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this — more
than
in any
other
science — research
is
con-
ducted
into
phenomena
which
we
cannot
measure.
He
shows
us
that,
in
live
studies, every science
is
in
the same
condition.
Only
faith
--
always
present
even
if
unconscious —
motivates and guides research and
finally takes
us, along a
courageous
and
eventful
experimental
path,
to
results
which make
History,
in
that
they
express new
meanings
and new
measures
which
the
soul knows
by
intuition.
-
DA
02468.
Marablnt, EL
With regard
to psychic surgery.
Metapsichica
Rivista
Italiana
di
Parapsicologia,
1971
(Jul/Dec), 25(3/4), 104-111.
Notes
the
importance
of
documentation
in
every
aspect of
parapsychological
research, through technical con-
trivances
suitable
to
the
phenomenology
of
the
subject.
Thanks
Dr.
Naegeli
for
his
important
contribution.
Criti-
cally examines
the phenomena produced by surgeon healer
Toni Agpaoa.
From
this analysis arise serious doubts as to
the
authenticity
of
the
modalities
used
by
the
"healer"
during
the
execution
of
his
operations
(also excluding the
possible
therapeutic
action
which
could
be
a consequence
of
these
performances).
Expresses hope
that
successive
in-
vestigations may explain the questionable
points.
- DA
02469.
Scrvadio,
Emilio.
The
20th
International
Parapsychology
conference.
Metapsichica
Rivista
Italiana di Parapsicologia, 1971 (Jul/Dec), 25(3/4),
112-115.
Servadio, who
together
with
Dr.
Cassoli,
represented
Italy
at
the
20th annual conference
of the Parapsy-chology
Foundation,
meeting
at Le
Piol
in August
1971, comments
briefly
on
the
most
important
reports
presented
on
the
present
condition
of
parapsychology
in
the
most advanced
countries.
- DA/R.A.W.
02470.
De Boni, Gastone.
In defense of the spiritistic
hypothesis.
Metapsichica
Rivista
Italiana
ai
Para-
psicologia, 1971 (Jul/Dec), 25(3/4), 116-122.
At
the
meeting
at
Campionc,
the
author,
who
to-
gether
with Mme
Saint
Clair,
undertook
the
defense
of
Spiritism
against
Animism,
presents
two
famous
cases
which
constitute two elements of evidence
in favor of sur-
vival: The Whymant
case
(direct
voice
in ancient Chinese)
and
the
Rosalie
case
(materialization
observed
by
Harry
Price).
He
concludes,
against
the opinion of
Prof. Bender,
in favor of the
spiritistic hypothesis.
- DA
02471.
Inardi, Massimo.
An important moment for
parapsychology
at
the Second Modena
conference.
Metapsichica
Rivista
Italiana
di
Parapsicologia,
1971
(Jul/Dec), 26(3/4),
123-131.
In
the meeting
at Modena organized by
Prof. Rossini,
the agenda of the day was "Parapsychology and
Psychiatry."
This
event
is
singled
out
by
the
author
because
it
is
the
first
time
in
Italy
that
parapsychology
was
the
object
of
the
official
attention of Medical
Science, which on. this oc-
casion was represented by an audience
of qualified
profes-
sors.
The author points out, moreover, that
Dr. Cassoli has
taken
into
consideration
three
kinds
of phenomena
which
he
places,
for
the
moment,
outside
the
limits
of
the
ex-
perimental
field,
several
of
which,
however,
are
of
great
interest
because
there
exists
a
possibility
to
acquire
the
tests
necessary
for
their
acknowledgment
in
the
future.
The author
directs our
attention
also to Dr. Crosa’s "Some
Aspects of the Paranormal Phenomenology," which concerns
healers,
voices
of
unknown
origin
on
recording
tape,
haunted
houses,
and
"out
of body"
experiences.
Dr.
Crosa
cautions
that
the
first
contact
of
the
novice
with
a
phenomenon should
not be marred by
inveterate
prejudices
which would
hinder him from
finding
the way
to
the
ob-
jective truth.
