Lecture given on March 4, 1965, by Riley Crabb

SOME UNKNOWN DESTROYER

Lauritzen wrote to us: “When the distance between a man and the earth is increased, the shielding effect of the earth will be lesser; he will receive more cosmic, free, kinetic energy; the power of his thought energy will therefore be stronger, so strong that it has an influence on physical matter. If he fears that the windows in the cabin will break through, they will break through. If he fears that some unknown force will destroy the instruments and the furniture, some unknown force will destroy the instruments and furniture.”

Then Lauritzen goes on to claim that this happened to the first Russian astronauts. They were “lost in space because some unknown force destroyed the cabin and instruments. . . a man said that something strange had come into the cabin; and even if it was invisible, it was destroying the instruments.”

Then Lauritzen goes on to claim that this happened to the first Russian astronauts. They were “lost in space because some unknown force destroyed the cabin and instruments. . . a man said that something strange had come into the cabin; and even if it was invisible, it was destroying the instruments.”

Later on, Lauritzen says, “the Russians learned that it was necessary to hypnotize the astronauts so that they only thought of the things they had to do.” Maybe they should study Norman Vincent Peale’s “Power of Positive Thinking”! Lauritzen also claims that all of our American Astronauts have been so hypnotized to avoid such things as disintegrating Mercury and Gemini capsules. If so, it certainly is a well-kept secret!

It is no secret, however, that the winners in the Astronaut selection program were absolute tops in their emotional stability under stress, but even more important than that was their mental attitude toward the project. These men were chosen above all others because of their total dedication to and concentration on their chosen goal. This is positive thinking, the only kind which is going to get a man or woman successfully out to the moon and back again; in or out of the body!

Lauritzen’s idea that thought-power increases tremendously when free from the earth gravity field is sound reasoning to me; but It might be equally true that physical objects in space may be more loosely held together because of that same lack of gravity; therefore it wouldn’t necessarily take much kinetic energy in the form of a negative or fearful thought to break up or disintegrate a physical object.

This phenomenon of disintegrating instruments and cabin is not new to our exobiologists. This may have been in Dr. Levy’s mind when he spoke of the disturbing effects of isolation on human thought-processes and observations at that 1958 meeting, long before we or the Russians put anyone in orbit. “Time Magazine” for May 26, 1958, had an extensive article on the problems of space travel. Included in it was this very revealing item on that destructive unknown force:

“A man studying a dimly lit instrument panel or radar scope in darkness and total silence soon begins to see blips where there are none. Airmen reported: ‘The instrument panel kept melting and dropping to the floor’. . . Another had to spend too much time ‘brushing away the little man who kept swinging on and thereby obscuring, the airspeed indicator’.

IT AIN’T FUNNY McGEE!

To us, these hallucinations of the test Airmen are funny. Certainly they’re not too serious in a laboratory here on the surface, where he is under observation, and he can come back to physical, 3-D reality as soon as he steps out of the test capsule. But when he’s alone in outer space, when he knows there is no friendly doctor watching him through an observation window to remind him of 3-D sanity, what then?

Maybe those abortive Russian space missions didn’t fail because of equipment failure. Maybe no “unknown destroyer” was operating out there at all, and the Russian satellites of 1959, ’60, ’61, are still orbiting. The “unknown destroyer” was the changing consciousness of the Cosmonaut. When the instrument panel began to melt and drop to the floor this was real to the Cosmonaut, the only reality he had! So as far as he was concerned the mission was over. He no longer had any instruments to monitor, and no space capsule either, when his consciousness, his awareness of himself, had escaped the confines of his body and of the orbiting satellite.

I believe this is the $64 billion dollar question of space travel which is still unanswered. I believe that it is those failures which have caused the Russians to slow down their efforts to reach the moon, while at the same time they have speeded up their research in the mind, ESP and the control of the attention. They have at least eight public acknowledged research projects going – government financed, and we have none. Are the Russians going to have another first in space research, in this particular area? It looks like it – unless we can break through the conservative roadblocks in Washington, those Congressmen who represent the Establishment in vetoing the appropriation of necessary funds.

Harold Sherman, nationally known ESP researcher, bewailed this fact in Hollywood in August 1964 when he said that “an ESP race is being waged between the United States and Russia and the gap is widening in favor of the Soviets. . . With all that money going toward outer space research, we should be able to spare a few million for study of the inner space of man’s mind.”

What happened to those brave Russian Cosmonauts who gave their lives to the space race? Well, you don’t have to wait until our government appropriates millions of dollars for research, and until orthodox scientists make up their doubtful minds as to whether or not Mind has any reality outside the body! The information is already available in hundreds of books which can be bought second hand for only a few dollars. These authors offer incontrovertible evidence that Mind is real, quite apart from the physical, and that it does have independent, self-conscious awareness.

I would guess that when a Russian Cosmonaut died or passed out of his physical body in space, and knew that the mission, for him, was over, his attention or awareness shifted to the next most important thing on his mind. If he had a wife and children whom he loved most dearly, he immediately thought of them and their welfare, with him gone. Free of the physical, he probably found himself suddenly at home with his family, but strangely, frustratingly unable to get them to see him or hear him. Even if he were unwilling to admit he was “dead”, which he obviously wasn’t, a few minutes at home with his wife and children walking right through him, and he walking right through them, would’ve convinced him that the Great Change had taken place!

MIND OVER MATTER

Now we’re not here to debate this matter of survival. That can be the subject of several other lectures and anyhow the available material is endless. What we are concerned about is control of the Attention. If study of that Control leads us beyond telepathy, beyond ESP as the orthodox scientist wants to study it, by all means let’s do so. This is basic science rather than applied science. In this research field of ESP the space scientist must hold himself to the problem of the Astronaut’s total attention on the success of the mission. We are not so limited. I make so bold as to venture the opinion that our space ventures will not succeed unless and until our space scientists take in the larger field of study of Consciousness itself! What this will lead to they probably dare not suspect, but some have no doubt passed on their private opinions to the Administration in Washington. Here is a significant observation by the architect of our space program, the then vice-president, Lyndon Baines Johnson, in a speech in June 1963:

“We are not reaching for prestige in space, we are reaching for peace. And this is considerably more urgent than many realize or others will yet admit. Space is clearly the great breakthrough of human knowledge – for centuries to come. We do not know – and the Soviets do not know – what the Stars will tell us. We do know that to default the exploration of the universe of space would surely be as catastrophic in its consequences to us as if we had defaulted exploration of the atom. Our superiority in any scientific field will be brief and fading if we do not win and hold competence in this new and decisive realm of discovery.”

I think the Stars will tell us that space is already occupied by intelligent beings, some human, and some non-human, like the angels; and if we are to successfully traverse space, even the comparatively short distance to the moon, we will have to seek their cooperation.

Even orthodox scientists are grudgingly admitting the probability of other inhabited planets in the universe. Half of these planets would be ahead of us in evolution, half of them behind us. The scientist is willing to admit that the more advanced cultures of other planets have mastered space travel, but none are as yet willing to state publicly that some of those advanced beings may be in the atmosphere of this planet, or even walking about on the surface, ready and willing to offer advice and guidance on the conduct of our affairs.

The problem is a meeting of minds, communication, and we’ll have to go beyond telepathy in our studies of the mind to prepare ourselves for the larger – and I hope more peaceful – view of life that space travel presents. Let us not default the problem; let us step forward courageously to meet it.

Abbreviated excerpt from The Journal of Borderland Research – 1965

See Part I here.

Note: Dr. Norman explains reasons for this surprising phenomena here.