The Stargate Conundrum the U.S
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archived as http://www.stealthskater.com/Documents/Coppens_13.doc [pdf] more related articles at http://www.stealthskater.com/PX.htm#RV note: because important websites are frequently "here today but gone tomorrow", the following was archived from http://www.philipcoppens.com/starconundrum_1.html on April 14, 2008. 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. The Stargate Conundrum the U.S. Government’s secret pursuit of the psychic drug by Philip Coppens (http://www.philipcoppens.com/index.html ) Chapter 1 -- A Man for All Psychics Andrija Puharich. Not an every-day American name. Not an everyday person. The New Age guru turned fugitive and in 2002 convicted for murder Ira Einhorn observed that he had “practically lived in mind-link with Andrija for 6 years” and described his former mentor as “the great psychic circus manager of this century.” He is indeed regarded as the “father of the American New Age movement”. Puharich was born in 1918 in Chicago from Yugoslavian parents. Graduating from medical school at Northwestern University in 1947, his interest was immediately captured by the paranormal. Particular emphasis was placed upon the possibility to enhance (in some way or another) the innate psychic abilities that many (if not all of us) seemed to possess. Puharich‟s public career began in the late 1950s when he wrote 2 books: The Sacred Mushroom and Beyond Telepathy. He then disappeared into the background again until the early 1970s when he travelled to Israel and returned to the U.S. with Uri Geller -- the spoon-bending psychic that would soon create so much controversy. Behind this public life lay a private life which Steven Levy described as “much of his life is clouded in a murkiness he has come to wear like some exquisite garment.” Whereas the Geller episode has captured the imagination of most and has made Puharich a known name, it was Beyond Telepathy that was considered to be a landmark publication. Ira Einhorn thought it was “the book”. It followed Einhorn‟s idea that there was a relationship between information and energy. Or as Einhorn later stated: “to understand the laws that govern the non-physical.” Or: the laws that govern another dimension. What had received less attention was Puharich‟s publication The Sacred Mushroom, even though the book seems to be at the origin of all of his later material. Its subtitle carried the intriguing word “doorway”: “doorway to eternity”. How similar to “stargate”. The book tackles seemingly random events occurring during the time when Puharich was doing remote-viewing as a “private initiative with government support” (i.e., his time when he ran the "Round Table Foundation" which had been instrumental for the “Council of Nine” affair). 1 The book stated that 2 “remote-viewers” – though not identified by this new name but rather by the old label of “psychics” – (particularly Harry Stone) frequently went into a spontaneous trance during which he talked largely in riddles and performing motions that seemed to be rituals. From this no doubt bizarre spectacle, Puharich was able to deduce that Stone was “remembering” a previous incarnation, when he was a high priest in Egypt at the time of the building of the pyramids. Stone was stressing to Puharich the importance of a cult of a mushroom, the use of which was ritualized, allowing access to what we would term the Realm of the Lords – another dimension, very similar to the dimension in which the Nine were supposed to be sojourning. Puharich stated that some chemical in mushrooms (as was known at that time) was a hallucinogenic substance. This is all nice and fine. But hallucinogenics were and are labeled as inducing visions that were “not real”. They were and are not supposed to take us into a different dimension, but merely into a strange series of images concocted by the brain. Within the framework of our “hyper-dimension”, we were talking here about a “real dimension”. So 2 linked questions rose to the forefront. Were the ancient Egyptians and Puharich mistaken by the visions of the mushroom? Did they believe it somehow allowed entry into a strange but real realm, rather than understanding (as present science suggested) that with the use of hallucinogenics, the brain merely went weird and in overdrive, but not “into” anything resembling another dimension? Question number two: Did the ancients and Puharich realize that the mushroom contained some magical chemical that opened the door for the mind to enter into another dimension? Was this chemical a “stargate”? If so, how had Puharich come to this conclusion? Beneath the published record lay a personal account -- one which only after his death was revealed by his second wife who wrote a biography which in the end was only ever published electronically. Puharich‟s story starts at university where he developed the “Theory of Nerve Conduction”. In the words of Terry Milner: “The theory proposed that the neuron units radiate and receive waves of energy which he calculated to be in the ultra-shortwave bands below infrared and above the radar spectrum. Therefore the basic nerve units (neurons) are a certain type of radio receiver-transmitter.” Puharich‟s theory was well received by leading scientists including one Jose Delgado, later to become one of the pioneers for the CIA in implanting electronic tools in animal brains to influence their behavior. But Puharich‟s aim was to become a doctor even though during his internship, he carried out research into digatoid drugs. His sponsor was Sandoz Chemical Works -- the pharmaceutical company that had created LSD – at a time when the World had not yet fallen for its hallucinogenic properties. Even though a brilliant career would lay ahead for Puharich if only he were to apply himself, his main interest lay elsewhere. All his time was devoted to the human brain and beyond. In the mid 1940s, he wrote: “I would venture to say that nobody really knows another‟s mind thoroughly. And I would further venture that very few people really know their own mind. It would certainly be a great step forward for many of us if we could sit down and untangle the jungle that is our mind, and then understand those processes by which we judge and study others. If I could do a good job of a task like this -- understanding the nature of man‟s consciousness -- I would feel that I had passed a great milestone in my education.” Puharich was interested in ESP (ExtraSensory Perception) and was aware of the pioneering work of J.B. Rhine -- one of the leading inter bellum parapsychologists. 2 Puharich then traded in his military call-up for the first of a long series of funds. He found a sponsor who paid him a weekly wage. In return, Puharich would try to unravel the mystery of ESP. According to Puharich, ESP was nothing more than an extension of his previous theory on nerve conduction. The brain and the nervous system were linked to cells and instructions (energy) flowed between them. “The point that I am trying to establish is that the brain is an area wherein is localized the cell energy of the body. I shall label this cell energy „dynamics.‟ I further venture to say that transference of dynamics from one person to another is possible.” How? “We all know that there are people who can thrill and exhilarate one. And that there are others who simply bore and fatigue one. This implies that there is a wireless, touchless transfer of this vital substance. If dynamics can be transferred from one organism to another, why cannot that other function of the mind (e.g., thought) also be transferred from one mind to another mind? It is also conceivable that dynamics not only passes freely between persons, but also dissipates out into the atmosphere.” In other words -- ESP. Not even 30 years old, Puharich was showing his unique potential, looking towards ESP as a practical problem which resided within the realm of scientific exploration. No wonder Aldous Huxley would later label him “one of the most brilliant minds in parapsychology”. According to Puharich himself, it was around this time that he was spotted by the intelligence agencies as a potential asset. Puharich claimed he became involved with a “Project Penguin” -- a project whose existence has been denied by its sponsor. Project Penguin allegedly got underway in 1948. It was a Navy exercise that ran for some years. Its scope was to test individuals set to possess “psychic powers”. [StealthSkater note: when did the Philadelphia Experiment's "Project Rainbow" allegedly occur? August, 1943. Rumor has it that follow-up experiments were being designed to determine what occurred to the crew after the ship was teleported (or perhaps retraced a previously-established time-history path so as to avoid mines => doc pdf URL ). Of course, folklore said that these experiments were combined with Reichian "orgone" technology which culminated in the 1980's Montauk Project.] In charge of the project was Rexford Daniels, this according to a statement made by Puharich on the Geraldo Rivera show on October 2, 1987. A 'Rexford Daniels' did indeed exist and owned a company that in the 1970s must have attracted the attention of Puharich as the company did research into an area in which Puharich was a world-renowned expert at the time. Namely how proliferating electromagnetic emissions interfere with one another and may work harmful environmental effects on man.