The content explores the mysterious origins and controversial applications of Russian psychonetics, a set of techniques developed by Dr. Oleg Bakitio for high-stress situations, which became entangled with fringe political ideologies, a unique constructed language, and alleged supernatural abilities.
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I've been spending the past couple of
days going down quite a weird rabbit
hole because recently someone commented
about Russian psychonetics on one of my
videos. Okay, they told me to look into
Russian psychonetics. I've never heard
of that. It's not the same as this
popular book with like a similar name. I
don't know if you've heard of that [ __ ]
but I can't find the comment they left
now. I even searched up in the YouTube
comment thing. I can't find it, but I
swear someone commented that. So, I
started looking into it and it was
basically a group of techniques that
this Russian, of course, it's a [ __ ]
Russian. They're always doing [ __ ] like
this. There's always like some weird
cults or like lucid dreaming or some
[ __ ] the Russians are doing. His name is
Dr. Oleg Bakitio. You know, there's so
many names in this that I won't be able
to pronounce. I'm sorry. But he made
these techniques psychonetics, which are
basically about dealing with high stress
situations. And it was actually used for
the used for the military, sorry, in
combat. And the reason he made these
techniques, I think, was for the Soviet
military, which there's a bunch of weird
[ __ ] surrounding all these psychonetics
things, which I'll get into. But it can
also be used for like software
engineering and consciousness, expanding
consciousness and doing things that
require you to like spread your
attention instead of focusing on one
thing, if that makes sense. And it can
be used to improve your creativity. And
there was even some people talking about
on these little niche underground forums
which are the only places I saw other
people speaking about psychonetics
mentioned of supernatural like
abilities. For example, someone talked
about how he had heard that one guy
could see a really good knifethrower in
the military and then after an hour of
meditation and implementing psychonetic
practices, he could master knife
throwing just from watching this [ __ ]
guy do it. bro, after an hour of
meditation and having like flu like
symptoms, he was really good at that.
And so that guy on that forum was it was
just a comment. He was saying he didn't
know if that [ __ ] was true, but he had
heard a lot of weird [ __ ] about
psychonetics. Now, I will briefly go
over the techniques because I actually
think that the law and the history
behind it is more interesting. It
involves like the government, the
military, terrorism, secret languages.
Like there's a bunch of really strange
[ __ ] surrounding this, bro. But the main
technique, right, and I looked through a
whole document and I even tried some of
these. The main technique of
psychonetics is deconentration of
attention. And this is when you
deconentrate your attention. Wow. Who
could have [ __ ] thought, bro? But
this is what it is. Like, so when you
normally focus on one thing, and I
actually thought this was funny because
it was similar to the dream yoga [ __ ] I
talked about before, it was like the
opposite of focusing on one thing. So
instead of doing that, the exercise
basically had you look at like a square
of numbers or some [ __ ] and focus your
vision on the center of it. And instead
of focusing on it, you want to put your
attention, and I'll send you the link to
all this [ __ ] if you want to do the
exercises. you put your attention on
like the top left corner without moving
your eyes to the top left corner. So you
can even do this now without looking at
anything. It's like you can if I'm
staring at you, right? I can put my
attention to the left but I'm still
staring at you. Like I'm not putting my
eyes there. And like the whole point of
this was just like if you get really
good at deconentrating your attention,
you can kind of do things like you can
kind of perform well in combat. Or there
was an example of a diver who used this
to like I guess get through really high
stress situations underwater because
instead of just focusing on one thing at
once, you need to focus on like eight
different things at once, right? And
most people think this is impossible,
but after training after training
deconentration of attention, apparently
you will get really good at this. And
one example he gave was like people who
need to look at nuclear reactors and
[ __ ] and monitor that monitor that
because they have to look at like
[ __ ] 50 different uh things at once,
right? And you can't do that if you just
focus on one thing. So you need to
spread your attention. And if you get
really good at this, you will apparently
be able to like pick out objects in your
field of vision without looking at
anything. So if you're just looking
straight, you will be able to pick out
an object from your left vision. Like I
don't know if this sounds really useful
but like there was just a bunch of weird
[ __ ] and I will talk about some of the
weird abilities or not weird but like
cool abilities people apparently got
from these techniques right and another
one of the techniques was dealing with
perceptual uncertainties and this is
when for example you look at an illusion
that has two possible ways to look at
it. For example, if you look at like a
2D drawing of a 3D cube and you can
there's like different ways to look at
it. So sometimes the um bottom left side
will seem to be at the front and
sometimes the top right side will seem
to be at the front right and then it
kind of switches between your vision
because there's two ways to perceive it.
