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performing tricks along with genuine phenomena, and PRODUCED BY THOMAS OF BRAZIL
therefore experiments must be conductedin 8 a way as to
prev t any possibility of fraud. It is rtainly more.-
diffic t to critically analyze every exp iment than to Lee Pulos PhD
co.t,nu collecting experimental data with t such analysis. Clinical Assistant Professor
As ave mentioned, in order to ntain controlled Vancouver, Canada
to
conditions, e placed the object to be b nt (for example, an
aluminium Into a sealed box of transparent plastic. The history of science has been characterized by a
This bar was co red by a thin layer putty or other soft series of anomalies appearing on the horizon of the
material whic@how d indicate how t1 pressure of a force is prevailing world view. These "taboo discoveries," because
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al of their prematurity are generally ridiculed and ignored.
distributed along e bar, i.e., is he force applied to one
point or is it a un . orm ntinu s pressure? The bar was'George Bernard Shaw once remarked that "All great truths
,col begin as blasphemies@' and Harman [11 in a very scholarly
bent a few minutes a er the b was handed to a subject,
and subsequent analyst showed hat the pressure seemed to exposition describes many of the blasphemies in science,
be uniform. particularly with reference to consciousness research and
Some subjects liked take the sealed box and go to psychic phenomena. As recently as 1966, D.O. Hebb [21, a
another room where nothin revented them from concentra- leading behavioral psychologist, rejected the strong
ting. Therefore, we had t f a method that prevented any scientific evidence for telepathy "because the idea does not
fraud under these condl Mi. -a do this we used a closed make sense."
box with the metal ba in it ong with a glass cylinder While there has been some unjust criticism of science
filled with two unmi powders f different colors. The being totally committed to the worship of scepticism and
idea was that if th subject sh k the box or turned it lealing with a predictable world in which the events of the
over,- the powders w d become irre ' rsibly mixed. psyche have no meaning, a number of scientists have been
Af ter the me was bent even ' der these conditionso investigating the increasing frequency of gaps in official
we asked ourselv : could the subject btain this result b@r @rersions of reality. A complete issue of 'Psychoenergetic.
means of any tr ? We concluded that e only possibility 3Xstems [31 was devoted to reporting sophisticated
for the boy s to use the centrif from a washing @xperlments of psychokinetic metal fracture physics and
machine- if Itri I e, t1h iritical examinations of the "Geller effect:' Complementing
box Is placed in a cer ugX e influence
of the cent ugal force can bend the bar wl hout mixing the --he experimental data, a number of theoreticians such as
two powde . However, it is extremely un ly that this !..H. Walker and Nick Herbert [41 have been attempting to
boy, duri the short period of time when he a :in ano the r!xplain PK phenomena by expanding the quantum theory of
room wi i the box, could reach the washing m hine (which iystems and mathematical physics.
was in he basement), put the box in the centr 112c in th I
corre position (any other position would leaAo mixing This paper is a report on a series of observations over
the powders), and come back with a bent bar. At this point t period of two weeks in January 1981. The subject is
we can only stress the necessity for further studies of the 110m@s G.reen Morten Souza Coutinho',_ a thirty-fou'r year old
phenomena." Irazilian pharmacist who was struck by lightning ar the age
)f twelve. Subsequent to that experience' hec began
Interviews were conducted by Larissa Vilenskaya !xhibiting a wide spectrum of paranormal abilities that
)ecame increasingly more dazzling over time. It prompted
.qe of the Brazilian researchers, Mario Machado,
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controllable condition possible, to describe the phenomena lobby while he went to the seventh floor to visit a patient
as "the wondrous real magic of the mind." Throughout our for healing. As he entered the elevator, the
observations there were a qumber of people present. These Jasmine/eucalyptus fragrance permeated the lobby and got
included Theresa, ThOmW 54 year old cousin who is blind; inc reasingly strong during his half hour absence. We also
Jim Jensea, an American businessman and president of a Stopped at a macrobiotic restaurant for lunch and once more
large, successful corporation; Gary Richman, a free-lance the fragrance filled both the upper and lower levels of the
journalist and our translator; Helolse Gorman, a psycho- restaurant.
logist; and her husband Tom who is marketing manager for During dinner in Pouso Alegre that evening, Thomf@s
Kodak of Brazil. The position that I will be taking in this began pouring enormous quantities of salt in his beer and
- simply observ ng while stirring it with a dinner knife, the knife twisted
paper is that of a "psychic naturalist!' i into an S shape. He then took a fork to continue stirring
as carefully and openly as possible without seeking and the prongs of the fork twirled and curled around
mechanisms or meanings. . themselves ending up like some abstract psychic sculpture.
