ESP and the Future
The most important thing to realize about ESP and other psychic faculties is that we do possess them, that they are inherent in our species which we describe as thinking, sensitive, and creative, possessing many different degrees of awareness.
Extrasensory capabilities have been recorded from ancient times through today, a record which suggests two things: that it has been rather impractical of us not to make a more concerted effort to understand our psychic nature; and that we may never really understand some of the greater mysteries of ourselves until we understand our psychic capabilities as natural attributes of our species.
I have always held that we have a virtual right to understand ourselves in the greatest way possible, and I fully believe that the elements in our society which disregard and jeopardize this right are doing so from motives which are clearly questionable. ESP capabilities are demonstrated in children, teenagers, young and older adults, and often even upon deathbeds—and not by just a few, but by what might even he the majority of us if proper surveys were taken. Natural ESP functions are striving to work within us. It is only our social and scientific reluctance—not our individual reluctance—which has kept us ignorant of these natural and very wonderful functions.
Each of us can have our individual opinions about natural ESP and other psychic faculties, but the larger society has to acquire a more explicit sense of the necessity to understand these faculties in order to begin the cultural effort of incorporating them into acceptable reality. The specific reasons to begin cranking up this effort have to be seen as good ones.
Prior to 1969, no larger necessity existed for changing, in the over-all cultural sense, the many negative prevailing attitudes about ESP; psychic matters could be kept boxed-up in the fringes. But in 1969 American intelligence analysts began learning, much to their initial disbelief, that researchers in the Soviet Union had become deeply involved in understanding ESP and its potential applications. The cold war was very hot at that time, and many analysts began wondering if an ESP gap existed between us and the then aggressively militant Soviet Union. As a result it suddenly became necessary to dig into psychic potentials, not essentially in order to understand them, but to try to understand what the Soviets were psychically up to. Could trained Soviet psychics spy on internal American military affairs? Here, then, was a very pressing question.
Thus, for the first time in psychical history, governments were expressing more than just a passing incredulous interest in the potential applications of ESP. It was an interest related not only to intelligence gathering, but had direct implications bearing on the control of human behaviour. Could trained Soviet psychics actually intrude into the mind of the President (for example) and psychically implant suggestions beneficial to the Soviets? This was a big worry, and by the mid-1970s many governments had established official, but quite secret, psychic working groups, including the United States, the British and the French, and, to increase the worry, the still ardent Communist Chinese, too.
Whether our society, science, or academia as a whole believed in the reality of psychic faculties was now somewhat beside the question. Apparently the Soviets did, the Chinese might, and this brought to the matter a different kind of urgency. The threat-potential of Soviet psychics at least had to be determined, and this by necessity required the quick achievement of a better understanding of psychic potentials as a whole. Suddenly, almost out of nowhere, a new psychic-centered priority had appeared.
The American media, of course, had a field day with all this, and during the 1970s and early 1980s a largely disbelieving public was astounded to read about the psychic gap in a virtual blitz of stories, not merely in sensational tabloids but in the pages of some of the most respected publications. As a result, many began to view psychic functions in a different light. Here was a new sense of the necessity of understanding ESP and other psychic faculties, a necessity which parapsychology, with all its efforts, had never managed to stimulate. And from this point onward into the future, the possibility of psychic potentials could never again be omitted from the investigative-comprehension roster of anyone seriously wishing to understand human potentials.
What can easily be called a psychic realism began to be born, a realism which is almost certain to take on magnitude as we are impelled into the future, if for no other reason, as a result of the expectation that someone somewhere will have psychic breakthroughs which will result in applied psychic potentials. If this should occur, then no nation can afford to be left out of the psychic picture, so to speak, for by virtue of having no psychic effort of their own they are quite apt to discover that some other nation will have acquired a psychic potentials advantage.
Happily, the cold war is now over, and the issue of a potentially dangerous psychic gap has virtually disappeared, at least from public view. The necessity the psychic gap represented is in temporary retirement, awaiting re-emergence when and if it is discovered that some nation is again trying aggressively to develop applied psychic potentials. But the greater yield of the Soviet-USA psychic gap flap was at least two-fold, resulting in two reasons which have altered the course of psychic research forever.
First, never again can psychic matters be completely disrespected or denigrated as was the case before 1969. Second, there remain the reasons why the Soviets became interested in psychic potentials in the first place, reasons which caused them to establish at least nine major psychic research centers—albeit not under the name of psychic research, but as psychotronics, psychoenergetics, biocommunications, and, most significantly, electromagnetic bioinformation.
As early as 1924 Soviet researchers discovered and began to acknowledge something which Western scientists elected to disregard—that psychic functioning is indigenous and natural in the human species. And, if this is so, then there must be biointernal processes which govern that functioning, processes which could be developed and enhanced. The Soviets early made the correct strategic guess by assuming that such functions were probably bio-electromagnetic in nature, a fact which can easily be determined by noting their selection of nomenclature—electromagnetic bioinformation, and so forth.
