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The Natural Phenomena of AntiGravitation and Invisibility in Insects due to the Grebennikov Cavity Structure Effect (CSE) Introduction by Iu. N. Cherednichenko, Senior Researcher, Biophysics Laboratory, Institute of Human Pathology and Ecology, Russian Academy of Medical Science Viktor Stepanovich Grebennikov is a naturalist, a professional entomologist, an artistsimply put, an intellectual with a wi e range of interests an pursuits. !e is known to many as the iscoverer of the "avernous Structures #ffect $"S#%. &ut very few people are familiar with his other iscovery, one that also borrows from 'ature an its innermost secrets. &ack in ()** he iscovere anti-gravitational effects of the chitin shell of certain insects. &ut the most impressive concomitant phenomenon iscovere at the same time was that of complete or partial invisibility or of istorte perception of material ob+ects entering the ,one of compensate gravity. &ase on this iscovery, the author use bionic principles to esign an buil an anti-gravitational platform for irigible flights at the spee of up to -. km/min. Since ())(-)- he has use this evice for fast transportation. &io-gravitational effects are a wi e spectrum of natural phenomena, apparently not confine to +ust a few species of insects. /here is much empirical ata to support the possibility of a lowere weight or complete levitation of material ob+ects as a result of irecte psycho-physical human action $psychokinesis%-e. g. levitation of yogi practicing transcen ental me itation accor ing to the 0aharishi metho . /here are known cases of me iums levitating uring spiritistic sessions. !owever, it woul be a mistake to think that such abilities are only foun in people who are gifte by nature. 1 am convince that these abilities are an un erstu ie biological regularity. 2s is known, human weight significantly rops in the state of somnambulistic automatism $sleepwalking%. 3uring their nocturnal +ourneys, *4-)4 kg sleepwalkers are able to trea on thin planks, or step on people sleeping ne5t to them without causing the latter any physical iscomfort $other than fright%. Some clinical cases of non-spasmo ic epileptic fits often result in a short-term reversible transformation of personality $people in such state are commonly referre to as 6possesse 6%, whereby a skinny, e5hauste girl or a tenyear-ol boy ac7uire the physical prowess of a traine athlete. "urrently this psychological phenomenon is known as multiple-personality syn rome because it significantly iffers from the classical comple5 of epileptic symptoms. Such (

clinical cases are well-known an well- ocumente . !owever, phenomena accompanie by a change in the weight of humans or of material ob+ects are not confine to functional pathologies of the organism. !ealthy people in the state of acute psychological stress cause by a life-threatening situation or an overpowering motivation to achieve a vitally important goal have the ability to spontaneously overcome obstacles insurmountable in their normal con ition-e. g. to lift enormous weights, etc. /hese phenomena are commonly e5plaine by an e5treme mobili,ation of muscular strength, but precise calculations o not agree with such hypotheses. 2pparently, athletes $high +umpers, weightlifters, runners% have particularly evelope bio-antigravitational mechanisms. /heir athletic performance is mostly $if not wholly% etermine not so much by the rigor of their training as by their psychological prepare ness. 1f an accurate scientific task of stu ying the anomalies of the human weight in various psycho-physiological states were ever set up an technical means of ynamic weight monitoring create , we woul then have ob+ective ata on this unusual phenomenon. /here is also evi ence of other phenomena of short-term mass increase in biological ob+ects, inclu ing humans, that are not relate to mass transfer. V. S. Grebennikov8s book has high literary merit an inclu es the author8s own illustrations. 1t is a kin of a 6 actylogram6 for his system of spiritual values, his environmental outlook, an his entomological autobiography. 0any rea ers are likely to perceive the book as nothing more than a populari,e summary of the entomologist8s 94year e5perience of scientific observations, peppere with some elements of science fiction. &ut such a conclusion woul be eeply erroneous. 2s Viktor Stepanovich8s frien an as someone with an intimate knowle ge of his work $our homes are only (4km apart%, 1 can vouch 1 have never met a more careful, conscientious, honest, an talente e5perimental scientist. Grebennikov is also wi ely known in the so-calle scientific un ergroun $i. e. the branch of a vance :ussian science constantly persecute by the official scientific establishment%. /hus, a committee for combating pseu oscience, create in 'ovosibirsk ivision of the :ussian 2ca emy, has victimi,e many talente members of our local scientific community. /he situation is much the same at the :ussian 2gricultural 2ca emy. 1t is very easy to lose one8s +ob at a lab $even as its hea , regar less of one8s egree an title%. ;ne only nee s to publish an article on, for e5ample, the evolutionary significance of antigravitational mechanisms in insects. &ut 1 am convince that iscoveries of such proportions must not be burie in manuscripts +ust because pragmatism still rules science. <et this book be nothing but 6science fiction6 for those at the top. #ach person has his own beliefs. &ut he who has eyes shall see. "atastrophism in both the evolution of living nature an in the nature of human knowle ge is actually a rastic estruction of ol belief systems-a estruction that runs ahea of theoretical prognostications. 2 fanatical faith an i ol-worship links our contemporary aca emic science with pagan religion. &ut a harmonious evelopment $in

the sense of =avel >lorensky8s pneumatosphere% woul not be possible without breaking ol stereotypes in the process of mastering the wis om an e5perience of ol er generations.

Flight - Chapter V of V. S. Grebennikov's My World

"!2=/#: V. FLIGHT 2 7uiet evening in the steppe. /he sun8s re isk has alrea y touche the faraway, misty hori,on. 1t is too late to get back home-18ve staye too long here with my insects an am preparing to spen the night in the fiel . /hank goo ness 1 still have water in the flask an some mos7uito repellent-one nee s it here, what with hosts of gnats on the steep shore of this salty lake. 1 am in the steppes, in ?amyshlovo valley. 1t use to be a mighty tributary of the 1rtysh, but the ploughing of the steppes an eforestation turne the river into a eep, broa gully with a string of salty lakes, like this one. /here is no win . =o s of ucks gleam over the evening lake, san pipers are also hear in the istance.

/he high, pearl-colore sky stretches over the calming worl of the steppe. !ow goo it is to be out here, in the open country@ 1 settle for the night on the very e ge of the steep, on a grassy gla e. 1 sprea out my coat, put my backpack un er the hea , an before lying own, collect a few ry cakes of cow manure, an light them up. /he romantic, unforgettable smell of bluish smoke slowly sprea s across the o,ing steppe. 1 lie own on my simple be , stretch my tire legs an anticipate yet another won erful night in the country. /he blue smoke 7uietly takes me to the <an of >airy /alesA sleep comes fast. 1 become very small, the si,e of an ant, then enormous, like the sky, an am about to fall asleep. &ut why is it that to ay these 6pre-sleep transformations6 of my bo ily imensions are somewhat unusual, too strongB 2 new sensation has mi5e in-a sensation of falling, as though the high cliff has been snatche away from un er my bo y, an 1 am falling into an unknown, terrible abyss@ Su enly 1 see flashes. 1 open my eyes, but they on8t go away-they are ancing on the pearl-an -sliver evening sky an on the grass. 1 get a strong, metallic taste in my mouth, as though 1 presse my tongue to the contact plates of a small electric battery. 0y ears start ringing, 1 istinctly hear the ouble beats of my own heart. !ow can one sleep when such things are going on@ 1 sit up an try to rive away these unpleasant sensations, but nothing comes out of my efforts. /he only result is that the flashes are no longer wi e an blurre but sharp an clear, like sparks or perhaps small chainsA they make it har to look aroun . /hen 1 remember: 1 ha very similar sensations a few years ago in <esochek, or to be more precise, in the #nchante Grove Cthe author is referring to localities of an entomological preserve in ;msk :egionD. 1 have to get up an walk aroun the lakeshore. 3oes it feel like this everywhere aroun hereB 'o: here, a meter from the e ge, 1 feel a clear effect of 6something6, while ten meters further into the steppe the effect clearly isappears. 1t becomes a bit frightening: 1 am alone in the eserte steppe, by the 6#nchante <ake6. 1 shoul 7uickly pack up an clear out. &ut my curiosity takes over: what is this, reallyB "oul it be that the smell of lake water an slime is oing this to meB 1 go own, un er the steep an sit own by the water. /he thick, sweetish smell of sapropel-rotte remains of algae-is enveloping me like in a mu spa. 1 sit there for five, ten minutes-no unpleasant sensations. 1t woul be suitable to sleep here, if it weren8t so wet. 1 climb the steppe-same ol story@ 0y hea is spinning, 1 again get that 6galvanic6, sour taste in the mouth an feel as though my weight is changing-1 am at one moment incre ibly light, an unbearably heavy at the ne5t. 1 see flashes in my eyes. 1f it was

in ee a 6ba spot6, some nasty anomaly, then there woul be no grass here, an large bees woul not be nesting in the loamy steppe. 0eanwhile, their nests are all over it-in fact, 1 was trying to make my be right above their un ergroun 6bee city6 in whose epths there is of course a multitu e of tunnels, chambers, lots of larvae, cocoons-all of them alive an healthy. 1 un erstoo nothing that time. 1 got up with a hea ache even before sunrise an , tire , hobble off towar the roa to get a hitch to 1silkul. /hat summer 1 visite the 6#nchante <ake6 four more times, at various times of ay, an un er various weather con itions. &y the en of the summer my bees got incre ibly busy stuffing their holes with flower pollen-in a wor , they were feeling great. Fhich I wasn8t: a meter from the e ge of the steppe, above their nests, 1 again ha a set of most unpleasant sensations. >ive meters away, 1 ha none... 2n there was the same ol bewil erment: why, why o these bees feel so goo here that the entire steppe is apple with their holes like Swiss cheese, an in places, almost like a spongeB /he solution came many years later, when the bee city in ?amyshlovo valley ie : the tillage came to the very e ge which conse7uently fell off. 'ow instea of grass an bee holes, there is nothing there but an atrocious heap of mu . 1 only ha a han ful of ol clay lumps-fragments of those nests, with multiple chamber cells. /he cells were si e by si e an remin e of small thimbles, or little +ugs with narrowing necks. 1 alrea y knew that these bees were of the 7ua ruple ring species-that was the number of light rings on their elongate bellies. ;n my esk, packe with e7uipment, ant- an grasshopper-houses, bottles with chemicals, an other stuff, 1 ha a wi e receptacle fille with these spongy clay lumps. 1 was about to pick something up an move my han over these porous fragments. 2 miracle happene : 1 su enly felt warmth emanating from them. 1 touche the lumps with my han -they were col , but above them 1 felt a clear thermal sensation. &esi es, in my fingers 1 felt some hitherto unknown +erks, some sort of 6tick6 as it were. 2n when 1 pushe the bowl with the nests to the en of the esk an leane over it, 1 felt the same sensation as on the lake-my hea was getting

lighter an bigger, the bo y was falling own, the eyes saw rapi flashes, an the mouth taste an electric battery. 1 was feeling slightly nauseous... 1 put a sheet of car boar on top of the bowl-the sensation i n8t change. 2 pot li change nothing eitherA it was as if the 6something6 was cutting right through it. 1 ha to stu y the phenomenon at once. &ut what coul 1 o at home, without the necessary physical instrumentsB 1 got assistance from many research scientists of various institutes of the 2gricultural 2ca emy in 'ovosibirsk. &ut alas, the instruments-either thermometers, or ultrasoun etectors, magnetometers an electrometers- i not respon to them in the slightest. Fe con ucte a precise chemical analysis of the clay-nothing special. /he ra iometer was also silent... &ut or inary human han s, an not +ust mine, istinctly felt either warmth or a col raft an a tingle, or sometimes a thicker, stickier environment. Some people8s han s got heavier, others felt theirs were pushe upA some people8s fingers an arm muscles got numb, they felt gi y an ha profuse salivation. Similar phenomena coul be observe in a bunch of paper tubes inhabite by leaf-cutting bees. #ach tunnel ha a soli row of multi-layere cans of torn leaves, covere with concave li s $also of leaves%. 1nsi e the cans there were silk, oval cocoons with larvae an chrysali es. 1 aske people who knew nothing of my iscovery to hol their han s or faces over the leaf-cutter nests, an took a etaile recor of the e5periment. /he results may be foun in my article 6;n the physical an biological properties of pollinator bee nests6 publishe in the Siberian Bulletin of Agricultural Science, no.3, ()*E. /he same article contains the formula of the iscovery-a brief physical escription of this won erful phenomenon. &ase on the structure of bee nests, 1 create a few o,en artificial honeycombs-of plastic, paper, metal, an woo . 1t turne out that the cause of all those unusual sensations was not a biological fiel , but the si,e, shape, number, an the arrangement of caverns forme by any soli ob+ects. 2n as before, the organism felt it, while the instruments were silent.

