Finally, after reading the first six chapters it seems as if it is all making more sense to me now. Since I don’t have much of a background in science I had trouble understanding some of the concepts discussed earlier in the book, but I found chapters seven thru nine to be very interesting.
After reading about the outcome of the experiment that Braud and Schlitz did on the nervous people I was amazed by how much influence they had in calming down the subjects. The idea of person having some sort of mind control of another individual is both interesting and a bit scary. If this power could truly be harnessed by someone there’s know telling what good or bad could be done. When Braud discovered that those who required help in doing something seemed more receptive to the influence of others it made me wonder if the brain opens up more to the ZPF when it needs help doing something. I imagined it almost as if the brain puts out a call for help in doing something and if someone is able to hear you call for help they will be able to influence you in positive way using the ZPF. In contrast I feel that this could be used in an equally destructive way if the person sending the message decided to influence you in a negative way.
While reading chapter eight at times I felt like I was reading some sort of supernatural spy novel and then I realized that this wasn’t fiction I was reading. The studies that Hal Puthoff conducted in this chapter grabbed my attention much more than his earlier work. After reading about the amazing abilities of people like Pat Price it’s no wonder that these experiments directly influenced the US into creating the Star Wars program. I’m surprised that our country with all of its secrecy even allowed this information to be published. The study that was done after the program was closed in 1995 that showed the results were not achieved by chance further interested me. Could we use this remote viewing to save lives in this time of war? It would seem safer to have someone use psychic powers to find out what are enemies are up to, rather than to send in troops who could get killed.
Chapter nine discussed the idea of people being able to see into the past and even change the past from the present. While it seems like this could have many positives I couldn’t help thinking about the Back to the Future movies while reading this chapter. I realized that this ability could be used to influence cancer causing cells in a person before they have developed the disease. I also wondered if it was used in the wrong way could we negatively affect or destroy the present time as we know it.