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Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CJA-RDP96-00787R000300080001-2 I INTRODUCTION (U) q This study is an overview of psychoenergetics research ef- forts in those Free-World countries that have published articles in the open literature. The data are restricted to foreign work and are derived from a comprehensive survey of eight major parapsychological journals, spanning a period from 1972 until the present. Two hundred and thirty- three articles were evaluated and computerized in a Data Base Management System (DBMS) according to six major topics or keywords and 16 subtopics that were chosen specifically to reflect those areas considered to be of principal interest The six principal topic headings may be understood in general terms according to the fol- lowing set of definitions: e Remote Sensing: The acquisition and description, by mental means, of information blocked from ordinary perception by dis- tance or shielding, and generally believed to be secure against such access.* e Remote Action: The production of physical effects, such as the perturbation of instrumentation or equipment that appears to be well shielded against, or otherwise inaccessible to, human influence.” e Reliability/Screening: Spans a wide range of prescriptive, methodological experiments or experimental protocols; also in- cludes studies involved in the identification of correlates (e.g., physiological, psychological, and so forth) that may en- hance psychoenergetic functioning and/or facilitate the selection of talented subjects. e Theoretical Models: Various paradigms and plausibility arguments, which have been advanced within physics and other disciplines that endeavor to explain observed phenomena. e Healing: The ability of an agent to cure illness or to influence positively the physical state of a biological system. “(U) H. E. Puthoff, R. Targ, and E. C. May, "Psychoenergetic Research: Suggested Approaches," SRI White Paper, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA (1 May 1978), SRI Proprietary. Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIACF DP96-00787R0 0080001-2