Allan Chumak

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Allan Vladimirovich Chumak (Russian: А́ллан Влади́мирович Чума́к, 26 May 1935 – 9 October 2017) was a Russian faith healer who came to prominence at the height of Gorbachev's perestroika. When he appeared on television, his fans would hold jars of water next to their televisions in the hope that the water would be able to cure disease.[https://web.archive.org/web/20050404000819/http://context.themoscowtimes.com/story/140333/ Freak Show] by Brian Droitcour, Moscow Times, February 25, 2005 At the height of his fame, he had a regular early morning television spot.[https://web.archive.org/web/20110516155004/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1210005.html The Magic Healer Of Soviet TV;Allan Chumak, and Extrasensory Sensation], The Washington Post, September 4, 1989, David Remnick

Chumak's performances typically followed a set formula. First he would state the malady that the program was intended to address, for example allergies and respiratory disorders. The disease would be explained as a disruption of the body's internal harmony. The remainder of the program would consist of reiki-like hand movements. Chumak said that these hand movements were intended to recalibrate the body's energy and cure the disease.{{cite web |first=Tomas |last=Matza |title=Allan Chumak |work=Frequencies |publisher=Social Science Research Council |date=16 January 2012 |url=http://frequencies.ssrc.org/2012/01/16/allan-chumak/| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211022/http://frequencies.ssrc.org/2012/01/16/allan-chumak/| archive-date=2021-10-22}}{{cbignore}}

He was born in Moscow, and died there on 9 October 2017.{{cite news |title=Allan Chumak, Famous Perestroika TV Healer, Dies at Age 82 |url=https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2017/10/10/perestroika-era-television-healer-dies-at-age-82-a59221|access-date=24 November 2019 |work=Moscow Times |date=October 10, 2017}}[https://comments.ua/society/597781-umer-tselitel-allan-chumak.html Умер целитель Аллан Чумак] {{in lang|ru}}