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.On thesurface this sounds a little facile and suspiciously like the popular psychology of a newspaperhoroscope, but the test concerns itself more with the order of preference and the detailed significanceof color combinations.It is finding wide and enthusiastic reception in medicine, psychiatry, marriageguidance, and personnel selection.A person's choice of color, in this test or for wallpaper in his bedroom, seems to be guided by theeffect the color has on him, and can be used as an indication of his state of mind.A trained observerlooks at the color and the person together and, by virtue of his special knowledge, can describe theconnections between them.But we all have responses of the 'My, that color suits you' kind.This couldbe because our own psychological reaction to that color agrees with our subjective assessment of thatperson's character, but the fact that there is usually widespread agreement about the combinationsuggests that something more basic is involved.I suggest that the principle of resonance is at work andthat the wavelength of the color and the frequency of the person's field are in sympathy when we findtheir combined effect harmonious.This is a wildly mystical notion, fully in keeping with all the oldsuperstitions about color, but it feels right to me when I look at the problem of color and camouflage. The eggs of the lapwing plover are mottled, like the ground on which they rest; the wings of the carpetmoth have a broken pattern, like the lichen-covered bark of its favorite trees; the body of thecopperhead viper is a patchwork of hues exactly like the leaf litter in which it lives.All thesewonderful effects serve the purpose of concealment and have been evolved over millions of years ofnatural selection, but they were not produced by the animals themselves.The colors and patternscannot be seen by the animal wearing them; their effect is visible only at a distance, so an outsideagency in the form of a predator has to come along like an art critic and pick out the least successfulcamouflage patterns, leaving the better ones alive to produce others of their kind.This process works well over long periods of time, in which adaptations occur over thousands ofgenerations, but some species produce instant changes in their camouflage patterns.A chameleon veryquickly takes on the pattern and the color best suited to any background on which it finds itself.Part ofthis ability depends on what it is able to see around it, but a completely blind chameleon still takes onthe camouflage appropriate to its surroundings.It produces a pattern that, from a distance, harmoniseswith the environment.This has long been a problem in biology, and I see no way of solving it nowunless one assumes that there is a reciprocal interaction between the animal and its habitat.One has only to watch a chameleon in action to realise that it is not a matter of trial-and-errormatching, of producing a black stripe on the tail because there is a corresponding black stripe justthere on the background.What the reptile does is to assume a pattern that blends with the black stripe;it may not even be the same color, but it is always one that fits so well with the background that it isnaturally congruous.The blind chameleon 'suits' its surroundings; it does so in a flash, and from adistance the effect is perfect.It seems to me that this harmony can be explained only by assuming theexistence of something like the life field, which picks up the frequency of the environment andtranslates this into an appropriate and resonant frequency of its own.If such an ability exists, it could account for a phenomenon that is a cause of dissension even amongoccultists.Some claim that, just by holding an object, they can get information about its previousowners.Dealers in antiquities, whose livelihood depends on assessing objects correctly, will often justhold an Egyptian bronze cat or a piece of Mexican jade in their hands and say that it 'feels right'.Theymay be responding to any number of cues associated with the object, but can seldom point to any oneas positive proof of authenticity, preferring to rely on a sense of 'rightness' acquired by exposure toother objects with established pedigrees.This subliminal sensitivity is not uncommon, and although itis almost impossible to prove, it seems reasonable to assume that people leave some kind of mark onthings around them.The alleged ability to read these traces has been called psychometry.PsychometryA bloodhound can detect the traces of a particular person in a room long after he has left it, perhapseven after he has died elsewhere.The psychometrist claims to do the same, but not by smell.If ahealer changes the structure of water just by holding it in his hand for half an hour, what effect does hehave on a wristwatch he wears for half a lifetime? If a barley seed can tell the difference betweenordinary and handled water, is it unreasonable to assume that a man can distinguish a brand-newobject, untouched by human hand, from one that has been fondled for twenty years? I believe that there are differences and that they are discernible, but proving this is another matter.There have been casual tests made by presenting objects for psychometry in sealed containers, but nogood, controlled investigation has yet been made.I predict that when one is, it will provide evidenceof our ability to detect traces of human contact with things, but that there will be a limit to the amountof information we can get in this way.A fox can tell from traces on a tree not only that there is a malein the territory but who he is and what he last had to eat.Our territorial displays are nowpredominantly visual: the initials carved on the tree include a date and perhaps even an address, butthere must have been a time when early man, with a comparatively poor sense of smell, could havemade good use of a talent such as psychometry.