September/December 1984 PSI RESEARCH - examined, and defined, but it can be done. However, when someone commits a crime that gets that person in prison, and they are placed in prison with other people who have similar weakhesses of personality or: ideology, whatewer it might be, then iW\is for the good of all the publi and should be consider@@ a very reasonable approach. Ng y only to maintain Peace in prigons so that we don't have rfts, but to attempt to rehabilit&e these people so that wifn they come back in the streets we\Q@on't have the high leySl of recidivism that we have. I woul&like to take three fr four prisms and run these programs foka period of timé, I would verify what © kind of percentages\we are gettin compared to what they OQ usually get in the g&eral prisof population. I think it N would be very revealing\and pogitive to do this and I am an tedfsoon. My wife (she is part 0400140002-7 0 9 I hoping to get a program ° Iroquois, part Algonquin) Wf I are very concerned about ep alcoholism among the Ameri og wndians on the reservations. o.- think that we can put y balNgusic over the subliminal Q message not to drink so mugh, and help the Indians. 0 0 Lon. < LV: Maybe you are rig#t, although \am still fascinated Owith your activities ifcriminology and\e bit skeptical and _eareful regarding ygur subliminal jeseage program. [ ~ believe those who ayf interested in eitheMor in both, can cocontact you direct¥: Ron Nolan, P.0. Bok RO, Clayton, CA 94517. Thank you Yery much for your tine. \, oS 4 gS Note: Ron Nolan's attempts at using pot riminology qwere also disgissed by Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove in\bis paper, wy "Paionics: Ye Practical Application of Psi," prégented at othe Thirtyfhird Annual International Conferencd of the “oParapsychofgy Foundation (New Orleans, Louisiana, ¥ August 01 984). Yfoceedings of the conference, entitled ce rent ourends iff Psi Research, are planned to be published inthe fall off1985. An edited version of Dr. Mishlove's paper has TGalso béen published in the Fall 1984 issue of Applied Psi © Applied >(2046 Clement Street, San Francisco, CA 94121). a Appro 130 | f September/December 1984 PSI RESEARCH VARIETIES OF HEALING EXPERIENCE Since we have received many questions concerning "psychic" (mental) healing and other alternative healing techniques, we have decided to present a cross-cultur® review of folk healing around the world. The intervief below answer at least some of these questions. - Ed. Folk Healers in Italy Interview with Dr. Paola Giovetti Modena, Italy During my extensive travels in Italy I have met a number of contemporary "psychic" (mental) healers who often call themselves “pranotherapists.” Their practice usually includes known elements of laying-on of hands, “bioenergy influence," and color healing. After becoming acquainted with these practices, I became deeply interested in Italian folk healing traditions and approached the well known Italian researcher Dr. Paola Giovetti with the following questions. ~ Hd. 08/11 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400140 Are folk healing traditions still alive in Italy? During the past 3 years I inquired about our so-callal “country healers" on a joummey through rural Italy lookifR for old magic-religious traditions. When I started t&® journey I did not hope to find much material, but in eve} region I easily encountered several healers, meaning that these traditions have not disappeared, but are still ali® and active. Fd In other words, these rituals and faiths do not survive only in the memory of a few people, but on the contrary th are still important, even if their present value ig different from the past. Formerly these practices wem often the only medicine, because, at least in the countr® other medicines did not exist. Today the sanitary situati@g is very different, but people still go to the count. healers, even to an increasing degree. 131