully forced a cable car to a standstill
over a 140 meter drop"
by: Gottfried Scherm and Jochen Voigt (photos)
Munich, June 14, 1972. What kind of secret powers are these
that Uri Geller from Israel mobilizes in an inexplicable way? The man,
who like a phantom goes through Mimich, bending rings, breaking chains,
and stops the Hochfelder cable car in the Chiemsee mountains. Without
touching a ring, a charm or a gear lever?
We spoke to Munich physicist Dr. Friedbert Karger at the Max-
Planck Institute. He, along with other renomed scientists, is study-
ing the yet inexplicable riddle of psychokinesis, the movement of objects
by mind.
BILD: "How do you feel about the unusual talents of Uri Geller?"
"The literature of parapsychology describes an abundance of
similar events. The existence of these phenomena has long been proven.
However, it is still not yet possible for theoretical physics to de-
scribe -- because even though we know the demonstrable results, we cannot
classify them within physics. "
BILD: "Is progress being made?"
Dr. Karger: "Ne distinguish between the following phenomena: the
perception of case facts without having access to information sources
known to us, and the movement of matter without the use of known forces."
BILD: "Both are super-natural?"
Dr. Karger: "Not in the slightest. It happens in nature, in the
world in which we live, which we are investigating. We are today somewhat
in the same situation as a person in the 16th century, who saw lightning.
the man living thon indeed knew the phenomenon. But in physical terms
the phenomenon of lightning was inexplicable to him. "
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¡ falschen. Das Ergebnisellen man cher de trengte.
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BILD:
"But who still believes in ghosts and miracles?"
Dr. Karger:
"The existence of special phenomena is repeatedly
denied, but mostly by people who are not adequately informed, or are those
who cannot tear themselves loose from the past century's picture of the
world. Based on preliminary investigation of Uri Geller I cannot establish
any fraud. The result of these preliminary observations is a strong
recommendation for further investigation."
BILD: "Who can command such mysterious forces besides Cellor?"
Dr. Karger: "Through the literature for example, we know about
the Russian Nina Kulagina. She is the wife of an engineer from Leningrad.
She can allegedly cause objects like matches, cigarettes and watches
which are a short distance away, move toward her, without touching them.
Recently she is supposed to have been able to cause metal balls to float
between her hands. Ted Serios from Chicago can alledgedly photograph
thoughts."
BILD: "How can Uri Geller bend a ring without touching it or
using any concealed gadget?"
Dr. Karger: "From the point of view of physics, for the moment,
one cannot say anything regarding the energy that he uses. One does know
that the energy only occurs in connection with people. But all energy,
hereto known to physics, is independent of people."
BILD:
"Could one not measure Uri Geller's powers on an instru-
ment?"
Dr. Karger: "In terms of physics -- not yet. But each time a
demonstration takes place, the bent ring, the watch changes, for example --
one could connect the objects to a measuring device."
Dr. Karger
.
. continuing:
"The power has nothing to do with
electricity or electro-magnetic forces."
BILD: "What happened in the cable car -- which was allegedly
braked by Geller's unknown power and actually brought to a stand still?"
Dr. Karger: "Obviously it was not an electrical effect, but a
mechanical change, which for the time being is inexplicable. In Cri's
presence, without being touched by anyone -- the switch dropped. How?
We don't know. '
BILD: "Does science really seriously regard as credible, these
and other similar incidents?"
Dr. Karger: "In universities all over the world, you will find
an ever growing number of departments of rescarch in this type of phenomena."
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URI GELLER STOPS SHIE MOST MODERN CABLE CAR IN BAYERN, WEST GERMANY.
Source: BILD-ZEITUNG, June 12, . 1972, Munich.
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In Munich Uri Geller had altered a decorative ring that belonged
to Dr. Karger. The ring was not only bent, but it was also cracked in
two places. Immediately after the demonstration, BIID asked Dr. Karger,
"Couldn't the ring be split just by applying a strong pressure?"
Dr. Karger: "No."
BILD: "A laser beam?"
Dr. Karger: "Nonsense."
BILD: "Did Geller have any chance at all to play a 'trick' on
you?"
Dr. Karger: "Actually he could only have tried to hypnotize me.
This I consider as not very likely. A disassociation through hypnosis,
would have been the only 'trick' possibility."
In the Max-Planck Institute, Dr. Karger's colleague, the physics
engineer, Manfred Lipa, 27, closely examined the cracked ring.
Lipa: "If Dr. Karger had not told me anything, I would state:
the ring has been mechanically altered by a tool, with a pair of pliers
for example, or with a small chisel or a hammer. Then near the crack
site, one can ascertain clear signs of reworking."
Dut Dr. Kargor assured us, "During the demonstration I never took
my eyes off the ring, or let it out of my hand. Geller only touched it
lightly with his fingers."
Also the BILD photographer, Jochen Voigt, who was present during
the demonstration confirmed: "If Uri had been able to conjure up a pair
of pliers, or any other tool, I would have noticed -- I was fully aware.
Uri Geller -- a phenomenon? A charlatan? Or a great artist,
who with elegant tricks keeps everybody including science holding its
breath? Hereto it has not been possible to unlock the secret of this
uncanny man.
Dr. Karger: "For this purpose further investigation is needed."
Yesterday Karger telephoned the U.S. astronaut Mitchell, who
successfully worked as a telepathic medium on his last moon flight.
Dr. Karger: "He said, 'I am happy to work together with Geller. '"
Now at the end of this unbelievable story, you ask yourself:
what do I really believe of all of this, and what do you simply consider
as impossible? We have only reported here, what we experienced, saw, and
what we have heard from those we consider to be objective research
people.
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URI GELLER FRACTURED THIS GOLD RING SOLELY BY MEANS OF DBA.
See BILD-ZEITUNG, June 14, 1972, Munich.
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VI. PROGRAM ALPHA, PHASE II, RESEARCH DESIGN (DRAFT, JULY 1, 1972)
A. ' Purpose and Goal
To obtain indisputable scientific evidence that Uri Geller can
break a metal ring solely by means of direct brain action.
B.
Experimental Design
The null hypothesis states that a metal ring cannot be broken
by means of direct brain action. In order to uphold this hypo-
thesis the experiment is designed with four components each of
which is monitored by the other three as shown in the square
design. The components are:
1.Uri Geller as Agent
2. Metal Test Rings
3.
Test Instruments
4. Human Observers
Each of these components will be more fully defined in the
following sections.
INSTRUMENTS
URI
Uni
RING
RING
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INSTRUMENTS
OBSERVERS
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O = control monitor
Tb test the null hypothesis six sets of interaction monitoring
are required reinforced by six sets of controls. Under these.
conditions if the ring is not broken by Geller the null hypothesis.
is upheld. If Galley breaks the ring under these conditions the
null hypothesis is falsified.
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1. Interaction Monitor Sets
a.
Ring : Uri
The ring is a machined piece of metal. Rings will be
prepared in sets of matched triplets. Each triplet
will be a metal of a different atomic weight and/or class
of metal. The relationship between Uri and the test ring
will always be monitored by a set of four Master TV cameras.
Visual display of the output from these four cameras will
be continuous in the master control room. Provisions will
be made for recording the output of the four cameras.
b. Instruments : Uri
.
The instruments under this section are defined as those
contained in the Test Platform containing the Test Ring.
These instruments will be mounted upon a gyro-stabilized
vibration-proof platform. The three test rings will be
placed on separate light-numbered bases. Only one of the
rings will be randomly selected as the target in each
trial. There will be a plastic shield between Uri's hand
and the ring platform incorporating a capacitor-type prox-
imity detector, or a thermal proximity detector.
The ring platfomi shall contain three sensors:
(1) Mass, A = 0.1 Mgm.
(2) Temp. A = 0.01° C.
(3)
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance tuner. This device will
serve as a ring-breakage sensor to trigger a high
. speed camera.
These sensors and the ring shall be mounted in a vacuum
chamber.
c.
Observers : Uri
The classes of observers:
(1) Physician who will examine Uri before and after each
test procedure.
(2) Chief Investigator: Edgar D. Mitchell, D.Sc.
(3)
Physicist in charge of Test Platform.
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(4) Camera crew.
(5) Audio crew.
(6) Chief, on-line Computer.
(7) Lighting crew.
(8) Director, master control board.
(9)
Theoretical physicist.
(10)
Experimental physicist.
