DEEP COVER: MANKIND RESEARCH UNLIMITED An Exploration of PsiOps & Psychotronic History Iona Miller, 2006-2020
“Someone [Weberman] cooked up some erroneous statements on us but I am suing them for it and turning it over to the FBI for criminal investigation, since it was from materials stolen from our files.” --Carl Schleicher, 1999
INTRODUCTION:
Mankind Research Unlimited, Inc. (MRU, and the later Foundation, MRF) was a much less publicized version of Stanford Research Institute (SRI), located in the Washington, D.C. area. Like SRI, many strange phenomena were investigated and developed there, often at government expense.
One hand never knew what the other was doing, since each project was on a "need to know" basis. No one seems able to make a coherent story of it, though rumors about connections of its Director, Dr. Carl Schleicher to MK Ultra run rampant. My own experience showed me they were likely exaggerated and sensationalized by gadfly journlists.
What is known is Schleicher, whose name means 'stealth,' had ten active years of military service (1955-1966) for the Navy as a “war games expert” then went into “exotic areas of knowledge” with a mandate to “peek discretely into the unknown.” He avoided marriage, saying, “My mission is different.” Elsewhere, he described it as “humanitarian.” He passed under mysterious medical circumstances in South America. His sister refused to release his papers for his colleagues or the public for her own reasons.
He joined the Association of Retired Intelligence Officers. He was very interested in and continued to visit wounded veterans of the USS Liberty, a spy ship. On June 8, 1967, at the height of the Six-Day War between Israel and its Arab neighbors, Israeli air and naval forces attacked the USS Liberty, an intelligence-collection ship in the service of Israel’s closest ally, while that vessel steamed in international waters off the Sinai Peninsula. Dozens of theories exist about what happened that day, and who had accuarate knowledge of the betrayal, but the overarching issue was Israel's covert nuclear program at Dimona. https://vimeo.com/10833767
My ex-husband Richard Alan Miller, Physicist was recruited and worked for Dr. Schleicher on Blue Sky projects as NW Regional Director of MRU, Seattle in the early 1970s. At that time he had no personal knowledge of any MK Ultra connection, focusing on his own biophysics assignments, including Kirlian Photography and bioluminescence. He was relieved of his position for making awkward misleading and false claims of professional connections to the University of Washington, as censuring letters from UW and MRU show.
Another MRU alumni I still maintain a friendship with is Dr. Stanley Krippner, emeritus professor of Saybrook Institute, We met in the 70's around dreamwork, dream telepathy, and parapsychology. He was also my mentor in our joint work for Asklepia Foundation from the late '80s though mid-2000 decade, and thereafter, working in personal mythology, chaos theory, and shamanic engagement.
In early 2005, I was contacted by Charles Stone (d. 2017), as Carl's Deputy Director of MRF for several years (1987-92). He brought up the MK Ultra accusations and told me what he personally knows in this regard, which can only be described as sketchy, at best. He promised some “proof” of his claims would be forthcoming from Schleicher’s lawyer, but I never got it, though we continue to correspond, speaking and appear together as a voice on MRU and other topics.
CHARLES W. STONE is a microbiologist, entrepreneur and investigator in Washington D.C. As Deputy Director of the R&D thinktank Mankind Research Unlimited (MRU), he worked with the Federal Government to apply innovative approaches to national problems including AIDS, drug and alcohol abuse, cancer and more. From the early ‘70s, MRU pioneered psychotronics, biocybernetics, biophysics, psycho-physiology, accelerated learning, psi and mind-body research. Stone also speaks and publishes internationally on weapons of mass destruction, pandemics, global mind control, biowarfare, Tavistock Agenda, WWII arcana, Constitutional rights, due process in education, health care reform, and other Federal operations. Freedom, accountability, fairness and Constitutionality are his issues. http://washingtontiger.weebly.com/
Stone was a graduate microbiologist, financial consultant, investigative writer, and speaker available for interviews, publishing, as a news commentator and panelist on his specialty topics. They included entertainment industry, microbiology, the paranormal, Gulf War Syndrome and Washington D.C. insider view.
Atomic vets, the Michigan University branch of Kurt Lewin's Tavistock programs and T-Groups, cover ups and Fabian Socialism were among our common 'grinds.' I secured radio spots for him on those and other topics. He had insights into the Green Party agenda from a female friend who was a highly-placed Republican participant. She said they were behind the election of Jimmie Carter.
I would describe Charles as a “right-wing watchdog,” speaker and activist, but was never sure he wasn’t just my assigned “handler.” I figured 'keep your enemies closer.’ In retrospect, I am not sure he was quite that clever...nor that far right of center.
Later we were joined by retired intelligence officer Ken Thomas (d. mid-2018), whose grasp of the big picture was unsurpassed. As Carl's best friend, he also worked extensively as a back-channel for Tom Bearden, to whom he also introduced me. Tom told me how Ken had "saved his life" when he contracted a difficult to diagnose case of mycoplasma from clandestine government experiments in his service years. Ken's wife ran MRU's superlearning program. In 2007, at the beginning of police/military merger in fusion-centers, he introduced me to retired CIA officer, Leutrell Osborne, with whom I remain friends.
Ken was a source of abundant 'rabbitholes', most of which we pursued further together for many years. He gave me the inside track on Riverbank Labs, since he grew up near the estate. He was emphatically against the fascism he had seen behind the scenes in government and intelligence, and in his involvement with the JFK assassination [he sent me a court transcript of his testimony in that regard]. Only later did his disparaging allusions become abundantly clear.
I pulled the six inches of MRU files to see what I could glean, including an old Washington Post feature, dated July 22, 1973, titled “Scientist in a Strange Land: Grappling with the Unknown on Wisconsin Avenue”, by Kenneth Turan and Nancy Meadors Kline, illustrated by Harold Isen.Schleicher revealed he went to the Naval Academy, worked overseas in operations research, and spoke six languages, then went into war games, publishing in The Journal of Electronic Warfare.
An interest in dowsing got him into the paranormal - but not dowsing for water – dowsing for Vietcong in tunnels in Khe Sanh for the Marines. This led to a meeting with Ostrander and Schroeder, authors of Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain, and the game was afoot. He accepted their unfiltered pile of Soviet research and paid $5000 for translations.The Post article described Schleicher’s gruff military personality and named names of photos of “true believers” on the wall. They included anti-gravity investigators, healers, chemists, psychics, dowsers, and neuroanatomists. They developed a low-frequency electronic device that “interferes with insects’ antennae.” But, in typical Schleicher fashion, he tersely declined explanation with a pat answer, “I can say no more.”
He did say, “I consider myself an optimistic skeptic. Just because there’s no supporting data doesn’t mean it’s bad – why, there was no supporting data for alternating current. I’ve patiently listened to and been tolerant of everything anybody’s said. If I weren’t, I might close out some golden gem.”He considered the term “occult” an unprofessional, unscientific “put-down word” that turns off highly qualified people. He admits his own “paranoid” psychics accused him of “feeding information to the CIA” and that “consultants have ‘dark forces’ surrounding them.”In another Washington Post article, “Save the Last Trance for Me”, July 29, 1973, he says, healers, “are able to focus energy . . . on a spot where it’s needed, through his mind control, and it flows out of his hand . . .A healer can sense where there’s an imbalance of energy.”
What’s in a name? Draw your own conclusions: Did MKU[ltra] give birth to MRU, then MRF, or not? Is there plausible denial as the Director claimed? Schleicher’s own name, as he liked to point out, means “stealth”. The German translation in odge.info dictionary is “Sneaker”, related to “creep, skulk, and slink.” Was he a neural ninja?
DEEP BACKGROUND:
Schleicher has been accused, along with Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, of being the mind control mad-genius behind MK Ultra in both Feral Press (Constantine, 1995) and by A.J. Weberman (1) online. I can neither confirm nor deny this charge, though Carl heartily denied it to his death in 1999 and was preparing to sue Weberman, according to his private correspondents.
Mind control is the ever-elusive Holy Grail of the spy game, with roots in the early 1950s. MK Ultra’s mission was complete control of the human mind, including overt and covert techniques of mind and behavior control, brainwashing, truth drugs, and mass psychological warfare or disinformation.
MK Ultra, officially disbanded in 1963 in the wake of Kennedy’s assassination, became public when revealed to the Rockefeller Commission investigating the CIA in the mid-1970s. Did post-MK Ultra research continue decentralized as underground front organizations, as has been suggested? Much of the evidence was burned and shredded by Sid Gottlieb. But we know SRI carried on, and does so to this day.
Carl, himself, claimed he supervised cryptography for ONI in Turkey during his military duty, which is likely true in any event. He joined the AFIO (Assn. of Former Intelligence Officers). Unfortunately, those closest to him are least likely to know the real story for national security reasons. Former associates of MRU confirm that he worked for NSA through his Navy position.
Elsewhere, Carl admits to a background in mind control and blue-sky studies for Naval Intelligence. His military service dates do place him in the proper timeline, but did he really have time for building the perfect assassin?
We know now, for example, that LSD and hypnotism are unreliable tools for most directive purposes. Newer approaches include brain implants, directed electronic weapons, and heterodyned messages that seem to come from one’s own thoughts. What was tested as a mental ability of one human to influence another has now been successfully accomplished with electronics. Next comes direct computer/brain interface.
INSIDE MRU
Nevertheless, here is a sample of what can be found online, that describes the original operation and psiops accusations:
INSIDE MRU [Founded in 1972], an obscure District of Columbia corporation called Mankind Research Unlimited (MRU) and its wholly owned subsidiary, Systems Consultants Inc. (SCI), operated a number of classified intelligence, government and Pentagon contracts, specializing in, amongst other things: "problem solving in the areas of intelligence, electronic warfare, sensor technology and applications." MRU's "capability and experience" is divided into four fields.
These include "biophysics -- Biological Effects of Magnetic Fields," "Research in Magneto-fluid Dynamics," "Planetary Electro-Hydro-Dynamics" and "Geo-pathic Efforts on Living Organisms." The latter focuses on the induction of illness by altering the magnetic nature of the geography. Also under research were "Biocybernetics, Psychodynamic Experiments in Telepathy," "Errors in Human Perception," "Biologically Generated Fields," "Metapsychiatry and the Ultraconscious Mind" (believed to refer to experiments in telepathic mind control), "Behavioural Neuropsychiatry," "Analysis and Measurement of Human Subjective States" and "Human Unconscious Behavioural Patterns."
Employing some old OSS, CIA and military intelligence officers, the company also engages the services of prominent physicians and psychologists including E. Stanton Maxey, Stanley R. Dean, Berthold Eric Schwarz, plus many more. MRU lists in its Company Capabilities "brain and mind control." (15) Despite vehement claims by MRU's chairman that it is not a "front organization for any branch of the United States Government..." (16) one must treat these claims with a great deal of skepticism. Accessed from http://www.meta-religion.com/Secret_societies/Conspiracies/Secret_weapons/toward_a_psycho.htm
A subsequent CIA directive, summarized in a brochure on the "Cybernetic Technique" distributed by Mankind Research Unlimited (MRU), a research front in the District of Columbia, gleefully discusses the Agency's development of a "means by which information in modest rate can be fed to humans utilizing other senses than sight or hearing." The Cybernetic Technique, "based on Eastern European research," involves beaming information to individual nerve cells. The purpose, the directive states, is the enhancement of mental and physical performance. The cyborg was born. Accessed from http://www.freedomdomain.com/mindelectronic.html
In order to keep MKULTRA from being easily detected, the CIA segmented its subprojects into specialized fields of research and development at universities, prisons, private laboratories and hospitals. Of course, they were rewarded generously with government grants and miscellaneous funding. The names and locations of some of the major institutions involved in MONARCH programming experimentation were/are: Cornell, Duke, Princeton, UCLA, University of Rochester, MIT, Georgetown University Hospital, Maimonides Medical Center, St. Elizabeth's Hospital (Washington D.C.), Bell Laboratories, Stanford Research Institute, Westinghouse Friendship Laboratories, General Electric, ARCO and Mankind Research Unlimited. Lee Harvey Oswald, Sirhan-Sirhan, Charlie Manson, John Hinckley Jr., Mark Chapman, David Koresh, Tim McVeigh and John Salvi are some notable names of infamy, strongly suspected of being pawns who were spawned by MKULTRA. Accessed from http://www.think-aboutit.com/Conspiracy/project_monarch.htm
I would deduce that MRU (Mankind Research Unlimited) must be involved with the development of mind control technology & illness inducing techniques. Also, these technologies must be used by these invisible personnel of surveillance station/system. That's because this company first researched the area in Biological Effects of Magnetic Fields and the" latter focuses on the induction of illness by altering the magnetic nature of the geography" is obviously involved with invisible personnel to induce illness from surveillance station/system.
"Also under research were, "Metapsychiatry and the Ultraconscious Mind" (believed to refer to experiments in telepathic mind control), "Behavioural neuropsychiatry," “Analysis and Measurement of Human Subjective States" and "Human Unconscious Behavioural Patterns" could be used by invisible operatives as mind control technologies & techniques to mind control others. (Source) "Some Aspects of Anti-Personnel Electromagnetic Weapons" by David G. Guyatt, (3/8/96) Accessed from http://home.earthlink.net/~alanyu76/part2a3.htm
Inside source, K. Thomas characterizes Schleicher as “black”, meaning “plugged in to clandestine services…nearly all the famous names were just to provide legal and other "legitimacy" for work done entirely by others.” Thomas claims to be an original Air Force member of MAG (Monday Afternoon Group), classified 36-40 levels above Top Secret.
He says MRF was associated with Rockefeller Foundation and NSA, producing several books for them, but CIA was not involved. He cites projects that “worked”, including “selenoenzymes. correcting color blindness, medical and other uses of cesium, spinal chord injury partial reversal, a once a week pill that heals OLD brain injuries, nothing much on ESP related things.”
PSYCHIC DISCOVERIES BEHIND THE MRU CURTAIN
MRU obtained several modest government research contracts for feasibility studies in certain human engineering and psychosomatic evaluations. As cache, it offered as principle investigators some of the leading scientists in the fields of biocybernetics, biophysics, bionics, biocommunications, psychophysics, psychology, neuropsychiatry, health and welfare research, human systems engineering, and related scientific disciplines. The MRU stable of talent and professional staff possessed either advanced graduate degrees or doctorate degrees. It was essentially a thinktank, like Rand.
