Mysterious story by Wolf Messing

1 06. 05. 2017
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It is not known where the fate of the excellent parapsychologist, media and hyponotizer Wolf Grigorjevich Messing (1899 - 1974) would have gone if a "mystical" event had not taken place in his childhood.

Wolf was born in the small town of Góra Kalwaria near Warsaw.

He knew from the stories of his parents (all his relatives and loved ones later died in Majdanek) that he suffered from somnolence as a child, but his father very quickly "cured" him of night wanderings. When it was full moon, he set a cold-water necky to his bed. Whether you like it or not, this will wake you up. In addition, he had a phenomenal memory, which made him an exemplary student of the rabbinical school.

The basic subject was the Talmud, who knew by heart from beginning to end, and his father wanted him to become a rabbi. The boys were even introduced to the important writer Šolo Alejchem, but the meeting did not impress the boy. But the performance of the itinerant circus stunned him and was long etched in his memory. Despite his father's wishes, Wolf decided to become a magician and not continue in the yeshiva (dosl. seating; it is a higher education school, designed primarily to study the Talmud, transl.), where he was preparing for the path of the spiritual.

The beatings led to nothing, so the head of the family decided to use tricks. He hired a man to disguise Wolf's "service to God" as a "heavenly messenger." One evening, a boy saw a gigantic bearded figure in a white robe at the doorstep of their house. "My son," said the stranger, "go to the yeshiva and serve God!" The shaken child fell unconscious. Thanks to the experience of "heavenly revelation" and despite his own wishes, Wolf entered the yeshiva.

Maybe the world would ever get the extraordinary Rabbi Messing, but after two years, a shapely bearded man came to their house on business. And Wolf immediately recognized a terrible stranger in him. This event enabled him to uncover the delusion of the "heavenly messenger." At that moment, he lost faith in God, stole "eighteen groschen, that is, nine kopecks," and "set out to meet uncertainty!"

From that moment on, everything in his life turned upside down. The train took the black passenger to Berlin, where a telepathic talent first appeared. Wolf was so afraid of the guide that he crawled under the bench out of fear, and when he handed him a piece of old newspaper with a trembling hand during his inspection, he was able to suggest to him that it was really a ticket! After a few annoying moments, the features of the guide's face softened, and he asked him, "Why are you sitting under the bench when you have a valid ticket? Get out! ”

Life in Berlin turned out to be very difficult. Wolf didn't even think of using his remarkable abilities. He worked to exhaustion, but was still hungry. After five months of hard work and constant starvation, he fainted unconscious right in the middle of the sidewalk. He had no pulse and was not breathing. His cooling body was taken to the morgue. There was not much missing and he was buried alive in a common grave. Fortunately, he was rescued by a zealous student who noticed that his heart was beating.

Wolf did not regulate until three days later, thanks to Professor Abel, who was a well-known neuropathologist at the time. Wolf asked him in a weak voice not to call the police or send him to a shelter. The professor asked him in amazement if he had said such a thing. Wolf told him no, but that he thought about it. The talented psychiatrist understood that the boy is a "remarkable medium." So he watched him for a while, but unfortunately his reports of experiments during the war burned down. Later, something like this was repeated more than once, literally, as if some force persistently and resolutely hid everything connected with Messing.

Professor Abel told Wolf the direction in which he was to develop his abilities, and he found a job in the Berlin Panopticon. At that time, they exhibited living people there as exhibits. There were Siamese twins, a woman with a long beard, an armless man who deftly shuffled a deck of cards, and a miraculous boy who had to lie in a cataleptic state in a crystal coffin three days a week. Messing was this miracle child. And then, to the amazement of visitors, the Berlin panopticon came to life.

In his spare time, Wolf learned to "listen" to other people's thoughts and use his willpower to turn off the pain. Already in two years, he performed in a variety show as a fakir, whose chest and neck were pierced with needles (blood did not flow from his wounds), and as a "detective" he easily searched for various objects that the spectators hid.

