ABOUT
Biography: Author and researcher Dr. Richard Alan Miller reveals a depth of knowledge and experience in alternative agriculture, physics, and metaphysics. Miller began working in the secret world of Navy Intel (Seal Corp. and then MRU) in the late 60s, and now has amazing experiences and conclusions to share. Before many leading edge concepts became trendy topics, Miller was (and is) in the international front lines of research, experimentation and documentation. Today, Miller writes for Nexus magazine and is a preferred guest on internet radio. In the 21st century Miller is re-emerging at a critical time in humanities evolution where metaphysics and practical survival converge.
About OAK
Founded in Seattle in 1974 by Richard Alan Miller, OAK was relocated to southern Oregon in 1984. Crrently located in Grants Pass, OR OAK’s primary orientation is lecturing, writing, and research. Lecturing includes a number of diversified workshops and national speaking engagements, TV and radio. Writing includes a wide variety of topics, and numerous magazine articles. Recent book titles include. The Potential Of Herbs As a Cash Crop” (Acres), “Native Plants Of Commercial Importance” (OAK), The Magical & Ritual Use Of Perfumes (Destiny), and Successful Farm Ventures (New Farm). to be continued…
http://oak-publishing.com/
About OAK
Founded in Seattle in 1974 by Richard Alan Miller, OAK was relocated to southern Oregon in 1984. Crrently located in Grants Pass, OR OAK’s primary orientation is lecturing, writing, and research. Lecturing includes a number of diversified workshops and national speaking engagements, TV and radio. Writing includes a wide variety of topics, and numerous magazine articles. Recent book titles include. The Potential Of Herbs As a Cash Crop” (Acres), “Native Plants Of Commercial Importance” (OAK), The Magical & Ritual Use Of Perfumes (Destiny), and Successful Farm Ventures (New Farm). to be continued…
http://oak-publishing.com/
Deep Background
For two years Miller was the Northwest Regional Director of Mankind Research Unlimited (MRU),
before it reorganized into MRF, Mankind Research Foundation.
before it reorganized into MRF, Mankind Research Foundation.
I Married the Wizard of Oz
Our Adventures in Parapsychology, Paraphysics, and Metaphysics
by Iona Miller, 2001
Archived: http://www.nwbotanicals.org/oak/newphysics/parapsychology.html
When I first met Richard Alan Miller in 1976, he had wrapped up his part-time activities in Parapsychology, from the end of 1972-1975, and focused on his business Beltane Herbs. We had both come up with a strong background in Theosophy. Not only that, his interests in metaphysics, alchemy and Magick, which paralleled my own, as well as our mutual interests in Jungian and Transpersonal Psychology made us a power couple in some circles. So click the heels of your Ruby Slippers together three times, and come along for the ride.
Rick was notorious in Seattle, known as the "Emerald City" as their local media-savvy magician/witch and operated Beltane Occult Books and Beltane Herb Co. at the time, centers for a variety of what have come to be known as New Age activities and services. But these were no channeling housewives nor slacker hippies, for Rick was trained as a rigorous scientist, having built (with help from Boeing scientists) a cloud chamber, then a linear accelerator for the national science fair in high school, and a plasma jet in college. Clearly he was destined for experimental, rather than theoretical physics. Wherever he went as a "strange attractor," he surrounded himself with an innovative group of individuals with their own ideas and projects.
Miller had worked briefly for duPont and Boeing in infrared countermeasures and in biophysics for a brief time in the mid-70s as an instrumentation specialist at the University of Washington, Department of Anesthesiology, under pain specialists Dr. Ray Fink and Dr. John Bonica. There he participated in the first studies in the U.S. on acupuncture. He learned from eminent scientists such as Dr. Charles Muses (hyperdimensional math) and Dr. Albert Szent-Gyorki (quantum biochemistry). In graduate school, his thesis advisor was Dr. R. B. Murray, winner of the Nobel Prize in solid state physics. He also picked up such enrichment courses as Helmut Schmidt's "Eight Lectures on Yoga on the I Ching."
And he brought that rigor to the then embryonic science of parapsychology where his work was picked up for publication by Dr. Stanley Krippner, now Allan Watts academic Chair at Saybrook Institute, the Transpersonal Psychology graduate school.
Like all science students, Miller had learned, as Kuhn told us, about the structure of scientific revolutions and how science purges itself of outmoded notions roughly every 20 years. He considers science to be the leading religion of the times--the modern day form of magic. He became a player in the latest revolution forecast and outlined by Marilyn Ferguson in 1980 as The Aquarian Conspiracy, and by Fritjof Capra in The Tao of Physics and The Turning Point, and by Ken Wilber in The Holographic Paradigm.
The wise and wonderful Oz says, "Pay no attention; don't look at the man behind the curtain..." But since I was no naive Dorothy, but more like Glinda, the good witch of the South, I had a front-row, center seat for the festivities. Unlike Dorothy, there was no "falling asleep" in these excursions through a variety of multidisciplinary consciousness-altering "fields."
KIRLIAN PHOTOGRAPHY - Bioplasma or Corona Discharge?
As a physicist, biophysicist and instrumentation specialist, his first foray into Parapsychology, or more accurately Paraphysics, came in Nov-Dec of 1972. He conducted experiments in Kirlian Photography with Karl Elmendorff at the University of Washington. He was aided in this effort by Dr. John Bonica and Dr. Neidemeyer, who had worked on the Manhattan Project.
Miller wrote a field theory for Kirlian photography, duplicating Adamnko's. These experiments showed the effect to be a secondary emission of electrons ionizing local gases, rather than a bioluminescent phenomenon of extrasensory or spiritual importance. People were pre-disposed to see physical demonstrations of so-called auras, and so they attributed the phenomenon to this traditional analog, because it served their belief system. This effect also can occur among researchers where it is known as "experimenter-bias".
However, even when Miller's finding was published as "The Physical Mechanisms in Kirlian Photography" in 1975 in The Energies of Consciousness, edited by Stanley Krippner and David Rubin for Gordon & Breach, the superstitious interpretations continued, and continue to this day. Other contributors to this Krippner book included Edgar Mitchell, Victor Adamenko, William A. Tiller, John Pierrakos, Theodore Barber, David Bresler, and James Hurtak.
This work was also published as part of Kirlian Electrophotography, a data package prepared by Mankind Research Unlimited, Inc. headquartered on Wisconsin Avenue in Washington D.C. Miller's contribution was the Kirlian Device Circuit Diagram based on one retrieved from the Soviet Union by Dr. Krippner.
SEAL CORPORATION
In the spring of 1973, Rick met Burt Webb through the Experimental College at the University of Washington. The Experimental College was the graduate project (MBA thesisi) of another friend, Michael Wells Mandeville, and became the model nationally for community-based continuing education. Michael is now pursuing his predictions of earth changes based on Edgar Cayce's prophecies, and often appears on talk radio and the History Channel.
Burt was a technology forecaster in the local chapter of the World Future Society. He had coordinated the computer exhibits at the Global Villiage conference at Evergreen State College, sponsored by the Governor's office. Burt shared Rick's interest in exploring the interface between science and the paranormal and he produced many original ideas.
By September, 1973 Miller found funding under the sponsorship of Seal Corporation, a thinly disguised front for Naval Intelligence, doing business in Massachusetts. Rick's handler was Ted Krueger. Experiments conducted here were primarily in ESP monitoring and induction through Hypnosis.
Rick subcontracted Burt for a research project requested by Krueger. Burt's job was to develop a series of products which could exploits the public's interest in the paranormal. He reported back with 6 possible product designs.
The techniques for Inducing ESP through Forms of Self-Hypnosis came from collaboration with Yugoslavian hypnotist Milan Ryzl, who was a guest for several weeks. Employing Ryzl's techniques with his own synthesis, Miller was able to win the First Psychic Tournament, sponsored by Llewellyn Publications at Gnosticon Conference in Sept. 1975 . He competed with around 40 other self-styled psychics, such as Noel Tyl, Jean Dixon, Sybil Leek, James Hurtak, Isaac Bonewits.
Another development of this work is the ESP Questionaire, which Miller gave to around 1000 students at both the Gnosticon Festivals and his Experimental College class, where he taught the induction of ESP with self-hypnosis.
Another concurrent project at this time was Project Parafile, a computer-based bibliography of parapsychology and occult references to psi phenomena -- a database that rapidly fell into obsolescence. This project was done in the days of card files, and the work was extensive. A full 10% of the literature search entries related to ESP, even though the field was still in its infancy.
Burt led a group of volunteers who carefully keypunched thousands of citations onto punch cards. Ken Hockett and another Boeing employee used Boeing computers to create a database from the punch cards. Naturally, now that sounds laughably obsolete.
The Seal Reports were Miller's first paranormal works for the government, but at the time he was unaware of potential applications. Having shifted his worldview from that of a buttoned-down scientist to that of an open-minded psychonaut and consciousness explorer, he often found his experiments demonstrated the hypothesized psychophysical phenomena. He embodied the paradox of being an underground regional "edge-celeb," yet at the same time being sponsored by a government often hostile to his worldview and orientation. In other words, he cleverly got the government to sponsor his parapsychology hobby! Or so he thought, little realizing how that information might be employed in twisted mind-control experiments, or how his own notoriety with the government could affect his further work.
THE HOLOGRAPHIC CONCEPT OF REALITY
In 1973, what has come to be known as the Pribram-Bohm Holographic Model was non-existent. But this Seattle think-tank, lead by Miller and Burt Webb were able to put together the work of Northrup and Burr on the electromagnetic nature of the human being with Gabor's work on holograms and come up with a new notion. Pribram had postulated 2-dimensional interference patterns, physical holograms, as underlying all thinking. The holographic component, for him, represented the associative mechanisms and contributed to memory retrieval and storage and problem-solving.
However, Miller, Webb and Dickson boldly asserted that the holographic metaphor extends to n-dimensions and therefore constitutes a fundamental description of the universe and our electromagnetic embedding within that greater field. Thus was born the "Holographic Concept of Reality" in 1973. This paper was presented at the 1st Psychotronic Conference in Prague in 1973, and later published by Gordon & Breach in 1975, and again in 1979 in Psychoenergetic Systems: the Interaction of Consciousness, Energy and Matter, edited by Stanley Krippner.
Other notable contributors to this volume included Michael A. Persinger, (now famous for his neuromagnetgic simulations of alien abduction often demonstrated on TLC and the Discovery Channel), John Curtis Gowan (taxonomies of states of consciousness from Trance, Art and Creativity; Development of the Psychedelic Individual), Robert O. Becker (effects of electromagnetism on physical systems), Theodor Barber, David Bresler, S. D. Kirlian, and Thelma Moss.
Picking up on the work of Pribram independently, David Bohm published his explication of the holomovement in his classic text Wholeness and the Implicate Order (1980) and the Pribram-Bohm theory was born and embraced widely as a foundation of the new sciences from physics to neuropsychology. This theory was fundamental to a deep understanding of the later emerging Chaos theory and Complexity, the dynamics of complex interrelated systems.
