The Field (46 page)

13
D. Loye,
An Arrow Through Chaos: How We See into the Future
(Rochester, Vt: Park Street Press, 1983): 146.

14
J. Benveniste
et al
., ‘A simple and fast method for
in vivo
demonstration of electromagnetic molecular signaling (EMS) via high dilution or computer recording’,
FASEB Journal
, 1999; 13: A163.

15
J. Benveniste
et al
., ‘The molecular signal is not functioning in the absence of “informed” water’,
FASEB Journal
, 1999; 13: A163.

16
M. Jibu, S. Hagan, S. Hameroff
et al
., ‘Quantum optical coherence in cytoskeletal microtubules: implications for brain function’,
BioSystems
, 1994; 32: 95 – 209.

17
A. H. Frey, ‘Electromagnetic field interactions with biological systems’,
FASEB Journal
, 1993; 7: 272.

18
M. Bastide
et al
., ‘Activity and chronopharmacology of very low doses of physiological immune inducers,’
Immunology Today
, 1985; 6: 234 – 5; L. Demangeat
et al
., Modifications des temps de relaxation RMN à 4MHz des protons du solvant dans les très hautes dilutions salines de silice/lactose’,
Journal of Medical Nuclear Biophysics
, 1992; 16: 135 – 45; B. J. Youbicier-Simo
et al
., ‘Effects of embryonic bursectomy and
in ovo
administration of highly diluted bursin on an adrenocorticotropic and immune response to chickens’,
International Journal of Immunotherapy
, 1993; IX: 169 – 80; P. C. Endler
et al
., ‘The effect of highly diluted agitated thyroxine on the climbing activity of frogs’,
Veterinary and Human Toxicology
, 1994; 36: 56 – 9.

19
P. C. Endler
et al
., ‘Transmission of hormone information by non-molecular means’,
FASEB Journal
, 1994; 8: A400; F. Senekowitsch
et al
., ‘Hormone effects by CD record/replay’,
FASEB Journal
, 1995; 9: A392.

20
The Guardian
, March 15, 2001; see also J. Sainte-Laudy and P. Belon, ‘Analysis of immunosuppressive activity of serial dilutions of histamines on human basophil activation by flow symmetry’,
Inflammation Research
, 1996; Suppl 1: S33 – 4.

21
D. Reilly, ‘Is evidence for homeopathy reproducible?’
The Lancet
, 1994; 344: 1601 – 6.

22
J. Jacobs, ‘Homoeopathic treatment of acute childhood diarrhoea’,
British Homoeopathic Journal
, 1993; 82: 83 – 6.

23
E. S. M. deLange deKlerk and J. Bloomer, ‘Effect of homoeopathic medicine on daily burdens of symptoms in children with recurrent upper respiratory tract infections’,
British Medical Journal
, 1994; 309: 1329 – 32.

24
F. J. Master, ‘A study of homoeopathic drugs in essential hypertension’,
British Homoeopathic Journal
, 1987; 76: 120 – 1.

25
D. Reilly, ‘Is evidence for homeopathy reproducible?’
The Lancet
, 1994; 344: 1601-6.

26
Ibid.: 1585.

27
J. Benveniste, Letter,
The Lancet
, 1998; 351: 367.

28
Description of these results from a telephone conversation with Jacques Benveniste, November 10, 2000.

CHAPTER FIVE: RESONATING WITH THE WORLD

1
Description of Penrose’s and Lashley’s experiments from Karl Pribram, telephone interview, June 14, 2000;.M.Talbot,
The Holographic Universe
(New York: Harper-Collins, 1991): 11-13.

2
K. Pribram, ‘Autobiography in anecdote: the founding of experimental neuropsychology’, in Robert Bilder, (ed.),
The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography
(San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1998): 306 – 49.

3
Description of Lashley’s laboratory protocol from Karl Pribram, telephone interview, June 14, 2000.

4
K. S. Lashley,
Brain Mechanisms and Intelligence
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1929).

5
K. S. Lashley, ‘In search of the engram’, in Society for Experimental Biology,
Physiological Mechanisms in Animal Behavior
(New York: Academic Press, 1950): 501, as quoted in K. Pribram,
Languages of the Brain: Experimental Paradoxes and Principles in Neurobiology
(New York: Brandon House, 1971): 26.

6
Pribram, ‘Autobiography’.

7
As quoted in K. Pribram,
Brain and Perception: Holonomy and Structure in Figural
Processing
(Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1991): 9.

8
Talbot,
Holographic Universe:
18 – 19.

9
D. Loye,
An Arrow Through Chaos
(Rochester, Vt: Park Street Press, 2000): 16 – 17.

10
Karl Pribram, telephone interview, June 14, 2000.

11
Various interviews with K. Pribram, June 2000; see also Talbot,
Holographic Universe
: 19.

12
Full description of his discovery as a result of an interview with Karl Pribram, London, September 9, 1999.

13
Pribram, ‘Autobiography’.

14
Pribram,
Brain and Perception:
27.

15
Pribram,
Brain and Perception
: Acknowledgments, xx; also, interview with Pribram, London, September 9, 1999.

16
Karl Pribram, telephone interviews, June 14 and July 7, 2000; also meeting in Liège, Belgium, August 12, 1999.

17
Loye,
Arrow Through Chaos
: 150.

18
Talbot,
Holographic Universe
: 21.

19
Correspondence with K. Pribram, July 5, 2001.

20
Talbot,
Holographic Universe
: 26.

21
R. DeValois and K. DeValois,
Spatial Vision
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988).

22
Pribram,
Brain and Perception
: 76; also reviews of DeValois and DeValois, ’Spatial vision’,
Annual Review of Psychology
, 1980: 309 – 41.

