Nina Kulagina: a study of telekinesis and pyrokinesis in Russia
Psychokinesis is the ability of an individual to control objects and influence the environment. Among the most common psychokinetic disciplines there is the ability to move objects.
Among the expert of Psychokinesis in the world there was a women who had been studied ofr years by science: Nina Kulagina. She was a Russian housewife born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) on 30 July 1926. In the last 2 decades of her life she was followed by several researchers and scholars of paranormal phenomena.
Nina Kulagina expleined that since her young age she had the sensation of possessing specific abilities, such as the one to perceive objects in people’s pockets or to percive the state of health of people. Among the many episodes that marked the beginning, Nina says that one evening a jug fell from a piece of furniture, breaking into a thousand pieces and that the phenomenon was followed by lights that turned on and off by themselves and objects that began to move attracted by this strength, a force, she said, that over time she could control by concentrating.
During 1960s and 1970s Nina worked alongside with the Soviet authorities who tested her and try to explain her power.
Over 40 scientists, including 2 Nobel Laureates, studied Nina’s abilities.
CONCENTRATION: THE EMPTY MIND
Nina stated that she needed always a period of relaxation and meditation to reset her mind from every thought, and therefore manifest her abilities. She also said that once she achieved this state, she felt severe pain in her spine and her vision became blurred. Everytime she gave a demonstration, her blood pressure increased to very high level (200bpm), her body became very hot, her brain activities reched very intense levels, and after the demonstrations she always used to feel exausted.
Among Nina’s various abilities:
- she could recognize the colors of objects just by touch
- she could quickly heal people’s wounds by placing her hands on them, often before they themselves became aware of the afflictions
- she was able to print the letter A and the letter O on photographic plates
- she had skills attributed to pyrokinesis, or the ability to burn or set objects on fire: many people claimed to have seen her clothes catch fire and saw burns appear on her hands. She was able to generate intense elecromagnetic fiels with her body, and during demonstrations her body used to become very hot, sometimes creating burining and creating holes in her own clothes.
- she was able to offer many telekinesis experiments, during which she could move various objects such as cigarettes, matches, small metal cilinders, little balls and glasses without coming into contact with them.
Please, watch the video at the end of this articles.
Her phenomena became so popular that for several years she was not allowed to use her real name, but only the pseudonym Nelya Mikhailova.
THE EARLY STUDIES ABOUT HER ABILITIES
One of the first scholars to study Nina was the biologist E. Naumov who, during one of the first experiments, mixed and spread several matches on a chair. Nina then placed her hands on the matches and, without any contact, they began to move outwards, falling one by one from the chair.
In 1968, several black-and-white, soundless videos showing Nina performing her experiments were viewed by the Moscow International Conference on Parapsychology. For the first time, Western scientists observed Nina in action.
In 1970 the American William A. McGary, with the task of investigating Russian psychic phenomena, reported having observed an experiment in which Nina moved some objects, including a wedding ring and the lid of a preserve placed on the table in a room.
Gaither Pratt, of the University of Virginia, studied the movement of different objects, finding that they only very rarely moved in jerks, and that most of the time they had a harmonious movement.
THE STUDIES OF THE MILITARY INSTITUTE OF PRAGUE
The person who showed the most interest in Nina was instead an important scientist from the Military Institute of Prague, Zdenek Rejdak, who in February 1968 visited Nina Kulagina, subsequently declaring the following:
«[…] With me were present a friend, Mr. Blazer, a doctor, Dr. J.S. Zverev, and Doctor Sergeyev. Kulagina’s father, an engineer, was present. Doctor Zverev studied the woman thoroughly, finding nothing strange; we even checked it with special instruments to detect magnets or other kinds of hidden objects and found nothing. We checked the table very carefully and asked Mrs. Kulagina several times to change her position. We passed a compass around the woman, around the table and around the chair with negative results. We asked the woman to wash her hands before starting. After she concentrated, the woman managed to spin the compass needle more than ten times; then she rotated the entire compass on the table, then she rotated a box of matches, some single matches and finally a small pile of about twenty matches. I placed a cigarette in front of her and immediately she moved it, too. I opened the cigarette and found that there was nothing abnormal. The woman was examined by the doctor between tests.”
From Zdenek Rejdak’s studies it emerged that women’s powers seemed to be exercised effortlessly, and that it was easier to make cylindrical objects move than shapes with angles.
THE LAST STUDIES IN MOSCOW
In another significant experiment in Moscow, recorded by a crew of famous scientists, several non-magnetic objects were used, including matches closed in a large plexiglass cube, to ensure that no wires or air movements were used. Even then the objects moved.
The scholar Mr. Sergeyev researched the electrical activity of Kulagina’s brain for several years, verifying always high voltages.
Nina managed to impress a film placed in a black box, just by looking at it, even if there are no documents of this experiment.
THE VIDEOS OF HER ABILITIES
Among the most interesting videos we can see an egg inside a container of saline solution more than two meters from Kulagina. The egg is able to float and separate the white from the yolk, and even put them back together.
Another famous experiment took place in March 1970 in Leningrad, an experiment which Mr. Sergeyev also witnessed. That day Nina managed to accelerate and then stop the beating of a frog’s heart, even though on this test someone objected that the frog was already dead, that the beating for several minutes despite the death was normal and that Kulagina had to just wait for the heart to stop.
VIDEO DOCUMENTARY BY RUSSIAN KGB: https://youtu.be/vC4QMQIZpE4
Around the end of the 1970s, Nina Kulagina had a heart attack and conducted far fewer experiments since then. Nina Kulagina died in 1990 and at her funeral she was acclaimed as a great figure of the Russian homeland.
Giulia Maria Miscioscia
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Giulia Maria Miscioscia, soprano, physicist, astrologer and free researcher of life
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