The miracle boy's performance was very popular. He profited from an impresario on it, they resold it, but at the age of fifteen he understood that it was necessary not only to make money, but also to learn.

When he performed at the Bush Circus, he began to visit private teachers and later worked for a long time at the University of Vilnius at the Department of Psychology, trying to master his own abilities. On the street, he tried to "hear" the thoughts of passers-by. To check himself, for example, he approached the milkman and told her something in the sense that she was not afraid that her daughter would forget to milk a goat, or reassured the salesman in the store by saying that the debt would soon be repaid. The stunned cries of the "subjects" indicated that he had indeed succeeded in reading other people's thoughts.

In 1915, on his first tour in Vienna, Wolf "passed the test" with A. Einstein and Z. Freud, following exactly their orders of thought. It was thanks to Freud that he said goodbye to the circus and decided that he would never use any more cheap tricks, only "psychological experiences" in which he surpassed all competitors.

In the years 1917 - 1921 he made his first world tour. Great success awaited him everywhere. But after returning to Warsaw, he did not avoid a call-up even as an important medium. He was not even deprived of his military service by the assistance he provided to the "Chief of the Polish State" J. Pilsudski. The marshal often consulted with him on various issues.

Then Messing toured Europe, South America, Australia, Asia again, and stayed in Japan, Brazil and Argentina. He performed in almost all major cities. In 1927, he met Mahatma Gandhi in India and was amazed at the art of yogis, although his own achievements were no less impressive. More and more often, people turned to him privately for help in finding lost people or treasures. He seldom rewarded for it.

Once Count Čartoryjský lost a diamond brooch that cost a fortune. Wolf found the culprit very quickly. He was the weak-minded son of a maid who, like a magpie, took shiny things and hid them in the mouth of a stuffed bear in the living room. He refused the reward of 250 thousand zlotys, but asked the count for help in repealing the law violating the rights of Jews in Poland.

Such stories multiplied Messing's fame, but there were also complex cases. Once a woman showed him a letter from a son who had gone to America, and Messing judged from the paper that the writer was dead. On his arrival in town again, he was greeted by a shout: “Cheater! Poor thing! ”The supposed dead turned out to have returned home recently. Messing thought for a second and asked the boy if he had written the letter himself. He said with obvious embarrassment that his grammar was not the best, so it was written to him by a friend who was soon crushed by a beam. Thus the clairvoyant's authority was restored.

World War II began, and the Führer himself called Messing Enemy No. 2. In 1, he in one of his speeches inadvertently answered a question and predicted Hitler's defeat if he "went east." Now a reward of 1937 marks was written on his head, and his portraits hung on every corner. Messing often had to "look away" from the German patrol, but he was still caught, beaten and locked up in the precinct.

This did not bode well, so Messing "invited" all the police officers to his cell, then came out of it himself and pushed the bolt. But there was also a patrol at the exit of the building, and there was no need to lose power. One November night in 1939, he was taken out of a wagon full of hay from Warsaw, taken to the east by side roads, and helped him through the Western Bug. (river, note) into the Soviet Union.

Every other refugee from abroad would face long checks, almost inevitable accusations of espionage, and then shootings or camp. But the Messings were immediately allowed to move freely on the ground and perform with their "experience." He himself explained this quite unconvincingly by suggesting to a high-ranking officer the idea that he would be very useful to a government that had set itself the task of spreading materialism in the country.

"In the USSR they fought against superstition rooted in the minds of men, so they did not like either the Orthodox, the Magi, or chiromantes ... I had to convince them again and show off my skills a thousand times ", so he later published his version of Messing.

But it is more likely that the fate of the clairvoyant in the USSR went so happily only because some high-ranking and competent people had long known about it.

