By Anthony Forwood
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Is Mind-Reading Technology Real?
Many people suspect or believe that
their thoughts are being read by mind-control technologies. Many of
these people are already targets of ‘Voice to Skull’ (V2K)
technology, with which the perpetrators are able to project sounds
and voices into their head, and because of what the perps communicate
to them in this way, they are often led to believe that the
perpetrators are able to read their thoughts as well.
Beyond the fact that many of these
people suffer the very real effects of V2K, what makes them come to
this conclusion? Is there any scientific evidence that would reveal
that actual mind-reading technologies are possible, and if so, to
what extent? Can these people’s experiences of the apparent reading
of their thoughts be otherwise explained in more practical terms?
Although I’ve never knowingly been
the target by any similar sort of electronic weapons myself (other
than the usual mass media), I decided to investigate this. I have
carefully researched as much of the available documentation as I can
find, paying particular attention to actual mind-reading
capabilities, as well as examining the published stories of many who
claim to be victims of these technologies. On the one hand, what I’ve
learned is somewhat reassuring (as far as thought-reading goes), but
on the other hand, it’s not, because it reveals that there are many
people out there who seem to be misinformed (not entirely their own
fault), or who might actually want to be seen as victims in
this capacity, for whatever reason. I don’t mean to criticize those
people who actually suffer the very real invasive effects of
mind-control technologies, but it’s very important to clear up any
misunderstandings that they might have, so that they can better
understand the reality of their own situation so as not to be taken
by others as delusional, and so that they can make informed decisions
about how to defend themselves against their perpetrators. My
intention here is to provide an overview of the technologies that do
exist, with a fairly extensive explanation of the science behind
them, which will reveal both their capabilities and their
limitations. This document will provide the reader with information
that is more detailed and accurate than what is otherwise offered in
any documents I have come across that describe mind-control
technologies.
So, What is True?
V2K is an established technology, based
on Allen Frey’s discovery (first publicly reported in 1961) that
pulsed microwaves can be used to cause intercranial sounds (sounds
that can only be heard inside a person’s head).i
This method relies on specific energy levels, frequencies, and
modulations (wave patterns). It’s a brute force method, where the
target’s head is bombarded with the microwave pulses. These pulses
cause rapid heating and cooling of the tissue cells of the inner ear,
causing them to rapidly expand and contract, and this translates into
sound vibrations that affect the cochlea, which triggers the
appropriate neurons to fire, transmitting a signal to the auditory
cortex. There is no direct effect on brainwaves from these microwave
pulses, and there is no possibility for two-way transmission.
Any electronic technology that might be
created to remotely read a person’s thoughts will entail a much
more complicated procedure than that used for V2K, for several
reasons.
First, there is the fact that the
brain’s natural electromagnetic signals are extremely weak (approx.
0.5 milliwatts), which means that they aren’t able to propagate
very far at all before they become lost among the noise of all the
other electromagnetic activity that is always present in the
surrounding environment. But even before they can reach even a few
millimeters, they’re obscured by tissue and bone. Traditionally,
electrodes that are applied directly to the outer scalp have been
used to pick up these weak brainwaves, but this obviously won’t do
for covert mind-control applications. Surgically implanted electronic
implants can substitute for these electrodes, since they can be
designed to amplify brainwave signals before retransmitting them.ii
But even still, although it’s conceivable that a person might have
been electronically implanted for mind-reading purposes with or
without their knowing it, there are still many factors involved that
impose further limitations in retrieving and deciphering brainwave
signals, and understanding these will show that what many people are
reporting as mind-reading is not the case, and one of several other
mind-control methods are more likely involved.
But there are other, more compelling
reasons why reading a person’s thoughts is far more difficult than
it is to project voices into their heads through the brute force of
V2K. Understanding brainwave patterns well enough to translate them
into anything resembling actual thoughts is a great deal more
difficult, since the complexities of these brainwave patterns
parallel the complexities of the brain itself, and an understanding
of the one directly reflects an understanding of the other. The
workings of the brain are still barely understood, but one thing that
is understood is that many different areas of the brain are
involved in even the simplest mental activity.
If you’ve ever seen color photographs
of brain activity taken from an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging)
machine, you’ll understand that different areas of the brain ‘light
up’ to different degrees at different times for different lengths
of time and in different sequences for every different type of mental
activity. It might be simple enough using something like MRI imaging
to determine when someone is thinking word-thoughts because the
‘Broca’s Brain’ or ‘Wernicke’ areas light up, but this
reveals nothing about what they are thinking. There is
obviously more involved in decoding the actual words that are being
thought, and brain activity has to be considered in three-dimensional
terms, which poses further limitations.
Added to all of this is the fact that
each person’s brain activity is slightly different, due to both the
variations in neural configurations from person to person and the
variables involved in the mental expressions that make up our
thoughts. Therefore, it’s wrong to assume that it’s just a matter
of deciphering the brainwave patterns from one person and being able
to apply them to anyone else to understand what they’re thinking.
Each person will require a separate dictionary for interpreting their
brainwave signals into actual thoughts.
The patterns of brain activity are
therefore very complex, being both spatial and temporal in nature,
requiring any analysis of these patterns to take into consideration
the three-dimensional expressions that occur in a particular sequence
over a period of milliseconds or longer. There is no purely linear
means of reading brainwaves and understanding their respective
meaning. It will make a huge difference in how the brainwave signals
are received (what their four-dimensional temporal/spatial patterning
is) depending on the position of the target’s head in relation to
any external reading device, making reading someone’s linear
thoughts that much more difficult (unless an array of stationary
implants or external electrodes are involved). Just the simple
movement of the head would upset the reading, if it were being done
remotely.
