The Field (48 page)

2
H. Puthoff, ‘Toward a quantum theory of life process’.

3
G. R. Schmeidler, ‘PK effects upon continuously recorded temperatures’,
Journal of the American Society of Psychical Research
, 1997; 67(4), cited in H. Puthoff and R. Targ, ‘A perceptual channel for information transfer over kilometer distances: historical perspective and recent research’,
Proceedings of the IEEE
, 1976; 64(3): 329 – 54.

4
S. Ostrander and L. Schroeder,
Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain
(now abridged in
Psychic Discoveries
, New York: Marlowe & Company, 1997), published in 1971, caused a flood of concern about so-called ‘psychic warfare’.

5
J. Schnabel,
Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America’s Psychic Spies
(New York: Dell, 1997): 94 – 5.

6
Hank Turner is a pseudonym of a CIA employee referred to as ‘Bill O’Donnell’ in Schnabel’s book.

7
For entire description of the West Virginia military installation facility and Pat Price, see Schnabel,
Remote Viewers
: 104 – 13.

8
H. Puthoff and R. Targ, ‘Final report, covering the period January 1974 – February 1975 Part II – Research Report, December 1, 1975,
Perceptual Augmentation Techniques
, SRI Project 3183; also H. E. Puthoff, ‘CIA-initiated remote viewing program at Stanford Research Institute,
Journal of Scientific Exploration
, 1996; 10(1): 63 – 75.

9
R. Targ,
Miracles of Mind: Exploring Nonlocal Consciousness and Spiritual Healing
(Novato, Calif: New World Library, 1999): 46 – 7; D. Radin,
The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena
(New York: HarperEdge, 1997): 25 – 6.

10
C. A. Robinson, Jr, ‘Soviets push for beam weapon’,
Aviation Week
, May 2, 1977.

11
Interview with Edwin May, California, October 25, 1999.

12
H. Puthoff, ‘CIA-initiated remote viewing program at Stanford Research Institute’.

13
Interview with Hal Puthoff, January 20, 2000; also Schnabel,
Remote Viewers
.

14
H. Puthoff, ‘Experimental psi research: implication for physics’, in R. Jahn (ed.),
The Role of Consciousness in the Physical World
, AAA Selected Symposia Series (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1981): 41.

15
R. Targ and H. Puthoff,
Mind-Reach: Scientists Look at Psychic Ability
(New York: Delacorte Press, 1977): 50.

16
Schnabel,
Remote Viewers
: 142.

17
Puthoff and Targ, ‘Perceptual channel’: 342.

18
Ibid.: 338.

19
Ibid.: 330 – 1.

20
Ibid.: 336.

21
B. Dunne and J. Bisaha, ‘Precognitive remove viewing in the Chicago area: a replication of the Stanford experiment’,
Journal of Parapsychology
, 1979; 43:17 – 30.

22
Radin,
Conscious Universe
: 105.

23
L. M. Kogan, ‘Is telepathy possible?’
Radio Engineering
, 1966; 21 (Jan): 75, quoted in Puthoff and Targ, ‘Perceptual channel’: 329 – 53.

24
H. Puthoff and R. Targ, ‘Final report, covering the period January 1974 – February 1975 Part II – Research Report, December 1, 1975,
Perceptual Augmentation Techniques
, SRI Project 3183: 58.

25
Telephone interview with Hal Puthoff, January 20, 2000; see also Targ and Puthoff,
Mind-Reach
.

26
Schnabel,
Remote Viewers
: 74 – 5.

27
Interview with Edwin May and Dean Radin, California, October 25, 1999.

28
Various telephone interviews with Hal Puthoff, August 2000.

29
J. Utts, ‘An assessment of the evidence for psychic functioning’,
Journal of Scientific Exploration
, 1996; 10: 3 – 30.

CHAPTER NINE: THE ENDLESS HERE AND NOW

1
R. Targ and J. Katra,
Miracles of Mind: Exploring Nonlocal Consciousness and Spiritual Healing
(Novato, Calif: New World Library, 1999): 42 – 4.

2
B. J. Dunne and R. G. Jahn, ‘Experiments in remote human/machine interaction’,
Journal of Scientific Exploration
, 1992; 6(4): 311 – 32.

3
In all the SRI experiments, they never found a limit to the distance over which the channel worked. Many years later, in an ironical reversal of the SRI studies, Russell Targ would have a Russian psychic in Moscow do a remote viewing of an unknown target site in San Francisco. Djuna Davitashvili, a noted Russian psychic healer, who had never done remote-viewing experiments before, was asked to describe where a colleague of theirs was at the time in a location in San Francisco even unknown to Targ. After being shown his photo, she correctly described a plaza with a merry-go-round (eventually Targ was told that the colleague was standing in front of one at a plaza on San Francisco’s Pier 39). The picture she drew of both the plaza and of the carousel’s horses bore a remarkable similarity to the actual site. For a full account, see R. Targ and J. Katra,
Miracles of Mind
: 29 – 36.

4
For the Chicago, Arizona and Moscow remote-viewing experiment, R. G. Jahn and B. J. Dunne,
Margins of Reality
(New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987): 162 – 7.

5
For the NASA and irrigation-ditch examples, Jahn and Dunne,
Margins
: 188.

6
D. Radin,
The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena
(New York: HarperEdge, 1997): 113 – 4; R. Broughton,
Parapsychology: The Controversial Science
(New York: Ballantine, 1991): 292.

7
For an excellent summary of this and other precognitive studies, see Radin,
The Conscious Universe
: 111 – 25.

8
R. S. Broughton,
Parapsychology:
95 – 7.

9
Ibid.: 98. Maimonides wasn’t the first to scientifically document dreams. In the early part of this century, J. W. Dunne conducted experiments with subjects and their dreams, scientifically demonstrating that what people dreamed largely came true. J. W. Dunne
, An Experiment in Time
(London: Faber, 1926).

