THE MIND RACE

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• Publication Date: January 1, 1984
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whether it was possible to
that I would need special
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AUTHORS' NOTE
In September 1983, we received an invitation to visit the Soviet Union
as guests of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. This gave us an opportu-
nity to discuss our remote-viewing work with them, and also to learn
firsthand what sort of research they are currently doing. Our host for this
visit was Dr. Andrei Berezine, a biophysicist working at a Moscow re-
search hospital.
With us on the trip was Elisabeth Targ (daughter of R.T.), who holds
a translator's certificate in Russian and is a second-year medical student
at Stanford. She was able to act as our translator and tell us what was going
on at times when Russian conversations would have otherwise gone over
our heads.
In Moscow we spoke with physicists, psychologists, and medical re-
searchers. The physicists were mainly concerned with discussing the de-
tails of our precognitive experiments, while the medical people and
psychologists had many good questions and interesting ideas about the
whole field of psi research and its implications for their work. We had very
stimulating exchanges with both groups of scientists.
Over coffee and pastries at the First Moscow Medical Institute, we
met Professor Andriankyn, director of the Theoretical Department of the
U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. Andriankyn, responsible for inviting us to
the Soviet Union, sponsored our visit. His main concern at this Institute
is with non-drug treatment of mental patients. One focus of this work
concerns the experimental use of low-frequency electric and magnetic
fields.
At the Institute, we also talked with Dr. Igor Smirnoff and two other
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researchers who had just completed the experiment in "rat telepathy"
described in Chapter 4. As we sat in their equipment-crowded basement
laboratory, along with several other medical people from the hospital, they
discussed the experiment with us. They had discovered that the experi-
ment was not successful when carried out with groups of rats, because they
fought with each other under the stressful conditions.
Konstantine Goubarev is a physicist involved with the rat experiment.
However, he is personally most concerned with the design of a computer
program that analyzes a person's physiological data to determine from
that data when a particular change in his or her state of consciousness,
such as dropping into a hypnotized condition, has occurred. He demon-
strated the program for us, on typical data tapes. He believes that he has
accomplished his goal of showing changes in the state of human con-
sciousness by looking at mathematical transformations of the data and
observing phase changes rather than amplitude changes. This would be
quite an accomplishment, because at this tijne it is not even clear to
Western researchers that hypnosis is a definable change of state.
We were also very happy to meet again with Dr. Yuri Gulyaev at his
Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics overlooking Gorky Park.
We all sat on comfortable red leather chairs in his spacious office, while
over countless ceremonial glasses of Armenian cognac Dr. Gulyaev de-
scribed some of his most recent work. He also gave us a copy of I. M.
Kogan's new book Applied Information Theory. Professor Kogan argues
that if psychic phenomena are to be explained at all, it will have to be
through low-frequency electromagnetic principles. Gulyaev told us that
the first person to put forward the idea that psi was carried by electromag-
netic waves was James Clark Maxwell, in the last century, and that his
idea was described in a recent U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences journal
dealing with the measurement of biomagnetic fields.
Along with his duties as deputy director of the Institute, Gulyaev is
able to pursue his interests in psychotronics as well. With his colleague
Dr. Eduard Godik, he has been examining the electromagnetic and visible
radiation emitted by the human body. They have carried out sensitive
photon-counting experiments with a spectrometer that measures the
wavelength of the emitted light, and found that there may be some
physical evidence for the so-called auras that certain people claim to see
surrounding the human body.
Professor Gulyaev said that he has also been able, to a limited extent,
to continue his work with Nina Kulagina. He described a particularly
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interesting experiment in
psychic abilities to read le
from the shelves of his off
started each paragraph on
sor Gulyaev would take tt
could do this task with su to leave the room before
back, he reported that he
Toward the end of ou Soviet Armenia, where rein
in the Industrial Psychology
southeast of Istanbul and
contrast with the snow we I
environment, with people
the city square in the eves
On our first full day it
with some members of th laboratory full of arcade-tyj
nation, we met with Profe:
a careful series of remote-vi,
chosen by an architect-a
dating from almost the tin
carved out of the solid roc
other Greco-Roman build' '
The viewers and outt
study were volunteers from
experimenter, accompanies
would go to a distant locati.
tion, and then go to the a
tory, an interviewer would
impressions about the site
decided to carry out this w
Electrical and Electronic I
lated into Russian and pul
confirmed the earlier findi;
ence of having a viewer d,
team had opened the env
experiments, this precognit
soon carry out a long-distal
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:periment in "rat telepathy"
quipment-crowded basement
)eople from the hospital, they
I discovered that the experi-
h groups of rats, because they
conditions.
