Mind Machines You Can Build.

MIND MACHINES
YOU CAN BUILD

by G. Harry Stine
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
IN'(ODUC'ION $ 'HE (EALIS')S DILEMMA * DE'EC'O( (ODS +% ,Y(AMIDS & 'HE ENE(GY -HEEL "% ,ENDULUMS . 'HE HIE(ONYMOUS MACHINE %/ SYMBOLIC MACHINES %+$ 'HE SYMBOLIC HIE(ONYMOUS MACHINE %! 'HE -ISHING MACHINE %"$ ,OS'SC(I,' %.% BIBLIOG(A,HY %*$
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INTRODUCTION
!he intent of this book by my friend and colleague 8arry (tine is to challenge the technical community and amateurs to build these machines, then try to figure out why they work. All of them seem to violate the well-known laws of physics or mechanics. !hus, the challenge is to resolve the apparent contradiction. >n the history of science, the resolution of a discrepancy is one of the most fruitful ways to make progress. .or example, it was *utherford who saw an apparent contradiction in the course of his study of alpha particle emission by radioactive nuclei. 8e asked how it was possible for an alpha particle of measured range and energy to emerge from a nucleus without having the energy to penetrate the higher energy potential barrier around the nucleus - which could also be measured. (uch penetration by an alpha particle was energetically impossible. >t was the challenge of this apparent discrepancy that led ;urney and :ondon to the discovery and development of uantum mechanical tunneling which has been of maBor importance not only in physics but also to modern solid-state electronics. >n science, one progresses from an observation to a hypothesis about how or why the observed phenomenon works, then to an experiment in which one proves not only that the hypothesis is correct but that the hypothesis is indeed a theory. !he theory must then predict other observable effects that can be tested and experimentally confirmed. !he fact that a certain device in this book works does not mean that all our theories are wrong but only that our understanding of how these theories should be applied is faulty in this particular case. 9ssentially, we do not know everything. >ndeed, what we do know may not be so, but may have some curious little twist that we have overlooked. Apparent violations of the laws of physics are usually an opportunity to make progress in our knowledge of the universe. >n science, we also seek to understand how nature works. And we often misunderstand or follow false leads. Actually, the Claws of natureC are generalizations from experience. .or example, the violation of the law of gravity is punished not by a Bail sentence but more fittingly by falling on oneDs face. .urther, such generalizations are living
concepts needing modification in details as we go alone. 9instein did not prove Newton to be wrong but rather provided the next approximation in our understanding of what actually happens when we make measurements at speeds approaching that of light. #ass, length, and time must be measured, taking the speed of light into account. A basic physics experiment is that of measurement, and it is important to carefully think through the details of the actor procedure in a step by step fashion. (cience is a living and growing discipline, and much remains to be done. !his book will, one hopes, stimulate people to build and test these odd devices, to think about them, and perhaps to hit upon further approximations to our understanding of the universe. ;ood science is done not with apparatus but in peopleDs heads by thinking. - $rof. (erge A. Eorff (Prof. Korff was professor emeritus, department of physics, New York University; Fellow, American Physical Society; past presi ent an life mem!er, New York Aca emy of Sciences; life mem!er, American Society for the A vance" ment of Science; past president an irector, the #$plorers %lu!; an %hevalier of the -egion of &onor.'
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CHAPTER ONE
THE REALIST'S DILEMMA

.or more than thirty years, >Dve been working in high technology areas - rocketry, space flight, aviation, advanced industrial processes, electronic instruments, and space industrialization, among others. >Dve managed an industrial research laboratory, designed escape pods for pilots of supersonic aircraft, and been involved in high-technology marketing. None of these Bobs existed in %331. >n fact, these scientific and technical areas would have been considered CmagicC as recently as a hundred years ago, and > would have been tagged a wizard or, even worse, a witch. 4

#any people still believe or would like to believe that much of the modern technology with which they must cope every day has indeed been created by wizards and witches. FeDve all encountered machinery that seems to be magical or that doesnDt or shoul n(t work because our common sense or expertise tells us so. )ut in my career as an industrial research scientist and an engineer dealing with far-out areas of advanced high-tech, >Dve run onto a series of baffling, frustrating, and vexing machines and devices that shoul n(t work at all according to what we presently know about the 2niverse. )ut they do. (ometimes they donDt work for everyone. )ut they do work for some people. !he apparent fact that some things work for some people but not for others doesnDt bother me. Although > enBoy good brass band music, > canDt get a single musical note to come from a trumpet. (ome people can, and some people canDt. )ut playing the trumpet isnDt a magical feat. >t is mystical, however, as weDll see later. )ut people can teach other people how to do it. $erhaps > canDt get music out of a trumpet because >Dve never been traine to play the trumpet. )ut > canDt get music to come out of a trumpet or a violin. >Dm a Cgrubby-handed engineer.C > can build things that work. > can usually discover why something doesnDt work when it uits, and > can usually manage to fix it or
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get it working well enough to get me to a place where a real expert can make it work properly again. >Dm at home in a scientific meeting of the New Gork Academy of (ciences as well as at the controls of an airplane. >Dm a pragmatic and skeptical person. >Dve run onto a lot of wild and wonderful devices that donDt work as claimed. )ut if a gadget works, >Dll use it. (o >Dm not a mystic in the way > look at the world around me. #urphyDs -aw notwithstanding, > believe that if something works in a demonstrable and reasonably repeatable manner, there must be a reason why because the 2niverse isnDt a place that behaves caprciously. #urphyDs -aw exists and the 2niverse only seems to be capricious occasionally because we still donDt know everything there is to know about it. !he nineteenth century philosophy of materialism says that we do indeed know everything there is to know about the 2niverse, but that belief seems to be incredibly presumptuous. As A.).(. 8aldane has observed, the 2niverse is not only stranger than we know, itDs stranger than we can possibly imagine. >Dve collected enough data and conducted enough experiments with these amazing gadgets now that itDs time to put all the data together in a book so that other people with in uiring minds and an open outlook on the 2niverse can also try them for themselves.
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)ut > didnDt write this for mystics or for those who dabble in the occult. !his is a collection of how-to instructions for demonstrable gadgets that are somehow based upon technology we donDt understand yet. Fe donDt know why or how some of these devices work, but apparently they work reliably for a large number of people. (cientists havenDt explained them yet. )ut you donDt have to accept the reality of these devices on blind faith. )y following the directions given herein, you can build the strange device, test it, and determine for yourself whether or not itDs a hoax. (ome of these machines may be precursors to the big scientific breakthroughs of the future. After all, the early parlor experiments with electricity and magnetism in the late eighteenth century are still used today in grade school and high school science classes to provide a background for understanding electronics, radio, television, and computers. > canDt tell you what particular scientific principles these devices demonstrate because % donDt know what the science of the twenty-first century will be all about. >Dm a futurist but not a prophet. #y crystal ball is very cloudy indeed when > try to look beyond the year +'%'. )ut > can tell you something about the basic principles behind scientific methodology that will be as valid tomorrow as they are today?
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!he solid edifice called C(cienceC that looks so imposing and monolithic when viewed from a distance really isnDt that way at all when you get close to it. As <r. Filliam ". <avis pointed out in %40+, C(cience is a cracked and sagging edifice built upon the constantly shifting sands of theory.C >tDs in the process of being continually built, re-built, modified, remodeled, and changed. -ike New Gork :ity or the 2nited (tates of America, itDs never finished. 8owever, some scientists have tried to convince people this isnDt so and that they alone know everything there is to know about the 2niverse. !herefore, these scientists occasionally need to be shaken out of their rut. (cientific and technical controversy must be generated from time to time to stir the pot and promote progress in human knowledge. As the famous aerospace scientist, <r. !heodore von Earman, once observed, C8ow can we possibly make progress without controversyHC #y formal academic education is that of a physicist. After >Dd graduated and obtained that important academic degree that amounts to a scientific union card, > was given my real education in the big outside world beyond the groves of academe. #y work became more and more involved with applying scientific principles in order to solve technical problems. !hus > was converted from a scientist into an engineer who had to deal with things as they are, not with the reasons why the 2niverse worked in that particular manner. 6CNever mind theoriz-
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ing whyI Bust get it built or working and in saleable condition by next FednesdayJC7 )y and large, however, the principles of physics and other sciences that >Dd learned in college comfortably supported my engineening work. )ut an un uestioning faith in what theyDd told me was true during my formal academic education and even some of the pragmatic principles >Dd learned afterwards was shattered by my first encounter with an inexplicable machine in %410. Aohn F. :ampbell, Ar., the late editor of ANA-"; ma)a*ine, published a science-fact article describing a strange device known as a C8ieronymous machineC for which a 2.(. patent existed. 8e gave explicit instructions on how to build one and invited the readers of the magazine to try it for themselves before they labelled it an impossible fraud. !he device - which is described in this book is an electronic instrument whose purpose is to determine the ualitative constituents of a metallic alloy. >t uses a CtactileC detector that is stroked and that Cfeels differentC when the device detects a given metallic component in an alloy. 8owever, :ampbell reported that the 8ieronymous machine worked whether or not it was plugged into a wall socket. 8e also claimed that it would work if you made one simply using the ia)ram of the electronic circuit and substituted thread for wire.
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!his open invitation to blow away an obvious sham, fraud, and hoax was too much for me. > built one of the CsymbolicC 8ieronymous machines to prove to the world once and for all that it was a total impossibility.
>t worked. > still have it, and it still works. )ut it works for some people and not for others. > donDt know why it works or how it works, but it does. > donDt know how to begin conducting truly scientific research to answer these uestions because > donDt know what uestions to ask or even what measurements to make. >tDs Bust not possible with the current state of the art in science and technology to be Eelvinian about it, and > am a firm believer in the advice given by -ord Eelvin 6Filliam !hompson7 in %330? C> often say that when you can measure somethin) an e$press it in num!ers, you know somethin) a!out it. +ut when you cannot measure it, when you cannot e$press it in num!ers, your knowle )e is of a mea)er an unsatisfactory kin ; it may !e the beginning of knowle )e, !ut you have scarcely, in your thoughts, pro)resse to the level of science, re)ar less of what the matter may !e., "bviously, therefore, the 8ieronymous machine and other amazing mind devices that shouldnDt work but do are not scientific and are not yet amenable to scientific analysis. Karious hypotheses concerning how they might
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work have been put forth, but these hypotheses have yet to be rigorously tested and thereby transformed into theories. >n the meantime, the machines are fascinating. #ost of them are simple to build. #ost of them will work for most people. "nce a group of Cgarage gadgeteers,C the sort who have created the basic foundations for most modern science, begin playing around with them, someone stands a good chance of eventually coming up with a testable hypothesis that will at last provide a basis for the establishment of the scientific field which embraces these machines. "r perhaps not. !he history of science and technology is not only rife with serendipitous discoveries that changed the world but also ideas, concepts, and gadgets that didnDt work out right in spite of everything. )e aware that there are more failures than successes, more frauds and hoaxes than straight arrows. >n any event, here are some impossible machines that work for some people, that anyone with some manual dexterity can build in a home workshop, that anyone can build and test for himself. > repeat? !his is not an occult book. >tDs a book of experiments with weird machines. > havenDt included any machine or device that > havenDt built, worked, or tested myself. > donDt ask the reader to believe that these machines work. > merely present a description of each machine, what itDs purported to do, how it worked for
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me, exactly how to build it, and precisely how to operate it. !he remainder of the exercise is left up to the reader whoDs free to experiment or to snort C>mpossibleJC )ut be careful before you snort, C>mpossibleJC Fe often have the tendency to snort, C>mpossibleJC when confronted with a radically new idea, concept, or device. )ut these machines are different. !hey can be built. !hey can be tested. !hey are tweakers of the curiosity. !hey shouldnDt work, but often they do. And if you donDt believe this, why donDt you see for yourselfH !he basis of scientific endeavor is the reproducible experiment. And the concept of reproducibility also includes the possibility that the experiment will fail the same way every time. *ight down at the basic level, this is a book about magic, after all. )ut itDs CmagicC as defined by *obert A. 8einlein? C"ne manDs magic is another manDs technology. And Arthur :. :larke advises, CAny sufficiently advanced technology will be indistinguishable from magic.C !he book is a Chow-toC instruction manual. >ts individual chapters are each devoted to a single strange machine. 9ach chapter starts out with a brief description of the device followed by a brief history, and step-by-step instructions for building it. A set of instructions for using the device is provided along with a suggested program of
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experiments that can be conducted. !he only thing >Dm telling you is? 8ere it isI build it and try it for yourself, because it appears to work for some people, it can be built, and the author has either tried it and can work it, or tried it and canDt work it. 6>Dm pretty good with most of the gadgets.7 > have gone out on a limb 6as if some of my colleagues wonDt believe that >Dve already done so7 by daring to suggest one or more hypotheses concerning why the machine is doing what itDs doing. )ut in many cases, there is no tenable hypothesis, and >Dm forced to simply say, C> havenDt the foggiest notion why it works.C > donDt believe any of the gadgets are dangerous. No reports have been received that any of them or the use of any of them has caused physical or mental inBury to anyone. 8owever, > must state the following caveat which the reader must keep firmly in mind at all times? >tDs possible to be hurt by anythin) and itDs possible to misuse any device made with any level of technology. $eople continue to be burned by campfires, and the technology of fire is millennia old. 8owever, there have been no reported problems with anything herein. #ost of us have internal CprogrammingC that trips our internal Ccircuit breakersC to keep us from going over the edge. <onDt dismiss any of the devices as an impossible hoax Bust because it soun s impossible to you or because you think itDs fraudulent and canDt work. "r because somebody told you it was one or more of these. 8ereDs
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your chance to find out for yourself. GouDll then be able to say that the gadget works or doesnDt work because you tried it yourself. Gou didnDt take someone elseDs word for it. !hese gadgets may indeed work because of magic 6a technology we donDt yet understand7 but they arenDt mystical because > can tell you how to build one and how to operate it without subBecting yourself to ten yearsD of guru training, fasting, and all the rest of the curriculum of oriental mysticism. (ome people wonDt be able to make some of these devices work. "thers may be able to make only a few of them work. (ome will be able to work all of them. !his will create enormous controversy. 6>f you donDt pucker your lips Bust right and blow with Bust the right force into the mouthpiece, youDll never get a single musical note to come out of that trumpet. )ut the trumpet is there, and other people can make great music come out of it. Are trumpeters magiciansH7 >Dve been forced to draw the conclusion that these mind machines are examples of future science. !heyDre in the same situation today that electricity and thermodynamics were in the early part of the nineteenth century and as some folk medicine was at the beginning of this century. !he mere fact that these devices exist and work for some people means there must be some sort of scientific basis for them. !herefore, we will be able to un-
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derstand and explain them some day. !hey canDt and shouldnDt be ignored. !heyDre going to provide the foundations for the science of the next century. )esides, itDs exciting, fascinating, frustrating, and perplexing to build and work with them, if you can. )ut donDt be upset if one doesnDt workI try it on someone else. And if the other person can make it work and you canDt, whyH FhatDs really going on hereH !he scientists of the twenty-first century may know, and they may have found out from some flash of insight that came as a result of someone experimenting with these mind machines and others. Gou may be the founder of a whole new field of scientific investigation and technological endeavorJ 8ave fun.
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CHAPTER TWO
DETECTOR RODS
Basic Descri !i"#$

