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Predicting the Future Super-Medium Tofik Dadashev talks about his gift |
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| By Jill Sperandio |
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Do you believe in second sight - the ability to read thoughts, to predict future events and explain past mysteries? If you do, and you are at a crossroads in your life, you would probably consider yourself lucky to have an opportunity to meet Tofik Dadashev on one of his yearly visits to Baku. Born an Azeri, and now a citizen of Russia, Tofik has become world renown as a parapsychologist and medium, consulted by high ranking politicians and a world champion chess player. He claims to know why the Mona Lisa is smiling, and wishes he could do more to help the poor and needy who would benefit from his abilities. He has been acclaimed by Cliff Baxter, the developer of the lie detector, as a super-medium.
A.T.: Can you tell us a little bit about your background? When did you first realize you could predict events?
T.D.: It's very difficult to get a sense of who you are. I began to understand that I am a little bit different when I was 13. But at that time in the Soviet Union, almost nobody talked or wrote about such things so I couldn't explain what I was sensing about myself. I learnt from listening to the talk of family and friends that there are people who have extraordinary abilities. You see, when you think something that results from being in contact with someone else, it's very difficult to separate his thoughts from your own, so you don't know exactly what is your own thought or what is the other person's desire, which you can feel. It comes only with experience, when you begin to realize that some thoughts could not be yours, that you are experiencing someone else's desires.
A.T.: Is there anyone else in your family, in the past, maybe, or at present, who has similar gifts?
T.D.: Actually, I didn't know many of my ancestors, only my parents and grandparents, who didn't have such abilities. So I can't tell whether some of my relatives in the past had a similar gift. At present, well, I feel that my so has some abilities. He is 18 now and I know that despite the fact that he is very shy, he knows and understands everything. He hides it from me, but I know that he can be very like me. He keeps this secret and doesn't tell anyone just as I did when I was young. I didn't trust my secret to anyone, and only when I was leaving for Moscow, when I was 18, I talked about my abilities to my aunt and to my neighbor. And even my best friends knew nothing until an article was published about me in the "Moskovskiy komsomolets" newspaper.
A.T.: You mentioned that at first you could feel other people's thoughts, but didn't fully realize your abilities. When did you come to appreciate the extent of your powers?
T.D.: I fully realized by abilities after the first International Congress on Psychoenergetics in Prague in 1973. More than 400 scientists from different states participated, and the biggest delegation was from the USA. The Americans at this time were the most advanced in this field. The delegation also included Cliff Baxter, the most renowned specialist not only in the field of psychoenergetics but also in criminalistics, and he was also the inventor of the well-known "lie detector". The American experts called for volunteers to be tested. I was the first and only delegate who agreed to be tested. After the Congress, I was invited to deliver lectures in the USA for $3000 per lecture. I t was the highest rate in those times. But as I lived in the Soviet Union, I couldn't make such decisions myself, and I had to refuse
A.T.: But you managed to get per mission to participate?
T.D.: I was invited by Czechoslova kia's Academy of Science. They sent the invitation to the Congress to the Academy of Science of the USSR. So it was on an official level, and it was very prestigious.
A.T.: Do you need to be in contact with someone to feel what is happening or will happen, or can you predict without any particular contact?
T.D.: Being in contact is preferable.But I have experience of working telepathically.I practiced such methods when I was young.Now I try to avoid it, because it takes much energy.At present I only give advice using such methods in rare cases.
A.T.: Do you believe in fate - that everything is predetermined in our life? Or do you think that we can change something? Do you think that the events you predict will take place come what may, or that it is possible to change the course of events and that your abilities can help people to do this?
T.D.: I do believe that there is some inner base in all of us that is predetermined from the very first. But it's also my strong belief that we can create our own fate out of this innate base and features. But people very seldom fully implement what they are advised to do. That's why, as I have already mentioned, I advise in rare cases and only to those people who will definitely implement my instructions.
A.T.: Do you think that having this gift has changed your life?
T.D.: I have to be almost lonely. I'm very sociable by nature, but I have had to be isolated. Only a small group of people surrounds me, because a medium must try to avoid a noisy life.I was invited many times to take part in Russian popular TV programs, but I refused, as I didn't want to be recognized, for example in Moscow streets.
A.T.: If you find yourself in a situation when you feel that what you are going to tell someone would be distressing or hurtful to them, would you consider keeping it to yourself?
T.D.: If I feel that there is nothing to do to change the situation for the better, I don't tell. But if I know that there is a possibility to help this person, I would tell, and I would try to help him, to advise.
A.T.: How do you think your gift should be best used?
T.D.: I love to help people and I want to be useful.. If I were financially secure, I wouldn't charge any payment for my help at all. It's my dream to work for free. As a general rule, I think that any medium should not make himself rich with his gift.
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