Fun_People Archive
19 May
Faith Healing in Russia

Date: Fri, 19 May 95 13:37:53 PDT
From: Peter Langston <psl>
To: Fun_People
Subject: Faith Healing in Russia

Forwarded-by: sk@bbjj.mv.com (JJ Kane/NHSkeptics)
From: Martin

Found on alt.misc.forteana, this is an excerpt from a longer article on
Russian psychics and faith healers.

>       Anatoly Kashpirovsky, a mystic who capitalized on his fame from
> televised seances to win election to Parliament in 1993, came up with a
> new healing twist recently. In a published interview, he claimed he
> could cure hemorrhoids if the patient simply pressed the afflicted part
> to the TV screen during his seances.

© 1995 Peter Langston