"The 25 Questions"

 

Guidelines for Determining the Development of Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EH)

 

Adapted from Electric UFOs: Fireballs, Electromagnetics and Abnormal States by Albert Budden (London: Blandford, 1998)

 

1. Do you frequently get severe shocks from door handles, car bodywork, and other surfaces?

 

2. Do you feel uncomfortable in synthetic materials, such as acrylic, polyester, or nylon?

 

3. Are you sensitive to perfumed products, aerosols, cigarette smoke, gasoline, natural gas, make-up, aftershave, and similar substances.?

 

4. Does electrical equipment go wrong or behave oddly in your presence?

 

5. Are there any foods or drinks that you either avoid or consume large amounts of? Do you have food allergies, for example, to chocolate, coffee, milk, orange juice, food with artificial coloring or flavors, or wheat products?

 

6. Did you have a happy childhood? If no, give reason(s) briefly.

 

7. Do you ever have hairs on your body stand on end, feel suddenly cold or overheated, or experience tingling or numbness?

 

8. Do you ever get a metallic taste in your mouth?

 

9. Do you get deja vu strongly and often?

 

10. Do you ever get the overwhelming sensation that someone is in the room with you, watching, although you cannot see anyone?

 

11. Are you very sensitive to light? (Sunlight? Flickering light? Do you wear tinted glasses?)

 

12. Are you sensitive to medications, especially antibiotics?

 

13. Do you have what could be called psychic experiences, such as ghostly encounters or out-of-body-experiences (OBEs)?

 

14. Do you find that objects in your home go missing or sometimes seem to behave oddly in any way?

 

15. Do light bulbs or batteries seem to last for a very short period of time in your home?

 

16. Have you ever been close to a lightning strike or suffered major electrocution? Or defibrillation? Or electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)?

 

17. Do you ever see small lights darting about the room?

 

18. Does fluorescent light bother you at all?

 

19. Do you ever have periods where you lose all concentration, feel over-heated, see light flashes, lose muscle power in your legs, or feel tingly and heavy?

 

20. Are there any of the following features near your home: a quarry, radio mast, power lines, reservoir, hill, military base, TV or radio station, radio ham?

 

21. Does time ever seem to slow down or pass in a flash?

 

22. Have you ever had periods of time for which you cannot account?

 

23. As an activity, do you write very much?

 

24. Have you ever had the experience of everything going very still, timeless, and silent?

 

25. Do you ever get painful electrical rippling sensations under the skin?

 

 

Psychic Phenomena and the EM Hypothesis

 

by William Patrick Bourne

 

With development of the experimental understanding of electromagnetic

(EM) energy during the nineteenth century, it was natural that

parapsychology researchers would entertain the notion that some

psychic phenomena, for example telepathy, might be a manifestation of

direct brain-to-brain communication using EM carrier waves of some

sort.

 

EM waves are used today for a variety of purposes, including radio

and television communication. It has also been demonstrated that the

human body and nervous system produce EM energy of various

frequencies.

 

Although EM signals of some type between people might be significant

over short distances, they cannot explain the great accumulated body

of evidence in the parapsychology literature.

 

The total electrical power emitted by the human brain is very weak,

less than 0.000001 watts. We know that the strength of an

electromagnetic signal drops off very quickly as it travels, and yet

long range telepathy and PK experiments have been performed which

indicate that psychic prowess does not seem to diminish with distance.

 

Furthermore, successful telepathic reception of target information

has been achieved while the subject was enclosed within an

electromagnetically shielded chamber called a Faraday cage. Although

extremely low frequencies (ELF) may still penetrate such a chamber,

the information-carrying capacity of these long wavelengths seems to

be too low to account for the quality of the psychic signal in, for

example, remote-viewing experiments.

 

Physicist Z.V. Harvalik published an interesting series of papers

during the 1970s in American Dowser Quarterly Digest. Working with

expert dowser Wilhelm De Boer, he showed that the subject reacted

with great sensitivity to changes in a magnetic field. By placing

strips of magnetic-shielding material on the dowser's body, Harvalik

determined that biological dowsing sensors seem to be located at the

kidneys as well as in the vicinity of the pineal gland within the

brain. When one of these two areas was shielded the dowsing signal

was completely extinguished, but when both areas were shielded the

dowser's sensitivity returned and even seemed enhanced. This would

seem to indicate that a non-EM sensory system was available to take

over.

 

The evidence is strong that signals with unknown characteristics,

certainly unlike electromagnetic waves, exist within Nature.

 

Further reading:

 

Harvalik, Z. V. (1973-1976). American Dowser Quarterly Digest

(Danville, Vermont).

 

Krippner, Stanley (Ed.) (1987). Advances in Parapsychological

Research, Vol. 5. North Carolina: McFarland & Co. (See pages 112-

116.)

 

Targ, Russell, & Harold Puthoff. (1977). Mind Reach. New York: Dell

Publishing.