Parapsychology Abstracts International
Vol.
7, No. 2
December 1989
that
the
strict
application
of
the
double-blind
method
of-
fers
the
researcher
the guarantee
of
absolute
objectivity
in
estimating
results.
- DA/R.A.W.
03616. Rigato, Mario. The
possibility
of suggestive
in-
fluences
in
certain
analgesic
effects
of
mag-
netotherapy: A
boundary
problem
between
para-
psychology
and
unquestioned
sciences.
Quaderni
di
Parapsicologia,
1986,
77(1), 46-48.
The
clinical
effects
of
pulsed
magnetic
fields
are
easily
controllable by means
of radiography and
other
ob-
jective
data,
On
the
other
hand,
the
purely
analgesic
ef-
fects
declared
by
the
patient
are
not
controllable.
Some
authors
suggest
that
a
placebo
effect
is
present.
On
this
problem
an
experimental
research program
is
presented
to
be
carried
out
in
collaboration
with
the
Parapsychology
Laboratory
of The
University
of
Utrecht.
The aim
is
to
point
out some
aspects
which
could
involve
academic
or-
thodoxy as well
as parapsychology.
- DA/R.A.W.
03617.
Bersani, Ferdihando, and Travisan, Bruno. Ex-
periences with psycholinguistic PK.
Quaderni di Para-
psicologia,
1986,
77(1),
49-53.
ref
Last
year
we
presented
a
new
method
that
could
detect some
possible PK
effects catalyzed by the interpreta-
tion
of semirandom
acoustic
signals recorded on
a
tape
re-
corder.
In
a previous study we
investigated
the
possibility
of
perceiving
linguistic
patterns
in
suitable
nonlinguistic
acoustic
events.
The two
essential
conditions
in
order
to
obtain
such
effects
were:
(a)
the
availability
of
sounds
that
could
be
listened
to
over
and
over
again
on
a
tape
recorder,
and
(b)
the
propensity
of
the
subject
to
under-
stand
that
what
they
are
listening
to
is
a
linguistic
mes-
sage.
As we showed
last year, the hypothesis can be formu-
lated
which
says
that
a
condition
can
be produced
during
the
linguistic
interpretation
that
is
particularly
conducive
*
in
order
to
produce
some
PK
effects
by
which
a
"nonintentional"
modification
of
acoustic
patterns
could
result
in
better equating
the
acoustic event
to
a
linguistic
model
produced
by
the
subject’s
mind.
This
hypothesis
also
fits with
Stanford's "conformance behavior"
model.
In
our
set-up,
the
physical
target
of
the PK
is
the
electronic
device by which the acoustic events are processed.
In other
words, our present
investigation involves
the
possibility of
detecting some modifications
in
the electronic
"processing" of
the
acoustic
signals previously recorded.
In
our
pilot
attempts
the
subject
was
requested
to
listen
(using
headphones)
to
suitable
signals,
and
his
emotional
involvement was
monitored
via an
electronic device
called
the
"oracle,” wherein
the
subject
asks
the
"oracle"
to speak
about some
personal questions. In other words, the acoustic
signals can
be used as targets for
a short projective
test
in
which
the
subject
is
particularly involved.
In order
to im-
prove
the
psychological
connection
between
the
electronic
device and
the
subjects, we
introduced some
modifications
into
the
circuits
with
respect
to
the
previous
instrumenta-
tion, and we
also introduced feedback by means of a small
light
that
flashes when
the
"oracle"
speaks.
With
these
modifications we have conducted an extensive
investigation
with quite
a
large number
of
subjects.
No PK
effect was
detected.
Nevertheless, experimentation
is
stiil going on
in
order to obtain
a very large amount of data.
- DA/R.A.W.
03618. Dcttorc, Ugo. A hypothesis of clairvoyance. Quad-
erni di Parapsicologia, 1986,
77(1),
54-60.
We
hypothesize
a
sensoriality
in
time
(past
and
fu-
ture)
on
the
pattern
of
which
the
sensoriality
in
space
(present),
peculiar
to
the
five
known
senses,
would
have
formed.
