DIRECT BRAIN PERCEPTION AND DIRECT BRAIN ACTION EXIST

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DIRECT BRAIN PERCEPTION
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DIRECT BRAIN ACTION
EXIST
Submitted by Captain Edgar D. Mitchell, USN
prepared by Henry (Andri:ia) Puharich, M.D., rrlitor
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Preface
This pronosel represents the editor's collation
of the thoughts and feelings of same forty-two men and
women from many disciplines who have been trying to ration-
alize the phancerelTan of direct brain action. In addition
to many informal conferences, they have ret in two formal
conferences. The first was the international Conference
on acploring the Energy Fields of Yen, NOverber 19 7 22,
1973,. seonSorad 137 `.?airf,Nrrieht Eouse, Rye, New York, and
Life Energies Research, Inc. New York, New York. The
second was the Twentieth Annual International Conference,
Parapsychology Today: A Geographic View, August 25 - 27,
1971, St. Paul de Vence, A.M. France, sponsored by the
Parapsychology Foundation, Inc., New York, New York.
? The ideas expressed at these conferences are now
? beginning to crystallize as the result of two events. The
first is 4-1;0 ascovery of a person, Uri Geller, who. has .
been able to reocatebly deronstrate under rigid scientific
eon'-rol the nover -f Airect brn4r. sctien. The se-er/i
event grows out of Captain Edgar D. Yitchell's unofficial
Apollo 14 ESP experirent. Captain Yitdlell has undertaken
to robilize and organize the resources required to study
direct brain action-. Mr. Geller has agreed to be one of
the first of several experLlental subjects for this study
These two events are now being brought to the attention of
the scientists above mentioned in order to exerine the
experimental and theoretical problers involved. The present
proposal represents a first draft atter nt by the editor, and
is now being circulated for review, criticism, and consensus.
The editor takes the sole responsibility at this time for
:this draft proposal. It will be several months before the
Scientific Advisory Conrittee, and Research Committee are
fully formal, and inforred, and: can assure responsibility
for a _Final Proposal under Section VI, Program Alpha, Phase
II, and a long tem Pesearch Plan and Program. If the editor
has taken any undue liberties in reporting, formulating con-
cepts, or use of neres, or institutions, he has done so
solely in the interests of expediting the formulation of a
research program, and hunbly requests understanding for any
trane.grecczienq fhni- may have occurred.
Andrija Puhaxieh, M.D.
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Abstract
This proposal deals With the general problem
of the interaction of mind with raterial systems, and
more specifically with the action of mind .upon material
systems which is called direct brain action (MA).
A 24 year old Israeli rale has been investigated
under field rese.,7.1rcl conditions for six months, and it
has been concluded that he possesses the power of direct
brain action. It is now proposed to bring him into a
laboratory situation to be studied by a group of scientists.
An exparinental des5Lqn is proposed which should iyIld an
uTbicuous answer to the question as to whether or not
direct brain action exists as a part of the laws of nature..
Preliminary data and conclusions With respect to
DBA indicate that this power can be a useful tool with
which to re-examine some of the basic laws of physics. The
rather simple a:?',-;->3r-1=-Its proLosed herein would apt>ear to
have profound implications for the clarification of basic
theories about the universe, and the place of ran within
such theory.;
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Contents
Preface ? . . page b ..
Abstract page c
I. Introduction to the Research Program page 1
II. Introduction to the Status of Scientific
Parapsychology page 3
III. Proposed Research Program . . . . page 11
IV. Inzvediate Research Program : . page 17
V. Results of Program Alpha -- Phase T . . . page 19
VI. Program Alpha, Phase II Research Design . page 29
VII. Anticipated Outcome and Further Research . . page 34'.
Appendices . ? a ? page i.
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INTDODUCTION 10 Tim. 1-,ESFAR71.1 P1OBLE4
We are so accustomed to getting information about the world
at'ound us through seeing, hearing, touching, and other natural or
z.vtifioial sensors that it rarely occurs to us that this may not be
t11-% only way to receiving knowledge. When we want to do something,
to c-ry out an action, we do it through our muscular system -- the
tc,nz;ue, the hand, the feet, etc. It rarely occurs to us that personal
acL.ion may be carried out by any other mans than these transducer
systems.
