Are Secret Services obsessed with parapsychology?
Since the 1920s, both Russian and American Intelligence were deeply interested in understanding how memory and the Human mind worked. For them, the science involving the biological and the psychic aspects of Humanity showed promising methods for espionage. During the 20s up until the 90s, Russian, American, and Czechoslovakian research into possible mind/behavior control techniques such as; Hypnosis, sensory deprivation, Hypnopedia, Subliminal Perception, Suggestology, Psychopharmacology, Psycho optics, Infra/ultrasonic noise, Parapsychology/Biocommunications and others were conducted for possible Intelligence use.
The distinction between the CIAâs and the USSRâs research
It is important to notice that Russian and American Intelligence saw Parapsychology/Biocommunications very differently. Putting aside all Rumors and misinformation, on who started researching it first, the interest in Parapsychology/Biocommunications dates back to the 1920s. However, even at its start, Parapsychology was for the American Intelligence nothing but a joke. Whereas for the Russians, it started off as a serious topic, which eventually became a joke labeled by the media and scientists who despised this form of âscienceâ, calling it Pseudo-science.
Parapsychology/Biocommunications is a study involving the informational and energetic possibilities of psychic and biophysical activities of living organisms. It involves the investigation of the interaction of living organisms with each other, objects, the surrounding environment, and how they interpret such information. To put it short, it is the science of understanding and mastering the form of achieving information from other than our five senses, (Seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, feeling (touch)), also known by the west as Extrasensory Perception (ESP) or Sixth sense.
For the Russians, Parapsychology was known as Biocommunications which was divided into two categories:
Bio-Information (subjective): The paranormal events between living organisms and events between living organisms and the inanimate world. Things such as:
- Telepathy: The transmission or reading of thoughts, the extrasensory reception of information about the mental processes of others.
- Proscopy/Precognition: Involves certain circumstances where one could assume that it has the potential of trespassing the barrier of time, (towards the future), to obtain information about objective events in the outer world.
- Paragnosia/Clairvoyance: The ability to receive information about events in the outer world, at the present time.
Bio-energetics (Objective): Denotes the activities such as biological locator and indicator techniques (dowsing), bioenergetic therapy, using electromagnetic EM fields, and psychokinesis (PK), or the influence of Bioenergy (Bioplasma, Orgone energy, Odic ForceâŠetc) on others and the outside world. (1)
They also distinguished Biocommunications from Psychophysiology, but later on, the whole field of paranormal research became known as Psychotronics. (2)
The U.S however, identified it as Extrasensory Perception (ESP), Psi Phenomena, or Parapsychology.
According to a few files I found, this form of science started off with a rocky start, mainly because of its lack of understanding. We knew and still know such phenomena oddly occurs, but since it lacks foundation, we feel safer to assume that it is a coincidence. Similar to how scientists today, still do not understand how neurons communicate with each other, however, we know they still do. (3) Because of this lack of understanding, lack of sources to comprehend its capacity, trusting these theories leads us to question current beliefs and views towards modern science.
Instead of being open to actually figuring out what it is, we have divided parties, one focused on proving these âphenomenasâ as pseudo-science, religious/mystic based, while the other party only seeks to prove the accuracy of their theories. Both refusing to explore it outside their personal bias.
History and criticism
Throughout history, various scientists have shown a form of interest in certain aspects of what later became known as parapsychology. In Russia however, it only started growing in 1924 when A. V. Lunakharsky, (Commissar for Education), took the initiative in forming a Soviet committee for Psychical Research. Where later V. M Bekhterevs, (Russian neuroscientist), work on the subject was financed at the University of Leningrad, (St. Petersburg), Institute for Brain Research. One of his students, L. L Vasiliev, firmly promoted that telepathic influence at a distance may indeed occur. Telepathy was a topic of heavy interest from 1934 up to 1937, until experiments on the subject became forbidden and soon telepathy became a mystic, antisocial superstition that led to the silence of its mention up until 1950. (4)
Around 1950, the time when both Russian and American Intelligence was playing âGodâ with different âpossible weaponry usable scienceâ techniques, rumors began to circulate that American researchers had disproved the brain-radio theory of telepathy, through experiments involving the U.S atomic submarine, Nautilus.
