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[10.5-24.8] I'm going to ask you how everybody is. He's already done that. And I've long ago got accustomed to these various types of introductions, especially the kind that Harold and Al put forth.
[24.8-35.3] They do it very lovingly. And I keep trying to think of a nice comeback to them, and I fail.
[35.3-52.4] I usually also bring some notes that I concoct after I get to a place where I'm going to speak, because inevitably I find something unexpected.
[52.4-64.1] And I did here again. Obviously, I'm very glad to be here. And I'm here for several reasons.
[64.1-72.7] The first reason, and most important one of them is, of course, to be at Harold's birthday party.
[72.7-85.9] I owe a very great debt to Harold, because back when I was floundering trying to find some answers, I met Harold in my search for answers.
[85.9-95.9] And Harold was one of the key people that said, that's all right, you're not insane. And it was very wonderful.
[95.9-110.5] And that began a growing friendship between two, quote, sane people. And it has grown saner and more loving with every year.
[110.5-124.1] So I'm obviously very glad to be here. The second thing, of course, is that hidden away behind that blinding spotlight are many old friends.
[124.1-127.1] And you can leave it on. I don't claim too much, but neither do I.
[127.1-145.3] Our many old friends and a number of new ones that I'm meeting, and that's one of the happiest things that happens to me when I sneak away from where I am in my little backwoods hubble
[145.3-161.4] and get out on such occasions as this and meet people that make life much warmer than it was before it came.
[161.4-180.6] And I guess the third reason that I'm here is to report to you a very, very major event as far as we're concerned in terms of our results of what we've been doing.
[180.6-190.9] In other words, we think we know what we're doing in part, and that is progress.
[190.9-205.8] As most of you know, I'm sure some 20-plus years ago, it's a long time, I went out to look for answers to this unexpected thing that began in my life.
[205.8-227.9] And as a result, I naturally explored all of the conventional sciences because I had an orientation and a background that made me feel inescapably that that's where all answers to everything would lie in our conventional sciences.
[227.9-241.9] Thus, I was very bitterly disappointed when I discovered that in the case of something called, they called it astral projection, and I didn't know what that was.
[241.9-254.2] I still don't particularly like the term, and thus we use one that a friend of ours coined, which is a UBI, and it's an acronym for out-of-body experiences.
[257.5-279.6] Anyway, then getting past this conventional sciences business and conceiving of the idea that anything beyond that might have some validity, with the help of people gathering along the way, began to explore these things that were happening.
[280.6-290.9] And quite naturally, we centered upon the out-of-body experience because we had a beginning, as it were, and I was desperate to find some answers.
[292.2-306.2] So, running into those bewildering kind of things also that said, where do you find money to do these things, I just happened to have a couple companies that along the way provided R&D funds to do this.
[307.2-322.4] And it was well justified in terms of, I can say of course now, in retrospect, that the designation of those R&D funds was not exactly in the books what actually took place.
[323.4-346.9] Anyway, this started in New York, as you probably know, and then my businesses took me to Virginia, and then from Virginia we ended up between Charlottesville and Waynesboro, in a place called Afton, which consists of a post office and an antique store, period.
[347.9-355.8] So don't go looking for Afton, it's virtually non-existent, it's only a mailbox.
[356.8-359.9] The post office doesn't even have a telephone to give you an idea.
[360.9-372.2] What's that beeping? Oh, excuse me, now I know what it is. Somebody has a portacall. That sounds good. We should have portacalls, everybody, should we?
[373.2-386.2] Anyway, I usually try to follow notes and sometimes I get all mixed up. Anyway, some, now, put that page away, didn't have anything on it anyway.
[389.7-407.9] Anyway, now some 20 plus years later, after some, what, 8,000 plus experiments and some 2,000 volunteer participants, we've come to some conclusions,
[408.9-420.7] and I'd like to share those with you, because I think that it's very important that you know about these, because somehow I believe they will affect your life, each and every one of you.
[421.7-432.0] I think that there is a place also where each and every one of you can quite conceivably help with this tiger we have by the tail.
[434.4-444.6] How did we get there? Well, we began from the out of body experience in trying to determine what was this energy that was used.
[445.6-454.6] We discovered, first of all, that it's not biochemical, it's not a chemical energy, it's not an electrical energy. What was it?
[455.6-459.8] Well, we're a little bit farther down the path some 20 years later, but not too far.
[460.8-466.8] But we did begin to get a handle on this energy in these last 20 years, and that's where the magic lies.
[468.8-479.0] We began to find out, first of all, that we could perceive this energy, this energy by which you think that, as far as we can determine, is not electrical.
[479.0-484.0] It's another type of energy, and it's not magnetic. We found that out, too.
[487.0-497.0] So what does that leave? It's not the conventional energy that our conventional sciences know and understand, and this is the basic reason why they reject it, because there's no means to measure it,
[498.0-507.0] there's no means to perceive it, truly, without the use of the human mind or the animal mind or the plant mind that way.
[508.0-520.4] In any event, we gradually, slowly, painfully began to learn how to perceive this energy separate and apart from the mind that is using it.
