Psionics Reading Guide
Psionics Reading Guide
Curated reading paths through the Psionics cluster, organised by reader background. Each path is ordered: read top to bottom. Side-branches are linked but optional.
If you are not sure which path is yours, read the Psionics_Primer first; it ends with a "by interest" table that may be enough.
Path 1 — Curious Public
You have a high-school science background, no calculus, and want to understand "what is this and is it real?".
- Psionics_Primer — the two-page tour.
- What_is_the_Psi_Field — the ψ field in everyday language.
- Why_Does_Physics_Need_Extra_Dimensions — the Kaluza–Klein motivation without indices.
- Famous_Experiments — five most-cited experiments in plain English.
- History_of_Psionics_Research — narrative history.
- Open_Questions_in_Psionics — what is still unknown.
- Psionics_FAQ — the common questions answered.
Side-branches:
- For the human story behind the science → Salvatore_Cezar_Pais, Hal_Puthoff, Karl_Pribram, Stuart_Hameroff.
- For the cosmological context → Schumann_Resonance, Space_Weather.
Path 2 — Esoteric / Meditation Practitioner
You have years of practice in meditation, energy work, qigong, kundalini, Reiki, ceremonial magic, or related traditions, and want to know how that practice maps to ψ-field physics.
- Psionics_Primer — context and frame.
- Map_of_Traditions — how Prana / Qi / Mana / Od / Orgone / Pneuma fit into the ψ ontology.
- Chakras_as_Resonant_Modes — standing-wave structures in the body-localised ψ field.
- Meditation_as_Coherence_Engineering — what trained attention is doing in the equations.
- Practice_to_Theory_Translation_Table — term-by-term correspondence.
- Psi_Energy_Density_Scalar_Field (now a redirect to Psi_Field) — what "energy" means in the formalism.
Side-branches:
- For the body-electric layer → Bioelectromagnetism, Biophotons.
- For group-ritual amplification → see Psionics §"Collective Amplification & Resonance" and Effective_Field_Theory_of_Consciousness.
Path 3 — Undergraduate / Graduate Physics
You have calculus, intro EM, intro QM, ideally a year of GR or QFT. You want to see the canonical equations and the derivation chain.
- Psionics_Primer — skim for the frame.
- Psionics — the canonical equation page.
- 5D_Action_Principle — the parent action and its full derivation.
- Symbol_Glossary — every symbol with units and conventions.
- Sanity_Check_Limits — recovery of known physics in the appropriate limits.
- Modified_Einstein_Equations_with_Psi — how ψ couples to spacetime curvature.
- Soliton_Solutions_of_Psi_Field — non-perturbative solutions; the rigorous basis for stable "thought-forms".
- Effective_Field_Theory_of_Consciousness — symmetry breaking on the consciousness sector.
- Quantization_of_the_Psi_Field — Fock space, propagator, scattering.
- Renormalization_of_Psi_Theory — UV completion concerns.
Side-branches by topic:
- Gravity-side → Gravitoelectromagnetism → Lense-Thirring_Frame_Dragging → Gravity_Probe_B → Gravitomagnetic_London_Moment → Ning_Li_Effect → Cooper_Pair_Mass_Anomaly → Pais_Effect → Pais_Effect_Detailed → Mach_Effect_Thruster → Zero-Point_Energy → Casimir_Effect → Dynamical_Casimir_Effect.
- Extra-dimensions → Kaluza-Klein_Unification → Compactification_in_Kaluza-Klein → Cylinder_Condition → Dilaton → Wesson_Induced_Matter_Theory → Heim_Theory → Higher-Dimensional_Physics → History_of_Kaluza-Klein.
- Quasiparticle / matter → Quasiparticle → Phonons → Magnons → Plasmons → Polaritons → Excitons → Skyrmions → Anyons.
Path 4 — Neuroscience / Biology
You have cellular biology and basic neuroscience. You want to know the biological substrate and the protocols.
- Psionics_Primer — frame.
- Could_the_Brain_Use_Quantum_Mechanics — the Pribram / Penrose / Hameroff story in plain English.
- Biological_Substrate_of_Psi — the ψ-source equation written biologically.
- Microtubule — anatomy, conductance, coherence.
- Bandyopadhyay_Microtubule_Conductance — the kHz–GHz resonance measurements.
- Celardo_Microtubule_Superradiance — 2019 superradiance prediction.
- Kalra_Anaesthetic_Microtubule — 2023 anaesthetic-coupling experiment.
- Orchestrated_Objective_Reduction — the Penrose–Hameroff theory in full.
- Tegmark_Critique_and_Hagan_Rebuttal — the decoherence-time debate.
- Neural_Field_Equations — coupling neural population dynamics to ψ.
- Wilson-Cowan_Coupled_to_Psi — the explicit β·ψ feedback.
- CEMI_Field_Theory — the McFadden EM-field theory of consciousness.
- IIT_Phi_Measure — Tononi integrated information.
- Holonomic_Brain_Theory — Pribram / Bohm holographic model.
- Recurrent_Coherence_Theory — Bruna et al. 2025.
- Biophotons — the Popp / Cifra / Zarkeshian / Kurian lineage.
- Bioelectromagnetism — Becker, Cohen, Boto.
Path 5 — Engineer / Maker
You have circuits, microcontrollers, RF, possibly machining. You want to build something that works and stays safe.
- Psionics_Primer — frame.
- Psionic_Device_Overview — what kinds of device exist.
- Near_Field_Electromagnetics — the regime your device operates in.
- Reactive_Near_Field — energy-storing fields, the workable regime.
- Antenna_Theory_for_Psionic_Devices — Chu–Harrington bounds, bifilar / caduceus / double-helix geometries.
- HelmKit_Architecture — the canonical reference device.
- Psionic_Device_Safety — ICNIRP, SAR, thermal, and ψ-specific hazards.
- SAR_Calculation_for_Psionic_Devices — the explicit calculation.
- Microwave_Auditory_Effect — a known non-thermal effect to design around.
Adjacent technology pages:
- Electrogravitics → Biefeld-Brown_Effect → Mach_Effect_Thruster → Tajmar_Experiments → Podkletnov_Effect.
Path 6 — Historian / Disclosure Researcher
You came in via the declassification record, the Disclosure Project, or the patent archaeology.
- Psionics_Primer
- History_of_Psionics_Research
- Star_Gate_Program (AIR 1995, declassified)
- Salvatore_Cezar_Pais + Pais_Effect + Pais_Effect_Detailed (NAWCAD 2015–2019 patent set)
- Electrogravitics (Aviation Studies 1956)
- Thomas_Townsend_Brown (Project Winterhaven era)
- Heim_Theory (Heim 1959, Dröscher–Häuser 2006)
- Hal_Puthoff (SRI, EarthTech, ZPE / inertia)
- Thomas_Bearden (DoD-adjacent scalar-EM lineage)
- Replication_Crisis_in_Parapsychology — the sociology
- Falsification_Criteria_for_Psionics — what would actually disprove the framework
How the paths interlock
Every path passes through the trunk pages: Psionics, Psi_Field, 5D_Action_Principle, Symbol_Glossary. The remaining pages branch outward by topic. The full dependency graph is rendered at File:Psionics_dependency_dag.png and specified in the prerequisite-chain documentation.