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This series of articles was written by the user assalam786.livejournal.com in May 2017 in Russian. This user has published many interesting articles that will be of interest to sh.net users. Many of them are (in one way or another) related to Islam and Sufism.
I found this user by a search query in Russian "three brothers energy chemistry", because lately I started to be quite deeply interested in alchemy (it seemed to me that numerous stories-legends about the three brothers are related to chemistry-alchemy). And was looking for the chemistry-alchemical properties of copper (as I came out on copper in my research on Yekaterinburg; this led me to a connection to Phoenix, Adelaide and Santiago; if someone does research related to copper, he will understand why these cities have a connection).
I really liked this author as he resonates strongly with me (as far as Islamic culture and energy is concerned). I write about this on purpose so that people will pay attention first of all to the energy context (religion, ideology do not play a big role here).
With this note I begin a series on the invisible power radiated and absorbed by all objects in the manifested universe, and how the various objects of Tradition are used to harness, store, redistribute, and channel this power.
The purpose of this series of notes is to help reconstruct the applied knowledge behind the various tools of Tradition, now perceived only as ritual objects or ornaments. Simply put, when you see people sitting on the floor eating with their hands while they have a "sacred" table on the altar and "sacred" spoons and forks hanging on the wall... it might occur to him that some additional information would be helpful in this situation...
The ancient Indian concept of prana, the cosmic life force permeating everything in the universe and contained in living and inanimate objects, was also very close to the Chinese qi. The Vedas state that prana comes to the Earth from the Sun and living beings inhale it together with the air: flowing through subtle channels and meridians of the body, prana nourishes and gives us life.
Personally, I have never had any doubt that the ancient teachings on prana and chi were not the superstitions of primitive societies as they are presented by modern sources. I believe that in ancient times there were more people who saw subtle energies, not 22 percent as now, but much more, and that the knowledge of qi and prana was recorded by people of knowledge for whom the existence of an unknown force was real and tangible.
You may ask, where did the information that there were exactly 22 percent of people with the ability to see this energy come from? This conclusion was reached by Karl von Reichenbach, a 19th century German chemist and industrialist who conducted research on the mysterious force we are talking about.
Kirlian's method of photography: in the 1940s, the Soviet scientists Kirlian discovered that when photographed with high-frequency currents, the effect of a special luminescence of various living and nonliving objects was observed.
Baron Reichenbach once studied with Goethe in his youth and was greatly impressed by the great Master's teachings on light waves. This may have led him to the study of invisible light or vital force, to which he gave the name "od" after the Scandinavian god Odin. Although the scientist himself was not a visionary, he based his research on experiments with people who had the ability to perceive the subtle emanations of od by means of the organs of sight and touch.
As Reichnebach found out, the proportion of such people gifted with unusual vision is 22%. Since the other three quarters, which represent the majority, do not perceive anything "such", they consider visionaries to be not quite normal or imaginary, immediately rejecting everything they cannot see or feel themselves. Because of this attitude, all of Reichenbach's research was rejected by the scientific community as "pseudoscientific".
And the evidence was that everything radiates a special light - absolutely everything, without exception. We live in a world filled with luminous emanations. The sun is the most powerful source of invisible rays, in addition to those visible ones that we call daylight. And the Moon has its own light, though not comparable to the Sun in power. Everything on Earth also emits light, but it is much weaker. Organic substances are the dimmest: wool and other natural fabrics, wood, clay, ordinary stones; the brightest are metals, especially magnets, and some crystals, such as quartz or rock crystal.
Reichenbach's attention was also drawn to the ability of unknown energy to move from one object to another. A magnetized or electrified object, in contact with another, transfers a charge to it, and the same was observed in the manifestations of Od.
The people who participated in Reichenbach's experiments saw that a luminous energy was continually separating from our entire body, especially from the tips of our fingers and toes. Baron believed that this separation was nothing more than the transmission of an ode to the matter of the air. In his work he noted that the strongest transfer of this kind occurs during the breathing of living beings: visionaries have noted that with each breath a cloud of luminous smoke emanates from the nose of a sleeping person, dissolving into the much dimmer, non-uniform bluish glow that fills the room.