In SAO Paulo we were sitting with ThomcB having coffee ThomAs seemed curiously silly and almost agitated that
and as he picked up a teaspoon to stir his cof fee, the spoon evening and he kept pouring salt onto everythin ,
He t - He picked up another forks speared a piece of
curled up in a complete 360 degree "loop the loop:' hen eating g'he was
picke(I up a second spoon and it too twisted while we were lettuce and held it for his wife to eat. Within seconds,
observing him stirring his coffee. It happened quickly but the second fork twisted and bent into a carbon copy of the
we could see the spontaneous bending of the metal. I took first.
the spoon and could not unbend it without exerting a fa ir, In the course of dinner, we were joined by a y ng
amount of force. We compared the spoons and they looked- honeymooning couple and Thom@B felt the occasion sh Ou
honored with a special gift ould be
like carbon copies of each other - both twisted in the - He took a piece of sof t foil
Identical fashion. This was to become a common occurrence. that is found in cigarette packages and seemed to go into a
Spontaneous metal bending would occur both in his presence meditative or trance consciousness as he began tearing
(touching and not touching the metal objects) and on severalpieces of foil and folding the larger piece in a certain
occasions when he war, in the house but not in the same roomfashion- There was both an air of mindlessness and total
as the phenomena. absorption about him as he took a toothpick and began
One morning, when coming to a private home in SAo Paulo probing the foil as if he were examining an insect. At this
(where Thomhs was staying), we began to detect anpoint, lie excitedly remarked that the "energy was arriving"
increasingly strong fragrance of a mixture of Jasmine and as he began to experience a coldness and "goose-bumps" oil
eucalyptus which seems to surround Thom@s and predominate both his forearms. Then suddenly, within a fraction of a
his environment. The fragrance becomes particularly evident second the finished product had been transinuted or trans-
when phenomena are about to happen and our logical'teleported on to the table before its. It was a hard,
explanation at the time was that it was a shaving lotion orsilvery metal phoenix bird with very fine detail in Its
Someone had sprayed perfume. However, Thombs claims that itwings, head, and tail feathers. Its dimensions were
is the "calling card" of his "extraterrestial guide" orapproximately two inches in diameter and one inch high. At
energy that he has named Xils. nor time did Thom@B touch the tin foil with anything other
17he next day Thom@s suggested we drive with him fromthaTI the t1f) Of the tooth pick and while the transmutation
Mo Paulo to Pouso, Alegre, the town where he was living somewas taking place, his hands were eight inches or so back
three hundred kilometers away. on our way out of the city, f rom the foil. During the process, Thom1s appeared to be
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the phenomena happened (or sometimes just as it was about to and collapsed Thom6s on to the floor. Two waiters then
happen) lie released the energy with a loud "lira-ahlif brought in a very large, heavy metal backless piece of
During the week, Thom@B was to transmute a number of furniture for Thom@s and this held up throughout dinner. Tn
metal objects from cigarette package foil. The foil was conversations with waiters and the management of that
restaurant they acknowledged that spontaneous metal bending
always provided for him by various members of our group and
during the psychokinetic or transmutational process his was common when Thom@B was present. At times, the phenomena
would occur at other tables or locations in the room and the
hands remained above the table. 'He would on occasion circumstances would have to be brought to his attention.
