t Approved’ ror Reléage2000/08/11 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400100013-9 =. ~~” this -- more than in any other science -- research is con- ducted into phenomena which we cannot measure. He shows us that, in live studies, every science is in the same condition. Only faith ~ always present even if unconscious — motivates and guides research and finally takes us, along a courageous and eventful experimental path, to results which make History, in that they express new meanings and new measures which the soul knows by intuition. - DA 02468. Marabini, E. With regard to psychic surgery. Metapsichica Rivista Italiana di Parapsicologia, 1971 (Jul/Dec), 26(3/4), 104-111. Notes the importance of documentation in every aspect of parapsychological research, through technical con- trivances suitable to the phenomenology of the subject. Thanks Dr. Naegeli for his important contribution. Criti- cally examines the phenomena produced by surgeon healer Toni Agpaoa. From this analysis arise serious doubts as to the authenticity of the modalities used by the “healer” during the execution of his operations (also excluding the possible therapeutic action which could be a consequence of these performances). Expresses hope that successive in- vestigations may explain the questionable points. - DA 02469. Servadio, Emilio. The 20th International Parapsychology conference. Metapsichica Rivista Italiana di Parapsicologia, 1971 (Jul/Dec), 26(3/4), 112-115. Servadio, who together with Dr. Cassoli, represented Italy at the 20th annual conference of the Parapsy-chology Foundation, meeting at Le Piol in August 1971, comments briefly on the most important reports presented on the present condition of parapsychology in the most advanced countries. - DA/R.A.W. . 02470. De Boni, Gastone. In defense of the spiritistic hypothesis. | Metapsichica Rivista Italiana di Para- psicologia, 1971 (Jul/Dec), 26(3/4), 116-122. At the meeting at Campione, the author, who to- gether with Mme Saint Clair, undertook the defense of Spiritism against Animism, presents two famous cases which constitute two elements of evidence in favor of sur- vival: The Whymant case (direct voice in ancient Chinese) and the Rosalie case (materialization observed by Harry Price). He concludes, against the opinion of Prof. Bender, in favor of the spiritistic hypothesis. - DA 02471. Inardi, Massimo. An important moment for Pre nbsychology at the Second Modena conference. Metapsichica Rivista Italiana di Parapsicologia, 1971 (Jul/Dec), 26(3/4), 123-131. In the meeting at Modena organized by Prof. Rossini, the agenda of the day was “Parapsychology and Psychiatry.” This event is singled out by the author because it is the first time in Italy that parapsychology was the object of the official attention of Medical Science, which on. this oc- casion was represented by an audience of qualified profes- sors. The author points out, moreover, that Dr. Cassoli has taken into consideration three kinds of phenomena which he places, for the moment, outside the limits of the ex- ‘ perimental field, several of which, however, are of great interest because there exists a possibility to acquire the tests necessary for their acknowledgment in the future. The author directs our attention also to Dr. Crosa’s "Some Aspects of the Paranormal Phenomenology," which concerns healers,’ voices of unknown origin on recording tape, haunted houses, and.“out of body” experiences. Dr. Crosa 29 cautions that the first contact of the novice with a phenomenon should not be marred by inveterate prejudices which would hinder him from finding the way to the ob- jective truth. - DA/R.A.W. 02472. Liotta, Antenio. The Latin American Center of Parapsychology at the Anchicta Faculty of Sao Paulo. Metapsichica Rivista Italiana di Parapsicologia, 1971 Gul/Dec), 26(3/4), 132-138. Brazil is a nation where the ethnic and economic con- ditions create deep contrasts and violent psychic emotions. For these reasons Brazil appears as “the land where para- psychology ought to find the most fertile soil." Relates his experiences at the Latin American Center of Parapsychol- ogy (CLAP), which is managed by Jesuit Fathers, and was founded for the purpose of solving the problems presented by parapsychology to psychiatry and psychology, by devising new terms and new methods for collecting, selecting, and cataloguing the results. The C.L.AP. will be the first university faculty in the world where graduates in medicine, philology, and philosophy will have the pos- sibility of specializing in parapsychology. - DA 02473. Sparta, Francesco, Parapsychology and Spiritism in Brazil. Metapsichica Rivista Italiana di Parapsicologia, 1971 (Jul/Dec), 26(3/4), 139-141. The author, an eminent anthropologist and . “pars