Dr. Carl Schleicher, MRU Research and Development Director was a specialist in biocybernetics research, experienced in the analysis and evaluation of foreign scientific developments. After graduating from the U. S. Naval Academy (B.S. Electrical Engineering) in 1956, he served as a Naval line officer specializing in operations research and linguistics until 1966. He received his M.A. in political Economics from the University of Cologne, West Germany, where he was engaged in advanced study at the Universities of Bonn, West Germany and Lund, Sweden. He was a Ph.D. candidate in the Technology of Management at American University.
Before joining the staff of SCI, he was an Operations Research Analyst and R&D Engineer at the Marine Corps Development Center in Quantico, Virginia. His later work included design and development of a management system for assessing R&D projects to determine priorities, and in bionics, biocommunications, and cybernetic software systems. Schleicher had considerable management experience in both the military and industry, and also served as a management sciences consultant.
The MRU mission statement was basically to provide an organization for scientific research, development and application of biocommunications, biocybernetics, bionics, biophysics, superlearning, and other activities impacting the welfare of mankind. MRU claimed unique capabilities for collection, analyzing and evaluating scientific and technological developmental data (both U.S. and foreign). It offered customers assistance in determining the impact of biocommunication and behavioral science applications in their area of control, interest or responsibility.
WARMING UP TO THE COLD WAR
Schleicher founded MRU because, “For many months I have heard the comment made, 'fishy our government doesn’t support research in parapsychology areas, as they do in Eastern Europe." It is likely these comments originated with the original MRU sources, Ostrander & Schroeder. “. . .Acting on this message, we in MRU were inspired to attempt to inquire into this. We have found that the government can, and will, support research in these areas, if such research is properly communicated to them, provides a beneficial use of tax-payers' funds, and is conducted by responsible organizations. MRU stands ready to assist any other group to obtain funds for their programs, should they so request it from us.”
Carl said he wanted to further and develop the works of suppressed, maligned or unappreciated researchers on the "frontiers of science". These researchers and pioneers, included: Harold S. Burr, Ph.D.; F.S.C. Northrop, Ph.D.; Leonard J. Ravitz, M.D.; Wilhelm Reich, Ph.D.; R. B. Amber, D.C.; H. Motoyama, Ph.D.; Oscar Brunler, Ph.D.; Galen Hieronymus; Gen. Henry M. Gross; Verne Cameron; John Shelley; Ambrose and Olga Woorrall, Ph.D.; Harold Sherman; Townsend Brows; R. Abrams, M. D; Ruth Drone; Carey Reams, D.N.; Buckminster Fuller; Nikola Tesla, D.Sc.; Yogi Bhajan; Henry and John Foray; K. Raudive, Ph.D.; Ingo Swann; S. W.Tromp, Ph.D.; L. L. Vasiliev, Ph.D.; Karl von Reichenbach, Ph.D.; Walter Russell, Ph.D.; Gopi Krishna; Gustaf Stromberg; Jose Silva; Edgar Cayce; Cleve Backster.
MRU’s own brochure claimed specialties in the following:
Validation of the current state-of-the-science in various foreign countries, identification of the research capabilities of foreign laboratories and experimenters.
Definition of techniques and methodology for data validation or potential direct evaluation and application.
Determination of technological "state-of-the- art" implications, preparation of technological forecasts and assessments.
Definition of systems, which improve man's relationship to his environment.
Determination of potential health implications, and innovative causal or preventive medical research.
Determination and identification of specific user requirements,
Determination of educational/teaching implications,
Development of a program for further investigations based on the particular users requirements.
Tasking areas included:
superlearning, man-machine cybernetic interactions, special sensory biophysical activities, brain and mind control, telepathic communications or bioinformation transceiving, bioluminescent and bioenergetic emissions, effects of altered states of consciousness on the human psyche, improvement of human performance via bio-feedback techniques, innovative therapy/prosthetic/diagnostic techniques, environmental effects upon biological (human) systems, infrasonic and ultrasonic effects upon biological systems, geopathogenic factors which induce illness.
MRU explored the interaction of mind and body, or energy and matter. It brought together many of the leading scientists and experimenters in the multidisciplinary field of biocommunications which includes the sciences of bionics, bio-physics, psychophysics, psychology, physiology, neuropsychiatry, cybernetics and systems engineering. He got the help of notables such as ESP expert hypnotist Milan Ryzl, and remote viewer Ingo Swann, among others.
PARAPHYSICS
In the early 1970s, physicist Richard Alan Miller also worked for Schleicher under the Mankind Research Unlimited umbrella, closing the gap between the physical and the metaphysical. Physicist Miller was the Northwest Regional Director of MRU. His task was looking at anomalous phenomena, such as Kirlian photography, bioluminescence, psychotronics, biofeedback, electrophotography, distance healing, acupuncture and psychic surgery to determine if there was any merit for future strategic studies. In 1974, MRU produced Miller’s "Bioluminescence, Kirlian Photography and Medical Diagnostics". It closely followed his 1972 paper on “The Physical Mechanisms of Kirlian Photography”.
Miller wrote a field theory for Kirlian photography; these experiments showed the effect to be a secondary emission of electrons ionizing local gases, rather than a bioluminescent phenomenon of extrasensory or spiritual importance. People were pre-disposed to see physical demonstrations of so-called auras, and so they attributed the phenomenon to this traditional analog, because it served their belief system. This effect also can occur among researchers where it is known as experimenter-bias. However, even when Miller's finding was published as "The Physical Mechanisms in Kirlian Photography" in 1975 in The Energies of Consciousness, edited by Dr. Stanley Krippner and David Rubin for Gordon & Breach, the superstitious interpretations continued, and continue to this day.
According to Stan Krippner and Daniel Rubin's (1972) Galaxies of Life, researchers are divided in their evaluation of the Kirlian phenomena. Some call the manifestation "corona discharge," believing that the technique only reveals commonplace electrical occurrences while others conceive of radiation field photography as revealing the "bioplasma body" or aura. According to Viktor Adamenko, a Russian scientist (c 1970s), the discharge is the cold emission of electrons.
Other contributors to these Krippner books included Edgar Mitchell, William A. Tiller, John Pierrakos, Theodore Barber, David Bresler, and James Hurtak. This work was also published as part of Kirlian Electrophotography, a data package prepared by MRU. Miller's contribution was the Kirlian Device Circuit Diagram.
As NW Regional Director of MRU, the Washington D.C. based paranormal phenomena investigation team, Miller worked under the direction of Dr. Carl Schleicher. A large portion of Dr. Hiroshi Motoyama’s research was turned over to Miller, including original strip-charts. His experiments in psychokinesis showed one person's mind influencing the body of another, in the same and in remote locations. Miller also brought the problem of psychic surgery to Dr. Motay, Dean of Pathology at the UW. This incident was recounted in The National Observer, March 30, 1974:
"Richard Miller, director of Mankind Research Unlimited's Northwest Regional Office here says that a study by the University of Washington's Dept. of Pathology showed that one man, Warder Bacon, probably had his body entered by the psychic surgeons. 'An X-ray before he left for the Philippines shows that he had a great amount of cancerous tissue in his liver,' says Miller. 'He died about two months ago, and the liver showed no traces of cancerous tissues upon autopsy.' He says that not enough is known about the healers to make a positive or negative statement.
It certainly warrants a definitive study, says Miller, who also is director of the Dept. of Parapsychology and Paraphysics at the Experimental College of the University of Washington."
To this end, Miller conducted experiments with Filippino psychic "surgeon" Tony Agpaoa. Perhaps the results are best described in his own words, at this time those of a "true believer," although subsequent research has disclosed the sleight-of-hand tricks of psychic surgery, as shown by debunkers on the Discovery Channel.
The former article continued: "Psychic surgery is an emotional issue. There have been no authoritative studies of it. AMA statistics show, says Miller, that persons who have terminal cancer have a one-in-five recovery rate, even after the bad news is pronounced. The key will be to determine what percentage of persons who have been treated in the Philippines recover, says Miller, who adds that he is working to have a follow-up study started."THE WILD BLUE YONDERScientific progress is achieved not only by linear accumulation of knowledge but also by nonlinear paradigm shifts. These shifts are often forced by anomalous findings that cannot be incorporated in accepted models.
Two complementary methodological principles regulate this process: 1) Ockham’s Razor as the principle of parsimony and 2) Plato’s Life Boat as the principle of the necessity to ‘save the appearances’ and thus incorporate conflicting phenomenological data into extant theories. We have to review empirical data which are in conflict with some presuppositions of accepted mainstream science: Clinical and experimental effects of prayer and healing intention, data from telepathy, psychokinesis experiments and precognition, and anecdotal reports of macro-psychokinesis.
Collectively, this subject matter is called BLUE SKY RESEARCH. Taken together, the now well-documented phenomena are anomalies that challenge some widely held beliefs in mainstream science. Scientists often fear that by accepting the reality of these phenomena they also have to subscribe to world-models invoking ontological dualism or idealism. We suggest accepting the phenomena as real, but without questionable ontologies commonly associated with them.
PART II: Interview with Charles Stone, MRF Deputy Director
Iona Miller, 2006 In Part I of this MRU story, I discussed the known background of Dr. Carl Schleicher and his involvement with both Mankind Research Unlimited, Inc. and Mankind Research Foundation. I also described the allegations that he was a principle investigator in the development of the human cyborg, Manchurian Candidate, in the infamous MK Ultra mind control project. In Part II, I interview Charles Stone on his time with Schleicher at Mankind Research Foundation and the allegations. Earlier this year, Dr. Schleicher’s sister wrote me repudiating Stone’s allegations, but it is unlikely she was privy to any Top Secret operations her brother may have engaged in. ROLL AWAY THE STONE
Iona: Just how did you come to work for Dr. Schleicher? Did you ever do any SpecOps, PsiOps, or BlackOps projects? What were your qualifications for such work?
STONE: I was not with Carl until seven years after he was publically exposed in 1980. But MRU was a front for the most advanced mind control technology at that time.
My exposure to esoteric science started with Carl Schleicher. Actually a little earlier I used to like to go the very house in Philadelphia where the famous 19th century psychic lived. It is where the dog slept on her leg and brought an overnight cure. It's the Black (or White) Dog Cafe. And of course there were other things in that area of PA, NJ, DE and MD where I lived. Even next to the Hall where the Constitution was written is The American Philosophical Assn. Especially at night it seems strange. I was there at the time of the Bicentennial of the Constitution.
I’m more of an investigator. I have used some of the Tarpley associated history in one of my projects dealing with Tavistock Institute, for example. That was the pioneer MI 6 Agency which led to MK Ultra (“Mind Kontrol”) and much more.
I believe that Dr. Carl Schleicher was a front for the most advanced high tech part of that effort when Richard Miller worked with him. Most likely Richard and his associates were not aware of Carl's full role. He had many good people working under him.
I worked with Carl from 1987 thru 1992. I was his Deputy. By that time he had been exposed by a magazine in D.C. That publication was also a waste because it only exposes harmless people like Carl Schleicher essentially was! A much fuller story is of course that of exposing the "powers that be" who are behind all of this. Like Carl Schleicher, the Bush people are doing what more powerful groups want done!
Iona: Were you an observer or a participant in any psi research? The urban myths make Carl sound like the ‘Cigarette Man’ on the X-Files. What kept you going back?
STONE: It was exciting learning about his new ideas, which came along frequently, or technologies to develop potentially. He had his own company, which controlled Blood Irradiation. We tried to promote several modalities for drug and alcohol abuse -- 3M Program using Kundalini Yoga, Electronic Drug and Alcohol treatment, earthquake prediction technology, a German based technique for AIDS therapy using hydrogen peroxide. It was crude but has produced cures.
There was a project for using poultry waste to produce a high protein powder for food. It was okay! But horrible! There was also a problem with the nasty chemicals used. There was a low cost housing project, which never went anywhere. We stayed busy, but no breakthroughs were made TO MY KNOWLEDGE!
Iona: What types of projects were you personally involved with? Were there other projects you got wind of but were not privy to? How do we know you are not a mole? Do you happen to have any of your MRU pay stubs or tax records from that period; some kind of paper trail?
STONE: I started with Carl Schleicher by sending him a resume in the summer of 1987. He expressed interest, but suggested I wait to start. This came in the fall of 1987. At first I worked with Carl two days a week at his office. The rest of the work was done from my house in PA. It is a two + hour drive right down I-95 to downtown Silver Springs, Maryland where his office was located. It was an ideal but somewhat sleazy area. We started on promoting his key projects to save the world. I learned a lot about psychotronics, including diagnostic devices. But the emphasis was on bringing these new ideas to the attention of the Federal Government.
Iona: Many of the researchers at MRU displayed extraordinary human potentials as well as studying them. In many cases, such as psychic Sean Harribance, these unusual talents were their reason for being there. Sean began working with Dr. J.B. Rhine in 1969 and was the first to get high scores on ESP tests where EEG, EKG and galvanic skin response sensors were used. He was also the first to show a link between high ESP scores and a specific brain wave.
His site says, “In 1976, the parapsychology labs could no longer give him a salary so he moved to Maryland in search of research funds from government sources. In Maryland he did some work with Mankind Research, and continued some part-time research with Duke University. Sean began to realize that by proving himself to others, he could generate further interest in parapsychology, and the psi research.” In 1998 he continued his work with Dr. Michael Persinger.
Do you have any such abilities or try to develop them? What was the most extraordinary display of unusual abilities you saw during your work with Carl?
STONE: He never mentioned any of the interesting findings or good people like Rick Miller. We wondered about auras. It too seemed strange. I did not know about Miller's work until recently. Regarding known personalities: I met a Dr. Zedek who was President of the International Psychotronic Association from Czechoslovakia. I met Dr. Eldon Byrd who died several years ago who was a known personality. I met a better and more competent version of Carl, Mark Benza. He was based in Calgary, Alberta. Mark did make a number of breakthroughs. But he was a misguided genius! He also died several years ago. I did learn about remote viewing, dowsing and a lot more.
