Ingo Swann (12 September 1996)
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Ingo Swann
How many of you here today would like to know you have at least
SEVENTEEN senses rather than just five of them? How many think
that seventeen would be better than just five? How many of you
here already know that you have more than five senses?
When Mohammed Ramadan and Clarence Robins asked me to come here
and talk about something, we had a little difficulty deciding
upon a topic worthy of your interest. Finally it dawned on me
that there exists what we might call a Particular Situation regarding
psychic or metaphysical perceptions and it was decided that the
nature of this Situation should be presented.
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This Particular Situation consists of three aspects or parts.
FIRST: During the modern past, the real existence of psi faculties
was rejected within science, psychology and psychiatry. The rejection
was based in a number of factors which seemed rational and logical
in the scientific past and thus achieved wide acceptance in scientific,
academic and media mainstreams of the twentieth century.
SECOND: Those factors which seemed rational and logical in the
past have now been superseded by significant scientific discoveries
and advances which substantiate the real existence of at least
certain psi faculties. Some of these discoveries are now fifty
years old. These new discoveries absolutely require a swift and
large-scale reevaluation not only regarding psi faculties in particular,
but with regard to the larger scope and subtle functions and transformation
of human consciousness.
THIRD: However, in spite of the notable scientific advances which
affirm the real existence of psi faculties, this necessary and
advisable reevaluation is NOT underway in the three important
mainstreams - and which mainstreams continue to support, adhere
to, and proliferate the now out-dated concepts which, in a broad
cultural sense, permitted the past, absolute rejection of psi
faculties.
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There is one outcome of this Particular Situation, and which can
be described by a term frequently used within United Nations parlance,
a term familiar to me as a past employee of the Secretariat. It
is used in many United Nations documents.
The outcome referred to is that if the past rationales which permitted
the rejection of psi continue to be proliferated by mainstream
pressures, then the scientific advances which substantiate the
real existence of certain psi faculties must be ignored or pushed
into the shadow of unawareness.
Thus, the discoveries CANNOT and WILL NOT be integrated into advancing
scientific thought, academic tutoring and fair media representation.
And in this suppressed or hidden state, the discoveries cannot
be integrated into the overall goals of the Society for Enlightenment
and Transformation which I have the honor of addressing today.
The well-used, sometimes over-used United Nations term for this
kind of situation is "deplorable" - and so the Particular
Situation I have outlined above is, well, deplorable. After all,
advances in scientific discovery are supposed to vitalize enlightenment
and transformation if they are made openly accessible. But when
such discoveries are ignored, they cannot contribute to much of
anything.
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Because of the Particular Situation I've outlined above, most
people are not aware that significant scientific advances HAVE
been made regarding substantive support for the real existence
of a number of psi faculties.
Many scientific papers have been published regarding the discoveries.
But because of the Particular Situation these remain ignominiously
dispersed through the various literatures and their implications
are not enthusiastically reviewed or endorsed in formal scientific,
academic or media forums.
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Messieurs Mohammad Ramadan and Clarence Robins, both indefatigable
workers on behalf of enlightenment and transformation, agreed
that I should attempt to present at least a nut-shell overview
of the developments which have not at all yet been socially permitted
to reach down into transformative social consciousness.
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To enter into this overview, it is first necessary to set the
stage as to why psi faculties were rejected in the scientific
past.
A historical review of the phenomena of rejection of psi shows
that there were multiple reasons for it. In their modern sense,
some of these reasons reach back at least three centuries.
Some of the reasons had to do with simple matters of tolerance
and intolerance both at the individual and social levels. But
others had to do with what was to be established as acceptable
or unacceptable knowledge at politico-social levels. Others had
to do with what was to be accepted as normal or abnormal social
and mental behavior, especially as regards the first six decades
of the twentieth century.
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The larger historical overview of the rejection thus presents
a fairly complicated picture, one which is difficult to negotiate.
