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A perennial favorite:
haunted houses, offer a good starting point for parapsychology.
Although other starting points for the mundanely "extraordinary" are also
possible.
[As the fifth grader on the linked site implies: "My friends will soon
know how to do this."]
There are of course many ways to classify the "paranormal". There are
"micro" events (as with enzymatic reaction rates being altered, as an
example), or "macro" events... such as apports/teleportation. One can
add "mega" events: "crop circles", "unidentified
flying objects". In the first case, there is a massive, permanent
alteration of the visual environment. In the second case (like a rainbow), many
people are simultaneously a witness to an (essentially unreachable) visual
event.
Rene Sudre's book: Parapsychology, Citadel Press, NY, 1960 sheds a possible
light on the "unidentified flying object" discourse. This, via
"primary" vs. "secondary" existence... To illustrate by
example: books have a secondary existence, while trees have a primary
existence. Sudre describes "evoked phantasms" at spiritualistic
seances. Very likely, mega-PK events are secondary.
Thus..., while most of the populace have not been directly exposed to the
"paranormal", it has a steady reported and fairly easily verifiable
presence (first or second hand).
For example, via Amazon.com (and with a title to discourage many a serious
person): Incredible Tales of the Paranormal, Alexander Imich (ed.), 1995. This
is a very nice book, with a possible "attributional error". I.e.:
Every now & then, some 100 year old grandmother is interviewed, and asked:
What does she attribute her longevity to? Clearly, she is 100 years old. She
may attribute this to clean living, or whiskey, or whatever....
[Thus, to put the very nice Imich book in perspective, one should read the
equally excellent book
The Fact/Attribution on the paranormal is similar: Events happen. Spirits of
the living (or deceased) are given as "causes". Step by step
exposition of HOW these events were caused are not supplied. But, it is
attributed...
Perennially, old cases are forgotten, only to have new ones take their place.
And, just as plants and animals, (as part of Nature), are categorized and
classified, on occasion, someone undertakes a taxonomy of the
"psychic".
So, one has levitation,
telepathy, telekinesis, precognition and the like. Fortunately, such events are
sort of "everyday occurrences", ready to be
researched.
Haunted houses can be classified as: "poltergeist"-like or
"historical". The historical ones have no one present, who can be
easily examined. Here, similarly to the "Spirit of Christmas Past",
events are replayed, with a long gone personage. (Not an ideal situation for
attempts at interaction.)
"Poltergeist"-like
phenomena have a lot more to offer. Here objects levitate, teleport, etc. ---
but there is a usual correlate: an adolescent .
Early psychic
researchers posited, that spirits needed a "medium", through which
they could channel their energies. Later it was held, that the responsible
party was the subconscious mind.
Not much to go on, but
there is *something* that one could interact with. And, while the
"subconscious" is difficult to access, neurological correlate(s) of
simultaneous brain functions are [finally], becoming reachable. (For
example: via fMRI brain scans.)
Initially, MRI [magnetic
resonance imaging], showed structure: bones, muscle, veins and arteries. The
second generation imaging equipment can show functionality: food moving in
intestines, heart beats, and neuro-anatomical localization. That is, move your
toes, and the relevant motor center in the brain will be displayed on the
monitor; while, if you move your fingers, (instead), the motor center for the
fingers will be visible on the monitor. Thus, providing information of the
sort: "What is the brain doing, while 'extra-ordinary' events are taking
place?"
So, after our
studies uncover methodologies about brain initiated phenomena , it should be
linkable to the conscious mind and volition, not solely to the sub or
unconscious.
So, this is the second
step in the program by Neuro-Kinetik. If you can learn to play the piano, you
should also be able to start, and to stop levitating objects, at will.
See the NEWS section for progress in this area.
Thus eventually, (using neuroimaging), relevant methodologies will be tested to
enable one to consciously control bodily manifestations including the
"paranormal". (Since a feedback loop can be established).
(Example of feedback
cycle: You see your arm reaching for a potato chip. You pick it up, and feel
it. Etc.
