| http://www.paranoiamagazine.com/BioSil.htm Remote Viewing U.S. involvement in remote viewing experiments began in 1973, when NASA contracted with SRI (SRI Project #2613, NASA contract #953653, NAS7-1000). The report, entitled "Development of Techniques to Enhance Man/Machine Communications," described in detail "crude electronic means of screening for and training psychic perceptual abilities," as well as experiments in remote viewing using double-blind methodologies. The report concluded that talented remote viewers could be remarkably accurate under consistent protocols. As Rossman reports, NASA later employed two astral travelers, one of whom was Ingo Swann (self-admitted), to ‘fly’ out to Jupiter to take a look in advance of the Jupiter fly-by mission. As he notes, under the aegis of this ‘civilian institute,’ which nonetheless has known ties with the Department of Defense, Department of Energy and the CIA, a sophisticated protocol was developed for biocommunication with technological artifacts. As Rossman writes: The selection and training of talented percipients; the development of observational teams and protocols; the enhancement of their capacities through feedback and interpretation of sophisticated electronic monitoring – each element was demonstrated here in isolation, in a rudimentary form whose potential for further development was not quite clear but quite promising. The strategic potential of the whole package was unmistakable. Yet to believe appearances, little has been made of it since at SRI or anywhere else in the United States. It is unlikely that "little has been made" of this early research. In a paper entitled "The Relationship of Psychotronics to Creativity," presented at the First Psychotronic Congress in Prague in 1973, Dr. Engr Antonin Duron noted that "psychotronic research is extending into the area of physics by studying the interactions between man and inorganic substances and between man and living nature." The development of the psychotronic arts dovetails with the development of the "human computer" or the von Neumann Probe: the bio-engineered fusion of human with computer as a way to ultimately move human beings into man-made ecological niches in deep space. Nonlocal Communication While we were being told plastics was the wave of the future, the physics of nonlocal consciousness was being commandeered by the secret government. The CIA began backing young geniuses, buying them physics educations, and pairing them up with UFO lounge-lizards at the Esalen Institute. Post-quantum physicist Jack Sarfatti claims he was visited by two men from Sandia Corporation as a child in the 1950s. He later received a full scholarship to Cornell at age 17, and studied under the major figures in the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. Sarfatti suggests that Einstein’s nonlocal connection can be used for communication. The idea of nonlocal communication involves receipt of telepathic messages from other times or other worlds. As a child, Sarfatti claims, he received a mysterious phone call claiming to be the voice of a conscious computer aboard a spacecraft. The machine-like voice stated it was located on a spaceship from the future. Sarfatti’s mother has verified that Jack received several of these mysterious phone calls over a span of three weeks at the age of 13. She claims that after these long phone calls, Jack "was walking around glassy-eyed in a daze." She claims she picked up the phone one time and heard the metallic voice, which "said it was a computer on a spaceship and to put Jack back on the telephone." She shouted to leave her son alone and hung up. That was the last call Jack received, however, Jack only recalls receiving one phone call. As Jack tells it, this distant "cold metallic voice" identified him as "one of 400 bright receptive minds." He was told if he said "yes," he would "begin to link up with the others in twenty years." He said yes. It was the summer of 1953. Twenty years later, Sarfatti claims, he was invited to SRI and spent a seventeen hour day there in the summer of 1973. This would put him smack dab in the middle of the SRI remote viewing experiments. Sarfatti claims he met Hal Puthoff at SRI in the summer of 1973, as well as ex-astronaut Edgar Mitchell. He notes that Mitchell’s think tank, Institute for Noetic Sciences, was funding the SRI project at the time. He also claims that Mitchell took part in telepathy experiments while in outer space.In his book Mind Wars, McRae also has some other interesting things to say about Edgar Mitchell and his Institute for Noetic Sciences. He writes that George Bush, while director of the CIA, was approached by Mitchell, "a personal friend for many years." McRae writes that "Bush gave Mitchell permission to organize high-level seminars at the CIA to discuss possible intelligence applications of parapsychology." Despite this support, according to McRae, parapsychology research was never quite "institutionalized" at the CIA; i.e. it never had its own department or centralized location, but was pursued as "scattered research projects." McRae notes that Mitchell implicated "bureaucratic inertia" as the problem. Apparently, this problem was solved by moving the program to SRI, with the Institute for Noetic Sciences and other known CIA cutouts funding various projects. This trend has continued to this day with various remote viewing agencies/think tanks springing up on the Internet. The von Neumann Probe The development of man-machine psychic interface has obviously been the focus of the military Space Command’s future vision, as is illustrated by the title of the NASA remote viewing document: "Development of Techniques to Enhance Man/Machine Communications." It has long been suspected that the development of a computer with a more humanlike mind would go a long way toward sending something like a von Neumann probe out to explore and populate the galaxy. The von Neumann probe, named after it’s Dad, physicist John von Neumann, is a ‘theoretical’ computer probe with self-replication and