MIND OVER MATTER; THE FRONTIERS OF PSYCHICS CONFERENCE. REYKYAVIK, ICELAND

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Mind Over Matter: The Frontiers of Physics Conference
Reykyavik, Iceland-- At a five day meeting here, the
"1977 Frontiers of Physics Conference$ scientists from the
United States, France, Great Britain, Denmark and Sweden
have presented laboratory data confirming the existence
of the human mind as playing a role in physical events.
For the first time, experimental physicists have agreed
with their theorist colleagues that the findings on the
workings of the mind can possibly be integrated into a
coherent theory of the universe.
Data for experiments conducted over the past five years
confirmed the ability of a human being to view a scene
anywhere on earth whether occuring now or in the future
and to bend metal. or move an object suspended on a wire
pendulum while seated several. yards away.
The new evidence upsets the long-established assertion by
physicists that human mentation cannot affect large-scale
physical experimentation. In mathematical equations the
problem has been avoided by reference to experimenters as
"observers" external to and independent of the objects of
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of their attention.
In the 19th century it was held that such an observer clocked
or measured a phenomenon but in no way interfered with it.
With the development of quantum mechanics by Werner
Heisenberg in the mid-1920's, a possible active role of
the observer was admitted as an uncertainty at a micro-level
state or in sub-atomic processes, but held to be so
infinitessimal that it could not be measured.
The findings of the conference, sponsored by the ORB Foundation
of London, England, and attended by some forty participants
representing industry and the humanities as well as science
and technology, now strongly suggest that the experimenter's
own mental activity may well affect the outcome of their ex-
periments.
The perceptual experimental data was provided by laser
physicist Russell Targ of the Stanford Research Institute
at Menlo Park California. Targ reported that human subjects
studied together with Dr. Harold Puthoff were able, while
sitting in a laboratory on the west coast of the United States,
accurately to locate human targets as far away as New York City
and describe their locations and actions.
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Targ concluded that distance in no way affected the accuracy
of perceptions or their resolution and that such "distant
viewing" could not be shielded or screened by any known
substance thus far.
More importantly, said Targ., the data collected suggested that
the ability to see at a distance is by no means limited to
the so-called psychically gifted but is accessible to almost
anyone.
A typical experiment in the Targ-Puthoff series involved a
25 year old medical student residing in California who described
the location of his target: a dry fountain in Manhattan's
Washington Square Park. Other subjects accurately depicted
underground caverns in the mid-West and the Superdome in
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Dr. John B. Hasted,head of the Department of Physics at London
University's Birkbeck College, described his 10,000 observations w
more than a dozen English children who could bend metal, as
measured by sensitive strain gauges while seated several
yards from them. Others caused distant hanging objects to bend
and twist. Similar experiments have been successfully carried
out in six other laboratories throughout the world, reported
Hasted.
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Dr. Olivier Costa de Beauregard, Director of Research at the
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, who
specializes in relativistic and quantum mechanical theory
commented, "Measured by all rigorous criteria of science,
the experiments were meticulously performed on the basis
of tight protocols and appropriate methods of evaluation.
They should reasonably convince anybody."
Theoretical support for "mind over matter" was offered by
Costa de Beauregard and by Dr. Richard Mattuck of Copenhagen
University's Q`rsted Institute as well as by Dr. Evan Harris Walker,
mathematician at the U. S. Army Aberdeen Proving Ground in
Maryland and Professor Elizabeth Rauscher, of the University
of California at Berkeley.
Further evidence for the capacity of the human mind to affect
metal was furnished by Eldon Byrd, researcher at the U. S.
Naval Surface Weapons Center's White Oak Laboratory in Silver
Spring, Maryland. Byrd elaborated on the extraordinary ability
of a wide variety of geographically dispersed subjects to
alter the properties of nitinol, a peculiar nickel-titanium
alloy which once bent out of shape, can revert back to its
original form under certain temperature conditions.
After nitinol's "mind treatment" the metal no longer retained
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Accoustical emissions from grain structure in metal,
inaudible to the human ear but instrumentally recordable,
were reported by experimental physicist Ronald Hawke of the
Lawrence Livermore Radiation Laboratory in California. The
sound emissions occured in the presence of subjects concen-
trating on the metal though,thus far, the effects are too
slight to be definitely attributable to mind action.
Dr. Wilbur Franklin, Professor of Physics at Kent State
University in Ohio summarized over fifteen types of physical
experiments designed to test reports of other scientists about
the effects of mind on laboratory instruments. Franklin
has found effects which are not easily explained by known
physical force fields.
In the Loftleidir Hotel, site of the conference, one
psychically gifted participant stunned Icelandic newspaper
and television reporters by causing stainless steel coffee
spoons to bend measurably within seconds without physical
contact.
In order to avoid misapplication of the new findings, an
ethical statement by conference scientists was made. It
affirmed formally that they would never allow the application
of their work to further human conflict and at all times would
respect and protect the rights and integrity of the human beings
through whom they were able to study the new processes.
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