Because of this, the Soviet authorities permitted Vasiliev, professor of physiology and holder of the order of Lenin, to publish his own earlier work in which shows that he had proved decades previously that radio-type brain waves didnât mediate telepathy. After his work had been published he received an audience interested in his work from England. (One of those works being; Experiments in mental suggestion (1963)) He believed that âthe discovery of the laws of the as yet unknown form of energy bound to man, will be of no less significance than the discovery of atomic energy.â (5)
Since 1972 things had escalated both in Russia and in the west. In that same year, V. M. Bleykher, (Soviet neurophysiologist), published a book titled âParapsychology; science or superstitionâ. The whole purpose of the book was to rather prove or convince the reader that Parapsychology was linking 19th-century spiritualism with 20th-century psychology. In 1973 Kazakhstanskaya Pravda (Alma-Ata) carried an article by Dr. V. Podachin titled âCareful Paramedicineâ. The article explained from Podachinâs perspective, how there was no neuropsychic state proof of telepathic transmission and that the whole telepathy community, was a joke to the law of cause and effect.
As a response to the criticism, a long paper called âParapsychology fiction or realityâ was published by the Soviet Academy of pedagogical sciences. Where they pointed that, âSome so-called para-psychological phenomena do happen, however, the main obstacle to the acceptance of their existence is ignorance of the basis of their operation.â While the file doesnât really say what phenomena they were talking about, they seemed to hint towards Kirlian Photography and Dermal Optical Vision. (6)
Telepathy
The Nautilus Submarine Experiment
The first mention of the Nautilus Experiment conducted by the U.S, was according to the CIA mentioned by French reporters. Where they claimed that the atomic submarine, Nautilus, had engaged in highly successful ship-to-shore telepathic experiments in 1959. The experiments were later defined as âunfoundedâ by the Magazine âThis Weekâ and forgotten. Apparently, the source of information about this experiment came from a best-selling French book, Le Matin des Magiciens, by Louis Pauwels (French journalist), and Jacques Bergier ( Chemical engineer, member of the French resistance, spy, journalist).
While the rumor ended up being known to us as a Hoax, and a terrible mistake done by a ânovice french journalistâ, Jacques Bergier always affirmed during interviews that everything in that particular book was, in reality, true.
One thing we know is that, if this were to be true, it wouldnât be something new. Since 1950, the CIA has actively conducted experiments through the Navy and the Air-force without the knowledge or consent of its citizens. Experiments dealing with electromagnetic weapons, drugs, biological/bacterial weapons, and possibly psychotic weapons. All of this under the excuse of âNational Security purposesâ.
So, we are left to wonder, did it or did it not happen?
Unfortunately, all we really have is âwhat people have said, against what other people have saidâ, regarding the accuracy of whether it happened or not. However, we can surely know, that it wasnât this scandal that influenced the Russians to start their own telepathic, ESP, Biocommunications research like most people seem to speculate. Especially since it seems to be unknown to people that this game of finding mind weapons has been an exciting topic for most Intelligence agencies since they came to their existence.
In a way, this claim about the Nautilus experiment mirrors itself with an actual experiment that was conducted by the soviets in 1956, three years prior to the Nautilus scandal. (7)
The Naumov Experiment
Dr. Pavel Naumov conducted animal biocommunication/ESP studies between a submerged Soviet Navy submarine and an ashore research station. The experiments involved a mother rabbit along with her baby rabbits and occurred around 1956, three years prior to the U.S.S Nautilus disclosure. Yes, that was the exact word the CIA chose to write on their file, âdisclosureâ. (8)
According to the file, Soviet scientists placed the baby rabbits aboard the submarine, while they kept the mother rabbit in a laboratory onshore. The mother rabbit was implanted with electrodes in her brain (EEGs), which was responsible to detect abnormalities in the rabbitâs brain waves.
When the submarine was submerged, the assistants killed the rabbits one by one. At each precise moment of death, they detected recordable reactions which the mother rabbitâs brain had produced. Up until 1970 the precise protocol and results of this experiment, described by Naumov, were believed to be classified. (8.1)
Around the early 60s, Igor Mogila, a journalist for the Trud Newspaper (Russian), has spoken about a Soviet Hypnotist and his involvement in military issues. The video showed footage about an incident involving the U.S. submarine âNautilusâ. However, at the time I am writing this article, I couldnât find any further information about this experiment or this so-called video. (9)
Animals ability of Aural Perception
Soviet Research on telepathy in animals throughout the 1920s and 1930s was largely devoted to proving that telepathy between animals and humans did indeed exist. One of their experiments involved V. M. Bekhterev from Leningrad University and a circus performer known as, V. L. Durov.
