by S. Adrian

 This work is an essay.It intends to submit an hypothesis.

The hypothesis  is that in certain circumstances the human body emits a physical field which may influence at distance  the brain of another human. This field might be  unknown  by the science of physics of today. It seems that this field is emitted  by and have an influence upon the human  eye.

The essay is based  on the author experience and  research on the domain described here.

He acknowledges to be very sceptic and carefull on treating the domain and has arrived at the conclusion here presented only after several decades of analysing and research on the subject. These were not mentioned to induce  a prior credibility in the facts here presented. He had himself a reluctant and sceptical attitude until the  amount of evidence and perennity of his experience made him to think upon the objectivity and the importance of these facts for the science and the need to present them to the scientific community.

A number of cases are presented having humans as actors. Usually one of the actors relate about an unusual fact of which he was witness or relates his own unusual experience and conclusions he brought from it. The narrations are based mostly on the memory of the author or on the written records he has made during the years on the domain. Sometimes a written report was asked and provided. All witnesses sollicited to remain anonimous. Some of them denied to have passed through the event described if asked to relate again on it, sometimes refusing any comment on their decision. Sometimes a concern was expressed that the peculiar nature of the events would oblige them to change too much their world image and to avoid this, forgetting and no further involvment seemed an easy solution. In relating the events, care was taken  as to prevent at most any undesirable social consequences for those who offered some of the material presented here.

The author has a certain acquaintance of the field of psychology and also of physics in which he was involved as a research scientist but until now he had not met any scientifical work to treat or to mention this phenomenology. Some literary texts would present similar events but no scientifical text to take this domain into account was until now found by him. Some events could be classified under the umbrella of hypnosyis. The author acknowledges to be himself the subject reporting some of the events presented here but do not want to be recognised as such and presented his own narrations in the same maner as for other narrators. In this respect, he used  at first a pseudoname in signing this work. After as time he decided to sign it by his real name as not wanting t odeny his own work as not be worth to bear his name. As far as he was himself concerned as generator of some of the events, he tried to avoid as much as possible to verbally suggest or influence  the happenings and tried to find and to analyse only what was related to his hypothesis of the direct transfer  of information from a human brain to another.

The author has a training at a college level as a physicist and more than two decades of work in research in this field and  his approach of the domain  was consequently  influenced  by  this practice. Many interpretations could be related to the material here presented. He tried to focus on a meaning related to physics.

If no other stated ,the events occured to adult people with average or higher education from  towns pertaining to western civilisation in modern times, i..e the last half of the 20-th century. A presentation of the case reports follows.Comments are made using the experience of the author on  the domain, or were collected from  the people reporting the cases and synthetised.

Case  No.1 A state of  alertness

The subject, a male middle aged, reports on an event of which he was the  subject in a library. He acknowledges to frequent the libraries for information, but he enjoys also the serene   atmosphere of young ones sitting silently and concentrated to their work. After becoming familiar with the figures around him, he takes a book from the shelves related to his dayly objectives and reading it forget about the people from the room.

The event reported began with his using of a computer facility  located in the library reading room. As the computer was located in front of all the others desks he was not at all disturbed by the other readers's movements and chat, and being concentrated to the task he forgot about him and the people sitting around.He interrupted suddenly his job and turned his head at left to see a young woman in the chair near him. He observed that the girl, who probably came and occupied this chair during the time he was very concentrated to his job, was looking now at the screen of his computer being curious about the subject matter displayed on it. He saw the girl and turned his head back, looking now  again to the screen.Analyzing the event for the purpose of reporting it to the author, he remembered a state of special awareness and state of alertness before being unconsciously determined to turn his had at left but these came mere as some after conclusions of his behavior. The turn of his head to the left seemed to be trigered by the interest of the girl for the content of the computer screen and the fixing of her eyes to it. The girl might have been near him for many minutes before the event but the moment of awareness from his part was related to her act of staring to the screen at which he was looking too at the same moment.

