In 1971, one of the founders of the California Aslan Institute, Michael Murphy, came to the Soviet Union to meet Soviet parapsychology researchers. The institute itself, created in 1962, was one of the centers of the American counterculture, where they explored the possibilities of human consciousness and experimented with various psychological practices. The Soviet Union was of particular interest to Murphy, because the Americans had received information that in the land of triumphant scientific materialism they were very seriously engaged in the study of telepathy. In Moscow, Murphy met Karl Nikolaev, who participated in experiments in the transmission of information without the use of known means of communication. In the fall of 1971, they decided to conduct a cross-continental experiment. Murphy was in San Francisco trying to mentally transmit images from an illustrated dictionary, and Nikolaev, who was sitting in Moscow in the bioinformation section of the Alexander Stefanovich Popov Scientific and Technical Society for Radio Engineering, Electronics and Communications, had to pick them up. It is difficult to say how successful the experiment was, as it left no convincing scientific evidence of the possibility of telepathic transmission of information. But very real human connections were made. However, the acquaintance of the Americans with Soviet parapsychology was accompanied by rather strange episodes. One of the mediators was Eduard Naumov, who helped foreign guests meet with researchers and navigate the Soviet scientific environment. According to Murphy's memoirs, Naumov even planned to organize a large meeting attended by several hundred people at the Friendship House in Moscow. However, just before the event it was cancelled, and the Americans were informed that the Soviet vineyard was considered a charlatan. They later learned of his arrest.

In 1971, one of the founders of the California Aslan Institute, Michael Murphy, came to the Soviet Union to meet Soviet parapsychology researchers. The institute itself, created in 1962, was one of the centers of the American counterculture, where they explored the possibilities of human consciousness and experimented with various psychological practices. The Soviet Union was of particular interest to Murphy, because the Americans had received information that in the land of triumphant scientific materialism they were very seriously engaged in the study of telepathy. In Moscow, Murphy met Karl Nikolaev, who participated in experiments in the transmission of information without the use of known means of communication. In the fall of 1971, they decided to conduct a cross-continental experiment. Murphy was in San Francisco trying to mentally transmit images from an illustrated dictionary, and Nikolaev, who was sitting in Moscow in the bioinformation section of the Alexander Stefanovich Popov Scientific and Technical Society for Radio Engineering, Electronics and Communications, had to pick them up. It is difficult to say how successful the experiment was, as it left no convincing scientific evidence of the possibility of telepathic transmission of information. But very real human connections were made. However, the acquaintance of the Americans with Soviet parapsychology was accompanied by rather strange episodes. One of the mediators was Eduard Naumov, who helped foreign guests meet with researchers and navigate the Soviet scientific environment. According to Murphy's memoirs, Naumov even planned to organize a large meeting attended by several hundred people at the Friendship House in Moscow. However, just before the event it was cancelled, and the Americans were informed that the Soviet vineyard was considered a charlatan. They later learned of his arrest.