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By: A. Shevalev , V. P. Filatova

English pages: 6

Source : Tekhnika Nolodezhi , Nr 2, 1965,PP. 8— 10

Country of origin : USSRTranslated by: LINGUISTIC SYSTEMS, INC .

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Color end Light by touch ... Whet is this, the istestdiscovery, e neive error, or s shemeless ho~x? Don’t thesubjects peek duri~ig the tests? Doesn ’t this pmsck of telepethy

—— the trensmission of thoughts over e distence? These questionsun to now heve egiteted peoples’ minds. But there sireedy ereenewere to meny of them. Some dilettente commentftors, withoutheving properly lo”ked int o the scientific essence of the metter,h~ve tried to eccuse the sub jects of unscrupulou sness. Let’slook into ;the metter.

~~ Absent , ~~~kin~ is Excluded...The subject is eleven—yeer—old Lerise Perebeynos. When

she enters the derk room , she closes her eyes. After th~t epiece of film (180 units Stete Afl—Uni’~ Stenderd) is piecedon her eye—lids; on top of it her fece ~e bendeged with thickbl.eck meteriel . The subject is led into e bright room endhelped to sit d own et a table. A closed wooden box i~’ nut infront of her. It contsins a number of pe~per squeres of differ-ent colors. They ere thoroughly shuffled. Everyone goes toen edjecent room in order th~t they see neither the subject northe box of peper squares.

After thet Lan es is instructed to open the box end shuf-

fle the paper squares. Taking them out one by one, the girlloudly stetes their color end stickethe pieces of peper on a

needle. Her responses are written down by the experimenter, whoip in the next room. When the experiment is over, we returnto Lan es’s room end begin t, check the colors noted down againstthe squeres pinned on the needle. We are convinced of the cor-rectness of eli ten determ inetions . Development of the filmthet had been placed on her eyee confirms thet light had notpenetrated to the girl’s eyes during the forty-fIve minutes ofthe experiment. During the experiment there wee no one in thepiece where it wee conducted who would know the colors of thepaper squares chosen by Leri~a from the box. Thus there cen bePTD—ID(R41—0560—77 1

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question of the transmission of thoughts at a ~ i~ tence.

Ye~~ This I~ Skin ‘~ i~ ht” ~The subject is eleven—year—old Netesh~ Bershedskeya . The

experiment begins as did the previous one. The only differencebeing that the squares of colored paper are enclosed betweentwo pieces of glees, whose edges are covered with a strip ofwhi te paper.

Before the beginning of the experiment the squeres In thebox are shuffled by a Derson who thereafter takes no pert inthe experiment end is not acquainted wi th its content . Thesame person hands the closed b~x to the experimenter. When shenames the colors , she niles the pletes in order in a cardboa rdbox. And again the determ inet ior i a of colors are performedcorrectly~ M 1,,reover , through glass, end not by direct feeling

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thet be hod conducted successfully en analogous exoerimentwit~i three students. The subjects took the colored platesfrom the box , felt them w i t h their fingers ari d determined theircolors. Red pieces of glass were put into a box on the leftend yellow ones into a box on the ri ght. Out of 60 determina-tions 43 proved to be correct end 17 err on eous.

Does a Blind Person Need Glasses?Vsnya Dubovik went bli-id at the age of eight. Both of his

damaged eyes and opticel nerves were removed . !~evertheless,the world of colors was not lost by Vanya. The boy distinguishescolors by touch, day efter day perfectins’ his ability. Bu t notin th i s, and not even in the reading of a flat printed text withthe finger tips do we see~he most valuable possibilities for theutilization of skin “sight” by blind people.

One more experiment. A photogre~hic lens is fastened to a

• boy ’s forehead. A spGt of light is focussed on the skin, of the

forehead. The boy senses the light well and even discerns its

brightneae...