In modern scientific terms, however, the major thrust of the rejection
was early consolidated within the concepts of philosophical materialism
which came to govern early modern scientific overviews and expectations.
As a philosophical commitment, then, the early modern sciences
held that whatever constituted scientific reality had to have
a physical basis in matter, in the material. And so the consolidation
of the rejection of psi was straightforward and simple: That psi
could not be accepted until a quantifiable, material-physical
basis for it, or any part of it, was identified.
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What this meant in simple terms was that the human could ONLY
access information for which physical receptors could be shown
to exist. The five physical senses were based in the physical
tactile mechanisms which resulted in the sensations of sight,
hearing, tasting, smelling, and touch. But psychic information
could not be attributed to any of these, since all of them functioned
only within the local environments of the physical body.
As a general result, the existence of additional senses was denied,
both scientifically and philosophically, and it was this denial
which resulted in the Five-Senses-ONLY theory which was pervasively
proliferated throughout modernist societies.
This scientific principle, for it indeed functioned as one, thus
served as the rationale and logic for the rejection of psi faculties.
I.e., no physical receptors for those faculties were expected
to be scientifically discovered. So the on-going rejection of
psi faculties was considered justified.
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It is worth pointing up something here which has dropped out of
modernist thinking. Anthropologists have established that in general
pre-modern societies did not think in terms of having SENSES.
As we might put it in today's computer lingo, they thought more
in terms of accessing information or knowledge and achieving perception
appropriate to them.
The conversion of the concept of accessing information to the
concept of having senses appears to have occurred only AFTER the
European Renaissance period. Indeed, it can quite easily be shown
that most of the major thinkers of the Renaissance were profoundly
preoccupied regarding HOW to increase and stimulate the accessing
of information.
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Thus, the concept that we are dependent on our physical senses
rather than dependent on accessing information dates from AFTER
the seventeenth century - while the concept of accessing information
is at least 6,000 years old.
In this light, the idea that we access information only via our
five physical senses IS modern. The concept that we are completely
limited to what we perceive by the physical five dates from only
about 1845, and was from the outset solely a scientific hypothesis
which has never been demonstrated by conclusive scientific fact.
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Nevertheless, the hypothesis that human
awareness is limited to the five physical senses has been a very
powerful one within modernist philosophical and scientific contexts.
So powerful, indeed, that early modern scientists never expected
to discover the existence of bio-physical receptors additional
to the famous five.
Information derived from other than the physical five senses was
thought to be impossible, at least in theory. And it was upon
this theory that psychic information, so-called, was scientifically
rejected.
Indeed, many leading scientists between 1845 and about 1960 let
it be known that there was "one scientific demand" which
would never be fulfilled: the discovery of bio-physical receptors
which would account for psychic information. So, scientific brotherhoods
united around the conviction that until physical receptors for
psychic information were discovered, then the information should
be considered as illusory or psychopathological in origin.
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Early psychical researchers and later parapsychologists of course
protested this rejection based solely on this "one demand"
of science. They indicated that if psi faculties were purely psychological
in origin and nature, then no bio-physical receptors would ever
be found.
However, by the same turn-around of the scientific argument against
the real existence of psi, should physical receptors for accessing
so-called psychic "information" be discovered, then
science proper would be obliged to accept that its one demand
was fulfilled.
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What has just been presented has long been characterized as the
"conflict" between science and parapsychology. This
conflict has often been distorted to include other factors. But
the basic factor clearly and unambiguously hinged on the absence
of bio-physical receptors which would account for the subtle kinds
of information so-called "psychics" deal with.
In parapsychological parlance, this kind of information came to
be called "extra-sensory" or "non-sensory."
These two terms unambiguously demonstrate that psychical researchers
and parapsychologists themselves did not consider that bio-physical
receptors for psychic information would ever be discovered.
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And it is from this context that the basic definition of "psychic"
is derived: i.e., lying outside of matter, physicality, the physical
sciences or knowledge of the physical universe.
