IS RUSSIA ADOPTING A PARTY LINE ON PARAPSYCHOLOGY?

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• Publication Date: July 2, 1974
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THE TIMES TUESDAY JULY 2 1974
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Moscow academics prepare for what looks like an official monopoly oLi:c?carch
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It will come ns a surprise to
many that there has been wide-
apread interest iil the pheno-
niena of plychical research in
Russia not only in the popular
press but et the highest aca-
demie levela.
In October 1973 there ap-
peared in (Thestions of Philo-
.!?opliv, An official publication of .
the Soviet Aciidenty of Sciences
it loofa careful and very inter-
esting paper by four of Roasia's
most eminctit psychologists,
members of the Academy of
l'editeoitical Sciences, V. P.
Zioclictiko, A. N. Loontiev, .B. F.
Lotnoy and A. R.. Luria called
Pttrcpn:cholcunt: Fiction or
17:calitv, in which the authors
commit titcmselves to the 'state-
ment, " Obvicoisiv, cone no-
paratischological pher.o.
mere do happen ".
'Let selien, on 1,-;:treh 2S, 1974,
tic Moieose pr.rapsychologist,
Nattinov, was nentenced .
to two years in a hbour camp
because lie war, alleged ta have
misappropriated funds of a club
where Ito had been lecturing
on parapsychology Dr Aliclrej
Socalirevsky. a payeldatrist, teas
called as ail expert ivitaess s,hr, .
teatified that tiarapsyehology is
pse.uilo.seicaec brined on mys-
deism and lcalkin. It is,
of course, rliMcult to find out
exactly what intoner.ed : accord.
log to friends of Natimov's, the
clith's dit?ector allowed him to
taaai some antrance fees for
shot...ion a film mi the so-cniled
Philippine spirit heider, ?Tony?
a,r,pona, hoisa.ver, the director
yip; not permitted to speak'on
Neumov's behalf in court, hay-
'
me been declared psychologic-
ally milk to icatify by the
itoIt oil dos.
There has been activity 411
the parapsycbological field In
tbe Soviet Union sine.c the oarly
1910ii, when !Academician V. M.
Itedititercy. toe:: an interest hi
to subject. Indeed, in 1914,
a'e A. V. limakharsky, Commis.
s:tr for Echietition, took the
initiative in farming 1 SOViC:t
01111iLtee for Psychical Re-
search .? to the International
Cronmittee for ' Psychical
Research.
In 1322 Belitterev fotir.ded'a
collection of spontaneou3r-i'lr-r---7:?zurcirA'grol-er-a-
Pliettionetia, case histories of .. ?
7.1/A rrp lip el, !ID
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?''''''''="1:21131174'-=-4-14"1":"71"112.1x0=x4123 national activity. For vim-Hole, made a special point of dtsso:
? ? De St of Krippoce of ..tilea elating f ruin
pec,ple reporting, for. example, ... ? Maintonides 1)ecant Laiinratory Schroeder th.c'annlildvcsOitrati..e.r. ..
'... it is to be welcomed that Soviet ' in Brooklyn delivered'a lecture Neither Naumoy nor any of
alleged telepathic experiences; . ?? ? ..t.
the psychological and physic- ? , a: . . ? . ? :. on parapsychology ar the La-hi, co-tterliers, such a5 Baehara .
loeical effects of magnetic e .? a ....... ? .. ' .. ' . ? ? -. a . tute of Psyclielogy, a seetio'n. of 'sal:nova or Larissa Vilenakrati
fields ; and the effects of dis-
tant. Or mental sagge..tion on .
subjects under hypnosis. .
The scientist in charge of tho
'hypnotic programme was it
Co rmer student of m.khtel.cv's,
I.. L. Vasilicv, sobseatiently
Professor of Physiology at titc ?-
Univcraity. of 1,1111;o:.;red, who. . .
throughoet the 1.920f 811C.I 'SOS ...
conducted a systematic research ?
project on distant iefluencing.
. : . .
Vaeiliev had originally wit- . .
nessed an experimental demon- . . . . ? . ? meal Pat apsycnoloey. . .? selves in t.ie !more. It may
stration of apparent tele:el:hie . .
