- Everyone knows that our government has long been interested
in obtaining a better understanding of the human mind's psychic potentials.
The most famous of their endeavors has been "remote viewing,"
or the attempt to gather strategically significant data through controlled
psychic clairvoyance. More recently, it was widely reported that an Air
Force report called for $7.5 million to conduct psychic teleportation
experiments. The study's author stated that teleportation "is quite
real and can be controlled."
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- But mainstream news media in this country are zealotous
pseudoskeptics of the paranormal. A USA Today story on the above report
begins with a cynical attempt at wit: "Star Trek fans may be happy
to hear that the Air Force has paid to study psychic teleportation."
And like virtually all mainstream media reports on paranormal phenomena,
the "journalist" defers to the judgment of an orthodox scientist,
who sneers at paranormal claims and hurls perjoratives: "'It is in
large part crackpot physics,' says physicist Lawrence Krauss of Case Western
Reserve University.
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- This latest revelation of tax-payer funded research into
the paranormal incited some curiosity in me. I decided to do some simple
word searches of the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)'s Scientific
& Technical Information Network (STINET), a branch of the DOD, utilizing
terms such as "psychic," "electromagnetic," and "psychological
warfare." I found some intriguing documents that to my knowledge
have not previously been broadly distributed.
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- A particularly telling excerpt can be found in a report
by author Col. Dolan M. McKelvy, USAF, entitled "Psychic Warfare:
Exploring the Mind Frontier," 1988. McKelvy warns of the inherent
dangers of a cynical, pseudoskeptical attitude toward psychic phenomena:
"Man's greatest potential remains a prisoner of man. Vast untapped
mental capabilities create an entirely new battlefield dimension which,
if ignored, pose a threat to self and country more serious than nuclear
weapons. This threat starts from within. Our fears and cynical attitudes
towards psychic capabilities make us our own worst enemies..."
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- Below are a handful of documents from DTIC's Public STINET,
at http://stinet.dtic.mil:
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- From http://stinet.dtic.mil/oai/oai? &verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA202099
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- Defense Technical Information Center
- Accession Number : ADA202099
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- Title : Psychic Warfare: Exploring the Mind Frontier.
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- Descriptive Note : Research rept.,
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- Corporate Author : AIR WAR COLL MAXWELL AFB AL
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- Personal Author(s) : McKelvy, Dolan M.
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- Report Date : MAY 1988
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- Pagination or Media Count : 59
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- Abstract : Man's greatest potential remains a prisoner
of man. Vast untapped mental capabilities create an entirely new battlefield
dimension which, if ignored, pose a threat to self and country more serious
than nuclear weapons. This threat starts from within. Our fears and cynical
attitudes towards psychic capabilities make us our own worst enemies.
The Soviets, on the other hand, take psychic research very seriously at
all levels, particularly for its military application. Exploring the mind
frontier is essential and the key to successful exploration is a greater
psychic awareness. The mind is rich in unfathomed resources ripe for exploration,
a limitless source of treasures for advancing all mankind, and a serious
threat to those who ignore its potential. We must overcome our psychic
inhibitions, stop denying the existence of paranormal events, and start
trying instead to understand the nature of these phenomena. We must shed
the super secret cloaks and educate our leaders at all levels on the real
psi military potentials and threats so we can adequately focus and prioritize
national resources. (sdw)
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- Descriptors : *STRESS(PSYCHOLOGY), *PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE,
AWARENESS, BATTLEFIELDS, HUMANS, LEADERSHIP, MENTAL ABILITY, MILITARY
APPLICATIONS, NUCLEAR WEAPONS, PRISONERS, RESOURCES, MENTAL DISORDERS.
