Wolf Messing
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Wolf Gregorevich Messing (b. 10 September, 1899, Góra Kalwaria, d. 8 November, 1974, Moscow) was a psychic stage performer. Born to a Jewish family, Messing fled from Germany to Russia before World War II.
Messing is remembered in some circles for the myths surrounding his telepathic and precognitive abilities, which were said to have been verified by prominent figures such as Joseph Stalin, Mohandas Gandhi, Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein.
In recent years the Messing myth has been propagated by Indian mystic Sathya Sai Baba.
Wolf Messing is mentioned in Suvorov's fiction "The Choice" (Выбор), under the name "Rudolf Messer"
See also
References
- Nagel, Alexandra [Wolf Messing, an enigmatic ‘psychic entertainer’ whom Sathya Sai Baba claims to have encountered] Thesis composed as part of the MA-course Occult Trajectories II: Magic in Twentieth-Century Europe and North America, University of Amsterdam. 16 October 2004
Bibliography
- Nagel, Alexandra Een mysterieuze ontmoeting... :Sai Baba en mentalist Wolf Messing/A mysterious meeting... :Sai Baba and mentalist Wolf Messing published in Tijdschrift voor Parapsychologie/Journal for parapsychology 368, vol. 72 nr 4, Dec. 2005, pp. 14-17 (Dutch language)
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