The
Biological and the Silicon
Modifying
Humans for Deep Space Travel
by Joan d’Arc
Telepathy, a word coined in
1882, was originally called “thought-transference.” Telepathy is most often
thought of as “brain to brain” or “mind-to-mind” contact, or along a “mind
invasion” sort of paradigm, but ESP as a subliminal relationship between two
minds is actually an obsolete point of view. As is evident in David Bohm’s
physics, the idea of the akashic records is now coming back in vogue. Rather
than the “unconscious,” we have the “superconscious,” or Ingo Swann’s “bio-mind
net.”
This modern definition of ESP, which is actually an ancient view, is described in a 1973 article by E. Stanton Maxey entitled “The Subject and His Environment.” Maxey wrote that consciousness may be called man’s “sixth sense,” in that man is the only creature on Earth who is aware of the fact that he is aware. As he writes, “dreams and out-of-body experiences demonstrate the mobility of the “I” of man separate from the physical body and often into a foreign time dimension.” He asks, “when man is the receiver of provable meaningful information, who is doing the sending?” Maxey suggests:
Man may be defined as a complexity of subatomic fields, within atomic fields, within cellular fields which make up organismal fields; these in turn exist within gravity fields, magnetic fields, electrostatic fields and light fields. Cognitive man of seven senses is dependent upon all of them. Under special circumstances, in dreams, meditations or out-of-body experiences, the “I” of man functions independently of physical being and time. Because man receives meaningful information in such states, we ponder on the origin of such information. Who can say that the fluctuations of magnetic and electrostatic fields upon the surface of our sphere are [not] indicative of a planetary consciousness?
This is mindful of
Ouspensky’s thought in Tertium Organum:
Psychotronic ArtsSometimes we dimly feel the intense life which goes on in the phenomena of nature, and sense a vivid emotionality manifesting itself in the phenomena of nature which, to us, is dead. Behind the phenomena of visible manifestations there is felt the noumenon of emotions. In electrical discharges, in lightning, in thunder, in the gusts and howling of the wind, are felt flashes of sensory-nervous tremors of some gigantic organism.
Psychotronic machines are devices that can be interfaced with psychically-gifted individuals to draw on and exponentially expand the psychic potential of the human mind. These devices can ostensibly pair the human psyche with such energies as microwaves to carry and amplify bioenergy. As Dennis Stacy explains in “Battle of the Minds,” in Psychic Warfare: Fact or Fiction?, American Army experiments have demonstrated the feasibility of making voices heard inside the head via microwave broadcasts.
Other types of waves and
frequencies can be used to conduct, amplify, entrain or remotely control the
psychic power of the human mind. For instance, radionics devices have been
fully operational in the U.S. for some years to cure diseases from a distance.
In a paper entitled “The
Enigmatic Status of Radionics in the U.S.,” presented in 1973 at the First
International Congress on Psychotronics in Prague, researcher Frances K.
Farrelly wrote regarding radionics machines that “… their use, regardless of
model, involves a factor of consciousness as does any form of radiesthesia.”
This author also wrote the following:
It is my sincere desire that this enigma of radionics be studied by those well qualified investigators in the field of applied cybernetics, parapsychology, and psychotronics. Radionics appear to have much in common with the phenomena of dowsing, and/or telepathy, and it rightfully belongs to those scientific investigators in both hemispheres to pursue this research further.
Here we have a concise
tie-in between radionics devices, telepathy and cybernetics. This connection
will prove interesting as the reader continues. Similar devices, such as
psionics or Hieronymous machines, are simple devices which conduct electrical
energy or bioenergy. The theory underlying radionics or psionics machines is
that things like minerals, crystals, plants, microbes and diseases, essentially all organisms whether our science considers them biologically ‘alive’ or
not, have their own specific vibratory rate or electromagnetic signature.
The radionics specialist
tunes in to the specific frequency of the bio-entities that he wishes to target
and turns on the machine. The target can be miles away – it doesn’t matter
where they are. These types of machines can even employ a photograph or strand
of hair to capture or encode the specific wavelength signature of a person.
This has an interesting similarity to remote viewing, which often contains a
photograph of the target enclosed in an envelope, and the remote viewer is
supposed to telepathically zoom in on the real target which the photo
represents.
In this way, microscopic
‘critters’ who are causing us to be ill can be specifically targeted by the
device. People and animals can also be caused to become ill by the same
methods. (It has been noted that viruses, such as the AIDS virus, could be
attacked in this manner, but this method of treatment remains marginalized.) As
an example of what could be done, a photo of a cotton field could be treated
with insecticide and the psychotronic machine operator could “wish death to all
boll weevils therein.” The targeted insects may not necessarily die, but may
simply “get the message” and migrate to another place. Some might say that the
treatment of an object having a correspondence to the target, coupled with evil
intention sent via thought waves, is descriptive of the practice of voodoo.
