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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.
Hocbens
and
other
skeptics
who
supported
the
investigation
of
Gau-
qucliin
feared
that
the Committee
was
a
lost
cause:
AH
moderates would
probably
leave and
turn
their
backs on
the crusaders.
Fortunately, this year (1984) a "Reappraisal"
took
place
through
internal
and
external
pressure.
It
seems
to
the
author
that
they have
learned
their
lesson
from this
affair.
He
praises the new evolution which aims
at
cooperation
between
skeptics
and
critical
para-
psychologists
as
allies
in
the
fight
against
irrationalism.
-
D.D.
02441.
Dumalin,
Daniel.
Spierlczcn: 'The show must
go on
.
.
.
Psi-Forum, 1984,
7(1), 25-29.
1 ref
The human automatic
reflexes are used
in a number
of
mentalistic
tricks and can
give
the layman
the
impres-
sion
of a paranormal
feat
In
a few
recent TV programs
this
method
was
used
by
people
who
claimed
to
be
psychics.
In our home town
(Ghent,
Belgium),
a man
is
still performing this act under the guise of telepathy.
This
article
shows
under
what
form
and
in
what way human
reflexes
can
be
used
to
give
people
the
impression
that
one
:is gifted with psychic
abilities.
- D.D.
02442.
Martens, Ronny.
Randi’s Project Alpha.
Psi-
Forum, 1984,
7(1), 30-35.
2 ref
The
history
of
parapsychology
is
heavily marked by
fraud
and
poorly
controlled
experiments.
This
article
re-
views an experiment by Randi
(Project Alpha) to
test cur-
rent
parapsychological
research
standards.
Unfortunately,
Randi’s
experiment
shows
that
things
have
not
improved
through
the
years.
His
two
hypotheses:
(1)
that
the
availability of money does not
necessarily improve research
standards and
(2) that
scientists are
in a very bad
position
to uncover subject fraud, were confirmed.
The author con-
cludes
(a)
that
Randi's
experiment
urges
the
paranormal
investigator to reconsider
his position and research, and (b)
both the researcher and the skeptic should strive towards a
meaningful dialogue and cooperation.
- DA
02443.
Zorab,
George.
Poltergeist-syndrome.
Psi-
Forum,
1984,
7(2), 66-81.
7 refs
The author
traces the origin of the term
"poltergeist"
and the history of the phenomena.
This
is
illustrated with
well-known
cases between
the
years
1450-1968. The
author
states
that
now,
after
years,
it
has become
clear
that
there
is
no
difference
between
local
(haunting)
and
per-
sonal
(poltergeist)
hauntings.
In
both
cases
the
same
phenomena
can
occur.
He concludes
that
the
paranormal
is dominated by
the
living and there
is no need
for super-
natural
entities.
- DA
02444.
Gondry,
Dirk.
250 years:
Franz A. Mcsmcr.
Psi-Forum,
1984,
7(2), 86-82.
13 refs
The
career of Mesmer
is placed
in
its
historical
con-
text The author shows that the
ideas of Mesmer were not
original,
but
can
be
placed
next
to
the
works
of
other
authors
as early
as 450
B.C. His idea of animal magnetism
and
his
life seem to have been
influenced by
several
per-
sons
such
as
M.
Hell,
Count
de
Gcbelin,
and
Maria-
Theresia
Paradis.
After
his downfall
his ideas were taken
up by several persons such as Dr. E. Perkins (U.S.) and
de
Puysdgur (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
arc
elaborated.
- DA
Tijdschrift VOOR Parapsychologie
02446.
Tenhaeff,
W.H.C.
Spontaneous
clairvoyance.
Tijdschrift voor Parapsychologie, 1932/1933, 5, 62-79.
Tenhaeff
notes
that
since
1929
many
people
have
written
to him
about
clairvoyant
experiences,
which were
mostly
of
a
precognitive
nature.
A
drawback
was
that
none
of
the
cases was
told
to
other
people
so
that
they
could be corroborated.
He presents 10 of the cases.
- G.Z.
02447.
Koster, II.E.
Aspects of the occult.
Tijdschrift
voor Parapsychologie,
1934, 6, 24-26.
Serious
investigators
of
the
occult,
i.e.,
the
paranor-
mal,
have observed
several
times
that
the
manifesting
en-
tities
at seances
are
not
able
to
see what
is
happening
in
the
seance
room.
This
fact
applies
especially
to
those
seances
where
table-tilting,
planchette-writing,
and
other
such phenomena take
place.