[521.4-529.4] And this is not so easy. For example, water, perceiving water. And that ain't easy, but I'll tell you. But it does work.
[530.4-539.4] And you begin to perceive this energy as energy, separate and apart from the thought or the perception that is trying to find it.
[540.6-545.6] And after that, the natural thing says, well, let's figure out how we can control this stuff.
[546.6-552.9] And this is the same thing that Harold is talking about when he says, picture, visualize.
[553.9-571.1] You are using that energy, of course, when you do that. Well, we want to get a little more pragmatic about it, and so we devise systems by which we could learn how to control this, control it other than just the pure thinking process.
[572.1-583.2] And we learned how to develop energy artifacts that would reduce this to practice. And that was the next thing, to learn how to use it, to use it in various forms.
[584.4-588.4] And that was the general overall trend of what we were trying to do.
[588.4-599.4] I might add that sometimes some inadvertent publicity developed. For example, oh, a...
[600.0-605.3] Some months ago in the local paper, there was an article about our activities, and this occurred,
[605.3-614.2] the article took place in the Waynesboro paper. And one of our technicians who also worked in a
[614.2-622.5] part-time in a bar in a moose lodge over near Waynesboro was serving drinks that night to two
[622.5-629.2] men at the bar. And one of them said, Sam, did you read that thing in that paper about what's going
[629.2-636.5] on over at Afton? And Joe, Sam said, yeah, yeah, Joe, that's really stuff, isn't it? They're taking
[636.5-649.0] brains out of one body and the other body and they still live. We also have things about
[649.7-658.4] apparitions appearing down the road, but that's another matter. In our, I'm quickly surveying
[658.4-662.6] because I don't know how much you know about where we are and what we are, but it does get up to
[662.6-672.6] this one particular thing. So then in our research pattern and we, being much in the engineering mode,
[672.6-680.0] try to solve problems that come up. And one of the problems that did come up was how do we check
[680.0-688.1] people during sleep? And we wanted volume and to get four or five people asleep in our facility,
[688.1-693.6] and this was up in New York, was almost impossible. So we said, well, there must be some way that we
[693.6-699.9] can put them to sleep one at a time in the lab and that way it'll make it all neat and, you know,
[699.9-705.3] that left brain organism, organizing methods saying, point, point, point, point. So we thought
[705.3-711.6] we'd sleep for an hour, wake them up, and do it. We found that in that pattern and working that
[711.6-717.0] out, we found that obviously we did not want to use drugs because that affected the consciousness
[717.1-721.6] and we're working with an antigen. We don't want to dull it, so we couldn't use drugs.
[723.1-729.8] So along came a thing called electrosleep, and we tried that and that didn't seem to be working
[729.8-736.5] right. Anyway, we evolved a method and came upon a method of inducing sleep by a series of audio
[736.5-744.1] pulses, and these audio pulses then in turn had the ability to create a frequency-following
[744.1-749.4] response in the brain. Aha, this is electrical, incidentally, the frequency-following response
[751.4-758.2] in our measuring terms. Anyway, in developing this, we were able to control the pattern of
[758.2-767.4] sleep and put people to sleep very neatly and very easily and without any side or after effects of any
[767.4-772.3] use of drugs. Incidentally, we have never gotten into the use of drugs in any of our work because
[772.9-778.7] we felt that it fractionalized consciousness so much and distorted it that we would lose more than
[778.7-786.2] we gained. That's why this basic discovery became very important, this frequency-following response
[786.2-792.8] that we could create in the brain. This meant that we could help, and then I say help because
[792.8-800.5] if you resisted it, it would not work, but we could aid any individual to drop into alpha and
[800.5-807.3] then into theta and then into delta sleep, and we could control the duration of this particular
[807.3-813.1] stage of sleep. We could cycle sleep in any form that we wanted, and this became very important
[813.1-819.9] because we could hold a person and say this deep delta sleep. Instead of 15 minutes, we could
[819.9-826.4] hold them in 50 minutes if we so desired. This led us to a great deal of exploration of sleep,
[828.3-837.5] and incidentally, we don't know much more than anybody else about sleep. If we examine our culture
[837.5-841.6] and you examine yourself very carefully, you spend a third of your life doing it, but
[842.8-848.7] our conventional sciences still don't know precisely what sleep is. But at least we know
[848.7-855.5] how to control it now without the use of drugs so that if for a psychiatric purpose,
[856.3-862.2] one needs more REM sleep, we just really can set the dial, as it were, and a person can have
[862.2-869.7] much more REM sleep. Anyway, that's where we got into the business of something very important,
[869.7-874.8] to be able to control sleep, one of the basic things in our life. Now, from there,
[875.6-883.8] is this boring to you? I'm trying to get you somewhere. From there, we found that we could
[883.9-892.9] enhance the effect of this multiple pulse series by the utilization of what we call binaural beat,
[892.9-898.3] which is the insertion of one signal in one ear, another signal in another ear,
[898.3-905.4] and the mix, the beat frequency between those two signals. An illustration, if you had a 100
[905.4-912.4] hertz signal in this ear and 115 hertz signal in the other ear, the beat frequency between the two