Reichenbach did not attribute the phenomenon he observed to the field of electricity, because the electroscope, brought into contact with the crystal, remained without the slightest change. Nor could he call the phenomena magnetism because crystals and other dielectrics were obviously not magnetized. After describing in detail all the manifestations of the unknown force from the words of the visionaries, Reichenbach was forced to admit that he did not know what it was, only suggesting that this type of energy must take a place between magnetism and electricity.
One of the men of knowledge of our time capable of perceiving the invisible force was George Gurdjieff, in whose teachings many of the ideas of Tradition are reflected.
In his book "Views from the Real World", Gurdjieff spoke of a "mixed substance of the active elements of the physical body and the astral body" which forms around a person a particular atmosphere, like the atmosphere around the planet. This substance, if concentrated, Gurdjieff maintained, could be seen as an aura or glow around people, and sometimes also in holy places or churches. Just as the atmospheres of different planets constantly gain or lose some or other substance due to the influence of other planets, so a person surrounded by other people is like a planet surrounded by other planets. When the atmospheres of people who are attracted to each other meet, a bond and exchange is formed between them. The volume of their atmosphere remains the same, but its quality changes.
20th-century science came close to studying the phenomenon of invisible energy from a practical standpoint--through the research of Wilhelm Reich, a German scientist originally from the Austro-Hungarian part of Ukraine. Reich was a close disciple of Freud and began his academic career in the field of psychoanalysis and sexual energy. In order to avoid Nazi persecution, Reich was forced to move from Germany to America, where he continued his research into the 1940s and 1950s.
In the process of studying the human psyche, he came up with the idea of the existence of a single life force that was the basis of all body processes. He claimed that this energy could be observed under the microscope as a bluish glow around the blood cells and other living substances. Reich gave this force the name "orgone," from "organism, organic," to show its connection with life processes, and believed that it was also present in an unbound form in the atmosphere. The scientist wrote of a glow of blue energy enveloping the entire planet - several years before photographs taken by the first Soviet satellite from space confirmed this exactly.
Reich showed that orgone exists even in a vacuum, filling the entire space, it pulsates in a certain rhythm and interacts with different kinds of matter in different ways. Nonmetals - wood, cloth, plastic - attract and absorb orgone, while metals attract and immediately reflect it. Water attracts orgone with great force, turning it into "living water," indispensable for both biological processes and the formation of the planetary climate.
During his experiments with orgone, Reich created a device he called the orgone accumulator. It was a small chamber, lined inside and outside with several layers of metal sheets, between which were placed layers of dielectric materials. The essence of the device was to trap the orgone inside the chamber, preventing it from escaping due to reflection from metal surfaces. As shown by experiments, the orgon accumulator really influenced biological processes - seeds, some time spent in the chamber, germinated faster, and people inside it accelerated the healing of burns and wounds, improved the course of chronic diseases.
(I ask my interlocutors to note for themselves the information about the orgone chamber, as we will return to it in further notes).
Reich suggested that changes in the concentration of orgone in the atmosphere caused changes in the weather, and he also invented an original device that could be used to induce rain. The press of those years widely discussed the case when, at the request of farmers suffering from drought, Reich actually used the device he had created to gather clouds in a clear sky, from which heavy rain fell.
Reich next to the device (Cloudbuster),
with which he caused it to rain.
Perhaps this power of the scientist over the forces of nature seemed dangerous to the American authorities, because soon afterwards all his research into orgone energy was banned by court order, and books containing the "dangerous to society" word "orgone" were destroyed. For disobeying the court order, Reich was imprisoned, where he died two years later.
Since then, as far as I know, no extensive scientific and experimental research on the unknown energy has been conducted. However, although the existence of the universal life force is not recognized in textbooks, and any mention of it is accompanied by labels of "pseudoscience," knowledge of it has nonetheless been inexorably seeping into the public consciousness in recent decades. This knowledge helps us better understand the purpose and functions of many objects and instruments of Tradition.