(194) There are people today who claim to be able totell the sex of the person who last used a particular Stone Age hand ax.This might once have been avery useful piece of information.The nearest we can get to some sort of understanding of psychometry is an extraordinary series ofexperiments still going on in Czechoslovakia.They began with Robert Pavlita, design director of atextile plant near Prague.He invented a new weaving process that was so successful he could afford toretire and devote all his attention to his hobby of metallurgy.This continued until he discovered thatan alloy of a particular shape had strange properties.If handled often, it seemed to accumulate energyand to attract even non-magnetic objects [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.On thesurface this sounds a little facile and suspiciously like the popular psychology of a newspaperhoroscope, but the test concerns itself more with the order of preference and the detailed significanceof color combinations.It is finding wide and enthusiastic reception in medicine, psychiatry, marriageguidance, and personnel selection.A person's choice of color, in this test or for wallpaper in his bedroom, seems to be guided by theeffect the color has on him, and can be used as an indication of his state of mind.A trained observerlooks at the color and the person together and, by virtue of his special knowledge, can describe theconnections between them.But we all have responses of the 'My, that color suits you' kind.This couldbe because our own psychological reaction to that color agrees with our subjective assessment of thatperson's character, but the fact that there is usually widespread agreement about the combinationsuggests that something more basic is involved.I suggest that the principle of resonance is at work andthat the wavelength of the color and the frequency of the person's field are in sympathy when we findtheir combined effect harmonious.This is a wildly mystical notion, fully in keeping with all the oldsuperstitions about color, but it feels right to me when I look at the problem of color and camouflage. The eggs of the lapwing plover are mottled, like the ground on which they rest; the wings of the carpetmoth have a broken pattern, like the lichen-covered bark of its favorite trees; the body of thecopperhead viper is a patchwork of hues exactly like the leaf litter in which it lives.All thesewonderful effects serve the purpose of concealment and have been evolved over millions of years ofnatural selection, but they were not produced by the animals themselves.The colors and patternscannot be seen by the animal wearing them; their effect is visible only at a distance, so an outsideagency in the form of a predator has to come along like an art critic and pick out the least successfulcamouflage patterns, leaving the better ones alive to produce others of their kind.This process works well over long periods of time, in which adaptations occur over thousands ofgenerations, but some species produce instant changes in their camouflage patterns.A chameleon veryquickly takes on the pattern and the color best suited to any background on which it finds itself.Part ofthis ability depends on what it is able to see around it, but a completely blind chameleon still takes onthe camouflage appropriate to its surroundings.It produces a pattern that, from a distance, harmoniseswith the environment.This has long been a problem in biology, and I see no way of solving it nowunless one assumes that there is a reciprocal interaction between the animal and its habitat.One has only to watch a chameleon in action to realise that it is not a matter of trial-and-errormatching, of producing a black stripe on the tail because there is a corresponding black stripe justthere on the background.What the reptile does is to assume a pattern that blends with the black stripe;it may not even be the same color, but it is always one that fits so well with the background that it isnaturally congruous.The blind chameleon 'suits' its surroundings; it does so in a flash, and from adistance the effect is perfect.It seems to me that this harmony can be explained only by assuming theexistence of something like the life field, which picks up the frequency of the environment andtranslates this into an appropriate and resonant frequency of its own.If such an ability exists, it could account for a phenomenon that is a cause of dissension even amongoccultists.Some claim that, just by holding an object, they can get information about its previousowners.Dealers in antiquities, whose livelihood depends on assessing objects correctly, will often justhold an Egyptian bronze cat or a piece of Mexican jade in their hands and say that it 'feels right'.Theymay be responding to any number of cues associated with the object, but can seldom point to any oneas positive proof of authenticity, preferring to rely on a sense of 'rightness' acquired by exposure toother objects with established pedigrees.This subliminal sensitivity is not uncommon, and although itis almost impossible to prove, it seems reasonable to assume that people leave some kind of mark onthings around them.The alleged ability to read these traces has been called psychometry.PsychometryA bloodhound can detect the traces of a particular person in a room long after he has left it, perhapseven after he has died elsewhere.The psychometrist claims to do the same, but not by smell.If ahealer changes the structure of water just by holding it in his hand for half an hour, what effect does hehave on a wristwatch he wears for half a lifetime? If a barley seed can tell the difference betweenordinary and handled water, is it unreasonable to assume that a man can distinguish a brand-newobject, untouched by human hand, from one that has been fondled for twenty years? I believe that there are differences and that they are discernible, but proving this is another matter.There have been casual tests made by presenting objects for psychometry in sealed containers, but nogood, controlled investigation has yet been made.I predict that when one is, it will provide evidenceof our ability to detect traces of human contact with things, but that there will be a limit to the amountof information we can get in this way.A fox can tell from traces on a tree not only that there is a malein the territory but who he is and what he last had to eat.Our territorial displays are nowpredominantly visual: the initials carved on the tree include a date and perhaps even an address, butthere must have been a time when early man, with a comparatively poor sense of smell, could havemade good use of a talent such as psychometry.(194) There are people today who claim to be able totell the sex of the person who last used a particular Stone Age hand ax.This might once have been avery useful piece of information.The nearest we can get to some sort of understanding of psychometry is an extraordinary series ofexperiments still going on in Czechoslovakia.They began with Robert Pavlita, design director of atextile plant near Prague.He invented a new weaving process that was so successful he could afford toretire and devote all his attention to his hobby of metallurgy.This continued until he discovered thatan alloy of a particular shape had strange properties.If handled often, it seemed to accumulate energyand to attract even non-magnetic objects [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]