Civil engineer Vladimir Safonov was, perhaps, better known as a parapsychological researcher, telepath, clairvoyant, psychic experimenter, writer and screenwriter ... He was also a soldier, survived his own death and remained in the memory of loved ones as a wonderful husband and father.

Vladimir Safonov

This man really lived a long, hard, but very interesting life. Born in 1916, he was essentially the same age as the Soviet system. And he was present at his death, in the circle of relatives once saying: “Well, I waited ...”

No, he did not openly protest against Soviet power. She, like many residents of our country, suited him to some extent. Moreover, in the 30s he was a member of the Komsomol, in the formidable 40s he joined the Communist Party. But he also understood: life in many of its manifestations is not at all the same as they say at party meetings and from the rostrum of the next congress of the CPSU.

... For the first time, Volodya encountered the existence of mysterious phenomena that allow one to look into the future, to know the unknown, at the age of 15. The boys and girls, having nothing to do, decided to tell fortunes on the mirrors. The fact that you can see your destiny in them, young people, of course, heard, but they did not believe in such “tales”.

And they arranged a mirror "corridor".

Two mirrors were placed opposite each other at a distance of 15 centimeters, candles were burning on the sides ... The result was an image of a kind of “otherworldly” tunnel leading into the unknown, along the sides of which a path of lights was mysteriously flickering ... Suddenly Vladimir saw how to him from the “Through the Looking Glass” a figure of a girl is approaching. The girl's gait, her hairstyle, the contours of her face were engraved in my memory.

And when, many years later, Safonov really met his future wife, he recognized her at first sight. After all, even she was dressed in the same way as at the moment of divination - a white skirt, a black vest ...

Friends said that Safonov was born "in a shirt." He was one of four brothers who lived a fairly long life, lived to old age and died in his own bed.

But he had enough dashing ... He left in 1941 to the front as a volunteer. His part was at the forefront, but it was very close to Moscow, so every evening he briefly disappeared from the trenches to ... take his pregnant wife home from work! On the day when bombs were falling on Moscow, he appeared at the maternity hospital with a machine gun: the newly-minted father wanted to see his newborn daughter.

In 1942, Vladimir was seriously wounded. They even recognized him as dead and hurried to send Safonov home a funeral ... But he got out of the other world and spent more than 60 years on it - active, saturated.

Having chosen the profession of a civil engineer, he left a very tangible mark on the Earth. On the planet to this day there are houses designed with his participation.

But over time, the circle of his interests began to change noticeably. One got the impression that in a small apartment on the outskirts of the capital in different time all the most interesting people in the country visited.

In the early 70s, a circle of like-minded people gathered in his apartment on Fridays - people of various professions, united by the desire to comprehend the secrets of the unknown. The members of the circle jokingly referred to themselves as "anonymous schizophrenics." Since then, the names of most of the anonymous names have been declassified, and now we can say that the Safonovs were visited by film director Andrei Tarkovsky, father Alexander Men, astrologer Pavel Globa, psychotherapist Mikhail Buyanov, Pushkinist Vladimir Solovyov, Hispanist Lyudmila Borisova, psychologist Veniamin Pushkin, doctor Alexander Medelyanovsky , doctor Alexander Khestanov, astronomer Felix Siegel and ufologist Boris Shurinov ...

They discussed the secrets of the unknown - those phenomena, the existence of which was completely denied officially by science. But they were, and this willy-nilly had to be reckoned with.

Vladimir Ivanovich was personally acquainted with many unique personalities - the Bulgarian clairvoyant Vanga, the famous psychic Wolf Messing, the telekinetic Ninel Kulagina and many others. One can treat the gift of such people in different ways, but their abilities, shown many times, in the presence of expert commissions, forced them to admit the existence of certain phenomena, which turned out to be very difficult to explain ...

Safonov had his own theory on this matter. He believed that around us there is a certain general information field, from which psychics draw their information.

As a kind of testament, he left us Engels' saying: "If you want to invade the unknown, then do not forget to take with you the main tool: a sober-minded head!"

He also offered to read his books, which he began to write in his declining years on the advice of the famous Yulian Semenov. In them, he described in detail certain phenomena, expressed hypotheses explaining their nature. At first, Soviet publishing houses accepted these books with hostility. But they soon realized that their publication, especially abroad, promises considerable profit. And his first book, Ariadne's Thread, was first published in Greece, Portugal, Latin America, Romania. Only then did Russia finally come. “Something”, “Kaleidoscope of the Incredible”, “Unbelievable Reality”, “Thoughts ... Thoughts ...”, “About that while on this”, many stories about Sherlock Holmes and his other books also went to the reader and began to live their lives.

"Visions" by Robert Cracknell

A famous English clairvoyant willingly cooperates with the British police. It is alleged that thanks to the "visions" of Cracknell, law enforcement officers managed to unravel several seemingly hopeless criminal cases. However, on the account of the medium, in addition to successful ones, there are also several unsuccessful cases.

The term "psychometry" was invented by the American scientist J. R. Buchanan back in 1842. With his light hand, the ability of some people to predict events related to an object that they hold in their hand or simply touch became so called. Psychometrists can tell a lot about the person who owned the item. And Robert Cracknell sometimes had visions even when he was just standing at the scene of the crime.

Why this happens, there is no sensible explanation to this day. That is why every case of manifestation of this phenomenon, the explanations of the psychrometrists themselves, the example of their life is so interesting.

... From birth, fate did not indulge Robert with its favors. It so happened that the boy, born just before the Second World War, turned out to be an unwanted child. During the war, he nearly died of starvation. But it was at this moment that all his senses were aggravated to the limit.

At first, being an extremely nervous and impressionable person, he could not always correctly interpret the visions and symbols that arose in his mind. Perhaps because of this, the famous "anomaly" from England has quite a few unsuccessful predictions. But gradually he gained experience. And here are a couple of the most high-profile and successful cases of Robert Cracknell as an example.

The first of these dates back to May 1977. A psychometrician has been asked to join the investigation into the disappearance of a certain Jenny Shepard. In February of the same year, she went to London to visit friends. But it didn't get there. She did not return home either.

Two months later, police found Shepard's body.

Cracknell agreed to come to the scene of the murder. And there he suddenly mentally saw the events of the last day of the life of the deceased. The picture of the murder turned out to be very vivid. So clear that when the psychometrician told some details to the police, they somehow thought badly. And even ... the clairvoyant was suspected that he was personally present at the crime, which means that he was an accomplice!

Fortunately, however, Cracknell had a compelling alibi. And besides, a few days later, the real killer was found. It turned out to be someone Janie Shepard. Moreover, after the next vision, the medium gave an accurate verbal portrait of the maniac. The scar on his face betrayed him. The most interesting thing is that the killer was found ... already in prison, where Shepard ended up for another crime.

The most famous case of Robert Cracknell is his participation in the case of the Yorkshire Ripper. Between 1975 and 1980, the bodies of thirteen murdered and brutally mutilated women were discovered in Yorkshire. Some of the unfortunates were even hard to identify.

The "handwriting" of the crimes said that they were committed by the same person - the Ripper stunned the victim with a hammer blow, and then maimed and killed.

After reviewing the results of the investigation in October 1980, having touched the belongings of the victims of the maniac, Cracknell told a Yorkshire Post reporter that the monster would soon be on trial, but before that he would have time to commit another murder.

