Killing with a Glance
The forty-year-old resident of Bratsk, Irina Tsaturova, recalls how in childhood she trembled with fear before her grandmother Avdotya Ivanovna—a domineering, dark-eyed Cossack woman living in the tiny village of Irsa near Irkutsk.
The source of her childhood fears was Avdotya Ivanovna’s strange gaze: cold and piercing, as if probing right through, reading one’s most hidden thoughts. Irina’s grandmother had already been a widow for 20 years, and rumors circulated in the village that her husband’s death had been caused by the old Cossack woman’s “evil” eye.
Avdotya Ivanovna’s neighbors hid their chickens and other livestock from her dangerous eyes, remembering how, supposedly several years before, after falling out with a friend, Irina’s grandmother had given such a fierce look to a duckling brood waddling in her yard that by evening most of the fluffy little creatures had perished…
When Irina turned 13, Avdotya Ivanovna died. On this occasion the all-knowing villagers said she had “looked herself to death,” for the elderly woman was often seen sitting for long periods before an old mirror, combing her luxuriant hair…
She’ll stop a galloping horse…
Eventually choosing the profession of psychologist, Irina immersed herself in the phenomenon of the human gaze and even managed to collect a great deal of curious material on the subject. In particular, she discovered that the long-standing tradition of blindfolding the condemned before execution arose precisely from the fear that the person facing death, in a state of extreme agitation, might harm the executioner with a look full of hatred.
Tibetan monks mastered the technique of physically influencing a person through the gaze. They could also move objects without touching them, stop people or animals in mid-run, and even produce fire.
A dangerous townsman
In pre-Christian times, in Egyptian Alexandria, there existed a special caste of hired assassins who could take a person’s life solely by the power of their gaze.
In this connection, the chronicles of the 1880s from the Sicilian town of Messina are quite fascinating: they mention a certain gentleman who inspired fear in the residents of that small town. The man’s peculiarity was that he could kill his fellow citizens who had somehow displeased him with his gaze. As the record goes, one day this gentleman, entering a shop, became captivated by his own reflection in a mirror. A few minutes later he was struck down by an apoplectic fit.
Mysterious rays
Since ancient times philosophers and sages believed that the eyes of every person emit certain invisible rays. The Roman historian Suetonius, at the start of the second century AD, vividly described the solar radiance that shone from the eyes of the emperors Augustus and Tiberius. Old Russian chroniclers noted a similar effect in the Kievan Prince Vladimir, which appeared after his historic baptism. Special luminosity of the eyes was attributed to many Orthodox saints, who by the power of their gaze could expel demons and heal illnesses…
According to esotericists and followers of the Agni Yoga teaching (a religious-philosophical doctrine combining Western occult-theosophical tradition with Eastern esotericism), from the very emergence of the material world a particle of primordial fire is preserved in every living being.
Depending on a person’s spiritual aspirations, it can direct them toward lofty and noble deeds or consume them in the flame of base passions and desires. For this reason the radiation from the eyes of certain individuals has a markedly negative character, leading to the widely known evil eye. Caligula and Ivan the Terrible, Paul I and Hitler, Lenin and Stalin all possessed a mesmerizing, heavy gaze that made many people uneasy.
Death of the scandalous “elder”
According to accounts of many eyewitnesses, it was also difficult to withstand the gaze of Grigory Rasputin—the scandalously famous “elder,” favorite of the family of Emperor Nicholas II—whose eyes hypnotized, plunging one into confusion and trembling.
According to the memoirs of Prince Felix Yusupov, on the night of December 29–30, 1916, as the conspirators taking part in Rasputin’s murder were already dragging his lifeless body to the embankment of the Moika River, the “holy elder” suddenly opened his eyes, and immediately a flash of blood-red light blinded his executioners for a few moments. Some of them felt ill. Felix Yusupov, the first to recover, fired a revolver at the revived corpse.
Energy-informational paradoxes
In 1923 the Soviet scientist and researcher in the field of biological radio communication Bernard Kazhinsky put forward the hypothesis that the human eye not only sees but can also emit electromagnetic waves of a specific frequency into space.
By the mid-20th century American physiologists tried to prove that if human eyes, by detecting elementary particles—photons—can see the surrounding world, then perhaps they themselves can emit these very particles, which ancient sages simply called “rays.”
A simple device is known, consisting of a thin metal spiral suspended on a silk thread beneath a magnetic needle. During the experiment a person stares intently for several minutes at the center of the spiral, then slowly turns their head to the side. Following the changing angle of the gaze… the spiral begins to turn as well, which convincingly proves the existence of some radiation emitted by human visual organs.
Dilation of the pupils
In 1989 scientists from one of the institutes of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences conducted an experiment unusual for Soviet science at the time. Its purpose was to test the paranormal abilities of the then-famous Siberian healer Anna Semyonovna Lokhatkina. In particular, Lokhatkina was asked to influence, by the power of her gaze, a laser beam passing through a hollow cylinder. A few minutes after the experiment began, the space inside the cylinder filled with a gray haze, and soon the laser beam… vanished! At that very moment, an instrument monitoring the condition of the healer’s eyes recorded the effect of a brief dilation of her pupils to the maximum degree…
Secret techniques
After several years of research and study of documentary materials, psychologist Irina Tsaturova came to the conclusion that it is the pupil that gives the human gaze a special, almost magical power. Even in a weak or sick individual, in moments of danger or emotional tension, the pupils dilate, indicating a short-term release of a large amount of reserve energy.
That the pupils of the eyes serve as the main channel of energy transmission has long been known to magicians and sorcerers, who perfectly mastered the techniques of hypnosis and the evil eye.
The human gaze is capable not only of making a certain impression on other people. Being one of the universal means of communication, it can have both a beneficial influence and cause terrible, irreparable harm.
Sergey VORON
“Secrets of the 20th Century,” July 2012
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