An Interview with Dr. Alexander Imich

by Brent Raynes

Dr. Alexander Imich is a noted New York parapsychologist. Originally born in Poland, Dr. Imich has personally studied the paranormal the world over. The author of Incredible Tales of the Paranormal, Dr. Imich takes a moment to answer a few of our questions.

Editor: What’s your personal secret to a long and successful life? Our mutual friend Dr. Berthold Schwarz informs me that you’re now 103!

Alexander Imich: Genes, in the first place. I exercise and meditate every morning. Before the age of ten, I followed my father’s wish. I did gymnastic exercises and cold water ablution every morning. In my teens, I played soccer, practiced boxing and dzu-dzitsu, walking, running, long jump, javelin, discus, and swimming. I took fourth place in Polish swimming finals. I was smoking a pipe and cigarettes, less than 10 per day, but stopped some 50 years back. Milk products, eggs, fried food, sugar, sweets and sweet fruits. Coffee and alcohol are excluded but meat in limited amount. Fish, soy products, full grain breads, vegetables, and vitamins are my daily diet, and I drink six glasses of filtered water per day. I eat less than a person of my weight but have a great hunger for knowledge.

Editor: When and how did you become interested in paranormal phenomena and studies?

Alexander Imich: I became interested in the paranormal early in my life. When I was five or six a funeral procession was passing by our house. “Why did this man die?” I asked my nanny. “Everybody must die. You will die too” was her answer. “Only God does not die” she added. In my unlimited childish ignorance (or wisdom?) I quickly announced: “Then I want to be God.”

At 16, I wanted to be a yogi and live in a Himalayan cave. At 24, I published my first report about an unknown psychic. I was in personal touch or in correspondence with several yogis. I had purchased a book entitled “Hatha Yoga,” by yogi Rama Charaka, and with a few friends started doing exercises. However, one does not become a yogi as fast as we wanted. I asked the Polish translator of the book who is yogi Rama Charaka? He, it turned out, was really not a yogi. He was an American. This information ended our yogic ambitions. However, I was strongly interested in the mysterious and the mystical, but only in my twenties had the chance to meet and study great paranormal phenomena produced by an elderly piano teaching lady.

Editor: I see you had a book published entitled “Incredible Tales of the Paranormal.” Dr. Schwarz says it’s “quite a read.” Can you tell us some about it and where our readers can obtain a copy?

Alexander Imich: I edited “Incredible Tales of the Paranormal” which was published by Bramble Books back in 1995. It describes phenomena observed by myself and by scientists from Brazil, Iceland, Poland, and Russia. The book can be purchased in any book store.

Editor: Dr. Schwarz states that in this book you reveal amazing details of your experiences and experiments with Matylda, a Polish medium back in the early 1930s. Can you summarize for us what you learned from this investigation from all of those years ago?

Alexander Imich: Science was for me the ultimate wisdom. When I met Matylda and witnessed the paranormal phenomena, my disappointment that science denies their existence was probably the greatest disappointment of my life. I then made a vow that, as long as I live, I will not cease trying to convince the official science of its gravest blunder. I then conceived the idea of a Pasteur type public demonstration with Nobelists as judges, press, radio and TV as witnesses, and yogis, shamans, witch doctors, psychics as performers of paranormal phenomena.

Editor: Can you tell us about other books or articles that you have written?

Alexander Imich: I have published sixty plus articles on psychic phenomena and other topics in specialized publications.

Editor: A modern case of mediumistic type phenomena, involving psychokinesis and levitation, might be the Joe Nuzum case that Dr. Schwarz has written much about over the years. He informs me that you’ve also done some work on this case too. Can you share any thoughts and experiences with regard to this matter?

Alexander Imich: Dr. Schwarz introduced me to Joseph A. Nuzum. I have been experimenting with him for several years. Besides the precognitive, he is especially prolific in a great variety of psychokinetic phenomena, the majority of them of his own conception, some involving the raising of the ambient temperature by several hundred degrees. I have also observed Nuzum levitating.

Editor: I found a web site (http://members.aol.com/mmagola/experiments.html) that described how you and one Barbara Koopman studied a man named Miroslaw who could seemingly make metal objects like pots and their lids stick to his body?

Alexander Imich: Miroslaw Magola is a Polish citizen living in Germany. Together with Dr. Barbara Koopman, we have observed a phenomena first described in Russia. Various metallic and non-metallic implements, some weighing more than a pound, sticking to his skin. Not many people are producing this, ostensibly paranormal phenomenon that, in the very inadequate parapsychological nomenclature, has to be classified as psychokinetic.

Editor: What other interesting cases or situations have you been involved with personally?

Alexander Imich: I have been involved with seven psychics producing psychokinetic phenomena, and several others producing telepathic and clairvoyant phenomena.

Editor: After all of these long years of active involvement in the field of paranormal studies, how would you best summarize your thoughts and personal conclusions about it all?

Alexander Imich: The richest source of information about Parapsychology is: “The Synchronized Universe” by Claude Swanson, Ph.D., Poseidia Press, 2003. ISBN: 0-9745281-0-X. Check out this web site: www.synchronizeduniverse.com

Editor: Are you satisfied with the current state and direction of modern parapsychology?

Alexander Imich: It’s a miserable and paradoxical situation. Science studies events billions of light years away from us and denies the existence of phenomena that take place in our midst. And what is the parapsychological community’s response? More than 120 years of experimenting and writing about the paranormal did not convince the mainstream science even that they exist, whilst one well organized public demonstration of their existence will change this deplorable situation. The Parapsychological Association, the only professional association in existence, does little if anything to change this status quo. Before the presidential elections, the candidates promise a variety of actions that will change this situation. However, the only sign of life of the Association remains the yearly meeting of its members.

Editor: Are we making any progress, or are we regressing instead?

Alexander Imich: No progress can be noted.

Editor: What attributes best qualify one to be a factual and effective paranormal investigator?

Alexander Imich: The same as for researchers in any other branch of science.

Editor: What kind of interesting projects are you perhaps working on at present?

Alexander Imich: I am continuing experiments with an Egyptian psychic, and planning to visit a young Chinese psychic producing electricity in Quebec. I am also writing a story of my life, and trying to get funds for the crucial demonstration.

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