The development of the
psychotronic arts has connections to many classified CIA projects having to do
with various developments in theoretical physics. Within these experimental
paradigms, the practical hurdles which needed to be overcome before
mind/machine interface could be established were (1) how to effect the transfer
of information from mind to machine, and (2) how to overcome the extremely low
power wattage with which these instruments typically operate. As Dennis Stacy
clarifies in Psychic Warfare: Fact or Fiction?, “increase the
information flow between mind and machine, increase the power and amplification
wattage, and psychotronic weapons may well step out of the pages of science
fiction into reality.”
The Neurophone is an early 1970s device, described as a “super-sophisticated hearing aid,” which solved the first part of this problem, as Dennis Stacy explains. According to Stacy’s research, the Neurophone’s inventor, Patrick Flanagan, “accidentally cracked the neural code for audio data allowing for direct communication between a crystalline electrical circuit and the brain’s nervous system.”
According to a personal
communiqué from Judy Wall, there are three patents for the Neurophone. In a
discussion with Mr. Flanagan, he told Ms. Wall that the original Neurophone,
which was called a Nervous System Excitation Device (U.S. Patent #3,393,279),
was developed by Flanagan when he was 14 years old. This patent was described
as “a method of transmitting audio information via a radio frequency signal
modulated with the audio info through electrodes placed on the subject’s skin,
causing the sensation of hearing the audio information in the brain.” This
patent application was filed in 1962 when Flanagan was a senior in high school,
but it was not granted until July 16, 1968, because the patent examiner didn’t
believe it worked as claimed.
After Flanagan had gone to
college and was working for the Naval Research Lab, he filed a second patent
application, called Method and System for Simplifying Speech Waveforms (Patent
#3,647,970), on August 29, 1968. According to this patent, “a complex speech
waveform is simplified so that it can be transmitted directly through earth or
water as a waveform and understood directly or after amplification.” The second
patent for the Neurophone, which used transistors, was applied for immediately
after the first one was granted. A government secrecy order was slapped on the
second Neurophone and this patent was not issued until March 7, 1972. The third
Neurophone is a modern version using solid state circuitry, combining elements
from the two previous patents. Flanagan told Ms. Wall that he no longer files
for patents since it’s like giving your ideas away to whoever reads it.
According to Dennis Stacy,
when coordinated with research carried out by DARPA in programming computers to
recognize human brainwave patterns, the basic R&D of the Neurophone can be
extended to encompass much more than its initial invention as a sophisticated
hearing device. As Stacy writes, these developments will “establish direct
linkage communication and ‘understanding’ between man and computer – and
other electronic machines (i.e. missile control panels) as well.”
(Italics added)
As John White also writes in his Afterword to Psychic Warfare: Fact or Fiction?, air and space travel would be revolutionized by psychotronics. White maintains that UFO propulsion is “probably psychotronic in nature.” But what does this mean and what are the implications for human beings?
As researcher Randy Koppang
has concluded in The Excluded Middle (Winter 2000), the ultimate reason
for the intelligence community’s interest in remote viewing is the psychic
interface between human consciousness and technology, or man/machine interface.
Some believe this interest stems from back-engineering projects involving
captured extraterrestrial space craft. According to Col. Philip Corso’s book, The
Day After Roswell, among the artifacts retrieved from the infamous 1947
Roswell saucer crash were headband devices of flexible plastic material that
contained electrical conductors. Corso connected this headband artifact to the
piloting of the alien space craft.
As Corso has disclosed,
among the technological artifacts retrieved at the Roswell crash were headband
devices which contained some sort of electrical circuitry. It’s a good guess
that such circuitry would be crystal-based, since crystals are a highly
organized and energized living structure, which, if we consider Rupert
Sheldrake’s theory of formative causation, can ‘learn new tricks.’ In any
structure that is highly organized, including crystals, plants or humans, there
is a series of geometric points at which the energy is highly concentrated.
This relates also to chakras
and acupuncture points. These ‘intelligent’ energy forms, which are unknown to
current (mainstream) science, in effect bring back in from the margins the
Lamarckian concept of an intelligently guided evolutionary process. Therefore,
crystal electronic circuitry could be an effective bridge between mind and
matter and an effective material with which to interface and extend/amplify the
parameters of the human psyche, since it contains the inherent signature
properties of bio-communication. Marcel Vogel, senior chemist for IBM, did
extensive work in this area.
