Extraterrestrial sources from the planet Clarion informed her that lots of people would die as a result. Martin’s group of “believers” were infiltrated by a small band of psychologists who, several years later wrote a book on the experience inside the cult, titled, When Prophecy Fails: A social and psychological study of a modern group that predicted the destruction of the world. The book revealed how Martin had been exposed to Theosophy and Scientology and that Laughead was a “former Christian missionary and mystical dilettante who was enthralled by UFOs.” Their hodgepodge of belief systems was a mix of “Christianity, Scientology, atomic age sci-fi, and Paradise Lost.” (42) MK-Ultra Mushroom Mastermind: Andrija Puharich Andrija Puharich was an American medical and parapsychological researcher, medical inventor, physician and author, born of Yugoslavic descent. According to Puharich’s book, the Sacred Mushroom, Key to the Door of Eternity, first published in 1959, his experiences with mushrooms began when he got a call on June 17, 1954, from a woman, Alice Bouverie, who happened to also be a member of his Round Table Laboratory, who claimed she had just been in the company of a man who had experienced a trance-like state in her presence and revealed to her, a secret drug which the ancient Egyptians used for facilitating telepathy. Knowing this was Puharich’s field of work and passion, she telephoned him while he was stationed at the Army Chemical Center, at Edgewood, Maryland. Puharich claims that, in August 1952, while at the Round Table Laboratory in Glen Cove, Maine, just prior to Puharich’s re-entry into the army, he met with a friend of his, an army colonel, who was chief of the Research Section of the Office of the Chief of Psychological Warfare, who was interested in Puharich’s work with ESP, and particularly, a Faraday Cage device Puharich was working with which appeared to amplify the potential for telepathy. On Nov. 24, 1952, Puharich presented the army with a report of this, and on Dec. 6, 1952, Puharich received a draft card, and on Feb. 26, 1953, he was inducted into the army. Just prior to his induction, Puharich had given a lecture on ESP to the Advisory Group on Psychological Warfare and Unconventional Warfare and when his commission was fully activated his duty assignment was to the Army Chemical Center in Maryland. In Nov. 1953, a colonel friend in the Pentagon called him up Puharich writes: “… a way had been worked out whereby the army could sponsor my researches into extrasensory perception. This was to be arranged through a university which could act as a blind for the Army interest in this forbidden subject.” The project funding fell through, but the persistence of Puharich’s paid off when an Officer Nolton asked him, “if this is true, isn’t it possible to find some drug that will bring out this latent ability so that normal people could turn this thing on and off at will?” |
Puharich replied that, “It would be nice to have such a drug, because then the research problems of parapsychology would be half solved, You see, the main problem in extrasensory perception research is that we never know, even in a great talent, when this mysterious faculty will manifest itself. … There have been some reports of primitive people using such drugs extracted from plants, but I have never heard of one that worked when tested in a laboratory.” The Colonel replied back, “Well, if you ever find a drug that works let me know, because this kind of thing would solve a lot of the problems connected with Intelligence.” (43) The trance communication from Puharich’s lady friend Alice Bouverie, revealed the sketch of a mushroom which had been used for healing pain and also for out of body travels. Until this point, Puharich claims he knew little of the mushroom. Puharich then claims to have looked into the history and found Amanita muscaria to have been widely known about from fairy tales to folklore. He also claims to have learned of the use by the Koryak, Samoyed, Yakut and Tungas tribes. (44) When one reads Puharich’s book, they are given the impression he does not know he is involved in anything nefarious, and appears to be an enthusiastic explorer of unknown worlds. The book is very much geared towards an “open minded” drug consuming crowd. But darkness lies. (42) Apocalypse Oak Park: Dorothy Martin, the Chicagoan Who Predicted the End of the World and Inspired the Theory of Cognitive Dissonance, Whet Moser, May 20, 2011 - https://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/The-312/May-2011/Dorothy-Martin-the-Chicagoan-Who-Predicted-the-End-of-the-World-and-Inspired-the-Theory-of-Cognitive-Dissonance/ (43) Uri, p. 14-15 (44) Uri, p. 25 |