!his device consists of either a single stick, rod with a forked end that allows it to be held in both hands or two separate sticks or rods, one of which is held in each hand.
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!he device had been primarily used for locating hidden underground obBects or materials such as pipes, tunnels, and water. 8owever, some experiments by the author indicate that the device can be used to determine the location of any obBect the user desires. !he device is grasped in both hands and held in front of the operator. Fhen the device passes over the underground obBect being searched for, or when the operator faces in the direction of the obBect being searched for, the device appears to operate with no observable action on the part of the operator. >f it is a single, bifurcated or forked rod, the single end not in the hands of the operator will abruptly swing downwards. >f dual rods are being used, the rods will either swing apart if the operator is holding them together or, if they are being held so that they point away from one another, they will swing toward each other. !he action is uite strong, and many operators claim that they cannot stop the rods once the swing has started.
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#any readers will immediately recognize this device as the legendary Cdowsing rod.C "ther names include Cwater rodsC or Cwitching rods.C >n the form of a branched or forked stick or twig - some operators claim that only a live forked willow branch recently cut will
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work properly " the device has been used in 9urope and America for unknown centuries. >ts actual source is shrouded in folklore, much of which is considered to be evil or the Cwork of the devilC because of the inexplicable operation of the device. >n recent times, dowsing rods were used by 2nited (tates #arine :orps soldiers in (outh Kiet Nam for the purpose of locating underground Kiet :ong tunnels. 8owever, no official reports of this exist and, as might be expected, no official confirmation of this use has ever been made. *eaders wishing to obtain more information should contact the American (ociety of <owsers, $.". )ox +/, <anville,K! '13+3.
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!he author built and experimented with his first pair of dowsing rods in %411 at the rocket research center at Fhite (ands $roving ;round and around his home in -as :ruces, New #exico. !he basic metal dowsing rods described later in this chapter were used. !he author was successful in locating the underground water and sewer pipes leading into his home. At a later time, he found the rods useful in locating misplaced obBects, especially books.
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>n %40% and %40+, he witnessed the use of dowsing rods by the Fater <epartment of the !own of #ilford, :onnecticut for the precise location of underground water and sewer lines prior to excavation. "n .ebruary +, %400, the footvalve of the eBector pump failed at the bottom of the %1'-foot-deep water well in the back yard of the authorDs home at %+& )ickford -ane, New :anaan, :onnecticut. !his re uired that the well be uncovered and the piping pulled to replace the faulty foot valve. !he author had a plat drawing which indicated the location of the well head. )ut initial excavation by well company employees failed to uncover the well head at the indicated location. !he foreman took a pair of metal dowsing rods from his truck and proceeded to locate the well head within a few minutes. >n the upper valley of the Arkansas *iver between $ueblo and :anon :ity, :olorado, dowsing rods and Cwater witchesC are extensively used for the purpose of locating the proper sites for drilling wells that will produce )oo water at depths considerably less than would otherwise be re uired on the basis of the study of geological structures.
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Figure 2-1: E59loyee o: t3e Mil:ord, Conne2ti24t, ;ater 2o59any 41ing dete2tor rod1 to lo2ate 2ity)1 ;ater 5ain1. E59loyee did not ;i13 to be identi:ied nor ;o4ld 3e 9er5it a 1e2ond 93oto 1e11ion.
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!his model is an expensive one that may be uickly fabricated as follows? %. "btain two 6+7 coat hangers or clothes hangers made totally from wire. !he size of the wire and the type of wire are not critical. 8owever, the wire should be stiff enough so that it doesnDt bend when held horizontally by one end with the other end free. +. (traighten each coat hanger wire. ,. (ix 607 inches 6%1 centimeters7 from one end, make a right angled bend in each wire. /. .or safetyDs sake, make another right angle bend in the other end of each wire approximately one 6%7 inch 6+.1 centimeters7 from the endI this will prevent the free end of each rod from sticking into something... such as another personDs eyeJ "perate the 9conomy #odel as described in the "perating >nstructions below.
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!his model is intended for long life, high reliability, and good sensitivity, features that are useful when the device is used in the field or when experiments are being conducted with many users. !he cost is less than @1.''. +0
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!he <eluxe #odel can be fabricated by anyone using simple tools. !he materials may be found in any hobby store or welding supply store. Bill of Materials: A. + each hard steel wire 6Cmusic wireC7 %=3C diameter x ,0C long. ). % each seamless thin-wall tubing, aluminum or copper 6material not critical7, ,=%0C diameter x %+C long. Tools e!uire": A. 8ack (aw. ). (lip-Boint pliers or CKise-;rips.C :. )ench vise 6optional7. <. (mall rat-tail file. Fa#ri$atio%: %. Fith the hack saw, cut the %+-inch length of tubing into roughly two e ual 0-inch lengths.
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+. *emove the burrs on the cut ends of the tubing using the rat-tail file. ,. 2sing the slip-Boint pliers, Kise-;rips, or bench vise, make a right-angle bend in one end of each rod approximately & inches from the end. /. (lip a 0-inch length of tubing over the &-inch bent section of each rod. 1. 2sing the pliers or bench vise, make a short bend in the free end of the rod sticking out of the piece of tubing. Fhen completed, the rod should rotate freely inside the tubing. 0. 2sing the pliers or bench vise, make a right angle bend % inch from the other end of each rod. Fhen finished, you will have two nearly identical metal rods bent as shown in .igure %. !he tubing forms a low-friction rotating handle on one end of each rod, permitting the rod to rotate with ease inside the tubing. !he <eluxe #odel will last for years if properly cared for and the low-friction handles kept free to rotate. !he authorDs <eluxe #odel was built in %411 and is still in use.
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)oth the 9conomy #odel and the <eluxe #odel operate in the same manner.
Figure 2-&: Holding and 41ing dete2tor rod1.
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(tep %? <ecide what you wish to locate. )eginners usually choose some easy underground obBect such as the water or sewer pipe leading to their house. >n most cases, the place where the water line enters the house is known, but the location of the sewer line isnDt. And, in
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most cases, the general alignment of either underground pipe isnDt known. .or other suggested items to locate, see the C9xperimentsC section below.
(tep +? ;rasp the low-friction tubing of each rod in each hand. (tep ,? 8old the pivot axis of each rod vertical so that each rod is in a general horizontal position 6see photo7. (tep /? $lace both of your hands in front of you, holding the rods horizontally before you 6see photo7. (ome people find that their wrists must be touching. "thers find that there is no specific way in which they must hold the rods. (tep 1? )y tilting your hands, arrange the rods so that they are 6a7 parallel to one another and pointing ahead of you, or 6b7 at %3'-degrees to one another 6pointing away from one another7 to both sides of you 6see photo7. (tep 0? )egin searching for the obBect you wish to locate by either turning or by walking slowly. (tep &? Fhen you pass over the obBect youDre searching for, or when youDre pointed toward it, the rods will swing, indicating that you have located the obBect.
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>t doesnDt make any difference whether the rods are together in front of you or pointing directly away from one anotherI when they swing, they swing. Fhen youDve located what youDre looking for, the action of the rods is unmistakableI when they swing, they swing. "perators continually report 6and itDs confirmed by the author7 that there seems to be some sort of definite, positive physical force that makes the rods move. .urthermore, they seem to move in unison.
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>f you misplace something, try using the rods to help you locate it. $ut the rods in hand and simply begin to turn aroundI when youDre pointed in the direction you should go to move toward the obBect, the rods will swing. Gou should be able to pin-point its location using the principles of triangulation by taking CsightingsC from different locationsI where the lines of position cross is where youDre most likely to find what youDre looking for. <o not be disturbed if you happen to obtain erratic data from such location experiments. !hey may only mean that the obBect is irretrievably lost in such a manner that you have no possibility of recovering it. !he author discovered this phenomenon when searching for a misplaced bookI the meaningless results finally re-
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minded him that heDd lent the book to a friend while living in <enver and he was at the time living in :onnecticut. #odern instrumentation should be able to measure the actual tor ue on each rod as it swings. !o the best of the authorDs knowledge, no such measurements have yet been made. #odern instrumentation should also be able to detect any tilting of the operatorDs wrists or other movements that may produce rotation of the rods. !o the best of the authorDs knowledge, no such measurements have been made. 8owever, data from such experimental measurements still may not answer the basic uestion, C8ow does the operator know when to tilt his wrists to accomplish thisHC (ome investigators will want to design experiments that will offer incontrovertible proof that this device actually works. <ata from such CwildC sources as users or historical data on water witches and dowsers would not normally be acceptable in such controversial and apparently unscientific 6scientifically inexplicable7 situations such as this. !he biggest problem faced by any investigator when designing experiments in an unknown area such as this is? Fhat should be measuredH Fhat measurements will be meaningfulH And, basically, what is the nature and level of importance of significant dataH Fhat is significant dataH
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9xperiments need to be conducted with a large experimental universe of operators, the larger the better, to determine the percentage of the population capable of working the rods. <ouble-blind techni ues should be used to validate the data. (ome experiments, however, will serve only to provide statistical data on the percentage of the population capable of successfully using the rods. !hey wonDt determine why the rods work or what sort of person can make them work unless the experiment is structured to determine the specific personality traits of the user. "ther experiments need to be conducted to verify whether or not the rods can be used to actually find an obBect whose location is truly unknown to the operator, or whether the operation of the rods depends upon some manner of subliminal recall on the operatorDs part, the rods acting merely as a symbolic crutch. !he influence of mood-altering substances 6such as alcohol, nicotine, and caffeine7 on an operatorDs ability may well uncover some interesting new data. 8owever, experiments with other mood-altering drugs such as meprobamate should be conducted only by ualified, licensed medical practitioners or under their direct supervision. No experiment yet designed offers any hope of determining the actual operational cause behind the apparently successful use of dowsing rods. At best, most experiments will lead only to experimental confirmation
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of the phenomenon or to statistical data concerning the talented population. 8owever, to the best of the authorDs knowledge, none of these basic experiments have been done and reported in the open literature. $erhaps once this has taken place, interested parties may be able to proceed further in the design of experiments to determine operational causes.
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>f you cannot get the rods to work for you, you are most probably one of those people who do not have the unidentified CtalentC for them. Not everyone can play the violin. <ata to date indicates that whether or not you believe the rods will work has little or nothing to do with your ability to make them work. !he author was a confirmed disbeliever when he first tried using the rods. 8owever, if you canDt make them work, donDt throw them away. !ry the rods on your friends, and you might be surprised at who can operate them and who canDt. At this time, the ability or inability to operate dowsing rods does not appear to correlate with any known personality trait, religious belief, level of education, or ethnic background.
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!he existence of the dowsing rod phenomenon has naturally led people to formulate a number of hypotheses concerning how the rods work. Among the most interesting and the most acceptable of these hypotheses 6another word for unconfirmed, unsubstantiated, wild guesses7 are? !he operators may somehow know, perhaps on a subconscious level, the location of the obBect theyDre searching for. !he rods might serve only as a CcrutchC to stimulate the recall of memories concerning the location of the obBect. !he operators may actually sense the presence of what theyDre looking for and use the rods only as an CamplifierC or a physical CdetectorC of the presence of the obBect, the rods actually being swung by subconscious movements of the operatorDs wrists. !here are other less-tenable hypotheses involving Cpsychic forcesC or extrasensory perception. At this time, itDs impossible to confirm such hypotheses to the level of credibility demanded by scientific peer groups. (uch hypotheses must be viewed as CbeliefsC or the results of wishful thinking rather than the products of data from carefully-conducted experiments. $erhaps some reader may be able to design, carry out, and validate a repeatable experiment that will lead toward the develop-
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merit of a valid hypothesis. Although the human mind is an incredible device itself, and although we are learning more and more about it every day, the actual existence of Cpsychic fieldsC or Cmental forcesC isnDt confirmed. )ut, in analogy, the nature of the electromagnetic field wasnDt known, much less suspected, by the early scientists of %3'', either.
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!he author has seen dowsing rods used successfully on many occasions. !he use of dowsing rods seems to be a repeatable phenomenon. !he author also happens to be one of those who can make them work for him, whereas his wife cannot. *eported observations of the phenomenon from reliable observers abound. !he device is simple, inexpensive, can be readily made by most people, and can be used to conduct numerous experiments, most of which havenDt been done yet, to investigate the reasons for its operation. !he nature of these experiments is such that the basic ones can be carried out by nearly anyone willing to follow the basic guidelines for the design and conduct of scientific experiments.
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CHAPTER THREE
,Y(AMIDS
Ba1i2 De12ri9tion7
!etrahedral pyramids made from electrically non-conducting materials have been used to maintain sharp cutting edges on steel instalments, dehydrate or mummify organic materials, and improve the growth rates of plants. !he precise mechanism6s7 by which a hollow pyramidal shape accomplishes these things is unknown.
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>t appears to be a passive concentrator of energy, but the mechanism and type of energy has not yet been thoroughly defined. 8owever, a large number of confirming experiments have been carried out to verify the performance claims of investigators, advocates, and individuals applying for domestic and foreign patents. !hese experiments tend to confirm the existence of some manner of energy concentration and the reality of the claims.
#any advocates and proponents of Cpyramid powerC tend to base their hypotheses on elements from 9gyptian history and mythology. (ome of these people believe that the ancient 9gyptians possessed arcane knowledge that led this early riverine culture to build the fabled pyramids of ;iza on the basis of either scientific principles unknown to us today or empirical data ac uired by means often classified as CbizarreC by the detractors of the 9gyptian hypotheses. *egardless of whether or not any of the hypotheses derived from ancient 9gyptian history may be true, the demonstrable fact remains that tetrahedral pyramid shapes appear to do somethin) to obBects placed inside them and offer a subBect amenable to experimentation by modern techni ues carried out by both professional and amateur scientists.
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!he modern historical background of pyramid research began in the %4,'s. Antoine )ovis, the owner of a hardware store 6CLuincaillerie )ovis et $asseronC7 in Nice, .rance, took a trip to 9gypt in the %4,'s and visited the Cgreat pyramidC of :heops at ;iza. Fhile inside the EingDs :hamber of the great pyramid, )ovis noticed a garbage can filled to the top with dead small animals which the guide told him wander in the structure from time to time, become lost, and die. >t seemed unusual to )ovis that these dead animals appeared to be completely desiccated 6mummified7 with no trace of decay or putrefaction. 2pon his return to Nice, he built a plywood pyramid in which he placed a dead cat. !he carcass of the cat did not decay but became desiccated. 2nfortunately, )ovis did not believe in the scientific method nor in conducting proper scientific experiments with full documentation. 8e made no attempt to present papers before scientific societies where his work would have been subBected to peer review, comment, and criticism and so others could duplicate the experments for verification of results. )ovis preferred to believe in intuition and faith. Although the synthesis of seemingly unrelated data by intuition is the basis for all great advances in science, pioneers such as Albert 9instein, #ax $lanck, :harles <arwin, 9dwin 8ubble, #arie :urie, and (ir Alexander .leming followed their intuitive discoveries by publication, permitting and encouraging others to verify and expand their results and hypoth-
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eses, while at the same time opening their work to comment and criticism. !he failure or refusal of )ovis to do this probably resulted in a fifty-year set-back to the serious scientific examination of his data. .ollowing Forld Far >>, a :zechoslovak radio engineer, Earel <rbal, read some of )ovisD material. <rbal worked in the *adio >nstitute of *esearch in $rague. *adar and microwaves were part of the technology that had mushroomed during the war. #any microwave antennas and other devices are horn-shaped or pyramidal in nature. <rbal began to experiment with small pyramid models for desiccation and dehydration because he either suspected some phenomenon connected with microwaves or wanted to prove )ovis wrong - weDll never really know for certain. As has happened, to so many others who have researched the pyramid phenomenon with the goal of proving that it was a hoax, <rbal discovered that tetrahedral pyramid shapes i desiccate both organic material and fine crystalline structures. #etals and metallic alloys are basically crystalline in nature and structure. !he steel alloys used in fine cutting tools are composed of very small crystalline structures throughout. <rbal discovered that he could shave with the same razor blade %'' to +'' times if he placed it inside a cardboard pyramid each day after use. #ore as a Boke than anything else, <rbal applied for a :zech patent on a C$haraohDs (having <eviceC on November /, %4/4. Normally, :zech
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patents are granted after an examination period of two to three years, but it took <rbal ten years to get his patent. >t was granted on August %1, %414 only after heDd proved to the :hief 9xaminer, 9ngineer Krecion, that a pyramid did indeed maintain the edge on a razor blade. >n the course of this decade-long examination period, <rbal performed some experiments and made some measurements that will be discussed later. :ardboard pyramids came into use in the :zech army as a way for soldiers to keep their razors sharp. (oldiers in the (oviet army picked up this concept in later years. !he (oviet soldiers would get only one razor blade per month, so itDs important to them to keep their razors sharp. 8owever, no company has placed pyramids on the market anywhere, including eastern 9urope. <rbal believes his invention has been suppressed by razor blade manufacturers who do not want to see their products used ten times as long. !his reaction, however, is typical of some inventors of strange machines who often believe there are paranoid plots to keep their inventions secret. !he lack of pyramid products more likely arises from the fact that they are so easy and simple to uickly build using available materials. A number of 9uropean researchers began to experiment with <rbalDs pyramids. <rbal came into correspondence with pyramid researchers in (weden, Fest ;ermany, .rance, ;reat )ritain, and the (oviet 2nion. >n the 2nited (tates, little was known of the
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pyramid phenomenon even though Nobel laureate 6physics, %4037 <r. -uis F. Alvarez attempted to locate hidden chambers inside the :hefrenDs $yramid 6near the :heopsD $yramid7, using cosmic ray absorption measurements, was unable to correlate his data, and stated that Csomething outside of known science is happening. >n the 2nited (tates, pyramid research was taken up by <r. ;. $atrick .lanagan who had been interested in electromagnetic energy fields connected with living organisms. Fhen he was fourteen years old, .lanagan began experimenting with a phenomenon discovered and reported by :ount Alessandro Kolta 6%&/1-%3+&7 in %3'' and tagged Celectrophonic hearing.C )y %40+, .lanagan had perfected his Cneurophone,C a device which electronically stimulates the skin to produce hearing. <r. .lanagan is a very private individual not totally unlike many inventors. !he author has known him personally since %40+. .lanagan prefers to carry out research on his own, seeking knowledge for the sake of knowledge with second priority being given to reporting his results in scientific Bournals. >n %43', .lanagan presented his results in a book, Pyrami Power, which he published himself. 8is second book, Pyrami Power --, was published in %43% and reports on pyramid experiments performed by eight ualified and respected scientists who were funded by grants from the #ankind *esearch .oundation, %%%'
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.idler -ane, (uite %+%1, (ilver (pring, #< +'4%', from .ebruary to April %4&1. !hese tests were properly designed and conducted according to the strictest scientific and statistical protocols. !hey revealed increased growth rates of pea and bean plants, improved preservation of raw hamburger meat, and decreased growth rates of throat and yeast bacteria placed inside a structure shaped as a tetrahedral pyramid. -ess definitive results with a lower level of confidence indicated that the weight of crystals formed from the cooling of supersaturated solutions might have been increased, that dead organic materials might have been preserved longer, and that the death or decay rates of live plants might have been decreased. !ests on human volunteers who slept for several nights inside pyramidal tents provided a subBective consensus that there had been a change in the uality of sleep, vividness of dream recall, overall emotional state, and openness to new experiences. 8owever, the changes were not in the same direction for all group members.
!he author has built miniature pyramids with 0-inch and %+-inch bases as described below, fabricating them from both shirt cardboard and :rescent No. +'% hot press medium weight illustration board. 9ach had access holes with a diameter of + inches and / inches respectively on all four surfaces. !he author determined
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to repeat the <rbal experiment with razor blades since this test is easily conducted and the results unambiguous to anyone who has ever shaved with a dull razor. Fhen a razorDs edge is dull, there is no doubt whatsoever of this because of the extreme discomfort associated with shaving oneDs whiskers with a dull razor blade. (ix ;illette one-shot razors were selected at random from the display at a convenience store. "ne of these was selected at random and visually tagged to identify it. 9ach morning, the author shaved with the two razors using ;illette C.oamyC shaving cream. "ne razor was used to shave the left side of the face, and the other was used to shave the right. "n a day-to-day basis, razors were used to shave alternate sides of the authorDs face. At the end of each shaving session, both razors were simultaneously cleaned in hot, running water. !he tagged razor was placed inside a 0inch cardboard pyramid as instructed by <rbal - i.e., with the pyramid aligned to magnetic north and the razor placed in the center of the base of the pyramid with the edge of the blade aligned to magnetic north. !he untagged razor was placed in a drawer of the bathroom washstand. !he author shaved twenty-four times with the razor kept inside the pyramid. >t was impossible to shave with a control razor more than three times. .our control razors were used up while the experimental razor inside the pyramid was in daily use.
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A repeat experiment was conducted with six more disposable razors but with the base of the pyramid not aligned with magnetic north. !he same number of shaves 6twenty-four7 were possible with the experimental razor kept inside the pyramid, while the control razors could be used only three times before becoming painfully dull. !he gross results from these simple experiments caused the author to conclude that Cpyramid powerC was not a hoax. .urther tests were conducted by the author and by other individuals using the pyramid matrix made by .lanagan and shown in the accompanying photograph. !he basic fact that a pyramid shape does indeed maintain the edge on a razor was confirmed.
In1tr42tion1 :or Fabri2ation7

!he fabrication of a miniature model of the :heopsD pyramid is not difficult.
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!o make it easier to gain access to the interior of the pyramid, cut circular holes in all triangular faces. !he diameter of the access holes can be as much as one-third the base dimension of the pyramid - i.e., two inches diameter for a six-inch pyramid, four inches diameter for a twelve-inch pyramid. !here is nothing critical concerning the material used to fabricate a pyramid. 8owever, for test purposes, they can be easily made from shirt cardboard, corrugated cardboard, or stiff manila. !he only re uirement is that the complete pyramid be sturdy enough to be picked up, moved, and otherwise handled. .or advanced experimental purposes, pyramids can be made from sheet plastic 6plexiglass, fiberglass, sheet styrene, etc.7. *eaders may wish to experiment with pyramids made from sheet metal and welded or soldered together along the edges. 2sing a rule and a pencil, lay out the dimensions of the pyramid on the material and then cut the s uare base and four triangular sides from the material. Accuracy of dimensions and straightness of cuts are not critical, but try to measure and cut accurately in order to make parts fit better parts fit betterand assembly easier . :ardboard and paper pyramids of sizes up to twenty-four inches can be assembled using cellophane tape to hold the parts together at their edges.
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-ay the s uare base on the table and place the triangular sides flat on the table with each of their bases flush with the sides of the s uare base piece. .asten each triangular side to one edge of the base piece using cellophane tape. .old each of the triangular side pieces upward so they meet at the apex of the pyramid. >t may be easier to do this starting with two adBacent sides, then bringing each of the two other sides up one at a time. .asten the edges of the triangular side pieces together using strips of cellophane tape.
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>f you have been careful while measuring and cutting, the pyramid should be neatly even and come to a uniform apex. !he test pyramid is now completed.
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9arly experimenters such as <rbal maintained that a pyramid had to be aligned with the local magnetic north. .lanagan discovered that this orientation was not necessary. "ther researchers believed that the obBect to be processed should be placed at the scale location of the EingDs :hamber of the :heopsD pyramid - i.e., about one-third the height of the pyramid up from the base directly beneath the apex. 8owever, .lanagan again showed that an obBect could be located anywhere within the pyramid and be subBected to the same unknown energies. !he easiest and most dramatic experiment that can be conducted with a pyramidal shape is the classic razor blade experiment. !his re uires a %+-inch or an %3-inch pyramid. "btain at least six good uality razor blades or disposable razors. (elect one at random and mark it for identification.
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!he experiment may be conducted by either men or women. #en will want to shave their faces. Fomen can conduct the experiment by shaving their legs. .or the sake of clarity and brevity herein, the experiment will be described as it is conducted by shaving the faceI the same procedure can be used to shave legs. 9ach morning, shave one side of the face with the razor kept inside the pyramid. (have the other side of the face with one of the CcontrolC razors. Alternate the side of the face shaved each day with each razor. 2se a good uality shaving cream, and use the same shaving cream product each day. <onDt shift from product to product during the test. After shaving each day, wash out both razors with hot running water. $lace the marked razor inside the pyramid. $lace the unmarked control razor in the normal place you would store a razor. Eeep a written record of your shaves and of your subBective reactions to the sharpness of each blade. >f the control razor becomes dull and therefore painful to use for shaving, substitute a fresh new control razor. )e sure to note this in your record.
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classic one. )ut there are several others that can be conducted to verify the results of the tests conducted by the eight scientific researchers for the #ankind *esearch .oundation.
1) Gro*t+ of #ea% s'routs:

"btain a package of bean seeds. $lace the seeds on a wet sponge and permit them to germinate. "nce they have developed their rudimentary roots and stems, divide the group randomly in half. $lace each experimental group on its own sponge soaked in 1' milliliters 6about + li uid ounces7 of water. :over both groups with a wet paper towel. $lace one group inside a pyramid and the other in another location in the same room. After five days, measure the length of the bean sprout roots. *eference points for measurement are defined as the distance from the point where the root leaves the bean to the tip of the root.
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"btain a uarter-pound of hamburger meat. <ivide the sample into two e ual portions of about an eighth of a pound 6%'' grams7 each. $lace both samples in shallow
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saucers. $lace one sample inside a pyramid shape. $lace the other in another location in the same room. After five days, compare the appearance and odor of the samples.
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#ix approximately %=/-ounce of )rewerDs Geast with one-half cup of water heated to a temperature of %'' degrees .ahrenheit. Allow the culture to grow for six hours. <ivide the culture into two e ually-sized portions and place each in a clean saucer. $lace one sample inside a pyramid and the other in another location in the same room. 9ach +/ hours, observe the two samples and note differences in growth, appearance, or other physical factors.
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:rack two fresh eggs into separate clean saucers. $lace one drop of saliva in each saucer in contact with the egg material. $lace one saucer in a pyramid and the other in another location in the same room. "bserve the appearances and physical attributes of each sample daily. !he author does not recommend conducting experiments using dead animals because of potential health problems to say nothing of the reaction of neighbors or colleagues.
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>f negative results are forthcoming from any or all of the experiments suggested above, the first step is to try them again. (omething 6we donDt know what7 might have gone wrong in the preparations for the first tests. >f negative results are obtained on the second try, give the pyramids to an ac uaintance and have them perform the experiments. >f the materials in suggested experiments M+, M,, and M/ show no significant differences, try running the experiments in a room heated to 4' degrees .ahrenheit. !ry enclosing both samples by placing another saucer inverted over the sample saucers.
Hy9ot3e1e17
Fhen it comes to speculating why pyramids work as they appear to do, there are about as many hypotheses as there are investigators. (ome hypotheses are, frankly, uite speculative. >n many cases, investigators utilize scientific terminology such as the word CenergyC to describe something that may not be energy at all as physicists and engineers know it. !his happens to be the case when it comes to discussing many of these strange machines and, in fact, unknown or CpsychicC phenomena in general. "ne should always keep in mind that terminology is often borrowed and then used with perhaps a different
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meaning in mind because people have an overwhelming tendency to name the unknown, thereby giving them the belief that they partially understand it. >t is not that investigators of strange phenomena are too lazy or ignorant to develop their own terminology because they often do, coining words to describe phenomena yet with little or no attempt made to carefully define or uantify these new terms. !he terms Cenergy,C Cpower,C Cradiation,C and other words pertaining to unseen and non-physical manifestations of the universe are most usually CborrowedC to describe the unseen, non-physical, and unknown phenomena associated with strange machines and other discrepancies in the 2niverse as we perceive it. As scientific research proceeds as a result of the investigation of machines such as pyramids and others described in this book, you can rest assured that the new fields of scientific research will indeed develop their own Bargon as factors and phenomena are identified and uantified. )e that as it may, in the case of pyramid phenomena, it is obvious that the shape of the pyramid accelerates, retards, or concentrates some physical factor that results in change. !herefore, perhaps the word Cenergy may be appropriate along with the word CradiationC
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which applies to the carrier of change-causing energy that creates action at a distance with no apparent intervening physical means. >n the matter of razor sharpening, the affected material is crystalline in nature. All metal alloys are. !he crystalline structure of razor blade steel is very small. !he atoms of iron, chromium, nickel, molybdenum, and other elements that make up the alloy are locked together by interatomic bonds in a lattice-like arrangement characteristic of a crystal. 6(ome crystals such as diamonds, salt crystals, gems, etc. are large enough to be readily visible.7 *esearch may confirm that water has a strong effect upon the interatomic crystalline bonds of razor steel. Fater rather than comparatively soft protein material of hair may be the factor that dulls the sharp crystalline edge of a razor. (cientists who carry out research in solid-state electronics know that nearly all the electronic phenomena associated with transistors, diodes, etc., take place at or on the surface of the crystalline solid-state material. "n the surface of any crystal, especially those which have been cut from larger crystals, there are many loose or unattached crystalline bonds that have been physically severed in the cutting and=or polishing operation. !he nature of crystal surfaces is still an area of intense scientific study about which little is yet known.
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8owever, it is known exactly how much energy is re uired to break a crystalline bond. >n the microscopic world on the edge of a razor blade, there are many severed crystalline bonds created by the sharpening of the edge by grinding. !his produces a surface with unsatisfied bonds that will link with anything, especially water. Fhen a water molecule bonds to the crystalline structure of razor steel, it softens the steel. *esearch in this area has been done in ;ermany. >n the case of the bond that develops between a water molecule and anything else, the energy in the bond is extremely small, being approximately %.' to %.1 electron volts 6eK7. (cientifically, this is the amount of energy ac uired by an electron when accelerated across a potential difference of one volt. >t is a veiy small amount of energy, amounting to %.0'+ x %'D%4 to +./ x %'D%4 watt-seconds. !hatDs %0 or +/ with %3 zeroes in front of it before you get to the decimal point. !his minute amount of energy is present all around us in the form of CsfericsC or the discharges that take place between the 9arth and its charged ionosphere. -ightning is an intense form of sferics. (ferics have a broad radio fre uency spectrumI sferics are CnoiseC in the e-m environment. !he minute energy of sferics could be easily concentrated or focused. !here is indeed energy available because thereDs a potential difference of about %'' volts per foot in the vertical electrostatic field of the 9arth. !his means that there is an electrical difference of 0''
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volts between the top of the head and the soles of the feet of a 0-foot person standing on the surface of the 9arth. !his potential difference is enough to be detected by suitable solid-state electronic devices and used in a simple autopilot to keep the wings level in radio controlled model airplanes, for example. #ost sferics come from thunderstorms, and there are about ,'' thunderstorms in progress at any given moment in the 9arthDs atmosphere. Kery well, if there is enough energy present in the environment to break the crystalline bonds that may form between the ground sharp edge of a razor blade and water molecules, how does a pyramid shape affect thisH
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%. !he pyramidal shape is a resonator to the freuencies present in sferics. !he bigger the pyramidal shape, the broader the bandwidth of sferics to which it is resonant. +. >t isnDt necessary that a pyramid be made of metal to be an effective resonator of electromagnetic energyI it is only necessary that its surface have a ielectric constant thatDs different from the surrounding air because highfre uency radio waves 6including microwaves7 can be bent or reflected by anything having a dielectric constant different than the surrounding air. 6>f this were not so, radar wouldnDt work.7
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,. A pyramidal shape can therefore serve as enough of a resonator of electromagnetic energy present in sferics to break the crystalline bond between the razor blade steel alloy and the water molecule, thereby restoring the original crystalline structure of the edge. 69ventually, because the pyramid shape cannot concentrate enough energy to break all the steel-water bonds, the build up of softer steel-water crystals on the edge causes the edge to become soft and dull.7 !he apparent ability of a pyramid shape to dehydrate or mummify organic material may be due to the ability of the shape to concentrate, focus, or otherwise resonate with the microwave fre uencies of sferics. .his can !e measure with mo em instrumentation. And it should be. !he various characteristics of purified 6distilled7 water placed in a pyramid shape should be investigated and measured to determine such gross and easily-measured factors as surface tension, which is a measure of the internal energy of the water molecules. >t should also be possible to accurately measure the fre uencies and intensities of electromagnetic radiation at various points inside a pyramid shape. #uch of this has been done, but little if it has been openly reported in the scientific literature because of the Cpeer reviewC process in which other scientists read and comment upon all submitted scientific papers. >tDs uite likely that most of this material has either been reBected with the derisive snort, C8uhH $yramid powerJ
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*idiculousJC "r it has been accepted and lies buried unrecognized and uncorrelated somewhere in the enormous mass of wall-to-wall data that characterizes modern scientific research. >f the data isnDt there, it should be gotten.
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CHAPTER FOUR
THE ENER*( WHEEL
Basic Descri !i"#$

!he Cenergy wheelC is a small CwheelC or concentrically balanced obBect made from extremely light material. !his is balanced horizontally on the sharp point of a needle or pin held in a vertical position by a suitable base plate. !he operator places the device on a table, sits down, and places both hands cupped horizontally around the energy wheel. !he obBective is to CthinkC the lightweight
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wheel into rotating in the desired direction 6clockwise or counterclockwise7, to make it stop, or to make it stop and change direction without any visible physical contact with the wheel. !he hypothesis of operation is often said to be telekinesis or the ability to change the physical position or motion of a material obBect by Cthought wavesC alone. 8owever, there may be other factors at work, too.
Hi1tori2 Ba26gro4nd7
Apparently, the first device similar 6but perhaps differing in construction7 to the energy wheel was called a C)iometreC and was developed by a <r. 8ippolyte )araduc of .rance 6no biographical data can be located7. >t consisted of a copper needle suspended horizontally by a thread from the top center of a glass dome. )eneath the dome was a horizontal dial marked off in circular degrees. !he operator would cup both hands around the glass dome and, by Cconcentrated thought,C rotate the needle left or right to the number of degrees marked on the dial. A. #. ". *. :. 6Ancient and #ystical "rder of the *ose :ross, otherwise known as the *osicrucian )rotherhood7 developed a similar device consisting of a needle floating on water. "n page +++ of the ,' Auly %4++ issue of the famed )ritish medical Bournal, .he /ancet, <r. :harles *oss authored an article entitled CAn >nstrument Fhich
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>s (et >n #otion by Kision or by $roximity of the 8uman )ody. C !his device was also called a Csthenometer. C >t consisted of a balanced needle suspended by a thread inside a surrounding transparent shield, preferably made of uartz 6although glass was believed to be useable, too7. A horizontal dial marked off in degrees was placed below the horizontally-suspended needle. !he basic sthenometer is shown in .igure /-%. >t was claimed by <r. *oss that the needle would respond instantly to the visual stimulus of a gaze or to the proximity of a human body. Fhy this device, described so carefully and completely in a respected medical Bournal, was not investigated further is unknown. A :zech engineer, *obert $avlita, developed a large number of similar Cpsychotronic generatorsC operating on Cshaped powerC following Forld Far >>. !he :zechs have been very uiet about these devices and have revealed or published little that can be evaluated properly. .lanagan 6see previous chapter7 combined his experiences in pyramid research with the devices of *oss and $avlita to produce a Cpyramid psychotronic generatorC shown in .igure /-+ and /-+a. Nenith !K engineer ;erald -oe developed a commercial version of these devices, calling it the C9nergy FheelO. C !his little gem was introduced to me by !ag $owell in about %43'. !he rotor consisted of a cross stamped from thin aluminum foil shown in .igure /-,.
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!he author first heard of the energy wheel device in about %411 from Aohn Foods :ampbell, Ar. 6%4%' -%4&%7, then editor of Astounding Science Fiction magazine published at that time by (treet P (mith. :ampbellDs name will appear often herein because he was a technicallytrained man whoDd attended #>! and graduated 01
Figure (-2A: Di5en1ioned te59late :or 24tting and :olding a Flanagan B9yra5id 91y23otroni2 generatorB :ro5 a 13eet o: 9a9er. with a degree in physics from <uke 2niversity. :ampbell was interested in everything in the 2niverse, including things that were unexplained by science such as some of the machines described in this book. !he :ampbell
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version of the energy wheel utilized a folded paper rotor similar to the one fully described below as the experimental device of this chapter. !he authorDs experiences with the :ampbell energy wheel in %411-%410 were mixed. (ometimes > could get it to work. "ther times, > could not. !he reactions of my friends and colleagues working in the rocket and guided missile area at Fhite (ands missile testing range were also mixed. !herefore, > didnDt pay much attention to this device again until !ag $owell gave me one of his energy wheels in %43' 6.ig. /-,7. > discovered > could cup my hands around the device and make it spin in both directions, stop, and reverse directions with great reliability and repeatability. <uring a visit to my home by !ag $owell in %43,, we spent most of a day conducting various experiments with the energy wheel. !he one we used is shown in .igure /-,. >f you donDt want to make an energy wheel, you can buy the one shown. >tDs commercially available from $owell $roductions, %%&'% )elcher *oad (outh, (uite %+,, -argo, .lorida ,/0/,-1%%&. Fe discovered that both of us could make it work e ually well if we placed it under an inverted water glass, thereby shielding it from any air currents, including subconsciously-directed breathing, that might cause it to change its motion. )ut it would not work as well if placed under an inverted drinking container made of clear
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>tDs ridiculously simple to make an energy wheel. 8owever, the device uses a very sharp needle pointing vertically upwards. >tDs possible to impale oneDs hand on this very sharp needle. 0A12-234 #$treme care shoul he taken to insure that you on(t impale part of yourself on the nee le5 <o not leave the energy wheel assembled with the needle vertical and the wheel itself removed. >n fact, once youDve finished working with the energy wheel each time, disassemble it completely and put the needle in a safe place. "r place a rubber stopper, cork, or piece of clay atop the vertical needle point. <onDt take chances and get stuck with the needle. "bviously, donDt leave the energy wheel assembled where small children may get to it, possibly play with it, and possibly get hurt by the sharp needle point. !he following materials are re uired to make an energy wheel? %. A piece of writing or typewriter paper three inches s uare. !he paper should be as thin and light as possible. "rdinary note paper is sufficient. Anything between %1-pound and +'-pound paper, as it is technically known, will work. !issue paper is not recommended because it may be too thin to permit it to be folded or to retain its shape when folded.
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+. A sewing needle about two inches long. !he reason for using a needle is to have a sharp, low-friction needle-point bearing upon which the energy wheel can rotate. ,. A base to hold the needle vertical. Gou can use a kneaded rubber eraser, a lump of plasticene modelling clay, or a small block of balsa wood %=+-inch thick and about + inches s uare.
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"ther items you will need in order to conduct experiments include a glass drinking tumbler and plastic drinking tumbler, 6both large enough to fit over the energy wheel7, some baby oil, and a notebook and pencil with which to record the results of your experiments. :ut the paper into a s uare three inches on each side. 6.ig. //7 >t doesnDt have to be precisely s uare, but it will look better and balance better if it is. 2se scissors, a single-edge razor blade, or a modelling knife along with a metal straight edge to insure straight cutting. .old the paper diagonally as shown 6.ig. /-17, then unfold it and fold it again from the two other opposed corners. #ake both folds in the same direction so that you end up with a tent-shaped, partially-flattened pyramidal shape with a peak in the middle as shown. :arefully insert the needle perpendicularly through the eraser or base piece until about %.1 inches of the pointed end sticks out. "r mold a chunk of plasticene modelling clay around the eye end of the needle to hold it vertically. 3ently place the folded paper s uare on the point of the needle with the point nestled in the apex of the folds at the center of the s uare. Gour energy wheel is now completed6.ig. /-07.
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.ind a uiet spot and place the energy wheel on a table. #ake sure itDs not in the draft of an air conditioning unit, window, or heater. Avoid any air currents because they make the experiments more difficult. (it down at the table facing the energy wheel. :up both hands around both sides of it about a half-inch away from it. Eeep your hands steady by resting your elbows and forearms on the table top. -ook at the unit and think of it revolving. At first it may wobble. >t may revolve first in one direction, then stop and start rotating in the opposite direction. :oncentrate on movement in one direction. (ome people can make the energy wheel operate immediately. "thers re uire a learning period ranging from several minutes to several weeks with regular sessions of five to fifteen minutes daily. 6"ther people canDt make it work at all. 7 <onDt be discouraged if you canDt get it to rotate. >f you finally give up, try it on your friends. !hey might surprise you.
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!here are several impromptu empirical experiments that you can conduct with the energy wheel once you learn to make it rotate.
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>f there is any uestion in your mind concerning whether or not air currents are causing it to rotate, place an inverted glass drinking tumbler over it. :up your hands around the glass and make it rotate in the enclosed space. "nce you have gained operational experience or taken experimental data with the energy wheel enclosed under an inverted glass tumbler, replace the glass unit with the polystyrene plastic one. :up your hands around the plastic tumbler and make the energy wheel rotate. !he condition of the skin on your hands and palms may be a contributing factor in whatever causes the energy wheel to rotate. !ry coating your palms with a thin layer of baby oil. !hen remove the oil by thoroughly washing your hands and try again. Note any differences. !ry the energy wheel on several people, and keep accurate experimental notes on who can make it rotate, stop, and change directions best, and how long it took them to learn how to do it. 8ow do you learn how to do itH Nobody knows. Gou Bust have to keep trying until it happens 6or doesnDt7. !here are many additional experiments that can and should be carried out with the various forms of energy wheels. !he precise physical conditions of the environment and the subBect should be instrumented, measured, and monitored for changes. !hese might include ambient air temperature near the energy wheel
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6perhaps also above and below it7, deep body temperature of the subBect, surface temperature of both palms, the galvanic skin resistance of both palms, and the electric field present between the palms. >nstruments to measure these parameters to great accuracy are available, but their cost may be beyond the means of the amateur experimenter. )ut the measurements need to be taken, the professional bioelectronic engineers apparently havenDt done it, and therefore itDs probably going to be up to the amateurs to forge ahead.