NOT MADE OF STONE
Iona: On a positive note, Carl seems to have focused even more strongly on health and healing when he created MRF. Perhaps he’d had enough of the “Dark Side”. It is ironic that even though MRU is blamed for some of the most heinous psychophysical experimentation, it also seems to have been the herald of social trends such as the LSD era of the 60s and the fad that came to stay, the New Age movement. Most of my psychotherapist friends blame the cavalier attitude of Timothy Leary for ruining the therapeutic potential of psychoactive drugs.
STONE: It is almost certain that the Unabomber was associated with a key mind control expert at Harvard when he was identified as a 16-year-old mathematical genius. It is believed that something was done to him that led to his madness. That is just one of the examples of the damage caused. Not the least of these was turning universities into huge drug and alcohol dens!
It was only after his death in 1999 that we knew of the earlier role of MRU as a front for the CIA for its most sensitive mind control technology. In one book, CIA Mind Control Operations in the USA, Carl is credited with inventing the cyborg, a human robot triggered by external means. We will never know the full extent of MK Ultra.
Some of the technologies featured in NEXUS or by MRF in embryonic development will someday be used in medicine or energy medicine. Some medium technological examples are showing up now for healing or pain management.
Iona: Like TENS and Alpha-Stim, which have become pain and depression management staples. Now, low intensity lasers, like BioFlex, are FDA approved for pain and joint treatments. One interrupts the pain signal to the brain and the other uses tunable transcranical electrostimulation to create brainwave coherence: Alpha and Theta. Still other brain-driving techniques use resonance or brainwave entrainment. Wild Divine is a game form with biofeedback applications.
You loosely allege that virtually nothing MRU/MRF investigated panned out. Yet that isn’t quite true if you have a comprehensive view on where this research went. My work continues with physicist Lian Sidorov at www.emergentmind.org with its Journal of Nonlocality and Remote Mental Interactions, for example. We’ve interviewed many of the original MRU and SRI players who are still active in the field. We also continue our independent investigations through the Organization for the Advancement of Knowledge (O.A.K.).
STONE: Yes, in his later years, Carl Schleicher tried to bring esoteric knowledge to the attention of the Federal Government for AIDS, Cancer, Drug and Alcohol Abuse, etc. MRF brought forward a number of approaches, which could have been developed. Unfortunately, he turned off the very people he wanted to influence. I was his Deputy at that time.
Iona: I am interested in hearing what you mean by “turned them off” and who “they” are. Are we talking about personality, credibility, or incredibility?
STONE: Carl was a pretty strange man. I wish I had a picture of his desk. You have seen the cartoon "The Professor" with the stacks of papers etc. He had file drawers full of old reports, some open. He had an office manager, Roger Little and typist, Bob (both male). Roger Little moved to Salt Lake City to work for the Mormon Church and moved on. One had a mental handicap but could not read Carl's handwriting. (Idiot Savant, I presume).
I assisted Carl with all D.C. based activities. This included marketing, sales, promotion, evaluation of technology, media contact, attending conventions etc.
Carl mentioned his previous lab and much bigger operation on Kalorama Rd. in D.C. But provided no details. He claimed his earlier work was as a Naval Intel Officer working on intercepts and codes in Turkey. Most of our time was spent promoting his "innovative" approaches. Often there was something wrong with the technologies. Then there was Carl's personality.
He was a classic Dr. Strangelove.
We knew very little about his earlier operation in which Rick Miller and other known researchers were involved. To my knowledge Carl was not involved in supervising research. But he had a lot of people in the wings who were ready to go if he made another breakthrough.
His way of dealing with people turned everybody off. He was especially bad with women. He had a nice widow from Hungary and California who would visit from time to time. It was only a plutonic [sic] relationship. His handwriting and other communication skills were not very good for a very smart man. Even his English was not that good.
Carl was constantly sending information to people about psychotronics and being a Johnny Appleseed in that way. We had a number of interesting people and scientists who visited the office. But again Carl's social skills weren't very good. He would never even have coffee or tea for visitors. That is part of the reason for my questions to you and Richard about his past activities.
Over the years my knowledge has expanded in different areas. NEXUS does present an ideal outlet for some psychotronic ideas but goes far beyond that field. There is actually a range of technologies from electronic to electromagnetic to subtle energies to psychotronics and beyond.
After Carl was exposed in 1980 he never recovered his "glory days". It does appear that he contributed to or was given credit for a number of important findings. Again that is a reason for my questions.
Iona: It looks to me like the truth is unresolvably muddied. I think he has gotten credit for things he did not do, for both good and evil. Likewise, he has perhaps not been recognized as an important link in the chain of many biomedical advances, for example.
STONE: I have not worked with Carl since 1990. But I did stay in contact with him and would stop by his office over the next decade. He liked me! But he was difficult to work for or with. But there were always a lot of good people who did the actual work, each in their respective areas.
Iona: The MRF pamphlet for 1994 (in my possession) listed the following, all of which shared an address with MRF: Studies alternative health treatments, Kirlian photography, dowsing, biotechnologies for the handicapped, and drug addiction.
Some projects associated with psychotechnology:
Using "high frequency electro-stimulation of muscle and neural tissues" to stimulate atrophied muscles in the handicapped.
"Hearing aid device, developed as an auditory nerve by-pass to the brain via the skin". Sounds similar to the Neurophone.
"Blind 'I-C' device, based on advanced electronic signal processing technology which can enable a sightless person to 'electronically sight and view' his environment."
Behavior modification with subliminal suggestion, for drug and cigarette addiction. Associated with:
The Center for Preventive Therapy and Rehabilitation
S.A.F.E. (Society for the Application of Free Energy): Studies psionics, dowsing, radionics, and radiesthesia.
The International Association for Psychotronic ResearchSTONE: Several months ago I tried to pass on to General Motors new ideas and technologies for health care. The only one, which could be used, was the electronic drug and alcohol treatment. I still have my papers from that era. In fact, I have a box of unsorted documents, which could still yield something! We had a joke about Carl’s voluminous proprietary files, which he claimed if “raided” might have some value. I don't know what his sister did with Carl's papers.
But it does appear from Richard Miller's work and corroboration that Carl played an important role in supervising a group of diverse people. In addition he was a worldwide "Johnny Appleseed" for psychotronics, etc. Hopefully it will bear fruit some day.
Iona: Online there is a 1995 research paper Carl himself wrote on his ultraviolet irradiation of blood project, as the Foundation for Blood Irradiation. Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation (UBI or UBIT) is a certified nontoxic therapy that inactivates blood-borne viruses, such as Hepatitis and HIV. It is also called Photoluminescence, Hematologic Oxidative Therapy. It raises the resistance of the host to control the disease process. In his tests, each treatment of UBI reduced PCR Viral Activity by 50%-75%.
http://www.bio-immuno-development.com/application.htmlIf, in the end as you allege, Carl’s search for some psychological Holy Grail was fruitless throughout his career, I still feel he was attempting to move humanity forward. After all, it is not the prize, but the quest for human advancement that is the point of leading-edge research. Even though stereotypical or consensus models are crumbling, and supermind and the bioplasmic field are embraced by some, we are still out on that limb.
EULOGY FOR AN ARCH-SPOOK Perhaps one of Schleicher’s greatest contributions came in the field of super learning. Volume. 25, Journal of Accelerating Learning & Teaching (Kelly & Morrisey, 2000)) eulogizes his pivotal role in accelerated learning popularizing the research of Dr. Geogi Lozanov of Bulgaria. Even in this arena, Carl remained controversial for his control and anger issues. He threatened to sue anyone employing his franchised technique, purchased in 1975.Penny Kelly and Brian Morrisey characterize Carl as a military establishment player with early spy experience in Europe, which led to his discovery of Lozanov. Carl wanted to commercialize everything he came up with but you cannot copyright a method. From 1976-1988, he opened schools for stress-free learning of language, memory, creativity. The musical whole brain approach to learning, retention and motivation used hypnotic techniques, not foreign to Schleicher.
Psychologist Stanley Krippner described European classes:: “I have observed the suggestopedia classes in Bulgaria and Hungary. Classes had a relaxed comfortable learning environment. Rather than individual learning, it was group learning. It included preliminary exercises, new material, and a review of what was learned. The first stage used 2/3 of the time. Then suggestions were given by the teacher to promote learning. The presentation phase took one third of the time. The method encourages students to make mental images of the material. In foreign language classes, people take on new roles.”The Washington Times ) ; 12-07-1999
CARL SCHLEICHER, 66, FOUNDATION PRESIDENT Carl Schleicher, 66, founder and president of Mankind Research Foundation, died Nov. 25 at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring. A scholar, researcher and scientist, he worked to extend "frontiers of science" to mankind, his family said. Under his leadership, the Silver Spring-based Mankind Research Foundation was awarded grants for educational and medical programs. His company worked with the government to research and develop treatments for cancer and AIDS. One of his most recent and successful projects was the development of new uses for ultraviolet blood irradiation to treat viral and bacterial infections. Mr. Schleicher was the author of many scientific papers and was a professor at American University and the University of Maryland. He served as an intelligence officer for 10 years in the Navy, attaining the rank of lieutenant commander. He was assigned to posts in Germany and Turkey. Born in Reading, Pa., he attended Booton High School in New Jersey, graduating in 1951. He then attended Drexel University and was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. He transferred in 1952 to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis and graduated with honors in 1956 with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering. He was awarded a Rotary Foundation Fellowship and studied at the University of Cologne in Germany, where he received a master's degree in political economicsin 1962. He later earned a doctorate degree. He spoke six languages and served as an interpreter for President Eisenhower and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. After leaving from the Navy, he returned to the United States in 1966 and moved to Silver Spring, where he lived until his death. He is survived by his mother, Mary Schleicher, and a sister, Cheryl Ann Schleicher, both of Booton, N.J.; and a brother, John E. Schleicher Sr. of Denville, N.J. Services have been held.But his greatest contribution is probably in cancer treatment. He himself had to be on dialysis in the early 90s before his kidney transplant. Shortly before his death by heart attack on Thanksgiving eve 1999, he was in Brazil setting up more sites in his string of clinics for ultra violet radiation. Carl had staying power in his arena, dealing with flakes, visionaries, governments, and scientists alike. Even with his commercial angle, many say he did leave the planet a good man, working for the benefit of all. If so, his stated humanitarian mission was fulfilled._______________________________________ POSTSCRIPT: Schleicher’s real breakthrough came in the 1970’s with Ostrander's & Schroeder's, Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain (1970). It inspired the formation of MRU, and was its starting point. Later, their SuperLearning inspired Accelerated Learning. Like similar agencies, SRI and IONS, MRU investigated self-regulation techniques as well as external controls.
MRU fostered interest in energy medicine, hypnotherapy, magnetic healing, acupuncture, radionics or radiesthesia, remote healing and viewing, and psychophysical control of internal states. The MRU researchers were pathfinders, carving broad highways through the mindscape. The cross-disciplinary synergy between physics, biology, psychiatry, religion, etc., continues to be explored, as well as the relationship of intent and belief.
I know for a fact that MRU had these positive aims as well, since Rick Miller’s bioluminescence research was largely targeted toward developing Rapid Scan Medical Diagnosis. Now we have CAT scans, MRI, SQUID, MEG, and fMRI all using essentially similar ideas to view the inside of the body non-invasively.
Now we have regular cross-disciplinary conferences, such as the ‘Toward a Science of Consciousness’ and Quantum Mind conferences in Tucson and International Conference on Science and Consciousness in Santa Fe. Parapsychology has disappeared into consciousness studies. Dr. Krippner himself told me it has been reabsorbed into mainsteam psychology, and he never calls himself a parapsychologist.
We explore the whole spectrum of approaches from philosophy of mind and dream research, to neuropsychology, pharmacology, and molecular dynamics, to neural networks, phenomenological accounts, and even the quantum physics of reality. The aim is to lay a sound scientific foundation for future research while also reaching consensus on many scattered areas of inquiry.Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) and other foundations have solid backing as nonprofits. There are legions of lecturing mystics on the circuit, many inspired by the “usual suspects” from MRU and its sister organizations. My own psionics work continues experimentally and on the editorial board at http://emergentmind.org with The Journal of Nonlocality and Remote Mental Interactions (JNLRMI).There has been a major surge of interest recently in studying consciousness as more and more people have experiences that cannot be explained by traditional scientific approaches. Also there is wide popular interest in new physics as the popularity of the Indy film, “What the BLEEP Do We Know” shows.We are living and working in the midst of extraordinary changes in our concepts of the nature of humankind. Enough has been written in recent years about the seeming inadequacy of the scientific method to grapple with the enigma of the strange experiences related by the pioneers.
In the early years, parapsychology was “ghettoized” in the scientific community. A person risks advancement possibilities by showing interest in parapsychology, except in the transpersonal circles, preaching to the choir of consciousness study people. Swedish forensic psychologist, Nils Wiklund, wrote an article with the title: "The parapsychological phenomena do not exist". On the other hand, Dr. Stanley Krippner (2003), even more respected now than in his days of loose association with MRU, states:
"At one level of investigation, there already are 'replications' and 'battle-tested' results, specifically the finding that about 50% of an unselected group will report having had a 'psychic experience,' supposedly involving those psi phenomena that have been given such labels as 'telepathy', 'clairvoyance', 'precognition', and 'psychokinesis' [mind over matter]. This percentage may vary from one culture, age group, and educational level to the next, but it has been repeated, in one study after another, for the last several decades."
Russell Targ (1994) claims, "[P]si is no longer elusive; it can be demonstrated when needed for study and investigation." Even though psychic training to strengthen the signal line is possible, unpredictability has been the hallmark of this emergent gift. To overcome this problem in both the theoretical and experimental arenas requires a marriage of the disciplines of physics, biophysics, biology, medicine, psychology, and hypnosis.
Findings from all these fields converge in the paradoxical subject of Extra-Sensory Perception. As the ideas of quantum mechanics, relativity and parapsychology slowly make their way into our collective consciousness, our common-sense views on time and causality find themselves more strained than they've ever been in the course of human history.
