Professor Valery Slezin: Praying, a person turns into a baby. Employees of the functional diagnostics office

VALERY SLEZIN is a world-class scientist. He is a professor, doctor of biological sciences, candidate of medical sciences, president of the Russian Association of Psychopuncture. He was one of the first to conduct experiments on the effect of prayer on the brain, making sensational conclusions. Valery Slezin is the author of many monographs, scientific papers, as well as books, including the sensational work “The Genocide of the White Race. Crisis in Europe. Despite his age, he continues to engage in research work, being the chief researcher of the laboratory of psychophysiology of the Institute. V. M. Bekhtereva.

Where do bandits come from

- Valery Borisovich, what, in your opinion, is happening with the people now?

There is degradation. Morality is being destroyed, and not only here. Worldwide.

- What worries you the most?

That there are attacks on the family. We see this in Europe. Worst of all, if we start the same thing. If mothers are taken away from breastfeeding babies simply because they are unsuitable mothers.

- And who will raise them?- Specialists. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a French educator, was a great specialist in the upbringing of children. Taught others. But he gave all his children to an orphanage, they died there. Five children.

Why do you think he did this?

Because he was a theoretician. There are a lot of such theoreticians who teach everyone, but they themselves do not know how to do anything. As the saying goes, doctor, heal yourself. God forbid, we will adopt a law on juvenile justice. This will be the end. It is a crime to take children away from their parents. Even in families of alcoholics, children are better than children from orphanages.

- And if the child grows up without parents?

Badly. I was a forensic psychiatric expert, I went to prisons, I saw criminals, murderers there. Many of them are from the orphanage. They were not caressed or kissed as children.

- It is important?

Very important! If a person in childhood is not caressed, not hugged, then he will not become a person. An example is the animal world. A sheep licks its newborn lamb for hours on end. If you take him away from his mother for these few hours, the lamb will be different from the rest. Yes, he will grow normally, but he will not be able to communicate with other lambs. He won't play, he doesn't know how to play. The feeling of a species, belonging to a species, is transmitted only in this way, in a tactile way - through the "invisible energy" that creates unity between mother and baby.

I know that in the West, against the background of external well-being, there is an increase in neuropsychiatric diseases, suicide attempts. Why?

Because they have no meaning in life. What is their progress? Because they are always up to something. They have come up with so many laws that a person is like in a prison. Even if the seller sells a banana that is bent more than it should be, it can be sued. This is nonsense, this is schizophrenia. They are obsessed with human rights. And the most important human right - the child's right to father and mother, to this "licking" like a sheep - they do not have this right.

- Now they have "parent 1" and "parent 2".

Yes, they have no father and mother.

Homosexuality is bad!

- Tell me, how do you feel about the legalization of same-sex unions?

Well, how can I relate?

In the secular press, ideas are being persistently promoted that it is normal to have sex with a person of the same sex ...

This is not sex at all, not sexual relations.

- And what?

Pathological form of behavior, disease.

But these people and the journalists defending them do not think so, they say that this is their sexual orientation - non-traditional ...

All arguments about traditional and non-traditional sex are lies. Tradition is a temporarily acquired form of behavior. The British drink tea with milk, the Russians drink it with lemon, and the Kirghiz drink it with lard. If a Kyrgyz is born in England, he will not drink tea with bacon, because this is not an innate or genetically determined behavior, but a behavior acquired in the process of life, personal. And sexual behavior is genetically determined, innate, it has nothing to do with customs.

“But they say it happens in nature.

Happens. For example, if you take a ladybug, it has no gender identification. Even if she has homosexual relationships, but when a female is fertilized, she lays 1500 eggs, so the absence of identification will not affect the safety of the species.

- They also say that homosexuality has always existed ...

Yes, there was, let them read the Bible, it says that it is a mortal sin. Sodom and Gomorrah were burned for this sin. And now people think that the Lord was wrong, and they are trying to correct it. Yesterday I spoke with an Orthodox Dutch priest, he gave me an example: two homosexuals enter an Orthodox church in Holland, behave provocatively, but the priest cannot kick them out - in the neighborhood, a mullah kicked out two homosexuals from the mosque, and the mosque was closed, the mullah was evicted from Holland. And this priest himself says that he will not let homosexuals into his church, even if the church is closed after that, and the service will have to be held in the basement.

- Survived!

This confirms the fact that now there is terror against all religions of the Book, that is, those that recognize the Bible - Christianity, Judaism, Islam. And it's like that everywhere. Some official in Spain refused to paint two homosexuals. He was kicked out of service. And he has seven children. He was fined 100,000 euros.

Who needs it?

- Why do doctors not say their weighty word that this is a disease?

From the fear of the Jews. There is a concept in the Bible.

- And what is this fear?

Now there is such a frantic campaign in defense of sexual minorities that many are afraid to get involved. Recently, the newspaper "Sankt-Peterburgskiye Vedomosti" published an article entitled "Red Carriage", where the author writes that homosexuals are nice and harmless people who do not interfere with anyone. He says that homosexuals have their rights, and they should not be violated. I wrote a letter to this newspaper, it was not published. In their opinion, I am an enemy of democracy who wants to infringe on the rights of homosexuals. This is the policy of our official press.

- And who needs such a policy?

I talked with Yuryev, who used to be Mironov's adviser, now he is the head of the political science department at St. Petersburg State University. I asked him a question: who initiated this hysterical campaign with homosexuals? Who benefits from it? Who finances it? Nothing is done without money. Who, for example, funded Pussy Riot? Who advocates persecution of the Orthodox Church? Who spreads gossip about the Patriarch, that he does not believe in God at all? Who is doing all this? And for whose money? After all, all these demonstrations of people who demand something are also paid for. I would like to publicly, on the first channel, ask him these questions so that he answers them. He agreed, and for a month now I have been waiting for him to answer me. People are afraid. There is some kind of force that takes people by the throat.

- It can be said that there is such an information war going on. And if you generalize - against whom?

Against the Church and against Russia. The church is the only force that unites society, so all this gossip, all this Pussy Riot dancing in the temple - all this is directed to one point. If the Church falls apart, everything will fall apart.

people without prejudice

- If you remember, at the beginning of the 20th century we had something similar: the destruction of morality, the emergence of various people with disabilities, feminists, attacks on the Church. And then - the revolution and the collapse of the state.

Yes, everything is connected. You can recall an example from history - Ancient Greece. When they had normal families, the country lived. They resisted the Persians, who outnumbered them ten times, and defended their independence. Then everything changed, the family ceased to be a value. Socrates wrote that the union of man with man is power itself. The Greeks had a cult of perversions. And when the Romans came, they just gave up and turned into slaves, they were driven with a whip, and they were nothing.