Gou may not be able to get the energy wheel to do anything you want it to do. >t may not rotate at all. >t may rotate erratically. Gou may not have any conscious control over it at all. >Dll repeat what >Dve already said numerous times in this book? (ome people can make it work, and some people canDt. 6(ome people can play the trumpet, and others canDt.7 Fe donDt know why this is so. )ut if some people can make it work 6and this can be demonstrated repeatedly7, we should try to find out why, shouldnDt weH
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!he first hypothesis that comes to mind concerning what makes the energy wheel rotate is? Cthought waves,C or psychokinesis, or telekinesis. "ne of the rea-
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sons why the rotating element of the energy wheel was originally fabricated with such low mass was the belief that such mental energy must be uite small and, since we couldnDt move things that were obviously massive, perhaps Cthought wavesC could have some affect on bodies of extremely low mass. )ut Bust because someone can hang a name on a phenomenon doesnDt mean that itDs understood or that it really operates by something related to parapsychology 6although it may, and that cannot be completely ruled out7. 8owever, one of the basic principles of scientific investigation is called C"ccamsD *azor.C !his is a philosophical statement of natural law that comes from Filliam of "ckham 6c. %+3'-%,/47, an 9nglish schoolman who proposed the dictum pluralites non est ponen a sine necessitate 6 C multiplicity ought not to be posited without necessity. C >n other words, choose the simplest possible solution or, in modern parlance, E. %. (. (. 6Eeep >t (imple, (tupid.7 >n applying "ccamDs *azor to the hypothesis that the action of the energy wheel is the result of psychokinetics or Cthought waves,C it must be pointed out that this hypothesis is complex because nobody yet knows what thought waves are or how they can be measured. "r can even agree that such things exist, much less on the reality of some attempts at detection and measurement of these phenomena. !herefore, until psychotechnology progresses to the point where we can hang numbers on
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things and get everyone to agree on the basis of repeat-able experimentation, weDd better see if we can find other hypotheses with simpler explanations based on whatever part of the 2niverse we do indeed already understand well enough to have measured accurately. !his, in turn, brings up another principle of science? >f youDre going to propose a new theory, it must not only account for newly observed phenomena but must also allow for the existence of things that are already known. >n addition, it must also predict phenomena that are totally new and unsuspected. Fith these concepts in mind, letDs look at some other hypotheses that might account for the action of the energy wheel. !his may not be the only possible one nor the only one that meets the ualification of Filliam of "ckham, but itDs a point of departure that may make the energy wheel a little less hokey. !he hypothesis that the wheel is being unconsciously turned by selective unconscious direction of the operatorDs breath is put to rest by the experiment in which the rotor is operated while enclosed in an inverted glass water tumbler. "n the basis of results of experiments conducted by the author, the following hypothesis is put forward as a point of departure. >t may not be correct. )ut it offers somewhere to start and something to be proven or disproven... or replaced by a better hypothesis.
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As discussed in the previous chapter, the planet that we live on functions because of electric, magnetic, and electromagnetic fields 6and these three things are separate phenomenaI see any elementary physics text7. !he planet 9arth has an electrostatic field along with a magnetic field. (o does every living creature on 9arth. A human being exhibits a change in electrical resistance of the skin which can be measured and which has been previously correlated with emotional states and action of the nervous system. A human being is a complex electronic system with a skin that has a definite dielectric constant, which in turn can change because of emotional state 6although there has been little work done and reported concerning this factor7. A human being also has an electrostatic field that is only partially the result of the bodyDs immersion in the 9arthDs electric field. (ince it is already known that the voluntary 6and involuntary7 actions of the nervous system can alter the electric and magnetic characteristics of the human body in a highly localized manner - i.e., the galvanic skin resistance can be different at different parts of the body - it therefore follows that it is possible to voluntarily alter the electric charge on each hand or on different parts of a single hand. "ne of the first experiments in electricity that a freshman physics student sees or carries out has to do with the electrostatic attraction of oppositely-charged bod&3
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ies and the mutual repulsion of bodies with the same electrostatic charge. Fe experience it daily with some plastic films that cling tenaciously to foods and other materials, including themselvesI with dust and dirt that is electrostatically attracted to the front of a television setI with electrostatic dust precipitators both in homes and on factory chimneysI and with any cat that has had its fur rubbed vigorously. >t does not take much energy in the form of an electrostatic charge to make its presence known beyond the shadow of a doubt. And our own personal experience indicates that electrostatic forces, even small ones, can exhibit pronounced physical effects. !he energy wheel may function because of the operatorDs unconscious 6but also, strangely, willed7 ability to alter the electric field at different points of the palm of the hand or both hands. !his should not appear to be a fantastic hypothesis since it is already well-known that a person can willfully alter the galvanic skin resistance and, therefore, the bodyDs electric field. !hus, the energy wheel could be nothing more than the bio-electric analog of the common, garden-variety, everyday electric motor. !he common s uirrel-cage induction motor used in fans and most small appliances is in itself an impossible device unless one understands alternating current theory. And itDs interesting to note that alternating current theory and therefore the s uirrel-cage induction motor depends entirely on a mathemati-
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cal concept known as CiC which is the s uare root of minus%. !his is a totally imaginary number that does not and cannot exist in the real 2niverseJ Get it is absolutely necessary in order to provide a theoretical foundation for the electrical power of alternative currents that today run our world. !he energy wheel may not have anything to do with Cthoughtwaves,C but only the mindDs natural ability to alter the electrical characteristics of the skin. !his hypothesis 6which, by calling it a hypothesis, means that it is, at best, only an educated guess waiting to be tested and proved7 satisfies the re uirement that we continually wield "ccamDs *azor. Kiewed from the standpoint of an electrical phenomenon, the operating principle behind rotation of the rotor is straightforward in nature. !he rotor is at all times at negative potential or charge, resting on an extension of the surface of the negatively-charged 9arth. !he rotor has four points or corners at which its negative electric charge is concentrated. >f an operator can alter the electric field of one palm to make it positive while the fingers on the same hand are negative, the difference in electric charge would cause the rotor to turn. !his hypothesis can be checked by experimentation and measurement. All rotors of all energy wheel devices seen by the author to date have been in cruciform 6cross7 shape or possessed some sharp points around their peripheries. 3'
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A critical experiment 6the reader is invited to try it7 is to determine whether or not a circular rotor 6i.e., one without sharp corners7 can also be made to rotate. !he author has tried it and challenges the reader to perform the same experiment. )ut why does a regular energy wheel appear to work well under a glass tumbler and not under a tumbler made of polystyrene plasticH "bviously, glass has a different dielectric constant than does polystyrene plastic. :an glass be given an electric charge more easily than plasticH !he author hasnDt investigated these areas yet. !hey are ripe for amateur experimentation. .rom the professional or semi-professional scientific research standpoint, the human operator should be instrumented to measure galvanic skin resistance, skin temperature, and electric field potential and gradient at several locations on the skin, including critical points on the hands and palms. (olid-state electronic devices available today make such measurements possible where they were patently impractical if not impossible a mere twenty years ago. (uch experimentation and measurement would serve to answer the uestion of how a person manages to operate an energy wheel and reveal the physical factors involved, but it will not answer the uestion of how a human being actually manages to change the electrical characteristics of the skin.
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!he energy wheel is a simple device to make and, for some people, a simple device to operate. >ts simplicity may mask a complex set of reasons why it works. 8owever, its very simplicity permits a wide variety of experimentation by amateur scientists and offers professional researchers an opportunity to test and measure some physical factors that may be involved in its mode of operation. >n the long run, both sorts of experimentation may reveal a great deal about the human mind and body that is currently either unknown or assigned to the realm of the fantastic or the province of charlatans. 8owever, the simple fact that a large number of otherwise ordinary people can make this simple device operate indicates that it is not mystical in nature. #odern scientific procedures and instrumentation can be applied in an attempt to learn the mechanics of operation. .urthermore, proto-sciences such as parapsychology need not be invoked to provide an explanation of why it works.
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CHAPTER FI,E
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>n some respects, the two different pendulum types described in this chapter are similar in operation to the energy wheel of the previous chapter. )oth consist of very light masses suspended from supports by thin threads . >t is claimed that the action of volitional thought can cause the pendulum to move. >n the case of the pendu-
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lum, however, it appears to offer Cyes-noC answers to uestions. >t also appears that it can be used to indicate the direction to a wanted obBect. !he first type of pendulum is hand-supported. >t is undoubtedly the easiest to operate. 8owever, the possibility of minute, subconscious movements on the part of the operator casts considerable doubt on any claim that a handsupported pendulum is a Camazing mind machineC operating because of as yet unknown operational principles. !he second type of pendulum is supported from a rigid point such as a lampshade edge, desk lamp, or simple tripod support made from wooden dowels. !he independently-supported pendulum eliminates the possibility that the human operator could control its swing by unconscious and minute finger, hand, and=or arm movements. !he independently-supported pendulum may also be operated under a transparent cover to eliminate the possibility that air currents might affect its swing. !he operator CthinksC or concentrates on the pendulum, asking a uestion that can be answered in a CyesnoC manner. )y previous agreement, the swing of the pendulum to and away from the operator may mean CyesC while a swing from left to right may mean Cno.C !he operator must announce prior to the start of the experiment which direction of motion signifies affirmative and which indicates the negative response.
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!o use the pendulum as a locator similar to detector rods, the operator asks the pendulum to swing in the direction of the obBect whose location is being sought. !here is, of course, an ambiguity in the fact that the unknown obBect can be located in either direction that the pendulum swings - i.e., if the pendulum swings in a north-south plane, the obBect could be located either north or south of the operator. (ome operators appear to be extremely adept in getting the pendulum to swing in a most unusual fashion when in the locator mo e4 they can cause the pendulum to swing from its vertical rest position to a displaced position in the direction of the obBect, then cause the pendulum to swing between the vertical rest position and the displaced position.
C!he #agic $endulumC has its origins lost in the mists of prehistory. >t has long been a device used by wizards and shamins. Aust because a device has a long history doesnDt mean that we, with our immensely increased wisdom growing from a centuries-old legacy of scientific progress, should both scoff at and ridicule such devices that appear to have no rational explanation in terms of the 2niverse as we know an !elieve it to !e. All our ancestors for several hundred thousand years not only believed in such CmagicC devices but conducted their affairs in accordance with what these devices told
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them. Fe know beyond the shadow of a doubt that their reliance on these devices could not have been foolish and=or disastrous because our ancestors lived and thrived and produced progeny culminating in o4r1el0e1. >f all our ancestors were fools and we of the modern CscientificC age are so smart, this would mean that the #endelian -aws of genetics and heredity are plainly nonsense. )ut we also know for a fact that these principles of biotechnology are indeed valid, true, and 6most important7 pragmatically workable. Ask any breeder of horses or dogs or any farmer who relies on hybridized crops. $erhaps our forebears were not uite the stupid clods we tend to believe, but possessed some evidence that strange machines such as the pendulum did indeed have some validity, even though they didnDt understand why they worked and therefore placed them in the CmagicC classification. 8uman beings are also eminently practical. >f it doesnDt work, itDs discarded. >f it seems to work most of the time or enough of the time to make it useful, itDs used until something better is discovered or developed. Kery little research work or further development has been undertaken with this extremely simple machine. >t exists today in nearly the same form as it has for uncounted centuries. 8owever, the social milieu has changed. >n most of the world today, you will not be burned at the stake as a witch for experimenting with such devices as the
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pendulum. 68owever, there are still some locales in the 2nited (tates where you would be well advised to be somewhat circumspect in such experimentation simply because America has all types of people in it, including those who are still very superstitious, fearful, and violent.7
> do not remember when > first tried using a pendulum. >t may have been when > was about twelve or thirteen years old and became fascinated by a ouiBa board, which led me to experiment with some of the other
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devices of Cwitchcraft and sorceryC that my Buvenile colleagues brought forth from time to time. #any of these machines were CdiscoveredC and subse uently experimented with because we were at that age and that level of scholastic sophistication where we were being introduced to the (cientific #ethod and to the mysteries of the 2niverse revealed by our resident scholastic magician, the Bunior high school science teacher, one <onald Aohn "bee at :heyenne #ountain (chool in :olorado (prings, :olorado. "ne thing > can say for #r. "bee? 8e made science and technology fascinating, fun, and also frustrating enough to encourage me out of curiosity to continue to be interested in science and technology for the rest of my life. !he mere idea that > didnDt have to be captive to the whims of nature but could, if > understood enough about it, manipulate the 2niverse so that > could do magic things like fly in the air and go to the moon got me hooked at an early age because, even then, > felt > had been Berked around enough by a capricious 2niverse. > can make a hand-supported pendulum work. )ut > donDt always know whether or not it gives me the correct Cyes-noC answers because > havenDt used it enough for that purpose. !he pendulum re uires that the operator play the game of C!wenty LuestionsQ. <oing this often takes longer to answer a uestion than to either )o look it up in a suitable reference book or think it through and work it out myself. And >Dve never really been certain that > wasnDt unconsciously making the pendulum swing
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the way > wanted it to swing. > often have much the same feeling about detector rods but in the case of that device, there is absolutely no uestion in my mind that > am not making those rods swing for the simple reason that the response is so strong. > can also make a self-supported, glass-enclosed pendulum swing. > donDt know why, although, as you will see later, > do indeed have a hypothesis. "bservations of other people operating pendulums of both sorts shows that about 3'R of volunteer subBects can make a hand-supported pendulum do something while about 1'R of people can make the self-supported pendulum operate. > donDt know why.

!his is one of the simplest of all mind machines to build and operate. !he following materials are re uired? %. A thumb tack, paper clip, or a minute pinch of plasticene modelling clay to use as a pendulum bob. +. A spool of sewing thread for the pendulum itselfI this can be made of nylon, silk, polyester, or any other material. ,. :ellophane tape to use for affixing the upper end of the pendulum to a support.
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/. A pendulum supportI this can be nothing more sophisticated than the shade of a desk lamp, study lamp, or table lampI or the lower edge of a kitchen or bathroom cabinet. 1. A glass water tumbler and a polystyrene plastic water tumbler 6this last item optional7. :ut an eighteen-inch length of thread 6longer if your pendulum support is higher than this distance from the table or other horizontal surfaceI in fact, the longer the pen ulum, the more sensitive it will !e'. !ie one end of the thread to the pendulum bob - the paper clip or thumb tack - or mold a bean-sized lump of plasticene modelling clay around the end of the thread. No further fabrication is re uired for the handsupported pendulum. An independently-supported pendulum can be made by taping the free end to the lamp shade so that the pendulum bob swings freely Bust above the surface of a table. !he pendulum can also be fabricated inside the water tumbler by taping the free end of the pendulum support to the inside of the bottom of the glass so that the pendulum bob swings freely inside the tumbler when it is inverted. .or a pendulum thatDs more sensitive, use one of those tall conical beer glasses.
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(erious investigators may wish to fabricate a series of pendulums having bobs of differing sizes, weights, shapes, and densitiesI supports made from various thicknesses of thread and thread materialsI and enclosures consisting of cylindrical glass and lucite plastic tubes with suitable supports or caps on their upper ends from which to suspend the pendulum. )ut the common, parlor-variety pendulum for C uick-and-dirtyC empirical experiments can be made in satisfactory form with the very simple materials detailed above.
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(eat yourself in a comfortable chair at a table in a location free of air currents from air conditioners, heaters, fans, and drafts from open windows. !ake the free end of the pendulum support thread between the fingers of your hand, and place both hands together to steady one another. 6.ig. 1%7 $lace your elbows on the surface of the table to steady them. AdBust the length of the pendulum until the bob swings Bust clear of the table top. <etermine the direction of the pendulum swing in yes-no response to your uestions. >t is normal in most
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9uropean cultures for the CyesC response to be a swing toward and away from the body of the operator while a CnoC response is a side-to-side, left-right swing. <etermine what you wish to know. !he uestions must be phrased so that they can be answered as CyesC or Cno.C !his often means framing a series of uestions to arrive at the desired answer. $eople who are experienced at playing C!wenty LuestionsC will find it easier than someone who is not. #ost people will get a pendulum response when it is operated in this hand-supported mode.
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Affix the free end of the pendulum thread with cellophane tape to an overhanging support 6.ig. 1-+7 such as a lamp shade or shelf in a location reasonably free of air currents from air conditioners, fans, heaters, and drafts from open windows. AdBust the pendulum length so that the pendulum bob swings freely Bust above the surface of the table or counter. (eat yourself comfortably in front of the pendulum. Fith your hands, still the swing of the pendulum that may have been produced in the act of suspending it. "nce the pendulum is hanging uietly, place your arms on the table and cup your hands
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around the pendulum bob about three to six inches away from it. Novices may discover that it is easier to work the pendulum with their hands cupped closer to it. "perate the pendulum as described for the handsupported unit. .rame and ask your uestions in the same manner.
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>f the hand-supported pendulum experiment works for you, try the independently suspended pendulum. "nce you have obtained results from the independently-suspended pendulum, try making it swing without cupping your hands around the pendulum bob. As in the experiments with the energy wheel in the previous chapter, try coating your palms with a thin film of baby or bath oil to change the electrical characteristics and dielectric constant of your skin. "r wash your hands thoroughly and completely to remove as much natural skin oil as possible. >f you suspect that air currents from your breath, someone elseDs breath, or ambient air currents in the room are the cause of pendulum action, perform the enclosed pendulum experiment by suspending the pendulum inside an inverted glass water tumbler. 6.ig. 1-,7 :up your hands around the outside of the tumbler and repeat the basic operating instructions given above.
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>f the pendulum works inside an inverted glass tumbler, try the experiment with the pendulum inside the polystyrene plastic water tumbler. !he longer the pendulum support thread, the more sensitive the pendulum will be to any disturbing force. !ry extending the length of the pendulum thread and note the results. !he heavier the pendulum bob, the less sensitive the pendulum will be to any disturbing force. *eplace the paper clip or thumb tack with a blob of plasticene modelling clay. :ontinue to decrease the amount of clay used for the bob to increase the sensitivity. Gou will, of course, eventually reach the point where the mass of the clay is insufficient to keep the pendulum thread taut as well as permitting the pendulum to swing due to the relative increase in the ratio between forces on the bob and forces on the supporting thread. !ry a critical experiment? Arrange an independentlysupported pendulum in a location where the operator can cup his hands around it !ut cannot see the pen ulum, 6a sheet of cardboard will do nicely7. A serious investigator may wish to fabricate a transparent plastic cylinder to enclose the pendulum, then paint one side of the cylinder so that it is opa ue. Fith the pendulum thus hidden from the operator, an observer then notes and records the actions of the pendulum in response to
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uestions asked verbally by the operator. !he results should be compared with those obtained when the operator could see the pendulum.

>f you get no response from the hand-supported pendulum, you are certainly in the minority. 8owever, increase the sensitivity of the pendulum by decreasing the mass of the pendulum bob as detailed in the experimental section above. >t often helps to place a flat sheet of paper horizontally on the table below and directly underneath the pendulum bob. "n the paper, draw a cross. $lace the word CyesC at both ends of the vertical bar of the cross and the word CnoC at either end of the horizontal bar of the cross. !his may assist you in concentrating and in keeping fully in mind the direction the bob should swing in order to provide Cyes-noC answers. >f it doesnDt work at all, put it away and try it again later. Fe donDt know what the effect of various moods, biorhythms, emotions, state of rest, etc. has on the operation of a pendulum. :ould be youDre Bust having a bad day because we all have those. >f after many tries you canDt get the hand-supported pendulum to work for you, try it on a friend.
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!he same advice holds true for the other pendulum experiments. 8owever, for the independently-suspended pendulum, try changing the electrical nature of your palms by either washing your hands or by coating them with baby or bath oil...or both in se uence. !hen, again, as >Dve pointed out time and again in this book, you might not be able to get the pendulum to work at all. And we donDt know why.
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As in the case of the energy wheel of the previous chapter, we need not invoke bizarre hypotheses involving undiscovered radiations or waves. Fe are again dealing with phenomena that can probably be explained reasonably well with the science and technology already known to us. As an important aside, however, it is also likely, however far less probable, that there is indeed something new and hitherto unsuspected involved in the operation of the pendulum. > want to make it clear that > do not wish to sound dogmatic when > present hypotheses. >t could very well be that it all happens because it pleases the ;reat ;od )og as part of his arcane if whimsical way of running the 2niverse for his own amusement. )ut > really doubt it. > could be wrong, of course. "ne must keep an open mind when dealing with these machines....
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Fhen "ccamDs *azor is applied to the handsupported pendulum, the simplest explanation is that the operator is consciously or unconsciously affecting or modulating the innate natural nervous tremor, the CnoiseC in the human nervous system, possessed by everyone, thereby causing the pendulum to swing. 8owever, there are other problems that are not addressed or answered by this simplest and most straightforward of hypotheses. 8ow does the operator know the answerH Fhat if the uestion doesnDt involve an answer with a high content of wishful thinkingH Fhat if the pendulum taps the super-hyper-ultra-conscious or even the subconsciousH Fhat if itDs tapping CsubconsciousC or CracialC memoriesH >f it is indeed doing these things, itDs doing them better, a lot faster, and far more positively than any psychiatrist or psychological techni ue >Dve ever known. "bviously, in spite of a simplistic hypothesis that resists the cutting edge of "ccamDs *azor, there must be something more to the hand-held pendulum. > donDt know what it is. )ut it deserves more investigation. Fith respect to the independently-suspended pendulum, almost every freshman physics student is aware of the demonstration or experiment in which a light obBect such as a bit of paper or cork is attracted to a rubber or glass rod which has been rubbed gently with silk or catDs fur. !his is an exhibition of electrification. >n
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the previous chapter, the first law of electrostatics was stated? "bBects that are similarly charged repel each other while bodies with unlike charges attract each other. >n addition to various obBects that have been given an electrostatic charge by various means, the e uipment used to demonstrate this principle usually consists of a small, light obBect suspended from a thread as a pendulum. >t is surprisingly easy to give an obBect enough electrostatic charge to affect another obBect such as a suspended lightweight pendulum bob. Fe also saw in the previous chapter that the human body carries an electrostatic charge on the surface of the skin and that the action of the nervous system can change the polarity and strength of this electrostatic field. >n all people, it is an unconscious phenomenon, which means that it is accomplished without the person being aware of it in much the same manner that people are unaware of their breathing or heartbeat. 8owever, like breathing or the heartbeat, it can be voluntarily and willfully controlled. !herefore, the operational hypothesis here is nearly the same as that proposed for the energy wheel? !he human mind causes the nervous system to change the electrostatic charge on the skin of the hands in such a way as to cause the independently-suspended pendulum to swing. Fhen the charge on the right palm is plus and the other palm minus, and if the pendulum carries a minus charge, it will swing toward the right hand. !he
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mind then causes the electric charge on both palms to reverse, in turn causing the pendulum to swing in the other direction. !o cause the pendulum to swing toward and away from the experimenter, the charge on the heel of both hands must be the same while that at both fingertips the same. >t would not take a very strong change in electrostatic charge of the skin of the palms to cause the pendulum to swing. 8ere again, the physical factors can be measured as in the energy wheel tests. (olid-state electronic measurement sensors exist that will detect and determine the electric field. )ut, again, this hypothesis begs the uestion...and it is a most important uestion? 8ow does the operator know how to make the swinging pendulum answer the uestion for which the operator has no conscious answerH And, again, claiming that the pendulum triggers racial memories or other deep-seated psychological factors raises even more important uestions that basically involve the elusive ChowC? 8ow can the simple pendulum accomplish this so easily when it re uires hours, weeks, or even months of intense psychological therapy, treatment, or investigation to dig these things out otherwiseH
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8ere is a very simple mind machine whose operating principles appear to be both obscure and complex. )ut the hypotheses may only appear to be complex because the operating mechanism is still totally unknown. !he device works and will indeed answer uestions with a reliability that has been shown to be much better than random chance. >t is also a device that lends itself to experimentation by amateurs. !he instrumentation involved in measuring the physical factors involved is not complex or expensive. .urthermore, the instrumentation is totally within the current state of the art. Fe are perhaps confronting two separate phenomena with the hand-supported pendulum and the independently-supported pendulum. )ut, with the present level of knowledge in this area, there did not appear to be much to be gained by considering them separately.
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CHAPTER SI'
THE HIERON(MOUS MACHINE
Basic Descri !i"#$

