Episode Transcript
Transcripts are displayed as originally observed. Some content, including advertisements may have changed.
Use Ctrl + F to search
0:00
New Thinking Aloud is
0:02
presented by the California
0:04
Institute for Human Science,
0:06
a fully accredited university
0:08
offering distant learning graduate
0:10
degrees that focus on
0:12
mind, body, and spirit.
0:15
The topics that we
0:17
cover here, we are
0:19
particularly excited to announce
0:21
new degrees, emphasizing parasiteology
0:23
and the paranormal. Visit
0:26
their website at CIHS.
0:28
thinking aloud.
0:30
Conversations on
0:33
the leading
0:37
edge of
0:39
knowledge and
0:42
discovery with
0:46
psychologist
0:48
Jeffrey
0:50
Mishlove.
0:52
Hello and welcome. I'm Jeffrey
0:55
Mishlove, too, on Jeffrey's conversation
0:57
partner, or alter ego. I'm
1:00
going to talk about retropsychokinesis.
1:02
I think it's a term
1:04
that probably very few of
1:07
our listeners have heard of
1:09
before. Often, when I teach
1:11
pericycology, I list, what are
1:14
we studying? What are the
1:16
phenomena that parasycologists are interested
1:19
in? And they include the
1:21
following standard list, telepathy. clairvoyant,
1:23
psychokinesis, precognition,
1:26
and the
1:28
question of survival
1:30
after death, which includes
1:33
reincarnation and medium-ship
1:35
communications. But I
1:38
didn't mention, even
1:41
though I talked
1:44
about retro-psychokinesis, I've
1:46
never discussed it.
1:48
To be honest with my students,
1:51
it's just too exotic. They
1:53
have a hard enough time
1:56
wrapping their minds around normal
1:58
psychocedesis, normal precognition. these
2:00
things are already supposedly
2:03
impossible. So where does
2:05
retropsychokinesis fit in? Well,
2:07
let's begin by defining
2:09
what do we mean
2:11
by retropsychokinesis. It's a
2:13
causal relationship from the
2:16
present into the past,
2:18
or you could say
2:20
from the future, into
2:22
the present. might be
2:24
another way of looking
2:26
at it. In other
2:29
words, I'm going to
2:31
concentrate. I am going
2:33
to project my mental
2:35
intention to affect an
2:37
event that has taken
2:39
place already in the
2:42
past. Well, you can
2:44
understand why people would
2:46
find this totally mind-blowing.
2:48
Obviously, you can't change
2:50
the past because it's
2:52
already happened. That seems
2:55
to be... Common sense.
2:57
You can't change the
2:59
past. The past has
3:01
already happened. There's nothing
3:03
more to be done
3:05
about it. Ah-huh. Now
3:08
in quantum physics, however,
3:10
there is the idea
3:12
that the wave function
3:14
in quantum physics, the
3:16
probabilistic equations, the Schrodinger-Sai
3:18
functions of quantum physics,
3:21
don't become finalized. What
3:23
is the term? concretized
3:25
is probably the best way
3:28
to put it. We don't
3:30
know where a particle is
3:32
until it's been observed. That's
3:35
sort of obvious. And physicists
3:37
have been debating about this
3:40
for a long time. The
3:42
question is, what does it
3:44
mean to be observed? Does
3:47
it mean that you have
3:49
to have a sentient being
3:51
a conscious observer or otherwise
3:54
it doesn't count? Or could
3:56
it be simply that I
3:58
have a tech recorder that
4:01
records? the device or a
4:03
video camera. If a video
4:05
camera records a device, does
4:08
that count as an observation?
4:10
This is an important theoretical
4:12
question, not just for parasycology,
4:15
but for physics in general.
4:17
And I can tell you
4:19
the great British physicist Stephen
4:22
Hawking was of the opinion
4:24
that as soon as an
4:26
instrument has recorded an event.
4:29
then that's the same as
4:31
an observation. That's what it
4:33
counts for. The other is,
4:36
no, you can record the
4:38
event on an instrument, but
4:40
until a sentient being, like
4:43
a human being, or maybe
4:45
an intelligent animal of some
4:47
sort, observes what took place,
4:50
it's still modifiable. And that's
4:52
what pericycologist. decided to test
4:54
with a series of experiments
4:57
that get labeled as retro
4:59
psychokinesis. It's such a mind-boggling
5:02
concept, changing the past, that
5:04
people have been hesitant. People
5:06
are still saying, well, we
5:09
don't know for sure. Was
5:11
it retro psychokinesis? Or was
5:13
it, who knows what took
5:16
place? What are the causal
5:18
chains of events? But here's
5:20
how an experiment like this
5:23
will work. First of all.
