arthur young and the cia?
Magic Bullet
various CIA programs of the more exotic variety...
"Interestingly enough, it also happens that Chris Bird was here in Austin,
Texas two weeks ago to interview the physicist Hal Puthoff for research
concerning Chris's latest book whose tentative title is/was "The Secret Life
of Water." (To Andreas Carter: Hal Puthoff is yet another figure whom I must
post the group about and in the context of my promised post about Arthur
Young----since it was Arthur Young who first told me about Hal Puthoff back in
1981. As a physicist, Hal is working on startling ideas in quantum
electrodynamics, finishing the work of the late Andrei Sakharov concerning the
zero-point energy fluctuations of the vacuum. Hal and his wife Adrienne
Kennedy founded the Palo Alto (Peninsula?) Waldorf School, and yes, Hal is the
physicist responsible for the Remote Viewing experiments funded by the U.S.
Defense Intelligence Agency in the 70's at Stanford Research International
(SRI). There was a large "media flap" here in the U.S. in the last 6 months
when the CIA declassified a number of documents related to the military
funding of this well-documented training in visual clairvoyance.)"
http://www.wlake.com/hicks/chrisbrd.html
From an interview for Psychic Magazine - May/June 1976
QUOTE
CBIRD: With a guru or by yourself?
YOUNG: At first, by myself. I preferred the physical Yoga to start. When I
got into meditative Yoga, I was introduced to my first psychic experiences. I
noticed that when I tried to make my mind blank, I could only achieve the
blankness for about five minutes before a thought would intrude. Keeping
track of my *mediation, I recorded all the interrupting thoughts. Imagine my
surprise when I discovered *ta thtye often turned out to be experiences I had
later that day. By concentrating, I was picking up precognitive images.
It was disturbing to my scientific training and increased my determination
to search for the meaning of consciousness.
CBIRD: how did you begin your quest into consciousness and man's real
purpose?
YOUNG: when I married for the second time, I told my new wife, Ruth, that I
wanted to investigate the consciousness problem. For the next five years we
traveled extensively looking into all kinds of psychic phenomena.
CBIRD: What purpose did you conceive for the Foundation for the Study of
Consciousness?
YOUNG: Since there were so many unexplained phenomena, like ESP, which did
not fit into the current framework of knowledge and therefore remained
undigested, it was time to prod people into thinking seriously about them.
The main purpose for the foundation was to build a comprehensive theory in
which ESP could be integrated into existing scientific knowledge.
Soon after I set up the foundation I met Dr. Andrija Puharich through the
well-known psychic, Eileen Garrett, with whom he was working. Puharich had
established his own Round Table Foundation in Camden, Maine. He was about to
be drafted into military service and asked me if I would take care of his
foundation in his absence. That's a whole story in itself.
In New York City, we worked with various psychics, including Frances
Farrelly, who had worked extensively in the investigation of radionics, and
Francis Marion, a *psychometrist who wrote the book, In my Mind's Eye.
CBIRD: Where did all this research lead you?
YOUNG: With Farrelly it led to my recognition of the importance of intention.
We found that the various wiring systems for radionics instruments, or whether
they were properly connected, didn't play an important role in the radionics
process. What mattered most was the operator's intention. In diagnosis of
disease, she was tuning in on the patient's condition and using her own
organism to respond. The instrument was only a device to assist
concentration.
UNQUOTE
http://www.christopherbird.org/Interview%20Arthur%20M.%20Young.doc.
The purpose of showing this portion of the interview is that it establishes
from Arthur Young himself that he knew Dr Puharich.
From an interview with Puharich
QUOTE
Sounds like a Max Headroom plot. What became of SRI?
It became a CIA research center- even to this day. I know this because I
trained many of the psychics involved in the psychic warfare operation. I
could tell you names, places, all that garbage. There are smokescreens
deliberately set up to discredit parapsychology research or keep what they
know concealed.
UNQUOTE
http://www.sirbacon.org/4membersonly/puharich.htm
According to several other articles I've come across, Puharich was involved in
MKULTRA related activities.
This is just one.
"Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the history of The Nine is its
relationship to the career of Andrija Puharich. Recent research has revealed
Puharich to have a distinctly sinister side. As an Army doctor in the 1950s,
he was deeply involved with the CIA's notorious MKULTRA mind control project
(see panel). He - together with the infamous Dr Sidney Gottlieb - experimented
with a variety of techniques to change or induce actual thought processes.
even to creating the impression of voices in the head. These techniques
included the use of drugs, hypnosis and beaming radio signals directly into
the subject's brain. And, significantly, he was engaged in this work at
exactly the same time that The Nine made their first appearance at the Round
Table Foundation. The Foundation itself is now known to have been largely
funded by the Pentagon as a front for its medical and parapsychological
research. Puharich was still working for the CIA in the early 1970s, when he
brought Uri Geller out of Israel."
http://www.tcom.co.uk/hpnet/nine.htm
Anyone interested can find a lot more on his career on the web. How much of it
is true, or the stuff of fringe/acute paranoiac conspiracists, you can judge
for yourself.
In looking into this, I came across a couple of interesting coincidences. The
Foundation for the Study of Consciousness was also involved in cryogenics.
William Kloepfer has this listed in his resume: "Cryometric Co., CHIEF ENGR in
Cryogenic Instrumentation Dev-5 supvsd".
Also one of AY's friends was co-founder Aerojet (Jack Parsons). Again... WK
has this listed: "Aerojet PROJECT MGR in Satellite Laser Comm
Electro/Optics-35 supvsd"
greg