!he 8ieronymous #achine is covered by 2nited (tates $atent No. +,/3+,&&, granted (eptember +&, %4/4 to <r. !homas ;alen 8ieronymous, Advanced (ciences *esearch P <evelopment, >nc., $.". )ox %+&, -akemont, ;eorgia ,'11+. >t is also covered by :anadian patent /30,''3 and )ritish patent 00,,4&3.
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According to <r. 8ieronymous, the device is intended for the detection and analysis of minerals utilizing a new aspect of the physical universe discovered by him which he calls Celoptic radiation.C !he machine uses a simple pickup coil, an optical prism rotated as a tuning device, an electronic amplifier, and an output sensing device best described as a Ctactile detector.C !he basic elements of a 8ieronymous machine are shown in .igure 0-%. !he mineral or metal sample is placed next to a pickup coil which is attached to a terminal inside the machine. C9loptic radiationC from the terminal is refracted through a rotating prism where it is picked up by another probe. !his CsignalC is then transmitted through an electronic amplifier circuit whose output goes to the detector, a coil of wire located underneath a flat plate of glass, lucite, plexiglas, polystyrene, or other plastic. !he operator places the CsampleC next to the pickup coil, turns a knob which rotates the prism as well as a graduated dial, and strokes the flat plate of the tactile detector with their fingertips until the surface of the plate Cfeels different.C At this point, the machine is CtunedC and, if the dial has been pre-calibrated so that the dial setting for various elements is known in advance, the operator can determine the presence of that element in the sample.
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!he 8ieronymous machine described herein can be used to determine the nature of the elements in the sample. A more advanced version described in the basic patent will permit the operator to determine the relative percentage of each element in the sample by means of an attenuator circuit not described herein. !herefore, the &ieronymous machine is !asically an analytical evice. 8owever, it does not appear to operate according to any known principles of physics. >n fact, it does not appear that it should work at all. )ut it does. !he fact that it does indeed work has been independently confirmed by many investigators who have built the device according to written instructions without personal instruction from or contact with the inventor and who have obtained independent results confirming the inventordiscovererDs claims. !he 8ieronymous machine is not one of the simpler strange devices. !o build it in this form re uires tools, parts, and some knowledge of modern electronics 6but not much if you can follow instructions7. 8owever, there are simpler versions of the device that will be discussed in detail later.
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As noted above, this device was first patented by <r. 8ieronymous in %4/4, which indicates that he had been working on it for several years, perhaps as much as a decade or more, prior to that date. !here appears to be no prior patented art utilizing his hypothesis of Celoptic radiation.C .ull details of the 8ieronymous machine were published in Kolume -K>> Number /, the Aune %410 issue of Astoun in) Science Fiction magazine with an illustrated science article written by the editor, Aohn F. :ampbell, Ar. !here have been no published articles in national or international magazines available to the general public since that date. 8owever, <r. 8ieronymous is a founding member and a director of the 2nited (tates $sychotronics Association which meets regularly to discuss and demonstrate devices such as the 8ieronymous machine and which publishes material on these devices.
!he publication of the details of the 8ieronymous machine in Astoun in) Science Fiction magazine in %410 and %41& prompted me to construct one because all of my academic education and my in-the-field training and experience told me that the device couldnDt possibly work
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at all. > had been corresponding with Aohn F.:ampbell, Ar. since > was also writing science fiction stories during the eveningsI > was employed full-time as a general engineer at the 2.(. Naval "rdnance #issile !est :enter at what was then Fhite (ands $roving ;round 6now the Fhite (ands #issile *ange7, New #exico. >n the course of this correspondence with :ampbell, we engaged in the usual sort of intellectual techno-scientific argument that :ampbell enBoyed instigating. > believed :ampbell to be wrong in several matters, and the opportunity to prove him to be wrong in the case of the 8ieronymous machine was too great to ignore. > was greatly surprised when my 8ieronymous machine worked exactly as :ampbell had written in both the magazine and in letters. > was a confirmed skeptic 6and still am7, yet here was a device that worked
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as predicted, and > had built it from written instructions and without any personal contact whatsoever with the inventor. >n the ensuing months, > learned that my wife could not get a response from the device 6she canDt work detector rods, either7, but more than 3'R of the rocket and guided missile scientists and engineers at Fhite (ands who tried it got a response. !he most interesting response came from <r. :lyde F. !ombaugh, the astronomer who had discovered the planet $luto in %4,' and who was at that time involved in searching for small natural satellites of the 9arth. <r. !ombaugh reported, C!he change in touch sensation on the plate is there, but to me it is Bust at the threshold of sensation, much like seeing fine details on planetary surfaces.C > have since tried my 8ieronymous machine with many people and have confirmed that between 3'R and 4'R of those who try it get a response. >n all cases, > have not instructed the operator concerning what sort of change could be anticipated in the feeling of the tactile detector plate since this could amount to suggestion that might preBudice the results. !he instructions given are as follows? C!une it like a radio by turning this knob. (troke this plastic plate here. !une it until the plate feels different. <onDt worryI you wonDt get an electric shock because that plastic is thick
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enough to be insulation against more than 1',''' volts. <onDt ask me what it should feel like. !une it and tell me. $eople have reported that the plate suddenly felt slick, that it felt sort of like tar, that it felt like someone had suddenly spilled orange Buice over it, that it suddenly felt like it was covered with thick grease that was slippery yet sticky, that it felt furry like a kitten, that it suddenly became warm, that the plate suddenly began to tingle, or that its shape suddenly felt like it had changed from a flat plate to a bowl. No two people appear to get precisely the same reaction. "ne operator removed her fingers from the plate with the comment that it suddenly felt like her fingers were about to become immovably stuck to or glued to the plate. (ome reactions have been strong. "thers, like that of <r. !ombaugh, were on the threshold of sensation. .rom time to time, > have had to perform maintenance on a 8ieronymous machine. !hese details will be discussed later.

:onstruction of a 8ieronymous machine as described in this chapter re uires a great deal of ingenuity, access to a good electronics parts store, a reasonably welle uipped workshop, the necessary tools, and skill in building things. 8owever, it can be built in less than ten
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hours. >t was much easier to build a 8ieronymous machine back in %40' or %4&' because people then were not used to building things from kits in which all parts were supplied and complete, step-by-step instructions included. .urthermore, many mail order electronic parts supply companies have gone out of business since %4&1, making it difficult for enthusiasts to build electronic e uipment if they donDt live in a city or town with a good electronic parts store. 2nfortunately, !andy *adio (hack doesnDt carry many of the necessary components, although many parts can be located there. !here are two ways to locate a well-stocked electronic parts firm? 6a7 check the Gellow $ages of the telephone book under the category C9lectronic 9 uipment P (upplies S <ealers,C or 6b7 find a local amateur radio operator or ChamC and ask him. !he original 8ieronymous patent describes an electronic device using vacuum tubes. >tDs increasingly difficult to obtain the necessary parts for vacuum tube electronic e uipment these days because nearly all electronic gear now uses either transistors or integrated circuit chips. 8owever, based on the authorDs experience, it shouldnDt make any difference whatsoever whether the 8ieronymous machine is made with vacuum tubes, transistors, or integrated circuit Cop ampsC 6operational amplifiers7.
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An analysis of the 8ieronymous patent circuitry indicates that the electronic amplifier is a Cbroad-bandC voltage amplifier with a circuit gain of +' to %''. (ince itDs a voltage amplifier, it cannot produce enough radio fre uency energy to even warm the fingertips, much less cause any shock hazard in the well-insulated tactile detector. .urthermore, the original patent shows a system that has an operating fre uency from about 1'' Eilo8ertz to %.1 #ega8ertz, which is roughly the fre uency spectrum of A# broadcasting 61'' k8z to %1'' k8z7. !his fre uency range presents absolutely no problem whatsoever to nearly all modern transistors and integrated circuit op amps. Although it may seem that itDs no help at this point, nothing about the 8ieronymous machine seems to be critical from an electronics standpoint. Gou can build a perfectly good 8ieronymous machine almost by Cfreelancing it,C building any sort of amplifier system providing that the basic elements of the block diagram of .igure 0-% are followed. !he pickup coil can be wound with & turns per inch of M%3 wire on the %.1-inch diameter cardboard core from an exhausted roll of bathroom tissue. #ake the coil about + inches long. (older the leads of a '.'% microfarad capacitor across the coil to produce a pickup sensor resonant at about 1'' E8z.
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!he Celoptic shieldsC shown in .igure 0-% can be either aluminum sheet or polyfoamI it doesnDt seem to make much difference. .inding the prism and its rotating dial may be the most difficult task of making the 8ieronymous machine. Any sort of small glass prism will do. 9dmund (cientific :orporation 6%'% 9ast ;loucester $ike, )arrington, NA '3''&7 has a large selection of glass prisms available in a wide variety of sizes and at low cost. ;et an # scorp catalog and order the prism thatDs the right size for your 8ieronymous machine. Gou will have to find the place where radio hams buy their parts in order to get a CNational Kelvet Kernier <ialC assembly upon which to mount the prism and thereby turn it so that its position can be read and noted on the vernier dial. Although the original vacuum tube amplifier circuit of the original 8ieronymous machine is shown in .igure 0+, you may find it easier to build the transistorized version shown in .igure 0-, or even the op amp version shown in .igure 0-/. $arts for the various versions are available from electronic supply stores. !he advantage of the transistorized and op amp versions is that they can be operated using flashlight batteries for power, eliminating the need to build a +1'-volt <: power supply re uired for the vacuum tube version. !he output of the amplifier is wired to the detector, which is another component youDll have to make from scratch. 6"ne of the difficulties of technical pioneer-
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ing is the fact that you have to build so much from scratch because there isnDt much in the way of prefabricated e uipment available.7 !he detector can be made from two sheets of %=/ inch thick polystyrene or lucite plastic which can be obtained from a plastic supply house 6although some hobby shops may have materials that can be substituted7. Again, find such a company in the Gellow $ages of the telephone book. !wo sheets of plastic, / inches s uare, are held apart by a piece of cardboard % inch in diameter. 2sing plastic cement or 6carefullyJ7 one of the acryloni-trile super glues, assemble the two plastic sheets on either side of the central cardboard core. Fhen the cement has thoroughly set, wind a coil of about /' turns of M++ enameled copper wire in a spiral around the core. "ne side of the coil assembly becomes the tactile detector plate. !he output of the amplifier is connected to the coil. !he entire assembly should be built into an aluminum or plastic chassis box. !hese are available at !andy *adio (hack or an electronic parts store. Again, since there are many ways to assemble a 8ieronymous machine and many different size boxes available, make it your own way. !he only thing to remember is the relationship between the various components should be maintained as shown in the block diagram. !he position of the components with respect to one another doesnDt seem to be as important as maintaining the integrity of
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the relationships between the basic parts. >t should be assembled in such a way that the pickup coil is on the side of the box so that samples can easily be placed near it. !he tuning knob should be in a position where it can easily be turned with one hand while the tactile detector plate is in a horizontal position where it can easily be stroked with the fingers of the other hand at the same time.
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"btain several pieces of metal of different types. An aluminum kitchen pan can be one. A large bolt can be another. $lace the 8ieronymous machine on a table and turn it on. $ut the metallic sample next to the pickup coil. Fith one hand, slowly turn the tuning knob. Fith the other hand, gently stroke the surface of the tactile detector with the fingertips. !urn the tuning knob and stroke the tactile detector until the surface of the detector plate feels different. !urn the tuning knob back and forth to Czero inC on the tuning point where the different feeling of the detector plate is at its maximum. Note the reading of the vernier dial in a notebook for future reference. (everal points on the tuning dial may cause the detector plate to feel different. Note the dial reading of each point. !ry it again with a different sample next to the pickup coil. Note that these instructions specifically state that the surface of the detector plate will feel Cdifferent.C Fe have done a reasonably good Bob in developing the 9nglish language to describe sight and sound sensations. <escribing a tactile sensation is extremely difficult. >tDs similar to attempting to describe the sensations of taste or
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smell. !ry describing the difference in flavor between a peach and a banana, for example. "n the other hand, we can describe the appearance of a peach well enough to differentiate it from a banana. As noted above, many people report widely different types of tactile sensations when using the 8ieronymous machine.
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"ne of the first experiments that should be carried out with the 8ieronymous machine is to cali!rate it. >t should exhibit a different dial reading for each different element in a sample. !herefore, obtain samples of reasonably pure elements such as iron, aluminum, copper, zinc, silver, gold, etc. #ost iron items these days are alloys of two or more elements in addition to iron. !he same holds true of aluminum. *easonably pure copper is available in the form of copper piping. :oins should not be used as calibration sources because today they are often made of alloys rather than pure copper or silver. A piece of sterling silver tableware can be used, and +/-carat gold Bewelry will provide a good calibration point for gold. 9ach material should exhibit the maximum tactile sensation at a given place on the dial. !hese should be recorded for future reference.
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9ach person should experience the maximum tactile sensation for, say, gold at the same place on the dial as other people. "nce the machine is calibrated, a series of experiments can be run by covering the dial and by hiding the sample inside a cardboard box. !he operator should continue to obtain a maximum tactile signal at the same place on the dial even though the operator cannot see the dial or know what the sample consists of. 9lectrical measurements should be made during the operation of the 8ieronymous machine. !he electrical characteristics at various places in the circuitry should be monitored with both oscilloscopes and high-impedance voltmeters. (ome experimenters have reported that there were no chan)es detectable in the electrical characteristics of the circuitry when operators were getting maximum responses from the tactile detector. !his needs to be confirmed by several investigators. >Dve confirmed it, but much better and more sensitive instruments exist today than when > did it in %41&. <r. 8ieronymous claims that his Celoptic radiationsC can be captured by a photograph and that the detector will react to a photo)raph of the sample Bust as it does to the sample itself. Fithout reporting on my own results in such an experiment, this is one that should be carried out because on initial presentation it sounds far more impossible and implausible than the 8ieronymous machine itself.
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!he 8ieronymous machine should be tried by a large number of people because only 3'R to 4'R of those who try it will get any response whatsoever from it. !he collection of data on who can operate it and who cannot is a valid experiment, especially if it is carried out in such a way that each person is given exactly the same instructions prior to trying it. >t may also be useful to record the operatorDs verbal opinions after the initial operating attempt is made, not before. >t may be useful to know who steadfastly refused to believe that the machine would or could work before it was tried, and who among this group actually got a response. !he 8ieronymous machine forms the starting point for an entire series of fascinating experiments regarding the effects of prior opinions and beliefs upon the results. #any people approach a device such as the 8ieronymous machine with an open mind. 8ow many of these get a responseH "thers approach it with skepticism, and many of these get a response which surprises them. "thers approach it with the attitude that it must be a fraud and cannot work...and it doesnDt. !here are many ways to conduct such an experiment. !he manner in which the 8ieronymous machine is presented to the novice operator may have a great deal to do with the nature and strength of the response. .or example, if it is presented in an environment that appears to be scientific and technical 6i.e., in laboratory-like surroundings or in a science fair, for example7, it may
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elicit a higher percentage of responses than if it is exhibited in connection with astrology, the occult, or mysticism. !he 8ieronymous machine is an e$cellent proBect for a science fair because such an exhibition permits the collection of a large amount of operational data from spectators. >n fact, the 8ieronymous machine may be far more important and valuable as the vehicle for learning how to design, carry out, and evaluate experiments.

