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A typical
(if dated) reference to the physical phenomena of interest is: http://www3.hi.is/~erlendur/english/IndridiPSPR_v53p214_1989.pdf |
A perennial favorite:
haunted houses, offer a good starting point for parapsychology.
Although
other starting points for the "mundanely extraordinary" are also
possible.
For, if gravity (in
general) is "bending the fabric of space-time", working examples of human induced "microgravity" go
a long way to explain many parapsychological phenomena. [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-�-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: 1 Jun,
2009