And on November 17, the same newspapers carried the news of the brutal murder of Jacqueline Hill. Literally the next day, a psychometrist declared from the pages of the Yorkshire Post: this is the last victim of the Ripper. Soon he made a detailed portrait of the criminal, indicated that he lives in Bradford, described his dwelling. In December 1980, the Sunday Mirrow newspaper published a verbal portrait of the maniac, and already on January 4, 1981, a serial killer, a resident of Bradford named Peter Sutcliffe, was arrested in Sheffield; he was identified and his neighbors informed the police of his whereabouts.

When Cracknell was asked to talk about his methods of work, he kept quiet. It seems that he had no idea how he “connects” to a certain information space, from where he draws information about the past and future. The psychrometrist claimed that he simply "sees" or "hears" something, getting to the scene, touching things, focusing on his own feelings.

The very same author of the term "psychometry" Professor J. Buchanan assumed that all subjects in varying degrees have the ability to accumulate and store information related to the environment. This is how capacitors store electrical charge. And people, naturally endowed with special sensitivity, perceive the accumulated information in the form of images and visions.

But is it really so? Why do even the best psychometricians make mistakes quite often? Is it possible to teach this art?.. All these and many other questions still remain without an exact answer.

Insights of Tofik Dadashev

The name of this medium appeared from time to time in the Soviet press. And, as a rule, in connection with intriguing, and sometimes emergency situations. They say that he helped Garry Kasparov to save the chess match, which seemed to be completely lost to Anatoly Karpov. It was he who was given a government award for participating, at the request of the state security agencies, in the operation to neutralize a terrorist who had seized a plane at the Baku airport. It was he who told art historians about what Gioconda was like in life ...

Tofik Dadashev

Tofik Dadashev himself and his gift were first talked about in 1968, when he publicly demonstrated his psychological experiments. And four years later, at the First World Congress on Psychotronics in Prague, the famous American scientist, the author of the famous lie detector, Clive Baxter, called Dadashev a "living detector", referring to his phenomenal ability to accurately guess other people's thoughts.

“It all started in childhood,” said Tofig Gasanovich. “For example, I often guessed what my grandmother planned to cook for breakfast, how much money my mother had in her wallet, whether she would buy me ice cream ...”

Growing up, Tofik discovered that he could easily find a hidden object, simply by “reading” information from the brain of the person hiding where to look. But only by the age of seventeen did he realize how rich nature had endowed him. And Tofig put his gift at the service of people.

Over the past decades, thousands of people have passed through his PSI-EX parapsychological center in Baku. “Suffering from serious illnesses are brought to me,” he said, “however, I meet not only with the sick, but also with everyone who needs good advice, got into a difficult life situation ...”

At the same time, he tries not to advertise his participation in resolving this or that, as a rule, delicate problem. But something still becomes public without his participation.

At one time, he helped the young Baku pianist Aziz Mustafa-zade, inspiring the girl with confidence that she would be able to perform brilliantly in a very prestigious jazz musicians competition in the United States. And she really took third place among the 50 best musicians in the world.

But much more fuss was made by Dadashev's rather peculiar participation in two chess matches for the title of world champion between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. He came to the aid of his fellow countryman when his situation was completely desperate - he was losing the match with a score of 0: 5. Another victory, and Karpov retained the title of world champion.

First of all, he tried to instill in Kasparov the self-confidence that the young grandmaster, who was not yet twenty, had lost by losing game after game.

And Dadashev advised what tactics should be followed before the next game, and also predicted that it would end in a draw, despite all the efforts of Karpov. So Kasparov stayed on the edge of the abyss, got a moral respite. And then he won his first game in the match. This already came as a shock to his opponent.

“No, I didn’t have any influence on Karpov, I never tried to negatively influence his game, although such rumors arose,” Dadashev insists. - My attention was completely focused on Kasparov - I helped him tune in, created a favorable psychological background. And he, as you know, did the impossible - he almost overtook the opponent when the match was interrupted. By the way, I predicted to Kasparov both that he would win the 48th game, and that it would be the last one in this match, which would be stopped, contrary to the original rules...

Tofig Dadashev then helped Kasparov twice more: in the match that took place in Moscow in 1985, which brought Kasparov the world champion title, and in the rematch (more precisely, in his decisive, 22nd game), held in Leningrad.

In memory of those times, Dadashev keeps a photograph of Kasparov with the inscription: “To Tofik Gasanovich Dadashev in memory of the great turning point - the 22nd game of the rematch. With deep gratitude for the invaluable moral support. Kasparov. Leningrad. October 3, 1986".

After that, because of the uproar, Dadashev decided not to interfere in the dispute between the grandmasters anymore. And the only thing he allowed himself was to make a prediction before their match at the World Championships in Seville in 1987. He predicted (and Karpov knows about it) that, firstly, the ex-world champion will not lose the match, secondly, he will win the 23rd, penultimate, game and come out ahead, and, thirdly, the last, 24 -th game will be played sluggishly, passively and will lose. It all happened just like that...

The next time the attention of the public was drawn to the person of Dadashev under very dramatic circumstances.

“The phone rang suddenly at four in the morning,” Dadashev recalled. - I was informed that a plane with passengers was hijacked by a terrorist at the Baku airport. He said that in the luggage compartment of the aircraft, among the things, there was a radio-controlled explosive device with a clockwork. The terrorist has accomplices on the plane...

Further, he set a condition - to give him five hundred thousand dollars no later than eight in the morning and give him the opportunity to fly to Pakistan. Otherwise, he will blow up the plane along with people. The lives of the passengers had to be saved at any cost, including the one named by the terrorist. But in Baku itself, there was no such amount in the bank. I had to urgently ask Moscow.

The incident was also unpleasant because literally a day later Gorbachev was supposed to fly to London. If the news about the hijacking of the plane is side by side in the headlines of the newspapers with the message about the arrival of a distinguished guest, this will hardly benefit the visit.

And then on March 31, 1989, the special services decided to resort to the help of Dadashev. Soon they already knew that the terrorist's name was Stanislav Skok. He had previously committed a major theft and is on the All-Union wanted list. So he has nothing to lose.

In Baku, a group was urgently transferred to capture especially dangerous criminals - the famous "Alpha", led by the twice Hero Soviet Union Karpukhin.

But before proceeding with the operation to neutralize the criminal, the KGB leaders who gathered at the airport to the Ministry of Internal Affairs asked Dadashev to probe the criminal's weaknesses and assess his psychological mood.

“We will present you as an employee of the Republican Foreign Ministry,” they suggested to me. - I agreed. But I ask: “Are you really sure that his threats are serious?” They answer me: “There is no doubt. From a distance, I could hear the ticking of a clockwork in the luggage compartment. In addition, from time to time the terrorist talks with accomplices on the radio. He says, addressing somewhere in the depths of his jacket: “Tolya, watch carefully for the back door.” In a word, he gives orders in this spirit.

Tofik went to the plane. I went up the ladder with the permission of the terrorist and in the back of the cabin I saw a young man with a mustache and beard. It seemed that he was very nervous. Tofig began to explain to him that he would be able to receive half a million dollars only by twelve o'clock in the afternoon - there is no such money in Baku, they must be brought from Moscow.

The terrorist began to be stubborn, but finally agreed to wait.

Dadashev calmly left, and in the airport building he told the representatives of the special services that the terrorist was most likely mentally ill, he had no explosive device and no accomplices. And, after waiting for the appropriate time, it will be possible to take it, as they say, with bare hands.

Tofik was not believed at first, but they decided to take the risk anyway. Two special agents carried bags of money to the plane and, having seized the opportunity, in the blink of an eye, twisted Skok.

Subsequently, it turned out that Dadashev was absolutely right. In the trunk of the plane, in the terrorist's bag, an ordinary alarm clock ticked, and he did not have any accomplices.

