American physician, inventor and parapsychology researcher, born Henry Karel Puharić in 1918 and died in 1995. He took his medical degree at Northwestern in 1947, served in the US Army Medical Corps in the mid-1950s, and held dozens of patents, many of them for hearing devices. From the 1950s his research ran to mediumship, altered states and psychic subjects.
He enters this material through Uri (Doubleday, 1974), the book in which he presents Uri Geller as an instrument of a cosmic intelligence called SPECTRA. Jacques Vallee uses that book in The Invisible College as a specimen rather than a source: SPECTRA’s dictated messages measure time in light-years, which is a unit of distance, and so does Geller, which is the kind of leak the book’s test for Automatic Writing is built to catch. The point is not that Puharich was dishonest but that the content of channelled material tracks the humans in the room.
Connections
Uri Geller · Automatic Writing · Jacques Vallee · The Invisible College · Contactee Movement · SPECTRA