M.I.C.E. – the KGB, the FBI, and Me. Part 2
Author: Jim Hickman The John Denver adventures began in 1984, shortly after the first meeting of the ASE in France. Through a mutual friend, John asked me to arrange a series of...
Category: Citizen Diplomacy
M.I.C.E. – the KGB, the FBI, and Me. Part 1
Author: Jim Hickman Beginning in the late 1970s and ending as the 20th century came to a close, I traveled extensively between the US and the USSR. For seven years, I was...
Rowboat Diplomacy. Part Two
Author: John Middleton Following the reception, I was summoned across the park to the director’s office of the Naval Engineering Institute and ushered through the neo-classical columned halls to the head of the...
The Telempathy Experiment
Author: Joan Channon The year is 1982. Michael Jackson has released “Thriller” and “Cats” opens on Broadway. Ronald Reagan is elected President of the United States and the British win the war...
Rowboat Diplomacy
Author: John Middleton The following article recounts a Russian-American episode of citizen diplomacy, which, unlike other examples of late 20th-century interaction between citizens, interacted with the military of the nascent Russian Federation and...
Birthing the American “Peace Baby” in Leningrad, USSR
Author: Ana Fatima Costa “It happened early in the morning on September 6. A foreigner came to stay at the Pribaltiyskaya Hotel in Leningrad, and the hotel administration knew absolutely nothing about...
“The Mystery of Childbirth”: Esoteric Practices of the Late and Post-Soviet Home-Birth Movement
Author: Anna Ozhiganova “Babies-dolphins” swimming freely underwater, “babies-psychics” (Russian: mladentsy-sensitivy) possessing paranormal capacities; women giving birth underwater in bathtubs or portable pools at home, and in the sea; “cold strengthening” of pregnant...
Citizen Diplomats in the Garden: Biointensive for Russia from the 1980s to the Present
Author: Carol Vesecky Back in the day, as a homemaker and mother in Palo Alto, I volunteered at church and in community organizations, and fundraised for UNICEF. I managed our home for...
New Agers and the Spies who Loved us
Author: Jim Hickman Beginning in 1972, I spent three decades collaborating with Soviets researching exceptional human abilities including parapsychology, all modes of healing, accelerated learning, shamanism, and what the Soviets called “hidden...
New Age Diplomacy: The Role of the Esalen Institute in Ending the Cold War
Author: Birgit Menzel This paper has been presented at the 51st ASEEES Annual Convention held in San Francisco, CA, on November 23, 2019. In the early 1980s, one of the most dramatic...