Finally, at one time there was a lot of talk about Dadashev's unusual investigation. Looking at the portrait of the beautiful Mona Lisa - Mona Lisa from the painting by Leonardo da Vinci - he described in detail what kind of person she was.

At the time of writing the picture she was nineteen years old. She recently got married. And before that she lived in a quiet, sparsely populated suburb of Florence, in a middle-class family. She was loved but not spoiled, although she was an only child. Gioconda received the usual home education for those times. Her life flowed measuredly and monotonously.

According to the concepts of that time, she married a little late. Just before there was no one. The ideal of Mona Lisa, a strong-willed, self-confident nature, is a solid and solid husband. This is exactly what Francesco Giocondo, a rich and respectable Florentine merchant, was like.

She will be his faithful wife, she will never cheat on her husband. Even if she meets a person for whom she feels the deepest sympathy, she will secretly dream about him, perhaps decide on innocent flirting, but nothing more.

She likes a painter who paints the first portrait in her life. But she understands that he puts her, in general, low. Her pride is hurt, it seems to her that he did not see her, underestimated her. But she knows her worth, she feels that she will soon become a mother, venerable signora. As for the painter, he, as he came, so he will leave ...

Indeed, as historians testify, she lived a long and prosperous life. She had five children. And when Francesco Giocondo died ten years later, she remarried, and again successfully. But was she happy? Yes, she was lucky in all her undertakings, but if she felt happy at times, it was not so long. And maybe for the rest of her life, looking at her portrait, no, no, and she remembered that red-haired painter who casually created this masterpiece ...

"Beautiful Far Away" by Michael Scallion

He is considered a futurist, writer, healer and visionary. He also mapped future Earth and wrote the book Messages from Space. In it, he tried to convey to all earthlings the knowledge of the future, which was revealed to him in visionary dreams and visions.

Flooding of the central part of Russia according to M. Scallion

He received his gift, as is often the case, by accident. By education, Michael Gordon Scallion is an electronics engineer and communications specialist. In 1979, he spoke, praising the products of his enterprise at the presentation, when he suddenly fell silent in the midst of his speech.

There he was examined during the day, but the doctors did not find any pathology. But while Michael was lying in bed watching TV, he suddenly noticed that the room around him was filled with a glowing rainbow mist, from which strange, hieroglyphic symbols began to appear, geometric figures, some formulas and three-dimensional holographic pictures. Huge expanses of land moved on them - some went under water, others, on the contrary, rose from the depths.

Before Scallion had time to be frightened by the newly-minted hallucination, an image of an elderly woman appeared in the air, and then scenes of catastrophes and riots in American cities. Michael clearly saw how buildings collapsed, comets flashed in the sky, a strange aircraft appeared.

The woman explained, “Now you are traveling in the flow of time. You will see pictures of the past and the possible future.” Then she disappeared along with the visions, and Scallion suddenly fell asleep, and when he woke up, he spoke as if nothing had happened.

He was discharged from the hospital, but he went to consultations with specialists for a long time, trying to understand what had happened to him. In the meantime, the visions continued periodically, and soon Michael Gordon noticed that what he saw in his dreams in a few days was realized in reality.

“It took some time for me to get over my fears and realize that my abilities were not a mid-life crisis, not a disease or a mental disorder, but something else, quite natural,” he recalls.

Only by 1982, Michael Gordon, like Edgar Cayce, learned to fall into a state of deep trance at will and began to improve his abilities. “I realized that I can help people: treat them, look for missing people.”

Then the amazing gift of healing and searching both came and disappeared, but the visions remained. Scallion gradually realized "that the clearest and brightest images are the most likely and closest to the present, while grayish, blurry versions that seem to overlap each other are only potentially possible in the distant future." He began sketching the visions, and reported the most vivid ones in the press and in his newsletter, The Earth Cataclysms Report.

In one of the first editions of the Report, Scallion spoke of the split of the California peninsula. He predicted that this would happen in three phases, with the first beginning in June 1992. The prophet claimed that there would be two earthquakes in southern California. And they soon happened in fact.

Scallion then released a new map of the United States, showing California as a chain of small islands and Denver as a port on the west coast.

He also predicted active volcanic activity in the Philippines, an earthquake in Japan (Kobe), Hurricane Andrew. It was Scallion who first suggested that the 2004-2005 typhoon season in the United States would be unprecedented in its severity. And soon, in his opinion, there should be a strong earthquake in San Francisco, which will serve as the starting point for a number of global tectonic cataclysms.

And in general, the time between 1998 and 2012, Michael Gordon called the "disaster period." At this time, a fundamental change in the magnetic poles will occur, so to speak, their polarity reversal (that is, South Pole will change places with the North). This will cause movement earth's crust. In addition, as a result of a change in the magnetic field of the planet, active tectonic activity will begin; the movement of the plates of the earth's crust will cause low-frequency infrasonic radiation, which will cause numerous depressions and even mental disorders; epidemics of unknown diseases will sweep the Earth, as the electromagnetic balance of the human body will be disturbed ...

In 1996, Scallion released Maps of the Future World, which incorporated all his visions of changes on the planet. According to his predictions, gardens will bloom in Antarctica, and the sunken Atlantis will rise from the depths of the ocean, Siberia will become the breadbasket of Europe, and the map of the African continent will be divided into three unequal parts by a huge blue letter “V” with its base near Cape Town. It will be a gigantic sea route, one branch of which will run from mediterranean sea all the way to Gabon, the other will cut Africa from north to south.

In addition, the waters of the Red Sea will spill over the territory of Sudan. The bed of the Nile will become much wider than the present, and the great plateau of Giza will go under water along with the pyramids. With the flooding of the Red Sea, Cairo will also disappear. Water will cover most of Madagascar, and new islands will rise from the depths of the Arabian Sea.

New mountain ranges will form to the north and west of Cape Town. Lake Victoria, merging with Lake Nyasa, will become part of the Indian Ocean, the waters of which will flood the center of the east coast of Africa.

And that is not all…

In North America, Hudson Bay and the Fox River Basin form a vast inland sea. The centers of survival and migration of the population of Alaska and British Columbia will be Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. The North American platform itself, as already mentioned, will break into one and a half hundred Californian islands. Water Pacific Ocean the faults will flood, and the west coast will shift far to the east. All the Great Lakes will merge and unite with the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and the overflowing Mississippi will connect them with the Gulf of Mexico.

Asia will also get it, the prophet believes. The continent will shake fire ring» areas of high seismic activity. The Pacific plate will shift by about nine degrees as a result of the cataclysms. Because of this, vast coastal areas from the Bering Sea to the Philippines, including Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands and Japan, will disappear under water, from which, again, only a few small islands will remain.

Taiwan and most of Korea will sink. China's coastline will move hundreds of kilometers inland. In place of modern Indonesia, new islands will rise from the depths. The Philippines will completely hide in the waters of the Pacific Ocean.

No more than 75% of the territory will remain from Australia. The Great Inland Sea will stretch from Adelaide north to Lake Eyre. The deserts of today will become fertile.

New Zealand will increase in size and again, as in ancient times, will unite with its foremother Australia - an isthmus will appear between them as a result of volcanic activity.

Perhaps the most rapid and dramatic changes will be on the map of Europe, the prophet continues to paint. After the failure of the tectonic plate, the entire north of the mainland will sink. In place of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark, only a handful of islands will remain.

Most of the UK - from Scotland to the English Channel - will also go under water, and the kingdom with the remnants of London and Birmingham will be located on small islands, reminiscent of modern Shetland. Almost all of Ireland will disappear, and almost all of Central Europe - from the Mediterranean to the Baltic - will go under water.

