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Lior Suchard - Mentalist

He first created a storm when he was selected as the winner of highly rated international TV show 'The Successor' to officially take over the celebrated mystifier, Uri Geller. Since then, he has performed with enormous success in 42 countries around the world, regularly appears on prime time TV. His live performance on the Tonight show floored both Jay Leno and guest, Zac Efron and his popularity got him voted best mentalist in the world on German TV show, Pro 7.
I sought a great performer who would deeply impress me, and I found Lior Suchard.
- Uri Geller

SUPERNATURAL ENTERTAINMENT
Adding to Lior's talent as a mentalist, is his natural ability for creating an all-round entertaining performance. Throughout his live show, 'Supernatural Entertainment' , Lior relies on full audience participation to perform supernatural feats far beyond telepathy and mind reading. He uses members of the audience to perform his acts, interacts with them and elates their senses by taking them on a exciting adventure built on drama, tension and astonishment doused with a huge sprinkling of humor, comedy and fun.
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CEOs of the world's top companies regularly book Lior to perform and MC at business events to draw in potential customers or motivate employees with his astonishing display of mind-reading trickery and humor. Lior has also been invited to attend more intimate, crucial business meetings both by businessmen and politicians as a way of breaking the ice.

I tako... Smile

Anatoly Kashpirovsky
Born August 11, 1939

Photo from http://www.kashpirovskiy.com
Anatoly Kashpirovsky is a self-professed mass healer and hypnotizer who made his name on Russia’s national television in the rocky years surrounding the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Early Years
The future public idol and healer Anatoly Kashpirovsky was born on August 11, 1939 in the small Ukrainian city of Khmelnitsky in the west of the country. At school Anatoly excelled in nothing in particular, but in high school the boy expressed a sincere interest in law, dreaming of becoming a qualified lawyer one day.
Anatoly did everything in his power to make the dream come true, but after graduation when he finally voiced his plans to his parents, they insisted on his choosing another reputable and promising profession – that of a doctor. So the discouraged young man passed all the necessary exams and was enrolled in the Vinnitsa Medical Institute. He successfully graduated in 1961, but wanted to go further and thus received a Ph.D. in medical sciences.
1951 Украина. С родителями (Photo from http://www.kashpirovskiy.com/)
Anatoly Kashpirovsky with parents. Ukraine, 1951 (Photo from http://www.kashpirovskiy.com/)
Anatoly wasn’t just an assiduous student – he was also an athletic young man with remarkable physical vigor, becoming a weight-lifting master – the sport he would come to be tightly connected with during his lifetime.
Only after gaining the honorary title of Doctor of Science did Kashpirovsky start practice. At first he worked as a psychotherapist at a mental hospital, but in 1987 Anatoly quit the job. He did not remain unemployed for long, and was immediately hired as a psychotherapist by the all-Soviet weight-lifting team, which allowed him to exercise both his professional qualities and enjoy his hobby.
Hypnotizing the Country
In 1988, with the help of Aleksey Mitrofanov (the future functionary of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia) Kashpirovsky made his first appearance in public. He was a man with hypnotic eyes and a soothing voice who promised to cure the entire country of its ailments and started with performing “remote psychological anaesthetization” on three women. Fixing his steely gaze on viewers as they sat transfixed in their homes, he claimed he could make the sick well again and relieve them from every sort of ache and pain. The first session took place on October 9th, 1989. This date might be considered Kashpirovsky’s second birthday – this time in the eyes of his audience.
Never before had the Soviet people witnessed such a truly magical performance – Anatoly gazed into the TV screen, performing more “sessions of distance hypnosis”. The women he promised to remotely anaesthetize claimed to actually be relieved from pain, so the country had itself a new idol. Kashpirovsky estimated the value of his services highly, as he charged a lot for sessions of his magical healing work. He even proclaimed himself the first official Soviet millionaire. Soon Kashpirovsky’s popularity was so great, the hypnotizer himself said he could have been elected president in 1991, had he only wished to run for the post.
Выступление в Польше в 1992 году (Photo from http://www.kashpirovskiy.com)
Poland, 1992 (Photo from http://www.kashpirovskiy.com)