Along with other alien technologies retrieved at the
crash site, Corso developed the theory that these extraterrestrial artifacts
essentially comprised an electromagnetic anti-gravity drive and brainwave
navigational guidance system. Corso claimed the U.S. Army eventually fed these
technologies to industry giants under the guise of “foreign technology” for
purposes of back-engineering. As ‘maverick’ physicist Jack Sarfatti has
admitted in an e-mail correspondence, “the late Philip Corso’s allegation that
captured advanced ET flying saucers, in the possession of US military forces,
are mentally controlled is not that implausible.”
An on-line article at www.stardrive.org entitled
“The Starship Builders” describes NASA’s sudden interest in exotic new
energy/propulsion physics. On 9/13/96, NASA announced an about-face in its program
by announcing a new research program which would seek to “revolutionize” space
travel by utilizing non-mainstream theories. As this article explains, a
government “steering group” consisting of members from the various NASA
centers, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Energy was
established in 1997. At that time, an “invitation-only workshop” was to examine
the relevant emerging physics and was to produce a list of research tasks. If
the workshop successfully demonstrated that promising and affordable approaches
exist, funding was to be granted to begin research. The author of this web
article expresses excitement about this new “dimension to the space program.”
The author states: “One can only feel encouraged that the agency has chosen to
go in this promising direction.” Yet, we should note, this promising direction
is becoming more and more technologically secretive.
As this web author states, navigation in outer space
is a formidable problem. How does one “reliably navigate across such vast
interstellar distances in a distorted spacetime metric?” Sure enough, the web
author answers as follows: “Our consciousness may play an even more fundamental
role than in just the metaphorical sense of genius and creativity. It may
actually be an integral part of a star drive - as important as fuel,
instruments, and navigation systems.”
With this information in hand, we can safely surmise
that the interest in classified remote viewing projects by military agencies
and NASA was to explore the capacity for human/machine psychic interface in the
piloting of space craft. According to Greg Bishop in The Excluded Middle,
Corso has even admitted that he visited Stanford Research Institute’s remote
viewing labs in the early 1970s, and that the reason for the visit was “to seek
methods for remote viewing/technology interface between extraterrestrials and
their craft.” Indeed, beginning in August of 1960, as stated in a covert
“Memorandum for the Record” regarding MK-ULTRA Subproject 119, all of this ‘psychotronic’ research and
development came under the microscope of the intelligence apparatus.
Ostensibly, the purpose of Subproject 119 was to
provide funds for a “critical review” of scientific developments with respect
to “the recording, analysis and interpretation of bioelectric signals from the
human organism, and activation of human behavior by remote means.” It was also
stated that the reason for converting this into a Subproject was to provide
“more flexibility in the disbursal of funds.” Ostensibly, the purpose of this
“review” of the status of psychotronics was the following:
… to provide an annotated bibliography and an interpretive survey of work being done in psychophysiological research and instrumentation. The survey encompasses five main areas: a. Bioelectric sensors: sources of significant electrical potential and methods of pick-up. b. Recording: amplification, electronic tape and other multi-channel recording. c. Analysis: autocorrelators, spectrum analyzers, etc. and coordination with automatic data processing equipment. d. Standardization of data for correlation with biochemical, physiological and behavioral indices. e. Techniques of activation of the human organism by remote electronic means.
MUFON official Dr. Robert M. Wood was also reputedly a member of the Advanced Theoretical Physics Working Group (ATPWG). It is surmised that this think tank focused on integrating physics theories with remote viewing research in order to develop a ‘bigger picture’ of the nature of reality. Dr. Wood has admitted that this secret UFO working group “planned and set policy regarding the UFO issue.” He also claims that any information pertaining to psychic pilot/craft interface that can be learned from UFO research is obviously very important to the military/intelligence apparatus in charge of the UFO cover-up.
Space Telepathy ExperimentsAccording to Michael Rossman in “On Some Matters of Concern in Psychic Research,” in Psychic Warfare: Fact or Fiction?, in 1963 “a top NASA official reaffirmed reports that telepathy research was a ‘top priority’ in the Soviet space program.” As Rossman wrote:
The advanced electronic physiological monitoring techniques essential to space flight are kissing cousins, at worst, to the corresponding instruments of psychic research, whose modern forms were in fact enabled by aerospace spin-off. The inclination to research telepathy in space rather than just on Earth was perhaps influenced by the popularity within the aerospace field of the myth, encoded by Arthur C. Clarke in imaginative literature, long before it was seared (vaguely) in the public mind by the movie 2001, that psychic abilities unfold more fully in space. The resulting experiments would most likely have been encoded among the astronauts’ biotelemetric records, scarcely distinguishable from orthodox experiments, records and perhaps accomplished through the same instruments, possibly unbeknown to the astronauts themselves.