The electromagnetic field around the
brain, which is created by the brain’s activity, is a complex field
of interference patterns, where the radiating electromagnetic waves
arising from the different areas of the brain are interfering with
each other in different ways depending on their frequencies, relative
positions, and sequential occurrences, so that it might be compared
to a visual hologram, where viewing it from different angles results
in a slightly different image. Only those brainwave emissions that
are traveling more or less in the direction of the remote receiving
equipment and not being interfered with by other brainwave emissions
would be able to be properly read. As stated earlier, there is an
added problem in that the dense bone tissue of the cranium interferes
with brainwave emissions by deflecting and deforming them, making it
even more difficult to determine the precise area of the brain that
emitted a particular signal. This makes mind-reading technology
without the use of implants highly unlikely, as far as reading your
actual thoughts go. An implant will always be stationary in relation
to the brain and will pick up the electromagnetic emissions from a
single point of reference, making the monitoring of specific brain
areas that much simpler. However, implants would still have to be
precisely located where they can properly detect the desired
brainwave emissions. It is impossible for a single implant to detect
all of the brainwave activity that comprises a thought. Many implants
are required for this, as will be explained further on.
More on Brainwaves and Brain Structure
All thoughts create brainwaves, which
are electromagnetic waves that carry certain patterns based on
frequencies and modulations, and these patterns are specific to the
brain activity that is occurring. Human brainwaves are within a very
narrow bandwidth of frequencies – the dominant ones are between 0.5
– 30 Hz, with more subtle frequencies reaching up to about 300 Hz.
The information they carry is contained in the modulation of these
frequencies. Modulation is simply the effect of combined frequencies,
which causes specific changes in the up and down patterns of an
otherwise uniform wave, and the specific pattern depends on the
combination of frequencies involved, and their duration. Amplitude is
the strength of the wave, which is measured by the distance between
the highest and lowest points of a wave pattern (the peaks and
troughs). Since brainwaves are very weak, their amplitude is very
small.
The key to deciphering a person’s
thoughts (or any other brain activity) from their brainwave patterns
is to understand how the modulation pattern of brainwave emissions
relates to specific brain activity. Some brainwave activity will be
easier to decipher than others, since some types of brain activity is
more similar to all of us than other types. Naturally, this is
reflected by the similarity in how our brains are structured and
operate. There are three distinct stages of brain evolution that
become slightly more varied between individuals in regard to the
neural structure of each newer stage, due to our individual genetic
makeup, learning experiences, mental habits, and physical
development. The earliest stage to have evolved, known as the
R-complex or ‘reptilian brain’, will be almost identical between
all individuals, while the most recently evolved stage, the
neocortex, which is far more adaptive and able to reconfigure its
structure and functionality over time (due to our individual
experiential development and tendencies in how we think), will have
the most variation between each person. The middle stage, centered
around the limbic system and physically located between the R-complex
at the brain’s core and the neocortex that covers the outer
surface, is more or less identical for all of us as well, but will
still have some minor variations from person to person.
The R-complex deals with the deepest,
most necessary brain functions for our survival, and is guided by
instinct. The limbic system is the center of emotion. The neocortex
is the area of the brain that has the most to do with our thinking
and determines our greatest uniqueness as both a species and as
individuals of the human species. As such, our individual styles of
thought will be reflected in the configuration of its neurons. The
neocortex is also the most ‘plastic’ of the three stages, which
means that it is more susceptible to reconfiguring its neural
connections over time as we change and grow and develop new mental
habits, etc. This may be our saving grace, as far as mind-reading
technologies go. Also is the fact that each brain is different in the
size and shape of its many sub-structures. So, just like
fingerprints, which have certain similarities but are always uniquely
different through minor variations, no two brains are exactly the
same either.
Mind-reading technologies depend on
deciphering the patterns of our brainwaves created by our brain
activity. Some patterns, such as those created by emotions, are more
or less identical for everybody, while other patterns, such as
‘word-thoughts’, will have a certain level of variation in their
patterning from person to person, as well as in the manner of their
tone, rhythm, and inflection. Therefore, the brainwave patterns of
emotions and emotional states would be fairly easy to decipher no
matter who is being targeted. Moving to the higher brain functions
encompassed by the neocortex and the more complex inherent
differences from person to person in their individual neural
structures and the resultant difference in their brain activity,
deciphering brainwave patterns becomes that much more difficult.
Simply put, our emotions and other lower-level brain activity and
corresponding neural configurations are going to be more or less
identical for everybody, while higher-level brain activity and
corresponding neural configurations are going to be more unique to
each of us.
With all this said, it should be more
understandable that our full-blown word-thoughts (the words we hear
ourselves thinking in our heads) are going to be harder to decipher.
Each person will have differences in their brainwave patterns due to
the differences in the development of their neural structures.
Even though the brainwave pattern for a
specific word-thought might be similar for everybody to a certain
degree, the corresponding brain activity is still going to be unique
enough that for each person targeted for mind-reading purposes, it
would first have to be analyzed and broken down into its unique
‘signature’ patterns, and there won’t necessarily be a single
signature pattern for specific words that will apply to everybody
(whereas with emotions and other lower-level brain activity, there
will). These signature patterns will also be made more complex by
such things as the variations in mental expression (tone, rhythm,
inflection, etc.), the rhythms of various physical functions (such as
blood flow, respiration levels, heartbeat, etc.), etc. Some or all of
these things would need to be taken into consideration in real-time
while monitoring a person’s brainwaves (at least early on during a
‘learning’ phase of the mind-reading technology), since they will
all have some effect on the patterning of electromagnetic output.
