Abstract

This paper explores three issues, the evidence for RSPK, the space where it occurs and the energy that underlies the phenomena. Roll summarizes three of his investigations where he considers the evidence for RSPK especially convincing, the Miami case, the Olive Hill case, and a study at Spring Creek Institute, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. In Miami he and J.G. Pratt set up a test for macro-PK by using drinking glasses and other objects as targets and placing them in the active areas. Ten of the targets moved when no one was near, including Julio, the 19-year-old agent. In Olive Hill, Roll and John Stump saw the movement of several objects from beginning to end when they were watching Roger, the 12-year-old agent, and when he could not have interfered with the objects. At Spring Creek, where 14-year-old Tina Resch was being tested for micro-PK, there were RSPK object-movements during rest periods, including eight targets from a table to which the girl had no access.

In the Tina Resch and other cases, there were reports of objects appearing or disappearing from closed space. Hans Bender and George Owen noted that such events could occur if the world has four dimensions; objects moving in space-time beyond the window of human perception would then seem to appear or disappear. Roll notes that this is what happens to our thoughts and feelings when we remember and forget. If "psyche and matter (are).. inseparably entangled," as Bender proposed, objects that are forgotten might actually disappear and remembered objects might return. To allow for such possibilities, Roll suggests that we imagine that objects have a fifth aspect or dimension which is experienced as meaning. This accords with common experience and provides an understanding of psi. In ESP the meaning of an object is present although its material form is absent; in RSPK the agent interacts with the meaning of the object and thereby with its physical condition.

Studies of the agent, the times and places where RSPK is observed, and the occurrences themselves, suggest that RSPK is due to a mental energy that interacts with physical energies, including electromagnetic energy. A large proportion of RSPK agents show symptoms of complex partial seizure (CPS), that is, they are subject to sudden electromagnetic discharges in the brain. It is unlikely that these are of sufficient amplitude for RSPK. Bender (and Owen as well) thought that the agent might organize rather than generate the needed energy. There is some support for this since RSPK tends to occur at times of increased geomagnetic activity. The RSPK occurrences themselves suggest a wave process because they decrease with increased distance from the agent.

On the basis of these and other observations, Roll makes a series of predictions about RSPK:

RSPK agents will predominantly be 12-14 years old, be of either sex, show symptoms of CPS, exhibit brain­stem anomalies, and be subject to psychological stress. RSPK object-movements will show exponential decline with increased distance from agent, repeatedly involve the same object, type of object and area irrespective of distance from agent, involve objects and areas that are emotionally meaningful to the agents and people with whom the agent interacts, generally last less than three months, originate at times of increased global geomagnetic macro-PK, visual observation of objects will impede their movement, and attention to the agent, including visual observation, will facilitate the movement of objects.

Roll completes his paper with Jah and Dunne's orioisak ti regard the union of the mind and matter as an example of complementary relation rather than an irreconciliable contradiction.