Methodology for
Investigating the Hypothesis of
Anomalous Remote Perceptions as Objective Phenomena
Nelson
Abreu, Science of Self Club, University of
This work is a
response to widespread popular and medical interest concerning the near-death
experience (NDE) and the out-of-body experience (OBE), an international and very
prevalent body of anecdotal accounts, recent pioneering research, and vastly
significant epistemological implications.
The demand for rigorous, scientific methods for investigating claims of
accurate remote observations through anomalous sensory means is
unambiguous.
If likelihood is significant that phenomena often-described as
will-induced out-of-body experiences, remote viewing, or telepathy are real and
objective, it would justify serious research into the physics behind them – quantum mechanical, field, or
otherwise. First, research
should test whether or not there is any sensory technique that allows one to
observe a remote physical location beyond the reach of any well-established
method of observation.
In this double-blind research model, participants are instructed to
attempt to identify a target at a known but remote location, so that they cannot
observe it according to current conventional knowledge. After preliminary tests using objects
randomly picked by the investigator, a computer quasi-randomly selects a target
(typically an image) using a simple client-side program for formal
tests.
A strict protocol, developed by Wagner Alegretti and Nanci Trivellato
(International Academy of Consciousness, IAC), aimed at minimizing collusion is
adopted. The subjectivity of recent IAC target recognition studies is reduced by using image orientation
markings and disclosing the pool of possible targets before and after the
participants attempt to identify the computer-selected target. After each session, the participants
transcribe their experience and whether or not they seem to have observed the
target. If a target was observed,
the participant identifies it, even if it is not part of the target
collection. Next, similar to
Ganzfeld methodology, 10 of the targets – one of which is the correct target –
are played or displayed. Once
again, the participant is asked which of the targets matched their observation
(if any).
This experiment can also addresses a wider range
of target media: objects (for preliminary tests); static visual or acoustic
targets; dynamic images or sounds; digitally-controlled outputs (such as an LED
array). Also, targets are selected
to allow the investigation of a correlation between emotion- or mood-related
targets and recognition (or ‘hit’) rate.
One of the first questions
that emerge before an undertaking is “Why bother with it?” What are the
potential benefits of studying the out-of-body experience? These could be classified into at least
these 3 categories:
Universality. The out-of-body experience has been
reported and documented by the most diverse cultures throughout the times. We can begin by observing the myriads of
terminologies available for the act of projecting (astralwanderung,
Let us examine a small
portion of examples of just one of these terms.
Immanent
Energy:
Mahashakti
Mana (
Acasa, prakriti,
mulaprakriti (Hindu)
Andrimanitra
(
Baraka
(Sufi)
Atna (Maori, New
Zeland)
Ayki (Elgonyi,
Ani (Ponape,
Pacific)
Glama (
Huaca (
Ki (
Labuni (
Megbe (Ituri pygmies)
Mulungu (
Mungo (
Oki, orenda (Iroquois
Indians)
Sila
(Eskimos)
Yesod
(Kaballah)
Sa (
Ruach
(Hebrews)
Negative Entropy (Erwin
Schrodinger)
Nous
(Plato)
Synchronicity (Carl Gustav
Jung)
Arqueo, munis
(Paracelsus)
Bio-flux (Paul
Joire)
Anima mundi (Avicenna:
980-1037)
Biolicete (Vladimir
Pravdine)
Élan vital (Henri Louis
Bergson: 1850-1935)
Bioplasmic energy (Russian
scientists)
Noetic energy (Charles
Muses)
Psychotronic energy (Robert
Pavlitta)
Facultas formatrix (Galeno:
130-200)
Magnetic fluid (Franz Anton
Mesmer)
Force of Life (Luigi
Galvani: 1739-1798)
Even if some terms are not
exact synonyms, it is evident that “humanity is anxious to recognize,
understand, and control this energy that permeates the Cosmos, apparently
omnipresent, with multiple varieties, and verified since 30 centuries before the
actual era of the Gregorian calendar (Waldo Vieira).”
