Storing Thoughts in a Box
Wednesday February 6, 2008 8:32 AM
If thoughts are things, and thoughts create reality, wouldn't it be great if thoughts could be put in a container and stored? You could build them up like a bank account into a powerful force.
Sounds like science fiction, but it's closer to fact than you might realize. Programmed intentionality — thoughts in a box — is part of a new area of scientific research called "psychoenergetics." It is a type of psychokinesis (PK), the ability of mind to influence matter. The difference is, the influence is stored in a device, rather than exerted mentally directly at an object.
One researcher is physicist William Tiller, who has been studying consciousness and intentionality for years. He has demonstrated that devices can indeed be programmed with intention via meditation, and, like batteries, have an effect upon material things. Tiller — known as "Dr. Bleep" for his appearance in the hit film What the Bleep Do We Know? — became interested in psychoenergetics in the 1960s.
His research has involved experienced meditators who program a specific intention into an "intentional imprinted electrical device," a metal box charged with an electrical current. For example, the meditators might "send" the intention into the box that the temperature of water in a flask should be raised one degree. After programming the device, the box is set beside a flask of water — and the temperature goes up. It's as though the intention emanates from the box to affect the physical environment.
In his book Some Science Adventures with Real Magic (2005), Tiller states that human consciousness, in the form of specific intentions, can have a "robust effect"on physical things. What's more, the device itself does not seem to be important. You don't have to use a metal box charged with a current. Tiller says that intention can be programmed into any object. The key, he says, is consciousness.
A precursor to psychoenergetics was the work of Wilhelm Reich, who coined the term "orgone" to describe a vital force or primordial cosmic energy. He developed a device called the "orgone accumulator," a metallic box covered with organic material which was supposed to concentrate orgone for therapeutic uses. He used the device on cancer patients and reported positive results. The Food and Drug Administration tested the device and pronounced it worthless. Reich was sent to prison for using his device, and died there. The orgone accumulators were destroyed and his books were burned.
Psychoenergetics may someday prove Reich was on the right track. And if we start putting our thoughts into containers, perhaps we will be more mindful of what we think.
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Two small corrections in Reich's background: Although Reich worked with the US Gov't on certain projects, the state of Maine had formal injunctions against him. One of them was that he couldn't transport an ORACC beyond statelines. One of his "students" broke the injunction for him. Reich was also defiant to the court system which he believed was corrupt.
Reich actually built a special radiation meter for the US Gov't. This meter could detect "oranur" which is orgone mixed with ionizing radiation. Within his studies of the pulsating characteristics of oranur, he concluded that there was some kind of universal intelligence at work within the cosmic stream.
Posted by HealingMindN | February 7, 2008 2:24 AM
Posted on February 7, 2008 02:24