Rick took a primitive remote terminal to the Omniversal Symposium. He linked up to the Project Parafile database in Seattle, took questions from the audience and read off the answers returned by the database. This was the primitive forerunner of what have become laptop computers, but this terminal was briefcase-sized.
Miller and Webb followed up their ground-breaking paper with "Embryonic Holography," which was also presented at the Omniversal Symposium at California State College at Sonoma, hosted by Dr. Stanley Krippner, September 29, 1973. To our knowledge, this is the first paper to address the quantum biological properties of human beings--the first illustrations of the sources of quantum mindbody.
Dropping a level of observation below quantum biochemistry and conventional biophysics, they proposed that a wave-based biohologram determines the development of the human embryo; that we are a quantum bodymind with consciousness informing the whole process through the level of information. They postulated DNA as the possible holographic projector of the biohologram, patterning the three-dimensional electromagnetic standing and moving wave front that constitutes our psychophysical being.
This work was reprinted much later in the journal Psychedelic Monographs and Essays, Vol. 6, 1993. The theory implied physical regeneration of tissue, or the liquid crystal properties of body fluids. He also became aware of Allan Frey's work in the .3-3 gHz regions, which is a microwave input which allows the brain to directly receive voice transmissions. This discovery has recently resurfaced as synthetic telepathy.
MANKIND RESEARCH UNLIMITED: NW REGIONAL DIRECTOR (1973-1974)
By this time, Miller was the Northwest Regional Director of Mankind Research Unlimited (MRU), the Washington D.C. based paranormal phenomena investigation team. He worked briefly under the direction of Dr. Carl Schleicher. A large portion of the work of Dr. Hiroshi Motoyama was turned over to Miller, including original strip-charts, to duplicate his experiments in psychokinesis, one person's mind influencing the body of another, in the same and in remote locations. No duplications of this research were done.
Rick as well as many doctors at the University of Washington were wondering what was happening with "psychic surgery." Rick brought the problem to Dr. Motay, Dean of Pathology at the UW. This incident was recounted in The National Observer, March 30, 1974:
"Richard Miller, director of Mankind Research Unlimited's Northwest Regional Office here says that a study by the University of Washington's Dept. of Pathology showed that one man, Warder Bacon, probably had his body entered by the psychic surgeons. 'An X-ray before he left for the Philippines shows that he had a great amount of cancerous tissue in his liver,' says Miller. 'He died about two months ago, and the liver showed no traces of cancerous tissues upon autopsy.' He says that not enough is known about the healers to make a positive or negative statement. It certainly warrants a definitive study, says Miller."
To this end, Miller and the doctors conducted experiments with Filippino psychic "surgeon" Tony Agpaoa. Perhaps the results are best described in his own words, at this time those of a "true believer," although subsequent research has disclosed the sleight-of-hand tricks of psychic surgery, as shown by debunkers on the Discovery Channel. The former article continued:
"Psychic surgery is an emotional issue. There have been no authoritative studies of it. AMA statistics show, says Miller, that persons who have terminal cancer have a one-in-five recovery rate, even after the bad news is pronounced. The key will be to determine what percentage of persons who have been treated in the Philippines recover, says Miller, who adds that he is working to have a follow-up study started." That never happened.
In 1975, Schleicher appointed D. Serge King as agent for Mankind Research of California and the West Coast.
ORGANIZATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE
In 1974, Miller incorporated O.A.K. as the Organization for the Advancement of Knowledge, also known to its inner group as the esoteric Order of Ascending Kundalini. OAK sponsored several projects of its own, and under its auspices director Miller taught Shamanism at Evergreen State College and Parapsychology at Edmonds Community College between 1974 and 1976. He also taught at the Experimental College at the University of Washington (community college), several classes on parapsychology and the occult, publishing a regular column in The Daily.
Meanwhile, fellow OAK member Burt Webb inspired his Evergreen colleagues to create a science fiction short-subject of a religion based on biofeedback, called EAT THE SUN. Burt plays the High Priest. The documentary-style film became a cult classic in the underground, revealing the evils of cult indoctrination long before many of the now-famous incidents. The film describes the Tapazia Ritual, an electronic trial by fire, wherein one's psyche and physiology are put into total synch through a videofeedback process conducted by the Church of Self Amplification, led by Guru Telemahandi. But in the movie, something goes wrong inside the film's creator, Jim Cox, and they "fry his brain." The guru's philosophy was summed up in a few choice aphorisms, such as "Eat the Sun, and then you will be your own father," and "The ecology of the soul is to recycle one's consciousness," and the parting-shot, "If they're old enough to pee, they're old enough for me!" A curious phenomenon about this movie is that, even when told it is a spoof, most people come out believing this actually happened!
Experiments conducted under the Organization included those in biofeedback, in conjunction with Burt Webb and manufacturer J. & J. Enterprises, Inc. A group of 60 students at the University of Washington were monitored while engaging in Autonomic Training of various physical parameters, and they were trained in the induction of alpha brainwaves through hypnosis.
Around the same time, Miller attended the Claremont Conference with Walter Houston Clark, where he presented papers on Time Distortion and Electrophoresis.
In 1975, Miller participated and Webb directed Paracon I. The symposium at Seattle Center was attended by some 3000 people during the annual Bumpershoot Festival in Seattle. It was a day long conference on parapsychology. There were 5 different tracks covering body, mind, spirit, nature and science. Burt gave the keynote address in the evening which brought all the subjects together.
In 1976, inspired by the synergy of Rick and Iona's magickal pursuits, OAK sponsored the esoteric Tiphareth Experiments, with participation by invitation only. These experiments became the basis of a later mystical compendium, The Holistic Qabala, (1981). These disciplines were drawn from traditional and eclectic sources and this Retirement Ritual was designed for the qabalistic invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel, or one's Higher Self, facilitating creativity and the embodiment of self-actualization or self-realization. Duplicating Iona's regime, regular practices included the Banishing Ritual, Middle Pillar Exercise, HGA Invocations, Tantric Lunar Resonance Meditation, (later published in Psychedelic Monographs & Essays) and Qabalistic Pathworking techniques for altering consciousness and stabilizing or integrating changes into a steady state.
Beginning in the late 70's, Rick and Iona collaborated on The Magickal and Ritual Use of Herbs (OAK, 1978; Destiny, 1983), The Magickal and Ritual Use of Aphrodisiacs (Destiny, 1985), The Magickal and Ritual Use of Perfumes (Destiny, 1990), and The Modern Alchemist (Phanes, 1994), with artist Joel Radcliffe.
OAK eventually became largely the publishing wing of Miller's endeavors and those of his wife, Iona. In 1981, still pursuing the elusive psychotronic goals of Eat the Sun, they published The Diamond Body: A Solid State Mandala, which long preceded Ascension philosophy. This modern alchemical view of the philosopher's stone linked the Synergetic geometries of Buckminster Fuller with those of Qabalah's famous glyph of the Tree of Life, and forecast the fad for Merkabah Mysticism. A synopsis of this work is presented in Iona Miller's article "Buckminster Fuller and the Qabala." http://zero-point.tripod.com/diamondbody/dbodytoc.html
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Miller and Miller further pursued this interdisciplinary thread in the Diamond Body Trilogy, which includes Electro-Magick: Self-Realization through Yogatronics, Video-Graphics and Light-Loops, an advanced biofeedback technique implementing a mind/computer interface. The final volume, Yogatronics: Experiments in Perceptual Synergetics foresaw this application of synesthesia and Virtual Reality for inducing discrete states of consciousness. This led to Iona Miller's collaboration with Burt Webb on two papers in 1992, on "Virtual Magick" and "Virtual Therapy".
From 1992 to 1998, Richard was the first instructor in Metaphysics on AOL's IES. During this period he assembled an extensive, searchable Metaphysical Library of available works for FTP download from the Internet.
Rick and Iona had never written screenplays before, but Burt Webb had experience in screenwriting and in designing technological-looking sets for Star Trek movies. So when our literary agent requested we try a script, we were all game. PSI-OPS (4-92) was a proposal and script treatment written at the request of our agent Bernard Shir-Cliff for his friends at FOX who wanted to produce a TV show around the Unknown. Rick, Iona, and Burt came up with a Mission Impossible-type team of researchers whose adventures would take them through the gamut of the paranormal. Our proposal came in second to a little show called The X-Files, but we've noticed it was followed shortly by Psi-Factor which certainly shares a lot in common with our original proposal. http://ionamiller.weebly.com/psiops-team.html
In 1992, OAK published Iona's "Anatomy of the Star Goddess: Quantum Cosmology, Virtual States, Energy Science, and Scalar Fields". Also in 1992 came Dreamhealing: Chaos and the Creative Consciousness Process with shaman/therapist Graywolf Swinney. In 1996, she published "Lost In Translation: the UFO Phenomenon as an Informational Virus", a prescient description of the phenomenology of what are now known as memes. In 1999, she co-authored SYNDEX I & II: A Synergetic Perspective on Number Dynamics with Bob Marshall, graphically demonstrating a solution to the prime number enigma and the 9/11 basewave in the number continuum.
In 1999, Iona's alchemical article on drug-free experiential journeys "Chaos as the Universal Solvent" was published in Tom Lyttle's Psychedelics ReImagined (Autonomedia), which features a foreword by Tim Leary. During this period she also published the Asklepia Foundation journals, Chaosophy '93: A Journal of Chaos, Consciousness, and Philosophy; Chaosophy 2000: CRP Monographs; and Chaosophy 2001: Neuropsychology and Quantum Metaphysics.
Ms. Miller continues working with MRU personnel in the frontier science arena, publishing regularly in journals and other media outlets: http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/articles.html
Our Adventures in Parapsychology, Paraphysics, and Metaphysics
by Iona Miller, 2001
Archived: http://www.nwbotanicals.org/oak/newphysics/parapsychology.html
When I first met Richard Alan Miller in 1976, he had wrapped up his part-time activities in Parapsychology, from the end of 1972-1975, and focused on his business Beltane Herbs. We had both come up with a strong background in Theosophy. Not only that, his interests in metaphysics, alchemy and Magick, which paralleled my own, as well as our mutual interests in Jungian and Transpersonal Psychology made us a power couple in some circles. So click the heels of your Ruby Slippers together three times, and come along for the ride.
Rick was notorious in Seattle, known as the "Emerald City" as their local media-savvy magician/witch and operated Beltane Occult Books and Beltane Herb Co. at the time, centers for a variety of what have come to be known as New Age activities and services. But these were no channeling housewives nor slacker hippies, for Rick was trained as a rigorous scientist, having built (with help from Boeing scientists) a cloud chamber, then a linear accelerator for the national science fair in high school, and a plasma jet in college. Clearly he was destined for experimental, rather than theoretical physics. Wherever he went as a "strange attractor," he surrounded himself with an innovative group of individuals with their own ideas and projects.
Miller had worked briefly for duPont and Boeing in infrared countermeasures and in biophysics for a brief time in the mid-70s as an instrumentation specialist at the University of Washington, Department of Anesthesiology, under pain specialists Dr. Ray Fink and Dr. John Bonica. There he participated in the first studies in the U.S. on acupuncture. He learned from eminent scientists such as Dr. Charles Muses (hyperdimensional math) and Dr. Albert Szent-Gyorki (quantum biochemistry). In graduate school, his thesis advisor was Dr. R. B. Murray, winner of the Nobel Prize in solid state physics. He also picked up such enrichment courses as Helmut Schmidt's "Eight Lectures on Yoga on the I Ching."
