Abstract

While scientific interest in telepathy in Russia dates back to the 2nd half of the 19th century, the present investigation of the problem derives from work first published by Bekhterev and his colleagues in the early 1920s. This research, which began as a study of telepathic influence between man and dog, advanced by the mid-30s to the investigation of the ability to induce hypnosis at a distance in selected human Ss. These experiments were successful even when the hypnotist and S were separated by mercury-sealed lead shields which excluded all known electromagnetic radiations. Recently, new parapsychological investigations have been undertaken in Leningrad under the guidance of Bekhterev\'s former pupil, L. L. Vasiliev.