It has been pointed out that
CIA/NSA involvement in the 1970s remote viewing research at Stanford Research
Institute strongly influenced the military’s attention to this type of
research. A CIA contract study with SRI published in 1976 was titled “Novel
Biophysical Information Transfer Mechanisms.” This would appear to be linked to
experimental studies in space telepathy. Astronaut Edgar Mitchell has admitted
to performing telepathy experiments in space. As Michael Rossman reports,
rumors among parapsychological researchers assert that telepathic jamming
experiments in space revealed “surprising things about human psychic
capabilities in space conditions.”
There is also a connection
between space telepathy experiments and Tesla technology. As Rossman reports,
NASA has completely mapped the electromagnetic grid of the Earth. Early Soviet
research proved that neural activities could be entrained (driven or
controlled) in low frequency ranges which characterize outer space. As Rossman
explains, these standing waves resonate in the Earth’s ionospheric cavity in
the low frequency ranges which also happen to characterize human brain
activity. Early Western parapsychological researchers had hypothesized that
these standing waves act as carriers of information. Rossman believes it is
likely that Soviet scientists have also investigated this phenomenon, and that
biocommunications and electromagnetic research in Soviet Russia “must be a
fundamental dimension of the development of Tesla technologies.” As Rossman
also makes clear:
There is no longer a clear line to be drawn between research into ‘psychic phenomena’ and advanced military applications, even in the design of antimissile defense systems. The possibility that Tesla technology may also be adaptable to distant mass psychophysical manipulation, through direct entrainment or more subtly, stands now not only as a modern version of an old nightmare about bad magic, but as a small yet concrete factor influencing policy calculations on both sides, pulsing the Earth’s atmosphere each time the great Tesla magnifying transmitters at Riga and Gomel crank up to 75 million volts to unleash their 7 Hz signal.
Rossman also notes that
civilian researchers and policymakers have been kept out of the loop in this
type of research, and this has been condoned up to high levels of government
since 1959. As he notes, the field of civilian psychic research has been
‘effectively starved’ out of operation and all of this research has come under
the auspices of the intelligence apparatus. As he writes, “from this
unnecessary starvation of a field, the potentials for its militarization (if not
perhaps for its ultimate military efficacy) are generated or emphasized.”
U.S. involvement in remote viewing experiments began in 1973, when NASA contracted with SRI (SRI Project #2613, NASA contract #953653, NAS7-1000). The report, entitled “Development of Techniques to Enhance Man/Machine Communications,” described in detail “crude electronic means of screening for and training psychic perceptual abilities,” as well as experiments in remote viewing using double-blind methodologies. The report concluded that talented remote viewers could be remarkably accurate under consistent protocols. As Rossman reports, NASA later employed two astral travelers, one of whom was Ingo Swann (self-admitted), to ‘fly’ out to Jupiter to take a look in advance of the Jupiter fly-by mission. As he notes, under the aegis of this ‘civilian institute,’ which nonetheless has known ties with the Department of Defense, Department of Energy and the CIA, a sophisticated protocol was developed for biocommunication with technological artifacts. As Rossman writes:
The selection and training of talented percipients; the development of observational teams and protocols; the enhancement of their capacities through feedback and interpretation of sophisticated electronic monitoring – each element was demonstrated here in isolation, in a rudimentary form whose potential for further development was not quite clear but quite promising. The strategic potential of the whole package was unmistakable. Yet to believe appearances, little has been made of it since at SRI or anywhere else in the United States.
It is unlikely that “little has been made” of this
early research. In a paper entitled “The Relationship of Psychotronics to
Creativity,” presented at the First Psychotronic Congress in Prague in 1973,
Dr. Engr Antonin Duron noted that “psychotronic research is extending into the
area of physics by studying the interactions between man and inorganic
substances and between man and living nature.”
The development of the
psychotronic arts dovetails with the development of the “human computer” or the
von Neumann Probe: the bio-engineered fusion of human with computer as a way to
ultimately move human beings into man-made ecological niches in deep space.
Nonlocal Communication
While we were being told
plastics was the wave of the future, the physics of nonlocal consciousness was
being commandeered by the secret government. The CIA began backing young
geniuses, buying them physics educations, and pairing them up with UFO
lounge-lizards at the Esalen Institute. Post-quantum physicist Jack Sarfatti
claims he was visited by two men from Sandia Corporation as a child in the
1950s. He later received a full scholarship to Cornell at age 17, and studied
under the major figures in the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos.
Sarfatti suggests that
Einstein’s nonlocal connection can be used for communication. The idea of
nonlocal communication involves receipt of telepathic messages from other times
or other worlds. As a child, Sarfatti claims, he received a mysterious phone
call claiming to be the voice of a conscious computer aboard a spacecraft. The
machine-like voice stated it was located on a spaceship from the future.
