-Caveat Lector- To bring this long forwarded post into subject perspective, first are a few excerpts: >The major testing ground for this morality may well be the current >non-lethal psychic-warfare research being conducted by the military >intelligence community in search of a 'Manchurian Candidate.' The potential for these techniques of mind-control to be used in >the field on unsuspecting naive populations in 'non-lethal warfare' >are awesome to behold and contemplate. They can be and will be easily >misused by authoritarian immoral power structures. These techniques >not only involve manipulation by drugs and ordinary electromagnetic, >sound and kinaesthetic signals - as in subliminal television >broadcasting and virtual reality transmission via the Web - but also >purport to involve quantum action at a distance in the reports on >psychokinesis, telepathy and remote viewing." The 1996 U.S. defense authorisation bill earmarked $37.2 million to >further investigate non-lethal technologies. Colonel John B. Alexander >of Los Alamos National Laboratory, Major Edward A. Dames of PSI-TECH, >William Harman of the Institute for Noetic Sciences, and other >'spooks' maintain links between military intelligence, physics >researchers and the New Age community, claims Sarfatti. > From: Remy Chevalier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Sarfatti topic post on Skywatch Date: Sunday, May 09, 1999 8:50 AM >From: "Skywatch International Inc." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "sky open list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: (Skyopen) Fw: uncloseting >Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 06:32:57 -0500 > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Richard J. Boylan, Ph.D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: UFOTruth Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Saturday, May 08, 1999 11:03 PM >Subject: uncloseting > > >WEIRD SCIENCE (21*C 1*96 THE POST-FUTURIST MANIFESTO) >By Alex Burns > >Dr. Jack Sarfatti is one of the leaders of the 'new physics' movement. >However, his research into E.S.P., time, future causality and his >'VALIS-type' experience has provoked dissent in the mainstream physics >community. > >"The Bohemian physicist . . .contributes a balanced scientific >non-establishment for this expanding society. I don't mean to >disparage the work, either . . .Originality has always required a >fertile expanse of fumble and mistake . . .Your wastrel life might >turn out to be just what's required to save the planet." > >Herbert Gold in: "Bohemia: Where Art, Angst, Love And Strong Coffee >Meet" > >Black holes, Alcubierre warp drives, traversable worm holes, and the >quest for the Holy Grail of dark matter are outpacing the wildest SF >fantasies in the public's imagination. In the science fraternity, this >'quantum weirdness' is creating new paradigms with which to view >reality. The most controversial physicist in this field is Dr Jack >Sarfatti, whose investigation of such phenomena as superluminal >(faster than light) information and anomalous experiences challenges >the very underpinnings of modern quantum physics. > >Sarfatti's exotic theories are rarely discussed within the mainstream >physics community. Like Harvard Medical School department of >psychiatry's John Mack, who controversially researched UFO abductions, >Timothy Leary's early 1960s metaprogramming experiments, or Lyall >Watson's unorthodox explorations of 'Supernature', Sarfatti's >exploration of the questions polite academics avoid has tainted his >reputation. A typical off-hand response came from N. David Mermin of >the Cornell physics department who studied Sarfatti's papers and >corresponded with him during the 1980s: "Jack Sarfatti? What a weird, >strange subject to be writing about!" > >Yet Sarfatti's theories of future causality - the future impacting on >the present - are influencing the contemporary cultural meme pool. >From Terminator 2 to Twelve Monkeys, Sarfatti's ideas have been the >subject of major sci-fi scenarios. Sarfatti himself was parodied as >the memorable time-travelling Dr Emmett Brown in the Back to the >Future trilogy. > >According to Creon Levit of the NASA Ames Research Center, who studied >and worked with Sarfatti, "Jack is a maverick, because he is examining >what is perhaps the most cherished asumption of modern science - that >all causes must precede their effects. People, including scientists, >do not, unless they are very brave, like