?A' I ?-? 1 311 Gle :%0Viet 1;11i0/1 iraerest we. bc: tlint att. the pr..e? ??;
scientists should wish the S"iet A""n". PCd1".
gical Sciences in 1971. Krippner Rustiati workers teral s:resa
arranged, jointly with: Nautariv, that the maili obstacle to Il r%.
to organize " Intoenetiooal ? gress io pmeipi,Yelloingy the
Meetitte 011 file Problem of ain. 1rick of a attiralde physicel 'oasis
Energy and Related Areas" lit to caraalo the pho.oamana and
Moscow, which took place in fn L0;14: ?1111*:',IC Mt lilt' Se:ill:11 for
,lily 1972. The conf':cet.ca, stich c:sphomitione, whereas ia
grimmer wrote, " W;.0 1101 etimilads has r?rt
' 5ponr,oreci by 'the. been an codeavour to
Soviet government, beim: re? ? cicitionaeate thric very
aai?ded twhen its a function of existence. leavli'a theoretical ea.
Naionny's Institute for Tech- planation,. !r.o ;Ake care of them.
?
: to bring some scientific.and
.theoretical order and
restraint into the field o'r
. psychical research.
a ?
hetinosls by K. I. Platant.IY, an .-
:or are they the only ones who - i, ,,, ,,,, 1), f?,?.,?,,..; 0,.? r.,,?,,i;),,. ;;,,,c;or.: It, Izt:??,,,o., ,,,,p,,,,,i:
omi.,e,t Soviet psychietrist.? ? ? ?? " ? ?
Professor at the University of .
tasportarit work or, medical. :' ? .. ? ? ... . .
, write. for example, ;he: 'hue ? forte.11,7,on ol a unified tr.cor;.?
livonotherapia The word at a . ; .? . .r.) fia ' .- .
?,, ? to e.c..ccrii., t:io basic eueray
p.lnliioloat ? and .tizerapeinic ? ... ' -.'"` 11S where people vvitn? .. search for the measurement of
ciectrom?,..,?cdc field, ?, tranc.oeniations itivolveci.
eal et id
. tirates. These fields ere caPed wher Zincheitko
. ? ? .
';',10sr,,dif,'''',',...!lte,:t ric)ii:riFt.c.t1 ', C.:11;1,1i'. plistie' end incorrect '' the
descrier,: es " in principle sin:.
?
!nate.... that saetel ? researahers
meters of sa-ctillcd is:worm:nal
laharkov, late; author of an ? ? ? deplore a state of
zi,;,,,c?,:o e, are manila camaitated with the
and physic:1i pmet. vt-ty ineea petaled. ' Xeiptit,:r
?
factor.
Vardliev and his team of ? ? .
enaineers, doctors, hypnotiats
the .neory forwerd by Cazita-' ? ? itas /11Atic itylrumeitts ilaineiale ecrour,t for Cot1
ostensible paranormal
Set 311( 1.0 te3:0,-i''n
?
'oletial I). ? ?.. . fine.. PrOlsc.:.,s search for a sinele intsle ferce
Illiiili 1.11'01 tek!PilIlliC influencing - ? gift aL . s -e publicized before
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. . . . 10 allpra;:...e the fUliClio '0 31 Ph's:lioniena
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%sets mediated by I-a:Ho-type. - - - ? . ? - state of individuals. l'or in- That Soviet : acientists %%audit
waves. When the experimentera sance, the ' Xirlian elfect""Hl lc' 'l %Grit! ::cico'fic
foiled. that screenieg hy rneanS? nvestigation and publication . ? .t
of . a Feraday cage failed to?C' :
inlithit tile ICIel/atlICIIC. 111000rt ? .
and that consequently in the technical literature ... ?
, so far, . . .
? ?
no channel for the ostensible . ' . .
. . .
110n-wrisocy no Intim it i eatio re masritesaziereertesireexizeirazaaarteasitaratiat=arasriamte7esareervarracattizenzeizzarts
aaeulii be detected, 1.11C It:ICarch
?ceased. It is not entirely eicer
jost wity the rest:milt was dis.
eontioucd in the mid-thirtica.
pointed. out to his authorities
that he and thus his country
certainly ehad priority
Ccrtaiiiiy, as Vasiliey wrote, covery At; thii respect, anti he
syhen he wes eventually ablc. to was allowed to publish sonic of
publish some of his results, in his work. 1Ie was also, in 19G1),
the early 1960s, the war inter- allowed to set up a research
veiled (one of his most promis-? unit attached to the Institute
Jug reaeauch student:;, V. S. ? for Brant Research at the lin'.