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There is now a very interesting aspect to this conflict which
should be pointed out because it has great bearing on later developments.
If the conflict is dissected carefully, it reveals that scientists,
psychical researchers, or parapsychologists expected that any
bio-physical basis for psi faculties would be discovered.
Indeed, early psychical researchers looked for supernatural explanations
outside of any materialistic basis. By their own name, paraPSYCHOLOGISTS
clearly opted for a psychological explanation, not a bio-physical
one. And there is no evidence at all in the parapsychological
literature that parapsychologists invested any time either theorizing
or researching for a bio-physical explanation.
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This is to say, that any possible bio-physical explanation was,
and is, just as alien to parapsychology as it was to the material
sciences proper.
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Here matters rested - until the first electron-microscope was
developed in Germany in 1932, and later evolved in the United
States and Canada. After World WAR II, cellular biology underwent
a great jump in importance because of the electron-microscope
and even more penetrating and precise later technical advances.
Now began the slow process of comprehending that biological cells
were not the simplistic things once thought. Rather, they were
composed of ultra-minute factors which functioned in very remarkable
ways.
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Also, during the 1930s another development occurred which was
to have enormous importance and impact, an impact which is yet
in progress today.
The fact that biological organisms have some kind of electromagnetic
substrate was discovered about 300 years ago. But this substrate
was considered weak and unimportant in the face of the chemical
substrate which was thought to be very strong.
During the 1930s, however, researchers in various parts of the
world, and especially in the former Soviet Union, began to realize
that although the electromagnetic substrate was "weak"
it nonetheless played very important roles within the bio-chemical
whole of ALL biological organisms.
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Advances in bio-electromagnetism were somewhat delayed, however,
until appropriate technology could be invented to deal more adequately
with subtle bio-energy forms. The technology began to be available
during the 1960s, and by the late 1970s the extraordinary importance
of the bio-electromagnetic substrate could begin to be seen.
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A meaningful factor, somewhat amusing, now needs to be introduced,
one with which most people are probably not familiar.
Science and technology are often thought of going hand in hand.
But this is often not the case. The nearly invisible reason is
that the technically-minded and the scientifically-minded don't
appear to be the same kind of thinkers.
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Largely speaking, scientists are more likely to be theoreticians.
But technicians are more likely to be engineers.
Scientists theorize and try to test their theories. But technicians
build things, often just to see what the things can do. Indeed,
technical advances can often be several generations AHEAD of scientific
thinking. This is certainly the case with the computer industry
evolved largely by technician-types, not by scientists. Indeed,
many technological advances have been achieved by technologists
who possessed little in the way of legitimate or conventional
scientific backgrounds.
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The bottom line of all these developments
is that during the last forty years a very large series of new
research disciplines have come into existence. These new disciplines
constitute an intermixing of science, technology, microscopy,
subtle chemical exchanging, and electromagnetic and bio-electromagnetic
expertise.
Ahead I give a partial list of these new disciplines. But the
punch line here is that it was left to these NEW disciplines to
increasingly discover (much to their surprise!) the expanding
bio-organic basis for many faculties once merely thought questionably
"psychic."
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There is only one impediment regarding an integration of these
new disciplines with psychical and parapsychological research.
This involves the new nomenclature being evolved with these new
disciplines.
The new nomenclature is as alien to science as it is to parapsychology,
and at present both these venerable institutions are having difficulty
integrating it both conceptually and contextually. I will show
many examples of this ahead.
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But beyond this little difficulty, there is no doubt that many
of the advances being made in those new disciplines can be "married"
to many otherwise well-known psychic faculties - as I will demonstrate
at the end of this paper.
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At this point, I can't resist making one sardonic comment. Earlier
in this paper I have complained about the lack of scientific and
popular integration of the implications of these new discoveries.
But there is one group that has taken adequate and accurate interest
in these astonishing discoveries and which seems to be more or
less up to date regarding them. This group consists of the producers
and scriptwriters of the TV series STAR TREK and similar offshoots.