From the outside, it seemed that without contacts and knowledge of the language, he was able to get into the concert choir, which at that time was performing in Belarus. But during a concert in Cholm, two civilian people took him straight from the stage in front of the audience and took him to Stalin. Wolf Messing was neither a provincial variety hypnotist nor a medium for "new converts to spiritism" for "leaders of nations." After all, they knew Messing all over the world. It was tested and tested by people like Einstein, Freud and Gandhi.

Whether it was a suggestion (Messing himself denied it), or if he could easily get the sympathy of all the leader, who he suspected, he avoided the inconveniences. Stalin gave him an apartment, allowed a tour on the ground, frustrated Beri's desire to get telepaths for the NKVD (but was under the supervision of the Chekists until the last days of his life).

The truth is that he also organized several important inspections for him. He once forced Messing to leave the Kremlin without a pass and return, which was as easy for him as traveling on a train without a valid ticket. Then he ordered him to withdraw from the savings bank 100 thousand rubles without any documents. The "robbery" was also successful, only when the treasurer, realizing what he had done, ended up having a heart attack in the hospital.

Soviet scientists who knew Messing personally told of another experiment behind which Stalin was behind. The famous hypnotist was to get to the leader of the cottage in Kuntsevo without special permission. The area was under strict control, the staff consisted of KGB workers and they fired without warning. A few days later, while Stalin was working in the cottage, a short-haired black man entered the gate.

The guards saluted and the staff backed out of the way. He went through several patrols and stopped at the door of the dining room where Stalin worked. The leader looked away from the papers and could not hide his helplessness. That man was Messing. How did he do it? He claimed that he telepathically passed on to everyone present in the cottage that Berija was entering. At the same time, he didn't even put on the clamp so characteristic of the KGB boss!

Whether Wolf Grigoryevich provided Stalin with private services was never proven. It was rumored in "Kremlin" circles that Messing was almost a personal oracle and advisor to Stalin. In reality, however, they met only a few times. The "Kremlin mountaineer" would hardly like to read his thoughts…

But we know for sure that after one of the closed sessions before the start of the Great Patriotic War, the leader banned "foretelling the visions" of Soviet tanks in the streets of Berlin and ordered diplomats to put out the conflict with the German embassy. Private sessions were also banned. However, it was practically impossible to trace them, and Messing often helped not only friends but also absolutely unknown people with his predictions about the future, especially during the war.

His skills have been verified and repeatedly and repeatedly screened by journalists as well as by scientists as well as by ordinary audiences. Many of his predictions were logged and then confirmed by life.

"There is no need to ask how I succeeded. I will say it honestly and openly: I do not know myself. Exactly how I do not know the mechanism of telepathy. But I can say that usually when someone asks me a specific question about the fate of one or the other person, or they ask me if there is or will not happen any other event, I have to think hard about it and ask myself: it will happen this or not? And after some time a conviction will arise: yes, it will happen ... or not, it will not happen ... "

Tatiana Lungin, who worked at the Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery of the Bakulev Academy of Sciences of the USSR and befriended Messing for many years, said that he was involved in correctly diagnosing and curing several high-ranking patients. Messing's longtime friend, Colonel General Zhukovsky, Commander of the Air Force of the Belarusian Military District, once became a patient at this institute.

It was threatening that a large heart attack would end up with death, and that the doctors' council had to decide whether to operate or not. Professor Burakovsky, the director of the institute himself, expressed concern that the operation could only speed up the end. And then Messing called and said he had to operate immediately. "Everything ends well, it heals quickly." The forecast was filled.

When Wolf Grigorievich was later asked if he had risked it with General Zhukovsky, he replied: "I didn't even think about it. Simply, a sequence arose in my consciousness: operation - Zhukovsky - life - and that's all. "

After all, Messing was considered a serial "artist of the show", although he did not take it that way: "The artist is preparing for the show. I do not have the slightest idea of ​​what topics to discuss, what tasks the audience will put in front of me, and therefore I can not prepare for the performance. I have to simply tune in to the necessary psychic wave moving at the speed of light. "

Messing's "psychological experience" filled huge halls throughout the USSR. Wolf Grigoryevich demonstrated his phenomenal memory as he memorized complex calculations. He calculated the square and third roots of seven-digit numbers, listing all the numbers that figure in the situation; in a few seconds he read and memorized the entire page.

