International Scientific Symposium:
PARADOXICAL EFFECTS IN BIOPHYSICS AND MEDICINE part 2

December 12-17, 2004

HAPPENINGS INCONSISTENT WITH THE PRESENT SCIENTIFIC PARADIGM

John O’M. Bockris
Molecular Green Techonology
4973 Afton Oaks Drive, College Station, TX 77845

            A general opinion among scientists who do not read the refereed material on paranormal phenomena is that claims of abnormal events are usually dismissible: They are due to illusions or even to fraud. Study of the literature of the last twenty years shows that this is a case difficult to defend.
                Let us start with psychokinesis. Here the major contribution of the last twenty years has been the studies by Radin (2000), which involve a meta-analysis of the literature of the time period stated. The results are markedly positive, the basic experiment being the effect of concentration on the spin of a dice. 
                Random Number Generator experiments (Nelson, 2002) have been shown to be sensitive to happenings which attract attention of a substantive part of the population on a topic, e.g., 9-11. The most impressive experiments are those carried out under the title SORRAT. Various objects are placed inside an inverted fish tank. Cameras and lighting are arranged so that any movement inside the apparatus can be recorded. Over a twenty-four hour period, much takes place. There seems to be evidence which indicates the existence of active inanimate beings.

                In respect to remote healing, it has been shown by Jahn and Dunn that psychokinetic influences are not subject to fading with distance up to at least 1000 km. Of the scientifically controlled studies, 13 of 28 have been judged to be successful.
                Traditionally, shrines have been regarded as locations of healing. Those cases of healing alleged to occur at Lourdes, France, are subjected to an extraordinarily rigorous procedure which involves an international group of specialists physicians. Of these healing events, about one case per year turns out to be accepted as being beyond scientific explanation. At Medjagorge, Yugoslavia, there has been no such rigorous analysis. However, there are many local claims of healing associated with the alleged presence of a certain religious personality.
                All these happenings do not compare to a long series of “miracles” which have been observed, photographed and studied, particularly by Erlendur Haraldsson, a psychiatrist at the University of Iceland. Among these studies is a table of the frequency of reports of “impossible” events, caused apparently by an Indian priest, Sai Baba. His feats involve, for example, the creation within seconds of materialized objects of some complexity. Baba demonstrates unusual events on a daily basis and is alive and open to visits.

Wilhelm Reich’s Life-Energetic Discoveries: Experimental Confirmations

James DeMeo, Ph.D. 

Director, Orgone Biophysical Research Laboratory,

PO Box 1148 Ashland, Oregon 97520 USA 

demeo@mind.net     www.orgonelab.org

From the 1930s through the 1950s, Dr. Wilhelm Reich published an impressive series of experimentally supported discoveries and claims of a new form of energy, termed the orgone energy, which simultaneously satisfied the older concepts of life energy and the cosmic ether of space.

To summarize Reich’s findings:  Vegetative-emotional excitation could be measured at the skin surface as bioelectrical energy.  Psychic and somatic phenomena were unified expressions of this same bioelectrical energy (later to be called “orgone energy”) in the organism, forming a functional “mind-body” relationship. Respiration and food ingestion were general determinants of energy charge within the organism, which progressively accumulated, seeking outlets in various life-expressions. The organism was a primary regulatory function for discharge of excess bioenergy. Cellular metabolism and tissue growth were also functions of life-energetic pulsation within the organism. Disturbance of this pulsation could result in specific disease symptoms. 

The orgone accumulator demonstrated this same life-energy, or orgone energy. It existed in a free form within the atmosphere as an energy continuum with properties similar to the older cosmological ether of space. The orgone energy was also demonstrated to exist within high ultra-vacuum tubes, which could be charged up inside an orgone accumulator to yield various anomalies (“zero-point vacuum fluctuation”).  The orgone accumulator’s higher charge inside itself could be measured through a variety of methods, yielding a host of anomalous phenomena. These include a thermal anomaly and electroscopic-discharge-rate anomaly, a Geiger-Muller tube anomaly, in addition to demonstrable, statistically-significant increases in growth rates of plants and healing effects in animals (including humans) who would sit inside them.  The healing effects of the orgone accumulator included wound-healing, tumor-disintegration and immune-boosting effects. Additionally, there were moderating and health-promoting effects upon basic physiology. The orgone accumulator’s functions were also meteorologically-determined, with a higher charge present on clear sunny days, and a lower charge on rainy overcast days. Subsequent investigation of this weather-dependence led to the development of a unique device for affecting the growth of clouds, “the cloudbuster,” which could be used to end droughts and bring rains into deserts. 

