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Approved For Release 2000/08/11 : CIA-RDP96=,~ 007,92 tD'tyb4b0100007- Aa61-01467 perceptivity or apprehension. The alternative interpretation sub- mitted in this paper maintains that there is only the appearance of telepathy and that the "coincidental experience of the same patte rn of thought, "under the circumstances stated, is due to, and perhaps is nothing more than, the occasional, analogous performance of closely homologous thinking machines (cerebra and accessories) operating within comparable concomitants such as memories and features of the environment. Clairvoyance is a legendary concept that probably owes its origin and perpetuity mainly to various abilities such as those of water-witches, mineral-diviners, treasure-finders, and medicine men. Although they employ the hocus pocus of forked twigs and divining- or mineral-rods, many of the diviners, by subconsciously exercising their sagacious comprehensive and experience of geologic and physiographic features, local lore, and keenness in the interpretation of human cues and clues, become proficient above the chance expectation in locating veins of underground water, minerals, and other objects. Thus, although perhaps somewhat farther-fetched than telepathy, clairvoyance also refers to possible bases-in-fact. -- DA 0 1i , 'Laura- and_ Kuo, ?Eddie C.Y, Extraordinary-, "'beliefs among students in Singapore and Canada. Journal of Psychology, 1984 (Mar), 116, 215-226. 30 refs; 2 tables The extent of belief in a wide variety of extraordinary phenomena was investigated among university students in a western developed country, Canada, and an eastern developing country, Singapore. A questionnaire that included 34 items on extraordinary beliefs (beliefs dealing with traditional religion, luck, fortune-telling, psychic phenomena, spirits, and strange sightings) was completed by 113 university students from Canada and 76 university students from Singapore. Canadian students were found to be significantly more skeptical than their Singapore peers and were particularly skeptical regarding religious beliefs and beliefs about spirits. However, both groups shared quite similar views concerning psychic and other extraordinary phenomena. Singapore students of Chinese, Indian, and Malay descent differed mainly with respect to their religious views. The results are discussed in terms of the presumed relationship between technological advancement and level of extraordinary belief. - DA 01462. Persinger, M.A. Propensity to report paranormal exper- iences is correlated with temporal lobe signs. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1984 (Oct), 59, 583-586. 5 refs Bivariate correlation analyses indicated that people who reported greater numbers of different types of paranormal experiences also reported greater numbers of temporal lobe signs. Whereas responses of one group (N = 108) of male and female university students gave a correlation of .60 between the two measures, for another group (N = 41) the correlation was.72. Partial correlation analyses, which involved holding the shared variance with affirmative responses to mundane psychological statements or odd sensation constant did not alter the strength of the relationship. These results support the hypothesis that spontaneous paranormal experiences and the psychological components of complex partial (psychomotor) epilepsy may exist along the same continuum of temporal lobe sensitivity. -- DA 01463. Price, H.H. Psychical research and human personality. Hibbert Journal, 1949 (Jan), 47(2), 105-113. The existence of psychic phenomena contribute to our conception of human personality and its place in the universe. The traditional view of man is dualistic, though modern scientific thought calls into question the basic assumptions of dualism. It suggests epiphenomenalism. The existence of telepathy calls into question this sort of materialistic thinking because no physical basis for the phenomenon seems tenable. Some sort of occultistic conception of the human body - - with "high bodies" and "higher faculties" - could explain telepathy along semimaterialistic lines. This could he i form of occultistic epiphenomenalism. All in all, though, telepathy seems to be a purely mental phenomenon inconsistent Approved For Release 2000/08/11 with any sort of materialistic scheme. Nor does it fit in with traditional religious thinking, which teaches that each individual mind is a separate and complete substance whose only direct causal relationship with the rest of the universe (apart from God) are relations with its own brain. Understanding supernormal phe- nomena entails throwing over the Cartesian notion of the human mind as a physical substance. Perhaps the key will