This is a perceptual uncertainty. And so
the exercise he he said was to look at
this cube or any other illusion. Sorry
I'm speaking so quick. I need speaking
so quick. This is so [ __ ] bad. I keep
doing this recently. [laughter]
His the technique was to look at this
cube and basically control how your
brain is seeing it, which is actually
different. Which is actually difficult.
Sorry, cuz I spent like an hour looking
at this [ __ ] ass cube, bro. And
[laughter] I really struggle to control
it. But apparently once again this will
unlock kind of supernatural like
abilities where you can look at
something and understand it and
understand its depth on like a whole
deeper level. Now to be honest, this guy
was kind of vague posting. This guy was
kind of [ __ ] vague posting about what
kind of [ __ ] this unlocked. Everyone was
very vague about this, right? And there
was also some other [ __ ] like will
meditation which is meditating on your
will or something. I don't [ __ ] know.
And there was [laughter] a bunch of
other strange exercises. But I feel like
the history, as I said, is actually more
interesting than the actual like
techniques because it's very weird.
And as I said, it involves a lot of
strange [ __ ]
Let me get water.
Sorry, I speak too quickly.
Um, but yeah, I need to speak about the
history of this cuz it's quite it's
quite peculiar. And to do that though, I
need to speak about a whole another
person and kind of tie it in. And this
guy is called John Oji Jada, I think it
is. I don't know how to pronounce his
name once again, but this I'll just call
him John. This guy John was an American.
And this may at first seem like a whole
different story, but this all connects
with the psychonetic Russians. Okay, so
this guy John, he was really into
creating languages ever since he was a
kid. This is an American. And he
actually had a twin and he created a
language with his twin that they spoke
with each other in in. And I actually
didn't know this, but that's a thing
called cryptoasia. Bro, that's literally
a [ __ ] thing, you know? Bro,
apparently 50% of twins have a madeup
language. Can you [ __ ] believe that?
Like that's crazy. Like they just make
it up by themselves. Like it's just
natural for them. That was insane. I had
never heard that, but I don't know if it
stem from that, but this guy just had a crazy
crazy
interest in languages. And ever since he
was like a teenager, he was making up
his own languages. And then he actually
started doing a PhD to like research
languages. I don't know the exact name
of it, but the problem was he didn't
have enough money to do the full PhD.
So, he had to become a truck driver. And
he kept saying to himself as he was like
being a truck driver, I'm going to go
back and do the PhD and whatever,
whatever. But he never ended up being
able to go and do it. I guess he didn't
ever get enough money or kind of just
that [ __ ] passed, right? But despite
that, even though he was a truck driver,
kind of in secret without anyone
knowing, he was working on a language
called Ithquil, I think it is. I think
that's how you pronounce it. IQquil.
Now, this language, oh, there's some
interesting [ __ ] about this, [laughter]
bro. There's some interesting [ __ ] about
this. He actually turned up at a lot of
language conferences where people, it
was like full of people who created
their own languages. And this John guy,
he was smart. He was wicked smart, bro.
Like, he would start speaking at a
conference and speak a madeup language
of someone in the audience. And the
person in the audience, that would have
been the first time they had heard
someone speak their madeup language. So
John, this [ __ ] just learned
languages so quickly and knew everything
about languages and he spent decades
making this language of his IQ, right?
He spent decades on it. And so after a
while of this, he gets a call from the
University of Effective Development, I
think it was called, which is which was
somewhere in Russia or Ukraine. I don't
know like right now it would be a bit
hazy if it was Russian or Ukrainian. I
don't really know. It was probably
Russian. Um, and the University of
Effective Development was ran by the Dr.
Oleg guy, right? And this is where a
bunch of students were training
psychonetics. So they had a whole
[ __ ] X-Men Academy, bro. And so Dr.
Oleg um kind of sends a message to this
John guy and he's saying like we want to
talk to you at the University of
Effective Development. We want to
arrange a trip for you, right? And so
this John guy's like this is [ __ ]
crazy because no one knows about my
language. I mean he did write a whole
website about his language but no one it
never really went mainstream or
anything. It was just known upon known
amongst a bunch of like little niche
[ __ ] who are into languages. So
he receives this email asking him to go
on a trip to like some Ukrainian country
or whatever. So he goes there with a
translator cuz he can't speak Russian.