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- Subject Categories : PSYCHOLOGY
- MILITARY OPERATIONS, STRATEGY AND TACTICS
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- Distribution Statement : APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
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- From http://stinet.dtic.mil/oai/oai? &verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0422218
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- Defense Technical Information Center
- Accession Number : AD0422218
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- Title : ELECTROMAGNETIC PHENOMENA WHICH RADIATE FROM
THE HUMAN BRAIN DURING INTENSE PSYCHOSENSORIAL ACTIVITY FROM DREAMY,
HALLUCINATORY AND TELEPSYCHIC STATES,
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- Corporate Author : ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
LABS FORT BELVOIR VA
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- Personal Author(s) : Cazzamalli, Ferdinando
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- Report Date : 1943
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- Pagination or Media Count : 42
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- Abstract : The experimental investigations in psychobiophysics,
which have been performed for thirty years with always increasing refinement
of the research instruments, are to explore some manifestations of the
human psychism by a surprise attack on the spot; they have led to the
detection of electromagnetic phenomena which irradiate from the human
brain in correlation to particular functional cerebro-psychic conditions,
and, more precisely, to stages of intense psychosensorial activity (oneirism,
hallucinations, telepsychism). Oneirism is the peculiar psychic condition
that is favorable to dreams, normal hallucinatory phenomena during the
sleep and dream-like stages of the beginning sleep and of the reverie.
As hallucinations, are designated as the morbid, especially visual phenomena
of psychopaths and those provoked by certain drugs or by hypnotic suggestion.
Telepsychism is defined as the whole gamut of subjective metapsychics
(cryptesthesia, spontaneous or pragmatic; lucidity: clairvoyance: telepathy;
rhabdomancy; radiesthesia; graphonomy; cartomancy; chiromancy). (Author)
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- Descriptors : *HUMANS, *BRAIN, ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION,
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION, RADIOGRAPHY, REFLEXES, REACTION (PSYCHOLOGY),
BIOPHYSICS, RADIOACTIVITY, ILLUSIONS.
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- Distribution Statement : APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
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- From http://stinet.dtic.mil/oai/oai? &verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0422217
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- Defense Technical Information Center
- Accession Number : AD0422217
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- Title : ON A CEREBRO-PSYCHIC RADIATION PHENOMENON (CEREBRO-
PSYCHIC RADIATION REFLEX) AS A MEANS OF PSYCHOPHYSICAL EXPLORATION. SECOND
EXPERIMENTAL PHASE, FROM 1933-1940,
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- Descriptive Note : Translation.
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- Corporate Author : ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
LABS FORT BELVOIR VA
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- Personal Author(s) : Cazzamalli, Ferdinando
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- Report Date : 1963
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- Pagination or Media Count : 26
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- Abstract : The existence of electromagnetic radiation
phenomena emanating from the human subject in a state of intensed psychosensory
excitation appears to be strongly indicated, the idea occurred to identify
the particular psychobiophysical reaction which manifested itself when
the subject was suddenly aroused by an abrupt and unexpected stimulus
from a state of tranquility and psychic inertia into thinking of facts,
things and persons, whose remembrance induced a hemo-affective resentment.
The experiment is arranged as follows: the subject, stretched out on a
couch with his eyes closed, has to let himself lapse into a state of psychic
indifference, i.e. into a passive state. The room is illuminated by a
red light. After the oscillator has been adjusted to the point of throwing
a strong and steady beam of light, the film is set in motion from the
control table. The passive state of the subject is interrupted by a sudden
and unexpected command to think of persons or of facts which interest
him profoundly in an affective way, in order to elicit a sudden and intense
psychosensory, particularly visual, reaction enforced by mental re-enactments.
(Author)
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- Descriptors : *HUMANS, *BRAIN, ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION,
STIMULATION(PHYSIOLOGY), REFLEXES, REACTION(PSYCHOLOGY), RADIOGRAPHY,
DIAGNOSIS(MEDICINE), CRIMINOLOGY, CEREBRAL CORTEX, BIOPHYSICS, RADIOACTIVITY.
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- Distribution Statement : APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
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