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Approved For Release DP96-00787R000500420001-2 STAT Pprov DST-18108-387-75 September 1975 (U) Recently the most important source of new questions concerning man has arisen from the need to humanize the technical sciences, where man is often subordinated to the operation of machinery and to the techno- cratic apparatus, rather than the other way around. Specifically, where the human factor is completely relegated to the background and where human activity remains only on the fringe of human existence, human shortcomings, defects and failures are the most frequent; technological dehumanization may have affected not only individuals but entire groups, and perhaps even all of society. Wolf thinks that the primitive peoples -- i.e., the ethnic groups of aborigines who still live at the lowest cultural and economic level in the world, and who belong to so-called primitive, pre- literate and preclass societies -- might be one of the most rewarding sources for studying psychic phenomena and for modeling the psychotronic profile gf man, since they have not been culturally dehumanized by tech- nology. (U) Czech investigator M. Cernousek of Prague 9 suggests that primitive levels exist in all human minds and that there is a regressive nature to telepathic phenomena. By regression he means some "primitivization" of behavior, a return to older psychic functions on the ontogenetic plane. © This behavior change is characterized by an abandonment of and withdrawal from, the rational components of the human psyche - a complete detachment from reality or from the perceived environment. The end effect of this detachment from reality is a spontaneous sinking into a state that can be characterized as one of primary, primordial empathy. Although Cernousek describes the parameters for obtaining certain levels of regression in modern man, his theory does not encompass any of the concepts of biologi- cal energy transfer. Instead, he appears to accept the theory that the human brain is analogous to a highly sophisticated data bank in which all of life's experiences and impressions, consciously perceived or subliminally registered, are stored. Cernousek's idea of telepathic communication involves a high level of empathy between individuals; when such empathy exists, he feels that information transfer occurs as a result of nearly instantaneous and simultaneous processing of similar stored information bits by both sender and receiver. The net result is a coincidence of opinion concerning the telepathic message's content. (U) Cernousek's theory is based on a great deal of research. The Soviet and Czech literature on psychology, creativity, and the evolution of human existence is extensive. A huge volume of data has been compiled on the brain's memory capacity. The Czechs claim that 1973 experiments employ- ing LSD have lead them to the conclusion that all of man's activities and experiences, whether perceived intensively or less intensively, are stored. They are now investigating the quantity of information the brain can process per unit of time, its bit capacity, and how this becomes manifest at the level of the conscious and the unconscious. The objective of this research is to make the process of cognition more economical. Czech scientists have likened the neuron to an integrated modular element that contains a resistor, a capacitor, and perhaps as many as 1,000 times seven 24 STAT Approved For Release 5003/04/18 : CIA-RIP96-00787R000500420001-2