The Dutch
spiritualist, Mr. de
Fremery, during a seance asked the manifesting entity
if
it
knew
what
the
persons
attending
the
seance
were
doing.
The answer was, "You are busy washing
the
dishes.”
The
answer was
given
by
the
table
knocking
with
one
of
its
legs on
the
floor.
Mr.
Koster
writes
that he
himself once
put
that same
question
to
the
entity
that was
present
at
the
seance he was
attending.
The answer
was,
"You
are
doing the washing with a washingboard.”
For
a
long time Mr. Koster thought about
this queer
kind
of
sight of the
spirits but
failed to find any explana-
tion.
Some
years
later, when
staying
in
Java, he
believed
he
had
the
explanation.
In
Java
he
had
himself
mag-
netized.
When
he
fell
into
a
kind
of magnetic
sleep,
he
suddenly
found
that
his
sight
has become
quite
different.
It
is
his
opinion
that
a
deceased
person
is
in
the
same
situation
as
a
living
person
in
a
magnetized
trance.
Al-
tered perceptions occur
in
both
situations.
- G.Z.
02448.
Dietz, P.A.
Experiments concerning the homing
of dogs.
Tijdschrift voor Parapsychologie,
1934,
6,
86-
92.
These
experiments
took
place
in
the
South
of
Ger-
many
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
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title 'The Third Arm
of
the Medium."
He
wrote:
"It
was at Rome,
21 years ago,
that
I had
a seance with
that
famous
medium,
Eusapia
Palladino.
At
that
seance,
a
married couple was
also present
Eusapia
told us that she
would
try
to
levitate
the table without
using
her
muscles.
All
of
us
stood
airound
the
table,
holding
each
other’s
hands which were
placed on
the
table.
Eusapia stood
at
one of the short ends of the table.
I squatted on the floor
on her
right
side.
I put my
left hand around
her
legs.
I
raised
her
skirt,
so
that
I could
sec
the two
legs
of
the
table
nearest
to me.
' This made
it
impossible
for anyone
to
place
his
foot
under
the
table-leg
and
lift
the
table.
With my
right
hand
I
got
hold
of
Eusapia’s
right
hand.
This hand
was
also
held
by
Mrs.
P.
Mr.
P was
holding
Eusapia’s
left
hand
There
was
not
much
light
in
the
room,
but
it
was
sufficient
to
distinguish
the
various
ob-
jects
in
the room.
After waiting some time the table sud-
denly
began
to
move.
The
table
moved
for
a
few
mo-
ments
to
the
left and
to the
right, and
then suddenly
left
the floor and
floated about
15 cm above
it.
This
lasted
a
few minutes and
then
it dropped
to
the
floor with
a
loud
bang.
When
the
table
started
to move
about
I
suddenly
saw
that
Eusapia’s
light hand became
indistinct.
Then
it
seemed
as
if
a
whole
series
of
arms,
one arm
above
the
other, were
visible for
a
short
time.
The
levitation
of
the
table
too
was
of
short
duration.
Those
present
at
the
seance were very
pleased
with what
they had
seen.
This
made them
urge
the medium
to
repeat
the
phenomenon.
The
medium
guessed
correctly
what
he
wanted
to
see
again,
for
she
said:
’You
want
to
sec my
astral
double
don’t you?"’
’
"The
phenomena
were
again
observed
and
were
a
great
deal
better
than
those
in
the
beginning.
Out
of
Eusapia s
left
thigh,
just
in
front
of
his
head,
projected
a
straight
black
spoke
which
looked
like
a
long
thin
arm.
That arm ended
in
a
broader
piece
that
got
hold
of
the
right
table-leg.
All
the time
that
I saw
this ghostly
thing,
the
tabic
remained
levitated.
The phenomenon
was only
visible
during
a
short
time,
but
long enough
to
give met
the certainty that
I was not having a
hallucination."
- G.Z.
o
j?'o
JVa
!
tJ,er’ Gbrda.
Scanccs with
the medium,
Kudi ochneidcr.
Tijdschrift voor Parapsychologie,
1934,
o t 84-118.
?
*
l
*Jc
early
history
of
the
mediumship
of
r*u
. and Willy Schneider.
Tells how Baron von Schrenck
Notzing became involved and
set up
a
laboratory to
inves-
tigate
Rudi’s mediumship
in
particular.
Some
of
his
sit-
tings
are
described
in
which GG.
Jung
and
others
were
present
The author describes
the seance conditions which
she observed as a
sitter.
- GZ/R.A.W.