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The new and now on-going discoveries of biological bases for many
psi faculties is now best expressed, perhaps, as PARABIOLOGY,
meaning "beyond" past conventional concepts of biology.
Or, perhaps, the term PARAPSYCHOBIOLOGY is convenient - which,
if translated into Russian, would become the term translated back
into English as bio-communications or bio-information transfer.
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So far, the new discoveries regarding the biological bases for
psi faculties roughly fall into five categories. I have to get
a little technical here, but I'll simplify just ahead.
These five general categories are:
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If these new terms are somewhat confusing, well don't worry too
much.
They simply mean that we are FAR BEYOND the five-senses-only fallacy
and that our bio-mind bodies have multitudes of exceptional senses
by way of delicate systems of receptors and sensors at the cellular,
nervous, chemical and bio-electromagnetic levels and their interfaces.
A nice way to conceive the whole of this is to comprehend that
every cell, possibly every atom, in our bio-physicality is a receptor
or sensor of some kind.
In other words, we are walking, talking, eating, defecating ARRAYS
of exquisitely elegant and sophisticated receptors and sensors.
ALL of these receptors and sensors are busy ACCESSING information
- and knowledge, IF what is accessed can be organized into recognizable
thinking patterns.
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By extended meaning, these delicate systems of receptors can also
integrate with our normal five - and, given adaptive learning
regarding them, can also integrate with our mental cognitive powers
- to result in, yes, what have otherwise generally been called
"psi faculties."
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Now, to give you here some broad idea of the cutting-edge, largely
technical disciplines involved, I'll quickly read through a list
of twenty-one of them:
Electro-chemical physiology
Neurobiology
Neurobiology
Neuropsychology
Bio-radiation studies
Hormone and Hormonal transmission research
Chemical signal research
Bio-electric research
Brainwave research
Bio-sensitivity research
Bio-electric information transfer research
Sensory coding research
Bio-magnetic navigation research
Bio-electronic systems research
Bio-electric field detection research
Electrophysiological studies
Pheromone and pheromone transfer research
Multi-stability in perception research
Subliminal perception research
Neuro-magnetic response research
Bio-infrared and bio-ultraviolet perception research
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At this point, I could adumbrate upon more than a thousand scientific
papers about these discoveries published in the science literature,
even in the esteemed leading science periodicals such as NATURE,
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN and DISCOVER.
The authors of those papers, though, never use the terms psi,
psychic, or parapsychology, etc., since the mere introduction
of them would cause their papers to be rejected.
The editors and peer-review systems of such publications apparently
don't realize, for example, that "bioinformation transfer
over distance" means about the same thing as "telepathy"
and/or "clairvoyance," or "remote viewing."
But this is merely part of the Particular Situation I referred
to at the beginning of this talk.
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I now hold up in my hand before you, so you can see that it really
exists, a book published in 1984 via Simon & Schuster, by
Robert Rivlan and Karen Gravelle. This book is complete with bibliography
of scientific sources, but is easy to read. It's entitled, somewhat
misleadingly, as DECIPHERING THE SENSES: THE EXPANDING WORLD OF
HUMAN PERCEPTION.
Well, the world of human perception is NOT expanding. Rather,
ignorance of that world is shrinking a little.
The book might have been called something like THE DISCOVERY OF
THE BIOLOGICAL BASIS FOR PSI AND OTHER ANOMALOUS PERCEPTIONS.
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The discoveries brought together and presented in this book, although
in popular style, are based on hard scientific discoveries that
have been achieved in other disciplines outside and independent
of parapsychology.
And, as such, the sum of them clearly fulfills - at least regarding
certain forms of psi - the earlier scientific demand that a bio-organic
basis for psi be discovered.
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I'll quote from the book's fly-leaf; "For centuries we have
used an oversimplified and inaccurate model to explain the human
senses. Even now, high school biology classes still teach the
`five senses'. But recent scientific research has discovered that
there are many more than five senses, and these discoveries have
radically changed our understanding of what the senses are and
how they work. Rivlan and Gravelle redefine for the general reader
the spectrum of human perceptions from the normal to the newly
discovered to the extra-sensory."
