About Mark Dammer

A traditional CV would show me as coming from a rational, scientific background. I have a degree in marine biology and working with computers and developing electronic circuits, hard- and software has always been a part of my life.

But if I take a closer look at my life I can recount situations where things happened, that in our everyday life or "consensus reality" would be seen as "anomalies". I think I am not on my own here and a closer look would reveal similar experiences in almost everybody's life. This goes all the way through my life from childhood until now. These experiences that could be named extrasensory perception, telepathy, telekinesis or altered states of consciousness always brought me back to my big question:

What is Reality ?

I always felt drawn to bring these two aspects of my life, let me call them the "Re-searcher" and my experiences together. To have a look at areas where the objective and the subjective, experiment and experience, the seen and the unseen worlds meet. This is why the research described on this website together with spiritual practice in the forms of meditation, buddhist practices, shamanic journeying and spending time in nature form an essential part of my life.

Major subjects of my re-search are (in the order of appearance in my life):
- Plant experiments similar to the experiments of Cleve Backster described in the book "The Secret life of Plants".
- Experiments with Biophoton Radiation. Mainly enjoying creating images and videos with my image intensifier.
- How does our state of consciousness – both as an individual and as a collective has an influence on the environment.
- Investigating the influence of (collective) spiritual practice on a Random Event Generator (REG).
- Finding applications for the "mind over matter" effects observed in the REG experiments.

My main goal for doing this research shifted over the years from a simple "I want to know" to an attitude of service and the wish to apply the results for the benefit of the whole.

Currently I am both living and working in the Findhorn Community in Scotland. Katharina, me and our two cats "Jack" and "Tigger" are living together in a trailerhome at "The Park". Being part of an intentional community with a spiritual focus is the right environment for me to support the evolution of the planet, unfold my inner potential and to conduct these experiments as well. My main occupation here is to work as network administrator for the Findhorn Foundation. This means taking care of a growing community network based on fibreoptics, cable and wireless technologies together with my three friends and collegues William, Andy and Sky.
As our community is growing both in quantity and diversity I find it important to support the structure that embraces the community as a whole. So I am glad that I was elected as councillor for our community organization NFA-New Findhorn Association in the beginning of 2006. This is giving me the opportunity to engage deeper in that process of creating unity withing diversity and lots of opportunities to interact with interesting people.