(11)
.Magician.
All the above observers will be continuously monitored.
d. Instruments : Ring
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The ring will be monitored by a special high speed camera
triggered by NMR detuning. The test ring will be placed
between the pole pieces of a NAR device, and sharp tuning
established before the trial. The ring will be monitored
from the under side, on the assumption that Uri's hand
will be above the ring. Camera noise may present a special
problem.
e.
Observers : Ring
The ring triplets will be in the sole charge of an inde-
pendent party before, during, and after each trial. None
of the observers listed under Section 1. c will be allowed
to handle the rings. The test rings will undergo both non-
destructive testing, and destructive testing after the
test.
f. Observers : Instruments
"During an experimental trial of Uri's powers, all observers
will be in, and stay in pre-assigned areas and stations in
the laboratory. Cameras will observe all participants in
the experiment at all times. A TV Director will monitor
all observers, and relay any violation of control conditions
immediately to the Chief Investigator.
2. Control Monitors
a.
Uri : Ring
Uri will underco a physical exam before and after every
test looking for hidden devices.
Uri will be under
continuous monitoring by observers, instruments, and
Master Control Room. He will never touch ring sets. He
shall wear a minimum amount of clothing.
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Rings: A set of ring triplets will be randomly selected
for each trial. One of the three rings will be randomly
(and automatically) selected as the target in each trial.
All ring sets will be in bonded control before, during,
and after each trial. A capacitor shield between tri's
hand and the ring will be so tuned as to give a warning
signal when his hand comes within one inch of the shield.
b. Uri : Instruments
Uri will never be allowed to touch any of the instruments.
During the test trial uri will stand between metal detector
poles, and within a capacitor alarm area. Those will
indicate when he steps out of his prescribed control area.
Uri may carry sensors on his body at the discretion of the
Chief Investigator, but none of a type that could possibly
be construed as a metal-breaking device.
:. Uri : Observers
In order to prevent any possible collusion between the
observers and Uri, all observers will be subject to the
same controls as are imposed on Uri. Principal control
measures will be at the discretion of the Physician-in-
Charge, the Magician, and the Master Control Room Director,
as well as the Chief Investigator. Each observer will
furnish an independent signed report of his observations
and criticisms for each test trial.
d. Ring : Instruments
The instruments used in this experiment shall be so de-
signed that none of them, either singly or in combination
could possibly break a ring. A master film of Uri, and
the high speed camera film of the ring shall be displayed
on a synchronized split screen.
e. Ring : Observers
No observer will handle any of the rings. These shall
always be under bond control, and handled by automatic
devices before, during and after each experimental trial.
Automatic random selection will be made of ring sets,
and target ring.
f.
Instrument : Observers
Each observer will be assigned to a prescribed station
.area -- to one and only one instrument. He will be con-
tinually monitored for any violation of control conditions.
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3. Di a Collection and Correlation
All instrument data will be fed into an on-line computer for
instant analysis, as well as for storage and later analysis.
D. Procedure Rules
1. Any one violation of control conditions by any participant
in the experiment is sufficient reason to nullify that test.
The final decision will be made by the Chief Investigator.
2.
The ring will be considered as having been manipulated if
there is:
a. Deformation of shape.
b. Significant mass change.
C. Fracture in the metal.
3. The data from each experiment will be reviewed and judged
by an Independent Review Board. All decision as to the null
hypothesis must be unanimous.
Summary :
This proposal is specifically oriented at this time to mobilize
the necessary resources to carry out the experiment above outlined under
Section VI., Program Alpha, Phase II. The research design therein pre-
sonted in preliminary form has not yet been put into final form by the
Scientific Advisory Committee, and the Research Committee. This design
will undoubtedly be continuously upgraded until the experiment commences.
Captain Mitchell and Dr. Franklin are preparing the budget for
this experiment. It is anticipated that the actual experiment envisioned
in Program Alpha, Phase II will be conducted before the end of 1972. the
actual date for the experiment will be chosen as soon as design, manpower
and funding requirements are satisfied.
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VII. ANTICIPATED OUTCOME AND FURTHER RESEARCH
The preliminary findings with Uri Geller both in Israel and
Germany suggest a high probability for a successful outcome to Program
Alpha, Phase II. Should DRA be established as a fact to be reckoned
with in scientific circles, one can project the kind of research that
will follow.
"change"
It would be desirable to test DBA powers on specific experi-
mental situations which have been classically established to prove basic
laws of physics such as the law of the conservation of energy, fundamental
unit of charge, laws of motion, gravity, principle of indeterminacy ; .
change-parity symmetry, etc. The goal here is to find out if any basic
laws are violated. If any basic law is violated, it would require some
revision of thinking in modern physics. If no laws are violated one
would have to define DBA within the known framework.
not
valid
alofifty
Specific tests would be directed at DZA effects on the beta
decay process; proton separation into quarks; neutrino cross-sections;
photonic polarization; solid state phenomena, etc., etc. Such tests
would stimulate a cycle of theory, test, theory, etc. Eventually a
picture of the place of DBA in nature would emerge. The same considera-
tions cited above would also apply to further research on the problem
of direct brain perception.
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APPENDICES
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Appendix I
References and Footnotes
1. Human Bioinfomation Perception was carried out with especially
gifted subjects from all over the world. This work was concemed
with devising environmental control systems, drug experiments, anesthetic
gas experiments, electronic systems, and studying their effect on human
DBP performance. A brief idea can be gained of the nature of these
studies from the following lectures and reports by Puharich.
a.
"An Evaluation of the Possible Usefulness of Extrasensory Per-
ception in Psychological Warfare. " Paper presented to a conference
on Psychological Warfare, Department of Defense, Pentagon, Washington,
D.C., November 23, 1952.
b.
"Researches in Increasing or Decreasing Telepathy." Lecture pre-
sented at the Aviation School of Medicine, USAF, Randolph Field,
Texas, March 16, 1953.
.
c.
"Biochemical Foundations for Extrasensory Perception. ". Paper pre-
sonted at a seminar of the Medical Research Laboratory, Chemical
Corps, Army Chemical Center, Maryland, April 20, 1954.
d.
"Demonstration of ESP by Peter Hurkos, and an Explanation by Dr.
Puharich, " Sixth Naval District Annual Personnel Conference,
November 6 - 7, 1959. Published as a report in Guidelines, (official
USN publication) , December 1959.
e. "Observations on Individuals who Claim to Visualize Objects When the
Retina is not Stimulated by Photons in Line of Sight, 3 Cases."
A preliminary study, December 1, 1957: USAF
OSR.
f.
"Physical Techniques for Increasing Telepathy." Paper presented
at a seminar sponsored by the Department of Chemistry, Armour
Research Foundation, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago,
December 4, 1953.
g.
"The Effect of an Excess of Negative Atmospheric Ions upon ESP
Test Scores." Lecture presented before the Psychic Research Society,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
October 16, 1956.
h.
"Problems of Instrumentation and Control in the Study of Extra-
sensory Perception." Lecture to the Institute of Radio Engineers,
Los Angeles section, November 20, 1959.
i.
"The Mind as an Action Conter. " Paper presented before the Psychiatric
Section, 35th Congress of the Pan American Medical Association,
20
0, Mexico City, Maxico.
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j. Hansel, C.E.M. , "ESP, A Scientific Evaluation, " Charles Scribner's
Sons, New York, 1966. p. 174.
2.
Air Force Rescarch
a.
"Research in Extrasensory Perception." Research Review, Office
of Aerospace Research, USAF, November 5, 1962.
b. "Testing for extrasensory perception with a machine." Data Science
Laboratory Project 4610, AF, Cambridge Research Lacoratories,
Office of Aerospace Research USAF, L. G. Hanscomb Field, Mass.
AFCRL-63-141, Nay 1963.
3. Pacific Institite for Psychological Research, Palo Alto, California,
incorporated in 1960 in the State of Califomia.
4. "Bioastronautics Review - 1963," by Eugene B. Konecci, Ph.D., see
pp. 65 - 69, presented at the XIV International Astronautics Federation
meeting in Paris, September 26 - October 1, 1963, NASA Headquarters,
Washington, D.C.
5. "U.S. Space Administration Office Reviews Telepathic Phenomena as
'Energy Transfer. '" Bulletin of the Parapsychology Foundation, Vol. 10,
No. 6, Nov. - Dec .. 1963.
