How it was №1690 10/17/2001 (2001)

Psychics in the USSR, 1980s.

It seemed, then, in the mid-80s, the entire vast country was swept by a massive psychosis.

Millions of men and women from Kamchatka to the shores of the Baltic, clinging to the TV screens, "get well" with the help of Allan's all-Union "telemachine" sessions Chumak and "get rid of adhesions" under the hypnotic gaze of the parapsychologist Anatoly Kashpirovsky.

In the mid-90s, the Russian Ministry of Health issued an order banning mass medical sessions.

The reaction of the Ministry of Health was quite predictable, because it was not only in Chumak or Kashpirovsky.

In fact, the process of changing the consciousness of a huge number of people has gained momentum.

In addition, throughout the country began to tour all kinds of "witches" and "hereditary healers", if not easy - the charlatans who used the naivety and gullibility inhabitants.

The activity of psychics and hypnotists was studied in serious scientific institutions, the results of such influences were endless disputes.

True it is either a lie, good or bad, and how all this should be treated - it is difficult to get an unambiguous answer.

The program includes the folk healer Allan Chumak, the author of the program "UFO: an unannounced visit" Alexander Myagchenkov, professor of psychology Vladimir Lebedev, the master of psychological studies Yuri Gorin, as well as spectators from the audience, who at different times happened to take part in the sessions of mass hypnosis.

Director of Petersburg TV, the author of the program "The Fifth Wheel" Elena Plugatyreva talks about the criticism of Kashpirovsky and his methods of parapsychological influence, Director of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vyacheslav Styopin explains the reasons for the mass enthusiasm of hypnosis sessions and other unusual processes in the context of social and economic problems of those years (fragments of the interview).

Chronicle of the late 1980s - early 1990s: hypnosis sessions at stadiums, a selection of personnel dedicated to the boom of charlatanry, an excerpt of the "Vzglyad" program dated March 27, 1988, with the experiment of A.M. Kashpirovsky.