And I think the Dr. Ole guy says that he
wanted John to speak about Ithquil, his
language at this conference. And so they
touch down at this Ukrainian airport or
whatever. And they meet with a woman, a
young woman from the University of
Effective Development. And this young
woman tells John that they've been
learning his language for the past two
years, bro. She tells him, "We've been
learning your language for the past 2
years, and amongst us, you are a legend,
bro." That's I mean, she didn't say she
didn't say, "Bro," but she said that to
him, right? And obviously John is like,
"What the [ __ ] I've never heard of
these people. I had no idea a bunch of
Russian students were learning my
language. Why are they doing this?
What's happening?" kind of thing. So
that whole thing happens, right? And
John does a little like press
conference. He speaks about his language
in front of these Russian students,
these psychonetic guys. And later in the
night, he's in a room with Dr. Oleg. And
Dr. Oleg is telling him about
psychonetics and telling John about the
psychonetic techniques and explaining
deconentration of attention to him. He
just got up a laptop and showed him the
[ __ ] Now John's looking at this like
he's like, "Okay, interesting." But he's
also saying like, "Why are these people
so interested in my language? Why are
these Russians involved in this weird
[ __ ] that he didn't understand? Why are
they involved in my language?" Right?
So, he didn't really get that, but he he
said it was funny because as the night
went on, John was sitting on a sofa with
Russian students at his feet, like
looking at every word he was saying and
paying close attention to him as if he
was a [ __ ] god, right? So, they
adored him. These Russians he had never
heard about adore John. They loved his
language because his language ith right
was so unique and it's really strange
like you can basically convey
a really really complex like English
sentence in like onequil word which
looks very complex to say. So it's I
think that's why the psychonetics liked
it because it was a way for them to
convey very complex things that were
hard to do in normal English in
ithquill. So they basically after that
required every Russian student at the
University of Effective Development to
learn this language, this madeup
language. And John was considered a
legend among them, right? And John said
after this he cried. He literally cried
because for decades he'd been working on
this [ __ ] underground. He'd been a truck
driver with no renown. Oh, that [ __ ]
rhymed. That rhymed, bro. I'm so I'm so
poetic. Um, but yeah, he had been doing
this. He got no recognition. And now all
of a sudden there's hundreds of Russian
students required to learn his language.
So that made him cry and he went home to
America. And then a time passed and he
got in he got um invited to another
conference in Ukraine.
This was somewhere in Ukraine. I don't
remember if the I wrote down the exact
place, but this was another psychonetic
conference, right? And this was when
things got much more interesting and
they found out a lot more interesting
information when John was sitting with
his translator in the seats watching the
conference and Dr. Oleg was speaking
and they started I don't know if it was
John or the translator, but one of them
started searching up Dr. Oleg as he was
speaking and they found out some weird
[ __ ] as well. Actually, I should speak
before about what Dr. Oleg told John.
This is what Dr. Oleg told John before
this conference, right? Dr. Oleg told
John that he had been working, I think,
as a medical student in the Soviet
Union, but he got expelled from the
college for distributing provocative
literature. Whatever the [ __ ] that
means. [laughter] I don't know what that
means, but Dr. Ole got expelled for
that. Right. And then after that, the
KGB, which of course is like the Russian
police or security services or whatever,
they said Dr. Oleg was politically
unreliable, whatever that meant. Keep in
mind, Dr. Oleg is telling this telling
all this to John. He's being completely
honest about this. So, he was called
political unreliable and he got
imprisoned for two [ __ ] years. And
then after he got imprisoned,
he got let out and then he became a
psychologist. He got into psychology and
from there sprung psychonetics. Once he
got into psychology and when he created
psychonetics, ironically, even though he
got arrested by the government, the
Soviet Union then wanted him to teach
psychonetics to their military, right?
And teach them that [ __ ] So then he
started working for the government. So
that's basically how psychonetics came
about. That's like the crazy law about
it. So there's that whole thing Dr. Oleg
told John. Okay, now let's continue to
the press conference when John was
watching Dr. Oleg speak and he was on a
laptop reading Russian articles and
getting them translated and finding out
some more weird [ __ ] about Dr. Oleg that
the man didn't feel it was necessary to
tell John before right now he finds Dr.
Oleg has a lot of weird theories and
[ __ ] in articles and on blog posts
basically Dr. Oleg wanted to create some
kind of state where there were Russians,
Ukrainians and I think combined with
some more regions from that area. And he
was also saying some [ __ ] that kind of
made Jon discom um uncomfortable sorry
when he was reading it [snorts] and this
is what Dr. Oleg was saying in
interviews. He was he was saying he
wanted to develop an intellectual
special forces that can bring about the
establishment of a great power in
greater Russia and give birth to a new
order, a new race as well that can be
called superhuman. So this Dr. Ollet
guy, this Dr. Ol guy literally wanted to
create a race of [ __ ] superhumans
through his psychonetic techniques,
[laughter] bro. And then and so John
John saw this and he was uncomfortable.
