SCIENTISTS in Switzerland have discovered particles that exceed the speed of light -- with the added surprise that the particles simultaneously "think" alike and do so even though they are seven miles distant from each other.
So, you might ask, what can this discovery possibly have to do with Psi and the biomind superpowers? Answer: Plenty -- it would seem. But to grok this, a bit of background is necessary and I'll take the time to serve it up.
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BACKGROUND: During the late modern period (c. 1845-1985) several "scientific" OBJECTIONS to Psi phenomena became ACCEPTABLE in science proper.
During this period, the ASSUMED legitimacy of the objections was seized upon to discredit not only the phenomena but those interested in them.
In this sense, then, "resistance to Psi" was seen by scientists as having DE FACTO scientific merit. In this scientific view, psychical and parapsychological research were considered "unscientific" in their entirety. This view naturally led to a plethora of social contortions regarding Psi.
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For clarity, then, in the past "scientific objection" has meant that grounds for the objection have rested upon real or assumed scientific certitude that the superpowers were not based in or could not be explained by science.
Thus, anything that did not fit either with real or assumed scientific knowledge could be objected to simply because it did not fit. If one follows this line of thinking, it is possible to discern a factoid fallacy present having to do with the possibility that ongoing discovery and scientific progress MIGHT shift around the known parameters of scientific knowledge. In other words, what was once thought impossible suddenly becomes possible.
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In any event, in the larger picture of all of this, it more or less would stand to reason that if the bases of the objections could be removed, then an approach to the phenomena of Psi would become increasingly legitimate.
This is to say, bluntly I suppose, that if the bases for the objections proved themselves in error, then the objections should no longer be maintained as such.
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THE MAJOR OBJECTION: Of the many scientific objections to Psi, there has always been a major one: that the phenomena were scientifically seen as disobeying the laws of matter, energy, space and time - this disobeying also constituting the basic definition of human superpower faculties as set forth elsewhere in this database.
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To re-emphasize: Since the inception of psychical research (circa 1882) and parapsychology (circa 1932), Psi phenomena were scientifically objected to under the hubris that there was, and never would be, a scientific basis for them.
Translated, this meant that nothing could disobey the laws of space and time, matter and energy -- except in fantasy or illusion or science fiction.
Translated further, some Psi phenomena apparently did achieve this disobedience, and so they were fantastic, illusory, science fiction -- or worse, such as psychopathologic.
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This scientific concept achieved an "iron-clad" status, completely justified because science didn't "expect" to find anything that disobeyed the laws of the material universe. And with this concept in hand, it was turned into the iron fist of science utilized to beat up on Psi researchers and the gullibility of pro-Psi peoples everywhere.
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It is now relevant to point up that the AUTHENTICITY of this concept would simply and always depend on science NEVER discovering ANYTHING that disobeyed the laws of energy, time, space and matter.
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For clarity here, a general example of Psi-disobeying seems appropriate.
Regarding clairvoyance, it was not understood how the mind of a perceiving clairvoyant could instantaneously coincide with the object or event being perceived, especially if the event was at great distance.
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THIS would mean that the perceiving mind of the clairvoyant had to be in two places simultaneously -- i.e., within the clairvoyant's head AND at the distant location.
Scientifically speaking, there existed very apparent good grounds for denying this "simultaneousness" -- in that confirmed scientific laws showed that matter and energy were ALWAYS separated by space and time of some kind - and so nothing could be in two places at once, including the mind of an alleged clairvoyant.
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Then, there was the matter of speed. If the "speed" was so speedy as to be interpreted as instantaneous and simultaneous - or at least if the speed was to be faster than the propagation of light -- then here was a double impossibility.
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The speed of light IS fast. Our planet is about 93 million miles distant from the Sun, yet, if I remember my studies correctly, it takes only about 8 minutes for photons (light particles) emitted by the Sun to reach Earth's ionosphere. But even such 8-minute speed is nowhere near being simultaneous.
Interplanetary, interstellar and intergalaxy time is measured by light-years of time -- meaning how fast/far light photons can travel as measured against one Earth-based year.
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That nothing could go faster than the velocity of light became an established "law" at some point before the turn of the century -- and was vehemently stated as such by many scientists, including Albert Einstein.
However, there had always been speculation that other speeds were possible. With the advent of quantum physics, various theoretical problems regarding the speed of light began to be encountered regarding certain phenomena that could not be explained UNLESS speed in excess of that of light was incorporated.
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The nature of these quantum problems is quite technical and arcane, and I certainly don't comprehend their intricate aspects.
But I do have a better grasp on what is meant by "signals." And it is the idea of signals that gives a clue as to WHAT might exceed the speed of light.
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Without needing to go into intricate details, it was noticed in quantum physics research, for example, that two photons distant from each other could "behave" in exactly the same way, manifest the same behavior simultaneously, while the apparent simultaneity of the behavior disobeyed the law of the speed of light.
