1989 to all, xclong n the sen- clair- eality by a * sen- ch is ‘s; On d ra- aims : in- orms vith yme ara- and mal of our Ob- ing, to is in lat fa vas he yut en oy or- oy ay ‘d. to lease 2000/08/11 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400220002-8 ~« pA. roved For Rel ernational those healers who act by “laying of hands." He wrote two books, one in cooperation with the parapsychologist G. Ian- nuzzo, and numerous papers on the same subject, gathering an extensive collection of historical cases. After having dealt with some problems connected with the peculiar situa- tion of Italian healers (who maintain their position in Spite of important medical and surgical progress and their illegal situation), the author discusses three topics: new historical cases, laboratory results, and the placebo effect. Regarding the first he refers to the results of some cases of Muscular Progressive Distrophia. Some young patients have improved both during and after pranotherapy. After (from two to six months) patients got worse again: they then repeated the treatment and got better. They are like a battery that charges and discharges. If we are able to get confirmation about such a phenomenon, how can it be explained by the placebo effect? The second subject dealt with is Kirlian photography. In Italy a well organized and diffused Center issues a diploma to healers (or-- presumed healers) certifying that a fluid (bioplasma) emanates from their hands as attested by Kirlian photography. It is certainly proved that Kirlian photography depends on a_ well-known physical phenomenon, but in Italy four Lower Court judges have acquitted four healers from the indictment of the illegal practice of medicine. Their sentence was founded on the results of Kirlian photography. It is advisable that major parapsychological organizations (like the P.A.) suggest that their members do not participate in any meeting, or any- thing clse that this Center might promote. The third subject concerns the placebo effect (P.E,), perhaps the most disturbing and puzzling problem for the scientifically oriented mind of a physician when he is facing the interpretation of pranotherapy results. Papers on this’ subject agree that 35% of the benefits of ali medical treatments (chemical, physical, or surgical) may be referred to PE! PE. apparently is not a mere suggestion effect, unless we acknowledge that Suggestion can give rise to ex- traordinary biological reactions (on enzymes, on chemical blood components, on hormones, and so on). Furthermore, well mastered researches in this field (P.E.) are necessary. After 35 years of clinical observation and controls of a good number of healers’ results, the author is at present very cautious on the possibility of the presence of PK in this matter. The same position is maintained on the pos- sibility that something “flows” or emanates from the healer’s body. He is waiting for clinically controlled ex- periments (by blind and double-blind methods) to be carried out only in Clinical University Institutes.  - DA/R.A.W. 03621. Rosa, Rodolfo. Reflections on the time-bound universe. Quaderni di Parapsicologia, 1986, £7(1), 90-100. 3 graphs; 1 illus; 8 refs The aim of this lecture is to introduce to the non- specialist the Erhenfest urn model exploited by Cocke to illustrate an oscillating universe model in which there are two boundary conditions: one in the past (big-bang) and One in the future (big-crunch). A simple Monte Carlo com- puter code has been set up in order to simulate the statisti- cal behavior of the system consisting of two urns and 36 balls numbered from 1 to 36. One starts with 27 balls in the left-hand urn and 9 in the tight-hand one. A random number selects a ball which is moved from the system and is defined as delta n = n sub s (number of balls in the left-hand urn)--n sub e (equilibrium value). Two typical histories and -the average of over hundreds of runs is reported. Thé cade saves only those histories which satisfy the final boundary condition. Two such allowed histories Approve 13 Vol. 7, No. 2, December 1989 and the average of 14 of them are reported. It must be emphasized that in double-ended Statistics, even in the ex- panding phase of the universe, the course of events can be conditioned by the future boundary conditions. In this sensé we speak of causality violation or “pre-cffect": the future can influence the past. In such a context, time- symmetric thermodynamics (ie, a thermodynamics with boundary conditions on both the past and the future) put forward by J.A. Donald and B. Martin some years ago is referred to. According to these authors, a past directed neg-entropy associated with boundary conditions in the fu- ture is the means through which living organisms can in- fluence the past. In an analogous way they utilize the usual neg-entropy to change the future states of the universe. - DA/R.A.W. 03622. Bernardi, Sergio. The cradle of the paranormal. Quaderni di Parapsicologia, 1986, {7(1), 101-110. 