magna” of the Latin American Center of Parapsychology, teports on the situation of parapsychology in Brazil, ex- plaining the anthropological causes of the particular posi- tion of this land with regard to psychic research. He points out the difficulties met by the Center in completing their equipment although the main edifices are already built, and they hope that soon they will be in a position to start experimental work, considering also the great dif- fusion of devotee spiritism in the population. - DA 02474. Ryzl, Milan. ESP research in the U.S.S.R. Metapsichica Rivista Italiana di Parapsicologia, 1971 (Jul/Dec), 26(3/4), 142-149. Reprint of almost all of the 4th chapter of the author's book Parapsychology, tecently published in Italian by Edizioni Mediterranee. The chapter concerns the researches carried out on ESP in Soviet Russia, about which Ryzl also spoke at the recent meeting at Le Piol. Dr. Ryzl, of Czechoslovakian origin, is well informed about the work in parapsychology behind the iron curtain. - DA POLISH LANGUAGE (Editor: Alexander Imich) PSYCHOTRONIKA 02475. Gulak, Jan. Lowering the anxiety levels in per- sons undergoing bioenergotherapy. Psychotronika, 1985, 6-9. 10 refs; 2 tables Anxiety, a contributing factor in somatic illnesses, can be a brief or time-extended phenomenon independent of circumstances. The author, himself bicenergetically gifted, aimed at lowering anxiety in his patients. He hypothesized that there will be a difference in patients’ anxiety level before and after the treatment; cach treatment lasted 15 minutes. Seventy-three persons (56 females and 17 males) were given C.D. Spielberger and J. Taylor's questionnaires 14 days before and 21 days after the treatment. In com- putation of the results, Kolmogorov, Smirnov, and Student's tests were used, the first two yielding p = 01, the last one roved For Release 2000/08/11 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400100013-9
ar t RBBPOVER FOE RG ase 2500/08/11 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400100013-9 © this -- more than in any other science -- research is con- ducted into phenomena which we cannot measure. He shows us that, in live studies, every science is in the same condition. Only faith -— always present even if unconscious -- motivates and guides research and finally takes us, along a courageous and eventful experimental path, to results which make History, in that they express new meanings and new measures which the soul knows by intuition. - DA 02468. Marabini, E. With regard to psychic surgery. Metapsichica Rivista Italiana di Parapsicologia, 1971 (Jul/Dec), 26(3/4), 104-111. Notes the importance of documentation in every aspect of parapsychological research, through technical con- trivances suitable to the phenomenology of the subject. Thanks Dr. Naegeli for his important contribution. Criti- cally examines the phenomena produced by surgeon healer Toni Agpaoa. From this analysis arise serious doubts as to the authenticity of the modalities used by the "healer" during the execution of his operations (also excluding the possible therapeutic action which could be a consequence of these performances). Expresses hope that successive in- vestigations may explain the questionable points. - DA 02469. Servadio, Emilio. The 20th International Parapsychology conference. Metapsichica Rivista Italiana di Parapsicologia, 1971 (Jul/Dec), 26(3/4), 112-115. Servadio, who together with Dr. Cassoli, represented Italy at the 20th annual conference of the Parapsy-chology Foundation, meeting at Le Piol in August 1971, comments briefly on the most important reports presented on the present condition of parapsychology in the most advanced countries. - DA/R.A.W. 02470. De Boni, Gastone. In defense of the spiritistic hypothesis. Metapsichica Rivista Italiana di Para- Psicologia, 1971 (Jul/Dec), 26(3/4), 116-122. ° At the meeting at Campione, the author, who to- gether with Mme Saint Clair, undertook the defense of Spiritism against Animism, presents two famous cases which constitute two elements of evidence in favor of sur- vival: The Whymant case (direct voice in ancient Chinese) and the Rosalie case (materialization observed by Harry Price). He concludes, against the opinion of Prof. Bender, in favor of the spiritistic hypothesis. - DA 02471. Inardi, Massimo. An important moment for parapsychology at the Second Modena conference. Metapsichica Rivista Italiana di Parapsicologia, 1971 (Jul/Dec), 26(3/4), 123-131, we In the meeting at Modena organized by Prof. Rossini, the agenda of the day was “Parapsychology and Psychiatry." This event is singled out by the author because it is the first time in Italy that parapsychology was the object of the official attention of Medical Science, which on. this oc- casion