to question their cherished >assumptions. This is unfortunate, because in quantum theory the >mainstream theorists have gone so far as to give up objectivity - both >in their physics, and I am afraid, in their approach to physics - in >order to save causality." > >"Physics is the Conceptual Art of the late 20th Century," Sarfatti >claims. "But as a science it will lead to new practical >super-technology." Recognising the role of theoretical physics as a >cultural 'early warning system,' Sarfatti like his predecessors Carl >Jung and Wolfgang Pauli, has investigated its archetypal foundations. >Consequently he has evolved into a true 'Trickster' figure in the >Gurdjieff/Leary mould, reconciling the roles of conceptual artist, >physicist, poet and Magus. > >"After Timothy Leary, I'm the only Magus left!" Sarfatti jokes. His >synthesis attempts to capture the subjective reality of unconscious >archetypes 'revealed' by quantum physics, a reality that, he says, can >only be accessed by metaphor, evocation, poetry, and music. > >Sarfatti's 'court' is the chic Caffe Trieste (dubbed 'Sarfatti's Cave' >in deference to Plato). Situated in the bohemian suburb of North >Beach, San Francisco, an area Sarfatti equates with the Left Bank of >Paris: "very chic and the place to be seen; it's my neighbourhood for >over 20 years." > >The Caffe Trieste has been the site of Sarfatti's 'self imposed' exile >from the conservative academic community, and his preferred location >for lecturing to a rapt audience of 'espresso scholars'. A noted >personality in the North Beach scene, Sarfatti is mentioned in Herbert >Gold's works Bohemia: Where Art, Angst, Love & Strong Coffee Meet and >Travels In San Francisco. His colleagues include the famous Beat poet >Gregory Corso, who reinvigorates poetry long demonised by the Machine >Age. > >'Sarfatti's Cave' has now gone online, as he utilises the World Wide >Web as an interactive education tool (http://www.hia.com/hia/pcr and >www.stardrive.org). > >The tax-exempt, non-profit 'Internet Science Education Project' uses >SF trappings (the primary directive of The Sarfatti Group is to "Make >Star Trek Real") and video-capturing software to make physics relevant >to Net surfers. Sarfatti rails against the over-specialisation of >academia that leads many people into intellectual cul de sacs. Linking >science, technology and culture, he believes, is an exercise in >egalitarianism and combats the current U.S. education trend of the >creation of a mass "stupid society" and a meritocracy that protects an >educated elite. Echoing Christopher Lasch's criticisms of a decline in >public discourse, Sarfatti fires missives worldwide, attempting to >enliven the physics community. > >"I am in the meme business," says Sarfatti. "My objective is that >certain memes will win the competition in cyberspace and shape world >consciousness. The Web will be the dominant means of learning and >communication; it is a democratic forum. > >"Censorship is to be fought. The free competition of conflicting memes >on the Web will be subject to Darwinian natural selection pressure >plus some advanced quantum action from the future via John Lilly's >Cosmic Coincidence Control. This makes it all come out in a globally >self-consistent time loop the way Kip S. Thorne defines it in Black >Holes & Time Warps. > >"The main new feature of the WWW is its dynamic nature. Several minds >can contribute to the shaping of a work. > >"My field is that of perennial philosophy. I put the most important >questions up for discussion. The most important single question is >'What is Consciousness?' > >"My basic program is the same as Tim Leary's - space migration, >intelligence increase, life extension. The cancerous growth of >population and diminishing resources means that large decreases of >population in the near future are impossible to avoid, barring some >breakthrough in space propulsion that would allow large numbers of us >to migrate to virgin worlds. > >"Let's hope that UFOs are real and that they are time-travelling ships >from friendly ETs, or time travellers from our future - because if >they are not real, it looks pretty grim for your children and their >children." > >Sarfatti insists that in 1952, at age 13, he had an anomalous >experience that changed his life. He claims to have received a single >telephone call from a cold, metallic voice, declaring to be a >conscious computer on a spacecraft from the future. But, after >Sarfatti lent