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			Department of Paraphysics and 
			Parapsychology, Experimental College 
			University of Washington 
			
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			ABSTRACT 
			
			  
			
			The organization of any biological 
			system is established by a complex electrodynamic field which 
			is, in part, determined by its atomic physiochemical components and 
			which, in part, determines the behavior and orientation of these 
			components.  
			
			  
			
			The holographic model of reality 
			emerging from this principle may provide a scientific explanation of
			psychoenergetic phenomena. 
			
				
				"The pattern or organization of any 
				biological system is established by a complex electrodynamic 
				field, which is in part determined by its atomic physiochemical 
				components and which in part determines the behavior and 
				orientation of those components. This field is electrical in the 
				physical sense, and by its properties it relates the entities of 
				the biological system in a characteristic pattern and is itself 
				in part a result of the existence of those entities.  
				  
				
				It determines and is determined by 
				the components. More than establishing pattern it must maintain 
				pattern in the midst of physiochemical flux; therefore it must 
				regulate and control living things. It must be the mechanism, 
				the outcome of whose activity is wholeness, organization and 
				continuity. The electrodynamic field then, is comparable to the 
				entelecy of Driesh, the embryonic field of Spehmann, and the 
				biological field of Weiss." 
				Burr and Northrop, 1935 
			 
			
			Since the dawn of time there have been 
			two conflicting explanations for the nature and structure of the 
			world in which we live. Those can be most simply stated as the field 
			and the particle. These two conflicting ideas appear in Greek 
			thought, Democritus stressing the field and Heraclitus the particle. 
			Today, fields are stressed in relativity physics, while particles 
			are emphasized in quantum mechanics. 
			 
			Throughout history, many attempts have been made to synthesize the 
			field and the particle theory. In current physics, those attempts 
			fall under the name of geometrodynamics (Wheeler, 1959). It is our 
			intent in this paper to show how a cross synthesis of particle 
			theory and field theory will shed new light on living processes. 
			 
			Field theory can be interwoven with particle theory in an attempt to 
			better understand biological processes.  
			
			  
			
			This effect will enable us to approach 
			an understanding of life because we can conceptualize all structures 
			and functions, all levels from the electronic to the super 
			molecular, as one single unit (Szent-Gyorgyi, 1960:135). 
			 
  
			
			 
			MECHANISMS 
			
				
				A. Quantum Mechanisms 
				Particles found in biological 
				processes include photons, electrons, protons, elementary ions, 
				inorganic radicals, organic radicals, molecules, and molecular 
				aggregates. Photons act upon electrons by raising their energy 
				state.  
				  
				
				This process is called excitation. 
				Excited electrons can drop back to more stable energy levels and 
				emit photons. Electron excitation can lead to the formation of 
				an electronic bond between molecules. This is the traditional 
				bond of classical chemistry. The breaking of such bonds can, by 
				reverse process, lead to the excitation of electrons. 
				 
				In living systems the excitation of electrons by photons and the 
				subsequent conversion of that excitation into the bond energy is 
				called photosynthesis and is the basic builder of biological 
				structures. The reversal of this process is called 
				bioluminescence. This phenomenon is the transfer of energy from 
				a bond to an excited electron, resulting in the emission of a 
				photon. It has been suggested by Szent-Gyorgyi (1957: 8) that 
				the energetics of living creatures can be understood in terms of 
				photosynthesis and its reversal, bioluminescence. 
				 
				All cellular processes are driven by energy derived from the 
				breaking of chemical bonds and the excitation of electrons. 
				 
				
				  
				
				Depending upon the particular environment and circumstances, the 
				excitation of the electron can be converted in one of three 
				ways:  
				
					
						- 
						
						conversion into heat and 
						dissipation   
						- 
						
						translation of molecules or 
						ions through the cell  
						- 
						
						transformation of the 
						molecules' shapes which profoundly influences their 
						biological reactivity  
					 
				 
				
				The formation of a certain type of 
				chemical bond known as the resonance bond (which is most easily 
				seen in the case of the Benzene molecule) leads to a peculiar 
				situation in which certain electrons are freed from a local or 
				particular location in the molecule.  
				  
				
				These are then free to travel around 
				the entire molecule. This means that the electrons occupy an 
				energy shell of the whole molecule as opposed to any particular 
				atom in the molecule. The existence of molecular systems with 
				mobile electrons has been found to be of profound significance 
				in the phenomena of life. 
				 
				Hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen, which 
				compose 99 percent 
				of all living systems, are among the atoms in the periodic table 
				which form the multiple bonds most easily leading to mobile 
				electrons. Sulphur and phosphorus, which are extremely important 
				for life processes, also form such multiple bonds quite easily. 
				 
				All the essential biochemical substances, which perform the 
				fundamental functions of living matter, are composed completely 
				or partially of such mobile electrons. Molecules which contain 
				these electrons are known as conjugated systems (Pullman and 
				Pullman, 1963, chapter 18). The essential fluidity of life may 
				correspond with the fluidity of the electronic cloud in 
				conjugated molecules. Such systems may best be considered as 
				both the cradle and the main backbone of life. 
				 
				Conjugate bonded molecules may interact in a variety of ways. 
				Among these types of interaction can be found the 
				interpenetration of electron orbitals which permits an 
				electromagnetic coupling. This coupling can permit activated 
				electron energy to pass from one molecule to another in the same 
				way a radio can transmit a message to a radio receiver. 
				 
				  
				
				There is also the possibility of the 
				transfer of an entire electron which is known as charge 
				transfer. 
				 
				It is possible for a molecular complex to contain several 
				radicals at different positions on the main molecule, each of 
				which are conjugated. If these are in close enough proximity, or 
				can be brought into proximity by changes in the structural 
				configuration of the molecule, a charge can pass between these 
				two groups.  
				
				  
				
				This is the case of the transfer of electron charges 
				on or around a single molecular complex. It has been suggested 
				by Szent-Gyorgyi (1968) that the sugars and phosphates that make 
				up the side of the alpha helix of DNA can permit the passage of 
				electrons, functioning as a conductor. 
				 
				The biological conduction systems operate primarily on an 
				amorphous semiconductor mode as opposed to resembling metallic 
				conductors (such as the new devices being developed for computer 
				memories).  
				  
				
				These do not have sharply defined 
				energy bands in which electrons may flow, as opposed to other 
				bands in which they are bound rigidly. There is a spread or 
				bell-curve in which the points or tails are bound more closely 
				to a particular molecule. The hump indicates a conducting band 
				that permits electrons to flow across the surface of a 
				particular molecule or between molecules (McGinness, 1972). 
				 
				This means, in essence, that protein molecules which are 
				composed of amino acid sequences, may act as organic circuits. 
				The amino acids each have a donor group and an acceptor group on 
				opposing ends. This means that a string or series of amino acids 
				could pass a charge along as if it were being passed along a 
				series of spines sticking up from the main body of the molecule. 
				 
				Different pathways could be defined across the surface of a 
				protein molecule by the amino acid radicals projecting out from 
				the surface of the protein. The shape of the protein molecules 
				is a function of the charges and the conjugate systems on the 
				radicals that make up the protein. When a protein is 
				manufactured and peels off the ribosome, it immediately assumes 
				a three-dimensional spatial pattern that is directly related to 
				the charges on its surface and the ways in which they interact. 
				 
				The biological activity or specificity of action of various 
				molecules is intimately related to their structure or their 
				exact three-dimensional spatial configuration. Electronic energy 
				and electrons can move through a protein molecule between its 
				different parts and can pass among different molecules. We now 
				come to understand a possible mechanism for biological 
				regulation involving flows of electrons and transfer of 
				electronic energy between molecules.  
				  
				
				These can change their shape and 
				thereby change their specific action and activity. The fusion of 
				electron clouds can exist within a conjugated system and among 
				conjugated systems. This can account for cohesion or the 
				adherence of such molecules to each other.  
				  
				
				Such fusion is a very important 
				determinate of the structure of larger aggregates of molecules 
				and portions of living cells, such as membranes. 
				 
				 
				B. Fields 
				A liquid crystal in a cell 
				through its own structure becomes a proto-organ for mechanical 
				and electrical activity, and when associated in specialized 
				cells in higher animals gives rise to true organs such as 
				muscles and nerves. The oriented molecules in liquid crystals 
				furnish an ideal medium for catalytic action, particularly of 
				the complex type needed to account for growth and reproduction.
				 
				  
				
				A liquid crystal has the possibility 
				of its own structure through singular lines, rods and cones, 
				etc. Such structures belong to the liquid crystal as a unit and 
				not to its molecules which may be replaced by others without 
				destroying them, and they persist in spite of the complete 
				fluidity of the substance (Needham, 1936). 
				 