Same with the Roman Empire...

Yes, the same thing happened to Rome. The Germans came, and Rome could not even resist. Great Rome, which defeated everyone, was nothing, it rotted, and morally rotted. Now this is happening in Europe. That the French passed such a law (about same-sex marriage - ed.)- it's monstrous. Only in hell can one be proud of the law signed by the President of France. This is the end, decay, finish!

- And the Soviet Union? There were also moral values!

First they were destroyed. After the revolution, marriage was abolished in Russia as a bourgeois relic. It was canceled by V. I. Lenin. Krupskaya was a categorical opponent of all marriages, although she herself was married and according to her passport was not Krupskaya, but Ulyanova, and they married Lenin in the church. In one of the republics of the former USSR, they went even further and proclaimed that women should be available to everyone. As Lily Brik's husband, Joseph Brik, said: we are communists, we have no prejudices, and if someone is sleeping with your wife, lie on the other side and sleep peacefully, wait your turn. And then Stalin came, he realized that it was impossible to live like that.

- Of course!

And he said that the family is the basic cell of society, and introduced marriage at the religious level - with a seal, painting and an oath. And when he introduced it, Trotsky wrote the article “Treason of the Revolution”, which was published abroad, and Krupskaya also wrote an article in Pravda that this was a departure from revolutionary thinking. Stalin then said, as the rumor goes, that "if there is still such an article, then I will find another widow for Lenin." And I would find it.

- What black humor!

If he had found a widow, he would have said that Lenin lived with Inessa Armand, that he loved her, and Inessa would become a widow. They also had a relationship, and Krupskaya demanded that Armand leave, otherwise she would announce a divorce, and a divorce for a leader is a heavy blow. And Armand left and died, and when they buried her, Lenin wept. So he was human too.

The king cannot be kind

- What do you think, then, at the beginning of the century, the revolution in Russia could have been prevented?

It was possible, but with drastic measures. After all, why there was a revolution - the government was weak. My great-uncle was the head of the artillery department under the tsar. The First World War was on. And he saw that the bourgeois entrepreneurs raised the prices of shells against the Obukhov and Putilov factories three times and demanded the liquidation of state enterprises, since they did not give them the opportunity to turn around with all this robbery. And he ordered them to be arrested. When the king asked why, he replied that they were robbing the people, and we cannot win the war for that kind of money. It's too expensive. But the tsar replied that in April he would enter Berlin.

- Who told you?

My father, besides, I read a lot about it. When riots began in Petrograd, General Keller asked for permission to send troops into the city. But the king did not agree, he was worried about the people, he was afraid of blood.

- The king was kind.

Napoleon said that if the king is good, then the kingdom failed. The king has no right to be kind, he must do not what he likes, but what is required at the moment to strengthen the state. Napoleon himself chopped off about a million heads on the guillotine.

“But it was he who was wrecked, though he was solid.

He failed, but because of his tactical adventurism. He was not a strategist, like Hitler. What did we have in St. Petersburg? The grain harvest in the country was huge. 3 thousand tons remained from the last harvest. But in St. Petersburg there was no bread, although, of course, there were vegetables and meat. Bread was not specially delivered. The tsar was approached to impose a severe punishment for the non-delivery of bread, he gave such an order. But the public objected, saying that this was a violation of human rights, and he canceled his order. Now, if it was Napoleon, he would cut off a dozen heads and establish order. But the king could not. And as a result, not a dozen people had to be killed, but tens of millions.

- Don't you think that the revolution is partly a project of the West?

Without a doubt. The fact that bread was not delivered to St. Petersburg was paid for by England. They admitted it. Industrialists received money for not bringing bread. Moreover, much more than they would receive from the sale of bread.

- What about traitors in the country itself?

Of course, there were traitors. When the Japanese defeated our people near Tsushima, the Russian democrats sent congratulations to the Mikado on the victory over vile tsarism.

Scammers and hooligans

- Tell me, why don't they like us in the West?

Different mentalities. Here is a simple example. In Russia, denunciation has always been despised. And in the West, this is the basis of the foundations. In Germany, a common sight is when a pensioner sits with binoculars all day long and observes whether people are throwing various types of garbage into containers correctly. And, if wrong, immediately calls the police. And so the whole day. Another sits at the crossing: if someone goes on red, he immediately reports the signs of this person to the police.

- Maybe it's out of harm?

No, that's how they were brought up. They gladly fulfill their civic duty.

- But they have less garbage lying around ...

Less garbage, more other troubles. When one German defended his dissertation on the topic "Crime in Russia and Germany", he showed that in Germany there is little petty hooliganism, in Russia there is much more, but in Germany there are more terrible cruel crimes, and in Russia much less. That is, here it is - a valve that must be opened: you cannot put a person in the most severe framework, so that he is always afraid of doing something wrong.

- Do children report on adults there?

They inform, and on the parents.

- We also had Pavlik Morozov ...

It was, but you can't! It's not normal! The laws of Confucius say that if a child informs on his parents, he must be cut off his head, regardless of the justice of the denunciation, because you cannot inform on the one who created you.

Everything depends on us

- What do you think the country expects?

I think we are still on the rise. The revival will go through the Church. I was recently in church, I saw mostly young people. And today's old people - those who were members of the Komsomol - do not go to church. Previously, on the contrary, old people who belonged to the pre-revolutionary generation went to church. And the current ones no longer go, because they are atheists.

- But now, you said, there is degradation. When will progress begin?

Don't know. Morality has dropped to zero, everyone is stealing, and no one is interested in any progress. And there will be degradation, because everything depends on the common man. Not economists and not financiers determine the rise, it is determined by the ordinary person, but he does not want to do anything, he does not care about anything.

- And Putin?

Putin does, but does not do everything ...

- He is a very complex figure, contradictory.

He is very controversial, closed. On the one hand, there are some advantages. Yes, the Church is being revived, yes, the Federation is not marching with us. On the other hand, the Minister of War stole millions, and he was not even put under arrest. Preliminary arrest before trial is practiced everywhere, it is permissible under all constitutions. Why hasn't he been arrested? Then, our Prime Minister Medvedev is clearly not up to par. Allows stupid things. In Kamchatka, he was driving a car and crashed into a car standing on the side of the road, where there was a woman with a small child. An article was published in the newspaper, which was called "Thank you for not killing." The amount to repair the car for him is negligible, but he did not come out and apologize.

- What would you wish to the readers of our newspaper?

I would like to live like a human being, have a family, raise children. Loving them. Give the dearest person your personal free time, give this time to the child. It has been proven that children in complete families, where there are both parents, get sick less, they are more balanced. Raise a child and he will become a man.

- What does it mean to be human?