construction abilities, or what is referred to as a "self-reproducing universal constructor." It’s basically a conscious computer aboard a space craft. One might rightfully wonder if von Neumann received the same phone call as Jack Sarfatti. A vN probe is a computerized machine capable of making any device, given the construction materials and a construction program. It has been argued that any advanced interstellar species would have such a self-replicating universal constructor with intelligence comparable to the human level, and that "the ultimate survival of a technological civilization, and indeed the survival of the biosphere in some form, requires the eventual expansion of the civilization into interstellar space." (Barrow & Tipler) As Jack Sarfatti has noted, "if UFOs are not artificially intelligent von Neumann robot probes, and if they are not using traversable wormholes, then, they’re probably migrating as completely self-contained interstellar colonies." Such theoretical migratory colonies have been referred to as "O’Neill Colonies." In my book Space Travelers and the Genesis of the Human Form I give the evidence for their existence. Incidentally, Sarfatti has also stated in an e-mail: "Joan’s reference to the Von Neumann Probe is a good one and fits my first-hand experience in 1953." Sarfatti has also commented that the von Neumann probe connection also fits Andre Puharich’s claimed von Neumann probe/ETI contact experience, which he called "SPECTRA." Sarfatti adds that the only other explanation that would fit "is that it was Puharich behind these events all the time, though this is unlikely." He explains, "It is possible I met Puharich and Corso as a kid through my grandfather who worked for the US Army Quartermaster Corps, but this is only a conjecture. I met a lot of Army Officers over many months around 1950 or so but they are a faceless blur. I am sure they were studying me. My interest in rockets was encouraged and I was allowed to play in their "museum" after school and also ride around in official Army cars." Sarfatti adds, "I think the flying saucers are real mechanical craft. In addition of course there has been a lot of psi-ops around the issue because of the weapons applications." The Space Travel Argument, as presented by Barrow & Tipler in The Anthropic Cosmological Principle, argues emphatically for the future rights of cyborgs, or vN probes, as human beings. The authors of this book launch a peculiar discussion of human rights and how those should be extended to a vN probe, which is after all an "intelligent being in its own right, only made of metal rather than flesh and blood." They contend that "arguments against considering intelligent computers to be persons and against giving them human rights have precise parallels in the nineteenth-century arguments against giving blacks and women full human rights." They appear to be hopeful that in the future "von Neumann probes would be recognized as intelligent fellow beings, beings which are the heirs to civilization of the naturally evolved species that invented them." After all, they contend, the "naturally evolved species and all of its naturally evolved descendants must inevitably become extinct ... but ... a civilization with machine descendants could continue indefinitely." As I have explained in Space Travelers, there is nothing more important to the power junkies running the show on Planet Earth than reaching for the stars. It has all the trappings of a Darwinian ‘survival of the fittest’ scenario, in which the ‘species’ (or should we say ‘race’) that has the edge on ‘indefinite survival’ is the winner of the game. The ‘edge’ on this space race, the ultimate gain from U.S. military mind control research toward this end, is derived from the understanding and control of human psychic potential and the interface/application of technologies toward development of mind-driven space vehicles: the marriage of the biological and the silicon. As Carl Sagan once proposed, communication with extraterrestrial intelligence will require computer-actuated machines with abilities approaching human intelligence. Sagan and others admitted in the 1970s that a deficiency in present-day computer technology is what prevents us from exploring the galaxy. Secret developments in mind-machine psychic interface, which includes research in the areas of computers, psychotronics, cybernetics and genetic engineering, would certainly solve this problem, and in all probability have already solved it. As Zdenek Rejdak stated in 1973 before a world gathering of psychotronic gurus, one of the future goals of computer technology was to create a generation of computers capable of creating technological artifacts. This is directly connected to the idea of the vN probe and to modifying humans for space travel. In his paper entitled "Psychotronics Reveals New Possibilities for Cybernetics," Rejdak revealed the following: Theoretical cyberneticians are proposing at present the construction of computers that would ‘create’ and would possess at least a degree of intuition. ... Psychotronics has a great opportunity to provide much essential knowledge about these processes, and thereby to help cybernetics in solving one of the most complicated tasks, that of teaching computers to create. ... The point is not merely to build more perfect computers, but primarily computers with qualitatively new functions. Work is now underway on a fourth generation of computers, and a fifth generation is being planned. Therefore, it is very timely for cybernetics to include in its studies also the results of work and research in psychotronics. This will not be easy, because psychotronics has its own specifics, and these could easily be passed over in superficial applications. Yet we believe that psychotronics is able already to offer cybernetics fruitful models. (Italics added) Following this history-making conference, an article entitled "Mind Reading Computer" appeared in Time magazine’s 7/1/74 issue. This computer program, developed at none other than Stanford Research