| * Electrical recording from the Chorda Tympani Nerve in the dog to measure Chemical and Vibratory Taste Stimuli. Internal Report. General Foods Corporation Fellowship, 1950-51. * A critique of the possible usefulness of extrasensory perception in Psychological Warfare. Paper presented to a Seminar on Psychological Warfare. Department of Defense, Washington, D.C., November 23, 1952. Puharich’s work at the Round Table was summarized in his resume as follows: “1948 to 1952 was almost entirely devoted to animal research. Managed an animal facility that maintained a stock of dogs, cats, and rats. Principal efforts were concerned with the electrical recording of neural activity from the peripheral and central nervous system of animals during the taste response to various chemicals and foods. An offshoot of this neurophysiological research was a better understanding of the role of the chorda tympani nerve, and the tympani nerve plexus in sonic transmission phenomena. Collaborated closely during the years 1949 to 1952 with Dr. Samuel Rosen of Mt, Sinai Hospital, New York City, the inventor of the Stapes Mobilization Surgical procedure for the alleviation of conductive deafness. Together, although working under Rosen’s supervision, we worked out the surgical foundations on dogs and cats for Stapes Mobilization Surgery.” “Dr. Rosen, on his own, extended these basic findings to humans and in 1954 was able to announce his early successes with otosclerotic conductive deafness. Since then this operation has been carried out all over the world on untold numbers of humans. We have continued our research collaboration to this day.” “As a result of these early observations on animals, he was led to conceive of radio frequency energy directly to the brain for the alleviation of deafness due to auditory sensorial-neural destruction. The practical outcome of this research has been described earlier in which hearing rehabilitation is now possible and practical for the clinically totally deaf. Communication research was carried out in other sensory modalities, especially vision and touch. Several years were spent on stroboscopic flash, and flicker-fusion studies in humans. This resulted in a simple technique to enhance sensitivity in humans for extrasensory perception, as established by formal statistical techniques. Group carried out basic research on human dermo-Optical perception. Human "Information transfer (of a non-sensory nature) was carried put with especially gifted subjects from all over the world. This work was concerned with devising environmental control systems, drug experiments, anesthetic gas experiments, electronic systems, and studying their effect on human performance. |
A brief idea can be gained of the nature of these studies from the following lectures and reports which were prepared and given: “An Evaluation of the Possible Usefulness of Extrasensory Perception in Psychological Warfare.” Paper presented to a conference on Psychological Warfare, Department of Defense, Pentagon, Washington, D.C., November 23, 1952. * Researches in decreasing or increasing Telepathy. Paper presented at The Aviation School of Medicine USAF, Randolph Field, Texas. March 16, 1953. * A Physical Technique for amplifying Telepathy. Paper presented at a Department of Chemistry Seminar, December 4, 1953. Armour Research Foundation, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Ill. * Biochemical foundations for extrasensory perception. Paper presented at the Medical Research Laboratory Seminar, April 20, 1954. United States Army Chemical Corps, Army Chemical Center, Edgewood, Maryland. (Now this is where it all went down, folks, take notice. Using drugs to discover or promote ESP.) * The effect of an excess of Atmospheric Negative Ions upon ESP Test Scoring. Paper presented to the Psychic Research Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. October 16, 1956. (Is this to measure flying saucer effects of electromagnetic radiation on ESP levels?) * The Sacred Mushroom. Doubleday & Company, Inc., New York 1959. * The Mushroom in Myth. Bulletin of the Mycological Society of San Francisco, Vol. 9, No. 10, 1959. * Hearing Aid. Great Britain Patent No. 982,934. September 21, 1959. (54) (54) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrija_Puharich |