his mother a copy of Andrija Puharich's book URI, in >which he described similar contact with Uri Geller, Sarfatti's mother >remembered that the young Sarfatti received the calls over a >three-week period. Sarfatti had been selected as one of '400 receptive >young minds' to be part of a project that would begin to occur 20 >years in the future. He links this alleged 'contact' ("the intrusion >of an objective entity") to the Vast Active Living Intelligence System >(VALIS) experience of science fiction author Phillip K. Dick. >Sarfatti's 'experience' has met with widespread criticism from the >physics community. Sarfatti believes that there is an Illuminati or >Elect of minds, citing Pythagoras, Newton, Einstein, and Heisenberg as >examples who, throughout history, have deciphered messages from the >future. The notion of an Elect is featured in the works of many >occultists, Rabelais' Gargantua & Pantagruel , Toynbee's "creative >minority" and the 'evolutionary Calvinism' SF works of Colin Wilson >(The Philosopher's Stone). > >In 1973, the late Brendan O'Regan told Sarfatti that he had been >collecting data on other scientists who have had similar 'anomalous >experiences', predating later investigations by Jacques Vallee and >Harvard's John Mack. Sarfatti believes that his critics "wish to >crucify me because they think I am lying or insane about my 1952 >VALIS-like experience." > >Sarfatti claims that his critics are demanding "the blood of the poet" >when they claim that his theories and "exuberant talk" are "corrupting >the youth." The "hemlock of financial support" prompts many scientists >to become slaves of the State, he says. "I think they are afraid of my >limited attack on the principle of retarded causality, which holds >that causes must always be in the past of their effects. What I am >saying is that there is a small, but significant chance for causes to >be in the future of their effects. They are afraid of my open mind on >the question of precognitive remote viewing (ESP), faster-than-light >communication and other heretical notions," he says. > >"Neither classical physics or standard quantum physics today permits >'intent' or 'free will' >or 'creative intelligence'. This essential hallmark of life demands a >violation of the statistical >predictions of quantum physics as formulated today. This is the key >idea of what I call 'postmodern physics.' " > > >Sarfatti's early academic studies showed no sign of what was to come. >He graduated Midwood High in Flatbush, 1956; the same school that >Woody Allen attended. His academic credentials were impeccable: B.A. >in physics from Cornell; M.S. from the University of California, San >Diego; Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside; and stints >with the Cornell Space Science Centre, the UK Atomic Energy Research >Establishment at Harwell, and Heisenberg's Max Planck Institute in >Munich. "By 1969 I was an assistant professor of physics at San Diego >State with Fred Alan Wolf next door," Sarfatti reveals ironically - >Wolf would later link the 'pop physics' of Jungian psychology, quantum >physics and New Age phenomena, pre-dating best-sellers like James >Riordan's The Celestine Prophecy. > >Sarfatti went on to become an honorary research fellow with David Bohm >at Birkbeck College of the University of London in 1971, and was >visiting physicist at Nobel laureate Abdus Salam's UNESCO >International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy. Ilya >Prigogine invited Sarfatti to Brussels in 1973. Sarfatti's career was >growing in prestige and recognition. > >Then the weirdness descended. > >In 1975, Sarfatti co-founded the legendary Physics-Consciousness >Research Group with Esalen Institute's Michael Murphy, funded by EST >guru Werner Erhard. Murphy was investigating revelations of the USSR's >intensive parapsychological research projects, later setting up the >Soviet-American Exchange Program at Esalen in the 1980s, which >attracted the likes of Boris Yeltsin during his 1989 U.S. visit. > >Sarfatti gave seminars at Esalen, serving as a guiding influence >behind Fritjoff Capra, Gary Zukav and other proponents of the 1970s >"New Physics" movement, which explored links between quantum physics >and Eastern mysticism. Sarfatti brought Zukav to the Esalen Institute, >where he conducted the research for his bestselling The Dancing Wu Li >Masters, a book which captured worldwide attention. Sarfatti >ghost-wrote major parts of the book, but a bitter