The Real Story of the Men Who Stare at Goats

As posted on "News Monster":
http://www.newsmonster.co.uk/paranormal-unexplained/the-real-story-of-the-men-who-stare-at-goats.html

Here's a selection I found especially thought-provoking:

"The military was not content to use psychics merely to gather intelligence. They wanted to go further and use them for offensive purposes too. This drive soon turned to paranoia when the Americans learned of a huge Russian programme to develop psychic and ‘psychotronic' weapons. Over 40 Russian institutes were involved.

Psychotronic weapons use sound, radiation or powerful electromagnetic fields to scramble the mind. The Americans were terrified that the Russians would use psychics to disable their nuclear missiles and psychotronic weapons to drive their soldiers insane. They were unaware that the Russians had discovered that psychotronics were a damp squib.

In any case, American laws (and ethics) forbade the development of psychotronic weapons, so they focused their attention on such psychic abilities as psychokinesis - the supposed power to move objects using the power of the mind. American psychics were soon tasked with manipulating the innards of Russian computers and erasing their hard discs. They were then asked to interfere with the detonators of nuclear weapons and interrupt the guidance systems of missiles. All of this work is still highly classified.

Things soon turned far more sinister. The military began studying the power of human thought to inflict damage on living creatures. In technical parlance its known as DMILS (Direct Mental Interaction with Living Systems). It's the basis of spiritual healing - and its flip-side, the Gypsy's curse.

In the late 1960s, American scientists discovered that focusing bitter, vindictive and negative thoughts on mould - the scientific equivalent of the Gypsy's curse - inhibited its growth. In one study, out of 194 mould samples ‘cursed', 151 showed retarded growth. And if all that wasn't strange enough, in later experiments some of those attempting to influence the mould were stationed 15 miles away. Other scientists soon found that negative thoughts could also slow the growth of the food poisoning bug E. coli."

Very Interesting to say the least.