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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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- 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...
Jan 5, 2016 · Ninel Kulagina was the subject of accusations by skeptics of faking her psychic powers in Soviet newspapers such as Pravda soon after going public in 1968 and later, in articles in the popular monthly Soviet government-published magazine Man and Law ("Человек и Закон" 1986 number 9 and 1987 number 6), which was published by the ...
Russian psychic who demonstrated the ability to move objects at a distance, one form of psychokinesis (PK).
Ninel Sergeyvna Mikhaylova Kulagina (Nina Kulagina) was a Russian woman who was able to move light objects, deflect compasses and perform other psychokinetic feats. She was, and still is, attacked and vilified by skeptics, but was never proved to be fraudulent, despite their claims.
Jun 11, 2023 · For many years, at least two decades, scientists in the Soviet Union closely followed the mysterious case of Nina Kulagina (July 30, 1926 — April 1990), who was credited with mighty psychic...