5:25
Parasycologists have pioneered the use
5:27
of the quantum mechanical random
5:30
event generator. A physical device
5:32
that produces a series of
5:34
random events, or you could
5:37
call them random numbers. It
5:39
can be programmed. The number
5:41
can be simply one or
5:44
zero, in a random sequence,
5:46
or could be one through
5:48
ten, one through a hundred.
5:51
Totally programmable. But the point
5:53
is, because the output. of
5:55
this device is determined by
5:58
quantum mechanical process. It
6:00
is in theory completely unpredictable.
6:03
It is as random as
6:05
random can be. So we
6:07
use the random event generator
6:10
to create a random file,
6:12
a file of random signals
6:14
that is recorded. And in
6:17
the earliest experiments, which as
6:19
I recall, go back to
6:21
the 1970s, we're talking about
6:24
work done by helmet. Mitt,
6:26
who was a physicist who
6:28
was one of the first
6:31
people to really pioneer the
6:33
work of the random event
6:35
generator in pericycology. But he
6:38
had this idea, how are
6:40
we going to convince the
6:42
skeptics? And he said, I'll
6:45
do it this way. I'll
6:47
get them involved in the
6:49
experiment. We'll use the random
6:52
event generator to create a
6:54
file. And that file will
6:56
consist of... two signals and
6:58
in the earliest studies we
7:01
can say they were audio
7:03
signals either a high-pitched beep
7:05
beep or a low-pitched beep
7:08
like that and in a
7:10
random order and so that's
7:12
done completely random signal done
7:15
in the past it's recorded
7:17
on audio tape for example
7:19
high-pitched and low-pitched beeps and
7:22
the tape can be duplicated
7:24
it can be copied it
7:26
can be copied it can
7:29
be copied it can be
7:31
It is done. And so
7:33
far, nothing psychic has taken
7:36
place at this point at
7:38
a future time. We ask
7:40
a subject, a person to
7:43
exert a psychokinetic influence on
7:45
the event that has already
7:47
happened in the past. It's
7:50
been recorded on audio tape,
7:52
but it has not been
7:54
observed. by any sentient beings,
7:56
by no human beings, or
7:59
any intelligent... being of any
8:01
other non-human sort, no
8:03
observations have been made. And now
8:06
we give it to a person and
8:08
we tell them, I want you
8:10
to listen to this audio
8:12
tape and I want you
8:14
to concentrate on their being
8:16
more of the high pitch
8:19
beeps than the low pitch
8:21
beeps or vice versa. We
8:23
can flip a coin or
8:25
use a random event generator
8:27
to determine. whether we're asking
8:29
the person to hear more
8:31
high-pitched or more low-pitched.
8:34
And he's doing it,
8:36
could be months, days,
8:39
years after the original
8:41
recording was made. Now, as
8:43
of this point in time, and
8:46
it's almost Christmas, 2024,
8:49
the most recent
8:51
meta-analysis of the...
8:53
retro PK experiments includes
8:56
all the data up
8:58
until 2022. So it's fairly
9:00
recent and we're talking
9:03
about 41 scientific experiments
9:05
conducted in more than
9:08
nine different laboratories. And
9:10
the results are amazingly
9:13
statistically significant, some of
9:16
the most statistically significant
9:18
findings. In all of
9:21
Parasycology, if you combine
9:24
those 41 experiments, the
9:26
statistical probability
9:28
that the results you're
9:30
looking at are due
9:32
to chance alone would be
9:35
less than one in a
9:37
trillion. Very low probability.
9:40
It seems something definitely
9:42
psychic is going on
9:44
here. And what that means
9:46
if we ask a person?
9:49
to exert a psychokinetic influence,
9:51
in other words, concentrate, use
9:53
your mental intention to hear
9:55
more high-pitched beeps than low-pitched
9:57
beeps or vice versa. How
10:00
does that work? The
10:02
recording was made in
10:04
the past. It's been
10:06
recorded on audio tape.