0245L
Kooy,
J.M.J.
Experiences
concerning
the
Tijdschrift voor Parapsychologie,
1934,
o,
144-169.
The
Dunne
effect
is
a Dutch term
for
precognitive
experiences
such
as were
described by
J.W. Dunne
in
his
book. An Experiment With Time
(1929).
Dunne
described
a number
of
precognitive
dreams
that came
true.
These
dreams
were
generally
of
a
symbolic
nature,
and
the
dreamed
future
events
happened
within
a
short
time
(rarely over a month)
Before he
read
Dunne’s
book, Kooy
himself had
had
dreams of
this kind.
From the very beginning Kooy wrote
his dreams
as soon
a:: he woke.
His dreams
forced Kooy
to accept
the
future
as
of
the same nature
as
the
present
and
the
past,
and
that
time
was
a human
fiction.
He
describes
some
of
his
experiences
in
this
article.
-
G.Z7R.A.W.
02452.
Hamel, A.G.
van.
Paranormal phenomena
in
Tijdschrift voor Parapsychologie,
1934, 6, 177-
Paranormal
phenomena
were
already
known
in
Iceland
in 900 A.D, and many cases were described
in the
Island’s Sagas and
in the book, Landnamahok.
In the
lat-
ter such
cases are described
in
detail, and
the place where
they
occur
is
also
mentioned.
This
book was
written
in
the 13th century.
From the very beginning, parapsychologi-
cal
phenomena
were
cited
in
the
Icelandic
literature.
These phenomena were mostly spread among
the
Icelandic
population. Not everybody, however,
possesses
this
paranor-
mal
gift.
Why
this
is
the
case,
is
still
unknown.
The
Icelanders
themselves
would
like
to
know why
so many
people of other countries are devoid of
this
gift.
The
best
book
about
the
paranormal
experiences
of
the
people
in
Iceland
is
that
written
by
Gudmundur
Finnboeason
(Reykjavik,
1933).
The
principal
paranormal
experience
described
is
the
dream.
The dream might be
precognitive, or one
that
in-
forms
the
dreamer
about
a
missing
object,
or
where
to
find
missing
people,
dead
or
alive.
Many dreams have
a
symbolic meaning
that have
to be decoded.
Dream appari-
tions
arc
also
often
mentioned.
The man
or woman who
was drowned
or murdered
appears
in
the dream
of one of
their
beloved
ones,
and
tells
where
she
or
he
can
be
found.
The
article
gives many examples
of
clairvoyant men
and
women
whose
second
sight
is
not
only
active
in
dreams,
but
also when
fully awake.
These clairvoyants of-
ten know
special
things,
e.g., where
to
find runaway
cattle
or
horses,
the
hour
and
manner
of
the
death
of
certain
people,
the
finding
of
those who committed
criminal
ac-
tions,
etc.
- G.Z.
02453.
Van
dc
Kroon,
A.A.
Some
paranormal
phenomena
the
author
investigated
at
first
hand.
Tijdschrift voor Parapsychologie,
1934, 6, 216-223.
Describes some of
his own
psychic experiences.
One
involved
knowing
a young
patient would
die where
there
were no overt
signs
that he would do
so.
The second
in-
volved
the dream
of
a
female
relative concerning
theft
in
the
largest church
in
Breda.
All
but one
detail
was
later
verified.
- G.ZVR.A.W.
024j
4 -
Tenhaeff,
W.II.C.
Pygmies of Central Africa
and
their
paranormal
capacities.
Tijdschrift
voor
Parapsychologie,
1934,
6,
301-306.
[Reprinted
from
R.P.
"ruler, Les Pymees de la Foret Equatoriale.
Paris,
1934.]
Quotes
some
psi
experiences
of
African
pygmies
described
by
R.P.
Triller.
Their
sorcerers
used
a
scrying
method
of
polished
copper
or
mirrors
to
obtain
informa-
tion.
Several
cases
of
ESP,
some
precognitive,
are
described.
- G.Z7R.A.W.
GERMAN LANGUAGE
(Editor: Gerd H. Hovelmann)
Zeitschrift fur Parapsychologie und
Grenzgebiete der Psychologie
02455.
Kcil, H.H. Jurgen.
Pavel Stepanek and
the
focusing
effect.
Zeitschrift fur Parapsychologie und
Grenzgebiete der Psychologie, 1977,
19(1),
1-22.
33 refs
Stepanek
emerged
in
the
1960s
as
one
of
the
most
successful
and
consistent ESP
subjects.
Over
a
period
of
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