- DA/R.A.W.
02472.
Liotta, Antonio.
The Latin American Center of
Parapsychology at the Anchieta Faculty of Sao
Paulo.
Metapsichica
Rivista
Italiana
di
Parapsicologia,
1971
(Jul/Dec), 26(3/4), 132-138.
Brazil
is a nation where the ethnic and economic con-
ditions
create deep
contrasts and
violent
psychic
emotions.
For
these
reasons
Brazil
appears
as
"the
land where
para-
psychology ought
to find the most
fertile
soil."
Relates
his
experiences
at
the
Latin American
Center
of
Parapsychol-
ogy
(C.L.A.P.),
which
is managed
by
Jesuit
Fathers,
and
was
founded
for
the
purpose
of
solving
the
problems
presented
by
parapsychology
to
psychiatry and
psychology,
by
devising
new
terms
and
new
methods
for
collecting,
selecting, and cataloguing the
results.
The C.L.A.P.
will be
the
first
university faculty
in the world where graduates
in
medicine,
philology,
and
philosophy
will
have
the
pos-
sibility of specializing
in parapsychology.
- DA
02473.
Sparta,
Francesco.
Parapsychology
and
spiritism
in
Brazil.
Metapsichica
Rivista
Italiana di
Parapsicologia, 1971 (Jul/Dec), 26(3/4),
139-141.
The
author,
an
eminent
anthropologist
and
"pars
magna"
of
the
Latin
American
Center
of
Parapsychology,
reports on
the
situation
of
parapsychology
in
Brazil,
ex-
plaining
the
anthropological
causes
of
the
particular
posi-
tion
of
this
land
with
regard
to
psychic
research.
He
points out the
difficulties met by the Center
in completing
their
equipment
although
the
main
edifices
are
already
built, and they hope
that soon
they
will
be
in
a
position
to
start
experimental
work,
considering
also the
great
dif-
fusion of devotee spiritism
in the population.
- DA
02474.
Ryzl,
Milan.
ESP
research
in
the
U.S.S.R.
Metapsichica
Rivista
Italiana
di
Parapsicologia,
1971
(Jul/Dec), 26(3/4), 142-149.
Reprint
of
almost
all
of
the
4th
chapter
of
the
author's
book
Parapsychology,
recently
published
in
Italian
by
Edizioni
Mediterranee.
The
chapter
concerns
the
researches carried out on ESP
in
Soviet
Russia,
about
which
Ryzl
also
spoke
at
the
recent
meeting
at
Le
Piol.
Dr. Ryzl, of Czechoslovakian origin,
is well informed about
the work
in parapsychology behind the
iron
curtain.
- DA
POLISH LANGUAGE
(Editor: Alexander Imich)
PSYCHOTRONIKA
02475.
Gulak, Jan.
Lowering the anxiety levels in per-
sons
undergoing
biocnergotherapy.
Psychotronika,
1985, 6-9.
refs; 2 tables
Anxiety,
a contributing
factor
in somatic
illnesses, can
be
a
brief
or
time-extended
phenomenon
independent
of
circumstances.
The
author,
himself
bioenergetically
gifted,
aimed
at lowering anxiety
in
his
patients. He
hypothesized
that
there
will
be
a
difference
in
patients’
anxiety
level
before
and
after
the
treatment;
each
treatment
lasted
minutes.
Seventy-three
persons
(56
females
and
males)
were given
C.D.
Spielberger and
J.
Taylor’s
questionnaires
days
before and
days
after
the
treatment.
In
com-
putation of the
results, Kolmogorov, Smirnov, and Student's
tests were used, the
first two yielding p =
.01, the
last one
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o was
many
n
all’
them,
esting
and
e
the
f
the
Scot-
’lbra,
"signals,"
i.e., those of what the author
calls the
"real
ego.”