And he brought that rigor to the then embryonic science of parapsychology where his work was picked up for publication by Dr. Stanley Krippner, now Allan Watts academic Chair at Saybrook Institute, the Transpersonal Psychology graduate school.
Like all science students, Miller had learned, as Kuhn told us, about the structure of scientific revolutions and how science purges itself of outmoded notions roughly every 20 years. He considers science to be the leading religion of the times--the modern day form of magic. He became a player in the latest revolution forecast and outlined by Marilyn Ferguson in 1980 as The Aquarian Conspiracy, and by Fritjof Capra in The Tao of Physics and The Turning Point, and by Ken Wilber in The Holographic Paradigm.
The wise and wonderful Oz says, "Pay no attention; don't look at the man behind the curtain..." But since I was no naive Dorothy, but more like Glinda, the good witch of the South, I had a front-row, center seat for the festivities. Unlike Dorothy, there was no "falling asleep" in these excursions through a variety of multidisciplinary consciousness-altering "fields."
KIRLIAN PHOTOGRAPHY - Bioplasma or Corona Discharge?
As a physicist, biophysicist and instrumentation specialist, his first foray into Parapsychology, or more accurately Paraphysics, came in Nov-Dec of 1972. He conducted experiments in Kirlian Photography with Karl Elmendorff at the University of Washington. He was aided in this effort by Dr. John Bonica and Dr. Neidemeyer, who had worked on the Manhattan Project.
Miller wrote a field theory for Kirlian photography, duplicating Adamnko's. These experiments showed the effect to be a secondary emission of electrons ionizing local gases, rather than a bioluminescent phenomenon of extrasensory or spiritual importance. People were pre-disposed to see physical demonstrations of so-called auras, and so they attributed the phenomenon to this traditional analog, because it served their belief system. This effect also can occur among researchers where it is known as "experimenter-bias".
However, even when Miller's finding was published as "The Physical Mechanisms in Kirlian Photography" in 1975 in The Energies of Consciousness, edited by Stanley Krippner and David Rubin for Gordon & Breach, the superstitious interpretations continued, and continue to this day. Other contributors to this Krippner book included Edgar Mitchell, Victor Adamenko, William A. Tiller, John Pierrakos, Theodore Barber, David Bresler, and James Hurtak.
This work was also published as part of Kirlian Electrophotography, a data package prepared by Mankind Research Unlimited, Inc. headquartered on Wisconsin Avenue in Washington D.C. Miller's contribution was the Kirlian Device Circuit Diagram based on one retrieved from the Soviet Union by Dr. Krippner.
SEAL CORPORATION
In the spring of 1973, Rick met Burt Webb through the Experimental College at the University of Washington. The Experimental College was the graduate project (MBA thesisi) of another friend, Michael Wells Mandeville, and became the model nationally for community-based continuing education. Michael is now pursuing his predictions of earth changes based on Edgar Cayce's prophecies, and often appears on talk radio and the History Channel.
Burt was a technology forecaster in the local chapter of the World Future Society. He had coordinated the computer exhibits at the Global Villiage conference at Evergreen State College, sponsored by the Governor's office. Burt shared Rick's interest in exploring the interface between science and the paranormal and he produced many original ideas.
By September, 1973 Miller found funding under the sponsorship of Seal Corporation, a thinly disguised front for Naval Intelligence, doing business in Massachusetts. Rick's handler was Ted Krueger. Experiments conducted here were primarily in ESP monitoring and induction through Hypnosis.
Rick subcontracted Burt for a research project requested by Krueger. Burt's job was to develop a series of products which could exploits the public's interest in the paranormal. He reported back with 6 possible product designs.
The techniques for Inducing ESP through Forms of Self-Hypnosis came from collaboration with Yugoslavian hypnotist Milan Ryzl, who was a guest for several weeks. Employing Ryzl's techniques with his own synthesis, Miller was able to win the First Psychic Tournament, sponsored by Llewellyn Publications at Gnosticon Conference in Sept. 1975 . He competed with around 40 other self-styled psychics, such as Noel Tyl, Jean Dixon, Sybil Leek, James Hurtak, Isaac Bonewits.
Another development of this work is the ESP Questionaire, which Miller gave to around 1000 students at both the Gnosticon Festivals and his Experimental College class, where he taught the induction of ESP with self-hypnosis.
Another concurrent project at this time was Project Parafile, a computer-based bibliography of parapsychology and occult references to psi phenomena -- a database that rapidly fell into obsolescence. This project was done in the days of card files, and the work was extensive. A full 10% of the literature search entries related to ESP, even though the field was still in its infancy.
Burt led a group of volunteers who carefully keypunched thousands of citations onto punch cards. Ken Hockett and another Boeing employee used Boeing computers to create a database from the punch cards. Naturally, now that sounds laughably obsolete.
The Seal Reports were Miller's first paranormal works for the government, but at the time he was unaware of potential applications. Having shifted his worldview from that of a buttoned-down scientist to that of an open-minded psychonaut and consciousness explorer, he often found his experiments demonstrated the hypothesized psychophysical phenomena. He embodied the paradox of being an underground regional "edge-celeb," yet at the same time being sponsored by a government often hostile to his worldview and orientation. In other words, he cleverly got the government to sponsor his parapsychology hobby! Or so he thought, little realizing how that information might be employed in twisted mind-control experiments, or how his own notoriety with the government could affect his further work.
THE HOLOGRAPHIC CONCEPT OF REALITY
In 1973, what has come to be known as the Pribram-Bohm Holographic Model was non-existent. But this Seattle think-tank, lead by Miller and Burt Webb were able to put together the work of Northrup and Burr on the electromagnetic nature of the human being with Gabor's work on holograms and come up with a new notion. Pribram had postulated 2-dimensional interference patterns, physical holograms, as underlying all thinking. The holographic component, for him, represented the associative mechanisms and contributed to memory retrieval and storage and problem-solving.
However, Miller, Webb and Dickson boldly asserted that the holographic metaphor extends to n-dimensions and therefore constitutes a fundamental description of the universe and our electromagnetic embedding within that greater field. Thus was born the "Holographic Concept of Reality" in 1973. This paper was presented at the 1st Psychotronic Conference in Prague in 1973, and later published by Gordon & Breach in 1975, and again in 1979 in Psychoenergetic Systems: the Interaction of Consciousness, Energy and Matter, edited by Stanley Krippner.
Other notable contributors to this volume included Michael A. Persinger, (now famous for his neuromagnetgic simulations of alien abduction often demonstrated on TLC and the Discovery Channel), John Curtis Gowan (taxonomies of states of consciousness from Trance, Art and Creativity; Development of the Psychedelic Individual), Robert O. Becker (effects of electromagnetism on physical systems), Theodor Barber, David Bresler, S. D. Kirlian, and Thelma Moss.
Picking up on the work of Pribram independently, David Bohm published his explication of the holomovement in his classic text Wholeness and the Implicate Order (1980) and the Pribram-Bohm theory was born and embraced widely as a foundation of the new sciences from physics to neuropsychology. This theory was fundamental to a deep understanding of the later emerging Chaos theory and Complexity, the dynamics of complex interrelated systems.
Rick took a primitive remote terminal to the Omniversal Symposium. He linked up to the Project Parafile database in Seattle, took questions from the audience and read off the answers returned by the database. This was the primitive forerunner of what have become laptop computers, but this terminal was briefcase-sized.
Miller and Webb followed up their ground-breaking paper with "Embryonic Holography," which was also presented at the Omniversal Symposium at California State College at Sonoma, hosted by Dr. Stanley Krippner, September 29, 1973. To our knowledge, this is the first paper to address the quantum biological properties of human beings--the first illustrations of the sources of quantum mindbody.
Dropping a level of observation below quantum biochemistry and conventional biophysics, they proposed that a wave-based biohologram determines the development of the human embryo; that we are a quantum bodymind with consciousness informing the whole process through the level of information. They postulated DNA as the possible holographic projector of the biohologram, patterning the three-dimensional electromagnetic standing and moving wave front that constitutes our psychophysical being.
This work was reprinted much later in the journal Psychedelic Monographs and Essays, Vol. 6, 1993. The theory implied physical regeneration of tissue, or the liquid crystal properties of body fluids. He also became aware of Allan Frey's work in the .3-3 gHz regions, which is a microwave input which allows the brain to directly receive voice transmissions. This discovery has recently resurfaced as synthetic telepathy.
MANKIND RESEARCH UNLIMITED: NW REGIONAL DIRECTOR (1973-1974)
By this time, Miller was the Northwest Regional Director of Mankind Research Unlimited (MRU), the Washington D.C. based paranormal phenomena investigation team. He worked briefly under the direction of Dr. Carl Schleicher. A large portion of the work of Dr. Hiroshi Motoyama was turned over to Miller, including original strip-charts, to duplicate his experiments in psychokinesis, one person's mind influencing the body of another, in the same and in remote locations. No duplications of this research were done.
Rick as well as many doctors at the University of Washington were wondering what was happening with "psychic surgery." Rick brought the problem to Dr. Motay, Dean of Pathology at the UW. This incident was recounted in The National Observer, March 30, 1974:
"Richard Miller, director of Mankind Research Unlimited's Northwest Regional Office here says that a study by the University of Washington's Dept. of Pathology showed that one man, Warder Bacon, probably had his body entered by the psychic surgeons. 'An X-ray before he left for the Philippines shows that he had a great amount of cancerous tissue in his liver,' says Miller. 'He died about two months ago, and the liver showed no traces of cancerous tissues upon autopsy.' He says that not enough is known about the healers to make a positive or negative statement. It certainly warrants a definitive study, says Miller."
To this end, Miller and the doctors conducted experiments with Filippino psychic "surgeon" Tony Agpaoa. Perhaps the results are best described in his own words, at this time those of a "true believer," although subsequent research has disclosed the sleight-of-hand tricks of psychic surgery, as shown by debunkers on the Discovery Channel. The former article continued:
"Psychic surgery is an emotional issue. There have been no authoritative studies of it. AMA statistics show, says Miller, that persons who have terminal cancer have a one-in-five recovery rate, even after the bad news is pronounced. The key will be to determine what percentage of persons who have been treated in the Philippines recover, says Miller, who adds that he is working to have a follow-up study started." That never happened.
In 1975, Schleicher appointed D. Serge King as agent for Mankind Research of California and the West Coast.
ORGANIZATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE
In 1974, Miller incorporated O.A.K. as the Organization for the Advancement of Knowledge, also known to its inner group as the esoteric Order of Ascending Kundalini. OAK sponsored several projects of its own, and under its auspices director Miller taught Shamanism at Evergreen State College and Parapsychology at Edmonds Community College between 1974 and 1976. He also taught at the Experimental College at the University of Washington (community college), several classes on parapsychology and the occult, publishing a regular column in The Daily.
