There are probably few people who do not know who Wolf Grigorievich Messing is. This man lived an amazing life, predicted and even changed people's destinies. They knew him and feared him, believed him and did not trust him. Stalin himself favored the clairvoyant, allowing him to hold concerts throughout the Soviet Union.
Childhood
In 1899, on September 10, in a place near Warsaw, which at that time belonged to Russian Empire, Gure-Kalvary was born Wolf Grigorievich Messing, a man famous for his outstanding superpowers. His parents were very religious and wanted their boy to become a rabbi. However, Volka (that was the name of Wolf Grigorievich) resisted such a fate in every possible way. Then they resorted to a trick and bribed a colorful tramp to play the messenger of God in front of the boy. Volka believed the vision and went to study. However, two years later, having met that same tramp, he recognized him as an angel who had appeared with a sign and realized that his parents had simply deceived him. Then the boy, disappointed in everything, left home, stealing money from donations to the yeshiva.
He boarded the train to Berlin, but since there was not enough money for a ticket, he hid under a bench. When the controller came up and asked for a ticket, he was very scared, but he picked up some piece of paper from the floor and, wishing with all his being that it would turn into a ticket, handed it over. In response, the ticket holder calmly took the piece of paper, punched it and wondered why the boy was traveling under the bench if he had a travel card and the carriage was full of empty seats.
This is how young Messing learned about his ability to instill in people an illusory reality.
Youth
The newly discovered ability did not help in life at all at first. The boy worked as a messenger in a house for visitors and did everything he was told. At the same time, he earned almost no money. And once he even fainted from hunger right on the street. He was taken to the hospital, and not finding a pulsation, he was sent to the morgue. But some trainee still felt the heartbeat. Abel, a very famous neurologist and psychiatrist, was present. The professor became interested in the boy and began to teach him how to control his body, and then introduced him to the man who became his first impresario, Zelmester.
This is how young Messing began his career. He lay down in a crystal coffin and plunged himself into a state similar to death, receiving considerable money for this. Over time, I learned to read other people's thoughts and turn off pain, turning into a real artist.
The future psychic Messing Wolf Grigorievich became more and more famous. In 1915, Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein even attended his performance, but unfortunately, they did not leave any notes about this fact.
In a speech in Warsaw in 1937, he predicted the death of the Fuhrer if he moved his troops east. For this, the artist and his family were arrested, but thanks to his superpowers he managed to escape. He crossed the river and ended up on the territory of the Soviet Union, where Wolf Grigorievich Messing began his new life.
Mature years
The psychic hardly knew the Russian language, and during his entire subsequent life, having lived in the country of the Soviets, he never really learned it. Here he was hardly known, but having become a member of the concert brigade in the Brest region, Wolf Grigorievich Messing nevertheless became an artist. His biography apparently became known at the very top of the government. And one day, right at a concert in Gomel, two NKVD workers appeared on stage and, asking for forgiveness from the audience, took the artist to Stalin, with whom he later met more than once.
After this meeting, Messing receives a new start in life, and they begin to pay him fabulous fees.
When the war began, Wolf Grigorievich (according to at will or under duress from the NKVD) donated his money for two aircraft. It is known that at this time he was even arrested and interrogated. It happened during a tour in Tashkent.
Messing continued his travels with performances. By personal order of Stalin, he was allocated one-room apartment in Moscow on Novopeschanaya Street, where he lived happy years life with his wife Aida Mikhailovna since 1954.
Old age
Wolf Grigorievich Messing lived out the rest of his life alone in another, more spacious apartment on Herzen Street, already without his beloved wife. He was surrounded by two dogs (Mashenka and Pushinka), as well as his wife’s sister.
He knew about the date of his death, and the closer it became, the more phobias the old man developed. However, Messing said that he was not afraid of death, he was simply endlessly sad that this very special experience of living life on Earth would never happen again.
One day, when he was taken to the hospital, leaving the house, he looked back and said that he would never return here again. The operation was performed by a first-class surgeon and was successful. But then complications began and the kidneys began to fail. The legendary telepath Messing Wolf has died.
Years of his life: 1899-1974.
Tour
During his life, an outstanding person, artist and psychic managed to travel around different countries. He performed and traveled a lot, of course, in the Soviet Union.
Despite the materialism that reigned in the country, Messing managed to lift the veil of the unknown and show by his own example the existence of a different, intangible world.
Very often at his speeches he read people's thoughts and carried them out. For example, it was typical to guess what was in the hands of a certain person or written words on paper that was sealed in an envelope.
All these numbers seemed fantastic to the audience. Although skeptics, of course, came up with a rational explanation for them, talking about his excellent command of elementary idiomotor skills.