interrupt his intense concentration and occasional pulsating It should be mentioned that Thom@s usually consumes
to say that the energy was going away. Following a brief
rest, lie would try again and usually succeed. There were considerable scotch whiskey while waiting for his energy
bursts. It is almost as if he is anesthetizing his cortex
instances however when he would release the energy with the with alcohol because his powers appear to get stronger as
accompaning "h-ra-ahl" and nothing would happen. Thomfis' r
reaction to failure was to shrug his shoulders matter-of- the night wears on. A point of diminishing return is
factly and accept these occurrences as part of the overall inevitably reached, however, and Thom1s will then exit and
picture. Tliom@s also explained that he must say defin1tivo retire for the evening. At the same time, many trans-
(definite) following "materializations" or they will mutations, materializations, metal bending and so on often
sometimes revert to their original matter or energy state. occur both spontaneously and with directed energy without
his having consumed any alcohol. Thom,`s believes that the
Following dinner Thom@B went to the refrigerator in the alcohol seems to amplify the energy when lie is .working over
room and opened a bottle of mineral water with a metal a three to four hour pertod.
bottle opener. As he placed it back in the refrigerator, -it Me next phase of our working with lhom@B began with
suddenly bent into a forty@five degree angle looking like aplacing a number of coins from different countries on the
perfect "V. Gary Richman returned to his room shortlytable before him. It was a very warm evening, and as was to
thereafter and noticed that the bottle opener on 11'abecome typical of his dress code for extended sessions,
refrigerator had also bent into a 'Y' identical with the oneffiom@s wore only trousers and was bare from the waist up.
in ThoiwV room. Gary had his hotel key with him during ourie asked for a piece of tin foil, picked up an American
brief visit with Thomfi3 and no one else had access to his;ilver dollar and held a small piece of foil against the
room. @dge side of the coin with just his thumb and index finger.
During our most recent visit with lbom@s (Decembero we could see the edges of the foil under his thumb and as
1981) 1 was following him through a cafeteria line which had,h y and concentration built up he punctuated it with
a succession of different kinds of salads displayed in five . e energ
large bowls. Thom@s walked right by the salad bar without lis usual "li-r-a-ahl" and the foil suddenly transmuted into
stopping or touching anything but as I reached for tie t carbon copy of the phoenix bird that was presented to the
roung honeymooners the night before. Jim Jensen was then
spoon-like ladle, I noticed that all five spoons (fourteen Lnvited to pick up the silver dollar and hold it in the palm
to eighteen inches in length) were all bent in the now )f his tightly closed hand. Thom@s realized that a trans-
familiar 360 degree loop-the-loop fashion.
Sl@o'tly autational energy was building up and took the coin from
thereaf ter, Thom@s sat on an all-metal folding chair at our 1 im ' placed it on a sheet of paper and traced the
dinner table and in five minutes the bottom portion of it -ircumf erence of it with a pencil. Jim picked up the dollar
11melted" as if it were made of hard butter and Thom@s foundigain, held it tightly as Thom@s closed his eyes and began
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to build up energy. Ile stopped at this point, asked Jim his One day during lunch Thomfe asked Jim to take the thigh
astrological sign (Pisces) and then had us all grasp a piecebone of a chicken on one of the plates, scrape it clean and
of metal and say "feesh. feesIP over and over. After Sbreak it in two (the bone was appioximately five inches in 1 V
minute or so, Jim experienced what he described as a "put4ength). Thom@s seemed to slip int a very deep state of W:
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ation and asked Jim to fit the two edges of the
sensation," opened his hand, and the silver dollar had beei-Once
replaced with a beautiful medallion. There were twobroken bone together and hold them in that position. He
porpoises with the word Peixes (Pisces in Portuguese) on onethen put each of his index fingers on the back of Jim's
side and all the astrological signs on the other. We trace0ands. Gary, Jim and myself could all see a bluish type of
the medallion on a sheet of paper and it was an eighth of arl@nergy move from around the chicken leg and then localize at
Inch wider than the circumference of the original silverthe Juncture where the bone had been snapped. After several
dollar. Jim remarked that lie was going to have a metal3econds, the bone suddenly fused together and we examined it
clasp made and wear it around the neck. Thomfis took the;ery carefully in the sunlight but could find no evidence
medallion and said he would create a clasp with a tooth3uch as a telltale scar where it had been broken. Thomfis in
pick. As we watched, a small lip of metal began to slowlylis excitement took the bone back, examined It, and began
extrude from the top of the medallion but Thom@s could not4aving it over his head. As he did this, the end of the
get it to form a closed circle. Ile finally gave up sayin8)one flew off and it fractured apart once more but about an
"that energy" had dissipated for now. Inch away from the original break. ThomAs then spoke very
novingly and meaningfully about the healing capabilities
:hat we all possess and that "electrical energy" is the
In the course of gathering data and affidavits from
other witnesses of Thom,'s phenomena, two persons (one was a)asis of healing. He added that '@@'iafter Including
Inanimate substances are infused with an "intelligent
lawyer) Indicated that they provided Thombs with a ten
cruzeiro note which was then transmuted into a thousaro@nergy" at a very basic level.