The connotation of words is important
in understanding what is being communicated, meaning that tone,
rhythm, and inflection are as crucial as the words themselves. Even
in our thoughts, the connotation of words plays a role in expressing
ourselves. Without knowing the connotation, sarcasm might be taken
seriously by anyone eavesdropping on our thoughts. This means that
they will want to be able to differentiate, and this will require
greater complexity in any mind-reading technologies than just
learning the brainwave patterns of words.
The areas of the brain that are
involved in language processing are varied in their specific
functions, and are spread out in the brain matrix rather than all
centered in the same general location. This means that each of them
would need to be tapped for mind-reading technologies to be
effective. With there being approximately 100 billion neurons in the
human brain, where each of these neurons has a specific function that
may be totally unrelated to any of those adjacent to it, picking out
the right neurons to read specific signals is no easy task. Being
even one neuron off could totally corrupt any meaningful signal.
You should be able to understand from
all this that reading a person’s thoughts by monitoring their brain
activity and deciphering brainwave patterns isn’t as easy as might
be imagined. Determining your emotional state and certain other
specific lower-level brain activity by reading your brainwaves might
be one thing, but determining the actual words you’re thinking is
quite another. And because we’re all somewhat different in our
higher-level brain structuring, it isn’t possible to establish a
general database of word-patterns that will apply to everyone. Each
person would require a separate database for their unique signature
word-patterns (or even syllabic or phonetic patterns), and to create
this database, each word-pattern would first have to be learned over
time through repetition, comparing, and averaging out the results
into a single recognizable pattern for each word. This learning
period would require knowing precisely when the person is thinking a
specific word while recording their brainwave activity, and filtering
out everything but those brainwave patterns that relate to those
thoughts (such as emotional overlays, lower-stage activity related to
physiological functioning, etc.). Only after a relatively large
number of recordings of a specific word have been made and compared,
would it be possible to determine the underlying word pattern within
the more complex brainwave output.
A Review of the Current Technologies and the Science Involved
At this point, it would be a good idea to review the relevant technologies that are known to exist, and consider their inherent capabilities and limitations.
The Frey Effect
As I related earlier, a scientist named
Allen Frey published a report in 1961 that revealed that pulsed
microwaves transmitted towards a person at certain specific
frequencies and modulations would induce buzzing and clicking sounds
that could be heard intercranially (inside their head) but not
externally. This effect was found to be stimulated by the rapid
heating and cooling of brain cells, which causes the cells to expand
and contract, and this effect is detected by the cochlea and
translated into sound patterns that are then delivered to the
auditory cortex. It was determined that short bursts of these pulses
could be modulated to simulate voices and other sounds.
Although this effect allows for beaming
voices and sounds into a person’s head, it is strictly a one-way
transmission and doesn’t provide any means at all for reading a
person’s mental activity (two-way transmission).
EEGs
Electroencephalography (EEG) machines are able to read a person’s brainwave activity through electrodes placed across the surface of the scalp. The number of electrodes used determines the overall spatial resolution of the signal. A minimal array consists of 19 specifically placed electrodes, while a high density array can have as many as 256 electrodes evenly spaced across the surface of the scalp. Readings consist of the differences in voltage between pairs of electrodes, known as a montage. There are various ways that a montage might determine brainwave activity, with each of these revealing different types of information. With digitized recordings, these different montages can be analyzed from the same recorded data, based on different mathematical formulas.
There are four basic frequency ranges of brainwaves, which reflect various mental states, going from the lowest, which relates to deep comatose sleep, to the highest, which relates to wide-awake alertness.
Delta (0.5 – 4 Hz) - Deep comatose
(dreamless) sleep
Theta (4 – 7 Hz) - Dream (REM) sleep,
hypnotic state, super-learning mode
Alpha (7 – 13 Hz) - Relaxed, drowsy
state (creativity)
Beta (13 – 30 Hz) - Wide-awake, alert state
Although one of these states will be
dominant over the others at any particular time, all of them will
always be present to some degree. This means that the brain is always
emitting these various different frequencies to different degrees in
different areas within its three-dimensional matrix, and these areas
and the frequencies they emit can change over time, depending on
changes in the mental state.
A fifth frequency range, known as the gamma range (30 – 100+ Hz), has also been found that reflects special mental functioning that isn’t common in all people. It has been found to relate to advanced meditative states and highly elevated states of consciousness. There is no ‘gamma state’ of the brain, as there are for the four basic frequency ranges (the gamma range never dominates over the others), although the gamma range is present when a person is awake, and is integral to their mental state.
Two further classifications of
brainwaves have also been discovered, known as lambda and epsilon
waves. They are correlated, and while the epsilon wave is very low in
frequency (below 0.5 Hz), the lambda wave is very high (100 – 200
Hz). Lambda waves can be found within the patterns of epsilon waves.
These types of brainwaves are only mentioned here for posterity, and
have no further bearing on our discussion.
Of the four dominant brain states, beta
waves have the highest frequency but a relatively low amplitude, and
each of the other states have respectively lower frequencies and
higher amplitudes, with delta having the highest amplitude of all.