Personal life
In Novosibirsk, Wolf Grigorievich Messing met and fell in love with a woman, Aida Mikhailovna Rappoport, who became a reliable friend, assistant at performances and wife.
They lived happy years side by side, but in 1960 Aida Mikhailovna died suddenly of cancer. And Messing knew about her upcoming departure. He was left alone and did not give any concerts for six months, experiencing the loss very hard.
But as time went on, he began to gradually come to his senses and even perform sometimes. Wolf Grigorievich was surrounded by close people, but life began to become burdensome and the talent bestowed on him turned into a punishment.
Close
Messing was afraid to have children, so he did not have his own. But among those around him there were close people whom he treated with fatherly care.
One of them was Tatyana Lungina, who met him for the first time in June 1941, when she was only 18. Later, the latter used her notes about meetings with Messing to write his autobiography “About Myself.”
Many people described wonderful stories in which they became participants, and where the main character was the psychic Messing Wolf.
Vadim Chernov talked about an incident at the dacha when everyone went into the forest to pick mushrooms. Messing did not like this activity, but together with everyone else he also went into the forest. Everyone scattered in search of mushrooms. After some time, Vadim went out into a clearing, where he saw Messing sitting on a log, surrounded by local children. The guys squealed with delight and asked Wolf Grigorievich about the non-existent little animals that they saw and played with. When Vadim approached and Messing noticed him, their eyes met and the clairvoyant said that here was the beast for him. The young man suddenly saw a bear, but was not at all afraid, and numerous squirrels, bunnies and hedgehogs appeared around the children. However, what he remembers most is the basket, filled to the brim with excellent mushrooms (although before meeting their eyes, he knew for sure that it was empty).
Another case was described by Tatyana Lungina. It was a session at the Central House of Writers when Wolf Grigorievich Messing agreed to demonstrate a cataleptic state. By that time he was no longer young, so in case he could not get out of it on his own, Doctor Pakhomova assisted him. Forty minutes after Messing tuned in, she stated that the pulsation had ceased to be observed. The audience placed two chairs on the stage, on the backs of which they placed a lifeless body (heels and the back of the head). It looked like it was made of wood. The heaviest man sat on Messing's stomach. And even after that, the body did not bend one iota. The psychiatrist pierced the neck muscles right through. There was no blood or other body reaction. Then Messing was asked a question, to which he did not answer, but when they put a pen in his hand and put the album on him, he, like a robot, raised his hand and wrote the answer on it.
With the help of medical manipulations, he was brought out of this state, but it was not easy for the 64-year-old medium. And a few days later he continued to remain unsociable and taciturn.
Gift or Punishment
In old age, the gift began to weigh heavily on Messing. He was tired of other people's thoughts, which were mostly not the most pleasant. If in his youth everything was much easier, then in old age he treated his gift as a punishment. After all, he knew everything in the smallest details about his future, and all the miracles that he showed to the public had long become a daily routine for him.
He knew that many people were jealous of the gift, thinking that if they could do this, they would move whole mountains. However, Wolf Grigorievich argued that there could be no advantages in life from talent, and therefore there was no need to be envious. If a person is decent and does not intend to commit any illegal acts, no gift will give him superiority.
Wolf Grigorievich Messing, whose photo is given below, in recent years life turned into a gloomy pessimist.
Messing and the greats of this world
The highest ranks and those in power were interested in the telepath. Hitler, Stalin, Khrushchev - they all knew Messing, and he even made predictions to some of them.
He did not see Hitler, but foresaw his death, for which he almost paid with his life.
Stalin wanted to personally test Messing's gift. For this purpose, he first suggested that he receive one hundred thousand rubles from Sberbank by presenting a blank piece of paper. When this succeeded, the poor cashier who gave out the money suffered a heart attack. Fortunately, he was saved. In addition, Messing himself unhinderedly walked to Stalin through all the patrols, and also left him, waving his hand to the leader from the street. When asked how this was possible, Wolf Grigorievich said that he simply convinced everyone he met that he was Beria.
However, the psychic did not always observe political caution, and at a time when almost everyone in the country was confident in the friendship of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, Wolf Grigorievich Messing predicted a completely different development of events. Because of this, his biography was almost cut short again. He said at his speech, answering a question from the audience, that he saw Soviet tanks on the streets of Berlin. Although his concerts were temporarily cancelled, he was not arrested. Later, when the war began, the artist continued his activities.
