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RDP96u00^93Rfi604964000 Mrilfuionaijournal of
Parapsychology, 1959 (Sum),
(1), 64-78. 2 refs.-*The aim of
70. Progoff, Ira. The role of parapsychology In modern
thinking.
International Journal of Parapsychology,
1959
(Sum),
(1),
5-18.
refs. -Discusses why “a
holistic depth
psychology
contains
the means
not only with which
para-
psychology can grow as a science but with which it can play an
exceedingly
creative
role
on
modern
thinking."
Depth
psychology teaches “that the knowledge which the deep psyche
derives from its contact with die cosmos is transmitted in sym-
tatements of mediums and sen-
bolic form." In dealing with th]
sitives we must discipline o
literally. “On the other hand
material coming
through
\
spiritualistic readings is 'not!
of being derived from perso,
etc. Qaite the opposite -vi
impersonal
depi
elf and contacts
nderstand. Her
are moving u
each other. T!
ith which m
mos. The oj
[leaning of
from
fl
beyond
does
noi
psycholoj
complem
symbolist^
tion to the
the prophet!!
ing
truth
channels." —
71.
Hu
Guadalupe.
(Sum),
(1), 19
Guadalupe, the
miracles
associi
meaning.- R.A.
72. Oraei,
parapsychology.
Parapsychology,
Church, a miracle
is!
and one which
can!
superior to man. Con
• .f
.i miracle
1 C
been produced by naj
looks
toward
the
re-
directed toward a nab
ings the natural caus
While the parapsyo]
main, without exclui
outside
his compete
demning him, approvj
Even Pope Benedict
when he established
required for the cano|
gregation of Rituals
fi
At Lourdes, the Bu:
of physicians, is entr
ous scientific control,
bility to explain the;
necessary
before
ec)
miracle. Since 1858,
The Catholic Churi
study of parapsycholo]
subject, as
it seeks to
will screen out false
jected a certain numb
licity which these hadj
ciates the work of scie
clearly the frontiers
t|
falsely marvelous.
73.
Nicol,
J.
Fi
quantitative
reseai
psychology,
1959
(S'
jives not to take the messages
does not mean at all that the
eep psyche
in
the form
of
but psychological' in the sense
material, conflicts, complexes,
!often such material
is derived
here
the psyche
reaches
out
fways
it does not know truths
it
rapsychology and holistic depth
ommon ground. Their researches
jbne investigates the processes and
xperiences and represents his rela-
!r can use this information to fulfill
;name and uncover ways of perceiv-
beyond
the
ordinary
sensory
Hs.
The
miraculous
Virgin
of
jl Journal of Parapsychology, 1959
- Provides a history of the Virgin of
Equivalent of Lourdes. Discusses the
the
shrine
and
their
symbolic
jinald. The Catholic Church and
rench.)
International Journal
of
urn),
(1), 32-46-To
the
Catholic
enomenon directly produced by God,
be
created by any
being, even one
ently, before acknowledging the reali-
,1 cause. In view of
this, the Church
lies
of
parapsychology, which
are
Explanation of extraordinary happen-
ich are not yet well known,
t remains within his scientific do-
ttf . possibility of a miracle, which
is
I
'hurch,
far from con-
itilizes his conclusions,
he findings of science
nition of true miracles,
iified. Today, the Con-
nciples.
lings, composed solely
, under the most rigor-
res and of the impossi-
e natural inquiries are
ity may
recognize
a
:hus recognized,
lergy to undertake the
oks and articles on the
gly higher criteria that
years, the Church re-
regardless of the pub-
ceived in the press and public. It appre-
sts who make it possible to define more
separate what
is truly from what
is
r. The
statistical controversy
in
International Journal
of
Para-
(1),, 47-63.
12 refs. -Discusses the
criticisms of probability theory as applied to parapsychological
experiments as set forth by G. Spencer Brown. Examines some
traditional ESP experiments
to see
if target peculiarities may
have accounted
for some of the results. The implications for
repeatability
in
parapsychology
experiments
are
discussed. -R.A.W.
