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  • noun The study of the interaction between matter, energy and the mind (especially the supposed relationship in parapsychological effects), and of the mind–body problem.

Etymologies

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psycho- + -tronics, coined in 1967 by Zdeněk Rejdák to avoid the negative connotations of parapsychology and to define it as interdisciplinary subject.

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  • The field of science which studies such phenomena, involving cosmic connections and conceptual unity is called psychotronics and is studied keenly in East European Countries.

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  • The field of science which studies such phenomena, involving cosmic connections and conceptual unity is called psychotronics and is studied keenly in East European Countries.

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  • The field of science which studies such phenomena, involving cosmic connections and conceptual unity is called psychotronics and is studied keenly in East European Countries.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • The field of science which studies such phenomena, involving cosmic connections and conceptual unity is called psychotronics and is studied keenly in East European Countries.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • Imre Lázár underscores the association of spirituality with techniques such as meditation, prayer, divination, listening to the inner voice, visionary-imaginary practices, psychotronics, dowsing -- all having in common the tuning of the Self to the Transcendental.

    Sri Aurobindo, Bergson, Levinas, Ricoeur Tusar N Mohapatra 2006

  • It overviews a secret Pentagon psychotronics technology known as Silent Sound Spread Spectrum (SSSS) that has been fully operational since the early 1990s.

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  • The money and personnel devoted to Soviet psychotronics suggested that they had achieved breakthroughs, even though the matter was considered speculative, controversial and “fringy.””

    Gate Stargate | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • "In its strategic context, MindWar must reach out to friends, enemies, and neutrals alike across the globe - neither through primitive" battlefield "leaflets and loudspeakers of PSYOP nor through the weak, imprecise, and narrow effort of psychotronics - but through the media possessed by the United States which have the capabilities to reach virtually all people on the face of the Earth.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

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