As chapter one indicates, the book discusses "The seventeen
senses" additional to our usual five ones, and then goes
on to place the newly-discovered senses in context with the usual
five. The authors consume eight chapters to prepare the reader
- before they reach chapter 9, entitled "Extra-sensory perception."
Probably because of this chapter, the book was now well-received
and is now out of print. But it's well worth tracking down a copy
of it.
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Now, lest there be some misunderstanding here, the two authors
are NOT describing psychological or mental functions.
They are discussing the actual existence within our biology of
minute physical-chemical-bioelectromagnetic "receptors"
and "sensors" that interact within networks of the "information-processing
resources of the organism."
It is quite easy to ascertain that five senses are obviously NOT
ENOUGH to account for the huge range of sensory possibilities
of which the human species is capable, while seventeen senses
is probably a more accurate count, with more probably yet to be
discovered.
No one can survive very well on just five senses. Just ask any
seafarer, mountain climber, football or basketball player, explorer
or inventor, martial arts exert, or even someone seeking sex.
The moment "automatic reflexes" or "intuitive"
stuff enters into their talk, know that you have departed the
realm of the physical five and entered into the realms of additional
senses.
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As to what these seventeen new senses are. The seventeen new senses
interact with each other to provide a rather extensive list, many
of which have in the past been referred to as "psychic."
Since we don't have time here to go through them, I've brought
a few copies of that list to hand out, along with some copies
of this lecture, and all of which you are free to duplicate.
But, for example, the bio-body is now known to have a functioning
vomeronasal system containing receptors enabling, at the bio-subliminal
level, the detection of minute amounts of chemical signals that
tell us about anther's sexual receptivity, fear, anger, and other
emotions - an aptitude more commonly referred to as "psychic
vibe-sensing."
In another category, through the use of a newly invented device
called the SQUID, scientists can and have measured and begun to
classify the brain's electrical activity outside of the scalp
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Which in turn has led to discoveries that bio-electric activity
extends to some distance beyond the skin -
Which in turn has led to the discovery of bio-electric sensors
not only in the skin, but in the neuropeptide activity that transmits
all kinds of subtle senses information through the immune system
and into the brain - and back again into the body's extremities
and all its internal organs, including into its surrounding bio-electromagnetic
field.
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Now, discovered bio-electromagnetic fields extending outside the
scalp and outside of the skin clearly equate to the "auras"
that many clairvoyants have specialized in "seeing."
Drawing on authoritative scientific sources, Rivlan and Gravelle
even hypothesize that, and I quote, "thoughts may, indeed,
have wings, and some of us may have the ability to sense what
others are thinking" via these newly discovered bio-electromagnetic
receptor-sensing networks.
The two authors wonder: "Do some psychics and mystics have
this ability, vastly magnified, so they can sense the electricity
from considerable distances?" Well, there would have been
no question of this in antiquity - or even among Arabian or Mongolian
nomads today, as well as "street-smart" New Yorkers.
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Actually, this is the same question that those researching electromagnetism
and bio-electromagnetism have been wondering about for over fifty
years.
So it's worth pointing up here that the existence of extensive
bio-electromagnetism essentially was demonstrated late during
the last century, but its existence has not figured very much
either into scientific psychology or in scientific parapsychology
- both of these two field having managed mutually to ignore it
altogether.
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Did you know that in addition to yourself being a bio-meat body
with eyes, livers, hearts, and appetites of various kinds, you
are also a bio-electronic one? Have you ever thought of yourself
as such? If you begin to, well, something interesting might begin
to happen.
Dr. Robert O. Becker is one of the leading researchers in the
United States regarding electromagnetism and bio-electromagnetism.
