Approved For Release 2001/04/02: CIA-RDP96-00792ROO07003,500 CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY AND LEVELS OF REA* turn Psychology has always s.trivedoPo-Prespectability as a ,@e. For this reason it adopted the parameters of Classic PhyE PART I - ESP AS A COMPONENT IN the same precision and objectivity. However, SOME a GICAL DISORDERS ,min& to attain d not keep pace with the evolution of Physics and Parapsycho KISKOS, Julika. and SAMUEL Andr-ee. And without questioning more deeply its basic assumptions, it Clinical Psychologists ned within the theoretical model proposed by Classic Physics. Sociedade de Pesquisas Psicobioflsica@ Iie, Sao Paulo , to us that questioning reality has much to do with Clinical .ology because, as psychotherapists, we deal with human beings Sao Paulo, S,P., Brazil 1eir subjective reality - and this often means that we have to the so called altered states of consciousness. The main aspect iis question is that the expression of the ASC may be adapted it, as we shall see further on. ir Abstract: Clinical Psychology has not taken into. account evi Provided by other areas of asearch that point to the exist other levels of reality. Therefore@ that which is not percei through physical senses is often considered as being of a pa cal nature. The authors have observed that in some psycholog disorders sometimes there is an ESP factor mingled with the symptoms, and which are only taken into account as a proof , "insanity". Reports made by some patients' and trained sensi about their perceptions are similar. The difference between lies in the fact that the former experience their perception chaotic manner and are overwhelmed by them, while the latter learned to discriminate between ESP and common. pereeptions,: taining their Psychical integrity. When in 1882 the Society for Psychical Research of London st making scientific studies of paranormal phenomena, the model reality conceived was dictated by Newtonian Physics - and in model there was no place for phenomena which conflicted with Principles. But the theory of Relativity as well as the developments of Physics shattered this model of a mechanistic and orderly Uni Today we know that Classic Physics became limited because it described a certain level of reality - the level that we per through our senses. However, it was not adequate to describe clinical pratice and also in our parapsychological research e noticed that in many cases which could be considered as bor symptoms pathology, there is an ESP factor mingled with the aviour of the patient. As examples we cite cases of some of tieats that could be included in this category. BE - We had a patient who complained, amongst other things, she sometimes felt as if she were floating near the ceiling.011@ce, that position, she saw her body sitting on the easy chair in of a group of people who had come to visit her. Another pa- reported that several times she fe@lt as if she moved out of ody reaching the wall opposite to he'r bed and that, from there, ould see her own body lying on the b ed. It is more than natural experiences of this nature trigger a psychological reaction Irg the patient to doubt her sanity. yebokinetic phenomena - We have a patient who hears noises and ives movements in the house; crashes in the kitchen, doors that and close, objects changing place, etc. From the traditional of view we would say that she is hallucinating. However, due r knowledge and experience with the phenomenon of poltergeist, me to the conclusion that she was not hallucinating. Recently members of the family have heard and seen the same things, ruing that our reasoning was correct. Psychokinetic. phenomena iot uncommon. Not knowing about them, however, may cause the opment of psychological problems associated to the stress ved. phenomena that take place at the sub-atomic level and which a ecognition - We had a patient who had precognitive dreams, our perception. connected with the death or accidents with relations or For intances. These precognitive dreams led to@the development of a a long time Parapsychology has been studying phenomena wh al thought loaded with guilt. This sense of guilt was dealt point to other levels of reality. What makes these observatio in psychotherapy making her aware that ther'e was no direct rela important is that they originate from different areas of rese between this type of dream and the death or accidents of the which, on comparison, form a network of evidence pointing to she knew. She was also made aware of her ESP capacity. In levels of reality. e tional psychotherapy dreams are often regarded as a catharsis *conscious desires. However, sometimes they may also be a bridge The nature of reality is questioned both by physicists and paf! cther levels of reality and ours. Psychotherapists who work chologists a material . Einstein commented on this question as follows: ,I interpretation of dreams should be well aware of this fact. world ... constitutes the whole world of appearance,t I not the whole world of reality; we may think of it as formingEcking up symptoms - We had opportunity of following,up cases of oross section of the world of reality." Le displaying somatic or psychological symptoms, making them seek 2rs or psychologists. The treatments, however, w ere not success- We came across the same type of phenomenon in our clinical 342 M3 Approved For Release 2001/04/02: CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0700350003-0 prdctice. We also noticed that these symptoms shifted, lead ingtho tron ic Research, in 1977, in Tokyop entitled "Healing at a different diagnosis by different specialists. Our observationstance: Some Evidences Suggestive of Theta Agent Influence in cate that certain people have a sensitivity which causes themthological Disturbances", we named these entities "theta agents" unknowingly act as "lightning conductors" in their environmenti picking up moods or physical symptoms of the people nearby. Wbipay consider these "theta agents" as natural phenomena, there trained to develop their ESP faculty, they learn to control it @ subject to the laws of Nature, or we can also give.them a reli are no longer at its mercy. Trained sensitives can often manif s connotation. From our point of view, howeverg the religious the symptoms experienced by a patient they do not know at thetct that these phenomena might have is due to