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Nicolai Levashov. The Mirror of My Soul. Vol. 1. Born in the USSR

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Functional State of Man, in the Research Institute for Industrial Design (VNIITE ). My
work consisted of the study of the functional state of people in different stress conditions
in their workplace, measuring bio-potentials in biologically active points of the body. At
the beginning I worked as an engineer and then as a junior research fellow.

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The place of my new work was in the building of Gosprom next to the Kharkov
University building in Dzerzhinsky Square. I quickly reestablished my connections with
all old friends and people who were interested in my own research when I was a student.
The work in this institute gave me a great degree of freedom to be engaged in my own
research. I conducted new experiments trying to understand the nature of existent
phenomena.

One day my former fellow-student invited me to visit a married couple. Together
we had studied in one group till the fourth year, and afterwards we were assigned to
different chairs. We chatted awhile and our conversation got round to my experiments
and researches about which they had heard. They asked me to demonstrate something. I
tested them and the woman’s reaction to my influence was magnificent. I made a
correction to her brain and she began to see money instead of pieces of paper, her
husband’s internal organs, etc. I decided on a new experiment. I created nine doubles of
me and asked her to define which of them the real one was.

The idea for this experiment came to me from one of the Russian fairytales, when
Ivan-tzarevitch was to guess the real Vasilisa the Beautiful out of her ten doubles. When
my former fellow-student saw me in ten copies, she was obviously frightened and
refused to even try to identify the real me, because she sincerely thought that I could not
be in ten copies!

The situation was quite amusing. But I wanted very much to find out, what did a
person feel when touching a double I created? Whether it was a simple hologram or
something more? To get an answer I had to resort to some ruse. I removed eight doubles
and also made myself invisible to her. I already understood the way human sight worked
and “simply” created around me the state of in-visibility. After all these manipulations
my double appeared in front of young woman who was un-aware of my “little”
deception. Thus, I again appeared to her in “one” copy that conformed to her perception
of reality. I also made my voice heard from the position of my visible double and asked
her, whether everything was all right now and could she tap me on the shoulder?

She answered that it was all right now and she had known me for ages... and without
any fear approached my double and tapped it on the shoulder as if it were my real
shoulder, at the level of my real shoulder. Thus, she was fully sure that it was me. You
should have seen the reaction of her husband, when his wife, being completely conscious
and of sound mind, passed by the real me and tapped a “blank space”. I had to make
quite an effort to restrain my laughter.

In this experiment I did not succeed in finding out everything I wanted to: her fear
of my doubles prevented me from accomplishing it, but, nevertheless, thanks to my ruse
I did succeed in finding out that a person brought to a certain qualitative state of

consciousness could both see and feel other levels of reality, clearly as well as the
physically dense reality to which most people become accustomed.

14 Russian abbreviation.
15 Also known as the State Industry Building, Palace of Industry or Derzhprom.
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