cruzelro note (worth about $14.00 US). ThomIa admonished Together with Thom@s we visited the "fasquelra" (place
them not to spend the note or it would revert back to Its
original ten cruzeiro state. One of the individuals stilpf lightning), an open field and pond ten kilometers from
has the transmuted currency but the other took the thousand,is home town, where Thomfia had been struck by a lightning
cruzeiro bill to a grocery store, purchased groceries an0olt at the age of twelve. Ile frequently goes there during
cigarettes, and as she banded the note to the cashier initorms and goes into almost a frenzy holding his arms up
the brief moment It took to exchange hands, it transmuted-oward the sky and "charging" himself with electrical
back to a ten cruzeiro bill. A related experience occurrednergy- Adjacent to the fasquetra is a small cave with a
when Thomhs asked me to obtain a brand new, crisp, ten!tatue of St. Mary inside it. People will go there to pray
cruzeiro note, fold it, and hold it in, my closed handIM sometimes leave St. Christopher medals or coins behind.
(again, he never touched the currency and was approximately-'hOmc@s picked up one of the St. Christopher's medals and
six feet from me throughout this demons t ration). l1e,,ave it to Theresa, his flfty@four year old blind cousin to
appeared to work extra-hard at mobilizing energy, released:eep for him. He asked for the small, dirty oval-shaped
it with a %-r-a-a-hl" and when I opened my band, the newiedal shortly following our experience with the medallion.
bill was replaced with an old crumpled worn ten cruzeiro :t was placed on the table and he held his hand above it but
note that had been out of Print and circulation for over ie were able to maintain eye contact with the medal
forty years. In all instances, we have documented the :hroughout. In a fraction of a second it suddenly
before and af Ler transmutations with photographs and careful :ransmuted into a larger, shinier medallion of Santa Lucia
recording of the serial numbers of the currency. ibo is considered the patron saint of the blind in Brazil.
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Forearms indicated that Thom!s' energy was',building, up but
This was presented td Theresa and it was a very moving
moment for all of us as Thom@g is very close to his cousinle remarked that "this energy" was different. He asked for
and has tried unsuccessfully to restore her sight on severaii five hundred cruzeiro Brazilian note, took a pair of
occasions in the past. ;cissors and began in what appeared to be a daydreaming,
engrossed state to casually trim all four edges of the bill,
Following a brief rest, the "energ3P began building upreducing it in size. Thomts took the bill and folded it,
again and Thombs took a piece of cigarette tin foil and3aying that he was going to transmute it into a currency of
rolled it into a loose cylindrical shape approximately onea different country. The bill was then handed to Jim who
and a half inches long and a quarter inch in diameter. lbeexamined it making certain it was the same note. Jim was
obtained small figure had long hair, a full robe, the armsasked to fold it several more times and hold it tightly in
were crossed, and it was identified as San Onof re, thehis closed f ist while he held a piece of metal (a bent
patron saint of drunkards. There was considerable Jokinggpoon) in the other hand as a "conductor" of energy. Thom@s
and frivolous insinuations at this point as to. ThomAsIthen began to kindle and build up the energy as usual,
drinking habits although he was not intoxicated at the timeexploding and releasing with a loud "h-r-a-a-ahl" Jim felt
Using the same sheet of tin foil and following more or lessthat nothing had happened f or there were no unusual
the same process (except for one of the tin foil "templates!'Se'nsations experienced at all. When he opened his hand and
which was rolled into a tight, round ball), Thomha proccedeWolded the bill it had transmuted into a brand new 10,000
to materialize three small metal statues of little monkeyqtalian lire note which we have kept for documentation.
with their hands over their mouth, eyes, and earqj-pre was a great deal of excitement and Thom@B indicated
respectively. Again, very profound messages can-sometimeathat. the "energy was becoming stronger."
come through in very simple and apparently innocuous ways, I was then asked to produce a new, crisp bill and Jim
lie added that to hear no evil, speak no evil, and see noprovided me with an American one dollar bill. Thomfis asked
evil would help us discover the basic goodness andne to write my signature twice on the face of the bill and
perfection that exists within all of us. to fold the bill down several times. Again, Thomts never
We took a break at this point and room service broughttouched the bill and he remained on the other side of the
us refreshments including a dish of ice cream and a salttable throughout, stripped to the waist. Thom@s said he was
shaker for Thomts. Just as he was transferring the first going to invoke all the forces of spiritual and universal
teaspoon of ice cream from the metal container to his mouth, wisdom and burn my birthdate someplace on the bill. Despite
the spoon instantaneously bent into a 360 degree "loop-the- ill we had seen to date I silently questioned this since no
loop" and the Ice cream plopped onto Thombs' lap. He )ne in our group knew my exact birthdate. Thombs took a
laughed at this unplanned "psychic joke " picked up another
spoon and it too bent and flipped ;ce cream into his,-igarette and burned the back of my hand as a symbolic
trousers as he wag attempting to get it into his mouth.testure and when I opened my hand a few moments later and
Just as he finished eating the Ice cream with the curlicuedinfolded the dollar bill, my birthdate, 06-01-1928 was
spoon, the metal cup containing the ice cream suddenly5umed along the edge of the bill. -
folded so that the two edges came together and touched. We Thomhs said he was going to do something similar for
all tried to pull it apart but were unable to budge the twolim and I provided Jim with an American one dollar note.
-Lips of metal. Thomfis presented the cup to Gary who hadlim folded it several times, held it tightly in his closed
earlier talked of losing weight - the implication being thattist, and then extended his arm across the table to Thom@a
he could never retrieve food from an almost sealedwho still held the burning cigarette. Thom@s said he was
container. going to burn Jim's driver's license number on to the bill,
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and then burnel the back of Jim's hand - pv-nctuating LKIrprise, Jim reached into his pants pocket and took out a	
with his usual %-r-a-a-ahl" When Jim unfolded the noteid of American one hundred dollar bills that were held	
what was burned on the edge was his American social securitCether by a thick elastic band. Ile took off the elastic,
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@folded the currency and I was further astonished to see
number rather than his driver's license number. of interes	
however Is that an Idaho driver's license has apt twelve to fourteen of his credit cards were inside the	
IndIvidual's social security number just above the driver'tlls- It should be pointed out that not one person in our	
rty was aware where Jim kept his credit cards. In
license number and on frequent occasions, people coj@yiq	
down identifying data from the license frequently copy thscussing this with Jim later, he impressed upon us that no	
social security number for the license number. Upon returp ever had access to his credit cards since at all times	
to his hotel room Jim double-checked his social securltgY were either in his pocket or on the bedstand next to	
card which was hidden with other documents in a conce_il@ere he slept at night. (We all had single rooms).	
place. We were convinced that no one had aesess to till With his eyes shielded by his hand and facing the wall.	
documents and there was no evidence to suggest they had beepm@s began with "I see a Shell card," then correctly and	
ickly gave the nine digit identification number and the
tampered with.	
During our most recent trip to Brazil, Jim brought lli;piration date. Ile went: on to say "American Express,	
eleven year old daughter Julie with him and Thom@s becammero. (reciting the thirteen digitsy' and expiration	
very fond and protective of her. On one occasion she walte, Then in a very surprised manner "another American	
asked to produce, fold, and hold in her closed hand Opress Card - you have two cards?" (it was an executive	
American bill (in this case a five dollar denominaJonM card) and proceeded to rattle off the numbers like a	
Tliom',-s then asked Julie what she would like burned on tyuputer. There were twenty cards In total, some were	
,Y)plicates, and others were club membership cards in
bill And she responded "Thombs this way (horizontal	
Julie this way (vertically), the word "love' in between, an dition to a telephone credit card. There was an average	
082." Thomh3 mobilized his energy in the usua nine digits per card and Thomts got all digits correct on
December	
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fashion, burned the back of Julie's hand with a cigaret4 twenty cards. He even added qualifying remarks such as	
and when she opened her hand, the bill was burned with @illtis is a different card - velly hard plastic." It should	
noted that Thombs spouted the numbers with such rapidity
words
just as she had requested.	