Very roughly speaking, this meant that the photons were simultaneously sharing "signals" or "information" of some kind, although the photons were discretely separated by standard laws of matter, energy, space and time.
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Again very roughly speaking, this kind of situation is found in the matter of clairvoyance where the clairvoyant and a distant event are "exchanging signals" -- or at least the clairvoyant is simultaneously deriving or sharing in "information-bearing signals" with the distant event, location or activity.
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The distinction here between photons and clairvoyants is, of course, a very wide one. But if "signals" are considered, then the wide latitude decreases tremendously via the concept that somehow, somewhere at the quantum level information signals are being exchanged via some kind of phenomena that exceed the speed of light. This suspected phenomenon was sometimes referred to as "quantum spookiness" or "quantum weirdness."
Implicit in this concept is that not only do photons (or other kinds of particles) simultaneously exchange information at the quantum level, but that some aspect of human consciousness also participates in the quantum level of simultaneous information sharing or exchange.
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Although it was suspected in some groups of quantum physicists that simultaneity of signals did exist, a controlled, definitive experiment to confirm it was missing.
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THE DISCOVERY: Reference is now made to an article found in the science weekly, SCIENCE, Vol. 277, July 25, 1997, p. 481, entitled "Quantum Spookism Wins, Einstein Loses in Photon Tests."
But regarding this title, I'll point up there is no particular reason to beat up on Dr. Einstein in a scapegoat kind of way in that the idea that loses belongs to "iron-clad," conventional science per se.
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In Geneva, Switzerland, during July 1997, a quite grand experiment set up by Dr. Nicolas Gisin and colleges of the University of Geneva. The experiment permitted twin photons of light some seven miles apart to respond simultaneously to a stimulus applied to just one of them.
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As here described briefly from reports, the experiment sent pairs of photons, one each, to a distance of some seven miles opposite each other along optical fibers used to transmit telephone calls.
Upon reaching the ends of the fibers, each of the two photons were "forced" to then make random choices between alternative and equally possible continuing pathways.
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Standard, or conventional, scientific wisdom would hold that there was no way for the photons to communicate with each other. Thus, it could be predicted that the "independent choices" of the photons would bear no relationship to each other. In other words, each of the photons would go on their way, in different directions, and presumably with different behavior.
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However, when the paths of the two experimental photons were properly calibrated, the paths and "independent choices" of two photons time and again matched identically - even though there was no physical way for them to "communicate" with each other. And so "simultaneity faster than the speed of light" had been confirmed.
ENTANGLED PARTICLES. Since the 1970s, quantum physicists had been considering and testing a prediction of quantum theory that "entangled particles" will instantaneously continue to "communicate" with each other even when very far apart.
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The technical definition, so far, of "entangled particles," refers to particles that are identical entities that share common origins and properties, and remain in instantaneous touch with each other no matter how wide the gap between them.
As I understand it at the moment, "the gap" so far is considered to be one of distance (i.e., space), but which has implications for additional gaps having to do with energy, matter and, especially, of time.
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Before the Gisin experiments in Switzerland, earlier experiments over shorter distances, as in 100 yards or less, had shown similar results. But the Gisin experiments set a dramatic "distance record."
In other words, instantaneous simultaneity faster than light EXISTS.
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And with this, the particular scientific Objection to Psi phenomena discussed in the background material must now be subjected to some kind of re-examination.
If instantaneous signal interaction of particles is now taken as scientifically demonstrated and confirmed, then the possibility of some such similar functioning as pertains to the exceedingly intricate nature of life-form consciousness must (or should) be opened up.
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But at least the idea that simultaneity of signals is IMPOSSIBLE can no longer legitimately be used to denounce the existence of many Psi and other superpower phenomena.
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On the whole, science will of course be reluctant to apply the implications of this discovery to human consciousness and its many mysteries.
Instead, focus will be directed to instantaneous, but material forms of telecommunications, space travel faster than the speed of light, and, of course, even the possibility of instantaneous time travel.
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But eventually someone will remember that telepathy is an instantaneous form of telecommunications, clairvoyance as instantaneous form of perceiving. And, pre-cognition and retire-cognition (as parapsychologists call them) are forms of time travel.
So, somewhere among its many mysteries, human consciousness possesses a "machine" that can do all of the above.
IN CLOSING this brief notice, I'd like to point up, hypothetically of course, one form of "entangled particles sharing common origins."
Perhaps such entangled particles in some way might account for the high incidence of mother-child "telepathy." Of course, it might be supposed that the particles accounting for our species gene pool were at some past point "entangled" in a common origin - at the quantum level.
It might even turn out that the superpower faculties of the human biomind are "designed" God, Evolution or by Bioengineering to accommodate such kinds of "quantum entanglements."
FORTHCOMING IN ISSUE 2
TWO RECENT DISCOVERIES HAVING TO DO WITH
BRAIN PHYSIOLOGY AND NEW SKILL LEARNING
IMPORTANT
TO WHETHER SUPERPOWER FACULTIES
CAN BE TAUGHT AND LEARNED