* Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000760350004-9 jai His arms had become paralyzed and he was only TITLE: PSI-PAINTING iy quiet. 9 tove then freely after the meeting was over. Later he NAME: DUBUGRAS, E te feel pains down his arms and complained to his mother Researcher write then. Zibia Gasparetto immediately spoke to a friend who Lecturer well known medium and this friend suggested that the boy be st along to one of the meetings she held at her Spiritist 3 this would allow her to observe him more closely under the -eonditions. Zibia agreed as she thought her boy might really incipient automatic writer (as she was). If Luiz Antonio was wi, tne development of this faculty would help Bim and those nic. INSTITUTION: "PLANETA", Editora Trés | S&o Paulo, Bra arrived at the meeting, Luiz Antonio was placed at the mediums sat (x) and in front of him he pencils. If he became entranced, miting materials were there! But when the meeting started, a o2 writing the youngster drew pictures only ceasing when S-2ets were covered with drawings. Then he got up and gave me ro Some of the siek who were there for that purpose, speak- 1 B tongue which was recognized by one of the people present iCsivese dialect. Woes ney Able where all ig stack of papers and a few “This paper deals with "PSI~PAINTING" ( i inti by a young Brazilian psychologi : psychic painting)| LUIZ ANTONIO GASPARETTO. ogist who is also a Spiritist me Luiz Antonio was born in SZo0 Paulo, B i ATLGO razil, on Au, oot mide 1 eke second son of Aldo and Zibia Gisparesto. a ass cou . 2 b 7 fession and haa a hard strug le to bee an accountant by Digesar the reeting was over, the person who had invited Zibia cause after Pedro and Luiz Anto i t Soother = samtly of foe > sca suggesved that in spite of his tender age, he showed sayes anter Pedro a nio, two other children were Weracriinary mediumistic potentiality and should develop it in at fy carerui aanner. Luiz Antonio should cote to her Centre for _ iz =nree times a week. As he had felt so well there, ceooa me ans in a state of emotional upheaval which he neithe: Bisnis sade no bones about coming and turned up neguianiy & ne pea considerable deem: Beeause of this acute sensitiv®=*** targe Vines a week. ; erable difficulty in his relationshi i chert children and even with the members tly. Tn eons £ q of his familj In vi " and other problems which i i te vine plagued him, his parents, thinki companhionship with strange children of is a a helps : his age would help hi placed him in school at the ag i i n ch ge of five. But in school thi ne better and his teachers faced still another problem ~ that Erying to keep the restless child quiet. At last one teacher aed ee that the youngster seemed strangely attracted to sha @ co ours so she gave him coloured chalks and the task of @ doing at tne tine nee mes and aSsignments the children yw i ; . iS fortunately workéd out and whi doing this work, Luiz Antonio k i this obs ; ept quiwt. However, thi teacher also noticed that altho j 5 S work | ; ugh he enjoyed doing th handicapped in the execution of t i = ned te’ 3 : he drawings as h little innate knowledge of art e * hat tis - SO she suggested that hi enroll him in an art school suitabl i Was 4 for his age Thi ately done but the choice funa ie nly a fat eng course and the teaching wae inedeo nee te as it was only a fré to become utterly passive when the painters wish to do their eigth months Luiz Antonio save op tne for the bay's needs. but the close proximity to these discarnate Masters has little during thet tine. course having learkt nin quite a lot. Luiz Antonio, like all mediums, was an uncommonly sensiiM"?“5¢ ’ Little ne developed his mediumship, became calmer and 2 drawings also improved although at that time no one, youngster - dreamed that a group of famous discarnate y cf the Impressionést school, were preparing him for is s gcing to do. It was only years later, when his *"§ ‘cox “in tc see the famous Brazilian medium - Francisco Can- Yavier -~ cic tre first painter sign his name. But after that ; Je by little, the masters made themselves known to Antonio. And now, sixteen years later, these painters have pro- elsse tc five thousand works of art through their young medium . Qver tne years the styles have become more pronounced as the rs cave learned to manipulate his arms - ami legs ... But it be stressed shat Luiz Antonio himself has little knowledge * and the styles, colours and other details favoured by each had Luiz Antonio also had to learn to adapt himself to the When Luiz Antoni i It should be observed that it is not the usual procedure for life started and this happened during one old, a new phase offtists co take their children to sessions such as the one Luiz Gasparettos held to study Spiritis lik of the weekly meetitkie went to. Spiritist youngsterSparticipate of study groups friends and members of the family gathered together for tale ir hones and also in youth groups oF which each Centre has though ete enzo and his brothers were expected to participat, more, divided according to the children's ages. nen milo was a trial to the rest of the grou nis restlessness. However, at this particular meeting he aus 352 353 ' { | | Approved For Release 2003/09/10!: CIA-RDP96-00792R000700350004-
