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Nina Kulagina, Ninel Sergeyevna Kulagina (Russian: Нине́ль Серге́евна Кула́гина, born Ninel Mikhaylova [1] [2]) (30 July 1926 – 11 April 1990) was a Russian woman who claimed to have psychic powers, particularly in psychokinesis.
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.
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- Inhibiting Factors
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- Criticism
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 powers, was...
- Nina Renata Aron
Russian psychic who demonstrated the ability to move objects at a distance, one form of psychokinesis (PK).
Nov 8, 2021 · A Stranger Things 4 episode title points to the introduction of Nina Kulagina, a real Russian woman who inspired both Eleven and Dr. Brenner's research.
Jan 5, 2016 · Ninel Kulagina (Нинель Кулагина, pronounced "Nee-nel Koo-lah-gih-nah," born July 30, 1926; died April 11, 1990, age 63, heart attack), born in and lifelong resident of Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), Russia, was that country's most famous psychic powers claimant to date, with a noted specialty in macro telekinesis.