From the whole of France there will be a small island with Paris in the center. Between him and Switzerland will lay a new waterway from Geneva to Zurich.

A third of Spain, the western and southern parts of Portugal will disappear from the face of the planet. Three-quarters of Italy will also go under water: Venice, Naples, Rome and Genoa will sink, but the Vatican will be saved - it will be transferred to elevated land areas. New lands will appear from Sicily to Sardinia. The Black Sea will flood Bulgaria and Romania.

On the territory from Poland to Turkey, the Great Sacred War will break out, which will leave behind ashes on the few surviving lands. Part of Western Turkey will disappear under water: new coastline will stretch from Cyprus to Istanbul.

As a result of the merger of the Caspian, Black, Kara and Baltic Seas Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania will sink (except for its southernmost part) and the remains of Western Europe will be separated from Eastern by a huge sea. Under the water column will be Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan (except for one third in the southeast); Uzbekistan (except the southeastern quarter); Western Kazakhstan (only islands of the northern and part of the eastern territories will remain). From Belarus there will be a small eastern section, and from Ukraine - part of the northeastern tip.

The vast sea, divided almost in the middle by the ridge of the Ural Mountains, will also cover the entire European territory of Russia and Siberia to the very Yenisei. Lake Balkhash will increase to the size of the state of Colorado, and Baikal to the size of Great Britain.

Only the east of Russia will remain almost untouched, however, even here, the Laptev Sea, which has spilled into the depths of the continent, will force vast territories of the northern coast to sink into the abyss.

Of course, such a future looks very gloomy and even scary. But Michael Scallion promises that the climate in the remaining territories will become more moderate, and this will allow Siberia to become the breadbasket not only of Europe, but of the whole world. Conflicts in the Middle East will stop by themselves, as the reserves of "black gold" there will run out. And the world will start drawing oil from Siberian wells.

As for the sixth continent - Antarctica, it will completely shed the ice cover and become a fertile continent again. Here you will find the ruins of ancient cities with temples and buildings - monuments ancient civilization. A new piece of land will rise from the Antarctic Peninsula to Tierra del Fuego and east to South Georgia Island.

An old dream of mankind will come true - from sea ​​depths in Atlantic Ocean ancient Atlantis will rise again. “The highly developed civilization of the Atlanteans died more than 12 thousand years ago,” Scallion writes. - It was a retribution for the fact that the inhabitants of Atlantis violated the laws of both spiritual and physical world. Their state plunged into the abyss of the sea in a day, when the huge tectonic platform on which this continent was located shifted by several degrees.

However, the ominous predictions of natural disasters alternate with Scallion's prophecies of changes and for the better. Life on Earth will not end, he argues. People will unravel the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle, find the giant mechanisms of the Atlanteans, which worked on solar energy and are still activated at certain times of the year. “The revival of Atlantis will turn modern science upside down, and humanity will discover new sources of energy and ways of communication,” the prophet claims.

In addition, he believes that in the first half of the 21st century, small towns will appear on the territory of the United States instead of the current megacities. They seemed to Scallion completely autonomous. There won't be any cars around, people will still be happy. They will begin to understand “our smaller brothers” well, children will especially succeed in communicating with them. will bloom amazing trees and shrubs, from which people will learn to make all the necessary medicines.

Many diseases of the 20th century will disappear, including AIDS and other horrors of the "disaster period". Color and audio therapy will dominate in medicine, doctors of the future will learn to cure many diseases with the help of various vibrations. Life expectancy will increase to 150 years.

According to Scallion, this will be a blissful and happy time. But it still needs to be reached.

Soothsayer from Vilnius

For this resident of Vilnius, according to his stories, the whole Universe is open. He claims that he began to visit other worlds, visited alien ships, met humanoids ... reputation speaks of a sound mind, allowing him to enjoy considerable influence among local politicians and financiers.

Peciulis Saulis is an assistant to a member of the Seimas, the world-famous “amber lady” Kazimiera Prunskienė, vice-chairman of the popular New Democracy party. Doctor of Social Sciences, expert of the National Association of Financial Brokers, author of several books. A highly qualified specialist, he was the first in the territory of the former USSR to have an internship with leading financiers in New York.

Nevertheless, he talks about incredible things. For example, Yuri Stroganov writes about travels to parallel worlds and other galaxies.

“Not so long ago I visited the infraphysical Kaunas, which is located in a parallel world,” says Saulius. These worlds are endless. And the lower they are - like the octaves of a piano, the darker the situation there. Outwardly, everything seems to be the same. At home, passers-by. But in the infra-world, everyone is somehow rude, cruel. And around - dirt, gray tones prevail, people are evil. They attacked me several times, tried to beat me. I saw how the bandits cut off the head of a passerby. I can't stay long in these places...

But in good worlds I am treated to delicious food and drinks. My travels take place in a “slender body”. It is, as it were, intangible in our world, but nevertheless it is absolutely real and is already fixed by thin devices ... "

Saulius also talks about his travels in the Universe in a “slender body”. Many planets look similar to Earth at first glance, he says, but others are completely different. For example, there are planets with talking and moving trees, wise cats, and even crystal stones.

“I want to emphasize that the humanoid type of intelligent civilization is not the only possible one, and “humanoid chauvinism” must be stopped, understanding the need for harmony of all forms of life without exception.”

The different worlds, he argues, are also an infinite number. Several times, according to him, funny episodes happened to him. As in Robert Sheckley's fantastic story "The Exchange of Minds", he did not just fly around an alien planet, but moved ... into an alien organism of an alien humanoid and walked with his name, communicated with his friends.

“I kind of woke up in an unfamiliar room, went outside.

People who met me greeted me, asked about something, and only then did I understand that I had moved into a creature that has its own biography on this planet ... "

According to Saulius, he is not yet able to manage travel to other worlds. Some force or even some creatures lead him there. An unusual journey most often begins when, in the process of meditation, Peciulis finds himself in an “especially creative,” as he calls it, intermediate state between sleep and wakefulness, about which the German mystic philosopher, founder of anthroposophy Rudolf Steiner wrote a lot.

He is often asked if these travels are just a figment of his imagination. He replies that it is not so. “There is such a thing as psychophysics. Everything that our imagination draws really exists in another reality, in another world. Fantasizing, we kind of penetrate there, and we can materialize our thoughts. So try not to think about the bad, do not imagine monsters, filth, educate your children in the spirit of high morality.

Name: Vladimir Safonov

Age: 88 years old

Place of Birth: Moscow region

A place of death: Moscow

Activity: travel engineer, psychic

Family status: was married

Vladimir Safonov - biography

In 1992, Russian President Boris Yeltsin planned a trip to Japan. But suddenly the visit was cancelled. Years later, it turned out that Moscow pensioner Vladimir Safonov was “to blame” for this.

The Kremlin rulers have always tried to listen to the advice of soothsayers. Even the Bolsheviks, having come to power, did not completely deny their abilities. And only in the era of stagnation, cooperation came to naught. The advisers of Boris Yeltsin, who came to power, resumed this practice. It was the opinion of the Moscow psychic that made KGB General Boris Ratnikov persuade Yeltsin to cancel that visit to Japan. It could cost Russia four Kuril Islands...

On November 6, 1978, a 68-year-old woman called the Smolensk police on duty. Her 14-year-old granddaughter disappeared without a trace. The girl turned out to be the daughter of a prominent employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the operatives had to do everything possible. But the teenager fell through the ground. Then one of the prosecutors turned to the Moscow engineer Vladimir Safonov for help.

