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those
healers who
act by "laying
of
hands."
He wrote two
books, one
in cooperation with
the parapsychologist G. lan-
nuzzo, and numerous papers on the same
subject, gathering
an
extensive
collection
of
historical
eases.
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
eases, 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 else
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
all
medical
treatments (chemica 1 ,
physical, or
surgical) may
be
referred
to
P.E.
P.E.
apparently
is
not
a
mere
suggestion
effect,
unless we acknowledge that suggestion can
give
rise
to ex-
raordinary
biological
reactions
(on
enzymes,
on
chemical
w^m«T
P°S
entS ’ on
l
horraoncs
> and
so
on).
Furthermore,
we
mastered
researches
in
this
field
(P.E.)
are
necessary.
After
years
of
clinical
observation
and
controls
of
a
good
number
of
healers’
results,
the
author
is
at
presen!
t
V
hi7
-T°i
n
the P°ssibiIit y
of
the
presence
of PK
in
ims
matter.
The same
position
is maintained on
the
pos-
sibility
that
something
"flows"
or
emanates
from
the
healers
body.
He
is
waiting
for
clinically
controlled
ex-
periments
(by
blind
and
double-blind
methods)
to
be
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SDcdaUt thlVl
th;V
CCtUr°
is
to
introduce
to
the
non-
M^nctr
f
h
Erhenfest urn model
exploited
by Cocke
to
twn
h
C
T'
OSClllatlng
univcrse model
in which
there
are
two
boundary
conditions:
one
in
the
past
(big-bang)
and
“
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cal hrW
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statisti-
balls m^h"
f
’C SyStCm
consistin8
of two
urns
and
thi JtTa T
d (r0mA
t0 3&
°ne
starts wi ‘h 27
balls
in
ni.mh/
h
,
d
Urn and
,n
the
rifiht-hand
one.
A random
is
defln/d
kCtS
^
a
i
baU Wh ‘Ch
is mOVed from
the system and
left hind „^
delta
K
n =
,
" Sub
(nuraber
of
b^
in
the
his o
h
rics
d
aid "1 $Ub e (^'librium
value).
Two
typical
reported
tu
,
aVCrage
of
over
hundreds
of
runs
is
the
f nai h^.V
SaV
f.
s
.only those
histories which
satisfy
final boundary
condition.
Two such
allowed
histories
and
the
average
of
of them
arc
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
sense we speak
of
causality
violation
or
"pre-effect"-
the
future
can
influence
the
past.
In
such
a
context,
time-
symmetric
thermodynamics
(i.e.,
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.
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03622. Bernard!, Sergio.
The cradle of the paranormal
Quaderm di Parapsicologia,
1986,
77(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
field.
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-
fn
U^dat
‘hiS
,
leVeL
This Problem was brought up
in
the
l-ij
S
i
tle 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.
ecently,
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
^/t
SearCh
a
ed
by.,°«lers
SUch
as
Sandor
Fercnzi,
Georg
Groddek,
and
Wilhelm
Steckcl.
The
existence
of
an
oneiric
life
and
therefore
psychic
life
in
the
fetal
stage
during
the
last
months
of
pregnancy
and
after
the
first
“"‘ IS
np°,f
. bir ‘h
bas
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.
Iannuzzo,
Giovanni.
Psychiatry and
spiritism:
Italian
psychiatry
of
the
early
20th
century
and
77(1)
H
11l-HS
C
&
32 !e fs ®Uaderni
di ParaPsicologia,
1986,
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,
Luciam,
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.
This was
the golden
age
of
psychical
research
in
Italy,
but
it
lasted
only
a
few
years and soon our country
lost
its supremacy.
The author
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