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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.
Marablni, E.
With regard
to psychic surgery.
Metapsichica
Rivista
Italiana
di
Parapsicologia,
1971
(Jul/Dcc), 25(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.
Scrvadio,
Emilio.
The
20th
International
Parapsychology
conference.
Metapsichica
Rivista
Italiana di Parapsicologia, 1971 (Jul/Dcc), 25(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
ai
Para-
psicologia, 1971 (Jul/Dec), 25(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), 25(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.
"Hie 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
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 Anchieta Faculty of Sao Paulo.
Metapsichica
Rivista
Italiana
di
Parapsicologia,
1971
(Jul/Dcc), 25(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-
°gy
(C.L.A.P.),
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.A.P.
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), 25(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), 25(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)
Psyciiotronika
0247S.
Gulak, Jan.
Lowering the anxiety levels in per-
sons
undergoing
bioenergothcrapy.
Psychotronika,
1985,
6-9.
refs; 2 tables
Anxiety, a contributing
factor
in somatic
illnesses, can
be
a
brief
or
time-extended
phenomenon
independent
of
circumstances.
The
author,
himself
bioenergctically
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;
each
treatment
lasted
minutes.
Seventy-three persons
(56
females and
males)
were given
C.D.
Spielberger and
J.
Taylor’s
questionnaires
days
before and
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
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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/Dcc), 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.
Scrvadio,
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
ai
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.
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
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 Anchieta 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
(C.L.A.P.),
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.A.P.
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
spiritisrn
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
Mediterrance.
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)
PSYCIIOTRONIKA
02475.
Gulak, Jan.
Lowering the anxiety levels
in per-
sons
undergoing
bioencrgothcrapy.
Psychotronika,
1985,
6-9.
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;
each
treatment
lasted
minutes.
Seventy-three
persons
(56
females and
males)
were given C.D.
Spielberger and
J.
Taylor’s
questionnaires
days
before and
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
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03055.
Costa, Alfonso.
About the visions of dying per-
sons and survival.
Luce e Ombra, 1987
(Jul/Sep), 57(3),
The
attention
recently
addressed
to
near-deatn
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 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),
57(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), 57(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
stance.
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), 57(4),
307-319.
figs; 7
refs
The author
brings
to our
attention
a
case of
spiritis-
tic
identification.
In
fact, during
a stance
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,
i.e.,
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,
psychomctry, 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.
Voi. 6, No. 2
December 1988
03059.
Garzia,
Picrangelo.
Survival;
Belief
or
research?
Luce e Ombra, 1987 (Oct/Dec),. 57(4), 320-324.
Three
hundred
years
ago,
the
Italian
scientist
and
roan
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.
Marabinl,
Enrico.
Psi phenomena; Normal
or
paranormal?
Luce e Ombra, 1987
(Oct/Dcc),
57(4),
325-
336.
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
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),
57(4),
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