74. Hall, Trevor H. and Hall, Kathryn E. An Appraisal
the present essay is to examine more closely than has hitherto
been possible certain curious aspects of the table-tipping and*
ptanchette seances which were conducted” at night
in Borley
Rectory. The seance statements are given and the authors try to
verify them. Their findings demonstrate “how seance messages
regarding matters known to sitters can be influenced by sugges-
tion. ..It
is of great interest that the answers they obtained con-
firmed their beliefs in every particular, despite the fact that the
stories had no foundation in truth."- DT
75.
Amadou,
Robert.
The
situation
of
para-
psychological activity in France. (In French] International
Journal of Parapsychology, 1959 (Sum),
(1), 79-88.- A con-
cise
account,
with
bibliographic
citations,
of
recent
para-
psychological
activity
in
France.
References
are
made
to
societies, periodicals, and books. The book section comprises
translations,
proceedings
of
international
congresses,
and
original works
in French. Particular paragraphs are devoted to
literature on important questions, such as unorthodox healing,
Catholicism and parapsychology, etc. -DA
76. Kline, Milton V. Soviet and Western trends in hyp-
nosis
research.
International Journal of Parapsychology,
1959 (Sum),
(1), 89-105. 5
refs. - Surveys trends
in Russian
hypnosis research as reflected in a series of six papers published
in the transactions of the I.P. Pavlov Institute of Physiology in
1956. Also discusses current Western research, with emphasis
on studies of the nature of hypnosis
itself as a psychological
phenomenon.
He
deals
with
hypnotic
alterations
of
con-
sciousness and age regression.- R.A.W.
77. Nash, Carroll B. The unorthodox science of para-
psychology. International Journal of Parapsychology,
1959
(Aut),
1 (2), 5-23. 37 refs. -General overview of the scientific ap-
proach
to studying parapsychology through classifying spon-
taneous psi experiences and
tests of ESP, including precogni-
tion. Emphasizes experimental evidence for ESP and responds
to
specific
criticisms.
Reviews
the
characteristics
of
psi
as
revealed by experiments. Discusses the implications of psi for
religion, philosophy, and medicine, and the possible prs**
! < , a!
applications ul
jisi. LUoiis the signnicance Ol paiapsyuio.jgy s
establishment of the nonphysical nature of mind to Darwin's
theory
of
evolution
and
Freud's
discovery
of
the
unconscious. - R.A.W.
78.
Lansing,
Gerrit.
Psychic
elements
of
poetic
creativity. International Journal of Parapsychology,
1959
(Aut),
(2), 24-38. 14 refs. -Parapsychologists can profit from
the study of the process of poetic creation, more than any other
form of literary creation. This is because the poet while compos-
ing
is often drawn out of him - or herself in a state of poetic
trance.
There
is
a
connection,
moreover,
between
writing
poetry and casting magic spells. The poet has no choice but to
cultivate the unconscious and poets have been pioneers in ex-
ploring "the peculiar relationship between the conscious ego
and the unconscious levels of the psyche." The level of emotion
that
is touched in poetic creation is also associated with spon-
taneous psi and prophecy. Some instances are cited of the possi-
ble transmission by ESP of images, symbols, and in one case, an
entire poem, between poets working separately.
Less impor-
tantly, the study of poetry may also benefit parapsychology by
providing documentation of the historical occurrence of types
of psi phenomena.- R.A.W.
Samoa:
Society
withmjU _niagic .
International Journal of Parapsychology.
1959
|Aut).
(2),
39-50. 9 refs. - Magic is practically nonexistent on Samoa, as are
spontaneous
psi
experiences,
despite
widespread
belief
in
magical principles. Administered standard ESP and PK tests to
Samoan subjects with only chance results in spite of their great
interest and enthusiasm in the experiments. The single outstan-
ding psychic or pseudo-psychic phenomenon common in Samoa
is
ma'i
aitu
or
"spirit
sickness,"
which
apparently
involves
possession. Compares the culture and environment of Samoa
with that of the Australian aborigines and New Zealand Maoris,
who provide evidence of both spontaneous and experimental
psi. Concludes that among native peoples, magic arises only
where
it is a cultural or environmental necessity, that is, where
there
is
a considerable uncertainty
in daily
activities,
in
the
struggle
to survive, and
in relation to other people. Magic
is
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resorted to in an attempt to influence the environment of the
course of events only where there
is considerable doubt as to
the outcome. Changes underway in Samoan society are describ-
ed which may eventually be psi-conducive.-R.A.W.
80. Ehrenwald, Jan. "Non-Euclidian" models of per-
sonality.