Next example of feedback cycle: You look at your brain on the monitor, as you
try to levitate the potato chip. Etc.)
This was part of the
original beginnings of Neuro-Kinetik. (However, at our net site, yet a slightly
different route is taken.) Instead of haunted houses, our initial inspiration
was the psychic in recent history: Uri Geller. He could bend small metal
objects by mental effort.
While no one thought of doing
a brain scan on him, and teaching others this skill via biofeedback,
other useful facts came to light, as he was "researched".
Of note: Just like one
can download a computer program, or receive "biological information"
by catching a cold, people around him "subconsciously" picked up the
ability to bend metal. Thus, teenagers, (called "mini-Gellers") at
the time, were busily bending paper clips into little statues of birds, horses
and dinosaurs.
Hence Neuro-Kinetik
recommends the book The Metal-Benders, by John B. Hasted, published in 1981 by
Routledge & Kegan Paul. [Hasted was a professor of experimental physics, in
London.] The book has illustrations, via photographs, of paper clips being put
into a glass sphere, one by one. And these being bent by the teenagers, into a
tangle: merely by mental power. ]
Geller, as documented elsewhere, spanned the spectrum of "psychic
ability"; but was mostly encouraged to show existential proof of
"supernormal" events, rather than to participate in "basic
research".
So, some events, which could be conceptualized/categorized differently, were
never disentangled.
Thus "actual" vs. "teleological"/"genetically
programmed" local time reversal or speed-up. (Or, time
"worm-holes".)
The latter possibly exemplified by seed sprouting and retraction, in his closed
hand. (This feat of course is duplicable, see
http://www.jackhouck.com/ehp.shtml -- a burst of psi energy might cause a
cascade of preprogrammed genetic activity to be released much faster than
ordinary.)
(Alternately: grafting/surgery, via teleportation is less grand than true time
reversal, but is still impressive.)
Worm-hole connection through time, (at some point teleological), could be
invoked as a second order hypothesis.
(As Geller "imposes his will" on memory wire.
[http://www.uri-geller.com/books/geller-papers/g1.htm] The actual, atomic level
mechanism will yet need many a man hour of effort to be obtained.)
And, the "imposition of will" (in general), has numerous
implications, vis a vis the ordinary social order.
[http://www.peterpowers.com/UriGeller.html]
So, where are we?
It seems
established, that an other energy spectrum (whereby the "paranormal"
events are caused), exists. [But its perception and conscious manipulation is
mostly absent, or is yet to come.]
Further, that
while geometrical localization of the relevant brain circuitry dealing with the
above might be soon uncovered, this circuitry seems to be only weakly connected
to, (thus accessible to), personal consciousness. [But, that
relevant technologies and methodologies exist (cf.: biofeedback), to overcome
the hurdle of self initiated sensing and control.]
One of the initial goals
of Neuro-Kinetik was to produce "mini-Gellers". For a school not only
transmits necessary (or optional) skills, it does so in a socially legitimized
manner.
To repeat: If you can learn to play the piano, you should also be able to
start, and to stop levitating objects, at will. And, analogously to an
established discipline (such as acoustics), know and be able to calculate the
relevant energies.
Meanwhile: Historical research is also research. (
The methodology
of choice is: brain mapping. (For example: Fundamentals of Functional Brain
Imaging, by Andrew Papanicolau. [ISBN 90-265-1528-6] He mentions several
pioneering, (if somewhat expensive) technologies.
It now remains, to
integrate the usage of current machinery, facts and theories.
In this regard, a quick
note on "steady state" vs. "transient" events, generalized.
Applying the mathematical model of open and closed line segments to engineering
events, one notes that prototypes of mostly anything (rockets, Suez/Panama canal)
fail spectacularly. Sometimes, this is due to an error in design, alleviated
later. However, Neuro-Kinetik takes the position, that "routine
transients" are different than "first in the world" transients.