Man's interprets- mention of his name, whether the patient is known or unknow@ t and not to the phenomena itself. As our working hypothesis, we those present. There are persons who possessthis faculty but atd for the existence of theta agents. We did this because apart unaware of it and suffer the influences of their environment. iB the explanation one might give them - subconscious of the sen kve, fraud, telepathy, clairvoyance, "this world-ESP", etc. - we For the last few years we have studied people with ESP and the*ced the influence of such theta agents on some patients. In mos Studies indicate that in certain disturbances classified a s It ultbe cases they can be removed through certain processes we use. illness" there are ESP components. Usually an ESP manifestatioltbe theta agents were merely the result of the subjectivity Of looked upon as another element pointing to the fact that the i sensitive or due to his ESP, the improvement we noticed due to ual is insane. ESP truly has its part in this picture, because means we applied yould not have 4ccurred. makes the individual receptive to influences of many kinds; an also reinforces the idea the patient himself and others have o vay theta agents act and how they present themselves was des- disturbance, i.e., he is most probably becoming insane, due tobed in the paper mentioned previously, as well as in the second weird perceptions and sensations he experiences. t of this paper which is being presented at this IV Conference, -r the title "ESP as an Aid to Psychotherapy in Some Psycho" N a 4 Q N (1) U) co 4) 7E 0 LL > 2 CL CL It is impossible to ignore the similarities between certain pe tions of patients committed to asylums and the description giv sensitives. The difference, in terms of what is experienced, b patient, lies in the fact that trained sensitives discriminate tween ESP and common perception, while the person who is a sen but not aware of it, gets in emotional states which end by cre or aggravating maladjustment. Clairvoyance is often found in people who are diagnosed ill". What they perceive is not taken into account as it dered the result of a sick mind. Their perceptions are o into account as one more proof of their "insanity". Howe voyarice as well as clairaudience are often found in sen Here again there is a difference not in that which is perceive rather in the experience triggered by the perception. The psyc experiences his perception in a chaotic manner and is overwhel by it; the trained sensitive learns to control his ESP; he may the same perceptions, but maintains his Psychical integrity. There are also innumerable patient reports regarding the perce or sensing of what they describe as entities at their side. To a briefing on such cases it is sufficient to consult a few psy Pathology textbooks or to visit some psychiatric institutions chat with patients. It is interesting to note that no matter t environment or the cultural background from which the patient that which is perceived has similar characteristics in a great of cases, pointing to a universality in the content of what is cal Disorders". s natural that ESP should not be uniform in everyone. The inte. of the manifestations vary from person to person and so does type of ESP. In the same manner, the way ESP manifests itself interferes in the patient's life is clasely relat@_'d to the cture of his personality. These two aspects are closely inter- n and consequently the effects of this interrelation vary from 6ti to person. her side to this question is the influence theta agents have o ain persons, whether they have or do not have ESP. The effect he influence may be psychopathological, psychophysiological or ronmental. The difference felt between people who have or do have ESP is that the former can become mentally confused as tb feel or hear things that other people do not. y feel at the mercy of controlling them. The such, running the risk committed to an asylum, "supernatural" forces with no fear of being different from of being called "insane" a-ad acts as another destructive ow sensitives who have gone overcome the maladjustment ed to deal with it using it others. this experience their untrained own benefit and ceived. We believe that this content is universal because it d1psychotherapists we should be alert to patients' reports, trying with another level of reality which can also be perceived by P@apprehend their reality however strange it may seem to us, and who are adapted and possess ESP. ;w-thout being overconcerned with fitting their symptoms into 1o; the pre-established psychopathological categories. As we get As a working hypothesis, we consider that these entities (seen,know our patients, we become familiar with the dynamics and felt or perceived as "voices") exist in another level of reali ucture of their personality, enabling us to understand and In our paper, presented at the III International Conference ontceive their problems better. If we detect a particular type of it should be our duty to make them aware of it, helping them 344 345 C@ C@ C@ Q L0 Cl) C@ C@ r* C@ C@ C@ 04 C@ C@ (6 04, a C@ C*4 0 LL > 0 L_ CL CL understand what is happening. When ESP experiences are no long felt as a threat, the activation of internal resources during therapy allow the patient to mitigate or overcome resistances, actualizing his tendency towards recovery. 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Dutton, 1975. k persona 'it" e jr, we de, t e types of theta agents we c, e across, as scrib d : a ients as we in p as the improvem te and relapses observed for it with these age ts. The subjects selected o r sample did )know that they ere being focused by the group, w re not Frgoing psychot erapy and had been showing certain symptoms for than a year. of t *s paper is to take up these aspects a d extend purpose ade during the last two yea s. based on ob ervations m king Eu 0th is thsis t pointed out in our paper "ESP as a Component iobserva io s, as 1. s' t this .one Psych logical Disorders", which is being presented 4. 1 .h0gI er level lonference, led us to consider that there might be anoth e,Ied reality, u perceived by our senses, but which could interact with uperc findividual. Apparently, besides the classical interaction a1.Ap ividual vs environment, there could be a third one that we Id call "spiritual". "Spiritual" is probably not the best word 346 347 7