Meanwhile, fellow OAK member Burt Webb inspired his Evergreen colleagues to create a science fiction short-subject of a religion based on biofeedback, called EAT THE SUN. Burt plays the High Priest. The documentary-style film became a cult classic in the underground, revealing the evils of cult indoctrination long before many of the now-famous incidents. The film describes the Tapazia Ritual, an electronic trial by fire, wherein one's psyche and physiology are put into total synch through a videofeedback process conducted by the Church of Self Amplification, led by Guru Telemahandi. But in the movie, something goes wrong inside the film's creator, Jim Cox, and they "fry his brain." The guru's philosophy was summed up in a few choice aphorisms, such as "Eat the Sun, and then you will be your own father," and "The ecology of the soul is to recycle one's consciousness," and the parting-shot, "If they're old enough to pee, they're old enough for me!" A curious phenomenon about this movie is that, even when told it is a spoof, most people come out believing this actually happened!
Experiments conducted under the Organization included those in biofeedback, in conjunction with Burt Webb and manufacturer J. & J. Enterprises, Inc. A group of 60 students at the University of Washington were monitored while engaging in Autonomic Training of various physical parameters, and they were trained in the induction of alpha brainwaves through hypnosis.
Around the same time, Miller attended the Claremont Conference with Walter Houston Clark, where he presented papers on Time Distortion and Electrophoresis.
In 1975, Miller participated and Webb directed Paracon I. The symposium at Seattle Center was attended by some 3000 people during the annual Bumpershoot Festival in Seattle. It was a day long conference on parapsychology. There were 5 different tracks covering body, mind, spirit, nature and science. Burt gave the keynote address in the evening which brought all the subjects together.
In 1976, inspired by the synergy of Rick and Iona's magickal pursuits, OAK sponsored the esoteric Tiphareth Experiments, with participation by invitation only. These experiments became the basis of a later mystical compendium, The Holistic Qabala, (1981). These disciplines were drawn from traditional and eclectic sources and this Retirement Ritual was designed for the qabalistic invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel, or one's Higher Self, facilitating creativity and the embodiment of self-actualization or self-realization. Duplicating Iona's regime, regular practices included the Banishing Ritual, Middle Pillar Exercise, HGA Invocations, Tantric Lunar Resonance Meditation, (later published in Psychedelic Monographs & Essays) and Qabalistic Pathworking techniques for altering consciousness and stabilizing or integrating changes into a steady state.
Beginning in the late 70's, Rick and Iona collaborated on The Magickal and Ritual Use of Herbs (OAK, 1978; Destiny, 1983), The Magickal and Ritual Use of Aphrodisiacs (Destiny, 1985), The Magickal and Ritual Use of Perfumes (Destiny, 1990), and The Modern Alchemist (Phanes, 1994), with artist Joel Radcliffe.
OAK eventually became largely the publishing wing of Miller's endeavors and those of his wife, Iona. In 1981, still pursuing the elusive psychotronic goals of Eat the Sun, they published The Diamond Body: A Solid State Mandala, which long preceded Ascension philosophy. This modern alchemical view of the philosopher's stone linked the Synergetic geometries of Buckminster Fuller with those of Qabalah's famous glyph of the Tree of Life, and forecast the fad for Merkabah Mysticism. A synopsis of this work is presented in Iona Miller's article "Buckminster Fuller and the Qabala." http://zero-point.tripod.com/diamondbody/dbodytoc.html
http://www.members.tripod.com/sourceress/index.html
Miller and Miller further pursued this interdisciplinary thread in the Diamond Body Trilogy, which includes Electro-Magick: Self-Realization through Yogatronics, Video-Graphics and Light-Loops, an advanced biofeedback technique implementing a mind/computer interface. The final volume, Yogatronics: Experiments in Perceptual Synergetics foresaw this application of synesthesia and Virtual Reality for inducing discrete states of consciousness. This led to Iona Miller's collaboration with Burt Webb on two papers in 1992, on "Virtual Magick" and "Virtual Therapy".
From 1992 to 1998, Richard was the first instructor in Metaphysics on AOL's IES. During this period he assembled an extensive, searchable Metaphysical Library of available works for FTP download from the Internet.
Rick and Iona had never written screenplays before, but Burt Webb had experience in screenwriting and in designing technological-looking sets for Star Trek movies. So when our literary agent requested we try a script, we were all game. PSI-OPS (4-92) was a proposal and script treatment written at the request of our agent Bernard Shir-Cliff for his friends at FOX who wanted to produce a TV show around the Unknown. Rick, Iona, and Burt came up with a Mission Impossible-type team of researchers whose adventures would take them through the gamut of the paranormal. Our proposal came in second to a little show called The X-Files, but we've noticed it was followed shortly by Psi-Factor which certainly shares a lot in common with our original proposal. http://ionamiller.weebly.com/psiops-team.html
In 1992, OAK published Iona's "Anatomy of the Star Goddess: Quantum Cosmology, Virtual States, Energy Science, and Scalar Fields". Also in 1992 came Dreamhealing: Chaos and the Creative Consciousness Process with shaman/therapist Graywolf Swinney. In 1996, she published "Lost In Translation: the UFO Phenomenon as an Informational Virus", a prescient description of the phenomenology of what are now known as memes. In 1999, she co-authored SYNDEX I & II: A Synergetic Perspective on Number Dynamics with Bob Marshall, graphically demonstrating a solution to the prime number enigma and the 9/11 basewave in the number continuum.
In 1999, Iona's alchemical article on drug-free experiential journeys "Chaos as the Universal Solvent" was published in Tom Lyttle's Psychedelics ReImagined (Autonomedia), which features a foreword by Tim Leary. During this period she also published the Asklepia Foundation journals, Chaosophy '93: A Journal of Chaos, Consciousness, and Philosophy; Chaosophy 2000: CRP Monographs; and Chaosophy 2001: Neuropsychology and Quantum Metaphysics.
Ms. Miller continues working with MRU personnel in the frontier science arena, publishing regularly in journals and other media outlets: http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/articles.html
Mentor, Dr. Stanley Krippner
Kirlian circuit diagram brought back from Russia by Dr. Stanley Krippner
"New technology in the area of Kirlian photography could help us not only in psi research but in other disciplines.
Research on Kirlian photography is an area of psi that interests the United States government, and recently they have given several research grants to Mankind Research Unlimited Inc., of Washington, D.C., for work on the Kirlian effect. MRU, originally a subsidiary of a large engineering consulting firm, and now an independent company, considers the contracts ". . . 'firsts' for government supported 'human engineering' research grants." Former Naval officer Carl Schleicher, who is president and research and development director of MRU, told us, "We have found that the government can and will support research in these areas [psi], if such research is properly communicated to them, provides a beneficial use of tax payers' funds and is conducted by responsible organizations."
One of Carl's secrets of communicating with the government in order to obtain psi grants has been translation of occult and parapsychological terms into "respectable" technical jargon. Referring to a grant project involving the study of chakras (body energy centers, according to yoga), Carl told the Washington Post Potomac Magazine (July 22, 1973), ". . . I can communicate this information to a government agency that doesn't know what the hell a chakra is . . . I just call them 'unique psychophysiological tools and techniques,' and they say, 'Fine, thanks very much.' " By the same token, Kirlian photography, for purposes of government grants, was described as "chemiluminescent and electrophotographic (Tesla effect) techniques," and "certain . . . psychosomatic evaluatory areas."
With Kirlian photography, as with everything else for which he has sought funding, Carl looks for pragmatic applications-- techniques that can be applied to a problem, something to diagnose sickness, something that might even spot hijackers.
Many people seem surprised at the idea that anything springing from the occult could prove practical and useful; yet basically, if there had not been certain practical benefits from the occult sciences, they would not have survived to modern times.
Says Professor Douglas Dean, former president of the Parapsychological Association, "We have far to go to bridge the
gap between certain areas of Soviet research and our own . . . particularly, Kirlian photography. But certainly we have much to gain by pursuing such research. The great unknown potential of Kirlian photography may open up areas yet undreamed of, which can be of great benefit to the whole of mankind."
http://www.totse.com/en/fringe/fringe_science/kirilia.html
Dr. Stanley Krippner was one of the first to secure a Kirlian circuit diagram:
"A First-Hand Look at Psychotronic Generators" by Stanley F. Krippner
In 1973, during the First International Conference on Psychotronic Research, I met Robert Pavlita a most enigmatic man. This controversial Czech inventor is the designer of the so-called "psychotronic generator," a device for storing and applying "biological energy."
I don't speak Czech, but with the help of a translator we had a long conversation, after which he demonstrated one of his generators to the people at the conference. His daughter participated by touching her hand to her head in a rhythmic way and then touching her hand to the generator. Within a few minutes the generator started to move. This is very difficult to explain in any conventional way, and I know one physicist who couldn't sleep all night trying to figure out how this happened.
During a more recent visit to Czechoslovakia (January 1974). I was privileged to see ten different demonstrations of psychotronic generators. Dr. Zdenk Rejdak and his staff drove me and my associate, Mark Rejdak, to Lazne Belohrad, a town famous for its spa. As we entered the building in which Mr. and Mrs. Pavlita, their daughter, and their son-in-law have their apartment, we noted a large sign. We asked for a translation and discovered that it read:
'This house was built, with the help of the Lord, for myself, for my relatives, for beauty, and for the needs of the city. -Franz Chernoch, 1899'
We were given a hospitable greeting by Pavlita and his family. Within a short time he produced several of his devices and told us something of their history. Pavlita had been building psychotronic generators for more than thirty-five years. How did he become interested in generators? He studied alchemy books. (Czechoslovakia has always been a center for the study of alchemy. There is a whole street in Prague where alchemists used to live.)
The shape of the items that the alchemists used was very intriguing to Pavlita. What he did was to put together various materials of different shape by trial and error. From this he found that there were three components of the psychotronic generators similar to those that the alchemists used. One is the shape of the device. Another is the material from which it is made. The third and most important is the biological rhythm - the means for getting the biological energy from the living organisms into the device. He says that there are at least sixty-eight centers of biological energy in the human body, and he has invented a generator for each one. Each of these generators is fueled in a different way, and each of them performs a different task.
Pavlita stated that eventually he discovered that the body's biological energy field acts electromagnetically in some experiments, electrostatically in some experiments, and in still other experiments, it acts in ways that defy either an electromagnetic or electrostatic explanation.
What amazed me about Pavlita is that he has obtained all of his information from alchemy books or from trial-and-error experiments. He is not familiar with acupuncture, bio-energetic therapy, dowsing, structural integration ("rolling"), or any of the other procedures most parapsychologists know about and would naturally correlate with his work. He has gone very deeply into one specific area, and claims to have devised principles and laws by which he has produced these various devices.
According to Pavlita, any person can work with a psychotronic generator because all people possess biological energy fields. However, Pavlita himself was the subject in all but one of the experiments he attempted in our presence, his daughter serving as the subject in the other experiment.
