How do psychics help solve crimes? The clairvoyant from the "Battle of Psychics" predicted: "The killer is a close friend of the victim Did the psychics from the battle help solve the crime

Since the end of the twentieth century. in the Russian literature on forensic science and investigative activities, calls to use the abilities of psychics to detect and investigate crimes began to appear more and more often. Before evaluating these sources in terms of "forensic extrasensory perception", it is necessary to define the relevant concepts. Extrasensory (supersensory) perception is now commonly called telepathy and clairvoyance. World-class specialist in the field of parapsychology, Professor C. Hanzel gives the following definitions:

1. Telepathy - the perception by one person of the thoughts of another person without any transmission through sensory channels.

2. Clairvoyance - information about any object or event obtained without the participation of the senses.

3. Proscopia - recognition of the future thoughts of another person (proscopic telepathy) or future events (proscopic clairvoyance). According to C. Hanzel, telepathy is a new name for reading thoughts, clairvoyance for second sight, proscopia for divination or prophecy. Citing a lot of facts in his research, C. Hanzel skeptically remarks: "Although a lot of time, effort and money have been spent, not a single acceptable evidence of the real existence of extrasensory perception has yet been received." A similar conclusion follows from the analysis of the works of contemporary parapsychologists in various countries. In the practice of specialists in Soviet criminology and operational-search activities (the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs), the appearance of an officially permitted interest in the help of psychics dates back to the end of the 80s of the last century. Created on behalf of the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR working group, who studied the possibilities of using non-traditional means and methods in the fight against crime, noted that “on the ground, such work is carried out at your own peril and risk, unsystematically, its results are not documented, their analysis and generalization are absent. Moreover, employees are often afraid of publicizing the facts of turning to such methods and methods of obtaining the information necessary for the case, carefully hiding its sources. Not without reason, a laudatory article in the newspaper Trud, dedicated to clairvoyants helping the police, began with an intriguing introduction: “To reveal the real names of these people means to put them at risk: there will be hunters to silence them. After all, they put their rare gift of clairvoyance at the service of the dangerous, but necessary craft of criminal investigation ... ". Persistent propaganda in the media mass media psychic abilities of a person (mainly clairvoyance) to resolve emerging criminal situations led to the fact that in 1993 the Main Directorate of Criminal Investigation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation sent requests to all subordinate units of the subjects of the Federation with a proposal to report specific positive examples of involving psychics in solving crimes. Answers were received from 73 regions. “The generalization of the results obtained showed that in 45 regions of Russia, police officers turned to psychics to obtain information of an operational nature (systematically in 20 regions). In addition, in 8 regions, relatives of the victims turned to psychics to restore the picture of incidents in which their loved ones went missing, with subsequent informing about it. law enforcement» . The author of the cited publication, P. Skorchenko, used the information given in the report of A.A. Lazebny at a scientific and practical seminar held in Moscow on May 25-26, 1994. The speaker, exploring "practical attempts to apply parapsychological methods for their use in the fight against crime", argued that with the help of psychics in the Stavropol Territory "in 1991 there were two murders and theft solved Money from the cash register of the collective farm. In the Sverdlovsk region, with the help of psychic M in 1993, 16 crimes were solved. In the Smolensk region, psychic R correctly indicated the place where the dismembered corpse was hidden.

If one scrupulously checks these optimistic statements, then the picture of true events looks quite different. The above-mentioned publication by P. Skorchenko was, for example, in the course of a journalistic investigation sent to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate and the prosecutor's office of the Stavropol Territory, from where the editors of the weekly " Motherland”received official answers that psychics in Stavropol did not solve any crimes. The author of these lines also received a written response from the prosecutor of the Stavropol Territory that "there were no facts of the help of psychics in the disclosure and investigation of crimes in the Stavropol Territory."

According to the episode named above in the report of A.A. Lazebnoe help psychic R. in the search for a dismembered corpse (Smolensk region), I received a response from the head of the CID of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Smolensk region: “During the operational-search activities in the Glinkovsky district of the Smolensk region, a criminal was detained on suspicion of committing a murder, who at the initial stage denied his involvement to this act. The body of the person allegedly killed by him was not found at that time. When leaving for Moscow for a meeting, the employees of the Glinkovsky District Department of Internal Affairs, on their own initiative, turned to a woman with extrasensory abilities, who explained to them only that the corpse was located on the territory of the district and covered with grass. However, even before receiving this information, in the Glinkovsky District Department of Internal Affairs, the detained citizen confessed to the murder and dismemberment of a man, whose remains he then hid in a haystack, where they were found.

As follows from the foregoing, in fact, the psychic did not provide assistance for this crime, and the information she provided had only general character and could not contribute to the unambiguous detection of the corpse.

Meanwhile, in special publications of the All-Russian Research Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, this case continues to be presented as unequivocally effective: “The Internal Affairs Directorate of the Smolensk Region informed that, in connection with the disappearance of a resident of the city of Smolensk, a well-known Moscow psychic R. was involved in the search, which correctly indicated the place where the dismembered corpse of the missing woman was hidden.” Here, as we see, there is a manipulation of information, a juggling of facts in the right direction, but all this is very far from the principles of scientific research.

Now let's return to the above-mentioned psychic M., who miraculously "revealed" as many as 16 crimes in the city of Yekaterinburg. If we take this message for granted, then we are talking about a global phenomenon. Here is what an employee of the All-Russian Research Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Professor L.P. Grimak: “... In February 1993, one of the psychics (by the way, a senior police sergeant) managed to solve 16 crimes in a row. He came to the Yekaterinburg pre-trial detention center, and people under investigation were called to him. He looked at everyone and almost immediately began to describe the circumstances of the crime. These were mostly burglaries - and he described in detail the situation and interior view robbed houses. This case is documented... But when we brought the psychic to Moscow three months later to involve him in solving more intricate crimes, he could no longer do anything. Apparently, from time to time he fell into some borderline states. It was no longer possible to repeat the success - moreover, he went crazy ... ".