23 refs People have wondered about the psychological origins of paranormal phenomena. There has been some research in what has been defined by Jan Ehrenwald, a famous researcher now in New York, as the cradle of the paranor- mal. More in-depth study has been made in this ficld. Attention was at first given to the mother/suckling relation- ship and to its paranormal components, This led to the intrauterine mother/fetus relationship and research was con- ducted at this level. This problem was brought up in the 1930's by the famous psychoanalyst Sadger, who said: “The child knows from the uterine Stage whether the mother loves him or hates him." The Argentinian psychoanalyst Arnaldo Raskovski discussed many aspects of this topic. Recently, Mauro Mancia, a neuropsychologist and psychoanalyst, shed more light on the subject. A book by Otto Rank, The Trauma of Birth, is an in-depth study of the psychic life of the unborn child. This topic has also been researched by others such as Sandor Ferenzi, Georg Groddek, and Wilhelm Steckel, The existence of an oneiric life and therefore psychic life in the fetal stage during the last months of pregnancy and after the first months of birth has been demonstrated by experiments using REM and EEG. Undoubtedly, these remarks are of great importance in the evolution of research in this area, which is so significant for a better knowledge of the modalities and structures of the deep levels of human per- sonalities. A distinguishing criterion is suggested about the interpretations that various scholars have given to the con- cept of “psychic regression" to primary stages in connection with emerging paranormal phenomena. - DA/R.A.W, 03623. Tannuzzo, Giovanni. Psychiatry and spiritism: Italian psychiatry of the early 20th century and psychic research. Quaderni di Parapsicologia, 1986, 17(4), 111-125. 32 refs The author discusses the relationship between psychiatry and psychical research at the beginning of the 20th century. He deals mainly with two personages: Cesare Lombroso and Enrico Morselli, leaders of Italian psychiatry, both with a great interest in psychical research, but along different lines. In fact, Lombroso became a fol- lower of spiritistic doctrine after some mediumistic ex- periences; Morselli retained a sufficiently severe and anti- Spiritistic scientific behavior. They were not the only physicians approaching spiritism: other lesser known scien- tists (Samona, Luciani, Bianchi) attended to this subject, demonstrating that the interest in these phenomena was very deep. The most important scientific journals of that period dealt with this argument. 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t Parapsychology Abstracts International also discusses the historical and philosophical premises of psychiatric interest in psychical Tesearch. Such interest arose from a sound positivism whose method allowed a free and wider view of natural phenomena. - DA/R.A.W. 03624. Servadio, Emilio. Psychic regression and birth- connected experiences. Quaderni di Parapsicologia, 1986, I7(), 126-135. It now can safely be admitted that the fetus is en- dowed with mental life, and that in the prenatal phase many instances of ESP can occur between mother and child. The author recalis the fact that between the parents--especially the mother-and the little child, ESP phenomena have been ascertained and described many times. Then he points out that by means of various tech- niques, it is possible to bring about age regressions in adult subjects. The latter can go through infantile and prenatal experiences. For example, it is possible for a hyp- notized subject to talk, to draw, and to behave in general as if he were 2, 3, or a few more years of age. The cor- respondence with aspects and peculiarities of the previous ages is sometimes absolutely striking. Regressions to.even more precocious ages can be ob- tained with the use of certain drugs, particularly LSD. The author quotes at length the work of Dr. Stanislay Grof, whose vast knowledge of the ficld is well known. In fact, Grof has administered LSD innumerable times to normal people, neurotics, and psychotics. In many cases, Grof ascertained that his subjects revealed--through vivid images and utterances--many occurrences belonging to their prenatal phases. In some such cases, ESP phenomena have undoubtedly been present. os In the last part of the Paper, the author reports about a case he treated with psychoanalytic technique using LSD after some time as a help in the treatment. Under LSD, the subject expressed a long series of impres- sions and feelings, all related to his prenatal experiences. Some of these impressions he later described in poetry. The author has read two of the poems--one of them con- nected with the birth of his first child. Finally, he Propounds a hypothesis he had already put forward in some previous papers: That the ultimate origins of some Prenatal experiences perhaps could be Situated in a transphenomenal level of reality. - DA/R.A.W. 03625. Aiazzi, Pier Luigi. Psi communication: A reality with two faces. Quaderni di Parapsicologia, 1986, 77(1), 136-144. 