We began to experience the most provocative part of Pavlita's work when we saw the very small and innocuous looking devices he uses. One appears to be a magician's wand - a small rod with a ball on the end. This was a generator that he claimed to be able to take into a distant part of his house to work on for an hour. He then would place the generator in a room where fruit flies were feeding on rotten fruit. He would aim the generator toward the flies and within a few minutes they would start to drop dead, or so he attested.
After hearing this descriptive account, I asked Pavlita about this device: "If fruit flies drop dead when you point this generator at them, what do you think would happen with a large generator?" Pavlita replied: "This is a generator that has very dangerous implications. I'm too soft-hearted to kill anything but flies, but there is no doubt in my mind that one can kill a cat, a dog, even human beings, with a large enough generator."
In the early days of his work, he said, he and his daughter were working on one of these experimental generators when suddenly her arm became paralyzed. They couldn't decide what to do. If they had taken her to a doctor, Pavlita thought, he would have said that it was psychosomatic. What Pavlita did was to work around the clock for three days, inventing another generator that restored natural movement to her arm again.
After relating the story of his daughter's paralysis and recovery, Pavlita made it very clear that the reason he had not yet revealed his secrets is because he does not know if the world is ready for them. I don't know either, but there is one thing that is obvious: the day may come when psychotronic generators are widely available. According to Pavlita, they are simple and inexpensive to make. Once more people use the generators, their true functions and possibilities can be more accurately assessed.
http://www.consciousness-centre.com/parapsychology/pavlita1.htm
Richard Alan Miller began his professional career as a physicist, then as a biophysicist and instrumentation specialist. His first foray into Parapsychology, or more accurately Paraphysics, came in Nov-Dec of 1972. He conducted experiments in Kirlian Photography with Karl Elmendorff at the University of Washington. He was aided in this effort by Dr. John Bonica and Dr. Neidemeyer, who had worked on the Manhattan Project.
Miller used Kervan's field theory for Kirlian photography; these experiments showed the effect to be a secondary emission of electrons ionizing local gases, rather than a bioluminescent phenomenon of extrasensory or spiritual importance. This confirmed the findings of Victor Adamenko.
Experiments in photographing objects in electrical fields, prior to Kirlian, was called "electrography" or "electrographic photography." Little value was seen in the process, so scant attention was given to it. Electrographic photographs were exhibited as early as 1898 by the Russian Yakov Narkevich Yokdo (also given as Todko. Research in the fields was published by a Czech, B. Narvratil, also in the early 1900s. The published evidence of photographs of leaves coronas was presents by two Czechs, S. Pratt and J. Schlemmer, in 1939.
The initial Kirlian experiments were simple. In his first experiment Kirlian just photographed his hand, noting a strange orange glow radiating from the fingertips. His wife Valentina was a biologist, and together they photographed both animate and inanimate objects. Over the years, they refined their equipment and graduated from back and white to colored photography.
The principle of Kirlian photography, as well as all electrography, is the corona discharge phenomenon, that takes place when an electrically grounded object discharges sparks between itself and an electrode generating the electrical field. When these sparks are captured on film they give the appearance of coronas of light. These discharges can be affected by temperature, moisture, pressure, or other environmental factors. Several Kirlian techniques have been developed, but the basic ones generally employ a Tesla coil connected to a metal plate. The process is similar to the one which occurs in nature, when electrical conditions in the atmosphere produce luminescences, auras, such as St. Elmo's fire.
Kirlian's work mainly gained attention in the west during the 1960. Its reception was mixed. However, scientist met on the process at Alma Ata in 1966. Biophysicist Viktor Adamenko theorized that the energy field was the "cold emission of electrons," and the patterns they formed might suggest new information concerning the life processes od animate objects. One finding of Adamenko and other Soviet scientists was that the biological energies of human beings were brightest at 700 points on the body which concurs with Chinese acupuncture.
There is evidence that Kirlan photographs do give indications of the health and emotional changes in living things by changes in the brightness, color, and patterns of light. At the University of California Center for Health Sciences, a plant's leaf showed changes when being approached by a human hand and pricked. Even when part of the leaf was cut off, the glowing portion of the amputated portion still appeared on film.
Victor Adamenko lived next door to the Kirlians, and spent many years in intimate collaboration with them—sees the photographs as demonstrating the “cold emission of electrons” which can furnish pertinent and as yet unknown information about the nature of organic and inorganic materials, in particular, the nature of living organisms.
Many American scientists have translated the phrase “cold emission of electrons” into the more familiar “corona discharge,” and, as such, believe this photography reveals nothing but a commonplace electrical phenomenon. A few critics have taken the trouble to go to libraries in order to find earlier investigators of this radiation field photography. They claim that certain Germans, Czechoslovakians, or Americans were predecessors in the discovery of “electrography,” pointing out that these investigators apparently thought so little of the discovery that the work was not pursued…
People were pre-disposed to see physical demonstrations of so-called auras, and so they attributed the phenomenon to this traditional analog, because it served their belief system. This effect also can occur among researchers where it is known as experimenter-bias.
However, even when Miller's finding was published as "The Physical Mechanisms in Kirlian Photography" in 1975 in The Energies of Consciousness, edited by Stanley Krippner and David Rubin for Gordon & Breach, the superstitious interpretations continued, and continue to this day. Other contributors to this Krippner book included Edgar Mitchell, Victor Adamenko, William A. Tiller, John Pierrakos, Theodore Barber, David Bresler, and James Hurtak.
This work was also published as part of Kirlian Electrophotography, a data package prepared by Mankind Research Unlimited, Inc. headquartered on Wisconsin Avenue in Washington D.C.
Early work with corona discharge photography was done by S. D. Kirlian in the late 1930's. As consequence corona discharge photography is often referred to as Kirlian photography. Much has been written about corona discharge photography or Kirlian photography. Among recent papers on the subject are the following: "Corona Discharge Photography", by David G. Boyers and William A. Tiller, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 44, No. 7, pages 3102-3112, July 1973; "Biological Applications of Kirlian Photography", by Stanley Krippner, Journal of the American Society of Psychosomatic Dentistry and Medicine, Vol. 26, No. 4, pages 122-128, 1979; and "Kirlian Photography, Myth, Fact and Applications", Electro/78Conference Record, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. 1978. Each of these papers includes an extensive bibliography, U.S. Pat. No. 4,222,658 concerns a Kirlian photography apparatus. The International Kirlian Research Association, a nonprofit organization founded in December 1974, correlates, standardizes, and promotes research into Kirlian photography.
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4386834.html
"New technology in the area of Kirlian photography could help us not only in psi research but in other disciplines.
Research on Kirlian photography is an area of psi that interests the United States government, and recently they have given several research grants to Mankind Research Unlimited Inc., of Washington, D.C., for work on the Kirlian effect. MRU, originally a subsidiary of a large engineering consulting firm, and now an independent company, considers the contracts ". . . 'firsts' for government supported 'human engineering' research grants." Former Naval officer Carl Schleicher, who is president and research and development director of MRU, told us, "We have found that the government can and will support research in these areas [psi], if such research is properly communicated to them, provides a beneficial use of tax payers' funds and is conducted by responsible organizations."
One of Carl's secrets of communicating with the government in order to obtain psi grants has been translation of occult and parapsychological terms into "respectable" technical jargon. Referring to a grant project involving the study of chakras (body energy centers, according to yoga), Carl told the Washington Post Potomac Magazine (July 22, 1973), ". . . I can communicate this information to a government agency that doesn't know what the hell a chakra is . . . I just call them 'unique psychophysiological tools and techniques,' and they say, 'Fine, thanks very much.' " By the same token, Kirlian photography, for purposes of government grants, was described as "chemiluminescent and electrophotographic (Tesla effect) techniques," and "certain . . . psychosomatic evaluatory areas."
With Kirlian photography, as with everything else for which he has sought funding, Carl looks for pragmatic applications-- techniques that can be applied to a problem, something to diagnose sickness, something that might even spot hijackers.
Many people seem surprised at the idea that anything springing from the occult could prove practical and useful; yet basically, if there had not been certain practical benefits from the occult sciences, they would not have survived to modern times.
Says Professor Douglas Dean, former president of the Parapsychological Association, "We have far to go to bridge the
gap between certain areas of Soviet research and our own . . . particularly, Kirlian photography. But certainly we have much to gain by pursuing such research. The great unknown potential of Kirlian photography may open up areas yet undreamed of, which can be of great benefit to the whole of mankind."
http://www.totse.com/en/fringe/fringe_science/kirilia.html
Dr. Stanley Krippner was one of the first to secure a Kirlian circuit diagram:
"A First-Hand Look at Psychotronic Generators" by Stanley F. Krippner
In 1973, during the First International Conference on Psychotronic Research, I met Robert Pavlita a most enigmatic man. This controversial Czech inventor is the designer of the so-called "psychotronic generator," a device for storing and applying "biological energy."
I don't speak Czech, but with the help of a translator we had a long conversation, after which he demonstrated one of his generators to the people at the conference. His daughter participated by touching her hand to her head in a rhythmic way and then touching her hand to the generator. Within a few minutes the generator started to move. This is very difficult to explain in any conventional way, and I know one physicist who couldn't sleep all night trying to figure out how this happened.
During a more recent visit to Czechoslovakia (January 1974). I was privileged to see ten different demonstrations of psychotronic generators. Dr. Zdenk Rejdak and his staff drove me and my associate, Mark Rejdak, to Lazne Belohrad, a town famous for its spa. As we entered the building in which Mr. and Mrs. Pavlita, their daughter, and their son-in-law have their apartment, we noted a large sign. We asked for a translation and discovered that it read:
'This house was built, with the help of the Lord, for myself, for my relatives, for beauty, and for the needs of the city. -Franz Chernoch, 1899'
We were given a hospitable greeting by Pavlita and his family. Within a short time he produced several of his devices and told us something of their history. Pavlita had been building psychotronic generators for more than thirty-five years. How did he become interested in generators? He studied alchemy books. (Czechoslovakia has always been a center for the study of alchemy. There is a whole street in Prague where alchemists used to live.)
The shape of the items that the alchemists used was very intriguing to Pavlita. What he did was to put together various materials of different shape by trial and error. From this he found that there were three components of the psychotronic generators similar to those that the alchemists used. One is the shape of the device. Another is the material from which it is made. The third and most important is the biological rhythm - the means for getting the biological energy from the living organisms into the device. He says that there are at least sixty-eight centers of biological energy in the human body, and he has invented a generator for each one. Each of these generators is fueled in a different way, and each of them performs a different task.
Pavlita stated that eventually he discovered that the body's biological energy field acts electromagnetically in some experiments, electrostatically in some experiments, and in still other experiments, it acts in ways that defy either an electromagnetic or electrostatic explanation.
What amazed me about Pavlita is that he has obtained all of his information from alchemy books or from trial-and-error experiments. He is not familiar with acupuncture, bio-energetic therapy, dowsing, structural integration ("rolling"), or any of the other procedures most parapsychologists know about and would naturally correlate with his work. He has gone very deeply into one specific area, and claims to have devised principles and laws by which he has produced these various devices.
According to Pavlita, any person can work with a psychotronic generator because all people possess biological energy fields. However, Pavlita himself was the subject in all but one of the experiments he attempted in our presence, his daughter serving as the subject in the other experiment.