Comment

The subject was asked why does he consider this event as being peculiar and worth to be mentioned. The answer was as follows. The motions of the human body are complex and many groups of muscles participate to produce even a simple motion. Most of motions are usually done and comes from automatic patterns of the mind. You do not have to think or to adjust your motions when walking on a tar, even paved way. You have only to put ones foot after another and you do not have to think on what you do. But in the mountains on a stony pass you have to care on every step as the little stones from  under your feets are uneven in height and dimension. You cannot move forward without continuous adjustment and you may think that every step is a new motion, as the toes must to learn to adjust at the conditions of the road. In this concern if he compares his usual motions with the turn of his head to the left to see the girl he thinks that the motion had this character of being new. Uneven stones, are signals and you have to adjust on them moving in a new way. That motion had some newness in the way it was done and felt by the subject.Also, you move to displace your body or to catch objects. These motions are with comands of the brain, motions of which you are conscious of their beginning and pace and devellopment and ending. There are another, unconscious, automatic motions generated by external stimuli which are done swiftly  and alertly to escape of some damage as when you put the hand on a hot fork or plate. If  a loud noise is coming from behind, you turn the body without thinking first on what you are doing. This noise might come from a dangerous source so you have to adjust speedily. It is a  signal of alert, which cannot be ignored and the motion is performed automatically and swiftly. He thinks that the turn of his head to the left to see the girl was so, as if triggered by a  danger i.e. some  important signal. The mere curiosity would make him to move more slowly and without urge. This made the author to collect the event in the cathegory of those which goes to the thinking that the girl concentrated to the screen and fixing the eyes on the screen emitted also a field which was felt by the subject and made him to be alert and to turn his head to discover  the source of the signal. The emitter of the field in this case is the girl sitting nearby. The moment of awareness for the subject was when she was looking to the screen of the computer. She had to concentrate to  what was a  new topic for her. She was curious. She had to concentrate to understand the subject. She had to fix her eyes to the screen and to follow the changes of the display. All this, curiosity, focusing of the eyes, concentration, was related to an increase of the level of the activity of her brain. This increased level of activity was corellated with the field emission.

As far as the subject was concerned, he was concentrating on the topic on the screen. The topic on the screen was his domain of interest. He was not aware of what happened at a conscious level. He had perhaps a special psychical fonction, an analizer of outer signals which announced him "Somebody entered in your domain of activity, somebody is concerned with what you are doing, somebody entered in your life realm, with some attitude or action. It is an external interest by another person in your activity. This interest may be benign but also it may be harmfull, and the source of this interest is located at your left. Look at the left side and see what is the matter about". His turning of the head to the left might be the final of this type of inner process. But this inner process had to be triggered by an external signal and the subject thinks that this signal came to his brain by a byophysical field. 

Case No. 2.1 A state of alertness

The subject worked as a clerk in an office. The same room was the working place of a colleague whose desk was positioned in front of him at a right angle at 4 meters distance. So usually he saw the face of his colleague from the profile. Having not much to share and speak with him, he usually looked at the paperwork on his own desk, and with very few accidental glimpses at his colleagues desk or figure. At midday it was a lunch break, a time when his colleague went to a near located cantina. Coming back,  the colleague was more silent and more restfull as before having lunch, he sat in his chair without doing any kind of work for about 20 minutes. The subject proceeded as always, caring to his paperwork, inner thoughts, and worries, without paying much attention to the behavior of his colleague, and only accidentally looking  to the desk of his colleague,  though it was located in front of him, in the line of sight.But it arrived that he was forced by some kind of sudden and spontaneous urge, to look at his colleague during this period of after lunch break. He was interrupting his work which usually needed a lot of intellectual concentration and was compelled to look to his colleague.He observed that he had to do this, though his colleague did nothing overtly to convey the subject attention to him. This event of interruption of the subject thoughts and work was  related to the following behavior of the colleague. The subject automatically arose his eyes from his work and saw his colleague sitting quite without movements in the chair and gazing as he was fixing some object located in front of him. But at a more attentive analysis, the colleague seemed to see nothing, not looking purposefully to a specific object, being  merely concentrated on an inner image or train of thoughts. The event repeated many times in the same manner to become a reproductible one, the colleague coming back from the lunch, the subject determined to look to him and seeing him fixing some point located in front of him. The subject concluded that the sleepy  state of his colleague after lunch and his manner of concentrating at some inner thought and gazing in a fix mode was accompanied with a field emission by the brain which made him to be alert and obliged him to look for the source of this alertness which seemed to be his colleague.After this initial sequence of events which made him aware of the phaenomenon, he experienced it many times in different settings when sitting near human subjects in office rooms, compartments of trains, or buses. A special kind of low state of alertness made him look around to see a human near him in the same attitude, sitting quiet, being deeply absorbed by some inner thought, and looking straight at some fix point in front of him.

