Real Fringe Science - Nazi's, MKULTRA and Technological Augmentation

Real Fringe science is the study of things that are outside of mainstream science; like ESP, telepathy, shared dream states, astral projection, lucid dreaming, neuro-linguistic programming, precognition, remote sensing, collective consciousness, entheogens, brainwave entrainment, anti-gravity, free energy, etc.  Mainstream scientists are often very skeptical of fringe science and sometimes associate it with pseudoscience or junk science.  While pseudoscience lacks the serious application of the scientific method and junk science ignores data to favor an agenda-driven outcome, fringe science uses the scientific method but looks at phenomenon that mainstream science finds to not be worth the time or effort.

Image From Brainwave Entrainment Website - Isochronic Tones

During World War II, Nazi Germany was actively engaged in fringe science research.  They worked heavily on developing paranormal abilities such as ESP, telepathy and telekinesis.  They were also rumored to be working on reverse engineered UFO's and anti-gravity systems.  In the aftermath of WWII, Project Paperclip was the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) program used to recruit scientists from Nazi Germany for employment by the United States government.  Some of those scientists may have been recruited to work for the super-secret Project MKULTRA.  MKULTRA was brought to public attention in 1975 but began operations in the 1950's.  It's best known for its CIA mind control experiments using psychoactive chemicals like LSD.  The CIA's objective was to manipulate individuals mind states and to alter brain function.  Most of the documents about MKULTRA are still classified but some people theorize that their ultimate goal was the creation of a "Manchurian Candidate" through brainwashing techniques.  Later the U.S. Military funded the First Earth Battalion, made famous by the film adaptation of the book "The Men Who Stare At Goats," by Jon Ronson.  The First Earth Battalion tried to train soldiers to see auras, walk through walls, bend metal with their minds, utilize retro-cognition and precognition to gather military intelligence, have out-of-body experiences and remotely view military targets, use telepathy to communicate with each other and... learn how to kill a goat using only their minds.  Before the Hollywood movie, there was an excellent documentary called "Crazy Rulers of the World" made by Jon Ronson.

Crazy Rulers of the World

Eye Telescope - Engadget.com

These days, the United States has been using fringe technology and augmentation for things like seeing using the tongue, seeing through clothes, brain implants, an invisibility cloak or telescope eye implants.  It won't be long before we can reproduce ESP type effects with advanced technology.  On the other hand, it does seem like our consciousness may have the capability of telepathy, access to the collective consciousness, astral projection and better vision but it is hard to study subjective experiences.  Entheogenic substances supposedly have a history of producing these types of experiences, but its almost impossible to verify that they are really happening and incredibly difficult to repeat the results.  Chemical augmentation of the brain may be just as important as technological augmentation, so maybe in the future we will use them together.  Until then, it looks like the real fringe science will be more about accelerated technology than taking LSD or staring at goats.