>BBC Monitoring International Reports
>Monday, July 22, 2002
>
>RUSSIA'S BLIND "TAUGHT" TO SEE
>
>St Petersburg scientists have invented a device which can measure what
>they have only recently refused to admit existed, that is, human biofield.
>Experts already describe this invention as second only to the discovery of
>X-Rays . Here is our own correspondent in St Petersburg, Valeriy Dragilev.
>
>Correspondent That is what a human biofield looks like. Video shows a
>computer screen with a halo effect around a human body At least, that is
>what the scientists who have invented this device claim. The method used
>is that of gas discharge visualization. The device shows the image of what
>experts of extrasensory perception have long been talking about and many
>of us are still sceptical about its existence. That is how the biofield of
>a healthy person looks like: it is evenly spread and brightly lit. Whereas
>this biofield is that of a sick person. It is ruptured all over and
>monochromatic.
>
>Physics and metaphysics have come into contact here, in this laboratory of
>the St Petersburg Institute for Precision Mechanics and Optical Science.
>The procedure is simple. One only has to place one's fingers on the camera
>and the computer screen will show one's biofield.
>
>The inventor of the device is Professor Konstantin Korotkov. He says that
>the measurement taken from finger tips is quite sufficient. Complete
>information about a person can be obtained that way. In fact, it is not
>just people or any living being that can have a biofield. Here is for
>instance the biofield of a precious stone. The influence of minerals on
>human beings can now be described scientifically, and so can attraction
>between two people.
>
>Korotkov We use two devices to measure the biofields of two people and we
>can see interaction between their biofields. If there is a mutual feeling,
>love or attraction, the two fields will gravitate towards one another
>while if the feeling is the opposite the two fields will repel from one
>another.
>
>Correspondent In other words, everything we know intuitively can now be
>measured.
>
>Video shows a blindfolded girl, who is not identified.
>
>The girl For instance, there is an image of a woman here. Points to
>something off screen
>
>U/i questioner off screen Can you read small print here?
>
>Girl Yes. Reading That is how through the improvement of technology and
>methods... camera cuts
>
>Correspondent This poor-quality photocopy of an article picked up casually
>from a newspaper is being held by this girl for the first time. She is
>blindfolded. They call it here an alternative vision. In the past they
>used to regard it as God's gift, which cannot be learnt. Now the
>scientists say that there is technology to learn it. Any person can see
>with his/her eyes closed, they say. This method is used to teach a group
>of blind children and those with poor sight. Their biofields are being
>measured. Professor Korotkov's device, they say, allows scientists to
>explain how what we regard as a phenomenon can be turned into technology.
>
>Korotkov The biofield spreads in space, that is, it scans surrounding
>space by emanating a stream of impulses, as it were.
>
>Correspondent And here is a school for training Olympic sportsmen. Record
>results in sports just like any gift are also a phenomenon which is hard
>to explain. That is the biofield of a sportsman in a state of what is
>termed here as competitive stress. These biofields can show who will
>achieve the best results at any one point, and who needs to change his
>training programme.
>
>Sports school official We receive data for every sportsman - his mental
>and physical potential, his endurance and his ability to withstand stress.
>This allows us to draw up a sportsman's rating.
>
>Correspondent Whether in sports, medicine or forensic science, biofields
>enable one to understand whether a person died of natural causes or by
>violent death. Sentence as received This device is being used in many
>spheres, mainly as an experiment at present. But Professor Korotkov is
>certain that biofields will be measured in each polyclinic as a matter of
>routine, like now they measure blood pressure. At the beginning of the
>20th century, X-Rays seemed to be the stuff of science fiction. But now we
>live in the 21st century, and what seemed improbable at the end of the
>20th century, can soon become run-of-the-mill.


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