Predictions
In addition to the fact that Wolf Grigorievich predicted the death of Hitler and predicted war, he also named the date of victory (the eighth of May) at one of his speeches. True, the year was not named. But in the first days of the war, he was summoned by Stalin to the Politburo, where he predicted victory Soviet troops and named the year and month.
Stalin kept track of the predictions that the psychic made; he was overgrown with all sorts of legends, sometimes difficult to distinguish from those that actually happened. But on the day when the act of surrender of Germany was signed, Stalin sent a telegram to Messing, where he noted the accuracy of the predicted date. And it's a fact.
They also say that the leader of the peoples asked the telepath about his date of death. But the latter, foreseeing awkward question, said that he would not answer, but at the same time promised to never tell anyone about it.
It is known that the psychic secretly kept a green notebook in which he wrote down predictions relating to both the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, about events in the USSR, the USA and Israel. However, she disappeared without a trace after Messing's death.
The life of this mysterious man was cut short on October 8, 1974. The place where Messing Wolf Grigorievich is buried is
ABOUT Stalin Much has been said and written. Both good and bad. But few people know about one more gift of Joseph Vissarionovich: he knew how to foresee the development of events. And sometimes for many decades to come. As evidence, let me bring to your attention the story of L.M. Kollontai, who during the period described was the USSR Ambassador to Sweden.
In March 1938, the world situation was very difficult and alarming. Fascist Germany unceremoniously captured Austria in front of the whole world. And in September, encouraged by general silence, the Nazis also annexed the Sudetenland to their territory.
Seeing how the Nazis were inexorably approaching the borders of the USSR, the Soviet government began to look for allies in the West. However, the Anglo-French-Soviet negotiations, scheduled for May-August 1939, were disrupted, our proposal to create anti-Hitler coalition didn't pass. In such conditions, the leadership of the Soviet Union, trying to distance the military threat to its borders, accepted Germany’s proposal to conclude a non-aggression pact, which was signed in Moscow on August 23.
A week later, on September 1, 1939, Germany attacked Poland, starting World War II. Realizing that peace with Germany would not last forever, the leaders of the USSR tried to protect themselves from a stab in the back by negotiating with representatives of Finland, which began in Moscow, to a favorable outcome. But they too were slow, the Finns were openly stalling for time.
It was at this time that A.M. Kollontai came to Moscow to receive first-hand information about the actual state of affairs and relevant instructions. However, her conversation with V.M. It gave little to the Molotovs. Vyacheslav Mikhailovich was sure that we would quickly break off the Finns’ horns and there would be nothing more to talk to them about. However, as the military operations that began in 1939 showed, victory in that “small war” came at great cost to us.
Annoyed by this reception, Kollontai went to the hotel, intending to quickly complete all her business in Moscow in order to leave for Stockholm again. But then the phone rang and the secretary said that Comrade Stalin was inviting her to the Kremlin.
A few minutes later, a specially sent car drove Kollontai from the main entrance of the Moscow Hotel to the Kremlin. The owner of the office stood up from his desk, stepped towards her, shook her hand and invited her to sit down. And out of habit, he began to pace around his office.
And as if foreseeing possible questions, said that six months of negotiations with the Finns had led to nothing. In this regard, Stalin advised to strengthen the work of the Soviet embassy to study the situation in the Scandinavian countries, monitor the penetration of German agents into these countries, trying with all their might to prevent a conflict with Finland.
However, Stalin said, “if we cannot prevent it, it will be short-lived.” The time for “persuasion” and “negotiations” is over. “We must practically prepare for resistance, for war with Hitler,” he added.
The conversation lasted more than two hours, Kollontai recalled. Stalin touched upon many issues during this time. The leader was especially concerned about the rearmament of the army, as well as the role of the rear in the war, and the need to increase vigilance on the border and within the country. He especially emphasized that a future war will fall primarily on the shoulders of the Russian people.
After this, Stalin began to think aloud about the role of the individual in history, about the past and the future, touched on many names - from Macedonian to Napoleon, he also remembered Alexander Nevsky, Dmitry Donskoy, Ivan Kalita, Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, Alexander Suvorov, Mikhail Kutuzov. Finished with Marx and Lenin.
“Many of the affairs of our party and people will be distorted and spat upon, first of all abroad, and in our country too. Zionism, striving for world domination, will brutally take revenge on us for our successes and achievements. He still views Russia as a barbaric country, as a raw materials appendage. And my name will also be slandered and slandered. Many atrocities will be attributed to me.
World Zionism will strive with all its might to destroy our Union so that Russia can never rise again. The strength of the USSR lies in the friendship of peoples. The spearhead of the struggle will be aimed primarily at breaking this friendship, at separating the outskirts from Russia. Here, I must admit, we have not done everything yet. There is still a large field of work here.