Where the "first in the world" events, like sports records [five
minute mile] have to "cut a groove in the fabric of reality",
enabling the next similar event to proceed with more ease. (Thus the observable
momentary failure, en route to final success, when the conceptual
infrastructure of the project "collides" with other configurations in
the world, that support different world views and goals.) This structural
"road building" vs. "road usage" has many an implication.
But for the moment, this commentary will focus on brain mapping and psychics.
In reading mediumistic literature, it is often noted that psychic performance
can be helped or hindered by "ordinary people". Currently, brain
mapping of psychics is not a routine event. Thus, one can anticipate that
equipment would occasionally give erroneous readings. [False negatives and
positives exist in many a field.] However, ultimately a steady state would
obtain, where doing brain scans while psychic events are ongoing become
routinized. And the results obtained will be subject to a far smaller range of
errors of any sort.
An early theory, applied
to teleportation , was that of a higher, geometrically dimensioned space.
("The 5th dimension".) It was modeled on the novel:
"Flatland", by Abbot. (Popular in the Victorian Age.) [Available from
http://www.amazon.com; Reissue, 1984, ISBN: 0451522907] This charming work
depicts, in essence, amoebae-people living on a microscope slide, in two
dimensions. Their picket fences are a series of dots, and their houses are made
of lines. Then, one day, a Sphere comes along. (A 3 dimensional creature.) He
seems to be clairvoyant: he can see the "inside" of bodies. And, by
moving into the "next dimension", "enclosures" are not an
obstacle for him. Etc.
Meanwhile, by only considering "known" forces, Einstein showed
that one is essentially restricted to 3 dimensions and "time's
arrow". Like the amoeba people: "You can't get from here to
there.", should your goal be the past/future or close to instantaneus
transport, etc, etc. This observation did not set off a stampede to look
for new forces. Although sporadic practical and theoretical attempts and
reports are omnipresent.
An earlier "high
science" approach to the new force problem was the tachyon theory,
attempting to explain precognition and levitation. (As tranferring energy and
information, with time & space transcending properties.)
Tachyons were held to be "faster-than-light" particles, capable of
imparting momentum. They sort of deserve a paragraph or so, as a historical
curiosity.
Via logic, it was noted,
that Nature had symmetry. (Right, left, up, down, etc.) Further, the "four
dimensional space-time continuum" had elegance. This symmetry and elegance
was combined as follows. It did seem to be true, that ordinary matter could not
be accelerated to light speed, (or beyond), with present technologies. But, if
one could go faster, the past and the future would become accessible. (Via:
"time-like" and "space-like" events.)
Upon looking around, it
was evident, that some things moved at light speed. (In particular: light.)
Thus, there seemed to be at least two types of material objects in the world:
1, ordinary matter; always slower than light
2, photons; always at light speed.
It was known, that these interacted regularly.
But, via symmetry, one
can consider the relational set: "equal", "less than", and
"greater than" as applied to light-speed. I.e.: there well might be
objects, always moving faster than light (tachyons). [Which might interact with
other types of physical objects, also.]
However, while Edison commercialized light bulbs, and Kodak the photographic
film, no method seemed to exist to generate or capture tachyons, vis-a-vis
ordinary matter.
Jumping from physics to
sociology: parapsychological effects might be validated, but seem rare. This
brings us to the subject of believability, in general. (Since beliefs guide
actions.) But then, actions [which are guided by beliefs] are based on
experience (or the lack thereof ). However, existing [prosaically], as a finite
being implies that individual (or group) experience is limited. (Although it
might be sufficient for the goals chosen.) Goals, of course can be long or
short range, foolish or otherwise. And the actions generated might be effective
or ineffective, consensual or otherwise, etc.
So too, with
parapsychology. Assuming its success in producing replicable results,
eventually the utilitarian problem of control is bound to arise. A cozy
fireplace is romantic, a house burning down, is less so. This of course is an
example of (seemingly), only physical control. But, note in passing, that of
all the living things on the planet, only man uses fire routinely. Hence,
besides discovering it, he had to change his societal reactions, to be able to
accept and properly react to the proximity of this [now, uniquely human] tool.
