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Taken from KeelyNet BBS (214) 324-3501
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November 16, 1993
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Message 2690 DATE/TIME: 10/18/93 17:18
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From : JERRY DECKER (SYSOP)
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To : ALL
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Subject: PsychoManteum
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Folder : A, "Public Mail"
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Hi Folks!
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Don't know if you got a chance to see the Oprah Winfrey show
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broadcast today, Monday 18th of October...at 4:PM on Channel 8?
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She had Dr. Raymond Moody and 3 other folks who have been working
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with "communicating with the dead"...I plan to write a file (this is
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the first part!) on the particular techniques that are being used
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extrapolated from a recording of the program but FOR NOW, I just
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wanted to see who all might have seen it and if anyone had any
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thoughts on it or would be willing to give it a try???
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Basically, the ancient Greeks had a very dark room (no light
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WHATSOEVER) which had a mirror that a person faced while sitting in
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a comfortable chair. By getting into the correct frame of mind,
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they claimed you could actually communicate with the departed.
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Moody says there is some kind of preparation I would guess to get
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you in the mood but some of the other people don't use that beyond a
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mental idea of what they are trying to do and asking for "guidance".
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So, the scoop is to devote small room (closet, etc) or build a box
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large enough to place a chair and large mirror. The chair must be
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very comfortable and the TV program showed the use of flat black
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felt for the maximum blackout of any light. You are supposed to sit
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back in the chair, look into the mirror and just wait or think of
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who you want to contact (depending on which method you use, Moody's
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or the other folks).
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There were several theories as to what was really happening and some
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such as Persinger's work that were not even mentioned, but it looks
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like a low level sensory deprivation experiment...one subject
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plugged her ears, so with that you have a lack of auditory AND
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VISUAL stimulation which would allow the evocation of images that
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could be perceived as real....
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The main thrust was that no one described a negative experience and
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all felt it was of benefit to them....an interesting show, this one.
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I have done limited sensory deprivation for 1 hour and had no
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bizarre experience PERIOD except for the electrical tone of my
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Page 1
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muscles going away to the point that I could not move at all....and
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this was not cured by the tingling that comes from restriction of
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blood flow...it was in a water tank (600 pounds of epsom salt
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dissolved in a coffin type container that prevented any light).
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I understand such experiences should be done frequently for the best
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benefit and to get the range of hallucinations that come with
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sensory deprivation...in this case, I could hear...the temperature
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by the way, was maintained at a constant 98 degrees...no light, no
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cold, just sound so it did not qualify as a true sensory dep
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experiment.
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Anyway, this Psychomanteum thing is intriguing as it does not really
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take any advanced equipment or cost an arm and a leg to experiment
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with...hmmm, could we maybe do an orgone box while we're at it???
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Wonder what that would conjure up, Reich maybe...???...>>> Jerry
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...forgot to mention one of the primary reasons why this was SO
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INTRIGUING... It might offer a means of enhancing creativity by
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allowing the subject to call up someone like KEELY, TESLA, RUSSELL,
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whoever or just to help pull in those loose thoughts that when
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brought together show correlations and thus new perspectives....
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Creativity and/or inspiration....now that could be of use...>>> JWD
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