Comment

The author draw the hypothesis of a field emmited by the human body from many sources and events. The concentration of the eyes to some outer object or the concentration of the mind on  some  inner object seem to generate a byophysical field. Another events analysed in this essay  seem  to define this field as focused by the eyes themselves and acting only  or mainly in the line of sight. In this case at least, the emitter of the field is looking forward at a right angle with the line of sight of the subject. The field is felt even so. The inner concentration seems to produce it and in this case it might be higher as in the case of the colleague being in the normal wake state.The subject reacted raising the eyes from his papers to his colleague, as it would have been triggered by an external signal. This signal was not intended to him. It was produced by the     unconscious concentration of the colleague to some inner thought or day dream. Every time he raised compulsory his head he saw the same scene, the colleague resting  quiet and dreaming. It was like a cry or a sound, not really  heared but having the same result. The signal said: "It is something important, raise your eyes, and look what happens, look at your colleague it is there the important happening". What was his colleague doing , was concentrated with his eyes, and mostly concentrated to some inner cerebral activity. This activity might be intense as to be felt as a signal by the subject.  These dreamy states during day  time are quite frequent for anybody and with EEG technique they might be correlated with a peculiar     brain wave pattern. The hypothesys of the field emission by the human brain will have so a factual corelate. The EEG study of a sensitive subject would find if the spontaneous motion of response to the field emission is not corelate with a change in the pattern of the brain wave of the reciever.

Case No. 2.2 A state of alertness

The subject had a girlfriend. He used to walk at evening in town with her. Sometimes they exchanged their views and argued about their relationship or some subject of relevance to them  while walking. Sometimes they could not finish the subject matter to arrive to a conclusion, so they left one's another with a feeling of an unfinished deal. One evening the subject, being too tired, said good bye to her, leaving her at a red light in the traffic, passed the street, climbed the stairs of a bus, bought a ride ticket, sat down in the chair of the bus and looked forward, waiting the departing of the bus to downton. Usually after leaving her girl friend and after greeting her and after making a few steps away from her,  he used to turn his head and to waive the hand to her once again, but this time he did not, as he was too tired and too concentrated to some inner topic induced  by the talk which he had with her.As he was looking forward, sitting in the  chair in the bus, he was compelled to look at right, at the door of the bus to see his girl friend staring to him. She said that she followed him from behind, as she was not content, as they could not bring a conclusion to the subject discussed in that evening. In the moment in which he turned his head to see her, she was thinking what to do to convey his attention to her and to convince him to renounce momentarily to the fare, to speak a little more with her in the same evening. It was with this great desire in mind that she stared at him and made him to turn the head to see her. 

