Physics of the Paranormal
- Book Review,
by Kenneth W. Behrendt
Book Description
The Physics of the Paranormal is one of the few books in existence that actually explores, in depth, the physical mechanisms that may be in operation when various paranormal events occur. In order to provide these revolutionary insights, the author applied several concepts derived from his lifelong research into UFO propulsion and secondary effects. The application of these new physical principles to the paranormal reveals a fascinating unity in the mechanisms in operation behind such apparently diverse phenomena as mental photography, psychokinesis, the Geller effects, bodily transfigurations, and miracle cures. Based on some of the author's own experiences with telepathy, the book also explores this phenomena, as well as its role in the process of reincarnation. This book is not a compendium of case histories. It focuses on selected cases and seeks to provide the serious student of the subject with a conceptual framework that will guide future paranormal research well into the twenty-first century.
From the Author
In this book I have treated approximately three dozen paranormal phenomena whose reality, to me, seems to be sufficiently established by the volume of evidence available for them from various sources. Some of the phenomena treated are the product of myths and legends, others are of an anecdotal nature, and some have been rigorously studied in the modern laboratory. A few of the paranormal phenomena considered were readily explained by a slightly speculative application of known physical effects. Others, however, required the application of physical principles which are not yet in contemporary physics textbooks. In particular, I discovered that much of the mystery of the paranormal is interwoven with the mystery of the UFO phenomena. To state the matter bluntly, little or no progress can be made in interpreting most paranormal phenomena UNTIL one has made considerable progress in interpreting the UFO phenomena! Fortunately, I AM one of the few individuals who can claim to have made some progress in the UFO field, especially with regards to the matters of UFO propulsion and secondary effects. It is the application of these discoveries in the UFO field to various, seemingly impossible, paranormal phenomena which allows rapid progress to be made in understanding them. It is my hope that this new theory of the paranormal will not only revitalize the entire subject at the research level, but will, one day, allow many of the effects treated to be artifcially produced for the benefit of all mankind.
About the Author
Kenneth W. Behrendt has been a lifelong student of phenomena in the fields of ufology and the paranormal. Although professionally trained as a chemist, he has been investigating and writing about the UFO phenomenon since the early 1980's. After a personal experience with telepathy in 1978, his interest in the paranormal also intensified. Noting that many of the terrestrial paranormal effects seemed to also have their counter-parts in the UFO phenomena, he has managed to successfully merge these two areas of inquiry by finding common physical mechanisms inherent to them. He currently resides in suburban New Jersey where he continues his researches in the areas of ufology, paranormal phenomena, and free energy physics.
Excerpted from The Physics of the Paranormal by Kenneth W. Behrendt. Copyright © 2003. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
This book is an attempt to bring the many and varied phenomena of the paranormal into the realm of understandable science. I realize that this is no easy task and the reader should therefore view what is to follow as the mere formulation of tentative working hypothesis for the topics treated. If paranormal phenomena (a term I use to collectively refer to all hyperphysical, psychic, parapsychological, supernatural, or supraphysical events) are ever to be included within the bounds of physical science, then research in the subject must progress far beyond the current voluminous compilation of case histories. Indeed, to eventually determine the physical truth regarding these events, we must initially engage in speculation which meets two basic criteria. Firstly, this speculation must not be random, but rather be guided by intuition toward the concepts which offer the greatest promise of advancement in paranormal science. Secondly and even more importantly, all proposals for the causative mechanisms of the various paranormal phenomena should be capable of experimental verification or denial. It is an unfortunate fact that much of the material in this new area of human knowledge is subjective in nature and only rarely repeatable under laboratory conditions. This reality has discouraged most of the scientific orthodoxy from pursuing the subject. The field has therefore been left to the private investigators who, through their writings, have done an excellent job of recording and preserving the data, but have not managed to significantly advance the theoretical basis of the subject which is necessary in order to rationalize its various effects and make them accessible to human reason. It is my goal in this book to act as an intermediary in the current state of affairs that exists in present day paranormal "science". While not what one would normally call an orthodox scientist, I do have considerable training in the sciences of chemistry and physics...yet, on the other hand, while not being as intimately involved in the investigations of individual cases of the paranormal as the private psychic or paranormal researcher, I do, nevertheless, have some familiarity with their methods and the literature that they have produced. It is thus my hope that my hybrid capabilities will allow for the creation of a collection of concepts that will be seen to validate and rationalize the various paranormal phenomena that are treated herein. Before ending this brief introduction, I should also give the reader some idea as to my motivation in producing a book that may correctly be perceived as an attempt to, at least partially, obtain the actual physics of the paranormal. I can start by stating that my primary interest has been and still is the subject of UFOs or flying saucers, particularly the methods that might be used by our extraterrestrial visitors to propel their craft across the vast gulfs of space and through our planet's atmosphere with enormous velocities and accelerations that seem to defy our known laws of physics. After a twenty year study of UFOs, my research had reached a level where I was obliged to begin the publication of a journal devoted to the topics of UFO propulsion and related effects. This journal, Annals of Ufological Research Advances or AURA, for short, presents a novel theory to explain UFO performance which is based on the assumption that our extraterrestrial visitors are able to generate a new kind of field effect in addition to the three readily measurable, natural field effects that current earthly science recognizes (note: these three field effects are the gravitational, electromagnetic, and nuclear field effects. Some scientists consider electric and magnetic field effects to be separate field effects and also consider the nuclear fields to be due to electric and magnetic fields, but even in this case the total number of fields is only three). In my past UFO related articles, I have referred to this extra alien field
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