come by going back to an earlier philosophical system that taught that man consists of body, mind (or soul), and spirit, of which the spirit is a substance but the soul is not. - D.S.R. 01464. Rawson, Kenneth S., and Ilartline, Peter H. Telemetry of homing behavior by the deermouse, Peromyscus. Science, 1964 (Dec 18), 46(365), 1596-1598. l fig; I illus; 9 refs Miniature transmitters (weighing 2.5 to 2.7 grams, including encapsulation) implanted subcutaneously in deermice (Perom_yscus) radiate a pulsed signal at 27 megacycles per second, which can be detected by a simple antenna at a distance of 45 meters. The radio signal indicates movements of the deermice, periods of activity, and the location of occupied nests. One mouse was traced as it returned to its nest 300 meters in one hour. This rate of homing is many times more rapid than the rate usually determined by conventional methods for tracking small terrestrial mammals. DA 01465. Schwarz, Bethold Eric. Telepathy and pseudotelekinesis in psychotherapy. Journal of"the American Societ e of"Ps.rchosomatic Dentistry and Medicine, 1968 (Oct), 15(4), 144-154. I illus; 13 refs Data are presented about a patient in psychotherapy who had many telepathic experiences, including a telepathic death dream, possible precognition of death and telekinesis, the unexpected apparition of a recently deceased neighbor, and a possible New Jersey-Hawaii telepathic hallucination. Detail is given concerning the psychic-dynamic and associated factors underlying the patient's sudden recognition of four faces on tiles at the time that a specific experiment for thoughtography and telekinesis was contemplated by her physician. The possible significance of such findings is discussed. - DA 01466. Shewmaker, Kenneth L., and Berenda, Carlton W. Science and the problem of psi. Philosophy of Science, 1962, 29(2), 195- 203. 26 refs Some issues raised by parapsychological phenomena (psi) are examined in the light of their implications for a philosophy of science. It is shown that the kinds of problems psi poses for science vary with the way one conceives of science as well as one's conception of psi. It is suggested that psi may be it product of the fact that all of our scientific concepts are abstractions and therefore oversimplifications. This raises the possibility that our best conceptual techniques for dealing with psi is a nondiscursive symbolism, because this would not demand "classes"(oversimplifi- cation). Implications of this approach are considered. -- DA 01467. Stevenson, Ian. American children who claim to remember previous lives. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1983, 171(12), 742-748. 14 refs; I table An unknown number of American children claim to remember previous lives. In this paper data of 79 such children are analyzed and compared with data from a larger number of cases in India. Few American children of these cases make verifiable statements, and those who do nearly always speak about the lives of deceased members of their own families. In this feature, American cases differ from Indian ones, in which the children usually speak of the lives of deceased persons in another family and often in another community. Indian children also frequently make verifiable state- ments about the lives of such persons. In some other respects, however, such as the age of first speaking about the previous lives, the content of the statements they make, and related unusual behavior, American subjects closely resemble ones in India. Although many of the American cases may derive fCIA-RDPJ6-0076f 1Rf0d~~tv68r1`U'~i6~sta}p for the
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SOVIET AND CZECHOSLOVAKIAN PARAPSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH
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CONF I DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY SG1A SOVIET AND CZECHOSLOVAKIAN PARAPSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH (U) PREPARED BY U. S. ARMY MEDICAL INTELLIGENCE AND INFORMATION AGENCY, OFFICE OF THE SURGEON GENERAL I Wri%'E se 2004/08/02: CIA-RDP96-00792R0006003508%j-3.31OS-387-75 Approved For Relea ;e 2004/08/02: CIA-RDP96-00 jQQ e390P1E N T I A L Approved For Release 2004/08/02 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000600350001-3 CONFIDENTIAL SOVIET AND CZECHOSLOVAKIAN PARAPSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH (U) Mr. Louis F. Maire III Major J. D. LaMothe, MSC DATE OF PUBLICATION September 1975 Information Cut-off Date 15 April 1975 CONFIDENTIAL Approved For Release 2004/08/02 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000600350001-3 Approved For Release 2004/08/02 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000600350001-3 CONFIDENTIAL 1)ST-18105-387-75 September 1975 (U) The data were drawn from intelligence reports, scientific and te~ihni- cal journals, books, magazines, newspapers, and personal communications. (U) Constructive criticism, comments, or suggestions are encouraged and should be forwarded to the Defense Intelligence Agency, (ATTN: DT-1), Washington, DC 20301. 