3 refs In this paper we analyze some famous samples of only partially successful experiments in which the ap- pearance and disappearance of the psi faculty proves itself directly related to the symbolic context of the evidence. These examples include a famous experiment of E. Osty with R. Schneider, a probable negative photograph of thought realized with Sai Baba, and the description of Kuda Bux and other firewalkers. With regard to the lat- ter we have specifically considered the remarkable attempts . Of certain experimenters to repeat the feat while holding hands with subjects possessing paranormal faculties. We make some observations concerning how mime, gestures, or cven the logic according to which experiments are or- ganized can be decisive in determining the presence or ab- Sence of psi. We relate this aspect to the fundamental Structure of communication, and in particular to the double aspect that each message has a Process of communication. Furthermore, we illustrate several comparative considera- tions with regard to the figure/background dualism (Gestalt theory) implicit in the simplest form of communication, that is,  scnsoriat communication, with regard to the a | Approved For Release 2000/08/11 : CIA-RDP9 14 ee eet 6-00792R000400220002-8 Vol. 7, No. 2: December 1989 signifying/signified duality, as well as to the fonic- emission/acoustic-reception relationship, connected with the spoken form, and also with the wave/corpuscle duality in N. Bohr’s complementaristic conception of physics. In parapsychology we recognize the effect of the same dualis- tic structure in the complementary aspect of languagcs, values, and patterns of behavior that exist between psi- production and the scientific observation of the same: the eternal oscillation between the two alternative structures of thought--doubt and faith, omnipotence and limit, empathy and logical objectivity, Taking into account all of these aspects that deal with the symbolic structure of paranormal experience, we attribute an importance to the "“message"—more suitable than the traditional conception of “phenomenon"-- specifically to the nature of the message present in every psi event. In the light of a last example—the famous sit- tings of W. Crookes with F. Cook--we consider very sig- nificant from a symbolical point of view where we discuss the possibility of a more suitable experimental approach to resolve the inner duality of parapsychology. - DA/R.A.W. 03626. Cozzi, Giorgio. Creativity in parapsychology: Preliminary observations and reflections. Quaderni di Parapsicologia, 1986, I7(1), 145-164. 21 figs Dr. Cozzi discusses the subject of creativeness in parapsychology, first making some preliminary statements connected with the two different ways of thinking:  verti- cal (the left brain’s logical rational functions) and lateral (the right brain's typical imaginative-creative functions). He presents the practical evidence for the different. types of thinking by showing classical patterns of perceptivity problems, which are intended to displace logical functions, usually moving in an analytic and sequential context, not being able to come to a solution, if not for the interven- tion of creative functions, that, because of their own na- ture, are synthetic, simultaneous, and not bound by strict schemes of cultural reference. The audience was given evidence of the different ways of thinking and observing games and tricks of percep- tion, which for their comprehension and solution require the skill of looking at things from different points of view, and above all, the skill of going over those virtual lines, which culturally, in our rational minds, connect each angle of the observed reality. Since that is so, it becomes neces- Sary to revise the attitude of research of paranormal phenomena. Moreover, even the need of revising experimental methodologies, knowing that they have to consider almost certain right-brain action (lateral thought) while expressing ESP and the difficult submission of Sensitive subjects to Strict controls, which may force their own vertical thought. The Ganzfeld technique, for instance, could probably be improved by simply (de) conditioning the perception dis- plays concerning vertical thought. A part of the numberless consequences of an ap- proach methodologically stated according to the orientation, confirmed by the last 20 years of studies of brains, there are stimulating theories attributing human evolution to the division of the two cerebral hemispheres and their own Proper specialization. The author quotes Jaynes’ bicameral theory, which is intended to explain divinity’s matrix with man’s inner voices at that time when the two hemispheres were actually separated, for what concerns their functions (this event has been tested by recent studies on schizophrenic subjects with their brain surgically split and, according to him, proved by historical evidence). Accord- ing to Jaynes, environmental conditions favored the integra- tion of the two hemispheres and also the left hemisphere’s Approved For Release 2000/08/11 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400220002-8
