Topic: Montauk Chair

The Montauk Chair was a lounge chair equipped with crystal radio receivers designed to pick up and amplify the thoughts of a psychic. These mental waves were then broadcast through a large transmitter tower to influence the moods and behaviors of people and animals. The technology is compared to a guitar amplifier, using radio waves to increase the reach of human consciousness and intent.

Marie D. Jones explains "chronesthesia," or mental time travel, as a neurological ability to travel subjectively through time with greater detail than standard memory. She compares certain "mental" time travel claims to the Carl Sagan movie "Contact," where the protagonist experiences a journey that observers do not see. The segment argues that the brain's ability to transcend linear time is a more fruitful area of research than physical craft.