111 (Reverse Blank) CONFIDENTIAL Approved For Release 2004/08/02 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000600350001-3 Approved For Release 2004/08/02 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000600350001-3 UNCLASSIFIED DST-181OS-387-75 September 1975 Page No. Preface----------------------------------------------------------- iii Summary --------------------------------------------- EXTRASENSORY PERCEPTION (ESP)--------------------------- 1 SECTION I BACKGROUND-------------------------------- 1 SECTION II TELEPATHY (ENERGY TRANSFER) IN ANIMALS---- 9 SECTION III TELEPATHY (ENERGY TRANSFER) IN MAN-------- 15 Part A Classical Theories and Experiments-------- 15 Part B Current Soviet/Czech Theories and Research Objectives----------------------- 20 TELEPATHIC BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION---------- 29 Part A Basic Research----------------------------- 29 Part B Applied Research-------------------------- 29 PART II PSYCHOTRONIC GENERATOR RESEARCH------------------------- 33 PART III PSYCHOKINESIS RESEARCH ---------------------------------- 41 PART IV OUT-OF-THE-BODY PHENOMENA--------------- ---------------- 53 SECTION I REMOTE VIEWING---------------------------- 53 SECTION II THE APPORT TECHNIQUE---------------------- 55 PART V CONCLUSIONS--------------------------------------------- 57 PART VI TRENDS AND FORECASTS------------------------------------ 61 PART VII GAPS----------------------------------------------------- 63 APPENDIX - PERSONNEL AND FACILITIES------------------------------- 65 1. USSR - Affiliation Known-------------------- 65 2. USSR - Affiliation Unknown--------------------------- 66 3. Czechoslovakia - Affiliation Known------------------- 66 4. Czechoslovakia - Affiliation Unknown---------------- 67 Approved For Release 2004 / SCIRiP96-00792R000600350001-3 Approved For Release 2004/08/02 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000600350001-3 UNCLASSIFIED DST-1810S-387-75 September 1975 Page No. Selected Bibliography -------------------------------------------- 69 Data Handling ----------------------------------------------------- 73 ----- 75 Distribution List---------------------------- -------, LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Figure 1 Comparison of US and Soviet Parapsychology Terms---- 3 Figure 2 Psychotronic Model of Man------------------ ----- 23 ---------- ----- 35 Figure 3 Psychotronic Generator------------- Figure 4 Psychotronic Generator ------------------------- :----- 36 Figure 5 Psychotronic Generator------------------------------ 37 Figure 6 Psychotronic Generator------------------------7 ----- 38 Figure 7 Psychotronic Generator------------------------------ 39 Figure 8 Psychotronic Generator---------------------- ------ 48 Figure 9 Psychotronic Rotor----------------------------------- 52 Approved For Release 2004V '/VBSSctFA bP96-00792R000600350001-3 Approved For Release 2004/08/02 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000600350001-3 CONFIDENTIAL DST-1810S-387-75 September 1975 (U) During the past 25 years, Soviet and Czechoslovakian parapsychologists have reported that paranormal phenomena such as extrasensory perception (ESP), telepathy, and psychokinesis (PK) have been demonstrated under rigorousLy controlled laboratory conditions. Skeptics in both nations have attacked the study of such phenomena on both scientific and political - ideological grounds. Criticism based on political ideology has stemmed from the fact that much past research has been non-materialistic in the sense that results have not been reported in terms of contemporary conven- tional science. Thus the critics feel that parapsychology has fostered continued belief in mysticism, occultism, and religion. (U) In order to rebut the skeptics' contentions that psychic phenomena do not fit accepted scientific and political thought, Soviet and Czech sci- entists now argue that there are many well established "facts" which remain as anomalous to scientific paradigms as extrasensory perception (ESP). ESP refers to information which is not received via the usual senses, and as a general term, includes telepathy (the Soviet "biocommunication") and psychokinesis.or PK (the Soviet "bioenergetics"). Communist parapsycho- logists argue that after decades of research, conventional science still has no satisfactory neurophysiological explanation of memory, nor is there any appropriate model for explaining how raw data