The astral projection is
related to philosophical schools like:
Anthroposophy
Kabbalah
Castanedan
Esoteric
Spiritism
Hagiological
Hinduism
Jungian
Rosacrucian
Swedenborg
Theosophy
Umbandism
Voodoo
Xamanism
Zen-Buddhism
It is also worth noting that
the International Bibliography of Projectiology contains over 1900 works, whose
originals derive from 28 countries, in 18 languages:
German
(Allgeier)
Arabic
(Ebeid)
Chinese
(Wang)
Danish
(Nielsson)
Spanish
(Anglada)
Esperanto
(Kardec)
French (bret)
Greek
(Plutarch)
Hebrew
(Almeida)
Dutch
(Poortman)
English
(Brennan)
Italian
(Bozzano)
Japanese
(Meishu-Sama)
Latin
(Swedenborg)
Portuguese
(Antunes)
Russian
(Pushkin)
Sanskrit
(Woods)
Swedish (Jacobson)
Professor Ernesto Bozzano
catalogued 254 sources in 50 years, Dr. Robert Crookall 838 in 30 years, and the
tome “700 Experiments of Conscientiology” lists 5,116 bibliographical sources,
from 37 countries, and 20 languages.
The universality of the
phenomenon can be verified by studying the authors and researchers that have
shared their experiences. Here are
a few of them from 9 different countries:
Dennmark: Johannes E.
Hohlenberg.
Frequency. Numerous statistical surveys done in the
past century, in at least 7 countries (USA, UK, South Africa, Iceland, Italy,
Australia, and Brazil) in 4 continents reveal that – at the very least – 1% of
humanity (over 60 million individuals) have had some type of lucid projection of
the consciousness at least once in their lifetime. Here are some
examples:
Susan Blackmore 12%
of 321 1981 mail
13% of 217
1981
students
14% of 155
1981
students
U New England, AUS 16% of 177 1980 students
U of Virginia,
Surrey U,
John Palmer
14% of 341
1974 adults;
25% of 266
students
Frances Mary Banks 45% of 800
English church-goers
Robert Allan Monroe approx. 1/3
public conference in
Charles Theodore Tart 44% of 150 1971 marijuana users with
psychedelic experience
Celia Green
19% of 115
1967
34% of 380
1967
Hornell Hart
27% of 115
1952 Duke
University (NC) sociology students
Two ongoing online surveys
are available at:
http://www.out-of-body.com/ William
Buhlman
http://www.iipc.org/
International Institute of Projectiology &
Conscientiology
Applications. Perhaps the most compelling
motivation for these studies is the multidisplinary plethora of possibilities
from practical applications of resulting methods and theories,
including:
The role of consciousness in
the establishment and perception of physical reality
The nature, attributes,
faculties of consciousness in a more integral manner
The demystification of psi
phenomena, near-death experience, out-of-body experience
More than a glimpse of
life-after death
Reduction of bellicose
parochialism towards fraternal universalism
Better understanding and
partial or full circumvention of some mental
and physical disabilities
Improving performance:
academic, athletic, intellectual, creative (original ideas) and
emotional
National security, law
enforcement, judiciary issues
Shedding light on ethics,
bioethics, environmental policy
Location of natural
resources, missing persons
Prospecting of
archeological, oceanographic, astronomical locations
More integral medical and
psychological practice
Retrocognition applications
for history scholars
-
Edgar Mitchell, Apollo XIV
astronaut,
Broadly speaking, today’s
scientific world is bipolar regarding “expert opinions” on the nature of the
out-of-body experience and so-called transcendental experiences. Neurologists and neuroscientists have
triggered such experiences by stimulating different sectors of the brain. Neurobiologists have detected radical
changes in brain activity during transcendental experiences that are largely
interpreted as the cause of these experiences. On the other hand, physicians,
parapsychologists and projectiologists have demonstrated anomalous exercise of
consciential attributes during near-death experiences, out-of-body experiences,
precognitive remote viewing, perception and other
situations.
Many conventional scientists
interpret the two groups of evidence as mutually exclusive and understandably
trust a PET scan more than non-conventional studies of phenomena s/he has not
experienced. Some fundamental
issues surface here:
(1)
There is a widespread
apriori assumption that the consciousness must arise from physical
processes.
(2)
Is it not possible that the
neurobiological activity during these experiences can be a concomitant
effect of a transcendental experience? When it is the cause, must the resulting
experience be oneiric or imaginary? Consider the case of the epileptic patient
that, while physically unconscious reported out-of-body sensations and
accurate visual perceptions of the operating room caused by Dr. Olaf Blanke’s
electromagnetic stimulation of her right angular gyrus.
