Zdeněk Rejdák
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Zdeněk Rejdák, Ph.D., was a important Czech psychologist
and scientist in the field of psychotronics. In 1967 he introduced the name psychotronics instead of the name parapsychology
used in the world to avoid its negative connotation
s and to define it as interdisciplinary
subject, studying both the interaction between living organisms and their internal and external environment and energy processes in both these interactions. The main objectives of psychotronics were to verify and study the phenomena of telepathy
, clairvoyance
and psychokinesis
, to discover new principles of nature. He founded International Association for Psychotronic Research - I.A.P.R.. He was especially focused on perspectives in extrasensory perception and telepathy. In substantial ways, Rejdák picked up the threads of the work of Břetislav Kafka
, famous Czech hypnologist and one of founders of pareapsychology.
1973, under the leadership of another well-known researcher František Kahuda
, he has worked in the "Laboratory of psychoenergetics" at the Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague
. From the same year he also worked in the Laboratory of Psychotronics at the Faculty of General Medicine of Charles University in Prague. In 1980 he became the leader of the Center for the research in psychotronics and
juvenology. In 1992, he found the Civic Association for Psychotronics and Juvenology". The initiative has not ceased to exist, but its activity ended after his death in 2004.
on the world-wide scale and for many years, he organized conferences on research in psychotronics. The first conference with an international participation on research in psychotronics took place in Prague
(Czechia) in 1973. The psychotronics of this era is being understood as a new science in the terms of human bionics
. The main objectives of psychotronics were to verify and study the phenomena of telepathy
, clairvoyance
and psychokinesis
, to discover new principles of nature. The philosophy of the approach to studies and research on the issue of psychotronics were different from the approach used in parapsychology.
The name of psychotronics was adopted from French
and was suggested to Rejdák by his cooperator, researcher and radio engineer Karel Drbal. After the Mesmer's magnetism, spiritism and parapsychology, psychotronics was meant to be the next phase of the psychological phenomena research
, which should culminate in the birth of a new science
. In 1973 he founded the international association for the research in psychotronics (IARP) and became a president of the association./ F. Kahuda creates his own hypothesis
on the origin of psychotronic phenomena on the basis of hypothetical particles (the so called "mentioms“) and mental energy
. This own school of his within the psychotronics he considers to be a scientific field, which he calls "psycho-energetics". The same year there has been founded the Laboratory of Psychotronics at the Faculty of Universal Medicine within the Charles´ University in Prague and the Psycho-energetic Laboratory at the Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague
In 1976, Rejdák along with Milan Nakonečný
published the very first concept of psychotronics as a field studying distant interactions among organism
s, in a multidisciplinary context, as well as the physicist
s Alain Aspect
and David Bohm
, psychologist Stanislav Grof
or neurophysiologist Karl H. Pribram
. At the turn of 80s to 90s of the 20th century, with the finishing of the communist era, Rejdák gives psychotronics its spiritual-based scientific concept, but together with closing down of the Psychoenergetic laboratory in 1991 as well as the Laboratory of Psychotronics in 1992 the development of psychotronics has begun stagnate. The studies and research in psychotronics are transferred to the private sphere and social organizations (e.g. the Czech psycho-energetic society and the Club of Psychotronics and UFO)
Psychologist
Psychologist is a professional or academic title used by individuals who are either:* Clinical professionals who work with patients in a variety of therapeutic contexts .* Scientists conducting psychological research or teaching psychology in a college...
and scientist in the field of psychotronics. In 1967 he introduced the name psychotronics instead of the name parapsychology
Parapsychology
The term parapsychology was coined in or around 1889 by philosopher Max Dessoir, and originates from para meaning "alongside", and psychology. The term was adopted by J.B. Rhine in the 1930s as a replacement for the term psychical research...
used in the world to avoid its negative connotation
Connotation
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s and to define it as interdisciplinary
Interdisciplinarity
Interdisciplinarity involves the combining of two or more academic fields into one single discipline. An interdisciplinary field crosses traditional boundaries between academic disciplines or schools of thought, as new needs and professions have emerged....
subject, studying both the interaction between living organisms and their internal and external environment and energy processes in both these interactions. The main objectives of psychotronics were to verify and study the phenomena of telepathy
Telepathy
Telepathy , is the induction of mental states from one mind to another. The term was coined in 1882 by the classical scholar Fredric W. H. Myers, a founder of the Society for Psychical Research, and has remained more popular than the more-correct expression thought-transference...
, clairvoyance
Clairvoyance
The term clairvoyance is used to refer to the ability to gain information about an object, person, location or physical event through means other than the known human senses, a form of extra-sensory perception...
and psychokinesis
Psychokinesis
The term psychokinesis , also referred to as telekinesis with respect to strictly describing movement of matter, sometimes abbreviated PK and TK respectively, is a term...
, to discover new principles of nature. He founded International Association for Psychotronic Research - I.A.P.R.. He was especially focused on perspectives in extrasensory perception and telepathy. In substantial ways, Rejdák picked up the threads of the work of Břetislav Kafka
Břetislav Kafka
Břetislav Kafka , was a Czech researcher in the field of experimental psychology and parapsychology. He is considered one of the founders of modern parapsychology and the spiritual father of the tradition of this discipline in Czechia...
, famous Czech hypnologist and one of founders of pareapsychology.
Biography
His scientific career began in 1967 when he became a member of the "Coordination Group for the Research in Psychotronics". Since1973, under the leadership of another well-known researcher František Kahuda
František Kahuda
Prof. RNDr. et PaedDr. František Kahuda was a Czechoslovak physicist and educator. Between 1954 and 1963 he worked as a Minister of Education, and in 1967-1985 he was one of the major promoters of psychotronics, within which he founded his own school, called psychoenergetics.His scientific career...
