Psychic Photography

Mental Photography

This is one of the branches of Psychokinesis and affords an additional example of the influence of mental powers on matter.Mental Photography is the person's ability to imprint a certain picture on a photographic film without the use of a camera.With this astounding technique,the person can transmit a picture that is the fruit of his imagination to a film

The technique in not new, it was used by many mediums and occultists in ancient times.In those days,they did not use a photographic film.The pictures produced by the person appeared in a bowl of oil, on glass, or on copper bowls.However,with the development of the photographic plate,this Phenomenon became known all over the world.Both in regular photography and in mental experiments, the photographic action stems from the activation of energetic radiation on the film - radiation that creates the resulting picture.The difference is that with mental photography - no use is made of a camera or any other photographic device Most of the modern mental photography experiments have been conducted in a darkroom equipped with a table upon which a photographic plate is placed,generally covered with silver paper or lead paper, or a Polaroid photographic plate holder.The person who is due to perform the mental photograph decides in advance on the picture he is about to photograph,or receives instructions for photographing a particular picture from the researchers who are performing the experiment.The person concentrates,focuses his thought and projects it onto the film.Certain 'photographers' perform mental photography by placing their hand on the photographic plate,while others can perform mental photography from a distance,even a distance of several kilometers.The picture that appears on the film is often clear and identifiable,and sometimes has the good quality of an old photograph.In any event - it can be identified as the object agreed upon by the person and the researchers.One of the advantages of the mental photography method is the concrete proof if its existence - the picture itself

One of the first mental photography experiments that was displayed publicly - was that of a Japanese researcher who published a book containing picutes that had all been photographed by mental (psychic) photography.That researcher also demonstrated the mental photography process to journalists by means of 3 girls who performed mental photography in his laboratory.Regrettable - it seems that hte world at that time - beginning of the 19th century - was not ready for this amazing discovery.The Japanese researcher was widely discredited.In time-honored Japanese tradition, he burned hsi bookds and commited seppuku (ritual suicide).If he had only known that 80 years later,Henry Talbot would perform experiments in mental photography that would be received with great understanding and interest by both the Scientific community and the general public

William Henry Fox Talbot - End of 19th Century

William Henry Fox Talbot was one of the best-known photography pioneers.A man who was accorded a great deal of honor and esteem as a result of his achievementsin developing the science of photography.At the end of the 19th century - he produced a series of photographs that had been taken without the use of lenses.Talbot instructed one of his assistants, to look through a hollow box at a photographic plate and at the same time to think about objects that had a particular significance for him. No doubt he knew his assistant - and intuitively, perhaps understood that things that are near to one's heart are likely to create a more powerful concentration of thought.Henry Talbot had no idea what the negatives of the pictures would reveal when they were developed.Even if he had heard of mental photography,there was no way to ensure that this experiment would actually work.However,like many other inventors and pioneers he,too, out of intellectual curiosity ,permitted himself to try.The result were surprising.The negatives revealed various pictures that matched the imagings of the assistant - without any actual photograph of a partucular object being taken.Talbot's estate still contains some of the pictures that he took using mental photography technique

Ted Serios - 1950's

Another person who was famous for his ability to produce mental photographs is Ted Serios, who became renowned in the US during the 1950's for his ability to project his thoughts in order to photograph any picture that came into his mind - or any picture that his examiners or his audience requested.Serios was subjected to many different tests,and was wildly successful every time One of the most difficult tests he underwent - was conducted under strict laboratory conditions.Mental photography researchers placed 8 photography plates,which they themselves had examined and to which Serios was forbidden to have any access,in an opaque,lead-lined safe.The safe was placed a distance of 1,5km from Serios.They gave Serios 8 pictures of sites in the US and asked him to imprint them on the photographic plates.When the safe was opened the researchers were surprised to discover that 7 of the photographed pictures that Serios had been asked to project onto the photographic plates, were imprinted on the plates in the same order in which he had concentrated on the picutes,with great accuracy. 7 out of 8 - in scientific terms,constituted irrefutable proof.In this case,the researchers knew very well that there was no possibility of fraud.Serios actualy transmitted the exact pictures that lay on the table before him onto the photographic plates in the opaque safe that was located far away from him

But this was not the sum total of Serios' marvelous abilities. In addition to the projection of an accurate picture onto a photographic plate, he could also create a photomontage from several pictures on a single photographic plate.In one of the tests he took,five different items were placed before him at 10min intervals.Serious projected the items one after the other onto the photographic plate, and after it was developed,ti was possible to see each of the 5 items on the single plate

Ikoko Nagao - 1970's

In the 1970's - mental photography became even more famous when a Japanese woman called Ikoko Nagao became famous when a Japanese woman - Ikoko Nagoa, became renowned for her ability to project precise Japanese writing onto a photograhic plate. Ikoko would think of a word or sentence and project it onto a photographic plate that was located far away from her

Soviets Scientists - 1980's

They tried their hand at this technique as well.During the 1980's - Scientists examined over 30 mediums and 'regular' people who excelled at mental photography.The Russian Scientists divided mental photography into 2 groups.The first - was defined as mental photography that involves contact.It transpired that certain people could create mental photographs only when they placed their hands on the photographic plateor made some other kind of physical contact with it.Other succeeded in creating cleared and more precise photographs if they made physical contact the the plate.The second group included people who could create a mental photograph by projecting thought from a distance.Every mental photograph that was produced from a distance of over 3 meters was included in this group

Boston - 1994

One of the most up-to-date studies in the field was conducted in Boston in 1994.This study was of great importance, since it included a group of some 2000 subjects.A research group of this size is one of the guarantees for the accuracy of every scientific experiment.The uniqueness of the study lay in its focus on ostensibly 'regular' people - rather than on mediums or people with extraordinary spiritual powers.All of the subjects were asked to perform a simple exercise.Each one was given a small pendulum, which they had to hold over a film.Pendulum's are also activated by the person holding it's energies,mental energies and thought energies.The movement of the pendulum itself provides a clear example of Psychokinesis, since almost everyone can move it merely with the power of thought along a path decided by him.The subjects were asked to concentrate their thoughts on the pendulum and move it in a circular fashion - either clockwise or anti-clockwise - or in a linear fashion above the film.After developing the negatives, a shining line - that was an exact match of the movement of the pendulum could be seen in 17% of the photographs

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