The rise & fall of
Spiritualism (a historical/social event occuring between approximately 1850 and
1920), itself can also be theorized about. Neuro-Kinetik favors a "War of
the world views" hypothesis. Namely: After the successful
assimilation of science into western societies, two events were somewhat
observable.
A slight unease [internally] between the religious and the scientific world
views and [externally], a seeming power vacuum: filled by colonial expansion of
the cultures that were able to have a greater control over the physical world.
Now, "assume"
a parapsychological connectedness in humans.
As traders,
missionaries and gunboats arrive, the locals are a bit concerned. "What
about these new barbarians?" If their success can be attributed to their
methods, the methods could be adopted to anyone's advantage. Yet, some of their
processes have had local equivalents [thus a strong constituency, speaking
against being replaced].
Temples have
existed since times immemorial. (As the sociobiologist and the temple goers
would say, [coming to different conclusions], "Obviously: temples exist
for a reason.")
Did westerners
have a better connection to to both: the seen and the unseen world?
Via the
"parapsychological connectedness", this question was acted out during
the Spiritualist days. Thus, Zollner and Transcendental Physics (as an
example): Mechanistic vs anthropomorphic explanations, in a sociological
setting.
The outcome of this
social encounter [vis-à-vis the "white man's burden"] was somewhat
ambiguous. The erstwhile colonies [or "spheres of influence"
assimilated established science to a degree, and reacted to the foreign
faith. Africa, like Latin America earlier, adopted western religion into
its social makeup far more than foreign technology or science. Others retained
their original religious orientation (India), or it (China).
And the western
"barbarians" (like their own remembrance ancient of Egypt vs Rome),
had so much civil conflict at home [however inspired], that their political
outlook became far less imperial. [Napoleon, WW I, WW II] And, the nemesis of
colonialism (aimed to destroy the western church & state), would eventually
only claim a limited social success: communism was contained. And an immediate
challenger of the status quo (Spiritism), was abandoned.
Meanwhile, one might as
well comment on the "historical" etymology of
"parapsychology". Spiritualism is belief in posthumous survival. In its heyday this belief
was bolstered by a then current tome: "The Phantasms of the Living".
(Locatable via amazon.com, again). This concept prompted spectroscopic studies
of ectoplasm, during the 1920-s and '30-s.
(As recorded in Rene Sudre's "Parapsychology", Citadel Press, 1960.
NY). Sudre discounts spirit survival. But Sudre does recognize, the presence of
anticipatory beliefs on experiments. (Ie: at times "you see, what you want
to see". Fortunately, the "actual" limits on what can be
accomplished [under the circumstances] limit "positive" and
"negative" results.
A notable result
of this type of a limiting case behavior is the "fake looking"
(computer "memory dump" type) faces of exteriorized ectoplasmic
manifestations, documented in the literature. This, to offset the equally
"artificial", though realistic appearing productions by the mediums
of the period , that would favor the belief in
survival. Thus the widely publicized episode of the eminent scientist Crookes
and the spirit manifestation of Katie King. However, it is the legacy of
Crookes that psychology (rather than one of the hard sciences) was to be
instrumental in the search for yet unknown biological sensors/effectors responsible
for mediumistic events. (Thus, the Utrecht Conference, as referred to in the
Sudre book, where-at parapsychology was the name selected for this enterprise.)
A note about
ectoplasm, in passing. In the Sudre book, it is mentioned how mediumistic
phenomena is effected by (subconscious) "scripts/expectations" of the
audience. Thus, in the presence of a famous author, the "spirit
communication" might be in verse, while with an engineer in attendance,
the objects levitated seem to be supported by cantilevers and the like (constructed
from "ectoplasm"). Ectoplasmic manifestations..... :likely a script/expectation effect, after the famous physiologist Richet,
(to whom cytoplasm was the essence of life), influenced a generation with
regard to what mediumistic phenomena might conform to.
