Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000700350003-0 turn Psychology has always strived respectability as a CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY 5 PART I - ESP AS A COMPONENT te 50 REARe, For this reason it adopted the parameters of Classic Phys GICAL DISORDERS ME Miming to attain the same precision and objectivity. However, a @ not keep pace with the evolution of Physics and Parapsycho aad without questioning more deeply its basic assumptions, it KISKOS, Julika. and Zz ; nd SAMUEL Andree, med within the theoretical model proposed by Classic Physics. Clinical Psychologists sect edade de Pesquisas Psicobiofisicaters to us that questioning reality has much to do with Clinical _ wlogy because, as psychotherapists, we deal with human beings Sao Paulo, S.P., Brazil heir subjective reality - and this often means that we have to . ‘the so called altered states of consciousness. The main aspect iis question is that the expression of the ASC may be adapted it, as we shall see further on. te clinical pratice and also in our parapsychological research jve noticed that in many cases which could be considered as bor Abstract: Clinical P : pathology, there is an ESP factor mingled with the symptoms 4 Provided by other arene of en's an taken into, account evighaviour of the patient. As examples we cite cases of some of ‘ other levels of reality. Therefore, pret point te the existgatients that could be included in this category. : through physical senses i id i 1c is not percely ae t cal nature. The authors have obsesved thar ia’ being of a pape - We had a patient who complained, amongst other things, ." : disorders sometimes there is an ESP £ at in some psychologighe sometimes felt as if she were floating near the ceiling.Once, Symptoms, and which are only taken i actor mingled with the fehat position, she saw her body sitting on the easy chair in "insanity", Reports made by some into account as a proof of of a group of people who had come to visit her. Another pa~ about their perceptions are similes. the _and trained sensi# reported that several times she felt as if she moved out of lies in the fact that the former oxy te cLeterence between dy reaching the wall opposite to her bed and that, from there, chaotic manner and are overwhelmed by thea, their perceptiontloyld see her own body lying on the bed, It is more than natural - learned to discriminate between ESP ad soumon e the latterfexperiences of this nature trigger a psychological reaction taining their psychical integrity. perceptions, tng the patient to doubt her sanity. _| a ychokinetic phenomena — We have a patient who hears noises and ives movements in the house: crashes in the kitchen, doors that and close, objects changing place, etc. From the traditional of view we would say that she is hallucinating. However, due rv knowledge and experience with the phenomenon of poltergeist, e to the conclusion that she was not hallucinating. Recently meubers of the family have heard and seen the same things, 7 Physics rheory of Rejativity as well as the developments of abreing that our reasoning was correct. Psychokinetic phenomena Today we know th t Cle model of a mechanistic and onlerly Uniygot unconumon. Not knowing about then, however, may cause the described a ce bai level Physics became limited because it fopment of psychological problems associated to the stress th ; rtain Level of reality - the level that we percdved- Prous our senses, However, it was not adequate to describe bur weree that take place at the sub-atomic level and which efecognition - We had a patient who had precognitive dreams, Perception, S connected with the death or accidents with relations or intances. These precognitive dreams led to the development of a ei poine rong time Parapsychology has been studying phenomena whfal thought loaded with guilt. This sense of guilt was dealt ; important is th evers of reality. What makes these observation in psychotherapy making her aware that there was no direct rela . which at they originate from different areas of rese between this type of dream and the death or accidents of the : ich, on comparison, form a network of evidence pointing to #é she knew. She was also made aware of her ESP capacity. In * levels of reality. tional psychotherapy dreams are often regarded as a catharsis a The . . . gconscious desires. However, sometimes they may also be a bridge “ . nature of reality is questioned both by physicists and pageo cther levels of reality and ours. Psychotherapists who work Ma chologists, Einstein commented on this question as follows: "pinterpretation of dreams should be well aware of this fact. a material world... constitutes the whole world of appearance, ¥ : not the whole world of reality; we may think of it as formingicking up symptoms - We had opportunity of following.up cases of a ross section of the world of reality," le displaying somatic or psychological symptoms, making them seek ors or psychologists. The treatments, however, were not success— We came across the same type of phenomenon in our clinical When in 1882 the Society for Psychical Research of London st ma 8 scientific studies of paranormal phenomena, the model reality conceived was dictated by Newtonian Physics - and in Model there was no place f i i i Principles. P or phenomena which conflicted with hyo A ee KE eae a Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000700350003-0