(3)
Just because anomalous
perception is neuropathology-linked in some cases, it does not logically follow
that all cases (or even the majority) are caused by brain damage or
dysfunction.
(4)
Objective research depends
on consensus of many subjective experiences – including interpretation of data –
from individual frames or scales of observation.
(5)
Most conventional paradigm
researchers who make a judgment on the nature of out-of-body experience do not
experience it regularly enough (if ever).
(6)
The conventional paradigm is
wholly inadequate to address essential philosophical and scientific matters that
could lie beyond the physical dimension and the brain,
except perhaps for their indirect manifestations. In other words, if the consciousness (or
anything for that matter) turns out to be non-physical, science requires an
epistemological expansion: “an elephant does not fit into a match
box.”
The consciential paradigm,
proposed by the Brazilian veteran projector and consciousness researcher Waldo
Vieira, MD maintains scientific principles without necessarily limiting its
studies to the physical realm.
Physical and physiological measurements can provide, at best, secondary
indications or manifestations of what we want to observe (bioenergies,
extraphysical reality). Since we do
not currently have technologies that allow us to observe bioenergies and
extraphysical reality, to observe it “in all its
glory,” live, in vivo, the consciousness must study itself through
personal experience (the subject is the researcher, his experience the
laboratory).
Rather than depending on the
accounts of others (who usually find it hard to translate the exotic sensations,
perceptions, and events they witness), the researcher him/herself
develops the ability to induce lucid projections (which seems to facilitate
other basic parapsychic faculties) to investigate extraphysical realities first
hand (para-hand?). Scientific
conclusions (cutting-edge, but always temporary, relative) can be reached
through the consensus of experiences of thousands of other projectors, cognition
of physical events or information (and even of that which is largely thought to
be exclusively subjective: through sympathetic para-assimilations and projective
hyperacuity which are reportedly normal in that condition), simultaneous
projections where researchers can explore in groups, indirect or direct
detection of presence in a room (animal clairvoyance, sensitive technologies in
existence or to be developed), among other schemes.
From the extensive body of research on remote perception, we can highlight these cases:
On
December 15, 2001, the highly respected international medical journal, The
Lancet, published a study of more than a decade on Near Death
Experiences (NDE’s) observed in 10 different Dutch hospitals. In one of very few
NDE studies to be conducted prospectively, meaning that a large group of
patients whose heart and/or breathing function ceased were resuscitated during a
fixed period of time, 18% of the 334 patients reported NDE’s. From these 62 patients, 41 (12%)
described a ‘core experience.’ The majority of these patients felt this was one
of the most positively marking experiences of their life, re-prioritizing their
activities to live more purposefully, reducing their fear of death, or even
improving their personality and behavior towards others and themselves.
This
study brings into question hypoxia or anoxia as a main cause of the NDE. It also
reminds of the recent studies on blind patients who had a NDE and made accurate
visual observations (“Mindsight” by Ring and Cooper). It is estimated that one
in every thousand patients checked-in to the hospital has a
NDE.
In
a 2002 BBC Radio debate, Dr. Olaf Blanke revealed that the epileptic
patient - who unexpectedly reported out-of-body perceptions when her
right-angular gyrus was stimulated - actually made visual observations of the
operating room that the conventional scientific paradigm cannot explain. Even
though he understandably excluded these details from the article published in
the journal Nature, the
One
of the first researchers to perform laboratorial experiments on the OBE was
psychologist Dr. Charles Theodore Tart (1937 - ). In 1966, he invited a young
projector to participate in a series of experiments in the sleep laboratory of
the
From
Monday to Wednesday, the projector reported having seen the clock while floating
out of body. At the times informed by her, the devices demonstrated unusual
brain-wave patterns. An absence of rapid-eye movements (REM) was also observed.
On Wednesday night, Miss Z identified the target number: 25132. The brain-wave
pattern during conscious projection was different from the patterns during
waking state, sleep and other altered states of consciousness (an expression
proposed by Tart himself).
