Readers of the older generation, who had read Alexei Tolstoy's science fiction novel "Aelita" during their school years, probably did not even know that under the guise of the fantastic history of Atlantis and its Magazite inhabitants, who managed to move to Mars on the eve of its death, the writer simply retells the legend from the occult sources of the XIX century.
This legend also mentions a special caste of priests of Atlantis - “those who see the essence of things”, who allegedly possessed direct knowledge of the past, present and future. That is, knowledge obtained using scientific methods that are not familiar to us. But over time, these abilities were lost by humanity.
In reality, this is not entirely true - the methods of direct knowledge simply came into conflict with the methods of traditional science, and those who possessed them were declared to be swindlers and charlatans. And although there is a lot of reliable information when mediums, and now psychics, holding, for example, clothes or other objects belonging to criminals or their victims in their hands, could reproduce the picture of the crime with great accuracy, criminologists at best declared it a mere coincidence. Although information from “those who see the essence of things” was and is willingly used.
But a little history. In the 1840s, the American professor Joseph Buchaner had a meeting with Leonidas Polk, a bishop with a strange gift for "feeling" metals. The professor became interested in this phenomenon and wisely judged that since such a gift did not bypass the bishop, among the thousands of students there will probably also be people with the same abilities, just not yet identified.
And then he decided to conduct a large series of experiments. Samples of various metals were wrapped in thick paper and placed in a dark room. The subjects were asked to enter it, concentrate and, touching the various packages with their hand, determine their contents. It turned out that for some, this test was not a difficult task.
In the next series of experiments, the professor switched from metals to other substances: coal, rocks, salt, sugar, crystals. The results turned out to be even more surprising: individual students, not only correctly determined what was in the package, but could tell the story of the object or substance: for example, where this stone or sugar lump came from. And even from which deposit the ore sample is.
And although at first Buchaner believed that it was all about the hypersensitivity of the fingertips, information about the background went far beyond the capabilities of the known five human senses. And he called this phenomenon psychometry - that is, obtaining information using properties of the psyche unknown to science.
Having identified among the subjects two of the most capable psychometrists, Buchaner, in the presence of archaeological specialists, conducted the most spectacular and incredible experiment: samples of ceramics brought from different parts of the world were taken from several museums. And the subjects were not only able to describe the original shape of the samples, but also to determine where they were brought from. It seemed so incredible that the professor did not dare to publish the research results, fearing accusations of quackery and collusion with archaeologists.
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Another American, Professor Denton, a contemporary of Buchanan, discovered a similar gift from his wife Elizabeth (there is evidence that Buchaner's wife also had it). Once colleagues gave him a piece of volcanic tuff, brought from the excavations of Pompeii, which died in a volcanic eruption more than two millennia ago. Denton put it on the work table without telling his wife anything about it.
When, in his absence, Elizabeth began to restore order and took this stone in her hands, she felt something like an electric prick, and strange pictures appeared in her mind. When her husband returned, she asked what kind of stone was on his table, and told about her feelings. The professor immediately decided to conduct an experiment in the presence of a secretary. Without saying where this stone came from, he gave his wife another sample of tuff. Elizabeth closed her eyes and began to speak slowly, while the secretary wrote:
“There is no review yet. There seems to be a big mountain there. It is volcanic, and there, at the top - smoke, stones, ash, almost a solid mass. All this is thrown upward, forming a vertical pillar, reminiscent of a tall stone column … And now it crumbles in all directions! The erupted mass is enormous. It doesn't look like lava and spreads like a large black cloud that rolls like an avalanche. Here it goes, pours, spreads, foams, rolls down the side of the mountain in a big black stream."
Then she described the horror of the people who were overtaken by the black mass.
The professor gave his wife another model, and she began to describe the crowds in the square even before the eruption, mentally transported to houses and entertainment establishments: "At times I hear a sharp hissing sound, then everything calms down, and the crowd seems to have recovered from fear."
Now in her hands is a rock sample from under a layer of igneous material. And Elizabeth is transferred to the beginning of events. Describes an amphitheater in which a woman dances on the back of a galloping horse.
The husband asked: were there people in the amphitheater when the eruption began?
"Yes they were. People at the entrances heard screams in the street. All eyes were already fixed on the volcano. Everything was in motion. There was a sudden purple dusk. In the city, everyone is running in all directions. The elderly, the weak and the sick are being carried. Some with carts."
So Elizabeth with her own eyes, and not in Bryullov's painting, saw the death of Pompeii.
As a control experiment, her husband gave her a sample of lead ore from a completely different place. Elizabeth never saw the mines or read their descriptions, but she described the mine very reliably. Denton was convinced of this when he later visited the lead mines in the northwest of the country. She, in particular, said that the ore-bearing rock is divided into blocks of irregular shape, as if closely packed, and the gaps between them are filled with sand or dust. And so it turned out: lead sulphide (galena) turned out to be in the form of closely packed irregular Lumps, the gaps between which were filled with clay and dusty ocher.
Wanga also had the ability to psychometry. Her country house, where she received visitors, was in the town of Rupite, at the foot of Mount Kozhukh.
One day she told her niece: “Thousands of years ago, an eruption began here. Fiery lava buried the city beneath it. This city had three large temples, and the city gates were decorated with gilded figures of winged animals. The incandescent abyss that buried this city now heats up the mineral springs so that people can heal."
When asked how she learned this, Vanga replied simply: "I took stones in my hands and walked on them with bare feet."
Bulgarian geologists confirm the fact of the eruption, only differ in dates.
Many more analogous examples of direct knowledge can be cited. With the help of psychometry, an underground cache with a wooden "constructor" was found, into which the pharaoh's boat was disassembled, intended for travel in the "land of the dead." The builder, apparently buried alive, was immediately discovered, who was to assemble it from these wooden planks upon arrival at the site.
A French archaeologist professor handed a piece of wood to his assistant, who had the ability to psychometry. Not knowing where this chip came from, she pointed out exactly where it was taken, and described what the rook itself looks like. This description coincided with the original, when almost a decade and a half later, Egyptian archaeologists were able to restore the hull of the boat from the found tablets, which is now kept in a specially created museum room.
I will not dwell on a well-known story like the former announcer of Central Television Viktor Balashov, simply holding a pistol cartridge case found at the crime scene in his hand, described the criminals precisely and even said where they are at the moment. The famous psychic Vladimir Safonov was also a good psychometrist. And the company of counterfeiters could not even imagine that there was a person who, holding a counterfeit bill in his hands, would be able to give an accurate description of the house, in the basement of which the printing press was located, and at the same time the surrounding malaise.
Needless to say, orthodox science doesn't even want to hear anything about psychometrics, just dismissing a lot of facts. Moreover, there is not even an idea of what kind of radiation or fields can transfer information from the distant past. There is only a hypothesis that objects from the past had to come into some kind of contact with people of the past, and then they could retain something like an "information charge." A thousand times a similar experiment was done by Wanga, inviting visitors to hold a piece of sugar under a pillow before coming to her, and then “reading” information about their past from it. But from what contact could information arise in a piece of molten lava?
The only alternative to such hypotheses is the hypothesis of the existence of some kind of global Informatory, which contains information about everything. And then a person with the ability to psychometry, picking up any object, simply not known to him in a way, as it were, requests information about this object. And he receives a response in the form of a "brain" picture, and sometimes even with a corresponding soundtrack.
T. Samoilova