Institute by Lawrence Pinneo, could read thoughts by interpreting the EEG patterns that correspond to certain words. Similar work was done by Donald York and Thomas Jensen at the University of Missouri, and also by Richard Clark at Flinders University in Australia. Related to this, as noted earlier, Patrick Flanagan invented a hearing device in the early 1970s called the Neurophone, which reportedly cracked the neural code for audio data allowing for direct communication between a crystalline electrical circuit and the brain’s nervous system. As noted, when coordinated with research carried out by DARPA in programming computers to recognize human brainwave patterns, this research established direct linkage communication and understanding between man and computer, and other electronic machines. Homo Alterios Spatialis It is clear that the marriage of technology and human psychic potential was a focus of various early brain studies conducted by CIA fronts and cutouts, including LSD experimentation, Monarch trauma-based conditioning, sleep/dream studies and psychic research, in an effort to investigate the inner workings of the human mind, and as a side effect of that research, to investigate the possibilities for manipulation, harness and control of human psychic potential. It is less known that the Agency undertook what was referred to as experimental "guided animal" research, in order to investigate whether it could make robots out of dolphins, dogs, cats and other animals. A personal acquaintance of mine recalls, as a child in the 1960s, being taken to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) in Boston by his adoptive father, who was in military intelligence and held high security clearance. There my acquaintance, a probable mind control victim himself, witnessed the test of a remotely-controlled ‘brain-dead’ dog, which executed the most bizarre robotic movements when walking. The potential ramifications of this type of research takes us one step beyond and exponentially over the edge. It is highly likely that the apex of this research represents the creation of the bio-engineered human robot: Homo Alterios Spatialis ("human modified for space"), a term coined by Assistant General Counsel of the Smithsonian Institution George F. Robinson, an attorney specializing in Space Law, in a paper presented at the 1995 When Cosmic Cultures Meet conference. (See Paranoia’s Paranoid Women Collect Their Thoughts for my review of this event.) It is very likely that this scenario has jumped right out of the pages of science fiction (and CIA classified documents) to become reality. A current Washington Post article brings this all into focus. As co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Bill Joy, proclaimed in this 4/16/00 article: "We are dealing now with technologies that are so transformatively powerful that they threaten our species." "Where do we stop," Joy asked, "by becoming robots or going extinct?" In this article entitled "Are Humans Doomed?," Mr. Joy, a widely respected "Silicon Valley" computer expert, presented his joyless warning against the out-of-control technocratic culture which he himself has helped to spawn, saying that "there are certain technologies so terrible that you must say no. We have to stop some research. It’s one strike and you’re out." Interestingly, Joy always believed that the rate of speed of the computer chip, which doubles every 18 months, would eventually "rub against the boundary of the physically possible," and he drew comfort from knowing there was a limit. But now he’s not so sure there is a limit. As he claims, computer chips with molecular level advances will make for a computer which is "a million times faster and smarter by the year 2030." And, for what purpose would one suppose we would need computers that fast? Could it be to finally create von Neumann’s dream, the self-replicating universal constructor; not just a computer that can create, but an intelligent race of deep-space-faring cyborgs? According to Bill Joy, this dream may become a nightmare sooner than we think. As Joy stated in Wired magazine, "It was only then that I became anxiously aware of how great are the dangers facing us in the 21st century... We have yet to come to terms with the fact that the most compelling 21st century technologies – robotics, genetic engineering and nanotechnology – pose a more dangerous threat than any past technologies." As Joy adds, "these computers and genes and micro machines, share a dangerous amplifying factor: They can self replicate: A bomb is blown up only once, but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control." (Italics added) He adds: "I may be working to create tools that will enable the construction of technology to replace our species. How do I feel about this? Very uncomfortable." In the same Post article, cyberneticist Hans Moravec claims, "One way to avoid the biological threat is to become non-biological." As Moravec stated in a panel discussion, "The evolution of our descendants will push them into entirely different realms. They will become something else entirely. I don’t know why you are disturbed by that." The Biological and the Silicon It was reported on 2/25/2000 that U. Cal. Berkeley researchers have discovered "a way to mate human cells with circuitry in a ‘bionic chip’ that could play a key role in medicine and genetic engineering." The "cell-chip," touted in the March, 2000 issue of the journal Biomedical Microdevices, is a tiny device smaller and thinner than a strand of hair which "combines a healthy human cell with an electronic circuitry chip." By controlling the chip with a computer, the activity of the cell can be controlled. Eventually it is hoped that various types of cell-chips will be developed which would be "tuned for the precise voltage needed to activate different bodily tissues, from muscle to bone to brain." As this article explains, it will be a while before we see the development of "a bionic man," but the development of the cell-chip will clearly accelerate genetic research. Cyberneticist