1 calle the iscovery the "avernous Structures #ffect $"S#% an carrie on with my e5periments. 'ature continue to reveal its innermost secrets one after another... 1t turne out that the "S# ,one inhibits the growth of saprophytic soil bacteria, of yeast an other cultures, as well as wheat grain germination. 1t also changes the behavior of microscopic algea chlamy ospores. <eafcutting bee larvae begin to phosphoresce, while a ult bees are much more active in this fiel an finish pollination two weeks earlier. 1t turne out that the "S#, like gravitation, coul not be shiel e -it affecte living organisms through walls, thick metal, an other screens. 1t turne out that if a porous ob+ect were move to another spot, the human woul feel the "S# not imme iately but in a few secon s or minutes, while the ol spot woul retain a 6trace6, or as 1 calle it, a 6phantom6 perceivable by the han for hours, an sometimes for months thereafter. 1t turne out that the "S# fiel i not ecrease evenly with istance, but surroun e the honeycomb with a system of invisible, yet sometimes clearly perceivable 6shells6. 1t turne out that animals $white mice% an humans entering the ,one of the "S# $even a very strong one% soon a apte to it. 1t coul n8t be otherwise: we are everywhere surroun e by caverns large an small: by gri s, cells of living an ea plants $as well as our own cells%, by bubbles of foam-rubber, foam plastic, foam concrete, rooms, corri ors, halls, roofing, spaces between machine parts, trees, furniture, buil ings. 1t turne out that the "S# 6ray6 ha a stronger impact on living organisms when it was irecte away from the sun, an also ownwar s, facing the #arth8s center.

1t turne out that clocks-both mechanical an electronic-place in a strong "S# fiel starte running inaccurately-/ime must also have a part in it. 2ll this was the manifestation of the Fill of 0atter, constantly moving, transforming, an eternally e5isting. 1t turne out that back in the -4s the >rench physicist <ouis es &roglie was awar e the 'obel =ri,e for his iscovery of these waves, an that the latter were use in electronic microscopes. 1t turne out... well, many other things transpire in my e5periments an research, but they woul lea us into soli -state physics, 7uantum mechanics, elementary-particle physics, i. e far away from the main characters of our narrative: insects... 0eanwhile, 1 i manage to evise instruments for an ob+ective registration of the "S#instruments that accurately reacte to the pro5imity of insect nests. !ere they are in the rawing: seale vessels with straws an burnt twigs- rawing coals-suspen e on spi er web threa s. /here is some water at the bottom to counter static electricity hin ering e5periments in ry air. 1f you point an ol wasp nest, a bee honeycomb, a bunch of cereal ears to the upper en of the in icator, it slowly moves a few o,en egrees... /here is no miracle here: the energy of scintillating electrons of both multi-cavernous bo ies creates a total wave system in space, whereby a wave is energy capable of performing a mutual repulsion of these ob+ects-even through obstacles, such as a thick-walle steel capsule $see photograph%. 1t is har to imagine that its armor is powerless to stop waves of a tiny, light wasp nest seen in the picture, an that the in icator insi e this heavy, soli capsule 6runs away6-sometimes as far as (*4 egrees-from this longvacant nest. Het it is so. /hose who have oubts are invite to visit the 2groecology 0useum near 'ovosibirsk-you8ll see it for yourselves. *

/he same museum isplays an always-active honeycomb painkiller. 1t is a chair with an overhea cap that has a few empty, but intact combs of the honeybee $6 ry6 honeycombs, in the beekeeper vocab% in it. 2nyone who sits in this chair will after a few minutes almost certainly feel something $please write to me what e5actly you feel, 18ll be grateful%, while those with a hea ache will in +ust a few minutes say goo bye to the pain-at least for a few hours. 0y painkillers are successfully use in many parts of the country-1 ma e no secret of my iscovery. /he han will clearly sense the emanation if you take it from below, palm up, to the cap with bee honeycombs. /he cap coul be ma e of car boar , veneer, or better still, of tin plate with tightly seale seams. Het another gift from insects... /his was my reasoning at first: people have been ealing with the honeybee for thousan s of years, no one has ever complaine of anything unpleasant, e5cept of course stings. 1 hel a ry honeycomb over my hea -it was working@ 1 eci e to use a set of si5 frames. Such was the story of my rather simple iscovery. 2n ol wasp nest works 7uite ifferently, even though the si,e an shape of its cells are very close to those of bees. /he important ifference was that the honeycomb material, unlike that of wa5, is more crumbly an micro-porous: it is paper-like $by the way, it was wasps that invente paper, not people: they scrape ol woo fiber an mi5 it with their sticky saliva%. Falls of the wasp honeycomb are much thinner than those of bees, the cell si,e an pattern are also ifferent, as is the outer shell, also ma e of multi-layere , loosely wrappe paper. 1 ha reports of a highly unpleasant effect of a few wasp nests in an attic. 2n besi es, most multi-cell evices an ob+ects that will manifest "S# in the first few minutes have a far from beneficial effect on humans. !oneybee combs are a rare e5ception. 2n when in the ()94s we ha bumblebees living in our 1silkul apartment, 1 often observe the following. 2 young bumblebee on its first trip away from the hive i not take the trouble to remember the entrance an woul spen hours wan ering aroun the win ows of our house an of a similar-looking house nearby. 2n in the evening, giving up on its poor visual memory, it woul lan on the brick wall, precisely outsi e the hive an woul try to break right through it. !ow i the insect know that right there, four meters away from the entrance, an a meter an a half below, behin the thick, half-meter wall was its home

nestB 2t the time 1 was lost in con+ectures, but now 1 know e5actly why the bumblebee behave like that. 2n ama,ing fin , woul n8t you agreeB 'ow let us remember the e5periment in which hunter wasps returne not +ust to a given location, but to an entirely ifferent place where the lump of soil with their nest ha been move : no oubt, they were able to fin it because of a wave beacon create by the nest cavern. 2n there was another mystery reveale to me by my insect frien s. 1t turne out that to attract their pollinators, flowers use not only color, o or, an nectar, but also a similar wave beacon, powerful an unstoppable. 1 iscovere it with a rawing coal-a burnt twig-by passing it over large, bell-shape flowers $tulips, lilies, amaryllises, mallows, pumpkins%. 2lrea y at a istance 1 coul feel a 6braking6, as it were, of this etector. Soon 1 was able to fin a flower in a ark room stan ing one or two meters away from it-but only if it ha not been move , because a 6false target6 woul be left in its ol place-the 6resi ual phantom6 1 alrea y mentione . 1 o not possess any supersensory abilities, an any person after some training woul be able to o the same. 1nstea of coal one coul use a (4-cm-long piece of a yellow sorghum stem, or a short pencil whose rear en shoul be facing the flower. Some people woul be able to feel the flower $a 6warm6, 6col 6, or 6shivering6 sensation emanating from it% with their bare han s, tongues, or even faces. 2s many e5periments emonstrate , chil ren an a olescents are particularly sensitive to Faves of 0atter. 2s for bees that nest un ergroun , their 6knowle ge6 of the "S# is vital for them first of all, because it enables the buil er of a new gallery to stay away from a neighboring nest. ;therwise the entire bee-city cut through with intersecting holes woul simply collapse. Secon ly, plant roots cannot be allowe to grow own into the galleries an honeycombs. /hus roots stop a few centimeters away from the honeycomb, or else, feeling that nests are near, they start growing asi e. /he latter conclusion was confirme by my many e5periments on sprouting wheat see s in a strong "S# fiel , as compare to see s germinating in the same climatic con itions but in the absence of the "S#. =hotographs an rawings show both the ying of roots

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in the e5perimental batch an their sharp eviation in a irection away from my 6artificial honeycomb6. /hus bees an wee s back at the lake ha long ago ma e a pact-another e5ample of the highest ecological e5pe iency of all &eing. 2n in that same spot on the globe we see yet another e5ample of people8s mercilessly ignorant attitu e to 'ature... /he bee-city is now goneA every spring thick streams of fertile black earth soil run own, between filthy heaps of trash, to the lifeless, salty pu les that not too long ago were a string of lakes with countless flocks of san pipers an ucks, white swans, an hovering fish-hawks. 2n by the steppe thinne out by bee holes, one use to hear the hum of hun re s of thousan s of bees that for the first time le me into the Inknown. 1 must have tire the rea er with all these honeycombs of mine... 2 separate thick book woul be re7uire to escribe all my e5periments. /herefore 1 will only mention one thing: my pocket, battery-powere calculator often malfunctione in the "S# fiel : it either erre , or sometimes its isplay win ow woul fail to light up for hours. 1 use the fiel of a wasp nest combine with that of my two palms. 'one of these structures ha any effect in isolation. 1 will also note that han s with their tubular phalan5es, +oints, ligaments, bloo vessels, an nails are intensive "S# emanators capable of giving a powerful push to the straw or coal in icator of my little instrument from a couple of meters8 istance. =ractically anyone coul o it. /his is why 1 am convince that there are no people with supersensory abilities, or rather that all the people have them... 2n the number of those who from a istance can move light-weight ob+ects on a table, hol them suspen e in the air or 6magnetically6 attache to the han is far greater than is usually thought. /ry it yourself@ 1 look forwar to your letters. /here once was an ancient folk game: one man sits on a chair, an over his hea , four of his frien s 6buil 6 a gri of hori,ontally stretche palms with slightly sprea fingers-first right han s, then left, with - cm gaps between them. 1n (4-(. secon s, all four synchronously put their presse -together in e5 an mi le fingers un er the armpits an un er the knees of the sitting man, an then they energetically toss him up in the air. /he time between 6collapsing6 the gri an tossing the man must not e5cee two secon sA the synchronicity is also very important. 1f everything is one right, a (44-kilo man flies up almost to the ceiling, while the ones who tosse him claim he was light as a feather. 2 strict rea er may ask me how it is possible. 3oesn8t it all contra ict laws of natureB 2n if so, am 1 not propagating mysticismB 'othing of the sort@ /here is no mysticism, the thing is simply that we, humans, still know little of the Iniverse which, as we see, not always 6accepts6 our, all too human rules, assumptions, an or ers... ;nce it awne on me: the results of my e5periments with insect nests bear too much similarity to the reports of people who happene to be in the vicinity of... I>;s. /hink an compare: temporary malfunctioning of electronic evices, isrupte clocks-i. e., time, an invisible, resilient 6obstacle6, a temporary rop in the weight of ob+ects, the sensation of a rop in

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human weight, phosphenes-moving, colore flashes in the eyes, a 6galvanic6 taste in the mouth... 1 am sure you have rea about all this in I>; +ournals. 1 am now telling you it can all be e5perience in our 0useum. "ome visit@ Fas 1 stan ing on the threshol of yet another mysteryB Juite so. 2n again 1 was helpe by chance, or rather by my ol insect frien s. 2n again there were sleepless nights, failures, oubts, break owns, even acci ents... 2n 1 ha no one to turn to for a vice-they woul have +ust laughe , or worse... &ut 1 can say this, my rea er: he is happy who has a more or less a e7uate use of his eyes, hea , an han s-skillful han s are particularly important@-an trust me, the +oy of creative work, even of work that en s in failure, is far higher an brighter than earning any iplomas, me als, or patents.

