In June of 1968 Sheila Ostrander, a Canadian, and Lynn Schroeder,
an American, were invited to attend an international conference
on ESP in Moscow. The invitation was from one of the most fervent
missionaries of Soviet psi research, Edward Naumov, then 36.
A few years earlier, when overt interest in such subjects could
easily result in a long holiday in Siberia, such a conference
would have been impossible. Then suddenly, in the mid-sixties,
the doors of prohibition in Russia, under the Troika rulership,
clanged open. Ostrander and Schroeder, encouraged but still
doubting the turn of events, started writing to Soviet scientists
and researchers. For three years, the letters and packages describing
Soviet psi research poured in, culminating in Naumov's invitation
to come and see for yourself.
They did, also visiting Bulgaria, but even before the conference
had ended the suppression returned. The conference was closed
down and Ostrander and Schroeder had to take refuge in Prague.
Once again they were one step ahead of a Soviet crackdown, getting
out of Prague only days before the Soviet tanks rolled in. During
that brief lapse in Soviet repression came an epic book that
opened the eyes of the world to the astounding breakthroughs
in psychic research in the communist countries.
That book, Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain, published
in 1971, became an instant underground hit in New Age circles,
and even though it never achieved best-seller status in the
mainstream readership, it nevertheless has now become something
of a classic.
Up to that point, all we had to go on was some very tentative
research by Dr. Rhine at Duke University in the fifties. While
some of Rhine's conclusions were positive and dramatic, the
effect was blunted because the research results were couched
in cautious, dry statistical terms, and consequently it was
difficult to appreciate the real impact. But the publication
of Psychic Discoveries made it all very real. The future of
the human race became fantastic to contemplate, and at the same
time very chilling. The authors suggested that while these discoveries
could lead to a Utopia if properly utilized, they could also
lead to a hell on earth if abused.
The authors have become world authorities on these subjects
and are in great demand. Atlantis Rising was fortunate to have
the opportunity to interview them at John White's 1997 UFO conference
in New Haven, Connecticut. With publication of their new book
by Marlowe & Company in New York (paperback), the pair is
back in the public eye now. Basically an update of the original,
the new volume bears the shortened title Psychic Discoveries.
Publication of the new edition was primarily motivated by the
flow of formerly top-secret information coming out of the Soviet
Union since the end of the Cold War. The new book contains an
abridged version of the old classic, and then a second part
entitled Psychic Discoveries The Iron Curtain Lifted.
Far from idle since 1971, the authors published Supermemory
(New York, Carroll and Graf) in 1991. This book, which evolved
out of contacts and interests developed while researching the
original Psychic Discoveries, bids to become a classic in its
own right.
The revelations in all three books are nothing short of sensational,
yet for over 25 years, the press and the public have barely
noticed. Echoing the pattern found with the UFO phenomenon,
some believe the situation may suggest a world cover-up. In
fact, the authors told us that they have now recognized that
UFO secrets and psi secrets seem inextricably linked. Uri Geller,
after all, claimed to have obtained his powers from extraterrestrial
sources. The new book includes a foreword by Geller in which
he marvels that the press has taken little notice. He mentions
a press conference in 1977 at which Stansfield Turner revealed
that the CIA had a parapsychology program in place, and had
found a man who could see through walls (Pat Price). The revelation
created not even a ripple in the media!
Yet while the revelations in Psychic Discoveries did not get
wide publicity, they were nevertheless revolutionary. The impact
on society has yet to be fully appreciated. The discoveries
of an obscure electrical repairman from the Black Sea city of
Krasnodar were first revealed to the West in Psychic Discoveries.
In classic Ostrander-Schroeder style, the drama surrounding
the experimentation of Semyon Kirlian and his wife Valentina
is brought to life. It was in this chapter where the terms energy
body and bioplasmic body were first used, and the idea of the
aura was first put forth. One of the most significant results
was a new understanding of the ancient Chinese practice of acupuncture.
A Russian surgeon, Dr. Mikhail Gaikin, showed the colored lights
erupting from the body and appearing in the Kirlian photographs
were actually coming from the seven hundred acupuncture points.
Before the publication of Psychic Discoveries, there had been
several books written about the unique and strange dimensions
of the Great Pyramid of Giza, speculating about their significance.
