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Laura V. Faith, known to her friends by her Russian name Larissa, suffered a fatal accident on 13 June 2001. Larissa was a researcher in the field of parapsychology and human potential studies, a linguist, an educator, and author of several nonfiction books, a booklet of poetry, and over 90 scholarly and popular papers in several languages.
Larissa was born in the city of Riga in Soviet Latvia. After finishing high school, she studied physics, engineering, and psychology in Moscow. Before her emigration from the Soviet Union, her focus of interest and research was on parapsychological phenomena and human potential studies. She was fortunate enough to work with many prominent Soviet psychics, healers, and researchers.
In 1981 Larissa moved to the United States and started working at the Washington Research Center, a private San Francisco-based research and publishing institution. There she continued to pursue her interest in psi phenomena; it became both her job and her avocation.
Larissa's time had been divided between field, laboratory, and literature research, as well as writing, lecturing, and traveling. Her research interests included mental healing, fire walking, shamanism, and altered states of consciousness. For four years (1982-1986) she was...