Flying an Anti-gravitational latfor! $excerpts from a diary) Ku ge it for yourself from my iary e5cerpts-obviously simplifie an a apte for this book. =ictures an rawings will help you to evaluate my story... 2 hot summer ay. >araway e5panses rown in a bluish-lilac ha,eA the sky8s gigantic cupola with fluffy clou s stretches above the fiel s an coppices. 1 am flying about 344 meters above groun , with a istant lake-a light, elongate spot in the ha,e-as my reference point. &lue, intricate tree contours slowly rece eA between them, there are fiel s. /hose, bluish-green ones are fiel s of oatsA the whitish rectangles with a strange, rhythmic twinkling are those of buckwheat. Straight ahea of me is a fiel of alfalfa-its green color is familiar, it resembles the oil paint 6cobalt me ium-green6. Green oceans of wheat on the right are of a enser sha e an resemble the 6chrome o5i e6 paint. 2n enormous, multi-colore palette floats further an further backwar s. >ootpaths mean er between fiel s an coppices. /hey +oin gravel roa s which it turn stretch further out, towar the highway, still invisible from here for the ha,e, but 1 know that if 1 flew on the right si e of the lake, 1 woul see it-a smooth, gray strip without a beginning or an en , on which cars-small bo5es-are slowly crawling. 1sometric, flat sha ows of cumulus clou s are pictures7uely sprea aroun the sunny forest-steppe. /hey are eep-blue where they cover coppices, an are various sha es of light blue over fiel s. 'ow 1 am in the sha ow of one such clou : 1 accelerate-it8s 7uite easy for me to o that-an leave the sha ow. 1 lean forwar slightly an feel a warm, taut win coming far own below, from the sunwarme groun an plants. 1t comes not from the si e, as on the groun , but strangely (-

from the surface up. 1 physically feel a thick, ense current with a strong o or of blooming buckwheat. ;f course this +et can easily lift up even a large bir -an eagle, a stork, or a crane-if it free,es its sprea wings. &ut 1 have no wings an am suspen e in the air not by the upwar +et. 1n my flight 1 am supporte by a flat, rectangular little platform, slightly bigger than the seat of a chair, with a pole an two han les to which 1 hol on an with whose help 1 navigate the evice. 1s this science fictionB 1 woul n8t say so... 1n a wor , the interrupte manuscript of this book was aban one for two years because generous, ancient 'ature, again through my insect frien s ha given me another Something-an it i so, as usual, elegantly an inconspicuously, yet swiftly an convincingly. 2n for two years the 3iscovery i not let me go, even though it seeme to me 1 was mastering it at a break-neck spee . $'ote: Grebennikov woul have been appro5imately 9--93 years of age in ())4-())-% &ut it always happens this way: when your work is new an interesting, time flies twice as fast. 2 light spot of a steppe lake is alrea y much closer. &eyon it, the highway is visible with alrea y istinctly iscernable bo5es of cars. /he highway is about *km away from the railway that runs parallel to it, an if 1 look closer, 1 can see the poles of the power line an the lightcolore embankment of the railway. 1t is time to turn some -4 egrees to the left. 1 am not seen from the groun , an not +ust because of the istance: even in a very low flight 1 cast almost no sha ow. Het, as 1 foun out later, people sometimes see something where 1 am in the sky-either a light sphere, a isk, or something like a slante clou with sharp e ges that moves, accor ing to them, not e5actly the way a clou woul .

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;ne person observe a 6flat, non-transparent s7uare, about one hectare in si,e6-coul it have been the optically enlarge little platform of my eviceB 0ost people see nothing at all, an 1 am for the moment please with it-1 can8t be too careful@ &esi es, 1 still haven8t etermine what my visibility or invisibility epen s on. /herefore 1 confess that 1 consciously avoi people in my flight an for that purpose bypass cities an towns, an even cross roa s an footpaths at high spee , after making sure there is no one on them. 1n these e5cursions-no oubt, fictional for the rea er, but for me alrea y almost casual-1 trust only my insect frien s epicte on these pages. /he first practical use of my iscovery was-an still is-entomological: to e5amine my secret places, to take a picture of them from above, to fin new, still une5amine 1nsect <an s in nee of protection an rescue. 2las, 'ature establishe its own, strict limitations on my work: +ust as on a passenger plane, 1 coul see but coul n8t photograph. 0y camera shutter woul n8t close, an both rolls of films 1 ha taken with me-one in the camera, the other in my pocket-got light-struck. 1 i n8t succee in sketching the lan scape eitherA as both my han s were almost always busy, 1 coul only free one han for a couple of secon s. /hus 1 coul only raw from memory. 1 manage to o that only imme iately after lan ing-though 1 am an artist, my visual memory is not that great. 1n my flight 1 i not feel the same way we o when we fly in our sleep. 1t was with flying in my sleep that 1 starte this book a while ago. 2n flying is not so much pleasure as it is work, sometimes very har an angerous. ;ne has to stan , not hover, the han s are always busy, an a few centimeters away there is a bor er separating 6this6 space from 6that6, on the outsi e. /he bor er is invisible but very treacherous. 0y contraption is still rather clumsy an resembles perhaps... hospital scales. &ut this is only the beginning@ &y the way, besi es the camera, 1 sometimes ha trouble with my watch an possibly, with the calen ar too: escen ing on a familiar gla e, 1 woul occasionally fin it slightly 6out of season6, with a two-week eviation, an 1 ha nothing to check it against.

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/hus it is possible to fly not +ust in space but also-or so it seems-in time as well. 1 cannot make the latter claim with a (44L guarantee, e5cept perhaps that in flight, particularly at its beginning, a watch runs too slow an then too fast, but at the en of the e5cursion starts running accurately again. /his is why 1 stay away from people uring my +ourneys: if time is involve alongsi e gravitation, 1 might perhaps acci entally isrupt cause-an -effect relations an someone might get hurt. /his is where my fears were coming from: insects capture 6there6 isappear from test tubes, bo5es, an other receptacles. /hey isappear mostly without a trace. ;nce a test tube in my pocket was crushe to tiny bits, another time there was an oval hole in the glass, with brown, as though 6chitin6 e ges-you can see it in the picture. 0any times 1 felt a kin of burning or an electric shock insi e my pocket-perhaps at the moment of my prisoner8s 6 isappearance6. ;nly once i 1 fin a capture insect in the test tube, but it wasn8t the a ult ichneumon with white rings on its feelers, but its... chrysalis, i. e. its earlier stage. 1t was alive-it move its belly when touche . 0uch to my ismay, it ie a week later. 1t is best to fly on clear summer ays. >lying is much more ifficult when it rains, an almost impossible in winter-not because of the col . 1 coul have a apte my evice accor ingly, but since 1 am an entomologist, 1 simply o not nee winter flights. !ow an why i 1 come to this iscoveryB 1n the summer of ()**, as 1 was e5amining un er a microscope the chitin shells of insects, their pinnate $feathery% feelers, an the thinnest structure of butterflies8 wings, 1 got intereste in an ama,ingly rhythmical microstructure of one large insect etail. 1t was an e5tremely well-or ere composition, as though presse on a comple5 machine accor ing to special blueprints an calculations. 2s 1 saw it, the intricate sponginess was clearly not necessary either for the urability of the etail, or for its ecoration. 1 ha never observe anything like this unusual micro-ornament either in nature, in technology, or in art. &ecause its structure is three- imensional, so far 1 have been unable to capture it in a rawing, or a photograph. Fhy oes an insect nee itB &esi es, other than in flight, this structure at the bottom of the wing case is always hi en from the eye-no one woul ever see it properly. Fas it perhaps the wave beacon with 6my6 multiple cavernous structures effectB /hat truly lucky summer there were very many insects of this species, an 1 woul capture them at night: neither before, nor after was 1 able to observe these insects.

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1 put the small, concave chitin plate on the microscope shelf in or er again to e5amine un er strong magnification its strangely star-shape cells. 1 again a mire this masterpiece of nature, an almost purposelessly place it on top of another, i entical plate that ha the same unusual cells on one of its si es. &ut no@-the etail broke loose from my twee,ersA for a few secon s it hung suspen e above the other plate on the microscope shelf, turne a few egrees clockwise, sli to the right, turne counterclockwise, swung, an only then abruptly fell on the esk. Hou can imagine what 1 felt at that moment... Fhen 1 came to my senses, 1 tie a few panels with a wire-it wasn8t an easy thing to o, an 1 only succee e when 1 positione them vertically. Fhat 1 got was a multi-layere chitin block. 1 put it on the esk. #ven a relatively large ob+ect-such as a paper tack-coul not fall on it-something pushe it up an asi e. Fhen 1 attache the tack on top of the 6block6, 1 witnesse such incre ible, impossible things $for e5ample, the tack for a few moments was lost from sight% that 1 reali,e it was no beacon, but something else entirely. 2n again 1 got so e5cite that all the ob+ects aroun me became foggy an shaky. 1t was with a huge effort that 1 manage to pull myself together in a couple of hours an continue working. So, this is how it starte . ;f course, much still remains to be un erstoo , verifie , an teste . 1 will certainly tell my rea ers about the finer etails of my machine, about its propulsion principles, about istances, heights, spee s, e7uipment, an all the rest-but in my ne5t book. ...1 con ucte my first, very unsuccessful an highly angerous flight on the night of 0arch (G, ())4. 1 i n8t have the patience to wait till the warm season an neglecte to go to a eserte area. 1 alrea y knew that night was the most angerous time for this kin of work. 1 ha ba luck from the very beginning: the panel blocks of the right part of the bearing platform perio ically got stuck. 1 shoul have fi5e the problem imme iately, but neglecte to o so. 1 took off right in the mi le of the 2gricultural 2ca emy campus, erroneously assuming that at ( 20 everyone was asleep, an nobo y woul see me. /he lift-off went well, but in a few secon s, when the lit win ows of buil ings sank beneath me, 1 felt i,,y. 1 shoul have lan e right then but remaine airborne, which was wrong because a powerful force snatche away my control over the movement an weight, an it pulle me in the irection of the city. 3rawn by this une5pecte , uncontrollable power, 1 crosse the secon circle of nine-story buil ings in the city8s resi ential area $they are lai out in two huge circles with five-story buil ings, inclu ing ours, insi e them%, then 1 crosse a snow-covere , narrow fiel , an the 2ca emy "ity highway... /he ark immensity of 'ovosibirsk was closing in upon