In the office, a photo of the girl was placed in front of Safonov and asked to tell about her. Vladimir stared at the image, sighed, and said in a low voice: “She is dead. Her body is now in the ice of some lake or river. The girl has injuries to her right chest and neck. Like knife cuts. Most likely, she was raped before she died.” On the map, the medium indicated the search square, 40 kilometers from Smolensk. The area was searched, but the body was not found. Only in the spring, during the flood, the body of the girl was caught by the fishermen. All the signs indicated by the psychic were confirmed. Safonov gave the operatives information about the killer, which allowed the detectives to detain him.

In 1982, relatives of a three-year-old girl from Poland turned to Safonov. The child disappeared in the yard of the house. The police could not trace the baby. Looking at the photo, Vladimir Ivanovich gave a disappointing answer: “The child is dead. The killer is a woman who knows the girl's father." They checked, and indeed it turned out to be 32-year-old Maria Gdynska, an abandoned mistress. Believing that a man does not leave his wife because of a child, she kidnapped the girl, and then, afraid of responsibility, strangled her.

The unique abilities of Vladimir Safonov were studied in the 1980s at the Institute of the Brain of the USSR Academy of Sciences. But, apart from fixing the activity of brain regions, nothing was found out. The psychic himself believed that his ability to receive information from the outside was just the “ability” of brain neurons to connect to a single information field. By the way, the outstanding brain researcher Natalia Bekhtereva expressed a similar point of view.

For the first time, Vladimir realized his gift at the age of 15. Born before the revolution, he believed in both God and the Higher powers, and even dabbled in Christmas divination. One day his friends made a "mirror corridor". Putting two mirrors opposite one another, candles were placed on the sides. A corridor lit by flames appeared in each of the mirrors. A participant in fortune-telling, who wanted to know his fate, approached the mirror and tried to see something. But no one really saw anything. But Vladimir noticed the girl. Short, with regular features, she walked towards him and smiled.

Her image sunk into my memory for a long time, and when in real life Volodya met her, he immediately realized that this was her, his fate. And the wife had doubts. “There is a dark oak cabinet in your room. It hangs chintz dress in green peas, - as if convincing her of the fidelity of the choice, said Vladimir. “Do you want to tell me about you too?” But this stunned beauty was enough. Interest in an unusual guy quickly grew into love, and therefore the wedding was not delayed. But the war prevented family happiness.

Like thousands of Muscovites, Vladimir came to the draft board as a volunteer. Everyone was sure that the Germans would soon be defeated. Vladimir did not leave the feeling that this was not so, but he drove the gloomy thoughts away. As well as information about his death. But what to be, that cannot be avoided - in 1942 his wife received a funeral.

... The "dead man" moved when the funeral team laid him on the sled, and instead of a mass grave, he ended up in the operating room. A week later, the condition of the fighter stabilized, but the leg, where the bullet hit, did not want to heal. The doctor was categorical: amputation or gangrene. Safonov persuaded him to wait and inspired himself every day that the bullet in the bone should “heal”. After 30 years, when she saw a bullet in the veteran's tibia in the picture, the clinic doctor was surprised that he not only did not complain of pain when walking, but did not feel it at all.

After the war, Vladimir graduated from a construction university and became an engineer. He did not attach importance to his abilities. The time was not easy, it is better to live "like everyone else." Wolf Messing made the front-line soldier believe in himself. In the capital's House of Culture, the soothsayer gave a performance in which he read thoughts and found hidden objects. Messing's unmistakable detection of spectator scarves, lighters and keys tired Safonov, and he decided to play a trick.

By the power of thought, he began to “broadcast” Messing that the hidden pen was on the column. And, surprisingly, Wolf caught the signal. The medium abruptly turned to him and cut him off: "Don't interfere, it's high up there, a ladder is needed there." Safonov was amazed: it turns out that a thought can be conveyed!

With age, Vladimir began to notice: as soon as he focuses on a subject, information about it comes by itself. For example, looking at photos in the albums of acquaintances, he asked such questions that they thought that their mutual friend was in the photo. Realizing that he could benefit people, Vladimir began to train his gift.

He learned to make a diagnosis not only from a photo, but also from a hair, a ring, a voice from a telephone receiver, and even from a radio. He could also heal with the movement of his hands - both through personal contact with a person and from a photograph. At the same time, he never took money for healing.

Among the patients of Vladimir Ivanovich, and later friends, was Yulian Semenov - the writer was brought to Safonov with severe sciatica, he was practically immobilized by terrible pains. He worked with him for several minutes, after which Semyonov got to his feet and the next day even went hunting.

Safonov also had officers from the Lubyanka. A photo of a middle-aged man was put in front of him and asked where to look for him. “He was killed because of the Volga. And when they searched the corpse, they found your ID. Frightened, they hid the body. And you need to find a car...

Safonov closed his eyes, as if remembering something - ... in Georgia. The very next day, all Volgas registered in Georgia for last month have been carefully examined. The new owner did not paint the car, but the numbers were killed, which was noticed by the expert. The owner testified from whom he bought the car, after which the gang was detained.

Having confirmed the reputation of the seer, Safonov won the attention of the members of the Politburo, for whom he made political forecasts. But, in fairness, they did not play into the decisions of the “Kremlin elders”. But the generals from the protection of Boris Yeltsin listened to them. “Safonov was not perceived as a panacea for all ills,” recalled retired FSB lieutenant general Oleg Leonov, who worked in those years in a secret department for the study of people with non-standard abilities.

But in terms of the strength of the energy impact, he was much cooler than Messing and Vanga.

In the mid-1990s, Vladimir Ivanovich moved away from politics, focusing on the topic of longevity. He believed that he could easily live up to 120 years. But when his wife passed away, he decided that there was no point in living any longer. Therefore, this time he did not treat himself and quietly died on March 7, 2004 at the age of 88.

Yakov Lapin
Unannounced visit" №1-2 (111-112) 2004

Vladimir Ivanovich told me one of the cases that changed his ideas about the unusual possibilities of a person. A few days before going on a business trip, he himself, not believing in success, decided to try to find out who his neighbors in the carriage compartment would be. First, there was complete relaxation, the absence of any thoughts, and then he “saw” his compartment - on one of the upper shelves lay a young guy in a plaid shirt, on the second - a tight man with a bald head, and below - an elderly woman with gray hair. Laughing, Vladimir Ivanovich told his wife about this, but what was their surprise when, after boarding the train, they saw exactly the same picture in their compartment.

