Milan Ryzl
ESP & HYPNOSIS
(* 22. May 1928 in Prague; † 9. July 2011 in Sacramento)
Rhine's influence on the scientific world began to be most strongly felt during the post-World-War-II period when the modern field of parapsychology began to take shape. Correspondents during this time include W. E. Cox, Jan Ehrenwald, Jule Eisenbud, Robert A. McConnell, Carroll Nash, Gertrude Schmeidler, and later on, Charles Honorton, Stanley Krippner, Robert L. Morris, K. R. Rao, W. G. Roll, Rex Stanford, Ian Stevenson, and Charles T. Tart. Correspondence with some of these persons begins with their student years and continues as they assume professional positions. On the international scene, Rhine began regular correspondence with Remy Cadoret, C. T. K. Chari, Remy Chauvin, Haakon Forwald, Alexander Imich, Martin Johnson, H. H. J. Keil, M. C. Marsh, Hiroshi Motioyama, E. K. Naumov, Soji Otani, J. J. Poortman, Milan Ryzl,and Christiane and Paul Vasse. The culmination of this period came in 1957 with the establishment of the international Parapsychological Association, with many of these persons as charter members.
On JuIy 9, 2011, parapsychology lost another of its prominent researchers when Milan Ryzl passed away.
On JuIy 9, 2011, parapsychology lost another of its prominent researchers when Milan Ryzl passed away.
Pioneering parapsychologist Dr.Milan Ryzl (pronounced Reezal) holds a doctorate in natural sciences (physics and chemistry) from the University of Prague (former Czechoslovakia). Formerly associated with the Institute of Biology of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague, he left his native Czechoslovakia in 1967 for political reasons, and took up residence in the United States. His research of techniques for training extrasensory perception has attracted international attention. While still living in Prague, he became, in 1963, a Corresponding Research Associate of the Parapsychology Laboratory at Duke University (Durham, N.C.). In 1963 he was also awarded the McDougall Award for the Distinguished Work in Parapsychology. A linguist fluently proficient in 4 languages, he has extensively traveled lecturing and teaching at numerous universities, such as in Prague, Moscow, Leningrad (now St.Petersburg), Vienna, and others in Europe and Asia, including about 70 universities and colleges in U.S.A. He is the author of more than 100 research papers and 20 books on parapsychology (including 3 textbooks) which have been published in 17 languages. A popular description of his research appeared in the bestseller Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain by S.Ostrander and L.Schroeder (1970). In all his writings and courses, Milan Ryzl emphasizes the need for experimental evidence and for the critical evaluation of data - a down-to-earth approach which shows the way how the facts of parapsychology can be integrated into the scientific picture of the world.
Milan Ryzl
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b. May 22, 1928 - 2011
RAND 1973 Paranormal Briefing http://foia.abovetopsecret.com/ultimate_UFO/UFO_GOVT/of_Interest/paranormal_briefing.pdf
Pioneering psychic researcher Dr. Milan Ryzl (pronounced Reezal) holds a doctorate in natural sciences (physics and chemistry) from the University of Prague, Czechoslovakia. Formerly associated with the institute of Biology of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague, he left his native Czechoslovakia in 1967 for political reasons, and took up residence in the United States. His research of techniques for training extra-sensory perception has attracted international attention. While still living in Prague, he became, in 1963, a Corresponding Research Associate of the Parapsychology Laboratory at Duke University (Durham, N.C.). In 1963 he was also award the McDougall Award for the Distinguished Work in Parapsychology. Dr. Ryzl is credited with a number of 'firsts' - he was the first to publish scientific materials on modern parapsychology in Communist countries; the first to show that ESP can be repeatedly produced in the laboratory under strict conditions; the first to show experimentally that ESP can be used as a replacement of lost vision; the first to perform a successful experiment which showed that ESP can be used as a dependable means of communication. A linguist fluently proficient in 4 languages, he has extensively traveled lecturing and teaching at numerous universities, such as in Prague, Moscow, Leningrad, Vienna, and others in Europe and Asia, including about 70 universities and colleges in the U.S.A. His courses taught shortly after his arrival to the U.S. started the growing series on courses on parapsychology which are being offered at different colleges and universities all over the U.S.A. He is the author of more than 100 research papers and 2o books on parapsychology (including 3 textbooks) which have been published in 17 languages. He is listed in Who's Who in the West. A popular description of his research appeared in the bestseller 'Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain' by S. Ostrander and L. Schroeder (1970). In all his writings and courses, Milan Ryzl emphasizes the need for experimental evidence and for the critical evaluation of data - a down-to-earth approach which shows the way how the facts of parapsychology can be integrated into the scientific picture of the world.
In Prague, Czechoslovakia, Dr. Milan Ryzl, a biochemist at the Czech Institute of Biology, had spent years trying to interest the government in supporting psychic research -- all with very little success. Undaunted, Ryzl continued his own studies which involved hypnotic techniques for developing ESP subjects. After practicing on some 500 individuals, Ryzl claimed to have found fifty with very strong, testable psi abilities.
Milan Ryzl
Ryzl used his psychic subjects to predict the winning numbers in the Czech public lottery. He was successful for weeks in a row winning the equivalent of several thousand dollars. However, Ryzl's psychical research successes also proved to be detrimental to his safety. The Czechoslovakian regime became very interested in his work. He found himself constantly followed by secret agents. His manuscripts were stolen. Eventually he was asked, in rather forceful terms, to spy on his scientific colleagues in other countries. The authorities made it very clear they were interested in the development of psi techniques for espionage purposes. The government exercised such control over his life that Ryzl had no choice but to comply or defect. His escape from Czechoslovakia was a masterpiece in precise timing. He actually contrived to leave the country with his entire family in three automobiles and many valuable possessions including his prized library. Ironically, Ryzl recalls that the details of his defection had been predicted for him fifteen years earlier by a psychic who had been a friend of the family.
Researchers in socialist countries have continued the emphasis on the practical applications of ESP initiated by scientists such as Ryzl. Actually, since Ryzl's defection, western psychical research has become somewhat more oriented toward practical uses.
Dr. Milan Ryzl, a Czechoslovakian chemist and physicist who became interested in the field of parapsychology in the 1960s, developed the working hypothesis that if a hypnotic trance could produce the proper level of consciousness for manifestation of ESP, then these extrasensory abilities could be not only induced hypnotically but eventually brought forth spontaneously by the subject without the aid of hypnosis. Ryzl's experiments involved three major phases: 1) achievement of the proper level of consciousness through hypnosis; 2) perfecting the manifested ESP by a long and intense training period; 3) self-induction by the subject for the state of consciousness receptive to psi manifestation, with encouragement for the subject to use his other ESP faculties independently of the experimenter who trained him or her.
Ryzl originated his experiment with 463 subjects, mostly university student-volunteers between the ages of 16 and 30. Out of this large group only three individuals had sufficient patience and diligence to complete the extensive training period with any degree of proficiency. The parapsychologist's most talented subject was Pavel Stepanek, a man who came to Ryzl's laboratory at the age of 30 and who had the tenacity to stay with the program for three years.
When he began the experiment, Stepanek demonstrated no extrasensory abilities and was evaluated as psychologically normal. Stepanek was given a standard test throughout the experiment. He was asked to tell whether the green or the white side of a two-color card was facing up. Under these conditions a chance score would have been 50 percent.
To test the repeatability of Stepanek's above-chance scoring and to confirm to visiting researchers that the subject was free from any dependency on Ryzl, the testing procedure involved three phases. In the first, or control, phase of the experiment, Ryzl handled the proceedings with the visitors observing. In the second phase, Ryzl was present to stimulate the subject with the procedure in the hands of the guests. The third phase was conducted entirely by the visitors, with Ryzl in no way present or participating.
In the actual procedure of the experiment, Pavel Stepanek was to ascertain the color of the face-up card from a series of ten two-color cards completely enclosed in opaque covers. As the experiment progressed, even more precautions were taken. The cards were shut up in packs of opaque cardboard and wrapped in layers of blue wrapping paper. Enclosed in the pack was a strip of sensitive photographic film, which was examined after each test for further assurance that the deck had not been opened.
In an adjoining room Mrs. Ryzl prepared the cards, determining their order by astronomical data available for the day of the experiment. She handed the cards to Ryzl, then sat in a corner of the room. Ryzl and Stepanek were separated by an opaque screen through which there was no possibility of seeing the cards or the envelopes.