But thanks to their side trip to Prague, Ostrander and Schroeder
were the first to tell the world about pyramid power. It was
there that they were introduced to Karel Drbal, a Czech radio
and television engineer who had discovered that small pyramids
of the same relative dimensions as the Great Pyramid could sharpen
razor blades! The pyramidal shape apparently focuses cosmic
energy when precisely aligned on the north-south axis, which
can renew the crystalline structure of good-quality steel.
MIND WARS AND SOCIAL CONTROL
Without exception, all of the Soviet researchers interviewed
hoped that these discoveries would be used only for good, but
clearly recognized that many of them offered potential in intelligence
and counter-intelligence, and that some could be used to make
very destructive weapons and so did the CIA.
Although we now know that U.S. intelligence agencies have been
conducting clandestine, black-funded psychic experimentation
for many years, there is considerable evidence that many of
the top-secret government psi programs were triggered by Psychic
Discoveries. Extensive U.S. programs to monitor the Soviet research
started up about that time. The authors were invited to speak
to the new Congressional Clearinghouse of the Future, and parts
of the book were read into the Congressional Record by Congressman
Al Gore, who later became the chairman of the committee, and
who has maintained a high degree of interest in psychic matters.
Apparently during the Cold War, both sides were in a no-holds-barred
race to perfect psi weapons but, just as with space programs,
they may now be cooperating.
>From the original version of the book, the world first
learned
of an astonishing Soviet development the ability to control
behavior and consciousness telepathically! In the chapter, entitled
The Telepathic Knockout, the authors reported on experimentation
dating from 1924 in which Soviet scientists successfully placed
subjects in hypnotic trances and awakened them telepathically
across thousands of miles. Once the connection was established,
the subject's behavior could be manipulated by suggestion, just
as in face-to-face. Typically, they can carry on conscious conversation
and activity while in the trance. In the new book we learn that
the CIA has picked up this ball and run with it.
But it was from the Czechoslovakians at the conference that
the authors learned of a discovery that promises to ultimately
make twentieth Century explosive weaponry seem as primitive
as the horse and buggy the psychotronic generator. And while
in Prague they met the inventor, Robert Pavilita, a design director
for a large Czech textile plant. In a documentary film produced
by a major Czech studio, the authors saw small, strange-looking
metal objects that appeared to be designed by Picasso, arrayed
on a table. They had no moving parts. In the film, Pavlita explained
that the secret was in the form. The generators accumulate human
energy, he said. Then they focus this energy to carry out various
types of work. Pavlita and his daughter Janna charged the generators
by gazing at them in a staring pattern. Once charged, they turned
rotors, attracted nonmetallic particles, caused seedlings to
grow larger plants, and purified polluted water.
This human, psychic energy has had many names since ancient
times, variously referred to as prana, chi, vital energy, animal
magnetism, odic force, etheric force, orgone (Reich), and now
bioplasmic and psychotronic energy. At Pavlita's home in Prague,
the authors handled the devices and saw personal demonstrations
by the inventor himself. But what happens when a psychotronic
generator is pointed at a human? Pavlita's daughter volunteered
to be a guinea pig. She became dizzy and lost her spatial orientation.
The devices can also kill flies instantly.
In the new edition we learn that former KGB Major General Kalugin
started talking in 1990. He claimed that Yuri Andropov gave
orders to move full speed ahead with psychic warfare in the
early 70s, and obtained funding of 500 million rubles. The Soviets
then developed sophisticated Pavlita-type generators. Dr. Nikolai
Khokhlov, a Russian CIA operative, uncovered over 20 heavily
guarded, well-funded laboratories working on psychotronic devices
for military use in the 70s. Some of this effort may have been
cooperative with the U.S.
THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES
At least one U.S. psi program that we know of pre-dated the
publication of Psychic Discoveries. In Supermemory, the authors
reveal details of the CIA EDOM program. EDOM means Electronic
Dissolution of Memory, and apparently this technique was perfected
years ago. The CIA can zap long-term memory and turn someone
into an amnesiac zombie by blocking the neurotransmitter acetylcholine,
and by electronically interfering with the bioplasmic body.
Apparently, they routinely employ this technique to neutralize
former top-secret operatives, just as in the movie Total Recall.