With Gary Selden, he published, in 1985, a book entitled THE BODY
ELECTRIC: ELECTROMAGNETISM AND THE FOUNDATION OF LIFE (William
Morrow, New York), and which "tells the story of our bioelectric
selves."
A companion book is Harold Saxton Burr's BLUEPRINT FOR IMMORTALITY:
THE ELECTRIC PATTERNS OF LIFE (Neville Spearman, London, 1973,
republished 1988). Burr, by the way, is an American researcher
but could not find an American publisher for this seminal book.
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Bob Becker has made many unequivocal statements regarding the
psi implications of bio-electromagnetism.
For example, he published in PSYCHOENERGETIC SYSTEMS, 1977, Vol.
2, pp. 189-196, an article entitled "An Application of Direct
Current Neural Systems to Psychic Phenomena." He stated that
"The concept of a primitive electronic communication system
in all living things can be a useful tool in understanding both
`normal' and `paranormal' phenomena that have lacked a rational
biological explanation. Indeed, it appears that human beings are
tied to the universe in a web of electromagnetic energy."
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At this point, I believe I've now presented for you consideration
the rudiments of the Particular Situation I referred to at the
beginning.
The Particular Situation consists of three factors:
(1) science demanded that a bio-organic explanation for psi faculties
be found before it could accept them as real;
(2) bio-organic explanations have been found for many kinds of
psi faculties; and
(3) everyone seems to be ignoring both the facts and the implications
of (2) as just stated.
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As to more of what our additional senses are:
Did you know that the soles of your feet and the palms of your
hands contain minute magnetic receptors and sensors that "recognize"
minute and gross changes in local magnetism?
Here are the rudiments of dowsing, healing, and various rough
forms of psychometry which means psyching-out what something is
by merely holding it.
Alas, though. If you haven't built neural pathways linking these
sensors to your cognitive faculties, you probably won't be able
to sense what the receptors in the soles of your feet picking
up.
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In bringing this talk to a conclusion, recall that earlier I mentioned
the problem of the nomenclature which is acting as a barrier between
the new discoveries and more recognizable concepts of psychical
and parapsychological research. This same nomenclature is also
acting as a barrier between the new research and the problems
of enlightenment and transformation which are the objectives of
this Society for Enlightenment and Transformation.
To help begin the nomenclature bridge, I'd now like to give some
examples by which the two nomenclatures can be compared.
1. Receptors in the nose sensing systems that "smell"
emotions, and that can identify motives, sexual receptivity, antagonism,
benevolence, etc. (All these are formats of what are commonly
referred to as psychic vibe-sensing.)
2. Receptors in the ear sensing systems that detect and identify
differences in pressure and electromagnetic frequencies (formats
of ESP.)
3. Skin receptors that detect balance and imbalance regarding
what is external to the bio-body, even external at some astonishing
distances (formats of remote-sensing, a mixed form of ESP and
clairvoyance.)
4. Skin receptors that detect motion outside of the body, even
when the body is asleep (a format of subliminal ESP.)
5. Directional finding and locating receptors in the endocrine
and neuropeptide systems (formats of dowsing, intermixed with
formats of cognitive ESP or intuition.)
6. Whole-body receptors, including hair, that identify fluidic
motions of horizontal, vertical, diagonal, even if not visually
perceived (as, for example, in the "psychic" portion
of the martial art of Akhido.)
7. Skin receptors that "recognize" the temperament of
other biological organisms (a format of psi "reading".)
8. Subliminal sensory systems which locate and identify pitch
of sound, a sense of heat across great distances, a sense of frequencies
and waves, either mechanical or energetic (all being formats of
ESP and vibe-sensing, sometimes also referred to as "shaman
perceiving.")
9. Receptors that identify positive and negative charged particles
at the atomic level. (The term utilized for this in psychical
research is "micro-psi" but which is rare. However,
it has been convincingly demonstrated, especially in the case
of C. W. Leadbeater who published Occult Chemistry (1908). Thirty
years before the invention of the electron-microscope he correctly
described sub-atomic particles, many undiscovered at the time,
but discovered since. Micro-psi faculties are mentioned as one
of the ancient Sidhis of ancient India (see, for example, Yoga
Sutras of Patanjali).)
