Milan Rýzl
Milan Rýzl (born May 22, 1928 in Prague , † July 9, 2011 in Sacramento ) was a Czech-American parapsychologist .
Life
Milan Rýzl was one of the best-known representatives of scientific parapsychology . The author of the Great Handbook of Parapsychology has been researching on both sides of the Iron Curtain since the 1950s, first in his home country, Czechoslovakia , and then from 1967 in self-chosen exile in the USA. Rýzl regarded it as one of the most important tasks of his guild to close the "gap between science and religion".
The scientist, who was born in Prague , studied physics and chemistry at the Charles University there and then obtained a doctorate in biochemistry . Driven by a “burning curiosity” (Voyage to the Rainbow, 2), he was already occupied with occult phenomena during his studies. His special interest was in the phenomenon of extrasensory perception (course: ASW). His first subjects of study were professional clairvoyants, some of which he was able to expose as swindlers.
After founding the first parapsychological study group in Europe, he won the McDougall Prize in 1962 for excellent work in the field of parapsychology . Only one year later he was appointed Corresponding Research Associate of the Parapsychological Laboratory of Duke University in Durham (USA), which had been founded in 1935 by the pioneer Joseph Banks Rhine as the first “paranormal” university research institution. Rýzl now specialized completely in paranormal perception under hypnosis and developed a method to bring extrasensory perception under the control of the will.
His experimental successes not only helped Ryzl gain international attention (his first invitation to “Western” foreign countries took him to Andhra University in India in 1966; his attempts had previously been documented by a US film team), but also aroused the interest of the communist state security. Under increasing pressure from the authorities, Rýzl decided to emigrate in 1967. After sending parcels with the books from his library to the USA for months, he fled to the USA via Vienna with his wife and two sons .
Upon arrival, he initially worked at Rine's Parapsychology Laboratory at Duke University . He then taught parapsychology at various universities, including the San José State University and the University of California . Numerous popular science publications that have been translated into many languages have made him one of the most widely read parapsychologists in the world.
Rýzl's fascination with the paranormal was never exhausted in the sheer exoticism of its subject; The motor of his research remained until the end his deep humanism and the belief in the civilizational necessity of a merging of science and religion, of enlightenment and trust, of technological and social progress: “Neither contemporary religions, nor science, or the information that comes through the media mass communication provides us with a true picture of the world ... The mistake is that the truth they refer to is too narrow. The complexity of the world and our existence is much broader and more varied than its individual descriptions. First of all, we must acknowledge that accepting a spiritual world does not mean rejecting the material sphere. The mystical enlightenment does not refute the rational knowledge - it is rather its extension. "(Ancient Oracles, 213)
Fonts
Scientific work
- Milan Ryzl: Training the Psi Faculty by Hypnosis. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 41 (1962).
- Milan Ryzl, JT Barendregt, PR Barkema, Jan Kappers: An ESP Experiment in Prague. Journal of Parapsychology 29 (1965).
- Milan Ryzl, J. Bekoff: Loss of Stability of ESP Performance in a High-Scoring Subject. Journal of Parapsychology 29 (1965).
- Milan Ryzl, JG Pratt: The Focusing of ESP Upon Particular Targets. Journal of Parapsychology 27 (1963).
- Milan Ryzl, JG Pratt: A Further Confirmation of Stabilized ESP Performance in a Selected Subject. Journal of Parapsychology 27 (1963).
- Milan Ryzl, JG Pratt: A Repeated-Calling ESP Test with Sealed Cards. Journal of Parapsychology 27 (1963).
- Milan Ryzl: A model of parapsychological communication. Journal of Parapsychology, 30, 18-30 (1966).
- Milan Ryzl: Parapsychology: A scientific approach. NY: Hawthorne (1970).
- Milan Ryzl: How Not to Test a Psychic. Journal of Parapsychology 54 (September 1990).
Other works
- Milan Ryzl: Parapsychology. Geneva 1970
- Milan Ryzl: Clairvoyance in Hypnosis. Geneva 1971
- Milan Ryzl: ASW - Phenomena of Extra Sensory Perception. Geneva 1972
- Milan Ryzl: Jesus - the greatest medium of all time. Geneva 1974
- Milan Ryzl: ASW training. Geneva 1975
- Milan Ryzl: Death and what comes after. Geneva 1981
- Milan Ryzl: and L. Kysucan. Ancient oracles. Oxford 2007
- Milan Ryzl: Voyage to the Rainbow. Oxford 2007
Web links
- Literature and other media by and about Milan Rýzl in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
- Literature by and about Milan Rýzl in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rýzl, Milan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech parapsychologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 22, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 9, 2011 |
| Place of death | Sacramento |