#ine didnDt until > found the badly soldered electrical connection. :heck for this. Again, the continuing advice for this sort of response is? !ry it on someone else. "r try it tomorrow. "r give it to someone else to use and to experiment with the proviso that data be kept and reported. !he 8ieronymous machine appears to work for such a large percentage of people who try it that itDs very unusual for a person not to get a response from it.
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>n order to build and operate a 8ieronymous machine successfully, it is necessary to use the fundamental proposition of the scientific method? >n studying a hypothesis, it must be accepted wholeheartedly and the experimenter must follow through without uibbling. !he existence of <r. 8ieronymousD eloptic radiation must be accepted as a workin) hypothesis regardless whether or not you believe it to be utter nonsense. Gou have the perfect right to be skeptical and to reserve Budgement, but you do not have the right to reserve action on the logical conse uences of the hypothesis while youDre claiming to make a test of it. >f the test fails, you may then claim the working hypothesis is invalid. >f the test works, you can then either accept the hypothesis or attempt to form a hypothesis of your own. >n both of the latter situations, the hypothesis must not invalidate what we already know to be true and workable, and it must even predict some phenomenon that would not otherwise have been anticipated. <r. 8ieronymous designed and built this machine to apply his hypothesis of Celoptic radiationC to the detection and analysis of minerals. 8e states that eloptic radiations are emitted continuously by all elements, that each element emits a different sort of eloptic radiation, and that these eloptic radiations can be manipulated interchangeably either as optical phenomena or electric
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currents. 8is device operates on the principle, he states, that the eloptic radiations can be picked up by electrical components, passed through lenses and prisms, and amplified electrically. #y own opinion based on building and testing several different types of 8ieronymous machines is that <r. 8ieronymousD hypothesis is incorrect. "r perhaps his terminology is imprecise. !o me as a person educated in physics, CradiationC is a specifically defined physical phenomenon having specific characteristics involving wavelength, fre uency, propagation speed, energy content, ability to function either as a particle or as a wave, and precisely defined relationship with matter. >t may also behave in accordance with the principles of uantum mechanics. !he principles of Celoptic radiationC conflict with many of these known, proven, and use principles of radiation. .or example, the tactile detector of the 8ieronymous machine makes absolutely no sense either in terms of the eloptic radiation hypothesis or standard physics. !herefore, my hunch is that whatever makes the 8ieronymous machine work is not radiation. )ut > donDt know what it is.
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<r. 8ieronymous has a valid patent on a device that is truly scientific in nature. )y this, it is meant that a person reading the patent and following its statements can construct a device which performs as predicted in the patent. .urthermore, others who have built the device can describe it in writing in such a way that third parties who have seen neither the patent nor have had individual contact can also repeat the experiment successfully. !here is no mysticism about it. "ne does not have to seek the personal enlightenment of gurus Cskilled in the artC nor undertake mystical or magic activities in order to achieve the predicted results. .urthermore, although the Celoptic radiationC hypothesis of <r. 8ieronymous may or may not be valid, the device apparently operates on a new principle that has been discovered and applied by <r. 8ieronymous. )ut that new scientific principle is still unknown because it probably is not the one he discusses in his patent. !he 8ieronymous machine may or may not be useful as an uantitative and ualitative mineral analyzer, but it is certainly a device that is amenable to experimentation by both amateurs and professionals alike in attempts to gain an understanding of how and why it operates, which in turn may shed new light on hitherto unsuspected new fields of scientific knowledge. !he 8ieronymous machine, like many other mind devices, reveals that with all our knowledge we still donDt know everything there is to know about the 2niverse.
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CHAPTER SE,EN
S(MBOLIC MACHINES
!his chapter is a departure from the rigorous format of the previous chapters because the devices and experiments to be discussed here and in the remainder of the book are of a somewhat different nature than the amazing mind machines discussed thus far. .urthermore, itDs necessary to break the continuity in order to present some background information and describe some experiments that are very unusual and hi)hly controversial but which tend to confirm some of the hypotheses that follow. %+1

>tDs also necessary because the amazing mind machines of the remainder of the book are even more unbelievable than those discussed thus far. )e prepared for and be advised that what is discussed henceforth is pure and simple magic, keeping in mind Arthur :. :larkeDs admonition and *obert A. 8einleinDs observation. >t is not witchcraft, and one should not be afraid of the modern conse uences of the instructions 6which are not commandments7 of 9xodus ++?%3? C!hou shalt not suffer a witch to live.C Apparently, the old 8ebrew word meaning CpoisonerC was mis-translated as Cwitch.D And itDs probably not a bad idea to get rid of people who run around poisoning other people. )ut if we do indeed agree that 6a7 magic is a technology we donDt yet understand, 6b7 we do not yet know everything there is to know about the 2niverse, 6c7 the 2niverse operates according to orderly principles that can be discovered and learned, and 6d7 the primary task of CscienceC is to make a series of successively more accurate approximations to reality, then it must follow that there is no such thing as witchcraft, sorcery, and the Carcane arts,C only science that isnDt science yet. )ut what we are talking about, is not mysticism because it can be described in the 9nglish language, it does not re uire personal training or contact to learn, and it can be duplicated by a large percentage of the population. !herefore, although it is not mysticism, it is
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(ymbols have real, physical effects on human beings.
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.or untold centuries, people have believed in the power of symbols and the relationships between symbols. !he emotional effect of symbols on people is real. $eople have killed other people because of symbols or in the process of defending symbols. (ome examples of this sort of symbol? the cross, the star and crescent, the stars and stripes, the hammer and sickle, the double-headed eagle, )ritannia, Aohn )ull, 2ncle (am, #other *ussia, the rising sun, the swastika, la !elle France, the stars and bars... "ne of these symbols or its e uivalent is certainly capable of stirring emotion within you. $eople work for symbols - i.e., pieces of paper bearing the symbol @, for example. A piece of paper with the symbols C@%'''C on it along with other authenticating symbols will certainly give you power over other people in such a way that they will willingly do what you want them to do. !he same sort of power resides in a rectangular piece of embossed sheet plastic, often coated with a strip of selectively magnetized iron oxide material, which can be carried by the dozens in your pocket or purse. :an any voodoo rite exercise this sort of power as regularly or as reliably with little or no training on the part of the person in possession of the symbolH
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$eople believe in and depend upon symbols such as the curious ones you are viewing on this page which, strung together and given meaning in your mind, form verbal words in your brain which in turn are symbols standing for something real or unreal. (ymbols give people power over other people in other ways, too. .ew uniformed policemen or deputy sheriffs would go on duty without their shield or star badges. <o you realize all the power over the lives of people that a single silver star on a shirt collar possesses, to say nothing of a crimson flag with a single star flying from a short staff on the fender of a carH "r three cloth chevrons sewn on both sleeves of a shirtH !here are few barns owned by my $ennsylvania <utch relatives in $ennsylvania and "hio, that do not bear symbols which are repainted annually. No $ortuguese dingy or fishing trawler puts to sea without symbolic eyes painted on both sides of the bow to ward off evil. <o they do any goodH !hat doesnDt matter. Fhat does matter is that people believe those symbols have power, and because of that the symbols indeed do? they have power over the people who painted the symbols there in the first place. !he relationships between symbols are also very powerful. >f you donDt think so, wait until your :ousin ;eorge dies intestate and leaves a five million dollar estate. Fhat is your relationship on the company organizational chart to the vice president and what power
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does that relationship, which exists only on paper, have over your lifeH Fhich is closer to the 2nited (tates, ;reat )ritain or :ubaH <iplomatic protocol officers have as their life work the analysis of precisely such relationships. !he position and relationship to other symbols of the simple mark C.C 6or C,C in some countries7 can make the difference of orders of magnitude. !here is no uestion about it? !he relationships of both symbols and the world are real and have immense importance. Fith this background in mind, letDs conduct a few experiments that tend to verify the physical power of symbols over the human body.
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!he purpose of this experiment is to demonstrate the effect of two different but similar symbols on the physical strength of the muscles of the body. Any person can conduct this experiment, but it takes two people to do it. !hereDs nothing harmful about it, but it can cause some long-term bursitis-like discomfort if the experiment isnDt, in effect, Cturned off.C !he materials re uired are amazingly simple and readily available. !he procedure is also simple and can be conducted by anyone. .urthermore, the experiment is a valid scientific one because it can be described in writing, carried
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out with no prior training, and produces vivid and repeatable results in 44.444444444R of all cases. 6!here is nothing in the 2niverse that can be counted on %''R except death and taxes, of course.7 (tatistical analysis isnDt necessary. 8owever, like any experiment, even firmer results can be obtained through the use of double-blind techni ues. "n a sheet of paper, draw with a ball-point pen or a pencil a spiral such as shown in .igure &-%. Accuracy, size, or artistry are not important. Fhat is important is the irection of the spiral. As shown, it is a left"han e spiral. "n another sheet of paper, draw another spiral like the one shown in .igure &-+. Note that this is the mirror image of the spiral of .igure &-%. >t is a ri)ht"han e spiral. "ne person 6the subBect7 stands and extends his= her arm 6either arm may be used7 horizontally out from the body with the palm of the hand facing down. 6.ig. &-,7 !he other person 6the experimenter7 stands facing the subBect, places one arm on the subBectDs shoulder and the other arm on top of the subBectDs extended arm over the wrist. !he experimenter then pushes down on the subBectDs arm at the wrist. !he subBect must resist this force with the muscles of the arm. !he experimenter pushes down until his actions overcome the resisting

muscle force of the subBect. )oth persons should note the amount of force re uired to move the arm and to resist the movement. Fith his free hand, the subBect now picks up the piece of paper with the left"han e spiral drawn, on it and holds the paper to his chest. !he muscle-force experiment is now repeated. >t should be slightly easier for the subBect to resist the downward force the experimenter is exerting on the outstretched arm. !he subBect then puts down the paper with the left" han e spiral, picks up the paper with the ri)ht"han e spiral, and holds the paper to his chest. !he muscle-force experiment is repeated. !he results are usually uite dramatic. !he subBect is almost totally unable to resist the downward force being applied to his arm by the experimenter. .or some reason unknown to us at this point in time, the act of holding a left"han e spiral symbol against the chest results in a weakening of the ability of the person to resist a force being applied to the muscles of his body. !he experiment should be repeated by holding the left"han e spiral again to the chest to confirm to both the experimenter and subBect that the apparent weakness was not caused by fatigue brought about by the initial part
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Figure 2-&: ,er:or5ing t3e 5412le 1trengt3 te1t. of the experiment. !he reapplication of the left"han e spiral symbol to the chest results in a regaining of the muscle strength. !he experiment should also be repeated using the subBectDs other arm, again to confirm that this phenomenon doesnDt depend upon using the right or the left arm. !he results of this experiment are always striking. .urthermore, they are repeatable.
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!he only caveat that applies to the experiment is this? !he final step in the experiment must be to Cturn offC whatever factor is weakening the arm muscles. !he final step must be to have the subBect hold the left"han e spiral to his chest while the experimenter repeats the arm displacement. > discovered the hard way the conse uences of performing the ri)ht"han e spiral experiment last. Fithin a week, the muscles of my arm became uite sore and > had trouble raising my arm above the horizontal because of dull muscle pains that > initially mistook for bursitis. Fhen > mentioned this to the experimenter whoDd been working with me, we realized what was probably taking place and then Cturned offC the experiment as described above. >t was most dramatic because the bursitis-like pain disappeared imme iately. >f this is CpsychosomaticC as many critics have claimed, it is certainly the uickest, easiest, and cheapest way to get rid of bursitis that >Dve ever encountered because that pain was as real as any >Dve ever perceived. Fhy does the holding of a scrawled symbol again the chest produce such dramatic and striking resultsH Fe donDt know. >t shouldnDt work. )ut it does. >t ualifies in all respects along with the rest of the machines herein as part of Cprotoscience,C something which we can demonstrate but cannot yet explain. >n short, it is pure and simple magic.
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!he amount of force exerted on the subBectDs arm can be both controlled and measured by using an experimental device designed along the lines of a Nautilus machine and instrumented with sensors which will measure the exact forces involved. !his can and should be done. >t may be done only by amateur experimenters because few if any professional medical researchers are inclined to believe that this is a real experiment.
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Another dramatic experiment can be conducted in the same manner as the spiral experiment described above. 8owever, the symbols and the experimental materials are different. >nstead of using the pieces of paper with symbols drawn thereon, obtain a small package of cane or beet sugar such as can be found in most restaurants. >t doesnDt make any difference whether the material in the package is cane or beet sugar. )oth are basically dextrose. $erform the initial arm displacement test with the subBect holding nothing. !hen perform the test again with the subBect holding the small package of sugar against his chest. (2ote4 +e sure to Cturn off, this test !y hol in) a left"han e spiral sym!ol a)ainst the chest an repeatin) the arm isplacement.'
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!he results are as dramatic as the right-handed and left-handed spiral symbol tests. !he act of placing the package of sugar against the chest acts in the same manner as placing the right-handed spiral symbol against the chest.
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Fe donDt know. )ut we do know that the dextrose in cane or beet sugar is a ri)ht"han e molecule. !he sugar test is a perfect experiment for doubleblind procedures. A test series can easily be devised using unmarked but coded packets of identical size and appearance, which contain sugar and a CplaceboC material that looks and feels like sugar but which is a non-handed molecule. Neither the experimenter nor the subBect should know which is which. !his series should determine whether or not any pre-knowledge of the nature of material has any effect upon the results. Another series of experiments should be conducted with only the experimenter knowing what is in each packet. And yet another series with only the subBect knowing the contents. !he purpose of these experiments would be to determine whether or not there is any suggestibility involved or any information passing between experimenter and subBect by non-verbal or sub-treshold signals. (ome people may claim that the information is transmitted by thought wavesC or telepathyI if so, this is probably what
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is called both a Ccritical experimentC as well as an Celegant experiment.C >f the design of the experiment is done in such a way that non-verbal but visual=auditory signals can be ruled out as causative factors, then itDs probably the best experiment yet devised to demonstrate telepathy. 69xcept the Cback scratching testC - i.e., if someone can always scratch your back exactly where it itches without being told, itDs probably because of some manner of telepathy.7 8owever, > would be greatly surprised if telepathy has anything to do with it. "ccamDs *azor must be applied. !here is probably a simpler explanation of hypothesis than would be re uired if the totally unknown factor of telepathy were postulated. )ut > donDt know what it is. And > may be wrong in my honing of "ccamDs *azor. )ut three tilings are certain? 7. !he spiral experiment is a dramatic demonstration of the physical effect of pure symbols on the muscle strength of the human body. 8. All these experiments show that the relationship between symbols and the human body is a factor. !he symbols and the sugar packet not held in close relationship to the human body have no apparent effects, even though they may be in plain view of both subBect and experimenter during the conduct of the tests. !he symbols must be in intimate physical relationship with the !o y.
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,. !hese tests are of such a nature that they are amenable to CrigorizationC, they involve methods and procedures that can be instrumented for measurement of the physical factors involved and designed to be conducted under the most rigorous protocols. #echanical devices can be used to apply the re uired forces, eliminating the human factor of the experimenter. !he scope of these experiments can be expanded - for example, do other muscles in the body react in the same mannerH (ome of the experiments are so simple in nature, conduct, and protocols that they are prime candidates for high school science fairs. Get none of them are so complex nor are any of their extensions or CrigorizationsC so difficult that they cannot be carried out by amateur investigators with limited means. !hey can also be carried out, of course, by professionals in research facilities. )ut, since the basic knowledge of these experiments has been around for at least several decades and since no professional organization has yet looked into them, it seems unlikely that anyone except amateurs will exhibit the willingness to undertake them. !hese amateurs, of course, may well become the non-amateur expert professionals of a totally new and unanticipated field of scientific endeavor. 9very field of science was started by amateurs 6by definition7 and usually with the scoffing 6if not the opposition7 of the established professionals. !he reasons are easy to discern. #any professionals ac uired their expertise at a young
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age and at great personal expenseI many therefore will unconsciously oppose anything which remotely threatens their expertise and=or position. !hey would prefer to see scientific progress made slowly and carefully in such a way that it doesnDt threaten them, that they can adapt to it, and perhaps that they can be tenured or retired before their expertise becomes obsolete. )ut every great advance in mankindDs knowledge of the 2niverse has come about as the result of a bold, daring generalization. !he Cdaring generalizationC here is that symbols and their relationships have a definite physical effect upon human beings. !he amazing mind machines that will now be discussed are further examples that tend to strengthen the basic hypotheses stated earlier in this chapter. Fhat is different is that you on(t have to !elieve in anything in order to get them to work, Bust as belief played absolutely no role in the simple physical experiments described in this chapter. )elief apparently has little or nothing to do with whether or not the devices work or the experiments succeed. !his is the most important factor that separates what we are doing from mysticism. 8owever, the fact that it works and is apparently real 6if not understood7 doesnDt make it any the less puzzling, frustrating, and=or disturbing.
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CHAPTER EI*HT
THE S(MBOLIC HIERON(MOUS MACHINE
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!his strange machine is strange indeed. >t is a 8ieronymous machine consisting entirely of symbols save for a few moving physical parts needed to rotate the prism, the sensor coil, and the tactile detector. >t is typical of many inexplicable but operable devices made up of symbols representing physical obBects. !hese symbols are arranged in the same relationship as the physical %/,

devices in the original machine. >t produces the same result as the non-symbolic machine with about the same degree of reliability and repeatability. .urthermore, it operates with no apparent input of energy as energy is presently understood in the physical sciences. 8owever, it may not operate under any of the presently-known principles of physical or psychological sciences. !he symbolic 8ieronymous machine consists of the standard pickup coil or sensor of the non-symbolic machine, the tactile detector plate, a means to rotate a symbolic prism to tune the device, and all other elements of the machine reduced to inked drawings on cardboard connected with symbolic electrical wires made of thread. >t is enclosed in a standard electronics parts box. !he model for use during experiments also contains an A: power cable and plug, a small transformer, a switch, and a pilot light, none of which are connected to any of the symbolic circuitry inside the box. !he device behaves essentially as the original nonsymbolic 8ieronymous machine does. #any people have tried it and have gotten results fully e uivalent to the results obtained on the non-symbolic 8ieronymous machine.
Fhen Aohn F. :ampbell, Ar. began working in %411-%410 with the original 8ieronymous machine described in :hapter (ix, he discovered that it ceased to %!!
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work if a vacuum tube burned out - if the filament broke, if the glass or metal envelope broke, or if the tube somehow ceased to function effectively as an electronic device. 8e also discovered that it wouldnDt work if one of the wires came un-soldered or broke. )ut he accidentally discovered during an experimental run with a volunteer subBect that the 8ieronymous machine worked perfectly well even though heDd completely forgotten to plug it into the %+'-volt A: wall socket. >n other words, the 8ieronymous machine would operate without any power supply at allJ :ampbell wrote, C> canDt defend, or even describe, the process by which > arrived at the hunch, D!hese things depend upon relationship-as-a-thing-in-itself.DC :ampbell then took that hunch as a postulate, did some deductive thinking, and carried out some physical e uipment tests. >f relationship only was involved, then the presence or absence of a power supply in the 8ieronymous machine should make no difference because it wouldnDt change the relationship of the parts. )ut a burned-out tube or a broken connection woul make a differenceI it would alter the relationship of the parts. 8e went directly to the purest form of this postulate. 8e reasoned that the closer the experiment was to a pure symbol, the less obBective reality there would be and the more nearly a perfectly pure relationship would exist. C!he letter A scratched in the mud is a symbolI it has precisely the same symbolic properties as a letter A made of %/1

reinforced concrete and standing forty feet high. !he material obBect structure has zero significanceI only the relationship pattern has meaning.C 8e built a 8ieronymous machine leaving out most of the material obBects of the system by substituting symbols which maintained the same relationship to one another. )ecause he was also a realist and felt that the mind-set of CimpossibleC or CpossibleC might strongly affect the initial results a subBect experienced, he added the totally nonfunctional but e ually totally misleading on-off switch and pilot light. 9xternally, therefore, the symbolic 8ieronymous machine looked completely normal save for the unusual tactile detector which, on the basis of his previous experiments with the non-symbolic 8ieronymous machine, he knew that people would accept. 8is first subBect was his young daughter whoDd gotten results with the non-symbolic machine. (he got a response with the symbolic machine and reported a Ctacky feelingC at two points on the tuning dial. (he was able to retune to the same dial readings, plus or minus two percent, on successive tries, even when her view of the dial was blocked and the vernier returned to the zero point before each trial run. After approximately a hundred additional subBects had tried it, :ampbell confirmed that the percentage of subBects who got a reading was the same as with the nonsymbolic machine - approximately 3'R. Additional data? :hildren under the age of fifteen got consistently repeatable results while professional re-
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search scientists almost invariably got a clean, %''R noresponse record. :onvinced mystics got wild responses all over the dial. "nce a subBect had gotten a response, :ampbell would open the machine and show them what was inside. !he most common reaction was, CFhy, thereDs nothing insideJC )ut nearly 4'R of the subBects continued to get responses even when they knew that the inside of the box contained only symbolic components and that the pilot light and Con-offC switch had absolutely no function whatsoever. :ampbell published the full instructions on how to build a symbolic 8ieronymous machine along with his results and hypotheses in the .ebruary %41& issue of Astoun in) Science Fiction. Fhat was truly astounding was the resounding silence that followed and has been maintained ever since. No research laboratories have followed up on this discovery. $erhaps some amateur researchers have carried on, but their results have not seen general publication.
Fhen > read the first 8ieronymous #achine article in the Aune %410 issue of Astounding Science Fiction magazine and built a non-symbolic 8ieronymous machine, the results > got were interesting because the machine shouldnDt have worked. "kay, > thought, the world is full of weird machines that we really donDt %/&

