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letting is a willingness to be an instrument of the general well-being of another in an impersonal, nonemotional way. That state has been called a state of compassion or love, and it activates spiritual healing, which we believe is the manifestation of spiritual consciousness in human awareness.
Recent Mind-Body Research in the Former Soviet Union
Larissa Vilenskaya and Dr. Edwin May did parapsychology research together for several years at May's government-funded laboratory in Menlo Park, California. While employed at Scientific Applications International Corporation, they spent two months in Russia in 1992 and 1993, investigating current parapsychology research in the former Soviet Union.
May and Vilenskaya report that the Russians continue to emphasize distant mental effects on living systems in their research. 27 Most Soviet parapsychologists have little doubt that a person's focused mental attention can influence the responses of living organisms. That belief is a long-standing part of the Russian folk tradition and culture. Government-funded parapsychological research continues to be carried out at the state universities of both Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as at the Russian and the Ukrainian Academies of Science.
The most provocative research being done are studies showing distant telepathic interference in people's thinking and brain wave processes, and retarding their mental and physical reaction time. They report that distant psychic influences have also been observed to affect changes in the structures of animal cells that are responsible for neurotransmitter secretions. These changes in nervous system secretions affect animals' stress levels, and disrupt their health and immune-system activity, as well as their social behavior. Soviet researchers have demonstrated distant mental effects on the eating behavior of white mice, and remote mental interference of people attempting to solve math problems, or do memory-related tasks.
Dr. Sergei Speransky, a Russian biologist with a specialty in toxicology, told parapsychologist Larissa Vilenskaya, who has known him for over twenty years, that he has been studying ESP among social groups of mice,

 
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