 Case No. 2.3  A state of alertness

 The subject is a clerk  in the fifities working in a crowded office .The other colleagues from the same office are mostly younger than him. He use to have a short lunch break when he eat some food and feel sleepy after it. He tries to keep his normal state of wake but he does not get it  all the time. So he decide to shut the eyes for few minutes for a nap in a sitting position on his chair. Usually this sleeping time is interrupted as follows. His younger colleagues seeing him asleep, or at least trying  to  do it, are enjoying at the image of the sleepy old man. They do not laugh or speak about it, just only pointing a finger in his direction and looking at him, perhaps smiling.  As they begin to look at him, if they are a large group,   if there are many involved to look at him, he feels their interest  or he feels their eyes staring at him and he stop his sleep and has to open his eyes. There is no comment between them about the event, he is awake only by the fact that there are many staring at him.   

Case No. 3.1 A State of illness

 The subject is a male, middle aged.He went in a professional visit to a factory in another town. He had to solve some service duties at the laboratory of a factory. He had a long conversation with a bussiness partner, a female, in a large room, a factory hall conversed in a lab lounge in which hosts were received. At a time, another worker, a female, came and introduced herself and joined the  discussion. The professional and private themes mingled. The late uncoming woman displayed at a moment signs of distress, lack of confort and suffering. The subject asked what happened. The late coming   woman said about a sudden wrong state, of diziness and lack of energy, lassitude. She  said that it seems that the presence of the subject and the fact of sitting near him  commited this state. Her face displayed a lot of suffering but it should have been not too intense as she preferred to remain there  and to participate to the conversation, being perhaps curious about what happened to her.  The subject made not a comment as he wanted to not interfere with the happening in any way, to get a genuine picture of it. The conversation continued. The afflicted person stood up and went for a while in another part of the lounge at about 6 meters distance. She reported that the illness state seemed to disappear as he receded from what she considered to be the source of it, i.e. the subject himself. Coming back and sitting again near the subject she said that the disconforting state reappeared  back and made her to suffer  again. The subject did nothing about it. The conversation proceeded as before. They were talking about professional matters, different tehnical problems. The names of different specialists from the domain was pronounced  which were living in the town from which the subject was coming there. For the needs of the discussion the subject decided to bring into his discourse the name of another professional.. With that professional he recently had a rough dispute during a phone call. The subject has a  rather weak memory for the names of the persons. He was striving to remember the name of this  professional and during this search in the registers of his memory he refreshened the terms  of the dispute also. Remembering this dispute he became a little more nervous for a while. At the same moment when he was making his mind with these issues the woman said the her state of ilness accentuated again. The subject concluded that the woman seems to  have been influenced by his states of mind. He ascertains that he was generally quite tense at that time.After many month he heard that the woman involved in the event discovered at that very moment that she had some healing abilities by psychical means and began to practice as a  psychic healer for some patients from her neighborhood.   

Comment

      The subject was told sometimes before that he was able to influence the state of mind of the persons sitting near him but he had no reasons to believe it or to use  in any way. After many happenings similar to this one, but not so clear or vivid, he was more able to view or see or take into account such an event. As he was not at all a believer in such things as he was trained in an exact field of science, he had to take care of such a happening as  it was related to him. It was  a part of his world but not of his understanding. So when it happened in the case related here, he said nothing about it. Not mentioning his knowledge of the domain and not denying it, he was able to hear the final, when he could relate the raising of his inner tension with the changing of state of the mind of  the woman, i.e. her bad feelings coming again and augmenting.

As he remember the woman feeling of ilness was expressed by a face displaying suffering from some pain or aches  and a way of respiration as from a hard work, and she said that she felt a sort of lack of energy. She expressed that she felt that the subject is taking out the vital energy from her. The woman felt that the source of her state was the subject. The subject noticed her face changing the normal  as composure as a human does before fainting  and asked what happened ."It seems to me that sitting nearby you makes me feel sick ",was the answer. The subject became more nervous as usual, remembering the dispute during a phone call. The woman said to become more upset again at the same moment.He made nothing overtly to express his anger, he only thought to the phone call dispute. As he expressed nothing overtly, he thought that his state of mind was transmited  directly to the woman brain by a physical field. And thinking to his state of mind before the final he remembered that it was not quiet but merely tense. This tension might be felt by the woman before making her to feel ill.The other woman was not affected at all though he was positioned at the same  short distance distance during the conversation. That could mean that a special sensitivity is needed to feel the field, or  a special compatility between the emitter and the reciever is required.