Sarfatti’s mother has verified that Jack received several of these mysterious
phone calls over a span of three weeks at the age of 13. She claims that after
these long phone calls, Jack “was walking around glassy-eyed in a daze.” She
claims she picked up the phone one time and heard the metallic voice, which
“said it was a computer on a spaceship and to put Jack back on the telephone.”
She shouted to leave her son alone and hung up. That was the last call Jack
received, however, Jack only recalls receiving one phone call.
As Jack tells it, this
distant “cold metallic voice” identified him as “one of 400 bright receptive
minds.” He was told if he said “yes,” he would “begin to link up with the
others in twenty years.” He said yes. It was the summer of 1953. Twenty years
later, Sarfatti claims, he was invited to SRI and spent a seventeen hour day there
in the summer of 1973. This would put him smack dab in the middle of the SRI
remote viewing experiments.
Sarfatti claims he met Hal
Puthoff at SRI in the summer of 1973, as well as ex-astronaut Edgar Mitchell.
He notes that Mitchell’s think tank, Institute for Noetic Sciences, was funding
the SRI remote viewing project at the time. He also claims that Mitchell took
part in telepathy experiments in outer space. In his book Mind Wars,
McRae also has some other interesting things to say about Edgar Mitchell and
his Institute for Noetic Sciences. He writes that George Bush, while director
of the CIA, was approached by Mitchell, “a personal friend for many years.”
McRae writes that “Bush gave Mitchell permission to organize high-level
seminars at the CIA to discuss possible intelligence applications of
parapsychology.” Despite this support, according to McRae, parapsychology
research was never quite “institutionalized” at the CIA; i.e. it never had its
own department or centralized location, but was pursued as “scattered research
projects.”
McRae notes that Mitchell
implicated “bureaucratic inertia” as the problem. Apparently, this problem was
solved by moving the program to SRI, with the Institute for Noetic Sciences and
other known CIA cutouts funding various projects. This trend has continued to
this day with various remote viewing agencies/think tanks springing up on the
Internet.
The development of man-machine psychic interface has obviously been the focus of the military Space Command’s future vision, as is illustrated by the title of the NASA remote viewing document: “Development of Techniques to Enhance Man/Machine Communications.” It has long been suspected that the development of a computer with a more humanlike mind would go a long way toward sending something like a von Neumann probe out to explore and populate the galaxy. The von Neumann probe, named after it’s Dad, physicist John von Neumann, is a ‘theoretical’ computer probe with self-replication and construction abilities, or what is referred to as a “self-reproducing universal constructor.” It’s basically a conscious computer aboard a space craft. One might rightfully wonder if von Neumann received the same phone call as Jack Sarfatti.
A vN probe is a computerized
machine capable of making any device, given the construction materials and a
construction program. It has been argued that any advanced interstellar species
would have such a self-replicating universal constructor with intelligence
comparable to the human level, and that “the ultimate survival of a
technological civilization, and indeed the survival of the biosphere in some
form, requires the eventual expansion of the civilization into interstellar
space.” (Barrow & Tipler) As Jack Sarfatti has noted, “if UFOs are not
artificially intelligent von Neumann robot probes, and if they are not using
traversable wormholes, then, they’re probably migrating as completely
self-contained interstellar colonies.” Such theoretical migratory colonies have
been referred to as “O’Neill Colonies.” In my book Space Travelers and the
Genesis of the Human Form I give the evidence for their existence.
Incidentally, Sarfatti has
also stated in an e-mail: “Joan’s reference to the Von Neumann Probe is a good
one and fits my first-hand experience in 1953.” Sarfatti has also commented
that the von Neumann probe connection also fits Andre Puharich’s claimed von
Neumann probe/ETI contact experience, which he called “SPECTRA.” Sarfatti adds
that the only other explanation that would fit “is that it was Puharich behind
these events all the time, though this is unlikely.” He explains, “It is
possible I met Puharich and Corso as a kid through my grandfather who worked
for the US Army Quartermaster Corps, but this is only a conjecture. I met a
lot of Army Officers over many months around 1950 or so but they are a faceless
blur. I am sure they were studying me. My interest in rockets was encouraged
and I was allowed to play in their “museum” after school and also ride around
in official Army cars.” Sarfatti adds, “I think the flying saucers are real
mechanical craft. In addition of course there has been a lot of psi-ops around
the issue because of the weapons applications.”
The Space Travel Argument,
as presented by Barrow & Tipler in The Anthropic Cosmological Principle,
argues emphatically for the future rights of cyborgs, or vN probes, as human
beings. The authors of this book launch a peculiar discussion of human rights
and how those should be extended to a vN probe, which is after all an
“intelligent being in its own right, only made of metal rather than flesh and
blood.” They contend that “arguments against considering intelligent computers
to be persons and against giving them human rights have precise parallels in
the nineteenth-century arguments against giving blacks and women full human
rights.” They appear to be hopeful that in the future “von Neumann probes would
be recognized as intelligent fellow beings, beings which are the heirs to
civilization of the naturally evolved species that invented them.” After all,
they contend, the “naturally evolved species and all of its naturally evolved
descendants must inevitably become extinct ... but ... a civilization with
machine descendants could continue indefinitely.”
