DOME - Development of Mental Energy (tm) PRELIMINARY INFORMATION Project DOME serves a twofold purpose, one of which is to provide interested individuals with general information on the subject of parapsychology. The second, and the focus of this program, known simply as "DOME", is to enable anyone to utilize the ideas behind ESP testing in a specially designed computer environment. This will result in, by way of evaluation, a measure of how effective one is at using his/her extrasensory perception, or ESP. Please read the following information before using the program. It will give you a good idea of what is contained in the distribution package, inform you how to make copies for others, and provide you with registration information. At the end, you will find a questionnaire dealing with personal experiences or feelings on the subjects of parapsychology and UFO's. The only requirement to run DOME is DOS 2.1 or above. A color monitor is highly recommended. DOME consists of the following 5 files, briefly described, which are necessary for proper operation of the program: DOME.EXE - The program itself DOME.DAT - Data file to save scores, settings, etc. DOME.RES - Reserve initialized (unused) copy of DOME.DAT DOME.TXT - Program documentation, accessible on-line DOME.PRE - What you are reading now All five files must be present in any hard disk directory or on a diskette where you intend to run DOME. Therefore, when making copies, always include all files in the process. (Ex: Typing COPY C:\ESP\DOME.* A:/V at the DOS prompt would copy all program files (DOME.*) from the disk directory C:\ESP to the diskette in drive A:. Typing COPY A:DOME.* C:\ESP/V would do the reverse if you were copying the program from drive A: to the a directory called C:\ESP.) One feature of DOME is to provide a means of gauging a user's ESP performance by way of a personal mail-in evaluation, to be conducted on the scores saved by the program. As such, these scores should belong exclusively to a single user. It is, therefore, of considerable necessity for the user to start off with an empty (initialized) DOME.DAT file (one which contains no previous scores saved earlier). To check this, you must view the scores within the program. (Select Scores then View on the program menu.) If no scores show in the high score window, then the file is empty and ready to accept scores. If, on the other hand, scores are present, the file DOME.DAT then must be emptied - replaced, actually - by overwriting it with the reserve copy provided. To do this, type COPY DOME.RES DOME.DAT/V at the DOS prompt. This will not only produce a new initialized DOME.DAT file, but will leave the reserve copy intact. (Do not simply rename the DOME.RES file; use the Copy command as indicated, because the reserve file will be required whenever you may want to start over anew.) If several users would like to save their scores on a single computer, then it will be necessary to have all five program files in each of separate directories on a hard drive, one directory per user. On a floppy drive, each user could have their own diskette (or separate directories on a single diskette). The program is very easy to run; simply start by typing DOME at the DOS prompt. After being met by the intro screens, you will be in the program environment. Press "I" for Info on the program menu and then "F1" to display the User Guide, which you can also print by typing TYPE DOME.TXT >LPT1 at the DOS prompt. On the following pages you will find a copy of the registration form and an optional parapsychology questionnaire which you may choose to mail at the same time. The two may be printed out together within DOME by choosing Info on the menu and then Registration (F3). When answering the questionnaire, please be as straightforward and honest as possible, for the information you are providing is valuable in assessing what experiences people are or are not having regarding these kinds of phenomena and the how the public generally feels about them. Attach as much additional paper as you need to fully answer the questions. If you want to provide comments or details regarding any other matter or personal experience having to do with parapsychology, then you are encouraged to do so. A NOTE TO INDIVIDUALS WITHOUT A PRINTER When you are ready to send us your scores, just send us your name and address, and a disk containing a copy of the DOME.DAT file (with scores saved therein) and we will print out what we need to do the rest. REGISTRATION FORM FOR DOME FROM: ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ SOURCE OF YOUR COPY OF DOME: ___________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ FOR EACH USER, PLEASE ENCLOSE THE REGISTRATION FEE OF $10 (MULTIPLE USERS SHOULD USE SEPARATE FORMS) SEND TO: PROJECT DOME P.O. BOX 19495 JOHNSTON, RI 02919 U.S.A. WHEN THIS FORM (WITH CORRECT FEE) IS RECEIVED, USER WILL BE MAILED A REGISTERED COPY OF "DOME", WHICH PERMITS THE SAVING OF SCORES. THE USER IS THEN ENTITLED TO MAIL IN, WHEN READY, ONE PROGRAM PRINTOUT OF PERSONAL SCORES ACHIEVED USING THE PROGRAM. IN RETURN, WE WILL MAIL BACK A PERFORMANCE EVALUATION BASED ON THOSE SCORES. ALSO, A LIST OF RESOURCES TO WHICH YOU MAY TURN FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING THE FIELD OF PARAPSYCHOLOGY WILL BE MAILED WHEN THIS FORM IS RECEIVED. PROJECT DOME QUESTIONNAIRE Be as brief or detailed inasmuch as required for you to satisfactorily answer the following questions. Continue on back or elsewhere, if needed. Any and all questions are optional, but honesty is much appreciated on those questions you choose to answer. Any information which you provide will be considered confidential. Enter name/address: How old are you? Male or female? What is your occupation? 1. Have you ever seemingly used clairvoyance to obtain information about something? If so, how was this information perceived? 2. Have you ever felt that some part of you left your body, or you felt to be at two places at the same time? 3. Have you ever had a near-death experience? If so, what was perceived? 4. Have you ever had a dream or sudden feeling/image about something that later turned out to be true, and seemed more than just coincidence? 5. While fully awake, have you ever seen an apparition (or ghost)? If so, describe its appearance. Were there any witnesses? 6. Have you ever received thoughts from (or sent to) someone with whom you were not physically present? 7. Have you ever observed the independent movement or other physical behavior of objects which could not be logically explained? 8. Have you ever witnesses a "true" unidentified flying object, or UFO? What were the circumstances, and did others observe this? Were any ordinary possibilities considered for the sighting? (For example, aircraft, meteor, debris, atmospheric (weather) device, reflection, planet, etc.) 9. Do you feel that you have experienced a more involved "contact" with the "occupants" of UFO's at some time? If true, how so? 10. In connection with possible UFO activity, have you experienced other bizarre or odd happenings, such as electrical disturbances, the appearance of strange bodily scars or other markings, periods of time for which you have a confused or little recollection, or anything as requested in 1 through 7 above? 11. Have you ever told others about any of the experiences which you may have related here? If so, how did they react? 12. What, if anything, interests you the most regarding any of the subject matter referred to in the program documentation or in this questionnaire? 13. Do you generally believe in the existence of psi (psychic) abilities? What is your position on the issue? 14. Do you believe that UFO's and the "alien visitation" phenomenon are objectively real? What is your position on the issue? 15. Do you feel that governments, like that of the U.S., have covered up information regarding UFO's in the past? Do you feel that incidents are still being handled in this manner today? 16. If you are generally skeptical about parapsychology and UFO's, how do you feel reports dealing with such issues can be explained? 17. Regarding the enigmatic "crop circles" which have appeared in the countrysides of England and elsewhere, what do you think is responsible for their formation? (This is assuming that you are familiar with the phenomenon and that it remains unsolved at the time you are reading this.)