h we 10. 11 le. i3. 14 15. 16. Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000700350004-9 How the psi-paintings are produced. ‘the paper down while the painting 1s being executed. The medium only paints when entranced. ben using paint, this is smeared on to the fingers and palms tof the medium's hand and then patted or rubbed on to the paper fhe pictures are produced in the dark with only a faint reffin a variety of styles which has to be seen to be appreciated. bulb to light the place, f ifne paints on the palms of the medium's hands do not mix. Al- Music is played during the entire session, sometimes very (though the palm might be covered with black, if a white is loudly. The explanation is that the vibrations of the [placed on it, it remains white. Yet, on the paper, the colours music help harmonize the surroundings and the thoughts anj™@ix to form the shades required. feelings of those present. . § mn kis 4 . a Who are the discarnate artists? e worl S done at extremely hi Speeds. A si i in one colour might take a youpia of seconds wht mone oy UP to now about thirty have signed their names to paintings. ones take from 10 to 20 minuts. close to five thousand works of art produced, the following irs have participated: Delacroix, Franz Hals, Reynolds, Seurat, The artists use either crayons or paints in tubes. t, Manet, Matisse, Cezanne, Sisley, Goya, Diego Rivera, Dumont, : ri, Anita Malfatti, Lasar Segall, Picasso, Modigliani, ; The colours are not laid out in an orderly manner, per col¢muse Lautrec, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Degas, Tissou, Da Vinci, wee They are simply placed in a heap. @elli, Debret, Rapnael,Rembrandt, Tarcila do Amaral. wn g © They are executed with sos <. . ambidextrous. either hand, although the mediun is # Conclusion sLuiz Ant@nio Gasparetto has been tested several times by re- They are also done with both hands working simultaneously..@mers who specialize in such work and.observed by many all over this case the medium can either draw two heads or have bot#eric, too nuserous to name individually. hands working on different parts of the same picture. Het also start with one hand the later change to the other, om-Sié@ most important of the researchers who tested him was dr. hand helping the other, , st Guicardes Andrade, President of the Institute Brasileiro - €54.2525 Psicobiofisicas, who wad aided in his work by Guy Where two heads are done simultaneously, one portrait might: Siayfair, a member of the Society of Psychical Research and drawn upside down. Or cP several books on the paranormal. In his book "The In- Rite Boundary” Playfair mentions one of these tests in detail. In sueh pictures, each hand Signs the picture done by the affuiuarzes Andrade is of Sao Paulo, Brazil and Playfair is from responsible for the work. Then the Signature on the upsiq@@, Englani. down picture is signed upside down and back to front. The: done by the other hand is Signed in the normal manner. » Daring the tests, a team of experts and laymen took fblms, es, psotos, timed and observed the medium carefully. Paintings are also produced with the feet and in Such cases} are often painted upside down and although one foot serves» Maen asked what he feels when trance painting is going on, the palette, it sometimes aids in the final painting [Antonis Said that at the start he feels a change in his , plar tone. Fhis is followed by a sense of excitement as if Paintings have been done with feet and one hand working simbiing wonderful is about the happen. Then he feels his arms taneously, while the medium addressed a person nearby ed by a layer of energy. After this he senses the approach however, does not happen very often. . pe discarmate painters who make themselves known, speaking to lepathically. Although he is not clakrvoyant, the medium Total absence of models, yet figures and faces are anatomi each painterz and can describe what they are wearing at the perfect and the solutions are those of a genius. & He also feels changes in mood and in his body, According painter approaching to start working. But LuigfAntonio Portraits of people both alive and dead, famous or not, knobften Said that this is a personal experience, impossible to or unknown to him. Some of the discarnates have been recod#late into words which will convince those who cannot or will by friends or relations. ry to understand! Mediumship, however, has long been studied explained by many eminent scholars and people of science. So The paintings are done ina variety of styles, each correspd mo longer a wystery. If it is applied to explain how these to the artist Signing the work. paintings are produced by a young Brazilian psychologist The discarnate artist often talks to the person helping to Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : ChA-RDP96-00792R000700350004-9