At the same time as this interview was given, L.P. Grimak, in another source, mentions M.'s psychic activities, which, in fact, did not take place in a pre-trial detention center, but in an unnamed police department in Yekaterinburg. At the same time, he quotes "a certificate from the deputy head of one of the district departments of Yekaterinburg dated June 9, 1993, signed by three more employees of the same department." This information is published in a special edition with a tiny circulation (150 copies), and there is almost no specific information that is so necessary for researchers of "forensic parapsychology". Here is what is reported about the actions of M.: “From February 1 to February 28, 1993, in ... the police department of Yekaterinburg, working interaction was carried out with ... art. militia sergeant M., possessing extraordinary properties of the psyche. The information that he reported contributed to the disclosure of 16 crimes (the numbers of criminal cases are listed. - N.K.) on burglaries and robbery.

... Reported by M., very important for the cases, the information was accurate, but the method of obtaining them cannot be explained from the standpoint of generally recognized physical laws. So, he was able to reproduce the real course of the conversation of the accused, describe in detail the situation in the apartment, which he had never been to, however, as well as in the city where it is located (in Yekaterinburg). He also correctly indicated the transport used by the criminals, the route of their movement, stops, the persons they met, the content of their conversations, appearance etc." .

Much here is bewildering - the strange concealment of the name of the police department (such a fantastic positive experience deserves propaganda, not classification), the absence of names and positions of the persons who signed this sensational document; unwillingness to mention the numbers of criminal cases on which M. worked (this deprives researchers of the opportunity to verify the accuracy of the information reported). The erudition of the compilers of the certificate, who are versed in “generally recognized physical laws”, is admirable, but somewhat confusing - how did they establish that M. “could reproduce the real course of conversations” of the criminals that they had before they were caught ?!

To clarify the complex of questions that had arisen, I had to contact the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Perm Region and the OMON at the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Perm Region. It turned out that in February 1993, during the operation "Signal", employees of the Perm OMON were seconded to Yekaterinburg, among whom was police sergeant Viktor Mikhailovich M., born in 1960. His tasks included escorting arrested persons from the pre-trial detention center to the police department. Being present at the interrogations of the arrested, conducted by operatives of the Oktyabrsky District Department of Internal Affairs of Yekaterinburg, Sergeant M. stated that he could “read the thoughts” of the detainees and “see the picture” of the crimes committed. Employees of the Oktyabrsky District Department of Internal Affairs allowed M. to participate in the interrogations of the arrested, ask them questions and correct their testimony, urging them to tell the truth about all the crimes committed. Upon his return from this business trip, M., at the initiative of his leadership, was sent to the medical commission, as he began to show "signs of acute mental disorder. He was hospitalized and then dismissed from the internal affairs bodies due to illness (schizophrenia).

I established contact with M., who, after his dismissal, has a second disability group. This is how he describes his assistance to the employees of the Oktyabrsky District Department of Internal Affairs: “In Yekaterinburg, I put some people into hypnosis, received information ... The operative was talking, I sat behind the suspect from behind and also joined the conversation. I closed my eyes, tried to tune in to the object, and mentally drew up a picture of what had happened ... At the moment when I was working, there was no photography or recording on a tape recorder ... ".

Textbooks and manuals on psychiatry indicate that people suffering from schizophrenia often believe that they have the ability to hypnotize people, read their minds, and predict the future. At the same time, such patients behave confidently (with schizophrenia, intelligence is preserved), they can influence others. No wonder prof. L.P. Grimak, the link to which is given above, believed that M. "fell into some borderline states." But the success of Sergeant M. here can be explained by quite prosaic reasons: there were no lawyers at these interrogations, hence there was no proper control over the actions of operatives. And M. describes the situation of such cross-examination as follows: “They sat people (the arrested. - N.K.) straight, legs - how comfortable it is to sit, hands - on their knees. In such a position, it is more difficult to lie, that is, they deprived the interrogated person of non-verbal communication (gestures) ... ".

M. does not say how the militia officers achieved obedience from the arrested, who were forced to take such a position in which the accused, sitting motionless, had to answer the questions of several (!) operational officers. At the same time, M. himself was out of sight of the interviewee (behind his back), from where he asked his questions. But any experienced operative will confirm that at the initial stage of work with arrested persons, it is precisely such a “team method” of interrogation that, as a rule, gives effective results, without any “supersensory perception”. I will not comment on the legality of such events.

Obviously, after it became known that "parapsychological" surveys in the Oktyabrsky District Department of Internal Affairs were conducted by a person suffering from schizophrenia, the militiamen of the Sverdlovsk region try not to mention these fantastic episodes. To my request, the head of the Oktyabrsky District Department of Internal Affairs of Yekaterinburg replied: “According to your request for information about the crimes solved with psychic help in the Oktyabrsky District Department of Internal Affairs in 1993, we inform you that we do not have this information, there are no materials on these facts in the District Department of Internal Affairs. The employees of the police department who worked during the specified period of time do not have the information you are interested in.” It is interesting to note that even enthusiastic researchers themselves are forced to admit the attraction of persons with mental anomalies to proclaim themselves psychics. At a seminar at the Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, where the topic “Psychology and Psychophysiology of Extrasensory Phenomena” was discussed, the reports of scientists contained observations that discredited the idea of ​​supersensory perception. So, V.M. Zvonnikov reported that "many persons with psychic abilities, accentuations of character and psychopathological symptoms are noted. L.G. Wild stated that "at the heart of the disclosure of the ability to extrasensory perception are such qualities as internal dissatisfaction, a pronounced desire for self-realization, a tendency to mystification, deviations in the emotional sphere." Report by A.B. Strelchenko "Features of interhemispheric relationships in persons with extrasensory abilities" contained "the results of a neuropsychological study of patients with various brain disorders (consequences of traumatic brain injuries, neuroinfection, etc.)" . And such a well-known researcher in the history of parapsychology as V.E. Lvov, back in the 70s of the last century, summarized: "... Parapsychic research is outside of science, is entirely in the field of magic, focus, or pathological delirium of mentally ill people ...".

A group of Moscow psychologists in the mid-90s of the last century conducted a survey of 800 people who considered themselves "healers", "psychics". A quarter of them suffered from psychosis or were in a borderline state, 50% were mentally healthy, but 18% of them admitted that they were driven by mercenary or ambitious aspirations. And only one percent of those participating in the study showed a complex of all necessary qualities. It's about about the ability to treat people, and not demonstrate the phenomena of telepathy or clairvoyance, such "phenomena" were not found. No wonder P. Skorchenko pointed out that "psychic healers" cannot act as "psychic detectives".