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it Gary had difficulty in copying down the information	
t4.
Shortly after the social security number experienc Lekly enough.	
ThomAs began asking questions about Uri Geller. 11 The same evening Thom@B asked me to bring out a bill of	
denomination (American one dollar bill), to hold it
acknowledged that his own metal bending powers did not begi	
ore me and visualize myself pretending I am tearing the
until he saw Uri on Brazilian television in 1976 even th 14	
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lie was able to do far more impressive phenomena by thal.1 in two down a centerline. I did this several -times in	
time. Ile also asked about Uri's telepathic abilities and ii; mind's eye and at his request actually tore the bill in	
several side remarks lie defended Geller's abilities a9* I was asked to fold and refold the pieces several	
genuine. lhom@s then seemed to become inspired Ind saPea (he never touched or came close to the dollar bill)	
that lie was going to demonstrate telepathy. He went to 01 to hold the folded pieces tightly in my hand while he
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far end of the room, faced the wall, and we sat behind
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sofa an a shield at the other end of the room. Jim wa@h the now	
a bill was in one piece and there was no evidence of a
asked to take out his identification and Thombs woid,	
ar. ThomLs had Jim do the same thing and again a bill
telepathically "read!' the identifying information. Gary w.-	
asked to prepare to write the numbers down and much to 1117n in two pieces was somehow reconstituted to Its original	
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during our first visit with Thom@s and did not detect any
state. We documented this -sequence with,a series oinstances of fraud or deception. Prior to our second trip
photographs. Ln November, 1981, we had heard through several sources that
Even though it was quite late following dinner, Tlioml@;om'@ had worked with a parapsychologist of international
felt lie had more energy and we set up cameras and tap repute, William Q Roll of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. I
recorders once more in the hotel room. Thom@s turned to ml
and joked about the number of credit cards that Nor0poke with Dr. Roll who alerted me to his observations of
Americans carry with them. He went into the bathroom, lepveral instances of outright fraud on the part of Thomis
the door open and told Gary to get out a pencil and pap,@Iong with very genuine psychokinetic phenomena. Throughout
and prepare for a telepathy transmission. Gary could se)ur second visit, we were extra-attentive, prudent, and
both Thomfis and Jim and I at the other end of the room. Thpindful of Thomfis with respect to Dr. Roll's cautions.
pocketbook containing my credit cards and identif ication wa@e did not notice any evidence of fraud throughout the
in a small sealed pouch attached to my camera case. litwelve days we were together.
passport and other identification were inside the mail What does Thomfis have to say about his powers?
chambers of the camera case# For obvious reasons I elthernitially, he attributed his new-foui-id capacities to the
carried my camera case or it was at my feet at all times a4iberation of "latent human energy" after he was struck by a
no one had access to It. Before I could get my credit cardightning bolt and "knocked out of his body" at age twelve.
out of the pocketbook, Thom@s began reciting so quickly Wnce then, however, he@ has "revised history" and now states
Cary that it sounded like -a computer read-out. I had twelvchat lie was struck by a "ray" - from some sort of extra-
credit cards, bank cards, and medical and dental insuranccerrestial origin and ascribes his unusual faculties to
cards. lie 'read' off all the eight to twelve digit numbelspace energies!' from para Ilel universes.
