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• Document Release Date: June 25, 1998
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• Publication Date: December 17, 1977
• Content Type: HW

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.Since the early 1960's there have been reports on intelligence applications
of human biocommunication experiments at-a-distance which have been performed
within eastern bloc countries. It is conjectured that the background for these
reports is related to several decades of biocommunication research in the USSR
which began flourishing notably in the 1920's, and which has produced provocative
results.
The possibility of human biocommunication at-a-distance has always presented
an intellectural difficulty to U.S.-trained scientists, not only because of pre-
conceived ideological constraints, but also due to a lack of an unified theory
from which mechanisms and hypotheses could be suggested. The primary message of
this commentary on the subject is that some recent physics theory and corroborating
experimental data lend support and encouragement to the idea, that there is a physical
basis for observed biocommunication at-a-distance experimental results- Further,
evaluation of some recent psychiatric research has suggested the method by which the
events associated with biocommunication phenomena,,and the timing of their occurrence,
may be objectively observed with electrophysiological measurements. Although the
theoretical considerations which lead to this position involve a new twist on a
historical argument involving electromagnetic principles, there are several important
and significant differences between the ideas now being offered and that involving
the "mental-radio" position. First, for biocommunication between any two points on
the earth, there is no prediction of an inverse-square-law or falling of the effect
with distance, which is consistent with what has been observed experimentally
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Second, electromagnetic shielding will not reduce or eliminate the biocommunication
event taking place between the individuals concerned, no matter whether either one
or both are completely and independently surrounded by shielding. Again, this
prediction is consistent with experimental results. Third,,there is no suggestion
that the "sender" of information somehow employs a radiative transmission mechanism
such that he/she can communicate directly with the "receiver." In fact, the
designations "sender" and "receiver" in the usual information connotation are both
inappropriate and misleading. Instead, the phenomena of biocommunication at-a-
distance is more likely to involve an instance of complementary brain states and
ongoing temporal processes.
The chain of reasoning regarding the physical basis for human biocommunication
at-a-distance involves the characteristics of the terrestrial electromagnetic (EM)
field and biological phenomena which are purported to be related to, and dependent
upon, this electromagnetic field. These biological phenomena encompass several
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concepts, namely, bioentrainment over evolutionary time, maintenance of normal
physiological functioning, and neurological timing phenomena. The first and
third of these concepts are immediately relevant to this review and will be
touched upon briefly, after introducing some key information about the terrestrial
EM field.
In general, one may categorize the terrestrial EM environment as having
three aspects, or components: electrostatic field, magnetostatic field, and
dynamic EM field. Only the latter is of immediate concern. There has been a
theoretical prediction, and experimental verification, of a discrete set of
continuous, global EM frequencies. These frequencies can be thought of as resonant
mode frequencies of a spherical cavity whose outer and inner walls are the ionosphere
and the surface of the earth, respectively. They are the only continuous natural
frequencies available on the earth (all others are intermittent) and the first five
resonant modes fall in the ELF region at approximately 8 15, 20, 26, and 32 Hz.
Biological experimentation has demonstrated that the human organism
is sensitive to various aspects of static and dynamic EM fields, taken singly
and in combination. This sensitivity may be demonstrated from molecular to
whole organism levels of physiological organization and appears to be a strong,
and non-linear, function of intensity and frequency. If one focuses on the terres-
trial EM resonant mode frequencies, it may be noted that the first five resonant (and
dominant) frequencies span the "biological" frequency range seen in Customary electro-
encephalograph (EEG) recordings for normal individuals. In particular, the range
covering the local variation of the first resonant mode frequency is approximately
the same as that for the human EEG alpha rhythm. These considerations leads to the
first postulate--that there is human neurophysiological bioentrainment to the
resonant frequencies previously mentioned. The bioentrainment is presumed to
follow a development coincident with man's own evolutionary development. This
view entails the notion that individual maturation phenomena eventually result
in the neurologically mature organism being sensitive and resonantly responsive to
the EM fields, magnitudes, and frequencies associated with the resonance characteristics.