President of the Moscow Psychotherapeutic Academy M.I. Buyanov claims: "The vast majority of current astrologers, sorcerers, psychics are vicious people, with a mental wormhole, most psychiatrists consider them unhealthy." In another book by M.I. Buyanov speaks about psychics as follows: “Attributing unusual abilities to themselves, playing the simple-minded, they self-aggrandize themselves, attach importance to their empty natures. And those who believe them are ultimately spit in the soul, turn them into their slaves. A scientist with great experience, M.I. Buyanov conducted experiments on well-known "clairvoyants" practicing in Moscow. The object of the study were 56 psychics - and all of them turned out to be insolvent, without the advertised "supernatural abilities". Obviously, this inconsistency of the capital's "psychics" is understood by the leaders of the Moscow police. Here is what the head of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Main Department of Internal Affairs of Moscow reports: “In the practice of the criminal investigation units of the Main Department of Internal Affairs of Moscow, cases of solving crimes with the help of psychics have not been identified.” This statement completely debunks the advertising assurances of psychics, of which there were several thousand in the capital back in 1998. Obviously, no less number of soothsayers earn their living in another metropolis of Russia - St. Petersburg. Head of the CID of the KM of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of St. Petersburg and Leningrad region officially states: "There are no facts of solving crimes through the UR with the help of psychics in the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region."

This could complete the consideration of the topic “Psychics and the Ministry of Internal Affairs”, returning to the opinion of prof. L.P. Grimak, who worked at the All-Russian Research Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation: “... It turned out to be impossible to put on stream the process of solving crimes with the help of psychics, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs stopped working with them.” The head of the department in which L.P. Grimak, Candidate of Medical Sciences A.I. Skrypnikov said: “If some Sidor Sidorovich is advertised in the press as a specialist in the search for missing persons, then this clean water self-promotion".

The author of these lines in the period 2003-2005. requests were made to all 89 ATC subjects Russian Federation with a request - to provide information about contacts with psychics in the detection and investigation of crimes. Answers were received from 63 regions. It turned out that in 16 regions, employees of operational services, as well as relatives of killed or missing persons, turned to psychics (sorcerers, shamans) for help, but in no case (!) Was information received that would allow them to be successfully used in operational search and investigative activities.

In the period 2004–2005 similar requests were sent by me to a number of states (former republics of the USSR). Director of the Development Department of the Police Department of the Republic of Estonia P. Myannik replied: “We do not use the practice of attracting the help of psychics in the interests of search and preliminary investigation. In 2004, an appeal to a psychic at the initiative of relatives in search of a missing family member did not produce results. The Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania, S. Lyutkevicius, said: “In the Republic of Lithuania, there were no facts of using the abilities of psychics in solving crimes. According to the media, there are known facts of the use of the abilities of psychics by individuals in the search for missing persons, but we do not know how reliable these facts are.

Out of 14 regional police departments of the Republic of Uzbekistan, answers were received only in 4 regions - examples positive help there are no psychics. Similar responses were received from 7 regional police departments of Kyrgyzstan (9 police departments were requested), of which the message of the chief of the police department of the police department of the Chui region is of the greatest interest: “For all the facts of unsolved intentional murders, the relatives of the victims turn to clairvoyants and other persons capable of predicting or guessing. At the same time, the correct answers were not received for any of the unsolved murders.

According to the head of the investigative department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan, "the internal affairs bodies of the Republic of Kazakhstan have not yet turned to the help of psychics when solving and investigating crimes." Of the 14 requested regional police departments of Kazakhstan, answers were received from 7 (50%), while employees of the Almaty and Karaganda police departments noted that the information provided by the relatives of the victims (killed or missing persons), received when they contacted healers, was verified by operational methods, but did not find its confirmation.

All regional Internal Affairs Directorates of the Republic of Belarus and the Main Internal Affairs Directorate of Minsk provided answers that they did not have information about the positive help of psychics. In the Republic of Ukraine, responses were received from 14 regional ATCs (all 27 ATCs of the country were requested). In none of these departments is there information about a positive case of psychics helping to search or investigate.

Interesting are the results of the studies presented by British professors R. Weissman and D. West in the article "The participation of psychics in the investigation: an experimental test of possibilities" . They point out that after solving the crime, the wrong predictions of psychics are forgotten, and the correct ones are considered as evidence of unusual abilities. Let's say the psychic said that you need to look for the murder weapon near (or inside) a large body of water. Let us also assume that the prediction was confirmed. In order to determine the statistical reliability, and not the coincidence of the coincidence of the prediction with reality, you need to know how many more criminals “buried” their evidence in places that can be attributed to “large bodies of water” (rivers, lakes, seas), and this is impossible to establish. The authors refer to an experiment conducted in Holland in the 1950s. Throughout the year, four psychics were presented with various objects and photographs, offering to describe the crimes associated with them. In fact, some of these items had nothing to do with the crimes. As a result, "the benefit for the investigation from the information reported by psychics was negligible." In another study, conducted in the late 70s of the last century, 12 psychics participated, each of them was presented with several sealed envelopes with material evidence from 4 crimes (two of them were solved, and two were not solved). Psychics had to describe these crimes. The envelopes were then allowed to be opened and additional impressions of the objects contained within were described. The peculiarity of this study was that neither the psychics nor the experimenters had any prior knowledge of these crimes. Psychic predictions were coded into several categories (committed crime, victim, suspect, etc.) and compared with known information about crimes. The coincidence of the prediction with the actual information was estimated at one point. The results of psychics were disappointing: for example, 21 circumstances were known about the first crime, psychics correctly identified only 4 (average data); for the second crime - 33 and 1.8, respectively. This study was widely publicized by opponents who recommended that law enforcement stop using the services of psychics.

In 1982, the results of another study were published, which included psychics, students, and homicide detectives. In sealed envelopes, the subjects received data on physical evidence for four crimes (two solved and two unsolved). As in the previous experiment, subjects were asked to describe these crimes. The descriptions obtained in the three groups of subjects differed greatly in their completeness and content. The descriptions given by the psychics were about six times longer than the descriptions of the students, in addition, psychics, in comparison with students and detectives, were more confident in the accuracy of the information they reported, and their descriptions were more dramatic. Intergroup comparison also showed that although psychics gave more predictions, the accuracy of their predictions did not differ from the other two groups of subjects.