The
sensoriality
in time would be
peculiar
to
all,
living and nonliving
beings; the one
in space would
belong
only
to
living
beings,
even
if
potentially
present
in
the
nonliving
ones.
Clairvoyance
would
consist
in
the
sen-
soriality
in
time
(retrocognition
and
precognition);
clair-
voyance
in
the
present,
or
cryptesthesia,
would
in
reality
be a perception of the immediate
past, displaced only by
a
few moments
as
to the
present.
On the
basis of time sen-
soriality,
it would
have formed
intuitive
thought
which
is
always creative and leads to the evolution
of
all
beings; on
the
basis of space
sensoriality,
it would have developed
ra-
tional
thought, which
in
itself
isn’t
creative
but
only aims
at
settling fixed
relations, or
laws, among
beings.
The
in-
teraction between
the two
sensorialities and
the two forms
of thought offers us
the whole of
reality.
- DA/R.A.W.
03619. Martelli, Aldo. Experiences of collaboration with
certain
prestidigitators
in the investigation
of some
presumably
paranormal
cases.
Quaderni
di
Para-
psicologia,
1986,
77(1), 61-68.
On
several
occasions,
during
our
investigations
and
experimental
researches
on
some
supposed
paranormal
phenomena,
we
availed
ourselves
of
the
collaboration
of
two
conjurors:
Vanni
Bossi
and
Alexander.
In
our
opinion,
such
collaboration
is
useful
and
advisable.
Ob-
viously,
one
should
consider
certain
difficulties,
deriving,
for
instance, from the conjurors’ engagements.
We
agree
with Vanni
Bossi
that
it
is
not
enough
to
have
at
our
disposal
a
"tout-court"
good
conjuror.
It
is
also
necessary
that
the
conjurer
is
practiced,
not
only
in
conjuring
tricks
in
general,
but
also with
those
tricks
that
"paranormal" subjects could perform.
Thanks to Alexander’s collaboration, we
investigated
a
supposed phenomenon
of water creation.
The
subject was
a
15-year-old
girl.
This
case proved
to
be
a
trick
as
the
girl, thanks to her extraordinary
skill, was able
to put out
the
salivary
secretion
through
her
imperceptibly
half-open
lips.
We
also
investigated
a
case
of
an
11-year-old
boy
who had been described
as the protagonist of many
extraor-
dinary ESP and PK phenomena.
In our
presence,
the boy
was
able
only
to make
a
thermometer
mercury
rise,
by
means of a
"trick,” unconscious perhaps, but soon
revealed.
Moreover,
in
1978, in Milan, Alexander caught Geller bend-
ing
a
key
by
hand,
simulating
PK.
He
was
able
to
reproduce the success
in
the same way.
We made
use
of
the two
conjurors’
opinions
also
in
order
to examine
(as deeply
as
possible) about
experi-
ments.
They
involved
metal
bending and
of
other
kinds,
selected
among
over
200
experiments
performed
during
some
years
with
half
a
dozen
"mini-gellers,"
and
with
Professor
Bcrsani’s
collaboration.
We
chose
that
experi-
ments
because
we
considered
them
valid
as
far
as
their
paranormal "genuineness” was concerned.
In
this
case,
we
should
be
satisfied
with
the
con-
jurors’
posterior judgment
that
is given on
the
basis of our
account.
In
fact, we cannot have them
at our
disposal
all
throughout
the
experiment.
The
explanations
for
the
phenomena,
that
the
conjurors gave
separately,
partly
coin-
cided,
partly contrasted, and only two were judged tenable,
on
the
basis
of
our
experimental
experience.
In
some
cases,
then,
the
conjurors
admitted
that,
if
things
had
ac-
tually gone as we had described, the only explanation
they
could give was the operator’s inattention.
- DA/R.A.W.
03620. Cassoli,
Piero. A contribution
to the study
of
pranothcrapy.
Quaderni di Parapsicologia,
1986,
77(1).
69-89. 43
refs;
table
The
author,
a
physician, discusses problems concerning
"healers."
For many
years
he
has
been
investigating
only
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