_______________________________________________________________________________ | File Name : ELECGOST.ASC | Online Date : 08/06/94 | | Contributed by : Jerry Decker | Dir Category : UNCLASS | | From : KeelyNet BBS | DataLine : (214) 324-3501 | | KeelyNet * PO BOX 870716 * Mesquite, Texas * USA * 75187 | | A FREE Alternative Sciences BBS sponsored by Vanguard Sciences | | This file originated at KeelyNet. | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| The following article is from the July-August 1988 Borderland Sciences Journal. Their newsletter covers many diverse subjects and you can subscribe for $25 per year from : Borderland Sciences, PO BOX 429, Garberville, CA 95440-0429. There have been unusual effects associated with high voltage or other high energy fields. This article coincides with a recent conversation I had with a fellow at the SSE conference in Austin. He says there is a researcher who has discovered a way to not only view the aura (as with Chuck Shrameks AURAVIEW file) but also to CHANGE the aura under conscious control. This fellow told me the inventor lives in Missouri and he was about to visit him. Not only can you view/alter the aura but he described a device that would allow you to make a holographic projection of whatever you could project as a sustained visual image. The fellow telling me this was not very technical yet his description involved a chamber containing a gas that was excited by a high voltage field. When the subject looked into this excited media and concentrated on an image from his thoughts, the hologram would appear proportionate to the intensity and clarity of the thought. Others too could see this projection. We are looking for further information regarding this phenomenon and researcher and this file is very coincidental as to providing clues as to how this could be duplicated. Also, note the similarities to the Hutchinson effect, except that here they used static machines and not Tesla coils. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Electrical Ghosts by Vincent Gaddis Phantom forms produced by electricity in magnetic fields! This amazing phenomenon has been witnessed in several large electrical plants. The General Electric Company's Research Laboratory at Schenectady, New York, and an industrial research laboratory at Freibourg, Germany have issued reports on this strange occurrence. In 1930, Chief Engineer Eastman, of the Rhodes Electrical Society in London, was working on some high-tension wires in a dark room when he saw a luminous blue sphere form about a revolving dynamo. In the center of this sphere a woman's hand suddenly appeared. Eastman asked his assistant, a Mr. Woodew, if he could see it, and he replied that he could. Both men watched the phenomenon, and they were able to ascertain every detail of the conditions causing it. The two men spent four days trying to produce the occurrence again, and when they succeeded a human head, instead of a hand, appeared. Photographs were taken and they were published in several European journals in the summer of 1930. A follow-up to the Rhodes observation was an article printed in the Revue Spirite (Paris), written by M. Henri Azam. M. Azam has obtained his material, from an experimenter who desired to remain unknown except to the publication's editors. This unknown student was quoted as follows: "In the pursuit of my specialized work in the occult and psychic fields I long desired to find out whether it was possible to reconstitute the astral form by means of sound vibrations. It was my belief that mediumistic phenomena, when they are serious in character, are exclusively the result of setting in action some force for which the medium is the CONDENSER. It was my purpose, therefore, to reconstitute a sphere of synchronous vibrations analogous to those which emanate from the human entity, but to do so without the intervention of any medium..." The following methods were used by the experimenter. Two machines of static electricity were arranged so that the plates would turn in opposite directions. The positions and distance between the plates were so arranged as to be susceptible to infinite vibration. As a result there was a variable and sensitive magnetic (electrostatic) field formed. A membrane covered with lycompodium powder was placed at the variable point so that it vibrated according to the electric wave lengths employed. The vibrations were intensified by adding the factors of light, sound, and perfumes. A magic lantern was directed upon the variable point for light effects; an organ was used for sound effects. (these two counter-rotating electrostatic disks must have been on a horizontal axis to allow the membrane to lie flat for the lycopodium powder....Vangard) "Under these conditions on several different occasions I was able to obtain the formation of human and animal forms, which appeared in the magnetic field. At first these were only partial, but twice I succeeded in obtaining complete forms. They ALWAYS PRESENTED themselves in the sensitive field and near the variable point. Three photographic negatives, exceedingly clear and sharply defined, were obtained of these vibrational forms." The conclusions of the experimenter are that he has been able to obtain responding vibrations of the astral or psychic world; that the results cannot be ascribed to imagination or hallucination; that the forms which appear are not spirits, but empty and discarded etheric or astral bodies or shells; that it is therefore possible to obtain psychic phenomena without the aid of human mediums. The importance of these observations is obvious. Once again we have apparently found a realm in which the physical and astral worlds merge. Additional research in this domain of phenomena would be physical, and would not require the services of a medium. Nevertheless the ability to form a window or vortex between two vibratory planes might result. First of all, what are these forms? Are they abandoned etheric bodies or disintegrating thought forms? Etheric bodies, which are regarded as links between the physical and astral bodies, are abandoned soon after physical death, according to the theory, and they slowly disintegrate in a vibratory plane known as the 'astral cemetery' which lies very close to the vibratory limits of our visible physical plane. It is also supposed that these empty etheric bodies remain close to the decaying physical bodies until they are dissolved into their original basic elements. Being held nearby by various subtle affinities, these etheric shells are said to be the cause of reported graveyard phantoms. If this is true, the best place to set up an experimental electric/magnetic field would be in a cemetery vault or in a building close to a cemetery. This is an experiment the writer plans to make when conditions permit. Positive results would indicate that these forms, if successfully obtained, are actually etheric bodies abandoned