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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 It is out-of-date, some of the links may be broken, and indeed many of the people here are sadly no longer with us.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" AtwaterCleve Backster / Gregory Bateson / Lt. Col. Thomas E. Bearden / Robert Bigelow
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 Stubblebine / Ingo Swann
Russell Targ / Charles Tart / Ed Thompson / Jack Verona
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.
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)
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. Army Laboratory Command." Alexander stated: "… psychotronic weapons lack traditional scientific documentation, and I do not suggest that research projects be carried out in that field." (Alexander, Col. John, "A Challenge to the Report", New Realities, March/April 1989)
● Alexander is friends with Gordon Novel, and (according to Cannon) Alexander passed a threat through his wife to researcher Martin Cannon using Novel's name for intimidation. Reportedly friends with Ron Pandolfi.
● Alexander is closely associated with Robert Bigelow and his National Institute for Discovery Science.
● Also identified as being with the Appolinaire Group.
Author of:
● "The New Mental Battlefield: Beam Me Up Spock", Military Review, 12/80
● The Warrior's Edge
● Review of Psychic Warrior
Remote-Viewing, Science, and You
Abstract:
There is a paradox. Science (in general) does not believe in remote-viewing. Many people do believe in remote-viewing. People who study remote-viewing want to talk with scientists. They often do not want to talk with the general public. Scientists do not want to talk with those who study remote-viewing. The general public does want to hear about remote-viewing. What's wrong with this picture???
And then there is the Fourth Estate. Where does the media get their information? Are there really two sides to every story? Who are the Scientists? The Nuts? The Skeptics? And how did they get to be proclaimed as such? Ergofusion explains a lot of these problems.
Col. Alexander is the author of recently published Future War: Non-lethal Weapons in Twenty-first-century Warfare, and of The Warrior’s Edge. In 1980, his seminal article "The New Mental Battlefield" -- describing how psychic warfare might be employed on the battlefield -- was published in Military Review. As a staff officer in the early 1980s working directly under Gen. Burt Stubblebine, Commanding General for the US Army Intelligence and Security Command, Col. Alexander was prominent in INSCOM’s programs for exploring human potentials.
After his military retirement, he worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory where he developed the concept of Non-Lethal Defense which he briefed to senior defense, industry, and academic officials. Politically, his work involved meetings with Members of Congress, White House and National Security Council staff, and the Director of Central Intelligence. He has considerable experience working with classified programs dealing with many esoteric arenas. He currently is the science director for a private research organization in Las Vegas, NV. Col Alexander is a director on the board of the International Remote-Viewing Association.
Fredrick "Skip" Atwater
Born Frederick Holmes Atwater. Lt. Atwater was the first operations officer of the Ft. Meade operational remote-viewing unit.
He came to Ft. Meade in 1977 while still in his late 20s. While with the Systems Exploitation Detachment (SED) which was under control of the office of the assistant chief of staff for intelligence (ACSI), he suggested to the head of the SED (Col. Robert Keenan) that the Army develop a small, experimental group of psychics. (Schnabel, Jim, Remote-Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies, Dell, 1997, pg 11-3)
After retiring from the Army in 1987, Atwater became the director of research for the Monroe Institute. (Schnabel, 1997, pg 336)
Author of The Monroe Institute's Hemi-Sync® Process: A Theoretical Perspective
Hemi-Sync® and Remote Viewing
Hemi-Sync is a patented auditory guidance system developed by The Monroe Institute to engender states of focused consciousness. We contracted privately with Robert Monroe to work with Joe McMoneagle -- an experienced, highly skilled remote-viewer for the military 'Star Gate' program. The training sessions continued for 10 non-consecutive weeks over a period of 1 year.
Each training week, I conducted an audit remote-viewing session to try to determine any improvement in Joe's remote-viewing performance. During one of these, I decided to use coordinates of some unusual structures on the planet Mars that Dr. Puthoff from SRI had provided me. As it turned out, Joe described eight different coordinate-designated locations on Mars.