The first test of 200 sets was run, giving a total of 2,000 individual cards. For this test Stepanek performed under hypnosis, not having achieved a high enough degree of proficiency to function without it. He scored 1,144 hits and 856 misses. In all successive tests the subject brought himself to the level of consciousness in which ESP manifests.
Several parapsychologists began accepting Ryzl's invitation to come to Prague to take part in the experiments. Among those who came were British psychologist John Beloff, American parapsychologist John Freeman, Indian parapsychologist B. K. Kanthamni, and American parapsychologist J. G. Pratt. Each of these men suggested variations of the test; and from these variations, additional observations were devised for the steadily growing body of research. Stepanek consistently scored above chance.
At one point, however, his abilities did begin to deteriorate. To help him regain his ability, Ryzl gave Stepanek a deck and told him to go home and try to rebuild his psychic powers himself. Ryzl suggested that he return when he once more felt confidence in his abilities.
This Stepanek did, and eventually he returned to the lab, stating that he once more felt assured of successful high scoring. The tests were resumed and Stepanek immediately regained his former high level of accuracy. Ryzl interpreted Stepanek's ability to retrain his ESP ability by himself, without any outside help, as indicative of the fact that the subject exerted at least some conscious control over his extrasensory process.
In a review of the total experiment, Ryzl concluded that there had been a number of obstacles to be overcome. The first of these obstacles occurred during the initial phase of the experiment, when the subject was first brought to a hypnotic trance corresponding to the proper level of consciousness in which ESP manifests. At this stage the subject was in an extremely suggestible state. Unfortunately, the maintenance of such a state requires the suspension of critical thinking. Without this discriminatory aid the subject makes mistakes, as he or she is unable to determine the difference between true impressions and other sensory impressions. To overcome this difficulty, Ryzl juggled the different levels of hypnosis. Thus, while the subject was in deep sleep, he was more receptive to extrasensory impressions, and while in the lighter stages, he could use his critical faculties and memory. In this way the subject was able to progress by correcting his own mistakes and by learning to rely upon, and trust, his own judgment.
An interesting difficulty that arose concerned the resistant aspect of psychic impressions. Psi impressions do not seem to occur in the same set patterns and symbology as do sensory impressions. Extrasensory perceptions are usually perceived subjectively and manifest most frequently through the physical senses as hallucinatory experiences. This means that a color may manifest itself as a texture, sound, or temperature.
Ryzl learned that one of the difficulties in testing for ESP lies in the fact that psychically received impressions, manifesting as false sensory hallucinations, are frequently indistinguishable from conventional hypnotic hallucinations. ESP subjects must double their energy for they must constantly be assessing their impressions against what they know to be reality.
In addition to tests for clairvoyance and other manifestations of ESP conducted under hypnosis, numerous experiments have been conducted with the subjects under the influence of various psychotropic or psychedelic drugs. In 1966 R. E. L. Masters, a psychologist, and Jean Houston, a philosopher, were running LSD, mescaline, and psilocybin experiments at the Foundation for Mind Research. While engaged in this study, a number of subjects reported instances of telepathy and clairvoyance. These consistent reports were responsible for Houston's and Masters' inauguration of a specific ESP experiment. Their goal was to elicit extrasensory impressions during the psychedelic sessions.
The original setup of the experiment required 27 subjects to run through a Zener ESP deck (five cards for each of the symbols circle, square, cross, wavy line, star) ten times. The cards were reshuffled after each run of 25. This procedure proved boring to the subjects, who were more interested in following the subjective impressions being triggered in their minds by the drug. The majority of the subjects, 23 of the 27, scored consistently at chance or below-chance levels. They averaged a score of 3.5, which is below chance. The other four subjects averaged a score of 8.5—considerably above chance—and were personal friends of the guide. They were cooperative throughout the test, providing additional indication that attitude influences psi performances.
Masters and Houston learned from this experience to make their tests more compatible to the psychedelic state. The testing further revealed that a subject was more likely to manifest ESP during the leveling-off segment of his "trip" than during the core of the experience. The attention span was much greater and more easily motivated toward taking part in the experiment.
On the basis of these developments, Masters and Houston designed a test utilizing 10 emotionally charged images of historic or aesthetic content in place of the ESP cards. These pictures attempted to trigger the subjective, visual impressions a subject would receive while in the drug state. The agent opened the envelopes containing the target images in an adjoining room. In the room containing the subjects, an assistant attempted to elicit verbal responses from the 62 individuals who had volunteered for the test. Of the 62, 48 described approximate images at least two times out of 10. Of the 62, only 14 were unable to give descriptions corresponding to at least two of the images, and these poor performers were either unknown to the experimenter, anxiety-ridden, or "primarily interested in eliciting personal psychological material." The full results of this experiment were published in 1966 by Masters and Houston in their The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience.
Voyage to the Rainbow: Reminiscences of a Parapsychologist
1972 Bio
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_psychotronicweapons11_16.htm
http://www.thinking-allowed.com/q11-20.html#q144
LEARNING TO USE ESP
Milan Ryzl (#S240)
30 min.
$29.95
A parapsychologist whose pioneering work in Czechoslovakia was featured in the best-selling Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain, Milan Ryzl, Ph.D., shares his personal experiences as a hypnotist and researcher, describing his training methods and their practical applications. One of Dr. Ryzl's subjects was able to identify a each digit of a 15 digit number through clairvoyant perception. Czech biochemist Dr. Milan Ryzl stated in Psychic, "The bulk of recent telepathy research in the U.S.S.R. is concerned with the transmission of behavior impulses - or research to SUBLIMINALLY CONTROL AN INDIVIDUAL'S CONDUCT."
Visiting Soviet psi labs, Dr. Ryzl says he was told by a Russian, "When suitable means of propaganda are cleverly used, it is possible to mold any man's so that in the end he may misuse his abilities while remaining convinced that he is serving an honest purpose." [EW: JUST LIKE OUR STREET LEVEL PERPS!]
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Chapter 26: Psychotronic Generators - Psychic Machines? (1970 material) [...SNIP...]
What are they all about? There isn't an easy answer. The Czechs start out explaining them this way: "Human beings and all living things are filled with with a kind of energy that until recently hasn't been known to Western science. This bioenergy, which we call psychotronic energy, seems to be behind PK (psychokinesis); it may be the basis of dowsing. It may prove to be involved in all psychic happenings. The psychotronic generators draw this bioenergy from a person, accumulate it, and use it. Once charged with your energy, the generators can do some of the things a psychic can do."
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The scientists set up experiments with a device designed by Pavlita. Inside a tightly sealed metal box a spike revolved, run by an electric motor beneath. On top of the turning spike the scientist had balanced a copper strip. It looked like the letter T. The only other thing inside the box was a small metallic object in one corner, not connected to anything. The revolutions of the copper strip were recorded photoelectrically.
Pavlita, as the scientists watched, stood about six feet away from the contraption. He concentrated, stared hard at it. Suddenly the copper strip stood still, as though some force were holding it, counteracting the turning rod. The entire device was even magnetically screened.
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"PK! A fraud proof demonstration of PK", wrote British journalist Theo Lang who'd heard of Pavlita and flown in to witness a demonstration. The scientists agree that it was a fraud proof demonstration of SOMETHING, but what? They couldn't find any known force that could cause the strip to stop and reverse as Pavlita stared. It sounds like PK but it isn't - not exactly.
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[p 288-89]
Other researchers into this now-and-then rediscovered human energy reported that it could even MOVE objects at a distance - in other words, PK. According to the British medical magazine Lancet for July 30, 1921, Dr. Charles Russ, M.R.C.S., showed the Opthalmic Congress at Oxford in 1921 that with a proper apparatus a person could cause a solenoid to move by gazing at it.
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"The force of attraction depends on the amount of energy accumulated in the generator," the Czechs state. It looks like electrostatic energy - the force you get when you rub a comb on wool, turning it into a "magnet" that picks up paper and other light things. Static electricity doesn't work under water. The Pavlita generator is placed in water; still it attracts and lifts bits and pieces of nonmagnetic material.
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It is reported that commissions of experts from the Czechoslovakian Academy of Science and the University of Hradec Kralove - physicists, electronics experts, radio technicians, electrophysiologists, and mathematicians - all investigated the psychotronic generators. We're shown a generator whose force turns a small blade. They've tested to eliminate static electricity, air currents, temperature changes. The blade turns. The blade doesn't react to a strong magnet. The experts test with magnetic fields. They make no difference. The "vital energy" that supposedly philosophical concept, continues to turn the blade. We see them cover the entire device with a glass cylinder. Nevertheless, it moves. We're told they've suspended it in water. Still it revolves.
