Between 1954 and 1963 he served as the Minister of Education, and from 1967 to 1985 he was one of the major promoters of psychotronics, within which he founded his own school, called psychoenergetics.
[2] He left the post in the mid-1960s, being thought insufficiently "progressive", although he later publicly supported the Prague Spring.
[3] His scientific career began in 1952, when he successfully defended a dissertation thesis on photonics and thus obtained a doctorate in natural science.
He stressed the role of nonverbal factors in the process of education and upbringing, which he considered to be so crucial that he began to focus on them in his scientific research.
From 1970 to 1987 he worked as a director of the Psychoenergetic Laboratory at the Chemical-technological University – Faculty of chemical engineering in Prague.