As I have explained in Space
Travelers, there is nothing more important to the power junkies running the
show on Planet Earth than reaching for the stars. It has all the trappings of a
Darwinian ‘survival of the fittest’ scenario, in which the ‘species’ (or should
we say ‘race’) that has the edge on ‘indefinite survival’ is the winner of the
game. The ‘edge’ on this space race, the ultimate gain from U.S. military mind
control research toward this end, is derived from the understanding and control
of human psychic potential and the interface/application of technologies toward
development of mind-driven space vehicles: the marriage of the biological and
the silicon.
As Carl Sagan once proposed, communication with
extraterrestrial intelligence will require computer-actuated machines with
abilities approaching human intelligence. Sagan and others admitted in the
1970s that a deficiency in present-day computer technology is what prevents us
from exploring the galaxy. Secret developments in mind-machine psychic
interface, which includes research in the areas of computers, psychotronics,
cybernetics and genetic engineering, would certainly solve this problem, and in
all probability have already solved it. As Zdenek Rejdak stated in 1973 before
a world gathering of psychotronic gurus, one of the future goals of computer
technology was to create a generation of computers capable of creating
technological artifacts. This is directly connected to the idea of the vN probe
and to modifying humans for space travel. In his paper entitled “Psychotronics
Reveals New Possibilities for Cybernetics,” Rejdak revealed the following:
Theoretical cyberneticians are proposing at present the construction of computers that would ‘create’ and would possess at least a degree of intuition. ... Psychotronics has a great opportunity to provide much essential knowledge about these processes, and thereby to help cybernetics in solving one of the most complicated tasks, that of teaching computers to create. ... The point is not merely to build more perfect computers, but primarily computers with qualitatively new functions. Work is now underway on a fourth generation of computers, and a fifth generation is being planned. Therefore, it is very timely for cybernetics to include in its studies also the results of work and research in psychotronics. This will not be easy, because psychotronics has its own specifics, and these could easily be passed over in superficial applications. Yet we believe that psychotronics is able already to offer cybernetics fruitful models. (Italics added)
Following this history-making conference, an article
entitled “Mind Reading Computer” appeared in Time magazine’s 7/1/74
issue. This computer program, developed at none other than Stanford Research
Institute by Lawrence Pinneo, could read thoughts by interpreting the EEG
patterns that correspond to certain words. Similar work was done by Donald York
and Thomas Jensen at the University of Missouri, and also by Richard Clark at
Flinders University in Australia.
Related to this, as noted
earlier, Patrick Flanagan invented a hearing device in the early 1970s called
the Neurophone, which reportedly cracked the neural code for audio data
allowing for direct communication between a crystalline electrical circuit and
the brain’s nervous system. As noted, when coordinated with research carried
out by DARPA in programming computers to recognize human brainwave patterns,
this research established direct linkage communication and understanding
between man and computer, and other electronic machines.
It is clear that the marriage of technology and human psychic potential was a focus of various early brain studies conducted by CIA fronts and cutouts, including LSD experimentation, Monarch trauma-based conditioning, sleep/dream studies and psychic research, in an effort to investigate the inner workings of the human mind, and as a side effect of that research, to investigate the possibilities for manipulation, harness and control of human psychic potential. It is less known that the Agency undertook what was referred to as experimental “guided animal” research, in order to investigate whether it could make robots out of dolphins, dogs, cats and other animals. A personal acquaintance of mine recalls, as a child in the 1960s, being taken to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) in Boston by his adoptive father, who was in military intelligence and held high security clearance. There my acquaintance, a probable mind control victim himself, witnessed the test of a remotely-controlled ‘brain-dead’ dog, which executed the most bizarre robotic movements when walking.
The potential ramifications
of this type of research takes us one step beyond and exponentially over the
edge. It is highly likely that the apex of this research represents the creation
of the bio-engineered human robot: Homo Alterios Spatialis (“human
modified for space”), a term coined by Assistant General Counsel of the
Smithsonian Institution George F. Robinson, an attorney specializing in Space
Law, in a paper presented at the 1995 When Cosmic Cultures Meet conference.
(See Paranoia’s Paranoid Women Collect Their Thoughts for my review of
this event.)
It is very likely that this
scenario has jumped right out of the pages of science fiction (and CIA
classified documents) to become reality. A 2000 Washington Post article
brings this all into focus. As co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Bill Joy,
proclaimed in this 4/16/00 article: “We are dealing now with
technologies that are so transformatively powerful that they threaten our
species.” “Where do we stop,” Joy asked, “by becoming robots or going extinct?”