Once, in a conversation with the famous psychic V.I. Safonov, I asked him a question: “Vladimir Ivanovich, my specialty is engineering. I look around and never cease to be amazed: the regular change of seasons, day and night, certain orbits of the planets, signals from space, a huge variety of plant and animal species, the unprecedented progress of human civilization over the past century, and so on and so forth - is it really all this could arise as a result of a long evolution and struggle for existence, as we were taught in school and after it? What do you think about this?
Vladimir Ivanovich thought for a moment and answered briefly and succinctly:
- Yakov Semenovich, I think this way: if there is a creation, then there must be a Creator.
Vladimir Ivanovich told me one of the cases that changed his ideas about the unusual possibilities of a person. A few days before going on a business trip, he himself, not believing in success, decided to try to find out who his neighbors in the carriage compartment would be. First, there was complete relaxation, the absence of any thoughts, and then he “saw” his compartment - on one of the upper shelves lay a young guy in a plaid shirt, on the second - a dense man with a bald head, and below - an elderly woman with gray hair. Laughing, Vladimir Ivanovich told his wife about this, but what was their surprise when, after boarding the train, they saw exactly the same picture in their compartment.
Our conversations were interrupted phone calls with requests for meetings and assistance. Vladimir Ivanovich spoke a lot about his close acquaintance and cooperation with a number of outstanding personalities. Among them are Messing, Vronsky, Siegel, Vanga, Kuleshova, Kulagina. Owners of unusual, sometimes fantastic, abilities strengthened his conviction that everything around us is much more complicated than modern science imagines. “Something” exists, and this is confirmed by the observations and statements of Vladimir Ivanovich during our conversations, excerpts from which I will try to give as briefly as possible.
Vladimir Ivanovich continued:
- The main thing for me is curiosity. By nature, I am a skeptic and experimenter. Skepticism excludes thoughtless belief in anything. Experiments make it possible to verify the correctness, the reality of this or that phenomenon.
For almost half a century, this has also been observation, meetings, and often friendship with people with phenomenal abilities.
My personal experiments make me think that materialism has not said everything, that there is something else - "Something". There is another world, there is another life, personal existence. Information in a person is eternal and unchanging... The soul, which some representatives of science have now started talking about, is nothing more than a phantom that repeats not only the dimensions of the body, but also everything that belongs and was acquired during life by the material body.
The preface to the book “Something” says: “Being a materialist and firmly believing that it is not matter that ends, but our knowledge about it, V.I. Safonov, whose psychic abilities are characterized by amazing stability of results in any controlled conditions, believes, based on own experience that the nature of the universe can turn out to be immeasurably more complicated than it seems to some scientists who explain everything and everything, based on the modern level of knowledge ... Today, when the Bulgarian clairvoyant Vanga drove conservative rationalism into a dead end, science needs not to push away the real supernatural, but to try to find him a scientific explanation ... "
After a pause, Vladimir Ivanovich continued:
- I carried out diagnostics on historical portraits in the Hermitage, determined the actual cause of death of a particular person. In the laboratory of M.M. Gerasimov, diagnostics were carried out on skulls, on dummies. Contemporaries of mammoths from near Murom, objects from the Altai barrow aged 3.5 thousand years, from the Black Sea region were diagnosed ...
Experiments at the Moscow Zoo confirm that our smaller brothers - animals - are also informative. From photographs of dead animals, I found the cause of their death ...
An indestructible personality, a person, like all animals, consists of two principles - the material and what is inside the material. The soul is the same person, in all particulars. The same applies to animals... We have all heard and read fantastic stories about ghosts that appear and just as suddenly disappear.
Vladimir Ivanovich sees a direct connection between the observed images of dead people and manifestations of the second, non-material, beginning in a person. He continued: - In my penultimate book from the realm of the unknown, I took the liberty of citing the testimonies of normal people who met temporarily materialized dead. The husband of one of my acquaintances told me the following: “When I was 6-7 years old, we played hide-and-seek in the village where I lived. The older guys fled, and I went to look for them. I see a group of people coming along. I decided that these were my guys, ran up and ... went crazy. These were Uncle Nikita, Aunt Manya, Aunt Katya - the dead, at whose funeral I was. They didn't react to me at all.
It was still light enough. I was, of course, horrified... The second incident happened in the winter when I was 17 years old. After doing housework, I started skiing. The house stood on a hillock, and two figures loomed under the hillock. I decided that these were my friends, drove up and went crazy - they were a husband and wife who died one after another. They were dressed in ordinary clothes, but not for the season: he was in a light shirt, she was in a light dress ... "
The granddaughter of Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov told me about another case: “My husband Seryozha and I slept in one room, my mother-in-law in another. I sleep very lightly. Suddenly I feel something “blocked” before my eyes. I opened my eyes - in front of me was a woman in her 60s, in a good dress, earrings, something else. He treats me very strictly. I thought that some relatives came to my mother-in-law and came to see who Seryozha “pecked”. I look at her, she looks at me, apparently, she liked me. She nodded at me, smiled and left. I didn't hear footsteps, but there was a carpet there. I fell asleep again. In the morning I say to Seryozha: "Someone came to my mother." He replies: “Stupidity, what,” and I: “Go, I tell you.” Seryozha went, but his mother was sleeping and she had no one. According to the verbal portrait after my story, it was grandmother Anna, who died three years ago ... "
There was such a case. The neighbor's father died. After some time, she came to us and said: “The whole site was on the shoulders of the pope. Only he could transplant a strawberry bush. And so, when I conjure over the garden, I do something, my back hurts, I decided to straighten up, I look, dad is standing in his clay-stained pique jacket, looking at me and saying: “Well, daughter, now do as you yourself want” . And disappeared.
Vladimir Ivanovich continued to tell:
- In this book there is, let's call it that, the phantom of my wife. Then she was already in a coma, she lay unconscious in another room for up to a day and a half, and I sat here and read something. Suddenly she came in and stood right here. In an ordinary dress, although she was lying, of course, in her undershirt. It was already the exit of the soul from the body ...
Three or four years ago, after a lecture, a lady came to see me off.
- Vladimir Ivanovich, I will also tell you something... I have lived all my life with my mother. A few years ago, the mother died. I live alone, nobody visits me. One day I come from the institute and suddenly with peripheral vision I see that my mother is sitting on her favorite place, on the sofa, she immediately jumped up and disappeared. The sofa had a soft fleece cover. There was a dent where my mother sat.
I said, “So what? Well, a phantom.
In one of my works, I told how the soul of Alexander Men came to me. He was the second reader of my little book about the life of Jesus Christ, more precisely, about his earthly days. When Men' read this book, he wrote to me: “Dear Vladimir Ivanovich! I have read your book carefully. You will be surprised, but for a Christian a lot of things are acceptable, I agree with you by 80 percent.” And now, after the brutal murder of me, I have a strange dream: I hear the doorbell ring. It was hot and I slept naked under my sheet. I climb over my wife, take my panties and open the door. And outside the door, Alexander Vladimirovich in his usual dark priestly short coat.
I accept him as if alive, I'm glad.
He was a wonderful conversationalist, we philosophized with him, he always brought Cahors Church Slavonic, a bottle of cognac... ". Men said: “Here, Vladimir Ivanovich, I have shown myself to you.”
...I can also diagnose appliances. For example, in the Ferris wheel in the Park of Culture. Gorky, I pointed out weaknesses and this was confirmed. I can say - the plane will fly or not fly, what are the weak points ...
One day, Boris Ivanovich Katorgin from NPO Energomash came to me and said: “They recently launched a rocket engine, our five-year development, and she, the bitch, took it and exploded. We don't know the cause, we only know that the cause is in our engine." I said: “Boris Ivanovich, do you remember what the hypotheses were about the accident? Here's paper for you, cut the leaves the size of a business card, write in Russian, in English, or encrypt as you like.
He wrote twenty of these papers. I chose one, it was written that the cause of the accident was the nozzle. I suggested making the same injector and testing it. They did, gave the load and received confirmation.
These results are based on my methodology, tested at the Institute of the Brain and not only in it. The Almighty, let's say so conditionally, has put consciousness and subconsciousness, that is, intuition, into our cranium. A textbook example with Mendeleev, when he could not complete his table for a long time and saw the solution in a dream.
According to my hypothesis, intuition can be compared with a part of a paired telephone, where subscriber number 1 - "talker" - consciousness, and subscriber number 2 - "shy" - subconsciousness or intuition. You need to learn to turn off your consciousness, to throw out all thoughts. I struggled with this, maybe for a whole week, until it worked out. It is very difficult, given by work, training, willpower. Connecting the subconscious makes it possible to obtain true information.
I asked Vladimir Ivanovich how he relates to various opinions about the existence of paranormal abilities and opportunities in some people. He replied: “Science is still arguing whether there is telepathy, whether there is clairvoyance, whether there is a transfer of bioenergy or the so-called torsion fields. The experiments at the Institute of the Brain consisted of the following: they gave me several photographs of different people, mostly young people, and said: “On a certain day, one of these people will sit at our stand, in the energy-cybernetics laboratory of the Institute of the Brain. You state in your books, that you can influence a person at a distance, confirm this.
And then one day I was offered to take photo number 3 from those photographs that they gave me: “This person is now sitting on a stand with connected electrodes, we have filmed a general picture of his brain and we ask you to focus on the left hemisphere, but specifically - mentally above the ear. Circle an area, say, the scale of a chicken egg or even a walnut. There is a speech center there. We will focus our attention on this point.
We ask you to speed up the life processes that occur in this place for 5-10 minutes, then pause for 10 minutes, then slow down these processes.”
All the subjects were in an isolated, screened (Faraday grid) chamber located in the energy-cybernetics laboratory, at a distance of about 10 km from the Brain Institute, located near the Kursk railway station, where psychics were located. Due to the fact that the results of several such experiments were positive, it can be assumed that, most likely, the nature of the transmission of such information does not have the nature of an electromagnetic interaction.
Here is the second example. Scientist S.A. Gordeev turned to me: “You write in your book that you can diagnose through the imagination of an intermediary. The leadership of the Ministry of Health sent us one guy to check the work of his encephalons. And we did not have time to give you his photographs. Can you try? What is needed for that?"
- Sergey Alexandrovich, look at this guy and nothing else. Take paper, I will dictate to you. Write: “The creation of a verbal portrait and partial diagnosis of the subject V. through the intermediary S. Gordeev by psychic Safonov. The hair is blond, reddish, hard”... The anamnesis and examination data are one to one. There is one feature: diagnostics can show not only what is now, but also read information about what will happen sooner or later. So, my data on liver dysfunction and removal of the appendix were not confirmed, but I think that it will be both.
One could talk about a lot more, for example, about how I grew tree seedlings not in 5-6 years, as is usually done, but in one year; how I see the problem of the emergence of the Universe, the problem of the unimaginable essence of the Supreme, etc. The main thing is reflected in my books.
During our next meeting in August 2002, Vladimir Ivanovich invited me to attend a meeting of the international organization "Earth Fund" with him. The President of the Fund, Marina Popovich, delivered a speech that confirmed the most pessimistic forecasts about the fate of our long-suffering planet. The same note was also heard in the speeches of other participants in the meeting. One of them told that aliens are taking soil and air from the Earth, and the climate has warmed so much that in the Arctic the ice has melted to a depth of three meters, so that the Earth is threatened with another Flood. What about nuclear war, then it may break out already in the current 2002 year. On such a sad note, we parted, doomed to be only passive observers of the coming cataclysms.