feud eventuated >when Zukav reneged on promised royalty payments. A notable >'paraphysicist' (physicists who investigate ESP phenomena), Sarfatti >co-authored the lurid paperback Space-Time & Beyond with Bob Toben >and Fred Wolf, later withdrawing his name from the updated edition. >Sarfatti also contributed material to futurist Robert Anton Wilson's >Cosmic Trigger I: Final Secret of the Illuminati. > >The deployment of 'psychological operations' (PSYOP) warfare during >the Vietnam War led the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defence >Intelligence Agency and Naval Intelligence to explore similar >'mindwar' techniques during the 1970s, through facilities like the >John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center at Fort Bragg. The CIA funded >Project Scanate was set up to explore the use of precognitive remote >viewing techniques to probe Soviet military installations from a >distance. Psychics including the Scientologist Ingo Swann were >employed to gather intelligence data. > >Stanford Research Institute's Electronics & Bioengineering >Laboratories were assigned to the project under the direction of >Russell Targ (who was parodied in the film Ghostbusters, as the Harold >Ramis character) and Hal Puthoff. Interest in Scanate led to further >projects, such as the notoriously named Stargate, and longterm >research into neuropsychology and cognitive science. Military >intelligence sources invested over $20 million in the 'remote viewing' >(clairvoyancy) field until 1995. The CIA ended the programs in the >late 1970s after determining that while there was some evidence for >ESP ability, it yielded no useful results for intelligence work. The >DIA took over the program and funded it until 1995, when information >on Scanate and Stargate was declassified, leading to a media feeding >frenzy lead by ABC's Nightline program. > >Targ and Puthoff became entangled in controversy after notorious >tests of the Israeli psychic Uri Geller. Sarfatti initially supported >Geller's claims of psychic ability after Geller's famous Birbeck test, >attended by Arthur Koestler, Arthur C. Clarke, David Bohm and Martin >Gardner (engineered by Brendan O'Regan). He later labelled Geller a >fraud after discussions with magician James Randi. Martin Gardner has >captured this strange period in his book Science: Good, Bad & Bogus. >With the publication of Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 10, >No. 1, and new papers by researchers Edwin May, James Spottiswoode and >Jessica Utts, Sarfatti no longer dismisses much of the research as >"pseudo-science." > >Increasingly disturbed by Werner Erhard's authoritarian tactics and >his 1984esque 'psychobabble,' Sarfatti warned of "KGB spies within the >New Age movement." The disagreement with Erhard alienated him from >many New Age devotees. It was after Erhard ended funding for the >Physics Consciousness Research Group, replacing Sarfatti with his >assistant Saul Sirag, that Sarfatti exiled himself to the Caffe >Trieste, where he lectured on time-travel techniques and consciousness >research. > >Contact with Lawrence Chickering of the policy think-tank Institute >for Contemporary Studies (ICS) led to Sarfatti acting as a consultant >for the Reagan Administration's fledgling Strategic Defence Initiative >or Star Wars project. This brought Sarfatti into the twilight world of >half-truths, where the obsessive apparatus of State security >interlocks with sinister forces from big business. > >"I spent a lot of time with Marshall Naify in the late 1970s and early >1980s. He is a billionaire and was Chairman of United Artists back >then. He was a Hollywood mogul and certainly knew Reagan. Naify, >Lawrence Chickering and I had lunch at Enrico's maybe in 1981, where >Naify spent at least half an hour describing in detail what would >later be Star Wars SDI. Chickering worked directly with Ed Meese. [In >the early 1980s Meese was a confidante of Reagan. Meese's Institute >for Contemporary Studies think-tank was admired by Reagan, co-created >by Caspar Weinberger, and was directed by Chickering. He became U.S. >Attorney General under Reagan but was caught up in the Iran-Contra >scandal.] He asked me to write a memo based on this lunch and some of >my own ideas. Around this time, I I had a correspondence with Igor >Akchurin of the Soviet Academy of Sciences on all of this - so the >Soviet Intelligence were getting from us that SDI would really work! > >"Chickering told me