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he recommended bringing
a petition
for the
creation of
a bioatmospheric nature pre-
serve
in this
zone.
*See
also
the ’Daily SNAP,
October
18,
1990,
p.
1,
col.
(SNAP 901023)
*
*
*
*
Author:
Kolodnyy,
Lev
Title:
BIOFIELD RESEARCHERS' EQUIPMENT
,
SUPPORT FROM COUNTRY'S LEADERS NOTED
Primary Source:
Moskovskaya pravda,
October 10,
1990,
No.
232
(21450),
p.
3,
cols.
1-5
Abstract:
The article gives
an account of
work which associates of the USSR Academy
of Sciences'
Institute of Radio Engineering
and
Electronics
(IRE)
in Moscow did on
research of human biological
fields
and
noncontact massage
(the so-called
"D"
phe-
nomenon)
from 1982 to
1985.*
This project
is the topic of two recent articles by
academician Yuriy Gulyayev and Professor
Eduard Godik
in
Vestnik Akademii nauk SSSR
(Bulletin of the USSR Academy of Sciences).
The first article appeared
in issue
No.
.
of this journal
for
1990'.
The second
article
is entitled
"Dynamic Mapping of
Physical
Fields and Radiations of Biologi-
cal
Subjects."
The principal
'biological
subject'
of Gulyayev
and Godik's experi-
ments was Dzhuna Davitashvili.
Leading
Communist Party and government officials
who supported this controversial
direction
of research are
identified,
reportedly for
the
first time,
in
an article by Yevgeniy
Velikhov,
vice-president of the USSR
Academy of Sciences.
This article appeared
in another magazine which was published
recently
in Moscow.
It
is
recalled that Gulyayev and Godik
began their research with active support
from Doctor of Technical
Sciences Nikolay
Konstantinovich Baybakov,
who headed the
USSR State Planning Committee
(Gosplan)
at
that time;
academicians Guriy Ivanovich
Marchuk and Anatoliy Petrovich Aleksandrov,
who were then chairman of the State Commit-
tee for Science and Technology and presi-
dent of the USSR Academy of Sciences,
respectively;
and academician
V.
A.
Kotel-
nikov,
head of
IRE.
Velikhov relates
that
Baybakov backed the project over the objec-
tions of the minister of health
and
the
president of the Academy of Medical
Scien-
ces.
It was Baybakov who proposed
to Mar-
chuk that
a state program be drafted
for
the study of physical
fields
of persons
with extrasensory capabilities.
Baybakov
also persuaded Communist
Party general
secretary
L.
I.
Brezhnev that
the proposed
research was worthwhile,
as
a result
of
which
the project was given
the go-ahead
and Davitashvili
received permission
to
reside
in Moscow.
Two research groups were
formed — one headed by Godik
at
IRE and
another under Rakhimov's direction
in
the
physics
school
of Moscow State University.
Demonstrations which the Moscow phys-
icists conducted with
an
infrared
imager
and
a computer reportedly convinced
Bayba-
kov,
Aleksandrov and Kotelnikov that Davi-
tashvili
possessed infrared-detection
capabilities and could generate heat
in
parts of
a patient's body by means of
radiation from her hands.
An order signed
by Aleksandrov and the USSR minister of
health was subsequently issued.
This order
called for associates of the USSR Academy
of Sciences
to continue research begun
by
the Moscqw physicists and for scientists of
the medical
academy to begin studying the
"D" phenomenon and testing
its possible
therapeutic effects.
Gulyayev and Godik's
group received
a unique set of equipment
with which measurements of physical
fields
could be conducted through
seven channels.
This equipment could also detect electric
and magnetic fields;
infrared,
radiother-
mal,
optical
and acoustic
radiation;
and
chemical
fields
involved
in
the
vital
activity of
a biological
subject.
The
group claimed to have demonstrated the
existence of a nonspecific sensory channel
other than vision
and hearing,
using
this
equipment.
Physiological
information
and
long-distance effects could be transmitted
via this
channel.
The author relates
that
the group's
work was
interrupted
in April
of
1985,
before more of Davitashvili's abilities
could be
studied.
The project's
suspension
is
linked
to the death of Brezhnev and
subsequent changes
in the leadership of the
Communist
Party.
How the country's present
leaders
regard biofield research
is
not
known
to representatives of the Academy of
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