Been following the trail of a strange character named Andrija Puharich for some time now. He’s one of those people who comes up again and again in various sources, seeming to be some kind of behind-the-scenes player, always working through other people. He was responsible for discovering and popularizing celebrity psychic and spoon-bender Uri Geller. He was also allegedly behind the Council of Nine, a group of people who formed around the channeled teachings of what claimed to be ancient Egyptian gods returned.

What makes these things all the more interesting though is that he was involved in research using ELF (extremely low frequency) waves to affect the human brain and behavior patterns. He is also supposed to have created a type of “hearing aid” which was implanted in the tooth and transmitted through the nerves in the face, finding an alternate path to the brain, and even allowing deaf people to hear. Starting to sound suspicious yet?

The following comes from an article on Uri Geller’s website, and seems to be written by one of Puharich’s ex-wives on the event of his death. (Quick aside, Puharich convinced Geller that a space-ship orbiting Earth was the source of his powers - very similar to the Nation of Islamn’s Mother Wheel, if you ask me)

[…] he and a friend worked on a hearing aid that would give sound a new route to the brain - through the teeth and facial nerves. The device, for which a patent was granted, would eventually consist of a miniature microphone and transmitter, to be worn on the wrist, or carried in a pocket, and a miniature receiver to be installed in a hollow false tooth. Through contact with nerve ends in a live tooth next to the false one, electric signals would be transmitted via the dental and facial nerves to the brain. How proud I had been when Andrija told me jubilantly that they had made a deaf person hear. All they had to do from there on was to bring the complex equipment down to portable size.

He had stumbled upon the possibility of nerve conduction as a means of helping the deaf, by accident. When he and his friend Joe Lawrence were both captains at the Army Chemical Center in Edgewood, Md., (Andrija in the Medical Corps and Joe in the Dental Corps) Andrija treated a boy who suffered from hearing voices in his head. When he learned that the boy was a cutter, and that he worked with carborundum stones, he had Joe replace the fillings in his teeth.

His assumption, that if carborundum dust came into contact with amalgam fillings the tooth would operate as a radio receiver, had been correct. The voices in the boy’s head stopped.

Too bad Andrija had not pursued the research. It may have given him the recognition he later on in life felt was withheld from him.

Yes, too bad he “stopped working on this.” I’m absolutely sure that if somebody invented such a thing, the last fucking thing they would do is stop working on it. Talk about ridiculous. Incidentally, the person who wrote this looks to have put together a book-length biography of Puharich also available at Geller’s site. Among other items of interest, it has a chapter on titled “New York - Hearing Aid - UFO’s” and one on Uri Geller & the Council of Nine. Rest assured, I will definitely be coming back to this.

Here’s another description of Puharich’s tooth radio from another source. Puharich is supposed to have said in 1987 at an electromagnetics conference:

“We were able to develop a hearing device that fit under the cap of a tooth and we could hear very clearly from a small little relay and receiver and transmitter and unfortunately it was promptly classified by an agency of our government. But we did solve the problem in terms of hardware.”

Soooo…. let me get this straight - Puharich was involved with people who were channeling the voices of the gods? Did the gods happen to have offices somewhere near Washington, D.C. and use radio transmitters? (Incidentally, could this be the source of Robert Lansberry’s “Silent Radio”?) Aldous Huxley and he were also supposed to be friends and Huxley is supposed to have called Puharich “one of the most brilliant minds in parapsychology”. But is it possible that perhaps Puharich perhaps a very clever electronics manipulator?

A geocities site offers some pieces of a talk Puharich made in 82 or 83. He’s talking about how during his ELF research, he discovered that the 8hz frequency has some crazy powers - allowing us somehow to “tune into the sun” and even stop nuclear missiles in the sky. He offers the following instructions to induce your brain oscillating at this frequency:

“Imagine that you are looking at a circle of light in your mind. This circle leads into a tunnel of light. Imagine you are traveling to the Sun and entering it. It is not hot and there are Beings there.

When you have entered the Sun you have locked onto great power. Using this energy in a group — one can’t do this alone — with MUTUAL REINFORCEMENT, ALIGNED, one could dematerialize nuclear bombs. Things can be made to disappear. This is the way to peace.

“There must be absolute centeredness to oscillate our brains in tune with the Sun at 8 Hertz. These waves can be used for healing, to calm animals, to help the world. Other governments know about this and are going to use it for war.

The Kahunas knew how to use this with the negative vibration. The CIA is approaching psychics to use this to get rid of enemies, to get rid of people. We must develop this power in ourselves, connect with the Sun, and send out waves of peace.”

This becomes even more interesting in light of people who have claimed that the Council of Nine waged a war of sorts on other New Age channelers, in an effort to convince them that their messages were coming truly from the Nine. As reported at the Fortean Times, they were so successful that they even managed to infiltrate the Esalen Institute:

Another Nine channel – an Englishwoman named Jenny O’Connor – was introduced to the avant garde Esalen Institute in San Francisco by Sir John Whitmore. She and The Nine became so influential there that they held seminars and – unbelievably – were actually listed on the Institute’s staff, even successfully ordering the sacking of its chief finance officer and the reorganisation of its entire management structure..

According to one source, Puharich was also the paranormal mentor of Ira Einhorn, the infamous “Unicorn”. Einhorn made statements indicating that Puharich was humanly controlling the channeled sessions of the Council of Nine. Serving in the army in the fifties, in 1952 he also gave a report at the Pentagon entitled: “An Evaluation of the Possible Uses of Extrasensory Perception in Psychological Warfare”. From that site:

Mid-70s: ran a complex in Ossining [NY] called the Turkey Farm. In the summer of 1975, Puharich assembled around twenty children from the ages of nine to late teens, called “Gellerlings”, or “Space Kids”. Puharich trained their psychic abilities, and claimed that they received messages from aliens. One teen claimed that they practiced remote viewing, and some of their assignments included political targets like the Kremlin and the White House.

Puharich has claimed that the Space Kids are able to materialize objects like trees, and that six of them arrived at his ranch via teleportation.

It was also during this time that Puharich did experiments on the effects of ELF radiation on the central nervous system.

[…] Around 1978, Puharich’s Turkey Farm burnt down as a result of arson, and Puharich disappeared. A suspect in the arson was a Space Kid who claimed that aliens were harrassing him. Puharich implicated the CIA.

He claimed in total the CIA had tried to whack him on four separate occasions. Here’s an interview with Puharich where he admits to at least “co-operating” with government agencies while working at Stanford Research Institute. He also says some stupid shit about Uri Geller being an extra-terrestrial, and makes a lot of confusing contradictory remarks about his associates working for the government. Philip K. Dick fans might be interested in his description here of an invention called the Ideascope:

What is the Ideascope?

It’s an ordinary strobe light, but very high-powered.You look into this strobe light, a single point source, and you adjust the frequency of the strobe to your own alpha -waves. When that happens, instead of seeing one point, you suddenly see two. It splits. What it does is separate the two halves of the brain functionally. And, what you then see is two circles, one on each point. When you see two circles move together, they form a vesica-pisces. In other words, a fish-like figure with a dark and light space.

He also makes the following statement in response to “When was the last time you saw a UFO?”

A real UFO? (says this with an amused smile and a twinkle in his eye.) A few months ago. What they do is appear when I’m in danger. They give me a warning and take care of these CIA turkeys and such.

So there you have it: he works for the government on one hand while they simultaneously try to kill him on the other, and all the while UFO’s, Egyptian gods, Israeli aliens and psychic superkids protect him.