impinging on man's senses are transformed into a conscious experience. They also point to the dema- terialized character of contemporary physics, a science filled with such bizarre components as advance potential (waves of electrons perceived be- fore they are generated), tunneling effects (electrons penetrating barriers which, by the laws of probability, should be impenetrable), and tachyons (particles traveling faster than light, and thus implying the possibility of a backward flow of time). In short, they conclude that "hard" science no longer offers a secure rationale for the denial of the possibility of any noncausal event. SG1 B CONFIDENTIAL Approved For Release 2004/08/02 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000600350001-3 SG1B L Approved For Release 2004/08/02 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000600350001-3 Approved For Release 2004/08/02 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000600350001-3 Approved For Release 2004/08/02 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000600350001-3 UNCLASSIFIED DST-181OS-387-75 September 1975 EXTRASENSORY PERCEPTION (ESP) (U) Parapsychology is a field involving research on the informational and energetic possibilities of the psychic and biophysical activities of living organisms. Parapsychology investigates the complex of phenomena relating to the interaction of living organisms with each other and with the surrounding environment without the mediation of the known sense organs or of presently identified energy transfer mechanisms. Western parapsychologists refer to this complex of phenomena as extrasensory perception (ESP) and psi phenomena.) (U) The Soviets prefer the term biocommunications instead of parapsychol- ogy, psi phenomena, or ESP. Other Soviet terms which are equivalent to the term parapsychology include psychophysiology, psychotronics, psycho- energetics, and biophysical effects. The Soviet term biocommunications can be further subdivided into two general classifications: bioinforma- tion and bioenergetics. Bioinformation includes paranormal events between living organisms (telepathy, precognition) and events between living organisms and the inanimate world. Bioenergetics denotes activities such as biological locator and indicator techniques (dowsing), bioenergetic therapy using electromagnetic (EM) fields, and psychokinesis, or the in- fluence of bioenergy on matter. Definitions of the term biocommunica- tions, bioinformation, and bioenergetics are as follows: BASIC TYPES OF BIOCOMMUNICATION PHENOMENA (U) A branch of science involved with the human capability of obtain- ing information from other than the normal senses and the ability to respond to or reasonably interpret such information. Bio- communications, also synonymous with parapsychology, is, however, distinct from other sciences in that it is primarily concerned with determining the nature of a definite group of natural phenomena controlled by laws which are not based on any presently known energetic influence. UNCLASSIFIED Approved For Release 2004/08/02 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000600350001-3 Approved For Release 2004/08/02 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000600350001-3 UNCLASSIFIED DST-18105-387-75 September 1975 Those phenomena associated with the obtaining of information through means other than the normal sensory channels, e.g. - through extrasensory perception (ESP). There are several forms of ESP, including: a. Telepathy, transmission, or "reading" of thoughts, refers to the extrasensory reception of information about the mental processes of others. b. Proscopy or precognition is a form of ESP which, under certain circumstances, involves crossing the barrier of time to obtain information about future events. c. Paragnosia or clairvoyance refers to the extrasen- sory reception of information about objective events in'the outer world. TYPE II: Bioenergetics Bioenergetics involves phenomena associated with the production of objectively detectable effects through means other than known energetic influences. Seemingly incredible effects have been reported, such as the movement of distant objects withojut any detectable use of physical force (psychokinesis or te:le,kinesis), antigravitational effects, transformations of energy, ellectro- magnetir effects arising without adequate physical cause, and chemical reactions and biological processes occurring through mental concentration. (U) A comparison of US and Soviet parapsychology terms is given in Figure 1. UNCLASSIFIED Approved For Release 2004/08/02 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000600350001-3 Approved For Release 2004/08/02 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000600350001-3 UNCLASSIFIED DST-18105-387-75 