International Journal
of Parapsychology,
1959
(Aut),
1 12), 51-68. 17 refs. -Several attempts have been made to
provide a theoretical framework capable of accomodating psi
phenomena but few have taken
into consideration the main
source of the epistemological difficulties involved in the con-
troversial
observations
on
human
personality.
Ehrenwald
focuses on various hypothetical models of personality structure
and on the corresponding world-views or modes of experience
which,
it
is assumed, are isomorphic with or attuned to these
variegated world-views or experimental modes. He constructs
various psychological models of personality without claiming
anything like empirical reality or even probability of their ex-
istence, thus calling them "non-Euclidian" models of personali-
ty. View A considers personality as a closed system. B conceives
of
personality
as
nonexistent
as
in
the
Zen
doctrine
of
"no-mind." C sees personality as a supra-individual, collective
organism. With C, psi would be viewed as an intro-psychic com-
munication.
Theorizes
about
temporal
anomalies
such
as
precognition and
retrocognition as well as
spatial anomalies
such as telepathy. Psi need not be simply a vestigial remnant of
the past but could be a viable function pointing toward the
future. -R.A.W.
81. Osmond, Humphry. A call for imaginative theory.
International Journal of Parapsychology,
1959
(Aut),
(2),
69-83.
refs. -Thoughts on
parapsychology
stimulated by
reading the Ciba foundation SymposiumM Extrasensory Percep-
tion (Little, Brown^kjj>6). In science theffethod of investigation
cannot be divorced Aim what
is beiJfinvestigated, and this
method depends largi^Bgn one's theoffical assumptions. Most
science
starts
with
"fieldwork,
tlgjn
classification,
then
hypotheses tested by expqmicnts. Tffihotion that the scientific
method
is applicable onh^L the w,
measurable
is based only
effiUhe
date, not on any fundament<®cm:
inherent
in the scientific met
direction a science takes is depef
we would have new knowledge,
Are we asking
the
right
questij
psychology
is hindered by exo
greatest deterrents to its general
to wrestle with theory, every
seems doomed
to
repeat,
in
Overpreoccupation with fraud
psychologists to fall into one of
sense. This must be avoided, fg
sists of uncommon sense. Pan
about their own work, but ar.
gifted people they investigate
inspiration than
to
radio
tr^l
should discover the conditiorjj
and adapt his methods to th
parapsychologists
to
work
become sensitives themselvj
them to forsake exclusive
qj
unleash their imaginations.
82. Van de Castle, Roj
ried out in the classroo
psychology, 1959 (Aut),
(
of ESP
in the classroom,
perimental programs: the
sj
of Anderson and White,
tempted to repeat or modj
two. Summarizes what h,
as a whole, indicates their]
ing leads for future resea:
83.
Birge,
Raymoi
Wales. Internationaljoi
(1), 5-23.- Analysis of
t!
d of sensation or to the
Hievements of science
to
^ration of the possibilities
e tend to forget that the
on the questions it asks. If
ust have new questions,
parapsychology? Para-
lV^Kmpiricism, one of the
:ep%. Due to their failure
erati^Bbf parapsychologists
reasing 'fktail,
earlier work.
deceptio^Mlows many para-
e pitfalls oradence - common
by its very n^ure science con-
ychologists a^fouchy enough
ot always too thoughtful of the
si may be more akin to artistic
mission.
If so, the investigator
lost conducive to creative effort
. If sensitives prove difficult for
ith,
parapsychologists
should
Perhaps the time has come for
piricism and, like the physicists,
.A.W.
rt L. A review of ESP tests car:
International Journal of Para-
84-102. 18 refs^- Reviews studies
Ividing them into three broad ex-
dies of Van Busshbach, the studies
miscellaneous studies which
at-
the research reported in the first
ieen learned from the experiments
ortcomings, and discusses promis-
,-R.A.W.
T.
Telepathy experiments
in
l ofParapsychology, 1960 (Win),
_ ESP experiments with the Jones
boys reported
by" S.G. SoaT and H.T. Bowden
in The Mind
Readers (Doubleday, 1960). Summarizes many of the sessions in
which 701 runs
“
~
run and a CR of 47. "Evidently the Welsh boys have introduced
us to a whole new psychic world,
if their results are free of
fraud, and much of this review must be concerned with this
possibility." Describes sessions in which the boys were caught
cheating as well as some of the opportunities for fraud that had
been set forth since the experiments were conducted, such as
the use of'^hsupersonic whistle. Calls for renewed testing in
which thes«fcpssibilities arq^uled out.-R.A.W.
