The Source Field Investigations (3 page)

This is not a book of philosophy, speculation or wishful thinking—it is a vast synthesis of investigations into the Source Field. I am standing on the shoulders of giants in writing this book, as the overwhelming majority of these findings was developed by Ph.D.s from accredited universities, who ended up discovering things that often put them at odds with their colleagues, employers and much of the mainstream world. There are also many examples in which a scientist or research institute made one specific breakthrough that was released into the mainstream press—but the media did not see or understand how well it tied in with so many other related discoveries. In Russia, however, there has been a consistent, focused effort to investigate the Source Field since at least the 1950s—but until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the vast majority of all these revelations were classified for national security. Over ten thousand papers investigating the Source Field were published by 1996 alone,
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with more than half of them from Russia. The implications of what they found are so staggering that I suspect you will be stunned by how much we already know about this unseen force—which influences absolutely everything we see, hear, do and believe.

It has taken me over thirty years of dedicated research to assemble this grand collection of data—and particularly since 1993, I have spent as many waking hours as possible in pursuit of this radical rethinking of science. After I became self-employed in the summer of 1998, I began working fourteen hours a day, seven days a week researching and investigating the Source Field phenomena. After Brian Tart, the president of Dutton Books, contacted me and offered to publish this research, it took me almost two years of focused, concentrated effort to develop this book. When I finally started combining the very best of everything I had found into one single vision, a seemingly endless parade of stunning new connections emerged. If these breakthroughs become common knowledge and are developed into working technologies—and/or if existing technologies that use these principles are declassified and released to the public—we could end up in a world that rivals or exceeds our finest visionary science fiction films and novels.

As I bring you on a guided tour into the deeper mysteries of space, time, energy, matter, biology and consciousness, we will also explore subjects as fascinating as antigravity, dematerialization, teleportation, the parallel reality where time is three-dimensional, quantum geometry, natural “vortex points” on the earth where ships and planes disappear, real-world examples of time travel, the Maya calendar as a tool for calculating when these “portals” will open, and an analysis of how our galaxy is driving all the different cycles we experience—for our own physical, biological and spiritual evolution. The potential technological applications of this science are incredible. Furthermore, we may see a fundamental change in the nature of space and time itself as we fully cross over into this new zone of energy in the galaxy you will learn about.

The Source Field is the key to unlock all of these mysteries, and ultimately understand the big questions: who are we, where did we come from, how did we get here, and where are we going. Our journey into the Source Field Investigations begins in the next chapter by exploring the work of Dr. Cleve Backster—a pioneer who helped us understand the true nature of Mind. We no longer need to remain ignorant about the structure, identity and purpose of Consciousness. It is not merely a biological phenomenon—it is written into the energy of the Universe itself.

 

David Wilcock, January 2011

CHAPTER ONE

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ould all space, time, energy, matter, biological life and consciousness in the Universe be the product of a Source Field? Is it possible that the ancient spiritual teachings and philosophies are correct when they say “As Above, So Below”? What if everything we see in the visible universe is ultimately a crystallization of a vast Mind—which has a singular identity and awareness? Might we be living in amnesia—going through experiences that will eventually guide us through a full awakening into the vastness of this infinite consciousness?

The Source Field Investigations
must begin with compelling evidence that consciousness is not strictly trapped within our own brain and nervous system. We would need to see tangible proof that our thoughts are constantly interacting with our environment—and having an effect upon our surroundings. If our concept of a Source Field is correct, then Mind would become an energetic phenomenon that is not confined to biological life-forms, but can pass between them—through allegedly “empty space.”

A variety of scientists and scholars in the Western world have made discoveries that reveal the existence of the Source Field—including controversial figures like Wilhelm Reich, who was a protégé of Dr. Sigmund Freud, the father of psychology. Here, our Source Field Investigations will begin with Dr. Cleve Backster—who summarized his fascinating life’s work in his recent book
Primary Perception.
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While attending Rutgers University prep school, Backster was fascinated to hear his friend describe a hypnosis technique he’d just learned from his professor. Backster decided to try to hypnotize his roommate with this technique, who soon fell into a very deep trance. Backster then told him, “Now, I want you to open your eyes, but you’re not going to wake up. I want you to go down the hall and get permission for late lights.”
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In this prep school, the students could not have their lights on past ten P.M. without special permission. Under hypnosis, Backster’s roommate then opened his eyes, got up, walked down the hall and got permission for late lights from the professor on duty. He signed the log and returned to the room. When Backster brought his roommate back out of hypnosis, he didn’t even realize anything had happened to him: “See? It doesn’t work. This so-called hypnosis is a bunch of baloney.”
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When they walked down to the on-duty professor, he confirmed that Backster’s roommate had just come and asked permission a few minutes earlier—but the roommate couldn’t believe it was real. He was then shocked to discover his own signature in the late lights log.

