Chapter 5 - a Short Encyclopaedia of Modern Visionaries
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archived as http://www.stealthskater.com/Documents/RV_01.doc [pdf] more remote-viewing articles at http://www.stealthskater.com/PX.htm note: because important websites are frequently "here today but gone tomorrow", the following was archived from http://www.combat-diaries.co.uk/dairy18/diary18chapter_5.htm , http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/hambone/people.html on January 9, 2006. This is NOT an attempt to divert readers from the aforementioned website. Indeed, the reader should only read this back-up copy if the updated original cannot be found at the original author's site. Chapter 5 - A Short Encyclopaedia of Modern Visionaries Editor: We found this monumental document drifting through the web like the Marie Celeste. It is out-of-date, some of the links may be broken, and indeed many of the people here are sadly no longer with us. However, a few such as Jack Sarfatti, Hal Puthoff, and Ingo Swann are still firing on 100 cylinders. This collection stands as a unique research archive. The work of many of the personalities here threads through over 50 years, and each one --living or dead -- made a significant contribution to futuristic human visions. We’d like to credit this wonderful collection, but we do not have a name. Should anyone lay claim to it, let us know and we will credit author and source. We heartily congratulate those who put this together. And the World thanks them yet again. Joe K. Adams Steve Aftergood John B. Alexander Fredrick "Skip" Atwater Cleve Backster Gregory Bateson Lt. Col. Thomas E. Robert Bigelow Bearden Christopher Bird Courtney Brown Lyn Buchanan Eldon Byrd Ed Dames Ira Einhorn Werner Erhard Uri Geller Dale Graff Dr. Christopher Green Keith Harary Willis Harman Alfred Hubbard Aldous Huxley Ray Hyman C.B. Scott Jones Richard Kennett Sam Koslov Ken Kress Rima Laibow John Lilly Bruce Maccabee John Mack Edwin May Joseph McMoneagle Edgar Mitchell Robert Monroe Major David Morehouse Gordon Novel Brendan O'Regan Ron Pandolfi Sen. Clairborne Pell Michael Persinger Pat Price Andrija Puharich Harold "Hal" Puthoff Dean Radin Elizabeth Rauscher Mel Riley Laurance Rockefeller Charlie Rose Jack Sarfatti Stephan Schwartz Dr. Igor Smirnov Paul Smith Myron Stolaroff Gen. Albert Ingo Swann Stubblebine Russell Targ Charles Tart Ed Thompson Jack Verona 1 Joe K. Adams The first psychologist to lead a seminar at the Esalen Institute. Friends with Gregory Bateson. Former chairman of the psychology department at Bryn Mawr. Spent a year researching parapsychology at Stanford University. After leaving Stanford, he became a clinical psychologist and worked at the Veterans Administration hospital studying the causes of schizophrenia. He also worked with LSD at the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto under grants from the National Institute of Mental Health. This was during the time that NIHM was channeling funds for the CIA's MK-ULTRA LSD experiments. So it is safe to say that Adams was working -- directly or indirectly -- for the CIA, although I don't know if he was aware of it (most researchers weren't). Adams himself took LSD as part of these studies and suffered 2 psychotic episodes, the second of which earned him a stay in a mental hospital. (Anderson, Walter Truett, The Upstart Spring, Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1983, pg 59-62) Steve Aftergood Steven Aftergood is a senior research analyst at the Federation of American Scientists. He directs the FAS Project on Government Secrecy which works to reduce the scope of government secrecy, to accelerate the declassification of cold war documents, and to promote reform of official secrecy practices. In 1997, Mr. Aftergood was the plaintiff in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Central Intelligence Agency which successfully led to the declassification and publication of the total intelligence budget ($26.6 billion in 1997) for the first time in 50 years. Mr. Aftergood is an electrical engineer by training (B.Sc., 1977) and has published research in solid- state physics. He joined the FAS staff in 1989. He has authored or co-authored papers in Scientific American, New Scientist, Journal of Geophysical Research, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, and Issues in Science and Technology on topics including space nuclear power, atmospheric effects of launch vehicles, and government information policy. From 1992-1998, he served on the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board of the National Research Council. The Federation of American Scientists -- founded in 1945 by Manhattan Project scientists -- is a non-profit national organization of scientists and engineers concerned with issues of science and national security policy. 