A. Palladin, who studied in the United States the results of appeals to psychics by representatives of various government agencies, documented the failure of the "soothsayers". In particular, he reports: “The local police services have been experimenting with parapsychology for a long time and widely ... If police parapsychologists had good luck, then against their own will: fear of them sometimes plunged criminals into a panic, and on this basis there was even a case of confession ... ".

It should be noted that superstition, the content of post-criminal dreams of violent criminals, does sometimes lead guilty persons to turn themselves in.

Here it is appropriate to cite the conclusion contained in the fundamental study by V.E. Lvova: "... In the s I have a thousand-year history of telepathic and other similar research, from beginning to end - a monotonous history of deceptions and self-deceptions, delusions and hallucinations, fables and fictions aimed at inciting mystical and religious superstitions" . I fully share the opinion of A.L. Protopopova: "The appeal of investigators to clairvoyants has never led to the disclosure of a crime ...". A.M. Larin, who in the past was a well-known Soviet investigator, rightly noted: “Today, there is a collapse in work, a drop in the professional and moral level of employees of the criminal prosecution authorities. The replacement of legal, scientifically based methods of operational-search, investigative, expert work with mystification, quackery, charlatanism, unfortunately, strengthens this trend.

The well-known German criminologist Hans Schneikert, back in 1924, spoke of “forensic psychics” like this: “All these tricks of fortune-tellers and clairvoyants not only do not help the criminal investigation, but discredit the authority of criminal justice and increase hidden crime due to constant fraud and deceit.”

This statement has enduring relevance, and the facts presented allow us to conclude: "... forensic extrasensory perception" is not a branch of science, but is a resuscitation of ancient beliefs that in one form or another have come down to our time from the Stone Age, when shamanism arose - the oldest spiritual system and healing art of mankind, dating back at least 40 thousand years. Numerous researchers emphasize that hallmark shamans on all inhabited continents of the Earth are their statements in possession of the ability to clairvoyance and reading the thoughts of fellow tribesmen. However, modern graduate lawyers should be critical of the echoes of ancient superstitions and not classify them as "non-traditional methods" of detecting and investigating crimes.

The topic of using "supernatural" (psychic) ​​abilities of a person in the field of forensic science and investigative activities is far from new in the literature on jurisprudence. According to a number of authors, one of these non-traditional areas is parapsychology, which studies the "mysterious" phenomena of the human psyche - telepathy (the perception by one person of the thoughts of another person without the participation of known sense organs), clairvoyance (obtaining information about any object or event by "supersensory" way) etc. . Employees of the Omsk Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation P.G. Marfitsin and O.O. Klimov in a special study on psychics note: “Is it possible to put at the service of the law“ folk superstitions“And if so, how? “This question is asked by employees of the police, the prosecutor’s office, the federal security service, and the court.”

One of these ancient superstitions is shamanism, dating back tens of thousands of years. Shamanism arose in the Paleolithic era and was known to all the peoples of the Earth in the early stages of their history. As shown in the first major generalizing work by V.M. Mikhailovsky "Shamanism (comparative ethnographic essays)" (1892), which was translated into English language and is still used by scientists different countries, for many millennia it was the main, central cult, which included almost all the religious activities of the human collective. The main sign of shamanism is the belief in the need for special intermediaries between the human collective and the spirits, who are allegedly chosen for this purpose and trained by the spirits themselves. The well-known researcher of shamanism V.M. Kulemzin writes: “We are forced to admit that the main convenience of the term“ spirit ”is precisely in the breadth and uncertainty that allow us to cover and simultaneously explain all those phenomena that are in any way connected with the action of supernatural forces” . The duty of intermediary shamans is to serve the spirits and, with their help, protect their fellow tribesmen from troubles. Shamans enter into direct communication with spirits in a state of ecstasy (trance), similar to self-hypnosis.

The literature on shamanism is enormous. Only one bibliographic collection by T.M. Mikhailov and P.P. Good contains information about more than 500 sources. However, we are only interested in the possibility of participation of shamans in law enforcement activities. Some researchers point out that a distinctive feature of shamans on all inhabited continents of the Earth is their assertion that they possess the ability to clairvoyance and reading the thoughts of fellow tribesmen, i.e. extrasensory abilities. But the study of serious scientific sources shows that the activity of shamans in finding disappeared people, animals and things, in identifying killers is not due to "supernatural" abilities, but to a good knowledge of the psychology of fellow tribesmen and the use of various types of mantika (fortune-telling), which is typical in archaic human societies, when magic preceded religion. For example, back in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. among the Khanty, a shaman could, before the burial of the deceased, predict the fate of living relatives according to the signs that were on the body of the deceased, and even determine the cause of death.

In the Soviet period, as is known, the struggle against religious beliefs in the USSR led to mass repressions against clergy, among whom were shamans. I made inquiries to the departments of the federal security service of those regions of Russia where the activity of shamans had previously been most clearly manifested. We were interested in the number of repressed ministers of the most ancient cults, as well as documented psychic abilities of the repressed. The responses received contain information about the number of clergy who suffered during the period of the cult of personality, but there is no evidence that they have extrasensory abilities.

So, the head of the department of the FSB of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Buryatia V.F. Sukhorukov reported that there were criminal cases in the archive, “in which 1709 clergymen are involved, including 1708 lamas and 1 shaman. On 1632 persons, decisions were made on the application of penalties, in respect of 59 persons, criminal cases were discontinued, and no legal decision was made on 18 persons. As a result of the review of cases, the rehabilitation of 1 person was denied, 1591 were rehabilitated. In relation to the rest, the cases are being reviewed. Documents confirming that the defendants have unusual mental (psychic) ​​abilities were not found in criminal cases.

Department head regional government The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation for the Krasnoyarsk Territory, V.I. Kondoba, indicated: “From the available database, 10 people were identified who were unreasonably convicted during the years of repression, in which the shaman was indicated in the questionnaire column “occupation”; and 32 people whose “social status” column indicates a former shaman (at the time of arrest they were listed as hunters or reindeer herders). There is no information regarding the psychic abilities of these people in archival criminal cases.

