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33/commentary on chapter: Siddhis and Two-fluid model: Reflections after this chapter emphasize the importance of the siddhis in inducing the near-vacuum state which produces and "two-fluid" model, which two concepts seem central in explaining psychic phenomena. (Here refer to addendum on pages 46 and 372.) The following additional commentary may be useful in amplifying these ideas.

The brilliant scientist, Werner Heisenberg, once said: "What we see is not nature, but nature exposed to our method of questioning." Since we do not ask the right questions of nature, she does not tell us the right answers. The writer wonders if this concept is relevant in regard to those phenomena now considered miraculous and psychic. Do we in fact misinterpret the significance of what we see in this area, because we lack the insight to unravel the complex mechanisms and ideas which have produced such anomalous experience? Perhaps if we backed off the subject for a bit, and proposed some new theoretical considerations, we might further our cause.

Generally speaking, when a problem such as the psychic area proves sticky, it is because we are not in possession of powerful enough constructs. When one is looking for more powerful constructs, one usually finds that mathematics and physics furnish helpful paradigms. Intuition suggests that the two-fluid model in atomic physics may be just such a paradigm. Let us completely forget psychics for a few moments while we investigate the physical model carefully for possible isomorphic relevance.

To explain the two fluid model in non-scientific parlance, let us suppose that there is an assemblage of N people who wear nothing but sheets, as many as are at hand. Let us stipulate that while sheets cannot be divided, within the group they are always distributed as evenly as possible. Further let the number of sheets X, which starts out much larger than N gradually shrink, until at last it becomes less than N. Here a very spectacular event happens: suddenly the heretofore homogenous group is divided into two

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pacts - those who still have one sheet, and those who are naked; it is obvious that the behavior of these two subgroups will differ considerably.

To get a gut reaction on a profound problem, we have anthropomorphized the metaphor. Let us now change it by reducing the assemblage from persons to atoms, and the sheets to quanta packets of heat. This change in operators does not change the process, and it is at once obvious that we have the two fluid model (best exemplified by the superfluidity and superconductivity properties of Helium 3 under 2 degrees Kelvin).

In trying to visualize the two-fluid model, it may be helpful to realize that it is an inevitable consequence of the fact that energy comes in quantum packets, and consequently that when the entropy in a system has been so diluted "that there are not enough of the packets to go around" some of the stuff of the system must lack any packets at all. There are hence two kinds of stuff in the system: stuff without energy packets, and stuff with one energy packet each; these two form the two fluids.

Let us at once note, as important, the fact that the two fluids are very different in behavior. The one ordinary fluid carrying all the entropy of the system has no changed properties since the usual statistical laws govern. The other, an extraordinary fluid with no entropy, has no electrical resistance nor surface boundary. Quantum mechanical laws pertain here in macroscopic form. Conditions when quantum mechanical laws supersede the law of averages are conditions which favor "miracles." Since, however, this paper is not a scientific treatise, we will not further dwell on the other remarkable properties of the non-entropic liquid but proceed to use it as an isomorphic metaphor.

What has been described heretofore is a "spontaneous" example of the two-fluid model which occurs naturally because zero (with its unique properties) is the number below one. We shall now describe a more complex model which can occur only with intelligent intervention, since it consists of the division of a system into two sub-systems, one of which contains no entropy packets (and the other several entropy packets per unit of stuff) though some artificial separation process. Supposing that there is some way in which this can be done, the consequence will be that in a rather normal system (in fairly high entropy), a small sub-system can be so purified of entropy that it will be in total order, with consequent remarkable properties, while the larger sub-system takes on the excess entropy distributed over a larger extent, and hence relatively unnoticed. Naturally the lower the total entropy in the system, the easier it will be to achieve this goal, so that as a limiting case the goal is spontaneously achieved when the entropy packets per unit of stuff in the system have been reduced to unity, and not some multiple of it.

The spontaneous example of the two fluid model which must occur in physics because zero is the number below one, can hence be generalized to a contrived example of the two fluid model when some mechanism is employed to counteract the "spreading as-evenly-as- possible law," and produce units with no packets of entropy in the presence of others of more than one packet of entropy apiece. It is suggested that one such possible mechanism is siddhis meditation, which directs total order into a small subgroup at the expense of higher entropy in the larger subgroup.

