Soviet "Anenerbe": The Secrets of the Inner Voice part 15 History of the Issue It all began with a story resembling a mystical novel. In 1919, in Tbilisi, a young Soviet electrical engineer, Bernard Bernardovich Kazinsky (https://shorten.ly/Bom3T), experienced a remarkable event. One night, he was awakened by a loud ringing sound, similar to the noise of a silver spoon striking a crystal glass. As it was later revealed, at that very moment, his nineteen-year-old friend was dying of typhoid in a neighboring district. That ringing was the last sound the dying man heard. This incident so profoundly affected Kazinsky that he dedicated his life to studying telepathy. Being a person with a technical mindset, he proposed a bold hypothesis: mental information is transmitted from brain to brain via electromagnetic waves, similar to radio signals. His idea gained support from the leading scientists of that time - psychiatrist Vladimir Bekhterev, and academicians Alexander Chizhevsky (https://shorten.ly/NKYE) and Vladimir Vernadsky (https://shorten.ly/Azn7wf). Kazinsky discovered astonishing analogies between the structure of the nervous system and radio circuits: capacitors, resonant circuits, antennas. He was convinced that our brain is a perfect biological radio transmitter and receiver. He decided to test his ideas experimentally, together with a no less legendary figure - Vladimir Durov, a famous clown and trainer, who was a virtuoso of hypnosis. In 1933, Kazinsky constructed a unique device - a Faraday cage shielding radio waves. The experiment was simple and brilliant: Durov would sit inside the cage and try to mentally command a dog, located outside, to perform some action. The result was astonishing: while the cage door was closed, nothing happened. As soon as it was opened, the dog immediately and accurately carried out the mental command. Kazinsky even managed to determine the "frequency of telepathy" - 150 megahertz (wavelength of 2 meters). It seemed victory was near. The First Attempt Encouraged by these successes, Kazinsky and Durov looked into the future, and their vision was both utopian and frightening. In his 1934 book, Durov described how, with the help of powerful radio generators installed in cities, it would be possible to mass-suggest thoughts and rules of behavior for the "communist society." The leader would deliver a speech, and Kazinsky's special generators would "record" these messages directly into the subconscious, making them unchangeable for life. This idea was so vivid that it was adopted by the famous science fiction writer Alexander Belyayev. In his novel The Master of the World (1939), the prototypes of the positive heroes - Kachinsky and Dugov - were based on Bernard Kazinsky and Vladimir Durov. However, the triumph of the electromagnetic hypothesis was short-lived. As radio physics advanced, it became clear that the laws governing radio wave propagation - especially in the VHF range - do not allow such long-distance communication. Moreover, research by another pioneer of Soviet parapsychology, Leonid Vasilev, showed that shielding with leaden chambers does not prevent the transmission of mental suggestion. The energy behind telepathy turned out not to be electromagnetic in nature. Voices in the Head Kazinsky's story raised a question: can a person "hear" radio waves without any external devices? It turns out they can, and this is not always a sign of madness. In the 1960s, a curious case was recorded in the United States. A woman constantly complained about intrusive noise that no one else could hear. Researcher Clarence Uisky discovered that she was literally "hearing" scattered electromagnetic waves from household wiring. Her brain somehow transformed these signals into sound. An even more astonishing story occurred in the 1930s with an American office worker. After a visit to the dentist, she began hearing voices and music in her head. It turned out that the filling material contained crystals of carbond, a semiconductor. In her mouth, a real detector receiver had accidentally formed! The filling, dental tissues, and nerve endings created a circuit that converted signals from the nearest radio station into sound oscillations perceived by the brain as voices. In 1999, Canadian researchers from the University of Toronto claimed that about 5% of people reporting "inner voices" are physically healthy. The cause might lie in old, deformed dental crowns and fillings capable of detecting radio signals. The researchers concluded simply: such patients need a good dentist, not a psychiatrist. Experiments on the Mind The idea of controlling behavior through technological means continues to disturb researchers and military personnel. As early as the 1960s, Spanish neurophysiologist Jose Delgado conducted a famous experiment. He implanted electrodes into the brain of an aggressive bull. When the bull charged at the scientist in the arena, Delgado pressed a button on a portable remote - and the bull stopped as if rooted to the spot. This demonstrated direct electronic control over behavior. Pavel Simonov, director of the Institute of Higher Nervous Activity of the USSR, once remarked that scientists have known for several decades how to control a living organism. This involved stimulating specific brain centers responsible for fear, rage, or pleasure. In 1995, Professor Sergey Gorchakov demonstrated a device called "Luch-031" (https://shorten.ly/EuXP) to a state television journalist. The journalist described the sensations as follows: "I was pierced by a wild pain, my head clenched in a vice, and my body stopped obeying." Another device made him hear a foreign voice inside his head and follow its commands, completely losing control over himself. Gorchakov claimed that in the USSR, work on psychotronic weapons was conducted at the state level. There was even a secret project to launch a "biogenerator-titan" into orbit to control the moods of millions. These projects were abruptly halted under unclear circumstances. Information on this topic has almost disappeared from the Internet! Conclusions The story of the inner voice is far more complex and strange than it initially appears. It is a tangled web involving telepathy, accidental physiological anomalies, advanced neurotechnologies, and government secrets. Some phenomena have rational, almost humorous explanations. Others, like Kazinsky's experiments, are the result of human belief and suggestion. Still, others indicate that science is already approaching the possibility of controlling the mind. The boundary between mysticism and technology, between madness and an unexplored capacity of the brain, is very thin. Perhaps the most important conclusion of this post is that any story - even the most incredible about a "voice in the head" - should be approached with attention and impartiality. Behind it may lie either an old filling or implant, or the key to one of the greatest mysteries of human consciousness.