This bioelectromagnetic approach to natural, human psychic capabilities left Western scientists and parapsychologists completely out in the cold. For one thing, prevailing opinion in Western science held that if the human organism possessed electromagnetic functions they were of minimal importance—an error of assumption shared by parapsychologists who, themselves, had never pursued this line of thinking.
By 1985 the important facts of bioelectromagnetism began to be understood in the West, and it was soon accepted that the human bioorganism not only possesses a bioelectromagnetic nature, but is structurally built upon one.
The implications of human bioelectromagnetism are particularly awesome. For example, increasing understanding of our bioelectromagnetic nature will completely revise medicine, healing, and psychology. Never again can it be considered that the human is solely a dense material body exclusively governed by chemical processes. We are, as it were, electronic, and in the number of ways cogently described (as well as by other researchers) by Dr. Robert O. Becker in his two books The Body Electric and Cross Currents.
The concept of bioelectromagnetism is relatively new, and many may not have the least idea of what it is all about. Basically, we, as biological organisms, are built out of genetic materials, which create our skeletons, muscles, nerves, organs, skin, and give us our individual characteristics. The whole of this remarkable bioconstruction depends for its running upon chemical functions which are quite complex. It has been known for quite some time that our bodies also possessed an electric nature, but that nature was thought to be of minimal importance—so minimal that no word was coined for it in the Western hemisphere.
Greater study of this electrical nature has led to the increasing understanding that bioelectromagnetism is more important than thought; and some of these advances have revealed that beneath all our other physical attributes exists a profound electromagnetic plan or blue-print which guides and positions every cell and molecule in our bodies. These discoveries are extraordinarily important, and their implications were set forth in Harold Saxton Burr’s 1972 book entitled Blueprint for Immortality: The Electric Patterns of Life.
One of the important implications of all this is readily understood: it is known that if our electromagnetic blueprint is damaged, so then must be the associated physical aspects of our bodies. The possibilities of correcting the damaged bio-EM component, which will result in a more healthy rebalancing of the affected physical parts, are mind-boggling. As anyone familiar with acupuncture well knows, the needles pushed into the acupuncture points reorient and correct the hung-up electromagnetic channels, allowing for cures of physical ailments. These bio-EM discoveries will, without doubt, alter the older concepts of medicine and healing, for example, as well as a host of other situations which have not yielded to a purely physical or chemical interpretation of human life processes.
In addition, the discovery of the importance of bio-EM has enormous implications with regard to the way we might understand psychic potentials.
The nature of electromagnetism is best understood by the average man or woman as the waves and frequencies which carry information, making radio and TV possible. Anything which is electromagnetic also is capable of receiving and sending information across distances and, most importantly, by virtue of being essentially electromagnetic is joined to the electromagnetic universe at large. For various kinds of electromagnetism penetrate everything. The human, then, built upon electromagnetic foundations surely is capable in joining the electromagnetic universe, and also in sending and receiving information via bioelectromagnetic means and processes.
It is true that these means and processes are not yet understood, but the facts relevant to psychic potentials are quite clear. If the human is built upon bioelectromagnetic structures, then the human also must be potentially psychic, and is probably psychic at levels beneath the individuals awake and intellectual forms of consciousness. Hence the Soviet terms biocommunications and bio-information transfer, both terms referring to dioelectromatic exchanges of information, even if these exchanges are not perceived by the average human who has, of course, never been trained to notice them.
The whole of this bioelectromagnetic development puts psychic potentials in a completely new and different light, and clearly explains why the Soviets (who first realized the psychic importance of bio-EM potentials) established so many research centers to delve directly and deeply into psychic matters. For bioelectromagnetic theories make something possible which was not at all possible before. They provide a theoretical scientific explanation for the existence of human psychic potentials—an explanation which had not been available before, and in the absence of which it was, in the ways scientism works, possible to discredit the existence of those potentials.
As Dr. Becker says in Psychoenergetic Systems (Vol. 2, pp. 189-196, 1977), and as I paraphrase, in commenting on the relationship between psychic capabilities and electromagnetism, the present attitudes of organized science held that psychic phenomena did not exist because no mechanism was known by which they could be seen to exist. The implication of those attitudes was that all the mechanisms of all accepted biological phenomena were understood—which never has been the case. The lack of logic in these attitudes becomes apparent when one realizes that all phenomena, whether accepted or not, must be related to some function of the nervous system, and all to some degree relate to the mind-body problem. Any mechanism explaining any one of these functions can be applied as a frame of reference for all the remaining functions. Such a mechanism must surely be a means of communication related to the nervous system, but functioning quite differently from those which we presently ascribe to it. Bio-EM not only governs our internal functions, but links each biological organism to others and to the environments in which they live.