Between 1965 and 1966, the
same pioneer researcher studied Robert Allan Monroe in 8 occasions in the
Electroencephalographical Laboratory of the
During the first seven nights, he was not successful. On
the eight night, he had two brief lateral
projections. On the first one, he
witnessed some strangers talking at an unknown place at a distance, which could
not be confirmed. However, on the
second occasion,
The ocular movements were
slower than in regular sleep. The Stage I brain wave pattern, typical of natural
sleep with dreams, was observed almost immediately after Monroe laid down – an
extremely rare event, as this stage normally occurs after 80 to 90 minutes of
sleep without dreams. The heart
rate was between 65 and 75 beats per minute.
A study by Janet Lee
Mitchell (American Society for Psychical Research, ASPR) and Karlis Osis on the
traveling clairvoyance of surrealist painter and writer Ingo Swann
resulted in 8 of 8 correct target observations with 1 in 40,000 probability for
a chance occurrence. When Swann
reported his vision was outside of his body, there was loss of electrical
activity and faster brain wave impulses in the visual areas in the occipital
lobes. During this state, there was greater drop in alpha activity in the right
hemisphere than in the left, while other organic functions remained
normal.
Osis also carried out a
“fly-in” experiment with around 100 projectors who had as a target a
small office in the fourth floor of ASPR, where they were to inspect four target
objects (unknown to them, to be observed in a certain time frame and angle of
observation). Only 15% of them
reached the
There were, however,
interesting observations:
Some, like a projector from
Alexander Tanous related
that his awareness traveled several times from
In 1977, Robert Lyle Morris
and Stuart Harary of
In 1979, Karlis Osis and
Donna McCormick verified that a projector correctly identified a random optical
target, in a locked room replete of sensors, 114 of 197 (57.87%) trials in 20
sessions. During these 114 “hits,”
kinetic effects were observed demonstrating the presence of something
subtle but nonetheless physical.
Princeton Engineering
Anomalies Research (PEAR) Laboratory Precognitive Remote Perception (PRP)
studies in 1987 already contained 334 formal trials obtained by some 40
“percipients”, who generated written descriptions of an
unknown geographical target where the “agent” was located before, during, or
after the description. Then, they
were to fill out a check sheet of questions for later analytical judging. The agent typically spent ten to fifteen
minutes at the target, beginning at the assigned time and writes down his
observations before filling out the same checklist. Photographs, when possible, were taken
of the locale for description comparison.
Locations were either instructed (randomly selected from a large pool
created by a third party) or spontaneously selected by the agent at will at the
time of the trial (volitional mode). Most of the perceptions were performed
precognitively, before the target was even selected.
Results have varied from
“photographic precision,” to partial correspondence of environment and/or
components, to completely inaccurate.
Major geometrical distortions, differences in emphasis of parts of the
scene, progression from accurate to inaccurate description or vice-versa are not
uncommon. Brenda Dunne (who
published the first non-classified paper on the topic) and Dr. Robert Jahn
therefore created more systematic quantitative assessment procedures. The one that combined effectiveness with
simplicity the best was through a list of thirty statistically weighted, binary
descriptor questions.
The PRP studies reveal that
physical distance between the agent and percipient (from same city to different
continent) had no significant deterioration of the signal-to-noise ratio. There is was no statistically
significant dependence on whether the description was made hours or even days
before or after the experiment. One
might expect volitional trials to be more successful than instructed ones,
suspecting sympathetic (predisposition, subconscious, telepathy) target
selection. Even though there was
not very significant difference, the instructed trials actually scored
better. Such observations suggest
that “the
strongest ‘‘signals’’ are generated under the ‘‘noisiest’’ conditions. However, there is a
significant body of anecdotal cases indicating that emotional or physiological
affinity between the participants can facilitate the process. According to the authors, the process
seems imprecise and bi-directional, naturally subject to distortions and
displacement effects.
While about 14% of the 334
trials are individually significant by the .05 criterion, over 62% score above
the chance mean. So individual, modest increments of significance compounded to very
noticeable results.
Curiously, it was also statistically determined that the success of the
overall results is not attributable to exceptional performance by only a few
participants. Presently, according to a
paper available on its website (Information
and Uncertainty in Remote Perception Research) PEAR has accumulated over
650 remote perception trials with an extraordinarily low overall significance
level on the order of parts in 10 millions (p = 3 x 10-8, one
tailed).