EEG readings rely on the electric
potentials generated by a very large number of neurons that have a
similar spatial orientation (i.e. neural clusters). The neocortex is
the part of the brain that is closest to the scalp, and because its
neurons are well-aligned and fire together, it’s believed to be the
source of the EEG signal. The brainwaves from deeper areas of the
brain matrix are too weak to be detected in this way. Further
inhibitors to brainwave detection are cerebrospinal fluid and the
hard bone tissue of the skull, which cause smearing of the EEG
signals. This makes accurate distinctions of signals from different
areas of the brain matrix somewhat difficult, if not impossible,
using EEG machines.
EEGs allow for readings with a high
temporal resolution in the range of milliseconds (in comparison,
action potentials in the brain take as long as 130 milliseconds to
propagate from one neuron to the next), making them very useful for
monitoring ongoing brain activity in relation to various stimuli and
corresponding brain functions. However, EEG readings are very limited
in their spatial resolution, and it’s mathematically impossible to
reconstruct an intercranial electrical current source (the specific
neural structures) for a given EEG signal.
Note – Theta waves are particularly
interesting, in that they have been found to correspond to repression
of a response or action, as well as relating to automated tasks where
conscious attention is not necessary. This is important to understand
in relation to how mind-control technologies might induce certain
effects or avoid conscious resistance to their influence.
The P300 Signal
The P300 signal is an EEG signal (30-50
Hz, 0.5 milliwatts) that can be read from the scalp using electrodes,
most significantly in the area of the parietal cortex. The P300
signal reflects a person’s brain activity in a way that allows it
to be decoded to some extent. The signal arises as an ‘evoked
potential’ that appears as a small spike in a normal EEG readout,
and these evoked potentials carry the encoded signature patterns that
relate to such things as emotional states, stimulus responses, motor
commands, auditory events, visual imagery, intentions, and even the
word-thoughts that arise in a person’s brain. The evoked potentials
of the P300 signal are derived from the organized temporal/spatial
activity of different areas of the brain – there is no one specific
place in the brain that elicits any particular P300 signal. This is
important to understand when considering how mind-control
technologies might read or influence brain activity.
Note: It shouldn’t be assumed that
the P300 signal can be read from a single point anywhere on the
scalp, but instead requires the overall array of electrodes that was
described earlier, incorporating the combined signals from these
electrodes, which are placed at various points across the scalp.
Decoding the P300 signal from these combined readings requires the
application of certain mathematical formulas called ‘Fourier
transforms’, which will be explained further on.
The P300 signal far more readily allows
for the detection of emotional states, etc., than it does for the
reading (and understanding) of actual word-thoughts. As I said
earlier, certain types of lower-level brain activity, such as
emotional states, are more similar between individuals than is
higher-level brain activity, such as word-thoughts. This is due to
the greater differences in higher-level neural structuring from
person to person, as well as certain other factors. Although certain
brain activity related to word-thoughts might originate from the more
easily readable neocortex, because they’re more differentiated from
person to person, they’re that much harder to decode.
Decoding any of the information that
might be contained in the P300 signal first requires a ‘learning’
phase, in which desired responses (such as specific words, emotions,
motor commands, etc.) are elicited from the subject while the P300
signals are recorded. By comparing many recorded samples, extraneous
noise can be filtered out and a more refined signature signal can be
acquired. By applying Fourier transforms (see next section), this
signal can be broken down into its composite frequencies, each of
which has a correlation to specific brain activity. Analyzing these
frequency combinations reveals the basic elements of the signal and
offers a higher degree of definition. For instance, certain
frequencies or frequency combinations might signify specific areas of
the brain (such as the auditory cortex or the motor cortex), which
will correlate to specific brain functions. This would help in
developing a dictionary of P300 signal definitions through the
computer-aided analysis of cross-correlations, not just between
multiple signal samples from one individual, but also between
individuals. This would allow both universal and individualized
brainwave-pattern dictionaries to be compiled. Individualized
patterns will have the same unique qualities as a specific
individual’s normal brain activity, while universal patterns will
have qualities that are generic to all of us. Thus, an individualized
pattern, such as for a word-thought, will not have the same effect
from person to person, while a universal pattern will.
Like other EEG signals, the P300 signal
is extremely weak, which makes reading it from even a short distance
(several feet at most) beyond the scalp very difficult without
extremely sophisticated equipment (see further on), and longer
distances than this are impossible under normal environmental
conditions. To get around this, electronic implants would have to be
used to read, amplify, and retransmit the signals to a remote
receiving station, where they can be decoded.
Fourier Transforms
To understand how the P300 signal can
be decoded into information that correlates to specific brain
activity, a mathematical procedure called a Fourier transform is
applied. Every type of activity in the brain will be composed of one
or more frequencies (discussed earlier) that occur together to make
up the evoked potential of a P300 signal, giving each evoked
potential that correlates to that specific brain activity its own
unique signature pattern. These different frequencies arise from the
different areas of the brain that operate in conjunction to generate
the specific activity and its correlated evoked potential. To put it
another way, the complex wave patterns that make up an evoked
potential are comprised of simpler waves of different frequencies and
amplitudes. The specific combination creates a specific modulated
wave pattern. A Fourier transform is a mathematical method for
breaking down any wave pattern, no matter how complex, into those
simpler composite waves.