SteldimE end osky was killed versiry of-Leningrad, and letters
during the aitete of Leningrad). poured in from all parts of
On the ether hand, there is also Russia, riving examples of what'
rearms to believe that it sal;S correapemdents be-
mecisely his feilore to prove the licacd to he psychic experiences.
existence of a physical channel lo the oest of my knowledge
that led ta the abandomnent o Vasiliey published three works.:
the research. a long essay. blystorieus Mena-
? In 1919 some. articles ? ntena of .the.11untors Psyche, a
appeared in the French popular. popuiar -book which has been
press alleging that succeasfu. trans:wed into French under
telt:0:111;y experimeots had been the title 'La suceestion 0 db.:-
apceial commission for ;he carried out between toe An to tee and a ?.scientific mono
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Si tidy of mental sttagmtion can. atomic submarine and the graphs translate:I lot o English in
attached 'to the Iosziiiite for share. thus proving that screen- . 1963 -under the title Experi. stonare, if not al.ways critical,
Brain Research at the ,Univer- ina which entirely cut nut radio mains 'in Mental Sugsos:ion. ? . interest in psychic mattees 1,1, under the atiamees.of the Czech ?pats ? . .
aity of Leninctrad. The activities warps did not inhibit telepathy. This latter book .was.witle.ly countries of' the Eastern block.. Seimnific and
of tbe commiasion included t. " . . . .. _ ..
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West. It Ives not, liovvevcr, until
1970 that the ? full impact of
Rusaian parapsychological Se-
tivity cause., house to the West.
In 19GF, two young. American
journalists. Lynn Schroeder and
Sheila Osterander, ViAiteri Itle
Sot ict Union. 'nide guide and
mantor was Etluatil Naumov
who was manifestly helpful and
informative., and assisted diem
tit co:It-acting a' ?great many
people who might be of asaist.
once to the two. journalists,
. Schroeder and Ostrander re-
turned to the United States and
wrote ' An internatioaal best-
seller, Pspchie Discoveries he-
h 1(15 the Iron Curtain Which, if
not distingoisiied ba? .accuracy
or. restraint, nevertheless fore-?
ihly 'drew the tilt:en:ion of
?Vestern researchers to a par-
(photography of is tissue ex.. anti theorrair?til order and
' poaed to high fregoency ;air. resiraint into the field of
rent) was osed by parapi.ychoiro Psacitiaal rerch is. of course.
gists before it was ttaed la welcomed. Nor are
payehola. Ruiesialt scientilts the only ent-i
gists aeain: " Pt67 Whit dC.1.iir/re ',IP.1C.! of effal,s
aectimi. for Tea :it-had witf.:*a Peelle whit es!clisiiihe
, paeaotayeholog'y pac.imorrial gifts are pt otooie,4
mitt puldicizecl prior peopat
!Jenny was organiadie within the
?Centcal Achroiniettairion of the
Scientifie?Techntee! Societe of
the In:Art:mem Padldiret, litLr """ C.
tey. In and 1971 two'ac:icti- The takeover of any field of
tificatechnical seminars on the ' study by professionals fermi
erica I chffzei dct ' u. (necri.c.. r .oisty; is,
and patrihilt ;t:'nmilil,n!I. It would
auspices." be trag;r. ti what
.1
Novo. it would scetat :hat rwnru'"'""?71" ry? ?
Schroeder and Ostraral'er'a Sa?'!iv;r;i red,"11"?"3',..e,,1
book gave extreme offence in c:"?
Russia. lincliettko ct sinaleu'tinlc pit'.
, ;s :kit!%:t.c t l?it. for arm:.
it out for disapproval, pertly
li?cause of 551 iii they feel to be vs"; td sihi'lIuh(il: wcr`. ?
?us o?rtly anti-Soviet attit?de, I.1 klcr"Id k;:al iscr..
partly becau? of it" iitacettriey, .,"1.'".? a A" PriVa'"1"1"ri45" *
riliS111. AL the Interotitiutial Com 4d7cit " """?c bc
lip hecause iti. seasatioia nd rml"R"Ir!. i"
gress of Psyettotronics (another .taelacialcirtt.2a;atv',Li;
se.m.'11) hit Pl'agoe in II pc, 1973. tr'1,'? in'
liastern word for trier:hi:all mi be 1. oh
0...r...mited by Dm z. di cd PNVCIAIL: eXpent,,nces In.
if' ? I