10. Microsystem transducing of various forms of mechanical, chemical,
and electromagnetic energy into meaningful nerve impulses (all
commonly thought of as FORMS OF ESP.)
11. Receptors that sense gravitational changes (a form of PSYCHIC
DOWSING.)
12. Neurological senses for interpreting modulated electronic
information by converting it into analog signals for mental storage,
interpretation, and cognition (one of the bio-mind bases for TELEPATHY.)
13. Bio-electronic receptors for sensing radiation, including
X-rays, cosmic rays, infrared radiation, and ultraviolet light,
all of these receptors being found in the retina of the eye (part
of the basis for various forms of CLAIRVOYANCE.)
14. Receptors that respond to exterior electrical fields and systems
(producing forms of CLAIRVOYANCE and AURA "READING.")
Today, the following highly specialized sensing systems are referred
to in the new sciences as HUMAN SEMAPHORE CAPACITIES.
15. Skin receptors for sensing perceptions of bonding or antagonism
(thought of as forms of INTUITION.)
16. Senses for non-verbal "language" communicating (thought
as a form of TELEPATHY or VIBE-SENSING.)
17. Combined sensing systems (neural networks) for making meaning
out of at least 130 identified nonverbal physical gestures and
twenty basic kinds of nonverbal messages (thought of as INTUITIONAL
CHARACTER ASSESSMENT or a particular form of CLAIRVOYANCE.)
18. Receptors that trigger alarm and apprehension before their
sources are directly perceived (a particularly valuable type of
PSYCHIC FORESIGHT, FORESEEING, INTUITION.)
19. Sensing systems for registering and identifying nonverbal
emotional waves (a form of INTUITION and/or TELEPATHY or CLAIRVOYANCE.)
The following are now known to be associated with the PINEAL GLAND
if it is healthy and in good working order.
20. Senses and memory-stores cycles of light and darkness, anticipating
them with accuracy as the daily motions of the sun and moon change
(a kind of PSYCHIC FORECASTING or FUTURE SEEING.)
21. Senses and responds to solar and lunar rhythms, solar disruptions
(flares, sunspots) and moon-caused tidal changes (water or geophysical
ones), and can sense "coming" earthquakes and storms
(a form of PREDICTIVE ESP especially noted in sailors, farmers,
but also in cows, dogs, cats, and snakes.)
22. If the pineal gland is fully functional, it acts as a nonvisual
photo-receptor (the psychic equivalent being "X-RAY VISION.")
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The following senses or sensing systems are similar to some already
mentioned, but they appear to function upon a completely different
basis and are additional those senses already mentioned.
It is now thought that this basis is almost certainly the WATER
contained in the bio-body, in the physical components of the nerve
systems, and the physical part of the brain.
It is not yet understood how WATER is used this way to create
a fluidic but elaborate series of interconnected sensing systems.
One of the best guesses, yet to be established, is that the vibrations
of the water molecules link together throughout the entire bio-body
and form the equivalent of radar or sonar antennae.
These liquid antenna sensing systems appear to detect the following
categories. Divided by categories, they can be thought of as individualized
and highly refined sensing systems. All of these categories have
been thought of as PSYCHIC, ESP, CLAIRVOYANT, or INTUITIVE - which
is to say, been thought of as unexplainable and hence impossible.
23. Sense of non-visual wave motions.
24. Sense of non-visual oscillating patterns.
25. Sense of magnetic fields.
26. Sense of infrared radiation.
27. Sense of electrical energy.
28. Sense receptors for local AND distant sources of heat. (This
is an unnamed PSI faculty, but one familiar to Amerindians.)
29. Sense of geo-electromagnetic pulses, magnetic fields, especially
biological ones (psychic equivalents unidentified and unnamed.)