At some point in history, a split occurred and we ended up with Science and Religion. Science limited its study to the material world and the Church took charge of the metaphysical realms. Now, with science studying consciousness, we are ready to reintegrate Spirituality and Science.
Researchers are probing the interface between matter, spacetime and mind with increasing precision. There is optimism that ultimately conventional pathways will be found to explain their appearance. Suggestions (Miller, 2003) have included Schumann Resonance as a nearly-instantaneous carrier of psi information or perhaps paradoxical quantum nonlocality or coherence to account for it.
There are many models that provide potentially viable explanations. The mental aspects can perhaps be described psychologically, but the mechanics require models from physics. A variety of theories have been proposed, including neurological, holographic, electromagnetic, and quantum mechanics based hypotheses.
Like electricity, no one knows how psi works. However, to foster and practice psi we don't need to know how it works, anymore than we need to know the mechanics of internal combustion to drive a car.
Author: Iona Miller, http://ionatopia.50megs.com is a consultant and transdisciplinarian, as well as nonfiction writer, hypnotherapist and multimedia artist. Her work is an omnisensory fusion of science-art, chaos theory, plenum physics, and emergent paradigm shift melding experiential psychotherapy, new physics, biophysics, philosophy, cosmology, healing, creativity, metaphysics, and sociology. Rather than an interest in specific doctrines, she is interested in the EFFECTS of doctrines from religion, science, psychology, and the arts. Our beliefs are the moldable raw material of the psyche, manipulated by governments, media and culture. How do we become what we are and how is that process changing in the near future?
Iona is published by Phanes Press, Destiny Books (Inner Traditions International), Autonomedia, Bolero, Nexus Magazine, Dream Network Journal, Journal of Nonlocality and Remote Mental Interactions (JNLRMI), Chaosophy Journal, Journal of Interdisciplinary Crossroads, DNA Monthly, Der Golem, Pop Occulture, and more.
About MRU About MRU & MRF: Psychotronics Unlimited
Psychotronics bridges the esoteric and the scientific. What begins as out-of-the-box Blue Sky research can lead to solid, scientific advances. The arcane, mysterious and what we don't know has the most potential to teach us about ourselves and our environment -- in fact, we are not separate from it. A decade or so ago, no one but scientists thought about quantum physics -- now many are well-aware of theories of the Field, our holographic nature and what it means to realize holistically that mindbody is connected to Cosmos. Psychotronics is the science of mind-body-environment relationships, an interdisciplinary science concerned with the interactions of matter, energy, and consciousness.
Public training in REMOTE VIEWING and other programs by noted parapsychologists from SRI and elsewhere has provided the public a window on early research. The 2009 film, MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS has shown some later military research and experimentation on the same sort of subject matter. MRU was the East Coast equivalent of SRI, but invited far less publicity. It also was NOT linked to the notorious "mother of all thinktanks," Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. It sought to conduct independent research on these matters for the public welfare. ESP is a natural occurrence. We seek to understand how it occurs, and to use that understanding for the benefit of mankind. The technical and scientific aspects of Psychotronics and its practical applications, merge the esoteric/spiritual and scientific worlds. Quantum mechanics has provided a "scientific" basis which allows the existence of psychic phenomena and unconventional energy effects. INTRODUCTION to MRU/MRFMRU, Silver Springs, MD
Mankind Research Unlimited, Inc. (MRU, and the later nonprofit Foundation, MRF) was a much less publicized eastcoast thinktank like Stanford Research Institute (SRI). MRU was purchased from parent company SCI on August 13, 1973 to become an independent company with its own Board operating through the Director's lifetime. Located in the Washington, D.C. area, it operated from the early 1970s to 1999. Like SRI, many strange phenomena were investigated and developed there, often at government expense.
MRU’s Director, Carl W. Schleicher, Ph.D. has been accused, along with Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, of being the mind control mad-genius behind MK Ultra and the ‘Manchurian Candidate’ in both Feral Press (Constantine, 1995) and by A.J. Weberman (1) online. Called the “Father of the Cyborg,” in CIA Mind Control Operations in the USA, Schleicher heartily denied it to his death in 1999. He was preparing to sue Weberman for theft of MRU files and false allegations, according to close associates.
All research was conducted on a “need to know” basis. No one seems able to make a coherent story of it, though rumors about connections of Director Schleicher to MK Ultra run rampant. What is known is he had ten active years of military service (1955-1966) for the Navy as a “war games expert,” and spy in Europe.
Sources say he was stationed for a time on the electronic intelligence ship,USS Liberty. He retired shortly before the SigInt ship was mysteriously attacked in the 1967 Six-Day War. He then went into “exotic areas of knowledge” with a mandate to “peek discretely into the unknown”. He avoided marriage, saying, “My mission is different.” He always claimed his mission was “humanitarian.”
Schleicher attended the Naval Academy, worked overseas in operations research, and spoke six languages, then went into war games, publishing in The Journal of Electronic Warfare. An interest in dowsing got him into the paranormal - but not dowsing for water – dowsing for Vietcong in tunnels in Khe Sanh for the Marines. This led to a meeting with Ostrander and Schroeder, authors of Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain, and the game was afoot. He accepted their unfiltered pile of Soviet research and paid $5000 for translations.
Schleicher had a gruff military personality. His cohorts included former OSS, CIA and military intelligence officers, physicians, psychologists, scientists, anti-gravity investigators, healers, chemists, psychics, dowsers, and remote viewers. MRU developed a low-frequency electronic device that “interferes with insects’ antennae.” But, in typical Schleicher fashion, he tersely declined explanation with a pat answer, “I can say no more.”
He did say, “I consider myself an optimistic skeptic. Just because there’s no supporting data doesn’t mean it’s bad – why, there was no supporting data for alternating current. I’ve patiently listened to and been tolerant of everything anybody’s said. If I weren’t, I might close out some golden gem.”
He considered the term “occult” an unprofessional, unscientific “put-down word” that turns off highly qualified people. He admits his own “paranoid” psychics accused him of “feeding information to the CIA” and that “consultants have ‘dark forces’ surrounding them.” He also claimed healers, “are able to focus energy . . . on a spot where it’s needed, through his mind control, and it flows out of his hand . . .A healer can sense where there’s an imbalance of energy.”
What’s in a name? Draw your own conclusions: Did MKU[ltra] give birth to MRU, then MRF, or not? Is there plausible denial as the Director claimed? Schleicher’s own name, as he liked to point out, means “stealth.” The German translation is “Sneaker”, related to “creep, skulk, and slink,” (odge.info). His MRU colleague, Christopher Bird certainly worked for the CIA, specializing in psychological warfare, biocommunications and Russian translation. Do ‘birds of a feather flock together’? They did with Eldon Byrd. They did at the U.S. Psychotronics Assn. (USPA) from 1978 forward.
DEEP BACKGROUND:
Mind control is the ever-elusive Holy Grail of the spy game, with roots in the early 1950s. MK Ultra’s mission was complete control of the human mind, including overt and covert techniques of mind and behavior control, brainwashing, truth drugs, and mass psychological warfare or disinformation.
MK Ultra, officially disbanded in 1963 in the wake of Kennedy’s assassination, became public when revealed to the Rockefeller Commission investigating the CIA in the mid-1970s. Did post-MK Ultra research continue decentralized as underground front organizations, as has been suggested?
Much MKU evidence was burned and shredded by Sid Gottlieb. Once television became popular, there was less perceived need for other mass hypnotic mind control techniques. No pop culture phenomenon since has been accidental. We know SRI in Palo Alto carried on, and does so to this day. Many of their old players, like Targ and McMoneagle are now lecturing celebrities. Remote Viewing has become a workshop fad, like firewalking.
Carl, himself, claimed he supervised cryptography in Turkey during his military duty, which is likely true in any event. He joined the AFIO (Assn. of Former Intelligence Officers). Unfortunately, those closest to him are least likely to know the real story for national security reasons. Former associates of MRU confirm that he worked for NSA through his Navy position.
Elsewhere, Carl admits to a background in mind control and blue-sky studies for Naval Intelligence. His military service dates do place him in the proper timeline, but did he really have time for building the perfect assassin?
We know now, for example, that LSD and hypnotism are unreliable tools for most directive purposes. Newer approaches include brain implants, directed electronic weapons, and heterodyned messages that seem to come from your own thoughts. What was tested as a mental ability of one human to influence another has now been successfully accomplished with electronics. Next come quantum dots that fuse with nerves and direct computer/brain interface.
INSIDE MRU
MRU's capability and experience is divided into four fields, including biophysics -- Biological Effects of Magnetic Fields," "Research in Magneto-fluid Dynamics," "Planetary Electro-Hydro-Dynamics" and "Geo-pathic Efforts on Living Organisms." The latter focuses on the induction of illness by altering the magnetic nature of the geography. MRU first researched the area of Biological Effects of Magnetic Fields focusing on the induction of illness by altering the magnetic nature of the geography.
Mankind Research Unlimited distributed a CIA directive, summarized in a brochure on the “Cybernetic Technique”. It discussed the Agency's development of a “means by which information in modest rate can be fed to humans utilizing other senses than sight or hearing. “The Cybernetic Technique,” based on Eastern European research," involves beaming information to individual nerve cells. The purpose, the directive states, is the enhancement of mental and physical performance. To protect MK Ultra, the CIA subcontracted research and development to universities, prisons, private laboratories and hospitals.
A former counter-intelligence “spook”, a “watcher of the watchers”, characterizes his friend Schleicher as “black”, meaning “plugged in to clandestine services…Nearly all the famous names were just to provide legal and other "legitimacy" for work done entirely by others.” This source, who remains publically anonymous, claims to be an original member of MAG (Monday Afternoon Group), classified 36-40 levels above Top Secret.
This inside source discredits accusations of Schleicher working for either the CIA or The Aviary, infamous UFO debukers.He says MRF was associated with Rockefeller Foundation and NSA, producing several books for them. Recent admissions (2) about covert mind control experiments have come from Naval Intelligence. Approval authority is now required for all “severe or unusual intrusions, either physical or psychological, on human subjects (such as consciousness-altering drugs or mind control techniques),” implying they had done so in the past.
In the drug-riddled mid-70s, Journal of Rehabilitation, 41, 2, 12-8,44, Mar/Apr 75 published a Schleicher interview on biofeedback and rehabilitation (4): “A question-answer interview with Carl Schleicher, cofounder and technical director of the Center for Preventive Therapy and Rehabilitation, Inc. (CEPTAR) and president and research/development director of Mankind Research Unlimited, Inc. (MRU), Washington, D. C., provides explicit information on recent developments in the rehabilitation field and poses questions for further investigation.”
Insiders say MRU/MRF projects that “worked” include “selenoenzymes, correcting color blindness, medical and other uses of cesium, spinal chord injury partial reversal, a once a week pill that heals old brain injuries, but nothing much on ESP related things.”
PSYCHIC DISCOVERIES BEHIND THE MRU CURTAIN
MRU obtained several modest government research contracts for feasibility studies in certain human engineering and psychosomatic evaluations. As cache, it offered leading scientists as principle investigators in the fields of biocybernetics, biophysics, bionics, biocommunications, psychophysics, psychology, neuropsychiatry, health and welfare research, human systems engineering, and related scientific disciplines.
Thinktank Director, Schleicher, was a specialist in biocybernetics research, experienced in the analysis and evaluation of foreign scientific developments. After graduating from the U. S. Naval Academy (B.S. Electrical Engineering) in 1956, he served as a Naval line officer specializing in operations research and linguistics until 1966. He received his M.A. in political Economics from the University of Cologne, West Germany, where he was engaged in advanced study at the Universities of Bonn, West Germany and Lund, Sweden. He was a Ph.D. candidate in the Technology of Management at American University.
Before joining the staff of SCI, he was an Operations Research Analyst and R&D Engineer at the Marine Corps Development Center in Quantico, Virginia. His later work included design and development of a management system for assessing R&D projects to determine priorities, and in bionics, biocommunications, and cybernetic software systems. Schleicher had considerable management experience in both the military and industry, and also served as a management sciences consultant.
The MRU mission statement was basically to provide an organization for scientific research, development and application of biocommunications, biocybernetics, bionics, biophysics, superlearning, and other activities impacting the welfare of mankind. MRU claimed unique capabilities for collection, analyzing and evaluating scientific and technological developmental data (both U.S. and foreign). It offered customers assistance in determining the impact of biocommunication and behavioral science applications in their area of control, interest or responsibility.
WARMING UP TO THE COLD WAR
Schleicher founded MRU in response to learning of Soviet psychotronic investigations from Ostrander and Schroeder. “. . .Acting on this message, we in MRU were inspired to attempt to inquire into this. We have found that the government can, and will, support research in these areas, if such research is properly communicated to them, provides a beneficial use of tax-payers' funds, and is conducted by responsible organizations. MRU stands ready to assist any other group to obtain funds for their programs, should they so request it from us.”
Carl said he wanted to further and develop the works of suppressed, maligned or unappreciated researchers on the "frontiers of science", such as Tesla, Reich, Hieronymus, and Buckminster Fuller. Much of this research relates to the energetic nature of deep Reality and the electromagnetic field body of the human being.
MRU’s own brochure claimed to validate foreign research, define methodology, prepare assessments and forecasts, define environmental systems, identify educational and user requirements and tasking areas, including the following:
superlearning, man-machine cybernetic interactions, special sensory biophysical activities, brain and mind control, telepathic communications or bioinformation transceiving, bioluminescent and bioenergetic emissions, effects of altered states of consciousness on the human psyche, improvement of human performance via bio-feedback techniques, innovative therapy/prosthetic/diagnostic techniques, environmental effects upon biological (human) systems, infrasonic and ultrasonic effects upon biological systems, geopathogenic factors which induce illness.
MRU explored the interaction of mind and body, or energy and matter. Among the first groups to investigate the human energy body, MRU brought together many of the leading scientists and experimenters in the multidisciplinary field of biocommunications which includes the sciences of bionics, biophysics, psychophysics, psychology, physiology, neuropsychiatry, cybernetics and systems engineering. MRU recruited notables such as Eldon Byrd, Christopher Bird, ESP expert hypnotist Milan Ryzl, and remote viewer Ingo Swann, among others.