A disciple of Idris Shah, one of the great Sufi Gurus of the last century, wrote in a book of memories:
In Shah's house at St. John Wood there was a room at the very top, lined with copper sheets. This was done in order to create a space protected from any external vibrations. Apparently, gold was best for this purpose, but it would have been too expensive. Later, already in Langton, these copper sheets on wooden spools were stacked in the basement. (O. Hoare. "Everything and Nothing")
I had heard similar information from other students of Shah, and I was very intrigued by this almost fabulous "copper room." Why did he need it?
According to the FIRST VERSION, voiced by the author of the memoirs, to "protect against any external vibrations". Let's try to deal with it.
Anyone who has dealt with modern archives knows that rooms lined with copper sheets are used for storing information on magnetic disks. Of all metals (except gold), copper is the most effective in shielding a room from any electromagnetic waves and radiation, acting as a so-called "Faraday cage" - a chamber made of a conductive material.
The principle of the "Faraday cage".
Although at the time when Shah lived in St. John Wood the era of magnetic disks had not yet arrived, and there did not seem to be a problem with radiation in Britain either, in principle one can accept the version that the copper room served as Faraday's personal "cage", say, to protect against harmful electrosmog. As for other vibrations, however, the question is ambiguous.
...In the 20s of the last century on the instructions of the People's Commissariat of Defense of the USSR, Professor of the Brain Institute, a student of Bekhterev Leonid Vasiliev tried to prove the electromagnetic hypothesis of the nature of telepathy and find the frequency at which one could transmit thoughts at a distance. Vassiliev placed test subjects, people with psychic abilities, in Faraday chambers, and then the experiments were repeated outside the chambers. However, to refute the hypothesis, manifestations of telepathy in a closed metal chamber did not disappear, from which Vasiliev concluded: the transmission of thoughts is NOT carried out by means of electromagnetic waves.
Thus, the SECOND is more probable: Shah's copper room served to filter vibrations coming inside the room - to screen some without preventing the passage of others.
As another Soviet scientist of the 20s, Alexander Barchenko, who conducted research on telepathy first at the same Brain Institute and then within the special department of the OGPU, found out, some metals are capable of amplifying telepathic waves. In Barchenko's early, pre-revolutionary experiments with special helmets made of copper and aluminum plates, the accuracy of mental transmission of symbols was very high. The methodology of the experiments was as follows: two volunteers put helmets on their heads, after which the helmets were connected with copper wire. Two oval matte screens were placed in front of the subjects and they were asked to concentrate on them. One of the participants was "transmitting" and the other was "receiving. Words or images were offered as a test. Barchenko reported that in the case of images, the positive guessing result was close to 100 percent, while in the case of words, many errors were recorded.
(In the 1930s, Barchenko's research was discontinued, and he himself was arrested and shot as an English spy. But no one and nothing is forgotten, and nowadays there are craftsmen all over the world who make "Barchenko helmets" and try to use them to receive mental messages. I have heard of one such enthusiast from Latin America, but I don't know what success he has had with his helmet.)
Perhaps Barchenko was not so much an inventor of the new as a restorer of the well-forgotten old: ceremonial headdresses of noble metals were used by clergymen and priests in order to enter a special state of mental receptivity. Papal tiaras of silver, decorated with gold and precious stones, originally had not only a ritual and decorative function. The same, as Sufis believe, was the purpose of the crowns of royalty.
Tiara of Pope Paul VI: body of silver,
girdled at the bottom with gold coronets.
...But let us return to Shah's copper room. Apparently, the metal capsule created in this way not only did not hinder, but somehow facilitated tuning to a special kind of waves for receiving and transmitting mental messages.
On the Internet you can find information about a curious device, which is called the "Egg of Nostradamus". Allegedly, the famous fortune teller of the 16th century during his meditations was inside a specially made egg-shaped capsule about two meters high. Its shell consisted of three layers: copper, brass and bronze, fastened with silver wire. The lower part of the "egg" was flat and set on the floor. The upper part was open. Inside there was an armchair where Michel Nostradamus sat. The source further claims that the idea of this construction was passed on to Nostradamus by the Templars, with whom he kept in touch.