The researchers suspect that
the information signal is encoded in the noise (the more strictly objective the
quantification, the less the phenomenon can express itself). This trends “appears to be associated with the participants’
growing attention to, and dependence upon, the progressively more detailed
descriptor formats and with the corresponding reduction in the content of the
accompanying free-response transcripts.” The more the descriptions
became forced-choice tasks, the more restricted the flow of unconscious imagery
became.
The program has passed the severe scrutiny of the
researchers themselves,
As was noted in some of the
aforementioned studies, paracognition is often accompanied by deformations of
the forms or ambience. Also, there
seem to be different trends in traveling clairvoyance and out-of-body experience
perception. Two studies performed
in
According to projectiology,
during an OBE, the consciousness projects from the physical body and traverses
space to the target, perceives the target, interprets the information returns,
by will or through the automatic retraction of the silver cord which transmits
the information through bioenergies from the parabrain of the psychosoma to the
physical brain, which did not participate directly and must handle the
information with available synapses (which may not be sufficiently developed for
this task). Through each of these
steps, there is ample room for distorting, fragmenting, diluting, or even
blocking the biomemories of the experience altogether. Either way, lucid projectors affirm that
the events are registered in their holomemory (integral, non-physical memory of
the consciousness).
A major determining factor
for the fidelity and memory of the experience is the level of awareness or
lucity of the projected consciousness, which depends – among other factors like
drug use, hypotheses dealing with thought-forms and morphic resonance /
holothosene / information field – inversely to the amount of bioenergies carried
by the psychosoma. This, in turn,
depends on the proficiency of control of bioenergies and distance to the soma
(physical body). Generally
speaking, an area of 4 to 5 meters around the soma is particularly dense
(psychosphere, area of influence of the silver cord). On the other hand, the longer and more
distant the experience, the less details the consciousness
tends to remember.
In the case of remote viewing, the body does not enter the vegetative “empty brain” condition. Though, under slight discoincidence, the consciousness remains in the physical brain (being able to speak, write, and draw for example). Rather, it projects its sensibility through a portion of the energies of the holochakra (system of energies that contains the chakras, nadis, and the silver cord).
In general, projectors give
a better account of the general ambience, while remote viewers give more
accurate description of details of a target. Levels of perception can be listed as
follows:
Association of ideas
(perceived: bulldog chasing car; target: bulldog on grass)
Example: Teddy bear, red
bow, limping to left side, on white shelf, pink lace on right
side
Suggestive of the PRP
studies, in some cases, the projectors identified the image that showed up the
next day (“black
How does extraphysical
perception compare and differ from physical perception? Repeated remote
perception and extraphysical cognition experiments will slowly shed some light
on this. Recent studies of the out-of-body experience using remote targets and
the innumerous anecdotal accounts have lead many to ascribe much of the
difficulty of these remote observations to the nature of the target (in light of
the complex and largely obscure mechanics of the phenomenon). The aforementioned
IAC studies (by Wagner Alegretti and Nanci Trivellato; Patricia Sousa and
Rodrigo Medeiros) led to conclusions that the light from the monitor, the two
dimensional nature of the target, broad room for subjective interpretation, and
misinterpretations due to the occurrence of observations with rotated
orientations (possibly, a natural extraphysical cognitive phenomenon) were some
of the likely obstacles.
Alternatively, it has been
hypothesized that real objects may facilitate remote extraphysical perception.
Also, from these studies and accumulated anecdotal experiences it has been
conjectured that primary colors are more easily identified than type (text). It
is proposed that any image or print be replaced by some sort of object
representation with more salient depth (a more pronounced third
dimension).
The
subjectivity of recent IAC target recognition studies might be further reduced
by disclosing the pool of possible targets before and after the participants
attempt to identify the computer-selected target. After each session, the participants
transcribe their experience and whether or not they seem to have observed the
target. If a target was observed,
the participant identifies it, even if it is not part of the target
collection. Next, similar to
Ganzfeld methodology, 10 of the targets – one of which is the correct target –
are played or displayed. Once
again, the participant is asked which of the targets matched their observation
(if any).
For comparison, we use dynamic visual targets (video)
besides static ones (stills, pictures).
Also, provided the target room is soundproof, acoustic targets can be
employed. Static acoustic targets
consist of single words, while dynamic acoustic targets are short phrases. This 2 x 2 study would provide richer
information about the two types of remote sensing.