With respect to electromagnetic waves,
wavelength and frequency are always correlated, so that by knowing
one, it’s a simple procedure to calculate the other. With a complex
wave pattern comprised of multiple combined frequencies, the length
of the overall wave pattern will equal the longest wavelength (lowest
frequency) involved in creating that wave pattern. By canceling it
out with it’s opposite wave pattern (the same wave but 180o
out of phase), which can be done mathematically, you end up with a
series of two or more identical wave patterns strung together in a
repetitious fashion. The number of these identical wave patterns
within that string will equal the frequency of the next longest wave,
and their wavelengths will be the length of the initial complex wave
pattern divided by this number. By doing this simple calculation and
applying the same cancellation procedure again and again, you can
eliminate each composite wave from the overall complex wave pattern
until you are left with a series of identical sine waves that
reflects the last remaining wave frequency involved. (This
description is simplified for ease of understanding, but it gives a
good idea of how a Fourier transform can take a complex wave pattern
and break it down into its composite frequencies)
By knowing the frequencies of each of
these composite waves, it’s possible to reconstruct the original
complex wave pattern. When you see the readout of an EEG machine, it
shows the brainwave patterns broken down into its four basic
frequency ranges –delta, theta, alpha, and beta – plus a possible
fifth readout representing their combined pattern. The four basic
frequency patterns (plus the gamma, epsilon, and lambda waves) make
up the fifth readout pattern. It’s this fifth readout that shows
the P300 evoked potentials as small spikes, and these spikes are
caused by the combined amplitudes of the combined frequencies,
showing that the amplitudes of each of these basic frequencies plays
a part in creating it.
Now let’s look at the technology that
might be used for remote mind-reading.
SQUIDs (Superconducting Quantum
Interference Device)
A SQUID is a device that provides the
ability to measure extremely weak magnetic fields (on the order of
microteslas), such as brainwaves. These devices are so sensitive that
they can detect a change in an electromagnetic field that’s a
hundred billion times weaker than the energy required to move a
compass needle. These devices are used in MEG
(magnetoencephalography) machines, which are a step up from the MRI
machines commonly used in hospitals for taking brain scans. In MEG
machines, an array of SQUIDs are used to read the electromagnetic
activity of the brain, and their extreme sensitivity offers much
better temporal resolution than an MRI machine,iii
providing almost real-time feedback with much greater resolution.
However, SQUIDs still have certain major drawbacks that make them
impractical for remote mind-reading over distances greater than a
foot or two. Foremost is the fact that for reading brainwaves, they
rely on a carefully controlled damping of the electromagnetic field
around the brain. In a MEG machine, this controlled field is
accomplished by using a ring of superconducting material around which
an array of SQUIDs are placed. Any perturbations of the
electromagnetic field outside the ring will affect the readings of
the SQUIDs as much as those inside, thus requiring the addition of a
pair of magnetometers used in conjunction with each SQUID to measure
the magnetic fields both inside and outside the ring, and the SQUID
is used to measure the difference between them. Adding to these
complexities is the fact that the superconducting material of the
ring must be constantly cooled to temperatures near absolute zero
Kelvin, using either liquid nitrogen or liquid helium.
Because of the need for a controlled
electromagnetic field around the brain for SQUIDs to be able to read
brainwaves, this field must be kept as contained as possible, so that
even though SQUIDs might offer remote mind-reading capabilities, they
must still be within inches of the head to detect changes in the
controlled electromagnetic field caused by brain activity.
In spite of the limitations of SQUIDs
for remote mind-reading applications, their use in MEG machines
provides the ability to monitor brainwave activity with much greater
informational detail than an EEG machine does, offering greater
refinement in interpreting brainwave activity than can be achieved
through the P300 signal.
As we’ve seen above, both MEG and EEG
machines provide a means to record brainwave activity so that it can
be analyzed and decoded into meaningful signal patterns that relate
to specific brain functions and mental impressions, allowing for the
development of a ‘dictionary’ of signature brainwave patterns
that correlate to specific brain activity. Over time and with an
ever-greater number of samplings to compare and analyze, this
dictionary will only expand and become more accurate. However, these
two technologies each have their own particular limitations, as we’ve
seen, making them impractical for long-distant remote mind-reading.
Nonetheless, they can still be used in this capacity to a certain
extent when they’re coupled with other technologies, such as
electronic implants (see further on).
Masers
Some
people claim that masers are being used in mind-reading technologies.
I have studied all such claims that I can find, but I can see no
scientific basis for their accuracy. Masers might be being used for
beaming signals at a person’s head and thereby affecting their
brains (such as in V2K), but it’s very doubtful that they can be
used for any sort of remote mind-reading applications.
Masers
are similar to lasers but they emit a microwave beam rather than a
photon beam. Both lasers and masers output waves of energy that are
coherent, meaning that the waves in the beam have identical
characteristics (frequency, amplitude, phase, direction of
propagation). For this reason, they allow for a very narrowly focused
beam that can be aimed with pinpoint accuracy.