Preserve your essence, which is invested by God, your nature. Treat people humanely, and above all, your children. After all, it's natural!

The interview was conducted by Sergey ROMANOV
Photographs by the author

P.S. Our interlocutor turned out to be such an interesting person that the conversation did not fit into the format of this issue, and we decided to continue. Read in the next issue Professor V. B. Slezin's discussions about what is happening in the Caucasus, about miracles and about the secrets of the human psyche.

/ Prof. V. B. Slezin spoke about the impact of the environment on the human brain

28.02.2013

Society of Orthodox Doctors of St. Petersburg

Professor V.B.Slezin made a presentation

"The impact of the environment on the human brain"

February 12, 2013 at St. Petersburg Medical University. Academician I.P. Pavlov, the 97th meeting of the Society of Orthodox Doctors of St. Petersburg named after St. Luke (Voyno-Yasenetsky) took place.

The report was made by d.b.s., c.m.s., head. scientific collaborator laboratory of neuro- and psychophysiology St. Petersburg NIPNI them. V.M. Bekhterev, prof.Valery Borisovich Slezin.

The words of a scientist and a man who lived a long creative life were heard from the rostrum of the OPV. A person who is not indifferent to the life of the country, not indifferent to human destinies, to the life of Russian youth in the future.

VB Slezin noted that at present the entire civilized world is experiencing an economic and moral crisis. Having joined Western "values", we began to lose our former freedom. Until now, no one, except for the Orthodox Church, has been in a hurry to define the freedom that the population of our country so aspired to. In reality, today's "freedom" has turned for most of us into a decline in culture, a decline in health and intelligence among young people, an increase in drug addiction, alcoholism, venereal diseases, family breakdown, moral degradation and extinction of the population. An incorrect, pseudoscientific, that is, interpretation of the concept of freedom not based on biological and social causes leads to catastrophic consequences that we are seeing today in our country. Thus, freedom of the press led to the propaganda of violence, depravity, sexual perversion, and the denial of family values. Freedom of conscience, and the denial of the Christian faith gave rise to many asocial sects.

Social disintegration has led to the loss of true, biologically determined guidelines, without which true freedom and mental health are absolutely impossible. New behavioral illnesses have emerged, such as computer addiction, addiction to slot machines.

Prof. V.B. Slezin believes that the unity of man with his biological essence ensured the safety of our people, now lost. A free man strives to prolong the race and raise offspring; all the rest of his activity is secondary, but when it comes to the first place, then we already need to talk about the pathology of behavior.

Thus, at the present time one can speak of a disease of society, or even of several diseases. Firstly, society suffers from infertility. This disease was born of technological progress, the pursuit of new goods, which became the goal of life - the goal of a barren and dead end. Infertility, which does not depend on biological inferiority, but simply on the unwillingness to spend money and time on a child, and not on things, can be called social impotence. And this impotence is put on a pedestal by the media.

The disintegration of the family not only leads to extinction, but also to degeneration, since a person becomes a person only in close contact with other people and, first of all, with his mother and father. The reduction of this contact or its practical absence leads to the pathology of the personality, to its psychopathization. This is what we observe in some Western countries, where the usual concepts like "father" and "mother" at the state level are replaced by faceless expressions: "parent #1" and "parent #2". And in some foreign kindergartens, the pronouns “he” and “she” in relation to children were canceled, replacing them with the faceless “it” again.

A person, his birth and upbringing is the main thing, and everything else is done for the convenience of a person and should not come to the fore. Where does the disease of society begin? It is natural to believe that the first manifestations of the disease of society begin in childhood.

Prof. V.B.Slezin said that he and his colleagues compared encephalograms in orphanages (children and adolescents), among whom were those who received simplified television information and those who did not read books that required understanding and comprehension, that is, mental stress. In these children, there was a slowdown in the formation of an encephalogram characteristic of an adult. These children lagged behind sharply in their studies, showed indifference to their fate, to the surrounding events; they often committed disciplinary violations, it was difficult to adapt in a foster family.

Another group of children, among whom were reading children, especially those with favorite books, were the opposite of the children from the first group. Moreover, girls who prefer watching television programs to reading differed from boys in their earlier interest in sexual activity and poorly concealed cynicism. It can be assumed that girls need a special approach, the education of maternal feelings in them, the desire to be the mistress of the house, and so on. This upbringing will create immunity against cynicism and antisocial behavior.

The main reason for the lag in the development of "television" children is the extremely low information content of television reports and the rapid change in the color of images. All this can cause epileptoid activity in the viewer's brain, which, in turn, can cause a partial blackout of consciousness and a decrease in perception. Together, this leads to reduced brain training, a delay in its development, and therefore to mental defects. However, even a very good TV repertoire cannot replace reading good books. The child should develop the ability to inhibit, that is, be able to focus on the main thing. There should be discipline at school, duties at home.

Now it is fashionable to promote a healthy lifestyle, but it only means sports, giving up drugs, smoking and drinking, although a healthy lifestyle should be physiological, that is, it implies the presence of a normal family, children and loved ones.We can rightfully say that the family is a healthy lifestyle. . Everything else is of secondary importance, Prof. VB Slezin emphasized.

The psychological preparation of the younger generation for a family lifestyle is no less important than physical education lessons. Anti-family propaganda in the media should be strictly prohibited. In orphans and, to a lesser extent, children from single-parent families, the number of cases of pathological behavior and mental illness is sharply increasing.

Professor V.B. Slyozin was the first researcher who made an attempt to explain, using laboratory methods, what happens to the brain during a prayerful appeal to God. When recording electroencephalograms (EEG) of the brains of praying people, for the first time they managed to register a new, previously unknown state of consciousness to scientists.

In the experiments carried out, it turned out that during prayer, the rhythm of the biocurrents of the brain slows down so much that it becomes possible to talk about the existence of a fourth state of consciousness - slow, or prayerful, wakefulness. The brain actually turns off, active mental activity stops. These slow rhythms are called delta rhythms and are observed only in infants up to two or three months. In some subjects, the EEG showed a complete absence of alpha and beta rhythms - only delta rhythms were determined. From the point of view of neurophysiology, these people literally became like babies. Probably the words of Christ "be like babies and you will be saved" can also be attributed to the prayerful state of the brain.

On the issue of studying the distinctive features in the work of the cerebral cortex in different age categories, V.B. Slezin, as the head of the laboratory of neuro- and psychophysiology, explained that changes that indicate maturation occur only at 21 years old. From this follows the conclusion that the early conscription into the army, especially the conscription of one selfish child in the family, contributed to the spread of the so-called "hazing".