It is my conclusion, after many years of personal study and experimental investigation, and in following the experimental work of many other scientists similarly engaged, that all of the above claims of Reich are well-supported by  empirical observations, and are therefore worthy of our most serious consideration.  Controlled and often double-blind studies have been undertaken with scientific rigor, testing Reich’s claims to be sound, by trained scientists and clinicians working in private and public institutions, sometimes at mainstream universities but mostly at private laboratories.  A large body of published scientific literature in both English and German languages exists today (http://www.orgonelab.org/bibliog.htm) containing hundreds of published articles supporting Reich’s claims.

In this presentation, I will recount the most significant research supporting Reich’s findings. I will give an overview of the published literature, some of which was actually banned and burned by US Courts in the 1950s, but all of which has today been salvaged and remains available to serious researchers.  I will also highlight  many current scientific and medical mysteries. These include cellular apoptosis, protocellular and micro-vesicular life-forms derived from super-heated and/or frozen materials, psychic-healing and psychosomatic effects, zero-point vacuum phenomenon, and the dark-matter/dark-energy riddle, which were first observed or discussed by Reich.

OBJECTIVE MEDICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL EVIDENCE OF BIOINFLUENCE

Ignat Ignatov

Head of the Scientific Research Center of Medical Biophysics (SRCMB)

Sofia, Bulgaria

                SRCMB carries out analyses of obtained biophysical, biochemical, biological and medical data of biophysical fields influences. My practical activity in biotreatment of eye diseases through distant influence began in 1989. For more than 15 years I have been performing biotherapy in cases of amblyopia (“lazy” eye), hypermetropia (longsightedness) and myopia (shortsightedness). The statistical analysis of 260 cases demonstrates that results in the correction of visual functions are objectively positive. Influence on the dioptric apparatus and on vision is confirmed. In biotreatment of eye diseases, a direction of bioinfluence in a give and take regime, depending on the illness, is established. Additional analyses were performed on remaining visual functions  (Assoc. Professor Parashkeva Tzaneva, MD, participated).

                In long-sightedness and shortsightedness the mechanisms of influence are opposite and the obtained statistically reliable results show that biotreatment of eye diseases is related to an energy flow. The effect depends on the phase of the illness (mild, medial, high). This indicates that the direction of energy flow has a specific significance and the medical effect depends on its dosage. The same effect, improvement of vision, is observed when the retina is influenced, though the effect does not depend on the direction of the energy flow. The improvement of vision with a correction was 25.5% in case of “lazy” eye. In longsightedness, the average effect on the dioptrics is 1.2 diopters and can reach 3 diopters.

                Positive results of healing eye diseases are associated with the transformation of physiological conditions of the tissues. This, in turn, is a result of the vasodilation effect, muscular tissues contraction and the improvement of bioelectrical activity of the nervous cells of the retina. Better results in patients of young age are evidence of this. Once achieved, results have a permanent effect. The improvement of binocular and stereoscopic vision was achieved by the healing of strabismus.

                Structural changes in water under the influence of biophysical fields operators were studied by Professor Anton Antonov and his group. They developed a method called “Differential Non-equilibrium Energy Spectrum” (DNES) that recognizes the difference in water between the ‘give’ and ‘take’ modes of influence.

                Studies of biotherapists are also performed through a perfected Kirlian Effect with a transparent electrode developed by A. Antonov. Temperature studies of the vasodilatation effect on a distantly influenced skin section around the eye are performed by the author. Christos Drossinakis (Germany), Valentina Tomova, Tanya Metodieva and Ekaterina Stoyanova (Bulgaria) produced most significant effects as operators.