Case No. 3.2 .A state of illness

The subject met a girlfriend. They sat close on a sofa in a corridor of a hospital where she was on duty. She was coming back from an one month trip abroad. The conversation proceeded about this. The trip was sponsored by a non profit association with which  the girl was connected. The trip was at most a succes, but accounting on it, very soon, more and more she came to make open some controversial issues about the moral behavior of the guests from abroad, their way of dealing with money matters, official accounting reports, possible wrong ways of using of funds, and many alike. The subject knew some of all that stuff before, but these new informations made him at first astonished, next, tense, next, revolted. He expresed it maybe twice by some interjections. He remembers that then he was really nervous then, which was not his usual way of being. He does not remember to have been so nervous another time, until then, as long as he could remember in the near past. Moral matters made him sometimes to become upset and now  was one of these times. The meeting  was interrupted as the girl went and sat in rank at a cashier desk as it was the payday. They met again after about ten minutes. They left the building and walked down the street. The girl reported a state of illness and impairment of the mind. She said that she is sure that the subject was the cause of it. When she was sitting on the sofa near him she was looking down to the tip of her own shoe and began to loose his  sight, she was seeing it, but not clear any more. She left him there and went to receive her wages. Sitting there in rank with the others she felt the same wrong state together with the feeling that  the subject was the cause of it. Now they were in the street, having for a time the same way to go. She said to feel very dependent from him for the moment, and not able to use temporarily  her free will. She said, for example, that if they would have been then at a top of a huge building and he would say, JUMP ! she would do it immediately  without comment or force to resist. (Sometimes after, the subject red that this reaction of loosing of the free will comes to a hypnotised person  which becomes dependent of the inducer of the  unusual state ). .As she went home, the subject asked if she needed to be accompanied. She said she can manage it by herself. He left. He arranged to have a phone call from her after arriving at home. She phoned and said that she needed about an hour to regain her normal state of mind.

Comment

The event comes to have a clear meaning when correlated with the precedent which happened to the same subject. He had to accept the feeling of the girl that he was the source of his trouble. He correlated that with his very tense state of mind generated by the narration of the girl. He made nothing to interfere with the event and made not any comment during the evolvment of it. With the hypothesis that his state of mind influenced the state of mind of the girl, it seems that it perturbated it in many aspects as her eyes fonctioning, feelings, and this for a long time of about an hour. It was not intended and unexpected and the subject was at first astonished himself about the happening and its conclusion. He was not prepared to analyse then exactly what happened. It was only a record in his memory until enough evidence gathered to form a pattern.

Case No.4 A reaction of fright

It was a summer evening at a late hour in an empty house with all the furniture gathered and prepared for a removal. The discussion was on general themes of the life of the late relative. These were correlated with the events of the strange death and as the time passed more and more events that had some close relationship with the last days from the life of  the dead  person were revealed. Beside the ilness, a movemented and agitated life with many social conflicts came  out from the narrations and memories of the subject speaking with the relative which  asked for a clarifying discussion. The real role of the deceased and of the remaining family was put into a new light and the involvment of those who was near him during his last days was inquired. The relative with which the subject was speaking all these issues seemed at a time to  desire to  put an end  to the discussion for personal reasons but he expreseed it only indirectly. The subject was emotionally involved  in all these clarifications as the defunct was very close to him and it was then the time to pay tribute to his memory. For that, having himself a very good memory, he used it that evening at best and through little things, with a little imagination work, discovered  many forgotten facts which were not liked by the relative whith which he was speaking .Objects around remmbered him ancient stories and persons and the discussion came to a point when the relative wanted to close it as it was revealing too much of his own implication in the events. But not daring to end  it openly  it seems that he  proceeded in a special manner as described here down.

