Last year I noted some research by ‘Daz’ Smith into the extent of the UK Ministry of Defence’s interest in remote viewing, a story which had broken earlier in the year:
I have been using the UK FOIA to try to release some of this information. A recent reply to one of these requests is enclosed and details branches of Defence Intelligence have a 1000 page document on remote viewing and PSI activities.
Daz has now posted an update on his ‘Cosmic Spoon’ blog regarding his FOAI request, with a PDF of the documents sent to him by the MOD freely available for download (only 33 pages though, from circa 1999). Oddly enough, it seem to have nothing to do with remote viewing. Though it’s still good fun to read through (if a little confusing with the redacted information etc), with mentions of everything from dangers of cell phone radiation/electromagnetic hazards, through to homeopathy and morphogenetic fields. There seems to be a particular emphasis on Russian research into the latter topic – I caught mention of Novosibirsk in there, and theories about morphogenetic fields obviously have their origin in the work of Alexander Gurwitsch. There’s also plenty of mentions about foreign research, and the need to translate.
Perhaps the most fun memo to read was the one I’ve listed below, on the topic of ‘superimposed low-frequency patterns’ in broadcasts. It’s enough for a conspiracy theorist to run with for a year, though the memo itself proves nothing – it could be just some guy’s personal paranoid theory (although that ‘guy’ seems to have been an advisor to the MoD). For US readers, Neighbours is an Australian television ‘soap’ series, which enjoyed great success in the UK:
The soap Neighbours has for years had a feel-good frequency (7.8 Hz) superimposed on the sound channel. An electrically sensitive patient spotted it and told me…it may be a feature of —- ‘dubbing’ equipment or it may be that the company is a part of Richard (sic) Murdoch’s empire and he has the technology ‘in house'”. That was as far as I could get in the —- Commercial Library with tracing the company tentacles.
And you thought Kylie Minogue was so sweet and innocent…