A New Approach to Entanglement and Quantum Psi Phenomena Based on The Unified Theory of Bivacuum, Matter, Fields & Time

Alex Kaivaraine

 http://www.karelia.ru/~alexk

     A physical theory of Psi phenomena, such as remote viewing, telepathy, telekinesis, and clairvoyance, has alluded science due to the highly complex and multilateral character of psi. An original theory dealing with the mechanism of Bivacuum mediated Psi phenomena, as proposed here, can explain psi. The theory is based on several different stages of my long term researches. These stages include the development of

(1) A Unified theory of Bivacuum,

(2) A New quantitative Hierarchic theory of liquids and solids,

(3) A New Hierarchic model of consciousness,

(4) A Theory of Virtual Replica (VR) of material objects in the Bivacuum, and

(5) A Theory of an all-pervading Harmonization energy and force in the Bivacuum.

      In psi phenomena, the mechanism of a Sender [S] <--> Receiver [R] interaction is mediated by the non-local Virtual Guides (VirG) of spin, momentum and energy. The VirG is a part of a Virtual Replica of material objects. Macroscopic entanglement is possible if at least one of interacting systems [S] is in a nonequilibrium state. The validity of this Unified Theory (UT) can be confirmed by its ability to explain a large variety of experimental results, mostly unconventional, such as Kozyrev’s results. On the other hand, UT is compatible with current paradigms in physics and science and relates quite well to the concept of a Holographic Universe, as proposed by Bohm and Pribram.
        Portions of this paper will be published the books “Quanta, Relativity and Electromagnetism: The Search for Unity in Physics” by Kluwer (2005) and “Frontiers in Quantum Physics Research” by Nova Science Pub. (2004). For additional information see <http://www.karelia.ru/~alex>

Toward testable hypotheses of neurodynamic and quantum field mechanisms underlying anomalous conscious states

James Lake M.D.

Egret4@mindspring.com

Contemporary scientific models of consciousness assume that all conscious qualia, including anomalous conscious states, are expressions of common underlying neurobiological principles incorporating classical understandings of brain functioning. However, classical explanations based on strictly biochemical models, cannot potentially explain core features of anomalous conscious phenomena like time indeterminacy of percepts, shared information under conditions of sensory shielding, so-called “distant healing” and others.

Several theories of anomalous conscious experience have emerged from different interpretations of the role of quantum mechanics in brain functioning. Quantum mechanical explanations may also provide a more complete explanation of many non-conventional healing techniques. It has been suggested, for example, that so-called “subtle energy” therapies, including QiGong, prayer, meditation and other forms of directed intention result in therapeutic changes in brain processes that are analogous to highly ordered neurodynamic changes induced by EEG-biofeedback or magnetic stimulation, but that these “energy medicine” techniques operate at the level of complex interacting quantum fields. Recent brain imaging studies have shown that so-called “energy medicine” practices affect different functional brain parameters, including EEG frequency, power and phase coherence, and appear to be correlated with above-chance rates of bio-magnetic regional and inter-regional coherence using fMRI or PET. These findings suggest that “subtle energy” healing practices yield therapeutic effects by means of mechanisms similar to induced electromagnetic changes in the brain achieved by contemporary technological approaches, including EEG biofeedback or trans-cranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). This observation, in turn, has led to the suggestion that certain evoked physico-chemical or biomagnetic patterns of brain functioning, including sustained coherence in specific EEG parameters, are correlated with, or possibly “evoke,” certain kinds of anomalous conscious phenomena at above-chance rates.

Case reports suggest that anomalous conscious events are more often elicited during EEG biofeedback sessions using certain technologies or feedback protocols, for example alpha-theta training.

This paper will review evidence of above chance reports of anomalous experiences in the context of EEG biofeedback from the perspectives of classical and quantum models of brain functioning. A testable hypothesis will relate certain anomalous experiences, including telepathy, clairvoyance and reports that so-called “distant healing,” can be enhanced or reinforced using EEG biofeedback or other emerging therapies. The paper concludes with specific suggestions for pilot studies and controlled trials employing EMF shielding approaches and functional brain imaging technologies including QEEG, fMRI and MEG to refute or confirm a quantum field hypothesis of anomalous conscious experience. The proposed studies will help to elucidate neurobiological or quantum mechanical mechanisms underlying anomalous conscious states associated with EEG biofeedback.

