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Feb 1 15 3:51 AM
There is, without question, a bizarre history pertaining to psychic experimentation. Throughout the Cold War era, world governments sought to explore whether powers of the mind could allow for espionage that far exceeded anything technology could produce. At times, the lengths those in officialdom may have gone to in attempting to unlock the supposed superhuman powers of the mind may have entered the despicable; in likelihood, the full extent to which tests involving humans may have been carried out will never be known. Apart from human experimentation into psychic powers, with little doubt, there were even greater injustices brought against aboriginal children in parts of Canada during the early and middle parts of the twentieth century. These ranged from poor treatment to children being underfed, assaulted, and of course, represented by government when parents existed who should have been considered as legal guardians instead; altogether, a very troubling history of human rights violations is highlighted in the history of Canadian residential schools for aboriginal children. However, a recent Washington Post article, extrapolating on an earlier CBC News piece, connects ESP experiments documented in a 1943 paper with the residential school atrocities in a peculiar way, which appears to involve cherry-picked statements from prominent members of the skeptical community, as well as links to articles about far more invasive “experiments” only tangentially related to ESP tests carried out at Indian Residential School in Brandon, Manitoba.
There is, without question, a bizarre history pertaining to psychic experimentation. Throughout the Cold War era, world governments sought to explore whether powers of the mind could allow for espionage that far exceeded anything technology could produce. At times, the lengths those in officialdom may have gone to in attempting to unlock the supposed superhuman powers of the mind may have entered the despicable; in likelihood, the full extent to which tests involving humans may have been carried out will never be known.
Apart from human experimentation into psychic powers, with little doubt, there were even greater injustices brought against aboriginal children in parts of Canada during the early and middle parts of the twentieth century. These ranged from poor treatment to children being underfed, assaulted, and of course, represented by government when parents existed who should have been considered as legal guardians instead; altogether, a very troubling history of human rights violations is highlighted in the history of Canadian residential schools for aboriginal children.
However, a recent Washington Post article, extrapolating on an earlier CBC News piece, connects ESP experiments documented in a 1943 paper with the residential school atrocities in a peculiar way, which appears to involve cherry-picked statements from prominent members of the skeptical community, as well as links to articles about far more invasive “experiments” only tangentially related to ESP tests carried out at Indian Residential School in Brandon, Manitoba.
Read more @ http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2015/01/bizzarre-esp-experiments-or-shades-of-media-bias/
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