6. "Potential Sources of Knowing and Action for Man in Space. " Study.
proposal submitted to NASA By Intelectron Corporation. Internal docu-
ment no. ER-0036. September 18, 1963. Letter dated July 15, 1964
from KASA to Intelectron Corporation: Notice of rejection of above
proposal.
7. . Representatives of the following organizations participated in
formulating the study proposal:
Atomic mergy Comission
Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences, U.S. Senate
Honeywell Company, Missile and Space Systems Division
Human Ecology Fund, Inc.
Intelectron Corporation
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington, D. C.
United States Navy
USAF Systems Conmand
Walter Reed Ammy Hospital
8.
"How Many Channels Have Been Allocated to the Brain?"
Address by Henry K. Puharich to the National Electronics Con-
ference, Chicago, Illinois, October 20, 1964. Reported in
and Rockets, October 24, 1964, as "Intellectronics Speech Hi
ghts
NEC Conference. "
9.
and Projected Action of the AD ECC
Compibase for Biosysommesics, " 38 pages. Report to Aerospace
Medical Association, 1965 by AD HOC Committee for Biocybernetics.
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10. Proceedings of the Neurosciences Seminar. Avery Postgraduate
Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential, Philadelphia, Pa.
Seminar on "Exceptional Sensing and Intuitive Behavior," held at
Intelectron Corporation, New York, July 8, 1966.
.
11. "Signal detection in the Faraday Cage." Henry K. Puharich,
Parapsychology Foundation, New York, 562 pages (in press) .
12. Arigo: Un Caso de Fenomenologia Paranormaal por J. Herculano
Pires, Livraria Francisco Alves, 1963, São Paulo, Rio e Belo Horizonte,
Brazil.
13. Arigo: Vida, Mediunidade e Martirio por J. Herculano Pires,
Edicel, 1966, São Paulo, Brazil.
14. 'Arigo: Desafio a Ciência. por Geraldo Serrano, Editora Eco,
1967, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
15. O Cruzeiro, 9 de Setembro de 1967, pp. 98-104, "Arigó à luz da
Parapsicologia, " texto de José Franco.
16. Realidade, Junho, 1967, pp. 70-79, "Arigo e a ultima Esperança,"
texto de Roberto Freire.
17. Fate.
"Jose Arigo or Dr. Fritz?" Gene Klinger, December, 1967,
pp. 92-99.
18. A member of this expedition, Henry (Andrija) Puharich, M.D. gave
a preliminary lecture report on the above cited findings to the annual
meeting of the Westchester County Chapter of the American College of
Surgeons in Febra ry 1966. The report was not only received with great
interest, but many surgeons expressed an interest in participating in
this type of research.
19.
"University of Washington aided Mushroom Expedition, " by W. F.
Jahn. Seattle Post Intelligencer, January 22, 1961.
20.
"Computers, Chance and Cholinergia. ", Henry K. Puharich, A.
Kitselman and J. Smith. Darshana, Vol. 1, No. 3, August 1961.
21
"Magic Mushrooms in Mexico, " ABC film TV documentary, sponsored by
Alcoa Corporation, shown on nationwide U.S. television, 1961.
22.
Medical Com.ission on Healing, Wainwright House, Rye, N.Y.
Sponsored by Parapsychology Foundation, New York.
23.
Science, Vol. 170, December 11, 1970.
24.
Quoted from Newsletter of the Parapsychology Foundation, Inc.,
Vol. 17, No. 1, Jan-Feb., 1970, p. 1.
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25. Mitchell, Edgar D. , 'An ESP Test From Apollo 14, " The Journal
of Parapsychology, Vol. 35, No. 2. June 1971, pp. 89-107.
26. Proceedings of the XX Annual International Conference on Para-
psychology. Parapsychology Foundation, New York, 1972.
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Biographical Sketches of Principal Participants
International Conference
EXPLORING THE ENERGY FIELDS OF MAN
November 19-22, 1970
Daward W. Bastin, Ph. D., Physicist, Mathematician and Philosopher,
is presently connected with the Cambridge Language Research Unit,
Cambridge University. The holder of two Ph.D. 's, one from London
University (1952) and the other from Cambridge University (1958) . ..
Dr. Rastin has been a Lecturer in Physics at the University College,
Ibadan, Nigeria and a Research Fellow at Kings College, Cambridge.
A. Fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, he is the author of
various papers in the proceedings of that Society as well as the pro-
ceedings of The Royal Society. He is also a Fellow of The Physical
Society.
Jose M. R. Delgado, M.D., Professor of Physiology, Yale University
School of Medicine, was bom in Ponda, Spain and received his doctorate
in science at Madrid University in 1942. After several years as
Associate Professor in Physiology at Madrid University School of Medi-
cine and as Investigator of the Spanish National Research Council, he
came to Yale in 1952 as an Instructor in Physiology. Awarded a number
of prizes in Spain, he was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1963. He is a Fellow
of the New York Academy of Sciences and a member of many scientific
societies, among theni the American Physiological Society. He is on
the Scientific Review Committee of the NIH and Yerkes' Board of
Scientific Advisors and is on the editorial board of various scienti-
fic publications. His research has centered on brain physiology and
behavior, using rhesus monkeys and chimpanzees as subjects. Out of his
research has come more than 200 articles for scientific journals and
his book entitled Physical Control of the Mind: Toward a Psycho-
civilized Society, which has been published by Harper & Row as Volume
XLI in the World Perspective Series.
Aristide Henri Esser, M.D., Director of Psychiatric Research, Letch-
worth Village, Thiells, N.Y., and Associate Professor of Social
Psychiatry on the graduate faculty of Pennsylvania State University,
was born on the Island of Java, Indonesia. He went to the Netherlands,
received his M.D. at the University of Amsterdam and his psychiatric
training at the psychiatric hospital, University of Leyden. In 1960
a travel grant permitted him to study procedures in a number of well-
known European psychiatric centers, and in 1961 a Lederle International
Fellowship brought him to Yale as a Fellow in Social Psychiatry. I
1962 he became Chief Investigator and Medical Director of the Research
Ward at Rockland State hospital, Orangeburg, N.Y. and in 1969 was
appointed to his present position. Dr. Esser's concern with the
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environmental results of man's cultural and technological activities
led him to found the Association for the Study of Man-Environment
Relations and to start its Newsletter, "Man-Environment Systems,"
also to his organizing symposia for the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, the first of which resulted in the book,
Behavior and Environment (row in press). He is currently engaged in
programis on behavior modification through psychotropic drups, techniques
of social leaming and environmental design. He is a Diplomate of
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Dr. Esser has been ex-
perimenting with Psi-communication since 1965 and is Director of the
Center for the Study of Psychic Phenomena at the Pesearch Center,
Rockland State Hospital ..
Gerald Feinberg, Ph.D. , Professor of Physics at Columbia University,
received his doctorate there in 1957 and started his teaching career
at Columbia as Assistant Professor in 1959, after two years as Research
Associato, Brookhaven National Laboratory. He has been an Alfred P.
Sloan Fellow, a National Science Foundation Fellow and has served as
Guest Investigator, Rockefeller University. He is now a member of
the New York Academy of Sciences and a Fellow, American Physical
Society. Dr. Feinberg is presently consultant with Brookhaven National
Laboratory and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. He is author of
The Prometheus Project -- Mankind's Search for Long-Range Goals, as
well as many professional and popular articles on physics and philosophy.
Bernard Grad, Ph. D., Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry at
McGill University, Montreal, received his doctorate in Experimental
Morphology at McGill University in 1949. Since then he has been
associated with the Allan Memorial Institute of Psychiatry at McGill as
Research Assistant and is now Associate Director of Biological Studies
in the Gerontology Unit. He is a member of the American Association for
Cancer Research, the Gerontological Society and International Association
of Gerontology. Author of more than 70 papers on Endocrinology, Geron-
tology and general biology, he also serves on the advisory boards of
several scientific publications. In the field of parapsychology Dr.
Grad is particularly interested in the investigation of unorthodox
healing and has conducted experiments with healers in the treatment of
mice and effects on plant growth. The results of these experiments have
been published in and reprinted by the International Journal of Para-
psychology and the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research.
