Stereo

Synopsis: Sometime in the future, the Canadian Academy for Erotic Inquiry is investigating the theories of parapsychologist Luther Stringfellow. Seven young adults volunteer to submit to a form of brain surgery that removes their power of speech but increases their power for telepathic communication. An unseen group of students observes the results. As the experiment progresses, Stringfellow's theories come to fruition. Later, aphrodisiacs and various other drugs are introduced to the subjects to expose an inherent polymorphous perversity. In the end, they are isolated from each other, provoking antagonism and violence between them, which results in two suicides.
 
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1969
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STEREO:

Now that we have some insight,

into the concept of experiential space

we may consider interaction among

the experiential space continua

of a highly unique group of individuals.

In general, a study of the varying

dimensions of human experience

in the context of man in his society

is known as human social cybernetics.

In our experiment,

eight Category-A subjects

underwent pattern brain surgery

whose program was developed within the

academy's organic computer dialectic system.

The object of surgery was

to extend by a process called

biochemical induction.

The natural, electro-chemical

network of the human brain.

This extension would provide each

subject with telepathic capabilites.

A telepathist is one who can

communicate with other minds

by means which do not involve

perception by the senses.

Thus, telepathy is a form

of extra-sensory perception

or ESP.

Our subjects were to be kept in isolation

at the institute for three months.

Where they were to prepare for

their first meeting as a group.

This meeting was to take place at the academy

sanitorium in the Ontario north woods.

Telepathic dependency

is an extreme form of psychic addiction.

It is essentially an

electro-chemical addiction.

The dependent, surrending the

autonomy of his own nervous system

to that of the onject of his dependency.

And altering his patterns of

electro-chemical discharge

to mimic those of his object.

When the object of dependency is telepathically

unavailable for long periods of time

the new nervous patterns

find themselves suddenly

without a constant source

of electro-morphological reinforcement...

and, severe psychic disorientation

begins to manifest itself in the dependent.

At its most intense level

a frustrated dependency can result in the

irreversible destruction

of critical brain tissue.

In as much as the establishment of

a partial telepathic dependency

of the subject upon his researcher

is an unavoidable part

of the parapsychological

experimental gestalt.

The means to maintain this

dependency at a controllable level

must be considered an organic element

forming that experimental gestalt.

During the institute phase of

the induced telepathy series...

our subject

possessed of a statistically excessive,

dependency susceptability quotient,

wounded himself in the

forehead, with a hand drill.

The wound, a hole about

one-half an inch in diameter,

completely penetrated the subject's skull

and seemed to afford him the relief

of imagined cranial pressures.

Temporary euphoria,

and electro-chemical dissociation, which he sought.

It will perhaps clarify these matters

if we consider the specific configuration

of the Category-A subject.

Category-A is a classification

which finds its meaning within

the scientific metaphysics

of the aphrodisiast and theorist

Luther Stringfellow.

It is not what is usually considered

an objective classification.

Based for example, upon physical

or psychological characteristics.

Category-A, is rather a certain

field reaction of the researcher

to an intensive period of personal interaction

with each of his potential subjects.

There is also, therefore, the element

of an aesthetics of human form.

in the Category-A system

of subject classification.

Dr. Stringfellow made his name, as an

exponent of the existential organic approach

to the sciences, long before his work

in the socio-chemistry of the erotic

achieved its present

international eminence.

A Category-A classification

is the existential organic

methodology put into practice.

Dr. Stringfellow

has repeatedly stressed

the vital necessity for

the use of this approach.

Particularly,

in the new social sciences.

where variables are infinite

and complexity is of the

highest possible order.

The nature of erotic research

requires that the sexual emotional

involvement of the researcher

with each subject be taken

to its farthest possible extreme.

It is only in this way that the researcher

in whose consciousness, a total mosaic

of his particular research project exists

can divine in each of his subjects

a color, a texture, and a shape.

And so assign to that subject,

his proper place in the research mosaic.

It was hoped that many important questions

would be clarified, if not answered,

during the course of our experiment

with induced telepathy.

Two of the eight subjects consented to

having portions of their larynx removed.

Making it physically

impossible for them to speak.

In addition

large portions of the speech centers of the

brains of these subjects were obliterated

so that the psychological faculty of

speech itself would be impaired

Would the maturing and strengthening

of the telepathic capicity in

these speechless subjects

surpass that of the subjects who

still retained the ability to speak?

It was anticipated

that the telepathic experience would be much

more than simply reading another's mind.

One telepathist would perhaps

be able to apprehend

not only verbal patterns,

as they arose in the mind of another,

but would also encounter simultaneously

the germinative layers of memory,

learning, emotional response,

and psycho-physiological impulse, which

actually generate thought and language.

How dependent upon language is thought?

Is abstract logical thought even

possible without language?

The essence of the telepathic bond

is the dominance

of one of the particles forming

the telepathic conglomerate.

Whether the conglomerate consists

of two telepathists or of a large

socially cohesive group

the principle of psychic

dominance remains constant.

The dominant personality

is responsible for the

suppression of the heterogeneous

elements which the

conglomerate comprises.

The homogeneous elements which remain

are then driven together

to form the conglomerate

by the laws of telepathic bonding

implicit in the Stringfellow Hypothesis.

The principle of dominance thus

provides the agglutinizing impetus

which induces the initial

conglomerative motion.

As Stringfellow notes in defining

the nature of dominance

the will of the newly formed

conglomerate must necessarily

be a function of the will of

the dominant personality.

Only after an indefinite period of

symbiotic telepathic cohesion

can the dominant personality abnegate

its agglutinative role and encourage

the emergence of a truly synthetic

conglomerate personality.

Stringfellow's behavior

as parapsychologists

suggests that perhaps that his foremost

post-operative research objective

was to intuit which among his Category-A subjects

was the one most capable of assuming

the role of psychic dominant.

This subject was then provided

indirectly with certain

historical and interpretive data

concerning his fellow subjects.

This data would naturally assure the immediate

social dominance of the chosen subject

within the context of the experimental,

socially isolate gestalt

The function of the dominant would be

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