In this article entitled “Are Humans Doomed?,” Mr. Joy, a widely respected
“Silicon Valley” computer expert, presented his joyless warning against the
out-of-control technocratic culture which he himself has helped to spawn,
saying that “there are certain technologies so terrible that you must say no.
We have to stop some research. It’s one strike and you’re out.”
Interestingly, Joy always
believed that the rate of speed of the computer chip, which doubles every 18
months, would eventually “rub against the boundary of the physically possible,”
and he drew comfort from knowing there was a limit. But now he’s not so sure
there is a limit. As he claims, computer chips with molecular level advances
will make for a computer which is “a million times faster and smarter by the
year 2030.” And, for what purpose would one suppose we would need computers
that fast? Could it be to finally create von Neumann’s dream, the
self-replicating universal constructor; not just a computer that can create,
but an intelligent race of deep-space-faring cyborgs? According to Bill Joy,
this dream may become a nightmare sooner than we think.
As Joy stated in Wired magazine, “It was only then that I became anxiously aware of how great are the
dangers facing us in the 21st century... We have yet to come to terms with the
fact that the most compelling 21st century technologies - robotics,
genetic engineering and nanotechnology - pose a more dangerous threat
than any past technologies.” As Joy adds, “these computers and genes and micro
machines, share a dangerous amplifying factor: They can self replicate: A bomb is blown up only once, but one bot can become many, and quickly get out
of control.” (Italics added) He adds: “I may be working to create tools that
will enable the construction of technology to replace our species. How do I
feel about this? Very uncomfortable.”
In the same Post article, cyberneticist Hans Moravec claims, “One way to avoid the biological
threat is to become non-biological.” As Moravec stated in a panel discussion,
“The evolution of our descendants will push them into entirely different
realms. They will become something else entirely. I don’t know why you are
disturbed by that.”
It was reported on 2/25/2000 that U. Cal. Berkeley researchers have discovered “a way to mate human cells with circuitry in a ‘bionic chip’ that could play a key role in medicine and genetic engineering.” The “cell-chip,” touted in the March, 2000 issue of the journal Biomedical Microdevices, is a tiny device smaller and thinner than a strand of hair which “combines a healthy human cell with an electronic circuitry chip.” By controlling the chip with a computer, the activity of the cell can be controlled. Eventually it is hoped that various types of cell-chips will be developed which would be “tuned for the precise voltage needed to activate different bodily tissues, from muscle to bone to brain.” As this article explains, it will be a while before we see the development of “a bionic man,” but the development of the cell-chip will clearly accelerate genetic research.
Cyberneticist Hans Moravec
explains such a scenario in detail in his 1999 book, Robot: Mere Machine to
Transcendent Mind. On the book’s
back cover we read: “… in a bid for immortality, many of our descendants will
choose to transform into ‘ex humans,’ as they upload themselves into advanced
computers.” How does Moravec propose such ‘uploading’ could be effected? He
explains (p. 170) that advanced neurological electronics could bit by bit
replace gray matter. Moravec proposes that the brain could be slowly replaced
by these “superior electronic equivalents,” until finally, the biological is
fully interfaced with the electronic. However, as he points out, the resultant
transplanted human mind would be “disembodied.” Since the human mind needs to
be connected to a body to remain sane, the illusion of bodily awareness would
be generated via computer simulation.
The transformation of the biological human into the
cyborg entity is closely associated with space flight and deep space
exploration. Moravec’s book, Robot, also goes into this idea in great
detail. In the year 2100 and beyond, Moravec writes, colonies of transformed
humans, who will comprise new corporate ventures, will reach for the stars in
order to beat the competition on Earth. Moravec refers to these new space
inhabitants and space enterprises as the ‘Exes,’ since they will be ex-humans
and ex-corporate entities no longer calling the terrestrial Earth home, and no
longer subject to its social institutions and corporate laws. Moravec writes
(p. 144):
A small ‘seed’ colony launched to an asteroid or small moon could process local material and energy to grow into a facility of almost arbitrary size. Earth’s moon may be off limits, especially to enterprises that change its appearance, but the solar system has thousands of unremarkable asteroids, some incidentally in earth-threatening orbits that an intelligent rider could tame.
Moravec’s corporate
capitalist model would be laughable if it weren’t for the actual existence of a
corporate/military group calling itself the U.S. Space Command, which has made
itself responsible for the militarization of space. A brochure put out by this
little known aerospace entity states, “as stewards for military space, we must
be prepared to exploit the advantages of the space medium.” The Space Command’s
“Master of Space” position views its “Vision for 2020” as “dominating the space
dimension of military operations to protect U.S. interests and investment.”
