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ABSTRACT: We review some important RSPK cases and discuss physical theoretical concepts that may account for the phenomena. A major problem for the RSPK researcher has been to identify the energy that causes object movements. As a first step in understanding RSPK, Puthoff proposes that the agent makes coherent the random fluctuations of the zero-point energy (ZPE), a plenum of electromagnetic energy that fills space and interacts with gravitation and inertia. Joines has previously suggested that the RSPK process involves psi waves from the agent. The ZPE concept fills in the picture: Psi waves produce a coherent signal directed at a physical object and ZPE provides the energy for RSPK. In the light of the ZPE theory, Joines analyzed the attenuation effects in the Miami, Olive Hill, and Tina Resch cases. The best fit was the product of an exponential decay curve and an inverse distance curve, suggesting that the ZPE may be the connection between psi waves and electromagnetic waves. Friedan's theory, presented in his book Physics from Fisher Information, has implications for the understanding of how RSPK and psi information can be acquired by physical objects, including human observers and information taken to be a physical entity that can flow from one system to another.
Keywords: poltergeist, conscious, subconscious, agent, object movement
RSPK primarily consists of movements of household objects and furniture, that is, objects weigh- ing a few ounces to several pounds. In other words, the occurrences are energetic displays involving material objects that ordinarily are constrained by inertia and gravitation. As a rule, couches and tables move shorter distances than lighter objects, which is to be expected if the light and heavy objects are both subject to energies of the same intensity. At the same time the events reflect the psychological relationship between the agent and others in the area, including investigators.
The first poltergeist case one of us explored (WGR) (Pratt & Roll, 1958) was "the house of flying objects" in the town of Seaford on long Island. Detective Joseph Tozzi, who was in charge of a police investigation, said that he and another police officer had witnessed some of the occurrences and could not explain them away as trickery. At first Tozzi suspected Jimmy, the 12-year-old son in...