-Caveat Lector- The Moscow Times http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2000/11/24/106.html The Moscow Times Friday, Nov. 24, 2000. Page III ESP, ET and Psychotherapy By Leila Rejali Finding the Museum of Parapsychology and UFOlogy was about as easy as spotting a UFO in the brilliant night skies above Moscow. And asking passers-by if they knew where the museum was elicited only bemused smiles and shakes of the head � perhaps because museum staff prefer to refer to it as "The Center of Psychoanalysis and Relaxation Research, School of Success 777." Extrasensory perception, telekinesis, levitation and the like have never had this reporter levitating with excitement. But aliens � now they�re a different thing altogether. For a start, I actually saw no less than three of them on my way back from the museum. What can I say? Another person might not have noticed this minor detail but I have trained myself as an alien detector for many years now and I know an extraterrestrial when I see one. The museum itself is a tiny little place with only two rooms actually devoted to exhibits. One of them has photographs of various people apparently engaged in moving objects through the power of their minds, plus drawings of various extraterrestrials and spaceship landings; the other houses computers equipped to monitor the spiritual powers of visitors. Museum director Andrei Lee (at right), who said he himself has "certain psychic capabilities" and happens to be a doctor of psychiatry, led me to a third room that is not officially part of the exhibition � it contains a curious-looking wooden board with nails protruding from it. The room, it turns out, is where Larisa Weiss, who owns the building that houses the museum and rents space to the museum, conducts what she calls "psychotherapy sessions," which consist of soothing speech, holding hands and a great deal of relaxation. "A group of Japanese people came to study with [Lee] to develop their extrasensory skills," Weiss said. "I told them to lie down on the bed of nails and, at first, they were too scared. But then I just asked them what their dreams were and relaxed them so much that, by the end, they were stretched out on the bed and loving it." More was revealed about the museum when I returned for a second (unannounced) visit. For one thing, the "assistant" who answered the door wouldn't let me in, informing me that Lee had disappeared without a trace and that her boss, Weiss, had closed the museum to all comers for spring cleaning � in late November? In light of recent snows, of course, spring cleaning seemed to me to be an unreasonable moment for such an undertaking, so I persisted until Weiss herself emerged. Several whispered consultations and covert gestures later, I was whisked away to an office upstairs without having been allowed to get a look inside the museum. Perhaps the aliens had finally invaded it and torn everything down, incensed by the very unflattering images of themselves hanging on the walls? Frankly, I'd be the last person to blame them. Anyway, their antics afforded me an extremely entertaining hour with Weiss, who described her abilities thus: "People call me �psychic.�" Weiss told me the story of her first brush with UFOs: In 1990, she took a vacation to an area near Lake Baikal with her three children. While there, her 6-year-old son spotted a "bright orange object similar to a flying saucer." The object hovered above the lake for about 15 minutes, long enough for Weiss to whip out her camera and take 36 photographs � which she later sold to daily Moskovsky Komsomolets. Unfortunately, these photographs are not on display at the museum. But Weiss isn't that interested in UFOs anyway. "If UFOs want to fly around, let them fly," she said. "I think there are more interesting things in life, like the power human beings themselves have." But then again Weiss has more serious � if equally wearisome � things on her mind these days. "I have to help out the FSB. "A boy has disappeared and they want me to find out where he is by means of clairvoyance," she said. "I've been doing this for 20 years and frankly, I've had enough of it." The Museum of Parapsychology and UFOlogy (Muzei Parapsikhologii i Ufologii) is located at 9/8 Bolshoi Gnezdnokovitsky Pereulok, Bldg. 3, second floor. Metro Tverskaya. Tel. 470-8602. 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