INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PSYCHOTRONIC RESEARCH: JUNE 5-10, 1983

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September 1983 PSI RESEARCH
September 1983 PSI RESEARCH
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PSYCHOTRONIC
RESEARCH: JUNE 5-10, 1983
Russell Targ*
Delphi Associates
Palo Alto, California
In June of 1983 I attended the Fifth International
Conference on Psychotronic Research. This meeting was held
in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, and it gave me an opportunity
to talk with Eastern researchers about their latest ideas
and experiments.
The International Association for Psychotronic Research
(IAPR) has broad interests, covering many borderland areas
of science. These include principally psychotronic
Interactions with physics (the physics of consciousness and
mechanisms of psi functioning), medicine (psychic healing,
iridology, dermo-optic perception), and geology (dowsing and
the examination of so-called geopathogenic zones).
The organization is now ten years old, and has held
five conferences attracting international participation.
These were in Prague (1973), Monaco (1975), Tokyo (1977),
Sao Paulo (1979) and this most recent one in Bratislava in
1983. The president and founder of the organization is Dr.
Zdenek Rejdak, from Czechoslovakia. The two vice presidents
are Dr. Heinrich Huber, of Austria, and Russell Targ of the
US. Three scientific directors Include Dr. Shiuji Inomata,
from Japan, Dr. Erik Ingenbergs from the West Germany, and
Prof. Fedor Romashov from the USSR.
During the conference I was able to visit a striking
remote viewing target site from an experiment that Dr. John
Bisaha and Brenda Dunne carried out in 1976. In their
series of long-distance remote viewing experiments, Bisaha
traveled in the USSR and Czechoslovakia. One of the targets
was a circular restaurant on a bridge tower high above the
Danube river in Bratislava, the conference city for the 1983
* Some of the material presented here is from the
forthcoming book The Mind Race: Understanding and Using
Psychic Abilities by Russell Targ and Keith Harary
(Villard/Rg- orn H ,984)
r+oiise, ly~F).
IAPR meeting. It was thrilling for me to visit this exotic
target, the cafe Bystrica, on the bridge over the Danube;
and observe for myself that the distance separating the
viewer and.the target didn t interfere with the accuracy of
the perception. The viewer in this experiment was six
thousand miles away in Wisconsin. She described his
location as, ':. . near a very large expanse of water . . .
boats ... it seems to have height, vertical lines like
poles . . . a circular shape like a merry-go-round or
gazebo. . ."
At this fifth conference, there were approximately
three hundred attendees, and three simultaneous sessions for
three of the five days of the meeting. These sessions were
divided into: I - PSYCHOTRONICS AND MEDICINE, II -
PSYCHOTRONICS, PSYCHOLOGY, PEDAGOGY, AND CREATIVITY, and III
- PSYCHOTRONICS, PHYSICS AND METHODOLOGY. There were
approximately seventy-five papers presented, most of those
heard by this writer were in translation. The published
conference proceedings fill three volumes, and these are
only the abstracts. Consequently this highly selective
summary will treat each of the topics as briefly as
possible, while still trying to communicate a sense of the
work.
Two Soviet researchers, Dr. Andre Berezin, a bio-
chemist, and Dr. Konstantin Gubarev, a theoretical
physicist, described a variety of Interesting projects. One
of these is an experiment in rat telepathy, in which two
groups of caged rats were housed a mile apart. Each group
had been conditioned to move to the left side of their cage
to avoid an electric shock to their feet when a red light
was turned on. After both groups were reliably conditioned
to this response, a computer controlled experiment was
carried out. In these trials, the researchers found that
when one group of rats was randomly signalled and shocked,
their brother rats (litter mates) in the distant cage would
move to to the left side of the cage also. The timing
signals and selection of which group was to be shocked was
controlled by a central computer, and sent to the cage
controllers via phone lines. A similarly successful
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experiment had been carried out several years ago by Leutin
in the Soviet Union, with human subjects also conditioned by
electric shocks. This appears to be a serious, well thought
out, and well controlled experiment.
A second experimental investigation was carried out in
a hospital in which continued research is being done on the
effects of electromagnetic radiation on consciousness. In
this work, an 18 KHz oscillator was modulated with different
types of stochastic (random) noise. The output of the
generator is brought to the neighborhood of a patient's
head, causing them to have "mystical or religious types of
experiences." In other experiments with electromagnetic
generators, it was found that heart attacks could be induced
in susceptible rats, and relief from hypoxia was obtained in
rats suffering from oxygen deprivation.
We also learned from an English researcher at the
conference, Guy Lyon Playfair, about a Soviet invention
called Lida-4 which is a signal generator producing 100 Hz
modulation of a 40 MHz carrier. This device is said to have
put an entire hall full of people to sleep in fifteen
minutes, according to a report from Dr. Ross Adey.
Dr. Zdenek Rejdak spoke to the plenary session about
the desirability of finding physiological correlates to
dowsing. He described several approaches to this task.
Dowsing and prospecting with psi was a recurring theme in
the conference. It is clear that dowsing on the site of
interest, map dowsing, and dowsing the answer to questions
are all aspects of the same psi process, and all can be
equally successful. A finding described by Dr. Edith Jurka
of the US was the persistent and stable low-frequency
(delta) EEG output of successful dowsers. Rejdak says that
anyone can learn to do dowsing, but that one should beware
of occultists and secret societies who claim to have all the
answers. There was also a discussion of dowsing for thought
forms. In this experiment, a researcher mentally created a
wall in his office from side to side of the room. A dowser
with whom he was working would then have to call him up and
correctly tell him where he found the wall, as he dowsed
over a drawing of the experimenter's office.
Prof. Romashov from the USSR described his continuing
research in nonconventional healing in the hospital setting.
Laying-on of hands, starvation therapy, and various types of
psychic healing are all being pursued, as initially started
in Prof. Spirkin's laboratory several years ago. He
believed that iridology is an important diagnostic tool,
although it may not be psychotronic. Romashov claims ninety
percent success with this approach to diagnosing gastric
ulcers. He says that the iris of the eye has in it the code
for predicting future illness. In healing experiments
Romashov kept his patients blind to the knowledge that they
were the subject of remote healing experiments, and found
that they were still healed.
Dr. Inomata from Japan presented a description of a
complex electromagnetic field, in which one ordinarily
experiences the real part of the field, and the complex or
"shadow" field interacts with consciousness and is
responsible for psi effects. He says that consciousness can
change the flow of time, but not interact with matter
directly. He suggests that the electron beam interference
observed in the Bohm-Aharanov effect would be a good psi
sensor because one need affect only the electron phase to
get an observable effect. This is similar in some ways to
the ideas presented in a paper by Dr. Gubarev (extracting
information from the phase of a system without perturbing
it). Dr. Elizabeth Rauscher has proposed a complex 8-space
geometrical model of space-time with many of the same
features.
Frantisek Andrs from Czechoslovakia described research
on geopathogenic zones, which are said to be discontinuities
in the earth's crust that are hazardous to the health of
humans and animals living above them. He and several others
described how dowsers can locate these zones, and how these
zones have been shown to make animals ill and reduce their
productivity. This is like the ancient Chinese system of
fung schway, in which the elders of the village would have a
meeting in a dark and quiet place, to determine a proper and
healthy location for a house to be built in the village.
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