At first, the cured worshipped the hypnotizer, but as time passed more and more of them had to be admitted for psychiatric observation. All in all from October to December 1989, Anatoly had about six sessions on Russian national TV, curing everyone by “giving psychological suggestions”. When Kashpirovsky met with his fans, he presented letters and telegrams from different people who had been cured thanks to him.
In 1993 Anatoly felt he wanted more than the public’s unsubstantiated worship. He proceeded to run for deputy of the State Duma, and succeeded. Two years later, in 1995 he left the Liberal Democratic Party and put an end to his brief political career. The resignation was, however, accompanied by much subtext and innuendo. Some say the entire Duma was completely united in its opposition to Anatoly, or to put it otherwise, they were afraid of the influence he might have on people and the country with his peculiar gift.
At the height of his popularity, the former weightlifter and psychiatrist regularly topped the polls as Russia’s most popular public figure, easily beating even Boris Yeltsin. His live appearances at venues from Moscow to Vladivostok saw crowds sobbing and praying for help.
Leaving Russia
In 1995 Anatoly Kashpirovsky left Russia and immigrated to the USA where he continued his hypnotic sessions. The majority of his patients were Russian expatriates who suffered from obesity or depression. Kashpirovsky’s Russian compatriots did not get a discount – the doctor charged them 50 dollars per session, which was not particularly cheap at the time.
Выступление в Чернигове в 2002 году (Photo from http://www.kashpirovskiy.com)
Chernigov, 2002 (Photo from http://www.kashpirovskiy.com)
In his absence, the Russia’s centuries-long passion for the occult and the paranormal mushroomed, with all manner of psychics and sorcerers popping up to offer so-called "magical services".
From the very beginning of the 1990’s, Kashpirovsky also occasionally visited Poland, where quite a number of people claimed to be in need of his professional help. Anatoly used to visit the country quite often up to 2008, when he decided to settle down in America for good.
Not All Roses
Among the numerous reasons Anatoly might have had for moving abroad, probably the most important was the endless arguments with Russian state medical care. More than once Kashpirovsky was labeled a charlatan and his sessions condemned as harmful. He was also at odds with representatives of the Russian Public Prosecutor for selling unmarked goods he used during his hypnotic séances.
Anatoly, however, had his own peculiar ways of dealing with the law-enforcement agencies. He once promised to cast spells upon the prosecutors from a distance, causing them various physical malfunctions unless they stopped persecuting the hypnotizer.
In 1995 Kashpirovsky volunteered to render assistance in the negotiations between the Russian federal agencies and the terrorist group led by Shamil Basayev. The chief prosecutor of the city of Budyonnovsk recalled that at first, Kashpirovsky promised to send all the terrorists to sleep and then hypnotize them. But the moment he saw all the blood and the hostages lying in pain, he fainted and refused to ever resume the job.
American Routine
Крым, 2007 год (Photo from http://www.kashpirovskiy.com)
Crimea, 2007 (Photo from http://www.kashpirovskiy.com)
Today Anatoly lives in America and in 2008 he officially announced an end to his practice and healing. He spends his time editing the long list of his former patients, writing a diary, and updating the information on his official site.
In September 2010, Anatoly made a comeback on Russian national TV, anchoring a talk-show on one of the best-known Russian channels, NTV.
The Head of the Moscow Serbsky Institute for Social and Forensic Psychiatry was shocked when she learned the news: she was strongly against the show, believing Kashpirovsky’s séances could harm TV audiences both physically and mentally. She might have not been able to prove her words scientifically, but she certainly had a point – in 2005 during the filming of one of the talk-show episodes in which Kashpirovsky was a guest, he physically beat up his opponent quite badly.
The methods of treatment Kashpirovsky uses during his séances are complicated and mysterious. As he himself states on his official website, no ordinary human being can possibly understand his work. “Let's get one thing straight. Your level of understanding is this big," Anatoly said, pointing at the space between his thumb and forefinger. "Mine is 1,000 times greater."
Anatoly’s website presents a motley collection of letters, videos, photographs and quotations belonging to the celebrated healer. Anyone may even write to the hypnotizer, being unsure, however, if Anatoly will deem it necessary to answer. For reasons unknown, Kashpirovsky is reluctant to give face-to-face interviews, preferring to communicate via email.

