Is it possible to turn a reasonable person into an obedient biorobot? Official science is skeptical about mind control experiments. But let us recall the frank confession of the famous psychiatrist Professor Gannushkin: "In the field of psychiatry, we will plow with a plow in the 21st century as well." But the secret services are trying to plow the consciousness of people with much more modern tools.
The AN observer met with the retired Colonel Sergei Vadimovich SHAPOSHNIKOV, a former employee of one of the Russian special services who had been dealing with people with supernormal abilities for a long time. He agreed to tell about some of the secrets of classified psychics.
Mystical epidemic
The truth is learned in a dispute. To nudge his interlocutor into a frank conversation, the AN columnist decided not to hide his doubts and skepticism:
- Now we have so many psychics, miracle workers and sorcerers that there is nowhere to spit. You will definitely get into some psychiatric shaman. Basically all these are scammers …
To prove my words, I read out a recent message: “The Metropolitan Police detained a group of false psychics who received more than 50 million rubles for their“services”,” an official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs told reporters. They charged large sums for "treating hopelessly ill cancer patients."
The old intelligence officer did not fall for the journalistic trick and did not argue.
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“There are enough fraudsters everywhere,” Sergey Vadimovich shrugged his shoulders. - There are especially many of them in politics and finance. This epidemic and parapsychology did not pass. Now the entire Internet is crammed with advertisements for the services of clairvoyants, and for almost ten years now they have been showing the "Battle of psychics" on TV.
- Why are the members of the Commission for Combating Pseudoscience and Falsification of Scientific Research under the RAS Presidium silent? - the columnist "AN" was indignant. - It was founded on the initiative of the Nobel laureate Academician Vitaly Ginzburg at the end of the 90s of the last century, when the activities of television sorcerers and magicians such as Kashpirovsky and Chumak had not yet disappeared.
In response, Colonel Shaposhnikov gave the journalist a short lecture on parapsychology and extrasensory perception. It turns out that the author of the concepts "extrasensory perception" and "psychic" was a member of the Commission for the Fight against Pseudoscience Yuri Gorny. In his speeches, he demonstrated an outstanding memory and performed unusually fast oral calculations, "read thoughts" and only by efforts of will at a distance "moved objects." However, Gorny explained all his tricks by natural reasons.
Of course, people with hypersensitivity and supernormal abilities certainly exist, just like Gorny. By the way, the effect of Dzhuna Davitashvili, as it was reliably found out by scientists from the Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, was caused, in particular, by the increased infrared radiation of her upper limbs. She removed pain from her patients, relieved minor ailments.
“Unfortunately, the numerous diseases of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev did not succumb to the passes of Dzhuna,” the AN observer replied. - She did not save other party leaders of the Soviet Union from death. But this did not prevent her from sporting a general's uniform with a whole iconostasis of various awards.
- Your brother journalist created Juna's fame. Her abilities have been exaggerated in many ways. The most famous psychic healer of the USSR could not save even her child from death, ” Shaposhnikov said.
- Why is the epidemic of hobby for pseudosciences not disappearing even now? - the journalist tried to aggravate the conversation.
In response, the old scout promised to help sort out the intricate issues of psychic and parapsychology.
Expert opinions
Major General Boris Ratnikov in the Federal Security Service used to supervise a special unit that dealt with the secrets of the subconscious:
- In OUR country, for example, almost all people with supernatural abilities were controlled by the KGB. In the USSR, they realized in time the importance of this problem, as well as the danger posed by the possibility of intruding into someone else's consciousness and manipulating it. The possibilities of remote influence on the psyche in our country have been studied by about fifty institutions. The appropriations for these purposes were in the hundreds of millions of rubles. And although the investments paid off, the results obtained then did not receive development. After the collapse of the Union, all work was curtailed, specialists in the field of subtle psychophysical fields scattered throughout the country and the world. Subsequently, we have successfully used these developments. So, our psychics thwarted Yeltsin's first visit to Japan. It was supposed to take place in 1992. As we learned,the president was heavily programmed to give a number of the Kuril Islands to Japan. But this was only the first step in a multi-step combination of forces claiming world hegemony. And after the transfer of the islands to Japan, China - which was also programmed - had to start actively demanding the return of disputed territories, which were then sufficient. The matter could come to an armed conflict.
