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Homo Sovieticus: Brain Waves, Mind Control, and Telepathic Destiny

Homo Sovieticus: Brain Waves, Mind Control, and Telepathic Destiny

Velminski, Wladimir
Butler, Erik

Paperback

Sports GeneralCognitionRussian History

ISBN10: 0262035693
ISBN13: 9780262035699
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Feb 10 2017
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.40 Width: 4.90 Depth: 6.80
Language: English
How Soviet scientists and pseudoscientists pursued telepathic research, cybernetic simulations, and mass hyptonism over television to control the minds of citizens.

In October 1989, as the Cold War was ending and the Berlin Wall about to crumble, television viewers in the Soviet Union tuned in to the first of a series of unusual broadcasts. Relax, let your thoughts wander free... intoned the host, the physician and clinical psychotherapist Anatoly Mikhailovich Kashpirovsky. Moscow's Channel One was attempting mass hypnosis over television, a therapeutic session aimed at reassuring citizens panicked over the ongoing political upheaval--and aimed at taking control of their responses to it. Incredibly enough, this last-ditch effort to rally the citizenry was the culmination of decades of official telepathic research, cybernetic simulations, and coded messages undertaken to reinforce ideological conformity. In Homo Sovieticus, the art and media scholar Wladimir Velminski explores these scientific and pseudoscientific efforts at mind control.

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