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me, an it was closing in fast. 1 was alrea y near a bunch of tall factory chimneys many of which fume thick smoke-night shift was on. 1 ha to o something 7uickly. 1 got on top of the situation only with a great effort. >inally 1 manage to con uct an emergency a +ustment of the panel blocks. 0y hori,ontal movement slowe own, but then 1 again felt sick. ;nly at fourth try i 1 succee in stopping the hori,ontal movement, at which point my platform was hanging over Matulinka, the city8s in ustrial istrict. /he sinister chimneys silently continue to fume right un erneath me. 1 reste for a few minutes-if one coul call hanging over a lighte factory fence rest-an after 1 ma e sure the 6evil power6 has passe , 1 gli e back-yet not in the irection of our 2gricultural 2ca emy campus but to the right from it, towar the airport. 1 i this to foul the trail, in case someone ha seen me. ;nly about halfway to the airport, over some ark, night fiel s where there was clearly no one aroun , 1 abruptly turne home... 'e5t ay 1 naturally coul n8t get out of be . 'ews on /V an in newspapers was more than alarming. !ea lines, such as 6I>; over Matulinka6 an 62liens againB6 meant that my flight ha been etecte . &ut how@ Some perceive the 6phenomenon6 as glowing spheres or isks-many actually saw not one sphere but two@ ;thers claime they ha seen a 6real saucer6 with win ows an rays. 1 am not iscounting the possibility that some Matulino resi ents saw not my nearemergency evolutions, but something else entirely that ha nothing to o with those. &esi es, 0arch of ())4 was particularly rich in I>; sightings in Siberia, near 'alchik, an especially in &elgium where, accor ing to Pravda, on 0arch 3( the engineer 0arcel 2lferlane took a two-minute film of the flight of a huge triangular craft which, accor ing to &elgian scientists, were none other than 6material ob+ects with a capacity no civili,ation can currently create.6 1s it really soB 2s for me, 1 woul suggest that the gravitational filter platforms $or as 1 call them, panel blocks% of these machines were in fact small, triangular, an ma e here on #arth-but with more sophistication than my half-woo en contraption. 1 too wante to make the platform triangular-it is much safer an more efficient that way-but 1 chose a rectangular esign because it is easier to fol , an when fol e , it resembles a suitcase, a painter8s case, or a briefcase that can be thus isguise so as not to arouse suspicion. 1, naturally, isguise it as a painter8s case. 1 ha nothing to o with the sightings in 'alchik or &elgium. &esi es, as it may appear, 1 am very impractical in the use of my iscovery-1 only fly to

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my entomological preserves. /hese are far more important to me than any technological fin s. 2t the moment, 1 have eleven such preserves: eight in ;msk region, one in Vorone,h region, an one near 'ovosibirsk. /here use to be si5 of them in 'ovosibirsk region, all of them create , or rather salvage by me an my family, but they on8t like them here. 'either the 2gricultural 2ca emy $still more obsesse with 6chemistry6 than with anything else%, nor the #nvironmental =rotection "ommittee were willing to help me salvage these little preserves from evil, ignorant people. /hus 1 am continuing my +ourney westwar un er the magnificent, fluffy clou s at noon. /he blue sha ows of the clou s, the intricately shape coppices, an the multicolore rectangles of fiel s float backwar s below me. /he spee of my flight is 7uite high, but there is no win in my ears-the platform8s force fiel has 6carve out6 from space an upwar - iverging, invisible column that cuts the platform off the earth8s gravitational pull. &ut it left me an the air insi e the column intact. 1 think that all this, as it were, parts space in flight, an then closes it behin me. /his must be the reason for the invisibility, or the istorte visibility, of the evice an its 6ri er6-as was the case with my flight over 'ovosibirsk8s Matulinka suburb. &ut the protection from gravity is regulate , even though it is incomplete: if you move your hea forwar , you alrea y feel the turbulence of the win that clearly smells either of sweet clover, of buckwheat, or of the colore wee s of Siberian mea ows. 1 leave 1silkul with its huge grain elevator on my right an gra ually begin to escen over the highway, making sure that 1 am invisible to rivers, passengers, an people working in the fiel . 0y platform an 1 cast no sha ow $although the sha ow occasionally appears%: 1 see three ki s on the e ge of a forest, go own, rop my spee , an fly right near them. /hey show no reaction, which means that everything is fine-neither 1, nor my sha ow are visible. ;r hear : the propulsion principle of my evice is such that the platform makes no soun whatsoever, because there is practically no air friction. 0y +ourney was long-at least forty minutes from 'ovosibirsk. 0y han s are tire as 1 can8t take them off the controls, so are my legs an bo y-1 have to stan up straight, tie to the vertical pole with a belt. 2n even though 1 can travel faster, 1 am still afrai to o so-my han -ma e machine is still too small an fragile.

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1 again go up an ahea , an soon 1 see the familiar lan marks-a roa intersection, a passenger terminal on the right si e of the highway. 2nother five kilometers, an finally 1 see orange columns of the =reserve fence. /he =reserve is this year-come to think of it()

twenty years ol @ !ow many times 1 save this chil of mine from trouble an bureaucrats, from chemicals-loa e aircraft, from fires, an many other evil ee s. 2n the <an of 1nsects is alive an well@ 3escen ing an braking, which is one by cross-shifting filter blin s un er the platform boar , 1 alrea y see the thicket of carrot wee , make out the light hea s of their flowers resembling a,ure balls-they are of course covere with insects, an an incre ible +oy comes over me, taking away my fatigue, for it was 1 who save this piece of #arth, even if a small one, less than seven hectares. 2lrea y for twenty years no one has riven here, no one has cut the grass, ten e cattle, an the soil has risen in places to fourteen centimeters high. 'ot only several locally e5tinct species of insects have returne , but also such wee s as feather grass of rare varieties, purple Scor,onera whose large flowers in the morning smell of chocolate, an many other plants. 1 feel the thick smell of cuckoo flower-only this 0i le Gla e smells like that, it is right behin the fence of the preserve, an fills me with yet again with the +oyful anticipation of another encounter with the Forl of 1nsects. !ere they are, 1 can see them very well even from ten meters above the groun on the wi e umbrellas an a,ure balls of angelica an carrot plants: ark orange butterflies sit on them in groupsA heavy hornets bow the white an yellow inflorescences of la y8s be strawsA ginger an blue ragonflies with trembling wi e wings an a fine network of veins hover ne5t to my hea . 1 slow own even more, an see a su en flash below: my sha ow, hitherto invisible, has finally appeare an now slowly gli es along wee s an bushes. &ut 1 am alrea y safe-there is not a soul aroun , an the highway three hun re meters north of the preserve is now empty. 1 can lan . /he stems of the tallest wee s rustle against the bottom of my 6po ium6-the platform with the panel blocks. &ut before putting it own on a little bump, 1, in a fit of +oy, again sprea the blin s with my control han le, an vertically go up. /he lan scape below 7uickly shrinks, shrivels as it were: the shrubs of the preserve, its e ges an fences, all the surroun ing coppices an fiel s. /he hori,on begins to curve on all si es in a huge groove, opening up the railroa that runs two kilometers on the left, then a village on the right-it twinkles with its light slate roofs. >urther on the right is :oslavka, the central estate of <esnoy State >arm-it alrea y looks like a small city. <eft from the railroa are cow farms of <esnoy8s ?omsomolsk branchA they are surroun e by a yellow ring of straw an ry, foot-worn manure. 1n the far west, where the smooth curve of the railroa isappears $this is actually confusing: the railway is straight as an arrow%, there are small houses an the neat white cube of the Hunino railroa terminal, si5 km away. &eyon Hunino, there are limitless e5panses of ?a,akhstan rowning in the hot, bluish ha,e. 2n finally here it is, below me-1silkulia, the lan of my youthA it8s very ifferent from how it appears on maps an plans with their inscriptions an signs. 1t is vast, limitless,

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alive, intersperse with ark, intricate islan s of coppices, clou y sha ows, light, clear spots of lakes. /he huge isk of the #arth with all this for some reason appears more an more concave1 still haven8t iscovere the reason for this alrea y familiar illusion. 1 go up higher, the rare, white clou masses sink lower, an the sky is arker than below-it is ark blue. /he fiel s visible between the clou s are alrea y covere with a thickening blue ha,e, an it is more an more ifficult to make them out. /oo ba 1 can8t take my four-year-ol gran son 2n rei with meA the platform coul easily lift us both. Het one can8t be too careful... ... Goo ness, what am 1 oingB 1 cast a sha ow back on the Gla e, i n8t 1B /his means 1 can be seen by thousan s, as on that memorable night in 0arch. 1t is ay now, an 1 may again appear as a isk, s7uare, or worse, my own person... /here is also a cargo plane, still soun less, coming straight at me, 7uickly growing in si,eA 1 alrea y see the col shimmer of its bo y an the pulsation of its unnaturally re blinker. 3own, 7uick@ 1 brake abruptly, make a turnA the sun is at my backA my sha ow shoul be across from me, on the gigantic, conve5 wall of a white clou . &ut there is none, only a multicolore glory, an iri escent, bright ring familiar to all pilots has brushe the clou ahea of me. 1 sigh with relief-this means nobo y saw either me, or my 6 ouble6 in the guise of a triangle, s7uare, or a 6banal6 saucer... 2 thought occurs to me $1 must say that espite the esperate technical an physical inconvenience, imagination works much better an faster in a 6falling6 flight%: what if 1 am not the only one out of five billion people to have ma e my iscoveryA what if flying evices base on the same principle-both home-ma e an professional-have long been constructe an teste B &ut all screening platforms have the same 7uality: sometimes they become visible to other peopleA pilots too are 6transforme 6-they are seen as 6humanoi s6 in silver costumes, either short an green, or flat as if ma e of car boar $Vorone,h, ()*)%, etc. /hus it may very well be that these are not alien I>; crewmen, but 6temporarily eforme 6-of course to outsi e observers-earthly pilots an buil ers of little platforms, such as mine, who have ma e their inventions reliable. 0y a vice to those who in their stu y of insects comes across the same phenomenon an begin making an testing a 6gravitoplane6 $by the way, 1 am convince that one can8t make the iscovery without insects% is this: to fly only on fine summer ays, to avoi working in thun erstorms or rain, not to get too far or too high, not take a thing with you from the lan ing area, to make all assembly units ma5imally strong, an to avoi testing the evice in the vicinity of any power lines, towns $let alone cities%, transport, or people. /he best site for testing is a istant forest gla e, as far away from human habitation as possibleA otherwise a phenomenon known as poltergeist coul occur in the ra ius of a few