Siddhis are produced by a sanayama, or 3-fold simultaneous use of concentration (samadhi), meditation (dhyana), and fixity (dharama). The first two produce an increase in order which flows through the whole system. But fixing the attention on a particular part produces an inflow of order from the whole system of the specific part. One could say that order in general is lessened to produce more order in one spot. (The analogue would be that of a hydraulic ram which uses the fall of a lot of water over a small height to produce the raising of a small amount to a considerable height.) The amount of order introduced into the small sub-system is so large that it produces a siddhi (miracle). The kind of siddhi depends on the particular sanayama employed which fixes total order on some specific object or body part.

Siddhis are important to psychic science because they involve almost every discrete phenomenon studied under that discipline, such as telepathy, precognition, levitation, psychokinesis, mind-reading, and many others, as catalogued in Gowan (1980). The most authoritative description of the siddhis is Patanjali's Yoga Sutra, Book III on paranormal powers, (Aranya, 1977). In the West, the Transcendental Meditation Move-

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ment, through its siddhis teaching, has experience and documentation on this subject, (Orme-Johnson and Farrow, 1977). Keeping these facts in mind, let us now turn to taking testimony from these sources. (Here reread page 38).

Domash views meditation as the conscious exploration of very low or ordered mental temperatures. The genesis of pure consciousness is seen as a phase transition of the nervous system to a state of long-range order among neurons. Similarities exist between this state of pure awareness and macroscopic quantum mechanisms, such as superconductivity and superfluidity. This "fifth yogic state" can be modeled in terms of the two-fluid model characteristic of superfluids, in which special laws of nature, not seen during ordinary high entropy, become evident. It may be that such siddhis as levitation, as well as telepathy, precognition, and other paranormal powers are effects of this change of laws from statistical to quantum.

A close reading of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, Book III on paranormal power, (siddhis), (Aranya 1977:278-348), reveals that this ancient sage predicted the existence of the siddhis and accounted for them in a completely compatible manner. This is not the place to argue the relative merits of Transcendental Meditation or other ministries in the facilitation of such states for the average human, since our aim is to bring out the compatibility of some psychic phenomena with very recent discoveries in physics.
The advantages of the two-fluid model are:
 

1) It offers a first scientific explanation of some paranormal phenomena;
2) It provides an explanation why saints in a very high state of order develop spontaneous and unsought siddhis;
3) It suggests further developments, explorations, and research experiments.


There are limits to the scope of this model in explaining psychic phenomena; it is not claimed that it can account for all such manifestations. Nevertheless, the siddhis approach to paranormal phenomena as enhanced powers of the right hemisphere of human beings in a high state of order, using the two-fluid paradigm is a very useful one, since it gives us a first view of the paranormal as compatible with the quantum mechanical principles of modern physics.

18/3/ microgeny: The following compatible quotation purporting to come via automatic writing from the dead Myers is found in Geraldine Cummins The Road to Immortality (1955:59): "Even when man is awake . . . his consciousness is broken by gaps of unconsciousness forty or fifty times a second." (A similar conclusion is reached by E. D. Fawcett on page 328 of The Individual and Reality.)

86/3 I.V. Patrovsky of Prague advises that dowsing is caused by muscular tension, which generates electromagnetic impulses of wave length 3-70 cm which penetrate down to dielectric water and are reflected back.

88/4 Work of Burr: further to this topic see Russell, E. Design for Destiny. Sudbury, England, Nevill Spearman, 1921 which gives (p. 178-9) extensive bibliography of Burr's writings including his Blueprint for Immortality, Sudbury: Spearman, 1950?

97/0/17 We guess that the reason the siddhis come spontaneously in the cases of some Christian mystics is that the "disorder packets" are not numerous enough to go around, and consequently there is a natural separation in accordance with the two fluid model, - (see previous comment on chapter 1 ). In the yogic siddhis, there may be artificial means used to separate the entropy in individuals in a higher state of disorder; this is apparantly the theoretical reason for proscriptions against its use. The heat entropy Helium 3 model is very helpful here, presuming that it is an exact isomorph.

98/3/6 We now suggest that the specific power possessed by the "control" is that this disincarnate spirit is able to effect a siddhi, in other words go into samadhi, whereas the departed communicators are not.

112/0/6 This concentration of thought resembles a siddhi, and one is justified in wondering if materialization, and other phenomena of similar type are caused by a siddhi on the part of the departed control. This would explain why it is necessary to have a control, (a departed person who has learned siddhi technique), and would also explain why there seem to be so many East and American Indians as controls (since they belong to a culture which through Vedic or Shamanistic techniques has more access to the siddhi technique).

