Notes Psychokinesis from Jack Houck S Website. Pioneered PK Parties

Notes – Psychokinesis – from Jack Houck’s website. Pioneered PK Parties.

Introduction

Italics: extra material that was not given in the live presentation on 3-26-11 by Steve Glanz.

Sections of Jack Houck’s Website

Conceptual Model
Associative Remote Viewing
Make & Use A Dowsing Rod
Mental Access Window
PK Parties
PK Required Materials & Format
Psychic Healing
Remote Viewing
RV Experiment Instructions
RV & PK Research
Surface Change Paper
Material Deformation by Intention
Energy Healing and Psychokinesis
Plastic Spoon Deformation
Experience Giving PK Parties

Bibliography

Places where Jack Houck published

Archaeus

Artifex

Psi Research

Treat Conference Proceedings

Applied Psi

US Psychotronics Association Proceedings

Science of Whole Person Healing Conference Proceedings

History

Uri Geller started the Spoonbending phenomenon in the 1970's
Houck is aeronautical and astronautical engineer, taught aircraft structures at the University of Michigan, worked for a large aerospace company in Southern California (McDonnell Douglas), managing an advanced research group.
1976 - Reads IEEE Spectrum research article on RV – Puthoff and Targ,
Curious Skeptic. Meets Targ and Puthoff. They suggest he replicate RV experiments. Succeeds at replicating RV experiments.
PK and parapsychology research done on his own time as independent researcher.
1980 - writes and publishes conceptual model of parapsychology. Includes RV, PK, and other paranormal phenomena. I will go over that model later.
After 5 years of RV research, McDonnell Douglass funded his visits to various parapsychology labs to talk about his research. He starts the PK Parties (Spoonbending parties) in 1981 in response to challenge from Parapsychologist Charles Honorton to test his conceptual model. (Party atmosphere would enhance the peak-emotional/time-shift component of his theory.)
Partners with Severin Dahlen, a metallurgist who was getting metal bending PK results.
First party is a success. 1981.
1981-2003, does 370 parties, 17,000 clients, collecting data and publishing it along the way.
Other researchers do same, not all are scientific. Probably in the thousands by now.
During his time, Wilber Franklin, Elizabeth Rauscher, Bill Bise, Bill Tiller, Julian Isaacs, and John Hasted continue PK research and publishing results.

Conceptual Model

Brain collects information from an internal source - body sensors – eyes, ears, tongue, nose, skin and nerves.
Mind collects information from external sources – sight, sound, taste, smell and feeling.
Mind is not just local to human body.
Information about events in all space and time is stored all around us. The mind accesses this information storage system.
It is not known where this information is stored. Our human senses only perceive a very small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. Information storage may not necessarily even be in the known electromagnetic spectrum.
The mind can tune into any information in this storage system when given specific instructions about space and time.
No instruments other than this mind-brain complex have been able to measure or directly contact this external information storage system.
The external signals in space-time seem to enter the brain and be processed by the corresponding physical sensory cortices, as if the cortices were unaware of whether the signals emanated from the body sensors or the source external to the body.
The brain processes information like a very advanced computer would from both our physical senses and from this stored information.
The computer analogy can be used for most brain functions. Brain takes information from both the physical body sensors and the external information storage system, processes it to produce what we perceive as senses, and adds additional processing in the form of thinking, analyzing, comparing, and reacting. The output then goes into the information storage system (i.e., memory) and reports the information out in the form of speech, writing, muscle movements, and so on.
A Space Time Unit (STU) is represented as a sphere with information about all space time, past, present and future. A plane passing through it is a unit of time-space. And your experience of that plane is your personal world line. Planes skewed at different angles to ours could represent UFO’s or other dimensional beings.
Paranormal Phenomena classified as: ESP is Passive: Remote Viewing, Body Scanning, Telepathy, Mind-Reading, Out-of-Body Experiences. PK is Active: Material Deformation, Mental Healing, Telekinesis, Affecting Random Processes, Remote Effects like Telekinesis.
One thinks of emotions as applied to humans and animals. However, emotional intensity applies to all things, including inanimate objects.
In RV, a target is most easily viewed at the time it experienced (or will experience) its most intense emotional state, called a peak emotional event. This may not be in the present, thus there is a “time-shift” phenomenon observed with RV, where the target may be viewed at a time that is different than the present, unless the viewer is otherwise instructed.
Houck suggested that if people could make the emotional peak in the present moment larger than any other emotion on the object’s world line in the past or future, then the mind will lock on to present to cause a paranormal event to happen. That is how he had the idea for the PK Party.
On the basis of early experience with RV, PK (which is mind interacting with matter) could also be better controlled by creating the proper environment by 1. Creating a peak, emotionally intense situation, 2. Having the individual connect his mind with the object to be affected (as in RV) and 3. Commanding it to do his or her will.

