From: mmreich@tiac.net (Michael M. Reich)
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Subject: Re: Occult Chemistry - ESP of Quarks
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For some more background on this phenomenon: in the book
"Extra-Sensory Perception of Quarks" by Dr. Stephen Phillips
(Theosophical Publishing House, Illinois, ISBN 0-8356-0227-3), Dr.
Phillips describes the experiments done in the early 20th century by
Anne Besant and Charles Leadbeater in the perception of atomic
phenomena.

Besant and Leadbeater, in the course of their experiments with
advanced meditation techniques, attempted to describe what atoms
'looked' like. The general ability to focus one's consciousness on as
small a point as desired is mentioned in the classic text on yoga and
meditation, Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. It is listed as an ability that
comes about as a result of the intense practices of concentration,
withdrawal from the normal senses, and other observances that take the
practitioner away from our mainly survival-based sense of what
'reality' is.

Besant and Leadbeater entered a heightened state of awareness in which
they could visualize the atoms of a substance placed before them and
hold them still in their consciousness - no mean feat, even in
meditation circles! - and described their appearance,  interactions,
and constituents. Their descriptions did not match the science of the
time, but Phillips, a trained physicist,  finds many astonishing
parallels between the later breakthroughs in quark theory and the
findings of B&L. 

Besant and Leadbeater observed such phenomena as the orientation of
particles in a magnetic field, positive and negative spin states, and
other phenomena, some that were not known to science at the time, some
that were suspected but not provable with the instruments of the time.
B&L were not trained scientists and did not know the supposed
scientific validity of their observations.

As a trained engineer and practitioner of meditation and yoga I was
thrilled to see that someone had actually taken the claims of advanced
yogic states and applied them to advancing the state of science. The
degree of concentration required isn't something that you can learn in
a week, or even a year - to sharpen your mind to that degree, it must
be much more than a pastime. But I think that to have even the merest
actual experience of what, to our present understanding, can only be
measured, would be well worth the effort.

On Wed, 31 Dec 1997 09:05:24 -0600, "Ronald w. Stone"
<ronalds@swbell.net> wrote:

>
>
>Stephen M. Dicke wrote:
>
>> Is anyone, other than myself, still VERY interested in "Occult
>> Chemistry" by Besant & Leadbeater and "Extra-Sensory Perception of
>> Quarks" by Dr. Phillips?  I have many ideas about these two books
>> and would like to enter into a discussion into the possibilities
>> they present for better understanding of the physical world (and
>> perhaps the general physical laws of matter and consciousness in
>> the universe as a whole).  I find these works very intriguing and
>> having a masters in electronics and being a "hobbyist" in physics
>> and chemistry, I am especially interested in some of the
>> descriptions of electrical phenomena in them.
>>
>
>In quantum mechanics there is a problem called the EPR Event. Einstein,
>Podolsky, and Rosen fiddled with the problem of observer affecting the
>observe. If you use an instrument to observe the spin direction of an
>electron in orbit, the field produced by the machine will align the spin
>direction of the observed electron. According to conservation principles
>in QM, there will be an electron in the exact opposite position in orbit
>with the exact opposite spin direction. How fast did this information
>travel? Was it instantaneous?  One or two major theories abound to
>explain this. It involves time travel. So, ESP ought to stand a fair
>chance.
>
>Later,
>Ron.
>
>