It
is,
therefore,
possible
to
affirm
that
in
facing
the
regressive movement
necessitated by conditioning and
exter-
nal
reality,
the
"interior
area" has various reactions; one of
these can appear
as a paranormal emergency.
Therefore,
in
spite
of
all,
the
inner
part
of human
personality
aims
to
accomplish
its
own
subjective
ex-
perience compared
with
the
outside
world.
At
the same
time
it does have an objective base, common to
all human
beings.
This
can
be
experience
according
to
universal
knowledge
forms
(H. Margenau,
A.
Huxley)
or
archetypes.
This means that there
is
a
priori an interior quality that
is
objective; and
as
a consequence,
it
has a metaphysical na-
ture. All these considerations-and more-are supporting
the
return
of
a
"culture
of
interiority."
As
concerns
parap-
sychology,
all
of
the above
lead us
to take
into
considera-
tion
a
triple root
in the
existence
of
psi phenomena;
(1)
the
living
being’s
virtuality;
(2) the existence of a terminal
in paranormal phenomena; and
(3) the possible existence of
an
extra-physical
starting
source
(a
metaphysical
one)
having parameters in common with
all human
beings, conse-
quently,
it
is necessary
to
investigate
this
possible
"starting
source"
and,
above
all,
the
most
interesting and odd
con-
tents of mediumistic
psi phenomena.
- DA/R.A.W.
03594.
Ravaldini,
Silvio. The De Boni
case.
Luce e
Ombra, 1988 (Apr/Jun), 88(2),
97-106.
During
a
s6ance
held
by
the medium
D.
Fidani
in
Rome, a message has been received, signed by the previous
Director
of
this Journal, who died two
years ago
in
Sep-
tember,
Dr.
Gastone De
Boni.
In
order
to obtain
further
proof
of
identification, we
sent
the
above
message
to
the
Italian
Graphological
Institute
together
with
one
we
removed from
the notebook he was
using when
alive.
Of
course,
in
the
letter
enclosing
the two
writing samples, we
did
not
mention
that
perhaps
they
belonged
to
the same
person.
After
having
fully examined
the two
letters,
the
Institute confirmed
they were
written by
the same
person.
No mistake was possible
because,
as they added, the writer
was affected by
Parkinson’s
disease.
In
the very
last
years
of
his earthly
life,
Dr. De Boni was affected by the above
disease,
but we
can
assure
all
those who
are
reading
this
that
nobody
informed
the
researchers
working
in
the
In-
stitute
that
the
messages
were
coming
to
somebody we
perhaps
knew.
We
can
add
that
Dr. De
Boni’s
daughter
who was
present
at
the seance was impressed by
this
fact.
- DA/R.A.W.
rn
in
last
and
well
cold,
inary
'horn
:h
to
g
to
oday
new
and
;!
-
com
bra,
A.
eaf-
03595.
Masi,
Felice.
Magical events are paranormal
events.
Luce e Ombra,
1988 (Apr/Jun),
55(2),
107-115
refs
The
author,
as
a
scholar
of
psychology,
parapsychol-
°gy>,
anthropology,
explains why,
in
his
point
of view,
magic
events
observed
among
primitive
populations
are
nothing
else
but
paranormal
events,
similar
to
those
studied
by
parapsychology.
As
a
matter
of
fact we
see
that:
(1) the nature
of
the phenomena occurring
in
the two
fields
is
the
same;
(2)
in
both
cases
the
result
is between
mind
and
outside
action;
(3)
both
belong
to
the
uncon-
scious;
(4) they both spring out
of
it when
the unconscious
is enabled,
through
proper
rituals,
to emerge and
operate;
(5)
in
both
cases
the
phenomena
obey
not
physical,
but
psychological
laws, and
firstly
the principle of synchronism
Parapsychological events
therefore
are
different from magi-
cal
ones
because
the
latter,
in
their
external
appearance,
show the
traditional and
cultural image of the people with
whom they occur.
- DA/R.A.W.
vice
its
03596. Trajna, Carlo M.
Life,
dcatli and
activities
of
the "Father of Voices."