Sir Alister Hardy, F. R.S. , Biologist and Founder-Director of the
Rolicious Experience Unit at Manchester College, Oxford, earned his
several degrees at Oxford Thiversity. He became especially interested
in marine life when he was awarded the Oxford Biological Scholarship
to do research at the Stazione Zoologica at Naples, followed by several
years on the staff of the Government Fisheries Laboratory, during which
he went to the Antarctica as Chief Zoologist of the 1925-1927 Expedition
on the old ship Discovery. Lacar, as Professor of Zoology and Ccoan-
ography at the University of Hull, he inaugurated the now greatly
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expanded monthly plankton-recorder survey and founded the Cccancgraphic
Laboratory at Edinburgh and the Bulletins of Marine Ecology. In 1945,
Dr. Hardy returned to Oxford as the Linacre Professor of Zoology. He
was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1940 and was knighted in
1957. Long interested in parapsychological phenomena, he is a past
president of the Society for Psychical Research. Two of his books,
The Open Sea and Great Waters are widely read by students as well as a
more general public. As Gifford Lecturer in the University of Aberdeen
his theme was Science and Religion and these lectures were published
in two well-known volumes, The Living Stream and The Divine Flame.
John H. Heller, M.D., Executive Director and President, The New
England Institute, Ridgefield, Conn., received his M.D. at Western
Reserve University and has been a Research Fellow, Department of Inter-
nal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine. For several years,
before the New England Institute became his main concern, he was Assistant
Professor of Internal Medicine and Physiology at Yale. The New England
Institute was bom out of Dr. Heller's conviction that there was a very
great need for a new research institution which would be non-departmental
and inter-disciplinary. In addition to this major undertaking, Dr.
Heller has, since 1954, filled many posts as Lecturer, Advisor and
Consultant with universities, government agencies and private industries
on a large variety of subjects ranging from space exploration to marine
biology. He is a member of more than twenty scientific societies,
including the International Society for Research on the Reticuloendothelial
System, which he found in 1954. Dr. Heller is author of a book, Of Mice,
Nen and Molecules, and innumerable published scientific papers and articles.
Robert J. Jeffries, Ph. D., Klucator, and Professor of Engineering at the
University of Bridgeport, completed his doctorate in engineering at Johns
Hopkins in 1948. After several years as Associate Professor at Michigan
State University, he became assistant to the president of Daystrom, Inc.
and subsequently founder of Data-Control Systems, of which he is a past
president. He is also founder and member of the Board of Educational
and Technical Consultants, Inc. , and of the Foundation for Instrumentation
Education and Research. He has served as a member of the Science Ad-
visory Committee, New England Institute of Medical Research, and has
been an editor of the Journal of the Instrument Society of America, of
which he is a member. Dr. Jeffries is the author of many published
technical papers and articles. A Trustee of the Association for Research
and Frilightenment, Dr. Jeffries' interest in parapsychological phenomena
led him to make a world tour in search of the unusual, during which he
met and talked with many well-known sensitives and religious mystics of
a variety of backgrounds.
Shafich Karagulla, M.D., Psychiatrist, and President of the Higher Sense
Perception Research Foundation, Beverly Hills, is a native of Turkey and
received her degree of Doctor of Medicine and Surgery from the American
University of Beirut Medical School, continuing her medical and psychia-
tric training in England. After studying at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital
for Mental and Nervous Disorders, her interest in abnormal mental states
led har to McGill Chivarsity and the Montreal Neurological Institute
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where she received a Research Fellowship in the Department of Neurology
and Rouro-surgery. For nearly four years she worked as consultant
psychiatrist in association with Dr. Wilder Penfield. Having become
interested in mental states and capabilities which seemed to transcend
and to be imexplainable by known physical laws, she spent several years
investigating individuals who appeared to have unusual perceptive powers.
She reported on this research in her book, Breakthrough to Creativity --
Your Higher Sense Perception. Currently, Dr. Kiragulla is continuing
her investigations of paranormal gifts and is particularly interested
in the field of unorthodox healing.
Nikolai Kozyrev, Ph. D., Astrophysicist, Pulkovo Observatory, Leningrad:
at the age of twenty graduate in Physics and mathematics from the Univer-
sity of Leningrad. Interested at an early age in stellar and solar atmos-
phores, at twanty-eight he had already won distinction as an astronomer
and had taught in several collegas. He made a series of brilliant pre-
dictions about the Moon, Venus and Mars, which later Soviet space probes
confirmed. Dr. Kozyrev has now proposed a startling new theory of time
which it is thought may introduce a breakthrough in parapsychological
research.
Dora Van Gelder Kunz, bom in Java, Indonesia, of Dutch parents, is the
third generation in a family endowed with ESP. She was educated in
Java and Australia, travelled widely and came to this country in 1926.
Shortly after that she married an American. A gifted clairvoyant, for
twenty-five years Mrs. Kunz has worked with Dr. O. Bengtsson and other
physicians in studying tha auras of patients to determine the source and
nature of their physical and ommotional problems.
Robert W. Laidlaw, M.D., Psychiatrist and Consultant, Department of
Psychiatry, The Roosevelt Hospital, New York City, received his medical
training at the College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University,
where he graduate in 1931. In 1942, after receiving postgraduate train-
ing at the Neurological Institute and serving as assistant attending
psychiatrist at The Roosevelt Hospital, he was Certified as a specialist
in these fields by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. From
1949 until his retirement in 1967, he served as Clinical Director and
Chief of the Department of Psychiatry at the Roosevelt Hospital, at the
same time continuing his own private practice which he had begun in 1937.
He has served both as secretary and president of the American Association
of Marriage Counselors and is a member of the Committee on Public Health
of the New York Academy of Medicine. A member of other scientific
societies, Dr. Laidlaw has also been active for many years in the field
of parapsychology. He is a Trustee of the American Society for Psychical
Research, and his deep interest in unorthodox healing led him to the
chaimanship of The Commission for the Study of Healing at Wainwright
House.
Lawrence LeShan, Ph. D. , Psychotherapist and Research Psychologist, re-
ceived his Th.D. at the University of Chicago in 1954. He has been an
instructor and Lecturer at the New School for Social Research and Union
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Theological Seminary, also serving at the latter as Research Consultant
to the Program in Psychiatry and Religion. Since 1965, under an Ayer
Foundation grant, he has designed and conducted a research program in
parapsychology, during which he carried out various experiments with
Eileen Garrett and other sensitives. This led to the publication of
his Monograph, Toward a General Theory of the Paranormal: A Report of
Work in Progress. In addition, he is the author and co-author of more
than 48 published articles. Dr. LeShan's current research project is
in the field of Psychic Healing.
Edward Naumov, Biologist and Chief of Technical Parapsychology at a .
special laboratory affiliated with the Department of Physics of the
State Instrument Engineering College of Moscow, is perhaps the leading
parapsychologist in the USSR. Thirty-six year old Naumov is a fulltime
parapsychologist and has travelled througout the USSR giving hundreds
of lectures on ESP and showing ESP films to many audiences.
Kalter N. Palnke, M.D., Ph. D., Director of Clinical Sciences, Maryland
Psychiatric Research Center, Spring Grove State Hospital, Baltimore,
and Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity School of Medicine, carned his several degrees at Harvard, re-
ceiving his Ph.D. in the History and Philosophy of Religion in 1964.
In 1963-64, under a Sheldon Travelling Fellowship from Harvard Univer-
sity he studied the use of LSD in psychiatry throughout Western Europe.
After three years as Resident Psychiatrist at the Massachusetts Mental
Health Center, Boston, and Coaching Fellow in Psychiatry at Harvard,
he began his psychiatric research at Spring Grove State Hospital. His
areas of research span a broad range from the psychology of religion
to the clinical investigation of psychotherapy assisted by psychodelic
drugs in alcoholic, neurotic, narcotic addict, and terminal cancer
patients. He is a member of several societies, among them the Academy
of Religion and Mental Health, and is on the Board of Editors of the
Journal of Transpersonal Psychology and the Journal Soundings. He
has authored and co-authored many articles for scientific journals,
many of them stemming out of his research with psychodelic drugs. (De-
ceased since this was prepared. )
Abraham Pais, Ph.D., Professor of Physics at Rockefeller University was
bom in Amsterdam, Holland, and educated in Amsterdam and the University
of Utrecht, where he received his Ph.D. in 1941. Now a staff member
with Larrence Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley, and Adjunct Professor at
Columbia University Dr. Pais has served as Professor at the Institute
for Advanced Study at Princeton, and as Visiting Professor, CERN, Geneva
in 1960. He has been a Research Fellow with the Institute of Theoretical
Physics in Copenhagen and a Guggenheim Fellow. Among his current affili-
ations, Dr. Pais is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, The
Royal Academy of Sciences in Holland and the National Academy of Sciences.