23
Pribram,
Brain and Perception
, chapter 9.

24
Pribram,
Brain and Perception
: 79.

25
Pribram,
Brain and Perception
: 76 – 7.

26
Pribram,
Brain and Perception
: 75.

27
Pribram,
Brain and Perception
: 137; see also Talbot,
Holographic Universe:
27 – 30.

28
Ibid.

29
Telephone interviews with Karl Pribram, May 2000.

30
Pribram,
Brain and Perception
: 141.

31
W. J. Schempp,
Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Mathematical Foundations and Applications
(London: Wiley-Liss, 1998).

32
R. Penrose,
Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness
(New York: Vintage, 1994): 367.

33
S. R. Hameroff,
Ultimate Computing: Biomolecular Consciousness and Nanotechnology
(Amsterdam: North Holland, 1987).

34
Ibid; also E. Laszlo,
The Interconnected Universe: Conceptual Foundations of Trans-disciplinary Unified Theory
(Singapore: World Scientific, 1995): 41.

35
Pribram,
Brain and Perception
: 283.

36
M. Jibu and K. Yasue, ‘A physical picture of Umezawa’s quantum brain dynamics’, in R. Trappl (ed.)
Cybernetics and Systems Research, ’
92 (Singapore: World Scientific, 1992); ‘The basics of quantum brain dynamics’, in K. H. Pribram (ed.)
Proceedings of the First Appalachian Conference on Behavioral Neurodynamics
(Radford: Center for Brain Research and Informational Sciences, Radford University, September 17 – 20, 1992); ‘Intracellular quantum signal transfer in Umezawa’s quantum brain dynamics’,
Cybernetics Systems International
, 1993; 1(24): 1 – 7; ‘Introduction to quantum brain dynamics’, in E. Carvallo (ed.)
Nature, Cognition and System III
(London: Kluwer Academic, 1993).

37
C. D. Laughlin, ‘Archetypes, neurognosis and the quantum sea’,
Journal of Scientific Exploration
, 1996; 10: 375 – 400.

38
E. Insinna, correspondence and enclosures to author, November 5, 1998; also, E. Insinna ‘Ciliated cell electrodynamics: from cilia and flagella to ciliated sensory systems’, in A. Malhotra (ed.),
Advances in Structural Biology
(Stamford, Conn: JAI Press, 1999): 5.

39
M. Jibu, S. Hagan, S. Hameroff
et al
., ‘Quantum optical coherence in cytoskeletal microtubules: implications for brain function’,
BioSystems
, 1994; 32: 95 – 209.

40
Ibid.

41
D. Zohar,
The Quantum Self
(London: Flamingo, 1991): 70.

42
Laszlo,
The Interconnected Universe:
41.

43
Hameroff,
Ultimate computing
; Jibu
et al
., ‘Quantum optical coherence’.

44
E. Del Giudice
et al
., ‘Electromagnetic field and spontaneous symmetry breaking in biological matter’,
Nuclear Physics
, 1983; B275(FS17): 185 – 99.

45
D. Bohm,
Wholeness and the Implicate Order
(London: Routledge, 1983).

46
Pribram has also postulated that humans also possess ‘feedforward’ loops of images and information which enable them to actively seek out specific information or stimuli: – looking for a mate of a certain type is just one example (correspondence with Karl Pribram, July 5, 2001. For full explanation, see also Dave Loye,
Arrow Through Chaos
: 22 – 3.

47
Laszlo,
Interconnected Universe
.

48
M. Jibu and K. Yasue, ‘The basis of quantum brain dynamics’, in K. H. Pribram (ed.),
Rethinking Neural Networks: Quantum Fields and Biological Data
(Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1993): 121 – 45

49
Laszlo,
Interconnected Universe
: 100 – 1.

50
Laughlin, ‘Archetypes, neurognosis and the quantum sea’.

CHAPTER SIX: THE CREATIVE OBSERVER

1
For all history concerning Helmut Schmidt, correspondence with Helmut Schmidt, March 13, 1999; also telephone interviews with Schmidt, May 14, 2001, and May 16, 2001. See also R. S. Broughton,
Parapsychology: The Controversial Scienc
e (New York: Ballantine, 1991).

2
Rhine eventually wrote his results in a book entitled
Extra-sensory Perception
(Boston: Bruce Humphries, 1964).

3
Telephone interview with Helmut Schmidt, May 16, 2001.

4
Interview with Robert Jahn and Brenda Dunne, Amsterdam, October 19, 2000; also R. G. Jahn and B. G. Dunne,
Margins of Reality: The Role of Consciousness in the Physical World
(New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1987): 58 – 62.

5
E. Lazlo,
The Interconnected Universe: Conceptual Foundations of Transdisciplinary Unified Theory
(Singapore: World Scientific, 1995): 56.

6
H. Schmidt, ‘Quantum processes predicted?’,
New Scientist
, October 16, 1969: 114 – 15.

7
For amplification of this idea, see D. Radin and R. Nelson, ‘Evidence for consciousness-related anomalies in random physical systems’,
Foundations of Physics
, 1989; 19(12): 1499 – 514; also, D. Zohar,
The Quantum Self
(London: Flamingo, 1991): 33 – 4.

8
E. J. Squires, ‘Many views of one world – an interpretation of quantum theory’,
European Journal of Physics
, 1987; 8: 173.

9
H. Schmidt, ‘Mental influence on random events’,
New Scientist
, June 24, 1971; 757 – 8.