10
As it happened, Radin’s expectation that he’d reached a safe haven to carry out his research was premature. As soon as he published a book on psychic research and began to attract some media attention, the University refused to renew his contract. He was left to find work in privately funded research projects. At the time of writing, he is working at the Institute of Noetic Sciences.

11
For a full description of the Radin experiment, see Radin,
Conscious Universe
: 119 – 24.

12
D. J. Bierman and D. I. Radin, ‘Anomalous anticipatory response on randomized future conditions’,
Perceptual and Motor Skills
, 1997; 84: 689 – 90.

13
D. J. Bierman, ‘Anomalous aspects of intuition’, paper presented at the Fourth Biennial European meeting of the Society for Scientific Exploration, Valencia, October 9-11, 1998; also interview with Professor Bierman, Valencia, October 9, 1998.

14
D. I. Radin and E. C. May, ‘Testing the intuitive data sorting model with pseudorandom number generators: a proposed method’, in D. H. Weiner and R. G. Nelson (eds),
Research in Parapsychology
1986 (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1987): 109 – 11. For a description of the test, see Broughton,
Parapsychology
: 137 – 9.

15
Broughton,
Parapsychology
: 175 – 6; also telephone interviews with Helmut Schmidt, May 2001.

16
H. Schmidt, ‘Additional affect for PK on prerecorded targets’,
Journal of Parapsychology
, 1985; 49: 229 – 44; ‘PK tests with and without preobservation by animals’, in L. S. Henkel and J. Palmer (eds),
Research in Parapsychology
1989 (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1990): 15 – 9, in W. Braud, ‘Wellness implications of retroactive intentional influence: exploring an outrageous hypothesis’,
Alternative Therapies
, 2000, 6(1): 37 – 48.

17
R. G. Jahn
et al
., ‘Correlations of random binary sequences with pre-stated operator intention: a review of a 12-year program’,
Journal of Scientific Exploration
, 1997; 11(3): 345 – 67.

18
Braud, ‘Wellness implications’.

19
J. Gribbin,
Q Is for Quantum
:
Particle Physics from A to Z
(Phoenix, 1999): 531 – 4.

20
Radin, various telephone interviews in 2001.

21
E. Laszlo,
The Interconnected Universe, Conceptual Foundations of Transdisciplinary Unified Theory
(Singapore: World Scientific, 1995): 31.

22
D. Bohm,
Wholeness and the Implicate Order
(London: Routledge, 1980): 211.

23
Ibid.

24
Braud, ‘Wellness implications’.

CHAPTER TEN: THE HEALING FIELD

1
Interview with Elisabeth Targ, California, October 28, 1999.

2
Ibid.

3
Both experiments, B. Grad, ‘Some biological effects of “laying-on of hands”: a review of experiments with animals and plants’,
Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research
, 1965; 59: 95 – 127.

4
L. Dossey,
Be Careful What You Pray For … You Just Might Get It
(HarperSan-Francisco, 1997): 179.

5
B. Grad, ‘Dimensions in “Some biological effects of the laying on of hands” and their implications,’ in H. A. Otto and J. W. Knight (eds),
Dimensions in Wholistic Healing: New Frontiers in the Treatment of the Whole Person
(Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1979): 199 – 212.

6
B. Grad, R. J. Cadoret and G. K. Paul, ‘The influence of an unorthodox method of treatment on wound healing in mice’,
International Journal of Parapsychology
, 1963; 3: 5 – 24.

7
B. Grad, ‘Healing by the laying on of hands: review of experiments and implications’,
Pastoral Psychology
, 1970; 21: 19 – 26.

8
F. W. J. Snel and P. R. Hol, ‘Psychokinesis experiments in casein induced amyloidosis of the hamster’,
Journal of Parapsychology
, 1983; 5(1): 51 – 76; Grad, ‘Some biological effects of laying on of hands’; F. W. J. Snel and P. C. Van der Sijde, ‘The effect of paranormal healing on tumor growth’,
Journal of Scientific Exploration
, 1995; 9(2): 209 – 21. See also E. Targ, ‘Evaluating distant healing: a research review,
Alternative therapies
, 1997; 3:748.

9
J. Barry, ‘General and comparative study of the psychokinetic effect on a fungus culture’,
Journal of Parapsychology
, 1968; 32: 237 – 43; E. Haraldsson and T. Thorsteinsson, ‘Psychokinetic effects on yeast: an exploratory experiment’, in W. G. Roll, R. L. Morris and J. D. Morris (eds),
Research in Parapsychology
(Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1972): 20 – 1; F. W. J. Snel, ‘Influence on malignant cell growth research’,
Letters of the University of Utrecht
, 1980; 10: 19 – 27.

10
C. B. Nash, ‘Psychokinetic control of bacterial growth’,
Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research
, 1982; 51: 217 – 21.

11
G. F. Solfvin, ‘Psi expectancy effects in psychic healing studies with malarial mice’,
European Journal of Parapsychology
, 1982; 4(2): 160 – 97.

12
R. Stanford, ‘“Associative activation of the unconscious” and “visualization” as methods for influencing the PK target’,
Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research
, 1969; 63: 338 – 51.

13
R. N. Miller, ‘Study on the effectiveness of remote mental healing’,
Medical Hypotheses
, 1982; 8: 481 – 90.

14
R. C. Byrd, ‘Positive therapeutic effects of intercessory prayer in a coronary care unit population’,
Southern Medical Journal
, 1988; 81(7): 826 – 9.

15
B. Greyson, ‘Distance healing of patients with major depression’,
Journal of Scientific Exploration
, 1996; 10(4): 447 – 65.