Psychotronics
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The word the US military used in the 1970s and early 1980s for the mind affecting physical matter. An Army lieutenant colonel called John Alexander defined it that way in the Army's own journal in December 1980. What matters is not whether it is real. It is that all three documents from this period pick it up and then put it down — each one ends up sending its signal by radio or television instead.
The engine's definition — word for word
Term of art in US military writing of the 1970s-80s for mind acting on matter. Defined in Lt. Col. John B. Alexander's Military Review article, Dec 1980: 'the interaction of mind and matter', also called bioenergetics (alexander_new_mental_battlefield_1980, psychotronics_term). Already in official use by July 1972 — DIA ST-CS-01-169-72 lists it among the terms for parapsychology.
Engine read: the recordable fact is not efficacy, it is that every document of the window picks the category up and puts it down. Alexander defines it; mindwar, answering him, calls it 'weak, imprecise, and narrow' and routes to television + radio; Paulson teaches telepathy then wires his cells with short wave radio (paulson_collective_screen). Three reaches, three substitutions to broadcast, three disjoint bibliographies.
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