it remains perfectly level from left to right. Kozyrev found it was important that the beam weighed much more on one side than the other—in fact ten times as much—as this made it much more sensitive to tiny little movements. However, the real “secret ingredient” was to vibrate the hook the beam was hanging from at a high speed. Once you did this, the beam would move very suddenly and noticeably—even from touching it with the most delicate puff of air. For this very reason, you had to keep it sealed under a glass dome, and suck all the air out of the inside. That way you could guarantee that air would not cause it to move. You then let the beam come to a perfect state of rest, so it doesn’t appear to move at all. However, when there is a flicker in the flow of time, the vibrating speed of the hook at the top will make a subtle but delicate change. The beam is so precariously balanced that this little change in vibrational speed actually causes it to move—noticeably.
Kozyrev found a variety of things that would cause a change in the flow of time, as we will discuss in a minute. However, the greatest surprise of his life came when he was reading Goethe’s classic Faust, in which the hero is approached by the devil, Mephistopheles, and offered the greatest riches of the world in exchange for his immortal soul. Don’t forget that Kozyrev went through grinding hunger, poverty and hard labor in the concentration camp. It’s easy to see how many temptations he must have felt to steal food, shoes, clothing, blankets or soap, or to find a way to avoid working. Thus, the story had a very personal feeling. He sat there reading the book in his lab, near the balance-beam detector. As the story reached its climax, he had a sudden emotional surge. Right at that very same moment, the beam suddenly turned and pointed at him.
This was when he first realized that he had not merely discovered the flow of time. It was not just an energy that flowed in and out of physical matter. It was the energy of Mind as well. The Source Field. With this discovery, Kozyrev could now prove that our thoughts were not locked away privately in our own brains—they created measurable signals that his detectors could pick up. Many more tests confirmed that this effect was real—and in the Global Consciousness Project, we find that when enough people think the same way, it creates a worldwide effect we can measure electronically. Kozyrev’s discovery fits perfectly with everything we discovered in the early chapters—from Backster, Braud and so on. We do appear to be sharing the same Mind—at least to some degree. That energy is all around us—and it actually has fluidlike flow patterns.
Some people might attack Kozyrev’s work and say that it had to be caused by magnetic fields, or static electricity. He prevented this by also placing his detectors inside a Faraday cage, which screens out all electromagnetic fields. Keeping his detectors in a vacuum under glass insured that air couldn’t move them either. If his detector started moving, he was now observing the flow of time directly—a ripple in the Source Field.
Another effective mechanical detector Kozyrev developed was a swinging pendulum, which was also electrically powered like the gyroscope. Once again, if he vibrated the hook it was hanging on, the pendulum responded to the time flow much more noticeably—just like we saw with the balance beam and the gyroscope. In this case, the actual direction of the pendulum’s swing would change. Of course, he also had to keep it sealed in a vacuum and shielded from electromagnetic fields.
Creating and Absorbing Time
So now what? We have three different choices of detectors, but now we have to figure out what we can do to speed up or slow down the flow of time. Kozyrev found that “ice melting, liquid evaporation, dissolution of substances in water and even plant withering” would speed up the flow of time, or create time, as Kozyrev
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