I have been reviewing some recently made available videos of the BSRF (Borderlands Science Research Foundation) crew's experiments circa 1987. Peter Lindemann has made them available as a package of 'classic energy videos' on one of his websites (http://www.classicenergyvideos.com/emediapress.php). There are all sorts of wonderful and fascinating phenomena demonstrated on these videos, but I will focus on a 40 minute span of Eric Dollard demonstrations on the 'free energy research' video from about 80 minutes to 120 minutes in. Some of these phenomena had been described in the previously published Tom Brown interview with Eric Dollard in the 'Eric Dollard - Free Energy Research' booklet still available from Borderlands, and there is some supporting imagery in said booklet of a dielectric discharge into an insulator with a prominent golden mean ratio Lichtenberg figure.
In any case, Eric shows (at least) the following things:
1) A small tesla transformer modulating some classical music with a spark gap producing impulse currents. When several pieces of wood are exposed to said current, a Lichtenberg figure is burned into the wood over time. The pattern is distinctly dendritic and organic in form, appearing like the top side of a tree. This pattern is descrived as being 'dielectric' in nature. Also described, but not show, are patterns shown from an inductive (magnetic) discharge with more 'root-like' patterns.
2) An evacuated (vacuum) globe of about 4" diameter is placed between the vertical pancake coils of 2 large small transformers which are facing with the high voltage nodes away from each other. In this area, there is a complex interplay between 2 monopolar dielectric fields. The interior of the bulb forms planetary looking globules within a distinct plasma membrane. Also described, but not shown, are formations from an earlier public demonstration with a very similar setup but much larger tesla transformers. Over time Eric claims that forms like nebulae and galaxies appear. This is in keeping with Wilhelm Reich's "Cosmic Superimposition" thesis and similar to the David Talbott's "Electric Universe" thesis. Also claimed is that over time these bulbs will form small punctures with the accompanying sound of escaping gas at high velocity and that if one holds ones hands near the bulb, one will feel an outward pressure. This suggests the manifestation of ponderable matter from interacting dielectric fields (in the presense of nuetrino's). This is also reminiscent of one of Dan Winter's maxims "matter follows life follow water follows dielectricity follows mind".
3) A phenomena is described, but not shown, where a form of dielectric discharge has the property of absorbing light and that this can be seen against a background such as a diffuse flourescent light. Gerry Vassilatos, in his work, describes this 'black radiance' under the term Vril at great length.
4) Lighting up a flourescent bulb in the vicinity of the capacitative node of the tesla transformer.
5) Extremely high voltage DC with dielectric lines of force visualized by strings.