Interestingly, the actual energy required by the person to connect his/her mind to the object and command it to bend is very small. The real energy for PK is provided locally. In the case of metal, the dislocations provide the heating along the grain boundaries, which allows the grains to slip. Will define later.
The amazing thing is that the PK operator does not have to specify where the energy is to come from. The "system" provides that energy.

Extra

RV is properly called Remote Perception, because all sensory data may be accessed at a distance, not just vision.
Houck chose to keep linear time and argued that the mind is capable of scanning throughout time, locking on to information at or near peak emotional events, much like a radio that scans in frequency, locks onto the peak signals (radio station), and plays out the information through its speakers.
When the environment is carefully controlled (i.e., a nearly sensory free, dimly lit room with no pictures on the wall, no unusual smells, and no noise), anyone can experience RV with the aid of a skillful interviewer. The interviewer is responsible for doing the analytical thinking. He asks questions that allow the remote viewer to be open to perceive the information from all the senses.
The interviewer must be supportive of and have some rapport with the remote viewer.
RV- 1) the signal from the physical body sensors must be greatly reduced (sensory deprivation, access slow senses like smell, taste and touch 2) the signal from the information storage system must be maximized (focused attention), and 3) the background noise must be minimized by reducing as much of the brain processing activity as possible (let interviewer be the thinker).
Smell, taste, and touch seem to have slow discrimination rates (e.g., relatively long time to distinguish one smell from another)
If the remote viewer continues to analyze the information, the information will become distorted by information from his "world line" or memory.
External signals from an individual's own world line are stronger than the signals from other information in the information system.
An individual human consciousness exists within a smaller sphere. With focused attention, one can access any information in the macrosphere, not limited by space or time. Higher consciousness can expand that personal worldline or sphere, until it reaches the surface of the macro-ellipsoid which encompasses all space time, and is therefore beyond it.
RVresults are filed into the information storage system, defined as the space-time unit (STU). This filing would be the brain activity analogous to the activity of a transmitter.
To explain RV, Elizabeth Rauscher devised an eight-dimensional space-time model using complex geometry to provide a mathematical formulation for the connectivity between world lines. The key is another dimension orthogonal to the space and time dimensions that is proportional to emotional intensity.

All minds participate in a consensus reality. When an individual wants to access a memory, his mind searches back through the individual's world line in the STU to sense that information. His external sensors acquire that information, which he senses in his head, much like a hologram, with the data being processed. All sensory information from that memory can be accessed.
When looking into the future, the mind again accesses an event usually at a time near an emotional peak. The wave function for that time and place contains the likelihood for all the possible events based on all the information in the STU at the current moment. When the mind goes into the future, it observes and temporarily collapses the wave function to a possible event. These data are seen within the brain with the same clarity as a memory, using the same external sensing. Data is filed on the individual's world line and may affect his or her future actions.
Often future events are dependent on the actions of many people, any of whom can change their minds because they have free will. Thus, as real time marches on, the wave functions of future events are constantly being changed to reflect their probabilities based on current realities.

"Energy-exchange" curve that indicates that some of the population of a given band may be able to extend their consciousness outside the band, even though they normally communicate well within their population band. By moving up the scale from emotional to mental to intuitive)the person with the higher level of consciousness is capable of handling and possibly manipulating more information.

During sleep, the signals from the body sensors are relatively small, and the external signals may be large enough to be detected and processed.
OBE’s - physical brain is still doing the data processing. The signals from their physical sensors have become very small compared to the external signals.
In psychometry, an individual touches an object and lets information come into his brain that is stored in the STU on the time line of that object.
What some people see as an "aura" may be the overlay of signals from both the physical body and external sensors.

Mechanism

A metal is a type of crystal, which is made of atoms bonded together in a structured way. In metals, there are many localized regions of crystals called grains. Within each individual grain, there can be irregularities in the structure called dislocations. At the edge of these regions you have a grain boundary, and the gap between these grains is also a type of dislocation.
Material which has a large concentration of dislocations, and a low-heat-transfer coefficient (low thermal conductivity) is the easiest to warm form. (His term for bending).

