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powers unknown, but which were thought to consist of, YES! PSYCHIC mental powers ("psychic" being their term, not mine.) Furthermore, once the American analysts could make reasonable sense of those affairs going on in that OTHER world superpower, they were shocked off their pins to find that as early as February 16, 1922, the All-Russian Congress of the Association of Naturalists had UNDERWRITTEN the work of Kazhinsky's research and projects. Lord have mercy! This was the equivalent of the American Institutes of Mental Health underwriting American parapsychology, a thing which was so unlikely as to be nil (and which is STILL nil even now in 1996). AND the same important Soviet Congress was later to underwrite all similar work along the lines of thought transference and distant influencing. This Soviet Congress was one of the most important superstar Agencies in the Soviet Union and possessed enormous power. Its direct support for Kazhinski's work may have come about as the result of a lecture he was invited to give the Congress -- which he entitled HUMAN THOUGHT: ELECTRICITY. The importance of all those events is likely to be lost to most American readers unless it is pointed out with some determination to do so.