Mind-Reach

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Discoveries of any great moment in mathematics and other disciplines, once they are discovered, are seen to be extremely simple and obvious, and make everybody, including their discoverer, appear foolish for not having discovered them before.
—G. Spencer Brown, Laws of Form
Scientists have long attempted to determine the truth or falsity of claims for the existence of so-called psychic, or paranormal functioning; that is, the ability of certain individuals to perceive and describe data not discerned by any known sense. During a lengthy series of experiments conducted in the Electronics and Bioengineer-ing Laboratory of Stanford Research Institute for the past three years, we have been investigating those facets of human perception that appear to fall outside the range of well-understood perceptual or processing capabilities.
The primary achievement of this research has been the demonstration of high-quality "remote viewing": the ability of experienced and inexperienced volunteers to view, by means of mental processes, remote geographical or technical targets such as roads, buildings, and laboratory apparatus.
Our accumulated data from over a hundred observations with
BY
MARGARET MEAD
This book is a clear, straightforward account of a set of successful experiments that demonstrate the existence of "remote viewing," a hitherto unvalidated human capacity. The conventional and time-honored canons of the laboratory have been observed, aided by our current repertoire of instrumentation, Faraday shielding, specifically generated sets of random numbers, and cathode rays. People—both inexperienced learners as well as those who have previously demonstrated psychic proficiency—have been used as subjects successfully. It is a perfectly regular and normal piece of scientific work, as is the study of communication among bees, the luminescence of fireflies, the way in which frogs discriminate between the sexes, or the scientific study of any new biological phenomena.
Contemporary quantum physics, specific qualities of electromagnetic fields, and advances in brain research not only have determined the experimental methods, but have contributed to the tentative explanations advanced in this book as to how this newly observed ability might operate. As all work following the canons of science must be, the experiments are presented in a form that can be inspected and replicated under the same conditions, and further tested by altering various experimental parameters.
The claimed results are narrow but clear. The particular set of Vissza