Nationalism will raise its head with particular force. It will suppress internationalism and patriotism for a while, only for a while. National groups within nations and conflicts will arise. Many pygmy leaders will appear, traitors within their nations.
In general, in the future, development will take more complex and even frantic paths, the turns will be extremely sharp. Things are heading towards the fact that the East will become especially agitated, and sharp contradictions will arise with the West...”
Still, Stalin hoped that time would pass and new generations would once again raise the banner of their fathers and grandfathers and give them full credit.
This conversation, Kollontai later recalled, made an indelible impression on her and helped her navigate the whirlpool of the terrible events that soon followed.
It remains for us to add the following to the above. It turns out that I.V. Stalin was well aware of the impending war with Germany; according to reports from our intelligence officers, he even knew exactly when it would begin. But he didn’t want to believe it, he hoped to somehow delay its start in order to complete the rearmament of the Red Army. And yet I didn’t have time...
The fact that Germany attacked suddenly was said in June 1941, apparently in order to somehow explain why literally from the first minutes of the war our army found itself in such a difficult situation. And these words, mind you, were spoken not by Stalin, but by Molotov.
Joseph Vissarionovich himself once again demonstrated his remarkable foresight in the spring of 1945, at the Potsdam Conference, when he invited the heads of the United States and Great Britain to discuss the issue of dividing... the Moon. They even thought that they had misheard or that Stalin himself had misspoke and that we were talking about the division of Germany. But he repeated: “We have already agreed on the division of Germany. I'm talking specifically about the Moon."
And he emphasized that the USSR has its own plans for this celestial object. That's when, it turns out, the lunar race really began. And possess N.S. Khrushchev, with the foresight of his predecessor, in 2009 would probably celebrate the 40th anniversary of the moon landing Soviet cosmonauts, not American astronauts.
From the book "100 Great Predictions"
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Wolf Messing
One of the most outstanding psychics of the last century was an enemy of Hitler and an adviser to Stalin; in the Union he was known as a hypnotist and telepath.
In my youth Polish Jew Wolf Messing performed in Europe and America with unusual shows - he pretended to be dead. He managed to enter such bodily states that, in the case of an ordinary person would definitely indicate death. Later, the talented young man discovered the ability to read minds and predict the future; he met Freud, Einstein and gained fame as a predictor.
At the beginning of World War II, Wolf Messing was forced to flee to Soviet Union. A careless prediction made by Messing promised the collapse of Hitler's military campaign. The seer was put on the wanted list and caught by the German police, he faced the death penalty. However, Messing managed to hypnotize the guards and get out of the cell. The path to the USSR was difficult: wounded, wanted by the police and not knowing the language, Messing reached Soviet territory only thanks to his psychic abilities.
Messing overcame the language barrier in his own way - he read minds. In Belarus, a fugitive telepath went on tour. He demonstrated his abilities to the public until one day they came for him. Joseph Stalin found out about the amazing medium and called him for a conversation. After the meeting with the leader, Messing came to the Kremlin more than once - Stalin instructed the fortuneteller to solve complex problems that the special services could not cope with.
Juna Davitashvili
Juna has many regalia, she not only healer And psychic, but also a poet, actress, president of the International Academy of Alternative Sciences, which she organized herself.
Since childhood, Juna had unusual abilities; she could cure headaches and hernia. In Moscow, the healer restored the health of prominent figures of the era: Leonid Brezhnev, Ilya Glazunov, Andrei Tarkovsky. Giulietta Masina, Marcello Mastroianni, Robert de Niro and other celebrities turned to her for help. She patented thirteen devices used in gynecology, urology, cardiology, pediatrics and other areas of medicine.
In addition to the gift of healing, Juna has the ability to see the future. In particular, she predicted the collapse of the USSR and the tragedy at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
Allan Chumak
Allan Chumak, a journalist who worked on television and exposed psychic charlatans, once felt the ability to healing. In the 80s in the USSR, he treated the sick (or inspired healing) through television, “charged” photographs, water and salt.
Any owner of a TV could be “cured” with the help of Allan Chumak’s mysterious gift - all he had to do was turn it on and go about his business (watching is not necessary). Chumak explained the essence of the session and began to make voluntary movements with his hands, thereby sending the necessary healing energy. A jar of water or cream was placed in front of the TV, then any item acquired healing properties. Chumak did the same with the help of the radio: you just had to listen to the silence and barely audible whispers while he made his mysterious passes at the other end of the radio channel.
There is no serious evidence that Allan Chumak helped to recover in this way. Numerous thanks sent to television most likely indicate the excessive suggestibility of a significant part of the country's population. Chumak gave a certain psychological direction for cure, and as a result, the placebo effect was triggered.