In other words, no reason for the existence of psychic capabilities could be found in biochemical studies alone, or in psychological ones, and so the possibility of psychic capabilities as being real was rejected. Bioelectromagnetic advances bring clearly into focus the reason why psychic capabilities have to be accepted. And, as we progress into the future, no serious researcher of bioelectromagnetism will be able to avoid the issue of psychic capabilities.
Thus, the pro-psychic/anti-psychic deadlock is now broken, and can never again be deadlocked—unless we also deny our electromagnetic nature. A prospect which is not likely any longer as the new sciences evolve: those new sciences which are obliged to rethink their old terms of reference, and change them to accommodate the facts and implications of our bioelectromagnetic/psychic nature.
Some of these changes are already critical with regard to psychic capabilities. For example, countless psychics through the ages have claimed that the human body is surrounded by an aura, and many, including children, not only could see it but described in detail the auras colors and shapes. Yet, the prevailing opinion in our modem, Western sciences held that the aura did not exist, and so of course psychics could not see it. However, it is now completely understood that the human body, as a bio-electromagnetic-dynamic engine, does possess an aura—which is called a bio-field in keeping with the new science of bioelectromagnetism. All forms of electromagnetism are composed of fields. The parameters of the human bio-field, extending on average some three feet beyond the surface of the skin, are now being measured by magnetic instruments.
The age-old sightings of the aura/bio-field are thus vindicated, and the only question which remains is how these sightings can occur. The human eye is probably not the complete source of these sightings, since the eye registers only that narrow band of frequencies and wave-lengths in the electromagnetic spectrum called the light band; whereas the bio-field is composed of many other frequencies which do not register on the cones and rods of the eye.
A great pro-psychic lesson is to be learned from this one issue alone. There is now no doubt at all that the bio-field exists, nor that it can be measured by delicate magnetic devices. In other words, and to be quite clear here, progressing science is now equipped to measure a bioelectromagnetic phenomenon, the bio-field, and this bio-field is something which psychics have said they could see all along, although traditionally referring to it as the aura.
The full implications surrounding this one issue have not yet fully been absorbed into science and academia: which is to say, that many scientists have not yet made the direct connection between psychic perception of the aura and the instrument preception of the bio-field. Yet there can be little doubt that this connection will be made in the West, and indeed has already been made in the Soviet Union and in China, the latter possessing the ancient craft of acupuncture which clearly deals with bioelectromagnetism.
The implications of this connection are enormous. If many people can see auras, alias bio-fields, then it must be assumed that the human organism possesses electromagnetic receptors of some kind which enable the seeing to take place. Admittedly what these receptors are is not yet fully understood, but their existence now must be taken for granted. And it must also be assumed that these receptors are not limited only to the seeing of bio-fields, but must also somehow enable the individual to engage in sightings of targets beyond the bio-field and hidden out of sight of eye-ball vision of them. Once these probabilities are considered, the contents of Everybody’s Guide to Natural ESP begin to take on a new light.
The documentation given in this book establishes beyond question that people can receive at least pieces of information regarding targets hidden from their physical sensing systems, and often get enough of that information to reproduce an entirely credible image of what is hidden. The existence of bioelectromagnetic sensors must now be taken for granted, and the only factor which remains is discovering and understanding the processes by which this information is obtained, converted, and made intelligible to intellectual awareness. Which is to say, that psychic perceptions can no longer be discredited at all, the only question now remaining is how they work.
Nor can the fact be discredited that ESP functions through special processes, which obviously must be considerably different from those processes utilized by our physical sensing systems. In the documentation given in this book, I have provided evidence of some of these processes, information which clearly shows that these processes, whatever they may be, are essentially similar in everyone.
Everyone attempting to learn to utilize their ESP functions encounters relatively similar difficulties.
Since the difficulties are similar, we must assume that the processes in their untrained state produce similar error fallouts, which can be recognized as such but also indicate the existence of an untapped ESP core in everyone—a core which, if we understood it better, obviously could be subjected to regimented developmental training to yield high-stage ESP functioning.
In the future, then, interest in psychic capabilities will not recede from view, nor remain consigned to a questionable category. Indeed, physic capabilities will gain more prominence as we proceed into the twenty-first century. I suspect, though, that the term psychic and many other unsuitable parapsychological terms will disappear, to be replaced with fresh terms more appropriate to the new, emerging bio-EM understanding and realizations.
The exploration of ESP and other psychic faculties clearly will occupy a prominent place in the future. This prospect may seem unreal to us living today amid a prior history in which psychic matters were deemed illusory or irrational. But as bio-EM understandings advance, as they surely will, then what we have called ESP and psychic will gain in prominence and importance. The purely materialistic image of the human will have to give way to another image which incorporates bioelectromagnetic implications. ESP and other psychic faculties, if under other names, will increasingly constitute a central focus in the years to come.