Nexus - 0804 - New Times Magazine-pages

Page Content (OCR)

his Bio-Communication Laboratory in Moscow to the Novosibirsk laboratory. Kogan reported on this experiment in absentia to a meeting at the University of California at Los Angeles in 1969. The test concentrated on the telepathic transmission of the identity of various objects, with Yuri Kamensky in Moscow trying to communi- cate the images to Karl Nikolayev in Novosibirsk. The methods used corre- sponded to other long-distance tests. However, Kogan noted that the recipient in the Siberian city "did not have an assort- ment of items before him", as was arranged later during the Moscow-Kersh tests, so he "could not give specific names for the objects he saw telepathically". Kogan said that the Novosibirsk recipi- ent was limited to listing "the characteris- tics" of each item, which restricted statisti- cal analysis of the experimental results to "an approximation". In one such test, the transmitting telepath in the Soviet capital was asked by supervising scientists "to sug- gest an object they had chosen randomly". Six segments of test were used to transmit images of six different objects; half of these tests gave positive results. About the Author: Following service with the US Office of War Information in World War II, Martin Ebon worked on the staff of the Foreign Policy Association and with the US Information Agency during the Korean War. From 1953 to 1965 he was admin- istrative assistant of the Parapsychology Association in New York and travelled extensively on behalf of the Association's research endeavours. He has become well-known in parapsychology circles. His lectures, reviews, research reports, magazine articles and books (over 60 of them) reflect serious treatment of the field. He is a lifelong researcher/writer/analyst on political and scientific developments of Eastern European countries, the former Soviet Union and post-Communist Russia as well as Asia and the People's Republic of China. In addition to his many books on para- psychological matters, Ebon is the author of: World Communism Today; Malenkov: Stalin's Successor; a biogra- phy of Ernesto "Che" Guevara; Psychic Warfare (1983); The Andropov File, a biography of the former head of the KGB; The Soviet Propaganda Machine (1987); and KGB: Death and Rebirth (1994). One rare positive reference to parapsychology-related work to appear in (what was) an East German publication was printed on 15 May 1982 in Neue Deutschland, the East Berlin daily published by the Socialist Unity Party. In an article, "Man, Animals and Magnetism", Professor Hans Weiss and Dr Jurgen Hellebrand discussed the question of whether a _ correlation between electromagnetic fields and life processes does in fact exist. They found that the views of physicists, chemists and biologists vary greatly. They cited Presman's work, notably his references to the apparent ability of snails and birds to orient themselves through the Earth's magnetic field. The two authors denounced popular claims for magnetic healing devices as "clearly humbug", but stated that in such fields as food production further basic research "may permit developments leading to practical applications". As a leading research centre, Novosibirsk was a natural contact point for long-distance experiments in telepathy. The top Soviet scientist, Professor Ippolite Kogan, arranged a long-distance test from 84 = NEXUS JUNE — JULY 2001 Amplified Mind Power Research in the Former Soviet Union Continued from page 83 Continued next issue... www.nexusmagazine.com