Vol. 5, No. 2, December 1987 02460. Luttenberger, Franz. Friedrich Zollner, spiritualism, and four-dimensional space. Zeitschrift fir Parapsychologie und Grenzgebiete der Psychologie, 1977, 19(4), 195-214. 19 refs In 1877-1878, the astrophysicist Friedrich Zollner un- dertook a scientifically motivated investigation of spiritualistic phenomena with the American medium Henry Slade. At a visit in Great Britain in 1875 he had met Crookes and other spiritualists and had become acquainted with such manifestations. With his experiments he in- tended to prove a rather speculative theory of a four- dimensional space which had developed out of his con- siderations about the impossibility of bringing to congruity symmetric bodies in our concrete space, an idea which can be traced back to Kant. Zollner made efforts to design ex- periments with enduring results which were caused une- quivocally paranormally--in his terms four-dimensional-- efforts; among others we find the famous knot-test. His reports contain descriptions of about fifty manifestations. In his opinion the proper cause of the phenomena were invisible intelligent four-dimensional entities. Zoliner’s theory of space and his interpretations indicate his rather mechanical view of life, and show--against his intentions--a strong influence from scientific naturalism. Eventually an effort is made to outline some pre-conditions for such in- vestigations at these times by a comparison between Ger- many and Great Britain. - DA/G.H. 02461. Renninger, Mauritius. An actually existent fourth dimension of space as a modet for the explana- tion of psychokinetic phenomena? = Zeitschrift fur Parapsychotogie und Grenzgebiete der Psychologie, 1977, 19(4), 215-226. 2 figs; 10 refs By model considerations between spaces of dimensions differing by unity the author tries to demonstrate that the hypothesis of an actually existent fourth dimension of space-as formulated just a hundred years ago by the Ger- man astrophysicist Friedrich Zoliner-is able to bring most of the psychokinetic phenomena nearer to a physical un- derstanding than any other initial point. - DA ITALIAN LANGUAGE (Editor: Paola Giovetti) LUCE E OMBRA 02462, Ludwiger, Jilobrand von. Personally verified apport phenomena. Luce e Ombra, 1985 (Jul/Sep), 85(3), 173-180. 11 refs Account of the physical medium Jons Dave, who was particularly endowed with the ability to produce apport phenomena. As with some other mediums, Dave's paranor- mal capacities developed after an accident during the war: he was seriously wounded, with the destruction of hypo- physis. Von Ludwiger relates some very specific and inter- esting personal experiences with Dave and describes his clairvoyance capacities. This material is from his still un- published book. Today Dave does not work as a medium; he is a painter and healer. - DA 02463. Marabini, Enrico. Man’s being between deter- minism and free-will, Luce ¢ Ombra, 1985 (Jul/Sep), 85(3), 181-188. 10 refs Discussion of determinism and free will. Marabini considers the modern scientific trends of biology, neuroen- docrinology, and of some currents of academic psychology, and points out that all these conceptions can describe a Approved For Release 2000/08/11 : ‘+ ° Approved For Release 2000/08/11 : 28 CIA-RDP96-00792R6604 part -- and only a part ~ of human reality. In fact, when man considers himself as a living being in the matrix of the universe, he realized the significant and conscious reality of his existence. Humans understand that both these views are real, even if in order to be communicated they need different methods. _ In particular states of consciousness, humans can ac- tivate his symbolic and intuitive functions, expand into ir- rational (extrarational), realms and enter into realities com- pletely different from the biophysical and rational world. A human being is subject to biophysical and biopsy- chical laws, and in this sense his life is determined. But in the “horizontal” position where causes and effects are at the same level, he can catch a glimpse of a “vertical” dimension. Participating in the harmony of universe, free from materiality, man