We began to experience the most provocative part of Pavlita's work when we saw the very small and innocuous looking devices he uses. One appears to be a magician's wand - a small rod with a ball on the end. This was a generator that he claimed to be able to take into a distant part of his house to work on for an hour. He then would place the generator in a room where fruit flies were feeding on rotten fruit. He would aim the generator toward the flies and within a few minutes they would start to drop dead, or so he attested.
After hearing this descriptive account, I asked Pavlita about this device: "If fruit flies drop dead when you point this generator at them, what do you think would happen with a large generator?" Pavlita replied: "This is a generator that has very dangerous implications. I'm too soft-hearted to kill anything but flies, but there is no doubt in my mind that one can kill a cat, a dog, even human beings, with a large enough generator."
In the early days of his work, he said, he and his daughter were working on one of these experimental generators when suddenly her arm became paralyzed. They couldn't decide what to do. If they had taken her to a doctor, Pavlita thought, he would have said that it was psychosomatic. What Pavlita did was to work around the clock for three days, inventing another generator that restored natural movement to her arm again.
After relating the story of his daughter's paralysis and recovery, Pavlita made it very clear that the reason he had not yet revealed his secrets is because he does not know if the world is ready for them. I don't know either, but there is one thing that is obvious: the day may come when psychotronic generators are widely available. According to Pavlita, they are simple and inexpensive to make. Once more people use the generators, their true functions and possibilities can be more accurately assessed.
http://www.consciousness-centre.com/parapsychology/pavlita1.htm
Richard Alan Miller began his professional career as a physicist, then as a biophysicist and instrumentation specialist. His first foray into Parapsychology, or more accurately Paraphysics, came in Nov-Dec of 1972. He conducted experiments in Kirlian Photography with Karl Elmendorff at the University of Washington. He was aided in this effort by Dr. John Bonica and Dr. Neidemeyer, who had worked on the Manhattan Project.
Miller used Kervan's field theory for Kirlian photography; these experiments showed the effect to be a secondary emission of electrons ionizing local gases, rather than a bioluminescent phenomenon of extrasensory or spiritual importance. This confirmed the findings of Victor Adamenko.
Experiments in photographing objects in electrical fields, prior to Kirlian, was called "electrography" or "electrographic photography." Little value was seen in the process, so scant attention was given to it. Electrographic photographs were exhibited as early as 1898 by the Russian Yakov Narkevich Yokdo (also given as Todko. Research in the fields was published by a Czech, B. Narvratil, also in the early 1900s. The published evidence of photographs of leaves coronas was presents by two Czechs, S. Pratt and J. Schlemmer, in 1939.
The initial Kirlian experiments were simple. In his first experiment Kirlian just photographed his hand, noting a strange orange glow radiating from the fingertips. His wife Valentina was a biologist, and together they photographed both animate and inanimate objects. Over the years, they refined their equipment and graduated from back and white to colored photography.
The principle of Kirlian photography, as well as all electrography, is the corona discharge phenomenon, that takes place when an electrically grounded object discharges sparks between itself and an electrode generating the electrical field. When these sparks are captured on film they give the appearance of coronas of light. These discharges can be affected by temperature, moisture, pressure, or other environmental factors. Several Kirlian techniques have been developed, but the basic ones generally employ a Tesla coil connected to a metal plate. The process is similar to the one which occurs in nature, when electrical conditions in the atmosphere produce luminescences, auras, such as St. Elmo's fire.
Kirlian's work mainly gained attention in the west during the 1960. Its reception was mixed. However, scientist met on the process at Alma Ata in 1966. Biophysicist Viktor Adamenko theorized that the energy field was the "cold emission of electrons," and the patterns they formed might suggest new information concerning the life processes od animate objects. One finding of Adamenko and other Soviet scientists was that the biological energies of human beings were brightest at 700 points on the body which concurs with Chinese acupuncture.
There is evidence that Kirlan photographs do give indications of the health and emotional changes in living things by changes in the brightness, color, and patterns of light. At the University of California Center for Health Sciences, a plant's leaf showed changes when being approached by a human hand and pricked. Even when part of the leaf was cut off, the glowing portion of the amputated portion still appeared on film.
Victor Adamenko lived next door to the Kirlians, and spent many years in intimate collaboration with them—sees the photographs as demonstrating the “cold emission of electrons” which can furnish pertinent and as yet unknown information about the nature of organic and inorganic materials, in particular, the nature of living organisms.
Many American scientists have translated the phrase “cold emission of electrons” into the more familiar “corona discharge,” and, as such, believe this photography reveals nothing but a commonplace electrical phenomenon. A few critics have taken the trouble to go to libraries in order to find earlier investigators of this radiation field photography. They claim that certain Germans, Czechoslovakians, or Americans were predecessors in the discovery of “electrography,” pointing out that these investigators apparently thought so little of the discovery that the work was not pursued…
People were pre-disposed to see physical demonstrations of so-called auras, and so they attributed the phenomenon to this traditional analog, because it served their belief system. This effect also can occur among researchers where it is known as experimenter-bias.
However, even when Miller's finding was published as "The Physical Mechanisms in Kirlian Photography" in 1975 in The Energies of Consciousness, edited by Stanley Krippner and David Rubin for Gordon & Breach, the superstitious interpretations continued, and continue to this day. Other contributors to this Krippner book included Edgar Mitchell, Victor Adamenko, William A. Tiller, John Pierrakos, Theodore Barber, David Bresler, and James Hurtak.
This work was also published as part of Kirlian Electrophotography, a data package prepared by Mankind Research Unlimited, Inc. headquartered on Wisconsin Avenue in Washington D.C.
Early work with corona discharge photography was done by S. D. Kirlian in the late 1930's. As consequence corona discharge photography is often referred to as Kirlian photography. Much has been written about corona discharge photography or Kirlian photography. Among recent papers on the subject are the following: "Corona Discharge Photography", by David G. Boyers and William A. Tiller, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 44, No. 7, pages 3102-3112, July 1973; "Biological Applications of Kirlian Photography", by Stanley Krippner, Journal of the American Society of Psychosomatic Dentistry and Medicine, Vol. 26, No. 4, pages 122-128, 1979; and "Kirlian Photography, Myth, Fact and Applications", Electro/78Conference Record, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. 1978. Each of these papers includes an extensive bibliography, U.S. Pat. No. 4,222,658 concerns a Kirlian photography apparatus. The International Kirlian Research Association, a nonprofit organization founded in December 1974, correlates, standardizes, and promotes research into Kirlian photography.
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4386834.html
The holographic paradigm is a theory based on the work of David Bohm and Karl Pribram from two ideas:
The holographic paradigm is rooted in the concept that all organisms and forms are holograms embedded within a universal hologram, which physicist David Bohm[1] called the holomovement. It is an extrapolation of the optical discovery of 2-dimensional holograms by Dennis Gabor in 1947.[2] Holography created an explosion of scientific and industrial interest starting in 1948.
Engineer Thomas Bearden describes holograms as: photographic recordings of the patterns of interference between coherent light reflected from the object of interest, and light that comes directly from the same source or is reflected by a mirror. When this photo image is illuminated from behind by coherent light, a three-dimensional image of the object appears in space. The characteristic of a hypothetically perfect hologram is that all its content is contained in any finite part of itself (at lower resolution). [3]
In 1973, what has come to be known as the Pribram-Bohm Holographic Model was non-existent. But the Seattle thinktank, Organization for the Advancement of Knowledge (OAK), led by Richard Alan Miller and Burt Webb, were able to synthesize the work of Northrup and Burr on the electromagnetic nature of the human being with Dennis Gabor's work on optical holograms and come up with a new notion – a holographic paradigm.
In Languages of the Brain (1971), Pribram[4] had postulated that 2-dimensional interference patterns, physical holograms, underlie all thinking. The holographic component, for him, represented the associative mechanisms and contributed to memory retrieval and storage and problem solving.
However, Miller, Webb and Dickson extrapolated that the holographic metaphor extends to n-dimensions and therefore constitutes a fundamental description of the universe and our electromagnetic embedding within that greater field. It suggested the human energy body or bioenergetics was more fundamental than the biochemical domain.
The "Holographic Concept of Reality" (1973)[5] was presented at the 1st Psychotronic Conference in Prague in 1973, and later published by Gordon & Breach in 1975, and again in 1979 in Psychoenergetic Systems: the Interaction of Consciousness, Energy and Matter, edited by Dr. Stanley Krippner.
Miller and Webb followed up their ground-breaking paper with "Embryonic Holography,"[6] which was also presented at the Omniversal Symposium at California State College at Sonoma, hosted by Dr. Stanley Krippner, September 29, 1973. Arguably, this is the first paper to address the quantum biological properties of human beings—the first illustrations of the sources of quantum mindbody.
The organization of any biological system is established by a complex electrodynamic field which is, in part, determined by its atomic physiochemical components. This field, in turn, determines the behavior and orientation of these components. This dynamic is mediated through wave-based genomes wherein DNA functions as the holographic projector of the psychophysical system - a quantum biohologram.
Dropping a level of observation below quantum biochemistry and conventional biophysics, this holographic paradigm proposes that a biohologram determines the development of the human embryo; that we are a quantum bodymind with consciousness informing the whole process through the level of information. They postulated DNA as the possible holographic projector of the biohologram, patterning the three-dimensional electromagnetic standing and moving wave front that constitutes our psychophysical being—quantum bioholography.
Recent development The Gariaev (Garyaev) group (1994)[7] has proposed a theory of the Wave-based Genome where the DNA-wave functions as a Biocomputer. They suggest (1) that there are genetic "texts", similar to natural context-dependent texts in human language; (2) that the chromosome apparatus acts simultaneously both as a source and receiver of these genetic texts, respectively decoding and encoding them; (3) that the chromosome continuum acts like a dynamical holographic grating, which displays or transduces weak laser light and solitonic electro-acoustic fields.[8]
The distribution of the character frequency in genetic texts is fractal, so the nucleotides of DNA molecules are able to form holographic pre-images of biostructures. This process of "reading and writing" the very matter of our being manifests from the genome's associative holographic memory in conjunction with its quantum nonlocality. Rapid transmission of genetic information and gene-expression unite the organism as holistic entity embedded in the larger Whole. The system works as a biocomputer—a wave biocomputer.[9][10]
Gariaev reports as of 2007 that this work in Russia is being actively suppressed.[11]
References
- That the universe is in some sense a holographic structure — proposed by David Bohm
- That consciousness is dependent on holographic structure — proposed by Karl Pribram
The holographic paradigm is rooted in the concept that all organisms and forms are holograms embedded within a universal hologram, which physicist David Bohm[1] called the holomovement. It is an extrapolation of the optical discovery of 2-dimensional holograms by Dennis Gabor in 1947.[2] Holography created an explosion of scientific and industrial interest starting in 1948.