PARAPHYSICS
In the early 1970s, physicist Richard Alan Miller also worked for Schleicher under the Mankind Research Unlimited umbrella, closing the gap between the physical and the metaphysical. Physicist Miller was the Northwest Regional Director of MRU. His task was looking at anomalous phenomena, such as Kirlian photography, bioluminescence, psychotronics, biofeedback, electrophotography, distance healing, acupuncture and psychic surgery to determine if there was merit for future strategic studies or product development. They also tried to create an MRU biofeedback package with Seattle manufacturer J&J Enterprises, but that deal never consummated.
According to Stan Krippner and Daniel Rubin's (1972) Galaxies of Life, researchers are divided in their evaluation of the Kirlian phenomena. Some call the manifestation "corona discharge," believing that the technique only reveals commonplace electrical occurrences while others conceive of radiation field photography as revealing the "bioplasma body" or aura. According to Viktor Adamenko, a Russian scientist (c 1970s), the discharge is the cold emission of electrons, though it has been romanticized by new age interpretations.
THE WILD BLUE YONDER
Scientific progress is achieved not only by linear accumulation of knowledge but also by nonlinear paradigm shifts. These shifts are often forced by anomalous findings that cannot be incorporated in accepted models. A current example comes from complementary medicine which emphasizes the fields of the energy body.
Two complementary methodological principles regulate paradigm shift: 1) Ockham’s Razor as the principle of parsimony and 2) Plato’s Life Boat as the principle of the necessity to ‘save the appearances’ and thus incorporate conflicting phenomenological data into extant theories. We have to review empirical data which are in conflict with some presuppositions of accepted mainstream science: Clinical and experimental effects of prayer and healing intention, affirmations, the law of attraction were studied. MRU collected data on telepathy, psychokinesis experiments, precognition, and anecdotal reports of macro-psychokinesis.
Collectively, this subject matter is called BLUE SKY RESEARCH. The now well-documented phenomena are anomalies that challenge some widely held beliefs in mainstream science. Scientists often fear that by accepting the reality of these phenomena they also have to subscribe to world-models invoking ontological dualism or idealism. We suggest accepting the phenomena as real, but without questionable ontologies commonly associated with them.
ROLL AWAY THE STONE
Charles Stone began working for Carl (1987-1992), as Deputy Director of MRF seven years after he was publically exposed in 1980 by a D.C. magazine. MRU was a front for the most advanced mind control technology at that time. Stone has an MS an microbiology and public health, but has investigated, for example, atomic cover ups, academic and judicial corruption, Tavistock Institute, the pioneer MI 6 Agency which led to MK Ultra (“Mind Kontrol”) and much more.
MRF experimented with Blood Irradiation, tried to promote Electronic Drug and Alcohol treatment, earthquake prediction technology, a German based technique for AIDS therapy using hydrogen peroxide, and alternative cures of Dr. Emanuel Revici through Bioimmunex. There was a project for using poultry waste to produce a high protein powder for food. Emphasis was on bringing all this to the attention of the Federal Government.
HEART OF STONE
Stone claims, “It is almost certain that the Unabomber was associated with a key mind control expert at Harvard when he was identified as a 16-year-old mathematical genius. It is believed that something was done to him that led to his madness. That is just one of the examples of the damage caused. Not the least of these was turning universities into huge drug and alcohol dens!”
Stone alleges, “Carl was a pretty strange man,” whose bizarre personality sabotaged his own efforts. He had file drawers full of old reports. Carl mentioned his previous lab and much bigger operation on Kalorama Rd. in D.C., but provided no details. He claimed his earlier work was as a Naval Intel Officer working on intercepts and codes in Turkey. “He was a classic Dr. Strangelove,” Stone says.
His way of dealing with people turned everybody off. He was especially bad with women. Carl was constantly sending information to people about psychotronics and being a Johnny Appleseed in that way. After Carl was exposed in 1980 he never recovered his "glory days". It does appear that he contributed to or was given credit for a number of important findings. The truth is irresolvably muddied, though he is a link in the chain of many biomedical advances and psychotechnology. Stone still feels Schleicher was attempting to move humanity forward.
MRU fostered interest in energy medicine, hypnotherapy, magnetic healing, acupuncture, radionics or radiesthesia, remote healing and viewing, EVP, and psychophysical control of internal states. The MRU researchers were pathfinders, carving broad highways through the mindscape. The cross-disciplinary synergy between physics, biology, psychiatry, religion, etc., continues to be explored, as well as the relationship of intent and belief.
MRU explored the whole spectrum of approaches from philosophy of mind and dream research, to neuropsychology, pharmacology, and molecular dynamics, to neural networks, phenomenological accounts, and even the quantum physics of reality. The aim is to lay a sound scientific foundation for future research while also reaching consensus on many scattered areas of inquiry.
There has been a major surge of interest recently in studying consciousness as more and more people have experiences that cannot be explained by traditional scientific approaches. Also there is wide popular interest in new physics as fadsof Indy films, such as “What the BLEEP Do We Know” and “The Secret” show. Zero-Point Energy is the new lecture circuit darling.
We are living and working in the midst of extraordinary changes in our concepts of the nature of humankind. Enough has been written in recent years about the seeming inadequacy of the scientific method to grapple with the enigma of the strange experiences related by the pioneers. Now anyone can take a course in remote viewing and other psi abilities.
Russell Targ (1994) claims, "[P]si is no longer elusive; it can be demonstrated when needed for study and investigation." Even though psychic training to strengthen the signal line is possible, unpredictability has been the hallmark of this emergent gift. To overcome this problem in both the theoretical and experimental arenas requires a marriage of the disciplines of physics, biophysics, biology, medicine, psychology, and hypnosis.
As the ideas of quantum mechanics, relativity and parapsychology slowly make their way into our collective consciousness, our common-sense views on time and causality find themselves more strained than they've ever been in the course of human history. Researchers are probing the interface between matter, spacetime and mind with increasing precision.
Like electricity, no one knows how psi works. However, to foster and practice psi we don't need to know how it works, anymore than we need to know the mechanics of internal combustion to drive a car.
EULOGY FOR AN ARCH-SPOOK
Shrouded in mystery to the very end, friends and family characterize Schleicher’s death as “untimely and highly suspicious”, despite his transplant. Carl believed for years that certain domestic agents had targeted him for unknown personal reasons dating back to the mid-60s and his NSA days. No cause of death was forthcoming, so the truth may never be known.
Perhaps one of Schleicher’s greatest contributions came in the field of superlearning. Volume. 25, Journal of Accelerating Learning & Teaching (Kelly & Morrissey, 2000)) eulogizes his pivotal role in accelerated learning, popularizing the research of Dr. Georgi Lozanov of Bulgaria. Even in this arena, Carl remained controversial for his control and anger issues. He threatened to sue anyone employing his franchised technique, purchased in 1975.
Penny Kelly and Brian Morrissey characterize Carl as a military establishment player with early spy experience in Europe, which led to his discovery of Lozanov. Carl wanted to commercialize everything he came up with but you cannot copyright a method. From 1976-1988, he opened schools for stress-free learning of language, memory, creativity. The musical whole brain approach to learning, retention and motivation used hypnotic techniques, not foreign to Schleicher.
Psychologist Stanley Krippner described European classes:: “I have observed the suggestopedia classes in Bulgaria and Hungary. Classes had a relaxed comfortable learning environment. Rather than individual learning, it was group learning. It included preliminary exercises, new material, and a review of what was learned. The first stage used 2/3 of the time. Then suggestions were given by the teacher to promote learning. The presentation phase took one third of the time. The method encourages students to make mental images of the material. In foreign language classes, people take on new roles.”
But his greatest contribution is probably in alternative cancer treatments such as blood irradiation and nostrums like the Revici cure and the Native American recipe, Essiac, made from four dried herbs. MRF obtained rights from Resperin in 1991. The Canadian Trademark "Essiac" is still held by Mankind of Maryland, USA. (Flor*Essence).
No stranger to pain, Carl was on dialysis in the early 90s before his kidney transplant. Shortly before his death by heart attack on Thanksgiving eve 1999, he was in Brazil setting up more sites in his string of clinics for ultra violet radiation. Carl had staying power in his arena, dealing with flakes, visionaries, governments, industry experts, and scientists alike. Despite his commercial goals, many say he did leave the planet a good man (3), working for the benefit of all. If so, his heartful side and humanitarian mission was fulfilled. NOTES:
(1) Sarah Ferguson’s May 8, 2006 article describes A. J. Weberman as a Yippie gadfly writer and “garbologist” all stoners should respect. He was a drug runner and money launderer who went to prison for nine months. His claim to fame is finding symbolism in the garbage of celebrities. “Life Imitates 'South Park':Rolling with the Worldwide Marijuana March” www.villagevoice.com/news/06...5,2.html
(2) NAVY MIND CONTROL: "Human Research Protection Program," Secretary of the Navy Instruction 3900.39D, November 6, 2006 [at section 7(a)(2), page 9] U.S. Navy research on "mind control techniques" cannot be performed on human subjects without the authorization of the Under Secretary of the Navy, according to a new Navy Instruction. "The Under Secretary of the Navy (UNSECNAV) is the Approval Authority for research involving ... severe or unusual intrusions, either physical or psychological, on human subjects (such as consciousness-altering drugs or mind-control techniques)." The nature and scope of any such Navy research could not be immediately discovered. www.fas.org/irp/doddir/n.../3900_39d.pdf (3) groups.yahoo.com/group/crimgov/message/6
Obit. The Washington Times, 12-07-1999 CARL SCHLEICHER, 66, Foundation President.
Kelly, Penny and Morrissey, Brian (2000), Spring 2000 Vol. 25, “Carl Schleicher, In Memoriam”, Journal of Accelerated Learning and Teaching. Washington Post, July 22, 1973; “Scientist in a Strange Land: Grappling with the Unknown on Wisconsin Avenue”, Kenneth Turan and Nancy Meadors Kline. Washington Post article, “Save the Last Trance for Me”, July 29, 1973.
Author: Iona Miller, ionamiller.iwarp.com is a consultant and transdisciplinarian, as well as nonfiction writer, web diva, hypnotherapist and multimedia artist. She is published by Phanes Press, Destiny Books, Autonomedia, Nexus Magazine, Pop Occulture, Dream Network, Der Golem, Journal of Nonlocality and Remote Mental Interactions (JNLRMI), Journal of Transdisciplinary Crossroads, etc.
For example, Stefan Possony, the former Strategy and Military Affairs advisor of the National Security Council worked for Naval and Air Force Intelligence and, along with Christopher Bird, was a staff member of Mankind Research Unlimited, a Washington, D.C., CIA-funded, Psychic Warfare Think Tank. Mankind Research Unlimited was headed by Karl Schleicher. Stefan Possony believed OSWALD was connected to the KGB. [FBI 105-82555-1489] See Nodule 28 for the complete story of Mankind Research Unlimited.
Mankind Research Unlimited
Originally owned by SCI (Systems Consultants Inc.) SCI, founded in 1966, as a military contractor which studies intelligence electronic warfare and sensor technology. They receive most of their funding from the Navy.
MRU studied dowsing, the effects of electromagnetic radiation on the central nervous system, telepathy, infra- and ultrasound, cranial implants, mind-altering drugs, bio-feedback and Krilian photography. President - Carl Schleicher. Schleicher denies that his organization has any connection to the government.
Employees/Members: (incomplete list, not necessarily current)
* Christopher Bird * Rusian exile Stefan Possony. Psychological warfare expert with the Office of Naval Intelligence during WWII. On Board of Directors of the CIA front, the American Security Council. * Paul E.T. Jensen, managed Air Defense Task Force on electomagnetic warfare. Also studies telepathy. * Richard B. LaTondre, electomagnetic warfare expert, studied with the NSA. Served as an Electronics Warfare Officer and trained in combat intelligence and guerilla warfare. * Norman Korobow, author of several classified research papers for the Bureau of Naval Weapons. * Berthold Eric Schwartz, expert on the effects of LSD on hypnotically-induced seizures. UFOlogist, and has written on the link between UFO contactees and psychic phenomena. As of 11/94, semi-retired. “Someone cooked up some erroneous statements on us but I am suing them for it and turning it over to the FBI for criminal investigation, since it was from materials stolen from our files.” Carl Schleicher, 1999
Tapes: U.S. Psychotronics Assn.
U-10b Use of Natural Alternate Therapies Derived from Psychotronics Activities, Carl Schleicher
An obscure District of Columbia corporation called Mankind Research Unlimited (MRU) and the nonprofit foundation MRF, operated a number of classified intelligence, government and Pentagon contracts, specializing in, "problem solving in the areas of intelligence, electronic warfare, sensor technology and applications."
MRU's "capability and experience" is divided into four fields. These include "biophysics -- Biological Effects of Magnetic Fields," "Research in Magneto-fluid Dynamics," "Planetary Electro-Hydro-Dynamics" and "Geo-pathic Efforts on Living Organisms." The latter focuses on the induction of illness by altering the magnetic nature of the geography. MRF focused on therapeutic use of EMF and blood irradiation.
Also under research were "Biocybernetics, Psychodynamic Experiments in Telepathy," "Errors in Human Perception," "Biologically Generated Fields," "Metapsychiatry and the Ultraconscious Mind" (believed to refer to experiments in telepathic mind control), "Behavioural Neuropsychiatry," "Analysis and Measurement of Human Subjective States" and "Human Unconscious Behavioural Patterns."
Employing some old OSS, CIA and military intelligence officers, the company also engaged the services of prominent physicians and psychologists including E. Stanton Maxey, Stanley R. Dean Berthold, Eric Schwarz, Eldon Byrd, plus many more. MRU lists in its Company Capabilities "brain and mind control." Satellite franchises were incorporated in Texas and California, and there were regional representatives throughout the US.
DISCLAIMER
NEW DOCUMENT: MANKIND RESEARCH UNLIMITED
INCORPORATED
050 31 It STREET, N. W. WASHINGTON, D. C. 20007
PHONE (202) 333-6558
1 November 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
TO: Selected addressees
FROM: Carl Schleicher, President
Mankind Research Unlimited, Inc.