A modern reconstruction of what the "Nostradamus capsule" might have looked like.
Despite a thorough search, I did not find any mention of this device in the English-language sources about Nostradamus, so I have doubts about the reliability of the information. I would not have included this information here at all had it not been for one detail specific to the objects of Tradition: the combination of the three metals allegedly used for the capsule (copper, bronze/brass and silver). Generally, the most harmonious is the combination of gold, silver and copper, but because of the high cost of gold in the objects of Tradition it was often replaced by bronze (brass is a type of bronze). We will return to this question in future posts.
Why did the information about Nostradamus' capsule come to light exactly in Russian-speaking cyberspace? It appeared in the 90's in connection with the global experiments on the transmission of thought-images at a distance using the so called "Kozyrev's mirrors". The experiments were conducted under the guidance of Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, physician and biologist Vlail Kaznacheev (rus). More than a thousand participants from twelve countries were involved in multi-day experiments. Test subjects, ordinary people - not psychics - were placed in so-called "Kozyrev mirrors" - open or closed cylinders made of metal sheets, often of aluminum, for receiving and transmitting mental information.
A variant of the Kozyrev mirror with a closed top.
Although the constructions were named after the world-renowned Soviet astrophysicist Nikolai Kozyrev, who studied the phenomenon of time, such constructions were not described in his works, although there were ideas that served as a theoretical basis for the research of Kaznacheev's group. Kozyrev believed that metal surfaces of special shape, especially aluminum ones, are mirrors capable of changing the density of time.
In the space of "Kozyrev's mirrors" some human radiations were significantly amplified due to the reflection effect of metal surfaces, due to which the people placed there had unusual psychophysical sensations, and experiments on transfer of thoughts at a distance, even from Novosibirsk to Philadelphia, turned out to be very successful. As in Barchenko's experiments, the most effective was the reception of thought images in the form of symbols and ideograms.
The above supports the version of using the copper room, also a kind of "Kozyrev mirror," to work in the noosphere - the space of thought. But there is one more, the THIRD version, without which the consideration of the question would be incomplete.
In the last post about the invisible force we mentioned a device invented by Wilhelm Reich for accumulation of so-called "orgone energy" - a universal life force that fills space. Reich called it the orgone accumulator. It was a chamber consisting of several layers of metal sheets, between which were placed layers of organic material - usually wood or wool. As a result of experiments, Reich came to the conclusion that organics draw in and absorb orgone, while metals draw in and immediately re-radiate it outward.
"хлопок" – cotton, "металл" – metal
The first layer of organics already contains some basic fraction of orgone, absorbed by it from the air. If this layer of organics is brought into contact with metal, the metal, being a conductor of orgone, transports it to the next absorbing layer of organics, and so on. With each new layer, the orgone will become more and more concentrated. Since the inner surface of the chamber is lined with metal sheets, the orgone drawn inside and infinitely reflected by metal surfaces will be "trapped", and its concentration inside the chamber will be maximum. A person placed inside the orgone accumulator can use the life energy thus focused to restore and self-heal, to concentrate mental and spiritual capabilities. Evidence of the successful use of orgone chambers is more than abundant.
Shah's copper chamber was essentially a simple orgone accumulator: the outer layer made of organic material (bricks, wood, plaster walls), the inner layer made of metal sheets. Although Reich's original chamber had several layers, even two layers - organic on the outside and metal on the inside - were enough to attract and then "trap" orgone. Reich used steel sheets in his chambers, but copper is much "friendlier" to living things than iron. Only gold and silver are better than copper.
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It is possible that to some extent all three versions given are true. If anyone has any alternatives, it would be interesting.
It is also possible that there is an explanation for the purpose of Shah's room that does not lie within the realm of recurring phenomena at all. As Rumi said, "The master is hidden in his workshop."
Nevertheless, we can still borrow some tools from the "workshop" of the Sufis... Which ones we will see in the next notes.