162 Commentary on SHC. Reflection after writing this section suggest more emphasis on the very rapid, (almost instantaneous) aspect of this combustion which has received insufficient attention. (Note 164 under Gaddis No. 8; also 162, 1st Paragraph, No. 4; and again 165/3/3-4). An almost instantaneous flash of light would explain the lack of burning of more distant objects in the room (which would certainly occur if the time were sufficient for heat to build up). Is it possible that SHC is a kind

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of aborted translation, so that the flash of light does not fully destroy the body? SHC phenomena should be re-examined with this very rapid co- mbustion hypothesis in mind. If correct, this hypothesis would make SHC akin to an aborted translation process, and would suggest that SHC might well be placed under Mortem effects, (3.7) instead of under 3.3.

162/5 1. V. Patrovsky of Prague advises that SHC should never be associated with alcohol, as the two are not connected. He believes a possible explanation is that deuterium oxide from heavy water becomes concentrated in elder people and by some cosmic impulse a nuclear reaction may arise.

176/3/12 Further accounts of these pioneers in radionics may be found in Russell, E. W. Report on Radionics. Suffolk, England: Neville Spearman, 1973. Our tentative hypothesis in regard to the healing properties of radionics is that 1) there is a universal intelligence, 2) mankind has access to it through the right hemisphere, 3) but it cannot speak, and hence must communicate its information through various forms of apparatus known as radionic. In other words, radionic hardware is much like an Ouija board, or a dowser's wand, enabling the subliminal self to communicate without words, and facilitating this response.

178/3 1. V. Patrovsky of Prague advises luminescence may be identified as Russell's effect, such as action of butterfly wings, flowers, woods, metals on photographic plate. Crystals such as those of flint, feldspar, and fluorite may exhibit electro-luminescence by piezoelectric effect. Some metals fluoresce by heating or absorbing ultra-violet rays. Flowers may exhibit chemi-luminescence when oxidized by air.

223/2 1. V. Patrovsky of Prague advises that a local healer Zezulka was able to generate both A.C. and D.C. electromagnetic fields, and thus activate water. "Physical changes in water are paramagnetic nuclear resonance, Peschke effects, and the breaking of hydrogen bonding caused by the A.C. field. Low frequencies may form free radicals, charged ions, and trace of hydrogen peroxide, all with positive effects on living matter. All living matter in general may be influenced by magnetic, electrostatic, and biophysical effects (PEER and EMPT effects) which cause changes in large molecules of hemoglobin, DNA, etc."

223/2/4 1. V. Patrovsky of Prague disputes that these finger emanations are capable of being photographed by Kirlian photography. He states that "all we see on Kirlian photographs are coronal discharges modulated by changes in skin resistance which depends on emotional activity."

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225/0/5 1. V. Patrovsky of Prague advises that this "sick" magnetism is nothing but positive ionization, which may be neutralized by flame or water.

227/2/5 Correspondent Patrovsky and others have advised us that the "90% water" is too high, and that the figure is nearer 60-70%.

263/5 Genius and reincarnation: cf Russell, E. Design for Destiny Neville Spearman, Sudbury, England, 1971, p. 108 for similar views.

270/Myers on genius: For what it may be worth we quote the following from Geraldine Cummins The Road to Immortality 1955:63-4: (The extract purports to be a communication from the dead Myers.) "Now this speculation ... is interesting when applied to genius. The souls who have preceded us on earth naturally stamp us mentally and morally. If a certain type of psyche is continually being evolved in the one group, you will find that eventually that type if it be musical, will have a musical genius as its representative on earth. It will harvest all the tendencies of those vanished lives, and it will then have the amazing unconscious knowledge which is the property of genius."

313/0 Group Soul: Another writer who believed in this was Myers. We quote from G. Cummins The Road to Immortality 1955:51 (automatic writing purporting to come from the dead Myers): "The higher the ego climbs on the ladder of consciousness, the nearer it draws to other kindred souls. I have already told you that there may be a thousand, a hundred, or merely twenty souls all fed by one spirit. Their consciousness of comrade-souls increases on the higher levels of existence. In time they are able to enter into other souls' memories, perceive their experiences and be sensible of them as if they were theirs. Mind becomes communal in the last stages, for the spirit, the unifying principle, is tending all the time to produce greater harmony, and therefore greater unity. These various individuals are merging more and more, becoming one in experience and in mind, and thus attaining to undreamt-of levels of intellectual power."

313/0 Reincarnation and disincarnates: For similar views see Russell, E. Design for Destiny. Neville Spearman, Sudbury, England, 1971 p. 126 quoting Oliver Lodge, source Hibbert Journal, 1921, quoted in F. B. Bond The Company of Avalon, Oxford: Blackwell, 1924.

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