SAFONOV VLADIMIR IVANOVICH

(b. 1916 - d. 2004)

Civil engineer, widely known both at home and abroad as a researcher of parapsychological problems, telepath, clairvoyant, psychic experimenter, writer, author of the books "Ariadne's Thread", "Something", "Kaleidoscope of the Incredible", "Unbelievable Reality" , “Thoughts ... Thoughts ...”, “About that, while on this”, many stories about Sherlock Holmes, the screenplay “The Testament of an Eccentric”. Safonov's books have become desktop references for entire generations interested in unusual phenomena and the supernatural abilities of man. The favorite expression of this unusual person was the expression of Engels: “If you want to invade the unknown, then do not forget to take with you the main tool: a sober-minded head!”

This material is dedicated to one of our most unusual contemporaries, whose abilities brought official science into a state of stupor. A member of the Komsomol of the 30s and a communist of the 40s of the XX century, Vladimir Ivanovich Safonov was one of the most active supporters of the study of the "unreal". Unfortunately, today we have to talk about this amazing person in the past tense ... However, having passed away, he left his amazing books as a legacy to those who are not characterized by laziness of thought.

A personality of extraordinary willpower, endowed with subtle irony and a passionate desire to push the boundaries of the known, that was Vladimir Ivanovich. His amazing abilities for telepathy and clairvoyance manifested themselves very early - perhaps because the boy did not tell himself that "this cannot be, because it can never be." Safonov was not fond of primitive occult literature, however, he believed: among the "mass of nonsense and unsubstantiated assertions", "blank breed and dregs", sometimes "grains of truth" still come across in it. How true some "grandmother's tales" can be, he was convinced from his own experience.

For the first time, Volodya encountered the existence of inexplicable phenomena at the age of 15. Then he and his classmates decided, having nothing to do, tell fortunes on the mirrors. The boys heard that they could see their fate in them, but, of course, they did not believe in such “fairy tales”. So, two mirrors were placed opposite each other at a distance of 15 centimeters, candles were burning on the sides ... Then Volodya was immediately breathless from contemplating some “otherworldly” corridor leading into the unknown, on the sides of which a path of lights mysteriously flickered. Beautiful… Wait, what is there at the end of the corridor?! The boy, frozen, watched a girl's figure approaching him from the "mirror". The fortuneteller even shook his head: “Wow! Is it a hallucination?" And he continued to carefully peer into the vision. The gait of the girl “from the mirror”, her hair under the brace, the contours of her face were firmly engraved in her memory. Many years later, Safonov really met the one whom he saw at the moment of divination. The girl was even dressed exactly the same: a white skirt, a black vest ...

Friends said that Safonov was "born in a shirt." He is one of the four brothers lived a bright decent life, lived to old age and died quietly, in his own bed. He left in 1941 to the front as a volunteer. His unit was at the front line, but it was not far from Moscow, so every evening he disappeared from the trenches for a while to ... take his pregnant wife home from work! On the day when bombs were falling on Moscow, he appeared at the maternity hospital with a machine gun: the man was in a hurry to see his newborn daughter. And in 1942, Vladimir was seriously wounded. The hospital doctor decided that he was already dead, and hurried to send Safonov home a funeral ... But the grief of Vladimir Ivanovich's relatives turned out to be short-lived; he got out of the other world and spent more than 60 years on it - active, saturated.

One got the impression that all the most interesting people of the country were staying in a small apartment on the outskirts. Andrei Tarkovsky, who was preparing for the filming of Solaris, often visited here, composers and writers, actors and directors “made tea”. Vladimir Ivanovich especially loved and appreciated people with a developed intellect. In the early 70s, a Friday circle of like-minded people formed in his apartment, people of various professions, united by the desire to comprehend the secrets of the unknown. This circle was jokingly called "anonymous schizophrenics." Since then, most anonymous names have been declassified. Father Alexander Men, astrologer Pavel Globa, psychotherapist Mikhail Buyanov, Pushkinist Vladimir Solovyov, Hispanist Lyudmila Borisova, psychologist Veniamin Pushkin, doctor Alexander Medelanovskiy, doctor Alexander Khestanov, ufologists Felix Siegel and Boris Shurinov.

Vladimir Safonov left a serious mark in the study of extrasensory phenomena in the human body. He tried to find evidence of the existence of another - non-material - world, considering it to be derived from the earthly one. As a psychic healer, he has helped hundreds of people. With his experiments, which were repeatedly carried out at the Institute of the Brain of the Russian Academy of Sciences and other scientific organizations, this enthusiastic person confirmed that such mysterious phenomena and human capabilities, such as dowsing, telepathy, clairvoyance, the transmission of thoughts and images at a distance, are not idle fiction and not the fruit of the hypertrophied fantasy of sensation hunters. The fact that humanity has not yet found an explanation for many phenomena does not mean that they do not exist!