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John C. Pierrakos, M.D. , Psychiatrist, and a Director of the Institute
of Bio-ihergetic Analysis, was born in Sparta, Greece and came to the
U.S. in 1940 to stuly medicine. He graduated from Columbia and received
his medical degree from the Chiversity of the State of New York Medical
School. After a post-graduate program in psychiatry, he joined the
staff of Kings County Hospital. Trained by Wilheim Peich and Elsworth
Baker, he became a student of orgoncmy and later becane associated with
Dr. Alexander Lowen with whom he established the Institute of Bio-
Ehergetic Analysis in 1954. Since 1950, he has been a practicing
psychiatrist in Bio-thergoties in both individual and group therapy.
He also trains therapists in Bio-Energetics (workshops, lectures, somi-
nars) , both here and abroad. Dr. Pierrakos is especially interested in
studying the energy fields (or auras) of man in health and disease and
is in the process of preparing his first book reporting on his research
in that arca. Among his affiliations are The American Academy of Psycho-
therapy, the Society for Scientific Study of Sex, and the New York Academy
of Science.
Andrija Puharich, M.D., Director of Medical Research, Intelectron Corpora-
tion, New York City, received his M.D. at Northwestern University Medical
School. Currently engaged mainly in deafness and cardiovascular research
and a member of 14 scientific societies, including the New York Academy
of Sciences and American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Dr. Puharich has also had a long career in the field of parapsychological
research. Particularly interested in telepathy and the study of environ-
mental and physiological conditions related to it, the results of his
research have been reported in more than 80 published articles and his
two books, The Sacred Mashroom and Beyond Telepathy. He was also Director
of a team of American Physicians which conducted field study of the
diagnostic and surgical skills of Arigo, a Brazilian with paranormal
healing abilities.
Charles T. Tart, Ph.D. , Associate Professor of Psychology, University
of California, studied electrial engineering at MIT for two years, followed
by two years as research assistant in the Psychophysiology Laboratory at
Duke University before eaming his doctorate at the University of Korth
Carolina in 1963. He is a member of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis and
many other societies, some of which are parapsychological research groups.
In addition to his book (editor), Altered States of Consciousness: A
Book of Readings, he has written numerous papers and article's for scienti-
fic journals reporting on his research in the areas of hypnosis. sleep
states, dreams, out-of-body experiences, physiological correlates of psi
cognitions and psychodelic drugs. Among his other interests, Dr. Tart
is currently engaged in studying and writing on the subject of "the
body as experience."
Richard Wilson, Ph.D., Professor of Physics at Harvard thiversity was
bom in London and educated mainly at Oxford and Harvard, receiving his
doctorate in 1949. Following this, ho filles
a series of research posts
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at Oxford, Rochester and Stanford, becoming Assistant Professor of
Physics at Harvard in 1955 and Professor in 1961. He has been a Full-
bright Scholar, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, and Fulbright Fellow in
Italy. He is the author of over 135 published scientific papers and.
one reference book, Nucleon-Rucleon Interaction - Emerimental and
Phenomenological. Dr. Wilson is a Fellow of a number of scientific
societies, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the
American Physical Society, and New York Academy of Sciences.
Ambrose Worrall, Aeronautical Engineer and Gifted Healer, was born in
England. A good student, interested in mathematics and science with
an inventive aptitude, he was too busy for many years to pay much atten-
tion to his extrasensory experiences, even though from early childhood
they made him feel "different." Ho became an apprentice with a large
industrial firm, was recognized immediately for his engineering talents,
and launched into his career as a aeronautical engineer. This was
interrupted by the aftermath of the first world war; when he had
time to become aware of psychic experiences, which he had accepted
rather matter-of-factly as a child. The spontaneous and completely
unexpected healing of his sister was the first intimation of his unusual
healing power. He came to America and was promptly employed by a
major aircraft company, with which he remained until his retirement
a few years ago. Concurrently with the employment of his technical
skills, Ambrose has been a dedicated healer, helping literally thousands
of people during his lifetime. Now a consultant with a major industrial
corporation, Ambrose Worrall and his equally gifted wife, Olga, are
continuing to devote much of their time and energy to their major
interest, psychic healing.
Arthur Young, President of the Foundation for the Study of Consciousness,
is a graduate of Princeton where he majored in mathematics, studying
with Dr. Oswald Veblen. The inventor and developer of the helicopter
manufactured by the Bell Helicopter Company, Mr. Young is now pri-
marily engaged in a search for paradigms for consciousness. He is the
founder (in 1952) of the Foundation for the Study of Consciousness and
co-founder with Dr. Charles Muses, of the Foundation's Journal for the
Study of Consciousness, (1967) .
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HENRY (ANDRIJA) KARL PUHARICH
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Born: Chicago, Illinois.
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Residences:
Education:
College: . Northwestem University, College of Liberal Arts,
Evanston, Illinois. Major: Philosophy & Premedical.
Degree: A.B. 1942.
Graduate
School:
Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago,
Illinois. Degrees: M.B. 1946. M.D. 1947.
Northwestem University Graduate School, Chicago, Illinois.
Major: Physiology Research, 1942 - 1946.
Internship:
Permanente Foundation Hospital, Oakland, Califomia.
Rotating Intemship 1946-47. Intern Cert. 1947.
Residency:
Permanente Research Foundation, Oakland, California
Chief Resident in Medical Research 1947-48.
Resident Cert. Internal Medicine 1948.
Fellowship:
General Foods Corporation Research Fellowship
for the years 1949-1950, 1950-1951, 1951-1952 at
the Round Table Foundation, Laboratory of Experimental
Electrobiology, Glen Cove, Maine.
Post-
Graduate:
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
Microelectronics, 1962-1963.
Medical Licensure: California, Maine, New York (U.S.A.)
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MEMBER
New York Academy of Sciences, 1948
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1948
Mycological Society of San Francisco, 1959
American Association for Humanistic Psychology, 1960
Pan American Medical Association, 1961
Aerospace Medical Association, 1964
Space Medicine Branch of A.M.A., 1964
American Academy of General Practice, 1967
American Coriatrics Society, 1967
American Society for Cybernetics, 1967
Colombian Society of Angiology, 1968
New York Zoological Society, 1968
National Geographic Society, 1968
American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1969
American Society for Artificial Internal Organs, 1971
HONORS & AWARDS
Creative and Successful Personalities, 1971
Dictionary of International Biography, 1969
Who's Who in the East, 1967
Biographical Dictionary of Parapsychology, 1964.
Leaders in Merican Science, 1961
American Mon of Medicine, 1960
Union League Club of Chicago Scholarship
Chicago Woman's Club Scholarship
A. Montgomery Ward Scholarship
Kanine Kennel Kits (Northwestern U.)
National Honor Society
Eta Sigma Phi
MILITARY
Pfc, Army Specialized Training Program 1942 to 1946 at
Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois.
Captain, NC. Chief, Outpatient Service, United States Army
Dispensary, Amy Chemical Center, Maryland 1953 to 1955.
Specialized duties in chemical and biological warfare.
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Current Activities
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Consultant in Medical Electronics to Intelectron Corporation,
New York, N.Y.
President of Essentia Research Associates, New York, N.Y.
Vice-President, Life Energies Research, Inc., New York, N.Y.
Member of a cardiovascular research team at New York University
Medical Center. Principal responsibility is in bio-engineering
development of a ventricular assist device. The program is supported
by a research contract with the National Heart and Lung Institute.
Principal activity is in the dissemination of information about
para-physical effects to leaders in government, industry, universities
and private foundations. This includes field and laboratory research,
design of research programs, and coordination of research programs
in leading research centers of the world.
Career Resume
April 1971 to Present:
Designed and instituted research programs in cooperation with the
following institutions:
Stanford University School of Medicine, California
Guy's Hospital,. Bloomfield Clinic, London, England
School for Communication Disorders, Speech and Hearing,
Tel Aviv University Medical School, Tel Hashomer, Israel
National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester
Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
American Academy for Human Development, Dallas, Texas
National Chiversity of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
J.
