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Real-life tuners dial in both directions, so assuming that a loosening of the tuner corresponds to an “open” setting and the entry of subtle information, what might happen if the filter/tuner complex was tuned down from the halfway mode, into a “closed” position? Envisaging the actions of an actual tuner system, one would expect much less to get through, so presumably at its most extreme an individual would perceive nothing but “blackness” due to an absence of any information entering the brain.
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Notes
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Ligeza et al. (2017).
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Howard (2011).
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Self (1997); The orgone accumulator consisted of a box large enough for people to sit in, made of alternating wood and steel which was said to capture environmental orgone and assist therapeutic outcomes for the patient.
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Briehl (1995).
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Totton (2003).
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Howard (2011).
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Rabeyron and Caussie (2016, p. 55).
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Carr (2008).
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Shiah (2012).
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St John (2016).
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Ibid.
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Blavatsky (1889).
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Meijer and Korf (2013); Alternately, rather than surmise that the pineal gland (or some other receptive device) is responsible for the experience, the signal might be induced directly in the CNS. This is equivalent to the way electricity (the visual experience) is induced in a coil through the actions of a moving magnet (the subtle signal). The inducting field might be magnetic or electric, or as has been suggested something as fundamental as “immersion in external quantum fields that penetrate our organism” and which conceivably act directly on the human brain to initiate a visual (or other sensory) experience.
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Braud (1975).
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Ibid., p. 144.
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The technique where participants are placed in a sensory deprivation environment, with white noise played and ping-pong ball halves placed over their eyes in order to reduce external input, hopefully allowing subtle psi signals to be detected.
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Jinks, T. (2019). Multiple Filters?. In: Psychological Perspectives on Reality, Consciousness and Paranormal Experience. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28902-7_9
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