This capability was developed under the MK-ULTRA program when
they performed bizarre memory experiments on mental inmates,
prisoners, and research volunteers in the 60s, before the program
was halted by Congress in 1976.
Perhaps the most bizarre development in memory control was
inspired by the multiple personality disorder. Also in Supermemory,
we learn that the CIA can artificially seed multiple personalities
in the same body, each with its own memory bank not accessible
to the others. Gil Jensen, an Oakland, California, CIA doctor,
claimed that he created a personality named Arlene Grant in
the body of famous super-model Candy Jones in the 50s and 60s
using hypnosis and memory-altering drugs. Grant was trained
as a super-spy and given a complete memory history and top-secret
information which Jones knew nothing about. Whenever Jones went
on celebrity trips, Grant was summoned on the telephone through
a series of electronic sounds, and carried out her spy missions.
The primary personality can never reveal information from the
secondary memory bank, even under torture, and therefore makes
the perfect spy. This program is now called Radio-Hypnotic Intra-Cerebral
Control and is apparently based on Soviet discoveries related
to electromagnetic manipulation of the bioplasmic body.
UFO SECRETS REVEALED
By far the most sensational revelations coming out of the post-Cold
War Soviet Union are concerned with UFOs and the moon.
In the new edition we learn that information from now-opened
KGB files tells of widespread UFO sightings reported to the
Soviet military in the years following the incredible Voronezh
public landings in September 1989, which made headlines all
over the world. Hundreds of adults and children saw the spacecraft
landings and giant aliens and small robots moving freely about
downtown Zavodsk Square in broad daylight. Thousands more saw
giant discs hovering over the city's nuclear power plant.
According to the KGB files, in March of the following year,
over 100 military UFO observations were reported to the Air
Defense Forces, and a 300 foot dis c hovering over the headquarters
of the Soviet Air Defense Command was reported in April. Also
in the KGB files, according to the Hungarian Minister of Defense,
George Keleti, a former colonel in the army, UFOs swarmed over
Hungary at the same time as the Voronezh landings, and alien
craft landed at military air bases all across the country. Keleti
claimed that the four-foot robots actually attempted to climb
into Hungarian MIGS and they repelled guards with ray guns!
Then the ten foot humanoids became invisible when fired upon
with machine guns.
According to Psychic Discoveries, an avalanche of formerly concealed
sightings, landings, close encounters, abductions and more have
seeped out to the press and to newly formed UFO groups in Russia
since 1990.
But the secrets eking out of the Soviet space programs are
even more exciting. Soviet Air Force Colonel Marina Popovich
showed photos of a fifteen-mile-long object flying near the
Martian moon Phobos, taken by the Soviet probe Phobos-2, at
a conference in San Francisco in 1989. Russia's Luna 9 moon
probe, which landed in the Ocean of Storms on February 4, 1966,
took some spectacular 3D photos over the Sea of Tranquility,
which showed a group of spires that appeared to be obelisk-shaped,
and were obviously artificial structures. Soviet space engineer
Dr. Alexander Abramov subjected the photos to a complex mathematical
analysis and concluded that they were archaeological ruins.
Furthermore, he told the authors that the obelisks on the moon
were arranged in exactly the same pattern as the pyramids of
Giza, when placed on an abaka, an ancient Egyptian grid of 49
squares (see illustrations). Then Dr. S. Ivanov, one of Russia's
most eminent scientists, published an analysis in the Soviet
magazine Technology for Youth, claiming that the monuments were
arranged according to definite geometric laws, and were evidently
artificial structures of alien origin.
U.S. photos taken by Orbiter 2 on November 20, 1966 tended
to confirm the Soviet findings. Dr. Ivan T. Sanderson, science
editor of Argosy magazine, analyzed these photos and claimed
that the tallest structure was about 15 stories high, and the
smallest about the size of a fir tree. The authors later found
out that NASA had classified hundreds of lunar photos and still
refuses to release them.
We conclude with a succinct and eloquent summation of the situation
by former astronaut Dr. Brian O'Leary, as quoted in Psychic
Discoveries, The cosmic Watergate of UFO, alien, mind-control,
genetic engineering, free-energy, antigravity propulsion, and
other secrets will make Watergate and Irangate appear to be
kindergarten exercisesÉBut, the truth will and must be
known eventually.
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