Approved For Release 2000/08/09 : CIA- RDP?S- 00792R000600560001-0 R OFFICIAL USE 0 In this experiment the self-reports of the subjects showed a complete qualitative coincidence of sensations occurring in them at the appointed time with the sensations of the "effect" experienced by them earlier. Moreover, intensification of occurring illusions, a significant development of the hypnoid state, and a change in the perception of one's body~--"absence of the body," “weight loss," and a "cloud and lightness in the head"--which passed after the appointed time of the session, were noted in six subjects. In our opinion, this points to the dominating role of autosuggestion in the formation of the "perception of the biofield." At the same time, it is obvious that illusions arising in such a way are the product of a reproducible activation of sensory systems under conditions of absence of a real effect. Thus, an analysis of the obtained investigation data shows that the occurrence of sensory illusions of the "biofield effect" is based on an activation of "sensory noise" under conditions of expectation of an undetermined effect. The development of "biofield sensations" and their dynamics and intensity are formed by unconscious autosuggestion. In turn, as shown above, the autosuggestive formation of "imaginary perception" is intensified and corrected by the actions, mimicry, words, and visible state (tension, quickened breathing, and so forth) of an "extrasense," which, in their essence, are purposeful (although usually unrealized) suggestive methods. Under conditions of expectation of an "unusual" effect and, especially, when the subject exposed to it has a high personal motivation (for example, hope for recovery), in fact, any stimuli emanating from an "extrasense" and connected with the subject's personal motive become agents of suggestion. Exerting a powerful and complex suggestive effect on the subject's psyche through the mechanism of probability forecasting, in a number of cases it is _ possible to attain a psychosomatic reaction adequate to the task set (for example, analgesia, hyperesthesia, etc.) by "extrasensory" methods. As shown by comparison of the results of the "effect" of "extrasenses" and of experimenter-imitators, the role of any physical factor is absent in the process of "biopolar effect." At the same time, as the results of .:. cnslysis of self-reports by "Nextrasenses" have shown, their possession, in their opinion, of "superpowers" is the result of an inadequate interpretation by "extrasenses" of a number of unordinary and often pathological sensations. Similar sensations of the type of senestopathies and kinesthesia are potentiated by unconscious autosuggestion to the level of sensory illusions and pseudohallucinations (and in a number of cases true visual, auditory, and other hallucinations as well). Thus, the investigation conducted makes it possible to draw a conclusion on the psychological nature of so-called "“extrasensory" perception of "biofields" ‘167 Approved For Release 2000/08/09 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000600560001-0 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Approved For Release 2000/08/09 - C1A-RDP96-00792R000600560004-0 and of the "biofield effect," which is based on an inadequate perception of subjective sensations potentiated by suggestive effects. COPYRIGHT: Izdatelstvo "Nauka", "Psikhologicheskiy zhurnal", 1985 11439 CSO: 1840/1102 wll, oceania sn auarnapaaceananencttenetanpeaceanat pitts HORAN SNOT AOE NRA OCTET LRN I Fim OS mance saee emmmeme resgermmera rar wll bMS die td dle didbadle bo ects tee = 168 Approved For Release 2080708769°2 G1 AS8D96 -00792R000600560001-0