- Stern's recollections concerning photon waves have since
been confirmed. Three researchers at Novosibirsk's Institute of Clinical
and Experimental Medicine and at the Institute of Automation and Electrometry
(Siberian Section, USSR Academy of Science) are credited with undertaking
the key experiment on the problem.
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- They were: Vlail Kasnachev, Simon Shchurin, and Ludmilla
Mikhailova. Their experiment, designed to establish photon communication
between cells of living organisms, has been listed in the State Register
of Discoveries by the Committee for Invention and Discoveries, which functioned
under the USSR Council of Ministers.
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- An English translation of their paper appeared in the
JOURNAL OF PARAPHYSICS (Vol. 7, No. 2, 1973) as "Report from Novosibirsk:
Communication between Cells." Their experiment indicated that cells
could communicate illness, such as a virus infection, despite the fact
the cells were physically separated.
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- The tests showed that when one group of cells was contaminated
with a virus, the adjacent group - although separated by quartz glass -
"caught the disease." When regular glass was used to separate
the two cell groups, the non-contaminated cells remained healthy.
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- The experimenters linked their idea to the concept prominent
in Soviet bioenergetics research: the existence of unknown communication
channels in living cells for the transfer of information - "a language
of waves and radiation," as Shchurin called it.
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- The medical researcher added these comments: "Why
should information on all the processes of life be necessarily transmitted
by chemical means, which are certainly not the most economical methods?
After all, any chemical change is primarily an interaction of electrons,
complicated formations that carry a reserve of energy. In colliding with
a substance, they would either transfer this energy to it or radiate it
in the form of photons, or light particles.
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- "Today there are no methods for studying the specific
character of photon radiations, the constant normal radiation or normal
cells. We decided to evade the ban imposed by physics by creating an artificial
situation. We subjected cells taken from an organism to extreme effects
to observe the character of radiations emitted by them, That the cell radiated
photons was known. But perhaps the cell was able to perceive them, too?
Our experiments provided the answers to this question."
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- The barrier of quartz glass permitted neither viruses
nor chemical substances to travel between the two vessels inhabited by
the cells. Yet, as Shchurin picturesquely put it, "the affected cells
virtually cried out loud about the danger" when they were attacked
by the virus, and "their cry freely penetrated the barrier of quartz
glass which permitted ultra-violet waves to pass. Something highly improbable
happened. These waves were not only perceived by the neighboring cells,
they also conveyed the sickness to the neighboring cells."
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- Although the No. 8 project was shut down and sections
of it transferred to other cities, animal research in information transmission
continued in Science City. A Novosibirsk toxicologist, Dr. S. V. Speransky,
discovered a form of telepathy between starving and normally nourished
mice. He observed that impulses from hungry mice were transmitted in such
a manner that the non-starving mice acted as if they, themselves, were
famished.
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- The most complete account of the Speransky experiment
appeared in PARAPSYCHOLOGY IN THE USSR (Part III), translated by Larissa
Vilenskaya from the researcher's original manuscript.
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- As a toxicologist, Speransky's primary interest was the
impact of poisons on living organisms; the mind-to-mind reaction among
the mice was encountered accidentally. Speransky's "upper mice"
lived on in the fourth-floor laboratory, while the "lower mice"
were kept in the basement.
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- In some experiments, the upper mice were starved, in
others, they were nourished. Out of the thirty experiments, results in
twenty-seven were positive: Non-starving mice responded to the suffering
of their "friends," who were several stories removed; in only
three cases were the results negative.
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- Refining his methodology, Speransky engaged in additional
series of experiments, varying sex, weight and other variables.
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- He found that the "biological significance of the
rapid increase in weight if mice which received signals about starvation
from their `friends' is clear: a danger of starvation has to give them
an additional stimulus to be sated."
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- In other words, telepathy-like signals warned the non-starving
mice that food was short, so they increased food consumption and storage
within their bodies.
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- Speransky drew this conclusion: "Undoubtedly, mentioning
that the transmission of information occurred beyond ordinary channels
of perception will remind the reader of such notions as telepathy, extrasensory
perception, and `biological radio-communication.' It is possible to suppose
that the transmission of information about starvation pertains to this
type of phenomenon? We think so, but cannot strictly affirm it at present.
It is only clear that the transmission of information about starvation
in conditions of our experiments goes beyond ordinary forms of interaction
of animals. Therefore, we propose to call it extraordinary transmission
of information."
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- Actually, related phenomena had been recorded by Western
researchers. Sir Alister Hardy, Professor Emeritus of Zoology and Comparative
Anatomy at Oxford University, had considered the possibility that telepathic
communication among animals might even affect evolution and adaptation.
In an essay on "Biology and ESP," Professor Hardy suggested that
animal habits might be spread by "telepathic-like means," and
that a "psychic pool of existence" might function among members
of a species by some method "akin" to telepathy.
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- Speransky linked his findings about communication between
mice to work done by Gulyaev with his auragram on humans, by Sergeyev in
human brain activity, and by Presman on the influence of electromagnetic
fields upon living organism. A. S. Presman's work, notably his book ELECTROMAGNETIC
FIELDS AND LIFE (New York, 1970), is internationally known.
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