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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. 101 …Lindquist, S., Die Methoden des Yoga (The Techniques of Yoga), Inaugural dissertation, Lund, 1932; 224 pp…

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1. Barret, B. M., Rice-Evans, P., "Sensitivity of Hands to Visible Light", Nature, 1964, Vol 203, p 993.

2. Buckhat, R., "The Blind Fingers." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1965, Vol 20, pp 191-194.

3. Chercok, L., "Research and Doubt about Extra-retinal vision", L'Encephale, No.6, 1964; pp 686-699 (In French)

4. Chertok, L., "On Extra-Ocular Vision. An Historical Note". American Journal of Psychotherapy, Vol XX, No 2, 1966 pp 319-322.

5. French, C. N., "Tactile-Vision: Termal and Texture Cues in the Discrimination of Black and White", Nature, 1965, Vol 208, p 1352.

6. Farigoula, L., (Jules Romains), Le Vision Extra-retinienne at Le Sens Paraoptique (Extra retinal vision and the para-optical sense), Gallnard Publ., Paris, 1921, 3 ed.; 141 pp. (In French).

7. Heywood, E. B., Cone, R. A., "Light-stimulated Electrical Responses from Skin", Science, 1966, Vol 154. pp 1051-1053.

8. Joutz, R. P., Weintraub, D. J., et al., "Dermo-optical Perception", Science, Vol 152, May 20, 1966, pp 1108-1110.

9. Makous, W. L., "Cutaneous Color Sensitivity: Explanation and Demonstration", Psychological Review, 1966, Vol 73, No 4, pp 280-294.

10. Mirel, E., "Seas with Fingers", Science News Letter, January 4, 1964, p 7.

11. Rosenfeld, A., "Seeing Color with the Fingers", Life Magazine, 1964, June 12, pp 102-113.

12. Rushton, W. A. H., "Fingertip Sight, Fact or Fiction", Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 1964, Vol 42, pp 410-412.

13. Steinberg, D. D., "Can Light be Sensed Through the Skin?" XVIII International Congress of Psychology; II: General Problems of Psychology. Moscow, 1966, p 225.

14. Trisvyatskaya, V., "Dermal Vision", Fate, 1963, Vol 16, No 7, pp 26-34.

15. Zubin, J., "Dermo-Optical Perception; A Cautionary Report." Science, Vol 147, Feb 26, 1965, p 985.

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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 108 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.