UPD. This week, I'll publish the third, fourth, fifth and sixth parts.
I found this user by a search query in Russian "three brothers energy chemistry", because lately I started to be quite deeply interested in alchemy (it seemed to me that numerous stories-legends about the three brothers are related to chemistry-alchemy). And was looking for the chemistry-alchemical properties of copper (as I came out on copper in my research on Yekaterinburg; this led me to a connection to Phoenix, Adelaide and Santiago; if someone does research related to copper, he will understand why these cities have a connection).
I really liked this author as he resonates strongly with me (as far as Islamic culture and energy is concerned). I write about this on purpose so that people will pay attention first of all to the energy context (religion, ideology do not play a big role here).
Part 1. Qi, Prana, Od, Orgone.
Original (rus).With this note I begin a series on the invisible power radiated and absorbed by all objects in the manifested universe, and how the various objects of Tradition are used to harness, store, redistribute, and channel this power.
The purpose of this series of notes is to help reconstruct the applied knowledge behind the various tools of Tradition, now perceived only as ritual objects or ornaments. Simply put, when you see people sitting on the floor eating with their hands while they have a "sacred" table on the altar and "sacred" spoons and forks hanging on the wall... it might occur to him that some additional information would be helpful in this situation...
The ancient Indian concept of prana, the cosmic life force permeating everything in the universe and contained in living and inanimate objects, was also very close to the Chinese qi. The Vedas state that prana comes to the Earth from the Sun and living beings inhale it together with the air: flowing through subtle channels and meridians of the body, prana nourishes and gives us life.
Personally, I have never had any doubt that the ancient teachings on prana and chi were not the superstitions of primitive societies as they are presented by modern sources. I believe that in ancient times there were more people who saw subtle energies, not 22 percent as now, but much more, and that the knowledge of qi and prana was recorded by people of knowledge for whom the existence of an unknown force was real and tangible.
You may ask, where did the information that there were exactly 22 percent of people with the ability to see this energy come from? This conclusion was reached by Karl von Reichenbach, a 19th century German chemist and industrialist who conducted research on the mysterious force we are talking about.
Kirlian's method of photography: in the 1940s, the Soviet scientists Kirlian discovered that when photographed with high-frequency currents, the effect of a special luminescence of various living and nonliving objects was observed.
Baron Reichenbach once studied with Goethe in his youth and was greatly impressed by the great Master's teachings on light waves. This may have led him to the study of invisible light or vital force, to which he gave the name "od" after the Scandinavian god Odin. Although the scientist himself was not a visionary, he based his research on experiments with people who had the ability to perceive the subtle emanations of od by means of the organs of sight and touch.
As Reichnebach found out, the proportion of such people gifted with unusual vision is 22%. Since the other three quarters, which represent the majority, do not perceive anything "such", they consider visionaries to be not quite normal or imaginary, immediately rejecting everything they cannot see or feel themselves. Because of this attitude, all of Reichenbach's research was rejected by the scientific community as "pseudoscientific".
And the evidence was that everything radiates a special light - absolutely everything, without exception. We live in a world filled with luminous emanations. The sun is the most powerful source of invisible rays, in addition to those visible ones that we call daylight. And the Moon has its own light, though not comparable to the Sun in power. Everything on Earth also emits light, but it is much weaker. Organic substances are the dimmest: wool and other natural fabrics, wood, clay, ordinary stones; the brightest are metals, especially magnets, and some crystals, such as quartz or rock crystal.
Reichenbach's attention was also drawn to the ability of unknown energy to move from one object to another. A magnetized or electrified object, in contact with another, transfers a charge to it, and the same was observed in the manifestations of Od.
The people who participated in Reichenbach's experiments saw that a luminous energy was continually separating from our entire body, especially from the tips of our fingers and toes. Baron believed that this separation was nothing more than the transmission of an ode to the matter of the air. In his work he noted that the strongest transfer of this kind occurs during the breathing of living beings: visionaries have noted that with each breath a cloud of luminous smoke emanates from the nose of a sleeping person, dissolving into the much dimmer, non-uniform bluish glow that fills the room.