Valery Borisovich said that calligraphy develops fine motor skills of fingers, concentration and will in children, and contributes to the full development of the brain. This was evidenced by an experiment on the introduction of calligraphy lessons in correctional orphanages in the outback of Russia. As a result, the mental abilities of the test children improved.

Then comments were made by the Chairman of the OPV of St. Petersburg, Archpriest Sergiy Filimonov. He noted that in pastoral practice it is important to take into account the age-related features of human development. This was noted, in particular, by Elder Paisios Svyatogorets and Archimandrite John Krestyankin. By the time of physical maturation, the will is not always formed, there is no resistance to bad inclinations. The turning point is 21. Therefore, the Fathers of the Church advised not to create a family until the age of 21, to study. Now adult relationships enter much earlier.

O. Sergiy also noted that it is extremely important to focus on the difference between men and women. Women have a special form of nervous mental activity, in which an incorrect action may precede a correct assessment of the family and life situation.

We not only have the right, but are obliged to preserve our cultural traditions, Archpriest emphasized. Sergei Filimonov. This will be a guarantee that we will not have as many depressed people who commit suicide as in the West.

Thanks prof. Valery Borisovich Slezin for participation in the meeting of the Society!

Members of the Board of the OPV of St. Petersburg

Wednesday, 21 Nov. 2001

Communication with God is good for health, the St. Petersburg scientist believes. And American oncologists confirm: believing patients live 5 years longer!

To the laboratory of neuro- and psychophysiology of the St. Petersburg Psychoneurological Research Institute. VM Bekhterev Orthodox priests, Catholic priests, followers of Islam, Zen Buddhists come to pray. This is the main condition of the experiment, which is being conducted by Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor Valery SlЈzin.

Many psychiatrists and neurologists know the phenomenon when, after prayer, the state of mind improves, the symptoms of severe diseases disappear. Professor SlЈzin became the first who tried to explain with the help of scientific methods what happens to the brain in the minutes of turning to God. The results of the experiment stunned experts.

When an electroencephalograph helmet with dozens of wires is put on the head, at first everyone is not up to prayer, - says Valery Borisovich. - You need to talk to a person, calm them down, and only then start the experiment. However, it is much more difficult to find volunteers from among deeply religious people. After all, not everyone will agree to be examined at the moment of the sacrament of prayerful communion with the Lord. And for those who nevertheless decided, sometimes it came to curiosities. Father Ambrose, the abbot of the monastery in Ivanovo, came to us, such a healthy man, a former wrestling coach. We put him in a chair, and at that moment take and drop a laboratory lamp on him. “It is evident that God does not command,” Father Ambrose said, and the experiment had to be stopped.

- What did the research show?

For the first time, we have managed to register a state of consciousness unknown to science. Until now, it has been customary to distinguish three main phases of the working brain - REM sleep, non-REM sleep and wakefulness. Each of them has its own rhythm of biocurrents. But suddenly it turned out that during prayer the rhythm of the brain's biocurrents slows down so much that it becomes possible to talk about the existence of a fourth state of consciousness - slow, or prayerful, wakefulness. The brain actually turns off, active mental activity stops. It seems to me, although so far I cannot prove it, that consciousness begins to exist outside the body.

On an electroencephalograph, it looks like this. At the moments of wakefulness, the cerebral cortex of an adult generates alpha and beta rhythms of biocurrents with a frequency of 8 to 30 hertz. When people plunged into prayer, the rhythm of biocurrents slowed down to 3 hertz. These slow rhythms are called delta rhythms and are observed only in infants up to two or three months. In some subjects, the encephalograph showed a complete absence of alpha and beta rhythms, only delta rhythms. From the point of view of neurophysiology, these people literally became like babies.

- But it was observed not at all?

The slowdown of rhythms manifested itself most clearly in the young novices of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra. They spend long hours in prayer vigil. But Abbot Benjamin from the Lavra had much weaker results. “It is clear why,” said the clergyman. - I have a huge number of cases that need to be constantly kept in my head. There just isn't enough time for prayer. Know that such is my obedience.”

We observed similar slowdowns in a Catholic priest and a mullah. A completely different picture is observed in the brain during meditation. The frequency of the alpha rhythm, on the contrary, increases - as if a person is solving a difficult problem. A man came to me who constantly practiced meditation and even founded a spiritual school. I asked him to read the Lord's Prayer. On the encephalogram, discharges went as before an epileptic seizure. “It turns out that God is against meditation,” I said then. After a while, this man called and said that he had stopped meditating and started going to church.

- And what consequences did the discovery of “prayer vigilance” have for you?

I believed in God, was baptized, began to go to church. Thanks to prayer, my seriously ill wife recovered. Now I'm going to try to apply prayer in medicine. According to the American Cancer Association, church-going people with cancer live an average of five years longer than non-believers. Director of the Psychoneurological Research Institute. Bekhterev, Professor Modest Kabanov agreed to use prayer for the rehabilitation of patients. I think our research could lead to drug-free therapies.

OPINION OF SPECIALISTS

Doctor of Medical Sciences, Member of the Editorial Board of the Independent Psychiatric Journal Victor KAGAN:
- The study of the state of the brain during prayer by Tears is carried out at a high technical level. The methods used by the scientists allow us to speak of a high degree of reliability of the experiment. It is very good that such non-standard scientific works are now appearing in Russian science. Moreover, the topic of research related to religion, until recently, was taboo for us.

Doctor of Medical Sciences, Deputy. Andrey ANICHKOV, director of the Institute of the Human Brain:
- I know Valery SlЈzin and I can assume that he really groped for something very interesting. However, personally I would not engage in such research. I do not want to offend Valery, but to explain faith by science, in my opinion, is blasphemous.

Secretary of the Academic Council of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy and the Theological Seminary Father KIRILL (Kopeikin):
- With his experiment, Valery SLіZIN proved that the fourth state of consciousness is necessary for a person and makes his life full. But this is by no means a proof of the existence of God, nor is it an argument capable of convincing unbelievers. Believers do not need such an argument. They know about God from their own spiritual experience.

PRIVATE BUSSINESS

Valery Borisovich SLіZIN was born in 1937 in Leningrad. Doctor of Biological Sciences, Candidate of Medical Sciences. He was engaged in research on the study of brain structures associated with emotional manifestations. Author of over 100 publications. Head of the Laboratory of Neuro- and Psychophysiology at the St. Petersburg Psychoneurological Research Institute. V. M. Bekhtereva.

1. Prayer as a special state of man

"Religion is meant to be in harmony with reason and science". -Bahá'u'lláh

Many psychiatrists and neurologists know the phenomenon when, after prayer, the state of mind improves, the symptoms of severe diseases disappear. Professor Valery Borisovich Slezin became the first who tried to explain with the help of scientific methods what happens to the brain in the minutes of turning to God. The results of the experiment stunned experts. Valery Borisovich Slezin is a doctor of biology and a candidate of medicine, his discovery is at the junction of not only these, but also other sciences. Probably one of them is philosophy. Yes, and theology - he considers it a science. However, they say that true discoveries are almost always made at these very "junctions".