10:08
One assumes that the
10:11
psychokinetic effect didn't take
10:13
place in the present
10:15
when the person was
10:17
listening. That would mean
10:19
an alteration of the
10:21
tape. But you see,
10:23
after the person has
10:25
attempted to listen to
10:27
the tape, The skeptic
10:29
will have a copy
10:32
of the tape. They
10:34
can validate for themselves
10:36
exactly what the results
10:38
were. They know how
10:40
many they can count.
10:42
The high pitch versus
10:44
the low pitch. So
10:46
there's a theoretical question
10:48
here, which is this
10:51
is one of the
10:53
rare instances in which
10:55
a para psychological experiment
10:57
was designed to do
10:59
two things. It was
11:01
designed to see if
11:03
there could be a
11:05
new phenomenon never before
11:07
observed that could be
11:09
observed, and that new
11:12
phenomenon would be retroactive
11:14
psychokinesis, a causal influence
11:16
from the present into
11:18
the past. And the
11:20
second question is, what
11:22
counts as an observation
11:24
if Hawking was correct?
11:26
And simply by making
11:28
the recording on some
11:31
form of audio tape,
11:33
if that counted as
11:35
an observation, then there
11:37
should be no way
11:39
to retro-cognitatively change the
11:41
recording. Can't be done.
11:43
However, if it requires
11:45
a sentient being... before
11:47
an observation is officially
11:49
taken place. In other
11:52
words, you can record
11:54
a past event. on
11:56
audio tape or videotape
11:58
or even film. But
12:00
if no sentient being
12:02
sees that film, it's
12:04
still amenable to a
12:06
psychokinetic influence coming from
12:08
the future. In other
12:11
words, we can change
12:13
the past provided that
12:15
no sentient being as
12:17
yet observed that portion
12:19
of the past that
12:21
we are changing. This...
12:23
is a radical phenomenon.
12:25
And I have to
12:27
tell you, people argue,
12:29
the skeptics argue in
12:32
Parasycology, that basically all
12:34
the phenomenon that Parasycologist's
12:36
report is all a
12:38
question of sloppy methodology
12:40
and error. And usually
12:42
they say that results
12:44
in high results at
12:46
first and then the
12:48
results. Peterout over time,
12:50
because there was never
12:53
a real phenomenon to
12:55
begin with. It's called
12:57
a decline effect, and
12:59
according to the skeptics,
13:01
every experimental outcome in
13:03
pericycology has just declined,
13:05
because there was nothing
13:07
there to begin with.
13:09
And they get abandoned,
13:12
and then a new
13:14
fan comes along. But
13:16
in the case of
13:18
retropsychokinesis, what we see
13:20
is that, yes, people
13:22
seem to have lost
13:24
interest. I've been teaching
13:26
pericycology for decades, don't
13:28
even teach retropsychocodesis. It's
13:30
such a mind-boggler. But
13:33
it seems as if
13:35
the results which are
13:37
so strong are confirming
13:39
theoretically, and this is
13:41
crucial for our theoretical
13:43
understanding of quantum physics,
13:45
that the wave function
13:47
doesn't collapse. until a
13:49
sentient being makes an
13:52
observation. How else can
13:54
you explain the fact
13:56
that people are... able
13:58
to perform so well
14:00
in the retro PK
14:02
task, but in the
14:04
absence of an alternative
14:06
explanation, we have to
14:08
take the possibility of
14:10
retro, cognitive, psychokinesis as
14:13
being very real, that
14:15
because of our intention,
14:17
we have the possibility
14:19
of changing the past
14:21
provided that no other
14:23
sentient being has yet
14:25
observed the past that
14:27
we wish to change.
14:30
And that has now
14:32
been tested experimentally at
14:35
least 41 times, using
14:37
random event generators and
14:39
producing remarkable, remarkable results.
14:41
J.B. Rine, who was
14:43
considered the founder of
14:45
American Parasycology, did candidacy
14:47
experiments in the 1930s,
14:49
of course was well
14:51
aware of Helvet Mitt
14:53
and his work in
14:55
the early efforts to
14:57
nail down retro PK.
14:59
PK, being the abbreviation
15:01
for psychokinesis. But I
15:03
have to tell you,
15:05
J.B. Rhine was set
15:07
in his ways to
15:09
some degree. He did
15:11
not like Carl Jung's
15:13
notion of synchronicity as
15:15
an a causal principle.
15:18
The idea of a
15:20
causality bothered him. He
15:22
said, no, parasite should
15:24
fit into... causal mechanisms.
