4 Approved F 5 pproved For Release. 2004404/02 : CIA-ROP9G-00792R0007 0025000224 moncnens cooused t a religious environment. POUTERGEIST IN BRAZIL AND : » ARGENTINA : The third case developed in 1978 at a small village of Covunco Abajo (Neuquen Prof. Lic. NOVILLO PAULI, ENRIQUE jee) in a very poor home where L.Bea boy aged 12,lived with his grandparents «He : hver met his father and his mother had left hin there when he was very little. INSTTTUTH FOR PARAPSYCHOLOGY - CATE. “OF C umstances Were as usual:pieces of furniture moving vy themselves ,mattress¢s ankets falling,stones thrown by nobody, handfuls of soil hitting them on their CORDOBA, ARGENTINA }These events aroused fears in the family and neighbours «The Priest of the re- fantiago Sarriegui,and the Paychologist Alberto Ariae,calmed them down and the na disappeared.There were no hallucinations of any kind like seeing demons its or dead people. 5 . . ® The ca ted by some investigator in Tokyo show almost identical phe Abst . The cases presen Mf gators 1s, — meek oer ee eaerted & eer ene of the poltergeist are analysed b but they are given 4 different interpretation.This interpretation reveals the P erted by the environment can lead to vicious conclusions ian atmosphere, fear of magic, witcheraft,oceult powers Offerings to the devil ing evidence. In the First Part I will present three cases of poltergeist 3 . - 6 observed in public places on Friday night;there are thousands of Umbanda cen, which I was asked to intervene.In the Second Part I eety enely 8 .j meetings (Brazilian spiritism,a mixture of primitive african religions ,clis analyse the cases spiritism-superstitions) -There are stalls displaying coloured candles ,ribbns ted in t i i i é n the Third International Congress on Psychotronic Research,held im To es soils, waters and so forth,at every pody's hand. These objects are supposed ° < . 5 . . . effective to dominate the forces of nature and spirits.Qnce they have been do cay hitterent. 080 ee case, tee 14 environments socially and ec »their power can be used at will in rituals nich are believed to be and ac yed in the city of cord: bee 1973 hi one in a middle-class family,P.3..t) gs black and white magic One can also sea and buy images of african gods, the oba,in .The father was a qualified worker in a car : i 2 . x : : it a ° it a B tory.The phenomena consisted in the familiar falling of stones,objects aad “ 8 home 106% of goats,tall ae Te more stent eae hone we ound without being touched by human hands,appearance and disappearance of mo phildren 2 grownups sand what they 60o Sree The per hetion oases mui sana . is atmosph +t rman Logica! are h ati 7 ys, clothes and so onslevitation of objects,spontaneus fire.These vhreemelitigs atmosphere exerts & Pe - psychologi 1 press : on the popula ion & ted for over a year and vas studied by a team of Psychiatrists, Physicians ante levels,Therefore one Bh a net eed sed if the ine en of avil 82 chologists from the Institute for Parapsychology of the Catholic Bniversit; on of poltergesst is a5 ee Brenentad in TTT), evidences oe (eleck xobacA pwoper psychotherepeutic treatment both of th it¥ 4 a distance induced by means of magical procedures" (7) ,"by macumbeiros (black e stressed twelve-year~ol! + dint 5 imbanda(a pl jalized in yho was adopted and the family put an end to the h oh J \ sorcerers) that can be Pound in terreiros de quimbandala place specialized of great stress but they knew how to i i phenomena+- ey experienced procedures)in Brazil"(7).The authors explain that there are various reasons thing correct interpretation. Ta ° none om mand being catholic, they Bove ®eople resort to these procedures sthreats,love and elimination of enemies etc. seeing or hearing strange beinge ere were no visual or audible hallucinations; ., finally sayr"the consequences are usually terrible"(7).Thus the authors . ' \elves spoil the presentation and interpretation of the data with their ereduli . . . . i acceptance of the cause originating the phenomena tthe threat by an enemy and ne ee A toe in Santa Fe city,in 1975 and it lasted for OVEletendance to the Macumba in order to use its magical procedures.They do not stop na ome ne . over Sncone father was a traveling salesman islyze objectively and quietly other possible causes of the poltergeist sRSFK, cd roduots Zhe Thenomore comed with an doage of Our Ladyyabout of Blood chp neggections and the contradictions exposed Sn the yepere,Tney seven’ A) TNS chewed between hon bande Soined over hee whent of Our Lady about b ons. tallintne disturbances ceased after a Candomblé group(Afro-Brazilian religion )per- flowed ber a ets ee est,as if praying.The other imagesa exorcizing rituals in the home.Some mediums and sorcerers confirmed that the vo and am dean the come Se eo 10 ene ae appeared where the naiena were being provoked by terreiro procedures. .."(7) .They do not study if the Biochomists Dr.B.Molina and he : Se ea ee molding the oF oer place mcessation was due to a real and objective action of exorcism or if, considering Ee 2Ce were holding e crucifixes in th,,; i ini i itioni ; % th le 1 + was & ological conditio: that put an hands in order to get samples of the blood and analyse it.The source was a ee evnones®. oem ° merenene " ™_ , Foun oe gi ne ee th an house as & maid.She was sent to a school ToT mey even accept the actual exiatence of & being created by popular folklore that the wlood ¢ € eee Pee renee ee with eee images. Tt was possibl, ypich they attribute characteristics which are contradictory.They speak of prove type taken from the image: i 7 srenemena might have been caused b s and the girl's was the same.Teorporeal agent that obeys the sorcerer"(7).But. on the other hand ,they claim N.famili because of th lL Be an & state of great stress experienced by tO this incorporeal agent hes been described by several witnesses as:"semi—hunan ler cease in other + - mn ad operation of the youngest ebild,and bY 2 (1, paving dark fur,claws and horns, fetid smell"(7).How can an incorporeal agent ow.The girl had psewloperceptions of seeing and hearing 4 15 body! )have corporeal characteristics at the same time?We might be dealing ‘an evident sidetic projection, hallucination of the images of *exus" (devil) they 333 ial Ba | Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP96G.