PROJECT STAR GATE

H. E. Puthoff, Ph.D.

Director, Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin

Austin, Texas  puthoff@earthtech.org

The Stanford Research Institute (SRI) remote viewing (RV) program was founded in the spring of 1972.  After circulating a report on results from some preliminary experiments, I was approached by the CIA to set up a program to widen the investigations to determine whether there was a credible threat to the U.S. from a known large-scale, similar effort being pursued in the then Soviet Union.  With collaborators Targ, May and others, we built the RV program up over the next two decades to both serve a number of clients in the DoD/Intelligence community, and to generate a dense data base for scientific evaluation. 

With regard to the declassification program on this material that begun in 1995, of the work carried out under codewords SCANATE, SUN STREAK, CENTER LANE, GRILL FLAME and STAR GATE to date, 73,500 pages have been released in full, 17,700 pages have been denied in full, and 20,800 pages are in review.

 Out of this work also emerged some of the first papers on the remote viewing subject to be published in specialty journals (for example, H. E. Puthoff, “CIA-initiated remote viewing program at Stanford Research Institute,” Jour. Sci. Exploration, vol. 10, pp. 63-76, 1996) and in the mainstream scientific journals such as Nature, the Proceedings of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), and AAAS Symposium Proceedings, 57 (American Association for the Advancement of Science).  In addition, several books summarizing the research for the general public were published, both by the SRI researchers and by government personnel who were involved either as remote viewers or as project directors. 

A partial bibliography of previously classified reports recently released by the National Archives (NARA). Much additional material can be accessed at NARA site, http:/www.archives.gov ranging from transcripts of RV sessions to memoranda, and to additional reports.

Admission of consciousness into systematic science

Dr. R. P. Singh, Anju Singh, R. Parthvi and P. Parthvi
School of Chemical Sciences, Chemistry Department, St. John’s College, Agra
Phone: 0091-0562-2153712   E-mail: rp17_in@yahoo.com

                Consciousness denotes a part of our mind that is aware of our own environment and mental activity, and to a certain extent determines our choice of action.  It is, for all intents and purposes, associated only with living beings. The admission of consciousness into systematic science is possible, desirable, and indeed essential to the ultimate relevance of science to the human condition, and thereby to the survival and evolution of the species.  In studying consciousness, we are doing nothing less than studying our own vital essence: our minds, our spirits, our lives, and our eternal presence and purpose in the cosmic plan. Life, mind and consciousness should be seen as interrelated complexes in a non-material yet physical extension of our commonly perceived four-dimensional reality. This can explain the concepts of enlightenment as proposed within the Buddhist, mystical and other spiritual philosophies that differ in degrees of awareness of the hyper-dimensional connections between all living beings. The purely physical basis of what some scientists term the ‘biofield’ and others call ‘chi’ or ‘ki’ can also be explained.
                World is the precise and predictable concourse of atoms (or more basic particles) in space and in time. The universe is a precise clockwork, a giant mechanism that, once wound up, runs predictably until it runs down. The laws of motion that determine all things in the universe are dynamic, invariant and universal. New mechanisms of organization of matter, of storing memory and transferring information should be evolved. Forces that cause complex actions of living beings in a teleonomic way should be determined. The actual mechanism of the ability of biological systems to absorb and emit specific frequencies of electromagnetic radiation can decipher how one person or cellular system “informs” another. Target-specific information can be directed at will and produce a physiological effect according to the conscious intention of the practitioner. Most of these studies are phenomenological in nature and do not address underlying mechanisms. Nonetheless, information exchange between humans or between man and machine is non-local, suggesting the quantum nature of biological processes that occur in the body. Understanding the role of intrinsic quantum processes should give valuable information about their role in regulating normal and abnormal physiological processes. The quantum fields associated with consciousness can be determined by measuring the conformational changes in purified DNA of a bioassay by standard biochemical methods using UV absorption spectroscopy at 260 nm. Physical mechanisms of coding and decoding the biological information should be understood clearly. The mathematical description of consciousness should be investigated. These studies can easily explain the results of a clinical trial of a healer and modalities of psi healing such as Qigong, Yoga, Energy Healing, Reiki, etc. They can help in developing our attributes such as size, strength, longevity, IQ, musical or mathematical abilities, etc.