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o,en meters-6une5plaine 6 movements of househol ob+ects, switching off, or on, of househol electric appliances, an even fires. 1 myself have no e5planation for all this, but it seems that these phenomena are the conse7uence of temporal isruptions, a complicate an treacherous thing. 'ot a single, even tiniest fragment or particle shoul be roppe either uring the flight, or in the lan ing area. <et us remember the 3alnegorsk phenomenon of Kanuary -), ()*9-apparently a tragic one for the inventors, when the entire evice was blown apart an scattere on a vast area, an only small shre s of filter cells were foun , impossible to analy,e chemically $as it shoul be@%. :emember, 1 wrote that insects taken 6there6 an move 6here6 in a test tube isappeare , an a hole was forme in the tube, if it remaine intact. 1t turns out these holes resemble those in win ow glassA the latter sometimes appear in resi ential an office buil ings, occasionally in 6bursts6 in the win ows of several rooms an floors. 2 hole is 3-. mm on the outsi e, wi ening in a cone to he insi e, with e5it iameter of 9-(. mm. Some holes are melte or colore in brown on e ges-+ust as it happene in the case of my insect in a test tube. 1t seems that this type of poltergeist is cause not, as 1 use to believe, by short-live microplasmoi s of a tiny ball lightening type, but by particles an specks carelessly roppe while testing a evice similar to mine. /he photographs of win ow holes on these pages are ocumentary an ma e by me at the scientific center of the 2gricultural 2ca emy near 'ovosibirsk. 1 can show them to anyone who wants to see them. /hese holes appeare uring ()G.-())4, but none of them, e5cept perhaps the very last one, are relate to my flights. 1 am certain that part of I>; escriptions are actually those of platforms, panel blocks an other large parts of evices eliberately or acci entally taken out of the active fiel by their esigners an makers. /hese fragments are capable of causing much trouble to others, or at best, to generate a series of improbable tales an stories in papers an maga,ines, often accompanie by 6scientific6 commentary... Fhy am 1 not isclosing the particulars of my iscovery at this timeB >irstly, because one nee s time an energy for proving the truth. 1 have neither. 1 know how aunting this task is from my own bitter e5perience of trying to get recognition for my previous iscoveries, inclu ing such an obvious one as the "avernous Structures #ffect of whose reality you, my rea ers, 1 am sure, are by now convince . /his was the result of my protracte , painstaking efforts to get the "S# scientifically recogni,e : 62ny further correspon ence with you on the sub+ect of your patent application is counterpro uctive.6

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1 know personally some of the !igh =riests of Science, an 1 am certain that were 1 ever to get an au ience with one such person $which is now practically impossible%, were 1 ever toA open my painter8s case, attach the pole, turn the han le, an soar to the ceiling, he woul n8t be a bit impresse -or worse still, woul or er the trickster out of the office. 1 look forwar to times when young people will replace these 6priests6. /he secon reason for my 6non- isclosure6 is more ob+ective. 1 foun these antigravitational structures only in one species of Siberian insects. 1 am not even naming the class to which this insect belongs-it seems to be on the verge of e5tinction, an the population surge 1 registere back then was possibly local an final. /hus, if 1 were to name the genus an the species, what is the guarantee that ishonest people, half-way competent in biology, woul not rush out to ravines, mea ows, an forests to catch perhaps the very last samples of this 0iracle of 'atureB Fhat are the guarantees that they woul not plough up hun re s of gla es, cut own o,ens of forests to get to this potentially lucrative preyB /herefore, let all 1 have relate in this chapter an in the a en um remain science fictionA may 'ature herself never reveal this secret to them-it woul take a lot of effort, an they woul never be able to get it by force as there are still several million insect species living on the planet. Spen at least an hour on the morphological stu y of each of them, then calculate the o s of encountering the Inusual, an 1 will sincerely wish you iligence an a very long life, for even if you took no ays off, working eight hours a ay, you woul nee a thousan years of life. 1 hope 1 will be un erstoo an forgiven by those of my rea ers who wante imme iate information about my iscovery not for selfish en s, but simply out of curiosity. 1n ee , what woul you o in my place if you were to act in the best interests of <iving 'atureB &esi es, 1 can see that similar inventions have been ma e by other people who are also in no rush to take their iscoveries to bureaucrats8 offices, preferring to fly across night skies in the guise of strange isks, triangles, or s7uares with chatoyant $iri escent% glimmer. >alling own, or rather sinking own, 1 orient myself, look to see if there is anyone aroun . 1 brake abruptly about forty meters from the groun , an lan safely where 1 always o-on a tiny gla e in the &ig >orest of the preserve. Hou won8t fin it on a map, an if you get there, you won8t be able to fin it either. 3on8t +u ge me for the fact that the branches of several aspens there are cut or slice 6by lightening6: /he strictly vertical take-off an lan ing are very ifficult, an the initial tra+ectory is for the most part slante , particularly at take-off, when the platform is for some reason carrie off away from the sun, an sometimes the other way aroun .

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1 loosen the screws on the control pole, then shorten it like an antenna of a portable ra io, an remove it from the platform which 1 fol in half. 'ow it looks like a painter8s case, a bo5 for paints, if only a bit thicker. 1 put the case, some foo , an a few tools for repairing the fence in my backpack an make my way for the 0i le Gla e between aspens an short og-rose bushes. #ven before 1 leave the forest, 1 see a goo omen-a family of fire-re toa stools that have line up on the forest be ing in a wi e curve, or, as it use to be calle in folklore, a 6witch8s ring6. Fhy 6witch8s6B 2n in general, why oes one have to break, knock off, trample this beautiful mushroom of Siberian forestsB 1 often aske mushroom-pickers why they o it. /he answer was, 6because it8s ine ible@6 &ut turf, clay, twigs, tree stumps, an stones are ine ible too. 1f there were rocks lying in the forest instea of mushrooms, no one woul be knocking them off. 1t seems that ine ible mushrooms are knocke off because they are aliveA they are knocke off only in or er to kill them@ Fhat is this thenB 3o people really have this in their bloo -to knock off a mushroom, to crush a bug, to shoot a bir , a hare, or a bisonB 2n is this not where boorishness, sa ism, pogroms, an wars originateB ;ne really wants not to believe it, but 1 put myself in the shoes of an alien: 1 come to #arth to visit humans an see them knock off mushrooms, crush insects, shoot bir s an each other. Fhat woul 1 oB 1 woul imme iately turn my spacecraft aroun an go back. 1 woul n8t return for at least .44 earth years... Fhat woul you o, my rea er, if you were an alienB 1t8s a goo thing at least that this little family of toa stools is hi en from evil eyes an cruel feet. #very summer it gives me +oy to see its special life, its cinnabar-re , moist caps with large, whitish scales. &ut here is the Gla e. 1 step on it, as usual, with my heart sinking with a constant longing for this ear, faraway nature of 1silkul, with a fear that some 6master6 might eci e to plough it up, an with a +oy that it is still unploughe , uncut, an untrample ... 2n it really means nothing that in my backpack 1 have a fol e , i. e. neutrali,e platform with gravitational, micro-cellular filter blocks, an between them, a fol e pole with fiel regulators an a belt with which 1 fasten myself to the pole. Fhat ifference oes it make that 1 got about fifty years ahea of contemporary science with my iscoveryB =eople are still going to master this an many other mysteries of 0atter, Space, Gravitation, an /ime. &ut no supercivili,ation on any planet of any Supergala5y is going to re-create this very Gla e with its comple5, fragile, trembling <ife, with its la y8s be straws, mea ow sweets, an feather-grass... Fhere else, in what corner of the Iniverse are you going to fin a match for this lilacblue bellflower in whose semi-transparent entrails two flower flies are oing their love

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anceB ;n what other planet woul a nearly tame blue butterfly lan on your outstretche han to have a taste of something salty-sausage, cheese, or a pickleB ;r else, +ust to walk up an own your palm, opening an closing its gray wings on whose backsi e there is a fine ornament of roun eye-shape spotsB ...1t hasn8t been too long since we, humans, starte flying-first air balloons, then airplanes, an now powerful rockets that we sen to other heavenly bo ies. Fhat ne5tB 'e5t we are going to fly to other stars at a spee close to that of lightA but even the closest gala5y woul still be out of reach. Het !umankin -if it earns the name of 1ntelligent-will solve many ri les of the Iniverse an will then overcome that hur le too. /hen any worl s of the Iniverse will become accessible, close-even if they are trillions of light years away. 1t8ll happen, for it is all a matter of :eason, Science, an technology. &ut of nothing else. ;nly this Gla e may isappear if 1-an there is no one else to rely on-am not going to preserve it for my close an istant escen ants. So what is more valuable to !umanity at this time-the insect preserve or the home-ma e evice capable of eveloping the ,enithal pull of at least (44 kg an the hori,ontal spee of 34-E4 km/minB 1 am asking you, my rea er. &ut think har before you give a serious, responsible answer. <ook at these pictures. /his is my rather simple evice in assembly. 2 fle5ible cable insi e a steering column trasmits movement from the left han le to the gravitational blin s. &y +oining or parting these 6wing cases6, 1 lift off or lan . ;nce 1 lost the left han le in a free-falling escent an woul have been in a better worl if the platform ha n8t ug out a rather eep well in the tillage-first a vertical one, then a hori,ontal, facing away from the sun. /hus 1 not only survive , but also felt almost no impact-+ust arkness. 1 e5tracte myself an my fairly ba ly amage evice from this well-but not without efforts as the 6well6 ha no slag heaps@ 1 ha to use all my ingenuity to isguise it. 1f seen from the roa , it woul have cause much speculation, an may even have le some over-,ealous investigators to the culprit. Similar wells-also with a si e-tunnel an without slag heaps-were su enly forme on ;ctober -E, ()*) in the fiel s of ?hvorostyansk 3istrict of Samara :egion. Komsomol'skaya pravda escribe it in etail on 3ecember 9 of the same year. 1t seems 1 am not alone. 2n 7uite likely am 6inventing a bicycle6. Fell, actually the top part of my evice looks very much like one: the right han le is use for hori,ontal, onwar march achieve , also via a cable, by the incline of both groups of 6wing case6 blin s. 1 never fly faster than -. km/min, preferring to go ten times slower.