that my memo was well received and that, in >particular, Paul Nitze, Reagan's chief arms control guy read it and >'liked it.' In addition, Casper Weinberger's son was feeding my stuff >to his dad, who discussed it with Reagan. > >Caffe Trieste and Enrico's were the favourite slumming places for >Hollywooders and other 'rich and famous' when they visited San >Francisco, says Sarfatti. Having been taught at Cornell in the '50s by >"the guys who built the bomb," Sarfatti was now encountering "Reagan's >people who were tapping the brains of the North Beach bohemians using >the Caffe Trieste" in a bid to build what was then considered the >ultimate nuclear warhead for the SDI project. > >"Cornell is an Ivy League School, and the CIA is run by Ivy League >guys," says Sarfatti. "I was a rebel and a 'loose cannon,' but I was >still Ivy League and part of the old-boy network whether I wanted to >be or not. I was 'stable' enough for the Naval Intelligence to allow >me on nuclear-weapons-carrying aircraft carriers 'on station,' >sometimes under battle-readiness Condition Zebra." > >During the 1980s, Sarfatti concentrated on investigating superluminal, >or faster than light (FTL) communication. Jung's synchronicity meme >("meaningful coincidences", or John Lilly's 'Cosmic Coincidence >Control') challenges causality and suggests that quantum-mechanics >theory is incomplete. Delayed choice experiments and photon-pair >correlation experiments conducted by Alain Aspect in the early 1980s >proved that FTL action-at-a-distance is is a physical fact, >suggesting, as Sarfatti had earlier predicted, instantaneous transfers >of information across the space-time matrix. This FTL effect cannot be >used in inanimate practical quantum communication devices. Sarfatti's >new "post-quantum theory" predicts that all living systems do use >"nonlocal communication" in an essential way. Nobel Prize physicist, >Brian Josephson and Ms Fontini Pallikari at Cambridge University were >the first to come up with this idea. Sarfatti's theory also suggests >that consciousness as a physical effect is the key to a practical >space and time travel to the past technology using warps and >wormholes. He has recently (1999) linked up with significant money to >check out these >speculations in a serious way because of their obvious connection to >the UFO phenomenon. Sarfatti's ideas on the absolute necessity of the >"consciousness factor" for the practical "metric engineering" (Hal >Puthoff's term) of warps and wormholes are similar to those of >Astronaut Edgar Mitchell who went to the Moon. In fact the two are >communicating with each other. In such a scenario, the past isn't >changed, but 'comes into being' from the future. > >Taking a step further, designing and patenting a 'God Phone' - a >machines designed to decode such messages. In Science: Good, Bad & >Bogus, Martin Gardner stated: "I know of no other physicist who thinks >it will work. If it does, Sarfatti will become one of the greatest >physicists of all time." None of them could work because he was >missing the key idea of 'back action.' Sarfatti's early designs tried >to use ordinary quantum mechanics, and, therefore, violated Eberhard's >theorem. Back-action is really new physics beyond quantum mechanics. >As Nobel laureate Brian Josephson explains: "His initial attempts had >the air of attempts to derive a perpetual motion machine in the sense >that there were mathematical demonstrations of the impossibility. >Hence I, like others felt he was wasting his time. > >"But there may always be problems with one's basic assumptions, and >this is what he and others are looking at now. I doubt, however, if >this has led to his reputation improving generally, since he is still >working on the basis of unverified theories. If he could make a more >specific model in this new area in the way that he tried to produce >models (which didn't work) earlier, then things could change. But the >responses to [Henry] Stapp's publication of a similar kind in Physical >Review should make one wary of believing that people will easily be >made more open-minded." > >Future causality has influenced the contemporary cultural meme pool. >Sarfatti's fellow student at UCSD, Gregory Benford, uses a chilling >'doomed earth' future scenario in his Hugo-winning novel Timescape. >Chris Marker's acclaimed 1963 short La Jetee which influenced >Sarfatti, formed the basis for the recent thriller Twelve Monkeys. The >Back to the Future trilogy