Wolf Grigoryevich (Gershkovich) Messing (Russian: Во́льф Григо́рьевич (Ге́ршикович) Ме́ссинг, Polish: Wolf Grigoriewicz Messing, Hebrew: וולף מסינג‎) (10 September 1899 – 8 November 1974) was a self-proclaimed psychic, telepath and stage hypnotist.

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Wolf Messing Во́льф Ме́ссинг (in Russian) Wolf Messing (in Polish) וולף מסינג‎ (in Hebrew)
Born	Wolf Grigoryevich Messing (1899-09-10)10 September 1899 Góra Kalwaria, Warsaw Governorate, Congress Poland, Russian Empire
Died	8 November 1974(1974-11-08) (aged 75) Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, USSR
Nationality	Polish and Soviet
Occupation	Clairovoyant[citation needed], Telepathist[citation needed], Hypnotist
Known for	Supernatural experiments

Early life

Messing was born in the village of Góra Kalwaria, 25 km southeast of Warsaw, at a time when Poland was a territory of the Russian Empire. He claimed that his psychic abilities developed in his early life.[1]

Career

By the time he was a teenager he was performing for the public as a psychic entertainer.[1]Later on in his life he became Stalin's personal 'wizard.'

According to Messing, he was able to broadcast mental suggestions in order to alter people's perceptions.

In the interview with P. Oreshkin, Messing said:

... It's not mind-reading, it's, like the "reading of muscles" ... When human thinks hard about something, the brain cells transmit impulses to all muscles of the body. Their movements, invisible to the eye, I can easily feel. ... Often I'm performing mental tasks without direct contact with the inductor. The pointer to me here is the breathing frequency of inductor, the beating of his heart, voice timbre, his walking nature etc.[2]

Death

He died in hospital, on 8 November 1974, two months before his 75th birthday. He had a successful surgery on the femoral and iliac arteries, but for some unknown reason death occurred within a couple of days after kidney failure and pulmonary edema. He was buried at the "Vostryakovskoe" Jewish cemetery in Moscow.

His life story depicts Wolf Messing: Who Saw through Time TV Mini Series (2009).

Appearances in fiction

Wolf Messing is a major character in Steve Englehart's series of Max August novels, beginning with The Point Man in 1980, and continuing through The Long Man and The Plain Man.

In the hit video strategy game, Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2 as well as its expansion, Yuri's Revenge, the main character of Yuri was heavily influenced in the likeness of Wolf Messing.

Further reading

• Topsy Küppers: Wolf Messing – Hellseher und Magier. Langen/Müller, München 2002. ISBN 3-7844-2880-0 (in German)
• 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 (in Dutch)
  • English language article by the same author with more or less the same contents Wolf Messing, an enigmatic ‘psychic entertainer’ whom Sathya Sai Baba claims to have encountered

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