Backster began researching hypnosis—reading as many books as he could find on the subject, which were not that many in the late 1930s—and performed additional successful experiments. After the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Backster joined the military ROTC program at Texas A & M University—and there he began making frequent demonstrations of hypnosis to larger audiences. Typically about a third of his audience went into some stage of trance—and he picked the deepest subjects for more intensive work. One man was told he would not be able to see Backster in the room for the next thirty minutes after he woke up. Indeed, once this subject was brought out of hypnosis, he could not see Backster at all. Just to test how far this would go, Backster picked up a cigarette and blew out some smoke, although he was not a smoker. This man saw the cigarette and the smoke levitating in the air, but he could not see anyone holding it—and he became very alarmed. He wanted to leave the room, but the audience compelled him to stay. After the thirty minutes, Backster again reappeared to him; he followed his posthypnotic commands perfectly, with no conscious memory of what he had been told to do.
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My own introduction into the powers of hypnosis came after I had a dramatic out-of-body experience. When I was only five years old, I woke up one night and found myself floating about three feet over my own body. That little boy in the bed was breathing normally—but if he was “me,” then who the heck was I? This quickly started to scare me—and as soon as I panicked, I snapped back into my body. For the next two years, I wished I could have another chance to explore this bold, new frontier—but nothing happened. When I finally asked my mother how I could learn more about this, she took me down into the basement and suggested I read some books she had on ESP—extrasensory perception. The first one I read was Harold Sherman’s
How to Make ESP Work for You
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Sherman said that when you hypnotize someone, you can get them to have an out-of-body experience like I had—with apparently stunning results.

An even more fantastic-sounding hypnosis story can be found in Michael Talbot’s epic work
The Holographic Universe—
one of the best collections of Source Field investigations ever committed to the printed page. Talbot witnessed his father’s friend Tom being hypnotized in the early 1970s by a professional. The hypnotist told Tom his daughter, Laura, would be invisible to him when he came out of trance. He then had Laura stand directly in front of her father. Tom apparently saw right through her body as he woke up and gazed around the room—and also could not hear her giggling. The hypnotist then pulled a watch out of his pocket and quickly pushed it into the small of Laura’s back, keeping it concealed in his hand so no one could have seen what it was—and asked Tom if he could see what he was holding.

I read this back in 1995, and it made a huge impression upon me. Tom’s hypnotized mind could see right through his daughter as if she didn’t even exist—and he could read detailed written inscriptions from a pocket watch. If true, this challenges everything we think we know about solid matter—and suggests there is a part of our minds with vastly greater capabilities than most of us are ever aware of. What we think we see may be nothing more than the product of a collective decision we’re all making to see it that way—a form of mass hypnosis. Remember—we can walk, talk and interact with the world under hypnosis, travel out of body and make accurate observations, and may or may not have any conscious memory of what we did after we are brought out of trance. We can also be given posthypnotic suggestion to act, think or behave a certain way after we wake up. These suggestions are apparently powerful enough to make a human being utterly invisible to us while we’re in an otherwise normal state of consciousness. When we discover that ordinary people can be hypnotized like this, we typically write it off as the work of the “subconscious mind”—but we still don’t understand what, exactly, this is . . . or why it works. The subconscious seems to automatically obey hypnotic commands—generally without question—as if it were quite accustomed to hearing orders and acting upon them.

After his university training, Cleve Backster eventually joined the U.S. Counter-Intelligence Corps, and lectured on the potential danger of foreign powers using hypnosis to extract classified information from overseas government personnel. Backster took a huge risk to demonstrate the seriousness of this subject to a high-ranking military officer. With her permission, Backster hypnotized the secretary of the commanding general of the Counter-Intelligence Corps. While under hypnosis, he asked her to remove a highly classified document from the general’s locked file cabinet—and she willingly obeyed. Backster told her she would not remember what she had done when she awoke—and sure enough, she had no idea she had just leaked very sensitive information when he brought her back.