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Dr. Julius Krmessky, an outstanding Czech mathematician and physicist, tackled this unexplained energy radiating from humans and published an important scientific paper for the Chair of Physics of the Pedagogical Institute of Trnava. Krmessky calculated the force required to make the blade turn at 1.2 x 10E-3 dynes. "It can't be heat or air," he reports. THE RADIATION GOES RIGHT THROUGH GLASS, WATER, WOOD, CARDBOARD, ANY TYPE OF METAL - EVEN IRON - AND ITS STRENGTH DOESN'T DIMINISH AT ALL. Furthermore, the mind seems to control this energy."
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"Analysis found that whatever the energy was, it had caused a change in the actual molecular structure of the water itself! The two hydrogen atoms spread farther apart."
This rang a bell too. We'd been told by a reputable scientific source in the United States that a well known American chemical lab studied water that had been held in a sealed flask by a healer. Word had it that there seemed to be a molecular change in this water, a spreading of the bonds between the hydrogen and oxygen.
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"This is only an infinitesimal part of the Pavlita experiments conducted by the inventor and many other scientists in Czechoslovakia. The psychotronic generators have obtained results in telekinesis, telepathy, clairvoyance tests." TELEPATHY? But that was the end of the movie [viewed in Czechoslovakia by the authors in company with scientists].
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Dr. Genady Sergeyev, the Leningrad neurophysiologist, commented at the conference, "The Pavlita work shows it is possible TO TRANSFER ENERGY FROM LIVING BODIES TO NONLIVING MATTER.
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The Secret's in the Form
(1970 material) [p 293] [...SNIP...]
"Pavlita got the idea from studying many very old texts." Which ones? The Czechs smiled and shook their heads. "We're sorry, we can't tell you that yet."
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"The secret of the generators is their FORM. [EW: Like 'sacred geometry'?] That's the key thing Pavlita gleaned in his studies. It's the shape that lets you accumulate this energy and turn it to whatever purposes you want." Now we understood why they were so hooked on the lighthearted pyramid razor blade sharpener. There, too, the "secret" is supposedly the form.
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Pavlita uses copper, iron, gold, steel, brass, various kinds of metals, and sometimes even wood. Most generators are a carefully formulated COMBINATION OF METALS.
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"The energy doesn't come from a particular organ in your body. It comes from your entire force field, so to speak. Many of the generators have a certain staring pattern carved into them to help concentration and conduction of the energy."
Here's another old idea, the staring pattern that is now tacked up in rooms across America as a result of the influx of Eastern philosophy, the staring pattern that is said to boost concentration and release psychic or spiritual power. The Czechs maintain that this power, handled correctly, can amp up a geranium plant or run a small motor.
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Do you have to keep a specific thought in your mind while trying to charge a generator? "No. You don't have to think anything in particular or will your energy into the generator. Staring in pattern is enough to direct the force, if the generator is properly made. Now we've developed automatic generators that work WITHOUT staring. WE believe they can collect biological energy from anything living - human, animal, plant. Tests are scheduled to see if they can accumulate energy from something as basic as a fertilized egg.
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How long does a charge stay in a generator?
"The generator that speeds plant growth, once charged, works steadily for three days. [EW: Kind of like the 3 day's anomalous effects in genuine crop circles.] That's about the longest at the moment. We have one designed to turn a small electric motor. The first day it requires a charge of half an hour. Then, a few minutes every day and the generator will turn the motor about fifty hours."
[...SNIP...]
The Czech scientists, who seem eminently sane and responsible people, said yes. They showed us small segments of film to back up this "yes". One generator, they said, could do that most classic of all ESP tests, the card test.
This "telepathic" generator has a rotating pointer on top. ESP cards are arranged in a circle beneath. The generator is the "receiver". In another room sits a person who will send. He holds the pack of twenty five cards shuffled and randomized. The sender turns one card at a time face up and concentrates on its pattern. In the first room, the pointer of the generator slowly turns and stops, directed at the card with the same symbol the sender is looking at. As the sender goes through the deck, the generator continues to swing from card to card as an observer notes its "choices" in order.
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What kind of ESP scores does the generator get?
"It is always 100 percent correct. The generator never makes a mistake."
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"Instead of cards being placed under the pointer, we can put a potato, an apple, various vegetables and fruits. Another set is placed in front of a person in a separate room. As the person selects each, the revolving pointer on the generator also turns to indicate the matching vegetable." Their generators, the Czechs added, could also distinguish between blood samples and match a child with his parents.
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In the United States, Cleve Backster, head of the Backster School of Lie Detection in New York [1970 material], has found that organic matter - plants, fruits, vegetables, blood samples - seems to have a form of 'primary' perception." They communicate, sometimes across vast distances. And they "recognize"; even cell scrapings from a person's mouth "recognized" their owner according to the polygraph tracings.
[...SNIP...]
If psychotronic energy is real, what happens if you aim it at people?
"That depends on the kind of generator. Some, we believe, could speed healing of wounds and recovery from illnesses. Others have a harmful effect. We tested the force of one type of generator, for example, on the brain. Pavlita's daughter Jana offered to be the guinea pig. At a distance of several hundred yards, we beamed this energy from a generator towards her head. Jana became dizzy - her spatial orientation was affected and she began to swirl around.
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A Visit to the Czech Merlin
(1970 material) [...SNIP...]
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As he chain smoked, Pavlita explained some of the things the generators could do. "EVERY MOTION A PERSON MAKES IN A ROOM LEAVES A PATTERN, A TRACE. The generator is able to pick up this trace over a distance of several rooms. Even moving one's hand in a circle over a table creates enough of a trace for the machine to pick up and identify."
[...SNIP...]
Even the Czechs don't claim to know all there is to know about their new energy. The cardinal point in their minds is that Pavlita's generators demonstrate that AN UNKNOWN ENERGY DOES EXIST, SUBTLY INTERTWINED WITH HUMAN BEINGS.
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[p 304-05]
The very few - two or three - Western scientists who have seen Pavlita's generators are wary of them. No one likes to wear a historical dunce cap like the members of the French Academy who bodily threw Mr. Edison's agent and his talking machine out of their chambers. They knew, after all, that wax can't talk, that the whole thing was a cheap ventriloquist's trick. Yet no one, particularly scientists, likes to be fingered as gullible, either.
Note: This "Concepts Table" is to speed up access to those points of special relevance to mind control victims who are trying to develop detection, jamming, and shielding countermeasures. This table doesn't appear in the book itself.
Inducing a powerful wish to go somewhere ...................... 90
Lead vault under mercury shielding ............................ 92
Psychic signals NOT electromagnetic ........................... 93
Telepathic voice to skull like a telephone .................... 94
Telepathic physically knocking down ........................... 96
Telepathic hypnosis makes guards see someone else ............. 97
Psychic manipulation of objects ............................... 287
British med mag Lancet confirms remote manipulation ........... 289
Psychotronic fields penetrate everything ...................... 291
Psychotronic generators possible without human 'charging' ..... 295
Psychotronic generators 100% ESP card score ................... 297
People leave psychic traces as they move about ................ 301
Russians developed simulated psi generators ................... 329
Mind and body effects of psychotronic generators .............. 330
Russian psychotronic generators produced on large scale ....... 331
Home made psychotronic generators on the market in 1991 ....... 331
Sickness can be transmitted by 'rays' ......................... 334
(Note: This is also backed up in Secret Life of Plants)
Psi works with [recently] dead animal brains .................. 337
Psi weapons used 'many times' on civilian populations ......... 338
Soviet memory erase or plant weapons .......................... 338
Devices to read OBJECTS' psi impressions ...................... 340
Precognitive devices in actual use ............................ 341
Psychic shielding ............................................. 345
"Biorapport", a way to control another's movements ............ 354
b. May 22, 1928 - 2011
RAND 1973 Paranormal Briefing http://foia.abovetopsecret.com/ultimate_UFO/UFO_GOVT/of_Interest/paranormal_briefing.pdf
Pioneering psychic researcher Dr. Milan Ryzl (pronounced Reezal) holds a doctorate in natural sciences (physics and chemistry) from the University of Prague, Czechoslovakia. Formerly associated with the institute of Biology of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague, he left his native Czechoslovakia in 1967 for political reasons, and took up residence in the United States. His research of techniques for training extra-sensory perception has attracted international attention. While still living in Prague, he became, in 1963, a Corresponding Research Associate of the Parapsychology Laboratory at Duke University (Durham, N.C.). In 1963 he was also award the McDougall Award for the Distinguished Work in Parapsychology. Dr. Ryzl is credited with a number of 'firsts' - he was the first to publish scientific materials on modern parapsychology in Communist countries; the first to show that ESP can be repeatedly produced in the laboratory under strict conditions; the first to show experimentally that ESP can be used as a replacement of lost vision; the first to perform a successful experiment which showed that ESP can be used as a dependable means of communication. A linguist fluently proficient in 4 languages, he has extensively traveled lecturing and teaching at numerous universities, such as in Prague, Moscow, Leningrad, Vienna, and others in Europe and Asia, including about 70 universities and colleges in the U.S.A. His courses taught shortly after his arrival to the U.S. started the growing series on courses on parapsychology which are being offered at different colleges and universities all over the U.S.A. He is the author of more than 100 research papers and 2o books on parapsychology (including 3 textbooks) which have been published in 17 languages. He is listed in Who's Who in the West. A popular description of his research appeared in the bestseller 'Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain' by S. Ostrander and L. Schroeder (1970). In all his writings and courses, Milan Ryzl emphasizes the need for experimental evidence and for the critical evaluation of data - a down-to-earth approach which shows the way how the facts of parapsychology can be integrated into the scientific picture of the world.
