The 'collective screen' (Paulson, 1978)
mechanismOccult & Esoteric · Nations & Geopolitics
Trained minds as one surface, aimed at a few hundred people — and wired together by short wave radio.
Who they are
The instrument proposed in Ralph W. Paulson's 1978 book 'The Discipline of a Psychic Warrior'.
What they do
Groups of disciplined minds working as a single surface, pointed at the people he says actually decide: under 200 of them in the United States, 50 in the Soviet Union, 20 in China.
How it works
This is the part worth keeping. He spends a chapter teaching telepathy, then connects his cells 'to each other and to the central analytic section by short wave radio'. The mind-to-mind channel is taught and then replaced by an ordinary broadcast one. Two US Army officers make the identical swap in 1980, in the opposite order.
Why it matters
It is built so that nothing can count against it. Paulson writes that encouraging ordinary people to disbelieve in collective mental power is to their advantage — so if you doubt it, that was the plan. Compare the same book's Kennedy chapter, which proposes a real experiment that could fail.
The engine's record — word for word
Proposed instrument in paulson_1978_psychic_warrior: trained minds operating as a single surface against the deciding set, counted by Paulson as 'less than 200' (US), 'only 50' (USSR), 'only 20' (China).
Wiring, which is the recordable part: a chapter teaching telepathy, then cells 'connected to each other and to the central analytic section by short wave radio.' The paranormal channel is taught and then substituted by broadcast. Same substitution, reverse order, 23 months later in mindwar — opens on psychotronics, discards it as 'weak, imprecise, and narrow', routes to television + radio.
Self-sealing clause attached: 'it is to our advantage to encourage disbelief in collective mental power, amoung the general population. Only the elites will know the true power of the collective screen.' Engine read: unfalsifiable by construction — disbelief is listed as an objective, so no null result can bear on it. Contrast the same book's JFK chapter, which proposes a ten-riflemen replication test that could fail (scorecard row 287). Held; no evidence any cell existed.
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