by progressing astral bodies. One more thought should be presented; the possibility that natural electric phenomena may provide conditions for psychic phenomena should not be overlooked. There are many reports of phantoms observed DURING ELECTRICAL STORMS. Apparent poltergeist activity are often displayed during intense electrical atmospheric stress. Ball lightning often exhibits the directions and actions of apparent intelligence. For example, the late Charles F. Talman, government meteorologist, in an article in Readers Digest, June 1935, tells of a ball of lightning entering an open window, travelling about the room as if exploring it, then finally departing by the window it has entered. More amazing cases will be found in Flammarion's work, THE PRANKS OF LIGHTNING. In all of these occurrences tricks of a poltergeist nature were performed, under conditions indicating the possibility of a directing intelligence. The writer feels certain that in this phenomena of electrical ghosts we may have a key that will unlock many mysteries of the psychic world. (In a personal letter, circa 1946, to Meade Layne we find the further related remarks of Mr. Gaddis: "The relationship between storms and psychic observations is a vast field in itself. A neighbor of mine, recently deceased, once told me of seeing a number of phantoms during an electrical storm when he was caught in a local cemetery. They were simply white human-like forms hovering above the grave, glimpsed during flashes of lightning.") [Vincent Gaddis resides near Garberville, California and is currently co-authoring a book with Nancy Bradley titled GOLD RUSH GHOSTS.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clips, Quotes & Comments by Tom Brown This article of veteran Borderland researcher Vincent Gaddis has been an interest of mine for several years. The work of M. Azam certainly brings to mind the high-frequency researches of Carl Wickland with his huge electrostatic Wimshurst machine. In working with Eric Dollard around various high-frequency electrical apparatus I have observed many organic and mysterious forms appearing in gas plasmas and in free space discharges. The plasmas have provided the most interesting views across the borderlands and we have observed human, animal and plant forms as well as microscopic (amoeba, etc.) and macroscopic (fireball/stars, galactic formations). From direct experience in the lab I have seen that in Vince's article resides an important key. The eminent scientist and spiritualist Sir William Crookes studied the forms appearing in high frequency plasmas approximately a century ago. He felt that in this manner of experimentation one could find the true borderland between the physical and the spiritual. In Ernst Lehr's MAN OR MATTER this matter is discussed in a quite lucid manner and one is brought to the understanding that there certainly is a "country" beyond the borderlands of this nature, but it is not the "country" we seek for a true spiritual understanding of the manifestation we are an integral part of. "When William Crookes chose as one of the titles of his paper on the newly discovered properties of electricity, 'The Fourth State of Matter', it was to express his belief that he had found a state of matter, additional to the three known ones, which represented the 'borderland where matter and force seem to merge into one another, the shadowy realm between known and unknown' for which his soul had been longing ever since the death of his beloved brother. All that has followed from his discovery, down to the transformation of matter itself into freely working energy, shows that he was right in thinking he had reached some borderland of nature. Only the country into which this borderland leads is not the one he had really been looking for." Ernst Lehrs, MAN OR MATTER, (C) 1958, Rudolph Steiner Press, London. The "country" which we seek across the Borderlands is the one which contains the cosmic archetypes from which all life springs. The high frequency researches of Eric Dollard have helped put electricity into a proper perspective with the etheric realms and we can see how science has mistakenly plunged into the SUB-sensible realms rather than the SUPER-sensible which draws one to more refined levels of comprehension. Spirituality, following the general gravity-bound tendency of our materialistic society in general, has also mistakenly plunged into the SUB-sensible realms through attachment to the egos of the channelled entities. How much better it would be for spiritual researchers to 'cross the borderlands TO THE SUPER-sensible through an awakened perception of nature and development of the intuition rather than by relying on mere belief in the words of discarnate entities. I have found through studying Goethe's indications on the phenomenon of Light and Color in conjunction with Eric Dollard's high frequency researches that electricity is a reflection of the Light Ether. It is sufficient for present reference to say that Light has its two poles, red-yellow and blue-violet. The red-yellow pole in nature is longitudinal (direct rays from sun) and the blue- violet pole is a progressive type of transverse wave (rounded sky, Reich's KRW wave/blue orgone). Electricity has its two poles, electro-magnetism: red-yellow-hot, (retarded transverse); and dielectricity: blue-violet-cold (longitudinal). Hence, there are experimental indications that electricity truly is a reflection of the Light Ether. With proper understanding and orientation of the etheric and electrical fields many workable concepts may emerge. For example the use of plasma detector tubes around a Lakhovsky Multiple Wave Oscillator will provide many clues to the etheric output of that device. The relationship of electricity to the evolving human soul is a prime area of interest at BSRF and is an open area of discussion in this Journal. Members are encouraged to send in their views on this most interesting subject. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vangard Note We should keep in mind certain phenomena associated with Chladni vibrating waveplates. In a film done by the late Hans Jenny, lycopodium powder is placed on a flexible membrane and driven by sound waves of various frequencies, phases and intensities. A DRAGONFLY is clearly formed with the proper frequency combinations and another shows the reticulation of a snake backbone and how it crawls across the surface. All this is done with sound ALONE. Until a much better understanding of how various frequencies can be so compounded as to mimic structure and movement, it would be prudent to refrain from claiming astral bodies as the cause of the figures. This is however, an open opportunity for investigation by anyone who might wish to pursue it. As usual, we would appreciate any feedback if you decide to carry out research in this area or find other correlations. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------