With Allan Chumak and other healers, Levashov was trying to establish a state-run Foundation of Alternative Medicine asking the Soviet Ministry of Navy for support.

Scott Shane, an American journalist with The Baltimore Sun in Russia, writes[6] that Levashov claimed he could speak with dolphins, clean polluted city air by his mental power, heal by phone, see internal organs through the skin etc.

Scott Shane believes that the proliferation of pseudoscientists such as Chumak and Levashov was a negative underside of the relaxation of censorship in the Soviet Union.

The trial was carried out in the Institute of Human Brain, a scientific organization,[citation needed] but controversial for its interest in extrasensory perception.

Among the four people tested, M. Dekhta was a friend of Levashov,[7] and Ruben Isahakyan was another healer who later founded an alternative medicine company, Altimed.

In 1991 Nicolai Levashov and his third wife Svetlana (née Serëgina or Žymantienė) visited the United States and settled in California for 15 years.

George Orbelian and his wife Marcia Paulsen-Orbelian supported Levashov, spoke about him on the local TV and translated his books from Russian into English.

Michael Shermer published an article in Skeptic[2] saying that B. Koopman trusted Levashov because he allegedly cured her friend, actress Susan Strasberg, who had cancer.

Healers from everywhere showed up… There was a Lakota sun dancer who burned sage; Nicolai Levashov, a Russian psychic who waved his hands; an acupuncturist with rare Chinese herbs; an energy worker who used methods of the Miwok peoples”.

After several healing sessions (some of them conducted by phone) Levashov stated he had stopped the cancer, and persuaded Prichard's parents to reject an operation, against the advice of doctors.

[16] There was a sustained remission which led Barbara Koopman to write articles praising the "miraculous healing", and CBS broadcast an episode in Unsolved Mysteries[3] The decision of parents was criticized in The Skeptic's Dictionary[17] and in a book of T.

[19][20] He supported the authenticity of the Book of Veles, the extraterrestrial colonization of Earth, a pseudohistorical theory close to the New Chronology (although Levashov does not mention Anatoly Fomenko), and the existence of the "vanished continent" of Atlantis.

[citation needed] One of the books, the antisemitic "Russian History Viewed through Distorted Mirrors", was prohibited from being published or distributed in Russia by the Court of Kaluga Region due to its extremism.