It has recently come to my attention that various rumors concerning our operation of Mankind Research Unlimited, Inc. (MRU), have surfaced, particularly in the state of California. Such rumors, however, are to be expected when an action-oriented organization engaged in pioneering and innovative research comes on the scene, and more so if such a group is headquartered in Washington, D. C.
We, in Mankind Research Unlimited, are pleased and gratified to hear of the interest me have evoked through second and third party sources, however we cannot take credit, in any manner possible, for some of the claims made about us. Therefore in order to set the record straight, I want to confirm the following:
We are not a front organization for any branch of the U.S. Government, or any other government for that matter. We are a private business organization, incorporated in the District of Columbia, pay federal taxes, and are forced to compete in our "free enterprise" economy for contracts and grants against other companies, whether they be profit or non-profit. We do not mind such competition in these areas of mankind research, but actually encourage and engender it.
We have never sold data, of any type, to the U. S. Government because the U.S. Government is not authorized to buy data - only finished research results. The U. S. Government data banks far surpass what any company or non-government organization could ever hope to offer. We have, however, obtained several modest government research contracts to make feasibility studies in certain human engineering and psychosomatic evalua-tory areas. These appear to be "firsts" for governmental-supported "human engineering" research grants.
All of our research and resources are oriented toward peaceful applications for any work Able perform, and to improving and bettering the status of mankind. In this respect, we are doing our best to carry out the promise that the authoresses, Lynn Schroeder and Sheila Ostrander, made to East European para-psychologists - to use their data and materials, and to perform parapsychology research, for peaceful purposes only. However, It is interesting to note here that unconfirmed reports have reached us, which indicate that this may not necessarily be the reality of the situation in Eastern Europe. We hope these "reports" are proven wrong or un-founded.
We have not yet paid the girls, Lynn and Sheila, a penny for their data because, as yet, we haven't received a penny in return for their material, nor did we agree to pay the girls anything at any time. If we did, however, pay out several thousand dollars to translate their material and gave priority for this effort to unemployed engineers and technical translators. Many organizations were approached to provide funds to support this venture, but none came forward. Most of the groups approached mere in the parapsychology field, including my own organiza-tion, the American Society of Dowsers - the latter turning me dozen cold and with some admonition for making such a request in the first place. I can thank, though, the stockholders and Board of Directors of my parent company, Systems Consultants, Inc., for being the only ones with foresight enough to advance the necessary funds, and faith no strings attached to enable this material to be translated. Since our organization, Mankind Research Unlimited, was founded and set-up in a proper business manner, we are doing our best to keep it that way. With your held, we hope to keep our image as untarnished as possible, and of the highest esteem from the ethical and moral standpoint. Your dissemination of the contents of this letter would be extremely helpful in this regard.
I still feel that some of you may be of the opinion that ice should, nevertheless, pay the girls, Sheila and Lynn, some sort of honora-rium, etc., for their data and trouble. I wholeheartedly agree, and this will be done as soon as we derive either a return from their data, or we bring ourselves in the "black", whichever is sooner. If June 1973 is not soon enough for this, I will then, at that time, turn over some of the fees to them that I personally have received from presentations made to various groups. If this is not satisfactory, I still then try to meet whatever obligation the girls feel is satisfactory. As yet, they have made known to me no such request or obligation. This certainly speaks well for them, and I would like to think it may be due to their under-standing of the difficulty it takes to start a business in these high-risk areas.
For many months I have heard the comment made, 'fishy doesn't our government support research in parapsychology areas, as they do in Eastern Europe?" Acting on this message, we in MRU were inspired to attempt to inquire into this. We have found that the government can, and will, support research in these areas, if such research is properly communicated to them, provides a beneficial use of tax-payers' funds, and is conducted by responsible organizations. MRU stands ready to assist any other group to obtain funds for their programs, should they so request it from us. We have found that there are opportunities available, more than we can ever hope to handle ourselves. As a last comment, it is surprising to note that in all of our endeavors to date, the only rumors or gossip we have thus far, heard have emanated from some fell within the parapsychology community, and not at all from government or the orthodox scientific sources, as one might expect.
I hope this memorandum serves to set the record straight, and that all of you can join us in many of the pending mutual research endeavors. Most of these are designed to focus on, and help further develop and apply, the works of some of the heretofore maligned or un-appreciated "frontiers of science" researchers and pioneers, including:
Harold S. Burr, Ph.D.
F.S.C. Northrop, Ph.D.
Leonard J. Ravitz, M.D.
Wilhelm Reich, Ph.D.
R. B. Amber, D.C.
H. Flotoyama, Ph.D.
Oscar Brunler, Ph.D.
Galen HieTonymus
Gen. Henry M. Gross
Verne Cameron
John Shelley
Ambrose and Olga Woorrall, Ph.D.
Harold Sherman
Townsend Brows
R. Abrams, M. D.
Ruth Drone
Carey Reams, D.N.
Buckminster Fuller
Nikola Tesla, D.Sc.
Yogi Bhajan
Henry and John Foray
K. Raudive, Ph.D.
Ingo Swann S. W.Tromp, Ph.D.
L. L. Vasiliev, Ph.D.
Karl von Reichenbach, Ph.D.
Walter Russell, Ph.D.
Gopi Krishna
Gustaf Stromberg
Jose Silva
Edgar Cayce
Cleve Backster:
Sincerely yours, Carl Schleicher
NEW DOCUMENT
SYSTEMS CONSULTANT INC
M EMORANDUM
25 September 1972
TO: D. Stevens
FROM: B. Zimmerman
SUBJECT: CONTAC Publications
REFERENCE:
(a) Enclosure (1)
(b) (b) Enclosure (2)
Mr. Carl Schleicher is signed for documents listed on Enclosure (1) with the TIC COMTAC Library. The following documents have been sighted and are in our security system.
2486 Secret Electronic Warfare (U) Ned 33 (C) 9 February 1970
2636 Secret Anti-Ship Missile Defense (U) NWP-31 12 March 1969
2647 Confidential Mission and Characteristics of U.S. Navy Ships and
Aircraft (U) SWIG 11-20 (U)
4001 Confidential Logistic Reference Data (U) NWP 11-21 (E)
Document 1671 Confidential Anti-Air Warfare (32) NWP 32 did September 1967, has been returned which is shown on enclosure (2). If Mr. Schleicher has another original of this document, I have not found it in our log book.
Mr. Schleicher, to the best of my knowledge, has not found documents JNAP 128 (C) (superseded) and NWP 22 (B) which are reclassified mud not under my supervision. At the time Mr. Schleicher finds these documents, I will contact IPMC and arrange to have you sign for all accountable documents that you have a need for.
B. Zimmerman
cc: C. Schleicher
NEW DOCUMENT
DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY
NAVAL MATERIAL COMMAND SUPPORT ACTIVITY
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20360
19 SEP 1972
TO: Carl Schliecher
From: Naval Material Command COGNAC Custodian (NMCSA 55T1)
Subj: COGNAC Publications; custody of
Ref: (a) NA~M4TIMST 5511.7B of 30APR71
1. This office has record of your holding the following COGNAC publications:
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2. In the event of discrepancies, please note them so we can contact you concerning them. If any of your publications have been superseded or have out standing changes it will be indicated next to the publication above.
These publications are out of date. Please retire the superseded publication and obtain a current One. If changes are indicated, they should be picked up from this office as soon as possible.
3. In accordance with reference (a, the normal "check out" period for publications is two (2) weeks. Since that period has elapsed, please sign the endorsement below and forward it to NMOSA 55T as soon as possible.
N.K. KIPPER
FIRST ENDORSEMENT
From: To: NMCSA 55T Subj: COGNAC Publications; custody of
1. I have the above listed publications under my custody and will return
them to Room 682, Crystal Plaza Building 6 to clear mar signature when I no
I have personally received from the sender the material, including enclosures and attachments, as indicated above. I assume full responsibility for the safe handling, storage and transmittal elsewhere of this material in full accordance with Department of Defense regulations governing classified material.
MRU began with the simple question, why isn't the US funding psi research like the Russians?
THE PARANORMAL POWER
In 1973, the international expose PSYCHIC DISCOVERIES BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN by Sheila Ostrander & Lynn Schroeder became a best-seller. Former Naval Intelligence Officer, Dr. Carl Schleicher actively wondered why the U.S. had no comparable program in psychotronics, where esoterics meets science. He resolved to create one, recruited authors Ostrander & Schroeder to turn over their untranslated data, and began collecting researchers and creating experimental protocols. Thus, in 1973, Mankind Research Unlimited (MRU) in Washington D.C. was born as a private company, seeking government and corporate contracts.
The irony of this Cold War era, is that the Soviets thought we were using psychic spies, so they began their program, which in turn sparked actual US interest, based on their claims of success. Soviet interest in psi was piqued in February 1960 by a story in the French magazine Science et Vie (Science and Life) entitled "The Secrets of the Nautilus." It claimed that the US government secretly used telepaths to communicate with the first nuclear submarine, the Nautilus, while it was under the Arctic ice pack. This telepathy project allegedly involved President Eisenhower, the Navy, the Air Force, Westinghouse, General Electric, Bell Laboratories and the Rand Corporation.
Communicating with submarines is difficult as radio waves do not penetrate to the depths of the ocean. Extremely low frequency (ELF) waves are used to signal the submarine to come to the surface to receive a message. These super-long waves penetrate almost anything including water but carry little information. If telepathy could work it would be a perfect method of communicating with submerged submarines. The story was probably a propaganda hoax but the Soviets were spurred into action.
The Cold War among psychic spies is recounted in James Mills' book THE POWER (1990), which is loosely based on MRU's principle spyentist, "KT," a longterm advisor to Dr. Schleicher and Joint Chiefs of Staff. The fictional Jack Hammond is a scientific intelligence officer for the Monday Afternoon Group, America's top secret paranormal research unit, employing occult forces for intelligence and military objectives. As Mills notes, "The most terrifying weapon lies in the darkest regions beyond the human mind."
Blue Sky research became of interest to both the government and private sector. It spread from R&D thinktanks into the open-minded counterculture then to the mainstream. Along the way, these revolutionary ideas became the obsession of spooks, spyentists, spycologists, psychedelic physicists and a whole host of fringe characters and psychics. Psychotronic researchers broke through the Iron Curtain and brought their discoveries to the West. Many world-class scientists and engineers passed through the threshold of MRU. BLUE SKY R&D: Researching the Wild Blue Yonder Technovelties - Inventing the Impossible
Blue sky projects that begin as implausible can produce incremental advances that eventually result in applied technologies, even if it takes decades. It is bottom-up versus top-down research. Bottom-up means exploring from the known to the unknown, seeing if there are any serendipitous opportunities that emerge. By its nature, bottom-up work is unpredictable, based in some kind of intuition.
Top-down means problem directed, oriented to solving a problem. The reality dimension, how realistic the project is, shows up independently for either. Some bottom-up projects are highly realistic, other top-down projects are somewhat unrealistic. No one knows in advance which research directions will deliver.
We now take for granted many once-magical technologies even better than those in sci-fi space operas that emerged from the inspiration of the "Star Trek philosophy." It became Dr. Schleicher's policy not to dismiss any outlandish idea for fear of missing some breakthrough -- the "good stuff." That led to a wide scope of blue sky investigation.
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), founded in 1958 when the Soviets launched Sputnik, is the Pentagon's autonomous Blue Sky agency. But DARPA itself is a small bureaucracy which doesn't own any labs. All work is outsourced from the director to program managers to specialists -- winning contractors and subcontractors. DARPA insiders actually claim the best program managers are science fiction writers.
Bridging the power of belief and technology, they accept that pushing the boundaries hard enough implies failing a good portion of the time. Half of DARPA's projects are classified. Such projects are still conducted behind closed doors by DARPA, whose "holy grail" is decoding the the brain to build a brain-computer interface. Currently, DARPA is working hard to crack the brain's neural code and develop "haptic interface" for sustaining and augmenting human performance.
Many dark chapters in brainwashing and mind control have been written since Tavistock Institute of Human Relations began its massive social engineering program after WWII and teamed with CIA to deploy nefarious experimental programs, such as MK Ultra. There is a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Psychic Center and the NSA (National Security Agency) studies parapsychology, that branch of psychology that deals with the investigation of such psychic phenomena as telepathy, clairvoyance, extrasensory perception, and psychokinesis. They also did experiments where the mind of one person controlled the bodies of others.
The Dark Side
One project led by Dr. Peter G. Bourne, aimed at creating a psychocybernetic "cyborg" or remotely controlled assassin as depicted in the classic "Manchurian Candidate," "Telephon," and the Jason Bourne series. Controllers pull the post-hypnotic trigger and the subject commits a murder with no memory of the incident. Some of these CIA mind control projects used the public as unwitting guinea pigs exposed to drugs, infectious agents and toxic psychiatry. Many projects became public during 1975 Congressional investigation by the Church Committee. Surrepetitious research continued, farmed out to subcontractors who were not accountable under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
In the 1970's, clandestine programs were conducted at Standford Research Institute (SRI) in Remote Viewing. In the 1980s, the Army applied it militarily in the New Earth Battalion, ("Be all that you can be"), subject of the 2009 movie, "Men Who Stare At Goats." Likewise Special Forces, such as Navy Seals, began using paranormal ESP training for rapid intuitive decision-making in the field, and more. One of Dr. Schleicher's earliest experiments involved dowsing -- not for 'witching' a water well, but to find and trace Vietcong tunnels and tunnel rats.
Promising Potential Promising Potential
Astronaut Edgard Mitchell, who did his own telepathy experiment from the dark side of the Moon, founded the Institute of Noetic Science (IONS) in 1973. It explores different ways of "knowing," including spiritual practices and exploration of transformative relationships. IONS prominent role in Dan Brown's 2009 best-seller, THE LOST SYMBOL, is fixing the meaning of 'noetic science' in the public imagination. The Esalan Physics Consciousness Group was founded at the same time by fellow scientists Jack Sarfatti, Nick Herbert, Saul-Paul Sirag, and Fred Alan Wolf, to investigate The Fringe by studying frontier science subjects such as time travel, consciousness after death, and ESP.