30. Although the mechanisms are not at all understood, the liquidic
sensing detectors apparently are somehow involved in the remote
sensing of anything at a distance, however great. The results,
of course, are remote viewing, remote hearing, remote tasting,
and so forth.
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Finally (although there is no "finally" here), we come
to sensory systems' receptors spread throughout the entire bio-body,
and which apparently feed information into the mind-body interface
(if "interface" would be the correct concept.)
31. Whole-body receptors (millions of them) to detect pheromones,
sexual receptivity, fear, love, admiration, danger, pain in others,
intentions in others, etc., (all formerly thought of as inexplicable
forms of ESP or so-called VIBE-SENSING and/or PSYCHIC `READING".)
Please note that the list above
is not complete and is presently in process
of being extended.
*
With the invention of the electron microscope in the early 1930s,
large amounts of data had accumulated by the 1950s which irrevocably
substantiated that the human being possessed very many more senses
than only the infamous physical five.
*
As of the late 1950s, then, there was no longer any justifiable
reason to continue teaching and emphasizing the five physical
senses.
And, as well, there was no longer any justifiable reason to continue
the mainstream debunking of so-called psychic perceptions - because
bio-mind receptors have been located and confirmed for a lot of
them.
*
During the 1960s and 1970s, the scientific information pool of
this kind of discovery had increased enormously - the sum of which
brought a complete end to the concept of the five physical senses
only.
A "complete end" at least in a scientific sense. But
not in a cultural sense - because the meaning of these sensory
discoveries is still being completely ignored in the cultural
and ideological milieus, even though technical and popular books
became available.
*
One of the better, more easy-to-read technical books was SENSATION
AND PERCEPTION: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH, by H.R. Schiffman, John
Wiley & Sons, New York, 1976. This book is still invaluable
today, and provides an extensive bibliography of sources.
As already noted, perhaps the best popular book, certainly very
easy to read, was DECIPHERING THE SENSES: THE EXPANDING WORLD
OF HUMAN PERCEPTION, by Robert Rivlan and Karen Gravelle, Simon
and Schuster, New York, 1984. The first chapter of this book identifies
and discusses SEVENTEEN SENSES, and also has a competent bibliography
updating the one found in the Schiffman book.
*
Both of these books, as well as others, were almost completely
ignored, and the conviction that we possess only five physical
senses continues to hold sway today.
You see, it is possible to conclude that these books were ignored
because they tended toward encouraging people to take justified
interest in their extended sensory systems, and perhaps to begin
unfolding them.
*
Today there is no justification at all for the continuation of
anti-psychic belief systems. There is no justification to teach
that we have ONLY five physical senses, and there is every justification
to teach that we have very many others.
There is also no justification to continue suggesting that there
is a difference between sensory and extra-sensory perceptions
and information. The discoveries regarding our numerous senses
and sensing systems obliterated the boundaries which, in the uninformed
past, tended to artificially separate them.
Instead, we need to think more basically
in terms of INFORMATION. It is information that is important,
regardless of the manner in which it is acquired, or via which
sensory systems are utilized to do so.
*
To help more fully integrate the information presented in this
paper, I'm obliged to point up something which, to my knowledge,
has not been considered elsewhere.
If we think only in terms of senses and/or sensing systems, then
in very subtle ways we may be distinguishing between them and
ourselves. It is true that we do "have" or "possess"
senses and sensing systems. But something else is also true, and
it is very important that it should be grasped.
*
We ARE our sensing systems. And what we call "WE" or
"US" or "SELF" is in some full part neither
no more nor no less than our sensing systems are acknowledged,
developed, and utilized. Since we ARE our sensing systems, the
full nature and realization of them must in some direct sense
be completely meaningful to the overall goals of this important
Society for Enlightenment and Transformation.
In closing here, please note that all of the books I have mentioned
contain extensive and excellent bibliographies of published scientific
papers. Please refer to them if you are interested in such sources.
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