BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY

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The document discusses three presentations from the American Physical Society's 1976 Winter Meeting at Stanford University.

The first presentation, titled "Direct Perception of Remote Geographical Locations," explores the phenomenon of remote viewing, where certain individuals can access and describe information sources that are blocked from ordinary perception. The experiment involved using a computer interface to assist individuals in describing remote geographical locations with great detail. The data collected suggests that both selected and unselected individuals can develop remote perceptual abilities for useful information transfer.

The second presentation, titled "Some Physical Models Potentially Applicable to Observed Perception Data," aims to deduce the physical principles that govern the accessing of remote, sensorily shielded information. The researcher examines the correlation of the experimental data with principles of physics, including Poincare invariance, analyticity, and unitarity. Specific Lorentz invariant and quantum mechanical models are analyzed in relation to the spatial and temporal properties of the data.

The third presentation, titled "EEG Correlates to Remote Stimuli Under Conditions of Sensory Shielding," reports evidence of a correlation between direct physiological measurement and a remote light stimulus that is blocked from ordinary perception. The experiment involved recording EEG data while a strobelight was placed in a separate room, 9 meters away from the subject in a steel enclosure. The occurrence of the light flash was found to significantly correlate with the EEG measurements.

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 OF THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY
 1 DECEMBER 1976
 INCLUDING THE PROGRAM OF THE
 1976 WINTER MEETING AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY
 20-22 DECEMBER 1976
 SESSION FC: THEORETICAL PHYSICS
 Wednesday morning, 22 December 1976
 Physics Lecture Hall 101 at 9:00 A.M.
 I lelen R. Quinn, presiding
 FC 9     Direct Perce tip on of Remote Geographical Locations.
 H. E. PUTHOPF and R. TARG, Stanford Res. Inst.--Since 1972 we have
 been investigating facets of human perception that appear to fall outside
 the range of well-understood perceptual/processing capabilities.  Of particular
 interest has been a human information-accessing capability that we call
 "remote viewing."  This phenomenon pertains to the ability of certain
 individuals to access and describe, by means of mental processes, informa-
 tion sources blocked from ordinary perception, and generally accepted as
 secure against such access.  In particular, the phenomenon we have investi-
 gated most extensively is the ability of a subject to view remote geographical
 locations up to several thousand km distant from his physical location given
 only a known person on whom to target.  We have recently carried out
 coast to coast experiments using a computer to interface with individuals
 whose remote perceptual abilities have been developed sufficiently to allow
 them to describe--often in great detail--geographical or technical material
 such as buildings, roads, and natund formations.  Our accumulated data
 indicate that both specially selected and unselected persons can be assisted
 in developing remote perceptual abilities up to a level of useful information
 transfer.
 FC 10   Some Physical Models Potentially Applicable to
 Observed Perception Data.   E.A. Rauscher, Lawrence
 Berkeley Laboratory--The purpose of this investigation
 is to utilize the remote perception experimental data
 basel to deduce what physical principles govern the
 accessing of remote, sensorily shielded information.   The
 data base appears to be stable enough to allow us to make
 some definitive statements about the correlation of this
 data with principles and content of physics.   We examine
 the constraints represented by this data in relationship
 to three major physics principles:   Poincare (Lorentz)  in-
 variance,  analyticity (causality) and unitarity.  We
 examine in detail some specific Lorentz invariant models
 as well as some quantum mechanical models, such as Bell's
 inequality, in relationship to the spacial and temporal
 properties of this data.
 *Consultant to Stanford Research Institute
 1.   II.E. Puthoff and It. Targ,  IEEE, 64, 329 (1976).
 FC 11  EEG Correlates to Remote_ Stimuli Under Conditions
 of Sensory Shicldin~. It. TARC, II.E. PUTTIOFF and E.C. MAY,
 Stanford Res.  Inst.--We report evidence for a correlation
 between direct physiological measurement and a remote
 light stimulus blocked from ordinary perception.   In pi-
 lot studies with a selected subject, a strobelight was
 placed 9m from a subject in a steel enclosure in a sec-
 ond room.   EEG was recorded, and fast-Fourier-transforms
 (FFTs) were obtained.   FFTs of the 168 intermixed peri-
 ods of flash and no-flash conditions showed that the oc-
 currence of the light flash correlated significantly
 (p