Inside a Russian Psychokinesis Cult with Nancy du Tertre

Summary

Attorney, psychic, and remote viewer Nancy du Tertre describes a 2019 trip to St. Petersburg, Russia, for psychokinesis training that turned into an isolating, cult-like ordeal of mind control tactics. She recounts sabotaged long-distance PK experiments, paper spirals spinning on their own, and a founder worshipped as 'the wizard' who was later reported to have died fleeing police over child sexual abuse allegations. She compares the institute to a Russian version of the Jeffrey Epstein situation and warns that the same mind control methods are now being used on society through social media and AI.

Key takeaways

• 1Nancy du Tertre's new book is 'The Cult of the Occult: Falling Down the Russian Rabbit Hole'. Her earlier books are 'Psychic Intuition: Everything You Wanted to Ask but Were Afraid to Know' and 'How to Talk to an Alien'.
• 2At a 'PK party' run by Marty Rosenblatt of the Applied Precognition Project, she says she bent a solid steel rebar rod in half within 10 minutes using psychokinesis.
• 3During her 2019 trip, a sealed, temperature-controlled control spiral on the US West Coast reportedly spun violently for eight days and stopped the day she returned to the US.
• 4The St. Petersburg institute's founder, called 'the wizard' (Vadim/Vadya), was later reported in Russian newspapers to have abused an 11-year-old girl. He allegedly jumped to his death while fleeing police at the retreat.
• 5She cites the CIA's MK-Ultra program (1953-1973, with documents burned), the Tavistock Institute, and the Macy conferences as part of a lineage of mind control research.
• 6She claims Jeffrey Epstein had a strong interest in higher consciousness and the paranormal, and that terms like NHI, UAP, and psionics are 'militarized' language manipulating the UFO community.

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Transcript excerpt

about my experience on this trip to Russia, I explained it in terms of mind control because I didn't realize it at the time because I didn't believe I'd ever been subjected to mind control. I didn't really know how to recognize mind control. And when I would read about people who'd gotten involved in various cults, I would say to myself, these people are supposedly intelligent people. I mean, how could they be so stupid as not to pick up these clues that are just so obvious? And I figured I'm trained in all kinds of things. I was a practicing attorney doing securities litigation for a long time in New York in securities frauds. I recognize fraud. I'm trained and certified in intuitive gestalt psychotherapy. I recognize when people are hedging, when they're not saying something is completely accurate. And I'm also highly trained as a psychic and remote viewer and everything else. Keep watching to learn more. The new Thinking Allowed magazine issue 10 on UFOs and UAP is now ready for free download. And you can also order beautiful printed copies. Go to newthinkingallowed.org. New Thinking Allowed is presented by the California Institute for Human Science, a fully accredited university offering distant learning graduate degrees that focus on mind, body, and spirit. The topics that we cover here. We are particularly excited to announce new degrees emphasizing parapsychology and the paranormal. Visit their website at cihs.edu. Book 4 in the new Thinking Allowed Dialogue Series is Charles T. Tartt, Seventy Years of Exploring Consciousness and Parapsychology. Now available on Amazon. Thinking Allowed. Conversations on the Leading Edge of Knowledge and Discovery with psychologist Jeffrey Mishlove. Hello and welcome. I'm Jeffrey Mishlove. Today, we are going to take a look inside a Russian psychokinesis cult. ...

Excerpt from New Thinking Allowed, Aug 17, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.