In Prague, Czechoslovakia, Dr. Milan Ryzl, a biochemist at the Czech Institute of Biology, had spent years trying to interest the government in supporting psychic research -- all with very little success. Undaunted, Ryzl continued his own studies which involved hypnotic techniques for developing ESP subjects. After practicing on some 500 individuals, Ryzl claimed to have found fifty with very strong, testable psi abilities.
Milan Ryzl
Ryzl used his psychic subjects to predict the winning numbers in the Czech public lottery. He was successful for weeks in a row winning the equivalent of several thousand dollars. However, Ryzl's psychical research successes also proved to be detrimental to his safety. The Czechoslovakian regime became very interested in his work. He found himself constantly followed by secret agents. His manuscripts were stolen. Eventually he was asked, in rather forceful terms, to spy on his scientific colleagues in other countries. The authorities made it very clear they were interested in the development of psi techniques for espionage purposes. The government exercised such control over his life that Ryzl had no choice but to comply or defect. His escape from Czechoslovakia was a masterpiece in precise timing. He actually contrived to leave the country with his entire family in three automobiles and many valuable possessions including his prized library. Ironically, Ryzl recalls that the details of his defection had been predicted for him fifteen years earlier by a psychic who had been a friend of the family.
Researchers in socialist countries have continued the emphasis on the practical applications of ESP initiated by scientists such as Ryzl. Actually, since Ryzl's defection, western psychical research has become somewhat more oriented toward practical uses.
Dr. Milan Ryzl, a Czechoslovakian chemist and physicist who became interested in the field of parapsychology in the 1960s, developed the working hypothesis that if a hypnotic trance could produce the proper level of consciousness for manifestation of ESP, then these extrasensory abilities could be not only induced hypnotically but eventually brought forth spontaneously by the subject without the aid of hypnosis. Ryzl's experiments involved three major phases: 1) achievement of the proper level of consciousness through hypnosis; 2) perfecting the manifested ESP by a long and intense training period; 3) self-induction by the subject for the state of consciousness receptive to psi manifestation, with encouragement for the subject to use his other ESP faculties independently of the experimenter who trained him or her.
Ryzl originated his experiment with 463 subjects, mostly university student-volunteers between the ages of 16 and 30. Out of this large group only three individuals had sufficient patience and diligence to complete the extensive training period with any degree of proficiency. The parapsychologist's most talented subject was Pavel Stepanek, a man who came to Ryzl's laboratory at the age of 30 and who had the tenacity to stay with the program for three years.
When he began the experiment, Stepanek demonstrated no extrasensory abilities and was evaluated as psychologically normal. Stepanek was given a standard test throughout the experiment. He was asked to tell whether the green or the white side of a two-color card was facing up. Under these conditions a chance score would have been 50 percent.
To test the repeatability of Stepanek's above-chance scoring and to confirm to visiting researchers that the subject was free from any dependency on Ryzl, the testing procedure involved three phases. In the first, or control, phase of the experiment, Ryzl handled the proceedings with the visitors observing. In the second phase, Ryzl was present to stimulate the subject with the procedure in the hands of the guests. The third phase was conducted entirely by the visitors, with Ryzl in no way present or participating.
In the actual procedure of the experiment, Pavel Stepanek was to ascertain the color of the face-up card from a series of ten two-color cards completely enclosed in opaque covers. As the experiment progressed, even more precautions were taken. The cards were shut up in packs of opaque cardboard and wrapped in layers of blue wrapping paper. Enclosed in the pack was a strip of sensitive photographic film, which was examined after each test for further assurance that the deck had not been opened.
In an adjoining room Mrs. Ryzl prepared the cards, determining their order by astronomical data available for the day of the experiment. She handed the cards to Ryzl, then sat in a corner of the room. Ryzl and Stepanek were separated by an opaque screen through which there was no possibility of seeing the cards or the envelopes.
The first test of 200 sets was run, giving a total of 2,000 individual cards. For this test Stepanek performed under hypnosis, not having achieved a high enough degree of proficiency to function without it. He scored 1,144 hits and 856 misses. In all successive tests the subject brought himself to the level of consciousness in which ESP manifests.
Several parapsychologists began accepting Ryzl's invitation to come to Prague to take part in the experiments. Among those who came were British psychologist John Beloff, American parapsychologist John Freeman, Indian parapsychologist B. K. Kanthamni, and American parapsychologist J. G. Pratt. Each of these men suggested variations of the test; and from these variations, additional observations were devised for the steadily growing body of research. Stepanek consistently scored above chance.
At one point, however, his abilities did begin to deteriorate. To help him regain his ability, Ryzl gave Stepanek a deck and told him to go home and try to rebuild his psychic powers himself. Ryzl suggested that he return when he once more felt confidence in his abilities.
This Stepanek did, and eventually he returned to the lab, stating that he once more felt assured of successful high scoring. The tests were resumed and Stepanek immediately regained his former high level of accuracy. Ryzl interpreted Stepanek's ability to retrain his ESP ability by himself, without any outside help, as indicative of the fact that the subject exerted at least some conscious control over his extrasensory process.
In a review of the total experiment, Ryzl concluded that there had been a number of obstacles to be overcome. The first of these obstacles occurred during the initial phase of the experiment, when the subject was first brought to a hypnotic trance corresponding to the proper level of consciousness in which ESP manifests. At this stage the subject was in an extremely suggestible state. Unfortunately, the maintenance of such a state requires the suspension of critical thinking. Without this discriminatory aid the subject makes mistakes, as he or she is unable to determine the difference between true impressions and other sensory impressions. To overcome this difficulty, Ryzl juggled the different levels of hypnosis. Thus, while the subject was in deep sleep, he was more receptive to extrasensory impressions, and while in the lighter stages, he could use his critical faculties and memory. In this way the subject was able to progress by correcting his own mistakes and by learning to rely upon, and trust, his own judgment.
An interesting difficulty that arose concerned the resistant aspect of psychic impressions. Psi impressions do not seem to occur in the same set patterns and symbology as do sensory impressions. Extrasensory perceptions are usually perceived subjectively and manifest most frequently through the physical senses as hallucinatory experiences. This means that a color may manifest itself as a texture, sound, or temperature.
Ryzl learned that one of the difficulties in testing for ESP lies in the fact that psychically received impressions, manifesting as false sensory hallucinations, are frequently indistinguishable from conventional hypnotic hallucinations. ESP subjects must double their energy for they must constantly be assessing their impressions against what they know to be reality.
In addition to tests for clairvoyance and other manifestations of ESP conducted under hypnosis, numerous experiments have been conducted with the subjects under the influence of various psychotropic or psychedelic drugs. In 1966 R. E. L. Masters, a psychologist, and Jean Houston, a philosopher, were running LSD, mescaline, and psilocybin experiments at the Foundation for Mind Research. While engaged in this study, a number of subjects reported instances of telepathy and clairvoyance. These consistent reports were responsible for Houston's and Masters' inauguration of a specific ESP experiment. Their goal was to elicit extrasensory impressions during the psychedelic sessions.
The original setup of the experiment required 27 subjects to run through a Zener ESP deck (five cards for each of the symbols circle, square, cross, wavy line, star) ten times. The cards were reshuffled after each run of 25. This procedure proved boring to the subjects, who were more interested in following the subjective impressions being triggered in their minds by the drug. The majority of the subjects, 23 of the 27, scored consistently at chance or below-chance levels. They averaged a score of 3.5, which is below chance. The other four subjects averaged a score of 8.5—considerably above chance—and were personal friends of the guide. They were cooperative throughout the test, providing additional indication that attitude influences psi performances.
