Biofeedback Device for Golf Or Mind Manifesto? See forbidden secrets from a 2007 Patent (PM #1)

Making time for critical research led me to a biofeedback device manifesto. A lot of people have a lot of questions. And we put most of those questions in the “I’ll have to check into that later” pile. Life has a way of keeping things on the back-burner. Information that could potentially change the way we live gets learned later, with years behind of having not changed our ways. I’m the type that can see the truth through layers of bullshit. People have always relied on me for opinions about things. I’d tell them I looked into something cursorily and I found some preliminary answers. The only difference between conventional produce and organic, is that organic might have more nutritional value. Planes leave behind condensation trails called contrails, chem-trails are different, etc. I’m quoting a very past version of myself, that did a cursory search and gave people a cursory answer. And the cursory answer is the common one. But it’s not the most accurate one.

How did I come across a 100+ page patent manifesto about a golf club biofeedback device?

I got a lot of time to myself to research things by pure chance perhaps. In college I researched a lot of problems given to me by others that were relatively void of context, but did not have too much time to look up personal questions (things that apply to real life). Out of college and in the “workforce”, and was barely able to take care of myself. Of course I was living a conventional life, albeit perhaps a tad abnormal. Daily wearing lotion, cycled on the stationary bike while watching Youtube. An exemplary pulse on consumption. I started working at a patent litigation firm.

I don’t know if they were just going through a slim work cycle or if I was just way more productive than the average person there. Almost 3/4 of my work day was waiting for responses and instructions. I was doing a good job and getting good feedback, I wasn’t resorting to saying I had nothing to do. I think the secret here was that I had no social media whatsoever, basically a monk compared to my office-mates. The lawyers slammed Rockstars. I had a Blackberry, I left at home. I worked a 5 minute bike ride away. As an exercise in presence and a test of my focus, I was a one-tab, phone-a-mile away Wonder.

From Research-driven Introspection to Deeper Reflections

The track in this field was to learn more about patent litigation, and take the Patent bar, all based on the MPEP (a multi-thousand page legal document). This way you can function as a patent attorney without having to go to law school. I researched the MPEP daily, and needed examples of patents and applications to dissect beyond just the working patents at the firm. I would go in the patent database and search fun buzz words to try to find patented technology on things. For example, spyware in modern devices, crystals used in technology, technologies, fractals or knots, my favorite math topics, and more.

One of my keystone researches actually stemmed from wondering if microwaves were healthy to use. This random question led me to research electromagnetic radiation. One of the patents I worked on was a child’s card game where the cards can communicate over RFID and create different effects in the game. This is all published now. I mean, there’s tons of things that do this, but most people never think about the actual mechanics of these technologies the way someone looking at the patents are. The patent was saying, when you lay a card down it will create an electric field that extends out and communicates with the electric field of the other card, etc, just basic radio transmission stuff. It hit me for the first time… isn’t this field permeating the children’s hands and body parts as well? Yes, just as phones and wifi and everything else do.

So I spent probably bout 10 hours delving into bio-electrics and determining that the research unambiguously proposes these electromagnetic fields are not good for health and are essentially the equivalent of cigarettes or other pollution. Good thing I was already leaving my phone at home! this because the basis of some other extreme technological minimalism but honestly now I think the effect is minuscule in the small small fraction of people like myself who are very picky about their food and water sources.

The Deep Dive that uncovered the Manifesto in Question

Put frankly, this patent application was about a golf club with an internal geometric design that resonated acoustically, incorporating biofeedback to improve the golfer’s skill. Plainly, it was a biofeedback device, primarily using piezoelectric transducers. I want to be clear this was an application not a granted patent. I really don’t care if the golf club prototype was actually built. The whole 100 page patent seemed way more like a manifesto of sorts. The author was trying to make sure this knowledge became published in the public eye, as all patents are. It was insanely in depth, but even after a read through there are rabbit holes upon rabbit holes within it to explore.

Who is the inventor and what’s his angle?

The inner researcher in me was not going to care merely because the manifesto was before me. A biofeedback device often relies on a placebo effect to some degree. I need to trust who’s putting this out there. I researched the inventor, who filed the patent under no company. Timothy Winey is his name. And he was in fact a pro golfer. I found a biography online which described him as an under-dog come-up golfer and talented inventor of a biofeedback device. Formerly a violinist and music teacher, Winey is also active in the Living Water community (“structured water”). He gives speeches at international symposiums and making videos of at-home experiments, with no institutional affiliation. #goals

The central dogma in living water is something near and dear to my heart. I published in the niche in 2016 in the Journal of Chemical Physics. This isn’t about ME by along shot, but know that I look at things through the lens of a learned physicist. I feel that breaking down this manifesto is a part of my mission. As far as living water goes, imagine areas of local organization in otherwise chaotic fluid occurring and creating structures and vibrational effects. Water, holding many free electrons, can aggregate the free electrons much like little knots of light. We’ll talk about it. Actually quite applicable to a biofeedback device. But I want to just give backstory on Winey here. Winey continued conducting private experiments at the rate of about 1 every month and publishes them on ResearchGate. So he is still active in the community. I also discovered he was a British government employee working as a teacher, and had a lawsuit against him under suspicious circumstances. I’m just going to be totally honest about my impression of the court proceedings I found in 2018 and read. It seems like the guy was framed and lost his job. 

The rest of this blog series is concentrated on explaining the “technology” at the core of this “golf club”. Along the way we’re going to touch on a lot of topics at the intersection of spirituality and science, and just how this biofeedback device is meant to function.