He was like, "What the [ __ ] I didn't
know this guy wanted to create some
superhuman race and a superstate." But
you know the the worst thing or the
weirdest thing happens next. Another guy
gets up on stage. What is his name? I
wrote it down. I don't Oh, his name is Gavena.
Gavena.
Okay. So this guy was the whole time as
he was seated recording the thing with a
little camcorder, right? And so when he
gets called up to stage, he goes on and
he's still holding the [ __ ] cam
recorder. This dude is [ __ ] talking
on stage about psychonetics while
recording with his [ __ ] cam recorder,
like recording the crowd. And this makes
John uncomfortable once again. He's
like, "Why the [ __ ] is this Russian
recording me?" And so Gavveno starts
talking about how he was recently in
prison, bro. And he was reading Dr.
Oleg's book in prison and looking at the
psychonetic techniques and he starts
talking about expanding consciousness
and [ __ ] cuz he was reading all about
that in prison and John was like why the
[ __ ] was this guy in prison? Who is this
guy? And so the translator's face, the
translator is obviously Russian. His
face goes pale seeing this guy Gavveno
on the stage. And you know why it goes
pale is because he turns to John and he
says to John, "John, you know this guy
is like the number the number two
terrorist in Ukraine right now." He
literally says that to John. John's
like, "What the fuck?" And John starts
typing on his laptop and reading about
this Gaveno guy and he sees, yes, this
guy has been arrested several times on
terrorism and weird [ __ ] and he's been
involved in faright terrorist groups and
all this stuff. And this is just making
John so uncomfortable combined with what
he read on Dr. Oleg and he was like,
"What the [ __ ] Why are they using my
language to create some superstate and
super race [laughter] of supernatural
[ __ ] So after this, Dr. Oleg
goes home. He goes home, right? And he's
telling Dr. Oleg like, "I don't want to
be involved in this anymore. This is all
sus." And you know what is funny? After
that, he reads the journal of Gavveno.
Gavveno posted a blog about his
experience at the conference. And you
know what he's saying on his blog? He's
saying, "So, I saw some Americans in the
crowd." And he posted the video of his
cam recorder that he was using on the
stage. And he's like, "These guys were
definitely from the Pentagon. These guys
were definitely [ __ ] agents, bro.
This guy's posting on this blog saying,
"So, these were they were these
Americans and they were definitely
agents. They were asking all the
questions someone from the Pentagon will
ask." So now you have the Russian
terrorist was like he was fully
convinced John the creator of Ithquil
and the translator was working for the
CIA and that they came to Russia just to
attend the psychonetics conference just
to like get [ __ ] out for the CIA and
find out what they knew. So that's all I
have for that. [laughter]
[gasps] But like that was a
that was just a rabbit hole I've been
going down the past couple days. Oh, it
doesn't end there. [ __ ] There was
another thing I [laughter] forgot. It
doesn't end there. So, Dr. Oleg, Dr.
Oleg, right? [ __ ] um a few years
after that, he got arrested in Ukraine
for hiring 200 people to try and
overthrow I think the Russian embassy or
the Ukrainian embassy or some [ __ ] like
that. He he there was like a plot to
overthrow a government building in
Ukraine, I think for Russia. And
apparently he was going to hire 200
people and pay them $500 and they got
molotovs and cocktails and all that
[ __ ] He got arrested for that. So like
what the [ __ ] going on? And I saw some
guy wrote an article where he was saying
the 200 people Oleg was going to hire
for that plot were probably the
psychonetic students. [laughter] So,
this guy was involved in some X-Men [ __ ]
where he was getting his students
reportedly to try and overthrow a
government building um after learning
all these psychonetic techniques. What
the [ __ ] is happening in Russia, bro?
What the [ __ ] is happening in Ukraine?
I'm sorry this shit's hyping me up, but
like what is going on here? But that's
the rabbit hole I went down. Sorry, I'm
kind of like rambling. It's all over the
place. That [ __ ] is very interesting.
But farewell. Do not join the Discord.
This shit's making me laugh cuz of like
how [ __ ] weird it is. But do not join
the Discord. Leave me a mean comment. I
did not kill myself, okay? I'm not
suicidal. If I get if I [ __ ] hang
myself after revealing this information,
I am not suicidal. Goodbye. Unsubscribe.
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