Anatoly Kashpirovsky
Anatoly Kashpirovsky came to magic healers from psychiatry. A psychotherapist by training, the head of the Center for Psychiatry in Kyiv, he also practiced healing with the help of television.
Unlike the silent Chumak, Anatoly Mikhailovich actively used verbal methods of influence and did not hang noodles on his ears about sending energy.
With his menacing gaze, “giving instructions,” Kashpirovsky literally heated up the atmosphere on both sides of the screen. His method consisted of psychological, hypnotic influence: at the right moment he raised or lowered his voice, using special gestures and phrases. The most suggestible part of the population, suffering from mild mental disorders, was immediately caught. People believed that a healing suggestion was happening now, and their well-being really improved. However, there is evidence that Kashpirovsky’s actions also led to disastrous results. Some patients, believing the healer, stopped taking conservative treatment drugs. The chronicles experienced an exacerbation of the disease and unpleasant consequences, even death.
Yuri Longo
Yuri Longo introduced himself " master of white magic" He became famous for "reviving" the dead and love spells. He claimed that he had brought back to life the Ukrainian politician Viktor Yushchenko, who allegedly died in 2004.
A native of Kuban, he studied at a theater school, completed courses in hypnosis and card tricks and began performing in Moscow. Soon he retrained as a magician in order to demonstrate more impressive miracles. At the end of his life, he mastered a hundred methods of hypnosis, telepathy and clairvoyance, and published forecasts and predictions in the press.
Wolf Messing is a legendary pop artist who acted as a mentalist, predicting the future and reading the thoughts of the audience from the audience. In 1971 he received the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
He was born in the Polish-Jewish village of Gura Kalwaria, which at the time of Messing’s birth was part of the Russian Empire. Wolf's family was large - his parents raised 4 sons. They lived quite poorly, and children from an early age had to work hard, helping their father and mother. In addition, the head of the family, Gershek Messing, was a very pious and strict person, so all his sons adhered to the rules established in the house.
Wolf suffered from somnambulism from birth, often wandering in his sleep and then suffering from headaches. However, he was cured folk remedy– using the pelvis with cold water installed in front of the bed. Having wet his feet, the child woke up, and subsequently sleepwalking completely disappeared.
At the age of 6, the boy began to attend the Heder Jewish school, where he studied the Talmud and memorized prayers from this book. The rabbi who taught the students noted the amazing memory of little Messing and contributed to the teenager’s enrollment in Yeshibot, a special educational institution, preparing clergy.
Wolf resisted this in every possible way, but his decision was influenced unexpected event which he for a long time will be considered his first vision. One day, a figure in white appeared before him in the dark and, calling himself an Angel, predicted a great future for him in the rank of rabbi. The devout boy believed and only found out many years later that he was a tramp arranged by his father and playing the role of God’s messenger.
Nothing in Yeshibota could interest Messing, and after studying there for several years, he escapes and goes to Berlin. On the train, Wolf first showed his unusual abilities, and at the most crucial moment. When the conductor asked the little passenger for a ticket, he handed him a piece of paper and looked carefully into his eyes. The ticket attendant punched the piece of paper and accepted it as a travel coupon.
In the capital of Germany, the boy got a job as a messenger, but earned crumbs that were not even enough for food. One day, while performing his next task, he lost consciousness and fainted from hunger right on the street. The doctors, believing that the child had died, sent him to the morgue, where he lay for three days, after which he woke up.
Having learned that Wolf Messing was capable of falling into short-term lethargic sleep, the German psychiatrist and neuropathologist Professor Abel took him in and began to teach Wolf how to control his own body, as well as conduct various experiments on suggestion and reading thoughts.
Career in Europe
Soon, Professor Abel introduced Messing to the talented impresario Zellmeister, who arranged for the young man to work in a Berlin museum of unusual exhibits. Wolf's task was to lie down in a glass coffin and fall into a breathless sleep. In parallel with this work, with the help of Abel and his assistant Schmitt, Messing was able to improve his abilities. He achieved an almost flawless understanding of the message transmitted to him mentally, especially with the help of contact telepathy, when he touched his interlocutor with his hand, and also learned to turn off any painful sensation in his body by force of will.
Later, as a fakir, he began performing in various circus troupes, including the famous Busch Circus and the Wietergarten variety show. His act was as follows: the artists acted out a robbery scene in front of the audience and hid the stolen items in various parts hall Messing, who then appeared, unerringly found all the hiding places. This number captivated the audience time after time, and soon the artist’s first fame came.
