Eugenia Yuvashevna Davitashvili, known as Djuna or Dzhuna (Georgian: ევგენია ''ჯუნა'' დავითაშვილი; Russian: Евге́ния Юва́шевна Давиташви́ли; née Sardis; 22 July 1949 – 8 June 2015) was a

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faith healer Faith healing is the practice of prayer and gestures (such as laying on of hands) that are believed by some to elicit divine intervention in spiritual and physical healing, especially the Christian practice. Believers assert that the healing ...

, writer, painter and public figure of

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descent who positioned herself as a healer, claiming the power to cure

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, knit broken bodies, and prolong life beyond 100 years. She took her Georgian surname from her former husband.

Politics

In 1995, she participated in the Russian legislative election as the head of the Juna Davitashvili Bloc. Her 0.47% of votes were not enough to give her any seat in the

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Experiments

In 1983 and 1984,

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and psi researcher,

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, his daughter Elisabeth Targ, and Keith Harary visited the

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as guests of the

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. In Moscow they were able to discuss

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research with Russian scientists, visit psychics, including Davitashvili, and allegedly even carry out with her some remote viewing experiments between

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and

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Death

Davitashvili died in Moscow on 8 June 2015, two days after she fell into a coma, according to her close friend and actor

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. She was buried next to her son, who died in 2001.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Davitashvilli, Eugenia 1949 births 2015 deaths People from Kurganinsky District Russian psychics Faith healers Russian people of Assyrian descent Soviet psychics

Politics

Experiments

Death

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