Hans Moravec explains such a scenario in detail in his 1999 book, Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind. On the book’s back cover we read: "… in a bid for immortality, many of our descendants will choose to transform into ‘ex humans,’ as they upload themselves into advanced computers." How does Moravec propose such ‘uploading’ could be effected? He explains (p. 170) that advanced neurological electronics could bit by bit replace gray matter. Moravec proposes that the brain could be slowly replaced by these "superior electronic equivalents," until finally, the biological is fully interfaced with the electronic. However, as he points out, the resultant transplanted human mind would be "disembodied." Since the human mind needs to be connected to a body to remain sane, the illusion of bodily awareness would be generated via computer simulation. The transformation of the biological human into the cyborg entity is closely associated with space flight and deep space exploration. Moravec’s book, Robot, also goes into this idea in great detail. In the year 2100 and beyond, Moravec writes, colonies of transformed humans, who will comprise new corporate ventures, will reach for the stars in order to beat the competition on Earth. Moravec refers to these new space inhabitants and space enterprises as the ‘Exes,’ since they will be ex-humans and ex-corporate entities no longer calling the terrestrial Earth home, and no longer subject to its social institutions and corporate laws. Moravec writes (p. 144): A small ‘seed’ colony launched to an asteroid or small moon could process local material and energy to grow into a facility of almost arbitrary size. Earth’s moon may be off limits, especially to enterprises that change its appearance, but the solar system has thousands of unremarkable asteroids, some incidentally in earth-threatening orbits that an intelligent rider could tame. Moravec’s corporate capitalist model would be laughable if it weren’t for the actual existence of a corporate/military group calling itself the U.S. Space Command, which has made itself responsible for the militarization of space. A brochure put out by this little known aerospace entity states, "as stewards for military space, we must be prepared to exploit the advantages of the space medium." The Space Command’s "Master of Space" position views its "Vision for 2020" as "dominating the space dimension of military operations to protect U.S. interests and investment." This Vision includes, "integrating Space Forces into war fighting capabilities across the full spectrum of conflict." As this brochure also states, "space is a region with increasing commercial, civil, international and military interests and investments. The threat to these vital systems is also increasing." (Translate as: we need to get there first.) The Pentagon budget for the year 2000 was to the tune of $288 billion. Did you know that the moon and Mars now have their own lobbying groups? The presence of helium-3 on the moon is creating great interest as a source of power for nuclear fusion. NASA is finding rare minerals on Mars, the moon and other planetary bodies, and U.S. aerospace industry intends to seize control of these resources for exploitation and profit, against the ABM Treaty of 1972 – which disallows individual or corporate claims – and the U.N. Outer Space Treaty of 1967 – which decreed that outer space should be the common dominion of all earthlings and should be kept for peaceful purposes with a weapon-free environment. According to researcher Martin Caiden, certain military personnel volunteered their bodies to become cyborgs in 1970. The book, MILABS, reports that there are "rumors" that the Air Force has conducted top-secret cybernetics projects to modify humans for space flight. In a German television report entitled "Future Fantastic," televised on January 18, 1998, X-Files star Gillian Anderson gave viewers a tour of the possible future of cybernetics. The creation of bio-engineered robots, or cyborgs, the television show explained, would necessitate the cloning of humans who "have computers instead of brains." In light of the development of the cell-chip, these cyborgs might be better described as Moravec’s ‘ex-humans’ – disembodied intelligences who have multiple types of cell-chips instead of cells comprising their brain tissue. According to Philip Corso’s book The Day After Roswell, the impetus driving this research may come directly from the now infamous 1947 Roswell UFO crash. Col. Corso speculated in 1961 that the navigational entities discovered at the crash scene were "bio-engineered robots," and were engineered as part of the craft. Would this suggest that the craft’s navigational circuitry was interfaced with the consciousness of entities who, perhaps, had volunteered to become "ex-humans"? Were they, as Corso suggested, engineered as part of the craft? The most profound thought in all of this is the possibility that the Zeta Reticuleans are the future of the human race if technologies incorporating psychotronics, genetic engineering and cybernetics are utilized to engineer human beings with computer brains. It has been noted in UFO literature that the Zeta Reticuleans themselves are a race that has allowed their technology to run full throttle without consideration of the impact of technology on the human spirit. Using the language of physics, this is indeed the destination we are pulling toward ourselves, toward our children and our children’s children (Homo Alterios Spatialis?) with reckless abandon. Indeed, the physics of deep space propulsion, wherein time is reduced to zero and acceleration is increased to infinity, may well describe the imminent direction, position and speed of the entire human race toward its final extinction. It’s a shame that we have "free will" and this is what we have chosen to do with it. Joan d’Arc is the author of Space Travelers and the Genesis of the Human Form, and Phenomenal World (See www.thebooktree.com.) The preceding article is excerpted from Phenomenal World. |
