THE IMPORTANCE OF SUBSTANCE IN ESP RESEARCH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: STARGATE
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040013-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 1, 2008
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: October 20, 1973
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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The Importance of Substance in ESP Research
A. In my conversation with Dr. Vallee he indicated that his
observation of thousands of UFO incidents gave strong evidence that:
1. As people observe increasingly strange phenomena (according
to their definition of what is normal or acceptable).
2. They tell the experience to fewer and fewer people.
B. Our conversations also brought out the fact that the mind is
shocked by a high degree of strangeness and will begin to add material to
incoming data, so you have a mixture of reliable information and
spontaneous conjectural material. If the shock caused by the difference
between what is considered real and what is not, is too severe, the
mind may not return to the normal range. For this reason the mind
should be centered on a reality so substantial and yet so far beyond
form that no particular form will disturb its equilibrium. Such a
reality is the foundation or center upon which all else is built. It
has been variously described as Energy or Wholeness or Substance. It
has been experienced in all ages by men. Many cultures have continued
to strongly recommend the centering of the mind firmly on this depth
of reality, before ESP experiences are tried or encountered - to insure
one's continued stability (regardless of the strangeness of the phenomena
encountered.) Indeed the strangest experiences have been recounted by
men in such a firm relationship, with apparently few permanent ill effects.
C. It is my recommendation that no ESP experimentation be conducted
without preparing and protecting the candidate for an encounter with the
unknown by first insisting that he center himself with an allowing
relaxed attitude on the formless pure Substance of Reality - Wholeness.
The collective experience of mankind is that madness is much less a risk
under these circumstances. Here the whole person and balanced development
is emphasized instead of the isolated development of a single fragment
of the personality which obviously causes inbalance. An unbalanced
talent is soon of little use to anybody, except perhaps his psychiatrist.
What valuable information he does provide is often so laced with questionable
material that his reliability is destroyed.
The mind has no choice, it must. seek balance and if it must
produce much fantasy to accomplish this purpose, it will do so. (Such
"fakery" could also be an attempt by the mind to convince the "exploiters"
that is of no longer any use to them and therefore they should leave
it alone).
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D. The noted Menninger Foundation researchers Evelyn and Alice Greenl
as well as Allen Cohen2, a clinical psychologist in Berkeley have strongly
yarned us:
1. "...some (mind training) courses induce in some persons a
form of paranoid neurosis on psychosis, often related to obsession or
possession"*.
2. "Through improper meditation, serious illness or attempts
to astrotravel, these people see mystical visions that they can't integrate
properly into their view of life. There is a great and building problem
today with the huge numbers who are becoming obsessed and possessed.
When you treat their mental disturbance in a normal way they simply
aren't helped".*
The Hitler people were quite interested in tapping these powers.
What their efforts released on the world should be a lesson to us that
the manner in which or the point of view from which this pandorra's box
is opened is at least as important to us as the contents of the box.
I further advise that improper research may release in one individual -
too much power. If the powers attributed to Wolf Messing of the Soviet
Union are indeed real and they fall into the hands of the wrong persons,
the resulting horror could release a malignancy on the world to rival that
of the Nazi era. When the door is opened, sometimes things come through
which were not planned and we cannot control-especially after they have
gained entrance. It is surely important that we seek to open,the right
door - carefully. _
*John Peterson, Science and Psychic Pbwer, The National Observer, week
ending.20 October 1973.
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