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Psychoenergetic Science

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A reader unfamiliar with science, physics and experiential protocol, will have a hard time reading William Tiller's "Psychoenergetic Science". The science jargon detracts from Tiller's message, in my view. Nevertheless, Tiller has something important to say, and he is trying to break new ground in science, and it for these reasons I give Tiller's new book a high recommendation.

Tiller (page 36) complains about the narrow mindedness expressed by some scientists: "In spite of the unwillingness to look at such data, many of the establishment scientists are willing to `spout off' with very derogatory opinions concerning such data - without ever having seriously looked at it. Such behavior is called scientism which is corruption of the science craft. "

Chapters 3, 4 and 5 read like a laboratory manual. Much attention is given to an IIED, or the "intention imprinting electrical device" of Tiller's own making. The IIED is impacted by human intension presented with deep meditation, as Tiller tells us, and this device can be moved to distant locations and turned on. The activated IIED is permitted to condition a new environment, and what Tiller finds is that pH (or hydrogen ion concentration) in water is affected by this conditioning. The pH can increase or decrease by 1 depending on the intension imprinted on the IIED.

Tiller studies enzyme activity (ALP). Tiller studies fruit flies; he looks at larval development time, and [ATP]/[ADP] ratios. Again he picks up a treatment effects due to IIED, suggesting a direct impact on living organism.

In Chapter 4, Tiller investigates pH and air temperature oscillations; as impacted by IIED and its controls. He adds the magnetic field polarity effect. And these embellishments are needed to tease out experimental evidence for a dual nature; one electrical and particle-like, the other magnetic and wave-like. Tiller (page 72) concludes : "an IIED-conditioned space allows our measuring instruments to access magnetic monopoles." Tiller's sympathies move to subtle energies and human biofields. Tiller (page 88) writes: "From the foregoing data of this chapter, I know that an IIED-conditioned space develops a higher electromagnetic symmetry state than that which exists in our normal electric atom/molecule level of physical reality. As such, it must also have a higher thermodynamic free energy per unit volume condition compared to our normal condition." And this is found relating to our health, and our emotions, as Tiller speculates about advance Kinesiology (biofeedback): "one can conclude that our acupuncture meridian/chakra system is the human body system that is at this higher thermodynamic free energy per unit volume state."

In Chapter 5, Tiller opens up the IIED to a broader evaluation, repeating his pH effect in eight different locations.

Chapter 6 presents Tiller's ontology: a duplex model of space-time, one side relating to direct-space and the other reciprocal space-time. The dual aspects are connected with coupling "deltrons". The coupling in direct-space (particle branch) is limited to velocities below the speed of light, the coupling in reciprocal space (pilot branch) moves above light speed. Tiller (page 140) does imply that this coupling involves interactions that move in both time directions, but he does not emphasize this point. A pilot wave moving faster than light speed is understood to move backward in time, in my view, and this would seem to be implied by coupling.

Tiller (page 132) writes something worthy of the Nobel Prize: "Since the reason for inventing string theory was to bypass the mathematical singularity in quantum mechanics and relativity theory so that they could be united, the use of this particular duplex-space reference frame removes the need for string theory when quantum mechanics and relativity theory are mathematically formulated in this particular duplex-space format." I would also stipulate that Tiller's deltrons come with coupling coefficients that are non-caused, as they source something transcendental. The coupling coefficients are just affinities, they are metaphysical and undetermined from mere conditions of necessity. Likewise, when quantum field theory is translated into duplex-space format, the more common coupling constants that are found fine-tuned are probably just non-caused affinities too, but life depends on them being tuned so they appear as constants. Likewise, the mass of particles are probably just affinities that are non-caused, but are found as a precondition for life.

Chapter 7 is a continuation of Chapter 6. Tiller's does not say it, but his ontology is Trinitarian, in the best tradition of Schelling and Hegel. Tiller (page 149) writes: "My working hypothesis is that consciousness is a byproduct, or emergent property, of spirit entering dense matter." Therefore, the duplex-model is consistent with the precondition of consciousness. Any account of consciousness must find itself consistent with its own precondition; this is where scientism fails, but Tiller is wise enough to pick up on this. Tiller (Figure 7.4) describes the three branches of consciousness, a clear indication of Trinitarian thinking: ascending, surrender, and descending.

In Chapter 8, Tiller speculates about remote viewing, psychokinesis, auras, clairvoyance, precognition, telepathy, levitation, materialization (and its reverse), and distant healing.

