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June 8, 1987, Monday
SECTION: Part 1 The USSR; B. INTERNAL AFFAIRS
PAGE: SU/8588/8/1
LENGTH: 429 words
HEADLINE: #Study of ESP at Institute of USSR Academy of Sciences
SOURCE: Moscow in English for North America 2200 gmt 4 Jun 87
Excerpt from "Science and Engineering" feature with Boris Belitskiy's
response to a Vermont listener's question
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[Belitskiy] . . . It's generally accepted among the scientists interested in
the subject that what is popularly known as ESP is a group of phenomena whose
existence hinges in the final analysis on the physical fields that are
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believed to be generated by biological objects. To study such fields a special
laboratory has been set up at the Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics"
of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The lab is headed by br Eduard (?Godich), and
overall supervision of research in this area is in the hands of or Yuriy
Gulyayev, a corresponding member of the academy. Some of the Findings at this
lab appear to be of definite promise. Most important of all, they have been
obtained by using highly advanced physical instruments and thus meet the need
for more reliable data in this field, which has so often in the past been
flooded with data that could hardly be said to be reliable.
[Woman announcer] What sort of findings are you referring to at this lab?
[ Belitskiy] In the five years that the lab has been in existence its staff of
physicists, engineers, physiologists, and other specialists have established
that every living biological object gives rise to a complex pattern of physical
fields. Their distribution in space and variation with the passage of time
yields valuable information which can be used, For example, for purposes of
medical diagnosis.
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[Woman] What is the nature of this physical field generated by a biological
object, say a human being?
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[Belitskiy] Every human being generates quite a number of physical fields:
infra-red, thermal-radio, low-frequency electric, magnetic, acoustic,
bioluminescent and others. What the scientists at the lab are concentrating on
is identifying the type of information about the body that can be derived from
such a field.
[Woman] Such studies can, of course, provide medicine with valuable new
diagnostic tools, but what about the problem of human beings receiving
information via such external physical fields?
[Belitskiy] Well, that will clearly be the next stage of the research
conducted at the lab. Obviously, it's even more complicated than the first
stage, since the body in this case acts as a very complicated receiving system.
This will involve studies of an entirely new dimension involving biophysicists
and psychophysiologists as well as the scientists I mentioned earlier. Such
studies, too, are definitely planned, and it's quite possible they'll shed light
on some aspects of what is known to the layman as ESP, extra-sensory perception.
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