2 John B. Alexander Education: BGS in Sociology, University of Nebraska, 1971. MA in Education, Pepperdine University, 1975. PhD in Education, Walden University, 1980. Postgraduate work at UCLA (1990), MIT (1991), and Harvard (1993). Entered the Army as a Private in 1956 and retired as a Colonel in 1988. Commander, Army Special Forces Teams, U.S. Army, Thailand, Vietnam, 1966-69. Chief of human resources division, U.S. Army, Ft. McPherson, GA, 1977-79. Inspector general, Departmant of Army, Washinton, 1980-82. Chief of human technology, Army Intelligence Command, U.S. Army, Arlington, VA 1982-83. Manager of tech. integration, Army Materiel Command, U.S. Army, Alexandria, VA, 1983-85. Director, advanced concepts U.S.Army Lab. Command, Aldelphi, MD 1985-88. Manager, nonlethal weapons defense technology, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1988-1995 (ret). Manager, anti-material technology, Defense Initiatives Office, 1988-91. Program manager, contingency mission technology, Conventional Defense Technology. Director for science liaison, National Institute for Discovery Sciences, 1995 to present. Visiting scientist, Los Alamos, 1995 to present. Panelist, National Institute of Justice, 1994. Adj. professor, Graduate School, Union Institute, 1992 to present. U.S. delegate to NATO, advanced group aerospace R & D, 1994 to present. Col. Alexander received a National Award for Volunteerism from Pres. Ronald Reagan in 1987 and the Aerospace Laureate Award from Aviation Week in 1993 & 94. He lives in Las Vegas with his wife Victoria Lacas Alexander and 2 children. His office address is that of NIDS: 1515 E Tropicana, Suite 400, Las Vegas, NV 89119. (Who's Who in America, 1997) "Last year, Alexander organized a national conference devoted to researching 'reports of ritual abuse, Near-Death Experiences, human contacts with extraterrestrial aliens and other so-called anomalous experiences,' the Albuquerque Journal reported in March 1993. The Australian magazine Nexus reported last year that in 1971, Alexander 'was diving in the Bimini Islands looking for the lost continent of Atlantis. He was an official representative for the Silva mind-control organization and a lecturer on precataclysmic civilizations ... [and] he helped perform ESP experiments with dolphins.'"(Aftergood, Steven, "The Soft-Kill Fallacy", Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 9-10/1994, v50, n5, p40) "In The Warrior's Edge: Front-line Strategies for Victory on the Corporate Battlefield -- a 1990 book he co-authored with Maj. Richard Groller and Janet Morris -- Alexander describes himself as having 'evolved from hard-core mercenary to thanatologist.' 'As a Special Forces A-Team commander in Thailand and Vietnam, he led hundreds of mercenaries into battle,' the book explains. 'At the same time, he studied meditation in Buddhist monasteries and later engaged in technical exploration and demonstration of advanced human performance.' (Aftergood, 1994) 3 Formerly with the U.S. Army Intelligence & Security Command (INSCOM) under Gen. Albert Stubblebine, 1982-4. Reportedly, Alexander was one of Stubblebine's closest officers. Married to alien abduction researcher Victoria Lacas (now Alexander). (Porter, Tom, Government Research into ESP & Mind Control, March, 1996) "After retiring from the Army in 1988, Alexander joined the Los Alamos National Laboratories and began working with Janet Morris, the Research Director of the U.S. Global Strategy Council (USGSC), chaired by Dr Ray Cline, former Deputy Director of the CIA." "Born in New York in 1937, he spent part of his career as a Commander of Green Berets Special Forces in Vietnam, led Cambodian mercenaries behind enemy lines, and took part in a number of clandestine programs including 'Phoenix'. He currently holds the post of Director of Non-lethal Programs in the Los Alamos National Laboratories." "In 1971 while a Captain in the infantry at Schofield Barracks, Honolulu, he was diving in the Bemini Islands looking for the lost continent of Atlantis. He was an official representative for the Silva mind-control organization and a lecturer on Precataclysmic Civilisations. Alexander is also a past President and a Board member of the International Association for Near-Death Studies. With his former wife, Jan Northup, he helped Dr. C.B. Scott Jones perform ESP experiments with dolphins." ● Board member of PSI-TECH. ● "Alexander is a friend of Vice President Al Gore Jr., their relationship dating back to 1983 when Gore was in Alexander's Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)." ● "Alexander and his team have recently been working with Dr. Igor Smirnov." ● "The mysterious 'Col. Harold E. Phillips' who appears in Blum's Out There is none other than John B. Alexander." ● Aviary, codename: Penguin. (Victorian, Armen, "Non-Lethality: John B. Alexander, The Pentagon's Penguin", Lobster Magazine, 6/93) ● Supported the views of Thomas Bearden. Delivered a paper to the 1981 national convention of the U.S. Psychotronic Association. (McRae, Ronald, Mind Wars, St. Martin's Press, 1984, p 127) "As late as the summer of 1991, [C.B. Scott] Jones and [Rima] Laibow were planning a yachting excursion together with Col. John Alexander ... to investigate anomalies in the Bahamas." (Durant, Robert J., "Will the Real Scott Jones Please Stand Up?") "I have served as chief of Advanced Human Technology for the Army Intelligence and Security Command (1982-84) and -- during the preparation of the EHP [Enhancing Human Performance] Report -- was director of the Advanced Systems Concepts Office at the U.S.