September 1975 Fig. 1 Comparison of US and Soviet Parapsychology Terms (U) US Soviet Parapsychology ) ( Biocommunications PSI Phenomena ) ( Psychophysiology ESP ) Equals ( Psychotronics ( Psychoenergetics ( Biophysical Effects A. Bioinformation B. Bioenergetics Telepathy Equals Bioinformation Precognition ) Dowsing ) Equals Bioenergetics Psychokinesis ) (U) In recent years, Czechoslovakian parapsychologists have begun using the term "psychotronics" in reference to all aspects of their paranormal phenomena research. They define psychotronics as the study of those borderline phenomena and signs of human existence that have a psycho- somatic base, but manifest themselves in such a way that they more or less exceed the framework of this base. Such phenomena include auto- suggestion, hypnosis, telepathy, psychokinesis, and other paranormal effects and phenomena. The Czech term does not encompass the study of stigmata, levitation, etc., since: these are considered to be hallucinatory states or processes and, as such,'areas of investigation and treatment more appropriate for psychology or psychiatry.3 In general, however, the Czech science of psychotronics includes the study of all phenomena presently being investigated by Soviet and Western parapsychologists. UNCLASSIFIED Approved For Release 2004/08/02 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000600350001-3 Approved For Release 2004/08/02 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000600350001-3 UNCLASSIFIED DST-18105-387-75 September 1975 (U) Current Soviet and Czech parapsychological terms and objectives have evolved in a climate of fluctuating political pressure. Scientists in pre-revolutionary Russia studied parapsychology as did later such Soviet scientists as V.M. Bekhterev, A.G. Ivanov-Smolensky, and B.B. Kazhinsky in the twenties and thirties.4 In 1924, A.V. Lunakharsky, Commissar for Education, took the initiative in forming a Soviet Committee for Psychical Research. As a result of Academician V.M. Bekhterev's enthusiasm for the subject, extensive work was financed at the University of Leningrad Insti- tute for Brain Research. L.L. Vasilev, a former student of Bekhterev's demonstrated to his own satisfaction that telepathic influence at a dis- tance may indeed occur. Work flourished throughout the thirties with research being reported in the literature in 1934, 1936, and 1937. After 1937 further experiments in the field of parapsychology were forbidden. During Stalin's time, the study of paranormal phenomena was interpreted as a deliberate attempt to undermine the doctrines of materialism. Tele- pathy was treated as a mystical and antisocial superstition and nothing further was heard of parapsychology in. the Soviet Union until the late 1950s. Then, as a result of French newspaper articles, rumors began to circulate that American researchers had disproved the "brain-radio" theory as a result of ship-to-shore telepathy experiments involving the US atomic submarine Nautilus. The Nautilus "experiments" probably were mythical, but the claims had one tangible consequence: the Soviet authorities per- mitted Vasilev, then Professor of Physiology and holder of the Order of Lenin, to publish his own earlier work in which decades previously he ,had proven to his own satisfaction that radio-type brain waves did not mediate telepathy. Vasilev was also allowed to open a unit for the study of parapsychology at the Institute for Brain Research. His work first reached the West with an English translation of his monograph "Experiments in Mental Suggestion" in 1963. The result was instant international interest. Numerous Western researchers traveled to the Soviet Union and found a fair amount of activity and interest in the paranormal, although the research approaches were frequently different from those in the West. Soviet workers tended to be far more preoccupied with whole-body physical and biological effects rather than with the "mental" phenomena with which Western researchers had long been preoccupied. (U) Some of the first parapsychologists to visit the Soviet Union after the publication of Vasilev's work described the differences in atmosphere pervading two conferences in 1963 and 1968. During the first, free and cordial exchange of views was possible; the second was overshadowed by an article in Pravda attacking parapsychology which largely wrecked the formal plans for the program. Most of the Soviets declined to speak, Western visitors were pressed to deliver impromptu lectures, and the House of Friendship in Moscow withdrew its invitation to hold further meetings or allow films to be shown there. From this time onwards, with certain UNCLASSIFIED Approved For Release 2004/08/02 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000600350001-3 