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Where the Soviets are going to go with Raikov's work
is
open to conjecture.
There
is some indication that
the Soviets
believe that Raikov's work and the CCAP device may unlock many
of the mysteries behind ESP and other psi phenomena.
If any
of the above
is
true,
this work may be
a new way of looking inside
and catching the subtle interplay between thought and body,
psyche
and soma.
The CCAP device may have a much wider use than charting
the mental states
of reincarnated artists.
PART D - Telepathic Hypnosis
1.
(U)
According to Ostrander and Schroeder
(75)
,
the ability
to put peop le to sleep
and wake
them up telepathicallv
from a
<Iistance~~birir few yards
t o over a
thousand miles became
the most
Thoroughly tested and perfected contribution of the Soviets
to
international parapsychology.
It is
reported that
the ability
to control a person's consciousness with telepathy
is being further
studied and tested in laboratories in Leningrad and Moscow.
The
work was started in the early 1920s but was not publicized until
the early 1960s.
The work was begun by K.O.
Kotkov,
a psychologist
from Kharkov University,
in 1924.
Kotkov could telepathically
obliterate an experimental subject's consciousness
from short
distances or from the opposite side of town.
The work was documented
by Vasilev
(62) who conducted research of his
own but
could not
reveal
it under Stalin's
regime.
The reality of telepathic sleep-
wake, backed by columns
of data, might be the most astonishing
part
of Vasilev's experiments
in mental suggestion.
See reference
62, pages
75 through
88.
2.
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Parapsychologists
in Leningrad and Moscow are involved
in the telepathic manipulation of consciousness, now recording
successes with the EEG.
Doctor V.
Raikov
(see PART C of this
section)
is involved
in
this EEG research as well
as
E.
Naumov.
Naumov reports
that mental telepathy woke
up
a hypnotized subject
(by telepathy) six of eight
times.
Naumov remarked that
as soon
as
the telepathic "wake
up"
is sent,
trance becomes
less
and
less deep,
full consciousness
returning
in twenty
to thirty
seconds
(137)
.
In the Leningrad laboratory of Doctor Paul Gulyaiev
(Bekhterev Brain Institute)
,
friends of subjects have been trained
to put them to sleep telepathically
(138).
3.
(U)
Why are the Soviets again hard
at work on the telepathic
control
of consciousness?
Doctor
I.
Kogan,
like Vasilev,
is
probably doing
it
for theoretical
reasons;
still trying mathe-
matically
to prove that an electromagnetic carrier of telepathy
is possible.
Why other scientists may be delving into control
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of consciousness by ESP
is another question.
During telepathic
sleep
is
an individual simply dreaming his own private dreams
or does someone else hold sway?
The current Soviets have not
divulged the psychological details
about
their telepathic manipu-
lation of consciousness.
Vasilev describes some revelations
in
his book
(62) but
little else has been reported.
Doctor Stefan
Manczarskl
of Poland predicts
that
this new
field of telepathy
will open
up new avenues
for spreading propaganda.
He
feels
that
the electromagnetic
theory
is valid
and believes,
therefore
that
telepathy
can be amplified
like radio waves.
Telepathy would
then become
a subtle new modus
for
the "influencers" of the world
(139).
Doctor Manczerski's wave
ideas
are still very debatable
but what
about
telepathy
someday becoming
a tool for influencing
people?
B
4.
(U)
Hypnotizing someone telepathically probably comes over
as
a more eerie,
mystifying,
almost diabolical act
in the
US
than
it
does
in
the Soviet Union.
The
US
is
really just becoming
adjusted
to
some, of
the aspects of hypnotism.
Since the turn of
the
century,
the Soviets have been exploring and perfecting the
various
advantages
that hypnotism provides.
In the Soviet Union
hypnotism
is
a common
tool
like X-rays,
used
in medicine, psychotherapy
physiology,
psychology,
and experimental pedagogy.
’
5.
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The Soviets have been
reportedly working on the effects
of drugs
used
in combination with psychic tests.
Vasilev used
mescarine
in the early
days
and more
recently M.S.
Smirnov
of
the Laboratory
of
Visio'n,
Institute
of Problems
of Information
Transmission
of
the USSR Academy of Science,
has been obtaining*
psychic success with psilocybin
(140).
h
6.
(U)
The
tests
that Vasilev had perfected may have
a more
interesting
future
in them than
the developer had imagined.
' Manipu-
lating someone else's
consciousness with telepathy,
guiding him
in
t. ranee ..... colorful
uses
are
too easy
to conjure.
The ability
to
focus
a mental whammy
on
an enemy
through hypnotic teleputhy
has
surely occurred
to
the
Soviets.
In espionage.
nn P
with
the DOS t—hvnnnt-
i
r-
-?^gge3t ^on
to steals class! fied documents
or detonate
important
mi litary equipment^
fhe__mission
is accomplished and
the
indiv-id-
ual
does not
even know
that
he has don^^n^I^e~;
RyTTTse <.7~“—
appendix
V'l)~ itTted
in PsychTEHt^L)".
i^Th7btilk^ recent' telepathy
research
in
the USSR is
concerned with the transmission of behavior
impulses
- or research
to subliminally
control
an
individual’s
conduct."
Visiting Soviet
psi
labs
in 1967,
Doctor Ryzl says
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he was
told by
a Soviet,
"When suitable means of propaganda
are cleverly used.
It
is possible
to mold any man's conscience
so that
in the end he may misuse his abilities while remaining
convinced that he
is serving an honest purpose."
(140)
Ryzl
continues,
"The USSR has
the means
to keep the results of such
research secret
from the rest of the world and,
as practical
applications
of these
results become possible,
there
is no doubt
that
the
Soviet Union will do so."
What will ESP be used for?
"To make money,
and as
a weapon," Ryzl states
flatly.
SECTION
II
- CONDITIONING THROUGH SUGGESTION
PART A - Hypnopedla
1*
The subject of hypnopedia or sleep-learning has been
openly discussed
in the Soviet literature
for the past decade
(142-161).
One of the most thorough Soviet reports has been
prepared by Bliznichenko
(162)
in 1966.
Dodge and Laraont
(163)
have published
a report that
covers the field of hypnopedia in
the Soviet Union through
1968.
Further elucidation of this subject
in this
report, with
the exception of a discussion of possible
trends
in
this
area since
1969,
is believed to be redundant and
unnecessary.
,
(U)
The
last decade of Soviet hypnopedia research has
led
•them into new concepts
of memory improvement.
It
is believed
that
areas such
as subliminal perception and subconscious learning
with hypnosis were borne
from the basic research
involved in
hypnopedia training.
The most
recent indication of new Soviet
interest
in utilizing
the subconscious
as
a reserve
for the retention
of
facts
is
a booklet written by L.I. Kuproyanovich
(164).
This
book describes
the equipment
and technical means used for improving
memory
as well
as
the prospective
uses of cybernetics
for memory
retention.
One of the more interesting features of this book
is
a discussion on subliminal acquisition of
facts.
This
is
an
area of concern when
one.
is speaking of conditioned behavior or
mental alteration.
It
is
also an area seldom discussed in open
Soviet
literature.
PART B of this section will briefly discuss
some Soviet work
in subliminal perception and possible uses
for
this
technique
.
3.
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The
following discussion on memory and hypnopedia is based
on Kuproyanovich 's
report.
The author states that the subconscious
is
one of the unused
reserves
for the retention of
facts.
Memory
operation on the subconscious
level takes place without our realizing
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