The
concept behind using a maser for reading electromagnetic emissions is
relatively simple. The coherent waves of energy in the beam are all
uniform and propagating in a long chain like soldiers marching in
perfect step. until they’re interfered with by something in their
path, which changes the state of the waves that are affected so that
they will be out of step with the others. In terms of mind-control
applications, the beam is expected to be interfered with by the
target person’s brainwaves, and then reflected back to a receiver
where the interference patterns are analyzed, and from these can be
determined the brainwave patterns that caused them. All this is
simple enough in theory, but there are several problems that would
need to be overcome before they could ever be used for this purpose,
making them very impractical:
1)
Locating and locking onto the target
2)
Accurately determining spatial orientation of the target
3)
Accurately reflecting the beam from the target to the receiving
station
4)
Eliminating extraneous environmental interference
For
any remote device to be able to accurately locate and lock onto its
target, there would first have to be a way to identify the target and
keep a precise position on it. The only conceivable way to do this
would be to use an electronic implant such as an RFID chip, which
offers the guarantee of precision if it is implanted in or very near
the target’s head. Such a device would also allow for determining
the target’s orientation (which way they are facing), thus allowing
for proper readings to be taken that will correlate to specific areas
of the brain. However, this still doesn’t make this a very
practical means to remotely read brainwave signals, since there is no
easy way for the maser beam to be accurately reflected back to a
remote receiver without refracting into a scattered beam due to the
curvature of the target person’s head, which it would necessarily
bounce off. The scattering not only spreads the returning beam into a
much wider trajectory, but its strength is also greatly reduced in
the process, and most of the overall signal information will be lost
as well. When you consider what was said earlier about how the P300
signal (the best bet for decoding the brainwave patterns of
word-thoughts) is derived from the combined signals from an array of
electrodes placed around the entire scalp, you should be able to
understand how this isn’t at all practical to do with a narrow
maser beam, and one with a larger beam circumference would still be
ineffective due to the greater amount of scattering from refraction.
While a receiving station (or even a number of them) could pick up
some of the reflected beam, the majority of it would still be lost.
If
this wasn’t enough to make this whole concept impractical, it
becomes a virtual impossibility when you consider the extraneous
interference that would be caused by all the electromagnetic noise
that’s constantly bombarding the atmosphere between the maser
transmitter, the target, and the signal receiver. The maser beam
would require a very clean propagation path devoid of any such
interference, otherwise this would destroy the very weak interference
patterns created by the brainwaves.
Electronic Implants
Electronic implants can be as advanced
and as functional as almost any other electronic device can be, but
might be constructed through nanotechnology to make them so small
that today they can be quickly and easily inserted into a person
through the end of a hypodermic needle, thus eliminating the long and
messy surgery such an operation once required.
These devices are used with
mind-control technologies to receive, analyze, encode or decode,
amplify, and transmit electromagnetic signals to and/or from an
implanted person’s brain or nervous system. The most crucial aspect
of them beyond their functionality is their placement in the body,
which must be in a location that will allow them to do their intended
objective. In the case of mind-reading applications, this means that
they’ll need to be placed in very close proximity to the brain,
which can be accomplished in a number of ways, including:
a) through the nasal cavity
b) through the ear canal
c) behind the eye
d) through the base of the skull
e) under the scalp
For
reading a person’s thoughts, it’s very likely that multiple
implants might have to be used, in order to act as remote EEG
electrodes as discussed earlier. However, it’s not unlikely that
the relevant classified science and technology is so advanced that a
single implant might be able to do the job, as long as it’s located
somewhere in the brain where it could pick up the proper signals, and
this will probably be a very specific location that would require a
complex insertion procedure so that it’s properly attached to
specific neural clusters, and more than just one neural cluster will
probably be involved. It’s impossible to say for sure what level of
advancement these devices have reached, but there are some claims
that, with the use of nanotechnology, they are now capable of
relocating themselves or even growing appendages that work their way
deeper into the brain and attach to specific neural structures.
However, this is almost pure rumor and speculation.
There
is at least one minor limitation to these devices that needs to be
considered here. This is that their power requirements must remain
relatively small, which means that their transmitted signal will
still be quite weak, otherwise they’ll need constant recharging.
However, the short-term signal output can probably be just as strong
as that of a cell phone, so they can be designed to transmit their
signals using the same communications infrastructure that cell phones
relay their signals through. Some newer implants use batteries that
can be recharged remotely, and the more advanced designs are
reportedly able to generate their power from the implanted person’s
own body. Neither of these possibilities are beyond current
technological capabilities, so there is little doubt that this is
true.
[The remainder of this document is
unfinished, so the explanations may not be entirely clear to the
reader at this point, but it should give a good idea of what might be
involved.]
Learning the Patterns
If
full-blown mind-reading applications that can read word-thoughts are
being used on a person, then implants are probably involved in some
way. The only other way around this would have to be through a more
complex method of mental interrogation, which would include certain
other mind-control techniques such as hypnosis, subliminals, and/or
V2K. I believe that what many people are reporting as mind-reading is
really being done through this latter method, so they should
carefully consider what’s said here.
With or without the use of implants,
for mind-control technologies to be able to determine a person’s
word-thoughts so that a dictionary of correlated signature brainwave
patterns could be compiled, a preliminary learning period will be
necessary. This will involve some form of ‘prompting’ for
specific responses, and there might even be a certain degree of
‘guessing’ involved. For those people who suspect that their
full-blown thoughts are being read, whether or not they’re
implanted with electronic devices, the mind-control perpetrators
would first have to acquire an entire vocabulary of thought-patterns
by trying to prompt the target to think certain specific words or
syllabic patterns in order to establish a dictionary. There would
undoubtedly be some room for guessing, which, over time and with a
multitude of attempts for each word-pattern, they would eventually
have enough collected data to compare and determine the underlying
brainwave pattern for specific words. Even still, full understanding
of a person’s thoughts that have any degree of complexity would
first require the establishment of a very large vocabulary dictionary
for each individual. This poses difficulties, and might take a great
deal of time, depending on the situation.
