Case file · Remote viewing & psi research
Kashpirovsky's anaesthesia by television
On 31 March 1988 the psychotherapist Anatoly Kashpirovsky, in a Kyiv TV studio, gave a live 'remote anaesthesia' by video link to a patient having an operation in Tbilisi without painkillers.
1988 CE · 50.45, 30.52 · status: disputed
The account
In 1989 his healing sessions on Soviet Central Television drew huge audiences who said scars disappeared and illnesses were cured; doctors reported cases of fits and psychiatric crises. The broadcasts were stopped. Kashpirovsky remains a symbol of the late-Soviet hunger for miracles, alongside Allan Chumak.
The sceptical view
Hypnosis and suggestion can reduce pain; there is no evidence of healing beyond placebo.