University of Southern California, School of Medicine,
Department of Otolaryngology, Los Angeles, Califomia
Otolaryngology Group, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Royal Institute of Technology, Department of
Technical Audiology of Karolinska Institute,
Stockholm, Sweden
Lectures and symposia at humorous institutions in the U.S. , Europe
Latin America and Israel on advanced concepts in bio-cybemetics.
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Nay 1961 to April 1971:
President and Director of Medical Research, Intelectron Corporation,
432 West 45 Street, New York, New York. Co-founder of Intelectron
Corporation with Dr. Joseph L. Lawrence. Incorporated under the
laws of the State of New York to carry out research and development
in the field of medical electronics.
Supervised a staff of technical personnel in the field of audiology,
electronic engineering, and clinical research. Conceived, designed,
and conducted clinical tests of electronic devices for the rehabili-
tation of hearing. Granted (with J.L. Lawrence) United States and
foreign patents on such devices and systems. Supervised clinical
tests in association with otologists, schools for the deaf, and
hospitals on patients with either severely impaired hearing, or
clinical total deafness. This resulted in the development of
electronic systems that rehabilitate hearing in the clinically
totally deaf. These results were first reported in May, 1964, to
the 35th Annual Convention of the Aerospace Medical Association
meeting in Miami, Florida.
Principal investigator (with J.L. Lawrence) of a research program
under contract with the United States Air Force Systems Command,
Rome Air Development Center, entitled: "Electrostimulation
Techniques of Hearing". Research conducted on both humans and
animals in order to find out if hearing could be stimulated in the
presence of total deathoss. A solution was found for this problem,
and the contract was completed and approved.
1958 to May 1961:
Medical Research Consultant. Residence at Carmel Meadows, Carmel,
Califomia. Retained by such organizations as:
United States Army Hospital, Laboratory Service, Fort Ord,
Califomia, as consultant on mushroom toxicology.
Belk Research Foundation, Miami, Florida, as consultant on
communications research
Mind Science Foundation, San Antonio, Texas, as Consulting
Director of Research, pro tem.
Consciousness Research Foundation, San Pedro, California,
as consultant in Psychotherapeutic drug research program.
California Parapsychology Foundation, San Diego, California,
as consultant in parapsychological research programs.
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Marco Design, Inc. , Los Angeles, California, as Con991 29921-2
in Human Factors Design problems in industry.
Aluminum Corporation of America, ALCOA PRESENTS, MCM Studios,
Culver City, California, as technical consultant to "One Stop
Beyond", ABC-TV Series.
Stanford University, Parapsychology Research Group, Palo Alto,
California, as advisor to Professor Jeffery Smith.
Occasional consultant to: Institute for Extended Studies,
Los Angeles, California; Design, Research & Development Corp-
oration, Monterey, Califomia; University of Washington
Pharmacology Department, Seattle, Washington; United States
Army Chemical Corps, Anmy Chemical Center, Maryland; Columbia
Broadcasting System-IV, Los Angeles, California; Riker
Laboratories, Northridge, Califomia; etc.
During the year 1958-59 served on a full-time basis as the
Chief, Emergency Service, United States Army Hospital, Fort
Ord, Califomia. Throughout the period from 1958 to 1961 omed
and operated a private research laboratory in Carmel Valley,
California. Worked on various projects in the communications
field which were presented as reports as indicated in the
following paragraphs:
"Demonstration of ESP by Peter Hurkos, and an Explanation
by Dr. Puharich", Sixth Naval District Annual Personnel
Conference. November 6-7, 1959. Published as a report in
Guidelines, (Official USN publication) , December, 1959.
"Problems of Instrumentation and Control in the study of
Extra-sensory Perception". Lecture to the Institute of
Radio Engineers, Los Angeles section. November 20, 1959.
"The Mind as an Action Center". Paper presented before the
Psychiatric Section, 35th Congress of the Pan American
Medical Association, April 29, 1960. Mexico City, Mexico.
Served as a Symposium Panelist on: "The Human Potential",
moderated by Aldous Huxley. Rancho La Puerta, Tecate, Mexico.
June 27 through July 1, 1960. Published in SAN DIEGO,
September, 1960.
Left private practice to help found Intelectron Corporation. Moved
fran Carmel, Califomia, to Ossining, New York, August, 1961.
1948 to 1958:
Except for a two-year leave of absence for military duty (1953-55)
hold the position of Director of Research, Round Table Foundation,
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Glen Cove, Maine. Founded this non-profit foundation.
Principal duties were to plan and carry out animal and human
research programs, supervise a staff of technicians which usually
averaged cight in number over the years, and to raise funds through
grants and contracts.
1948 to 1952 was almost entirely devoted to animal research.
Managed an animal facility that maintained a stock of dogs, cats,
and rats. Principal efforts were concerned with the electrical
recording of neural activity from the peripheral and central.
nervous system of animals during the taste response to various
chemicals and foods. This program was under the sponsorship
of the General Foods Corporation of New York under which he held
a Fellowship for three years. Quarterly reports were prepared
for the General Foods Corporation, and these were company proprietary.
Che of the practical outcomes of this research was a better under-
standing of the role of food texture constitution in palatibility
quality.
An offshoot of this neurophysiological research was a better
understanding of the role of the chorda tympani nerve, and the
tympanic nerve plexus in sonic transmission phenomena. He collaborated
closely during the years 1949 to 1952 with Dr. Samuel Rosen of Mt.
Sinai Hospital, New York City, the inventor of the Stapes Mobili-
zation Surgical procedure for the alleviation of conductive deafness.
Together, although he worked under Roson's supervision, they worked
out the surgical foundations on dogs and cats for Stapes Mobilization
Surgery. Dr. Rosen, on his own, extended these basic findings to
humans, and in 1954 was able to announce his early successes with
otosclerotic conductive deafness. Since then this operation has
been carried out all over the world on untold numbers of humans.
Dr. Rosen and he have continued their research collaboration to
this day
As a result of these early observations on animals, he was led to
conceive of radio frequency energy directly to the brain for
the alleviation of deafness due to auditory sensori-neural destruction.
The practical outcome of this research has been described earlier.
in which hearing rehabilitation is now possible and practical for
the clinically totally deaf.
Communication research was carried out in other sensory modalities,
especially vision and touch. Several years were spent on strobo-
scopic flash, and flicker-fusion studies in humans. This resulted
in a simple technique to enhance sensitivity in humans for extra-
Sensory perception, as established by formal statistical techniques.
His group carried out basic research on human dermo-optical
perception.
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Ihman information transfer (of a non-sensory nature)
out with especially gifted subjects from all over the world. this
work was concerned with devising environmontal control systems,
drug experiments, anesthetic gas experiments, electronic systems,
and studying their effect on human performance. A brief idea can
be gained of the nature of these studies from the following lectures
and reports which he prepared and gave:
"An evaluation of the possible usefulness of extra-sensory
perception in Psychological Warfare". Paper presented to a
conference on Psychological Warfare, Department of Defense,
Pentagon, Washington, D.C., November 23, 1952.
"Researches in increasing or decreasing telepathy". Lecture
presented at the Aviation School of Medicine, USAF, Randolph Field,
Texas, March 16, 1953.
"Physical Technique for increasing Telepathy". Paper presented
at a seminar sponsored by the Department of Chemistry, Amour
Research Foundation, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago,
December 4, 1953.
"Biochemical Foundations for extra-sensory perception". Paper
presented at a seminar of the Medical Research Laboratory,
Chemical Corps, Army Chemical Center, Maryland, April 20, 1954.
"The effect of an excess of Negative Atmospheric Ions ucon ESP
Test Scores". Lecture presented before the Psychic Research
Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, October. 16, 1956.
1938 to 1948:
During these years worked at many different jobs, too numerous to
mention to eam my way through college, medical school, graduate
school, and hospital and research training.
Special Areas of Interest and Experience:
Internal medicine: clinical, and cardiovascular research.
Audiology and otology: research - animal and human.
Experimental design and procedures: broad experience in statistical
design and analysis of medical experiments both in humans
and animals.
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Medical electronics: abreast of, and familiar with the advanced
concepts and technology in this new and growing field.
Special experience with sensors, coding techniques, and
radio telemetry systems. Original contributions in
bio-instrumentation and sensory prosthetics. : Numerous
patents granted and applied for in medical electronics.
Psychotherapeutic agents: braod experience over many years with
psychotherapeutic drugs, hallucinogenic botanicals, and
drugs, and original research on humans. Basic research
training in neurophysiology, psychiatry, and hypnosis.