Head of the Department of the FSB of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Tyva (officially part of the USSR only in 1944) A.S. Dirchin replied: “There is information in the archive of the department that for the period 1920-1950. 18 shamans were repressed in the Tyva Republic. The archive does not have any documentary materials confirming that some of these shamans actually possessed unusual psychic (psychic) ​​abilities.

V.N. Basilov, who has studied a large number of literary sources, convincingly rejects the supernatural reasons for the "forensic" abilities of shamans. He writes: “The state of ecstasy must allow the shaman to focus on those signals of the senses that usually pass by consciousness. Such an explanation makes understandable the seemingly strange ability of shamans to find people and animals lost somewhere far from their homes. This ability of shamans was reported by many authors, but briefly, in passing... This ability of a shaman to find things and recognize thieves amazed both the shaman's fellow tribesmen and outside observers... - some features in the state of another person. For this, apparently, ecstasy is not necessary, but ecstasy helps to focus on sensations.

However, it should be taken into account that such keenness of feelings could have taken place among the shamans of the past, who had undergone the appropriate cult training, adopted the secrets of medicine and rituals from their senior colleagues. Today, after several decades of repressions and militant atheism in Russia, there is no such continuity of shamanic skill for a long time: the secret methods of psychophysiological training have been lost. There is only external bright paraphernalia (a shaman's costume, a tambourine, dance improvisation) that attracts the attention of superstitious and curious people.

Today, for example, in the Republic of Tyva, shamanism is a good business. “During elections, many shamans are happy to take on the role of political technologists. It was in Tuva that symposiums of shamans and shamanologists from all over the world were held twice. A fee-paying school has been opened in Kyzyl for several years now, where future shamans learn the intricacies of their craft.” In the same way, back in the 90s of the last century, a fashionable hobby passed throughout Russia - for a fee, you could get a diploma of a “psychic”. At the same time, fraudulent instructors received money, and gullible and conceited "students" received a document on extrasensory education.

The chief shaman of Tuva is now a former teacher of the Russian and Tuvan languages, a senior researcher at the local history museum of Tuva, Doctor of Historical Sciences M.B. Kenin-Lopsan born in 1925. In response to my inquiry, he said: “After August 26, 1991, democratic freedom began for Tuvan shamans. In 1991, I founded the shamanic society "Dungur" (tambourine), and now I am the life president of the shamans of the Republic of Tyva. I think comments are unnecessary here.

The well-known native of this republic, candidate of philological sciences, deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation K.A. Bicheldey: “I really seriously studied and continue to deal with the issues of Buddhism and shamanism in Tuva. I am not aware of a single reliable case when a psychic shaman would help the investigating authorities to solve any crimes. On the contrary, I have personal experience. When one of the relatives went missing, the shamans assured my relatives for a long time that he was alive, healthy, and soon either he would come himself, or you yourself would find him in good health, but they have not found him for 5 years now.

First Vice-President of the Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East of the Russian Federation, Chief Editor Almanac "The World of Indigenous Peoples - Living Arctic" P.V. Sulyandziga informed the author that "he has no information about cases when the shamans of the North, with the help of psychic abilities, would help solve crimes" .

me in the period 2003–2004. requests were made to the heads of the prosecution and internal affairs bodies of those constituent entities of the Russian Federation where for a long time shamanism was cultivated (Republics: Sakha-Yakutia, Buryatia, Altai, Kalmykia, Komi, Tyva, Khakassia; autonomous districts: Aginsky Buryat, Ust-Ordynsky Buryat, Komi-Permyatsky, Koryaksky, Nenets, Khanty-Mansiysk, Chukotsky, Evenki; regions: Krasnoyarsk, Primorsky, Khabarovsk; regions: Arkhangelsk, Irkutsk, Kamchatka, Magadan, Chita). The responses received showed that law enforcement agencies in these regions generally did not resort to the psychic help of shamans, and when such treatment took place, there were no positive results.

From the answer of the head of the forensic center under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Komi A.V. Zubkova: “Psychic shamans were used on the initiative of the victims in the search for the missing, however, these cases were not officially registered and positive results didn't give."

Deputy Head of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug V.N. Ryapolov replied: “In police practice on the territory of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and in a number of other regions, there were cases of requests for assistance in solving crimes and establishing the whereabouts of missing persons from psychics (shamans). As a rule, such appeals are initiated by the victims themselves or their relatives. There is no reliable information about obtaining positive results in the disclosure and investigation of crimes in the process of carrying out such activities.

Head of the Investigation Department of the Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) A.M. Efimov said: “There are no precedents in the investigative practice of law enforcement agencies of the Republic for the procedural registration of the participation of shamans (psychics) in the production of investigative actions. At the same time, from an interview with a number of prosecutors and investigators, it follows that in some criminal cases of the disappearance of citizens, according to representatives of the injured party, they really turned to people who consider themselves “shamans” for help. They brought the information obtained in this case to the employees of the criminal investigation department or investigators. However, no positive results were obtained during its verification.”

Then the head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, said that hypnotists helped in solving the case of the explosion of the Nevsky Express train. Representatives of the Russian special services made such a sensational confession for the first time. However, according to NI, over the past fifty years, the security forces have been actively, but behind the scenes, collaborating with people with hypnotic and psychic abilities. For the disclosure of what crimes the investigators "mobilized" people with supernatural abilities, tried to find out "Novye Izvestia".

Parapsychology, the possibilities of hypnotic influence on a person have been of interest to representatives of special services and security forces since the beginning of the last century. There was a real hunt for people with extrasensory abilities in the Soviet Union. So, for example, it is known that Stalin had special laboratories, and astrologers and hypnologists were sought out for him throughout the country. But even after the death of the tyrant, the special services did not forget about people with unique abilities.

Under the hypnosis of recruitment

“That was in 1982. I just served in the army, - recalls the head of the Moscow School of Hypnosis Gennady Goncharov in an interview with NI. “People from the KGB urged me to cooperate with them. They promised me an apartment in Moscow and promotion. I was told that I would be part of the delegation to participate in negotiations or attend conferences, recognizing people who are amenable to hypnosis, and influencing them. I think it was about intelligence activities.” Goncharov then preferred the stage to this work, where for many years he performed with psychological experiments.