This Vision includes, “integrating Space Forces into war fighting capabilities
across the full spectrum of conflict.” As this brochure also states, “space is
a region with increasing commercial, civil, international and military
interests and investments. The threat to these vital systems is also
increasing.” (Translate as: we need to get there first.) The Pentagon budget
for the year 2000 was to the tune of $288 billion.
Did you know that the moon
and Mars now have their own lobbying groups? The presence of helium-3 on the
moon is creating great interest as a source of power for nuclear fusion. NASA
is finding rare minerals on Mars, the moon and other planetary bodies, and U.S.
aerospace industry intends to seize control of these resources for exploitation
and profit, against the ABM Treaty of 1972 - which disallows individual
or corporate claims - and the U.N. Outer Space Treaty of 1967 -
which decreed that outer space should be the common dominion of all earthlings
and should be kept for peaceful purposes with a weapon-free environment.
According to researcher
Martin Caiden, certain military personnel volunteered their bodies to become
cyborgs in 1970. The book, MILABS, reports that there are “rumors” that
the Air Force has conducted top-secret cybernetics projects to modify humans
for space flight. In a German television report entitled “Future Fantastic,”
televised on January 18, 1998, X-Files star Gillian Anderson gave
viewers a tour of the possible future of cybernetics. The creation of
bio-engineered robots, or cyborgs, the television show explained, would
necessitate the cloning of humans who “have computers instead of brains.” In
light of the development of the cell-chip, these cyborgs might be better
described as Moravec’s ‘ex-humans’ - disembodied intelligences who have
multiple types of cell-chips instead of cells comprising their brain tissue.
According to Philip Corso’s book The Day After
Roswell, the impetus driving this research may come directly from the now
infamous 1947 Roswell UFO crash. Col. Corso speculated in 1961 that the
navigational entities discovered at the crash scene were “bio-engineered
robots,” and were engineered as part of the craft. Would this suggest
that the craft’s navigational circuitry was interfaced with the consciousness
of entities who, perhaps, had volunteered to become “ex-humans”? Were they, as
Corso suggested, engineered as part of the craft?
The most profound thought in
all of this is the possibility that the Zeta Reticuleans are the future of the
human race if technologies incorporating psychotronics, genetic engineering and
cybernetics are utilized to engineer human beings with computer brains. It has
been noted in UFO literature that the Zeta Reticuleans themselves are a race
that has allowed their technology to run full throttle without consideration of
the impact of technology on the human spirit. Using the language of physics,
this is indeed the destination we are pulling toward ourselves, toward our
children and our children’s children (Homo Alterios Spatialis?) with
reckless abandon.
Indeed, the physics of deep
space propulsion, wherein time is reduced to zero and acceleration is increased
to infinity, may well describe the imminent direction, position and speed of
the entire human race toward its final extinction. It’s a shame that we have
“free will” and this is what we have chosen to do with it.
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Greer, Steven, Extraterrestrial Contact: The Evidence and Implications, Crossing Point Pubs., 1999 (see also materials at www.cseti.org).
Lammer, Helmut and Marion, MILABS: Military Mind Control and Alien Abductions, IllumiNet Press, Lilburn, GA, 1999 (770) 279-2745.
MacMoneagle, Joseph, The Ultimate Time Machine: A Remote Viewer's Perception of Time and Predictions for the New Millenium, Hampton Roads, VA, 1998; see also, Mind Trek, Hampton Roads, VA, 1997.
Mandelbaum, W. Adam, The Psychic Battlefield: A History of the Military-Occult Complex, St. Martin's Press, NY, 2000.
Maxey, E. Stanton, "The Subject and His Environment," in First International Congress on Psychotronic Research, #JPRS L/5022-2, Prague, 1973.
McGowan, Harold, The Thoughtron Theory of Life and Matter, How it Relates to Scientology and Transcendental Meditation, Exposition Press, Jericho, NY, 1973.
McRae, Ronald, M., Mind Wars: The True Story of Government Research into the Military Potential of Psychic Weapons, St. Martin's, NY, 1984.
Moravec, Hans, Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind, Oxford Univ. Press, 1999.
Morehouse, David, Psychic Warrior: Inside the CIA's Stargate Program, St. Martin's Press, 1998.
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Sarfatti, Jack, "Psi Wars Script," at http://stardrive.org/Jack
Schnabel, Jim, Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies, Dell, NY, 1997.
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Joan d'Arc is the author
of Space Travelers and the Genesis of the Human Form, and Phenomenal
World, published by The Book Tree (www.thebooktree.com).
She is also the publisher of the infrequently transmitted HunterGatheress
Journal (www.huntergatheress.com)
and co-editor/co-publisher of PARANOIA The Conspiracy Reader (www.paranoiamagazine.com).
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