MRU alumni, Uri Geller with his ESP and spoonbending parlour tricks captured the public imagination and led to crazes in firewalking and other demonstrations of extraordinary human potential. Few in the public understood the spectrum of psychotronics or noetics, but the old mechanical model of the mindbody relationship died and a new model based in psi, mind-body healing and subtle energies emerged aimed at developing innate human potentials and creative capacity. Boundaries between inner and outer experience collapsed.
The new consciousness paradigm opened our culture to the holistic world of complementary medicine, the human potential movement and the idea that we, too, could participate directly in the mysteries of nature and Cosmos. The premise was that the strangest phenomena have the most to teach us about science and ourselves. New interdisciplinary specialties in parapsychology, biophysics, accelerated learning and alternative medicine emerged. MRU was at the forefront of this cultural revolution, which promised transformational breakthroughs in personal and collective consciousness, integral healing and a new worldview. The fascinating history of early psi research is summarized by Jeffrey Mishlove in his classic The Roots of Consciousness, and in this site at http://mankindresearchunlimited.iwarp.com/whats_new_16.html
Related Literature Many MRU associates went on to produce early classics in paranormal literature, such as Dr. Stanley Krippner, who included work by other MRU scientists in his ground-breaking books:
Galaxies of Life: The Human Aura in Acupuncture and Kirlian Photography (with Daniel Rubin). Gordon & Breach, 1973.
Dream Telepathy: Experiments in Nocturnal Extrasensory Perception (with Montague Ullman, M.D. and Allan Vaughan). 1973.
The Kirlian Aura: Photographing the Galaxies of Life (with Daniel Rubin). Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1974.
The Energies of Consciousness: Explorations in Acupuncture, Auras, and Kirlian Photography (with Daniel Rubin). New York: Gordon & Breach, 1975.
Future Science: Life Energies and the Physics of Paranormal Phenomena (with John White). Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1977.
Such work continues in the USPA, ISSSEEM, IONS and Quantum Dream, Inc.
PSYCHOTRONICS:
Czech term for “parapsychology” (excluding the study of survival), but embracing certain phenomena that are not now generally accepted as parapsychological. According to (the late) Larissa Vilenskaya (1983, p. 107), the term was first proposed with the analogy of “bionics” in mind, to refer to “the field dealing with the construction of devices capable of enhancing and/or reproducing certain psi phenomena (such as psychokinesis in the case of ‘psychotronic generators’ developed by Robert Pavlita) and later embraced some other phenomena.” [Dale & White, 1977]
The science and discipline of how life functions; includes the study of how technology interacts with the human mind, spirit, and body; science, mathematics, philosophy, metaphysics, and esoteric studies are united through the study of psychotronics; it would also include other realities and how we interface with other dimensions of existence; psychotronic devices use radionic tuning to transmit brain waves and are used as mind. The first Psychotronic Conference was held in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in June of 1973.
Psychic Discoveries from Russia with love to MRU "The strangest phenomena teach us the most about science and ourselves." How it all started - in Russia
Scientists in pre-Revolutionary [Russia] were studying the area of parapsychology as did later such Soviet scientists as V.M. Bekhterev, A.G. Ivanov-Smolensky and B.B. Kazhinsky in the twenties and thirties. In 1922, a commission composed of psychologists, medical hypnotists, physiologists, and physicists worked on parapsychology problems at the Institute for Brain Research in Petrograd (Leningrad).
Work flourished throughout the thirties with research being reported in the literature in 1934, 1936, and 1937. After 1937 further experiments in the field of parapsychology were forbidden. During Stalin's time, any attempt to study paranormal phenomena might have been interpreted as a deliberate attempt to undermine the doctrines of materialism. So stated the 1972 DIA report Controlled Offensive Behavior - USSR (Appendix 1, page 22)
The Defense Intelligence Agency are the military intelligence agency of the US Department of Defense. Part of the military, mainly army, they carry out intelligence work for the Pentagon. According to an official CIA paper written by Gerald K. Haines, the historian of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO):
There is a DIA Psychic Center and the NSA (National Security Agency) studies parapsychology, that branch of psychology that deals with the investigation of such psychic phenomena as clairvoyance, extrasensory perception, and telepathy.
In 1960 the Stalinist taboo that prohibited research into the paranormal was lifted and the KGB and GRU (Soviet military intelligence) began a scientific exploration of the weapons potential of psychic energy.
Soviet interest in psi was reawakened in February 1960 by a story which appeared in French magazine Science et Vie (Science and Life).
The story was entitled "The Secrets of the Nautilus" and it claimed that the US government had secretly used telepaths to communicate with the first nuclear submarine ever constructed, the Nautilus, while it was under the Arctic ice pack. This telepathy project involved, according to the article, President Eisenhower, the Navy, the Air Force, Westinghouse, General Electric, Bell Laboratories and the Rand Corporation. Communicating with submarines is difficult as radio waves do not penetrate to the depths of the ocean. [this problem was subsequently solved with HAARP technology].
Extremely low frequency (ELF) waves are used to signal the submarine to come to the surface to receive a message - these super-long waves penetrate almost anything including water but carry little information - so if telepathy could work it would be a perfect method of communicating with submarines while still submerged. The story was almost certainly a hoax but the Soviets were spurred into action, according to the DIA:
Ship-to-shore telepathy, according to the French, blipped along nicely even when the Nautilus was far under water.
˜Is telepathy a new secret weapon? Will ESP be the deciding factor in future warfare? Has the American military learned the secrets of mind power?
In Leningrad the Nautilus reports went off like a depth charge in the mind of L.L. Vasilev. In April of 1960, Doctor Vasilev, while addressing a group of top Soviet scientists stated:
"We carried out extensive and until now completely unreported investigations under the Stalin regime. Today the American Navy is testing telepathy on their atomic submarines. Soviet scientists conducted a great many successful telepathy tests over a quarter of a century ago. It's urgent that we throw off our prejudices. We must again plunge into the exploration of this vital field."
[Appendix 1, page 24.]
From 1922 to 1959, this [negative] attitude [to parapsychology] gradually changed. Official recognition of parapsychology as a legitimate science was prompted to a considerable extent by the Party's recognition of other discipline.. . In 1959 Professor L.L. Vasilev published his "Mysterious Phenomena of the Human Psyche" followed in 1962 by his "Experiments in Mental Suggestion"... the possible military implications were apparently overlooked in the West. [Appendix 2, page 15.]
Groups of scientists at many Soviet research institutes began to investigate and later harness psychic energy. The aim of this research was to produce deadly new weapons that could tip the balance of power during the Cold War.
The DIA again:
Soviet parapsychology research gained impetus and sophistication, growing from a single laboratory into a coordinated USSR-wide effort; laboratories were also established in Czechoslovakia. Funds for research (reported at 20 million roubles in 1973) are believed to be primarily from military sources.
This high level of support advanced Soviet research on human telepathy far beyond that of the West, and the USSR became the leader in sponsoring and participating in international parapsychology symposiums.. . [Appendix 2, page 15] ...by 1968 the Soviets already had:
(1) established several research centers specializing in telepathic experiments on an academic and scientific level (2) organized teams of scientists - physiologists, physicists, psychologists, mathematicians, cyberneticians, neurologists, and electronic engineers - to investigate telepathy, find out how it works, and devise means of practical application (3) conducted experiments involving long-range thought transference (Leningrad-Moscow (600km); Moscow-Tomsk (4000km)
[Appendix 2, page 18.] ...Professor Vasilev was given state funds to establish at the University appropriately equipped laboratories for the study of telepathy... Following the example of Leningrad, other cities, including Moscow, Kiev, Novosibirsk and Kharkov, established similar laboratories and research centers, at which not only the phenomena described in world literature were examined, but a study was made of parapsychic features displayed by Soviet citizens.
[Appendix 1, page 23.]
Although the US Navy subsequently denied the reports of telepathic testing on atomic submarines, the Soviet hierarchy apparently heeded Doctor Vasilev's advice and gave support, both moral and financial, to his dynamic view that: "The discovery of the energy underlying telepathic communication will be equivalent to the discovery of atomic energy."
...In 1963, Doctor Vasilev claimed to have conducted successful long-distance telepathic experiments between Leningrad and Sevastopol, a distance of 1200 miles, with the aid of an ultra-short- wave (UHF) radio transmitter. As a result, Doctor Vasilev was convinced that his experiments, and those he conducted jointly with the Moscow-based Bekhterev Brain Institute, offered scientific proof of telepathic communications. His next goal was to identify the nature of brain energy that produces it...
The so-called Father of Soviet Rocketry, K.E. Tsiolkovsky, stated that: "In the coming era of space flights, telepathic abilities are necessary. While the space rocket must bring men toward knowledge of the grand secrets in the universe, the study of psychic phenomena can lead us toward knowledge of the mysteries of the human mind. It is precisely the solution of this secret which promises the greatest achievements."
There are reports that the Soviets are training their cosmonauts in telepathy to back up their electronic equipment while in outer space. One of these back-up schemes is known to involve coded telepathic messages. This method was previously demonstrated in March 1967, when a coded telepathic message was flashed from Moscow to Leningrad.
The involvement of astronauts or cosmonauts in telepathy experiments is not necessarily unprecedented. In February 1971, during the Apollo 14 flight to the moon, astronaut Edgar Mitchell made 150 separate attempts to project his thoughts from inside the space capsule back to an individual on earth. [Appendix 1, pages 25-26.]
In 1967, the Soviet Maritime News reported, "Cosmonauts when in orbit, seem to be able to communicate telepathically more easily with each other than on Earth. A psi (short for psychic faculty) training system has been incorporated in the cosmonaut training program."
Some informal reports indicate that the Soviets are working on psi systems for space use, involving not just telepathy, but precognition.
[Appendix 1, page 33.] There are numerous reports on Soviet applications of clairvoyance, hypnotism, dowsing etc. in military operations. In the case of dowsing, this is also not unprecedented, since US forces have employed dowsing in Vietnam for locating enemy tunnels and caches.
[Appendix 1, page 26.]
The Soviet Union is well aware of the benefits and applications of parapsychology research. In 1963, a Kremlin edict apparently gave top priority to biological research, which in Russia includes parapsychology. The major impetus behind the Soviet drive to harness the possible capabilities of telepathic communication, telekinetics, and bionics is said to come from the Soviet military and the KGB.
Today [1972] it is reported that the USSR has twenty or more centers for the study of parapsychological phenomena, with an annual budget estimated in 1967 at over 12 million roubles (13 million dollars) and reported to be as high as 21 million dollars.
[Appendix 1, page 24.]
In the early 1960s, Yuri Andropov, head of the KGB from 1967 to 1982 and President of the USSR from 1983 to 1984, issued the command to implement a psychotronic- warfare programme in order to develop a new form of strategic weapons system to augment nuclear weapons.
According to Soviet journalist, writing in Young Guard magazine, in 1990, Emil Bachurin, former KGB Major General Oleg Kalugin, head of foreign counterintelligence for the Soviet Union in the 1970s, told him that Yuri Andropov had been especially upset about several psi-weapons centres he maintained were located in Canada. "Canadian research must be surpassed," he ordered.
Bachurin's sources also revealed that after the war the Soviets had scooped up masses of Nazi occult research, including some by the notorious Dr. Mengele at the Dachau concentration camp. Building on these horrible experiments had sped Soviet success in developing psi weapons, they told him. V. Scheglov, a journalist for Yaroslavl, reported in 1993 that psi weapons had been developed and used on the civilian populations of not only the USSR but the West, again and again. The DIA thought they were capable of it:
Doctor Y.A. Kholodov has investigated the effects of a constant magnetic field on rabbits. Whole-body exposures to fields between 30 and 2000 oersteds resulted in nonspecific changes in the [animals'] electroencephalogra ms [EEGs]... natural and artificial fields in man's environment may have an influence on health and behavior via the nervous system and hypothalamus.
[Appendix 2, page11.]
In a 1992 ABC Television documentary shown in America, and in an earlier 1990 interview, for Young Guard Magazine, Major General Kalugin made more startling revelations about the Soviet Union's investigation into harnessing psychic energy in order to produce exotic weapons with which the West was unfamiliar, He said:
They started to explore the mysterious powers of certain people and to simulate generators of this same nature in order to produce a similar effect. Russian scientists succeeded in developing generators of psychic force. Yuri Andropov issued personal orders to push full speed ahead with psychic warfare.
Andropov's directive also urged scientists to forget being squeamish about injuring or killing research subjects in the race to achieve their goal. Funding from the Military-Industrial Commission and the KGB was estimated at 500 million roubles.
The amount may be an underestimate; in Martin Ebon's 1983 book, Psychic Warfare: Threat or Illusion? he claims that congressional sources stated the USSR psychotronic warfare research programme was funded to the tune of 500 million dollars per year.
What's New with My Subject? Schleicher founded MRU in response to learning of Soviet psychotronic investigations from Ostrander and Schroeder. “. . .Acting on this message, we in MRU were inspired to attempt to inquire into this. We have found that the government can, and will, support research in these areas, if such research is properly communicated to them, provides a beneficial use of tax-payers' funds, and is conducted by responsible organizations. MRU stands ready to assist any other group to obtain funds for their programs, should they so request it from us.”
Carl said he wanted to further and develop the works of suppressed, maligned or unappreciated researchers on the "frontiers of science", such as Tesla, Reich, Hieronymus, and Buckminster Fuller. Much of this research relates to the energetic nature of deep Reality and the electromagnetic field body of the human being.
MRU’s own brochure claimed to validate foreign research, define methodology, prepare assessments and forecasts, define environmental systems, identify educational and user requirements and tasking areas, including the following: superlearning, man-machine cybernetic interactions, special sensory biophysical activities, brain and mind control, telepathic communications or bioinformation transceiving, bioluminescent and bioenergetic emissions, effects of altered states of consciousness on the human psyche, improvement of human performance via bio-feedback techniques, innovative therapy/prosthetic/diagnostic techniques, environmental effects upon biological (human) systems, infrasonic and ultrasonic effects upon biological systems, geopathogenic factors which induce illness.