The fate of the psychiatrist Mikhail Vinogradov, who connected his life with the special services, was different. He studied the possibilities of personality prognosis at the Department of Psychiatry of the First Medical Institute. After his work on the subject was published, people in gray gabardine raincoats came to Vinogradov and asked: “Can you really predict the reliability of a person?” He replied that he could. “We have a request for you,” the men got down to business. - Soon there will be a buffet at the embassy, ​​where there will be a discussion of the purchase of new drugs in Soviet Union. Could you look at some of the embassy staff and determine which of them are intelligence officers and which are not. “I agreed,” Mr. Vinogradov admits to NI. “Looked,” he said. Coincidentally. Then they invited me to another embassy.”

During his career in the organs, our interlocutor met colleagues who could make even more amazing predictions. “A psychic worked in one of the closed research institutes about forty years ago, who was engaged in forecasting the development of US weapons,” says Mikhail Vinogradov. He gave tips for military intelligence. I sat in my office, worked, then went to the management and told. When he made a prediction for the first time, the director of the institute called me to him and asked if it was worth listening to the words of a psychic, or maybe send him to Kashchenko? I advised giving the clairvoyant a chance. He said that he knew that a new type of weapon was being developed in one of the countries. He explained that he saw a picture on this topic. The agents checked the information and confirmed it.”

See through the ground

Recruit psychics and in our days. According to experts, the information system works like clockwork: as soon as a person who really has supernatural abilities appears on the horizon, he is invited for an interview. Then the abilities of such people are tested in practice. Candidates are brought, for example, to a forest where a plane once crashed. They ask: "What happened here"? Someone starts telling stories: there was a rape, a murder. Those who have the ability get to the point: they say that here the sky converged with the earth, the plane fell.

Experts are sure that in each country there are no more than twenty strong psychics of interest to the security forces. The state resorts to the help of this twenty when it is impossible to cope with any problem by traditional methods. So, according to Gennady Goncharov, special services turned to psychics to uncover a terrorist attack at the Avtozavodskaya metro station in Moscow in 2004. “All the information received from them was analyzed, and I know that in this way it was possible to calculate one of the criminals who was related to this terrorist attack,” the hypnotist explains.

One of the promising areas that psychics could be engaged in, Mr. Goncharov calls ... the search for mineral deposits and underground water sources. Hypersensitive people work on the map and allow you to narrow down the search area. Then, according to their information, detailed exploration of the subsoil can be carried out.

Experts note that psychics successfully manage to find missing people, and during earthquakes show whether there are survivors under the rubble. In addition, they help the police in the calculation of maniacs. For example, the famous announcer Viktor Balashov had psychic abilities, and he was often approached with requests to find missing loved ones. “I remember how, after one of the concerts, a woman approached Balashov and told about her trouble,” recalls Gennady Goncharov. - Her daughter is missing. Balashov advised her to go to a neighboring town. That's where her daughter was found."

Mikhail Vinogradov, who also has psychic abilities, has repeatedly managed to help the investigation in catching criminals. He told NI that he had recently indicated the approximate location of the Zlatoust maniac, who had been wanted since April 2. Then the bodies of two murdered schoolgirls were found in the cemetery. Maniac was arrested on April 12. On a tip from Vinogradov, at one time they managed to detain the Barnaul maniac, as well as find the bodies of six girls he had killed.

However, it is impossible to say that psychics work miracles. So, for example, the same Mikhail Vinogradov has been searching for boys kidnapped by sectarians near Ufa for eight years. Grandmothers took the children to a sports camp, and since then the grandchildren have disappeared. Only recently did psychics help to track down the missing.

On the investigator's couch

If the search for missing persons and fugitive criminals by psychics is a controversial but relatively safe measure, then the use of hypnosis during the investigation is a completely different story.

There is still no unequivocal opinion among experts why, at his recent press conference, the head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, said that during the investigation of the case of the bombing of the Nevsky Express, witnesses were refreshed with the help of hypnosis. Some believe that the head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation simply revealed the open secret, made public what many have long known about. Others suspect that Bastrykin wanted to show how “cool” his department is and how it can solve complex crimes. Moreover, according to the estimates of the Minister of Internal Affairs Rashid Nurgaliyev, for last years the number of unsolved crimes exceeded 16 million. And in 2007, more than half of all crimes committed remained unsolved. These figures had to be countered with something really "extraordinary".

In any case, the official recognition that the investigation uses the services of hypnologists caused a real one. The problem is that so far for this practice there is no legislative framework. Moreover, as Nikolai Kitaev, candidate of legal sciences, writes, “Russian legislation contains a direct prohibition of the use of hypnosis for any purpose other than medical.”

Meanwhile, a pamphlet published in 1999 called “A Handbook for Investigators.

Investigation of crimes of increased public danger”, a separate chapter of which is devoted to “obtaining information using hypnosis”. “Such a method does not in the least degrade human dignity,” the manual says. “Moreover, it is used only with the consent of the subject. According to the All-Russian Research Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, out of 237 employees interviewed using a special questionnaire, 183 employees from 14 regions of Russia answered positively to the question about the admissibility of using hypnosis, 38 respondents found it difficult to answer. And 16 expressed a skeptical attitude towards this method.

The fact that hypnosis is used and quite effectively, "NI" was also told by the head of the Main Directorate of Forensic Science of the RF Investigative Committee, Yuri Lekanov, whose full interview can be read in one of the next issues of our newspaper. “So, for example, police colonel Alexei Skrypnikov, who knows the art of hypnosis, provided great assistance to our investigators in the Perm Territory. For several years in different cities acted as a serial killer. It seems that the handwriting of the criminal was similar, but the appearance, according to the testimony of witnesses, did not match, - says Yuri Lekanov. - Skrypnikov held sessions of hypnoreproduction. He managed to detail the memories of each of the witnesses and draw up a portrait of the killer. Soon the offender was arrested.

Mistake at the cost of three lives

Experts compare the mechanism of hypnosis (hypnoreproduction) with how the hostess cleans the onion. Introducing the witness into a light trance, the hypnologist “layer by layer” makes him remember those details that have gone into the subconscious. The hypnoreproduction session is filmed on audio and videotape. The doctor asks the witness about all his illnesses, and if there are contraindications to hypnosis, then it is not performed. This is ideal, of course. And how everything really happens, no one, except for the investigators and the hypnotist, knows. And the latter, no matter what representatives of the prosecutor's office say, is not independent of the investigation: he either works in these structures, or is constantly invited from outside. So it's still "your own". However, hypnotists are reluctant to go to the prosecutor's office: the salaries of employees are incommensurable with the income from private practice.