understand yet, and % was intimately familiar with a lot of them that went under the general title of rockets. )ut when > read the .ebruary %41& issue with :ampbellDs article on the symbolic 8ieronymous machine, that was too much for me. *emember, > was educated as a physicist and trained in the field as an engineer. !he article was obviously a hoax. > immediately set out to prove that it was a hoax by building a symbolic 8ieronymous machine myself. > carefully followed the instructions given in :ampbellDs article. >t didnDt work on the first try. > was about to write it off when > decided that there was something wrong with the circuit. !here was no provision for a filament heater power supply for the vacuum tube symbol. (o > added a symbolic filament inside the symbolic tube and CwiredC it symbolically to a symbolic filament battery. > was then hugely surprised when my symbolic 8ieronymous machine workedJ #y wife )arbara could get no response from it. )ut about 3'R of my scientific and engineering colleagues did at Fhite (ands $roving ;round and at the New #exico :ollege of Agriculture and #echanic Arts. > kept the machine and still have it. > take it out from time to time to try it on a new and unsuspecting subBect. >Dve encountered two fascinating and inexplicable problems? 6a7 every couple of years, > must re-ink the battery symbols because the symbolic batteries appear to go Cdead,C and 6b7 > have to re-ink the vacuum tube symbol every ten years to put a Cnew and freshC tube %/3
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!he symbolic 8ieronymous machine is easier to construct than one of the full-blown hardware types. 8owever, hardware is re uired? %. An aluminum or plastic electronics component box. +. A National Kelvet Kernier <ial of the sort used in the standard 8ieronymous machine. ,. A /-inch by 1-inch piece of polystyrene or lucite 6C$lexiglasC7 plastic sheet for the tactile detector plate. /. A pickup coil - this can be wound as several turns of M%3 AF; solid wire to make a simple air-core coil. 1. A small triangular-shaped piece of clear plastic to serve as a symbolic prism. 0. Karious and sundry mounting and assembly hardware - nuts and bolts, standoffs, insulators, etc. >f you wish to include the pilot light and Con-offD switch, the following additional materials will be needed? a single-pole single-throw toggle switch, a %+-volt power transformer, a %+-volt panel-mounted pilot light and bulb, and an A: line cord and plug, plus mounting hardware. !he symbolic circuitry can be inked onto white cardboard or :rescent No. +'% >llustration )oard 6or e uivalent7. !he circuit board and the tactile detectorDs
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coil can be cut out using a sharp modeling knife. "rdinary sewing thread may be used to connect the circuit board to the tactile detector coil board. !he precise size and shape of the symbolic components are not important. !he material used in making the symbolic parts is not important. Forkable models have been built from cardboard, plastic, vinyl tiles, sheet metal, and a host of other materials. !iny pocket-sized machines have been built. !he actual electronic circuits used donDt seem to be importantI a multi-staged transistor
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amplifier seems to work as well as a single-transistor unit. !he precise type of symbolic op-amp circuit is apparently irrelevant. !he only important factor is the rela" tionship between the components plus the fact that operable circuits must be used - if actual physical electronic circuits were built using actual hardware and the circuit diagrams used in the symbolic machine, the physical circuits would indeed work as amplifiers. > have seen an operable symbolic 8ieronymous machine inked on the back of a +-inch s uare of bathroom tile with the slick fired-enamel surface of the tile serving as the tactile detector.
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!he operating instructions for the symbolic 8ieronymous machine are the same as those for the physical component 8ieronymous machine 6Cthe original 8ieronymous machineC7.
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Figure 3-1: In1ide t3e a4t3or)1 1y5boli2 Hierony5o41 5a23ine 13o;ing 9la2e5ent o: t3e 9ri15 and a59li:ier board. 'ran1:or5er 9ro0ide1 %+#0olt 9o;er :or :4n2tionle11 B9ilot lig3tB be2a41e t3e de0i2e i1 Bbattery 9o;ered.B (ome of these experiments can be done with the internal symbolic systems of the machine itself since this form of 8ieronymous machine can be uickly and easily modified. .or example, various sorts of symbolic transistorized amplifier circuits should be tried S common base, common emitter, common collector, $N$, N$N, direct%11

coupled, wide-band, and other sorts of transistor amplifier circuits can be inked onto plug-in boards to permit uick change. Karious sorts of operational amplifiers and other integrated circuit diagrams can be tested. Fhen it comes to testing the machine on human subBects, you may wish to gather data on how many people get responses when a dummy Con-off switch and pilot light are used versus how many get a response when a Cselfcontained battery poweredC version is used. A very critical experiment needs to be done and verified by a large number of experimenters. )asically, it amounts to this? !o what level of simplicity in terms of symbols can the 8ieronymous machine be reduced before it doesnDt work any moreH :an box symbols be used to indicate circuits 6the Cblack boxC approach7. > have done this myself, but > donDt wish to affect the results of experiments by indicating the level to which > was able to reduce a 8ieronymous machine before it stopped working for me. *emember? #y original symbolic 8ieronymous machine would not work for me until > had satisfied, in my own electronics-trained mind, that there was a proper battery symbol for the symbolic vacuum tube filament. > CknewC that a vacuum tube wouldnDt work without a heated filament. !hat obviously affected my ability to get a response. )ut, on the other hand, > had built the machine. !he absence of the filament battery and filament symbol should not have had any effect whatsoever on anyone operating the machine who did
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As originally pointed out by :ampbell, professional research scientists in physics and chemistry had an almost perfect zero score in getting any response from the symbolic 8ieronymous machine, even when they didnDt know what was inside it. >f you build a symbolic 8ieronymous machine and cannot get it to work for you, you may have fallen victim to this unknown and un-named syndrome. #aybe it Bust wonDt work for you, period. !he first test is, of course, to try it on someone else, preferably a child or a person who isnDt a professional researcher. >n other words, try it on someone who doesnDt already CknowC in the back of his=her mind that such a device, no matter whatDs inside the box, canDt possibly work and is probably a hoax or a Boke. )e exceedingly careful in running experiments with voluntary subBects lest you provide them with clues or hints as to what you think the response shoul be, or what results you might like them to get. $eople will sometimes 6more often than not7 work very hard to produce the sort of results someone else wants or that theyDve determined that someone else wants. >f you donDt get responses from anyone, or if you want to check to make sure youDve built the device properly in the first place, go back and make sure that the relationships between the symbolic parts are secure and as they should be. :heck to make sure that your pen %13

hasnDt skipped and made an incomplete line while drawing the circuit diagrams. :heck the CpolarityC of the symbolic batteries and solid-state devicesI you may have inadvertently switched battery polarity so that a $N$ or N$N transistor symbol is wired in backwards and therefore couldnDt work if the symbolic circuit were used as a map to construct the CrealC physical circuit. :heck to make sure that the threads used as symbolic wires are secure and attachedI make sure they arenDt touching one another and thereby symbolically Cshorting outC each other. :hange the orientation of the symbolic plastic prism by ninety degrees, test, and if no response is achieved, rotate it another ninety degrees. >n my device, the symbolic battery went CdeadC after several years as CrealD batteries are wont to do. > got my device working again by re-inking the battery symbol, thereby CrechargingC or CreplacingC the CdeadC symbolic battery. As a last resort, give the machine to an ac uaintance and ask them to run experiments on other people without your foreknowledge of who, what, and where. !he results should be interesting. !o what extent were you affecting the performance of the machine, if you had any effect at all. And if so, whyH !here is no reason why the symbolic 8ieronymous machine shouldnDt work for at least some subBects, even if it wonDt work for you. <ata on who can and canDt get a response should be kept. >t should be correlated with personality and mood data of the subBect. %14

FeDre plowing very fresh and very unusual ground here. Fith the symbolic 8ieronymous machine, we really donDt yet know what the important parameters are or what measurements are important. !herefore, take as much data as seems to be relevant. Fe need some sort of organization or society, perhaps computer networked, that can collect the experimental results from amateur investigators and develop a nationwide data base for experiments with thne symbolic 8ieronymous machine...and the other amazing mind machines discussed in this book. )ut you organize it, not me. >f > organize it, it will be tainted from the beginning because it may be claimed that > put it together in order to sell this book. Gou do itI >Dll be there to help.
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<r. !. ;alen 8ieronymous, the inventor of the original 8ieronymous machine, has developed a hypothesis relating to the rationale for his device that invokes the concept of Celoptic radiationC as discussed in the previous chapter dealing with the 8ieronymous machine. !he symbolic 8ieronymous machine pretty well demolishes the Celoptic radiationC hypothesis. No known form of CradiationC and no aspect of the 2niverse that we currently define as CradiationC could possibly be in-
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voked to explain why symbolic marks and surro)ates can cause an apparent physical change in a plastic plate that would be sensed by a human being. As remarked previously, radiation is a sharply defined class of entity having definite characteristics and relationships with energy, which in turn can be converted back and forth as many forms of energy S heat, light, etc. Faves and radiations and particles cannot be invoked in any hypothesis relating to the symbolic 8ieronymous machine. "ccamDs *azor would uickly trim any hypothesis based on extrasensory perception 69($7, Cmental radiations,C Cthought waves,C or even suggestibility. -f the operation of the 8ieronymous machine can indeed be explained by any of these hypothetical causes, it is therefore the first and most powerful of the instruments to be used in parapsychological research. >f it does operate because of the subconscious mind, telepathy, or even suggestibility, it is a powerful tool for psychological research and should therefore immediately be seized upon and put to work there. )ut it hasnDt. And itDs been around long enough for the original patent protection to have expired. <etails of both types of devices have been published in a magazine with more than %'',''' circulation on a worldwide basis. <r. 8ieronymous himself was not the typical inventor who wished to maintain control of all rights to his inventionI in connection with the original %0%

magazine article on the 8ieronymous machine, he publicly gave permission for investigators to build and investigate it. !herefore, no one can give as an excuse that the machine was 6a7 obscure because publication, if any, was in private Bournals that werenDt widely circulated, or 6b7 too tightly controlled by the inventor, a factor that prohibited serious investigators from looking into it for fear of legal action on the part of the inventor. None of these two factors are true. Nor can the operation of either 8ieronymous machines be easily fobbed off or explained away as a hoax. >t has operated successfully for far too many people. 8ieronymous machines of both types have been built and operated by people who have had nothing more to follow and learn from than the printed words and illustrations in a magazine. 8ieronymous machines have been built and operated by high school students in science fairs as well as high-technology engineers 6and a few physical scientists7. >t is patently apparent that we are here dealing with a totally new and formerly unsuspected aspect of the 2niverse. > do not know what it is, and > cannot describe it to you. )ut > can make some FA;s 6Fildly Assumed ;uesses7 concerning it because one must have somewhere to start. > will probably be proven wrong. )ut in
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displacing my FA;, someone will have to come up with a hypothesis, and it should be a testable hypothesis. #y guess is based upon data. Fith both 8ieronymous machines, > submit that we are dealing with devices that are definitely not physical science devices. !he physical power of pure symbols can be physically demonstrated and was in the previous chapter. !he 8ieronymous machine is capable of being built and operated on a purely symbolic basis. !herefore, it is not a physical sciences device. Fe are working on the level of pure symbolism. A symbol is what it is because it is defined as being that symbol which is further defined by us as having certain powers. !his fact, demonstrable by the 8ieronymous machine, makes the behavior of symbolic systems such as this device completely capable of apparently violating one of the basic laws of the physical sciences which states that any obBect in the 2niverse must have the same characteristics for any two observers. !hat this principle doesnDt apply to everything in the 2niverse should come as no great surprise to those researchers involved in the life sciences where it is widely accepted that no two given organisms, even those with the same genetic material, need have the same characteristics for any two investigators. )ut a very large statistical 2niverse of these organisms can and do operate in predictable manners as a population.
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> submit that <r. !. ;alen 8ieronymous has indeed discovered and put to use a totally new-to-us principle of the real 2niverse that can and will, in time, be thoroughly tested, defined, and proven as a theory and, eventually, as a new 2niversal law. .urthermore, % submit that practically none of the initial work will be carried out by professional scientists as a professional in uiry because > know very few professional scientists - even those with very open minds who could easily afford to undertake such investigations for fear of peer pressures. >t will be done by amateurs such as you and > because there are no professionals in this new Cproto-scienceC yet. .urther conclusion? > donDt know what this new 2niversal thing is, and > donDt think anyone else knows either. )ut itDs certainly going to be challenging, fun, and exciting to find out whatDs involvedJ
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CHAPTER NINE
THE WISHIN* MACHINE
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!he Fishing machine is a reasonably standard threetransistor common-emitter *:-coupled audio fre uency amplifier with two simple flat copper plates on the input one at ground potential and the other connected to the highimpedance input of the amplifier - and an output consisting of a simple vertical rod antenna. >t is powered by a 0-volt battery.
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!he device appears to be effective in accelerating growth or decay of reasonably simple life forms such as viruses, bacteria, fungi, plants, insects, and lower animals. Fhen a symbolic sample - a photograph of a plant, field, tree, or person, for example - is placed between the two copper input plates and the amplifier is turned on, the experimenter then consciously thinks of some change he desires to occur or some wish concerning the obBect symbolized in the sample placed between the plates. !he device has apparently been known to 6a7 achieve a 4'RT kill ratio of Aapanese beetles in 4' test plots in tests conducted in the %41's by the $ennsylvania (tate <epartment of AgricultureI 6b7 achieve a &'R kill ratio against corn borers in other tests conducted by the same agencyI 6c7 destroyed tent caterpillars in a tree %+'' miles from the site of the deviceI 6d7 all but eliminated acne from the skin of an adolescent girlI and 6e7 eliminated a large number of severe warts on an infant girl. !here may have been other tests conducted and other results achieved, but the author has some documentation on these. !he device apparently does not work in a destructive mode against other human beings. >n other words, it is not a murder machine, which is why it can be considered for publication in this book. 8owever, it appears to be a member of a class of CFishing ma-
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chinesC in general, some of which can and apparently have been used as such. !his doesnDt seem to be voodoo magic, but it appears indeed to be magic under the definition of that term as it has been used in this book.
Fork on this particular machine apparently was initiated in about %4/0 by :olonel 8enry ;ross 6Gale, %4'07, a banker and investor who was at that time head of the selective service system for the state of $ennsylvania. 8e was assisted by two other gentlemen named 2pton and Armstrong, both $rinceton :lass of %4'1. Additional data on these latter two men has not been located. Fork began when the wives of 2pton and Armstrong both died of cancer within two months of
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one another in %4/0, whereupon the three men decided that if nothing known to science at that time could have saved the two women, they should start looking beyond science. All three pursued their goal as a hobby with no desire to make moneyI theyDd already done that. !hey apparently were pure amateurs in this regard. !he $ennsylvania tests were apparently conducted in the early %41'Ds.
> heard about this Fishing machine in a private communication from Aohn F. :ampbell, Ar. dated Aune ++, %410. Apparently, :ampbellDs publication of the article about the 8ieronymous machine brought responses from a large number of people working on or having had experience with other such machines. (ince this was such a simple device 6like the symbolic 8ieronymous machine7, > built one. #y eldest child, :onstance, was at that time less than three years old and suffering badly from warts. Farts are, of course, caused by any one of a number of different viruses. (he was especially susceptible because she had warts everywhere, and we had grown increasingly concerned about their locations and extent of growth. #edical treatments had included such severe measures as direct treatment of the warts with arsenic acid, a procedure that seemed to me rife with hazard in an infant.
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> placed a photograph of my daughter between the input plates of my Fishing machine, turned on the battery power, and consciously thought about those warts going away, about killing the virus that was causing the warts, and about my daughter without them. > kept the Fishing amplifier constantly operating on battery power, since from time to time during the subse uent days > kept thinking about her and those warts. !he result was frightening. Fithin three days, my daughterDs warts had decreased markedly, including those that were beginning to grow inside her nostrils. Fithin four weeks, she was free of warts and has not had anything like them since. > disassembled my Fishing amplifier because > was afraid of what > might henceforth do with it. At that time in my life, it seemed that this phenomenon involved too much personal power of a sort that > didnDt understand and felt that it might not be controllable. > wasnDt certain whether or not > could handle it. All of us are secretly aware of the impulsive beast that hides deep within us. >ndeed, most of our rearing and education is aimed toward demanding that we restrain that beast in a mental cage in the deep recesses of our mind...and please throw away the key. !he machine was also sheer, outright magic whose conse uences were far beyond those of machines such as the dowsing rods and 8ieronymous machine which were, by comparison, almost parlor games.
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>n the years since, > have learned that such devices 6and there are many of them7 can be safely used by most people because we have built-in Ccircuit breakersC or Cemotional fusesC that prevent most of us from using such machines for destructive purposes. .urthermore, weDve been taught to use and depend upon them with dire conse uences for those who didnDt. )eyond that, however, appears to be an accumulation of data that indicates such machines are useful only against fairly simple living organisms which operate totally on a pre-programmed or instinctual basis. (uch organisms behave as systems without feedback with only linear programmingI disrupt the programming and the system stops. >t does not work on human beings who can and do over-ride instincts with higher thought processes. > hesitated to include this device in this book for two reasons? 6a7 it is probably the most atrocious and impossible of all the amazing mind machines >Dve ever encountered and one of a class of devices for which it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to either dismiss out of hand, explain away, or even generate a reasonable hypothesis of how and why it works at all, which it doesI and 6b7 because of the total lack of any concept of why and how it works, there is always a serious uestion about whether or not the data on the limitations of its effectiveness are complete and totally valid. 8owever, simply
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because of these two factors, it is necessary to get the information out to amateur investigators so that some additional experimentation may clarify the situation.

