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aliases	category	tags	summary	born	died	location
Harry Stump Harry Stone	Psychics & Remote Viewers	Psi Person RemoteViewer	Harry Stump was a Dutch sculptor and channeler whose trance states, automatic writing and drawings drew the attention of Andrija Puharich and his wealthy benefactors.	1923	1998	Netherlands

Harry Stump was a Dutch sculptor and channeler who gained the attention of Andrija Puharich and his wealthy benefactors due to his purported psychic abilities, particularly his capacity to enter trance states and produce automatic writings and drawings¹.

Stump was a World War II resistance fighter in his native Holland, honored by the Dutch government for his work against the Nazi Germany. He was captured, beaten, and tortured by the Gestapo during the war¹.

Puharich met Stump at a dinner party hosted by Alice Astor Bouverie. In June 1954, Bouverie contacted Puharich about an incident where Stump, after handling a 3,400-year-old scarab-shaped necklace, entered a trance state and began drawing Egyptian hieroglyphs and speaking in a guttural voice, seemingly channeling an entity from ancient Egypt. During this trance, Stump spoke of "a drug that would stimulate one's psychic faculties" and drew a picture of a mushroom, which Puharich later identified as Amanita muscaria¹. This event was significant as it provided the Central Intelligence Agency with a key lead in their year-long, unsuccessful quest to locate the teonanáctl mushroom for Project MKUltra¹.

Puharich testified in 1968 that Stump was one of nine principal subjects he tested at the Round Table Foundation.²

Puharich became obsessed with Stump's channeling abilities and the hallucinogenic mushroom. He brought Stump to the Round Table Foundation and, in August 1955, attempted to drug him with teonanáctl to test its divinatory powers, with Aldous Huxley as a witness. The experiment did not yield the desired results, with Stump appearing drunk and confused¹.

On September 29 and 30, 1956, Puharich ran a demonstration at the foundation for members of the Psychic Research Society of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The demonstration included split Matching Abacus Test series between Peter Hurkos and Stump, each in a separate Faraday cage about 18 feet apart. Most runs scored at chance; for Demonstration No. 11 (50 trials, 18 on-target hits) the report states that the results "were considered evidence for the existence of telepathic interaction on the part of Mr. Stone and Mr. Hurkos."³ The report writes the subject's name "Mr. Stone"; appellant's counsel writes "Harry Stone," and Puharich's testimony spells it "Harry Stump."⁴

Stump's psychic powers began to wane, and the "Egyptian persona" rarely appeared. He became depressed as his trance powers vanished, and his traditional sculpture and painting work suffered¹.

Footnotes

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1. Jacobsen, Annie. Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis. Little, Brown and Company, 2017. ↩︎

2. Transcript of Record, Puharich v. Brenner, No. 22286 (D.C. Cir.), Appx. 66a-67a. https://archive.org/details/dc_circ_1968_22286_henry_k_puharich_v_edward_j_brenner ↩︎

3. Plaintiff's Exhibit 7, Puharich report, Transcript of Record, Puharich v. Brenner, Appendix, sections 8.80 to 8.85 (Appx. p. 178a). https://archive.org/details/dc_circ_1968_22286_henry_k_puharich_v_edward_j_brenner ↩︎

4. Transcript of Record, Appendix, Puharich v. Brenner, No. 22286 (D.C. Cir.), Appx. 66a-67a and the Plaintiff's Exhibit 7 report. https://archive.org/details/dc_circ_1968_22286_henry_k_puharich_v_edward_j_brenner ↩︎