The information obtained by the hypnologist is formalized as information obtained in an operative way. It cannot be used as evidence in a case. This is also stated in the mentioned “Manual”: “Hypnoreproduction can be erroneous. Therefore, it can be used as the basis of any decision in a criminal case only if it is confirmed by other evidence.”

Independent experts are convinced: you should not widely use hypnosis in the practice of investigation and build conclusions on the data obtained - the probability of error is too high. “There are people who take on other people's crimes for the sake of glory. In addition, work with the accused can be complicated by the bias of the hypnologist, his desire to inspire the subject with the need to solve the crime,” Mikhail Vinogradov notes. For his part, retired Moscow City Court judge Sergei Pashin clarified in an interview with NI: “No investigative actions using hypnosis can be considered legal. No one can guarantee that there will be no change in the mind of the subject. In addition, a person after treatment with hypnosis can sincerely believe in what he said under his influence.

As a senior investigator for particularly important cases at the USSR Prosecutor General's Office, lawyer Vladimir Kalinichenko investigated the murder case in Moscow, at the Zhdanovskaya (now Vykhino) metro station, of KGB major Afanasyev. “At that time there was a suspicion that the defendants in this case – three police officers – were also involved in the disappearance in 1980 of the family of the head of the KGB encryption department, Viktor Sheinov,” says Mr. Kalinichenko. They confessed to this crime as well. But no bodies were found. The trio were sentenced to death. The day before the execution, Yuri Andropov ordered them to be injected with psychotropic drugs and interrogated under hypnosis. They again confirmed their testimony... And in 1990, Viktor Sheinov showed up in the United States. It turned out that he was a CIA agent. Knowing that he was suspected of betrayal, Sheinov and his family fled to America. They say that they took him out on the ambassador's plane ... "

In the center of Moscow, in one of the quiet side streets, there is an inconspicuous mansion. At the entrance there is no sign, no sign.

On a certain day at 5-6 pm, there, on the second floor of the mansion at the end of the corridor, in the office of Colonel U., several people gathered. In addition to the colonel himself and two of his employees, there were three civilians: a tall middle-aged man and two women. The colonel showed the visitors several photographs. One of the women took the photo and began to look at it, the other, without looking, put it face down in front of her. The man did not take it, making a dismissive gesture with his hand.

As you can see, - began the colonel, - before you is a photo-cliché for printing money. At the same time, very large bills. I know you don't usually ask questions, but if you did, I could hardly tell you. Furthermore what has already been said.

I see the shore, - said the man.

Winter, one of the women put in.

The man nodded. Then the two women started talking, clarifying each other. Then a man again. Gradually, acquiring more and more details, a picture arose.

Evening, winter. No, more like night. But it's not too late yet... Yes, it's not night yet, but it's already dark, it's getting dark early. Already the moon... I don't see the moon... I kind of see it, but it's not clear. I see light in the snow. In my opinion, lunar ... Yes, it is in the snow ... The shore is deserted. A house on a hillside, above the shore ... There is nothing nearby, only one house. I can see the house clearly. Wooden, rustic, four windows. There is no light in the windows... Yes, there is no light. Fence. Rather, the picket fence, as you can see, is new. Or newly painted. Colors are not visible, dark. But recently repainted...

It was like a slow motion movie. Then they saw two people, a man and a woman, come out of the house. Then the time itself began to be specified: between eleven and twelve in the evening. A man and a woman were carrying a bag, a heavy bag. They carried it with difficulty. Having reached the shore, we went along it, crossed onto the ice. The ice is not strong. Cracks under them. In one place the ice is broken, the water. Throw out the contents of the bag. Splash. Dark water. Not deep. They go back.

As it turned out later, this is exactly what happened. When the money was made "for three lives," they resisted the temptation of many counterfeiters to keep doing this until they were caught. Could the ends be more securely hidden than by throwing unnecessary more clichés into the water at the back of the bank? This case, most likely, would never even have surfaced if they had bothered to go at least a few more meters away from the coast. In the same place where they threw the contents of the bag, in the summer, when the river became shallow, the bottom appeared, and the children found the cliche. They brought them home for their childhood needs, but soon the heavy lead plates ended up in the safe of the CID investigators, confused and having no idea where or whom to look for. Then, when all possibilities were tried in vain, then these three were invited to that inconspicuous mansion, where they had already happened to be on other similar occasions.

As before, no one, except for a few people who had already worked with them, knew either who these people were or why they were invited to the colonel's office. Even the investigators who directly investigated this case were not told where, in what way, that information was received. detailed information, which made it possible to reach the criminals.

Those who almost a year ago threw the cliche under the ice, on a dark night, themselves, as it turned out, lived hundreds of kilometers from the crime scene. Those gathered in the colonel's office first named the region - Siberia, and then the city - Irkutsk.

The picture went, went, went. I see a house, old with columns. Next to the factory, some kind of factory. Fence. Factory entrance. Gates. The house has a cast-iron balcony.

"The picture went" from one of the women. When she stopped talking, another immediately continued.

I see the house. Gray or dirty yellow, old, renovated a long time ago. Ladder. One railing is torn off, the left one. Second floor…

The place where the criminals lived, and even the description of their appearance, turned out to be so accurate that the operatives, who easily found out where such a house was located, had only to go up to the second floor and ring the doorbell.

This case is far from the only one solved solely with the help of those who turned out to be endowed with a rare and inexplicable gift of direct knowledge, or insight.

When the operatives and the investigator arrived at the scene of the murder, they had absolutely no idea how to start the case. No one saw the killer, he did not leave a fingerprint, not the slightest trace that could lead to him. Among the few items attached to the case was a piece of paper with a few words on it. Obviously a piece of a letter. It was not possible to establish who owns what was written. Although small, there was a chance that this piece of paper fell out of the killer's pocket. But even if that's the case, so what? This leaflet, being in the hands of even the most experienced criminologist, did not lead anywhere. But not in the hands of a clairvoyant.

