Nicolai or Nikolai Levashov was a Russian occultist and psychic healer who wrote several books on life in the universe, Slavic history, the origin of mankind on Earth and other topics.
14 Facts About Nikolai Levashov
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Toward the end of 1980s Levashov started his public activities.
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Scott Shane, an American journalist with The Baltimore Sun in Russia, writes that Nikolai Levashov claimed he could speak with dolphins, clean polluted city air by his mental power, heal by phone, see internal organs through the skin etc.
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Shane met Levashov at a briefing in the Ministry concerning the Angolan Civil War, although "Nikolai Levashov modestly explained that he knew nothing about international relations".
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Scott Shane believes that the proliferation of pseudoscientists such as Chumak and Nikolai Levashov was a negative underside of the relaxation of censorship in the Soviet Union.
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Nikolai Levashov made acquaintance with an Armenian family of Soviet descent, the Orbelians.
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George Orbelian and his wife Marcia Paulsen-Orbelian supported Nikolai Levashov, spoke about him on the local TV and translated his books from Russian into English.
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Nikolai Levashov is mentioned in books and articles by astrologer Jeanne Avery, "distance healer" Robert Ginsburg, Reichian therapist Richard Blasband and his alternative medicine clinic Center For Functional Research, and "healer" Todd Telford.
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Nikolai Levashov claimed he cured the cancer and persuaded Targ to stop radiation therapy.
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Nikolai Levashov became worse, but Levashov insisted it was not the cancer but some necrotic tissues.
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In 2006, Nikolai Levashov returned to Russia, where he increased his public activity: he published many books and was invited on TV and radio, including REN TV, Channel One, TV-3, Russia 1 and others.
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Nikolai Levashov supported the authenticity of the Book of Veles, the extraterrestrial colonization of Earth, a pseudohistorical theory close to the New Chronology, and the existence of the "vanished continent" of Atlantis.
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Nikolai Levashov was an atheist, and aggressively objected to Christianity, although his views were far from materialism.
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Nikolai Levashov wrote some half dozen books available in print and online; 50,000 copies have been printed.