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particles"—the elusive elements that some Soviet scientists different administrative or research tactics in dealing with psychic regarded as essential to the function of such psychic techniques as studies. biocommunication and bioenergetics. Stern's recollections concerning photon waves have since been Novosibirsk was a logical place for such advanced studies. confirmed. Three researchers at Novosibirsk's Institute of After World War II, its Science City was developed with such sin- Clinical and Experimental Medicine and at the Institute of gle-mindedness that even the names of the streets and city squares Automation and Electrometry (Siberian Section, USSR Academy reflect its nature. For example, one could take a bus down of Sciences) are credited with undertaking the key experiment on Thermophysics Street, get off at the corner of Calculators Street the problem. They were Vlail Kanachevy, Simon Shchurin and and walk across Institute of Hydrodynamics Square. The city Ludmilla Mikhailova. Their experiment, designed to establish contained some 40 research centres and housed tens of thousands photon communication between cells of living organisms, has of scientists and their families. been listed in the State Register of Discoveries by the Committee When the No. 8 project was established in 1966, some 60 for Invention and Discoveries, which functioned under the USSR researchers were brought to Science City from other parts of the Council of Ministers. An English translation of their paper USSR. One of the researchers, Dr August Stern, provided an appeared in the Journal of Paraphysics (vol. 7, no. 2, 1973) as account of the department's operation after he migrated to France "Report from Novosibirsk: Communication between Cells". in 1977. He told the New York Times that the project's director, a Their experiment indicated that cells could communicate ill- Soviet officer, Vitaly Perov, had shown special "deference to two ness, such as a virus infection, despite the fact that the cells were visitors", presumably KGB officers, "who physically separated. The tests showed that came in the early days" of the project "to when one group of cells was contaminated check on the installations". with a virus, the adjacent group—although Theory and application of psi principles separated by quartz glass—"caught the dis- were part of the experiments. Stern dealt ease". When regular glass was used to sepa- with aspects of theoretical physics, designed rate the two cell groups, the non-contaminat- to solve the enigma of psychic energies ed cells remained healthy. flowing between living things. He said that . . The experimenters linked their idea to the the centre's elaborate equipment had "cost Their experiment concept prominent in Soviet bioenergetics many millions". In line with other Soviet indicated that cells research: the existence of unknown commu- experiments, the Novosibirsk centre did . nication channels in living cells for the trans- such things as apply electric shocks to kit- could communicate fer of information—"a language of waves tens to see whether their mother, three floors illness such asa virus and radiation", as Shchurin called it. The above, would react to their experience in a . ys . medical researcher added these comments: telepathic way. This type of experi- infection, despite "Why should information on all the ment was similar to a rumoured test in processes of life be necessarily trans- which baby rabbits were taken down the fact that the cells mitted by chemical means, which are were physically separated. below sea level in a Russian submarine certainly not the most economical and then killed while the mother rabbit methods? After all, any chemical remained ashore, her reactions moni- change is primarily an interaction of tored by measuring brain and heart electrons, complicated formations that functions. carry a reserve of energy. In colliding Project No. 8 included telepathy- with a substance, they would either type distance experiments among peo- transfer this energy to it or radiate it in ple. Inductors, or senders, were stimu- the form of photons, or light particles. lated in one group of rooms while "Today there are no methods for recipients were placed elsewhere, their studying the specific character of pho- responses monitored on closed-circuit ton radiations, the constant normal radi- television. The centre also undertook ation or normal cells. We decided to the study of electromagnetic forces in person-to-person and mind- evade the ban imposed by physics by creating an artificial situa- over-matter experiments. Among the laboratory animals used in tion. We subjected cells taken from an organism to extreme the project were monkeys. effects to observe the character of radiations emitted by them. Stern recalled further details: "There were also experiments That the cell radiated photons was known. But perhaps the cell with photon waves, in which frogs' eyes were used as a more sen- was able to perceive them, too? Our experiments provided the sitive measuring instrument than a machine. Another experiment answers to this question." involved putting bacteria on two sides of a glass plate to see The barrier of quartz glass permitted neither viruses nor chemi- whether a fatal disease could be transmitted through the glass. It cal substances to travel between the two vessels inhabited by the was reasoned that if this could be done, it would show that pho- cells. Yet, as Shchurin picturesquely put it, "the affected cells vir- tons—light particles—accounted for some inexplicable forms of tually cried out loud about the danger" when they were attacked communication." by the virus, and "their cry freely penetrated the barrier of quartz Stern did not succeed in the project he had been assigned, and glass which permitted ultraviolet waves to pass". which he regarded as a legitimate scientific challenge. In fact, the "Something highly improbable happened," noted Shchurin. whole No. 8 department was dissolved in 1969, much too early to "These waves were not only perceived by the neighbouring cells, have achieved definitive results. Stern concluded that the shut- they also conveyed the sickness to the neighbouring cells." down reflected "a change in attitude or power balance in the Kremlin". Presumably, Moscow authorities had decided on Continued on page 83 Their experiment indicated that cells illness, such as a virus infection, despite the fact that the cells were physically separated. 46 = NEXUS JUNE — JULY 2001 could communicate Continued on page 83 www.nexusmagazine.com