SSR Special Investigations

Minds, Machines and Madness:

Anomalous Mental Phenomena and the War On Terror

June 7th, 2007

Part One: A Bridge Between Worlds

Human time machines are being tasked in the war on terror. Starstream Research reports on the use of psychic spies in the post 9/11 world.

The first in a series.

It was a couple of days before Christmas, 2006.

A 'phenomenological source' had suggested that terrorists, faced with new counter-measures to prevent hijacking airplanes mid-air, had shifted gears towards a new strategy. The next major post-9/11 attack would not involve planes in the air, but would instead focus on destroying ground based targets at a major airport. The message was passed by email to a couple of friends with intelligence connections and mostly forgotten, until the announcement on June 2nd, 2007, that revealed a terrorist plot to bomb aviation fuel tanks and pipelines at John F. Kennedy International Airport.

The plot, as reported in the Washington Post, was described by U.S. Attorney Roslynn R. Mauskopf as "one of the most chilling plots imaginable," and "the devastation that would be caused had this plot succeeded is just unthinkable."

The 'phenomenological source' had described a scenario in which the terror plot had not been interrupted, and involved the detonation of fuel tanks near planes stationed at passenger terminals. The frightening vision of this event began with an explosion destroying a plane on the ground, followed by multiple chain reaction explosions of other planes and ground facilities, as viewed from inside a passenger terminal.

According to the complaint filed with the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, defendant Russell Defreitas had confided to the government's covert source that he "had a vision that would make the World Trade Center attack seem small." The complaint states that the defendants had "plotted to destroy JFK, and buildings, facilities, fuel tanks and fuel pipelines at and near JFK, through the use of explosives."

Oxford's Dr. David Deutsch writes that quantum theory, taken literally, tells us that we live in a multiverse, an enormous collection of parallel worlds where anything can and will happen, so long as it does not violate the laws of physics. In his landmark book, The Fabric of Reality, David Deutsch states:

"Time does not flow. Other times are just special cases of other universes."

Deutsch defines a time machine as "A physical object that enables the user to travel into the past. It is better thought of as a place, or pathway, than as a vehicle."

Given a time machine, one might build a bridge between worlds, a bridge across different universes, connecting other times to each other. A time machine could be used to assemble an information network engaged in commerce with alternative worlds, some of which may represent possible futures for the world we observe around us.

The idea is to use a time machine as a trans-temporal network, a network which some postulate, may already exist in the part of your conscious experience that appears to exist outside of space and time: a pathway that recalls information from alternative worlds.

What if the human mind is somehow connected with a time machine, a pathway from the here and now to a source of information about what the future may truly portend? Could a time machine, a pathway between worlds, be the bridge between human imagination, creative thought, and the free will required to act on the human potential for good and evil?

Starstream Research has instituted a make-shift 'alert' system for 'phenomenologically sourced' intelligence -- a privatized version of the Department of Homeland Security advisory system -- using the kind of data identified in the original U.S. Government STAR GATE psychic spy research program as Anomalous Mental Perception (AMP).

And, as luck would have it, we did raise the Starstream Research threat alert level just prior to the revelation of the alleged plot to destroy JFK International Airport. The Spacetime Threat Assessment alert was raised to SEVERE, based upon additional intelligence and will remain in effect for the month of June, 2007.

http://www.starstreamresearch.com/breaking_news.htm

PAST, Present and Future

The working hypothesis for the idea of the PAST -- the Premonition Alert Spacetime Threat, was adapted from the multiverse concept of parallel futures, a concept that may eventually be put to the test in a quantum computer. Although we are confident that David Deutsch would laugh at the idea of PAST from AMP as a time machine, Deutsch does takes the idea of information exchange between different worlds as a serious consequence of his interpretation of the existing quantum theory.

Deutsch originally conceived of the quantum computer as a test to prove the existence of the other parallel universes. (Basically, the argument is that once you have built a quantum computer that out computes all the matter in the visible universe, the only explanation is that it must be performing its computations somewhere else; in other words the computations are taking place in invisible parallel universes.)

Deutsch describes information exchanged between worlds, where a parallel universe might be the possible future state of our world. The idea is to develop exchange of intelligence about 'possible' future events. If there was a means of communicating between worlds in the multiverse theory, then real 'premonitions' of possible events would be self-consistent possible alternatives, to the extent that they conform to the laws of physics.

According to David Deutsch, "At present we know of nothing in the laws of physics that rules out past-directed time travel; on the contrary, they make it plausible that time travel is possible ... if the future development of fundamental physics continues to allow time travel in principle, then its practical attainment will surely become a mere technological problem that will be solved."

But what if nature got there first? Perhaps an advanced intelligence, somewhere in the multi-universe, acting upon an agenda beyond our comprehension, is willing to supply information about our alternative futures?

Deutsch explains the consequence of receiving information about the future from a time traveler:

"Visitors from the future cannot know our future any more than we can, for they did not come from there. But they can tell us about the future of their universe, whose past was identical to ours. They can bring taped news and current affairs programmes, and newspapers with dates starting from tomorrow and onwards. If their society made some mistaken decision, which led to disaster, they can warn us of it. We may or may not follow their advice. If we follow it, we may avoid the disaster, or -- there can be no guarantees -- we may find that the result is even worse than what happened to them. On average though, we should presumably benefit greatly from studying their future history. Although it is not our future history, and although knowing of a possible impending disaster is not the same as knowing what to do about it, we should presumably learn much from such a detailed record of what, from our point of view, might happen."

If one accepts AMP as allowing for such communication, one would expect to receive information consistent with existing data about our world, but not necessarily exact predictions of future events. For example, we might receive information in which JFK International Airport was destroyed, and use that information to prevent an undesired outcome from taking place.

Another consequence of Deutsch's interpretation is that a time machine paradox cannot exist, since any time traveler appears back in time in a different universe. According to Deutsch, you can't kill your parents to prevent your own birth, since your 'real' parents are still alive in a different universe, the universe you left behind, and to which you can never return.

Could the human brain function as a time machine? There are some theories of consciousness, notably the Penrose-Hameroff theory, that allow a kind of hybrid of quantum theory and the physics of the human brain, where the many alternatives actually collapse into a single universe due to gravitational effects.

It is true that a human time machine remains conjecture, but there is a body of evidence pointing to statistically significant evidence that the human mind often appears to beat the odds and provide vaguely accurate premonitions of future events. In some cases premonitions have been spookily detailed in their accuracy. Like a distant memory that lingers on the cusp of thought, these visionary tales float in and out of our conscious minds, and in our dreams, waiting to be grasped and held closer for mental inspection.

The ability to access future outcomes is uncomfortably near the boundary of simulation, anticipation, expectation, and mental noise. Not surprisingly, the governments of the world have recognized the potential of the human mind to access the future and have trained experts, their tongues silenced by secrecy agreements, tasked with warning the powers that be of potential disasters to come.