was represented by an audience of qualified profes- sors. The author points out, moreover, that Dr. Cassoli has taken into consideration three kinds of phenomena which he places, for the moment, outside the limits of the ex- ’ perimental field, several of which, however, are of great interest because there exists a possibility to acquire the tests necessary for their acknowledgment in the future. The author directs our attention also to Dr. Crosa’s “Some Aspects of the Paranormal Phenomenology,” which concerns healers,’ voices of unknown origin on recording tape, haunted houses, and “out of body” experiences. Dr. Crosa 29 cautions that the first contact of the novice with a phenomenon should not be marred by inveterate prejudices which would hinder him from finding the way to the ob- jective truth. - DA/R.A.W. 02472. Liotta, Antonio. The Latin American Center of Parapsychology at the Anchicta Faculty of Sao Paulo. Metapsichica Rivista Italiana di Parapsicologia, 1971 (Jul/Dec), 26(3/4), 132-138. Brazil is a nation where the ethnic and economic con- ditions create deep contrasts and violent psychic emotions. For these reasons Brazil appears as "the land where para- psychology ought to find the most fertile soil.” Relates his experiences at the Latin American Center of Parapsychol- ogy (CLAP), which is managed by Jesuit Fathers, and was founded for the purpose of solving the problems presented by parapsychology to psychiatry and psychology, by devising new terms and new methods for collecting, selecting, and cataloguing the results. The C.L.AP. will be the first university faculty in the world where graduates in medicine, philology, and philosophy will have the pos- sibility of specializing in parapsychology. - DA 02473. Sparta, Francesco. Parapsychology and spiritism in Brazil. Metapsichica Rivista Italiana di Parapsicologia, 1971 (Jul/Dec), 26(3/4), 139-141. The author, an eminent anthropologist and . "pars magna" of the Latin American Center of Parapsychology, reports on the situation of parapsychology in Brazil, ex- plaining the anthropological causes of the particular posi- tion of this land with regard to psychic research, He points out the difficulties met by the Center in completing their equipment although the main edifices are already built, and they hope that soon they will be in a position to start experimental work, considering also the great dif- fusion of devotee spiritism, in the population. - DA 02474. Ryzl, Milan. ESP research in the U.S.S.R. Metapsichica Rivista Italiana di Parapsicologia, 1971 (Jul/Dec), 26(3/4), 142-149. Reprint of almost all of the 4th chapter of the author's book Parapsychology, recently published in Italian by Edizioni Mediterranee. The chapter concerns the researches carried out on ESP in Soviet Russia, about which Ryzl also spoke at the recent meeting at Le Piol. Dr. Ryzl, of Czechoslovakian origin, is well informed about the work in parapsychology behind the iron curtain. - DA POLISH LANGUAGE (Editor: Alexander Imich) PSYCHOTRONIKA 02475. Gulak, Jan. Lowering the anxicty levels in per- sons undergoing bioenergotherapy. Psychotronika, 1985, 6-9. 10 refs; 2 tables Anxiety, a contributing factor in somatic illnesses, can be a brief or time-extended phenomenon independent of circumstances. The author, himself bioenergetically gifted, aimed at lowering anxiety in his patients. He hypothesized that there will be a difference in patients’ anxiety level before and after the treatment; cach treatment lasted 15 minutes. Seventy-three persons (56 females and 17 males) were given C.D. Spielberger and J. Taylor’s questionnaires 14 days before and 21 days after the treatment. In com- putation of the results, Kolmogorov, Smirnov, and Student’s tests were used, the first two yielding p = .01, the last one sroved For Release 2000/08/11 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400100013-9
Approved For Release 2000/08/11 : CIA-RDP96-00792R0004001000' Parapsychology Abstracts International 03035. Costa, Alfonso. About the visions of dying per- sons and survival. Luce ¢ Ombra, 1987 (Jul/Sep), 87(3), 260-270. 15 refs The attention recently addressed to near-death ¢x- 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 one 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 entity 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 in 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 Vol. 6, No. 2. December 1988 03059. Garzia, Plerangelo. 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 spontancous 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. Im 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 anithated 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 laws 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-RDP96-00792R000400100013-9