Stainless steel flatware fits this category perfectly. It is usually stamped out in large quantities. Cold stamping creates a large number of "dislocations.” In warm-forming, PK energy (an unknown form of energy) lands at a dislocation and turns into heat. These dislocations act as transducers. Because the metal grain boundaries are thin, heat that builds to 2000 degrees at these dislocations melts the steel, just as they would if they were exposed to neutrons, x-rays or microwaves. The metal loses its structure and becomes like rubber for 5-30 seconds, then refreezes.
Stainless steel has a very low thermal conductivity, which allows a metal bender to have 5-30 seconds to find the moment when the metal is soft.
The heat is then transferred out through the metal which can then be sensed by the individual either as stickiness or warmth.
The reason that the metal only feels warm (not hot) is that the grain boundaries are very small compared to the size of the grains in the metal.
There are some other metals that don’t work as well. Copper has a low heat transfer rate, thus making it hard to find a time when enough of the grain boundaries have melted to apply some pressure before the metal refreezes. Copper tends to get hot and people can get burned. Or, sometimes gasses build up in the copper, the gasses pop, and the metal blows apart.
Cast metals are very hard to PK because they don’t have very many in the first place.
Graduate forks have large internal stresses and many dislocations. (Define graduate).
If a metal has some pre-stress in it and it is placed in an oven, the metal will curl up in order to relieve the stress. Metallurgists call this creep. Similarly, if the grain boundaries of a metal are temporarily softened using PK and the metal has some pre-stress in it like the graduate forks do, the metal will change shape in order to relieve that stress and appear to bend spontaneously (graduate school bending).

Protocol

The original protocol for doing PK were invented by Severin Dahlen (metallurgist, who also worked at McDonnell Douglas).
A typical PK Party lasted between two and three hours. 30-45 Minute Talk. Gave the history of PK Parties and toldpeople what was going to happen at the party. As he talked, people got increasingly anxious to get into the bending.
People at a PK Party usually sat in a circle with a large number of spoons and forks dumped in the middle of the circle. Jack, acting as the party facilitator, explained the PK steps and then directed the group through the steps, much like a cheerleader. During the PK Party, the facilitator did not demonstrate doing PK, but encouraged the people attending the PK Party to bend first. The idea was for people to have their own experience.
Instructions were as follows. (Tiffany’s may be different).
- Hold the piece of silverware between the thumb and forefinger and rub gently.
- Project a point of concentration in your head, almost to the point of pain.
- Then move this point of concentration down through your neck, shoulder, arm, hand, fingers, and project it into the silverware. In effect, this process allows the mind to achieve a link from the brain to some point within the silverware.
- Next, verbally command the silverware to bend. Have everyone shout as loud as they could: "BEND, BEND, BEND!!!" The people are asked not to just shout for the sake of shouting but to concentrate and intently command the silverware to bend.
- Then release that thought, sit back, relax, and use the body sensors (fingers or a feeling) to find the small time window when the silverware is ready to bend.

- Occasionally, push on the object with the other hand to see if the object gives.

The metal becomes a biofeedback sensor. It only stays soft for between 5 and 30 seconds, so it is important to really go at it for the few seconds that the metal is soft and has lost its structure. Wrap the head around the handle many times. Also, you will feel the metal "freeze" or re-harden as the grain boundaries re-solidify.
Jack kept the environment fun, exciting, and even chaotic at times. Excitement was encouraged and when people got into the fun of it, incredible results occurred. The noise and the people shouting with joy helped distract people, causing them to let go, which is the most difficult part for most people.
Most people have a hard time releasing the thought, and think that they have to continue to concentrate on the bending objective. So the facilitator moves around and tries to break everyone's concentration.
Sometimes Jack would hold a person's silverware as if to test how he/she is doing, and then make-up something as to how well he/she is doing or what he/she should try. Usually, the person was able to bend the object shortly thereafter.
Jack divided PK parties into three levels – Kindergarten, High School and Graduate School.
Kindergarten – bending spoons and forks with hands, but using the power of the mind to soften the metal, just as we’ve described above.
People can use both hands during Kindergarten, but only a small amount of physical force is encouraged.
Start at the Kindergarten level because of "boot-strapping" effect (increases confidence which breeds more successes).
Knives were rarely used because they can break and cut people. Glass and wood blow up because they are not flexible enough to expand readily.
People usually would bend four or five pieces of flatware before moving on to the next level.

The High School level is defined as bending things that cannot ordinarily be bent by human physical force, such as steel rods (aluminum rods, one foot in length and 3/8" in diameter. Also, zinc plated steel rods.). Also, silver plated spoons made of pot metal – where you buckle the bowls.

Graduate school is when each person holds two forks at the bottom of the handle, one in each hand with the intention of having the forks bend spontaneously. Done as a group. Convinces skeptics.
Sometimes he had people use a dowsing rod, suggesting that everyone check the silverware to determine if it was "willing to bend" (i.e., if the subconscious would allow the silverware to bend). If the person got a “no” answer, they would get different silverware.
Jack took pictures to record the results of the bending, and kept a record of each individual's results from all of the PK Parties.
Did questionnaires and surveys at parties – ie.) perception of how much force they used to bend the flatware.

Observations