Communication research: principal experience in sensory physiology
and non-sensory information transfer processes. Knowledge
of information theory and systems as applied to biological
processes for knowing and action.
Administration and Management: eleven years experience as an
administrator and/or manager of medical research programs
and personnel.
Proposals, Grants and Contracts: conceived, prepared, secured
and completed various research proposals, grants and
contracts over the years for, and from, industry, founda-
tions and the United States government.
Comunications media: proad experience with journals, magazines,
newspapers, radio, television, and the movie industry.
Have prepared material for each of these media, or
worked as a special consultant. Appeared as a guest or
speaker on numerous occasions in radio, television, and
films; as well as before lay and scientific groups and
organizations.
Scientific Expeditions
Mexico
Head of a fourteen man expedition into the Chatino Country
of Oaxaca, Mexico, furing the summer of 1960. Sponsored
by the United States Army Chemical Corps, the thiversity
of Washington and the Aluminum Company of America.
Purpose: to collect hallucinogenic botanicals. A docu-
mentary film was shown on the ABC network.
Hawaii
Made a survey of the Hawaiian Islands during March and
April, 1061, and discovered the first hallucinogenic.
mushrooms ever found in the Islands. Specimens of
Campanulatus presented and catalogued at the
Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii.
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during the month of August, 1963. Sponsored by the Belk
Research Foundation, Miami, Florida, for the purpose of
studying primitive surgical techniques, plant and drug
usage for healing by a native, Arigo.
Second field expedition made in May, 1968 with a group
os physicians for the same purpose.
Israel
Field Research in Israel August, 1971; November, 1971 to
April, 1972 on Mr. Uri Geller.
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1. Experiments concerning Blood Sedimentation Rate in relation to
Anaphylactic Shock. Paper presented at the Conference of the
Western Regional Society for Clinical Research. San Francisco,
California. November 12, 1946. Published in The Proceedings, 1947.
2. The influence of Digitalis and other Digitaloid drugs upon Blood
Coagulation. (with F.R. Goetz1) Permanente Foundation Medical
Bulletin, 5: 97-110, 1947.
3. Pain produced by changes in Pressure within the Medullary Cavity
of Bone. Permanente Foundation Medical Bulletin, 5: 59-62, 1947.
4. A Theory of Nerve Conduction. Paper presented to the Department
of Zoology Graduate Seminar. University of California at Berkeley,
June 1947.
S. A Clinical Complex exhibiting Left Homonymous Hemianopsia, the
Neocerebellar Syndrome, Hemiballismus, and the Anterior Inferior
Cerebellar Artery Syndrome, A Clinico-pathological Report. .
(with Melvin Friedman) . Permanente Foundation Medical Bulletin,
6: 208-214, 1948.
6. A quantitative approach toward measuring taste patterns in the.
dog by a neurophysiological recording technique. Internal Report.
General Foods Corporation Fellowship, 1949-50.
7. Electrical recording from the Chorda Tympani Nerve in the dog
to measure Chemical and Vibratory Taste Stimuli. Internal Report.
General Foods Corporation Fellowship, 1950-51.
8. Correlation of Neural Electrical Patterns with Chemical and Vib-
ratory Taste Stimuli in the Dog. Internal Report. General Foods
Corporation Fellowship, 1951-52.
9. A critique of the possible usefulness of extrasensory perception
in Psychological Warfare. Paper presented to a Seminar on
Psychological Warfare. Department of Defense, Washington, D.C.,
November 23, 1952.
10. Researches in decreasing or increasing Telepathy. Paper presented
at The Aviation School of Medicine. USAF, Randolph Field, Texas.
March 16, 1953.
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Il. A Physical Technique for amplifying Telepathy. Paper presented
at a Department of Chemistry Seminar, December 4, 1953. Armour
Research Foundation, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Il1.
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12. Biochemical foundations for extrasensory perception. Paper
presented at the Medical Research Laboratory Seminar, April
20, 1954. United States Army Chemical Corps, Army Chemical
Center, Edgewood, Maryland.
13. The effect of an excess of Atmospheric Negative Ions upon ESP
Test Scoring. Paper presented to the Psychic Research Society,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts ..
October 16, 1956.
14. Can Telepathy penetrate the Iron Curtain? Tomorrow, Vol. 5, No. 2,
pages 1-10, Winter 1957.
15. Method and Apparatus for applying an Orthopedic Cast or the like.
U.S. Patent No. 2, 853,067. September 23, 1958.
16. The Sacred Mushroom. Doubleday & Company, Inc., New York 1959.
17. The Mushroom in Myth. Bulletin of the Mycological Society of
San Francisco, Vol. 9, No. 10, 1959.
18. Hearing Aid. Great Britain Patent No. 982,934. September 21, 1959.
19. Procede et moyen pour amplifier of pour rétablir l'ouïe.
République Française No. 1.236.782. September 24, 1959. Brevet
d'invention.
20. Schwerhörigengerät.
Bundesrepublik Deutschland Patentamt 1120505
September 26, 1959.
21. Procede et moyen pour amplifier ou pour rétablir l'ouïe.
Royaume de Belgique, Brevet d'invention No. 583.034, October 15, 1959:
22. Demonstration of ESP by Peter Hurkos, and an explanation by
Dr. Puharich. Sixth Naval District Annual Personnel Conference,
Charleston, South Carolina. United States Navy. November 6 - 7,
1959. Guidlines (off. USN publication), December 1959.
23. Problems of Instrumentation and Control in the study of extrasensory
perception. Lecture to the Institute of Radio Engineers, Los Angeles
Section. November 20, 1959.
24. Mushroom Icons- Bulletin of the Mycological Society of San Francisco
Vol. 9, No.12, 1959.
25. The Mind as an Action Center. Paper presented to the Psychiatric
Section, 35th Congress of the Pan American Medical Association.
Mexico City, Mexico. April 29, 1960.
26. Electrical Field Effects on Humans. Guest Speaker Annual Meeting of
Institute of Radio Engineers, San Francisco Section. Berkeley,
California. June 14, 1960.
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27. Procedimento od Apparecchio per migliorare o ristabilire il
senso dell'udito. Italy, Brevetto per invenzione industriale
No. 615935, January 24, 1961.
28. The Sacred Mushroom. A documentary film on the Chatino Indians
of Mexico shown on the ABC-TV network in the U.S. on January 24,
1961. Sponsored by the ALCOA Corporation, the Department of
Pharmacology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, and
the Chemical Corps of the United States Army.
29. Experiments with Faraday Cage Apparatus. Darshana (India)
Vol. 1, pp. 30-43, April 1961.
30. Means for Aiding Hearing. U.S. Patent No. 2,995,633. Aug.8, 1961.
31. Computers, Chance, and Cholinergia. (with Jeffery Smith and A.
Kitselman) . Darshana (India) Vol. 1, pp. 41-43, August 1961.
32. Dispositivo para la Transmision de Señales Auditivas a los
Centros de Audicion del Cerebro Humano. Republica Argentina,
Patente de Invencion No. 127626, October 10, 1961.
33. Method and Means for Aiding or Restoring Hearing.
Canada Patent No. 634542. January 16, 1962.
34. Beyond Telepathy. Doubleday & Company, Inc. New York, 1962. .
35. Method and Means for liding or Restoring Hearing. Japanese Letters
Patent No. 307,053. August 27, 1962.
36. Dispositifs d'aide à l'organe de l'ouïe par stimulation électrique
du système nerveux facial. République Française, Brevet d'invention
No. 1.349.503. January 3, 1963.
37. Schwerhörigengerät. Bundesrepublik Deutschland Patentamt
No. 1,219,958. January 6, 1963.
38. Dispositifs d'aide à l'organe de l'ouïe par stimulation électrique
du système nerveux facial. . Royaume de Belgique, Brevet d'invention
No. 626.742. January 15, 1963.
39. Means for Aiding or Restoring Wearing. Commonwealth of Australia,
Letters Patent No. 240,204. February 18, 1963.
40.
Bioastronautics Review - 1963. Section C entitled: Comparative
:
view of Psychophysiological Phenomena related to New Space Flight
Communications Media. Presented at the XIV International Astro-
nautics Federation Meeting in Paris, September 26 - October 1,
1965 by Eugene B. Konecci. NASA Headquarters, Washington, D. C.
