Using The Bilateral Psychogalvanometer
The straightforward Skin Resistance galvanometer was one of the earliest electronic tools used in psychological research. One of the first references to the use of this device in psychoanalysis is in a book entitled iStudies in Word Analysis by Carl Gustav Jung, published in 1906. Here the famous Swiss Psychologist describes a technique for connecting a subject to an instrument, which measured changes in the resistance of the skin while words are read to him from a prepared list. If one of...
Procedure For Hemispheric Analysis
Selected stimuli or simple tasks have to be provided for the subject, which would involve one or other side of the brain in typical cases. For example, the subject is asked, first of all, to perform a task in verbal reasoning, like the conundrum of the man looking at a portrait and saying 'brothers and sisters have I none, yet that man's father is my father's son'. The subject is asked to identify who the person is in the portrait. Next one could set simple tasks in mental arithmetic from...
By Keith Wakelam
Gregory Mitchell's contribution to the understanding of biofeedback techniques and skin resistance measurement, together with its use for mind development, has been immense, as is reflected in the first part of this book. The experimental work that composes the second half of the book in connection with the Human Energy Field has been carried out with the help and co-operation of the Bisley sub-group of the Scientific and Medical Network, in particular Roger Taylor, Ken Seddington, John Harman,...
Animal Energy Fields
The other day I went out to visit friends in Farnham. After taking their energy fields and having a general discussion the lady introduced her dog, Bentinck, and insisted that I try to record its energy field as well. It seemed a well-behaved hound and so I struggled to get a reading on the BPG Meter while she held its paws in each of the can electrodes. When I had got a steady needle I captured the spectrum on the Laptop, which didn't look much different from a typical human, with peaks here...
Breathing Rates and their Effect on BPG Meter Readings
The initial instructions in Yoga techniques is concerned with the regulation of breathing rate. In later exercises the student of Yoga is taught to hold the breath for progressively longer periods as an aid to mental development. As regards the effect of breathing upon the Readings of the BPG Meter, the intake of breath induces a rise in cortical arousal, i.e. a slight fall in psychogalvanic resistance. Exhalation induces a higher body resistance and a focus of concentration upon doing things...
The Design Criteria Of The Bpg
The amplifier necessary for this type of Meter must be up to one hundred times as sensitive as the one used in a simple psychogalvanometer. This is because the changes in skin resistance that need to be detected are so much smaller. The focussing of attention in one hemisphere of the brain will cause a smaller change than an arousal of the whole brain and body. The relative differences between left and right sides of the brain in such cases may be less than one percent. The best analogy is that...
Further Notes On Research
A friend borrowed a GSR meter and did some tests at home on himself and with his wife. He rang me a couple of days later and said the peaks were all due to electrical interference of various kinds, AC mains radiation, and various frequencies from his computer and other electric apparatus in the house. One of his key assertions was that the peak frequencies for his wife and himself were the same. It was pointed out that this was to be expected, since they had lived together for a long time and...
Mental Speed
This was referred to in Procedure 11. An approximate test of mental speed is for the subject to recite a well-rehearsed poem of known length as rapidly as possible using inner speech. The average speed, for a guide, is 300 words per minute and the IQ relationship is given by the following formula For example if the recorded speed of inner speech is 500 w.p.m. then 500 -0.5 x 100 128 is the IQ indicated This is only a rough guide so the scores should be rounded off to the nearest five points, so...
Laptop Computer
Some weeks later, having acquired a Laptop computer, it was now able to carry out the critical test of seeing whether the energy field disappeared when the body was completely screened from random electromagnetic fields. The field generated by the laptop is insignificant, so it was only necessary to immerse oneself in the bath. Plots were taken before and during the bath, by placing a wooden shelf across the bath. The difference was that the immersion of the body in water caused all the low...
Vortices And Chaos Theory
In her book Valerie Hunt goes on to suggest that there is a relationship between the vortices of the human energy field and Chaos theory. There is a certain point at which the energies cease to flow smoothly and become chaotic, as though one can become emotionally charged to the point where rage and hysteria supervene. When this happens the vortex is orientated to what is called an 'Attractor' some motive or powerful objective becomes the central point of one's intention and all other things...