Engineer Thomas Bearden describes holograms as: photographic recordings of the patterns of interference between coherent light reflected from the object of interest, and light that comes directly from the same source or is reflected by a mirror. When this photo image is illuminated from behind by coherent light, a three-dimensional image of the object appears in space. The characteristic of a hypothetically perfect hologram is that all its content is contained in any finite part of itself (at lower resolution). [3]
In 1973, what has come to be known as the Pribram-Bohm Holographic Model was non-existent. But the Seattle thinktank, Organization for the Advancement of Knowledge (OAK), led by Richard Alan Miller and Burt Webb, were able to synthesize the work of Northrup and Burr on the electromagnetic nature of the human being with Dennis Gabor's work on optical holograms and come up with a new notion – a holographic paradigm.
In Languages of the Brain (1971), Pribram[4] had postulated that 2-dimensional interference patterns, physical holograms, underlie all thinking. The holographic component, for him, represented the associative mechanisms and contributed to memory retrieval and storage and problem solving.
However, Miller, Webb and Dickson extrapolated that the holographic metaphor extends to n-dimensions and therefore constitutes a fundamental description of the universe and our electromagnetic embedding within that greater field. It suggested the human energy body or bioenergetics was more fundamental than the biochemical domain.
The "Holographic Concept of Reality" (1973)[5] was presented at the 1st Psychotronic Conference in Prague in 1973, and later published by Gordon & Breach in 1975, and again in 1979 in Psychoenergetic Systems: the Interaction of Consciousness, Energy and Matter, edited by Dr. Stanley Krippner.
Miller and Webb followed up their ground-breaking paper with "Embryonic Holography,"[6] which was also presented at the Omniversal Symposium at California State College at Sonoma, hosted by Dr. Stanley Krippner, September 29, 1973. Arguably, this is the first paper to address the quantum biological properties of human beings—the first illustrations of the sources of quantum mindbody.
The organization of any biological system is established by a complex electrodynamic field which is, in part, determined by its atomic physiochemical components. This field, in turn, determines the behavior and orientation of these components. This dynamic is mediated through wave-based genomes wherein DNA functions as the holographic projector of the psychophysical system - a quantum biohologram.
Dropping a level of observation below quantum biochemistry and conventional biophysics, this holographic paradigm proposes that a biohologram determines the development of the human embryo; that we are a quantum bodymind with consciousness informing the whole process through the level of information. They postulated DNA as the possible holographic projector of the biohologram, patterning the three-dimensional electromagnetic standing and moving wave front that constitutes our psychophysical being—quantum bioholography.
Recent development The Gariaev (Garyaev) group (1994)[7] has proposed a theory of the Wave-based Genome where the DNA-wave functions as a Biocomputer. They suggest (1) that there are genetic "texts", similar to natural context-dependent texts in human language; (2) that the chromosome apparatus acts simultaneously both as a source and receiver of these genetic texts, respectively decoding and encoding them; (3) that the chromosome continuum acts like a dynamical holographic grating, which displays or transduces weak laser light and solitonic electro-acoustic fields.[8]
The distribution of the character frequency in genetic texts is fractal, so the nucleotides of DNA molecules are able to form holographic pre-images of biostructures. This process of "reading and writing" the very matter of our being manifests from the genome's associative holographic memory in conjunction with its quantum nonlocality. Rapid transmission of genetic information and gene-expression unite the organism as holistic entity embedded in the larger Whole. The system works as a biocomputer—a wave biocomputer.[9][10]
Gariaev reports as of 2007 that this work in Russia is being actively suppressed.[11]
References
- ^ Bohm, David (1980) Wholeness and the Implicate Order, Routledge, London.
- ^ Professor T.E. Allibone CBE, FRS. “THE LIFE AND WORK OF DENNIS GABBOR, HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO CYBERNETICS, PHILOSOPHY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES, 1900 – 1979”. http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:NMpfXYlo-RsJ:www.cybsoc.org/GaborAllibone.doc+dennis+gabor+holograms+book&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us
- ^ Beardon, Thomas (1980, 1988, 2002), Excalibur Briefing, Strawberry Hill Press, San Francisco.
- ^ Pribram, Karl (1971), Languages of the Brain, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs: New Jersey.
- ^ Miller, R.A., Webb, B. Dickson, D. (1975), “A Holographic Concept of Reality,” Psychoenergetic Systems Journal Vol. 1, 1975. 55-62. Gordon & Breach Science Publishers Ltd., Great Britain. " Holographic Concept" was later reprinted in the hardback book Psychoenergetic Systems, Stanley Krippner, editor. 1979. 231-237. Gordon & Breach, New York, London, Paris. It was reprinted again in the journal Psychedelic Monographs and Essays, Vol. 5, 1992. 93-111. Boynton Beach, FL, Tom Lyttle, Editor. Accessed 6/07: http://www.oocities.com/iona_m/Chaosophy/chaosophy13.html[dead link]
- ^ Miller, R. A., Webb. B., “Embryonic Holography,” Psychoenergetic Systems, Stanley Krippner, Ed. Presented at the Omniversal Symposium, California State College at Sonoma, Saturday, September 29, 1973. Reprinted in Lyttle's journal Psychedelic Monographs and Essays, Vol. 6, 1993. 137-156. Accessed 6/07: http://www.oocities.com/iona_m/Chaosophy/chaosophy14.html[dead link]
- ^ Gariaev, Peter, Boris Birshtein, Alexander Iarochenko, et al., “The DNA-wave Biocomputer.”
- ^ Miller, Iona, Miller, R.A. and Burt Webb (2002), “Quantum Bioholography: A Review of the Field from 1973-2002.” Journal of Non-Locality and Remote Mental Interactions Vol.I, Nr. 3. Accessed 6/11/07. http://www.emergentmind.org/MillerWebbI3a.htm
- ^ Miller, Iona (2004) “From Helix to Hologram,” Nexus Magazine http://www.ajna.com/articles/science/from_helix_to_hologram.php
- ^ Crisis in Life Sciences. The Wave Genetics Response P.P. Gariaev, M.J. Friedman, and E.A. Leonova- Gariaeva http://www.emergentmind.org/gariaev06.htm
- ^ Miller, Iona (2007), private correspondence with Peter Gariaev.
- The Holographic Paradigm and Other Paradoxes (Paperback) by Ken Wilber (Editor)
- Gariaev, P.P. (1994), Wave Genome, Public Profit, Moscow, 279 pages [in Russian].
- Gariaev, P.P. (1993) Wave based genome, Depp. VINITI 15:12. 1993, N 3092?93, 278pp. [in Russian].
- Gariaev, P., Tertinshny, G., and Leonova, K. (2001), "The Wave, Probabilistic and Linguistic Representations of Cancer and HIV," JNLRMI, v.1, No.2.
- Marcer, P. and Schempp, W. (1996), A Mathematically Specified Template for DNA and the Genetic Code, in Terms of the Physically Realizable Processes of Quantum Holography, Proceedings of the Greenwich Symposium on Living Computers, editors Fedorec, A. and Marcer, P., 45-62.
- Miller, Iona (1993), “The Holographic Paradigm and the Consciousness Restructuring Process,” Chaosophy ‘93, O.A.K., Grants Pass. http://www.oocities.com/iona_m/Chaosophy/chaosophy11.html[dead link]
- Karl H. Pribram, "The Implicate Brain", in B. J. Hiley and F. David Peat, (eds) Quantum Implications: Essays in Honour of David Bohm, Routledge, 1987 ISBN 0-415-06960-2
- Talbot, Michael (1991), The Holographic Universe, Harper Collins Publishers, New York. ISBN 0-06-092258-3
- Peat, F. David "Quantum Physics: David Bohm" http://www.spaceandmotion.com/Physics-David-Bohm-Holographic-Universe.htm
RICHARD ALAN MILLER
Agricultural Biography
Richard Alan Miller began his career in agriculture in 1972 with the formation of The Beltane Corporation (Seattle). He started as sole proprietor, retailing books and herbs. By 1980, he had a staff of 12 employees, with the company wholesaling herbs, spices and teas to the six Western states. The company also imported spices for their milling and herb tea line (Safeway-Oakland District).
In 1980 Mr. Miller became a limited partner in a reorganization and expansion of The Beltane Herb Company, Inc. His function was as Agricultural Scientist and Buyer for Western Herb Farms (Seattle) and Country Spice Tea (Portland). He then moved to eastern Washington to establish and develop extensive farm and forage plans for the mass tea market and export.
During that same period, two additional corporations were formed: West Coast Dehydrators, Inc. (Carlton) and Methow Valley Herb Growers Association (Twisp). The first corporation designed and built an experimental prototype dehydrator for herb and spice farming (USDA Grant Proposal 8306074 "A Commercial Portable Dehydrator for Alternative Small-Farm Agricultural Crops".). The second corporation was a profit-sharing marketing cooperative.
In 1985, Mr. Miller began publishing a national newsletter for the herb farmer and forager. Now in its ninth year of publication, "The Herb Market Report" is considered one of the best on the subject. He also writes columns in numerous national magazines as well as feature stories and interviews. Recent book titles include NATIVE PLANTS OF COMMERCIAL IMPORTANCE (OAK), THE MAGICAL AND RITUAL USE OF HERBS (Destiny), THE MAGICAL AND RITUAL USE OF PERFUMES (Destiny), FOREST FARMING (OAK), COMPUTERS ON THE FARM (OAK), and SUCCESSFUL FARM VENTURES (OAK). He is also contributing editor to ACRES, USA (Kansas City).
Mr. Miller received a grant (USDA Grant Proposal 8600849 "A Centralized Processing Facility for Botanical Alternatives as Cash Crops") in 1986, and a year later formed Northwest Botanicals, Inc. to broker the growing number of new domestic farmers and foragers producing herbs and spices. He has been approached by numerous businesses to develop similar farming andprocessing facilities. Grants received in 1994 include projects in "Forest Farming" (FEDA), "Specialized Harvesters" (OEDD), and "Preservation of Salal Greens (USDA).
Mr. Miller has been retained as a special consultant to such firms as Botanicals International, Inc. (Long Beach, CA) and John I Haas, Inc. (Yakima, WA/Wash D.C./Munich, Germany). His primary emphasis is toward new crops development in both the foraging and farming of herbs and spices. Extensive networks of producers in more than 34 States and most Provinces in Canada have been created as a direct result of his writings and workshops. Mr. Miller is now considered a world expert in the marketing of these crops.
A number of cottage industries have emerged because of his activities with these various corporations. These include Golden Eagle Herbal Chew (Grants Pass) and Frozen Pesto (Ashland), both now into the mass markets. Many networks, in such diverse regions as South Dakota, Northern California, Montana, and the Spokane Indians, have received grants as a direct result of his work. He has been listed in Who's Who of the West since 1992, and was named to Who's Who in the World in 1996, and has been written about in various articles such as the Wall Street Journal and National Geographic.
His present work includes another USDA-SBIR grant (Agreement Number 94-33610-0107), titled Salal Preservation: A Forest Farming Venture. Two other proposals include a BBS for TeleMarketing floral products (Florals, NW), and an auction house on the BBS for late remainders and large bulk sales.
Mr. Miller is available as an Agricultural Consultant, and a list of his services are available from OAK, Inc. (Oregon/Washington). (541) 476-5588 Monday-Friday, 9 am - 5 pm (PST).