Masters and Houston learned from this experience to make their tests more compatible to the psychedelic state. The testing further revealed that a subject was more likely to manifest ESP during the leveling-off segment of his "trip" than during the core of the experience. The attention span was much greater and more easily motivated toward taking part in the experiment.
On the basis of these developments, Masters and Houston designed a test utilizing 10 emotionally charged images of historic or aesthetic content in place of the ESP cards. These pictures attempted to trigger the subjective, visual impressions a subject would receive while in the drug state. The agent opened the envelopes containing the target images in an adjoining room. In the room containing the subjects, an assistant attempted to elicit verbal responses from the 62 individuals who had volunteered for the test. Of the 62, 48 described approximate images at least two times out of 10. Of the 62, only 14 were unable to give descriptions corresponding to at least two of the images, and these poor performers were either unknown to the experimenter, anxiety-ridden, or "primarily interested in eliciting personal psychological material." The full results of this experiment were published in 1966 by Masters and Houston in their The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience.
Voyage to the Rainbow: Reminiscences of a Parapsychologist
1972 Bio
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_psychotronicweapons11_16.htm
http://www.thinking-allowed.com/q11-20.html#q144
LEARNING TO USE ESP
Milan Ryzl (#S240)
30 min.
$29.95
A parapsychologist whose pioneering work in Czechoslovakia was featured in the best-selling Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain, Milan Ryzl, Ph.D., shares his personal experiences as a hypnotist and researcher, describing his training methods and their practical applications. One of Dr. Ryzl's subjects was able to identify a each digit of a 15 digit number through clairvoyant perception. Czech biochemist Dr. Milan Ryzl stated in Psychic, "The bulk of recent telepathy research in the U.S.S.R. is concerned with the transmission of behavior impulses - or research to SUBLIMINALLY CONTROL AN INDIVIDUAL'S CONDUCT."
Visiting Soviet psi labs, Dr. Ryzl says he was told by a Russian, "When suitable means of propaganda are cleverly used, it is possible to mold any man's so that in the end he may misuse his abilities while remaining convinced that he is serving an honest purpose." [EW: JUST LIKE OUR STREET LEVEL PERPS!]
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Chapter 26: Psychotronic Generators - Psychic Machines? (1970 material) [...SNIP...]
What are they all about? There isn't an easy answer. The Czechs start out explaining them this way: "Human beings and all living things are filled with with a kind of energy that until recently hasn't been known to Western science. This bioenergy, which we call psychotronic energy, seems to be behind PK (psychokinesis); it may be the basis of dowsing. It may prove to be involved in all psychic happenings. The psychotronic generators draw this bioenergy from a person, accumulate it, and use it. Once charged with your energy, the generators can do some of the things a psychic can do."
[...SNIP...]
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The scientists set up experiments with a device designed by Pavlita. Inside a tightly sealed metal box a spike revolved, run by an electric motor beneath. On top of the turning spike the scientist had balanced a copper strip. It looked like the letter T. The only other thing inside the box was a small metallic object in one corner, not connected to anything. The revolutions of the copper strip were recorded photoelectrically.
Pavlita, as the scientists watched, stood about six feet away from the contraption. He concentrated, stared hard at it. Suddenly the copper strip stood still, as though some force were holding it, counteracting the turning rod. The entire device was even magnetically screened.
[...SNIP...]
"PK! A fraud proof demonstration of PK", wrote British journalist Theo Lang who'd heard of Pavlita and flown in to witness a demonstration. The scientists agree that it was a fraud proof demonstration of SOMETHING, but what? They couldn't find any known force that could cause the strip to stop and reverse as Pavlita stared. It sounds like PK but it isn't - not exactly.
[...SNIP...]
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[p 288-89]
Other researchers into this now-and-then rediscovered human energy reported that it could even MOVE objects at a distance - in other words, PK. According to the British medical magazine Lancet for July 30, 1921, Dr. Charles Russ, M.R.C.S., showed the Opthalmic Congress at Oxford in 1921 that with a proper apparatus a person could cause a solenoid to move by gazing at it.
[...SNIP...]
"The force of attraction depends on the amount of energy accumulated in the generator," the Czechs state. It looks like electrostatic energy - the force you get when you rub a comb on wool, turning it into a "magnet" that picks up paper and other light things. Static electricity doesn't work under water. The Pavlita generator is placed in water; still it attracts and lifts bits and pieces of nonmagnetic material.
[...SNIP...]
It is reported that commissions of experts from the Czechoslovakian Academy of Science and the University of Hradec Kralove - physicists, electronics experts, radio technicians, electrophysiologists, and mathematicians - all investigated the psychotronic generators. We're shown a generator whose force turns a small blade. They've tested to eliminate static electricity, air currents, temperature changes. The blade turns. The blade doesn't react to a strong magnet. The experts test with magnetic fields. They make no difference. The "vital energy" that supposedly philosophical concept, continues to turn the blade. We see them cover the entire device with a glass cylinder. Nevertheless, it moves. We're told they've suspended it in water. Still it revolves.
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Dr. Julius Krmessky, an outstanding Czech mathematician and physicist, tackled this unexplained energy radiating from humans and published an important scientific paper for the Chair of Physics of the Pedagogical Institute of Trnava. Krmessky calculated the force required to make the blade turn at 1.2 x 10E-3 dynes. "It can't be heat or air," he reports. THE RADIATION GOES RIGHT THROUGH GLASS, WATER, WOOD, CARDBOARD, ANY TYPE OF METAL - EVEN IRON - AND ITS STRENGTH DOESN'T DIMINISH AT ALL. Furthermore, the mind seems to control this energy."
[...SNIP...]
"Analysis found that whatever the energy was, it had caused a change in the actual molecular structure of the water itself! The two hydrogen atoms spread farther apart."
This rang a bell too. We'd been told by a reputable scientific source in the United States that a well known American chemical lab studied water that had been held in a sealed flask by a healer. Word had it that there seemed to be a molecular change in this water, a spreading of the bonds between the hydrogen and oxygen.
[...SNIP...]
"This is only an infinitesimal part of the Pavlita experiments conducted by the inventor and many other scientists in Czechoslovakia. The psychotronic generators have obtained results in telekinesis, telepathy, clairvoyance tests." TELEPATHY? But that was the end of the movie [viewed in Czechoslovakia by the authors in company with scientists].
[...SNIP...]
Dr. Genady Sergeyev, the Leningrad neurophysiologist, commented at the conference, "The Pavlita work shows it is possible TO TRANSFER ENERGY FROM LIVING BODIES TO NONLIVING MATTER.
[...SNIP...]
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The Secret's in the Form
(1970 material) [p 293] [...SNIP...]
"Pavlita got the idea from studying many very old texts." Which ones? The Czechs smiled and shook their heads. "We're sorry, we can't tell you that yet."
[...SNIP...]
"The secret of the generators is their FORM. [EW: Like 'sacred geometry'?] That's the key thing Pavlita gleaned in his studies. It's the shape that lets you accumulate this energy and turn it to whatever purposes you want." Now we understood why they were so hooked on the lighthearted pyramid razor blade sharpener. There, too, the "secret" is supposedly the form.
[...SNIP...]
Pavlita uses copper, iron, gold, steel, brass, various kinds of metals, and sometimes even wood. Most generators are a carefully formulated COMBINATION OF METALS.
[...SNIP...]
"The energy doesn't come from a particular organ in your body. It comes from your entire force field, so to speak. Many of the generators have a certain staring pattern carved into them to help concentration and conduction of the energy."
Here's another old idea, the staring pattern that is now tacked up in rooms across America as a result of the influx of Eastern philosophy, the staring pattern that is said to boost concentration and release psychic or spiritual power. The Czechs maintain that this power, handled correctly, can amp up a geranium plant or run a small motor.
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Do you have to keep a specific thought in your mind while trying to charge a generator? "No. You don't have to think anything in particular or will your energy into the generator. Staring in pattern is enough to direct the force, if the generator is properly made. Now we've developed automatic generators that work WITHOUT staring. WE believe they can collect biological energy from anything living - human, animal, plant. Tests are scheduled to see if they can accumulate energy from something as basic as a fertilized egg.
[...SNIP...]
How long does a charge stay in a generator?