MRU explored the interaction of mind and body, or energy and matter. Among the first groups to investigate the human energy body, MRU brought together many of the leading scientists and experimenters in the multidisciplinary field of biocommunications which includes the sciences of bionics, biophysics, psychophysics, psychology, physiology, neuropsychiatry, cybernetics and systems engineering. MRU recruited notables such as Eldon Byrd, Christopher Bird, ESP expert hypnotist Milan Ryzl, and remote viewer Ingo Swann, among others.
PARAPHYSICS
In the early 1970s, physicist Richard Alan Miller also worked for Schleicher under the Mankind Research Unlimited umbrella, closing the gap between the physical and the metaphysical. Physicist Miller was the Northwest Regional Director of MRU. His task was looking at anomalous phenomena, such as Kirlian photography, bioluminescence, psychotronics, biofeedback, electrophotography, distance healing, acupuncture and psychic surgery to determine if there was merit for future strategic studies or product development. They also tried to create an MRU biofeedback package with Seattle manufacturer J&J Enterprises, but that deal never consummated.
According to Stan Krippner and Daniel Rubin's (1972) Galaxies of Life, researchers are divided in their evaluation of the Kirlian phenomena. Some call the manifestation "corona discharge," believing that the technique only reveals commonplace electrical occurrences while others conceive of radiation field photography as revealing the "bioplasma body" or aura. According to Viktor Adamenko, a Russian scientist (c 1970s), the discharge is the cold emission of electrons, though it has been romanticized by new age interpretations.
THE WILD BLUE YONDER
Scientific progress is achieved not only by linear accumulation of knowledge but also by nonlinear paradigm shifts. These shifts are often forced by anomalous findings that cannot be incorporated in accepted models. A current example comes from complementary medicine which emphasizes the fields of the energy body.
Two complementary methodological principles regulate paradigm shift: 1) Ockham’s Razor as the principle of parsimony and 2) Plato’s Life Boat as the principle of the necessity to ‘save the appearances’ and thus incorporate conflicting phenomenological data into extant theories. We have to review empirical data which are in conflict with some presuppositions of accepted mainstream science: Clinical and experimental effects of prayer and healing intention, affirmations, the law of attraction were studied. MRU collected data on telepathy, psychokinesis experiments, precognition, and anecdotal reports of macro-psychokinesis.
Collectively, this subject matter is called BLUE SKY RESEARCH. The now well-documented phenomena are anomalies that challenge some widely held beliefs in mainstream science. Scientists often fear that by accepting the reality of these phenomena they also have to subscribe to world-models invoking ontological dualism or idealism. We suggest accepting the phenomena as real, but without questionable ontologies commonly associated with them.
ROLL AWAY THE STONE
Charles Stone began working for Carl (1987-1992), as Deputy Director of MRF seven years after he was publically exposed in 1980 by a D.C. magazine. MRU was a front for the most advanced mind control technology at that time. Stone has an MS an microbiology and public health, but has investigated, for example, atomic cover ups, academic and judicial corruption, Tavistock Institute, the pioneer MI 6 Agency which led to MK Ultra (“Mind Kontrol”) and much more.
MRF experimented with Blood Irradiation, tried to promote Electronic Drug and Alcohol treatment, earthquake prediction technology, a German based technique for AIDS therapy using hydrogen peroxide, and alternative cures of Dr. Emanuel Revici through Bioimmunex. There was a project for using poultry waste to produce a high protein powder for food. Emphasis was on bringing all this to the attention of the Federal Government.
HEART OF STONE
Stone claims, “It is almost certain that the Unabomber was associated with a key mind control expert at Harvard when he was identified as a 16-year-old mathematical genius. It is believed that something was done to him that led to his madness. That is just one of the examples of the damage caused. Not the least of these was turning universities into huge drug and alcohol dens!”
Stone alleges, “Carl was a pretty strange man,” whose bizarre personality sabotaged his own efforts. He had file drawers full of old reports. Carl mentioned his previous lab and much bigger operation on Kalorama Rd. in D.C., but provided no details. He claimed his earlier work was as a Naval Intel Officer working on intercepts and codes in Turkey. “He was a classic Dr. Strangelove,” Stone says.
His way of dealing with people turned everybody off. He was especially bad with women. Carl was constantly sending information to people about psychotronics and being a Johnny Appleseed in that way. After Carl was exposed in 1980 he never recovered his "glory days". It does appear that he contributed to or was given credit for a number of important findings. The truth is irresolvably muddied, though he is a link in the chain of many biomedical advances and psychotechnology. Stone still feels Schleicher was attempting to move humanity forward.
MRU fostered interest in energy medicine, hypnotherapy, magnetic healing, acupuncture, radionics or radiesthesia, remote healing and viewing, EVP, and psychophysical control of internal states. The MRU researchers were pathfinders, carving broad highways through the mindscape. The cross-disciplinary synergy between physics, biology, psychiatry, religion, etc., continues to be explored, as well as the relationship of intent and belief.
MRU explored the whole spectrum of approaches from philosophy of mind and dream research, to neuropsychology, pharmacology, and molecular dynamics, to neural networks, phenomenological accounts, and even the quantum physics of reality. The aim is to lay a sound scientific foundation for future research while also reaching consensus that the most phenomenal experiences lead us to the cutting edge of human discovery.
THE HOLOGRAPHIC CONCEPT OF REALITY MRU: NW REGIONAL DIRECTOR (1973-1974)
In 1973, what has come to be known as the Pribram-Bohm Holographic Model was non-existent. But this Seattle think-tank, lead by Miller and Burt Webb were able to put together the work of Northrup and Burr on the electromagnetic nature of the human being with Gabor's work on holograms and come up with a new notion. Pribram had postulated 2-dimensional interference patterns, physical holograms, as underlying all thinking. The holographic component, for him, represented the associative mechanisms and contributed to memory retrieval and storage and problem-solving.
However, Miller, Webb and Dickson boldly asserted that the holographic metaphor extends to n-dimensions and therefore constitutes a fundamental description of the universe and our electromagnetic embedding within that greater field. Thus was born the "Holographic Concept of Reality" in 1973. This paper was presented at the 1st Psychotronic Conference in Prague in 1973, and later published by Gordon & Breach in 1975, and again in 1979 in Psychoenergetic Systems: the Interaction of Consciousness, Energy and Matter, edited by Stanley Krippner.
Other notable contributors to this volume included Michael A. Persinger, (now famous for his neuromagnetgic simulations of alien abduction often demonstrated on TLC and the Discovery Channel), John Curtis Gowan (taxonomies of states of consciousness from Trance, Art and Creativity; Development of the Psychedelic Individual), Robert O. Becker (effects of electromagnetism on physical systems), Theodor Barber, David Bresler, S. D. Kirlian, and Thelma Moss.
Picking up on the work of Pribram independently, David Bohm published his explication of the holomovement in his classic text Wholeness and the Implicate Order and the Pribram-Bohm theory was born and embraced widely as a foundation of the new sciences from physics to neuropsychology. This theory was fundamental to a deep understanding of the later emerging Chaos theory and Complexity, the dynamics of complex interrelated systems.
Rick took a primitive remote terminal to the Omniversal Symposium. He linked up to the Project Parafile database in Seattle, took questions from the audience and read off the answers returned by the database. This was the primitive forerunner of what have become laptop computers, but this terminal was briefcase-sized.
Miller and Webb followed up their ground-breaking paper with "Embryonic Holography," which was also presented at the Omniversal Symposium at California State College at Sonoma, hosted by Dr. Stanley Krippner, September 29, 1973. To our knowledge, this is the first paper to address the quantum biological properties of human beings--the first illustrations of the sources of quantum mindbody. Dropping a level of observation below quantum biochemistry and conventional biophysics, they proposed that a biohologram determines the development of the human embryo; that we are a quantum bodymind with consciousness informing the whole process through the level of information. They postulated DNA as the possible holographic projector of the biohologram, patterning the three-dimensional electromagnetic standing and moving wave front that constitutes our psychophysical being.
This work was reprinted much later in the journal Psychedelic Monographs and Essays, Vol. 6, 1993. However, in the meantime, Miller had drawn the attention of the government in a less favorable way. He claims "Spooks" came to his business, arrested him, searched his files, and seized all work on embryonic holography, for whatever reasons they did not disclose, but we can only conjecture. Perhaps it had to do with implications of the theory such as physical regeneration of tissue, or the liquid crystal properties of body fluids. Or perhaps it had to do with his research in Allan Frey's work in the .3-3 gHz regions, which is a microwave input which allows the brain to directly receive voice transmissions. This discovery has recently resurfaced as synthetic telepathy. USPA Tapes available from http://www.psychotronics.org/shopping-audiovideopresenter.htm
Tape Number Tape Year Tape Name Author Description U-10b 1994 Use of Natural Alternate Therapies Derived from Psychotronics Activities Schleicher, Carl V-9b 1995 Natural Therapies Derived from Psychotronics Schleicher, Carl W-4a 1996 Light Therapy to Treat Degenerative Diseases Schleicher, Carl Psionics Psionics as Bioplasma by Elliptic Date: 08/06/2006
The following is an excerpt from an interview with General Vladimir Vasiliev of Russian Special Operations (Ret.) developed a method of using Psionics in martial arts, discussed on the page, www.russianmartialarts.com/articles/vladimir.html . Excuse the typestry, it's translated from Russian.
"Dr. Victor Inyushin at Kazakh University in Russia has done extensive research with the human energy field since the 1950s. Using the results of these experiments, he suggests the existence of bioplasmic energy field composed of ions, free protons and free electrons. Since this is a state distinct from the four known states of matter solid, liquid, gases and plasma (by the way Liquid Crystal Diodes fall into this new category as they are neither solid nor liquid). Inyushin suggests that the bioplasmic energy field is a fifth state of matter.
His observations showed the bioplasmic particles are constantly renewed by chemical processes in the cells and are in constant motion. There appears to be a balance of positive and negative particles within the bioplasma that is relatively stable. If there is a severe shift in this balance the healthy of the organism is affected.
In spite of the normal stability of bioplasma, Inyushin has found that a significant amount of this energy is radiated into space. Streams of bioplasmic particles which have broken away from the organism can be measured moving through the air. It is these streams or strings of the unseen human form that the practioner of the System manipulate and that in turn manipulate the opponent. Thus, we have plunged into a world of life energy fields and bioplasmic forms moving about and streaming off the body.
If we look into the literature, this is not new, people have known about this phenomenon since the dawn of time, it is just that in our time the phenomenon is being rediscovered. As this knowledge has developed, and Newtonian physics has given way to relativity, electromagnetic and particle theories, we are more and more able to see connections between scientific objective descriptions of our world and the world of subjective human experience.
So what does this energy feel like? Well, the best description Ive been given so far was from my three and a half year old son, Dominic, who said it felt like fluff when I was, err, testing it on him, he was giggling and being pushed back against a wall with the pressure.
Personally I dont expect anyone to just believe in this energy until they have experienced it for themselves, and everyone has a certain degree of ability with this energy.
My first real experience of this energy was in 1995 when I took my 5th dan blackbelt test in Ninjutsu. This test involved avoiding a sword strike to the top of my head while I was kneeling, with my eyes closed, and facing away from my Japanese Grandmaster, whos eyes were also closed (probably so he didnt stop if I didnt move!.) As he brought down the sword to my head, intending to kill me with it (mentally I hope?), the object of the test is to see if you can pick up the force of the killers intention. I passed first time, thank God, there is no trick. If you wait to hear the sword it would have already hit you, your body feels the attackers intention and your body throw you out of harms way. Why this does not work for everybody is because people consciously override the bodys reaction to escape until they reach a certain level. You must get rid of self (activity/introspection) so the body can hear the threat."
New studies and information have proven that Psi energy is capable of passing through solid objects. Scientists can only think of one possible reason. Psi is capable of shifting from a Particle to a Wave.
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Here is a list of documents in existance on Psi Energy/Bioplasma. NOTE: Do _not_ ask me how to acquire copies of these documents, I'm still looking to get my hands on most of them myself.
Inyushin, V.M. Grishchenko, V., et al, On the Biological Essence of the Kirlian Effect (Concept of Biological Plasma). Alma-Ata: Kazak State Kirov University, 1968. Russian.
Kirovorotov, V. Bio-energetical Influence on the Organism of Man in Healing Paper presented: Conference of Technical Parapsychology Section, All Union Engineering Institute, Moscow, June, 1968. Russian
Lozanov, Georgi. "Parapsychology in India" Paper presented: International Psychosomatic Week, Rome, 1967. English
(It is true that the Russians believe they are dealing with the same stuff)
"Parapsychology in the Soviet Union," Special Issie, Alexander Ivanov, trans., International Journal of Parapsychology. Vol. 7, No. 4, 1965. English.
"Psi and Physical Fields," in Research in Parapsychology, ed. W.G. Roll. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1979
Alexander, John B. "The New Mental Battlefield: 'Beam Me Up, Spock'" Military Review, Dec. 1980
beck, R. C. "Extremely Low Frequency Magnetic Fields Entrainment: A Psychotronic Warfare Possibility?" Association for Humanistic Psychology Newsletter, April, 1978
Dean, E. Douglas, "Phsyical Changes in Water By Laying On of Hands," Proceedings, International Association of Psychotronic Research, 1988
"The Communists' Psychic Edge: Is the Evil Empire Up to No Good?" U.S. News & World Report, Dec. 5, 1988
"Biogravitation and Psychotronics" in Future Science, White, J. and Krippner, S. eds. Doubleday/Anchor, 1977
Dumitrescu, I. Biological Fields. Eights Video Films. Plus complete publications at: editions Scientifiques DUBAD, BP No. 20, 59790, Ronchin, France.
Gultaiev, P. I. "Cerebral Electromagnetic Fields," International Journal of Parapsychology, No. 7, Aug. 1965
Here's a _very_ good one:
Inyushin, V. M. "Bioplasma: The Fifth State of Matter," in Future Science. es. White, J. and Krippner, S. Garden City: Doubleday/Anchor, 1981