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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, EL
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.
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, Ghstonc.
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
Mine
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 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 anxiety levels
in per-
sons
undergoing
biocnergothcrapy.
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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