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    Amazing and Wonderful Mind Machines You Can BuildG. Harry Stine – Amazing and Wonderful Mind Machines You Can BuildTop of the Mountain Publishing | 1994 | ISBN: 1560870753 | 208 pages | PDF | 16.5 MBThe book covers such things as pyramids, dowsing rods, energy wheels, and a couple of “strange machines” called the Hieronymus machine (after its inventor) and the Wishing Machine. It even delves into the realm of “symbolic machines,” variations of these devices which work even if only the schematic is used. Stine discusses his introduction to these devices, his experiments with them, people’s reactions to them, and directions/methods for further research. Although not mentioned in this book, other countries, such as the former USSR, researched such things heavily, and are rumored to have made some very strange and possibly dangerous strides in this field which they call “energetics.”If you think that there is no scientific basis for any of this, you are not current in cutting-edge physics (which is in turn billions of years behind the Universe itself). The work of Myron Evans in O(3) Electrodynamics, Sach’s Unified Field Theory, and Michael Leyton’s work in higher dimensional symmetry, among others, give plenty of theoretical basis for these beasties to function…Those who think such things are frauds should not waste their time here. This book is for people who are rational, open-minded, and believe in the empirical part of scientific method. Try them and decide for yourself, unless you prefer to let others do all your thinking for you. Remember, all great scientific breakthroughs were fought tooth and nail by the “keepers of the status quo” of their time.Quote:Some Readers’ Reviews5.0 out of 5 stars in a class by itself, March 28, 2004By Jon Norris (Oregon, USA) – See all my reviews(TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (VINE VOICE)   This review is from: Amazing and Wonderful Mind Machines You Can Build (Paperback)This is a strange and fun little book that challenges one’s understanding of the world as we are told it exists. The ideas and devices discussed herein are “impossible” or “frauds” by the standards of some. The trouble is, they work! Maybe not always and for everyone, but they work often enough for some pretty level-headed engineer types like John Campbell and G. Harry Stine to be convinced. Campbell was the famous (some would say infamous) editor of Analog magazine during its heyday, and Stine worked as an engineer in the aerospace industry. I have personally used dowsing rods and they worked for me even though I didn’t believe they would work at all. (It was a very strange feeling when they moved, too.)The book covers such things as pyramids, dowsing rods, energy wheels, and a couple of “strange machines” called the Hieronymus machine (after its inventor) and the Wishing Machine. It even delves into the realm of “symbolic machines,” variations of these devices which work even if only the schematic is used. Stine discusses his introduction to these devices, his experiments with them, people’s reactions to them, and directions/methods for further research. Although not mentioned in this book, other countries, such as the former USSR, researched such things heavily, and are rumored to have made some very strange and possibly dangerous strides in this field which they call “energetics.”If you think that there is no scientific basis for any of this, you are not current in cutting-edge physics (which is in turn billions of years behind the Universe itself). The work of Myron Evans in O(3) Electrodynamics, Sach’s Unified Field Theory, and Michael Leyton’s work in higher dimensional symmetry, among others, give plenty of theoretical basis for these beasties to function…Those who think such things are frauds should not waste their time here. This book is for people who are rational, open-minded, and believe in the empirical part of scientific method. Try them and decide for yourself, unless you prefer to let others do all your thinking for you. Remember, all great scientific breakthroughs were fought tooth and nail by the “keepers of the status quo” of their time.This book is for people who want to push the envelope, not hide in it.5.0 out of 5 stars quirky but fascinating, November 9, 2003By DRYWASHER-BILL (LAS VEGAS, NEVADA) – See all my reviewsAmazon Verified Purchase(What’s this?)This review is from: Amazing and Wonderful Mind Machines You Can Build (Paperback)this is a really neat little book that focuses on gadgets that you can build, along with some that you only have to draw. I have tried a few of these in the past, and for whatever reason, they work without a hitch; EVEN WHEN THEY SHOULD NOT WORK AT ALL. SOME MACHINES IN THE BOOK ONLY NEED BE DRAWN, AND THEY WORK AS IF IT WAS AN ACTUAL PHYSICAL CONTRAPTION!This book represents plans and ‘machines’ the author made himself, following plans from other inventors and experimenters. He mentions other curious machines and theories, but, unfortunately for all of us, did not include any of those, as he felt they were ‘unverified’ by him. It would have been an interesting trail to follow if he would have. (Of course, for all of us tinkerers, how would it have been if Tesla had left simpler plans for us too?).The ideas and machines in this book date from the 1950’s. Even one of the ‘battery-powered’ ones does not need any batteries to work- just a schematic sketch of one! Strange but true.5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing!, June 1, 1999By A CustomerThis review is from: Amazing and Wonderful Mind Machines You Can Build (Paperback)Definately a “specialty” book (ie not for everyone). I have constructed most of the devices in the book and all have worked. Some of the machines were slightly technical, but easy to understand with a basic grasp for electronics. Buy it, it will be worth the twelve bucks.   