psychotronicsn.
/ˌsʌɪkə(ʊ)ˈtrɒnɪks/, U.S. /ˌsaɪkoʊˈtrɑnɪks/ (The study of) the interactions between matter, energy, and consciousness, esp. as supposedly found in parapsychological phenomena and the ability of energy produced by mental effort to have a physical effect on people and objects.
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > parapsychology > [noun] > speculative inquiry
metapsychology1868
psychotronics1968
1968 Z. Rejdac in Jrnl. Paraphysics 2 36 In recent times, in Czechoslovakia, a group of several theoretical and practical workers in the field of parapsychology have coined the new term psychotronics in place of parapsychology. The first to employ this term was Fernand Clerc, a French scholar, when he, in a study in a radio-technical journal touched upon the possibility of causing, through an act of volition, a drop of water falling upon the edge of a razorblade, to turn aside to the right or the left. He, however, has not dealt any further with the phenomena.
1970 (title) Symposium of psychotronics.
1974 Impact 24 339/1 Specific phenomena explored by psychotronics include telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition and psychokinesis.
1992 USA Today (Nexis) 14 Feb. a4 ‘The CIA used psychotronics and biocommunication to cause a blood clot in the brain or heart’..the newspaper Babel claimed.
2003 Guardian 5 June (Life section) 11/5 The project began in 1972 after the CIA became concerned by reports that the Soviet Union was dedicating substantial resources to what it called ‘psychotronics’—research into potential military applications of psychic and fringe science phenomena.
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