To speed up this process, the
perpetrators might rely on a greater degree of guessing, and for
those people being targeted with V2K, the perpetrators can use this
to influence the responses in such a way that the likeliest responses
will be known and expected. It will also help them by engaging the
target in ‘conversation’, which, although it’s really one-way
(the target hears them but they don’t actually hear the target’s
thoughts), they can use this to elicit mental or verbal responses
(the latter which they can hear through normal surveillance devices)
and match them with the recorded brainwave activity (provided they
have a means for reading the weak signals, such as with implants) to
determine the word-patterns. For this reason, targets should avoid
engaging in giving the same uniform responses to the invasive voices
of their perpetrators for the same promptings. The perpetrators will
probably have a standardized method of eliciting specific
word-thoughts, which will be used to establish a basic ‘language
dictionary’ that can aid them in eliciting further specific
responses that will add to this ‘dictionary’, one word or phrase
at a time. For instance, stating false information about the target
(through V2K) that will prompt the target to correct it will help the
perpetrators to refine their dictionary.
Once such a dictionary has been
compiled, the mind-control perpetrators would still not be able to
use this to construct simulated word-thoughts and beam them into the
target’s head to affect V2K that would seem to be the person’s
own thoughts. The problem with this is that although such external
signals might be projected into a person’s head, they would have to
simulate the original brainwaves exactly the same way that the brain
first produced them, with all the different brain areas with their
different frequencies being matched perfectly. Even a slight
displacement in the position of the head would throw off the signal
completely.
Even if it were possible to beam these
recorded signals back at the person, it would not be possible to
covertly override the person’s thoughts that are going on at the
same time, and at best, the signals would only cause a certain amount
of interference, which would be detectable, and less than effective.
What would be the point of using this method if it ca be detected?
V2K is much more efficient.
So then, what method would be most
effective to prompt for specific brainwave patterns? The answer is
subliminals.
V2K and Subliminal Suggestions
With more advanced applications, V2K
can implement subliminal suggestions or even hypnotic suggestions to
facilitate this learning phase (or for other purposes). This might be
noticed by the target when they have spontaneous and seemingly
unsolicited thoughts, which will be of a nature that would facilitate
the perpetrators in developing a dictionary of word-patterns. For
instance, sudden compulsions to think a certain word or phrase
repeatedly for a short time might indicate that this is going on. Of
course, the words or phrases would start with the most commonly used
words and phrases, and slowly develop into a larger word-base until a
full dictionary of word-patterns was established.
There are certain limitations to the
effectiveness of subliminals, and this is to the target’s
advantage. First of all, although subliminals actually work very well
under the right conditions, they’re not powerful enough to be
resist being defeated, once a person suspects that they’re being
used. Nor will subliminals be very effective where the suggestions
are in conflict with a person’s already established beliefs or
desires. Therefore, by simply affirming to yourself on a regular
basis that your subconscious will not acknowledge any subliminal
suggestions, you effectively defeat any attempts to use them. Of
course, having doubts about this will defeat your own attempts to
defeat any subliminals. That’s the nature of the subconscious mind.
I suggest to all targets that they take
the time to study the mechanics of the mind (I don’t mean the
brain), not just for the sake of overcoming certain forms of
mind-control, but for your own general benefit. Just understanding
the differences between the conscious and subconscious aspects of
mind and how they work together can provide you with the ability to
achieve things you didn’t think you could, and to be more in
control of yourself and your life. You’ll understand the power that
symbols have (which is why they’re used in many mind-control
programs), and you’ll be all the more able to recognize and defeat
their (subliminal) effects. You will also become more in tune with
your intuitive faculties, and your psychic potential will develop
more easily. I know this sounds like a Tony Robbins infomercial, but
it’s absolutely true (This may be why I haven’t been hit with V2K
or worse).
Current Technological Capabilities
Although there are many technologies
that can interfere with a person’s brain activity in various ways
to induce internal sounds and voices, there are none that are known
to be capable of reading thoughts from a distance without the use of
some sort of amplifying device (such as an electronic implant) in
very close proximity to the person that is to be targeted. Many
people assume that the available literature indicates that such
capabilities exist, but a close examination reveals that it is only
speculative at best, and overly suggestive at worst.
Research into brain activity resulted
in the discovery of what is referred to as the P300 signal. The P300
signal is an EEG signal that can be read from the scalp using
electrodes, like with normal EEG readings. The P300 signal reflects a
person’s thoughts and other mental activity in a way that allows
them to be decoded. This signal arises as an ‘evoked potential’
in the EEG readout, and this evoked potential carries the encoded
patterns of every thought, reaction, motor command, auditory event,
and visual image that arises in the target’s brain.
Decoding the P300 signal first requires
a learning phase, in which the syllabic word-patterns derived from
the P300 signal that correspond to the subject’s thoughts are
recorded. This means that there must be some initial time taken to do
this before any accurate mind-reading can take place. It might be
possible that a generic dictionary could be compiled that contains
the averaged EEG patterns from a wide range of test subjects, making
this learning phase unnecessary after a certain point, but there will
undoubtedly be complications, as explained earlier. The P300 signal
more readily allows for the detection of emotional states, deceptive
intentions, anticipation of movement, etc., than it does actual
word-thoughts.
