Information
Many years ago on science fiction programs the hero would drop a small disk into a recess and a figure would appear who would give instructions or recount a history. In the ’60s it seemed far-fetched. Today it is reality. The concept of a small plastic disk being containing the information of two-hour feature film, often in multiple languages and other details still seems amazing to me.
A good psychic can touch an object that belongs to someone and recount details of them – aspects of their life or character or sometimes find them if they have disappeared by visualising their situation. Information of the person has been encoded onto the object in a similar way as a movie is encoded in a DVD. The encoding mechanism is different, as is the encoding of a VCR tape
Conventional wisdom explains data as being coded by a medium. For example, on a DVD it is by making areas of the surface of the disk sensitive to laser light so that the laser beam is reflected or absorbed. This gives a very tiny area of the disk a bit value – a one or a zero. Millions of these together can encode a sound or a movie. On a VCR tape the data is retrieved by a tape reading head that produces an electrical current as it passes over the tape. This current is identical to the current received by the TV aerial and is passed into a TV set to produce a picture. The concept of having data without an encoding medium seems absurd.
In reality, information and the mechanism for storing the information, the carrier,
are different things. This is how the human brain can contain so much information
is such a small space. The data isn't recorded in any method that can be understood
by conventional science. It is also how information can be encoded in objects
that psychics pick up on.
Edgar Cayce, the American spiritualist, claimed to be able to absorb information from a book by putting it under his pillow at night. In the morning he knew whatever was in the book. Some mystics are able to get information from a book simply by holding it. They can absorb information from a CD in the same way – they are picking up on the information, not the carrier.