Major General Nikolai SHAM, former deputy chairman of the KGB:
- Parapsychology, which opens up psychic ways of obtaining information and influencing people, is considered by the military and intelligence services as an opportunity to create new unique types of weapons and as a means of waging a new type of war. Work in this direction has been and is being carried out over the past decades in many countries. And above all in the USSR / Russia and the USA, which until recently represented the poles of geopolitics.
Miracles or magic tricks?
According to Sergei Vadimovich, the taint of mysticism and mystery that surrounds real psychics is largely to blame. As for telepathy (transmission of thought over a distance), telekinesis (moving objects by the power of thought), clairvoyance (predicting the future), dowsing, or dowsing (finding water with a piece of wire), and skin vision, there is no reliable evidence of the existence of these paranormal phenomena has not yet been submitted.
On the contrary, many cases of fraud have been proven - for example, dexterous peeping by Rosa Kuleshova, numerous elements of the staged show in the television "Battle of Psychics". The AN observer has also encountered such miracles and tricks.
I met a real psychic in Budapest. A young friend of mine from the ambassadorial station was talking about the new assistant military attache with an admiring breath:
- This is the new Wolf Messing! He moves objects with his gaze and reads thoughts from a distance.
I shook my head in disbelief.
- Well, what thoughts can the lieutenant have? Yes, everything is written on your face. No wonder the army humor says: the young officer wants to drink and love. And drink everything that burns, and love all the girls that just move. And do not move, then stir and love, love, love …
The buddy laughed. But he continued to insist:
- The newbie really shows wonders. For example, without the help of his hands he moves a liter mug of beer on the bar counter.
- Nonsense! - your humble servant dismissed. - During the Gorbachev alcohol drought, almost any visitor to the pub was capable of such a trick. Especially if the table is filled with beer.
Yet for all my skepticism, I was intrigued. Already on the next Sunday we met with the assistant to the military attaché Anatoly Sergeev. It was in the gym of our embassy school in the final of a gambling volleyball game. The national team of journalists played beer with diplomats. Assistant military attaché Anatoly Sergeev gave a powerful hook. But before hitting the ball, he turned around abruptly and glanced at his opponent. He, as if hypnotized, stood in a pillar and could not accept the serve. Sergeyev did this trick with every player of the journalistic team. And after this look and before receiving a strong feed, my fingers suddenly became numb. And when he hit the ball, the index cracked treacherously. The finger almost immediately turned blue and began to swell. Anatoly Sergeev ran up, apologized,and then he took my injured finger into his fist. Some biocurrents ran through the body. The pain was suddenly gone. The swelling subsided before my eyes. In a word, miracles, and more!
Open the veil of secrecy
Later, over a bottle of "The Gray Monk," Sergeev told how he was helped to develop his natural abilities in a special laboratory of the special services. It turns out that the most gifted were trained in intelligence schools using a special method. Previously, this program was supervised by physiologist Leonid Vasiliev, a student of the famous professor Chizhevsky. Later, research and training in special techniques were also carried out through military intelligence at the so-called "object number 01168". According to Western sources, the GRU spent about 300 million full-fledged Soviet rubles for these purposes.
“That was a long time ago,” Colonel Shaposhnikov joined the conversation again. - Here is much more recent information. The materials of the collection "Psi-Wars: West and East" slightly open the modern veil of secrecy over the classified psychics. Have you read it?
- I spent my fascination with science fiction as a child, - the journalist tried to dismiss the answer. - But psychics are now a very fashionable topic.
Shaposhnikov shook his head reproachfully:
- Nothing should be rejected right away. Moreover, the book is documentary. Its subtitle clearly states this - "History in eyewitness accounts." And what authors are collected in this collection ?!
Sergei Vadimovich began to list: Major General Nikolai Sham, Deputy Chairman of the KGB in 1991-1992; Lieutenant General Alexei Savin, former head of the top-secret Expert and Analytical Directorate of the General Staff for Unusual Human Possibilities and Special Types of Weapons (mysterious military unit 10003); Major General Boris Ratnikov, former deputy head of the Federal Security Service, founder and head of a special parapsychological department in the system of the highest bodies of state power; Colonel Vyacheslav Zvonikov, supervising psychics in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. They tried to lift the veil of secrecy over psychic intelligence. Here are just a few quotes.