Additionally, it is postulated that the bioentrainment idea includes a developmental
and evolutionary response to the characteristics of the terrestrial electrostatic
and magnetostatic fields, but this is outside the immediate concern of this review.
The notion of bioentrainment is not at all startling when we are reminded that
everything from molecular binding to the operation of human physiological units
and organs, including the central nervous system, is based fundamentally on electro-
magneti
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The next consideration is that the resonant terrestrial EM frequencies
might prpvide a continuous clock frequency for neural timing functions"; and also,
that these same frequencies may act as carrier waves and may contain information
(as is possible for any EM frequency) which is significant for ordinary. (as well
as extraordinary) human communication. In the absence of any clear anatomical
evidence of structures acting as generators to provide internal clocks, it is
possible to conceive of an alternative in which the terrestrial resonant frequencies
provide external clock frequencies to which the neural system has adapted during
evolutionary development, and to which it now responds in a manner analogous
to a high Q resonant circuit. These timing signals might then b;-"ifsed for specific
neurological functions as well as to provide the basis for neural coincident events
elsewhere in the brain. The notion that these same EM frequencies may carry
information which may be decoded and encoded by the human brain via field interactions
should be assessed in light of the fact that these low frequencies have extremely
long wavelengths (e.g., 10 Hz corresponds to a 30,000 kilometer wavelength). Thus,
the concept of human biocommunication utilizing these earth resonance frequencies
does not require a human being to somehow generate low frequencies for radiative
transmission without accompanying physical structures which are the correlateS_
of long antennas.
It is now relevant to turn to the field of psychiatric research and
consider some recently observed electrophysiological phenomena involving timing.
It appears that individual electrophysiological measurements made on a normal human
being display synchronous isomorphic pattern changes and gradient discontinuity.
This behavior has been technically defined as self-synchrony. An additional form
of synchrony has been found, however, which is defined as interactive synchrony,
and is particularly noteworthy for its implications regarding human communication.
When a.normal speaker is involved in a conversation with one or more individuals, the
listeners' individual self-synchronous pattern changes occur simultaneously with
those of the speaker. No nonshared changes are found to occur during interactive
synchrony. When a communicative sequence is completed or interrupted, interactive
synchrony disappears,.leaving intact individual self-synchronous behavior_
By now it should be clear how all the foregoing is related to the consideration
of human biocommunication at-a-distance. If one couples the idea of the resonant
frequencies performing the role of information transmission frequencies to the
phenomena of interactive synchronization, there is the immediate syggestion that
objectively measureable EEG interactive synchronization patterns could be observed
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between two communicating individuals whether they are two meters apart or
thousands of kilometers apart. Due to the extremely long wavelengths involved,
there will be no fall off of the communication with distance, nor will ordinary
EM shielding techniques have any effect on the phenomena. Sliffif iarly, the concept
of the terrestrial EM resonance frequencies as low frequency carrier waves for
biocommunication does not require a radiative transmission mechanism for long
distance communication generated by the human brain.
Finally, some brief mention should be made that probably only ten percent
or less of the human population has a natural, untrained capability to produce
positive results when involved in biocommunic:ation at-a--distance experiments.
The reasons for this are undoubtedly related to the genetic constitution of the
individual, plus the development of each individual based on his own historical
environmental experiences. To this is added the postulate that the interactive.
synchrony phenomena previously mentioned results in the establishment of memory
patterns which the brain can identify and remember, and so lead to the triggering
of complementary brain states during biocommunication events between individuals
who are well known to each other from a long history of previous associations.
This is not the place to review U.S. and U.S.S.R. research work tin biocommunication
at-a--distance, except to note that the principles which have been reviewed here
are consistent with all known results of this type of research, and that the
several decades of work in the U.S.S.R. by Vasiliev on telepathic. hypnosis are
particularly enlightening in this regard. The electrophysiological approach of
Russian research in this area has also yielded the purported obseirvation of
coincident EEG events in the individuals involved in biocommunicattion experiments
at-a-distance--a result which is not surprising in view of the hypotheses which
have been outlined above.
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