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From: Chris Rutkowski <rutkows@cc.UManitoba.CA>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 15:00:38 -0600 (CST)
Fwd Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 01:06:46 -0500
Subject: Re: 'Electrically Induced Hallucinations'-

> To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
> From: Thomas Rice <trex@holly.colostate.edu>
> >From: Chris Rutkowski <rutkows@cc.UManitoba.CA>
> >First, where would such magnetic fields come from in nature?

> Hello Chris,
>         I don't wish to reopen a rather smelly can of worms, but don't
> assume that this phenomenia has to be connected to "natural' sources.  The
> power of the EM feilds Persinger used were reportedly _below_ AMA safety
> standards.  Science doesn't need reversed engineered alien technologies to
> influence brain function remotely.

Tom:

As I noted, this was my *first* question. Persinger's original TST
relied specifically on natural EM fields, so that was what I was
querying.

It's true now that Persinger uses EM fields of strengths (as he puts
it) "less than that of a hair dryer." Obviously, people expose
themselves to this type of thing every day. In fact, such fields would
be encountered so often that one could then expect field-induced
hallucinations on a constant basis! My computer has a field stronger
than a hair dryer, for example, and I sit in front of it for 8-10 hours
per day. And *dare* I mention the cellular-phone debate, in which such
fields would be in *direct* contact with users' temporal lobes?

The major problem is not with the possibility that such fields can
induce physiological effects. The problems are that Persinger attempts
to explain a broad range of phenomena and also that his methodology has
been shown to be flawed on previous occasions.


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Chris Rutkowski - rutkows@cc.umanitoba.ca
(and now, also: Chris.Rutkowski@UMAlumni.mb.ca)
University of Manitoba - Winnipeg, Canada