-5- + who has no backe Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000700350004-9 exground in’art, everything will become clear and ESTUDO EXPLORATORIO QUE SUGERE A POSSIBILIDADE DE TRA further exPlanations are required, TAMENTO DE DISTURBIOS DO SONO POR MEIO DE TRANSFEREN- CIA DE ENERGIA. ANDRADE, Maria Regina R.de; Mestre em Psicologia do Escolar Psicdloga Clinica Universidade de Sao PaulofSoc.de Pesq.Psicobiofisicas de Sao Paulo - Sao Paulo/ S.P., Brasil c — Sociedade de Pesq.Psicé Sao Raulo, S.P., Bras7l Luiz Antonio's mediumship has aroused extr. i aordinar: ne at over the world-and he has received invitations from seciuk ec en ific and otherwise, magazines, and television Stations 4 fomonstrate _ his ability to do psi-painting, The British Bro proadeast at on nd & 30-minute videotape on his work and thisig eax hour on their "Nationwide" pro ‘ August 1978. In the States. $he- Nat adeasting Cort . ional Broadecasti Cc also showed Luiz Antonio with other mediums: ve nation t 7 mediunis;-elso on a nati programme. Television stations in other -countries hav ne ~ have -do. Same, and he has been invited td Partici “in con ine : Pate in co national and international. So much for the medium. Ana he el. e Lic. em Psicologia biofisicas de Sao Paulo Many of the 5,000 paintings have bee ; f ; n acquired b apeerested 4n pSi-painting or just because they enjoy having if pre ures in their homes, but it Should be stressed that Luiz Ag S never kept any of the Proceeds for himself. The pictures do. irité : ma : : : dovatea booute Spirlust Centre which he, his family and a gro@ em aid ia the treatment of children with sleeping disturbances .The authors a utterly destitute ¢ and the Proceeds help feed the thousands ofed the files of a Spiritist institutiof, in the city of Sao Paulo, that pro ye? and illiterate people who life in shacks in} free of charge help to children, Beans of standardized procedures of outskirts of this immense city. The Centre itselr attends toffy transfer (Pasteur 4 passes), unddr Ahe orientation of supposed spiritual 4 and physton goer woe att caasses suffering from Spiritual, meee (wentores espirituais"). 684 casks of recovery analysed in a previous re a many kinds. : th also presented at this Conference are runner 90 cases of chidren with H mg disturbances, who had total remisgion of their symptoms without tradi- ‘ of the pei-seingomds ie soy mbortant to know that the objectiwl medical help, provide further empirical evidence. The authors emphasize = It is to show mankind that thers ye no deere works of arleeed of further research related t¢é thid subject. : co e cause ’ does not lece nee serene dimension in the spiritual world. ¥ hO: As perturbagdes do sono sAo capitklo ainda controvertidos na Psico- as body through death. He contanne. identity when he loses his phg € Redicina atuais, tanto quantd a sua or\gem, como a abordagem terapeutica 4 evolving. It also shows that the working» learning, improvingle modo, as explicacoes para sua focorrencia tem sido em geral dadas pela Psi- 3 Selves known to us, can communicate with th entities can makePise, abordagem esta que nao tefi a aceitagadq plena de todd a Ciencia atual. i conditions and the right channels = ene the world given the 4 Yado, nao ha acordo também quanto a fokma de tratamento desses distir- ? © mediums. i, _Gividindo-se os profissionajs entre aqueles\que utilizam uma abordagem far ! Resica, os que realizam um enfaminhamento psidoterapeutico (da crianca, da 4 ia ou de ambas) e os que se/servem de ambos o& recursos. 1 4 ‘ a Wcica em que a etiologia dag perturbagoes do soto nao esta bem determinada, . folugces sao, todas elas, dfscutTveis, pois emborg contenham pontos positi- . ¢ OS megativos sempre estag presentes. A Psicoterdpia, por_exemplo, atua com r $¢ em grande numero de/casos; por outro lado, ska duragao e custo elevados na fora do alcance da maioria da populacao. Do\mesmo modo, os agentes cos sao bastante eficientes; no entanto, a ingestay continuada de psicotro- MS por criangas pode leyar a ocerréncia de disturbios\ psicomotores, os quais ‘extrecamente prejudicyais ao desenvolvimento social Aemocional da crianga e = tambem tratamento efSpecializado. . nto das criancas os e sonambulismo para sua familia. termes praticos, por@m, é desejavel e necessario o trata OS apresentam, ja que pesadelos, insonia, terrores notu tam experiencigs de agudo sofrimento para a crianca e angas tivesse total remissao de seus sintomas de perturbagho de sono apos atendimento/de_tipo nao conyencional, centrado na hipotese de transfe— a de energia atfraves da imposicao de maos. Este tratamento é feito no servi assistencia egpiritual a crianga, da Federacao Espirita do Estado de Sao jo (FEESP), entidade esta considerada de Utilidade Publica Municipal, Esta- e Federal, e que esta em atividade na Cidade de Sao Paulo ha 43 anos. ras deste quddro, chamou-nos a atengdo o fato de que spe de numero Approved For Release 2003/09/10 | CIA-RDP96-00792R000700350004-9