In 1915, a young man traveled around the First World War in flames. Central Europe with his first solo tour. Later he repeated the tours and in 1921 returned to Poland as a famous and wealthy man.
In 1939, when the Second World War began in Europe world war, Messing's father, brothers and immediate relatives, who are of Jewish origin, were arrested and shot in Majdanek. Han's mother had previously died of heart failure when Wolf was 13 years old. The artist himself managed to avoid a terrible fate and moved to the Soviet Union
Career in Russia
IN new country Wolf Messing, thanks to the support of the head of the art department, Pyotr Andreevich Abrasimov, continued his performances with psychological experiments. At first he was a member of propaganda teams, later received the title of artist of the State Concert and went with independent performances in houses of culture. He also performed for some time as an illusionist in a Soviet circus troupe.
With the personal funds of Wolf Messing, a Yak-7 fighter was built in Novosibirsk especially for the pilot Konstantin Kovalev, who the day before received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, which he flew until the end of the war. Subsequently, Kovalev and Messing became good friends. Such a patriotic act raised the artist even more in the eyes of Soviet citizens, and his performances were always sold out.
It is known that Wolf Messing was familiar with, who was quite skeptical about his abilities. However, when the medium predicted the crash of the plane on which his son was supposed to fly to Sverdlovsk with the CDKA hockey team, the head of the USSR insisted that his son go by train, keeping silent about the reason. The plane really crashed, and the entire crew, except for Vsevolod Bobrov, who was late for the flight, died.
But the next General Secretary of the Soviet Union had antipathy towards Messing, which began with the artist’s refusal to give a speech prepared in advance for him at the CPSU Congress. Wolf Grigorievich made predictions about the future of Russia only if he was confident in them. And Khrushchev’s demand to “predict” the need to remove Stalin’s body from the mausoleum, according to the mentalist, was solely a settling of scores.
After abandoning the fictitious performance, Messing began having problems with touring. At first their geography changed, and he was sent to small towns and country clubs, and later they stopped giving permission to perform altogether. Because of this, Wolf Messing developed depression, he withdrew into himself and stopped appearing in public.
Predictions
Wolf Messing, as a legendary personality, is surrounded by all kinds of rumors and speculation. The same applies to his predictions. A book of memoirs published in the journal Science and Life in 1965, allegedly written by the telepath himself, added fuel to the fire. Subsequently, it was found out that these “memories” were fabricated by Mikhail Vasilyevich Khvastunov, head of the science department of Komsomolskaya Pravda. But, having made a huge number of mistakes and presenting unreliable facts, the author of the book raised a new wave of popularity for Wolf Messing.
In fact, the artist always regarded his abilities not as miracles, but as new scientific possibilities. He collaborated with scientists from the Brain Institute, doctors, physiologists, psychologists and psychiatrists, trying to explain his own skills from a physiological point of view. For example, he explained “mind reading” as reading the movements of facial muscles, contact telepathy allowed the artist to feel the microscopic movement of a person if he went in the wrong direction when searching for an object, and so on.
Wolf Messing "reads" thoughts However, there are a number of predictions that have come true, which were voiced publicly by Wolf Messing, and which were recorded even before the events occurred. Thus, he accurately named the date of the end of World War II, although in the European time zone - May 8, 1945. He later received personal gratitude from Joseph Stalin for this prophecy.
Also, even before the start of the conflict between Germany and the Soviet Union in early 1941, when these countries signed a non-aggression pact, Messing, at a speech at the NKVD club, said that he saw tanks with a red star on the streets of Berlin. Another significant foreshadowing was made by a telepath to Joseph Stalin, who was intensifying the persecution of Soviet Jews. Messing said that the “leader of the nations” would die on a Jewish holiday. Indeed, quite symbolically, Stalin's death on March 5, 1953, fell on Purim, the day of Jewish celebration of the salvation of Jews from extermination in the Persian Empire.
Personal life
In 1944, at a performance in Novosibirsk, where Wolf Messing then lived, he met a young woman, Aida Mikhailovna Rapoport, who became not only his faithful wife, but also his closest assistant and assistant at concerts.
They lived together until the summer of 1960, when Aida died of cancer. Close friends claimed that Messing also knew the date of his wife’s death in advance.
After the funeral, Wolf Grigorievich fell into depression, aggravated by Khrushchev’s ban on touring. Until the end of his life, he lived in an apartment with his sister Aida Mikhailovna, who looked after her brother-in-law. Messing found solace only in two lapdogs, which brightened up his leisure time.