can reach the real freedom of spirit. - DA 02464. Ravaldini, Silvio. On mediumship. Luce e Ombra, 1985 (Jul/Sep), 85(3), 189-196. In this article the author points out the circumstances which, in the field of mediumship make the scientific con- trol of the medium and his or her phenomena difficult and sometimes impossible. He. reviews some materialization phenomena and cases of direct voice in which he was present, cites the hypothesis of "disintegrated personalities” and intends to deal on another occasion with this subject, in order to sce if an alternative hypothesis could explain phenomena of an apparently spiritistic nature. - DA 02465. Morrone, Cobaltina. On the frontier of para- psychology. Luce e Ombra, 1985 (Jul/Sep), 85(3), 197-201. The author identifies “border-parapsychology” with a particular aspect of parapsychology that deals with humanity in toto and human destiny, trying to face the intriguing and age-old problem of survival through the quantitative and qualitative analysis of the full range of paranormal phenomena -- those that are rationally ex- plainable by positivistic hypotheses, and those that unfor- tunately are nearly always ignored, which do not have any logically and rationally acceptable justification and seem to support the hypothesis of survival after death. In par- ticular he points out mediumistic phenomena at a high level, both physical and intellectual, and recalls some per- sonal experiences. - DA 02466. Iannuzzo, Giovanni. History and the myths of parapsychology. Luce e Ombra, 1985 (Jul/Sep), 85(3), 202-219. 37 refs The author analyzes some problems in the history of parapsychology, such as the origins of spiritualism, the foundation of psychical research, and the advancement of experimental parapsychology. He suggests that many of the current opinions - expressed by a number of students -- about the history of parapsychology are misrepresenta- tions. There exists a “mythology” of the history of para- psychology that must be modified and corrected. There- fore, he emphasizes the importance of historical researches in the ficld of parapsychology. - DA METAPSICHICA RIVISTA ITALIANA Di PARAPSICOLOGIA 02467. Assennato, Pericle. Our research (and our soul). Metapsichica Rivista Italiana di Parapsicologia, 1971 (Jul/Dec), 26(3/4), 101-103. The author summarizes the principal trends in the field of parapsychological research. He reminds us that in CIA-RDP96-00792R000400220002-8
Approved For Release 2000/08/11 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400220002-85 8" Parapsychology Abstracts International 03085. Costa, Alfonso. About the visions of dying per- sons and survival. Luce e Ombra, 1987 (Jul/Sep), 87(3), 260-270. 15 refs The attention recently addressed to near-death ex- periences has confined to the background a phenomenon to which much more attention was paid in the past: that of visions of dying persons. Reconsidering once again two books which can be considered as classics of this matter, the author re-opens a discussion about this specific phenomenon. He classifies deathbed visions in four classes: (1) visions of dead people whose death was known to the dying person; (2) visions of dead people whose death was unknown to the dying persons but not to the present ones; (3) visions of dead people whose death was unknown both to the dying persons and to the present ones, (4) collective visions shared by both the dying person and the onc who is looking after him or her. In considering the typical characteristics of these classes and in trying to explain the facts, both naturalistic and spiritistic hypotheses are dis- cussed. Finally, the possibility is suggested that sometimes alien "beings" able to induce psychic experiences are truly present. - DA 03056. Iannuzzo, Giovanni. The fifth parapsychologi- cal meeting in Bologna. Luce e Ombra, 1987 (Jul/Sep), 87(3), 271-275. On May 9-10, 1987, the Parapsychological Study Center--CSP—held its fifth meeting in Bologna. The author presents a critical synthesis of the works presented for the occasion by the various researchers. The most important was the debate held by the scholars belonging to the two parapsychological movements: the positivists and the spiritualists. - DA 03057. Simone, Giorgio di. Jacopo Comin; Evidence on the "Entity A” case. Luce e Ombra, 1987 (Jul/Sep), 87(3), 276-281. In this article, the author relates Jacopo Comin’s opinion about the "Entity A," in particular as concerns all the data leading us to consider such an eotity as most likely independent from the medium and from people as- sisting at the séance. In one of his letters Comin wrote: “We are in the presence of a Teacher in the highest sense of the word, who undertook the burden of an high spiritual teaching for the few able to understand it." - DA 03058. Ravaldini, Silvio. The Riccardi case: A “drop- in" communicator. Luce e Ombra, 1987 (Oct/Dec), 87(4), 307-319. 