Psychics and healers in the USSR (1980-90s).




Video story: The 90s: Mass "health" sessions of psychics.
Stadium stands filled with people.
People in a state of hypnotic meditation.
Anatoly Kashpirovsky, Allan Chumak - broadcasts of "health" TV sessions.
Allan Chumak tells how, while working as a journalist, he discovered new abilities in himself that changed his worldview.
Talks about the existence of another reality.
Making passes, he establishes contact with TV viewers and the audience.
Talks about holding the first sessions on television.
Alexander Myagchenkov talks about the first episodes of the TV show "UFO: Unannounced Visit".
Allan Chumak about the criticism addressed to him.
Interview with Elena Plugatyreva, director of the program "Fifth Wheel" about the activities of Anatoly Kashpirovsky.
Talks about well-staged shows of a psychic.
Expresses concern about the danger of mass influence on the crowd.
Participants of the program talk about personal visits to sessions with psychics (positive and negative experiences).
Allan Chumak talks about joint experiments with professors, about the positive results of his methods.
Vladimir Lebedev - an interview from the audience in the studio.
He says that the Ministry of Health did not investigate the activities of Allan Chumak.
He talks about the dangers of psychological influence and the power of self-hypnosis.
After holding television sessions, employees of the Ministry of Health discovered various degrees of psychological disorders in children.
Video story: The dawn of mass charlatanism.
The emergence of hereditary healers and sorcerers who enjoy the trust of ordinary citizens.
Alan Chumak holds a meditation session in the studio.
Alexander Myagchenkov talks about the study of paranormal phenomena, which they conducted in their programs.
About heated disputes between the participants of the program, during which, once, a fight broke out.
Yuri Gorny is skeptical about healers, considering them charlatans.
But he talks about the existence of hypnosis, psychological influence and the power of self-hypnosis.
Fragment of the program "Vzglyad" (from 25.03.1988).
Anatoly Kashpirovsky, by means of direct television broadcast, hypnotizes a person not to feel pain from contact with a glass of boiling water.
Interview with Vyacheslav Stepin.
Talks about the general psychological state of society that reigned at the turn of the early 90s.
About the psychological vulnerability of people, in connection with the fall of the regime and the loss of values.
Chumak Allan - journalist
17/10/2001