0 CIA-RDP96-00792R000700350003 4 Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : - We also noticed that these symptoms shifted, leadingehotronic Research, in 1977, in Tokyo, entitled "Healing at a Suggestive of Theta Agent Influence in we named these entities “theta agents". practice. different diagnosis by different specialists. Our observationstance: Some Evidences cate that certain people have a sensitivity which causes them thological Disturbances", unknowingly act as “lightning conductors" in their environment; picking up moods or physical symptoms of the people nearby. Whpay consider these "theta agents" as natural phenomena, there trained to develop their ESP faculty, they learn to control ite subject to the laws of Nature, or we can also give them a reli are no longer at its mercy. Trained sensitives can often maniffs connotation. From our point of view, however, the religious ight have is due to Man's interpreta-~ the symptoms experienced by a patient they do not know at the @ct that these phenomena ml t mention of his name, whether the patient is known or unknown th and not to the phenomena itself. As our working hypothesis, we those present. There are persons who possessthis faculty but apd for the existence of theta agents. We did this because apart unaware of it and suffer the influences of their environment. @ the explanation one might give them — subconscious of the sen ive, fraud, telepathy, clairvoyance, "this world-ESP > etc. — we For the last few years we have studied people with ESP and thegced the influence of such theta agents on some patients. In most Studies indicate that in certain disturbances classified as "mEhe cases they can be removed through certain processes we use, illness" there are ESP components, Usually an ESP manifestatiogbe theta agents were merely the result of the subjectivity of looked upon as another element pointing to the fact that the i, sensitive or due to his ESP, the improvement we noticed due to ual is insane. ESP truly has its part in this picture, because means we applied would not have eccurred. makes the individual receptive to influences of many kinds; an also reinforces the idea the patient himself and others have o} vay theta agents act and how they present themselves was des~ disturbance, i.e., he is most probably becoming insane, due tobed in the paper mentioned previously, as well as in the second weird perceptions and sensations he experiences. ; of this paper which is being presented at this IV Conference, BE the title "ESP as an Aid to Psychotherapy in Some Psycho~ It is impossible to ignore the similarities between certain petical Disorders”. “ tions of patients committed to asylums and the description giv . . sensitives. The difference, in terms of what is experienced, bis natural that ESP should not be uniform in everyone. The inten patient, lies in the fact that trained sensitives discriminately of the manifestations vary tween ESP and common perception, while the person who is a senf type of ESP, In the same manner, : : i ; of it, gets in emotional states which end by cre interferes in the patient's life is eldsely related to the ceture of his personality. These two aspects are closely inter- n and consequently the effects of this interrelation vary from Meigeai to person. from person to person and so does the way ESP manifests itself but not aware or aggravating maladjustment. Clairvoyance is often found in people who are diagiiosed as " ill", What they perceive is not taken into account as it is co jon is the influence theta agents have on dered the result of a sick mind. Their perceptions are only talrher side to this quest into account as one more proof of their “insanity". However, Cleain persons, whether they have or do not have ESP. The effect or voyance as well as clairaudience are often found in sensitivedthe influence may be psyc ronmental. The difference felt between people who have or do Here again there is a difference not in that which is perceived pave ESP is that the former can become mentally confused as they rather in the experience triggered by the perception. The psych, feel or hear things that other people do not. experiences his perception in a chaotic manner and is overwhel . by it; the trained sensitive learns to control his ESP; he may} patient may feel at the mercy of "supernatural" forces with no the same perceptions, but maintains his psychical integrity. Sibility of controlling them. The fear of being different from ers and, as such, running the risk of being called “insane _and There are also innumerable patient reports regarding the percethaps being committed to an asylum, acts as another destructive or sensing of what they describe as entities at their side. Totror, a briefing on such cases it is sufficient to consult a few psyq . pathology textbooks or to visit some psychiatric institutions 4know sensitives who have gone through this experience but who chat with patients. It is interesting to note that no matter the overcome the maladjustment caused by their untrained ESP; they environment or the cultural background from which the patient dened to deal with it using it to their own benefit and also to that which is perceived has similar characteristics in a great%p others. of cases, pointing to a universality in the content of what is . . ceived. We believe that this content is universal because it d psychotherapists we should be alert to patients’ reports, trying with another level of reality which can also be perceived by nfepprenend their reality however strange it may seem to us, and who are adapted and possess ESP. without being overconcerned with fitting their symptoms into of the pre-established psychopathological categories. AS We @ As a working hypothesis, we consider that these entities (seeniknow our patients, we become familiar with the dynamics and felt or perceived as "voices") exist in another level of realitucture of their personality, enabling us to understand and In our paper, presented at the III International Conference ongceive their problems better. If we detect a particular type of ’ it should be our duty to make them aware of it, helping them > : 345 344 : i i