3.0 out of 5 stars Experiments on the Frontier of Science, June 1, 1998By A CustomerThis review is from: Amazing and Wonderful Mind Machines You Can Build (Paperback)This is an interesting an short little book describing various simple machines that you can build (that actually work sometimes) to test psychokinetic abilities and other little known and unexplained phenomena. The author challenges his readers to experiment scientifically and to try to come up with hypotheses as to why these machines work. Emphasis is wholly on science and rationalism, not occultism.   4.0 out of 5 stars Simple and Straightforward, September 16, 2003By Jack Purcell (Placitas, NM USA) – See all my reviewsThis review is from: Amazing and Wonderful Mind Machines You Can Build (Paperback)And it appears to work. I’ve had this book around for several years. Occasionally I’ll pull it off the bookshelf and try another of the experiments Stine describes. Thus far I’ve found them to work without being actually useful. However, as a matter for exciting the curiousity and reinforcing the understanding we sometimes forget, that science and humans don’t understand much about the universe, this book is great. I’d recommend it to readers of all ages.   4.0 out of 5 stars It really works, April 13, 1999By A CustomerThis review is from: Amazing and Wonderful Mind Machines You Can Build (Paperback)This is a great little book. Unforntunately alot of the machines are hard to make since they require a working knowlegde of electronics. But I did manage to make one of them. The Energy Wheel. It does actually work but not really by Paranormal means. Its actually more quantum physics & phsyiology. You have a small magenetic field around you. In marshall sylver’s book “Passion, Profit & Power” he explains that concious thought has a phycosymatic effect on your body. You move the wheel by placing your hands around it & imagining it moving your desired direction. This pycosymatically amplifys the magnetic feild around your hands making the wheel move so its not really thought waves that make the wheel turn but it’s still a fun little gadget to play around with.   4.0 out of 5 stars I Bought It As A Joke, November 23, 2008By The Middleman “Ron” (Iraq (Deployed)) – See all my reviewsAmazon Verified Purchase(What’s this?)This review is from: Amazing and Wonderful Mind Machines You Can Build (Paperback)Books like this have been around since I was a teen and I always saw them advertised in the back of magazines in the library. I remember discussing it with someone I grew up with who had also seen these books advertised.So, for their birthday I purchased this book as a joke. He and I actually built a simple little device that is supposed to move when you stare at it. In other words – your mind moves it. The bloody thing worked!!! Go figure! I never believed in any of this stuff before. So we sealed the device under glass so that air movement could not effect it. It STILL WORKED!!! Again, go figure. This book is full of fun little devices that will indeed challenge your sense of reality a bit, unless you alread believe in these things. It will then confirm your sense of reality I suppose.   5.0 out of 5 stars The Most Amazing Book I Own, February 25, 2007By Dottie A. Randazzo “reader of everything” (Delaware, USA) – See all my reviews(REAL NAME)   This review is from: Amazing and Wonderful Mind Machines You Can Build (Paperback)This book is amazing. I actually did the Energy Wheel and made a YouTube video showing it working entitled “Pure Mind Power” can be seen under 333CreativeGirl. The author is very clear that this doesn’t work for everyone and he isn’t sure why is works for some and not others. Highly recommended.   4.0 out of 5 stars Fun things to do, April 21, 2008By frogs “lotsafrogs” (UT) – See all my reviewsThis review is from: Amazing and Wonderful Mind Machines You Can Build (Paperback)This book is really interesting and fun to experiment with on a multi-level factor of easy to complicated projects.   5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely Fabulous, February 15, 2001By Peter Bjarke Juul (Lyngby, Denmark) – See all my reviewsThis review is from: Amazing and Wonderful Mind Machines You Can Build (Paperback)It is a rare author that writes books, that – like this one – enables its readers to expand their psychic abilities in actual, working, cost-effective ways.I have not actually physically read the book, but I build the retro-temporal text-to-mindfield converter that will be in the eighth edition of the book and using that, I transfered the plans for this device to my mind of last week, so that I could build the machine.It really works. There is no other way I could have build a retro-temporal text-to-mindfield converter as much of the science (such as macro-quantum gravity inverters) has not yet been developed.