Exploitation of water properties in enviropathy

Dr R. P. Singh, Rekha Suman, R. Parthvi and P. Parthvi
School of Chemical Sciences, Chemistry Department, St. John’s College, Agra

                Enviropathy is based on the fact that Nature has the treatments for ALL of our ills, and uses the diverse frequency spectrum of nature to restore order and equilibrium in the human energetic system. Nature as well as our mortal body is made up of five components (panchtatwa):  soil, water, energy, space and air. They are of two types: matter (kshiti = soil, jal = water and samira = air), energy (pawak = fire) and space (gagan = sky).

                Water is quite an intriguing liquid. Its polarity is very high, thus giving special macroscopical and microscopical properties. For example, water molecules reorient themselves around electrically charged objects and create bounded layers. The surface tension of water is also high and leads to the formation of monolayers and bilayers of lipids. Pure water is an insulator: no current passes through. However, its quantitative physico-chemical data such as temperature, pH, viscosity, conductivity and thermal capacity, change drastically when it is in contact with other substances. Water’s intimate relationship with our body provides it with vital character. Its background energy is modified in our living system and the modification is reflected on the structural organization of its quasi-crystal tri-dimensional molecular clusters that are continuously formed in a restricted hierarchy of binding angles between oxygen and hydrogen.

                Molecules can store energy in four different ways: spin, kinetic, vibrational and electronic excitation. The vibrational excitation of water, namely TFF, can transfer to water properties belonging to molecules of higher molecular organization and quite different physico-chemical properties. An accurate investigation of the water background physical properties can give the answers to many unsolved questions such as the action of the homeopathic remedies and the TFF mechanism. Hydrogen bonds hold water molecules together in a helical structure that acts like a coil. Water can take special configurations, either a few nanometers - water clusters - or several micron wide - coherent domains. It keeps a fingerprint of the solubilized molecule and retains an electronic signature, understandable by living systems.

                Dilution typically makes its molecules cluster into aggregates many times as large as those in the original solutions, and the clusters interact with tissues with greater polarity than discrete molecules. Research on different aspects of clusters requires enriching enviropathy. The magnetic components of fields emitted by the vibrating molecules induce current flows through the water helix. These currents reverberate within the water structure much like the ringing of a tuning fork. We must learn how to take advantage of the water system and its great sensitivity to electromagnetic fields in a healing process.

THE RETURN OF THE POWERFUL PLACEBO: A RECONSIDERATION OF CLINICAL TRIALS COMPARING PLACEBO WITH NO TREATMENT

Jerry Solfvin, PhD, Center for Indic Studies

Balram Singh, PhD, Dept of Chemistry & Center for Indic Studies

University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth

285 Old Westport Road. Dartmouth, MA 02747

Phone: 508-999-8588 Email: jsolfvin@umassd.edu, bsingh@umassd.edu

      Few mysteries in biomedicine are so widely discussed and so poorly understood as the elusive placebo. On this count alone, it may qualify as a scientific anomaly. For those of us who have researched psychic healing phenomena, placebo holds a special fascination because it displays an eerie resemblance to the phenomena we seek to explain. The placebo effect is notoriously unpredictable, especially in controlled experimental settings, is typically associated with small effect sizes, can be successfully employed with any illness condition, is likely to be influenced by idiosyncratic characteristics of the patient, researcher(s), or their combined social interaction, can sometimes produce (significantly) negative outcomes, but can occasionally produce massive positive effects with otherwise untreatable conditions. Placebo has been called our most powerful medical treatment, and yet we’re not yet able to harness it.

                The confusion surrounding placebo was recently illustrated by the publication of a systematic review of clinical trials of placebo treatment versus no treatment of 114 trials conducted in a broad range of settings and populations (Hrobjartsson & Gotzsche, 2001). The authors “…did not detect a significant effect of placebo as compared to no treatment in pooled data from trials with subjective or objective binary or continuous objective outcomes”. They did find a significant difference between placebo and no treatment in trials with continuous subjective outcomes, and in the 27 trials involving the treatment of pain. They conclude that except for modest effects on subjective outcomes and pain, the mysterious placebo effect has no clinical relevance!