The experiments on developing “sight” by the skin of

the forehead with the use of optical dèvioes that focus theImages of surrounding objects have as their elm the helping of

the blind end nereongwlth poor sight to orient themselves in

their surroundings .

1~’Qthin~ SuDernetural~About the ethical side 0q matter. The ~werwhelming

major i ty ~f publications on akin “sight”, unfortunately, belongto journalists end n~ t to scientists. Perhaps, therefore, thenoiay end rather confused mess oempeign thet has develoned around

skin “sight” does now, especially to children who”see with their

skin,” harm rather than good.

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In my view , whet should a scientist who takes up this pro-blem do f i rs t of ell? Firstly, he must very rigorously selectfor the experiments only “oure material.” He must dismiss fromthe experiments people who do not withstand checking . Secondly,he must tell them honestly, as Roza Kuleshov e wee told : “Roza ,you are not unique . There are many such. . . ” And also, “Westudy such people not in order to glorify but in order to atsome time help the blind . Thus this is qui te ordinary work .”

Two arid a half yerrs of experiments carried out by Sovietscientist s have not passed in va in . It has now been proved thatWe are dealing not with e hoax end not with “clairvoyance.”Before us is en immediate problem , a problem that is compl~ceted ,in teres t ing , and imp”rtent pract ically , F’ problem tha t possiblymay reveal new sub—surface layers ~n our physi ology.

Our c’-~rrespondents visited the laboratory of Candidate ofMedical Sciences Andrey Evgen~~vich Shevelev in Odessa . A aol—-i dly built figure, heir cut short end already showing s*gna ofearly grey —— the scientist gave the impresrion of en athletewho had donned a scientist’s coverall .

“I wee indeed for many years enthus4astic about mountainclimbing . I~ow my passion is the see. I epend my free time on

a yacht.”

“Tell me, doctor, why did you take up the problems of skin• sight’?”

I prepared a doctoral d isser ta t ion on glaucoma , en eyedisease very widespread In the Ep~t. Many hundreds of thousends

of neople who are stricken by it lose their eight f or ever. To-

day we are seeking paths to broadening the possibilities ofperoeivir - surr ounding world for peopl e who have weak sight

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or who have entirely lost their vision . Thet Is why the problemof skin ‘sight’ has taker on for- us a oerticulerly practical im—port~nce. I believe tha t having studied the unu su~ l phenomenonwe shell be able to help blind people. The main thing is to in-ves t iga te the phenomen *~ leaving aside preconception and chance.”

“You evidently for that reason used the light—sensitivef i lm that WE 5 placed on the eyes?”

tI~r“i~ot only. The subject may indeed be influenced by sugr~es—

t ion . We even exp erimented in th i s d ir ction . A child w i t h be*—deged eyes wee surr ounded by several doctors who, seeing en ob-ject of th i s or that color , caused the test child to select nr e—ciEely it, acting only by eur~gestion . That is why in our exper—iments the selection of color - is always done without outsideinterference —— the subject is alon e in the room .”

“T ell me , have you conducted experiments conf i rming thesupposi t ion tha t skin aight’ is the resul t of the perceptionof one’s own electromagnetic radiation that has bee-ri reflectedby the objectV’

“No, we have not yet tested the hypothesis of Academici anB. Konstantinov . But we have staged other experiments. We havemade a large number of outwardly completely identical metalsquares out of different metals. Among them were ferro— , pare— ,and diamagnetic alloys. When, however, they were touched by aperson who was undergoing the exoeniments, he gave one end thesame answer: ‘I see white!.” This proves that skin “eight” is

rot underlain by a nhenomenon connected with magnetism. Whetkind of nhenomen on it is will be shown by the future.”

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of glaucoma our laboratory will cont inue work ing on the prob lemof skin “sight” . I personally consider this phenomenon extremelyimportan t and am convince d that with time , when the secret ofthe phenomenon will be revealed , we shall succeed in putting thenew achievement of science to the benefit of people who arej suffering .”

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