15:26
We're looking for a
15:28
signal. We can't find
15:30
the signal yet, but
15:32
it's a signal that
15:34
could even go from
15:36
the future to the
15:38
past. There has to
15:40
be probably an organ
15:42
of reception in the
15:44
brain and a signal.
15:46
And we'll eventually solve
15:48
this using normal signal
15:50
theory, communication theory. Karel
15:52
Young's model, a synchronicity
15:54
that was a causal.
15:56
Was something rind could
15:58
never exist? accept. And
16:01
he could never accept
16:03
retro-psychokinesis either. So the
16:05
early physicists looking into
16:07
this world, Helmut Menton,
16:10
Evan Harris Walker, became
16:12
a strange somewhat from
16:14
the Rhinean School over this
16:16
division. Now the division
16:18
has important implications.
16:21
It has to do surprisingly
16:23
enough with the multiple warrens
16:25
theory and physics. The
16:28
multiple world's theory is in
16:30
some respects a response
16:32
to the anthropic principle
16:34
in physics. And the anthropic
16:37
principle we've discussed it
16:39
before on new thinking allowed,
16:41
but I'm going to put
16:44
it simply, there are certain
16:46
constants in physics like the
16:48
fine structure constant, the ratio
16:50
between the electromagnetic force and
16:53
the weak force in physics.
16:55
For example, there are... half
16:57
a dozen such constants.
16:59
And it turns out
17:01
if those constants were
17:03
even slightly different,
17:05
human life as we know it
17:08
would not be possible.
17:10
Molecules wouldn't
17:12
bind large-scale systems
17:14
like human beings
17:17
couldn't exist in
17:19
such a universe. Complex
17:21
systems like ours. So in
17:24
order to account for this.
17:26
without involving consciousness,
17:29
incidentally, physicists
17:31
came up with the idea
17:33
that, well, yes, it's true,
17:36
we live in a rare
17:38
universe where human life is
17:41
possible, change the constants just
17:43
a little bit, human life
17:46
couldn't exist. But
17:48
obviously, we're in that
17:50
universe because we are here.
17:53
However, there must be countless
17:55
other. universes where human
17:57
life is impossible and we just
17:59
had happen to be in the one
18:01
where it is possible. So it's just
18:04
a question of pure chance. That's
18:06
the mainstream view of
18:08
the multiple world's theory,
18:10
and the multiple world's
18:13
theory is considered a
18:15
respectable theory in physics,
18:17
as compared to retropsychokinesis,
18:19
which is completely non-respectable.
18:21
It's not even respectable
18:24
in parasycology, let alone
18:26
physics. In spite. of the enormity
18:28
of the data. However,
18:30
if we accept that
18:33
retropsychokinesis
18:35
is possible, then one
18:37
could claim we don't need
18:40
multiple worlds in
18:42
order to explain the
18:44
fact that we live
18:46
in such a rare
18:48
universe where human life
18:50
is possible, because oddly
18:53
enough, we could have
18:55
created it using Our own
18:57
retropsychokinesis going back to
18:59
the earliest moments of
19:02
our universe. The big bang. All
19:04
of this, of course, brings
19:06
into question our common sense
19:08
notions about the nature of
19:10
time. Obviously, if I can
19:12
exert a mental influence from
19:14
the present into the past,
19:16
as we have now pointed
19:19
out, has been demonstrated
19:21
experimentally on multiple occasions.
19:24
Time isn't what we thought. It was.
19:26
We have set definitions of
19:28
past, present, and future.
19:30
But the idea that
19:32
the future already exists
19:34
and is influencing the
19:36
present is it contradicts
19:39
our common sense notions. Well, I
19:41
have to leave things there pretty
19:44
much. There's much more that
19:46
could be said about
19:48
retropsychokinesis, but I think
19:50
I've given you plenty
19:52
to digest for now. So of
19:55
course I want to thank
19:57
you for being with me
19:59
because you You're
20:05
the
20:09
reason
20:12
that
20:16
we
20:19
are
20:22
here.
20:26
Three, in the New Thinking
20:28
Allowed Dialogue Series is, UFOs
20:31
and UAP, are we really
20:33
alone? Now available on Amazon.
20:36
You can now download a
20:38
free PDF copy of
20:40
issue seven of the
20:42
New Thinking Allowed magazine
20:44
or order a beautiful
20:46
printed copy.
Podchaser is the ultimate destination for podcast data, search, and discovery. Learn More