                Hrobjartsson and Gotzsche’s review is the trigger for the current study, because it well illustrates some of the key stumbling blocks in the quest to understand placebo. In the current study, we have reconsidered the basis of the original review in the light of other studies of placebo, developed a workable operational definition, and re-analyzed the 114 studies using this more refined definition. In this way, the original study can be seen as a first approximation. The current study refines this and provides a next approximation, yielding quite different results. In addition, we discuss a variety of insights this process yields regarding placebo effects and how best to study them in the future. Finally, we discuss the relevance of these results to the conceptually similar phenomenon of psychic healing.

Hrobjartsson, A., & Gotzsche, P.C. (2001). Is the placebo powerless? An analysis of clinical trials comparing placebo with no treatment. New England Journal of Medicine, 344(21), 1594-1602.

TELEKINESIS AT THE QUANTUM LEVEL:

Analytical Review of Some Russian Studies

Nina Sotina  & Luidmila  Boldyreva

Moscow State University, ninasotin@mtu-net.ru

   Presented will be an analytical review of several experiments conducted in Russia in the 1980-90s on living organisms’ distant influence on other living organisms and physical devices. These experiments were performed by or under supervision of qualified scientists known to authors, however, in most cases those were exploratory studies terminated by lack of funding and in some cases unpublished.
         Selected experiments have one common feature: their results are unexplainable by thermal, acoustic or electromagnetic processes: effects observed in these experiments could not be shielded by electromagnetic screening, practically did not depend on distance, and, in cases with human operators, occurred only when intentional bonds were established between the operator and the subject.
         These experiments demonstrated that:

1.     A gifted psi-operator (N. Kulagina) could affect readings of a magnetometer based on the Hall Effect while magnetometers based on other principles did not react to her efforts. Experiments were conducted jointly by the St. Petersburg Technical University and the Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism (1978) under the supervision of Dr.G. Dulnev.

2.     Psi-operators influenced flicker noise generators. Transistors and chips made by metal-oxide-semiconductor technology, photoresistors and other devices were used as noise generators. These experiments were carried out by G. Gurtovoy and A. Parkhomov in 1984-1985. In another series of experiments (Y. Popov at Moscow Physical Engineering Institute, 1995) shielded noise generators reacted by amplitude spikes at the moments when living crawfish were dropped in boiling water and when a plant (Pelargonium peltatum) was exposed to light.

3.  By acting at a distance, a psi-operator affected (thermistor) readouts of an electro-magnetically shielded micro calorimeter. Experiments were conducted by G. Gurtovoy and A.Parkhomov over a few years starting in 1982.
4.     Psi-operators slowed down (by ~20%) the frequency of impulses of electro-generating fish (Cnathonemus peteree) in an aquarium placed in a Faraday cage. Experiments were conducted in 1982 by G. K. Gurtovoy and A. G. Parkhomov at the Institute of Evolutionary Morphology and Animal Ecology (Moscow).

5.     Various metamorphic transformations were observed in some species of enter bacteria family under the influence of human operators. (May 1988 to December 1989 at the Tomsk Medical Institute, team leader Dr. K. Chernoshchiokov).

6.     The intensity of electric reaction of plants (cucumber and corn, electric potential between leaves and roots were measured) to light turn on was changed by human operator’s intent. Experiments were conducted at the beginning of the 90’s, by members of the Biology Division of the Union of the Scientific and Engineering Societies under the supervision of Dr. E. B. Morozova.

        The action observed in these experiments could not be shielded by electromagnetic screens, in effect did not depend on a distance, and was selective (reference instruments located in the close proximity to the instrument under influence did not respond to the operator’s action).
        Analysis of results led us to conclude that the influence of living organisms on devices should have occurred at a quantum level, i.e. human operators or living organism may act at a distance on elementary particles and their spins. We believe that to explain the nature of that influence one needs to look deeply into the matter itself and study the properties of the physical vacuum, still not quite understood by modern science. We suggest that the physical vacuum is a material medium with superfluid properties.