Allan Chumak died. For people of the older and middle generation on the territory of the former Soviet Union, there is absolutely no need to explain who he is. It is to them that the slightly sarcastic words of a well-known Russian journalist are addressed: "Admit it, who charged the water in front of the TV?" And that says it all. Allan Chumak is the same person on TV since the end of the USSR, who, along with Kashpirovsky, was engaged in what some still consider to be real healing, and others are quackery. Both used television to the fullest. True, for Kashpirovsky, the technology seemed more complicated, and he is a medically savvy person. This, perhaps, cannot be said about Allan Vladimirovich. Medicine is not his profile. Although his profile university is still physical education.
First question
The first question that people ask themselves when faced with a person who calls himself a psychic or a healer, or a fortuneteller, or even someone whom others call an old man, is whether he is a charlatan in front of them. It seems that there is simply no single answer to such questions. There will always be someone to whom the "healer" helped, and the one who was influenced by all the "healing attitudes" to the same extent as the ancient heavy iron, from those that were heated on the stove, a bewitching spell could work. If we take specifically Allan Chumak, then, you know, I want to believe in the best. That, if he is not a natural healer, then at least he is not a conscientious swindler. So what? After all, there are often people who really believe that they are doing "miracles" invisible to others or are simply fantasizing,but not from malice and not from selfish motives. True, some of Chumak's statements may alert skeptics.
He's a talent
I had to read statements in which it is clearly noted that Allan Chumak is a talent. And hence the possibility that he is really a "miracle worker" is derived. Rather, he was a "miracle worker". The reasoning looks something like this: at school Chumak studied through a stump-deck, was known as a sloven and a lazy person, and then what heights he reached! It’s immediately obvious - talent! And, of course, the story is appropriate. He studied poorly, but he was engaged in cycling and entered, respectively, the Institute of Physical Education in Moscow (GTsOLIFK), and then began to work as a coach, and he had success, but the "ill-wishers" contributed to the fact that already at twenty-nine years old Chumak had to leave the sport, however, he was not taken aback and entered the Faculty of Journalism at Moscow State University, and then easily got a job in one of the Moscow newspapers. Again - well, talent!
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Around "ill-wishers"
By the way, about how the young talented coach Chumak "left" the sport. It seems that, when going to some kind of international conference (presumably, a specialized one), he presented in his scientific work some facts that seemed questionable to some commission. And the trip to the conference did not take place. Remembering the subsequent "healing" career of Allan Vladimirovich, it is quite possible to imagine that the facts given by him could well be doubted by people, shall we say, with more traditional views on … physical education. So there is essentially no one to blame. By the way, Chumak himself also clearly "believed" in ill-wishers.
Vanga on state content
Once Chumak was asked how he relates to Vanga. He replied that he treated her well. And, in principle, I could limit my answer to this. Or expand it without going beyond the limits of your relationship to this person. But Allan Vladimirovich considered it necessary to add that she was a civil servant, and the Bulgarian authorities gave her money to earn. But in our country, everything is just to be prohibited. Of course, many saw this as a hint that Chumak himself would also like to work under the tutelage of the state. But, what is interesting, complaining that “everything is forbidden here”, he himself was very critical and sometimes categorically speaking about some “colleagues”.
Kashpirovsky and others
So, for example, about his main competitor (they flashed on TV at the same time), Anatoly Kashpirovsky, Chumak responded even more or less loyally, saying, however, that in his sessions he gave too harsh an attitude towards a very definite reaction, what one should be, he was engaged in suggestion, and because of this, they say, a person had some kind of internal conflict, which, of course, could not disappear without a trace. This answer, by the way, can be taken as an example of unfair competition. But that's okay. Allan Vladimirovich spoke about some of his other "rivals" quite unambiguously, calling him a swindler who used to fool money from unfortunate, grief-stricken people. Who knows, perhaps Chumak is right, but it is possible that he is not. Who carried out the examination? True, other "healers" often paid him with the same coin. Maybe it's just accepted in their world. Still, the market for "miracles" is also not unlimited.
Where did the firewood come from?
But back to the "gift" of Chumak himself. Where is he from? Congenital or acquired? Legend has it that while working as a journalist, Allan Vladimirovich decided to write an exposing material about all kinds of "psychics" and "healers", considering them to be charlatans. But, plunging into this world, suddenly … I felt the gift in myself. And from this, they say, it all started. Chumak himself sometimes said that the Lord had rewarded him with a gift, then he admitted that certain voices in his head were opening information to him, as if they were giving lectures, and he wrote them down. He even cited such a metaphor: they say, these voices "worked" like announcers. Or else he wrote that he already had a gift, and the voices only taught him to use this gift for the good, and not to the detriment of people.
Church affairs
It is well known that the church, and any church, does not welcome any "miracle workers". But Chumak, according to him, had no problems with this, he is a baptized person and treats the church well. At the same time, he clarified that he does not focus on any particular religion. “There is only one God,” he said. But once he said that he was offered somehow to take the elder as a mentor. Some spiritual fathers suggested. And this was already, it seems, at his very mature age. Because Chumak, as he said then, did not understand why he needed a mentor at seventy-five years old. And he emphasized that he also did not need intermediaries, since he, like a baptized person, felt the Lord within himself. He claimed that he had met with the highest hierarchs of the church and suggested that they try to prove that his talent was from the devil, and not from God, but they did not.
Relationship with science
It's funny that despite all the differences, the church and science agree on one thing: in relation to "healers" and "psychics." Here they have a common front. And with the scientific world, Chumak, as well as with the church, did not have mutual understanding. He himself claimed that after he conducted healing sessions (probably on television), a "competent group" was created.
This group, it seems, conducted some kind of research, and at the exit a document appeared confirming that the sessions that he conducted healed, or rather, helped millions of people. Chumak named a figure of one hundred and fifty million people. However, there are great doubts about the reliability of this information, since it has not been verified by the scientific world. For example, the chairman of the commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences to combat pseudoscience and falsification of scientific research, academician Eduard Pavlovich Kruglyakov called the activities of Chumak pseudoscientific. Moreover, he referred to the fact that serious psychotherapists did not find a single case of a real cure for seriously ill patients. Moreover, he noted that, trusting all kinds of "healers", patients, on the contrary, harm themselves, because they miss the time when the disease could be defeated.
Believe or not believe
So who is he, journalist Allan Vladimirovich Chumak, who passed away at the eighty-third year of his life - a healer or a charlatan? As already mentioned above, everyone, apparently, will have to answer this question himself, since the final truth, the point will not be put here. Surely there will be many people who can confirm under oath that Chumak's TV sessions with the "charging" of water, creams, medicines and cleaning apartments helped them. And exactly the same number of people will only grin wryly in response to this. It is quite possible that he really helped someone, but not as a healer, correcting "information fields", but as a psychotherapist by nature. He knew how to communicate and in communication really charge the interlocutor or interlocutors with a positive. This is noted by many. May be,if he had not silently made some passes with his hands on the screens of the Soviet "Electrons", but simply talked to people about life, the effect would have been much greater. Who knows? Nobody!
Mark Raven