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Kulagina, who was born in 1926, joined the Red Army at age fourteen, entering its tank regiment during World War II, [10] but she was a housewife at the time that her alleged psychic abilities were studied and she entered international discourse in the 1960s.
Ninel Kulagina (1926–1990) was a Russian woman whose apparent ability to move objects by psychokinesis attracted the interest of Russian and Western parapsychologists from the 1960s.
Jan 5, 2016 · "Nina Kulagina, Geller's Russian counterpart, used invisible thread to move matches across a table and to float Ping-Pong balls. It is possible that the thread was manipulated by her husband in a side room.
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Typically, Kulagina sat at a small table and was observed to move small objects placed in front of her, without touching them, apparently by a process of mental concentration. The objects included such items as matchsticks, an empty box of matches, a cigarette, an empty metal saltshaker and a wristwatch, The usual starting distance between her and...
Kulagina was able to successfully produce PK effects in some 80% of her attempts on average, Keil and his co-authors estimate. The presence of hostile observers inhibited her, but if she persisted she would eventually succeed. Screens made of various materials had no inhibiting effect. Notably, she was unable to move an object in a vacuum, although...
Kulagina’s PK effects were filmed by many people, starting with her husband. Many clips can be found on YouTube, some shown here, showing the addition of hand movements, tests with the compass, and subjective sensations of heat. This video also shows experiments with what seems to be genuine heat used to mark plastic and cut cords, and her final te...
In a paper on his neuropsychiatric model of psi, psychiatrist Jan Ehrenwald observes that psi apppears to extend the typical boundary between ego and non-ego (that is, what a person considers ‘I’ as opposed to ‘not I’) and in this respect is the mirror image of physical paralysis, in which something which was ‘I’ becomes ‘not I’ for all intents an...
From the outset, critics in Russia and in the West argued that Kulagina used illusionists’ techniques such as hidden magnets, invisible threads and blown air on the objects. According to her husband, the first Soviet scientist to invite her into a laboratory, LL Vasiliev of Leningrad University, was open to the possibility that her abilities were r...
Nov 9, 2017 · O March 10, 1970, Nina Kulagina, a housewife and former member of the Red Army tank regiment, stopped a frog’s beating heart using only her mind. Kulagina, who claimed to have psychic...
- Nina Renata Aron
Jun 8, 2017 · Decorated World War II hero Ninel “Nina” Kulagina was the Soviet Union’s most famous psychic, rumored to have the ability to stop an animal’s beating heart using psychokinesis — the supposed...
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Kulagina, Nina S. (1926-1990) Russian psychic who demonstrated the ability to move objects at a distance, one form of psychokinesis (PK).
