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making and other efforts. OAK's next assignment for The challenge was to be called the World's First Seal Corp. (which later evolved into the US Navy SEALs Psychic Tournament. Llewellyn Publications, a noted program) was to develop a model which could be used __ publisher of occult books, sponsored this event, held on o train the top two per cent of individuals, discovered 21 September 1975 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as part hrough the subjective questionnaire, and then fine- of its 5th Annual Gnosticon Festival. The Tournament une their abilities in guessing. was co-sponsored by the Foundation, which was Around the same time, in 1973, because of OAK's __ originally set up to continue the pioneering ESP work of ongoing work with ESP, Dr Milan Ryzl was brought into Dr J. B. Rhine at Duke University (it's now known as the my home in Seattle for interviews and debriefing on his | Rhine Research Center Institute for Parapsychology). ESP work. Dr Ryzl was a biochemist at the Institute of | More than 20 well-known psychics participated in this Biology of the Czechoslovak Academy of Science in event, including Jeane Dixon, Sybil Leek and John Prague and a pioneer in Czech paraphysics before he _ Pierrakos as well as James Hurtak (a recent contributor defected in 1967 to the United States. During that o NEXUS). period of the Cold War, the Soviet Union supported and I was also invited to test the proposed models for developed paraphysical research, seeking a new _ inducing ESP ability using forms of self-hypnosis. | direction in weaponry that would exploit anomalous — was/am relatively unknown for having any abilities in uman potential. his ESP field, so it therefore seemed to hold some In the late 1960s, a series of papers (including for the _ potential as a valid first study. ournal of Paraphysics, published The clairvoyance test involved by the Paraphysical Laboratory he use of 20 cards randomly in Downton, England) was pulled from 10 poker decks. being prepared on the state of . Each participant had to guess paraphysics in the Iron Curtain This was more than two he suit of each card. With one countries of Europe. This series orders of magnitude chance in four of guessing the was part of the Symposium of J correct suit, the average score Psychotronics, whose editorial greater probability than or a run of 20 cards by someone board in those early years 0 with no ESP ability was five. included such luminaries as B. the Scores of nationally Each participant was given five Herbert (1967-70), Zdenek recognised psychics. different runs. A final score Rejdak (1971) and Victor determined the winner, with a Adamenko (1972). These otal of 25 representing the papers comprised hundreds of norm (normal inference). pages and discussed such topics What happened is now as telepathy, telekinesis and precognition as well as history. More than 50 per cent of those participating other areas commonly referred to as extrasensory showed normal scores ranging from 22 to 27 out of a phenomena (ESP for "inside the body" and PK, or _ possible 100, as would be expected in the general psychokinesis, for "outside the body"). These papers can population. Most of the more well-known psychics be viewed at www.earthpulse.com under the "Mind/Brain showed some seemingly paranormal ability in Effects" section. Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder clairvoyance, as expected, with total scores averaging reviewed these studies in their classic 1971 book Psychic | between eight and 12 correct answers out of 20. One Discoveries behind the lron Curtain. well-known psychic even had a score as high as 61 out During the 1950s, Dr Ryzl tried to interest the of a possible total of 100. Communist-ruled Czech government in supporting Using my technique of ESP induction through forms psychic research, and so, by the early 1960s, interest in of self-hypnosis, however, I did not have a single run parapsychology was at least tolerated. Dr Ryzl's studies ess than 16 out of 20. My total score was 83 out of 100. involved hypnotic techniques for developing ESP ‘This was more than two orders of magnitude greater subjects. To demonstrate these techniques, Ryzl used probability than the scores of nationally recognised is psychic subjects to predict the winning numbers in psychics. That first-place certificate still hangs on the he Czech public lottery; they were successful for three wall in my home office. weeks in a row. The 1973 Seattle interviews with Dr Ryzl So, just how did I wind up beating the best psychics in eventually led to the development of a series of he nation at their own game? And, more importantly, protocols on how to fine-tune ESP ability to more than ow can you increase your own "Psi-Q"? | developed a 400 times over natural inference. set of self-consistent definitions and postulates relating In 1975, | received a challenge from Duke University's __self-hypnosis to ESP, both in theory and practice. They Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man in work so well that they were used for all Navy SEAL Durham, North Carolina, to demonstrate these raining, but they also work for anyone willing to put protocols in a formal study. some effort into study and discipline. orders of magnitude greater probability than the scores of nationally now 42 * NEXUS APRIL - MAY 2010 This was more than two recognised psychics. , www.nexusmagazine.com