				Bernal's statement (1933) would seen to support Burr and 
				Northrop's macro-atomic theory (1935), which postulates that 
				there are two aspects to reality, the field and the particle. 
				They associate the field with what they term the macroscopic 
				aspect and the electron with the particle. They associate the 
				field with what they term the macroscopic aspect and the 
				electron with the particle. The particle is associated with 
				movement.  
				  
				
				The structure of biological material 
				seems to be associated with the field aspect. The electric field 
				causes polarization of the macromolecules in the solution due to 
				the fact that molecules possess a dipole moment, and changes the 
				position of protons in the molecule.  
				  
				
				Such action can affect the relative 
				stability of different possible configurations of the 
				macromolecules. The field affects the degree of structure 
				present in the solution. 
				 
				A constant magnetic field can, in principle, affect the various 
				processes in biological objects. Three possible mechanisms for 
				this biomagnetic affect are, 
				
					
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						the orientation of 
						diamagnetic or paramagnetic molecules by the magnetic 
						field   
						- 
						
						distortions of the angles in 
						the molecules   
						- 
						
						orientation of the spins of 
						molecules in a magnetic field  
						
						(Fowler and Bernal, 1933; 
						Freedericksz and Zolina, 1933; Van Iterson, 1933; 
						Osborne, Ambrose and Stuart, 1970).   
					 
				 
				
				Presman (1970) has postulated that 
				such electromagnetic fields normally serve as conveyors of 
				information, from the environment to the organism, within the 
				organism, and among organisms.  
				  
				
				He suggests that organisms employ 
				these fields in conjunction with the well known sensory, 
				nervous, and endocrine systems, in effecting coordination and 
				integration. 
  
			 
			
			 
			INFLUENCES 
			 
			Becker (1972) has stated that it is already established that 
			electromagnetic forces can be used to change three fundamental life 
			processes in mammals. These processes are: 
			
				
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					the stimulation of bone-growth
					  
					- 
					
					the stimulation of partial 
					multi-tissue regenerative growth   
					- 
					
					the influence on the basic level 
					of nerve activity and function.   
				 
			 
			
			All these affects appear to be mediated 
			through perturbations in naturally pre-existing bioelectronic 
			systems. The organism's bioelectronic system also seems to be 
			related to levels of consciousness and to biological cycles (Ravitz, 
			1970). 
			 
			Experimental evidence indicates that part of the environment of 
			living organisms consists of a complex four-dimensional, space-time, 
			field pattern, that the organism responds to and requires for a 
			healthy existence (Brown, 1971).  
			
			  
			
			Research carried out with organisms 
			in fields lower than the normal magnetic field strength of the earth 
			inevitably results in deterioration and death of the organisms 
			involved (Purrett, 1971). 
			 
			Recent research indicates that an organism utilizes its sensitivity 
			to cope with the complex electromagnetic and gravitational fields in 
			its environment.  
			
			  
			
			This process serves to calibrate its 
			internal biological rhythms with external factors such as  
			
				
					- 
					
					the rotation of the earth 
					  
					- 
					
					variations in the earth's 
					magnetic field   
					- 
					
					the transit of the moon around 
					the earth   
					- 
					
					the influences of the sun (e.g., 
					short term field variations, yearly seasonal changes, sun 
					spot cycles occurring every 11 years)  
				 
			 
			
			Changes in these various external 
			systems influence the organism profoundly (Burr, 1972; Garrison, 
			1971). Correlations have been drawn between collapse and reversal of 
			the earth's magnetic field and extinction of various species (Purrett, 
			1971). 
			 
			The complex field pattern also carries other information to living 
			creatures. Fluctuations of the field patterns reflect the presence, 
			location and other characteristics of different physical and 
			biological phenomena in the environment (e.g., other creatures, 
			physical objects). Alterations in electomagnetic parameters in the 
			environment can be related to such physical phenomena as 
			conductivity, permeability, and space and surface charges. Organisms 
			themselves contribute to the environment by virtue of the end 
			products of their various physiological processes. These may alter 
			the environmental electrical and magnetic properties. 
			 
			Weather systems also have electrical and magnetic correlates (Brown, 
			1971).  
			
			  
			
			One can see a very positive contact or 
			connection between electromagnetic phenomena associated with weather 
			and the behavior and health of organisms. A more advanced theory 
			would connect weather changes and changes in the physical 
			environment to behavior and biological products attributable to 
			organisms.  
			