Ived with the rat experiment.
ith the design of a computer
ical data to determine from
r her state of consciousness,
>n, has occurred. He demon-
ipes. He believes that he has
in the state of human con-
3formations of the data and
ude changes. This would be
time it is not even clear to
cable change of state.
with Dr. Yuri Gulyaev at his
tics overlooking Gorky Park.
in his spacious office, while
ian cognac Dr. Gulyaev de..
ilso gave us a copy of I. Mt.
'ory. Professor Kogan argues
ned at all, it will have to be
-iciples. Gulyaev told us that
Dsi was carried by electromag-
ie last century, and that his
cademy of Sciences journal
=tic fields.
of the Institute, Gulyaev is
as well. With his colleague
2 electromagnetic and visible
y have carried out sensitive
rometer that measures the
d that there may be some
- certain people claim to see
-en able, to a limited extent,
Be described a particularly
Authors' Note 263
interesting experiment in which he tried to find out if she could use her
psychic abilities to read letters. In these trials, he randomly chose a book
from the shelves of his office and asked Kulagina to name the letters that
started each paragraph on a given page. After she gave her answer, Profes-
sor Gulyaev would take the book down and open it. He told us that she
could do this task with surprising accuracy. However, when she was told
to leave the room before the book was opened, thereby losing her feed-
back, he reported that her responses fell to chance.
Toward the end of our visit we were taken to the city of Yerevan, in
Soviet Armenia, where remote-viewing experiments had been carried out
in the Industrial Psychology Laboratory at the state university. Yerevan,
southeast of Istanbul and north of Baghdad, was warm and sunny, in
contrast with the snow we left in Moscow. It was also a much more relaxed
environment, with people strolling around a large illuminated fountain in
the city square in the evening to listen to music.
On our first full day in Yerevan we visited the university and spoke
with some members of the Armenian Academy of Sciences. Then, in a
laboratory full of arcade-type video games used to study hand-eye coordi-
nation, we met with Professor Rubin Aguzumtsian, who had carried out
a careful series of remote-viewing trials. The target sites for this study were
chosen by an architect-a good idea in this city of remarkable structures
dating from almost the time of Christ. One church, called Gehard, was
carved out of the solid rock of a mountainside in about A.D. 300. Many
other Greco-Roman buildings were built of a red volcanic rock.
The viewers and outbound experimenters for the remote-viewing
study were volunteers from a psychology class. For each trial an outbound
experimenter, accompanied by two guards (watchers-also from the class),
would go to a distant location, open the envelope with the target informa-
tion, and then go to the appointed site. Meanwhile, back in the labora-
tory, an interviewer would encourage the viewer to describe his or her
impressions about the site that was being visited. Professor Aguzumtsian
decided to carry out this work after reading the 1976 IEEE (Institute of
Electrical and Electronic Engineers) paper from SRI, when it was trans-
lated into Russian and published in the Soviet Union. His experiments
confirmed the earlier findings, and also gave him the interesting experi-
ence of having a viewer describe a chosen target site before the target
team had opened the envelope or gone to the target. As in our own
experiments, this precognition was an unexpected complication. We may
soon carry out a long-distance series of remote-viewing trials in coopera-
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tion with this laboratory, to see what results we will get from using a
ten-thousand-mile baseline for remote viewing. In this series we will, of
course, work with a viewer who has never been to Yerevan.
In our travels from Moscow to Leningrad to Yerevan, we met with
many researchers who expressed the hope that there could be continued
open communication in this field. They all expressed the feeling that psi's
importance lies in the development of human potential, rather than in its
possible military applications. But everyone we talked with also made
some oblique reference to what we were not being shown. For example,
we knew that the Popov Society laboratory run by Professor Spirikin had
been closed down several years ago. On this trip we learned that it has
now been re-opened under the direction of Dr. Alexander Chernetzky.
We were even told that the laboratory is now called the Fourmany Street
Lab. We were not, however, told what sort of work this lab is currently
engaged in.
Nevertheless we feel it is important and very desirable to arrange
future cooperative meetings with the Soviet scientists to further explore
the details of psychic functioning. We might even come up with a poten-
tial contribution to help solve the decades-old problem of off-site verifica-
tion for nuclear testing and arms control. If successful, that would be an
application of psychic functioning that we believe the whole world would
like to see.
BIBLIOGRAF
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