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Certain people come up again and again once you start following certain lines of inquiry. The most tantalizing ones are often those who there is very little solid information about. One such person seems to be Andrija Puharich. A while back, Fantastic Planet had an excellent article which discussed (among other things) how Puharich became a sort of mentor to 70’s pop-psychic Uri Geller. Puharich allegedly convinced Geller that his psychic abilities were actually coming from some kind of cosmic computer called SPECTRA, which I’ve written about elsewhere.

Puharich is also alleged to have been involved in something called the Council of Nine. What had originally started out as a foundation to study the paranormal was soon overtaken by a series of channelers who were said to be in contact with “The Nine”, loosely based on nine ancient Egyptian gods. Puharich later convinced Geller that SPECTRA was powered by The Nine, although Geller eventually severed his ties with Puharich and this explanation. Supposedly though, Puharich and/or the group which came to be centered around the Nine actively went on a campaign to convince other New Age channelers that their sources as well were originally coming from the Nine - no matter what it seemed otherwise. Supposedly they were extremely successful. That website also indicates:

Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the history of The Nine is its relationship to the career of Andrija Puharich. Recent research has revealed Puharich to have a distinctly sinister side. As an Army doctor in the 1950s, he was deeply involved with the CIA’s notorious MKULTRA mind control project (see panel). He - together with the infamous Dr Sidney Gottlieb - experimented with a variety of techniques to change or induce actual thought processes. even to creating the impression of voices in the head. These techniques included the use of drugs, hypnosis and beaming radio signals directly into the subject’s brain. And, significantly, he was engaged in this work at exactly the same time that The Nine made their first appearance at the Round Table Foundation. The Foundation itself is now known to have been largely funded by the Pentagon as a front for its medical and parapsychological research. Puharich was still working for the CIA in the early 1970s, when he brought Uri Geller out of Israel.

Anyway, I read all of this a while back, found it very interesting and then filed it away. Until today, when it was suggested I read an article by Dick Sutphen called The Battle for Your Mind. In it, Sutphen mentions research done by our old friend, Andrija Puharich:

Now, let’s carry this awareness a little farther. There are also inaudible ELFs (extra-low frequency waves). These are electromagnetic in nature. One of the primary uses of ELFs is to communicate with our submarines. Dr. Andrija Puharich, a highly respected researcher, in an attempt to warn U.S. officials about Russian use of ELFs, set up an experiment. Volunteers were wired so their brain waves could be measured on an EEG. They were sealed in a metal room that could not be penetrated by a normal signal.

Puharich then beamed ELF waves at the volunteers. ELFs go right through the earth and, of course, right through metal walls. Those inside couldn’t know if the signal was or was not being sent. And Puharich watched the reactions on the technical equipment: 30 percent of those inside the room were taken over by the ELF signal in six to ten seconds.

When I say “taken over,” I mean that their behavior followed the changes anticipated at very precise frequencies. Waves below 6 cycles per second caused the subjects to become very emotionally upset, and even disrupted bodily functions. At 8.2 cycles, they felt very high…an elevated feeling, as though they had been in masterful meditation, learned over a period of years. Eleven to 11.3 cycles induced waves of depressed agitation leading to riotous behavior.

That article is a pretty interesting read in general.

Other resources on Puharich:

1. Puharich also seems to have a few books that he wrote which can be checked out at Amazon (one called “Beyond Telepathy”).
2. About.com’s Atheism section has a woefully incomplete blurb about him as being the “father” of the American New Age movement
3. An essay on the book The Only Planet of Choice, which is a book the Nine (I think) are credited with having dictated.
4. Supposedly Puharich also invented some kind of method of turning seawater into fuel?
5. Uri Geller’s site also has a series of lectures from Puharich available in RealAudio format, plus two mp3’s of him talking about UFO’s

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