At the world conference, held at the University of Arizona in the USA under the title "Recent Achievements in the Science of Consciousness", the abstracts of the President of the St. Petersburg Association of Psychopuncture, Head of the Psychophysiology Laboratory of the Psychoneurological Institute named after A. V.M. Bekhterev Professor Valery Borisovich Slezin.

These theses, which aroused considerable interest among scientists from many countries and scientific fields, speak of the discovery of an unusual (unique) phenomenon - a special state of a person during prayer. Valery Borisovich Slezin told the correspondents of various newspapers about this scientific discovery in more detail, we save here the form of an interview

Valery Borisovich, what prompted you to discover this phenomenon?

For many years, in the practice of treating functional neurotic disorders, that is, neuroses, the method of self-hypnosis, or, as we also call it, meditation, has been used. This method, according to experts, gives good results. We decided in our laboratory to investigate what processes take place in this case in the cerebral cortex. They took an electroencephalogram and found that during meditation, excitation mechanisms are activated in the cerebral cortex. And at one fine moment we asked ourselves: what happens to the brain when a person prays?..

Some followers of various schools of yoga claim that meditation is the same prayer, the same communion with God.

This is far from the case, as we found out in our research. For the purity of the experiment, we invited the abbot of one of the monasteries and recorded his electroencephalogram during prayer. The result stunned us. We found that in full consciousness in the prayerful state of an Orthodox clergyman, the electroencephalogram showed a complete shutdown of the cerebral cortex ... The man sat and prayed, but he completely lacked an electrical impulse, indicating the work of the cerebral cortex. That is, we observed a state of complete brain shutdown with clear consciousness.

On an electroencephalograph, it looks like this. At the moments of wakefulness, the cerebral cortex of an adult generates alpha and beta rhythms of biocurrents with a frequency of eight to thirty Hertz. When the subjects were immersed in prayerful ecstasy, the rhythm of the biocurrents slowed down to a frequency of three Hertz. The preserved biopotentials had such a small amplitude that they practically approached a straight line. These slow rhythms are called delta rhythms and are only seen in infants up to three or four months of age. That is, these people literally became like babies. And after praying, the volunteers returned to the previous rhythm of the electrical impulses of their cerebral cortex. These neurophysiological processes occur in the same way, regardless of what kind of prayer a person reads - Orthodox, Catholic or Muslim.

We have called this phenomenon the fourth state of man. Before our discovery, science knew three states of human consciousness: wakefulness, slow and fast sleep, which differ from each other in the nature of electrical impulses in the cortex. Now we have become aware of another state - a complete shutdown of the electrical activity of the cerebral cortex with full consciousness. The brain actually turns off, active mental activity stops. It seems to me, although so far I cannot prove it, that consciousness begins to exist outside the body.

The neurons of the cerebral cortex, and there are ten billion such neurons each, contain a huge amount of information, fantastically huge. A child is born with a small head, and he has more neurons than an adult, because in the course of life they die off. The small head grows and we adapt to earthly life. The earth draws us. But everything is captured, and whether we forget something or not, no one knows.

What do we know about levels of consciousness today? The newborn has only the primary delta rhythm (2-3 Hz). During this period, the main thing for the baby is a sense of security next to his mother. And if mom is calm, he is reliably protected. As they grow older, a second level of brain activity appears - family (up to 7 Hz). At this time, the child communicates only with his loved ones, and his parents take him out into the world by the hand. He himself does not orient himself, the hand of an adult is very important to him - as a support, not so much physical as psychological. The family is a greenhouse where the baby grows up. And here the main thing is the love of parents. As they grow older, fast alpha and beta rhythms of the brain (up to 12 Hz and above) appear - the social level. These rhythms often become decisive, to the detriment of the primary and family levels.

A person develops somewhere around the age of 20 - 21 and his alpha rhythm is fully formed. This is social consciousness, socialization.

A child who has only the consciousness of an ideal “I”, when he sees the ideal in his father and mother, in close people, then he does not seem to orient himself in space, because he is led by the hand and he cannot go anywhere on his own, and society does not interest him. Developing, a person enters the world of social consciousness when he studies at school, institute, masters the achievements of mankind. This is the third level of consciousness.

In our experiments conducted with people in a state of prayer, the disappearance of alpha and beta rhythms was recorded, only one delta rhythm remained. That is, in fact, the brain of a person who is conscious does not work. The feeling is that a person is leaving somewhere... This suggests that, apparently, we still somehow orient ourselves in our world, but there are also some other worlds, other states, a different reality, about which we know very little or practically nothing. But it all affects our lives in some way.

Valery Borisovich, I happened to meet one amazing woman, a parishioner of the Holy Trinity Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, who told an amazing story from her life. She was dying of cancer in the hospital, the doctors put an end to her, but she was haunted by the thought of the fate of her children ... And she began to cry out to God day and night and ask to heal her for the sake of her children ... And a miracle happened - she recovered, recovered, raised her children and, of course, constantly thanks the Lord ... What do you think is the secret of the healing properties of prayer? For a believer - God heard and healed - this is clear. And for a materialist scientist?

Separation from the real world always has a bad effect on the mental health of a person, increases tension, contributes not only to mental illness, but also to heart attacks. By the way, in a traditional patriarchal society, where a strong family is preserved, strict rules of behavior, religion, ethics and morality are observed, heart attacks are not observed, mental illness and suicide are rare. The objects of the real world, perceived by a person, “nourish” all three levels of consciousness that form his personality. Modern man in his behavior, occupations, way of life has significantly departed from the rules of traditional society, but the essence of man has remained the same, the structure of his consciousness has not changed. Therefore, the predominance of the social level of consciousness over the other two levels - family and spiritual - leads to a violation of the internal balance in the human mind, which is expressed in the growth of mental illness, depression, aggressiveness.

Trying to somehow suppress these states, people consume drugs and alcohol. How can a modern man be helped in these troubles of his?

Studies show that the electroencephalograms of wakefulness and REM sleep are identical. Now we have found that there is a complete shutdown of the cortex both during slow sleep and during prayer. It turns out that the prayerful state is just as characteristic and necessary for the human body as the three previously known to us. Indeed, in a person’s life, transitions from one state of consciousness to another are observed, there are systems of inhibition, shutdowns ... When a person’s life, by his will, lacks the fourth physiological state of the brain necessary for him, then, apparently, some negative processes occur. After all, note that a characteristic feature for the ascetics of the church, the elder monks, is a peaceful state of mind ...