Tiller's writing is difficult to understand, I cannot say I understand Tiller completely, I may have misrepresented his writing, or Tiller might have left something important out of his thinking; but his book is what it is, and I can't be too critical of a new vision that has now penetrated the dark night of scientism, and my intuitions are telling me this rather strongly. Tiller's Chapter 9 presents prior book reviews written by Thomas Brophy and Todd Stark. Tiller also gives his reaction to Stark's review. This provides a meeting place for those lost in a sea of scientific symbols and jargon. It is a very good chapter. The book comes with a glossary that is also very helpful.

This book is absolutely incredible. I did a research paper on it for my final composition credits. I'm incredibly glad I did, because it forced me to work through the nitty gritty of some mildly dense scientific writing. In the history books, I predict that Tiller's name will be right up there with Einstein and Copernicus. I just hope that traditional science as a whole remembers it's sense of adventure and LOOKS AT THE DATA! Science should be a search for truth, not for internal self consistency.

Tiller has a tremendous mind; an idea builder. This writing is replete with tantalizing notions of human-energetic potential. I'd like to see Tiller write a book in tandem with McTaggert...

This book is a summary of Tiller's life and work in the "avocational" (his words) side of his life: investigating subtle energies using the methods of science. The part of the book that most impressed me was his experiments modifying the pH of solutions by way of intention-imprinted electronic devices (IIEDs). These experiments have been replicated ten times at different locations by him and other people, so they are not just a one-off fluke.

Another part of the book that intrigued me was his notion of an R-space (his words) that is a dual of our normal D-space (that is, our physical reality as we ordinarily experience it). The idea is that R-space is the Fourier transform of the D-space. A Fourier transform is just a mathematical operation that, speaking approximately, has the consequence of making remote thing closer and close things more remote. Tiller invokes this property as a way to explain things like clairvoyance, where something at distance can be known to us. R-space is not just a concept, however: it is a physical space that mirrors D-space. In R-space, alternative properties and forces dominate (magnetism instead of electric charge, inverse gravity (levitation) instead of gravity, etc. What makes this interesting is that Tiller calculates the energy that is required to raise pH and is able to come up with a number that characterizes how much these two spaces are coupled. This is a step beyond the work of Radin, Jahn and others, whose random event generators can show that something unusual happened, but can't give a number that ties into physical properties.

Explaining things by introducing new dimensions is not a new strategy: when Kaluga added one dimension to Einstein's four dimensional relativistic space-time, he found that Maxwell's equations popped out, and when the first version of string theory added more dimensions, we got the graviton. Tiller proposes that R-space and D-space are linked by particles called deltrons. I don't find that the concept of deltrons adds much explanatory power to his R-space theory. In fact, the extra dimensions he needs are already in the complex numbers used in the Fourier transformation. A complex number has both magnitude and phase--two dimensions--so a four-dimension R-space, which is necessarily complex, actually has eight dimensions (four magnitude and four phase). Since Fourier transformations are information-preserving, then R-space has the same information as D-space and it can't be a different thing: just a different representation of the same thing, but where phase effects show up. If so, there is no need for deltrons (though we do need to explain why we don't see the phase side of things in daily life). Nevertheless, I found his Fourier transform view inspiring, even if I could not get on board with his deltrons.

In terms of presentation, it look like he attempted to make a more accessible book by cutting and pasting from previous work and removing equations. The book could have benefited from proof-reading: for example, in an important discussion of results, he wrote that something had a significance with "p < 0.000", and an absolute value "|e|" was written as "1e1". I could follow some parts of the book (like his discussion of Fourier transforms) since I have a engineering background, but I have no idea of what to make of his comments about gauge symmetries. It would have been helpful to have a little tutorial explanation about what this means. It seems like Tiller knows what he knows, but doesn't understand what other people know, and his style seems to be to repeat what he just said, but louder. To his credit, his last chapter included critiques of his work and his responses, though his responses often did not address the points of the critiques, but seemed to be just reiterations of what he had said in previous chapters.

All in all, this book is worth a read. Early in his career Tiller made a decision to pursue this work regardless of the consequences to his career as a material scientist, and we would not have this information in front of us if he had not had the guts to do this.

Extraordinary science book about intention affecting the world. Amazing. William Tiller is a whole life dedicated scientist who has created a theory about reality based in solid laboratory experiments. Waiting for more about this author.

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