? Yet the rodern technic-rue of direct brain stimulation (DES)
has shown that it is possible to stiJ,:lulate the brain directly with
electrical pulses to produce a sensation, or to initiate an involun-
tary action. D3S is a state-of-art laboratory technique today which
will be increasingly used in the future in practical applications.
There are still other direct brain effectSwhich are not state-
of-art, and in fact ray be considered- rare. In the world today there
are people, perhaps in the hundreds, who claim an extraordinary capa-
bility for direct perceptionof informaticn, and direct bicenorgy
action. on raterial systaa-s. Direct perception ray he defined as the .
acquisition of inforration by a person by direct brain perception
(DDP),. i.e. without stLcmiation of the sensory eh=nels or any other?
knoc..n bio-transducer. Direct bioenerqy tr.?-.cf^- ray be defined as
the initiation ofa physical effect by direct brain action (DBA) with-
out using any known physical interaction processes.
There is cmlpirical as well as some experimental evidence- to -
shew?rthat DER and DaA powers exist- in eertain-pco-ole. -These people
are little understood by humanity at large, and more specifically less
so by science. Yet it is believed by stuents of those phenomena that
a kr,41gledge of, and -control over such human powers, is of the greatest
consequence to mankind. - ToLy has this field of knowledge -been so
neglected if it is of such great- irortance- for man's welfare?
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Scientists Who have examined the evidence for direct brain
action (DEW believe that the phenomenon is of basic inpartanee, and
mustibe studied intensively in order to find out if known laws of
nature are involved (electrcmagnetism, gravitation, etc.) or whether
we h4ve the opportunity to discover a new law of nature, A clear
resOlution of this one .problem would do mare to mobilize the interest
and resources of science and philosophy tcr.ard answering a basic question
than any other approach now known.
Sce'tts i- +-he 11F.,-",,3 have rf,comized thr, pressing irportance
of.thse cu-stionq, particularly ti o quettion of "ean thought rove an
cbjeCt?", N'nile scientists in the usA, generally, speaking, have not.
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rft aountries, and the need not., and should not lag in research
ro:;sible application of 12',]:?A.
The I.TE.,;\ particularly has lagged because coneryatives in the
f.ciontifie establislyt.cnt havL. held to the taboo that these subjects
lend thez?,-,elves to -scientific study.-. Blat twenty years. ago. it.
w,-ts held that hypnosis -could not be handled scientifically, yct this.
taLK)so has been broken by the pioneering work of 7:rons, Wolberg, etc.-
Fifte-an years ago it was held that. Iran's sex life -could not be studied
scientifically, and. this taboo has been abolished by the. pioneering -
urrk of lansey, and by ,1::Isters? ce-id Johnson. ? 11?on. years ago it as
be-
lieved by many scientists.. that ran could not survive in the vacuum and
2,-,ro-cTravity of space; this _taboo died when .a :ran stepped onto the...sur-
.. face of the moon. Five years -ago it was hold that man could not live
without his own heart, and w%:3 are now watching this taboo sludy vanish
as surgeons transplant human hearts., and mZ.ical engineers design im-
pl,,ntable artificial -hearts.
Tcxlay it is still ext-Lretrt?lv difficult to have. any -research
results in Da:? and DBP accepted and in scientific journals.
Yet there are many competent and prestigious scientists who are activzly
- interested in this kind of research, and who are willing to devote nore
of their time and effort in a well-organized major scientific effort. -
in the next two sections we will briefly describe the. nature of the
scientific work .that,has .been done. in MA and MP, where .we stand today,.
and \.:aat could be done to advance basic scientific knowledge.
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II. INTPDDUCTION '10 THE STATUS OF sca-amric PARAPsycnaurY
A number of historical events have occurred which may give -
birth to a scientific approach to 'MP and DEA. me observation of
th- Count de Puyscgur that his 'thoughts" could put another person
in hypnotic trance (1765) cuLnlinated, in Charcot's e: