Extra Sensory by Brian Clegg
Author:Brian Clegg
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
8.
ENTER THE MILITARY
Imagine the scene. A military office—a large office. This is not the cubbyhole of a lowly quarter sergeant; it is the office of a general. The office’s occupant stands with his back to the wall, facing across perhaps twenty feet of space toward the opposite side of the room. He is preparing himself mentally, visualizing the wall in front of him and its atoms. He knows that most of that wall is empty space. It’s not just that there are gaps between the atoms—every single particle of matter is mostly empty space with almost all its mass concentrated into a tiny nucleus. Compared to the size of the atom as a whole, the nucleus is like a fly in a cathedral. It should be easy enough, with focused willpower, to brush past a collection of flies.
The man tries to clear his mind, to picture the atoms in his own body slipping through those of the wall. And then he begins to move. What starts as a walk develops in a pace or two into a run, straight toward the opposite wall. He has total faith in his ability to pass straight through the barrier. Or at least he thinks he has. With a crash and a stinging pain in his nose he is brought up short. Once again, the wall is not going to let him through.
This was not some student high on psychedelic drugs. This was Major General Albert Stubblebine, at the time in charge of the entire Military Intelligence Corps. Stubblebine had become convinced that the human mind was capable of far more than many scientists would give it credit for—that his own mind should be able to influence matter. Inspired by a Defense Intelligence Agency report on Soviet activity in the field of psi warfare, Stubblebine was not going to let the United States be left behind.
Inevitably, it wasn’t just academics who became interested in psi phenomena in the twentieth century. When that visionary friar Roger Bacon suggested back in the thirteenth century that it would be valuable to see remotely into a citadel, he had military applications in mind. He knew that being able to take a remote view of the enemy was an essential component of a successful military campaign. Similarly, when Galileo first demonstrated his telescope to the Doge’s Council in Venice, there was no doubt it was the defense of the city that gripped the imagination of those dignitaries, not the device’s potential for stargazing. Remote viewing is a natural tool for military surveillance, and with other psi abilities, in the 1970s it came under scrutiny from the U.S. Army.
This was a topic that was in the air with the media coverage given to the Geller phenomenon (see chapter 10), but there was also an element of Cold War one-upmanship. The United States was still smarting from the early lead that the Soviet Union had taken in the space race. In the end, superior U.S. technology and skill had won through,
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