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In Russia And Czechoslovakia Scientists Are Trying To Tune In To The Baffling Rhythms Of Psychic Energy By William J. Croinie demonstration, and Krippner reports that she has suffered a heart attack. At Novosibirsk, in Siberia, researchers place frog hearts and parts of chick embryos in separate quartz jars. When the organs in one jar are killed by poison or drugs, those in the other jar die soon afterward. Die By Radiation Krippner says photomultiplier tubes placed between the jars register ultraviolet radiation passing from one jar to the other.

He speculates, that this radiation kills the healthy organs. "Ultraviolet radiation might provide clues to how some diseases are passed through the body," he says. "The Novosibirsk experiments delineated four stages of radiation transmission and dying. These seemed to occur in a rhythm, and the rhythms might be linked to the ones Pavlita uses with his psychotronic generators. Great things might happen if such rhythms actually exist and we could decode them." year.

Pavlita held the generator, the size of a small can, to his right temple, then moved it rhythmically back and forth. Human energy supposedly transferred to the generator spun a needle first in one direction then the other, without anyone or anything touching it. Pavlita claims energy collected in this way can clear polluted water and be used for healing. He even, indicates it would serve as a weapon. The secret of making inexpensive psychotronic generators, says Pavlita, is knowing 67 basic rhythms by which human energy can be transmitted to devices of certain shapes and materials.

l.on-DisliMH'e Help Czech psychics claim they have helped people in the United States that they have never met face to face. In one experiment, patients noted the times of day that they felt bursts of These, reportedly, correlated with the times that the healers were concentrating on their sick clients. Any benefit from such "treat ment" must be psychological rather than physical, notes Krippner, and may involve a form of long-distance telepathy. Soviet scientists claim telepathy has actually been demonstrated in Russia. In a famous experiment, actor Karl Nickolayev sent messages from Moscow to biologist and mediator Yuri Kamensky 400 miles away in Leningrad.

Another famous Russian medium, Ninel Kulagina, has become world-famous for her ability to move objects supposedly by will power alone. She moved matches and small objects across a table by concentrating on them. When Krippner told the Maimonides staff about this, one nurse decided that she, too, could do psychokinesis, as it is called. The woman practiced intensively for three months. At the end of that time, she could move compass needles, light metal objects, and corks shielded from outside influences.

in a glass jar. She has stopped doing it because, she says, the demands on her concentration and are too great. Kulagina's heart would beat 150 per cent faster than normal during a psychokinetic SCIENTISTS in Czechoslova-l kia and the Soviet Union perform controversial experiments wherein they claim to tap psychic powers largely ignored or unknown in the West. Two Czech researchers, for example, claim they have built "psychotronic generators" to tap and store human energy, and Soviet researchers experiment with a mysterious source of energy transmitted between living organs isolated in quartz jars. U.S.

scientists remain skeptical, but those who have witnessed the experiments are less skeptical than those who have not. Dr. Stanley Krippner, a prominent researcher in parapsychology at Maimonides Hospital in New York City, visited-psychic laboratories in eastern Europe last year. At a recent meeting in Chicago, he said that some of the researchers may be "deluded," but that the work in general has too much exciting potential to be ignored. Krippner described psychotronic generators being built in Czechoslovakia by Robert Pavlita and Zdenek Rejdak.

The former demonstrated one at an international conference in Prague last Poge 9 The Pittsburgh Press.