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41. Physikalische und Psychologische Faktoren bei Psychokinetschem
Tischklopfen. (with M.A. Paul, K. Fantl and L. B. Gardner) .
Zeitschrift fur Parapsychologie, Band VI, Nr. 2/3, pp. 122-146, 1963.
42. Potential applications of extrasensory perception to Man in Space.
Guest Speaker Annual Meeting, Cedar Rapids Section, November 4, 1963.
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. Iowa.
43. Dispositif d'audition à l'état solide. République Française,
Brevet d'invention No. 1.375.45S.
November 22, 1963.
44. Otofono o simile Apparecchio Elettronico a stato solido con
.
Trasmissione Attraverso Nervi Facciali. Italy, Brevetto per
invenzione industriale No. 709769. November 23, 1963.
45. Hearing Aid. Great Britain Patent No. 1, 067, 748. November 25, 1963.
46. Solid State Hearing System. Commonwealth of Australia Letters
Patent No. 281, 219. November 26, 1963.
47. Hörgerät. Bundesrepublik Deutschland Patentamt 1202834. Dec. 13, 1963.
48. Hearing Aid. Great Britain Patent No. 1,075,430. December 30, 1963.
49. Système d'écoute a stimulation électrique avec signal de reaction.
Royaume de Belgique, Brevet d'invention No. 642.183. January 7, 1964.
50. Modulated Alternating Current Energy used to simulate Audition
in totally Deaf Humans. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of
the Aerospace Medical Association, Bal Harbour, Florida, May 13,
1964. Published as an abstract in: Journal of Aerospace Medicine,
35: May 1964.
51. Dispositif d'audition à l'état solide. Royaume de Belgique,
Brevet d'invention No. 640.030. May 19, 1964.
52. Système d'écoute à stimulation électrique avec signal de réaction.
République Française, Brevet d'invention No. 1.380.044. Oct. 19, 1964.
53. How many Channels have been allocated to the Brain? Luncheon Address
to the National Electronics Conference. Chicago, Illinois, October
20, 1964. Published in: Missles and Rockets, October 26, 1964.
54. Solid State Hearing System. U.S. Patent No. 3, 156, 787. November 10, 1964.
55. Electrostimulation Techniques of Hearing. (with J. L. Lawrence)
Technical Documentary Report, No., RADC-TRD-64-18, December 1964;
Project No. 5534, Task No. 553401. Prepared under Contract No.
AF30 (602)-3051, Intelectron Corporation, 432 West 45th Street,
New York, New York, 10036. Published by: Defense Documentation
Center, Alexandria, Virginia.
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de l'oreille.
Confederation Suisse, Expose d'invention No. .
304, 041. January 29, 1065.
57. Un dispositivo para impartir señales electricas moduladas
a nervios viales del Sistema Facial de un sujeto.
República Argentina. Patente de invencion No. 142889. February 9, 1965.
SS. Means for Aiding Hearing by electrical stimulation of the Facial
Nerve System. U.S. Patent No. 3,170,993. February 23, 1965.
59. Høreanordning. Norsk Patent Nr. 105 760. March 8, 1965.
60. Solid State Hearing System. Canada Patent No. 708256. April 20, 1965.
61. Werkwijze voor het hoorbaar maken van audiofrequente signalen
bij doven. Octrooiraad Nederland, Octrooi Nr. 111 843. September
17, 1965.
62. Electrically Stimulated Hearing with Signal Feedback.
India, Patent No. 92045. April 16, 1966.
63. Mejoras en Dispositivos Electronicos de Audicion. República
Argentina, Patente de invencion No. 148047. May 10, 1966.
64. Electrically Stimulated Hearing with Signal Feedback.
U.S. Patent No. 3,267,931. August 23, 1966.
65. Electrically Stimulated Hearing with Signal Feedback.
Pakistan, Falene No. 115216. August 50, 1966.
66. Means for aiding hearing by electrical stimulation of the Facial
Werve System. Commonwealth of Australia Letters Patent No. 269, 970.
September 13, 1966.
67. Otofono del tipo a Stimolazione Elettrica del Sistema Nervoso
Facciale con Circuito di Reazione. Italy, Brevetto per Invenzione
Industriale No. 713017. September 20, 1966.
68. Apparecchio per Aiutare L'udito mediante Stimolazione Elettrica
del Sistema Nervoso Facciale. Italy, Brevetto per Invenzione
Industriale No. 715786. October 1, 1966.
69. Electrical Field Reinforcement of ESP. International Journal of
Neuropsychiatry, Vol. 2, No. 5, pp. 474-486, October 1966."
70. Neans for aiding hearing by Electrical Stimulation of the Facial
Nerve System. . Canada Patent No. 750503. January 10, 1967.
71. Electrically Stimulated hearing with Signal Feedback. Canada
Patent No. 751001. January 17, 1967.
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del Sistema Nervioso Facial. Republica Argentina, Patente de Invencion
No. 153148. February 21, 1967.
73. Processo e dispositivo para auxiliar ou restaurar a Audição.
Brasil, Patente de invenção No. 77775. February 28, 1967.
74. Anordning for överföring av akustika signaler till människohjamans
hörselcentra. Sverige Patent Nr. 217 530. December 12, 1967.
75. Electrically Stimulated Hearing with Signal Feedback. Commonwealth
of Australia Letters Patent No. 282,485. April 22, 1968.
76 .. Electroniskt Horsystem.
Sverige Patent Nr. 301 337. September 12,
1968.
77.
Electrodynamic approach to Thrombus prevention in a Ventricular
Assist Device. (with George E. Reed, Luis E. Cortes, Willian
R. Brewstor and Joseph L. Lawrence). Paber presented at the 41st
Annual Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association,
November 23, 1968, Miami Beach, Florida. Abstract published in:
Circulation, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 4, Supplement No. VI, page 162.
78. Hearing rehabilitation by means of Transdermal Electrotherapy in
Human Hearing Loss of Sensorineural Origin. (with J.L. Lawrence) .
Acta Oto-Laryngologica, Vol. 67, Fasc. 1, pp. 69-83. January 1969.
79.
Horapparat. Sverige Patent Nr. 305. 669. February 13, 1969.
80.
Arigo - bridge between Medicine and Parapsychology. Symposium
on Parapsychology, sponsored by the Lockheed Missiles and Space
Company Management Association; Foothill College; De Anza College,
Sunnyvale, Califomia. Nay 23, 1969.
81.
Signal Detection O to infinity. Parapsychology Foundation Research
Monograph. New York, N. Y. (in press) .
82.
Procedimento Ed Apparechio Per La Stimolazione, Elettro-Acustica
de Sistema Auditivo, Brevetto per Invenzione Industriale, Italy,
No. 854214, February 3, 1969.
83.
Hearing rehabilitation by means of Transdermal Electrotherapy in
Human Hearing Loss of Sensorineural Origin (II). (with J.L. Lawrence) .
Excerpta Nedica International Congress Series No. 189. Ninth
International Congress of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Nexico, D.F.,
August 10-14, 1969.
84.
Transdermal Electrostimulation of Facial Nerve System with R-F Energy.
U.S. Patent No. 3,497,637. February 24, 1970.
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Method and Apparatus for inducing various states of consciousness
in an individual.
U.S. Serial No. 400,061. December 7, 1957.
2
Biological Radiation Responsive System.
U.S. Serial No. 306, 463. September 4, 1963.
3.
Method and Means for effecting a Machine output response to a
Mental Command.
U.S. Serial No. 301,362. November 4, 1963.
4.
Method for Hearing by means of Biodetection and Biotransduction
of Radio Frequency Energy.
U.S. Serial No. 446,267. April 8, 1965.
5.
Electrotherapy System.
U.S. Serial No. 633,035. April 24, 1967.
6.
Transducer for stimulation of Facial Nerve System with Radio
Frequency Energy.
U.S. Serial No. 682,152. November 13, 1967.
7.
Method and Means for the Electrodynamic control of Intravascular
Thrombosis, and of Thrombus formation in Artificial Organ Impalnts.
U.S. Serial No. 693,283. December 26, 1967.
8.
Method and Apparatus for stimulating Electromagnetic Radiation
in Living Subjects,
U.S. Serial No. 802,7SS. February 27, 1969.
9.
Method and Means for stimulating vision in the blind by means
of modulated electromagnetic energy.
(In preparation)
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