At
least two setups have been described to address these issues without robots,
while integrating the use of colors and considering very low incidence
probabilities and the “double-blind” aspect of the research. One is primarily an
electronic system, while the second is primarily mechanical. Both attempt to
integrate color identification. One
uses an array of labeled squares, similar to a chessboard, wherein each square
contains the same set of colored light bulbs. The second uses two rotating
wheels with alphanumerical and color options. Pliable materials are suggested in
place of printed symbols.
The first setup uses a similar
computer program as in previous such studies to select something quasi-randomly.
However, in this case, the computer selects two numbers between 0 and 35 that
represent a location’s coordinates and one number between 0 and 4 that
represents a color. These numbers, once converted into binary numbers, are fed
as inputs to a digital control circuit that will light up one of 5 colored light
bulbs in one of 36 x 36 squares. The array is labeled somewhat like a chessboard
(see Fig. 1), with vertical and horizontal coordinates ranging from 0-Z (i.e. 10
different digits and 26 different upper-case letters of the alphabet). This way,
an
observer can report the “row 9,
column V” location as “9V”.
To prevent confusion between
rows and columns due to rotated perception, the coordinate axis are clearly
labeled “row” and “column.” The alphanumerical labels are legibly made with some
easily-pliable material, such as play dough. Clearly, the dimensions of the
board will be affected by the size of the labels. It would certainly be very
disappointing to have to redo the board because it was too small! Finally, as
aforementioned, each square contains the same set of 5 light bulbs (or
light-emitting diodes) that emit (or are identified by) different colors (e.g.
black, white, blue, red, yellow).
The probability of N correct
guesses (correct location coordinates and correct color) would be 1 in 6480 to
the Nth power. These odds should be vastly satisfactory
when several ‘hit’ occurrences are compounded, or for two or more successful
observations during one session. Even without the colored light bulbs, this
method would still have great statistical advantages to previous models, due to
greater objectivity and reduced complexity of the target information. Three
concrete and specific numbers replace myriads of possible
descriptions.
The same would hold true for
a much simpler setup that replaces the square matrix by three coordinate axis
arrays with 36, 36 and 5 emitters each.
The first two could even be combined into a single array that would
display two lights (except in the event that the two spatial coordinates are
equal). This makes the experimental
setup much more realizable, and it should be simpler to discern the
coordinates.
The second model is a set of a type of
roulette or wheel (evocative of those in internationally popular TV contest
shows as The Price is Right
and the
Wheel
of Fortune). Rather
than
monetary values or prizes, each
radial section of the wheel (36 x 5 in total) displays a different
alphanumerical symbol of a certain color (5 in total). Rather than symbols and
colors printed in ink, colored play dough (or another very pliable substance) is
utilized. Alternatively, foam or another ultralight material can be utilized, so
that the moment of inertia of the different mass
representations become insignificant. Additionally, the spinning
mechanism operator must not see or hear the wheel rotating. In order to conduct
a “double-blind” experiment, necessary measures must be taken for a human
operator, or a more complex electromechanical control system can be used that
allows activation with minimal human interaction or proximity. To increase
statistical value, several wheels and or some sections could be used. There are, of course, many variations on
this theme – like a set of two or three lottery-type devices.
In an interview, Rodrigo
Medeiros indicated that his research group’s most recent “image-target”
investigation results (to be published) were, indeed, very significant.
Nonetheless, we should study how colors and symbols on a computer screen compare
to printed ones, physical representations of the same,
or even voice recordings of the names of these colors and symbols. Hence, a
study could use the best performing or even all of these media as
simultaneous remote-observation targets.
While a database of at least
a hundred different symbols with common names can be easily gathered, it would
be interesting to see if icons (like those used in internet relay chat rooms)
and words that are related to moods and emotions yield more significant
results. Projectiology admits the
irruption of the psychosoma – a subtle vehicle of manifestation of the
consciousness, greatly related to emotions – in the physical body; studies on
anomalous communication or interference of the consciousness with physical
systems seem to be much more pronounced when strong empathy, emotions or desires
are involved. (Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research lab,
humans; Rupert Sheldrake, animals).
The commendable “triple-blind” research protocol administered in the study “Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Experimental Research Project into OBE” (Alegretti; Trivellato) is recommended for rigorous testing. Several participants lay comfortably in one sound-proofed room, while the computer is inside a locked room nearby and guarded by a third-party observer, while the researchers possess the key. However, a preliminary series of informal studies – that require less resources and planning time – is important to compare how well different types of targets are perceived.