Yes, during the service, the priest repeatedly proclaims: “Peace be with you!” That is, he wishes us a peaceful state of mind ...

Apparently, it is difficult for us to achieve this peaceful state in the soul without putting into practice the state of prayer. Hence the healing properties of prayer, noted long ago and many times. They are associated with a temporary departure from earthly concerns, the recognition of their insignificance in comparison with something eternal and unshakable, with which a person learns to communicate during prayer. For example, praying, a cancer patient loses the fear of death, overcomes despondency, and this leads to a completely objective increase in immunity, resistance to the disease increases, life is prolonged, self-healing is possible. However, not every prayer is effective, but only the one heard by God, that is, the one that temporarily removes us from earthly life, which is expressed in the shutdown of fast cortical rhythms of biocurrents. This phenomenon of the disappearance or reduction of fast rhythms allows us to assess the depth of prayer immersion.

You just need to believe and pray for real, - says the professor, - earnestly, from the heart, otherwise there will be no therapeutic effect.

Why can a violation of harmonious relationships with people around us lead to somatic diseases?

Let's see, because in a primitive communal society there are no heart attacks, but in a civilized one there are many. What happens to the brain? Someone offended a person, he did not react adequately to this, his negative zone of the brain was activated (I dealt with these zones, but this is a separate topic), a stagnant focus is created, which leads to the destruction of the body.

The famous researcher Alain Bombard proved that a person who finds himself in the sea dies not from the fact that there is nothing to eat or drink, not from a storm, but from fear. He did an experiment on himself: he lived for a whole month in the ocean on a raft without water and food. Then he described it in the book "Overboard of his own free will." Most importantly, he overcame fear!

Why is it said: “He who believes will be saved?”

Let's take oncology. It is known that a believing inoperable cancer patient lives approximately 5-6 years longer than a non-believer. Why? Yes, because when we learn about cancer, fear fetters a person, that is, there is a strong activation of negative zones. This leads to the rapid destruction of the body, to the destruction of the immune system and rapid death. All this I experimentally proved. What does faith and prayer remove? Fear. A person devoid of fear can even heal himself.

Why is despondency considered one of the great sins for an Orthodox person? After all, despondency and depression also lead to the destruction of the immune system. This can be shown by blood parameters, etc., this is well known.

Americans came to us, they talked about a woman with lung cancer. She hated her husband, who slipped her drugs when she flew to Miami, and the police found them. For nothing, for nothing, she served 7 years. Hatred of her husband was the main feeling during this time. Of course, this hatred either should be somehow reacted, or it was necessary to forgive. Otherwise, she kills a person. The doctors forced (by methods with which I cannot agree) to forgive and forget, and the patient was cured.

The fourth state is the path to harmony.

Our research has given us the opportunity to make some more discoveries. So, we found out that despondency, rock music lead a person away from the state of harmony, also causing electrical impulses in the cerebral cortex that are close to an epileptic seizure.

Can we say that the fourth state is opposed to the destructive power of modern mass culture?

Since we live on planet Earth, where, as we found out, there are four physiological states of a person, then they all must alternate in a person’s life. The absence of one of them disrupts the harmonious development of a person, leads him to degradation, illness. Therefore, I dare say that the fourth state allows or helps a person to remain a person!

How did believers, priests react to your discovery?

Calm enough. Yes, this is understandable, believers - they believe, they do not need any additional "evidence". It's another matter, atheists: here they reacted very lively, were interested, asked questions, interest in faith, in religion, awakened in someone. People are more likely to trust scientific facts. And I don't seem to be the last one to come to faith through science.

And what consequences did the discovery of “prayer watch” have for you?

I believed in God, was baptized, began to go to church. Now I'm going to try to apply prayer in medicine. I think our research could lead to drug-free therapies.

It turns out that science and religion are two things in common?

Jung also wrote that a full-fledged person is one who has both knowledge and faith, and if knowledge is without faith, he is defective. We used to think that science and religion are antagonists.

But more and more often we notice that science is not omnipotent, it cannot take into account all the nuances. I believe that science can then become a full-fledged force when it has a spiritual beginning. Here's what's more important: health for us should not be an end in itself. Suppose a person has a myocardial infarction. If he goes into his illness, begins to think only about his own health, diligently fulfill all the doctor's prescriptions, take medicines by the hour, and so on, he recovers slowly, and sometimes he does not recover. If such a person continues to live a full life, work, even sometimes forgetting to take medication, he quickly gets on his feet, he lives. These are not just words, there are huge statistics on this subject, and several dissertations on this problem have been defended at our institute.

Scientific research leads to the conclusion that there is something outside our space. Something irrational, which is no less important than our existence here on Earth. Even more important. The discovery of the fourth state of consciousness is the path to irrationality and understanding of God.

We are already living in the 21st century, people have confidence in science. Few people understand how a TV or computer works, but everyone uses them. And you need to talk to people in the language that they understand. Of course, for a believer, and even more so for a priest, such a question is not relevant. The priests told me that the liturgy for them flies in an instant - time disappears. But priests make up only a small part of the population. And the population thinks in other categories: for many, it takes a lot of work to survive the service in the church. And the testimonies of the Gospel about Christ are perceived by many as fairy tales. But if - thanks to science - a person takes the first step towards God, then it will be easier for him to open the Holy Scriptures.”

2. Patriotism and spirituality as two levels of consciousness

Our Russian people are currently in an extremely difficult situation. After the reforms, the birth rate has dropped sharply, and the people are dying out at a rate of 1 million people a year. How much are we enough? Soon the process will become irreversible.

What is the reason for this disaster? To overcome it, you need to understand this reason.

At the beginning of the last century, Oswald Spengler published his fundamental philosophical work, The Decline of Europe. Spengler in this work proves the non-viability of European civilization and its inevitable death by the beginning of the 21st century, i.e. Nowadays. What does the author see as the cause of this catastrophe? In the extremely high rationalism of Europeans. They try to do only what contributes to the growth of their earthly well-being. They have lost the ability to strive for a higher goal, for which one can give one's life like Gastello or Alexander Matrosov. As long as there were people in Rome who, like Muzzio Scaevola, could burn in the name of the Motherland without trembling their hand, Rome was invincible.

There is no city without a saint, says a Russian proverb. At present, we see how the prophetic words of the philosopher come true. The population of Western Europe is dying out and being replaced by newcomers from Africa and Asia. There is a peaceful occupation of Europe.

We see that children are much more powerful weapons than all atomic bombs. Let us recall the slogan of the French of Canada, captured at that time by the British: "Revenge by the cradles."