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...1 on8t know whether 1 have persua e you, my rea er, that similar evices will soon be available to practically everyone, while <iving 'ature which humans cannot survive without won8t be available to anyone if we on8t save it. &ut 1 on8t want to seem entirely gree y an will give researchers another =atent of 'ature, one also relate to 0ovement an Gravitation. =hysicists say that an unsupporte mover is impossible. 1n other wor s, a evice completely isolate from the environment won8t fly or rive-a car won8t go without outer wheels, a plane won8t fly with a covere propeller or engine, neither will a rocket with stoppe no,,les. &aron 0Nnchhausen who manage to pull himself up by the hair from a mire is the only e5ception. 1t happene near 'ovosibirsk in ()*( when we were stu ying the entomo-fauna of alfalfa-its pollinators an pests. Falking along the fiel , 1 was 6mowing6 alfalfa with an insect net an was then moving its contents-insects, leaves an flowers-into a glass +ar. Such is the cruel metho of stu ying the insect make-up of fiel s, no better one has been invente . 2las, such was the work with which 1 earne my living at the 1nstitute of 2gricultural "hemistry. 1 was about to throw a piece of ethere cotton wool into the +ar an then cap it, when a light little cocoon +umpe up at me. 1t was oval-shape , rather ense an non-transparent. ;ne of the 6prisoners6 of the +ar must have pushe it-cocoons can8t +ump on their own@ &ut the cocoon prove me wrong: it +umpe up one more time, hit the glass wall, an fell own. 1 took it out an put it in a separate test tube. 2t home 1 looke at it through a binocular microscope-nothing special, a cocoon like any other, about 3 mm long, (.. mm wi e. 1ts walls felt strong to the touchas they shoul . /he cocoon energetically +umpe when lit-or warme B-by the sunA it was 7uiet in the ark. 1ts coul +ump 34mm longwise an , what was even more remarkable, up to .4mm high. 2s far as 1 coul tell, it flew smoothly, almost without tumbling. 'o oubt, the larva of the insect was responsible for the movement. &ut it was impossible to see how it was happening. Kumping ahea , 1 can tell you that the cocoon finally pro uce a male insect of the ichneumon family, the Batiplectes anurus species. 1t is beneficial for agriculture because its larvae parasiti,e the weevil, a pest of alfalfa. /he flying cocoon was finally to lan in a cool place-for e5ample, a crack in the groun . 1t must have foun myself in my net uring its strange +ourney, i. e. at the moment of its +ump. 1t all resemble poltergeist-une5plaine 6+umps6 of househol ob+ects, many times escribe in papers. 1 woul put it on glass an look at it from below: coul it be that the larva raws in its bottom an then abruptly releases itB 'othing of the kin -there were no ents at any point, an the cocoon +umpe no matter how 1 rolle it. 1t was also remarkable that from hori,ontal, slippery glass it +umpe si eways. 1 measure its tra+ectories: they were up to 3. cm long an up to .4 mm high, that is, the cocoon lifte itself up to a height 34 times its own wi th@ Shall 1 leave this capsule without supportB &ut howB Fith a piece of loose cotton wool@ 1 loosen a piece of cotton wool by pulling it a little, place the cocoon on this 6clou 6, put it out in the sun an

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impatiently wait. 1f the cocoon8s inhabitant +umps by hitting the lower wall, making the cocoon to bounce off its support, this time it won8t work because the impact will be absorbe by the thin, pa y fibrils of the cotton wool. /heoretically, the cocoon shoul n8t even move. &ut no: it takes off from its motionless pa -up an asi e, as it i before. 1 measure the broa +ump: E- mm, i. e. as before. /he insect must have been hitting not the bottom, but the top part of the cocoon-at any rate, it must have been oing something that cause the capsule to move. >rankly speaking, it is as 1 write these notes that 1 feel agitationA back then, in ()*(, 1 foun nothing supernatural in the +umps of my prisoner. /his was because 1 knew that, accor ing to physics, there are an there can be no unsupporte movers. ;therwise 1 woul have bre a couple of hun re of those insects-thankfully, they were 7uite common-an woul have stu ie the phenomenon thoroughly. 'ow let us fantasi,e a little: what if the batiplectes wante to leave the #arthB 2n a ult, winge insect woul have no luck-our atmosphere is 7uite rarefie at the top, wings are no match for it. 2 larva in a cocoon is an entirely ifferent matter. 1t coul , in theory, after lifting its capsule . cm in a +ump, take it up even further while in the air, then again an again... 2n if the cocoon were airtight-1 mean the air reserve for the pilot8s breathing-then the evice woul be able to leave the atmosphere an woul have no obstacles to a limitless buil -up of spee . Such is the alluring, incre ible value of unsupporte movers, eclare , alas, a pro uct of empty fantasy. &ut even if you are no physicist, you still have a har time imagining what a tiny larva oes in there if its vessel soars . cm high. 1t simply can8t be-an yet it +umps@ =hysicists say that this is 6beyon science6 as it 6contra icts the laws of nature.6 /he only problem is that the Batiplectes anurus oesn8t know it. /he physicists8 ban must also have been unknown to the lea ing, e5perience biologists who honestly wrote the following on page -9 of the aca emic Register of Insects of uropean !SSR $vol. 111, pt. 3%: 6the cocoon +umps up as a result of abrupt movements of the larva insi e the cocoon.6 1n a wor , it is a working-an teste -e5ample of a safe, unsupporte mover. 1 am giving it to you, my rea er: invent, esign, buil , an Go spee @ &ut hurry@ 0assive chemical warfare has been wage against the alfalfa pest snout-beetle $phitonomus%. !umanity may actually win it. &ut the price may be too great: with the estruction of the P"itonomus varnabilis beetle, our planet8s fauna may also lose the ichneumon Batiplectes anurus as it parasiti,es only this kin of weevil an cannot survive without it. 0eanwhile, any proposals on using biological weapons against the pest-such as our very ichneumon an other insect pre ators are completely re+ecte by the bosses of :ussian agriculture an agricultural science. 1 have been fighting them on this for years, but so far with little success. !owever, one coul un erstan those in charge too-how can one stop e5pensive chemical factoriesB 2n why o agrarian scientists care about some unsupporte mover that

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oesn8t allow alfalfa to be treate with poisonB !urry up, biologists, engineers, physicists@ >or if "hemistry wins, this 0ystery-an with, a host of other 0ysteries relate to it-will leave people for ever. Fithout insects, people won8t invent it themselves. =lease trust me, an entomologist with 94-year e5perience. 2t the en of my first book, A #illion Riddles, publishe in 'ovosibirsk in ()9*, there is a rawing that 1 am repro ucing again: a man is flying over 'ovosibirsk8s 2ca emic "ity. !e is flying a evice base on a huge pair of insect wings. 2t the time 1 reame of inventing such a machine. Strangely, the ream came true precisely because of my frien ship with insects-yet not by blin ly copying the most noticeable parts-for e5ample wings that only make me smile now-but through careful stu y of living 'ature. 'othing woul have been possible without my si5-legge frien s. 'o one woul be able to o without them either. /hus safeguar their worl , the ancient, won erful worl of 1nsect, for it is an infinite, uni7ue treasure of 'ature8s mysteries@ 1 beg you all, take care of it@ F"#$ TH% &#T%'##( #F A &AT)"ALIST Artifi*ial honey*o!b. /ake a o,en an a half papier-machet supermarket egg cases $34-egg variety%, tie them up or glue them together $one on top of another% in such a way as to +oin the 6teeth6 to one another, not to the hollow spots. Hou will have large cells, similar to multi-cellular combs of a certain 6paper6 wasp, e5cept many times larger. >i5 the whole set $it can be enclose in a case% over the hea of a person sitting in a chair, with the bottom 6comb6 is (4--4 cm above the hea . <eave the person there for (4-(. min. /he 6unnatural6, unusual transformation of the spatial shape forme by the set can be picke up even by the palm of a han . #5periment with couching see s, or bree ing microorganisms an insects un er a 6macrocomb6 an compare the results with those of i entical e5periments con ucte at least - m away from the comb. :epeat each pair of e5periments several times. +Iron *o!b+. in a similar way, test the impact of common kitchen shre ers pile up one on top of another, with their wire-e ges own, small-hole shre ers at the bottom, large-hole ones at the top. aper e!anators of the CS%.

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"ut apart-longways-. sheets of office paper an fol each of them accor ion-like so as to get (4 e ges an -4 surfaces. S7uee,e the accor ions to make them s7uare an glue them on top of one another, turning each hori,ontally 34 egrees clockwise against the bottom one. Glue together, preferably out of ark paper, a conical, multi-layere 6flower6 with a few o,en petalsA fluff up the petals. /est the emanators with by putting your palmon above the 6flower6 an un erneath the suspen e 6accor ion6. =lace them above the hea of the sitting person, marking his sensations. Foa! plasti*. Fe are use to the fact that this e5cellent thermal insulator 6reflects6 the warmth of the han even at a istance. &ut even if you cover it with ark paper, car boar , or a tin plate, it woul still o the same. /his happens ue to the work of multiple vesicular caverns of the material that pro uce the "S#. Foa! r,bber. 1t is wi ely known that a person use to sleeping on, say, a cotton wool mattress oesn8t sleep well at first on a rubber foam one, or else is unable to sleep at all. /his is a typical manifestation of the "S#. <ater on, the organism a apts itself to this new be . +$,shroo! CS%+. 2 hunter once tol me that he warms up his han s in winter on bracket-fungi. <et us recall that the lower hori,ontal part of this tree fungus is full of fine comb-tubes through which spores fall out in summer. Fhat the hunter felt was not warm but a typical "S#. $oving +*o!bs+. 0ake a woo en whipping top an rill several through caverns on its si es, pencil-wi th in iameter or a bit wi er. /heir "S# significantly increases if the top is rotate A this is easily perceive by the palm. /his is ue to the fact that the caverns must be numerically multiplying in space. +Flo-er CS%+. 2n 6unnatural6 position of such a seemingly common an pleasant ob+ect as a living flower can also change its properties. =ut a bunch of several o,en bellshape flowers $tulips, narcissuses, lilies, bell-flowers% upsi e own above the hea of a sitting person. /o bar the impact of o ors, put the flower bunch in a plastic bag. Frite to me about the results.

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.in/-fallen trees. ;ne of my test sub+ects, a geographer, sai to me after e5periencing the effect of one of my 6gri s6 that he ha once ha a similar sensation many years before, when he was passing a win -fallen section of a forest. !is hea , ears, mouth, an the entire bo y felt something particularly unpleasant-the same thing he felt un er my gri . /his means that the abruptly isrupte shape of the normal multi-cavernous space of the forest for some time emanate waves unpleasant for humans. 'efore the rain. =lace a shower no,,le on a tap an run col water. Slowly move your han towar the rops coming from the si es: most people feel 6warmth6. 1n reality, this is the "S# reinforce by the movement of ever new elements of the 6multi-layere 6 gri -water rops an gaps between them. 2fter practicing in the bathroom or kitchen, pick up an even stronger "S# from fountains an waterfalls. #ven when the atmospheric pressure is high, the shrou of a istant rain creates a powerful "S# fiel that has its impact on a large area. !ave you ever felt sleepy before the rain even in enclose premisesB /he "S# cannot be screene . +The CS% of a book+. /ake a thick, preferably well-rea book an place it upright on the e ge of a esk with its back facing the irection of the sun $e.g. facing north at night%. ;pen the book an fluff up its pages as evenly as possible. 1n a few minutes $the "S# oes not appear imme iately, as it oesn8t isappear imme iately ether%, pick up with your palm, tongue, or back of your hea some of the sensations mentione in this chapter. /his 6tail6, after some practice, can be picke up at a --3 meters8 istance. 1t is also easy to verify that the 6book "S#6 is also non-screenable-ask someone to stan between the ha n an the book. +A large *one+ -ith an artifi*ial *o!b filling an/ three !agnets at the ba*k. /wo cones of this sort, positione against each other taking into account the position of the sun, were in the morning of 2pril -3, ())(, thrown apart an isfigure . ;ne ha been place in 1silkul, the other near 'ovosibirsk $the secon one was unfol e an presse into the wall of an un ergroun hi ing placeA its magnets isappeare %. 2t the same moment, resi ents of an ;msk apartment e5perience a series of strangest 6poltergeists6 $see $ec"ernii %msk for 2pril -9 an ;msk an 0oscow /V broa casts%. &ecause of this coinci ence, on 2ugust ., ())(, the same paper calle the evice in the picture 6a Grebennikov8s hyperboloi 6. 2ctually, one of the 6beams6 of the upright electronic waves between the two structures may have been forme precisely there, on the 1rtysh embankment in ;msk. +A !e/i,! *one+. /ightly insert a o,en plastic househol funnels into each other an fi5 the structure on any support with the no,,les turne towar the sun. "over the bell en of the top funnel with a net or light blue cloth $so that the teste sub+ects not anticipate heat%.