But most often he performed the tasks that the audience gave him in their thoughts. E.g. remove the glasses from the lady's nose, sitting in the sixth seat of the thirteenth row, take them out of the scene and place them in the glass with the right glass down. Messig successfully completed a similar assignment without using auxiliary replicas or the help of assistants.

This telepathic phenomenon has been repeatedly investigated by specialists. Messing claimed that he receives foreign thoughts in the form of images, sees the place and the activities he has to perform. He always emphasized that there was nothing supernatural about reading strangers' minds.

"Telepathy is just the use of the laws of nature. I release myself first, which makes me feel the flow of energy, and it increases my sensitivity. Then everything is easy. I can accept any thoughts. If I touch the person who sends the thought command, it's easier for me to concentrate on the transmission and pull it out of all the other noise I hear. But immediate contact is not necessary at all. "

According to Messing's words, the clarity of transmission depends on how well it is possible for the person who broadcasts to concentrate. He claimed that the thoughts of deaf people are best read. It is perhaps because he thinks more figuratively than other people.

Wolf Grigorjevič became known for the demonstration of the cataleptic trance, when he "faded" and was then placed between the backs of two chairs. The body could not bend even the heavy object that they put on his chest. As a telepath, he read the thought instructions of the audience and filled them exactly. Often it looked stupid, especially for those who knew that this person had a great gift of premonition.

When he took the hand of a suffering man, he was able to predict his future, then use the photo to determine if he was living and where he was now. Messing demonstrated his ability to predict after Stalin's ban only in a closed society. Only in 1943, right in the middle of the war, did he dare to speak publicly in Novosibirsk with the prediction that the war would end in the first week of May in 1945 (according to other data, it was supposed to be May 8 without a year). In May 1945, Stalin sent him a government telegram thanking him for the exact day of the end of the war.

Messing claimed that the future was shown to him in the form of images. "The action of the mechanism of natural knowledge allows me to circumvent normal logical thinking, based on a chain of causes and effects. As a result, the last article opens before me, which will then appear in the future. "

Optimism is also evoked by one of Messing's predictions concerning paranormal phenomena: “The time will come when one will affect them all with one's consciousness. There are no incomprehensible things. They are the only ones that do not seem obvious to us at the moment. "

Messing also participated in spiritualistic sessions. Already when he was in the USSR, he claimed that he did not believe in summoning ghosts. According to him, it was a lie. But he was forced to say this because he lived in the land of militant atheism and did not live so badly again. In addition, he could act as a sensitizer and healer, although he rarely did so, because he thought that removing headaches, for example, was not a problem, but healing was a matter for doctors. However, he often helped patients with all sorts of mania and treated alcoholism. But all these diseases fell into the field of the psyche, it was not therapy or surgery.

Messing could control the psyche of a person without any extra effort, using hypnosis. He often thought of his abilities, but he could not even unravel the mechanism of his gift. Sometimes he "saw", sometimes "heard" or simply "accepted" thoughts, images, but the process as such remained a mystery to him.

The only thing the specialists were convinced was that he had a phenomenal gift that had nothing to do with clever tricks or quackery. However, scientists could not provide theoretical evidence because at the time, parapsychology was not recognized as a science.

It is said that Messing was timid, afraid of lightning, cars and people in uniform, and listened to his wife in everything. Only when the matter was about questions of principle did he rise menacingly and start speaking in another voice, sharp and squeaky: "This is not what Wolfík tells you, but Messing!" He spoke in the same voice on stage. But clairvoyance is a complicated gift, and so Messing knew that no treatment would save his wife from cancer. After her death in 1960, he fell into depression and even his miraculous abilities seemed to have left him. It was not until nine months later that he returned to normal life.

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