A related
"vocabulary creep" is the quantum physics people's use of the term
"teleportation", following Pauli's interest in psychic phenomena and
"mind over matter" type interactions. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_effect.
Jung and Freud's
*experiences* [akin to spirit rapping] are well known... (although to posit
acausality for events [by theoreticians in any field], takes a bit of fortitude
or flexibility). [In "pop culture: Ingo Swan and the Ted Owens (the
latter... http://www.williamjames.com/pkman.htm) performed macro PK routinely.] Again, possible script/expectation effects here. Being the "product of his time", Ted ascribed many a cause to "space intelligences", rather than to deceased personages, etc.
The hybridization
(rather than a polarization) of various world views (and thus, the blending of
some of their "truths"), have not gained the necessary threshold (as
far as attracting a sufficient number of followers), to have obtained a
noticeable historical representation. It could be posed, that technology
and the state-of-the-art were insufficient in the Spiritualist days, to
determine a consensus, on the "true" origins of the
phenomena. Equally (in modern times), seemingly no major effort seems to
be under way to blend (as an example) acupuncture/chi with electronics and
physiology. (Although some chemical/hormonal approaches are ongoing.) So, while
the concept of blood transfusion is accepted, people being mechanically wired
together, to connect similar (or different) acupuncture points (to gain
benefit), are not an operating room standard. Etc.
Returning from this
conceptual detour to the focus on parapsychological phenomena, at the
individual level...
At this point,
telekinesis and teleportation and out-of-body-experiences were extensively
documented, with but without a strong hint as to the underlying mechanism of
the phenomena.
Observations of some
mediums yielded physiological links: "trance" states at times were
entered into (or were concomitant with), hyper-ventilating. Of course,
excessively exhaling, while barely inhaling, would (at the very least), effect
blood pH and carbon dioxide levels, thus leading to psychophysiological
changes. Physical linkages to anomalous events was lacking. Mediums and
psychics could interact with matter and the electromagnetic spectrum. But the
anatomical linkage seemed to be absent. Meanwhile tachyons, (theoretical
constructs, postulated to travel faster-than-light), could bring information or
momentum from 'afar', whether the separation was spatial or temporal. Other
theoretical construct (like a physical 4th dimension), equally separate from
linkage to anatomy, were invoked to "explain" events as documented in
the Imich book, referred to earlier: parts of the mediums body leaving the
ordinary 3 dimensions of everyday experience, etc.
But, could people, (or
objects), emit/receive tachyons? The answer seemed to be: Maybe.
There was a weakly formulated theory by the Russian academician Kozyrev (circa
1965), that a gravity wave analogue might be generated by vibrating gyroscopes
along their axis, while they were spinning.
[The idea being, that the perceived resistance to a "force couple",
(to flip the gyroscope), was due to a sort of self inductance by the spinning
disk, increasing its apparent mass. And, that this gravitational dipole,
vibrating on its axis, might produce waves of some sort, as it accelerated and
decelerated.] (Or tachyons.)
Kozyrev was hoping to alter the rate of flow of time, and to couple the
spinning gyroscopes at a distance, energetically. [A la Helmholtz.] Robust
results, however, were not attained.
Conceptually, slowing down time (locally), could produce a "heat
shield"/ "impact shield" effect: Energy transfer could be
delayed/dampened. And, "speeding up time", would fry anything, (via
excessive molecular motion.)
A (possibly atemporal) "heat shield"/teleportation model for
fire resistance could use orthognality as a deflection/redirection shield. This
idea merely notes the right hand rule from applied electromagnetics: an
electric charge, moving in a magnetic field, receives an orthognal impetus.
Were the heat (electromagneticly transmitted energy) be re-directed
orthognally, the immediate "target" of the burn would be
protected. While similar speculation would apply to the presumed
"other dimensional" transfer of heat energy as a practical heat
shield, speculation remains just that: speculation.
So, the facts
remain, such as Jack Hauck's PK parties, where seeds would sprout, metal would
warm and deform, when "PK-d".