			  
			
			More precisely stated not only does 
			weather in a variety of ways profoundly influence living creatures, 
			but also it is possible that living creatures can influence weather. 
			 
  
			
			 
			CO-RELATIONS 
			 
			Moving from a consideration of various mechanisms and influences of 
			electromagnetic field phenomena upon living creatures, a more 
			intimate role for electromagnetic fields in life phenomena will be 
			examined. The first phenomenon that shall be considered is the 
			relationship between electrodynamics and development. 
			 
			It is a current hypothesis that the electrical fields associated 
			with a cell are intimately related to processes that have to do with 
			structure and motion in the cell.  
			
			  
			
			The first such influence or effect would 
			be that of providing a directive force in the laying down of 
			substances in the growth of the creature. In dealing with 
			extra-cellular electric fields, such fields most probably correlate 
			the growth activities among cells, and thus determine the origin and 
			orientation of symmetrical axes for the cell groups and the entire 
			organism (Lund, 1945, chapter 6). 
			 
			The next area for consideration has to do with regeneration of 
			damaged tissue. Recent research has shown that electrical current in 
			living tissue can serve to precipitate regeneration and growth of 
			new tissue (Becker, 1972).  
			
			  
			
			This mechanism apparently operates by 
			causing the cells at the site of the injury that are still alive, to 
			dedifferentiate back into cells resembling embryonic cells and 
			thereby to divide and grow. This new growth is guided to repair the 
			damage and ceases when the damage has been repaired and the creature 
			is again intact. 
			 
			From the very beginning, the electromagnetic field provides a 
			sustaining and directing matrix for the cells and the biological 
			substances in the creature. There is evidence that all creatures 
			possessing a central nervous system have a direct current system 
			that displays a field pattern expressing the anatomical arrangement 
			of the central nervous system itself.  
			
			  
			
			It has been suggested that this DC 
			system serves as a primitive data transmitting and control system 
			which regulated the ability of the central nervous system to process 
			data by a more sophisticated and neural transmission (Becker, 1963). 
			 
			Consciousness may be seen as a frame of electrical charges in motion 
			such as electrons bombarding a television screen; personality is a 
			time series of these scintillating frames of consciousness. 
			Personality becomes a reverberating input-output pattern of self 
			creation seeking information or patterns of energy from the 
			environment as well as from its own memories. The personality never 
			recreates itself but creates only a close approximation which is 
			accepted due to the principle of constancy as being the same. 
			 
			The phenomena of unique individuality and personal continuity depend 
			on memory. Consciousness involves the most recent memory and thereby 
			the most subject to erasure and loosening. Personality 
			transformation becomes energy pattern modification of not only 
			scintillating consciousness but also of recent circulating memories 
			and older stored memories. 
			 
			Thus consciousness can be conceptualized as an electronic phenomena 
			occurring in the brain that involves both dynamic charges in motion 
			and also stored structure (Tien, 1969). Referring to the mechanisms 
			mentioned earlier, a very close connection between electronic 
			activity and structure can be seen. A good deal of work on human 
			psychological processes indicate that human beings are extremely 
			sensitive to the various electromagnetic events in their 
			environment. 
			 
			Daily variations are related to the rotation of the earth. 
			Correlation has been found between deviant human behavior and 
			alterations in consciousness to cycles of the moon. Work has been 
			done on the correlation of deviant behavior in schizophrenia and sun 
			spot activity (Becker, 1963).  
			
			  
			
			All these various factors indicate that 
			human consciousness is modulated by electromagnetic events in the 
			environment. 
  
			
			 
			 
			CONCLUSIONS 
			 
			Mechanisms of molecular influence, influences of field phenomena on 
			whole organisms, and various factors relating to human consciousness 
			shed interesting light on ancient metaphysical systems having to do 
			with psychophysiological regeneration. We suggest that the conscious 
			experience of various profound electromagnetic events in our 
			terrestrial environment can have a salutary affect on the health of 
			the organism.  
			
			  
			
			When human beings consciously 
			experiences a sunrise or sunset, a new moon or full moon, the 
			equinoxes and solstices, as well as the points of maximal and 
			minimal sun spot activity, a calibrating effect results which 
			involves their various biological rhythmic systems. 
			 
			It has been shown that stress can uncouple synchronized and 
			harmonious biological rhythms resulting in pathological conditions 
			for the organisms (Burr and Northrop, 1935). We are proposing that 
			these biological systems can be resynchronized and recalibrated 
			through conscious effort. The proposed mechanism for this influence 
			has to do with the indicated coupling of these various external 
			events to biological processes. 
			 