When each participant cannot
be isolated, listening to pink noise through headphones can abate common
disturbances from noise caused by other participants. However, it may cause
discomfort and thwart their projectability. Equidistance from the target does
not seem like a significant variable for this research. A future modality could
use quasi-randomly selected objects using robotics (to maintain the
“double-blind” aspect). Finally, it
would be interesting to detect the presence of the psychosoma at the target room
through a variety of methods like infrared imaging or phosphorescence
effect.
CONCLUSION
The suggested recommendations to recent remote perception work should yield another step closer in the marathon of understanding this extremely complicated multidimensional process. The information gathered to date – laboratorial, anecdotal, cross-cultural, and historical – on the projection of the consciousness and traveling clairvoyance has – at the very least – established these subjects as worthy fields of scientific study. There is certainly “a superavit of questions and a deficit of answers,” general sketches with little mathematical precision, typical of an infant science.
To improve the integration
of self-study of consciousness with conventional sciences, continual improvement
and repetition of experiments like those mentioned in this document are
irreplaceable. However, potential
catalysts of this process may include these studies or
activities:
Personal training in
perception and control of bioenergies
Installing the pre-projective vibrational state by
will
Improved extraphysical movement and lucidity
Personal training in lucid
projectability (over 30 techniques in Projectiology
alone)
Reproduction of the
neurobiological study of the vibrational state (Wagner
Alegretti)
Improved understanding of
biomemory (neuroscience) as it relates to projection
Facilitation of replicable
projectability for beginners (long-term dependency not
withstanding)
Hypnosis
Non-invasive electromagnetic stimulation
Extraphysical awakening during REM sleep through assistant in terris
Development of lucid dreaming (semi-conscious projection) to lucid
projection
Mechanical induction of the vibrational state (vibratory
chair)
Perfecting the Bioenergetic
Proteic Resistive Transductor
(1st
International Congress of Projectiology & Conscientiology, Wagner
Alegretti)
Study of the phosphorescence
effect during take-off of the psychosoma
Improvement of photography
and filming of the dense psychosoma
Change in weight during
take-off and re-interiorization;
Emanations and weight change
during physical death (final projection, dessoma);
Physiological changes
resultant from bioenergy field of Extension 2 laboratory
(IAC)
Detection and imaging of
kinetic effects during Projective Field laboratory (IAC)
Possible equipment
includes:
Ion displacement
counters
Zero-lux / night-vision /
infrared cameras
Gauss meters / EMF
camera
Phosphorescent film
As neuroscience and
projectiology evolve, we will come closer to understanding the complex
bi-directional flow of energies and information between the physical and
non-physical brain. With the
expansion of science into multidimensional reality, science and society will
also expand the understanding of the self, its attributes and faculties. Phenomena that today seem so enigmatic
and mystical will become popularly understood through science. As some prophesize the end of science,
we will realize science is just beginning. As we begin to develop the most
advanced technologies available today – our own faculties – we will be able to
make tremendous strides in all fields of science and scholarship. As more and more persons study the self
in a more integral, multissomatic, and multidimensional way, we can expect
gradual, but sweeping and irreversible changes in the way we think of ourselves,
the way we work, our relationship to others, ethics, the relationship of the
consciousness with energy (and matter), and the evolution of
life.
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For
their support in my study efforts, in various measures and ways, my sincere
thanks to:
Brenda Dunne, PEAR
Laboratory,
Dr. Thomas Dykstra, Society
for Scientific Exploration
Drs. Fukuyama, Welsch,
Thursby, Neims, and Ritz: UF Center for Spirituality &
Health
Dr. Kenneth Heilman,
Department of Neurology,
Dr. Morgan and Dr. Schauble,
Department of Counseling Psychology,
Sharon Joy Kleitsch, Florida
Institute of Noetic Sciences
Adam Leonard, Human
Potential Experience,
Shenghua Luan, Department of
Psychology,
Rodrigo Medeiros and
Patricia Sousa,
Dr. Veejay Reddy,
Renato
Sampaio, Bryan Lin, Ramon Rodriguez and Fernando Tavares, The A.K.A.
Nanci Trivellato and Wagner
Alegretti,
Nelson Correia
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