As discussed above, this device is a straightforward transistorized audio amplifier. >t may be operable on the symbolic level in concert with other devices such as the 8ieronymous machine. >nstructions given here are for the physical parts unit, however. A suitable transistorized amplifier circuit is shown in .igure 4-%. !he values of the components are called out. All of the parts can be purchased at stores such as !andy *adio (hack. !he amplifier can be built on an ordinary phenolic board and enclosed, along with its battery and the antenna mount, in an electronic component box. !he two metal input plates can be easily obtained at most craft and hobby shops. Although copper was used in the original device built by the author, any electrically conductive plate can be used. Aluminum and brass sheets are available in most hobby shops. !he antenna is a simple collapsible rod that can be taken from a scrapped portable transistor radio or :) transceiver. "r the antenna can be nothing more than a piece of stiff wire.
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!he operating instructions are as deceptively simple as the instructions for making this machine. !o be effective, the device must use some input sample that is directly connected symbolically to the obBect the experimenter wishes to be changed. .or example, a photograph of the insect-infested tree or field
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can be used. A leaf from the plant or a piece of paper containing a drop of dried blood from the individual can be used. !he only factor affecting the operation of the machine appears to be the direct causative connection between the machine and the subBect - i.e., light rays from the tree fell upon the photographic negative, causing a change in the chemical salts of the negative material. $lace the photograph or sample between the two input plates. !urn on the amplifier. #ake your wish. -eave the amplifier turned on. .rom time to time, think about your wish or desired action. As is typical of machines of this class, distance has no effect upon its operation - i.e., the distance between the machine and the actual subBect or the distance between the machine and the operator apparently have no effect upon its operation.
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>f there was ever a mind machine that was superamenable to experimentation, this is it. > have not been able to obtain the results from the tests conducted by the $ennsylvania <epartment of Agriculture in the early %41'Ds in which it is reported that Aapanese beetles were eliminated from 4' test plots in the western part of the state when the machine and operator were in the eastern part of the state. !he results may languish in some archives there or, most probably, were
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tossed out years ago because any scientist in his right mind knows that such a machine canDt work and that the results have somehow been rigged. A number of definitive experiments suggest themselves and can be carried out simply and easily by amateur scientists at the high school level. !he easiest of these would use numbered $etri dishes containing bread mold from a common source. !he experimenter should concentrate on reducing the growth rate in a $etri dish with a given identification number on it. A photograph of that $etri dish should be placed between the input plates. !he machine may be located anywhere during this experiment, but the $etri dishes should all be kept together in the same environment. !he growth of the bread mold in the various $etri dishes can be visually determined, and a record should be kept. Another experiment with bread mold growth can be conducted when the operator is not the experimenter and does not know the number of the $etri dish whose photograph is between the plates, and who simply wishes that the obBect whose photograph is at the input be changed. 9xperimental organisms can also include bacteria, insects, and plants. <oes this device have any effect upon the growth rate of bean sprouts as in the pyramid experimentsH
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>f positive results are obtained, the experiment should be repeated with the machine located in a remote site to test the apparent fact that distance has no bearing on the experimental results. !he $ennsylvania tests can and should be repeated by many investigators. :hoose a tree or a field with insect or fungal infestation. $hotograph it. $ut the photograph between the plates. 8ave an independent observer keep a record of what happens to the test plant or field as well as to a control plant or field nearby with similar infestation whose location and condition is totally unknown to the experimenter. !hese experiments and others are simple, inexpensive, easy to conduct, easy to control, and easy to evaluate. !hey can and should be made by a large number of investigators. >t is uite unlikely that they will be carried out by professional researchers, but, if any are, it is also e ually likely that the results will turn out negative. !hat is why it is necessary and desirable to have these experiments conducted by amateurs who have nothing at stake except curiosity or a flaming desire to prove that the author is stark, raving mad. 6!his latter motivation was the one that got me started in this whole thing in the first place because > knew it ha to be a fraudulent hoax and it was so easy and cheap to run the experiment to prove my point.7
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>f your Fishing machine doesnDt work, there may be one of several reasons? %. Gou didnDt build it right or youDre not doing something right when trying to use it. As the old saying goes, C>f at first you donDt succeed, try reading the instructions.C +. !hereDs a bad transistor, component, solder Boint, etc. in the machine that disturbs something that affects the 8ieronymous machine and probably affects the Fishing machine? the relationship within the system has been disrupted. ,. GouDre too impatient. ;ive it a couple of weeks. *ome wasnDt burned in a day.... /. Gour personal circuit breakers are set very low and you Bust canDt operate such a device no matter how hard you tryI youDre blocking yourself somehow. -et someone else try it. 1. (ubconsciously, you believe itDs magic and it canDt work, or that youDll be discovered and burned as a witch. <onDt dismiss the powerful effect of our cultural programming. (ince nobody really knows whatDs going on here in the first place, maybe none of these reasons are basically valid. #aybe you Bust canDt get one to work, period. "n the other hand, others can and have.
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>tDs possible to come up with any number of hypotheses concerning why the Fishing machine and its general class of devices work. )ut itDs totally impossible at this point to effectively test any of the hypotheses because we canDt come up with any hypothesis based on what we already know in science. >n the case of the detector rods, it was possible to hypothesize some means of information transfer from the obBect to the searcher that would cause a change that would cause the rods to move. Not so here. $endulums and energy wheels may be explained by hypotheses that include the well-known principles of electrodynamics and the ability of people to willingly change the electrical characteristics of their bodies. Not so here. !he actions of pyramids may be explicable on the basis of extremely weak electromagnetic activity, the resonant characteristics of the pyramid shape, and the low energy levels re uired to affect molecular bonds in crystalline materials. )ut none of that appears to have any bearing on Fishing machines. !he concept of Celoptic radiationC was one hypothesis relating to the operation of the 8ieronymous machine, although the success of the purely symbolic 8ieronymous machine would seem to render any Cra-
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diationC hypothesis invalid. >n the first place, the basic concept ofC radiationC includes the concept of Cdistance,C and CdistanceC apparently has little if any effect upon the operation or effectiveness of Fishing machines. !herefore, the concept of radiation cannot be invoked here. As with the symbolic 8ieronymous machine, we are beginning to get into a totally unknown realm. 2nlike the previous devices, with the symbolic machines such as the Fishing machine, we appear to be dealing with phenomena that are truly out at the very fringe of our 2niverse of knowledge. Fe may be unable to formulate any hypothesis whatsoever for decades or perhaps a century. )ut, unless someone begins looking, we may never find out at all and may forever be denying ourselves some important bit of information about this 2niverse that could be of enormous benefit to people. No rational hypothesis can be formulated that would even begin to take into account most of the experimental data and reported phenomena of the Fishing machine. Fhy is distance apparently not a factor when with every other aspect of the 2niverse distance is indeed one of the primary dimensionsH Fhy does the Fishing machine appear to operate only on the level of organic life and then only on those organisms with no volition, no ability to over-ride their instinctual, genetic programmingH
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!he easiest way out is the "strich (yndrome? >tDs a hoax. !hen please explain what happened to those Aapanese beetles in those $ennsylvania fields... to that teenagerDs acne... to my infant daughterDs warts. :oincidence, you sayH >f those were mere coincidences, they were indeed fortuitous. And if the machine somehow affected these coincidences or the probabilities thereof, itDs far more environmentally benign than insecticides and far more effective than :learasil and arsenic acidJ And if it is affecting the probabilities in these cases, how and why is it acting this way and would it do something similar in -as Kegas and Atlantic :ityH "r one might excuse it away by claiming that it simply operates to reinforce suggestibility. >f itDs that good at it, this data should be extremely useful in psychology and psychiatry because itDs far superior to hypnosis and conscious-altering drugs. And #adison Avenue would have snapped it up long ago.... (aying it works because the operator believes it works doesnDt explain it and is no hypothesis, only an admission that it does work and that this may be a reason. Fhy does it work only if the operator believes it doesH According to what we think we know about the rest of the 2niverse, this shouldnDt be. >t strikes at the very roots of scientific in uiry. #aybe thatDs basically all itDs about anyway.
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!hese are conclusions reluctantly arrived at on the basis of data in hand to date? %. !he Fishing machine works. +. >t works only against living organisms whose nervous systems are not complex enough to include volitional action as an operational mode. ,. <istance appears to be no factor in its effectiveness. /. !here is no basis in current scientific knowledge to support any hypothesis concerning why it works. 1. Fith continued experimentation, we can probably learn why it works. 0. Fe must be willing to continue experimenting.
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CHAPTER TEN
POSTSCRIPT
>Dve presented each device herein as an example of a particular class or type of mind machines machine. Gou may know of others. > also tried to constrain the machines > discussed not only to those which > had built and tested myself, but also those that could be built and operated by anyone who could read and follow instructions. .urthermore, none of them re uire personalized instruction or train-
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ing. !his approach has always been the hallmark of scientific in uiry as opposed to mysticism where the operator must be personally trained by an adept. !herefore, > didnDt discuss such weird and wonderful machines as the <rown machine and the <e -a Farr machine. According to reports, both apparently work. 8owever, > have not seen one, built one, or operated one. >n addition, both machines re uire training by experts in their use. Not everyone can operate them by reading an instruction manual. > didnDt exclude them on the basis that the American #edical Association has declared them to be hoaxes. > had no basis for deciding whether they were real or shams. 8owever, the fact that something has been poohpoohed by experts was, is, and never will be any reason for me to pooh-pooh it, too. An expert is another human being Bust like thee and me. (aid expert merely has ac uired a mass of expertise that thereafter he must Bealously guard because it may be the only prop supporting the person. 8ereDs the way to treat an CexpertC? -isten to them to get the benefit of their expertise. !heyDll tell you what can be doneI and it undoubtedly can. Fhen they tell you it canDt be done, try to do it anyway. Fhen they begin to pontificate on subBects outside their field of expertise, they pack no more clout than you or me. > donDt claim
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to be an expert on anything. >Dm still learning. >Dm an amateur and proud of it. >f there were more amateur scientists, perhaps science would advance more rapidly. (ome readers may feel >Dve included some strange machines herein that they consider mystical and whose results they consider extremely subBective. )e advised that > deliberately eliminated from consideration a very large number of devices that are not understood and produce uestionable physical responses. )y now, youDve realized that these eight strange machines share several characteristics? %. >n light of everything weDve been taught about the 2niverse, these machines shouldnDt work. )ut they do work demonstrably and repeatedly for a significant number of people. !hese devices are maddening because they work well and reliably for some people and not for others. "n some days, they wonDt work at all even for adepts. +. !hey can be built and operated successfully using only written instructions without any personal contact with the inventor or advocate. ,. !hey produce repeatable results with a large enough percentage of subBects that the factor of random chance cannot possibly be expected to affect the results or play a part.
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/. No accepted theory explains why each of them works. >n fact, there are no hypotheses concerning why or how some of them work at all. !his doesnDt keep them from working. 1. !hey are ignored by the professional community of scientific investigators. #ost scientists claim these devices are hoaxes but have never spent any time investigating them with the same level of rigor they apply to their own field of interest. 0. )ecause the causes for the operation of these machines are unknown, they are and should become legitimate targets of investigation by those who are interested in expanding the horizons of human knowledge and our understanding of the 2niverse. &. >n the cases where these machines have utility, what they do can be done at least as well by other devices whose operation we more or less understand. .or example, many geological tools are available to help us locate underground water. Get dowsing rods have been used for centuries and are indeed depended upon throughout the world today. A razor blade may be re-sharpened by a whetstone and leather strop. A mass spectrograph will not only identify the elements present in a metallurgical sample but provide uantitative data as well. 8owever, utility isnDt at uestion here. !he bothersome uestion is, CFhy do the damned things work in the first placeHC
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#y basic thesis in this book has been that we donDt know why they do or donDt do, what they do or donDt do, but that they do indeed do it. !herefore, we should make a serious attempt to find out why. And if that isnDt the basic purpose of legitimate scientific in uiry, then what isH $lease note carefully that > do not advocate any particular religious doctrine or cult of worship in connection with any of these machines. (ome religious cults and Cmental expansion sciencesC may have adopted one of them for their purposes. (ome readers may identify one or more of the strange machines herein as being the favorite tools or toys of such groups. (o whatH !his doesnDt mean that it should not be investigated, particularly if it works. <ivorced from cult context, the critical uestion remains? <oes it work or doesnDt itH And, if it does, whyH >Dm not selling the modern technological e uivalent of snake oil. >Dm merely trying to get these strange machines out in the open where in uiring minds can learn of them. .aith has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the operation of any of the devices in this book. > do not maintain that you have to believe in anythin) except that these machines can be investigated by scientific protocols and explained in a fashion that is not inconsistent with the rest of the 2niverse.
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(ince anyone can build and test them according to the instructions herein, no one has any excuse to claim at the outset that these devices are hoaxes or that they depend upon suggestibility or gullibility. >f they work because of suggestibility, they should therefore have some utility in psychology because the suggestibility is transferred not by personal contact but remotely through written symbols on paper? this book. And if this is indeed the case and if suggestibility is the reason the devices work, weDd better find out why they work by such remote-control suggestibilityJ > have nothing to gain by writing this book except a percentage of the bookDs sales price called a book royalty. )ook royalties rarely make authors rich. >f they did, there would be far more wealthy authors. >f making a million dollars had been my aim, > would have approached the subBect uite differently in a highly sensationalistic style and manner. As it was, > tried to present the information in as straightforward a manner as > could. "n the other hand, > do have something to lose by writing this book. >n more than forty years of writing, >Dve built a reputation that has some semblance of truthfulness, sobriety, and careful research. >Dve never espoused far-out causes except ones that > knew perfectly well were within the capabilities of science and technology like going to the #oon and industrializing space. > do not wish to destroy that hard-earned and carefully preserved
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reputation now. >n fact, the possibility that > might do so as a result of this book has been of concern to me throughout its preparation. !his is why > reported only on strange machines that > have personal experience in building and=or operating. #y formal academic science education continually reminds me that > should report publicly those phenomena that > have carefully observed and thereafter bare myself to peer review and criticism. !he problem is that while there are many scientists in the world, there are few who have any experience in strange machines and are therefore ualified to express opinions about them. (o >Dm laying myself wide open to criticism from experts who arenDt but who think they are. "ur limited knowledge of ourselves and our 2niverse has grown over the past five centuries. >n the eighteenth century, electricity and magnetism were mystical phenomena. >n the past, things we accept today were greeted with Beers and outright derision. >n %3'&, !homas Aefferson who was then $resident of the American $hilosophical (ociety 6the e uivalent of todayDs American Association for the Advancement of (cience7 reacted to a report of a discovery of a meteorite by two :onnecticut astronomers with the statement, C> could more easily believe that two Gankee professors would lie than stones fall from heaven.C >n the nineteenth century, much of what is now twentieth-century science was
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laughed at. !he reknowned physicist and former $resident of the )ritish *oyal (ociety, -ord Eelvin, stated in %4'', C5-rays are a hoax.C Fe can probably expect no less from our renowned twentieth century savants when it comes to phenomena that may well represent twenty-first century science. "n the basis of a long study of the history of science and technology, however, > am convinced that somewhere among these strange machines lies the foundation of the science and technology of the twenty-first century. .ar too many people are still operating under the obsolete philosophy of materialism that was developed during the nineteenth century and dominated far too much in the twentieth. "ne of the beliefs of materialism is that we know everything there is to know about the 2niverse. )ut scientific in uiry itself proves this assertion wrong every day. (cience is not a static body of knowledge. >t grows. 8ere is a direction in which it can grow without re uiring millions of dollars of support in terms of grants. >t can grow under the aegis of amateurs. >n fact, it must. !his will, however, infuriate some of the professional scientists who may fear that, in spite of their skepticism, there Bust might be something here after all.
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*:A engineer 8arry (wartzburg stated, C!he validity of a science is its ability to predict.C Fell, maybe these proto-sciences weDre talking about arenDt that far along yet. )ut theyDre getting there. > can now write a book describing some strange, unexplained machines so you and thousands of others can build them and see for yourself. !hatDs a start. >n fact, itDs the first step in any potentially new field of science. (cientific fields of endeavor begin with such unexplained phenomena as those weDve discussed in connection with strange machines. .rom the basic laws of motion 6dynamics7 to the most modern theories of nuclear structure and cosmology, each advance began with the actions of an individual whose curiosity was pi ued by a strange and perhaps even accidental or fortuitous phenomenon. !hey also had the belief that a reason for the phenomenon existed and could be learned. !herefore, the reason6s7 why these strange devices and others work can and will be discovered. >n the process of doing this, new and unsuspected fields of science and knowledge will be uncovered. #aybe this will be done by a reader of this book. 8owever, if >Dve pi ued your curiosity and caused you to investigate some of the amazing machines reported herein, then >Dve done what > set out to do. )ut, please, a few words of warning to those who will enthusiastically undertake experiments with these machines and others that they may come upon?
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<onDt write to ask me details of how to build or operate the strange machines of this book. >Dve told you everything > knew when > started working with them and therefore everything you need to know to get started. ;o back and read the text carefully again. C>f at flrst you donDt succeed, try reading the instructions.C And donDt demand things of me. >Dm Bust an amateur like you. Fe all are. > donDt get paid for investigating strange machines. Nor am > in the business of selling them and thereby keeping customers happy. !hese machines are simple and safe enough that you can and should try them your way and o a few experiments on your own. <onDt complain to me if something doesnDt work because, after all, even with the most complex of these machines, youDre out only a few dollars and a few hoursD time. Fhat did you expectH > told you at the start that maybe it wouldnDt work but that there was a good probability it would because it worked for me. !he only promise held forth by this book was that perhaps it would be found entertaining. At worst, it could be infuriating. )ut > hope youDve learned a little something about science, scientific investigation, and the conduct of scientific experiments along the way. And maybe something about how abysmally ignorant we are about the 2niverse.
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<onDt write me enthusiastically about a machine somebody else has invented that performs miracles unless you yourself have built it, tested it, and confirmed the results without personal contact with the inventor. <onDt write to me about the wonderful machine that youDve invented, that youDve tried on thousands of people, and that youDve personally taught hundreds of people to operate. (orry, but it doesnDt count. :lose, but no cigarJ !he world is full of miracle machines that wonDt and donDt work at all out of the hands of the inventor. 6And >Dve seen hundreds of these, too.7 )ut if youDve invented a strange machine, written it up, published the description and the experimental results, had people build and operate it from that written description without personal contact with you, and gotten reports that it works, >Dll gladly read your letter. !he same holds true if youDve built a strange machine from someone elseDs written instructions and had it work. .otally independent verification is a key element. <onDt complain to me that thereDs no place to publish your work. -ook harder. 9ven the prestigious New Gork Academy of (ciences has published some pretty strange, off-beat, and off-the-wall papers. Not all scientific organizations are as stuffy and priest-like as you may have gathered from what >Dve written here. A lot of good and honest scientists are around. !here are also
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many places to publish your work. #aybe that fact that itDs continually reBected is no reflection upon the subBect matter but on the way youDve written it up. >Dm a skeptic or > wouldnDt have gotten involved with strange machines more than a third of a century ago. And youDd better be a skeptic, too, lest the rude hand of reality rise up and smite thee right in the middle of thy cherished beliefs. )ut donDt Bust read about these and other strange machines and then dismiss them skeptically. )uild them and try them. !est them. !hen and only then do you have the right to an opinion on any given one of them, but not about the ones you havenDt built and tested. <onDt worry about the experts. !heyDll tell you only what canDt be done. >tDs up to you to go ahead and do it if it really is possible. GouDll never know unless you try. *emember that the history of science and technology is littered with the solemn pontifical pronouncements of experts. C!he theory of germs is a ridiculous fiction,C said $ierre $ochet, professor of physiology in !oulouse, .rance, when he learned of the germ theory of disease developed by -ouis $asteur, who was a crystallographer, not a doctor. "thers even refused to look at his data. C!he abdomen, the chest, and the brain will be forever shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon,C said (ir Aohn 9ric 9richsen in %3,&I he was later to become (urgeon-9xtraordinary to Lueen Kictoria.
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from :harles 8. :uell, :ommissioner of the 2.(. "ffice of $atents, who urged $resident Filliam #cEinley to abolish the $atent "ffice in %344 with the assertion, C9verything that can be invented has been invented.C % wonder what the experts are going to say about the strange machines of this bookH .rankly, % donDt expect anything different than what theyDve said in the past. No matter what they say, many phenomena remain unexplained. >nnovation comes from individuals who see a consistency in these phenomena that have been missed or dismissed by others. !his sort of innovation ought to be encouraged, even at the risk of seeming to encourage charlatans. !he great leaps forward in our understanding of the 2niverse and ourselves have come from Bust such activities in the past. "nce the leaps have been made, the cautious scientists must then carefully fill in the added decimal places. GouDre hereby challenged to make the great scien" tific !reakthrou)h of the twenty"first century. #aybe it starts with something from this book, and > will be mightily pleased if it does. )ut > donDt disabuse myselfI probably it wonDt. )ut even if you donDt make the great scientific breakthrough, youDll have some funJ
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BIBLIO*RAPH(
)ird, :hristopher, .he ;ivinin) &an , New Age $ress, )lack #ountain N:, %4&4. :ampbell, Aohn F., Ar., private correspondence, Aune ++,%410. :ampbell, Aohn F., Ar., C$sionic #achine, !ype "ne,C Astoun in) Science Fiction, Kolume -K>>, Number /, Aune %410. :ampbell, Aohn F., Ar., C2nprovable (peculation,C Astounding Science Fiction, Kolume -K>>>, Number 0, .ebruary %41&. :ampbell, Aohn F., Ar., CAddendum "n !he (ymbolic $sionic #achine,C Astounding Science Fiction, Kolume ->5, Number /, Aune %41&. :erf, :hristopher, and Navasky, Kictor, .he #$perts Speak, $antheon )ooks, New Gork, %43/.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
;. 8arry (tine graduated from :olorado :ollege in :olorado (prings, :olorado 6his home town7 with a ).A. in physics in %41+. )efore deciding on a degree in physics 6because of counselling from *obert A. 8einlein who coached him in writing7, he was within a semester of gaining his bachelorDs degree in psychology at the 2niversity of :olorado. 8e spent the early %41'Ds at Fhite (ands missile range in New #exico working with high altitude rockets and rocket motor testing. 8e founded the international hobby=sport of model rocketry in %41&. <uring the %40'Ds he was the manager of an industrial research laboratory in New 9ngland where he worked on many Cfar outC proBects such as neurophonics, :oanda
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9ffect, electrohydraulics, bioelectronics, and dynamic systems. >n %403, he was awarded a silver medal as one of 1' 2.(. space pioneers by the Association of the 2.(. Army. 8e is the author of more than 1' books, numerous scientific and technical papers, and hundreds of magazine articles since %41%. 8e is a .ellow of the 9xplorers :lub and the )ritish >nterplanetary (ociety, and a member of the New Gork Academy of (ciences. An instrument-rated private pilot whoDs been flying since %4/,, he owns his own airplane, a $iper :herokee, which heDs flown across the 2nited (tates and back many times. 8e lives in $hoenix, Arizona, Cin the midst of high technologyC with his wife, two ;olden *etrievers and a cat. 8eDs listed in 0ho(s 0ho -n America as well as the current editions of 0ho(s 0ho -n .he 0est and <ane(s 0ho(s 0ho -n Aerospace.
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