00792R000700350002 RDP96 ee CIA Approved For Release 2001/04/02 owe eR Re ee -1 are used to seeing. . Jlusion. In order to study and elucidate poltergeist cases,it is necessary to In another paper presented by them it is easy to detect the atmosphere of in mind the various approches given by other authors or streams a analyses, sive fear in which people lives with all the psychological consequences brougwad of merely considering one aspect and interpretation of the problen. bout by the belief of invisible beings who try to do harnm,to destroy them for kes made during their past lives about which they lmow nothing. Before acceptsLOGRAPHY all these serious matters,they should prove them through evidences.But this oan we explain the poltergeist?™ by A.R.C.Owen. A Helix Press Book, Garret Pu- done ;everything is taken for granted.They feel submitted by powers to auch an ilications, N.Y. 1964 > NY. ent that those who suffer them can not overcome them.These are conditionings tne Poltergeist" by William Roll. A Signet Book. New American Library, Bergen- disposing toward all kinds of suggestions,illusions, hallucinations, fears, In tel a, New Jersey, 1974 ? per it is said thati"some members of the group displayed a behaviour that Sere Seaford Disturbances" by @.Pratt & W.Roll. Journal of Parapsychology, Vol. the presence of foreing personalities.These personalities were induced by bla, 1958 gic procedures to influence and/or create trouble to the patients,hate them x» ’ 4 over Matter" by Louisa Rhine. MeHMillan,N.Y.,1970 de references to a relationship with them in past lives"(7).That is to say,it. “fhe Physical Phenomena of Mysticism" by Herbert Thurston. Burns Oates, London typical spiritist meeting where one talks with dead people and tray to persust, 952 to give up their destructive action.There are a series of contradictory SUPP s Fenémenos Parapsicolégicos.Pai en el Laboratorio" by Enrique Novillo Paull, as incorporeal beings suffering headaches, stomach-aches,having sexual desires: 4 i fapelusz, Buenos Aires,1975 . wreated(T) ee nt Cwonything be Proved to be ‘rue and ‘not merely tal oceedings of the "Third International Congress on Psychotronic Research" pags. granted(7). 16, 481, 657. Tokyo, 1977 ae In another case there are a number of hallucinations provoked or favoured | % this atmosphere of fear,exorcisms and credulity of a very special community, 7 ; cal of Brazil.Here they see an"animal similar to a gorilla"during the disturbs ‘ other times they only see parts''like a hand of a monkey"etec.(7) The authors rd * to the conclusion:"as the majority of RSPK,this poltergeist suggests the inflt \ of evil action at a distance,induced by means of, terreiro rituals(black nagio} sions of animal-shaped beings". (7) i “Discussion. Having analyzed the cases presented and compared them with the aby bibliography on the subject,A.R.Owen(1),W.Roll(2),G.Pratt(3),L.Rhine(4),H. »Thuy (5),E.Novillo Pauli(6),we come to the conclusion that the more primitive or ok the case, the more ite interpretation attributes the phenomena to demons S8piri ghosts etc.The cases presented by the authors above mentioned, tell and analy nomena which are very similar to those in Brazil,but their interpretation is 4 % ly different:the source is the human being himself, They develop within anot : . tural background and the way they are focused agrees with the cultural level community. W.Roll says in his book:"If poltergeist phenomena say anything, is bout spirits,demons or ghosts but about human personality"(2). When referring to voices,commmications etc.A.R.Owen assertss"There is not, one case in which the spiritist hypothesis has been proved'"(1), For these authors as well as for psychiatrists,the fact that the supposed j rits succeed one another when the medium commnicates,would prove that we are! ling with splits of his(her)personality and his(her)unconscious oreations.His( dramatized ideas convey concepts of the environment in which he(she)lives. : In addition to the stress provoked by the conflicting situation with the @ ronment or with himself,feelings of real or imaginary guilt,which would be the! ce of the poltergeist phenomena,the interpretation given by those who interve their hallucinations and supposed messages from spirits,make the problem event acute, thus creating a vicious circle.