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Viewer: Djuna Davitashvili
Client: USSR Academy of Sciences
Ronald Reagan was president of the United States, Andropov (former head of the KGB) was premier of the Soviet Union, and we were in the icon-decorated living room of the famous Soviet healer, Djuna Davitashvili. Djuna's home is a symphony of red: red velvet wall covering, red brocade chairs, and red silk lamp shades. (In Russian the word for red, crasni, is the same as the word for beautiful!) Djuna enjoys great celebrity and privilege from her successful work as a psychic healer, an important part of which involved keeping Premier Breznev alive through many of his grave illnesses. Djuna is a beautiful, generous, and charismatic woman, with the large, dark eyes and long, black hair of her Gypsy forebears from Soviet Georgia. She is proud of her Gypsy roots, though now she often wears a white lab coat over her embroidered dresses. These days Djuna is a researcher as well as a subject of research in healing at the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Her spacious apartment is on Arbat Street, in an artistic Moscow district not far from the Academy of Sciences. The overheated living room was crowded with more than forty people, and filled with electronic birdcalls from her doorbell that kept chirping to announce new guests. What appeared to be a party was actually a scientific experiment to demonstrate remote viewing for the Academy of Sciences. A videotaped record would be made of the event.
The Russians had offered us their famous telepathic subject, Karl Nikolaev, for the demonstration, but I preferred to work with someone who had never experimented with ESP before. Our research had taught us how to carry out this type of experiment successfully, and we would rather not have to convince someone that they should follow our approach rather than the method they had been using for years. Although Djuna was a psychic healer, she had never done anything like remote viewing. In fact, that actually became somewhat of a problem.
The American guests included my daughter, Elisabeth, who was a Russian translator and medical student at the time (she is now a psychiatrist),

 
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