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Bibliographies on Parapsychology (Psychoenergetics) and Related Subjects USSR

Central Intelligence Agency · 1972-03-28 · 108 pages · text by GLM-OCR

This Central Intelligence Agency release, dated 28 March 1972, contains a translated Soviet bibliography on parapsychology (psychoenergetics) and related subjects. E. K. Naumov and L. V. Vilenskaya compiled it in Moscow in 1971. It lists Soviet and foreign works on telepathy, bioenergetics, dermo-optic sensitivity, yoga and autogenic training, followed by a list of journals and foreign writing on Soviet research. Appended is a 1952 CIA foreign-press report from Vienna's Die Presse on two fiery disks over the Belgian Congo uranium mines, which Commander Pierre chased in a fighter.

  • p. 60 …The anthology Nauchnyye Trudy Instituta Usovershenstvovaniya Vrachey Scientific Transactions of the Institute for the Advanced Training…
  • p. 100 …Aprabuddha, The Science of Yoga. Nagpur, Palekar, 1949, 217 p. 5. Assagioli Roberto, Psychosynthesis. A Manual…

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14. Maby, J. C., Franklin, T. B., Physics of the Diving Rod; Being an Account of an Experimental Investigation of Water and Mineral Diving. London, 1939, 452 p.

15. McMahan, E. A., "A Review of the Evidence for Downing". J. of Parapsychology, Vol 11, 1947, pp 175-190.

16. Murphy, G., et al., "A Field Experiment in Water Divining". J. of the American Society for Psychical Research, 1951, Vol 5, pp 3-14.

17. Murty, K. R. K., "Human Electricity and Dowsing", B. C. D. Journal (The British Society of Dowsers), March, 1953.

18. Murty, K. R. K., "Dowsing Is a Scientific Phemonenon", The American Dowser (The American Society of Dowsers, Inc). 1970, Vol 10, No 4, pp 179-181.

19. Osis, K., "Some Explorations With Dowsing Techniques", J. of the American Society for Psychical Research, 1960, Vol 54, pp 141-152.

20. Parsons, D., "Examination of a Dowser", Journal Soc. Psych. Res., 1959, Vol 40, pp 12-16.

21. Rocard, Y., Le Signal du Sourcier (The Sign of the Dowser) Dunod Publ., Paris, 1964; 136 pp. Bibliography, pp 89-95 (In French).

22. Rocard, Y., "The Dowser Fights Back", La Natura, No 3343, 1963; pp 468-472 (In French)

23. Tromp, S. W., Psychical Physics: a Scientific Analysis of Dowsing. Elsevier Publishing Co., New York, 1949. 534 p.

24. Tromp, S. W., Experiments on the Possible Relationship Between Soil Resistivity and Dowsing Zones, Oegstgoest, 1956.

25. Trump, S. W., "Review of the Possible Physiological Causes of Dwusing", International Journal of Parapsychology, Vol 10, Winter 1966, pp 363-391.

26. Vogt, Evon Z., Hyman, Ray, Water Witching USA., Chicago, the University of Chicago Press, 1959, 248 p. Bibliography: pp 241-248.

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