So, everything from
atoms to electrons having a spin, a tunable energy spectrum of Kozyrev's
proposed "temporo-gravitational" waves was, [like 'tachyons'], a
theoretician's delight.
This hybrid concept of rotational and heat energy, experientially pointed
directly to the Hilsch vortex tube.
This device is a liquid [gas] relative of a rotating gyroscope, vibrating on
its axis. The vortex tube transforms room temperature compressed air, into
uncompressed air; with the separate streams having two different temperatures:
hot and cold.
As an educated guess,
the vortex tube might produce tachyons, spatial/temporal energy coupling, etc.
etc. In industrial settings as found on the web (in the oil/gas industry,) [to
centrifuge out moisture], the gas has an estimated angular velocity of a
million rpm, and is required to do a 180 degree turn from its initial flow
direction, all within an inch. An interesting perturbation. Solid rocks, of
course, can emit electromagnetic energy merely by being struck together by
hand: Sparks. [The electrons inside the rocks are rotating mighty fast though.]
But, the lack of cash
prevented Neuro-Kinetik from verifying if the vortex tube: exposes film,
attracts gold, speeds up or slows down gyroscopes, etc., etc..
It may be noted, (in
passing), that some of the references supplied are highly dated. (Exp.: The
classic -- Sudre's Parapsychology). This is a reflection of: A lack of 'real'
progress in parapsychology, and Neuro-Kinetik's relative ignorance of relevant
new developments. Thus some new resources are offered, to keep current, such as
Wm. Calvin (a neurophysiologist).
Calvin deals with brain
functions, intelligence and evolution, in an academic setting. The 'template'
of his outlook [Hebbian decision making] offers explanatory power to
parapsychology, on the *macro* scale. For, if "Mankind is man writ
large.", then decisions in geopolitical regions are analogous to Hebbian
neuronal consensus reached in brain regions. (Enhancement, inhibition,
alternate choices battle.) Add to the pre, sub, un, and [finally] conscious mix
(in the individual and the group), some parapsychological perception [thus:
group and life-span connectedness], and the world becomes the willful place
observed/experienced.
This theoretical
'template' thus re-maps social institutions ---- (mirroring the concept of differentiated
functional centers in the individual such as the thalamus, putamen, kidney or
liver). Hence (socially): the stock market, organized sports and churches can
saturate (temporarily) social expectations and reactions, parapsychologically.
Further, just as there are premotor areas in the individual brain, life-span
plans/patterns (oft times from other generations and places
"delivered"/maintained parapsychologically), are synthesized and then
executed currently. Thus, the body politic lives its life (sometimes
consciously), composed of constituent entities and their actions. This living
has "emergent" components. For, just as the act of "reaching for
that potato chip" seems a unified whole to the experiencing individual
(but is a "meaningless" set of new actions to the muscles involved
composing that organism), the individuals & groups composing the "body
politic" can be unaware of the larger "lifespan like" patterns
in the "big world".
The above could [and
eventually will], I think, be the staple of several well regarded treatises by
various authors. Psychologically based "historical" ['ontogeny
recapitulates phylogeny'] decisions mingle in the world in a seeming
"power pool reserve" equilibrium. Thus, "action/reaction"
oscillates (specially at the human group level), mediated via parapsychology.
So, influence makers are selected, decisions are reached and are acted upon,
stratagems planned and executed [almost in an "immunological
manner"], constrained by the groups own history; all the while so modulated
as to reflect (or react), to the other group's history. So on a macro scale:
news, shows (or indeed any event), can be "manufactured" to cause (or
intend to cause), events downstream.
History is
characterized by the outcome of events, and the particulars of the
circumstances used to obtain it. This includes its "cost". For the
last phrase, think in a "thermodynamic" mode: How many lives were
strongly effected to achieve the Great Wall, the Pyramids, World War I, The
Ottoman Empire, etc., etc., etc..). For if, human lives, generating "will
and ideas" are parapsychologically connected to the material world,
massive "emotive" flows obtain, as events are channeled in one
direction or an other. [And, as they are channeled, a form of "temporal
determinism" prevails: This will happen next, while that can not.]
