Several years ago we received copies of documents seeking funding from the US Government for research into the use of fMRI machines as lie detectors. This latest development easily trumps that application by creating a video representation of human visual perception.
Once perfected, this method of producing a visual simulation of your mind's eye visual images could be applied to test whether or not human beings are, as some have suggested over the years, telepathically connected to each other.
In my article, "SECRET Paranormal 'Quantum Mind' Research Behind 'The Men Who Stare at Goats', I wrote about how explorations into the nature of human consciousness had become a network of "fringe research, foreign operatives and scientists, the intelligence communities, the use of the Internet for espionage, and, most importantly, real anomalous data."
Whether or not telepathic communication is a real, presumably natural (quantum mind?) phenomenon, sooner or later it will become an artificially produced and controlled technology. Imagine Google Super-Telepathy-Plus or Mind Book, a kind of social networking shared directly from your personal conscious thoughts onto a vast network of computer mediated information.
Then, consider this: CIA psychic spy Ingo Swann claimed his telepathy-plus contact with something not of this Earth scared him so much, he feared the alleged extraterrestrial alien presence would "zap his brains out of existence."
And when the real extraterrestrial alien super-intelligence arrives, how will they interface with human beings? I suspect the experience -- mediated by plugging human brain-minds into an otherworldly Internet -- will be more like a 'psychedelic trip' than the nice kind of conversation envisioned by the good folks of SETI.