Vladimir Ivanovich Safonov was familiar with many unique personalities whose names are associated with an entire era: the famous Bulgarian clairvoyant Vanga, the famous clairvoyant and telepath Wolf Messing, the skin-seeing Roza Kuleshova, the telekinetic Ninel Kulagina and many others. One can have different attitudes towards the gift of such people, and skeptics quite often restrain the excessive manifestation of enthusiasm, helping to take a sober and reasonable look at this or that phenomenon. But in the case of such celebrities, humanity really came to a standstill, unable to explain their abilities from the point of view of existing science! After all, Vanga, whatever you say, really predicted the events of the future, the best minds bowed their heads in surprise before Messing, and even the leading scientists of the USSR reluctantly recognized the inexplicable gift of Kuleshova or Kulagina, who were not inclined, to put it mildly, to believe that it was impossible to explain ...

Safonov, for many years of his life, tried to find out the nature of the reality of the "supernatural", "otherworldly" inaccessible to sensory perception. Vladimir Ivanovich believed that in this case we should talk about the general information field. Judging by the results of Safonov's experiments, recorded by specialists from the Institute of the Brain, this person really found a way to "connect" to such a field and owned secrets that allowed him to "connect" others. Rave? Don't tell. In any case, scientists have not been able to find another explanation for the fact that the diagnoses made by Vladimir Ivanovich are absolutely strangers, border on clairvoyance and have almost 100% "hit" in the official conclusions of doctors of various specialties. Among other persons, the psychic had to diagnose such famous people as Queen Beatrice, Prince Claus and Raoul Wallenberg, who died many years ago. In each of these cases, the conclusions made by Safonov were confirmed by high-class doctors.

The researcher tried not only to bring to the attention of those around him the reality of some amazing phenomena and possibilities of the human body, but also to prove that the personality is still preserved after the death of the material body, and for an explanation of this phenomenon, one should turn not to the interpretations of various religious denominations and not to mystics ... Actually, that is why Safonov took up the creation of the screenplay "The Testament of an Eccentric", which he built by analogy with the famous "Testament" by Albert Nobel. He also planned to act as a consultant for the possible filming of this tape, but ... Unfortunately, this dream was not destined to come true. On March 7, 2004, the restless researcher passed away…

Vladimir Ivanovich did not have time to scientifically explain the nature of those phenomena that are traditionally considered inexplicable (at best) or fairy tales and delirium (at worst). However, he gave science enthusiasts a serious push in this direction, which is an achievement in itself.

Safonov was contacted for help different people. He also cooperated with the investigating authorities, and more than once. The fact is that Vladimir Ivanovich, thanks to his “connection to the information field”, accurately (!) Determined the causes of death of any person. To do this, he needed a minimal information trail. Such could be a portrait, any personal thing, handwritten text, ashes. Here is an excerpt from a report submitted by a lawyer, in whose presence one of these tests of Vladimir Ivanovich's abilities was carried out: “V. I. Safonov was presented with the fingerprint of the dead woman. Safonov did not know that the imprint belonged to a woman and that she was dead. Looking closely at the print, V. I. Safonov suggested that the print belongs to a woman of short stature, 30-35 years old, slender build, with straight hair, and also asked if she was dead? After confirmation, he said that death was caused by a blow to the head, in the occipital part (this was true). Further, Safonov listed the lifetime diseases and injuries of the deceased. At the moment of diagnosis, he casually noticed that the woman seemed to him naked. This was also true at the time the body was found. Lawyer S. Sergeev.

Safonov admitted that he was involved many times in the investigation of the most complicated criminal cases. The work of the psychic really helped the investigation. However, after many years of cooperation with law enforcement Vladimir Ivanovich suddenly put an end to this kind of activity of his. The researcher explained his decision simply and extremely briefly: “The gloomy laurels of Gerard Croiset do not appeal to me!”

So, the complex, contradictory and extremely interesting era of the great individualist researchers has finally become a thing of the past. Acquaintances and friends of Vladimir Ivanovich, who have unique abilities, have long since left this world. Safonov was the only one from this cohort of people who tried not only to develop these abilities, plunging into the realm of the unknown, but also to analyze what was happening in the context of the development of modern philosophical thought and science. Only he wrote books in which he spoke about himself, about his ideas and his own understanding of the world. Apparently, therefore, Vladimir Ivanovich was the last to leave, slamming the door into the unknown behind him. Is there anyone who would like to open it again?

When they tried to see something magical, mystical in Safonov's gift, he laughed, arguing that the situation was much more prosaic. And for those who were interested in the works of Vladimir Ivanovich, but doubted their own abilities, the researcher answered with his favorite quotes from the Gospel; he quoted the words of Jesus Christ: "I am the son of God, but you are children of God." With this, the psychic urged all those who are addicted and persistent to follow in his footsteps and never be afraid of anything. And also - to believe in the success of the case. Here Safonov usually recalled an episode from the Gospel, telling about Peter's attempt to walk on the water after Jesus. The apostle began to sink, and Christ supported him and said: “O you of little faith! Why did you doubt?"

By the way, Vladimir Ivanovich began to write books, following the advice of the famous Yulian Semenov. The psychic repeatedly complained about the rare and seemingly unbreakable orthodoxy of thinking of representatives modern science, their unwillingness to think about the questions that Vanga, Messing and the like posed to humanity. It turned out to be much easier to stigmatize people endowed with atypical abilities with the title of “charlatan” and declare those who fundamentally disagree with this opinion as gullible simpletons and narrow-minded individuals. Then Semyonov invited his friend to write about the unusual thing that worries inquisitive minds. However, it turned out to be extremely difficult to get through to the reader Safonov. His ideas did not at all resemble Marxist materialism, which had firmly taken root in the USSR. However, over time it became clear that such publications promise considerable profit, and Ariadne's Thread was published in Greece, Portugal, Latin America, and Romania. Only then, finally, it was Russia's turn.

For several years, the psychic has been actively developing the theme of immortality and longevity. Safonov was convinced that his ancestors and contemporaries were frankly offended by fate, since their life is extremely “shortened” and very far from the period for which the human body manages to fully develop its resource. The researcher believed that such a period for different individuals is 120–150 years, and physiologists in this matter were in complete agreement with him. In principle, Safonov himself was going to live no less. But he didn’t want to ... After the death of his only and dearly beloved wife, the researcher was looking forward to the moment new meeting with her - on the other side of the usual reality. Mentioning his "half", Safonov often repeated: "Nothing, we'll see each other in the next world!" In general, the psychic died on the eve of his wife's birthday. Apparently, he really wanted to celebrate this holiday with her. Last words Vladimir Ivanovich, who daily for many years turned to God, were: “Lord, well, I asked you to pick me up early. I don’t want to be a burden…”

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NARBUT Vladimir Ivanovich 2 (14) 4/1888 - 14/4/1938 Poet, prose writer, critic, journalist, editor. Member of the "Shop of Poets" (since 1911). Poetry collections "Poems (First Year of Creativity)" (St. Petersburg, 1910), "Alleluia" (St. Petersburg, 1912), "Love and Love" (St. Petersburg, 1913), "Viy" (Pg., 1915), " Spindle "(Kyiv, 1919)," Poems about the war "

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REBIKOV Vladimir Ivanovich 19 (31) (?). May 1866 - August 4, 1920 Composer. In 1898–1901, he participated in the organization of the first official creative association in the history of Russian music, the Society of Russian Composers. Founder of the Odessa and Chisinau branches of the Russian Musical

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