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+A s!all *one+. /ightly roll up two unusable rolls of film, tie them up with string or threa an make a bell-shape cavity in the mi le of the top roll. "S# emanations can be easily picke up by the palm, particularly in a counter-solar position. Hou will get interesting sensations if you press this 6microcone6 to your forehea . + erpet,,! !obile+. 1 surroun e my above escribe evice Cfor registering "S# emanationsA a straw in icator suspen e on a cobweb threa D with seven funnel-shape rolls of film Csee aboveD. Slowly leaving the ,one of impact of one roll, the straw woul enter the power fiel of another, then the thir , an so on... /his e5periment is most successful in a soun -insulate chamber, away from wires, pipes, sources of heat, col , an bright light. /here is no miracle here: matter is eternal in its en less movement. A solar ether- an/ bea! ra/iator. /his intricate name was evise by the <eip,ig professor ;tto ?ornschelt who iscovere the "S# over (44 years ago an pro uce evices for its practical application in me icine, agriculture, an technology. :hythmic caverns were forme in them by cooper chains. /he evices were positione with their backsi es facing the sun. 1t is in ee true that new inventions are simply well-forgotten ol ones. /he sensations escribe by ?ornschelt are i entical to the ones 1 e5perience in my own in epen ent work. 1 learne about ?orschelt8s e5periments very recently from 0. =latten8s &e' #edical (ec"ni)ue, vol. 111, St. =etersburg, (**9, where the following rawing of the evice is repro uce . +The sieve CS%+. 1n the ol ays, in several areas hea aches an concussion symptoms were treate with an or inary flour sieve that was hel above the hea of the patient, net up. 2lternatively, the patient s7uee,e the rim between the teeth, with the net in front of the face. /he sieve material is unimportant. /he evice works better if the patient faces the sun $north at mi night%. /his type of "S# is also perceivable by healthy people. The CS% an/ the planets. /he planets of our Solar system are situate at certain istances from the sun. /he /icius-&o et formula for the istance is this: E is a e to the numbers 3, 9, (-, 39, etc $a geometrical progression%, an the resulting number is ivi e by (4. /he cause for this regularity is unknown. /he empty spot in this progression $between 0ars an Kupiter% is occupie by asteroi s. /he ?emerovo physicist V. 1u. ?a,nev thinks that the regularity is etermine by the "S# generate by the sun: the matter of planets was groupe in the areas of the sun8s fiel force concentration.

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The CS% in /aily life. =erceivable waves of matter are emanate by piles of pipes, some caves, un ergroun tunnels, tree crownsA the shape of premises is also significant $roun , cornere , cupolae %. /he wall an furniture material also emanates a "S# of certain parameters. +$i*ro-CS%+. /he "S# effect may be manifeste not +ust in galactic or househol scales, but also in micro-worl , in substances whose molecules have caverns of certain shapes. >or e5ample, in naphthalene. 1 fille a one-liter +ar with it, seale it, an suspen e it from the ceiling. =eople beneath it felt with their palms a whole system of power fiel 6clots6. $more son if the receptacle was suspen e above the top of the hea %. 2ctivate charcoal is also a multi-cavernous structure. !ol --3 tablets of such charcoal in your fingers as emonstrate in the picture an for a few minutes move your han s slightly up an own, or parting an +oining them. Frite to me about the results. Tefelin. 1 have so far isolate E "S# emanators beneficial for humans: bee honeycombs, a gri of +oine han s $more about it in the ne5t chapter%, a sieve, a phylactery otherwise known as tefelin. Fhat is itB 2n ol evice: a tightly sown leather cube attache to a leather platform with two ban s. 1nsi e the cube there are four strips of parchment-tightly rolle , bleache , soft ki skin with /almu ic inscriptions. 2 worshippers attache the evice to his forehea , with the a5es of parchment rolls perpen icular to the forehea an their outer en s facing #ast. 1t turns out, the inscriptions were unimportantA what matters is the material, shape, an imensions. 0a e of ifferent materials, the evice only causes unpleasant sensations, while a leather tefelin pro uces a beneficial physiological effect-besi es the shape an other factors, the microstructure of the material must have a part in it too. Thot's S*epter. /he ancient #gyptian eity /hoth is a go of science, sorcery, an an 6accountant6 of the ea 8s earthly ee s. /his is the esign of his staff: -- or 3mm copper wire is twiste at the en in the shape of a flat spiral, with 3-E coils, each (4 cm in iameter8A closer to the han le there are - coils of transverse, 3imensional spiral, each . cm in iameter. /he wire is inserte in the (9-cm-long s7uare-sectione han le of ense woo , E cm thick at base an (.. cm thick at its en A the entire staff with the wire is E( cm long. /he narrow en of the han le has (3 eep accor ion-shape cuts. /he staff works even without the wire $albeit not as strongly%A the wire is thin an coul be of any material but works best if thickly insulate -two layers increases its effect.

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1f you hol the staff as emonstrate in the picture, the total ra iation emanating from the center of the large spiral, perpen icular to its surface, are very well-perceivable by the human palm on both si es. 1 never foun out for what purpose ancient #gyptians use this 6 ouble-beam6 emanator. The yra!i/ of Cheops. 0ake a pyrami of 3-E layers of thick, porous wrapping paper: -4-5-4 cm s7uare base, ascen ing e ges ()cm each. Glue it only at the e ges, the tighter the better, but in a thin line. 0ake a .-9 cm hole in the mi le of one of the si e facets. !ol a (4 cm-long piece of rawing coal in your fingers, or simply a pencil, an insert this in icator into the hole, slanting the other en towar the bottom of the pyrami . 6Stir6 the space insi e the pyrami with the in icator, take it out, then repeat the proce ure about 34 times. Hou will soon pick up an active ,one-a 6clot6-where the #gyptians ha their tombs. 2nother active ,one, above the top of the pyrami , is also well-perceive by the in icator if you rag its en over he top. 2fter some practice, the 6clot6 an the 6torch6 are well-felt by the finger inserte into he pyrami , or a palm move above it. /he pyrami effect that generate over the centuries many scary, mysterious stories is one of the "S# manifestations. The pyra!i/ skeleton. Similar interesting 7ualities are isplaye by pyrami s of the same imensions but only skeletal, without facets-a skeleton glue together of * smooth, firm straws. !ere we get the effect of the total "S# of the straws with their comple5 capillary structure an the effect of the entire cavern. Such pyrami s can also be ma e in other si,es, with a proportional increase in the length of the e ges. !ol such a pyrami above the hea of your frien , bottom own, for about . min, then bottom up. "on uct a itional e5periments with insects $bumblebees, eveloping caterpillars, etc.%, house plants, an perishable foo s by placing the latter within the pyrami , above an un erneath it $always checking your e5periments by i entical ones but without the "S# effect%. 2n you will see that ancient #gyptians ha their reason to buil pyrami s... Telekinesis. /his is the name for a contactless movement of light ob+ects of which the so-calle gifte people are capable-i. e. moving a match bo5 on a table without touching it, hol ing a tennis ball in the air...

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1 submit that everyone has this ability. Suspen the escribe skeletal pyrami by its top from the ceiling on a thin, artificial threa , or better still on a long shre of elastic torn from a stocking. "hoose a spot with the lowest convection $air circulation%. 1n a few hours, when the pyrami stops rotating, from a --meter istance point at it a 6tube6 ma e up of two han s $see picture%. 1n a few minutes $ o not lose your 6target6%, the pyrami will start rotating clockwise un er the pressure of this beam of "S# energy. Stop the rotation by moving the 6tube6 to the right si e of the skeleton-it will start rotating counter-clockwise. "on uct e5periments of various uration, after various time intervals an at various istance. Hou will see that telekinesis is no miracle, but only one of the manifestations of the Fill of 0atter that is available to a chosen few but to everyone. /he thing is that the palm is also a multi-cavernous structure that clearly repels the in icator of the straw-cobweb evice escribe in this chapter. &y using it an the skeletal pyrami , you can practice an evelop your 6telekinetic6 abilities, significantly increasing them. +The CS% of *ereals+. >asten a bunch of 34-E4 ripe wheat ears, better with short stems, insi e a low cone of ark paper-as in the picture. !an -perceivable emanations repel the straw in icator of the same evice through any screens-even sharper than some honeycombs. /his effect is pro uce by multiple we ge-shape sinuses between ear scales that are irecte at an acute angle towar the bottom of the ear. Hay!aking -ith +!ira*les+. 1n my youth, 1 was shown the following: a fragment of a cut stem, the length of a short pencil, was place on the bla e of a scythe, ne5t to its blunt e geA another stem fragment of the same length, place on the bla e in the same manner but at some istance, was pushe by the han to the first one. 2t about *cm, the first stem got moving, 6ran away6 from the secon stem along the rim. /h e5periment wasn8t always successfulA it usually occurre right after the cutting a large amount of grass from the same spotA 1 forgot some elements or con itions of the e5periment. 1 think the following factors were at work here: an abrupt change of the total "S# fiel on the 6 eforme 6 mea ow $let us remember the win fall case%, the gri of the reaper8s

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&#T% fro! 1erry 2e*ker 3 Vi*tor S. Grebennikov /ie/ at the age of 45 in April 6778 as reporte/ to (eely&et in t-o phone *alls to his s,rviving son Sergei.
This all *a!e abo,t fro! an e!ail fro! a frien/ in ",ssia by the na!e of 9o,lain -ho sent in the )"L so!e t-o years ago. .hen I sa- the pi*t,res of the platfor!: espe*ially the one hovering over the gro,n/ I tho,ght it -as a hoa;: b,t I *o,l/n't stop thinking abo,t it so translate/ the -ebpage in se*tions beginning -ith the te*hni*al /es*riptions. As *orrelations began to fall into pla*e: I hesitate/ reporting it be*a,se his -riting in/i*ate/ psy*hogeni* effe*ts asso*iate/ -ith these str,*t,res: !eaning it *o,l/ be hall,*inations: /el,sions or /ay/rea!s perpetrate/ -ith 0,!ping into the air -hile on the platfor! as -hat the T$ers <Trans*en/ental $e/itation= /evotees *lai! as 'flight'. Ho-ever: other aspe*ts of his *lai!s le/ !e to think he really ha/ /is*overe/ so!ething. .ith the i/ea of getting a *opy of the book: I en/e/ ,p sen/ing so!e >677 to 9,ri -ith the instr,*tions being to take o,t the *ost of the book an/ shipping: give the rest to the rofessor. I /i/ re*eive the book <9o,lain bo,ght his for >4.77 )S b,t he lives in ",ssia.=

