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Non-Locality, Practical Impacts                    by Richard Stammler       © Rich Stammler, 2009      According to one time remote viewer, David Morehouse, “The original Department of Defense definition of Remote Viewing was, “The learned ability to transcend space and time, to view persons, places or things remote in space-time; to gather and report information on the same.”1 Remote viewing is the best evidence to indicate that the mind is non-local in the classic quantum physics sense. What do I mean by that?      In 1935, when quantum mechanics was gradually revealing it startling secrets about the nature of the universe we live in, Einstein didn't like the conclusions that it drove theoretical physics too. Einstein and his collaborators, Nathan Rosen and Boris Podolsky, came up with a thought experiment that they felt would show quantum mechanics to be, at the very least, an incomplete theory if not outright wrong. This became known as the EPR paradox and in 1964 was formulated into a practical experiment by the Scottish particle physicist, John Stewart Bell, which become know as the Bell inequality. It was not until 1972 that Freedman and Clauser, Swiss physicists, devised an experiment to resolve Bell's inequality and unravel the EPR paradox.      Simply put, the experiment goes as follows. Energy, when passed through a certain crystal substance, will cause it to emit pairs of photons that are quantum entangled, meaning that each carries the other's information, and in a sense, belong to a single identity. In quantum mechanics theory, until a quantum system is observed it is in all possible states (even mutually exclusive states) called superposition. One characteristic of these entangled photons is that they can have either an up spin or down spin, and, if one photon is spin down, the other has to be spin up and vice versa. Until observed, both photons carry all possible states, in this case, both up spin and down spin. So the question is this, once observed and the photon decides the direction of spin (the state of superposition is resolved into one characteristic), how quickly does the information transfer from one photon to another?      If this information transfers at faster than the speed of light, then it cannot be in the classical definition of our reality. Einstein's special theory of relativity puts an absolute speed limit within our physical reality at the speed of light (approx 186,000 miles per second). Anything that travels faster than that cannot be part of our reality as it is classically defined and the effect is non-local meaning that it is not transmitted via classical means. Some scientists indicate that this effect shows that at some level things are one, at some level they are all connected. The metaphor that is often used to describe this is the apparent isolation of islands in the ocean that, under the water, are all connected in a whole by the ocean floor. Berkeley physicist, Henry Stapp, calls it "… the most profound discovery in all of science."      More recent experiments by the French physicist Alain Aspect have more elegantly proven Freedman and Clauser’s results, and other experiments have shown that the phenomenon is more robust than just a pair of photons. These experiments revealed that the speed that the information transfers is more than 10,000 times the speed of light2, the photon can be in up to four locations at once, and the effect can occur with groups of atoms. Physicist Eugene Wigner says that, “Non-locality means beyond space and time, and it is deeply related to Mind.”      What, then, does this mean for everyday practical life? Plenty. The noted and highly successful psi researcher, (now the senior scientist for IONS) Dean Radin, has written two excellent books on psi phenomena and the second book is Entangled Minds3. He suggests that non-locality, also referred to as quantum entanglement, can be one explanation for psi phenomena. His first book, The Conscious Universe4, provides convincing scientific evidence that these phenomena are real and the second discusses possible explanations.      Let’s look at a very special case of quantum entanglement. Famous cellular biologist and psychoneuroimmunology researcher Candice Part (now a researcher at Georgetown University) tells us that cells have memory, but what does that mean?5 In her example she indicates that the cell can learn in a classical conditioning setting. Therefore, if a drug that has an effect on the cell is paired with a placebo the cell will, after a few trials, also respond to the placebo alone. But how far does this effect go?      Paul Pearsall was a psychologist and researcher who specialized in patients who had undergone organ transplants. Pearsall felt that heart transplants, in particular, demonstrated some unusual effects6 that we can call quantum entanglement, both in the sense that the tissue retains memory and then, entangles with the tissue and mind of the new host.      I must tell you that this has not been put under rigorous scientific controls, but the anecdotal evidence is compelling. Organ transplants are a relatively modern phenomenon and coincident with this medical procedure, there have been reports by some organ recipients that are interesting and, for some, unsettling. They often don’t want to talk about it and just as often, neither do the surgeons. It doesn’t fit the existing paradigm.      One of the most famous cases talked about by Pearsall is Claire Sylvia (who wrote her own book7 about her experience), a dancer who become ill with primary pulmonary hypertension, which, at that time, was fatal in its advanced stage. Ultimately she needed a transplant and when the lungs require replacement, due to the physiology of the system, it is often better to perform a combined heart/lung transplant. This happened for Sylvia.      Something that needs to be emphasized here is that normally there is anonymity of the donor family to the recipient of the organs. This confidentiality is strictly enforced to assure the privacy of the donor family and the recipient is advised not to search for them.      Almost immediately after her transplant Claire began to feel different. With a new healthy heart/lung system this would be expected but her experiences go beyond that. She wrote it off to having a healthy heart and lungs for the first time in a long time and also, for the first time in many years she was told she could eat anything. Be aware that before the transplant this very health conscious dancer maintained a dancer’s figure and rigorous healthy food regimen. Here are the changes she noticed: She suddenly craved bell peppers; before she disliked them. She suddenly loved fast food, especially chicken nuggets and beer (which she never drank before). Her preference for female companionship changed from the tall slim figured, dark-haired women to the blond full-bodied type. She noticed that she became “more masculine,” more aggressive and assertive. Her daughter remarked that she walked “like a guy.” Before the transplant she suffered migraine headaches, and chronic low blood sugar. After the transplant both of these conditions never occurred again. She noticed that she began to reverse letters after the transplant, although she had been an excellent speller.      How does this jive with the facts when she learned the identity of her organ donor and met the family (how all this happened is the fascinating story in her book)? He was a young male who died when his motorcycle crashed. He loved green peppers and put them in everything He consistently ate fast food, loved beer, and died with chicken nuggets in his jacket pocket. He was healthy and rarely got sick. He was dyslexic.      Being a transpersonalist I have to tell you about her dreams. She had two significant dreams prior to learning her donor’s identity. In the first one she met a young tall man who told her his name was Tim S (the real name of the donor was Tim and the last name begins with S. Sylvia does not reveal his real last name out of deference for the family). At the end of the dream he dissolved into her body, she breathed him in. In the second dream, she alternated between being a women and a man several times.      Claire Sylvia and Paul Pearsall reveal other cases. It appears that her experiences are not that unusual. The transplant nurse revealed that she had a patient that was so phobic of water that she would not shower. After the transplant she learned to swim and learned to enjoy sailing. Her donor was a sailor who loved being on the water. Sylvia cites a psychiatrist’s journal article that notes a Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, “who after learning that his new kidney came from the body of a black donor, responded by joining the NAACP.” (p. 138) The spouse who is nearly frigid in the bedroom who gets a new heart and becomes highly sexually active. The heart donor was a college girl who earned money as an exotic dancer.      Then there is the amazing case cited in Pearsall’s book (p. 7). He spoke at a conference discussing his research on organ transplants and its effects on patients, particularly the strong impact of a donor’s heart on the recipient. After his talk a female psychiatrist stood up speaking with tears and emotions so strong she could barely be understood. She spoke of a patient of hers, an eight-year old girl who began having nightmares after receiving the heart of a ten-year old girl who had been murdered (this was unknown to the family). After repeated nightmares, which revealed more and more information about the death of her donor, nightmares so graphic and persistent that the psychiatrist and her mother finally consulted the police. The little girl knew the clothes the ten year old wore, the method of killing, the words expressed prior to the death, the place and the time. Based on the material from the dreams the police apprehended the murderer who was then convicted.      So, very interesting evidence that the mind not only exist throughout the body but that it is non-local and exists beyond the body as well.      The implications go significantly further. If the mind is non-local and we indeed have past lives, then we can access that information with the non-local mind. This can go beyond past lives according to some interpretations of quantum mechanics. In a theory of quantum mechanics favored by some, including Henry Stapp8 , called the transactional interpretation, a present event is a collaboration of a past event acting forward and an action from the future that acts retrocausally. That means that your so-called past lives could get information about you from their past vantage point and since a future you is part of the quantum transaction, you should be able to access future lives and indeed, for some of us that practice other life regression/progression, this appears to be the case (if you believe in reincarnation, of course).      But to get back to remote viewing; the government spent $27 million to research the remote viewing phenomenon and found that, not only is it possible, but amazingly so. Joe McMoneagle, one of the government's premier remote viewers and part of a highly classified (at that time) group of operational remote viewers, reports that in double blind experiments, his hit rate is 86percent! The two men that lead this research are laser physicists Hal Puthoff (the lead) and Russell Targ. Hal Puthoff did a rare talk on this research recently, sponsored by the Arlington Institute, and the free audio file (in two parts) is located at http://www.arlingtoninstitute.org/dr-harold-puthoff9. There are surprises in the talk and he answers questions like, did they ever get information about UFOs, is it possible to predict the future of the market and make money, did the government believe this was real?      Enjoy! ___________________ 1 Morehouse, D. What is Remote Viewing. Retrieved February 5 2008 from: http://www.davidmorehouse.com/WHAT is RV.htm. 2 Randolph, T.G. (2008) The speed of instantly. Nature. 3 Radin, D. (2006). Entangled minds: extrasensory experiences in a quantum reality. New York: Paraview Pocket Books. 4 Radin, D. (1997). The Conscious universe: the scientific truth of psychic phenomena. New York: Harper Collins Publishers. 5 Pert, C. (1997). Molecules of emotion: the science behind mind-body medicine. New York: Scribner. 6 Pearsall, P. (1998). The Heart’s code: tapping the wisdom and power of our heart energy. New York: Broadway Books. 7 Sylvia, C. (1997). A change of heart. New York, Little, Brown and Company. 8 In fairness, I don’t think Stapp would endorse the way I am extending the theory. However, there are some physicists who may. 9 In Berkeley Springs, WV, 1 February, 2008.