Death
Wolf Messing had injuries to his legs during his escape to the Soviet Union, which began to bother him greatly in the last years of his life. He repeatedly sought advice from doctors and, in the end, lay down on the operating table. In addition, Messing developed a persecution mania.
Before leaving the apartment, as witnesses from the ambulance team say, the artist said goodbye to the house, making it clear that he would not return there again. The operation was successful, the doctors were confident that the patient would soon recover. But unexpectedly, on November 8, 1974, Wolf Messing’s kidneys failed, his lungs swelled, and he died. The legendary medium was buried at the Moscow Vostryakovsky cemetery.
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There are two types of predictions, and these types will be discussed in this topic. 1st type - when technologists (Tesla, Jules Verne, etc.) logically come to the conclusion - where progress will go and what inventions it will bring with it.
The second type, unpleasant to me, but very pop-like and loved by many, is Vanging on some dates with some specific events that have no basis in themselves - why this will happen and why. Why is he so loved and popular? Well, because such predictions are more colorful and emotional. From the series - “ahhh, we’re all 3.14 in December!” will be much more popular than, say, predicting the release of new processors with another reduction in the thickness of the transistor gate.
Wolf Messing's predictions
September 10 is the birthday of one of the most mysterious and enigmatic people of the 20th century - Wolf Grigorievich Messing. The famous illusionist, hypnotist and soothsayer was born in a small village near Warsaw in 1899. In the middle of the last century, Messing was extremely popular and advised even Stalin himself. Therefore, let's remember the predictions of Wolf Grigorievich, which came true.
Predicted war and defeat
A prediction that almost cost the life of young Wolf Messing was made from the stage of a theater in Berlin. As he later wrote in his memoirs, visions of the future came to him unexpectedly and uncontrollably. Most likely, this is why Messing, in front of a full hall of German officers, predicted the beginning of the Second World War. But then the most terrible prophecy came from his lips - the fascist regime would face an inevitable collapse.
As eyewitnesses later said, Messing’s vision was so strong that he spoke nonstop for almost half an hour, and then simply collapsed on the stage.
The leadership of the dominant party immediately responded to this prediction. The truthful predictor was put on the wanted list, but he managed to escape to the USSR, thanks to the help of his friends, who later died at the hands of fascism.
Exact date
During the Great Patriotic War Wolf Messing, already famous in the USSR, was evacuated to Novosibirsk, where he continued his performances. War-weary people packed concert halls and came to performances several times to see real miracles. But mothers and wives who sent their sons and husbands to the front were only interested in one thing - whether their men were alive. Thousands of people wrote to him and tried to meet after the session, but Messing flatly refused to talk about it. The explanation was short: “I cannot make one family happy and deprive ten others of hope.”
But Messing still gave people the main hope by naming the date for the end of the war. This happened in 1943 at a session at the Novosibirsk Opera House. One of the spectators simply handed him a note, among others, which contained only one question: “When will the war end?”
Having finished reading the sentence, Messing immediately seemed to blurt out the date - May 8, although the predictor did not name the year.
Prediction of Stalin's death
The relationship between Messing and Joseph Stalin began with a serious test of the seer's abilities. First, Stalin summoned Wolf Grigorievich to his reception in the Kremlin. After asking questions about Poland and the tour, he suggested that the fortuneteller try to leave the Kremlin building without a pass, stand under a tree, and then return. When the amazed Stalin saw Messing walking from the window, he was amazed, and when he returned he began to ask him how he managed it. To which the fortuneteller replied that he simply inspired the guards with “The general is coming, trump and let them through.”
To check Messing again, Stalin asked to take 100 thousand rubles out of the savings bank on an ordinary blank notebook sheet. This test almost ended in tragedy. A bank employee had a heart attack when he saw why he gave out a large sum money. Fortunately, the man recovered.
In 1953, Messing himself came to see Stalin to ask him to stop the persecution of Jews in the USSR. But the leader didn’t even want to listen to him, then Wolf Grigorievich predicted that Stalin’s death was not far away and that he would die on a Jewish holiday. And so it happened, on March 5, 1953, when the entire Jewish world celebrated Purim (a holiday dedicated to the salvation of the Jews of the Persian Empire from the insidious plans of Haman, the favorite of the Persian king), Joseph Stalin died of a cerebral hemorrhage at his official residence in the Near Dacha.
Appointment of editor-in-chief
In his memoirs, Wolf Messing often talks about how he demonstrated his capabilities to skeptics. Such an incident occurred in the editorial office of one of the newspapers. In the presence of the editor-in-chief and ten journalists, Messing decided to demonstrate his talent for providence. To make everything fair, he asked to write down his predictions. Several decades later, Wolf Grigorievich described his memories of this incident in detail in the book “About Myself.”
