Papers are soon to be released on the findings of Physicist Benson Herbert's
exhaustive studies into the paranormal, under the 40 year rule and virtually forgotten today, because of his open mindedness to study results,
For remember, most psychic researchers have reach the conclusions that their
financiers expect.
In 1966 Herbert was top dog, and he moved his laboratory called 'The
Paralab' to Wiltshire, in order to avoid London's traffic vibration, electrical system
and noise pollution. His delicate instrumentation brought in similar results to those of Nicola
Tesla.
The Soviets who during the Cold War greatly feared scientist Peter Wright of
'Spycatcher' fame, have documentation taken from his friend and spy
Lord Rothschild. This claims that during radio eavesdropping from Cyprus,
the biggest listening post in the world, primitive evidence of E.V.P or
Electronic Voice Phenomena, or voices from the dead. were obtained
accidentally by Peter Wright.
Benson Herbert believed that all psychic phenomena was electrical in origin
and transmission and visited many haunted sites with his equipment. He
also captured strange, intriguing sounds from the past.
In 1970 Herbert was invited by Soviet scientists, as top British
representative, to the Prague Symposium on Psychotronics. This is the technical term for
military use of psychic ability, first pioneered by Churchill in W.W.II.
Although Herbert is not well known in the Britain of today, his work is much
valued and still studied in the Soviet bloc.
R.G. Medhurst, of the Society of Psychical Research, invited Herbert to a
series of séances and for anyone to attend these was anathema to orthodoxy at the time.
The fact that he investigated U.F.O sightings and allowed himself to be
regressed to previous lives upset many of his colleagues, who felt there
should be very clear lines of division between scientist and psychic.
In 1972 Herbert, while in Leningrad, met Nina Kulagina, the Soviet PK
specialist who shocked him by moving a heavy chair toward him across the room by
pointing her finger at it. Later she held his arm and as the heat burnt him and he collapsed in pain,
he had the scar for over a week.
He also investigated Suzanne Padfield, the psychic who held a photograph of
a murdered child in Moscow, and from 1700 miles away identified the killer.
She also deflected and bent beams of light in his laboratory.
Experiments on blind people who could read through their fingertips (derma-optics)
bore amazing results.
Herbert, a top class intellectual and expert Paraphysicist had some of his
research taken by British authorities and stamped Top Secretand as he saw
himself as a man of the people, this did not sit well with him.
He claimed that H. G. Wells had stumbled onto something when he spoke of
extra-spatial dimensions. Herbert described this as 'The pantograph effect';
that the drawing in one world of an event, would cause similar phenomena in
another. This in a synchronistic way was described by Schopenhauer as:
"Coincidence is the simultaneous occurrence of causality, unconnected to
events", of which Hippocrates said: "The world was held together by hidden
affinities or threads".
Similarly, Adolph Hitler viewed the shameful way Germany was treated after W.W.I by the international community,
made him believe in the "world seriality theory", that all worlds exist
linked in cyclic accord.
Carl Jung brought it all together as the Collective Unconscious.
Herbert's death in 1991 revealed that, like many other genuine researchers,
he believed in psychic abilities but said there were many fakes. He had no time for publicity seeking quacks, such as we see with James Randi
types and make believe psychologists, but that much, much more research was
necessary.
In the workings of the great pantograph,
over time the inner meanings of the psychic worlds would be revealed.
Copyright © 2007
Author Terry Stokes is also a lecturer and broadcaster in paranormal studies who welcomes feedback from readers.
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