Reichenbach did not attribute the phenomenon he observed to the field of electricity, because the electroscope, brought into contact with the crystal, remained without the slightest change. Nor could he call the phenomena magnetism because crystals and other dielectrics were obviously not magnetized. After describing in detail all the manifestations of the unknown force from the words of the visionaries, Reichenbach was forced to admit that he did not know what it was, only suggesting that this type of energy must take a place between magnetism and electricity.
One of the men of knowledge of our time capable of perceiving the invisible force was George Gurdjieff, in whose teachings many of the ideas of Tradition are reflected.
In his book "Views from the Real World", Gurdjieff spoke of a "mixed substance of the active elements of the physical body and the astral body" which forms around a person a particular atmosphere, like the atmosphere around the planet. This substance, if concentrated, Gurdjieff maintained, could be seen as an aura or glow around people, and sometimes also in holy places or churches. Just as the atmospheres of different planets constantly gain or lose some or other substance due to the influence of other planets, so a person surrounded by other people is like a planet surrounded by other planets. When the atmospheres of people who are attracted to each other meet, a bond and exchange is formed between them. The volume of their atmosphere remains the same, but its quality changes.
20th-century science came close to studying the phenomenon of invisible energy from a practical standpoint--through the research of Wilhelm Reich, a German scientist originally from the Austro-Hungarian part of Ukraine. Reich was a close disciple of Freud and began his academic career in the field of psychoanalysis and sexual energy. In order to avoid Nazi persecution, Reich was forced to move from Germany to America, where he continued his research into the 1940s and 1950s.
In the process of studying the human psyche, he came up with the idea of the existence of a single life force that was the basis of all body processes. He claimed that this energy could be observed under the microscope as a bluish glow around the blood cells and other living substances. Reich gave this force the name "orgone," from "organism, organic," to show its connection with life processes, and believed that it was also present in an unbound form in the atmosphere. The scientist wrote of a glow of blue energy enveloping the entire planet - several years before photographs taken by the first Soviet satellite from space confirmed this exactly.
Reich showed that orgone exists even in a vacuum, filling the entire space, it pulsates in a certain rhythm and interacts with different kinds of matter in different ways. Nonmetals - wood, cloth, plastic - attract and absorb orgone, while metals attract and immediately reflect it. Water attracts orgone with great force, turning it into "living water," indispensable for both biological processes and the formation of the planetary climate.
During his experiments with orgone, Reich created a device he called the orgone accumulator. It was a small chamber, lined inside and outside with several layers of metal sheets, between which were placed layers of dielectric materials. The essence of the device was to trap the orgone inside the chamber, preventing it from escaping due to reflection from metal surfaces. As shown by experiments, the orgon accumulator really influenced biological processes - seeds, some time spent in the chamber, germinated faster, and people inside it accelerated the healing of burns and wounds, improved the course of chronic diseases.
(I ask my interlocutors to note for themselves the information about the orgone chamber, as we will return to it in further notes).
Reich suggested that changes in the concentration of orgone in the atmosphere caused changes in the weather, and he also invented an original device that could be used to induce rain. The press of those years widely discussed the case when, at the request of farmers suffering from drought, Reich actually used the device he had created to gather clouds in a clear sky, from which heavy rain fell.
Reich next to the device (Cloudbuster),
with which he caused it to rain.
Perhaps this power of the scientist over the forces of nature seemed dangerous to the American authorities, because soon afterwards all his research into orgone energy was banned by court order, and books containing the "dangerous to society" word "orgone" were destroyed. For disobeying the court order, Reich was imprisoned, where he died two years later.
Since then, as far as I know, no extensive scientific and experimental research on the unknown energy has been conducted. However, although the existence of the universal life force is not recognized in textbooks, and any mention of it is accompanied by labels of "pseudoscience," knowledge of it has nonetheless been inexorably seeping into the public consciousness in recent decades. This knowledge helps us better understand the purpose and functions of many objects and instruments of Tradition.
Part 2. Shah's Copper Room.