The French, defeated on the battlefields, survived at the expense of cradles, although their standard of living was two times lower than that of the British. Whoever loves his people and his homeland always wins even when the enemy outnumbers him militarily by several times. Napoleon, who had armed all of Europe against Russia, was, however, defeated.

The same thing happened in Russia and with Hitler. The number of Germans, including Austrians, Sudetes, Luxembourgers, Alsatians and others, was approximately 100 million people, the same number as Russians in the USSR. The number of the main peoples was the same, and the Germans had significantly more allied troops and workers in the military industry.

What is the physiology of patriotism? In R. Kipling's fairy tale, the tiger says, "At its lair, every dog ​​barks." Animals protect their territory, where their flock lives, i.e. "their". Between their own, the level of aggression decreases, stress decreases, and hence immunity increases, protein consumption decreases. By the method of stimulating the plus and minus zones of the brain, I was able to observe this in an experiment on animals ..

With friendship, the level of aggression among friends is reduced, which is useful and economical. The role of aggression in strengthening friendship and health was shown quite reasonably by Konrad Lorenz; it was not for nothing that he subtitled his book "Aggression" "The So-Called Evil".

Naturally, the disintegration of the family, the underestimation of the heroic history of our people, led to an increase in morbidity, the number of mental illnesses and suicides. The opinion cultivated in our time that human health is determined by medicine, everyday culture, etc., turned out to be wrong. Thus, the famous Swiss doctor Luban Plozza writes in his book Bridges to Life that people in the West began to live well, even prosperously, they have an abundance of excellent medicines, but the morbidity among them is growing. The population itself is dying out. We are convinced that a person with his mind, labor cannot build a harmonious, self-reproducing world. A person should have some kind of lofty goal, not directly related to his material well-being.

Why is it not enough to eat well and sleep well to become healthy?

Now all are declared free. Already schoolchildren can freely go to computer clubs and sit there all night. in gambling houses, to start having sex at the age of 12 and freely get venereal diseases, earn extra money by prostitution, inject drugs, drink vodka and especially beer. Naturally, they cannot be healthy with such freedom either physically or mentally. Apparently, it is impossible to speak simply of freedom without giving a definition to this word. It can be assumed that freedom is behavior that corresponds to the specific behavior of a rational person, i.e. it is necessary to behave, as it is necessary by nature, God, i.e. For the full education of offspring, a family is needed. This family is also found among the great apes and all peoples with a patriarchal way of life that have not begun to die out. The so-called democratic peoples are all dying out, it turns out that under their power (democracy is the power of the people), the people begin to exterminate themselves. If the people are such a fool, they should not be given power.

A united Europe has a constitution, God is not mentioned. All communist-democratic policy is aimed at the destruction of national cultures, the blurring of national, racial and other boundaries, i.e. to reduce the information content of society.

The growth of entropy in society leads to its degradation and death. Society is trying to defend itself, and we see skinhead attacks, ethnic clashes, and so on. Such are the fruits of the internationalism of communists and democrats. V. Belinsky wrote that the culture of each nation is a universal wealth, they reflect certain aspects of the human psyche, therefore culture must be protected, peoples should not die out. Why do Muslims create Islamic republics, while Christians do not even have a state religion and teaching the Law of God in schools? Where does this pathological cowardice, leading to the death of the people, come from?

We recorded the EEG during Orthodox prayer and got the phenomenon of a sharp drop in power, the high-frequency component of the EEG up to the amplitude of thermal noise. So the electroencephalogram is observed normally in a 2-4-month-old baby, whose consciousness is non-verbal. Thus, an adult person retains the non-verbal consciousness of an infant, which manifests itself during prayer and carries its function of irrational thinking, not bound by earthly expediency.

It was observed that persons with a craniocerebral injury and with the loss of the alpha rhythm, but with the preservation of the theta rhythm with a frequency of 7 fps, react to the arrival of loved ones and do not notice other stimuli. Such a frequency spectrum in young children 4-6 years old. These children do not navigate outside the home, they must be led by the hand. This observation suggests that thinking focused on one's home and one's people is preserved in an adult, who also develops the whole spectrum of high-frequency rhythms. We see that three forms of consciousness are preserved in the human brain: non-verbal (spiritual), family (also tribal, national) and social (universal). All these forms of consciousness, functioning, make a person's life full. Limitations of any of these forms make a person defective, lead to degradation and extinction, which we see in the example of the peoples of Western Europe and ourselves. A normal person must believe in God, have a family (his people) consecrated by the ritual, be a patriot of his people and Motherland. In this case, people will be full and happy.

Recently, there has been a tendency to create a universal human culture, which inevitably leads to a decrease in the information content of society, and hence the increase in the insecurity of each person, due to the erosion of such structures as the family and the nation. A family, a tribe, a nation guarantee support in difficult times, a fellow countryman will also support in a foreign land. The unification of Europe brought great economic benefits, but a loss in terms of national identity, pride, security of individual European peoples. So Europe is dying out, but not from hunger and cold, but from the lack of a sense of master on their land, even the Christian God was taken away from them, God is not mentioned in the constitution of a united Europe.

What should we do in order not to repeat the dead-end path of the West? We need our Orthodoxy, our people and our Motherland. How unprofitable economic integration is, how seemingly inhumane ecumenism is, but biologically and spiritually this path is as utopian as the building of communism. In general, the current democracy and the former communism are twin brothers, because. stand up for mixing, unification and culture, and thinking. We must increase social awareness.

A school uniform is needed, separate education, observance of the male and female ranks, at least when attending church and at school. We must remember that a woman must give birth to children, because. without it, life ends. In the Orthodox Church, the cult of the Mother of God, the symbol of motherhood, is extremely high. Saving the people from extinction is the first duty of a patriot, one must not so much talk about great Russia as build it. We promote the election of women to public office, we want to recruit into the army, but then where can a woman get time for childbirth and raising children. Huge amounts of money are spent in the West on benefits for large families, on encouraging the birth rate, but there is little sense. It is necessary to encourage the strength of the family first, and then think about various benefits. All this requires special study, but all decisions must be based on the spiritual and biological characteristics of a person.

Valery Borisovich Slezin

Professor Slezin's experiments May 10th, 2014

Do you want to know what unique experiments are being carried out by the Doctor of Biological Sciences, Candidate of Medical Sciences, Head of the Laboratory of Neuropsychology of the famous Bekhterevka - St. Petersburg Psychoneurological Research Institute. V.M. BEKHTEREV - Valery Borisovich SLEZIN? Then read...

WHAT IS THE POWER OF PRAYER?

Orthodox priests, Catholic priests, followers of Islam and Zen Buddhists came to his laboratory to participate in the experiment. Professor Slezin put caps on them, entangled with electrodes, and asked them to… pray. Having taken dozens of electroencephalograms (EEG), showing the processes occurring in the human brain during prayer, for the first time he managed to record amazing phenomena.

