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the time the only thing he did in public was read minds as part of his act, but news had leaked out
about his other ability to force his thoughts into another person's mind. Before long his life would
depend on just how well he could do this.
According to Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder's book, Psychic Discoveries Behind, the Iron
Curtain, one night Messing found himself being escorted to a mysterious destination by two grim-
looking members of the Soviet secret police. Usually this would mean only one of two things: either
he was being taken off to a prison camp in Siberia, or he would be secretly executed and officially
declared as a "missing person." (Such things happened quite frequently in Russia in those days.
Messing himself knew of a few people who were "missing.") For him it turned out to be neither of
these things. He was going to a secret meeting with Stalin, the dictator then ruling Russia.
Stalin had heard of Messing's powers and wanted to put them to the test. The first challenge he had in
mind was for Messing to go to the largest bank in Moscow and, using nothing but His psychic powers,
steal 100,000 rubles. Messing set out on his mission with two of Stalin's bodyguards who were to
make sure he did as the dictator requested.
Equipped with only a briefcase and a blank piece of paper, Messing walked up to a teller's cage,
handed the teller the blank paper and opened up the briefcase. Under Messing's suggestive power, the
man saw some kind of authorization on the paper and, without hesitating, filled the briefcase with
100,000 rubles. The psychic snapped the case shut, walked out the front doors, and showed Stalin's
men the money. He then walked back into the bank and returned the money to a panic-stricken bank
clerk, who by now had realized the so-called authorization paper had nothing on it.
The second challenge Stalin gave Messing was for the psychic to visit the dictator at his summer
cottage without the benefit of a special security pass. This was not as simple as it sounds. Stalin was a
feared and hated man and had many enemies who would have liked to see him dead. For that reason,
wherever he was, Stalin was always surrounded by armed soldiers, a highly trained force of secret
police, and a group of personal bodyguards. What's more, when he stayed at his summer house, the
number of these guards was doubled for extra protection. Absolutely no one got past any of these
guards without the necessary papers. Anyone who tried was shot on the spot.
Nevertheless, a few weeks later Stalin was hard at work in the study of his cottage surrounded by all
his men, when he heard a voice call his name. He looked up. Standing there in front of his desk was
Wolf Messing. Astonished, Stalin asked Messing how he had managed to get past all the men and
guns. Messing said all he did was project the thought, "I am Beria" into the mind of everyone he met.
Lavrenti Beria was the head of the Soviet secret police and a frequent visitor to Stalin's office.
Messing looked nothing like the head of the secret police, but with his psychic powers it didn't matter.
There have probably been many times in our own lives when we could have used Wolf Mess-ing's
psychic powers. Well, incredible as it may sound, somewhere buried in each of us there is a little bit
of Wolf Messing. Many now believe just about everyone has some kind of psychic talent which can
be discovered and developed. These may not be as unique or as powerful as Messing's, but they may
be able to perform some of the simpler functions of extrasensory perception, or ESP. After years of
experimenting, many psychic experts now feel that ESP is a gift everyone shares.
One reason so many of them believe this is because of something called spontaneous ESP. If two
people are very close friends or relatives and one of them is in danger, it sometimes happens that one
sends a telepathic message to the other for help. This is called spontaneous because it is not planned
and very often the people involved have never had any psychic experiences before.
One of the most famous cases of this happened between the composer, Anton Rubenstein, and a
former student of his named William Nichia. On the evening of November 20, 1894, young Nichia
was staying in Paris and Rubenstein in a small town in Germany. Nichia hadn't seen his old teacher in
years, but what he didn't realize was that he was going to see him one last time that night. After Nichia
went to sleep, Rubenstein's face appeared to him. It was horribly twisted in an expression of
excruciating pain. The dream seemed so real Nichia woke with a start, half expecting to find his old
teacher standing by the bed. Although he quickly realized no one was in the room and he was just
having a bad experience, Nichia was so shaken he was barely able to sleep the rest of the night.
The next morning the papers had startling news for him. Rubenstein had died during the night of a
heart attack. Nichia later learned from friends of the composer that Rubenstein had died screaming in
agony, the pain of the heart attack was so severe. The moment of death was exactly the time Nichia
had his disturbing dream.
In some instances the dream experiences of spontaneous ESP bring out even stranger skills than just
mental telepathy. One woman described to an ESP researcher a dream in which she actually got a
glimpse of the future. In her dream she was going through her usual routine of giving her young son a
bath. She left the bathroom briefly to get a towel and when she returned she found the boy lying at the
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