understand what is happening. When ESP experiences are no longe felt as a threat, the activation of internal resources during therapy allow the patient to Mitigate or overcome resistances, actualizing his tendency towards recovery, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY AND LEVELS OF REALITY: PART II ~ ESP AS AN AID TO PSYCHOTHERAPY IN SOME PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS The purpose of this paper is to expand the tradit é i the individual vs, environment, taking into account the possib otinteal poeerotend tee oan ika of other levels of reality which can interact with the individ F i ciedad de Pe qeieae Psicobiofisi j It is not our intention to substitute today's psychotherapic J Zo Paulo op sotisicasyie knowledge - but only to add to it another dimension, eae panto holistic understanding of the patient and his Sa0 Paulo, S-P., Brazil his recovery. ional concept 0 aiming at ‘reality, as well REFERENCES ee Capra, F. The Tao of Physics, Great Britain: The Chaucer Press, : wact: The authors discuss the intetactions Petween other levels The Discovery of the Unconscious, New York: Reality and ours in cases involving \patienté with psychological ders of various kinds. Trained senditives were used in this and often manifested extraneous perkonglities (named theta Rio de Janeiro: Livraria |tts by the authors), and who were invo\yed with the patients, A ription is made of the theta agents ofserved and their inter- ; a with the patients, Removal of theta\agents by means of Kiskos, J. and Samuel, A, Healing at a Distance: Some Evidencegain procedures is followed by an ipprovament in the patients’ Suggestive of Theta Agent Influence in Psychological Disturbandition. This approach combined with traditional psychotherappy In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Psycho4# up new possibilities for patieslts whosd prognosis of recovery remote or dependent on extensiy, psychothérapy, Ellenberger, H.F. Books, Inc., 1970 Jaspers, Karl, Psicopatologia Geral. neu, 1973, vol I and II, tronic Research. Tokyo, 1977, Vol. II, 481 LeShan, L. The Medium, Viking Press, 1974. CIA-RDP96-00792R000700350003 the Mystic and the Physicist. New York: foduction 977, at the III Internationdfl Conference on\ Psychotronic arch in Tokyo, we presented a paper discussing the possibility afluencing at a distance péople with various \types of psycho- eal disorders, aiming at/relieving or removibg the symptoms rienced, After experimedAting during three yedrs, we had come to . ., ;COaclusion that this cguld be done. However, We also found out Sone. thet, 1osae States of Consciousness. New York: John Witd personalities extrangous to the members of the group in some #s manifested themselves, suggesting an interrelation between evcholocical disorders of some patients and the influence of ‘b) personalities - which we named "theta agents".\ Also in this tr, we described the types of theta agents we cathe across, as lL as the improvemefte and relapses observed in patients as we bt with these ageAts. The subjects selected for our sample did jknow that they fere being focused by the group, were not frgoing psychotherapy and had been showing certain\symptoms for @ than a year. i purpose of this paper is to take up these aspects ald extend b based on obServations made during the last two yeahs. Price, H.H. Mediumship and Human Survival, In Wheatley, J.M.O. Edge, H.L, (ed.) Philosophical Dimensions of Parapsychology. Springfield: Bannerstone House, 1976, Toben, B. Space, Time and Beyond. New York: E,P, Dutton, 1975 Approved For Release 2001/04/02 id call "spiritual", "Spiritual" is probably not the best word een ceeaemnenaueniedacianceeaes Re oF Smaee nf ig 3 ividual vst environment, there could be a third one that we