“Some with interest, others with a skeptical smile, but they all pulled out their notebooks. Those who did not have notebooks took blank sheets of paper from the editor-in-chief’s desk. Armed with eternal feathers...
Now write,” I commanded cheerfully, “today is the fifth of June... Between the twentieth and twenty-fifth of June... excuse me, what is your last name?” - I turned to one of those present.
“Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov,” he answered readily.
- So, between the twentieth and twenty-fifth of June, you, Ivanov, will receive a very large promotion in the service line. New appointment... I have a request to everyone: when this happens, call me... Did you write everything down? Well, in a few weeks you will find out whether I was there or not.
On the twenty-second, four people called me at different times. Ivanov was appointed editor-in-chief of one of the largest newspapers... The witnesses to this incident are all alive and I think everyone remembers this day - the fifth of June. Just don’t look for Ivanov’s surname in the lists of editors-in-chief: I don’t know whether he will be pleased with the wide publicity of this case, and therefore I did not name either the newspaper’s editorial office or his real surname.”
Last prediction
The worst thing about the gift of clairvoyance is knowledge that you cannot get rid of. Likewise, Wolf Messing absolutely knew the date of his death and tried to rarely think about it. But when the time was approaching, he clung to life and believed in the power of doctors and God.
Going for the operation, Messing turned to his house and whispered, “Well, that’s it Wolf, you won’t come back here again.” And so it happened, despite the fact that the operation was successful, the fortuneteller’s kidneys suddenly failed, and on November 8, 1974, he passed away. Wolf Messing was buried at the Vostryakovskoye cemetery, next to his wife.
Predictions of Nikola Tesla
In the thirties, journalists regularly visited Nikola Tesla to listen to the eminent scientist’s thoughts about the future. Here is a selection of Tesla's predictions for the future, which were published in 1935 in Liberty magazine. In many ways he was right.
Physical education and hygiene
Despite the fact that it was still a long time before the creation of the American Environmental Protection Agency, Tesla wrote that hygiene and physical education would become important branches of education and government.
“The Secretary of Hygiene or Physical Education will occupy a significantly more significant position in the Cabinet of the President of the United States than the Secretary armed forces, by 2035. Pollution coastline, which we have now will be unthinkable for our children and grandchildren, just as life without sewerage is unthinkable for us. Water supplies will be much more carefully distributed, and only a madman will drink untreated water.”
Education, war and newspapers
“Now the most civilized countries spend the majority of their income on war and the minimum on education. The 21st century will turn everything upside down. Fighting ignorance will be much more prestigious than dying on the battlefield. New scientific discoveries will be more significant than the skirmishes of diplomats. Even modern newspapers are beginning to regard scientific discoveries and fresh philosophical ideas as big news. Newspapers of the 21st century will devote the last pages to crime and war, but on the front pages there will be announcements about new scientific hypotheses
Diet and health
“People will become increasingly sick from contaminated water than from coffee, tea, tobacco and other stimulants. I avoid stimulants. I practically gave up meat. I am sure that in a hundred years coffee, tea and tobacco will fall out of favor. However, alcohol is here to stay. This is not a stimulant, but a genuine elixir of life. Moreover, withdrawal from stimulants will occur through a non-violent method. It will simply cease to be fashionable to poison your body with harmful ingredients. Bernard McFadden has demonstrated that it is entirely possible to produce delicious food from... natural products, such as milk, honey and flour. I believe the food served in his restaurants will become the basis of epicurean feasts in the finest banquet halls of the 21st century.
There is enough wheat and the products made from it to feed the entire world, including the ever-increasing millions in China and India who are now on the brink of famine. The earth is fertile, and where its fertility is not enough, nitrogen taken from the air will fertilize its bosom. I developed this process in 1900. It was brought to perfection fourteen years later by German chemists.”
Robots
“Our civilization is wrong because we have never gotten used to the Machine Age. The solution to our problems lies not in destruction, but in mastering machines.
Many things that people do now will be given over to automatic machines. At this very moment, scientists in American university laboratories are trying to create what can be described as a “thinking machine.” I foresaw its development.
I built robots. Now the robot is a fait accompli, but that's not all. In the 21st century, robots will occupy the niche that slaves occupied in ancient civilizations. I see no reason why this will not happen within the next hundred years and liberate humanity for higher purposes.”
Cheap energy and control natural resources
“Long before the end of the next century, systematic reforestation and scientific management of natural resources will put an end to all droughts, wildfires and floods. The widespread use of water power and its transmission over a distance will provide every home with cheap electricity without the need to burn fuel.”