"The generator that speeds plant growth, once charged, works steadily for three days. [EW: Kind of like the 3 day's anomalous effects in genuine crop circles.] That's about the longest at the moment. We have one designed to turn a small electric motor. The first day it requires a charge of half an hour. Then, a few minutes every day and the generator will turn the motor about fifty hours."
[...SNIP...]
The Czech scientists, who seem eminently sane and responsible people, said yes. They showed us small segments of film to back up this "yes". One generator, they said, could do that most classic of all ESP tests, the card test.
This "telepathic" generator has a rotating pointer on top. ESP cards are arranged in a circle beneath. The generator is the "receiver". In another room sits a person who will send. He holds the pack of twenty five cards shuffled and randomized. The sender turns one card at a time face up and concentrates on its pattern. In the first room, the pointer of the generator slowly turns and stops, directed at the card with the same symbol the sender is looking at. As the sender goes through the deck, the generator continues to swing from card to card as an observer notes its "choices" in order.
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What kind of ESP scores does the generator get?
"It is always 100 percent correct. The generator never makes a mistake."
[...SNIP...]
"Instead of cards being placed under the pointer, we can put a potato, an apple, various vegetables and fruits. Another set is placed in front of a person in a separate room. As the person selects each, the revolving pointer on the generator also turns to indicate the matching vegetable." Their generators, the Czechs added, could also distinguish between blood samples and match a child with his parents.
[p 297-98]
In the United States, Cleve Backster, head of the Backster School of Lie Detection in New York [1970 material], has found that organic matter - plants, fruits, vegetables, blood samples - seems to have a form of 'primary' perception." They communicate, sometimes across vast distances. And they "recognize"; even cell scrapings from a person's mouth "recognized" their owner according to the polygraph tracings.
[...SNIP...]
If psychotronic energy is real, what happens if you aim it at people?
"That depends on the kind of generator. Some, we believe, could speed healing of wounds and recovery from illnesses. Others have a harmful effect. We tested the force of one type of generator, for example, on the brain. Pavlita's daughter Jana offered to be the guinea pig. At a distance of several hundred yards, we beamed this energy from a generator towards her head. Jana became dizzy - her spatial orientation was affected and she began to swirl around.
[...SNIP...]
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A Visit to the Czech Merlin
(1970 material) [...SNIP...]
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As he chain smoked, Pavlita explained some of the things the generators could do. "EVERY MOTION A PERSON MAKES IN A ROOM LEAVES A PATTERN, A TRACE. The generator is able to pick up this trace over a distance of several rooms. Even moving one's hand in a circle over a table creates enough of a trace for the machine to pick up and identify."
[...SNIP...]
Even the Czechs don't claim to know all there is to know about their new energy. The cardinal point in their minds is that Pavlita's generators demonstrate that AN UNKNOWN ENERGY DOES EXIST, SUBTLY INTERTWINED WITH HUMAN BEINGS.
[...SNIP...]
[p 304-05]
The very few - two or three - Western scientists who have seen Pavlita's generators are wary of them. No one likes to wear a historical dunce cap like the members of the French Academy who bodily threw Mr. Edison's agent and his talking machine out of their chambers. They knew, after all, that wax can't talk, that the whole thing was a cheap ventriloquist's trick. Yet no one, particularly scientists, likes to be fingered as gullible, either.
Note: This "Concepts Table" is to speed up access to those points of special relevance to mind control victims who are trying to develop detection, jamming, and shielding countermeasures. This table doesn't appear in the book itself.
Inducing a powerful wish to go somewhere ...................... 90
Lead vault under mercury shielding ............................ 92
Psychic signals NOT electromagnetic ........................... 93
Telepathic voice to skull like a telephone .................... 94
Telepathic physically knocking down ........................... 96
Telepathic hypnosis makes guards see someone else ............. 97
Psychic manipulation of objects ............................... 287
British med mag Lancet confirms remote manipulation ........... 289
Psychotronic fields penetrate everything ...................... 291
Psychotronic generators possible without human 'charging' ..... 295
Psychotronic generators 100% ESP card score ................... 297
People leave psychic traces as they move about ................ 301
Russians developed simulated psi generators ................... 329
Mind and body effects of psychotronic generators .............. 330
Russian psychotronic generators produced on large scale ....... 331
Home made psychotronic generators on the market in 1991 ....... 331
Sickness can be transmitted by 'rays' ......................... 334
(Note: This is also backed up in Secret Life of Plants)
Psi works with [recently] dead animal brains .................. 337
Psi weapons used 'many times' on civilian populations ......... 338
Soviet memory erase or plant weapons .......................... 338
Devices to read OBJECTS' psi impressions ...................... 340
Precognitive devices in actual use ............................ 341
Psychic shielding ............................................. 345
"Biorapport", a way to control another's movements ............ 354
OBITUARY -
Publication: The Journal of Parapsychology
Author: Palmer, John
Date published: October 1, 2011
On JuIy 9, 2011, parapsychology lost another of its prominent researchers when Milan Ryzl passed away. A native Czech, Ryzl received his Ph.D. in natural sciences (physics and chemistry) from the University of Prague. Having been associated with the Institute of Biology of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, he left Czechoslovakia in 1967 for political reasons and established permanent residence in the United States. He was briefly on the staff of J. B. Rhine's Institute for Parapsychology in the 1960s, but his most extensive collaboration was with the eminent American parapsychologist J. G. Pratt (1973), who at the time was at the University of Virginia.
Ryzl was the author of more than 100 research papers and 20 books directly or indirectly related to parapsychology. His most prominent professional book is probably a textbook entitled Parapsychology: A Scientific Approach (Hawthorne, 1970). He traveled extensively, lecturing at numerous universities throughout the world. He also offered several parapsychology courses in the United States.
Ryzl is best known in the parapsychological community for his discovery and testing of a gifted research participant named Pavel Stepanek. Ryzl discovered Stepanek during a research program aimed at enhancing ESP ability by hypnosis. Over a 10-year period beginning in the 1960s, Stepanek's ESP ability was the subject of 27 reports of experiments conducted by 18 investigators, including Ryzl himself. Stepanek specialized in a particular type of forced-choice ESP test in which a thin card, white on one side and dark (usually green) on the other, was randomly placed white face up or down inside an opaque envelope. By touching the envelope, Stepanek could reliably guess the orientation of the card inside to a statistically significant degree. Later, it was discovered that Stepanek had a tendency to call particular envelopes green or white consistently. This "focusing effect" continued when the small envelopes were inserted in larger envelopes, making psi a viable explanation. This focusing soon supplanted the original simple effect as the focus of Stepanek's psi. In my opinion, the most important of Ryzl's papers on Stepanek had a more applied orientation (Ryzl, 1966). Briefly, Stepanek was asked to repeatedly guess (50 times or trials) the orientation of the card inside each of 10 envelopes, with the orientation randomly reassigned for each trial. By calculating the "majority vote" (green or white facing up) for each envelope, and converting the votes to a numeric code, Ryzl was able to correctly identify a three-digit target number, even though Stepanek's hit rate on individual targets was only (a still impressive) 60%.
Ryzl believed that all people have at least a little psi ability and it could be trained or developed. He also saw a link between religion and the physical sciences, and he believed that people could use their ESP to discover spiritual realities.
References
Pratt, J. G. (1973). A decade of research with a selected ESP subject: An overview and reappraisal of the work with Pavel Stepanek. Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research, 30, 1-78.
Ryzl, M. (1966). A model of parapsychological communication. Journal of Parapsychology, 30, 18-30.
Ryzl, M. (1970). Parapsychology: A scientific approach. NY: Hawthorne.
Author affiliation:
Rhine Research Center
2741 Campus Walk Ave., BlAg. 500
Durham, NC 27705, USA
John @rhine. org
Acknowledgment
Republished with permission from Volume 3, Issue 3, of Mindfield: The Bulletin of the Parapsychological Association.
Read more: http://www.readperiodicals.com/201110/2591274591.html#ixzz2VvsCjBx6
Publication: The Journal of Parapsychology
Author: Palmer, John
Date published: October 1, 2011
On JuIy 9, 2011, parapsychology lost another of its prominent researchers when Milan Ryzl passed away. A native Czech, Ryzl received his Ph.D. in natural sciences (physics and chemistry) from the University of Prague. Having been associated with the Institute of Biology of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, he left Czechoslovakia in 1967 for political reasons and established permanent residence in the United States. He was briefly on the staff of J. B. Rhine's Institute for Parapsychology in the 1960s, but his most extensive collaboration was with the eminent American parapsychologist J. G. Pratt (1973), who at the time was at the University of Virginia.