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$ean-hile: I ha/ !a/e a 'se*ret' page on (eely&et -hose )"L I !aile/ o,t to long ti!e tr,ste/ *onfi/ants to see -hat they tho,ght abo,t it sin*e I val,e/ their insights: opinions an/ kno-le/ge: asking the! to keep it on the ?T ,ntil I hear/ fro! the professor /ire*t: if possible. Fro! their responses: ne- infor!ation -as a//e/. Ho-ever: one of these long ti!e *onfi/ants -ho over the years sin*e the ''S /ays: share/ !,*h ,sef,l infor!ation: ha/ no- be*o!e infat,ate/ -ith p,bli* attention an/ so poste/ the )"L an/ *lai!e/ I -as 'hi/ing' infor!ation in or/er to f,rther his ne-fo,n/ *areer of p,bli* speaker an/ a,thor. Very sa/ to see this b,t ego 0,st took hi! over: so he's gone. In the !eanti!e: 9,ri ha/ kin/ly provi/e/ !e -ith the rofessors !ailing a//ress an/ I i!!e/iately -rote to hi! in ",ssian: sen/ing at least @ pa*kets over the ne;t year of *orrelate/ infor!ation to hi! an/ all translate/ into ",ssian. In all that ti!e I re*eive/ only one letter fro! the rofessor -hi*h state/ he ha/ s,ffere/ a stroke: that he ha/ no /egree an/ ha/ learne/ -hat he knefro! his e;perien*es in 'g,lags' <",ssian prison of -ar= an/ -as paralyAe/ on one si/e: having to type this letter -ith one finger. At the ti!e of his response: he -rote he ha/ re*eive/ B of !y letters: in/i*ating in the letter that his son ha/ -ithhel/ the ones I sent in Febr,ary ,ntil $ay before he a*t,ally sa- the!. I aske/ his son in the phone *all -hy they ha/ not respon/e/ -ith b,t one letter in the past 6 years an/ he sai/ the entire fa!ily ha/ been ill: espe*ially his father. %arly in 6778 I aske/ 9,ri if I fle- over there an/ pre-arrange/ an intervie- -ith rofessor Grebennikov: -o,l/ he serve as translator an/ he agree/: that -as ro,ghly in Febr,ary. It -as only -hen I *alle/ Sergei in 1,ly: after the 1,ne (eely&et *onferen*e: that I learne/ rofessor Grebennikov -as /e*ease/. The rofessor ha/ -ritten that he -o,l/ like !e to rep,blish his book in %nglish an/ so I -as trying to get hi! to sign a *opyright release to p,rs,e that pro0e*t. After his /eath: the rights -o,l/ have gone to Sergei: so I aske/ hi! if he -o,l/ be -illing to sign s,*h a release for a per*entage of book sales an/ he /i/n't see! to *o!prehen/ the !atter over t-o phone *alls an/ a /etaile/ letter -ith release for!. The *alls -ere !a/e in ",ssian as translate/ by !y ",ssian translator Helena. She also -rote an/ sent the letter -ith *opyright release to -hi*h Sergei has not respon/e/ as of 2e*e!ber Cth: 6778. It takes abo,t t-o to three -eeks for a letter to get fro! 2allas to his village near &ovosibirsk an/ the sa!e to get ba*k. They /on't offer ) S: Fe/D: or any faster !eans of snail *o!!,ni*ation an/ the rofessor -as not online: relegate/ to living on >65.77 )S per !onth in his retire!ent. That is another reason I -as *onsi/ering p,blishing his book as his per*entage -o,l/ greatly i!prove his in*o!e level: that is irrelevant no-. In the book: of the se*tions -e have in %nglish: he asks only to be re*ogniAe/ by his peers an/ in the history books as the /is*overer of the CS% pheno!enon. He has of *o,rse ref,se/ to reveal the na!e of the inse*t an/ even the

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gen,s: it *o,l/ be a beetle: a b,tterfly: a bee: a -asp: a lo*,st: a grasshopper: a /,ng beetle. There are so!e 8877 spe*ies of beetles in ",ssia. rofessor Grebennikov -as a great e*ologist as yo, *an tell by his prote*tive attit,/e to-ar/ the environ!ent. He -as afrai/ if the na!e of the inse*t -ere reveale/: people -o,l/ r,sh to the area an/ kill off all of the!. I -rote hi! in t-o separate letters that it -as not ne*essary to kno- the inse*t na!e or gen,s. In or/er to allo- verifi*ation: all -e nee/e/ -ere T.# of the inse*t *overs -hi*h *o,l/ be analyAe/ ,n/er an ele*tron !i*ros*ope to /eter!ine geo!etry an/ /i!ensions: fro! that point: it sho,l/ be possible to /,pli*ate it artifi*ially an/ the inse*t -o,l/ be forever safe. I offere/ the rofessor >8:777 )S in *ash if he *o,l/ sen/ !e t-o of the *overs <I sent !oney to pay shipping= A&2 they e;hibite/ the gravity repelling *hara*teristi* he ha/ seen. He in/i*ates the effe*t -as not !agneti*: ele*trostati* or /,e to stray air *,rrents. He never respon/e/ -hi*h his son *lai!s -as /,e to illness. At any rate: the entire book is *,rrently being translate/ an/ !y *,rrent plans are to e;tra*t te*hni*al infor!ation an/ *o!pile it -ith other infor!ation -hi*h *orrelates an/ s,pports -hat the rofessor *lai!s. This -ill be sol/ thro,gh (eely&et to re*over !y personal e;pen/it,res an/ to s,pport (eely&et along -ith f,rther resear*h: /onations are greatly appre*iate/. There is a lot of -eir/ness going on -ith this. I aske/ Sergei if he *o,l/ provi/e a *o,ple of the *overs: he sai/ he /i/n't kno- -hat they -ere or -here they *a!e fro!. I then aske/ hi! -hat happene/ to his fathers flying platfor!: he sai/ <in a hesitant an/ halting fashion= his father ha/ hi//en it an/ he /i/n't kno- the lo*ation. .e have sin*e rea/ an e!ail fro! a ",ssian s*ientist -ho visite/ rofessor Grebennikov in the hospital an/ *lai!s he -as tol/ firsthan/ that he ha/ s!ashe/ the platfor! to pie*es. Sergei also sai/ !any people ha/ been *onta*ting he an/ his father sin*e the p,bli*ation of the book so!e C-4 years ago: -ith everyone -anting the se*ret: b,t his father ha/ never reveale/ it. &,!ero,s posts have been !a/e to the (eely&et Intera*t /is*,ssion list on *avities: nanostr,*t,res: arrays: *hitin: /iele*tri*s an/ relate/ s,b0e*ts for those -ho are intereste/ in this *lai!. A//itional infor!ation has been poste/ in the Chaos file: the Ti!e 2ilation file an/ in /,al presentations <2e*ker E 2avi/son= !a/e at the 1,ne (eely&et 6778 *onferen*e in 2allas <available on vi/eotape=. See also 2an 2avi/sons' e;peri!ents -ith shape po-er an/ 1oe arrs original /is*overy of energy b,bbles in pyra!i/al str,*t,res. $any are involve/ in this an/ have -i/ely varying vie-s. At this ti!e: -e have no verfiable e;peri!ental evi/en*e of the late rofessor Grebennikovs -i/eranging an/ earth-shaking *lai!s. As yo, *an see: they span all bran*hes of

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s*ien*e: philosophy an/ theosophy: she//ing F,ite ne- an/ novel vie-s on the nat,re of gravity: ti!e an/ paranor!al e;perien*es. .e -ill *ontin,e to *orrelate infor!ation an/ try to pin /o-n e;peri!ents that *an verify vario,s aspe*ts of his *lai!s. He has *ertainly provi/e/ !any e;peri!ents that see! to rely !ostly on h,!an per*eptions. .e nee/ to fin/ -ays to /ete*t these e!anations -ith instr,!entation: e;a*tly the sa!e proble! -e have -ith AetherGH %: -e nee/ a kin/ of atta*h!ent for a FL)(% !eter an/ a s*ope to be able to F,alify an/ ?)A&TIF9 these kin/s of energies. I -o,l/ like to a// one f,rther *o!!ent: please /o not *onf,se ti!e /ilation -ith ti!e travel. They are not re!otely the sa!e. Ti!e /ilation si!ply slo-s /o-n the lo*al te!poral fiel/ of an ob0e*t: kin/ of like a 'stasis' fiel/ on Star Trek so that anything o,tsi/e this lo*al area !oves at the nor!al spee/: -hile anything insi/e this fiel/ ages at a slo-er rate. "efer to the Ti!e 2ilation file. The rofessors' frien/ an/ asso*iate is 9,ri &. Chere/ni*henko. If yo, have *o!!ents: i/eas or infor!ation relevant to the above: please post it to the (eely&et /is*,ssion list or sen/ it to 1erry 2e*ker for posting to the list: thanksI A//itional fas*inating infor!ation relating to -eight loss in sleep-alkers -as provi/e/ by Slavek (rapelka an/ -ith f,ll /etails poste/ at his -ebsite atJ A!aAing Sleep-alking %;peri!ents

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Again: -e -ant to p,bli*ly a*kno-le/ge the efforts of Slavek (rapelka an/ "en 'ergh,is for spen/ing the >B77.77 to get the Chapter @ file translate/ an/ passing it on. If yo, -o,l/ like to *ontrib,te so!ething to help the! re*over their *osts: please sen/ an e!ail to "en 'ergh,is for infor!ation on ho- to /o so. THA&(SIII So F%. people a*t,ally *ontrib,te -ith anything !ore than *o!!ents or looking for free !aterial resear*he/ or vali/ate/ by others. There is !ore infor!ation -hi*h -ill be a//e/ to this page or linke/ in f,t,re. A//itional infor!ation fro! o,r translator that !ight be of ,seJ +The only spe*ifi* inse*t I've seen !entione/ th,s far of possibly interest -as the one I i/entifie/ in the portion of the 'Flight' *hapter yo, sa-: the bee: 'Hali*t,s F,a/ri*in*t,s'. It see!s that parti*,lar s,bspe*ies is native to Siberia: altho,gh !ost of the other referen*es so,n/ fairly generi*.+ A pi*t,re of the !,/nest an/ the Hali*t,s ?,a/ri*in*t,s photos I fo,n/ on the -ebJ 8. Trigona <Heterotrigona= l,tea 'ingha! 6. Trigona <Heterotrigona= laevi*peps S!ith B. <$i*rapis= florea Fabri*i,s

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