For: The world
is composed of relatively stable, as well as rapidly altering portions.
Stability and change permeate the world; Parapsychology itself is no exception.
So, to make sure
that bridges and houses do not move, but cars and airplanes do, engineers
(among others), get paid. (Thus, having an interest in "parasychologically
stabilizing" the whole (or part) of physical assemblages.)
Meanwhile, there
is the related observation, that engineering is already legitimized. And the
concept of "getting paid" is so ordinary that, (like digestion) it is
hardly noticed. [Note: parapsychology currently has no legal standing.]
But the the
status of "being legitimate" is an ongoing activity. (Taxing
jurisdictions attest to this.)
Thus
(colloquially speaking), "paying dues" is not restricted to musicians
or labor union members or church folks.
Of course,
legitimized cash transactions are variable, as are jurisdictions. Medicines, or
recreational drugs [as an example], are explicitly regulated not merely by
supply and demand. An ordinary (generic) purchase, allowed on one continent
could activate enforcement authorities, if performed in a different locale.
Similarly:
Churches, mosques, ashrams, seminaries, monasteries and temples observe (to
some extent), secular and canon laws (both in peace and war). [Thus
exemplifying the idea of multiple jurisdictions, wherein actions are
obligatory, forbidden, or allowed; and are enforced with possibly different
degrees of selectivity and efficiency.]
But
(philosophically), one can not have some change without some permanence. [The
opposite also holds of course: Change starts from some position; while total
"unchanging permanence", like a fly encased in amber, seems to
preclude living.]
So, it seems
that parapsychological activities are ongoing, but are noted, or denied, or
ignored or glorified.
All as a part of
living, wherein at times, when either relative change or permanence is sought.
One solution to
this awkward status of multiple jurisdictions is "trade zones"/
"war zones" or "holiday equivalents".
Hence, in one
locale/time people may be selectively allowed (or are forbidden) to lust, kill
or be killed, get drunk, or whatever.
Thus, change and
permanence are brought into equilibrium.
(A particularly
inconvenient example of ensuring stability [in this case, of the family], was
exemplified by the (now defunct practice) of Chinese foot binding emphasizing,
that the woman's place was indeed in the home.)
In short:
Transition in the state of human affairs [which of course would be reflected in
the life of some individual(s)] might be legitimized, recognized, ignored,
etc., etc..
Cemeteries have
gravestones, battlefields might have memorials.
Anniversaries
exist; but in "real time", so do the stock exchanges, or the gambling
casinos.
So, rather than
to have events disturb the ordinary, day-to-day "thermodynamic like"
stability of prescribed social courses of action, the "incongruity/incongruities"
can be (so the parapsychological theory goes), channeled off; perhaps to a
casino, a festival or a party. And, as modeled by a unit bodily homeostasis,
chemical buffers and electrons [instead of events/ideas] being moved in a biological
electron chain to a lower energy level, the social group moves on, stably.
And while the
basic material mechanisms of parapsychological actions could become clear with
the requisite research, the legitimacy/"multiple jurisdiction"
problem is a mixture of conscious and unconscious (individual and group)
expectations.
So, would a
conscious exploration of parapsychology be beneficial?
It is likely,
that this question will arise (and be answered) frequently, by various groups,
soon. Making parts of the world more complex and/or regulated.
In any event, it seems,
that "psychic" sensors and effectors areas much part of ordinary
living, as ordinary sight, hearing, taste --- [as well as walking, breathing,
picking up objects]. Which all have voluntary and conscious components or
connections.
And, for our purposes,
what Neuro-Kinetik needs is to demonstrate and popularize an anatomical
"parapsychological" invariant. Then, with a "Galvani and a frog
leg" equivalent replicated in several laboratories [igniting the fancy of
the elite], the world would be altered. For, there would still be nations,
families, food, art, etc.. However, they would exist in a distinct historical
epoch. Realizing the Socratic: "Know thyself." more fully.