AGRICULTURAL CORPORATIONS
RICHARD ALAN MILLER
Richard Alan Miller is currently involved with the development and management of several agricultural ventures. A brief outline of their scope is given in this document. Further information on each corporation is available upon written request.
NORTHWEST BOTANICALS, INC.
(NWB) (Grants Pass, OR)
Founded in 1987 to broker herbs, spices and dried florals for the growing number of farmers and foragers, it was part of a Centralized Processing Facility (USDA Grant Proposal 8600849) for botanicals. John I. Haas later purchased the facility and expanded it near farm ventures in eastern Oregon.
NWB continues to broker numerous botanicals on an international basis. With partners and trade agreements in Canada several new ventures with a larger Centralized Processing Facility at the Port of Vancouver (B.C.) are now in planning for 1996. Contracts are available for some crops, including oil seeds and dried florals.
A customer list of international buyers has been developed over the last 18 years who prefer to do business with Richard Miller (d.b.a. NWB) whenever possible. The list includes more than 2,000 buyers in North America, a number of whom are prepared to form a federation with Mr. Miller.
COLTSFOOT, INC.(Grants Pass, OR)
Founded in 1986 to market the product GOLDEN EAGLE HERBAL CHEW, this company currently has two products now marketed in 34 states. Accounts include Walmart, 7-11, Safeway Stores, ABCO, Circle K, AM-PM Mini Marts, Quik Stop, and numerous health food stores.
The company also manufactures its own plastic containers and dispensers. Many of the ingredients are now being farmed domestically through OAK's network of farmers and foragers. A processing facility will be built in the near future to handle ingredient needs.
A comprehensive five-year business plan was developed and is now on schedule. Financial support has already been identified to meet increased production, and the 5-year program calls for the creation of more than 100 new jobs during that period. It serves as a model on how to add value to crops as cottage industry.
WEST COAST DEHYDRATORS, INC.(Carlton, WA)
Founded in 1980, this corporation has built a Portable Dehydrator prototype, originally developed for rural communities interested in cultivating spices which could not be sun-cured. It was designed to be self-contained, using a generator, propane heat, and hydraulics (for rotation).
The unit is constructed entirely of stainless steel, and is on a 30-foot tandem-axle trailer. A USDA grant was written on this device, and is available for review. The unit is now in South Dakota, being modified for use.
NORTHWEST NATURALS, INC.(Grants Pass, OR)
Founded in 1991, this new corporation preserves evergreens to meet the growing floral trade market demand. It also provides added cash-flow during periods of dormancy for the harvest of most forest products. It also provides needed work in those areas affected by Spotted Owl legislation. This company has recently received a USDA-SBIR grants, plus a business relationship with a Band of Indians (12 tribes) to harvest and preserve Salal.
NATURAL COLLECTION COMPANY, INC. (NCC)
(Grants Pass, OR, Denman Island, Canada, and Osaka/Tokyo, Japan)
Founded in 1992, this international corporation is a joint venture to import domestically grown floral products under a special label for Japanese markets. There is a Canadian and a Japanese partner, with offices in both Osaka and Tokyo, Japan. Current interest included dried floral spices from Northern California and blue-green algaes from Klamath Lake, OR.
FLORALS NORTHWEST, INC. (FNW)
(Grants Pass, OR, Vancouver B.C., Canada)
Founded in 1994, this International TeleMarketing Company now offers many floral products to the retail via "Farm Direct." With an 800-number serving as their electronic catalog, it boosts "state-of-the-art" in both marketing and use of Internet for sales and dialog. Also sponsors a national/international BBS for growers and buyers to meet on a common foundation. Current product line includes more than 200 different floral products and related merchandise. 3-96
Look for Richard Alan Miller’s column in Acres USA , the monthly newsletter for Sustainable Agriculture
FOR MORE INFORMATION
[email protected]
Agricultural Biography
Richard Alan Miller began his career in agriculture in 1972 with the formation of The Beltane Corporation (Seattle). He started as sole proprietor, retailing books and herbs. By 1980, he had a staff of 12 employees, with the company wholesaling herbs, spices and teas to the six Western states. The company also imported spices for their milling and herb tea line (Safeway-Oakland District).
In 1980 Mr. Miller became a limited partner in a reorganization and expansion of The Beltane Herb Company, Inc. His function was as Agricultural Scientist and Buyer for Western Herb Farms (Seattle) and Country Spice Tea (Portland). He then moved to eastern Washington to establish and develop extensive farm and forage plans for the mass tea market and export.
During that same period, two additional corporations were formed: West Coast Dehydrators, Inc. (Carlton) and Methow Valley Herb Growers Association (Twisp). The first corporation designed and built an experimental prototype dehydrator for herb and spice farming (USDA Grant Proposal 8306074 "A Commercial Portable Dehydrator for Alternative Small-Farm Agricultural Crops".). The second corporation was a profit-sharing marketing cooperative.
In 1985, Mr. Miller began publishing a national newsletter for the herb farmer and forager. Now in its ninth year of publication, "The Herb Market Report" is considered one of the best on the subject. He also writes columns in numerous national magazines as well as feature stories and interviews. Recent book titles include NATIVE PLANTS OF COMMERCIAL IMPORTANCE (OAK), THE MAGICAL AND RITUAL USE OF HERBS (Destiny), THE MAGICAL AND RITUAL USE OF PERFUMES (Destiny), FOREST FARMING (OAK), COMPUTERS ON THE FARM (OAK), and SUCCESSFUL FARM VENTURES (OAK). He is also contributing editor to ACRES, USA (Kansas City).
Mr. Miller received a grant (USDA Grant Proposal 8600849 "A Centralized Processing Facility for Botanical Alternatives as Cash Crops") in 1986, and a year later formed Northwest Botanicals, Inc. to broker the growing number of new domestic farmers and foragers producing herbs and spices. He has been approached by numerous businesses to develop similar farming andprocessing facilities. Grants received in 1994 include projects in "Forest Farming" (FEDA), "Specialized Harvesters" (OEDD), and "Preservation of Salal Greens (USDA).
Mr. Miller has been retained as a special consultant to such firms as Botanicals International, Inc. (Long Beach, CA) and John I Haas, Inc. (Yakima, WA/Wash D.C./Munich, Germany). His primary emphasis is toward new crops development in both the foraging and farming of herbs and spices. Extensive networks of producers in more than 34 States and most Provinces in Canada have been created as a direct result of his writings and workshops. Mr. Miller is now considered a world expert in the marketing of these crops.
A number of cottage industries have emerged because of his activities with these various corporations. These include Golden Eagle Herbal Chew (Grants Pass) and Frozen Pesto (Ashland), both now into the mass markets. Many networks, in such diverse regions as South Dakota, Northern California, Montana, and the Spokane Indians, have received grants as a direct result of his work. He has been listed in Who's Who of the West since 1992, and was named to Who's Who in the World in 1996, and has been written about in various articles such as the Wall Street Journal and National Geographic.
His present work includes another USDA-SBIR grant (Agreement Number 94-33610-0107), titled Salal Preservation: A Forest Farming Venture. Two other proposals include a BBS for TeleMarketing floral products (Florals, NW), and an auction house on the BBS for late remainders and large bulk sales.
Mr. Miller is available as an Agricultural Consultant, and a list of his services are available from OAK, Inc. (Oregon/Washington). (541) 476-5588 Monday-Friday, 9 am - 5 pm (PST).
AGRICULTURAL CORPORATIONS
RICHARD ALAN MILLER
Richard Alan Miller is currently involved with the development and management of several agricultural ventures. A brief outline of their scope is given in this document. Further information on each corporation is available upon written request.
NORTHWEST BOTANICALS, INC.
(NWB) (Grants Pass, OR)
Founded in 1987 to broker herbs, spices and dried florals for the growing number of farmers and foragers, it was part of a Centralized Processing Facility (USDA Grant Proposal 8600849) for botanicals. John I. Haas later purchased the facility and expanded it near farm ventures in eastern Oregon.
NWB continues to broker numerous botanicals on an international basis. With partners and trade agreements in Canada several new ventures with a larger Centralized Processing Facility at the Port of Vancouver (B.C.) are now in planning for 1996. Contracts are available for some crops, including oil seeds and dried florals.
A customer list of international buyers has been developed over the last 18 years who prefer to do business with Richard Miller (d.b.a. NWB) whenever possible. The list includes more than 2,000 buyers in North America, a number of whom are prepared to form a federation with Mr. Miller.
COLTSFOOT, INC.(Grants Pass, OR)
Founded in 1986 to market the product GOLDEN EAGLE HERBAL CHEW, this company currently has two products now marketed in 34 states. Accounts include Walmart, 7-11, Safeway Stores, ABCO, Circle K, AM-PM Mini Marts, Quik Stop, and numerous health food stores.
The company also manufactures its own plastic containers and dispensers. Many of the ingredients are now being farmed domestically through OAK's network of farmers and foragers. A processing facility will be built in the near future to handle ingredient needs.
A comprehensive five-year business plan was developed and is now on schedule. Financial support has already been identified to meet increased production, and the 5-year program calls for the creation of more than 100 new jobs during that period. It serves as a model on how to add value to crops as cottage industry.
WEST COAST DEHYDRATORS, INC.(Carlton, WA)
Founded in 1980, this corporation has built a Portable Dehydrator prototype, originally developed for rural communities interested in cultivating spices which could not be sun-cured. It was designed to be self-contained, using a generator, propane heat, and hydraulics (for rotation).
The unit is constructed entirely of stainless steel, and is on a 30-foot tandem-axle trailer. A USDA grant was written on this device, and is available for review. The unit is now in South Dakota, being modified for use.
NORTHWEST NATURALS, INC.(Grants Pass, OR)
Founded in 1991, this new corporation preserves evergreens to meet the growing floral trade market demand. It also provides added cash-flow during periods of dormancy for the harvest of most forest products. It also provides needed work in those areas affected by Spotted Owl legislation. This company has recently received a USDA-SBIR grants, plus a business relationship with a Band of Indians (12 tribes) to harvest and preserve Salal.
NATURAL COLLECTION COMPANY, INC. (NCC)
(Grants Pass, OR, Denman Island, Canada, and Osaka/Tokyo, Japan)
Founded in 1992, this international corporation is a joint venture to import domestically grown floral products under a special label for Japanese markets. There is a Canadian and a Japanese partner, with offices in both Osaka and Tokyo, Japan. Current interest included dried floral spices from Northern California and blue-green algaes from Klamath Lake, OR.
FLORALS NORTHWEST, INC. (FNW)
(Grants Pass, OR, Vancouver B.C., Canada)
Founded in 1994, this International TeleMarketing Company now offers many floral products to the retail via "Farm Direct." With an 800-number serving as their electronic catalog, it boosts "state-of-the-art" in both marketing and use of Internet for sales and dialog. Also sponsors a national/international BBS for growers and buyers to meet on a common foundation. Current product line includes more than 200 different floral products and related merchandise. 3-96
Look for Richard Alan Miller’s column in Acres USA , the monthly newsletter for Sustainable Agriculture
FOR MORE INFORMATION
[email protected]