2 figs; 7 refs The author brings to our attention a case of spiritis- tic identification. In fact, during a séance held in 1948 a drop-in communicator told the sitters he was a priest who died in Canton, Ohio in 1929. In telling his name the communicator added he was shot dead by a woman inside his church. Successively in 1949 and 1950, always as a drop-in communicator, he confirmed what was previously said but used different words. Researches made ino America by Dr. Stevenson’s assistant proved the com- municator told the truth, ie, a priest having the same name was shot dead in a church in the same year the communicator told. The article goes on with a detailed analysis, made by the author, about a possible explanation of facts besides the spiritistic one: cryptomnesia, psychometry, and so on. There is the very interesting ap- pendix signed by Dr. M. Biondi in which the above story is viewed from a more materialistic parapsychological point of view. - DT/R.A.W. 16 Ne Vol. 6, No. 2. December 1988 03059. Garzia, Pierangelo. Survival: Belief or research? Luce e Ombra, 1987 (Oct/Dec), 87(4), 320-324. Three hundred years ago, the Italian scientist and man of letters Francesco Redi (1626-1698) exploded the traditional doctrine about spontaneous generation. In the same way, psychic researchers in the 20th century are en- gaged in exploding the traditional doctrine of conscience as a brain chemical product. Psi phenomena, in their complex whole, show conscience as able to much further extend it- self in connection with those activities allowed by brain activity. Furthermore, conscience could be preexistent to the formation of the biological human organism and may survive its disintegration. The survival theme has always been the domain of faith. For the first time in human history, thanks to psychic research, the survival theme develops from objec- tive facts and rational considerations. Even if, historically, parapsychology can be considered as an “ibridum," form came out from the meeting of religious need and the scientific one. In fact, without this hotchpotch of belief and research, parapsychology would have never been born. Actually we absolutely need a certain part of faith to have the possibility of demonstrating survival for sure without feeling ashamed about it. For mutual admission happens in every knowledge field. Without faith we can- not go further-it being impossible to follow the glimpse of initial purpose. Without continuous, ceaseless, tireless research, we would already be dead. - DA 03060, Marabini, Enrico. Psi phenomena: Normal or paranormal? Luce e Ombra, 1987 (Oct/Dec), 87(4), 325- 336. 14 refs; 1 table By this report, the author confronts a basic theme in order to obtain a refitting of the whole problem coming out of the study of psi phenomena, starting from the con- sideration that psi is an event resulting from an expression of human behavior and considering people as animated sys- tems, The author presents a “classifications” conception. He explains what a psi phenomenon is and gives the basis of what particular characteristics such that an event can be considered and classified in this way. Next he discusses the theme. Firstly, he talks about “normality” through its dif- ferent meanings: a “fixed rule" and a “constitutive rule.” This last is the only one which. offers the possibility of ra- tionally facing the “normality” argument (and respectively the “abnormality” one) about certain types of events or about certain well-defined human behavior situations. Then he analyzes the word “paranormal” and all the definitions deriving from it that are used to qualify para- psychological discipline. Returning to human behavior, the author points out that to every behavior state there is a corresponding coherent conscious state. Although these are ‘different knowledge positions in themselves, every state is a normal and natural event. Since “psi behavior" is an al- tered state of consciousness, the information and realistic contents involved are necessarily normal expressions of that particular behavior state. Therefore, the uncommonness in the phenomena does not mean they are not normal or deviate or paranormal or supernormal. Rationally it can be asserted that the Jaws subtending the psi phenomena must be necessarily different from those orthodox science considers and applies in studying other types of natural events. The parapsychologists’ work is to identify them. Otherwise, in order to obtain concrete results, it is neces- sary to the research to study the problem from a different point of view. - DA 03061. Simone, Giorgio di. Metaphysical reality: The spirit “program.” Luce e Ombra, 1987 (Oct/Dec), 87(4), | Approved For Release 2000/08/11 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400220002-8