A further note on
energetics: Hauck mentions, that people who could "cold form" metal,
could also cause seeds to sprout, on the palm of their hand.
While he offers no model for seed sprouting, time "speed-up" is a
nice, simplistic explanation. On other levels, different guesses can be made.
(Simple "substitution" via teleportation.) There is the
"fuse/threshold" model applicable mostly to living things: seeds have
to "decide" when to sprout. Humidity, temperature, even illumination
have to be cumulatively right, for the sprouting sequence to trigger
ordinarily. (And the speed of growing, as observable in mushrooms, can be
impressive.) Thus, similarly to the energy infusion into the metal, this
"overload" of energy could cause the trigger cells to issue a sprout
signal. (With the actual sequential supply and transport of the appropriate
molecules might be assisted by the human.)
A generic (and
teleological) explanation for anomalous events might be labeled: the cold
forming, or pressure model. This is a hybrid between counter-current (active)
ion pumps on a biological cellular level, and psychological "scripts"
that are expectations on how events can/will unfold. Thus, in "faith
healing": genes, enzymes, molecules, etc. are pressured into the
"good" pattern, via a directed infusion/use of "life
energy". The "expectations" can produce ectoplasm as
easily as other "genuine" (though in a sense "artifactual")
phenomena: lights, crop circles and their ilk. (See the Imich & Sudre books
starting this section for the general idea on these.) The physics theories for
the simple "passage of matter through matter", "wormhole
teleportation", "matter passing into an other dimension" have
been well conceptualized. Well described, but yet to be approached is Sudre's
description of how energy/mass is diverted from some of the bystanders in a
mediumistic seance.
The warp metric approaches from physics (currently in vogue) do offer a nice
framework. For (they contend), that the relativistic view of the universe would
allow for most of parapsychology, should the relativistic model be sufficiently
extended. Thus, seeing the past or the future is limited by light speed (in a
mostly static 4D world). This is offered to be overcome by faster than light
particles, postulated energies of yet undiscovered nature (thus, the presumed
"randolphsite" mineral), or the warp metric approach. I.e.:
Since space time could be deformed, were one be capable of altering selected
global constants; other "constants" would change, as a consequence.
Thus, the speed of light in vacuum becomes a function magnetic permeability and
dielectric permittivity of the vacuum. However, for the hands on "how
to alter global constants", (as a practical matter), this is likely to
be supplied by the imaging of "special" brains.
[Of the
"legendary" randolphsite...
Via an excerpt of dubious validity from Reginald Scot. Titled something like
"Discoverie..." Reissue; Paperback; 17 Illustrations, 283 pages,
Published: May 1990; Dover Publications. ISBN: 0486260305. Chapter heading:
"Two notorious wonders, not yet marvelled at."]
I
Thought good here to insert two most miraculous matters; of the one I am Testis
Oculatus, an eie-witnesse; of the other I am so credibly and certainly
informed, that I dare and do believe it to be very true. When Master T.
Randolph returned out of Russia, after his ambassage dispatched, a gentlemen of
his train brought home a monument of great accompt, in nature and propertie
very wonderfull. And because I am loath to be long in the description of
circumstances, I will first describe the thing itself: which was a piece of
earth of a good quantitie, and most excellently proportioned in nature, having
these qualities and vertues following. If one had taken a piece of perfect steel,
forked and sharpened at the end, and heated it red hot, offering therewith to
have touched it, it would have fled with great celerity: and on the other side,
it would have pursued gold, either in coin or bulloin, with as great violence
and speed as it shunned the other. No bird of the air durst approach near it,
no beast of the field but feared it, and naturally fled from the sight thereof.
Like Zollners
physical realization of a magnetic monopole: a child's toy, "after the
fact".
Meanwhile, Neuro-Kinetik (as well as others) are poised for experimentation
to bring this about.
Last update: 10 Feb, 2008