			The amplifying effect of consciousness has also been seen to be 
			relatable to the various electromagnetic occurrences in the brain. 
			At a deeper level of analysis, it can be suggested that the field 
			phenomena which we have been studying and working with are in fact 
			more real, if that term can be used, than the particulate matter and 
			various objects of which we have been speaking (Wheeler, 1959). 
			 
			Briefly stated, the fields and particles may be themselves composed 
			of empty curved space, trapping lines of electromagnetic force. This 
			is the holographic concept of reality. The structural configurations 
			themselves or the geometry of the fields and the particles are more 
			fundamental than either the fields or the particles themselves. 
			 
			We suggest that an epistemology based upon the concept of a human 
			being as a material object composed of particulate substances in 
			various configurations and patterns would be erroneous. Human beings 
			are better seen as on-going, dynamic, shifting, changing, field 
			entities (or field patterns) that serve as a matrix for the 
			flow-through of biological substances and various simple chemicals. 
			 
			This proposal has profound significance for human behavior, 
			extending from the actions of the individual and personal ethics all 
			the way to the actions of sociological aggregate systems such as 
			nations and multi-national groups. We feel that many of the problems 
			of society that are current today can be traced to our ignorance of, 
			or refusal to embrace, this larger holographic electrodynamic 
			reality in which we live. 
			 
			Furthermore, this knowledge is not new. It is the main core of the 
			message of the social reformers throughout history.  
			
			  
			
			It is also discussed, in other terms, by 
			many individuals who characteristically experience 
			psycho-energetic 
			phenomena (e.g., psychokinesis, clairvoyance, telepathy, 
			precognition). 
  
			
			 
			 
			SUMMARY 
			
				
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					As postulated by Northrop and 
					Burr (1935), the pattern or organization of any biological 
					system is established by a complex electrodynamic field 
					which is in part determined by its atomic physiochemical 
					components and which in part determines the behavior and 
					orientation of those components. 
   
					- 
					
					Presman (1970) has postulated 
					that such electromagnetic fields normally serve as conveyors 
					of information from the environment to the organism, within 
					the organism, and among organisms. He has postulated that in 
					the course of evolution, organisms have come to use these 
					fields in conjunction with the well-known sensory, nervous, 
					and endocrine systems in effecting coordination and 
					integration. 
   
					- 
					
					Szent-Gyorgyi (1957, 1960) has 
					theorized that cells and other biological components might 
					have various electronic solid-state physical properties such 
					as semi-conductors. He suggests that the use of quantum 
					electrodynamics is necessary in order to understand 
					biological processes which regulate the vital activity of 
					organisms. 
   
					- 
					
					Becker (1963) has maintained 
					that it is already established that electromagnetic forces 
					can be used to change three fundamental life processes in 
					mammals. Those processes are the stimulation of bone growth, 
					the stimulation of partial multi-tissue regenerative growth, 
					and the influence on the basic level of nerve activity and 
					function. All of these effects appear to be mediated through 
					perturbations in naturally pre-existing electronic control 
					systems. The neural electronic system also seems to be 
					related to levels of consciousness and biological cycles, 
					and we have developed the thesis that this system furnishes 
					the linkage mechanism between electromagnetic forces in the 
					environment and biological cyclic behavior. 
   
					- 
					
					McGinness (1972) reported that 
					melanins are excellent electron acceptors and have 
					semi-conductor properties which appear to be important in 
					midbrain structures. Melanins are known to act as an 
					ultraviolet sun screen, but research indicates that they 
					also have a fundamental biological role. McGinness (1972) 
					has proposed that melanins may de-excite certain biological 
					molecules by converting electronic energy to heat. An 
					analysis of data on melanins suggests that the electronic 
					properties of melanins can best be explained in terms of a 
					band model for semi-conduction in amorphous materials, which 
					may also explain the behavior of proteins, and other 
					biological macromolecules such as RNA and DNA. In amorphous 
					materials, there is an essentially Gaussian density of 
					electron energy states. 
   
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					Muses (1970) has proposed the 
					possibility of unit impulse functions evolving from the 
					Gaussian. His work traces the relation of that mathematical 
					concept to quantum biological indeterminacy in terms of a 
					process of the modulation of random fluctuations by 
					target-seeking perturbations which points the way to the 
					understanding and computing of the parameters of volitional 
					experience in quantum biological terms.  
					  