Until now, science has known three basic states of the brain: wakefulness, "REM" sleep, and "slow" sleep. Slezin's experiments revealed another, which can be called "prayerful" wakefulness. In this state, the cerebral cortex seems to turn off, but the person continues to perceive external information normally, bypassing thought processes and analysis.

On the EEG it looks like this. At the moments of wakefulness, the human cerebral cortex generates alpha and beta rhythms of biocurrents with a frequency of 8 to 30 Hertz. When the subjects were immersed in prayer, the rhythm of the biocurrents slowed down to 3 Hz. The preserved biopotentials had a minimum amplitude, approaching almost a straight line. Such slow delta rhythms are observed only in infants up to 3-4 months. That is, the priests literally became like babies during prayer!

After praying, they quickly returned to the previous rhythm of electrical impulses of the cerebral cortex. Moreover, these neuropsychic processes occurred regardless of what prayer and in what language the priest read.

It seems to me, - says V.Slyozin, - that in this state consciousness begins to exist outside the body, although I cannot prove this yet.

Many psychiatrists are aware of a phenomenon that is difficult to explain, when mental disorders are relieved after prayer, the symptoms of serious illnesses disappear. Professor Slezin explains it this way:

- “Prayerful” wakefulness, when the brain is in an infantile state, is necessary for us just like other states. If it is not in our life, then the general harmony in the body is disturbed and diseases begin. No wonder the Gospel says: "Be like children." And here is the explanation. During prayer, pathological connections between neurons are broken, a person relaxes, stops thinking about the disease and, most importantly, gets rid of the fear of it. This is how believers relieve their anxieties, thereby increasing their immunity. You just need to believe and pray for real, earnestly, from the heart, otherwise the healing effect will not work.
Comments Victor KAGAN, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, commented on the work of V.B. SLEZIN in the following way:
- The study of the prayer state of a person was carried out at a high scientific and technical level, meets all the requirements of modern science and allows us to speak of a high degree of reliability of the experiment. It is good that such out-of-the-box thinking scientists appear in Russian science. Moreover, the topic of research related to religion was completely absent until recently.

WHY IS HAPPINESS?

A number of other experiments conducted on animals have convincingly proved how IMPORTANT BALANCE of positive and negative EMOTIONS is.

When stimulating some areas of the brain, the animal tended to repeat this procedure, while stimulating other areas it tried to avoid. In these experiments, it was shown that the negative irritation avoided by the animal, after a while, led him to a neurotic state, to aggressiveness, to baldness, ulcers, increased blood pressure, and to a drop in immunity. But! The animal did not get sick if for every negative stimulus there were THREE positive ones.

Previously, this was just a hypothesis. Now, having been experimentally confirmed in the laboratory of neuropsychology, it has acquired the status of a theory. It has been scientifically proven that for a person to feel complete happiness, the participation of all levels of consciousness is required. Only in this case, simultaneously with joy, he will not experience fear, anxiety, pangs of conscience, loneliness, etc.

Petersburg neuropsychologists conducted another series of experiments with the recording of brain biocurrents (EEG) in humans. The EEG changes with age. And as the rhythms of the brain change, so does human behavior.
To experience complete happiness, one must have a complete structure of consciousness. It is formed in a baby - with a happy mother, in a child - with a complete family, in an adult - with social well-being, which allows you to create a happy family and improve yourself.

The infant has a frequency of oscillation of the biocurrents of the brain - 2-3 Hz per second, he does not yet have a developed cerebral cortex, does not know the language, but already reacts to the mother's appeal, has his own special sensual level of consciousness - primary. This is a thought without words, our intuition, a subconscious assessment of people. In a 3-5 year old child, the frequency of biorhythms increases to 7 cycles per second. At this time, he lives in a family under the care of adults, he does not orient himself outside the habitat, he is “led by the hand”, he fully communicates with those around him. This is the FAMILY level of consciousness. Gradually, the frequency of oscillations of the brain biocurrents increases and reaches a maximum (from 12 Hertz and above) in adulthood, when a person ceases to need care from outside. This is the SOCIAL level of consciousness.

VB Slezin managed to experimentally establish the fact that an adult has preserved all three levels of consciousness: primary, family and social, with a periodic predominance of one of them. The defectiveness of the structure of consciousness leads to the loss of correct social guidelines based on the biological law of species conservation.

A person with a defective consciousness seems to be moving all his life towards happiness, but never reaches it. He begins to work hard, collect material goods that could decorate his life, but over time he realizes that the accumulated wealth did not make him happy. In fact, he was left tragically alone ...

WHAT TO DO?

How to increase the number of positive emotions and reduce the number of negative ones? The ancient Greeks and Romans tried to solve these questions. The first came up with the Olympic Games, and the second, putting forward the slogan "Bread and circuses!", Organized bloody gladiator competitions in the Colosseum.

Today the West is again imposing its culture of entertainment on us: "Disneylandization", "Westernization", "McDonaldization". But this does not save Western civilization. After all, Ancient Hellas and the huge Roman Empire disappeared from the world map. Disappeared - despite the unprecedented power and flourishing of culture! This means that not all "cultural" events for the people lead to the necessary balance of emotions. And emotions are different emotions.

The question arises: if we are trying to explain the growth of social aggression in Russia by the difficult economic situation, then why is the same thing happening in European countries? Among the well-to-do Swedish children, the percentage of neurotics is extremely high (up to 50%), while among the half-starved children of the Sudan there are practically none.

The reason, Professor Slezin assures, is not in the improvement or deterioration of the economic situation, but in the change in people's consciousness, which is a consequence of the fall in religiosity, the disintegration of the family and the ensuing weakening of social ties. Adolescents, moving away from the family, do not receive positive emotions, they become “emigrants”, without leaving anywhere. An acute lack of positive emotions makes them nervous, mentally unstable.

It is these factors that make a person's happiness inferior - the "pendulum of emotions" sharply deviates in the negative direction. The imbalance of emotions leads to mental and physical illness, an increase in suicides and harmful attempts to "balance" life through drugs and alcohol. All this can lead to the extinction of the well-fed and "civilized", but defective in its consciousness, European race and its replacement by more socially full-fledged, albeit less "civilized" peoples.
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Professor Slezin's research has convincingly shown that for our people, the way out of the situation of extinction is, first of all, in strengthening morality, family and faith. As trite as it sounds, our future is our children. Raising them in the spirit of patriotism, decency, honor, conscience can not only limit negative social manifestations, but also get rid of AIDS, hepatitis and other diseases associated with social degeneration.