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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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as a false self

diverting fellow telepathists

from the real or true self

which manifested itself only in occasional,

deliberately confused, verbal utterances.

She thus protected her true

self from telepathic intrusion

by abandoning her telepathic

faculty to a false self.

Not surprisingly, repeated telepathic

probes undertaken by other subjects

could not discover the true nature of

her experiential space continuum.

The danger inherent in

schizophonetic partition

as a telepathic intrusion avoidance device

is that the false telepathic self

tends to become increasingly parasitic

on the true oral/verbal self.

The true self begins to suffocate

in as much as it is starved

of contact with the outside.

And the false self gradually

becomes the only self

to interact with other selves.

In the instance of our

female schizophonetic subject

the true self began to express

its moribond existence

through the telepathic emission

of violent images of decay

vampirisim, disentegation and necrophilia.

Which sporadically interrupted the

functioning of the telepathic false self.

The intensity and frequency of this

emission of morbid, telepathic images

rapidly increased until it began to

create the same depressed mode

in those close to her.

Another important function

of our experiment

was to be the practical testing

of the Stringfellow hypothesis.

The Stringfellow hypothesis takes

the form of the following equation:

The rate of telepathic flow

between two minds,

is directly proportional

to the intensity of the relationship

between the two minds.

The units used to measure flow and intensity

are taken from psycho-chemistry.

In less mathematical terms, we may say

that this hypothesis indicates that

even between mature telepathists

there can be no telepathic communication

until some sort of existential

emotional relationship

has been established in

conventional sensory ways.

Thus, among complete strangers

there would exist only a kind of noise,

a short wave static

The Stringfellow hypothesis

also suggests that here

the potency of human eroticism

would play an important role.

A strong sexual attraction

would be a substantial basis

for the establishing of a geometerically

increasing rate of telepathic flow.

The politics of experience

on the level of individuals

is a correlative of the

politics of social groups.

The politics of telepathic experience

may be studied as a projection of the

power struggles among individuals

into the extremities of psychic

potency and complexity,

a projection that is, into the

future of human social evolution.

The role of the induced telepathy series,

in the total Canadian social experiment,

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David Cronenberg

David Paul Cronenberg, CC OOnt FRSC (born March 15, 1943) is a Canadian filmmaker, actor and author. Cronenberg is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or visceral horror genre. This style of filmmaking explores people's fears of bodily transformation and infection. In his films, the psychological is typically intertwined with the physical. In the first half of his career, he explored these themes mostly through horror and science fiction, although his work has since expanded beyond these genres. His films have won numerous awards, including the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival for his film Crash (1996). more…

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