Original (rus).A disciple of Idris Shah, one of the great Sufi Gurus of the last century, wrote in a book of memories:
In Shah's house at St. John Wood there was a room at the very top, lined with copper sheets. This was done in order to create a space protected from any external vibrations. Apparently, gold was best for this purpose, but it would have been too expensive. Later, already in Langton, these copper sheets on wooden spools were stacked in the basement. (O. Hoare. "Everything and Nothing")
I had heard similar information from other students of Shah, and I was very intrigued by this almost fabulous "copper room." Why did he need it?
According to the FIRST VERSION, voiced by the author of the memoirs, to "protect against any external vibrations". Let's try to deal with it.
Anyone who has dealt with modern archives knows that rooms lined with copper sheets are used for storing information on magnetic disks. Of all metals (except gold), copper is the most effective in shielding a room from any electromagnetic waves and radiation, acting as a so-called "Faraday cage" - a chamber made of a conductive material.
Although at the time when Shah lived in St. John Wood the era of magnetic disks had not yet arrived, and there did not seem to be a problem with radiation in Britain either, in principle one can accept the version that the copper room served as Faraday's personal "cage", say, to protect against harmful electrosmog. As for other vibrations, however, the question is ambiguous.
...In the 20s of the last century on the instructions of the People's Commissariat of Defense of the USSR, Professor of the Brain Institute, a student of Bekhterev Leonid Vasiliev tried to prove the electromagnetic hypothesis of the nature of telepathy and find the frequency at which one could transmit thoughts at a distance. Vassiliev placed test subjects, people with psychic abilities, in Faraday chambers, and then the experiments were repeated outside the chambers. However, to refute the hypothesis, manifestations of telepathy in a closed metal chamber did not disappear, from which Vasiliev concluded: the transmission of thoughts is NOT carried out by means of electromagnetic waves.
Thus, the SECOND is more probable: Shah's copper room served to filter vibrations coming inside the room - to screen some without preventing the passage of others.
As another Soviet scientist of the 20s, Alexander Barchenko, who conducted research on telepathy first at the same Brain Institute and then within the special department of the OGPU, found out, some metals are capable of amplifying telepathic waves. In Barchenko's early, pre-revolutionary experiments with special helmets made of copper and aluminum plates, the accuracy of mental transmission of symbols was very high. The methodology of the experiments was as follows: two volunteers put helmets on their heads, after which the helmets were connected with copper wire. Two oval matte screens were placed in front of the subjects and they were asked to concentrate on them. One of the participants was "transmitting" and the other was "receiving. Words or images were offered as a test. Barchenko reported that in the case of images, the positive guessing result was close to 100 percent, while in the case of words, many errors were recorded.
(In the 1930s, Barchenko's research was discontinued, and he himself was arrested and shot as an English spy. But no one and nothing is forgotten, and nowadays there are craftsmen all over the world who make "Barchenko helmets" and try to use them to receive mental messages. I have heard of one such enthusiast from Latin America, but I don't know what success he has had with his helmet.)
Perhaps Barchenko was not so much an inventor of the new as a restorer of the well-forgotten old: ceremonial headdresses of noble metals were used by clergymen and priests in order to enter a special state of mental receptivity. Papal tiaras of silver, decorated with gold and precious stones, originally had not only a ritual and decorative function. The same, as Sufis believe, was the purpose of the crowns of royalty.
Tiara of Pope Paul VI: body of silver,
girdled at the bottom with gold coronets.
...But let us return to Shah's copper room. Apparently, the metal capsule created in this way not only did not hinder, but somehow facilitated tuning to a special kind of waves for receiving and transmitting mental messages.
On the Internet you can find information about a curious device, which is called the "Egg of Nostradamus". Allegedly, the famous fortune teller of the 16th century during his meditations was inside a specially made egg-shaped capsule about two meters high. Its shell consisted of three layers: copper, brass and bronze, fastened with silver wire. The lower part of the "egg" was flat and set on the floor. The upper part was open. Inside there was an armchair where Michel Nostradamus sat. The source further claims that the idea of this construction was passed on to Nostradamus by the Templars, with whom he kept in touch.
