mind?"
"A good soldier, according to some," the general replied sarcastically. "One who will follow orders without question. I don't agree with that, of course. How exactly are you going to affect minds with a bunch of antennas?"
Boreas glanced out the window. A dark part of him appreciated the irony of the questions the general was asking. Plus, this was information he needed to brief Kirtley on, so it wasn't a waste of time. "A radio sends a wave through the air, the distance determined by the power and line of sight for frequency modulated waves: FM. Certain waves, such as high-frequency or amplitude modulated, AM, can bounce off the atmosphere and even go beyond line of sight, again limited only by power of the transmitter."
"I have worked with radios," Eichen said patiently.
"This transmitter is on a different frequency than those," Boreas said. "We have determined that there is a frequency that affects the human mind."
"Affects it how?" Eichen asked.
"Do you know how your mind functions?" Boreas didn't expect an answer or wait for one. "Most people haven't a clue. Do you know what a thought is? Is a thought real? It is real inside your head, isn't it? But is it real outside of your head?"
Boreas was frustrated after years of trying to explain the work to idiots who only believed in things they could see and touch. The Priory didn't need the money from the Black Budget for this. It needed the access to the land to place HAARP on, the satellites that were also to be part of the system, and the scientists the United States could provide.
The Priory had always used existing political structures for its own end. In days of old, when a Prior could stand behind a king and whisper in his ear, it had been easier. It was more difficult now, but even in a democracy there were ways to manipulate power. Out of the paranoia of the Cold War and the legacy of the Black Budget, the Priory had found an avenue to operate within the shadows of the U.S. and Russian governments for decades.
Boreas rapped his knuckles on the edge of his chair. "To you, this is reality. But you will also agree that the voice you hear over your radio is real too. But you can't see it, can you? What does a radio wave consist of?
"There are levels to reality. And the mind operates on one of those levels, which we call the psychic plane, or the virtual one. 'Virtual' means something exists in essence or effect but not in actual form."
The general, as others Boreas had briefed, focused on one word. "Psychic? You mean like those people who advertise those 1-800 psychic hot lines? Or that fellow who claims he can bend a spoon just by looking at it?"
"All 'psychic' means is something that pertains to the mind." Boreas held his anger in check. "Why do scientists constantly ignore the power of the thing they use the most? The core of our being, that which makes us different from the animals? And why do you military men ignore the vulnerabilities of the mind? Control the mind, you control the man. Destroy the mind, you destroy the man. Target the mind with a weapon, and every man is vulnerable, no matter if he is in an armored tank or flying at Mach 2 in a plane.
"What we are doing at HAARP is taking warfare to the virtual level. This weapon; the waves that will be broadcast from these antennas will work as such. Once we fine-tune the proper wavelengths for the psychic or virtual plane, there are numerous directions in which we can pursue research. There's so much we don't understand about the virtual plane, the physics of it For example, what is distance in the virtual plane? If I can visualize in my mind a place a thousand miles from here, have I traveled that far in the virtual plane?"
Eichen didn't seem satisfied. "Wasn't there something on the Russian end like this that caused the recent snafu in Moscow? The nuclear weapon going off?"
"Something like it" Boreas acknowledged. There were only a couple of people in the hierarchy of government who knew of
"A good soldier, according to some," the general replied sarcastically. "One who will follow orders without question. I don't agree with that, of course. How exactly are you going to affect minds with a bunch of antennas?"
Boreas glanced out the window. A dark part of him appreciated the irony of the questions the general was asking. Plus, this was information he needed to brief Kirtley on, so it wasn't a waste of time. "A radio sends a wave through the air, the distance determined by the power and line of sight for frequency modulated waves: FM. Certain waves, such as high-frequency or amplitude modulated, AM, can bounce off the atmosphere and even go beyond line of sight, again limited only by power of the transmitter."
"I have worked with radios," Eichen said patiently.
"This transmitter is on a different frequency than those," Boreas said. "We have determined that there is a frequency that affects the human mind."
"Affects it how?" Eichen asked.
"Do you know how your mind functions?" Boreas didn't expect an answer or wait for one. "Most people haven't a clue. Do you know what a thought is? Is a thought real? It is real inside your head, isn't it? But is it real outside of your head?"
Boreas was frustrated after years of trying to explain the work to idiots who only believed in things they could see and touch. The Priory didn't need the money from the Black Budget for this. It needed the access to the land to place HAARP on, the satellites that were also to be part of the system, and the scientists the United States could provide.
The Priory had always used existing political structures for its own end. In days of old, when a Prior could stand behind a king and whisper in his ear, it had been easier. It was more difficult now, but even in a democracy there were ways to manipulate power. Out of the paranoia of the Cold War and the legacy of the Black Budget, the Priory had found an avenue to operate within the shadows of the U.S. and Russian governments for decades.
Boreas rapped his knuckles on the edge of his chair. "To you, this is reality. But you will also agree that the voice you hear over your radio is real too. But you can't see it, can you? What does a radio wave consist of?
"There are levels to reality. And the mind operates on one of those levels, which we call the psychic plane, or the virtual one. 'Virtual' means something exists in essence or effect but not in actual form."
The general, as others Boreas had briefed, focused on one word. "Psychic? You mean like those people who advertise those 1-800 psychic hot lines? Or that fellow who claims he can bend a spoon just by looking at it?"
"All 'psychic' means is something that pertains to the mind." Boreas held his anger in check. "Why do scientists constantly ignore the power of the thing they use the most? The core of our being, that which makes us different from the animals? And why do you military men ignore the vulnerabilities of the mind? Control the mind, you control the man. Destroy the mind, you destroy the man. Target the mind with a weapon, and every man is vulnerable, no matter if he is in an armored tank or flying at Mach 2 in a plane.
"What we are doing at HAARP is taking warfare to the virtual level. This weapon; the waves that will be broadcast from these antennas will work as such. Once we fine-tune the proper wavelengths for the psychic or virtual plane, there are numerous directions in which we can pursue research. There's so much we don't understand about the virtual plane, the physics of it For example, what is distance in the virtual plane? If I can visualize in my mind a place a thousand miles from here, have I traveled that far in the virtual plane?"
Eichen didn't seem satisfied. "Wasn't there something on the Russian end like this that caused the recent snafu in Moscow? The nuclear weapon going off?"
"Something like it" Boreas acknowledged. There were only a couple of people in the hierarchy of government who knew of
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