According to Bekhterev, Durovâs trained dogs successfully solved arithmetic problems and identified/retrieved objects solely based on their trainerâs mental suggestions. Bekhterevs original objective was to prove that telepathy between man and animals was mediated by a form of electromagnetic radiation, but by 1937, he and other soviet parapsychologists had concluded that no form of EMR was the carrier of thought transmission. (10)
In 1962, B. B. Kazhinskiy advanced with the theory that animals are capable of visual/aural perception and reflex understanding of animal/ human behavior. He postulated that this ability resulted from the capacity of an animal to detect, (via the nervous system), analyze, and synthesize signal stimuli, given off by another animal. According to Kazhinskiy, the signals were transmitted in the form of a Bioradiational sight ray and analyzed by the percipient animal as a result of his pavlovian conditioning. ( Pavlovian conditioning: learning through association) (11)
(Bio radiational: The Soviet/Czech term of biological energy of the brain and the optical neural channels.)
At this time Soviet and Czech parapsychology research with animals was devoted exclusively to the investigation of sources of biological energy involved in physiological processes, the interactions of such energy with external fields, and the effects of externally generated fields on the physiology of animals. (12)
The transmission source of Biological Energy
According to the document, advancement towards the identification of the transmission source of biological energy transfer was gained from research at the University of Novosibirsk. Scientists there, investigated the release of energy during cell division and during cellular damage/repair, resulting from viral infections or toxic chemicals.
In over 5000 experiments with cell cultures and animal organs, it was shown that damaged cells radiated some form of energy and that this released energy was capable of causing damage to neighboring control preparations of organs/cells.
They discovered that normal cells radiated a pattern code or rhythm, where this pattern was disturbed when cellular damage occurred, becoming quite irregular. But that, patterns were transmitted from experimental to control preparations only when the cells or organs were cultured in quartz containers. Since Quartz transmits ultraviolet UV radiation, and standard laboratory glassware does not, the soviets concluded that UV radiation mediated cellular information transfer. Thanks to these discoveries at the time, they started to focus on identifying certain diseases caused by a change of cellular pattern, in means to find a cure by monitoring and altering cellular radiation codes. (13)
Czech research on energy transfer between muscle preparations from animals to man and from man to man has also demonstrated EMR as the vehicle of biological energy transfer. In experiments conducted between 1948 and 1968, at the Okres Institute of public health kutna hora Czech, Dr. Jiri Bradna, demonstrated contactless transfer, (myotransfer), of stimuli between a frogâs neuromuscular preparations. Bradna placed identical preparations side by side, a stimulation of one preparation with electric pulses causing contraction and a recorded electromyographic response in the other.
In some experiments, stimulation of muscle preparations influenced the oscillations of a pendulum and increased the muscle tension of a human subject. Bradna obtained objective proof that energy in the very High-frequency (VHF) range mediated the stimulus transmission. He also demonstrated that myotransfer could be blocked with ferrous metal filters and aluminum; deformed with magnets, ferrites; and reflected/transmitted over waveguide/shielded with grids. (14)
For some people out there, this might remind us of the âConspiracy communityâ claim that wrapping your head with aluminum foil, would reflect the frequencies generated by our cell phone towers, radio signals, wifi signalsâŠetc. While it is true that certain frequencies can be reflected, one would have to wrap his whole body with aluminum foil in order for it to work. This goes to show how something that is partially correct and true, ends up being twisted into a completely different story and purpose.
Bradna also requested the successful application of myotransfer in physiotherapy. The summation of stimuli has been shown to enhance the neuromuscular responses of individuals. Where he noted that myotransfer could be used to influence the behavior of animals, and may also be a factor in altering human behavior under conditions of isolation or overcrowding. (15)
According to A. S. Presman, (a soviet biophysicist), biological and information energy exchange is a result of Electromagnetic fields (EMFs) shared between individuals, animals, and the environment. He believes that in animals, electromagnetic oscillations are synchronized by frequency matching and that the cumulative intensity is dependant on the number of individuals involved. Which led him to discover that the effects of the stimuli, occur through the midbrain (Hypothalamic). The Hypothalamus regulates diverse physiological processes in the organism, pulse, temperature, urine volume, these are said to be disturbed when exposed through changes in EMF waves. (16)