					
					He maintains that we 
					are dealing with Gaussian wave packets, put to use in terms 
					of a close-range reaction in turn resulting in the resonant 
					microbiological specificity (arising from the relatively 
					large number of specific molecular parameters) necessary to 
					the essential life and evolutional processes of chromosome 
					synapses, replication, and mutagenesis.
  Muses holds that inherently indeterminate processes may be 
					biologically used in achieving determinate ones such as our 
					repeatable and commonly accepted volitional experiences of 
					effort and direction. The range of quantum indeterminate 
					fluctuation of biological efficacy is in the far 
					ultraviolet, and it is in this spectral region that we 
					should expect to look for any modulation effects on Gaussian 
					wave packets by volitional energies manifesting as 
					ultramicrobiological field perturbations.
  Biologically, there is a threshold of non-randomicity below 
					which peaks tend to emerge that are sharp enough to possess 
					biodirectiveness in an enzyme-guiding sense. Random 
					biological quantum energies which are physiologically 
					unassigned are the clue to psychosomatic directing, which 
					can be beneficial or deleterious to the organism. Muses 
					(1970) describes the mechanism of this effect as a 
					microbiolaser type process.    
					- 
					
					Heisenberg explored the possible 
					relevance of the quantum indeterminacy of elementary 
					particles for biological systems, especially human systems 
					(discussed in Koestler, 1972). He stated that there are two 
					places in the human system where the quantum indeterminacy 
					of a single particle can have a profound influence. The 
					first important effect is that of mutation in the genetic 
					code. The second important influence is the alteration of 
					the behavior of neurons during human thought processes. 
   
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					Tien (1969) has conceptualized 
					mind as mass in relative motion and brain as energy at 
					relative electrical charges in motion, like electrons 
					bombarding a television screen, and personality is seen as a 
					time series of scintillating frames of consciousness. 
					Personality becomes a reverberating input-output pattern of 
					self-creation, seeking information or patterns of energy 
					from the environment as well as from its own memories. The 
					stability of any given personality of its identity, which is 
					maintained by feedback upon the principle of most 
					similarity. 
					 
					The personality never recreates itself, but creates only a 
					close approximation which is accepted due to the principle 
					of constancy as being the same. The phenomena of unique 
					individuality and personal continuity depend on memory, of 
					which consciousness is the most recent and, thereby, the 
					most subject to erasure and loosening. Personality 
					transformation becomes energy pattern modification of not 
					only scintillating consciousness but also of recent 
					circulating memories and older stored memories of childhood. 
					 
					According to the holographic model of reality, all the 
					objects we can observe are three-dimensional images formed 
					of standing and moving waves by electromagnetic and nuclear 
					processes. All the objects of our world are 
					three-dimensional images formed electro-magnetically, i.e., 
					holograms. 
					 
					This concept and the models of human information processing 
					based on the hologram, throw interesting light on the 
					philosophical tradition which holds that the world of 
					objects is an illusion. With the triumph of relativity and 
					quantum physics, the interpenetration of the philosophical 
					and the scientific is possible. 
   
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					LeShan (1969) has observed, in 
					discussing some individuals who purportedly experience 
					psycho-energetic phenomena, that their view of the universe 
					as a great thought of which they are a part is quite similar 
					to many physicists' view that they see reality only in their 
					own mental image.  
				 
			 
			
			We propose that the "reality hologram" 
			which appears as a stable world of material objects is the 
			elementary particle which has a long-term existence and fairly 
			simple rules of interaction. We also propose the existence of a "biohologram" 
			which appears as mobile and evolving, through the DNA molecule.
			 
			
			  
			
			This "biohologram" projects a dynamic 
			three-dimensional image that serves as a guiding matrix for the 
			manipulation and organization of the "reality hologram." 
			 
			Thus we have mobile self-organizing holograms moving through a 
			relatively static simpler hologram. The possibility exists that such 
			"bioholograms" could achieve sufficient coherence to continue 
			existence as a pattern of radiant energy apart from a material 
			sub-state.  
			
			  
			
			We feel that such an occurrence could 
			form the scientific basis of such psychoenergetic phenomena as: 
			
				
					
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						psycho-kinesis 
						 
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						clairvoyance  
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						telepathy  
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						precognition  
					 
				 
			 
			
			 
			 
			 
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