, he has worked in the "Laboratory of psychoenergetics" at the Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague
Prague
Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
. From the same year he also worked in the Laboratory of Psychotronics at the Faculty of General Medicine of Charles University in Prague. In 1980 he became the leader of the Center for the research in psychotronics and
juvenology. In 1992, he found the Civic Association for Psychotronics and Juvenology". The initiative has not ceased to exist, but its activity ended after his death in 2004.
Psychotronics
Zdeněk Rejdák kept enforcing the psychotronics as a physical sciencePhysical science
Physical science is an encompassing term for the branches of natural science and science that study non-living systems, in contrast to the life sciences...
on the world-wide scale and for many years, he organized conferences on research in psychotronics. The first conference with an international participation on research in psychotronics took place in Prague
Prague
Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
(Czechia) in 1973. The psychotronics of this era is being understood as a new science in the terms of human bionics
Bionics
Bionics is the application of biological methods and systems found in nature to the study and design of engineering systems and modern technology.The word bionic was coined by Jack E...
. The main objectives of psychotronics were to verify and study the phenomena of telepathy
Telepathy
Telepathy , is the induction of mental states from one mind to another. The term was coined in 1882 by the classical scholar Fredric W. H. Myers, a founder of the Society for Psychical Research, and has remained more popular than the more-correct expression thought-transference...
, clairvoyance
Clairvoyance
The term clairvoyance is used to refer to the ability to gain information about an object, person, location or physical event through means other than the known human senses, a form of extra-sensory perception...
and psychokinesis
Psychokinesis
The term psychokinesis , also referred to as telekinesis with respect to strictly describing movement of matter, sometimes abbreviated PK and TK respectively, is a term...
, to discover new principles of nature. The philosophy of the approach to studies and research on the issue of psychotronics were different from the approach used in parapsychology.
The name of psychotronics was adopted from French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
and was suggested to Rejdák by his cooperator, researcher and radio engineer Karel Drbal. After the Mesmer's magnetism, spiritism and parapsychology, psychotronics was meant to be the next phase of the psychological phenomena research
Research
Research can be defined as the scientific search for knowledge, or as any systematic investigation, to establish novel facts, solve new or existing problems, prove new ideas, or develop new theories, usually using a scientific method...
, which should culminate in the birth of a new science
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
. In 1973 he founded the international association for the research in psychotronics (IARP) and became a president of the association./ F. Kahuda creates his own hypothesis
Hypothesis
A hypothesis is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon. The term derives from the Greek, ὑποτιθέναι – hypotithenai meaning "to put under" or "to suppose". For a hypothesis to be put forward as a scientific hypothesis, the scientific method requires that one can test it...
on the origin of psychotronic phenomena on the basis of hypothetical particles (the so called "mentioms“) and mental energy
Energy
In physics, energy is an indirectly observed quantity. It is often understood as the ability a physical system has to do work on other physical systems...
. This own school of his within the psychotronics he considers to be a scientific field, which he calls "psycho-energetics". The same year there has been founded the Laboratory of Psychotronics at the Faculty of Universal Medicine within the Charles´ University in Prague and the Psycho-energetic Laboratory at the Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague
In 1976, Rejdák along with Milan Nakonečný
Milan Nakonecný
Milan Nakonečný is Czech psychologist and historian. During the normalization, Nakonečný was banned from teaching and publishing...
published the very first concept of psychotronics as a field studying distant interactions among organism
Organism
In biology, an organism is any contiguous living system . In at least some form, all organisms are capable of response to stimuli, reproduction, growth and development, and maintenance of homoeostasis as a stable whole.An organism may either be unicellular or, as in the case of humans, comprise...
s, in a multidisciplinary context, as well as the physicist
Physicist
A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...
s Alain Aspect
Alain Aspect
Alain Aspect is a French physicist noted for his experimental work on quantum entanglement....
and David Bohm
David Bohm
David Joseph Bohm FRS was an American-born British quantum physicist who contributed to theoretical physics, philosophy, neuropsychology, and the Manhattan Project.-Youth and college:...
, psychologist Stanislav Grof
Stanislav Grof
Stanislav Grof is a psychiatrist, one of the founders of the field of transpersonal psychology and a pioneering researcher into the use of non-ordinary states of consciousness for purposes of analyzing, healing, and obtaining growth and insight into the human psyche...
or neurophysiologist Karl H. Pribram
Karl H. Pribram
Karl H. Pribram is a professor at Georgetown University, in the United States, and an emeritus professor of psychology and psychiatry at Stanford University and Radford University...
. At the turn of 80s to 90s of the 20th century, with the finishing of the communist era, Rejdák gives psychotronics its spiritual-based scientific concept, but together with closing down of the Psychoenergetic laboratory in 1991 as well as the Laboratory of Psychotronics in 1992 the development of psychotronics has begun stagnate. The studies and research in psychotronics are transferred to the private sphere and social organizations (e.g. the Czech psycho-energetic society and the Club of Psychotronics and UFO)
Books
- Rejdák, Z.: Telepatie a jasnovidnost (Telepathy and clairvoyance). Svoboda, Praha 1970
- Rejdák, Z., Drbal, K.: Perspectives of telepathy. Melantrich, Praha 1970
- Rejdák, Z.: Guite to Psychotronigue. Carrllton 1988
- Rejdák, Z.: Průvodce po psychotronice (Guide of psychotronics). Gemma 89, Praha 1991
- Rejdák, Z.: Páter František Ferda (Msgr. František Ferda), Eminent, 1. vydání, Praha 1994, ISBN 80-900302-4-6