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Vilenskaya told us that in one study, Kamensky transmitted feelings of severe pain; and in another, he even imagined that he was strangling his friend! He was so successful in his effort to distantly suffocate Nikolaev that the physicians monitoring the study became concerned that Nikolaev might actually die, so they stopped the test!
Interviews with Nikolaev in the 1970 book Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain revealed how he had spent many years teaching himself Raja Yoga methods of breathing and relaxation, so that he would be more receptive to telepathic communication. 25 He was proud of his psychic capabilities, and welcomed the opportunities to demonstrate his ESP connection with Kamensky. However, he was greatly surprised when his partner sent him intense negative feelings instead of the images he was used to perceiving. When Vilenskaya asked Kamensky why he would want to transmit feelings of pain, strangulation, and physical blows in his research, he answered that he believed that negative emotions were transmitted more reliably and more strongly than happy or positive feelings.26
We don't necessarily agree that Kamensky's assessment is true in general, but in any case, this experiment clearly demonstrates the existence of telepathic connections independent of clairvoyant or precognitive perception.
In our opinion, this anecdote illustrates some fundamental differences between psychic and spiritual connections in general, and specifically between distant hypnosis and distant spiritual healing. They are alike in that they both involve nonlocal mind processes and exchange of information in ways we don't understand. In our opinion, distant hypnosis involves a fundamental separation of people on a psychic or mental level  one person doing directed mental activity, exerting personal effort, and willing a specific outcome for another that is not necessarily in accord with the other's wishes. In contrast, distant spiritual healing occurs as a manifestation of a joining of minds, resonance, and entering into a universal consciousness. It involves a surrender of individual will on the part of the healer, with no personal effort exerted, no specific outcome designated on the physical level, and a state of being that is characterized by a "letting" instead of a doing. This

 
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