Approved For Release 2004/08/02 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000600350001-3 UNCLASSIFIED DST-1810S-387-75 September 1975 fluctuations, official hostility towards parapsychology increased in the Soviet Union. For example, Soviet authorities took the strongest possible exception to a best-seller in the West, Ostrander and Schroeder's "Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain."5 Edward K. Naumov, then Director of the Institute of Technical Parapsychology, Moscow,6 was cited throughout as the journalists' guide and mentor. Unfortunately, the Voice of America beamed a radio program into the Soviet Union discussing the Schroeder and Ostrander book, a broadcast that was construed as-a politically motivated attack using parapsychology as a weapon. Apart from this episode, it is not entirely clear why Soviet officialdom should have taken such fierce exception to a frankly popular, sensational, and rather chaotic book, which was not taken seriously by many Western scientists. The most plausible interpretation seems that the Soviets were worried that they might be believed by the world's scientific community to be self-proclaimed champions and leaders of parapsychology. In fact, Soviet scientists are just as divi- ded among themselves concerning parapsychology as scientists elsewhere and since 1972, a number of openly critical publications concerning parapsy- chology research have appeared in the Soviet Union. A few examples of such open attacks follow. (U) In 1972, V.M. Bleykher (a reputable Soviet neurophysiologist) pub- lished a book titled "Parapsychology - Science or Superstition." In an annotation to this book (and, in fact, as the lead paragraph) Bleykher stated, "this book is designed (sic) to debunk parapsychology." The book began with such arcane and archaic topics as phrenology (headbump reading) and ended with a chapter prefaced by a cartoon showing a broom sweeping the Russian word "parapsychology," out of the picture. The entire bias of the book was to make a direct link between 19th century "spiritualism" and 20th century parapsychology. (U) In 1973, Kazakhstanskaya Pravda (Alma-ata) carried an article by Doctor of Medical Science V. Podachin, titled "Careful: Paramedicine!" In his article, Podachin openly attacked "unproven telepathic trans- mission of information over distances from one person to another on the basis of their neuropsychic states," and criticized parapsychologists "for claiming to obtain results that are completely unrelated to the cause-and-effect principle." (U) In October 1973 a long and detailed paper entitled "Parapsychology: Fiction or Reality?" was published in Questions of Philosophy, an official publication of the Soviet Academy of Pedogogical Sciences, by four eminent members of the Moscow Academy of Pedagogical Sciences, V.P. Zinchenko, A.N. Leontiev, B.F. Lomov, and A.R. Luria. They explicitly set out "to express the viewpoint of the USSR Society of Psychologists UNCLASSIFIED Approved For Release 2004/08/02 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000600350001-3 Approved For Release 2004/08/02 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000600350001-3 UNTCLASSIFIED DST-1810S-387-75 September 1975 towards parapsychology." "Obviously," they wrote, "some so-called para- psychological phenomena do happen; however, the main obstacle to the acceptance of their existence is ignorance of the basis of their opera- tion." It is not clear from this paper just which parapsychological phenomena "obviously do happen;" the only ones which the authors unam- biguously supported as authentic were Kirlian photography (radiation field photogrpahy by means of which the biological energy fields of plants and animals may be visualized) and "dermal-optical vision" (the alleged ability to see colors through opaque shielding by touch alone). Paradoxically, Kirlian photography is probably based on known forms of energy, while dermal-optical vision has no known basis in fact. A large portion of the paper was in fact devoted to a denunciation of "militant parapsychologists," popular credulity, fraudulent practices: physicists who quite unnecessarily change their jobs to investigate paranormal phenomena, sensationalistic journalists, and institutions such as the Institute for Technical Parapsychology (which was cited by name). Ap- parently, the objective of the paper was to discredit as myth any idea of a "parapsychological movement" in the Soviet Union, and to insure that the science of parapsychology should not continue to emerge!. To quote the authors, "there is no need for parapsychology to exist as a separate discipline." (U) There is additional evidence that the official attitude toward parapsychology in the Soviet Union may ha v