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and
seemed
determined
to
ban
"claims
of
the
paranormal."
The
author
states
that
blind
faith
in
one’s
own
belief
leads
to
underestimating
the
quality
of
the
proponent and the complexity
of
the
subject under
discus-
sion.
This
explains
the
unfair
treatment
of
the
French
psychologist/statistician,
Michel
Gauquelin.
Hoebens
and
other
skeptics
who
supported
the
investigation
of
Gau-
quelin
feared
that
the Committee was
a
lost
cause:
All
moderates would
probably
leave
and
turn
their
backs
on
the crusaders.
Fortunately,
this yeal (1984) a "Reappraisal”
took
place
through
internal
and /external
pressure.
It
seems
to
the
author
that
they
Imvc
learned
their
lesson
from this
affair.
He praises the fw evolution which aims
at
cooperation
between
skepfics
and
critical
para-
psychologists
as
allies
in
the
fiiftt
against
irrationalism.
D.D.
02441.
Dumalin,m)aniel.
Spi
go on
.
.
.
Psijkorum,
1984,)
The human aromatic
ref!
of
mentalistic
trickslbnd
can
g|
sion
of a paranormalweat.
In
this
method
was
usld
by
psychics.
In our homX town
still performing this act\nder
article shows
under whin fori
reflexes
can
be
used
to \ive
one
is gifted with psychic ®ili
02442.
Martens, Ronny.
Forum,
1984,
7(1), 30-35.
ti
The
history
of
parapsycl]
fraud
and
poorly
controlled
views an experiment by Rand
rlczen: The show must
(1),
25-29.
1 ref
•xes
are used
in
a number
e
the
layman
the
impres-
few
recent TV programs
pie
who
claimed
to
be
hent,
Belgium),
a man
is
|e guise of telepathy.
This
and
in
what
way human
iople
the
impression
that
jbs.
- D.D.
(idi’s Project Alpha.
Psi-
|Jogy
is
heavily marked by
eriments.
This
article
re-
Project Alpha)
to
test cur-
rent
parapsychological
reseafth mtandards.
Unfortunately,
Randi’s
experiment
shows
through
the
years.
His
availability of money does
standards and
(2) that
scie
to uncover subject fraud,
eludes
(a)
that
Randi’s
e;
investigator to reconsider
both the researcher and
t!
meaningful dialogue and
tjat
tmrigs
have
not
improved
M/o
Hypotheses:
(1)
that
the
It
necessarily improve
research
ists
arc vn a very bad
position
Jre confined.
The author con-
diment
wges
the
paranormal
is position Ifed
research, and (b)
skeptic sho^d
strive towards a
operation.
-
02443.
Zorab, George
Poltergeist-syndrome.
Psi-
Forum,
1984,
7(2), 66-8lJ[ 7
refs
The author
traces She
origin of the tenh
"poltergeist”
and the history of the Jhenomcna.
This
is
illrctratcd with
well-known
cases betwftn
the
years
1450-1968. Tjhe
author
states
that
now,
after *0
years,
it
has become Sear
that
there
is
no
difference between
local
(haunting) amt per-
sonal
(poltergeist)
haffntings.
In
both
cases
the
same
phenomena
can
occurjB He concludes
that
the
paranormal
is dominated by
the ming and there
is no need
for super-
natural
entities.
- D/ a
02444.
Gondry,
Dii
Psi-Forum,
1984,
7(:
The career of
text The author
sh<
original,
but
can
authors
as early
as
and
his
life seem
to!
sons
such
as
M.
.
250 years:
Franz A. Mcsmcr,
86-82.
13 refs
esmer
is
placed
in
its
historical
con-
’s
that
the
ideas of Mesmer were not
placed
next
to
the
works
of
other
i0
B.C. His
idea
of animal magnetism
ave been influenced by
several
per-
ell.
Count
de
Gebelin,
and
Maria-
Thcresia
Paradis.
After
his downfall
his
ideas were taken
up by several persons such as Dr. E. Perkins (U.S.) and
de
Puyse'gur (France).
- DA
02445.
Martens, Ronny.
Observational theories: Part
1.
Psi-Forum,
1984,
7(2),
108-117.
refs
The author introduces the reader
to the new observa-
tional
theories
within
the
field
of
parapsychology.
These
theories are based on quantum
physics, which
shares some
elements
with
paranormal
phenomena.
The
reader
is
provided
with
an
introduction
to
quantum
physics
upon
which
two
of
the
three
most
developed
theories
are
elaborated.
- DA
Tijdschrift voor Parapsychologie
02446.
Tcnhacff, W.
Tijdschriffyoor Para
Tenhaoif
notes
t]
written
to Mrn
about
mostly
of
a Arecogni
none
of
the Ases
wi
could be corro®ratc
.C.
Spontaneous
clairvoyance.
'ychologie, 1932/1933, 5, 62-79.
at
since
1929
many
people
have
lairvoyant
experiences,
which were
re
nature.
A
drawback
was
that
told
to
other
people
so
that
they
He presents
10 of the
cases.
- G.Z.
02447.
Koster,
voor Parapsychoi
Serious
invest
mal,
have observed
tities
at seances
ai
the
seance
room./
Aspects of the occult
Tijdschrift
fe,
1934, 6, 24-26.
gators
of
the
occult,
i.e.,
the
paranor-
everal
times
that
the
manifesting
en-
j^ot
able
to
see what
is happening
in
I
ipecially
to
those
riting,
and
other
ipiritualist, Mr. de
festing entity
if
it
:ance
were
doing,
the
dishes.”
The
;
with
one
of
its
t he
himself once
it was
present
at
er
was,
"Ybu
are
about
this queer
find any explana-
Java,
he
believed
tad
himself
mag-
lagnetic
sleep,
he
e
quite
different,
t
is
in
the
same
ized
trance.
Al-
- G.Z.
ictz, P.A.
Experiments concerning the homing
S.
Tijdschrift voor Parapsychologie,
1934,
6,
86-
02448.
of d
92.
f
hesc
experiments
took
place
in
the
South
of
Ger
in
the
neighborhood
of
Munich.
Three
dogs
were
tested.
The
transport
of
a dog
was done
in
such
a way
that
it
could
not
see
where
it
was
going.
They
were
taken
to
a
place
about
miles
from
their
home,
in
the
middle of woods and
hills.
According to the experimenters
the dogs found
their way home
not by
using
their
senses,
but by
a capacity of orientation which migrating
birds
also
possess.
- G.Z.
02449.
Tenhaeff, W.H.C.
Dr. G. van Rijnberg and
parapsychology.
Tijdschrift voor Parapsychologie,
1934,
6, 123-129.
Professor
van
Rijnberg, who
for many
years was
the
editor
of
a
prominent
Dutch
medical
journal,
was
inter-
ested
in
spiritualism and
all
things
mystical.
He was one
of
the
very few Dutch
people who attended
seances
with
the famous medium Eusapia
Palladino.
He published what
he observed
at
these
seances
in
a Dutch
periodical
under
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