At the beginning, a picture "went" in which the clairvoyants saw a person. They described him. Then they were able to tell about the apartment, house, street on which he lived. And finally, a city in Siberia was named, thousands of miles from the crime scene.

The information that the investigators received helped them eventually gather evidence, and the killer, who was in full confidence that no one would ever find him, was brought to justice.

Another case. Lyudmila K., endowed with the gift of such direct knowledge, was approached by investigators from Smolensk. Two women disappeared - an accountant and a cashier. Disappeared after receiving a significant amount of cash from the bank, intended for the issuance of salaries. Whether they became the prey of criminals or they themselves went on the run - according to none of these versions, the investigation did not have the slightest clue.

I asked to show me their photo, - says Lyudmila K. - Well, then? At first glance it is clear that they are not alive. There are no doubts. We had to find where they were buried. I looked at the map of Smolensk. They weren't there. Then they brought me a very detailed map neighborhoods of the city. Here I "saw" them. Marked a place on the river bank. She said that they were not buried deep, about half a meter. The search party went to the place I indicated and immediately found them. They were buried really shallow, as I said. Who did it? I "saw" this man and described him. She gave a verbal portrait, as they say in such cases. This is a person, I said, with power, driving a car, I described it. Very experienced in matters of law and justice. He was close to one of the victims. With her, he entered into an agreement to commit a crime. But instead of killing one, he killed both. This was what he had intended to do from the very beginning, it was not an impulsive act. Then I got a call from Smolensk. The killer was arrested. What he showed confirmed my words. The man was the city attorney.

Lyudmila K. is not the only one who can tell by looking at a photo whether a person is alive or not. Other clairvoyants can also do this, although they find it difficult to explain how this knowledge comes to them.

"Seers", "poets" - these words are not accidentally standing next to each other. In the years when the very word "clairvoyant" was unpopular in our country and nothing was known about their gift, Anna Akhmatova wrote:

When a person dies

His portraits are changing.

Eyes look differently, and lips

They smile with a different smile.

I noticed it when I came back

From the funeral of a poet.

And since then I checked often,

And my guess was confirmed.

However, this knowledge, the feeling of the subtle change that occurs with the portrait, has one peculiarity. Ludmila K. told about it. Once a military pilot disappeared in Moscow. His father and family contacted her the day after he went missing. She glanced at the photo. “He is alive” - She said and added that something happened to him, his whole body seemed to be in abrasions or wounds. She even pointed out where to look for him - in a small forest, near Belaya Dacha. The police and relatives went there. One can imagine the despair and horror of the father when his son was actually found there, but killed.

I always take such things very close to my heart and experienced with my father. - Continues Lyudmila K. - But I also mixed with this, I would say, professional: why was I so mistaken? I looked at the portrait again and saw that the person on it was alive. True, I noticed that the photo seemed to be fading. I watched for several days and saw how something that I felt on him seemed to fade. By the third day it had faded almost completely, but it was still there. And completely extinguished on the 9th day. Then I checked it many times with other photos. With photos of other people. This was confirmed. 3 days and 9 days. But only those who died a violent death, who were killed. For those who simply died, this was not the case. Their photos fade immediately. I do not know, I do not presume to judge why this is so. But that's how it happens.

The meeting, which was attended by well-known healers in the world of television, former law enforcement officers, and the president himself Russian Academy psychology, took place in the Olympus building on Novy Arbat. It is noteworthy that those who should be helped by sorcerers (Ministry of Internal Affairs employees) did not appear at the meeting. Representatives of law enforcement agencies ignored the meeting of the detachment, despite the help offered by psychics.

Life found that clairvoyants set the main task of finding criminals and compiling a psychological picture of the scene. It is worth noting that the “combat” detachment made a rustle already at the checkpoint of the building, when half of the participants in the meeting stopped working their entry passes and the electronics failed. However, the mystics treated this philosophically, noting that it was their energy that discharged the passes.

At the beginning of the meeting, Alexey Lobarev, the head of the Association of Trade Unions of Law Enforcement Agencies, who is in charge of creating a detachment of clairvoyants, delivered an opening speech. During the monologue, the man showed all the assembled bent handcuffs, saying that this was the work of bioenergy therapists, who can also bend spoons into iron eights.

Rafael Zabanov, a doctor of parapsychology and a participant in many television projects dedicated to psychics, told Life about how they plan to help the mystics of the police in the foreseeable future.

We can help the police detect something. At 90%, after looking at a person, I can say whether he is capable of committing a crime or not, but whether he is guilty - of course not, I am not a judge or a policeman, I will not lie here. By the way, when is your birthday? - Rafael turned to our correspondent and, after receiving the answer, he began to conduct a health analysis, diagnosing possible problems with the joints in our employee.

The correspondent of Life also spoke with bioenergy therapist Lyudmila Cheban and asked about the advisability of creating a detachment of psychics.

- The "sixth sense" is necessary for the police in order to make it easier to work. What abilities I possess, I will not say. I know that from a photograph you can determine whether a person is alive or not, and whether he is a criminal or not. Whether the investigator accepts my advice or refuses is his business.

Rushan Simbatullin, President of the Russian Academy of Psychology, shared his "clear view" of the detachment of clairvoyants.

I know what to say. I will not say that I will say something completely different. I will say it briefly, but succinctly. Appeal to viewers: today we are in the building of the government of Moscow, and today we spent ... - at this moment Rushan stumbled. - Sorry, I just forgot what we had. On expert advice specialists from various fields came: former law enforcement officers, psychologists, lawyers and even clairvoyants. Now we can confidently declare the participation of our group in the investigation of crimes. Here it is very important to recruit qualified specialists, and we just certify such people, checking for paranormal abilities.

Aleksey Lobarev, head of the Association of Trade Unions of Law Enforcement Agencies, who is at the head of a detachment of clairvoyants, gave his assessment of what is happening:

Criminals very quickly change the methodology of the crime, especially if they are qualified. Today, psychics help people and work, and they must act in conjunction with the police. To do this, we created a closed laboratory based on the RAP and called it "The Sixth Sense". There we select the most interesting and capable people to build a diverse team. There are also "coaches" who will do the "brainstorming". To date, we have found that the efficiency is very high, as we have a lot of specialists. Many consider them charlatans, however, these charlatans often help people because of their extraordinary abilities.