Ryzl was the author of more than 100 research papers and 20 books directly or indirectly related to parapsychology. His most prominent professional book is probably a textbook entitled Parapsychology: A Scientific Approach (Hawthorne, 1970). He traveled extensively, lecturing at numerous universities throughout the world. He also offered several parapsychology courses in the United States.
Ryzl is best known in the parapsychological community for his discovery and testing of a gifted research participant named Pavel Stepanek. Ryzl discovered Stepanek during a research program aimed at enhancing ESP ability by hypnosis. Over a 10-year period beginning in the 1960s, Stepanek's ESP ability was the subject of 27 reports of experiments conducted by 18 investigators, including Ryzl himself. Stepanek specialized in a particular type of forced-choice ESP test in which a thin card, white on one side and dark (usually green) on the other, was randomly placed white face up or down inside an opaque envelope. By touching the envelope, Stepanek could reliably guess the orientation of the card inside to a statistically significant degree. Later, it was discovered that Stepanek had a tendency to call particular envelopes green or white consistently. This "focusing effect" continued when the small envelopes were inserted in larger envelopes, making psi a viable explanation. This focusing soon supplanted the original simple effect as the focus of Stepanek's psi. In my opinion, the most important of Ryzl's papers on Stepanek had a more applied orientation (Ryzl, 1966). Briefly, Stepanek was asked to repeatedly guess (50 times or trials) the orientation of the card inside each of 10 envelopes, with the orientation randomly reassigned for each trial. By calculating the "majority vote" (green or white facing up) for each envelope, and converting the votes to a numeric code, Ryzl was able to correctly identify a three-digit target number, even though Stepanek's hit rate on individual targets was only (a still impressive) 60%.
Ryzl believed that all people have at least a little psi ability and it could be trained or developed. He also saw a link between religion and the physical sciences, and he believed that people could use their ESP to discover spiritual realities.
References
Pratt, J. G. (1973). A decade of research with a selected ESP subject: An overview and reappraisal of the work with Pavel Stepanek. Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research, 30, 1-78.
Ryzl, M. (1966). A model of parapsychological communication. Journal of Parapsychology, 30, 18-30.
Ryzl, M. (1970). Parapsychology: A scientific approach. NY: Hawthorne.
Author affiliation:
Rhine Research Center
2741 Campus Walk Ave., BlAg. 500
Durham, NC 27705, USA
John @rhine. org
Acknowledgment
Republished with permission from Volume 3, Issue 3, of Mindfield: The Bulletin of the Parapsychological Association.
Read more: http://www.readperiodicals.com/201110/2591274591.html#ixzz2VvsCjBx6
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Dr. Milan Ryzl, a Czechoslovakian chemist and physicist who became interested in the field of parapsychology in the 1960s, developed the working hypothesis that if a hypnotic trance could produce the proper level of consciousness for manifestation of ESP, then these extrasensory abilities could be not only induced hypnotically but eventually brought forth spontaneously by the subject without the aid of hypnosis. Ryzl's experiments involved three major phases: 1) achievement of the proper level of consciousness through hypnosis; 2) perfecting the manifested ESP by a long and intense training period; 3) self-induction by the subject for the state of consciousness receptive to psi manifestation, with encouragement for the subject to use his other ESP faculties independently of the experimenter who trained him or her.
Ryzl originated his experiment with 463 subjects, mostly university student-volunteers between the ages of 16 and 30. Out of this large group only three individuals had sufficient patience and diligence to complete the extensive training period with any degree of proficiency. The parapsychologist's most talented subject was Pavel Stepanek, a man who came to Ryzl's laboratory at the age of 30 and who had the tenacity to stay with the program for three years.
When he began the experiment, Stepanek demonstrated no extrasensory abilities and was evaluated as psychologically normal. Stepanek was given a standard test throughout the experiment. He was asked to tell whether the green or the white side of a two-color card was facing up. Under these conditions a chance score would have been 50 percent.
To test the repeatability of Stepanek's above-chance scoring and to confirm to visiting researchers that the subject was free from any dependency on Ryzl, the testing procedure involved three phases. In the first, or control, phase of the experiment, Ryzl handled the proceedings with the visitors observing. In the second phase, Ryzl was present to stimulate the subject with the procedure in the hands of the guests. The third phase was conducted entirely by the visitors, with Ryzl in no way present or participating.
In the actual procedure of the experiment, Pavel Stepanek was to ascertain the color of the face-up card from a series of ten two-color cards completely enclosed in opaque covers. As the experiment progressed, even more precautions were taken. The cards were shut up in packs of opaque cardboard and wrapped in layers of blue wrapping paper. Enclosed in the pack was a strip of sensitive photographic film, which was examined after each test for further assurance that the deck had not been opened.
In an adjoining room Mrs. Ryzl prepared the cards, determining their order by astronomical data available for the day of the experiment. She handed the cards to Ryzl, then sat in a corner of the room. Ryzl and Stepanek were separated by an opaque screen through which there was no possibility of seeing the cards or the envelopes.
The first test of 200 sets was run, giving a total of 2,000 individual cards. For this test Stepanek performed under hypnosis, not having achieved a high enough degree of proficiency to function without it. He scored 1,144 hits and 856 misses. In all successive tests the subject brought himself to the level of consciousness in which ESP manifests.
Several parapsychologists began accepting Ryzl's invitation to come to Prague to take part in the experiments. Among those who came were British psychologist John Beloff, American parapsychologist John Freeman, Indian parapsychologist B. K. Kanthamni, and American parapsychologist J. G. Pratt. Each of these men suggested variations of the test; and from these variations, additional observations were devised for the steadily growing body of research. Stepanek consistently scored above chance.
At one point, however, his abilities did begin to deteriorate. To help him regain his ability, Ryzl gave Stepanek a deck and told him to go home and try to rebuild his psychic powers himself. Ryzl suggested that he return when he once more felt confidence in his abilities.
This Stepanek did, and eventually he returned to the lab, stating that he once more felt assured of successful high scoring. The tests were resumed and Stepanek immediately regained his former high level of accuracy. Ryzl interpreted Stepanek's ability to retrain his ESP ability by himself, without any outside help, as indicative of the fact that the subject exerted at least some conscious control over his extrasensory process.
In a review of the total experiment, Ryzl concluded that there had been a number of obstacles to be overcome. The first of these obstacles occurred during the initial phase of the experiment, when the subject was first brought to a hypnotic trance corresponding to the proper level of consciousness in which ESP manifests. At this stage the subject was in an extremely suggestible state. Unfortunately, the maintenance of such a state requires the suspension of critical thinking. Without this discriminatory aid the subject makes mistakes, as he or she is unable to determine the difference between true impressions and other sensory impressions. To overcome this difficulty, Ryzl juggled the different levels of hypnosis. Thus, while the subject was in deep sleep, he was more receptive to extrasensory impressions, and while in the lighter stages, he could use his critical faculties and memory. In this way the subject was able to progress by correcting his own mistakes and by learning to rely upon, and trust, his own judgment.
An interesting difficulty that arose concerned the resistant aspect of psychic impressions. Psi impressions do not seem to occur in the same set patterns and symbology as do sensory impressions. Extrasensory perceptions are usually perceived subjectively and manifest most frequently through the physical senses as hallucinatory experiences. This means that a color may manifest itself as a texture, sound, or temperature.
Ryzl learned that one of the difficulties in testing for ESP lies in the fact that psychically received impressions, manifesting as false sensory hallucinations, are frequently indistinguishable from conventional hypnotic hallucinations. ESP subjects must double their energy for they must constantly be assessing their impressions against what they know to be reality.
Hypnosis and ESP
Milan Ryzl, a chemist who defected to the United States from Czechoslovakia in 1967, developed a hypnotic technique for facilitating ESP which, although it has not been successfully replicated, attracted attention and may yet prove fruitful. Ryzl's technique involved the intensive use of deep hypnotic sessions almost daily for a period of several months. The first stage of these sessions is to instill confidence in his subjects that they could visualize clear mental images containing accurate extrasensory information. Once this stage was reached, Ryzl concentrated on conducting simple ESP tests with immediate feedback so that subjects might learn to associate certain mental states with accurate psychic information. Subjects were taught to reject mental images which were fuzzy or unclear. This process, according to Ryzl, continued until the subject was able to perceive clairvoyantly with accuracy and detail. Finally, Ryzl attempted to wean the subject away from his own tutelage so that he or she could function independently. While still in Czechoslovakia, Ryzl claimed to have used this technique with some 500 individuals, fifty of whom supposedly achieved success.