Nina Kulagina

30 July 1926
Leningrad, SFSR
Died   1990, aged 63
Nationality   Russian
Known for   Reported psychic ability
Nina Kulagina, Ninel Sergeyevna Kulagina (Russian: Нине́ль Серге́евна Кула́гина) (aka Nelya Mikhailova[1][2]) (30 July 1926 – April 1990) was a Russian woman who claimed to have psychic powers, particularly in psychokinesis. Academic research of her phenomenon was conducted in the USSR for the last 20 years of her life.

Contents [hide]
1 Biography
2 Trickery hypothesis
3 References
4 Further reading
5 External links
Biography[edit]
Kulagina, who was born in 1926, joined the Red Army at 14, entering its tank regiment during World War II,[3] but she was a housewife at the time that her alleged psychic abilities were studied and she entered international discourse in the 1960s.[4][5] During the Cold War, silent black-and-white films of her appearing to move objects on a table in front of her without touching them, were produced. These films were allegedly made under controlled conditions for Soviet authorities and caused excitement for many psychic researchers around the world, some of whom believed that they represented clear evidence for the existence of psychic phenomena. According to reports from the Soviet Union, 40 scientists, two of whom were Nobel laureates, studied Kulagina.[6] In Investigating Psychics, Larry Kettlekamp claims that Mikhailova was filmed separating broken eggs that had been submerged in water, moving apart the whites and yolks, during which event such physical changes were recorded as accelerated and altered: heartbeat, brain waves and electromagnetic field.[7] To ensure that external electromagnetic impulses did not interfere, she was placed inside of a metal cage while she supposedly demonstrated an ability to remove a marked matchstick from a pile of matchsticks under a glass dome.[8]

Kulagina claimed that she first recognized her ability, which she believed she had inherited from her mother, when she realized that items spontaneously moved around her when she was angry.[9] Kulagina said that in order to manifest the effect, she required a period of meditation to clear her mind of all thoughts. When she had obtained the focus required, she reported a sharp pain in her spine and the blurring of her eyesight. Reportedly, storms interfered with her ability to perform psychokinetic acts.[8]

One of Kulagina's most celebrated experiments took place in a Leningrad laboratory on 10 March 1970. Having initially studied the ability to move inanimate objects, scientists were curious to see if Nina's abilities extended to cells, tissues, and organs. Sergeyev was one of many scientists present when Nina attempted to use her energy to stop the beating of a frog's heart floating in solution. He said that she focused intently on the heart and apparently made it beat faster, then slower, and using extreme intent of thought, stopped it.[10]

Trickery hypothesis[edit]
Many individuals and organizations, such as the James Randi Educational Foundation and the Italian Committee for the Investigation of Claims on the Paranormal (CICAP) express skepticism regarding claims of psychokinesis. Massimo Polidoro has written that the long preparation times and uncontrolled environments (such as hotel rooms) in which the experiments with Kulagina took place left much potential for trickery.[11] Magicians and skeptics have argued that Kulagina's feats could easily be performed by one practiced in sleight of hand, through means such as cleverly concealed or disguised threads, small pieces of magnetic metal, or mirrors and the Cold War-era Soviet Union had an obvious motive for falsifying or exaggerating results in the potential propaganda value in appearing to win a "Psi Race" analogous to the concurrent Space Race or arms race.[11][12][13][14]

Vladimir Lvov published an article in Pravda which accused Kulagina of fraud. Lvov wrote she performed one of her tricks by concealing a magnet on her body. The article also reported that Kulagina had been arrested for cheating the public out of five thousand rubles.[15] Science writer Martin Gardner described Kulagina as a "pretty, plump, dark eyed little charlatan" who was caught on two occasions using tricks to move objects.[16]

Джуны

Wolf Messing

Messing was born in the village of Góra Kalwaria, 25 km southeast of Warsaw, at a time when Poland was a territory of the Russian Empire. He claimed that his psychic abilities developed in his early life.[1] By the time he was a teenager he was performing to the public.[1] According to Messing, he was able to broadcast mental suggestions in order to alter people's perceptions. In the interview to the P. Oreshkin, Messing said