along with James Cameron's Terminator 2: >Judgement Day also feature the meme. Sarfatti remarks: "If these >authors are receiving messages from the future, it may be reflecting >the same message." > >Future causality also plays an important part in Sarfatti's Destiny >Matrix, a conceptual synchronicity timeline describing Sarfatti's >family history. He traces his Hebrew title back to the Rabbi, Rashi de >Troyes (1040 - 1105), an advisor to Godfrey de Bouillon, who led the >First Crusade to Jerusalem and who experienced a precognitive vision. >Another ancestor, Samuel Sarfatti, was physician to Pope Julius II, >and was crucial in getting Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel >ceiling (the esoteric meaning of the painting, says Sarfatti, is God >reaching backwards in time to create himself through mankind). This >cosmology closely links with the Cabbalistic Great Work of manifesting >the unconsciousness, which is probably why Sarfatti was annointed by >occultist Carlos Suares as 'Heir to the Tradition' and given the task >of "smashing the wall of light." Sarfatti also bears the name of Rashi >des Troyes and, like the Tibetan Tulkus, "I may well be a >reincarnation not only of Past Rashis but more importantly of Future >Rashis." > >These Rash's, he says, are part of the Elect or Illuminati that have >decoded quantum messages from the future throughout history, >transmitting the information via objective art. Sarfatti cites his >contact experience, Fred Hoyle's cosmology (as postulated in Evolution >from Space (1981), The Intelligent Universe (1985) and Cosmic >Lifeforce (1988)) and the Anthropic Principle as evidence that >strongly suggests an intelligent yet 'limited' God intervened in the >primordial moment after the Big Bang when the universe was smaller >than an electron, to create the conditions required for carbon-based >life. This superluminal being (a kind of benevolent VALIS) is implicit >in the Sufi/Hermetic 'subjective conscious evolution' traditions, and >Sarfatti suggests that this goal is what mankind is evolving towards; >the true secret behind the world's religious traditions. The >pioneering artificial intelligence (AI) work of I.J Good (who helped >develop the Enigma Machine in World War II to crack Nazi ciphers) and >other writers such as Freeman Dyson and Roger Penrose supports the >theoretical possibility of such an entity. > >"It looks as though my 'back-action' theory of matter on its pilot >quantum wave, which generates consciousness, and my >physics/consciousness model predicts VALIS in the far future of an >open universe. It is a real alternative to Tipler's closed universe >scenario of the Omega Point (see 21*C 3*95) which relies on the strong >AI that Roger Penrose objects to. My superluminal theories and >cosmology are compatible with Penrose's recently published works." > >The presence of Roger Penrose's neo-Platonism - or recent mystically >inclined cosmologies - has come under attack from scientists >uncomfortable with such tendencies, including Daniel C. Dennett in >Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Nicholas Humphrey in Soul Searching and >notably Carl Sagan in The Demon Haunted World. Sarfatti believes that >behind some of these criticisms is a political agenda: "Many >scientists like Sagan, while brilliant, have not escaped their early >red diaper toilet training since most of them have Leftist if not >Stalinist backgrounds. That is where the anti-religion bias comes from >in most of them." Sociopolitical factors played a crucial part in >determining the durability of established scientific facts and >approaches, he says. "The Communist Party dominated Robert J. >Oppenheimer's crew from the 1930s including most of my professors. >Luckily many of the top physicists today are religious in some sense, >which is a good thing." > >Heuristic pursuers of knowledge need to avoid "the double edged sword >of scientific morality and social immorality," Sarfatti believes, "if >we want to avoid tyranny and dogma." Echoing Socrates, Sarfatti >demands that "we should not allow political and moral considerations >to impede the search for scientific truth. There is a delicate >balance here between the extremes of Nazi and Stalinist types of >corruption of Science on the one hand, and complete disregard of >scientists for the public welfare, on the other." > >"We have a strong tendency to dismiss vigorously any ideas that are >contrary to the official line," says Brian