Commentary on the Following Report Concerning Retroactive Psychokinesis or Backward Psychic Causality and the Sabotage of Psychic Experiments

Andrew Skolnick - 1 August 1988

New York, NY.

Kullins and colleagues at the Center for New Science studies, University of Limelight, England,1 sound an alarm which needs amplification. If their conclusions are true, the foundations of scientific investigation may be undermined, for the phenomenon of backward psychic causality would have far reaching effects, not just on paranormal research, but on all scientific inquiry as well as on world peace.

The findings of Kullins, et al. follow a half-century of startling discoveries that challenge several long-held notions of conventional science. Nearly 50 years ago, J.B. Whine observed that negative attitudes (i.e. skepticism) can block the functioning of psychic powers.2 This observation helped to explain why skeptical scientists have not been able to replicate any psi experiments reported to produce significant results.3 More recently, Androcles Poopovich has sited the presence of debunking disbelievers in the audience as the reason why strong sensitives, such as Uri Guiler, find themselves powerless and are unable to satisfy demanding crowds without resorting to cheating.4 5

Whine was also the first to demonstrate the psi forces are not attenuated by distance.6 This surprising attribute of paranormal phenomena has been confirmed by many other researchers.78 More recently, it has been shown that paranormal forces are no more restrained by the limitation of time than they are by those of space.9 10 In an elegant experiment using roaches (Blatta orientalis Linn.) Helmsley Smyth postulated backward-time psychokinesis to explain how his subjects were able to bias a random event generator retroactively in favor of administering electric shocks to themselves. In another experiment, he was able to show that roaches could similarly affect a random event generator in the future,11 *

Even more intriguing, Tug and Putzoff showed that random events can be affected by the simple fact that the outcome is being observed by people, even when those people observe it at some future time.13 Finally, Kullins has suggested, here and in previous publications,1 that negative psychic forces have been systematically destroying data that proves the existence of the paranormal. According to Kullins, certain agents may be using their psychic powers, consciously and unconsciously, to tamper with psychic experiments, to alter or even erase positive results.

Several possible motives for this sabotage are proposed: the most plausible theory, first suggested by the Israeli sensitive Uri Geller,14 is that Soviet psi agents are trying to block psychic research in the Free World, while they develop their own army of psychic warriors who will soon be able to zap our computers and satellites, and knock our planes and missiles out of the air; in other words, a cadre of Soviet Darth Vaders to counter our developing Star Wars technology.

Not only does the evidence demonstrate the possibility of psychic interference with on-going psychic experiments, it also shows how it is possible to retroactively tamper with psychic research. Thus, merely by reading the results of successful psychic experiments published in Western journals, Soviet psychic saboteurs can change significant results into insignificant ones. Kullins suggest that this is exactly what the Soviets have been doing to derail our psychic research program, and that this alone may explain why, despite one hundred years of scientific effort to verify the existence of psi, not one repeatable experiment has been produced.

Because of the gravity of this problem and its far-reaching ramifications, it is of utmost importance for scientists throughout the Free World to cooperate in the development of effective psychic blocking screens to protect our research from Soviet sabotage. It may also be necessary to investigate and expose skeptics who would have us disbelieve in psychic phenomena. Knowingly or not, these persons are psi agents—paraprovocateurs and parasaboteurs. They are psychic fifth columnists; they must be weeded out.

An alternative explanation was later offered by Smyth who suggested that, out of his strong dislike for roaches, he might have been using his own psychokinetic powers unconsciously to influence the random event generator to shock the vermin. However, in support of Smyth’s original hypothesis, the Freudian parapsychiatrist Vile Fliess believes the insects were manifesting masochistic tendencies, probably resulting from psychosexual maldevelopment brought about by the unnatural crowding conditions of captivity13.

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