Luce e Ombra,
1988
(Apr/Jun),
55(2), 120-127.
'
The author provides
a
short
history
of
F.
Jiirgenson’s
life which was
full
of
different,
and sometimes
traumatic,
experiences
in
Russia,
Italy,
Israel,
and
Estonia.
A
sup-
posed
paranormal
phenomenon
that
happened
during
Jtirgenson’s funeral service
is described.
His face appeared
on
a TV
screen
and
was
photographed
with
a
Polaroid
camera.
- DT/R.A.W.
03597. Simone, Giorgio
di.
Converging mediumistic
messages.
Luce e Ombra,
1988
(Apr/Jun),
55(2),
128-152.
refs
The author
analyses
the most
important convergences
between
recent
French
mediumistic
messages
and
those
received
from
the
"A"
Entity
during
Italian
stances
by
means
of
a medium
in
talking-trance.
It
is
a
graded and
necessarily
brief
approach
to
basic
opinions
concerning
earth experiences-matter experiences-the
fusion
in God
of
the
spirit-the
rationality
of
the
other
world-thc
mystery
of
God-the
non-existence
of
evil
as
principle-all
this
through
the
enunciation
of
constants,
that
is
to
say,
of
concepts
concerning
the
other
dimension
that
are
similar
among
themselves
within
the
best
mediumistic communica-
tions
both
in
the
past
and
today.
For
example, how
the
disembodied
see our world, how
it
is
possible
for them
to
give
help
to
humans,
the
nature
of
postmortem
lethargy,
the
self-judgment,
the
ideoplastic
suspected
to
create
sen-
sory or psychic
illusions,
the
risks
involved
in mediumistic
communication,
and
so
on.
For
the above
considerations,
the author consulted
the books written by the French Jean
Prieur,
who
was
the
interpreter
of
the
presumed
com-
munications beyond
the border and mostly of those
regard-
ing the presumed mediumistic intercourse between Marcellc
de Jouvenal
and
her dead
son
"Roland,"
and
those where
Mrs.
Jeanne
Morrannier
wrote
the
messages
of
her
dead
son "George."
- DT/R.A.W.
03598.
Giovetti,
Paola.
Jung
and
paranormal
phenomena.
Luce e Ombra, 1988 (Apr/Jun), 55(2),
153-161.
This
article
presents
the
Italian
translation
of an
im-
portant biography of
C.G.
Jung,
edited by
Rizzoli
Editore,
and
written
by
the German
scholar
Gerhard
Wehr,
with
the
title:
Jung.
It
is
the
first
complete
historical
biog-
raphy of the great Swiss psychologist.
The book
points out
very
well
the
constant
interest
Jung
had
in
paranormal
phenomena,
his
personal
experiences
in
this
field,
and
his
philosophy
of
life,
in
which
these
phenomena
figure
largely.
- DA/R.A.W.
03599. Ferraro,
Alfredo.
"Drop-in" and
living com-
municators.
Luce e Ombra,
1988
(Apr/Jun),
55(2)
162-
165.
2 refs
The author, after having
said,
as an
introduction,
that
spiritistic phenomena
have no
scientific
credibility
(even
if
he
does
rationally
accept
them),
describes
a
"drop-in"
case
with
a
living man
as
the main
actor where
a
realistic ob-
jective confirmation
is
followed.
Such
a
case
taken
as an
isolated ,cxample
would
only
have
been
very
interesting
but nothing
else.
But, after a
brief span of time, a similar
event having analogies with the previous one occurred with
the same medium.
The main
difference was
that
whereas
in
the
first
case
the
subject
was
sleeping,
in
the
second
one,
while
the phenomenon
was
taking
place,
the
subject
presented
a
perfect
alibi
as
confirmation
of
his
mental
watchfulness.
After
having been made aware
of
the
fact
the
subject
in
question
was
not
at
all
astonished
because
he
told
the author
it was very
similar
to
the
one
he
had
had
years before when he was
in
a coma and awoke
with
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