Josephson. "Scientists >distrust intuitions, except in the case that they agree with their own >'gut feelings'." > >The major testing ground for this morality may well be the current >non-lethal psychic-warfare research being conducted by the military >intelligence community in search of a 'Manchurian Candidate.' > >"Non-lethal psychic warfare using the distant manipulation of the >consciousness of the 'enemy' will be an important factor in the 21st >century," Sarfatti believes. "But it is preferable to the old means of >war. The potential for these techniques of mind-control to be used in >the field on unsuspecting naive populations in 'non-lethal warfare' >are awesome to behold and contemplate. They can be and will be easily >misused by authoritarian immoral power structures. These techniques >not only involve manipulation by drugs and ordinary electromagnetic, >sound and kinaesthetic signals - as in subliminal television >broadcasting and virtual reality transmission via the Web - but also >purport to involve quantum action at a distance in the reports on >psychokinesis, telepathy and remote viewing." > >Despite the SRI controversies during the 1970s, Sarfatti believes that >" there is still great interest," which is proven, he feels, by the >gathering of such heavyweight physicists, neuro-psychologists, and >cognitive-science researchers as Paul Davies, Roger Penrose, David >Chalmers, Michael Lockwood, Brian Josephson, Henry Stapp, Daniel C. >Dennett, and Sarfatti himself at the 'Tucson II Conference on >Consciousness' held in April 1996, in Tucson, Arizona. > >"Most of the funding can be traced to spooks. If I were head of CIA or >DIA I would put a few billion dollars into consciousness research." > >The 1996 U.S. defense authorisation bill earmarked $37.2 million to >further investigate non-lethal technologies. Colonel John B. Alexander >of Los Alamos National Laboratory, Major Edward A. Dames of PSI-TECH, >William Harman of the Institute for Noetic Sciences, and other >'spooks' maintain links between military intelligence, physics >researchers and the New Age community, claims Sarfatti. > >"We have had a few talks on PSI [ESP] topics at the Cavendish," says >Brian Josephson. "They are very well attended and in the very short >term people were impressed, but they very quickly forgot about the >talks, which might just as well not have been given. However, >attitudes are not as negative as they once were. > >"I gather the evidence is that precognitive remote viewing tests >work," says Josephson. "Not with 100% reliability but with more >accuracy than standard CIA guess work. I gather that the CIA research >was stopped for sociopolitical reasons rather than because it was >discredited - or maybe they just felt it had been tested enough." > >Edwin May of 'The Laboratories for Fundamental Research' recalls: "The >company that conducted anomalous-cognition research for DIA was >Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). Since I was the >director of the contractor effort in the government's activity in PSI >research since 1985, I have some understanding of what they did. At >SAIC we did not conduct a single precognition experiment. In fact, >except for two studies, one of which Puthoff and Targ published in >their Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers article, we >have not been studying precognition since 1972." > >Sarfatti could well still be one of the greatest physicists alive. >Alternatively, he would be a great candidate as script-writer for The >X-Files. > > > > > >*************************** >SKYWATCH INTERNATIONAL INC. >(A Non-Profit Organization) > >Administrative: Membership: Postings/Mailing >PO Box 900393 PO Box 801 PO Box 2154 >Palmdale, CA 93590-0393 Leander, TX 78646-0801 Elk City, OK >73648 >USA USA USA > >Skywatch International Inc. and this list service are >not responsible for content or authenticity of posts. > >Skywatch International, Inc. endorses no political candidate for office due >to >the organization's status as a non-profit corporation." > >"What could be stranger than the truth?" > >To post send your message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Please visit the Skywatch International Inc. website at >http://www.skywatch-international.org > >To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do not type a >subject. In the body of the message type "unsubscribe skyopen" without the >quotes. > _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