The P300 signal is very weak (30-50 Hz,
0.5 milliwatt), which makes reading it from a distance impossible
without extremely sophisticated equipment, or unless the signal
transmission is aided by an electronic implant. This signal is what
has become the basis for ‘Computer to Brain Interface’ technology
that is being developed by computer hardware manufacturers and
medical prosthetics companies to aid in ‘non-contact’ operation
of devices (such as the ‘Cyberlink Mind Mouse’). However, these
developments rely on electrode attachments or very short-range
transceivers to detect, amplify, and relay brainwave signals.
Technologies that can penetrate solid
objects, such as that developed by Patriot Scientific Corporation
(the Patriot ‘Ground Penetrating Radar’ system), might be assumed
to be applicable as a mind-reading technology, but this is not the
case. These ‘through-the-wall’ technologies can only detect the
vibrational frequencies of material substances, and not those of the
more subtle and fluid emissions of electromagnetic waves. They rely
on bouncing their transmitted signals off of the solid objects to be
detected, which cannot be accomplished with the more fluid EM waves,
such as brainwaves. These technologies must be calibrated to the
specific substances they seek to detect, which emit steady
frequencies of a specific narrow range corresponding to the
oscillations of the atoms in the material to be detected. Brainwaves
cannot be ‘bounced off’, and so these technologies do not offer
the capability to detect electromagnetic waves that are propagating
in the air. Even if they could, there is still the problem of reading
and decoding the four-dimensional emanations of the brain matrix,
which in normal situations is not stationary.
The most advanced technology that is
known to exist for reading brain activity is what is known as MEG
(magnetoencephalography), which is a step up from MRI (magnetic
resonance imaging). MRI can only take ‘snapshots’ of brain
activity, and these are limited to one snapshot every few minutes at
best, and they don’t reach very far into the brain matrix. MEG
speeds this up tremendously (a snapshot every second or so) and
reaches into very the center of the brain, but it’s still
impractical for real-time monitoring and has certain hardware
requirements that make it completely useless for remote mind-reading
applications – specifically, the giant electromagnets that are used
must encircle the brain completely and must be within centimeters of
it in order to pick up its EM activity. Also, these electromagnets
use superconductive materials that must be kept at near absolute zero
temperatures, which makes this even more impractical for the purposes
of remote mind-reading applications. MEG uses SQUID technology
(Superconducting Quantum Interference Device), which some people
mistakenly think can be applied to remote mind-reading technology,
but this is not the case, for the reasons just explained.
The only technology that I know of that
might exist that would allow the sort of abilities necessary
for mind-reading is scalar-wave technology, but this is still
speculative as to whether it exists beyond theory. However, if it
does exist, it promises to offer all of the functionality required
for remote mind-reading, and then some. If it does exist as described
by its leading authority (Lt. Col. Thomas E. Bearden), then a full
replication of the EM activity of a person’s brain can be acquired
in real-time and recorded for analysis, eliminated the time
constraints of pattern learning that known technologies would
require. But at the same time, the greater functionality of
scalar-wave technologies would suggest that far broader applications
would also be experienced by targets, including simulated sensory
data (full sensory hallucinations involving sight, sound, taste,
touch, and physical feeling), to name the likeliest.
Concluding Comments
The intent of this document is to help
targeted individuals who suspect or believe that their thoughts are
being read in order to better assess their own situation, and
hopefully see how ‘mind-reading’ might only be at a superficial
level or even faked by the perpetrators, and where V2K might be being
used in an attempt to prompt certain predictable responses in order
to create a ‘dictionary’ of word-patterns correlating to their
thoughts.
If nothing else, two things can be
ascertained:
1) Electronic implants are almost
certainly required for mind-reading capabilities, due to the weakness
of brainwave signals.
2) Projecting voices into a person’s
head is far easier than reading their thoughts.
Since I’ve never experienced V2K
myself, and I certainly don’t have access to the technology
involved, I can only offer insights based on what I know from
researching the functioning of the human brain, wave mechanics,
computer engineering, and science and technology in general, so there
may be things I’ve said that those who do suffer from V2K
might disagree with. If so, I’d really like to hear your comments
or opinions on what I’ve said here, in order to better understand
the actual situation, and to correct any errors I’ve made in my
understanding.
I would also be interested in being
directed to any documents that would reveal that the technology is
more advanced than I realize, provided it isn’t based on mere
speculation by the author or is only discussing future prospects in
science and technology.
I am open to discussing anyone’s
experiences with these sorts of technologies, to help them in
assessing their situation and coming up with ideas and methods that
might be used to learn the true extent and limitations of their
perpetrators abilities and how to combat them. Sometimes we need an
outside perspective to determine whether or not things are as they
seem, and what might be done about them. I’ll always respect your
beliefs and opinions and certainly won’t question your sanity or
reasoning abilities. And of course I’ll respect your situation and
the difficulties you face. You can reach me at forwood@live.ca,
and all correspondence will be held in strict confidentiality.
i
Similar capabilities were actually known about as far back as the
late 1940s, when Andrija Puharich was designing hearing-aids for the
deaf, which used a tooth implant to receive the electromagnetic
signals (patented in 1961; US Patent #2,995,633).
ii
Due to their small size, implants can still only transmit signals a
very short distance, making it necessary for an
amplifier/retransmitter to be located within 10 to 20 feet of the
target. Specially rigged cell phones or computers offer a possible
means for this retransmission, but would only be useful while they
were within range of the signals from the implants. Still, people
who suspect they are targets of mind-reading technologies should
take this into account as a possible means of outgoing signal
transmission.
iii
An MRI machine is completely impractical for reading brain activity
in any way that would make it useful for mind-reading purposes.
