More US Government
Psychic Warfare

Everyone knows that the US government has long been interested in obtaining a better understanding of the human mind's psychic potentials. The most famous of their endeavors has been "remote viewing," or the attempt to gather strategically significant data through controlled psychic clairvoyance. More recently, it was widely reported that an Air Force report called for $7.5 million to conduct psychic teleportation experiments. The study's author stated that teleportation "is quite real and can be controlled."

But mainstream news media in this country are zealotous pseudoskeptics of the paranormal. A USA Today story on the above report begins with a cynical attempt at wit: "Star Trek fans may be happy to hear that the Air Force has paid to study psychic teleportation." And like virtually all mainstream media reports on paranormal phenomena, the "journalist" defers to the judgment of an orthodox scientist, who sneers at paranormal claims and hurls perjoratives: "'It is in large part crackpot physics,' says physicist Lawrence Krauss of Case Western Reserve University.

This latest revelation of tax-payer funded research into the paranormal incited some curiosity in me. I decided to do some simple word searches of the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)'s Scientific & Technical Information Network (STINET), a branch of the DOD, utilizing terms such as "psychic," "electromagnetic," and "psychological warfare." I found some intriguing documents that to my knowledge have not previously been broadly distributed.

A particularly telling excerpt can be found in a report by author Col. Dolan M. McKelvy, USAF, entitled "Psychic Warfare: Exploring the Mind Frontier," 1988. McKelvy warns of the inherent dangers of a cynical, pseudoskeptical attitude toward psychic phenomena: "Man's greatest potential remains a prisoner of man. Vast untapped mental capabilities create an entirely new battlefield dimension which, if ignored, pose a threat to self and country more serious than nuclear weapons. This threat starts from within. Our fears and cynical attitudes towards psychic capabilities make us our own worst enemies..."

Below are a handful of documents from DTIC's Public STINET, at http://stinet.dtic.mil:

From http://stinet.dtic.mil/oai/oai? &verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA202099

Defense Technical Information Center
Accession Number : ADA202099

Title : Psychic Warfare: Exploring the Mind Frontier.

Descriptive Note : Research rept.,

Corporate Author : AIR WAR COLL MAXWELL AFB AL

Personal Author(s) : McKelvy, Dolan M.

Report Date : MAY 1988

Pagination or Media Count : 59

Abstract : Man's greatest potential remains a prisoner of man. Vast untapped mental capabilities create an entirely new battlefield dimension which, if ignored, pose a threat to self and country more serious than nuclear weapons. This threat starts from within. Our fears and cynical attitudes towards psychic capabilities make us our own worst enemies. The Soviets, on the other hand, take psychic research very seriously at all levels, particularly for its military application. Exploring the mind frontier is essential and the key to successful exploration is a greater psychic awareness. The mind is rich in unfathomed resources ripe for exploration, a limitless source of treasures for advancing all mankind, and a serious threat to those who ignore its potential. We must overcome our psychic inhibitions, stop denying the existence of paranormal events, and start trying instead to understand the nature of these phenomena. We must shed the super secret cloaks and educate our leaders at all levels on the real psi military potentials and threats so we can adequately focus and prioritize national resources. (sdw)

Descriptors : *STRESS(PSYCHOLOGY), *PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE, AWARENESS, BATTLEFIELDS, HUMANS, LEADERSHIP, MENTAL ABILITY, MILITARY APPLICATIONS, NUCLEAR WEAPONS, PRISONERS, RESOURCES, MENTAL DISORDERS.

Subject Categories : PSYCHOLOGY
MILITARY OPERATIONS, STRATEGY AND TACTICS

Distribution Statement : APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE

From http://stinet.dtic.mil/oai/oai? &verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0422218

Defense Technical Information Center
Accession Number : AD0422218

Title : ELECTROMAGNETIC PHENOMENA WHICH RADIATE FROM THE HUMAN BRAIN DURING INTENSE PSYCHOSENSORIAL ACTIVITY FROM DREAMY, HALLUCINATORY AND TELEPSYCHIC STATES,

Corporate Author : ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT LABS FORT BELVOIR VA

Personal Author(s) : Cazzamalli, Ferdinando

Report Date : 1943

Pagination or Media Count : 42

Abstract : The experimental investigations in psychobiophysics, which have been performed for thirty years with always increasing refinement of the research instruments, are to explore some manifestations of the human psychism by a surprise attack on the spot; they have led to the detection of electromagnetic phenomena which irradiate from the human brain in correlation to particular functional cerebro-psychic conditions, and, more precisely, to stages of intense psychosensorial activity (oneirism, hallucinations, telepsychism). Oneirism is the peculiar psychic condition that is favorable to dreams, normal hallucinatory phenomena during the sleep and dream-like stages of the beginning sleep and of the reverie. As hallucinations, are designated as the morbid, especially visual phenomena of psychopaths and those provoked by certain drugs or by hypnotic suggestion. Telepsychism is defined as the whole gamut of subjective metapsychics (cryptesthesia, spontaneous or pragmatic; lucidity: clairvoyance: telepathy; rhabdomancy; radiesthesia; graphonomy; cartomancy; chiromancy). (Author)

Descriptors : *HUMANS, *BRAIN, ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION, ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION, RADIOGRAPHY, REFLEXES, REACTION (PSYCHOLOGY), BIOPHYSICS, RADIOACTIVITY, ILLUSIONS.

Distribution Statement : APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE


From http://stinet.dtic.mil/oai/oai? &verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0422217

Defense Technical Information Center
Accession Number : AD0422217

Title : ON A CEREBRO-PSYCHIC RADIATION PHENOMENON (CEREBRO- PSYCHIC RADIATION REFLEX) AS A MEANS OF PSYCHOPHYSICAL EXPLORATION. SECOND EXPERIMENTAL PHASE, FROM 1933-1940,

Descriptive Note : Translation.

Corporate Author : ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT LABS FORT BELVOIR VA

Personal Author(s) : Cazzamalli, Ferdinando

Report Date : 1963

Pagination or Media Count : 26

Abstract : The existence of electromagnetic radiation phenomena emanating from the human subject in a state of intensed psychosensory excitation appears to be strongly indicated, the idea occurred to identify the particular psychobiophysical reaction which manifested itself when the subject was suddenly aroused by an abrupt and unexpected stimulus from a state of tranquility and psychic inertia into thinking of facts, things and persons, whose remembrance induced a hemo-affective resentment. The experiment is arranged as follows: the subject, stretched out on a couch with his eyes closed, has to let himself lapse into a state of psychic indifference, i.e. into a passive state. The room is illuminated by a red light. After the oscillator has been adjusted to the point of throwing a strong and steady beam of light, the film is set in motion from the control table. The passive state of the subject is interrupted by a sudden and unexpected command to think of persons or of facts which interest him profoundly in an affective way, in order to elicit a sudden and intense psychosensory, particularly visual, reaction enforced by mental re-enactments. (Author)

Descriptors : *HUMANS, *BRAIN, ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION, STIMULATION(PHYSIOLOGY), REFLEXES, REACTION(PSYCHOLOGY), RADIOGRAPHY, DIAGNOSIS(MEDICINE), CRIMINOLOGY, CEREBRAL CORTEX, BIOPHYSICS, RADIOACTIVITY.

Distribution Statement : APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE