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Get Familiar with Willis Harman

Posted Aug 28, 2007

Biography - I am in my eighth year of my eighth decade and I have had three careers really, I taught engineering systems at Stanford University for a good many years and then I became a futurist at Stanford Research Institute for 16 years and then I was invited to come up to the Institute for Noetic Sciences, and I have been here since 1977. I came to California after World War II, got acquainted with Stanford University and went there to finish graduate work.

Willis Harman led one hell of an interesting life. He was born in 1918 and joined the Navy after high school -- a position that landed him on board the USS Maryland on December 7, 1941 during the Pearl Harbor attack. He survived the experience and went on to become one of the most influential unknown intellects of the past century. Of course, the reason we're discussing him at all is because he co-authored "Changing Images of Man" in 1974 -- but there's a great deal more going on in Willis Harman's unified field.

Although "Changing Images of Man" is, as a document, shockingly frank about social control and the use of science to enslave the masses, it's also a truly great book. On one hand, it's discussion of manipulating social trends and "counterculture" movements as a means of control is disturbing -- but on the other hand, all of the observations and theory discussed in the book really will make you a smarter person. The quality and level of analysis in Changing Images is the real reason we recommend it so often -- the "revelations of conspiracy" angle actually pales in comparison....but don't forget that angle is there, either.

The history of social control is full of sick monsters like Paul Hoch, Josef Mengle or Jose Delgado -- none of them are nearly as interesting or intelligent as Willis Harman, and you can be damn sure none of them talk quite like this:

Well, according to science, about 15 billion years or so ago, there was a big bang and the universe began to evolve and this was an evolution of stars and the planets and then elementary life forms on at least one of those planets. This all happened accidentally; that is, things were behaving according to scientific laws and coincidentally, certain chemical elements came together in such a way as to create the first elementary life forms.

We know the authority of modern science, especially now with quantum physics and chaos theory, and it looks as though it's on the edge of really explaining everything. This dominant myth infuses our education system, it infuses our health care system, it infuses our legal justice system-every institution in society.

So, what if it were wrong? It would affect everything. Now that's a pretty bold statement-and remember that I was trained as a scientist too and I have a lot of respect for science in terms of what it does. But what we've done, in modern society, is to take this scientific world view which was really aimed at prediction, and control, and creating technologies, and we've given it so much prestige and power that we put it in the position of a world view to try to live our lives by, and guide our societies by, and shape our powerful institutions by, and that's where it gets to be misleading. I could quibble and make it sound a little bit better if I just said "incomplete" or a "little bit off" but I don't want to say that. I want us to think seriously about the possibility that there is a fundamental error in there and that it's important for ordinary citizens to recognize that.

The Dark Side of Willis "Harmon"

Willis Harman Stanford SRI It's amazing how much you can learn from tracing a typo. If you take the time to google "Willis Harmon" you will discover that ol' Willis had a shadow twin, an evil genius who manipulated entire generations from his secret lair in California. Perhaps this typo has it's roots in Chapter 13 of Jim Keith's Mind Control, World Control -- but it probably predates Keith, beginning in the work of Lyndon LaRouche followers who reported on Changing Images for the Executive Intelligence Review. LaRouche is downright sober in comparison to folks like the anonymous author of "Aquarian Mind Control" -- dig:

The "Changing Images of Man" is a serious 314-page report overseen by the Stanford Research Institute, and was written by the president of Stanford's Institute of Noetic Sciences, Willis Harmon!!! This explains why Harmon and Lambert Dolphin conducted LSD experiments, among other means of tampering with the mind. But more than re-education, this scheme was an obvious attempt to disarm the next generation of their wits so that Osiris in our face could be hastened in time for the Age of Aquarius. Armageddon upon these fiends is justified already, but common society must yet be indoctrinated into greater degeneration...witchcraft, homosexuality, child sex, and the love of murder.

Having spent the past six months reading pretty much everything that Willis Harman has written, I gotta say that only "witchcraft" gets discussed in Changing Images. Of course, Harman himself bluntly admitted he was part of a conspiracy -- an Aquarian Conspiracy, no less. As noted in the introduction to Changing Images:

The emerging transformation of society seems to be proceeding by way of a diffuse network of inter-related influences, no one of which seeks to be a "central project." Certainly many of the ideas contained in Changing Images of Man are being debated and extended in a variety of settings throughout the society. Two recent books, New Age Politics (Satin, 1978) and the Aquarian Conspiracy (Ferguson, 1980) describe much of this activity from a proponent's point of view.

It's also worth repeating how Willis "Harmon" gets mentioned in Remote Viewing: The Real Story, the autobiography of Remote Viewing guru Ingo Swann:

At some point later in the morning, Hal [Puthoff] came briefly away from his precious telephone saying that Dr. Willis Harmon was on his way over to meet me. "He'll probably take you to lunch, so I'll see you later this afternoon."

I had no idea who Harmon was. Eli explained that he was one of the pillars of SRI, with his own staff and building at SRI, an office in Washington, D.C., and that he was connected to the highest places everywhere possible.

Rumors and speculation are a ton of fun, but in terms of raw facts there's very little dirt on Willis Harman. The folks over at mindcontrol forums sum up Harman's relationship with SRI's "Remote Viewing" programs up just about perfectly:

There is evidence that, while at SRI, Harman was at least interested in and knowledgeable of the remote-viewing program, even if he was not directly involved. He wrote the introduction to Mind Race, written by Russell Targ and Keith Harary, which dealt with the program. He referred to their research in some of his writings, and he's president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, which provided some of the projects early funding.

Reflections on "Changing Images"

DiCarlo: For many years, you were a futurist for Stanford Research International. In your view, what are the major trends impacting us at this time, and what do you suppose the future has in store for us?

In terms of the new paradigm, nothing is impacting us. It's all coming from within. But in the more practical terms in which you meant the question, I think we really have two fundamental problems. One is ecological sustainability. And the other involves the coherence of our society in view of the tremendously powerful alienating forces that are coming about. This sense of alientation is very much related to the increasing rich/poor gap, and the increasing awareness on the part of the poor that it's not an accident.

The combination of those two is going to require a total re-definition of society and the social contract. Most people aren't really ready to think in those terms yet.

---from this interview on "Revisioning Science"

MISHLOVE: You headed a team at SRI International that wrote a very influential report called Changing Images of Man, in which you looked at the idea that human beings are beginning to conceive of ourselves in ways that are new.

HARMAN: That's true. That was almost fifteen years ago, and that was a very risky thing for the Kettering Foundation to do at the time, or at least they viewed it that way -- to raise this question: is something happening that is so fundamental that you could say that the basic image of human beings is shifting from what it had been to something new? This was in the early seventies, and we came up with the conclusion that yes, there was a lot of evidence that that was happening.

--from an interview with Willis Harman about "Global mind change," courtesy of Jeffery Mishlove.

Further Digging

Willis Harman Stanford SRI A Changing Worldview -- Harman's Great Big Statement.

Two Liberating Concepts for Research on Consciousness -- a very, very meaty short essay from Harman.

Superpowers of the Human Biomind -- anyone interested in Remote Viewing should check out Ingo Swann's under-publicized and over-stuffed archive of firsthand information.

Leonard Sweet & Willis Harman discuss the concept of "Metanoia"

...and as a closing mind-bender, read one of the more "sane" conspiracy rants I've found this year: Global Gesalt and Planetary Sovereignty, which genuinely spooked me several times.