A modern reconstruction of what the "Nostradamus capsule" might have looked like.
Despite a thorough search, I did not find any mention of this device in the English-language sources about Nostradamus, so I have doubts about the reliability of the information. I would not have included this information here at all had it not been for one detail specific to the objects of Tradition: the combination of the three metals allegedly used for the capsule (copper, bronze/brass and silver). Generally, the most harmonious is the combination of gold, silver and copper, but because of the high cost of gold in the objects of Tradition it was often replaced by bronze (brass is a type of bronze). We will return to this question in future posts.
Why did the information about Nostradamus' capsule come to light exactly in Russian-speaking cyberspace? It appeared in the 90's in connection with the global experiments on the transmission of thought-images at a distance using the so called "Kozyrev's mirrors". The experiments were conducted under the guidance of Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, physician and biologist Vlail Kaznacheev (rus). More than a thousand participants from twelve countries were involved in multi-day experiments. Test subjects, ordinary people - not psychics - were placed in so-called "Kozyrev mirrors" - open or closed cylinders made of metal sheets, often of aluminum, for receiving and transmitting mental information.
A variant of the Kozyrev mirror with a closed top.
Although the constructions were named after the world-renowned Soviet astrophysicist Nikolai Kozyrev, who studied the phenomenon of time, such constructions were not described in his works, although there were ideas that served as a theoretical basis for the research of Kaznacheev's group. Kozyrev believed that metal surfaces of special shape, especially aluminum ones, are mirrors capable of changing the density of time.
In the space of "Kozyrev's mirrors" some human radiations were significantly amplified due to the reflection effect of metal surfaces, due to which the people placed there had unusual psychophysical sensations, and experiments on transfer of thoughts at a distance, even from Novosibirsk to Philadelphia, turned out to be very successful. As in Barchenko's experiments, the most effective was the reception of thought images in the form of symbols and ideograms.
The above supports the version of using the copper room, also a kind of "Kozyrev mirror," to work in the noosphere - the space of thought. But there is one more, the THIRD version, without which the consideration of the question would be incomplete.
In the last post about the invisible force we mentioned a device invented by Wilhelm Reich for accumulation of so-called "orgone energy" - a universal life force that fills space. Reich called it the orgone accumulator. It was a chamber consisting of several layers of metal sheets, between which were placed layers of organic material - usually wood or wool. As a result of experiments, Reich came to the conclusion that organics draw in and absorb orgone, while metals draw in and immediately re-radiate it outward.
"хлопок" – cotton, "металл" – metal
The first layer of organics already contains some basic fraction of orgone, absorbed by it from the air. If this layer of organics is brought into contact with metal, the metal, being a conductor of orgone, transports it to the next absorbing layer of organics, and so on. With each new layer, the orgone will become more and more concentrated. Since the inner surface of the chamber is lined with metal sheets, the orgone drawn inside and infinitely reflected by metal surfaces will be "trapped", and its concentration inside the chamber will be maximum. A person placed inside the orgone accumulator can use the life energy thus focused to restore and self-heal, to concentrate mental and spiritual capabilities. Evidence of the successful use of orgone chambers is more than abundant.
Shah's copper chamber was essentially a simple orgone accumulator: the outer layer made of organic material (bricks, wood, plaster walls), the inner layer made of metal sheets. Although Reich's original chamber had several layers, even two layers - organic on the outside and metal on the inside - were enough to attract and then "trap" orgone. Reich used steel sheets in his chambers, but copper is much "friendlier" to living things than iron. Only gold and silver are better than copper.
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It is possible that to some extent all three versions given are true. If anyone has any alternatives, it would be interesting.
It is also possible that there is an explanation for the purpose of Shah's room that does not lie within the realm of recurring phenomena at all. As Rumi said, "The master is hidden in his workshop."
Nevertheless, we can still borrow some tools from the "workshop" of the Sufis... Which ones we will see in the next notes.
UPD. This week, I'll publish the third, fourth, fifth and sixth parts.
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