This presentation will describe the Hemi-Sync process; the associated remote-viewing training used with Joe McMoneagle; and illustrate the results of this specialized training by sharing actual recordings of Joe's historic remote viewing of Mars.
From 1978 to 1988, Skip Atwater was the Operations and Training Officer for the once highly-classified U.S. Army Intelligence remote-viewing surveillance program and played an important role in the program’s founding. Working closely with the personnel in the SRI International remote-viewing research program, he trained professional intelligence personnel to remote view, then used these highly skilled psychic spies to conduct thousands of remote-viewing intelligence collection missions for a variety of U.S. intelligence agencies. For 10 years, Skip worked directly with the cadre of remote-viewers, helping to hone their skills.
Since his military retirement in 1988, Skip has been the Research Director at The Monroe Institute -- a world-renowned nonprofit organization conducting research and offering educational programs supporting the evolution of consciousness. He has published technical research on methods for expanding consciousness, and assisted hundreds of individuals in experiencing and exploring altered states of consciousness. He is a director on the board of the International Remote Viewing Association.
Cleve Backster
Cleve Backster is a polygraph specialist who helped develop interrogation techniques for the CIA. As of 1986, he ran a polygraph instruction school and the Backster Research Foundaion in San Diego.
In February, 1966, Backster recorded what he believes to be emotional reactions in plants with a polygraph machine. Called the "Backster Effect", the validity of this phenomena is still debated.
On 2/10/86, Cleve Backster's lab was visited by National Research Council's Committee on Techniques for the Enhancement of Human Performance. The NRC was evaluating enhancement and parapsychological studies conducted for the Army, so it is likely that Backster's research was involved with the Government.
(National Research Council, Enhancing Human Performance, National Academy of Sciences, 1988, pg 193-8)
In early 1972, psychic Ingo Swann heard of Hal Puthoff's research proposal through Cleve Backster.
According to Swann, Backster maintained his intelligence connections, and Backster reported that the CIA was interested in his experiments.
Some of Backster's experiments are documented in "PRIMARY PERCEPTION: Cleve Backster's astounding mind/plant communication discovery!",Australian Lateral Thinking Newsletter,1996.
Gregory Bateson
Anthropologist, once married to Margaret Mead. 1904-1980.
Bateson was one of many LSD researchers which held the first Human Potential workshop at the Esalen Institute and moved there in the late '70s. Was friends with Joe K. Adams.
"At Stanford [University], the anthropologist Gregory Bateson -- who had been introduced to LSD by Dr. Harold Abramson, one of LSD's pioneers -- arranged in 1959 for the poet Allen Ginsberg to take it as part of a research program that was secretly sponsored by the military."
(Stafford, Peter, Psychedelics Encyclopedia, Third Expanded Edition, Ronin Publishing, 1992, pg 44)
In 1943, Bateson was employed by the Office of Strategic Services as a "psychological planner" in Southeast Asia.
(Lipset, David, Gregory Bateson: The Legacy of a Scientist, Prentice Hall, 1980, pg 174)
In 1963, Bateson was hired as the associate director of research for John Lilly's Communication Research Institute which studied dolphins in the Virgin Islands. (Lipset, pg 241)
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Lt. Col. Thomas E. Bearden
U.S. Army, Retired. Former Pentagon analyst
Website:
"He is President and CEO of CTEC, Inc., a private R&D corporation engaged in research on free energy devices and the mechanisms for interaction of EM fields and radiation with biological systems. He is president of the Association of Distinguished American Scientists (ADAS), a life member of the Alabama Academy of Science, and served on the Board of Directors of the U.S. Psychotronics Association and the American Association of Metascience. He edited and published Specula, Journal of the AAMS for 4 years. He also served on the Board of Directors of Astron, Inc. -- a private aerospace R&D corporation in the greater Washington D.C. area noted for its specialized RF antennas... He and his wife Doris live in Huntsville, Alabama where Tom is retired from aerospace, continues private research, and serves as a special consultant to industry on scalar electromagnetics processes" (Virtual Times introduction)