Other studies have shown heightened ESP in states of physical relaxation or in trance and hypnotic states. In fact, the use of hypnosis to produce high ESP scores is one of the more replicabIe procedures in psi research.
A particularly notable series of experiments were described in 1910 by EmilIe Boirac, rector of the Dijon Academy in France, which produced what he described as an "externalization of sensitivity." When the hypnotist placed something in his mouth, the subject could describe it. If he pricked himself with a pin, the subject would feel the pain. The most striking experiments were those in which the subject was told to project his sensibility into a glass of water. If the water was pricked, the subject would react by a visible jerk or exclamation.
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Obituary
Photographic Print of Milan Ryzl from Mary Evans
© Mary Evans Picture Library/John Cutten Collection
Publication: The Journal of Parapsychology
Author: Palmer, John
Date published: October 1, 2011
OnJuIy 9, 2011, parapsychology lost another of its prominent researchers when Milan Ryzl passed away. A native Czech, Ryzl received his Ph.D. in natural sciences (physics and chemistry) from the University of Prague. Having been associated with the Institute of Biology of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, he left Czechoslovakia in 1967 for political reasons and established permanent residence in the United States. He was briefly on the staff of J. B. Rhine's Institute for Parapsychology in the 1960s, but his most extensive collaboration was with the eminent American parapsychologist J. G. Pratt (1973), who at the time was at the University of Virginia.
Ryzl was the author of more than 100 research papers and 20 books directly or indirectly related to parapsychology. His most prominent professional book is probably a textbook entitled Parapsychology: A Scientific Approach (Hawthorne, 1970). He traveled extensively, lecturing at numerous universities throughout the world. He also offered several parapsychology courses in the United States.
Ryzl is best known in the parapsychological community for his discovery and testing of a gifted research participant named Pavel Stepanek. Ryzl discovered Stepanek during a research program aimed at enhancing ESP ability by hypnosis. Over a 10-year period beginning in the 1960s, Stepanek's ESP ability was the subject of 27 reports of experiments conducted by 18 investigators, including Ryzl himself. Stepanek specialized in a particular type of forced-choice ESP test in which a thin card, white on one side and dark (usually green) on the other, was randomly placed white face up or down inside an opaque envelope. By touching the envelope, Stepanek could reliably guess the orientation of the card inside to a statistically significant degree. Later, it was discovered that Stepanek had a tendency to call particular envelopes green or white consistently. This "focusing effect" continued when the small envelopes were inserted in larger envelopes, making psi a viable explanation. This focusing soon supplanted the original simple effect as the focus of Stepanek's psi. In my opinion, the most important of Ryzl's papers on Stepanek had a more applied orientation (Ryzl, 1966). Briefly, Stepanek was asked to repeatedly guess (50 times or trials) the orientation of the card inside each of 10 envelopes, with the orientation randomly reassigned for each trial. By calculating the "majority vote" (green or white facing up) for each envelope, and converting the votes to a numeric code, Ryzl was able to correctly identify a three-digit target number, even though Stepanek's hit rate on individual targets was only (a still impressive) 60%.
Ryzl believed that all people have at least a little psi ability and it could be trained or developed. He also saw a link between religion and the physical sciences, and he believed that people could use their ESP to discover spiritual realities.
References
Pratt, J. G. (1973). A decade of research with a selected ESP subject: An overview and reappraisal of the work with Pavel Stepanek. Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research, 30, 1-78.
Ryzl, M. (1966). A model of parapsychological communication. Journal of Parapsychology, 30, 18-30.
Ryzl, M. (1970). Parapsychology: A scientific approach. NY: Hawthorne.
Author affiliation:
Rhine Research Center
2741 Campus Walk Ave., BlAg. 500
Durham, NC 27705, USA
John @rhine. org
Acknowledgment
Republished with permission from Volume 3, Issue 3, of Mindfield: The Bulletin of the Parapsychological Association.
Read more: http://www.readperiodicals.com/201110/2591274591.html#ixzz1oNf9qxgX
© Mary Evans Picture Library/John Cutten Collection
Publication: The Journal of Parapsychology
Author: Palmer, John
Date published: October 1, 2011
OnJuIy 9, 2011, parapsychology lost another of its prominent researchers when Milan Ryzl passed away. A native Czech, Ryzl received his Ph.D. in natural sciences (physics and chemistry) from the University of Prague. Having been associated with the Institute of Biology of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, he left Czechoslovakia in 1967 for political reasons and established permanent residence in the United States. He was briefly on the staff of J. B. Rhine's Institute for Parapsychology in the 1960s, but his most extensive collaboration was with the eminent American parapsychologist J. G. Pratt (1973), who at the time was at the University of Virginia.
Ryzl was the author of more than 100 research papers and 20 books directly or indirectly related to parapsychology. His most prominent professional book is probably a textbook entitled Parapsychology: A Scientific Approach (Hawthorne, 1970). He traveled extensively, lecturing at numerous universities throughout the world. He also offered several parapsychology courses in the United States.
Ryzl is best known in the parapsychological community for his discovery and testing of a gifted research participant named Pavel Stepanek. Ryzl discovered Stepanek during a research program aimed at enhancing ESP ability by hypnosis. Over a 10-year period beginning in the 1960s, Stepanek's ESP ability was the subject of 27 reports of experiments conducted by 18 investigators, including Ryzl himself. Stepanek specialized in a particular type of forced-choice ESP test in which a thin card, white on one side and dark (usually green) on the other, was randomly placed white face up or down inside an opaque envelope. By touching the envelope, Stepanek could reliably guess the orientation of the card inside to a statistically significant degree. Later, it was discovered that Stepanek had a tendency to call particular envelopes green or white consistently. This "focusing effect" continued when the small envelopes were inserted in larger envelopes, making psi a viable explanation. This focusing soon supplanted the original simple effect as the focus of Stepanek's psi. In my opinion, the most important of Ryzl's papers on Stepanek had a more applied orientation (Ryzl, 1966). Briefly, Stepanek was asked to repeatedly guess (50 times or trials) the orientation of the card inside each of 10 envelopes, with the orientation randomly reassigned for each trial. By calculating the "majority vote" (green or white facing up) for each envelope, and converting the votes to a numeric code, Ryzl was able to correctly identify a three-digit target number, even though Stepanek's hit rate on individual targets was only (a still impressive) 60%.
Ryzl believed that all people have at least a little psi ability and it could be trained or developed. He also saw a link between religion and the physical sciences, and he believed that people could use their ESP to discover spiritual realities.
References
Pratt, J. G. (1973). A decade of research with a selected ESP subject: An overview and reappraisal of the work with Pavel Stepanek. Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research, 30, 1-78.
Ryzl, M. (1966). A model of parapsychological communication. Journal of Parapsychology, 30, 18-30.
Ryzl, M. (1970). Parapsychology: A scientific approach. NY: Hawthorne.
Author affiliation:
Rhine Research Center
2741 Campus Walk Ave., BlAg. 500
Durham, NC 27705, USA
John @rhine. org
Acknowledgment
Republished with permission from Volume 3, Issue 3, of Mindfield: The Bulletin of the Parapsychological Association.
Read more: http://www.readperiodicals.com/201110/2591274591.html#ixzz1oNf9qxgX
- Ryzl, Milan. "Training the Psi Faculty by Hypnosis." Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 41 (1962).
- Ryzl, Milan, and J. T. Barendregt, P. R. Barkema, and Jan Kappers. "An ESP Experiment in Prague." Journal of Parapsychology 29 (1965).
- Ryzl, Milan, and J. Bekoff. "Loss of Stability of ESP Performance in a High-Scoring Subject." Journal of Parapsychology 29 (1965).
- Ryzl, Milan, and J. G. Pratt. "The Focusing of ESP Upon Particular Targets." Journal of Parapsychology 27 (1963).
- Ryzl, Milan, and J. G. Pratt. "A Further Confirmation of Stabilized ESP Performance in a Selected Subject." Journal of Parapsychology 27 (1963).
- Ryzl, Milan, and J. G. Pratt. "A Repeated-Calling ESP Test with Sealed Cards." Journal of Parapsychology 27 (1963).
- Ryzl, Milan. "A model of parapsychological communication." Journal of Parapsychology, 30, 18–30 (1966).
- Ryzl, Milan. Parapsychology: A scientific approach. NY: Hawthorne (1970).
- Ryzl, Milan. "How Not to Test a Psychic." Journal of Parapsychology 54 (September 1990).