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Posted by pholly1 (Member # 6110) on :
 
The second excerpted paragraph seems a lot like Tinker from the Worthing Saga.
I figure the OSC community might take interest.

http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/377/11797_phenomenon.html

A Girl with an X-ray vision - 01/14/2004 19:02

Moscow's medical workers discovered a magnificent gift of a sixteen-year-old girl Natalya Demkina from Saransk. The girl possesses "dual vision". She is capable of discerning a person's internal organs without using X-ray or ultrasound.

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Natasha is capable of distinguishing even the tiniest pathology on a molecular level in the deepest corners of a human body, which are usually left undetected by regular ultrasound. "It's like having double vision. I can switch from one to the other in no time if I need to know a person's health problem," says the teenager. "I see an entire human organism. It is difficult to explain how I determine specific illnesses. There are certain impulses that I feel from the damaged organs. The secondary vision works only in daytime and is asleep at night."
 
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
 
Paging the Amazing Randi....
 
Posted by Shigosei (Member # 3831) on :
 
Well, looks like the Pravda still has credibility issues even after the fall of communism.
 
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
 
But here is the amazing part:
quote:
"Perhaps, she just a bit more mature than other kids her age. Natasha started to talk when she was only 6 months old. At 1, she could already recite Pushkin and Nekrasov by heart. By 3, Natasha mastered the alphabet and learned to operate a snowmobile," continues her mother. "Since early childhood, Natasha has been resistant to cold temperatures. She practically walked around naked till winter. She once walked barefoot in the snow after sauna [Rus. banya] Overall, she was just a normal kid. Never was she able to see through humans!"
I'm thinking maybe the issue is that the mother doesn't know how to count.

While Russia is source of Kirillian photography and other interesting medical modalities, I find it suspicious that she can sense things that were already corroborated by medical tests. That is to say, if someone really had the ability to navigate the human form, they would either find a bunch of stuff that wasn't diagnosed, or a few problems and then lots of drug side effects.

Nonetheless, I do believe such abilities are possible.
 
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
 
I wonder if most of her diagnoses are for injuries caused to people run over by an underaged snowmobiler.
 


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