84.
Ch
literature
psychology,
investigations
India today,
about long-nee
tinues to pion&
newest of the b<
poltergeists,
sti]
burial, and ESP a’
85.
Clark,
spiritualism. Int
| Win), 2
(1), 37-46.’
though,
like
all
elements. More thai
the need for security'
ly because of this, th
isolated in-group posi
other hand,
the
typ|
maintain an opposi
telepathy, clairvoya
world could not pos]
the researcher to
any form of assoc
i
most
difficult to e
One approach is
t lirj
to establish the fa
commitment
of
t
vestigated, all data
be
hard
to
estab[
Spiritualistic
religij
becomes doubly
oj
kept
in
mind
as
research. -DA
86. Amadou,
|
(In French) Inte.
(Win),
(1),
47-8
"superstition" we
. modern Western
archaic
cultural
si
superstition repori
many think- they]
where they exist
community
life,
ogy — ESP, PK, etc
trol, practices of
s]
natural state." Hei
undertaken by Pr
the Sancerrois dis'
C.T.K.
India,
i (Win), 2 J
parapsyc
its incif
reforn
(and en|
viora
,ata,
PK
altcj
at
ti
[arapsychological
studies
and
ernational
Journal
of
Para-
, 24-36. 14 refs - Reviews academic
'plogy
in India. "Parapsychology in
sing rigid standards, may yet bring
in all Indian science even as it con-
|h India with new discoveries in the
Iciences.” Phenomena mentioned are
owsing,
reincarnation,
premature
periments. - R.A.W.
Houston.
Religious
aspects
of
nal Journal of Parapsychology, 1960
.-Spiritualism is seen to be a religion
ns,
with
an
admixture
of
magical
it religions, it expresses the death urge,
ssurance, comfort, and passivity. Part-
iritualistic believer is conscious of his
and shows high defensiveness. On the
pcial
scientific
investigator tends
to
namely
that such phenomena as
itation, and contact with the spirit
ly (At. These facts make
it difficult for
tain^fceutral, objective attitude toward
psy<^K phenomena, and the facts are
lish. A^Kligions serve many functions,
f the stuo^fel of religion whose first task is
Because ^Rhe complication of the faith
jinvestigatcAalong
with
that
of
the
in-
ociated wit*eligion in any form tend to
With
th*data
associated
with
the
the
difficulty
of the
investigator's
task
Impounded. These considerations must be
e pursue and
evaluate
parapsycological
;.x.
fobert. Superstition in the Sancerrois.
tional Journal of Parapsychology, 1960
-I. Parapsychology and Superstition. By
jean
here
the
survival,
in our
"civilized"
id,
.of beliefs and practices belonging to an
cture. Although the number of cases
of
in urban areas
is quite high -higher than
re much more frequent
in the country,
rer form and are more closely linked with
contrast
to phenomena
of parapsychol-
jj/vhich are subject to observation and con-
erstition are difficult to observe "in their
[this study, and the one on Southern Italy
fssors Servadio and de Martino. We chose
ct because it was an agricultural region and
because important spadework had already been done in study-
ing superstitious practices there.
In what follows, individual
points are
illustrated by numerous detailed case-histories.
II.
"Healers."
a.
Les Rebouteux
(Bonesetters). Many
bonesetters
achieve
remarkable
results
in
using; rational
experimental
methods. But these successes are of no special significance to
parapsychology, b. Les persigneux (Faith-healers who use prayer
and the sign of the cross). These are by far the most numerous
and the most interesting group of "healers" in the area in ques-
tion. Three of the best-known Persigneux, described
in some
detail, are shown
to have traits in common. In general, they
treat
all kinds of human and animal sicknesses, without any
clear distinction between those that are "natural" and those in-
duced by sorcery
or witchcraft,
c. Urban-type
faith-healers.
These have of late penetrated the countryside and look askance
at the “primitive" techniques of the traditional rural
healers.
Many of them use magnetism and radio-electric detection. They
claim to be able to cure most diseases except cancer and tuber-
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