The subject felt at a time  some itching on the skin of his feets. The skin on them became tense and was straining on his muscles and the hair on it was raised up. He anounced the relative that some event happens and is felt by him, and it seemed to be related to the discussion but he does not know in which way and has to think a little about it to understand it and its meaning. The relative excused himself and left the room suddenly as to go to bed in another room and did not came back again that night. The subject felt the muscles of his feets to stretch suddenly in short bursts at every five minutes. They stretched hardly enough. He stood up to observe better what happened to him. After several repetitions of the jerks of his muscles he concluded that it was a reaction of fright. His mind was very quiet and carefull analyzing all the surroundings as he had done during the discussion with the relative but as the muscles of his feets were shivering he had to ascertain to himself that he was deeply scared. He tried to find the source of his state and analysed carefully all of the scape of the room and the house at which he had access at that hour of the night. It was  an ancient house. The furniture made some strange noise from time to time as the joints of the wood were working under the strain of the iron nails. Some rodents moved swiftly from corner to corner., the wood worms were making noise by eating the wood, the water and drain pipes were emiting or transmitting little sounds. He was very attentive to all these but nothing af all  impressed him too much. He continued to be  in the same state for whole the night. At every five minutes the muscles of his feets strained and the skin on them was tense. The episodes were more distant in time after and diminished in intensity, but he lost the need to sleep. He was not angry or upset, only very conscious, not only waked up, but all his mind was as clear as in a day time. It was dark, he shut the light after, but he could not sleep at all. It was night and dark outside and inside the room too,  but even if he covered his eyes with the eyelids all the landscape before his eyes was illuminated as in a day light. The light was too intense and it hurted him, he felt  a pain in his eyes as  he saw it. It seemed strange to him, and he refused to believe "to his eyes", so he tried to see where was the source of the light. He closed his eyes and was attentive. He saw that the room was  in some way full of  a real light from outer sources, from the moon and a street lamp. So he  carefully closed the window and covered it with a heavy curtain., and closed the eyes again. He was again disturbed by too much of light falling on his eyelids. He opened the eyes to see where the light did came from by now. He saw it. The curtain was heavy and dense but had some little defects on it. It was a sort of yellow coloured. The street lamp was illuminating one of the defects, and a border of it was defracting a very thin ray of light as faint as possible. And that spot of light was shining very bright upon the dark surroundings and was in the face of  his eyelids and the light of it was falling on them and was felt by him as intense as a sun light and even with the eyes closed he could not not enjoy the resting of the night. He covered the defect on the curtain with some material, he closed his eyes again but the light was there disturbing him again. He opened again the eyes to see many and many sources of light coming from unexpected locations on the curtain covering the window so he decided to be not able to fight them all at that moment so he decided to renounce to strive to sleep any more that night as it was to difficult as a task.  Also the functioning of his mind seemed to be amplificated so the ideas were emited at a pace and variety and intensity so that he could not follow them and use them in a regular way. The experience was overwhelming and frustating. He felt every idea coming to his mind then to be of a great value but as he tried to catch or to grasp it or to use it in some way  but he could not do it, as another idea came and took  the place of the precedent, exhausting him. He tried to record them by writing but he could not read them after, as his precipitated handwriting  was almost  inintelligible when he tried to read it in the next day.  So he decided to lay only on a chair on a veranda until the day come and the sun was up. He could not find then the source of his fright and he thought that the visit to his ancient family was too soliciting to his mental wellbeing, so  in the morning said goodbye and left for his home in another town.

After several month he red a  novel on a witch. It was "Olesia" by Kuprin, a russian writer at 1900. In this novel, the whitch demonstrated to the author that she was able to influence his movements and to make him fall down during walking only by thinking to that and imaginating him as falling down. After that, she pretended to be able to inspire him a big fright even at a distance, by only thinking to that. ( text is continued on the next page).