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Russian physiologist and professor at the University of Leningrad, L.L. Vasiliev, conducted hundreds of hypnosis experiments with the direct support of Josef Stalin. Vasiliev researched hypnotic inductions done without words and often carried out at a distance from the hypnotized individual.
20 His work, along with some telepathy experiments carried out by J.B. Rhine, are among the best laboratory data we have for pure mind-to-mind connections that do not involve precognition or clairvoyance. His theory about "magnetic sleep," as it was named by his teacher Velinski, was that the mental commands given by the hypnotist traveled by way of electromagnetic fields that were generated when human muscles contracted, either voluntarily or convulsively. Vasiliev's book, Experiments in Mental Suggestion, first published in England in 1963, summarizes his and his colleagues' forty years of hypnosis studies at the Leningrad Institute for Brain Research.21 |
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Official Soviet psi research in this century has prominently featured pain induction and behavioral manipulation from a distance. Vasiliev's most famous experiment was conducted between Leningrad and Sevastopol, with a distance of more than one thousand miles between the experimenter and the female subject, whom he could telepathically put to sleep and awaken.22 |
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Vasiliev's research in the 1930s gave Western parapsychologists their earliest evidence that neither distance nor electromagnetic shielding reduced the accuracy or reliability of psychic functioning. Government-funded research of ESP and "biological imposition" from a distance in the Soviet Union began again in earnest in 1965, and frequently involved two experienced psychics who were able to communicate quite well with each other telepathically over long distances.23 |
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The Russian actor Karl Nikolaev and his biophysicist friend Yuri Kamensky were well-known for their ability to telepathically transmit visual images to one another. Our friend parapsychologist Larissa Vilenskaya discussed with Kamensky the remarkable long-distance experiments he did with Nikolaev involving the transmission of feelings between Moscow and Leningrad.24 |
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