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THE ICELAND PAPERS

Select Papers on Experimental and Theoretical
Research on the Physics of Consciousness

Frontiers of Physics
Conference

Reykjavik, Iceland
November 1977

ORB FOUNDATION
London

Edited by
ANDRIJA PUHARICH, M.D., LL.D.

With Foreward by
BRIAN D. JOSEPHSON, Ph.D.

Published 1979 by
Essentia Research Associates


Republished in 1996 by
The Planetary Association for Clean Energy
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
ISBN: 0-919969-42-9
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THE ICELAND PAPERS

Contents

FOREWORD                                                                       4

Brian D. Josephson, Ph.D. University of Cambridge
Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory,
Cambridge.

INTRODUCTION                                                                 6
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS                                                     15
Andrija Puharich, M.D., LL.D., President
Essentia Research Associates, Ossining, N.Y.

DIRECT PERCEPTION OF REMOTE                                      17
GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS
Harold E. Puthoff, Ph.D., and Russell Targ, SRI
INTERNATIONAL, Menlo Park, California.

SOME PHYSICAL MODELS POTENTIALLY                            49
APPLICABLE TO REMOTE RECEPTION
Elizabeth A. Rauscher, Ph.D., Professor of Physics,
John F. Kennedy University, Orinda, California.
Research Associate, Nuclear science and theoretical
physics, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University
of California, Berkeley, California.

PARANORMAL METAL-BENDING                                        95
John B. Hasted, M.A., Ph.D. Chairman and
Professor, Department of Physics, Birkbeck
College, University of London.

THE ACTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS ON MATTER;
A QUANTUM MECHANICAL THEORY
OF PSYCHOKINESIS                                                         111
Richard D. Mattuck, Ph.D., Lektor in Physics
University of Copenhagen.
Evan Harris Walker, Ph.D., Ballistics Research
Laboratory, Aberdeen, Maryland.  Mechanics and
Materials Sciences Department, The Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, Maryland.

THE EXPANDING PARADIGM
OF THE EINSTEIN THEORY                                                  161
Olivier Costa de Beauregard, Ph.D.  Institut Henri
Poincare' Paris.


ICELAND PAPERS: SELECT PAPERS ON EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL RESEARCH ON THE PHYSICS OF CONSCIOUSNESS (1979, ESSENTIA RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, Amherst, WI 54406)

FOREWORD

by Brian D. Josephson
Professor of Physics, University of Cambridge

For the average scientist, psychic phenomena are something that in reality does not exist.  His training conditions him to a belief, almost absolute in its intensity, that certain phenomena are possible while others are not.  In consequence, if he thinks about psychic phenomena at all, it is in terms of "What must be wrong with the experiments?" rather than that here may be an exciting insight into the possibilities inherent within nature, and within the range of the human capability.

Nowadays such an attitude is harder to defend than it may have been in the past.  In recent years a number of reputable scientists have entered the field, with expert knowledge of how to perform good experiments, and the knowledge of how fraud may be perpetrated and how it may be avoided by careful experimental design.  Still it appears that the phenomena occur (see for example, the chapters by Puthoff and Targ and by Hasted in this book.)

If psychic phenomena are a reality, would it mean the overthrow of conventional physics (as some skeptics have said in arguing against them)? Hardly.  The history of science shows clearly that new phenomena do not have to invalidate the old physics.  Let us suppose that psychic phenomena are mediated by an effect similar to superconductivity (the fact that certain metals when cooled to very low temperatures lose all trace of electrical resistance).  Then as with superconductivity, under normal conditions no special effects would be seen.  Changing the conditions, however, (as by cooling a superconducting metal down to the appropriate temperature) would allow dramatic effects to occur.  The lesson to be learned is that it is never safe to extrapolate from one set of conditions to another.

Psychic phenomena also seem to violate some of our preconceptions about space, time and causality.  But, as a number of writers in this volume point out, so does quantum mechanics.  It is not too far-fetched to say that if psychic phenomena had not bee found experimentally, they might have been predicted by an imaginative theoretician.

For those who are not strangers to the field, the chapter titles and the names of the authors will be sufficient recommendation for this book.  For the others, if they are prepared to study it, they may well find the subject matter of sufficient interest to encourage a deeper look into this fascinating area.

(Professor Brian David Josephson is a Fellow of the Royal Society - 1970- and Professor of Physics, Cambridge University since 1974.  He is also a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge since 1962.)


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

   All of us owe a great debt to Diana Adkins, President of the Orb Foundation for organizing all the details of the European and Iceland end of the Conference.  Her counterpart in the United States, Solveig Clark, not only organized the American end of the effort, but carried on with the Iceland II held in Valle de Bravo, Mexico in late July 1978.  The Iceland II Conference would not have been possible without the organizing and financial assistance of Hugh Harleston, Jr. and Barclay Milne.  A special vote of thanks from all of concerned to Buckminster Fuller's role in Iceland II.  A special thanks to Greta Woodrew of Westport, Connecticut for her indefatigable role in Reykjavik in demonstrating metal bending for each and every skeptic at the conference, as well as for the Icelandic press corps, and television.  Her efforts ensured the total collapse of the Iceland wave function covering 42 participants.
   Financial support came from the Orb Foundation, New Horizon Foundation, Essentia Research Associates, as well as from individuals who wish to remain anonymous.  Publication of this book was made possible through the generosity and vision of Richard Joshua Reynolds, III.
   The conference came into existence only because of all the unnamed young persons who volunteered to produce paranormal effects for the scientists. And of course, in this category, the role of Uri Geller has changed the course of everyone's life who is now in this work.  In addition there were attendees at the Iceland Conference who are not named anywhere, but who by their service--transportation, meals, secretarial, audio recording, exercise sessions, and for their good humor, made all easier, and even possible.  There is no way that we can honor our Icelandic hosts--the government receptions and courtesies, the families who invited us to dinner, the artists who entertained us, and most of all to Gudmundur Einarrson who coordinated all of his Icelandic neighbors in giving us pure friendship.
   For editorial assistance, Solveig I. Clark and William Waddell, deserve commendation for their steadfast efforts.
   A last word of acknowledgment to friends over the years who helped to keep the fires of learning burning, such as Arthur Young, D. G. Vinod, and Eileen J. Garrett.

Note regarding the paper:
ELECTROMAGNETIC PHENOMENA IN COMPLEX GEOMETRIES AND NONLINEAR PHENOMENA, NON-HERTZIAN WAVES AND MAGNETIC MONOPOLES
by Elizabeth A. Rauscher, Ph.D.

Of the people listed in the acknowledgements, I have had the good fortune to attend lectures by Dr. Eldon Byrd, Dr. Andrija Puharich, William Bise, Jack Houck, Col. Thomas E. Beardon (Ret.) Ph.D., Dr. Robert C. Beck, Dr. Andrew Michrowski, Robert Beutlich, and James B. Beal.  I have had personal discussions with Byrd, Bearden, Beck, Michrowski, Beutlich, and Beal.  Dr. Rauscher was a guest for lunch at our home.

Dr. Harold Puthoff has published some of the most important recent papers in physics; and John T. Ratzlaff has compiled and published an impressive collection of material from Nikola Tesla.

These associations, and many others, were made during my pursuit of information on perception, psychotronics, and earthquake sensitivities and warning technology.

Bob Fryer

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