on each card without error. He then 'went int6r a Udda- I am intrigued by his original version. For the past
fold where I kept my birth certificate and in a very Puzzle@even years I have had twenty-three children ranging in age
tone read out "Lecorgous Peter Pulos" (my name in Greek or om three to eleven brought to me for an opinion because of
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the certificate) and accurately gave the ten-digi%eir unusual proficiences. Nineteen of the twenty-three
registration number, registration date, and issue date I-hildren had a history of severe electrical shock or an
Another card in the hidden fold was my NAU1 Scuba Diver caAlectrical insult (including lightning) to the mother's body
with seventeen Identifying digits - also accurately given- ihile the child was in utero. While Uri Geller's assertions
;re considered a gordian knot by many scientists, he
There were more sessions and many other phenomena buldmitted to me in a personal communication that at the age
what has been reported is a representative sampling of whatif three and a half he saw a blue light under his mother's
we saw and experienced. My overall impression of Thom,'s hewing machine, explored it with his f inger and received an
that he Is one of the most emotionally responsive, warmest verwhelming electrical shock. Matthew Manning, a gif ted
and basically kind persons I have ever known. What iritish psychic, described a similar experience In his
astounded us more than anything was his child-like awe,
wonderment, and exhilaration every time a phenomenautobiography, as does Steve Shaw, a twenty year old student
occurred. Even though lie had probably transmuted 01rom Iowa. Peter Phillips 161, a professor of physics from
materialized objects thousands of times, he treated eadt* Louis University, has studied Shaw extensively and
event as if it were the first time it happened. escrUbed metal bending and other psychokinetic phenomena
The question of his personal honesty must be considere(nder laboratory conditions. While this type of data is
since in view of the phenomena described and the absence Opecdotal there are low order implications of some type of
ideally controlled conditions, cries of "magic!' and "fraudause and effect connection between a Sudden and traumatic
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electrical shock and the unfolding of different types of psi
abilities. On the other hand, golfer Lee Trevino has been
struck by lightning eight times with no apparent psychic
changes. The work of Burr 171, a neurophysiologist,
suggests that varying gradations of consciousness result in
significant electromagnetic shifts and hioelectric
reorganizations of the body. I found his hypothesis a
useful platform to begin speculating about the possible role
of magnetism and electricity in the phenomena.
I hope that Thombg in his own unique way wi
contribute to widening our apertures of vision and
consciousness.
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1.	Harman,	Willis 11. In Changin images of Man, Policy
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	1974).	
2.	Mishlove,	Jeffrey. The Roots of Consciousness (New York:
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	F.indoM. House, 197 5)-
3.	Krippner,	Stanley, ;d. Psychoenergetic S tems, Vol. 21
	Nos. 1/2	(London: Gordon & Breach Science Publishers,
	1977).	
4.	Walker,	E.H., & Herbert, Nick. "llidden Variables: Where
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Department of Psychiatry
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada
PSI RESEARCH
STUDIES IN NEN-GRApily,IN JAPAN
Yuji Ogawa, Shigemi Sasaki
Tokyo, Japan
Our colleagues from Japan have described in
their journal Psi Kazaku (Psi Research. Vol. 4,
No. 1. Sep temb,;-r-10-9,Vol. -@-,No. , 1, August 1980;
and Vol. 5, No.3, February 1981) several experi-
mental series with a gifted subject, Masuaki
KiYota, who produced apparent psychokinetic metal-
bending and thougbtography, i.e., exposed photo-
graphic film with mental (PK) influence. Assuming
that an influence which is capable of exp*osihg
photographic film should possess some properties
of light, the authors conducted experiments using
a light-quanta detector (a silicon photo-.&ode -
SPD) to record this influence called by the
authors nen-field (thought-field). To record
changes in the output current produced by the
photo-diode, they used a high speed digital wave-
form memory or oscilloscope (photography as a
memory). The authors found that the subject
seemed to be able to control the appearance of the
nen-field, thereby changing the output current of
the SPD. The current was produced with
interruptions correlated with the subject's
intention. lie could influence the SPD when it was
placed in an opaque box at a distance of about 1.5
meters from him. Experimental results seemed to
depend on the, psychological state of the subject.
The abilities of Masuaki Kiyota have also been
described by Walter and Mary Jo UPhoff in their
book Mind Over Matter (Oregon, WI: New Frontiers
Center, 1980) - Editor's abstract.
1. Method
We define thoughtography (nen--graphy) as a phenomenon
*oduced solely by the direct mental influence of a
w-cially gifted person on a photographic film surface in
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