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this
-- more
than
in any
other
science -
research
is
con-
ducted
into
phenomena
which
we
cannot
measure
He
cSuio“n.
h3t’
liVC
StUdiCS' eVCr*
» «
‘he same
f3j
th ”
alwa>s
Present
even
if
unconscious _
motivates and guides research and
finally takes us
alone
a
courageous
and
eventful
experimental
path,
to Sts
which
make
History,
in
that
they
express new
meanTnes
and new
measures
which
the
soul
knows
by
intuition.
&
-
02468.
Marabini, E.
With regard
to psychic surgery
Think? Dr
U
Na
b
e
e
l‘°f
the
.
. Phenomenology
of
the
subject.
”?f ?v °
Nae
.
gcl1 /or
hls
important
contribution.
Criti-
cally examines
the phenomena produced by surgeon
healer
.he
n,
auth
PT' f
FrT V
MS ana'ysis
arixe *rtous doubts as
to
the
authenticity
of
the
modalities
used
by
the
"healer”
™?b
‘h
,h
CXeCU‘IOn
of
. his
operations
(also
excluding
the
possible
therapeutic
action
which
could
be
a
conseouencc
vLtilTr
Performanc
f)-
Expresses hope
that
successive
in-
tigations may explain
the questionable
points.
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02469.
Servadio,
Emilio.
The
20th
International
?Zffp°8y
conference.
Metapsichica
Rivista
Italiana dt Parapsicologia, 1971 (Jul/Dec), 25(3/4),
112-115
Italy Irihe'ml
togf
her
t
with Dr -
Cassoli,
represented
Italy
at
the
20th annual conference
of
the Parapsy-choloev
U
Pi01
iB AueUSt
1971 > comments
riefly
on
the
most
important
reports
presented
on
the
L?I?Lr DA°R.A
fw
ParaPSyCh0l08y ^
‘he m°St adVanCcd
hSthe^k
BOni
jU^
aSt0n!-
In defense of ‘he
spiritistic
ypotlicsis.
Metapsichica
Rivista
Italiana
di
Para-
psicologia, 1971 (Jul/Dec), 25(3/4),
116-122.
At
the
meeting
at
Campione,
the
author
who
to-
gether
with
Mrae
Saint
Clair,
undertook
the
defense
of
Spiritism
against
Animism,
presents
two
famous
cases
vi™? Th? w?
C tW°
clerac" ts of evidence
in favor
of sur-
Ind
thI
h
R™ii
yman
Caf
(dirCCt
voice
in
ancicnt
Chinese)
PrLt
,
C
f
Se
(materialization
observed
by
Harry
).
He
concludes,
against
the opinion
of
Prof. Bender
m
favor of the
spiritistic hypothesis.
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i
In
the meeting
at Modena organized by
Prof. Rossini
the agenda of the day was "Parapsychology and
Psychiatry”
SsT toe
in*
r
S/"gIe
t
d
K
out by
the au‘hor
because
it
is
the
thTJf™
i
Ita ‘y
that
Parapsychology
was
the
object
of
the
official
attention of Medical
Science, which on
this oc-
^sion was represented by an audience
of qualified prof?-
t^kln Tnf
author points out, moreover, that
Dr. Cassoli has
f"‘
°
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
in crest
because
there
exists
a
possibility
to
acquire
the
Thr
”^e“a !7
f° r
thcir
acknowledgment
in
the
future.
The
author
directs our attention
also
to Dr.
Crosa’s "Some
hlS
Phenomen°Iogy," which concerns
?
a
,
'
.
0ices
°f
unknown
origin
on
recording
tape
haunted
houses,
and
"out
of
body"
experiences.
Dr
Crwa
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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
jeetive
truth.
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y
ob "
f-iptta , Antonio.
The Latin American Center of
J^psychology
at the Anchieta Faculty of Sao
I*?,b,
di ParaPs,c°l°S,a >
1971
ditionfcreS lel^nS? ,‘S
For
these
reasons
Brazil
appears
as
"the
land
where
para-
psychology ought
to
find the most
fertile
soil."
Relates
his
IT(cTap1
th
t
L
,
atin
AmCriCan
Center
of P-ap^hS
wal fotil
’ f
Wh‘?
‘S
managed
by
Jesu i‘
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 Electing
selecting, and cataloguing the
results.
The C.LAP
will
bl
the
f'rst
university
faculty
in the world where graduates
in
sibMitv'nf
phl °°e.y-
and
Philos°Phy
will
have
the
pos-
sibility of specializing
in parapsychology.
- DA
mg,
-
Sparta,
Francesco.
Parapsychology
and
Spiritism
in
Brazil.
Metapsichica Rivista
Italiana di
Parapsicologia,
1971 (Jul/Dec), 25(3/4),
139-141.
3'hV.u
th°r ’
at*
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 thfCenter
in completing
hnTlt
eq “‘Pment
although
the
main
edifices
are
already
bUI ‘*’
a"d
thcy
h°P®
tha ‘ soon
‘hey
will
be
in
a
position
fT
rinlCnta
'
work ’
considering
also
the
great
dif-
fusion
of devotee spiritism
in the population.
- DA
c
,ilal' -
r E
,SP
fesearch
in
the
U.S.S.R.
p‘’°p‘k°l°s>«-
a„th3
CpI
i!!!^
0fD
alm0St
f
,
of
thc
4th
chapter
of
the
authors
book
Parapsychology,
recently
published
in
Itahan
by
Edizioni
Mcditerranee.
The
chapter
concerns
lhVh
CS
R
arC
.
.
Carr ‘ed °Ut °n ESP
in S°vict
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.
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POLISH LANGUAGE
(Editor: Alexander Imich)
PSYCHOTRONIKA
02475.
Gulak, Jan.
Lowering thc anxiety levels
in ner-
SS m KR Sr
80 'hcr, ',J -
»*>-***'.
tv.
o l
nX‘fy’
pontr 'huting factor
in somatic
illnesses, can
be
a
brief
or
time-extended
phenomenon
independent
of
circumstances.
The
author,
himself
bioenergctically
gi tel
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)
Cr
davs
V
hIf
C
'
Sple ' be^
er
a " d
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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