PARAPSYCHOLOGY ABSTRACTS INTERNATIONAL

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Parapsychology Abstracts International
of the participants. In this area, many researches flourished
in the last century, and psychical research also performed
some studies in connection with mediumship. These
researches have considered many points of the matter, but
still we are obliged to work longer to complete our
knowledge of this subject. - DA
X3082. Simone jorgio "dr Pasquale rLwto and Jeanne
Lavai. auaderni di Parapsicologia, 1988 (May 9-10),
19(1), 8945. 18 refs
The author presents a short analysis of the life, per-
sonality, and contribution to the history of psychical
resear ade by the Italian medium Pasquale Erto and
the medium Jeanne Laval. The author particularly
wants o stress the fact that other than the physical
phenomenology mainly expressed by Erto in the first half
of the century, they both have represented the means for a
direct contact with a higher level of knowledge, opening
the way for entering a hypothetical relationship with a
new dimension of being. This relationship, mainly in the
case of Jeanne Laval, who produced the famous "Symbole
case," has provided several indications favoring the exis-
tence of a reality entirely free from human impediments.
This reality would represent, by supposition, the aim of a
sort of humanistic parapsychology parallel with the exact
sciences that analyze physical paranormal phenomena.
With a multiple approach, we can find the way of our
own Selves, which represent the interior locus and the
cause of every significant human action. - DA
03083. Ravaldini, Silvio. Daniel Dunglas Home. Quad-
erni di Parapsicologia, 1988 (May 9-10), 19(1), 96-106. 68
refs
With no doubt, Daniel Dunglas Home has been one
of the most important mediums in the course of parapsy-
chology thus far. At the age of 13, he had his first vision,
the death of a dear friend. We can list furniture changing
place with nobody's help, tiptoes on the table while he
was having breakfast, and so on. His mediumship grew up,
so we then have Home holding burning coals in his hands
with no pain at all, Home going out from one window,
head first, and coming back from the window in the next
room, Home raising in the air with his head circled by a
bright halo, waving his hands while little globes of fire
appeared standing on them. After having fully described
Home's life, the phenomena he produced, and the scholars
who studied him thoroughly, the author ends by telling us
that spontaneous phenomena are not fit to be studied by
traditional scientific methods. - DA
03084. Dettore, Ugo. Parapsychology: A science. But
what kind of science? Quaderni di Parapsicologia, 1987
(May 17/18), 18(1), 9-13.
While physics, with quantum and relativistic theories,
studies single ultramicroscopic elements constituting sub-
stances, recognizing in them some autonomy, thus freeing
them of the strict mathematical determinism of the
Galileo-Newtonian conception, parapsychology, accepting the
quantitative methods of physics, ended by imposing on
human beings that same determinism. It lost sight of the
fact that the paranormal act is peculiar to the single in-
dividual (a corpuscle, an atom, or a person) who is always
creative and unforeseeable and aims at existentially defin-
ing himself or herself in a form by aggregating and struc-
turalizing the finalities of other individuals known at the
bottom by identification. On the contrary, normality is the
always repetitious result of the activity of boundless
masses, in which the unforeseeability of individuals dis-
plays itself framed in a commune order controlled by a
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transcendental mathematism, that in, iudes not only quan-
tities but also qualities and finalities and can be partially
represented, from the quantitative point of view, by physi-
cal laws. So there are two approaches to reality: one, in-
tuitive and intersubjective, operates by identification and
reaches the transcendent; the other, rational and
subjective-objective, catches the mathematism. The various
sciences select the first or the second approach, but always,
more or less unconsciously, also make use of the other one.
A complete science would have to take advantage con-
sciously of both approaches. Parapsychology could be this
science, but, as long as, being in doubt about itself, it tries
to imitate a potentially surpassed physics, it will betray its
own duty. - DA
03085. Bononcini, Annamaria, and Rosa, Rodolfo.
Manifestations of ESP in emotional states in
psychotherapy groups: Research and correlations.
Quaderni di Parapsicologia, 1987 (May 17/18), 18(1), 14-26.
2 figs, 1 graph; 2 tables
Two years ago, during "Il Giornata Parapsicologica
Bolognese;' the authors proposed a project of a research
with a view not to "demonstrating the existence of some-
thing" (in fact the authors believe that mere
phenomenological observations are inadequate for acquiring
knowledge about data in themselves not framed into theory
phenomena) but by means of suitable experiments, they
can search out correlations corroborating the following
hypothesis: Human beings have at their disposal the poten-
tial for being in touch with the world through nonconven-
tional channels and, generally, without conscious awareness
of the process. Some experiences during psychotherapy
groups have led one of the authors (A.B.) to think that
such a potentiality would be put in action by a "need
situation," and it is supposed that over a certain degree of
accumulation, the psychophysical energy invested by an or-
ganism is automatically discharged on the subject of the
need. The authors emphasize that the adopted concept of
energy acts as a hypothesis and is not so far from that the
pulsional charge of psychoanalytic theory. They conclude
that when such an experience is consciously perceived, it
may also be interpreted as paranormal (it depends on the
theoretical framework).
The authors present results of experiments they have
carried out based on the above theory, by utilizing mem-
bers of a therapy group as the experimental subjects. The
authors expected the above-mentioned process to be
favored by strong emotional investments. The experimen-
tation was carried out during two different days in a nor-
mal psychotherapeutic work environment. The group was
formed by 10 patients and 2 psychotherapists acting as ex-
perimenters. On four different occasions during the work,
the group was divided in two subgroups that remained
separated for about one hour in different rooms, with one
of the psychotherapists who was acting independently from
the other one. After the hour each member of the sub-
groups was requested to draw something on a prepared
sheet and to give an evaluation about his or her own emo-
tional condition by marking a figure on each scale on a
prepared card. The three items refer to. (1) separation
(pleasure/unpleasure), (2) amount of involved energy, and
(3) level of defense. In the present work only the results
referring to the first item were taken into account.
Subsequently, the drawings concerned with the 4 ex-
periments were delivered to 5 external judges who were
requested to give an evaluation of "resemblance" (in a very
broad meaning) about the drawings. That is, for each ex-
periment the judges had to compare the n-th drawing of
subgroup A with the nth drawing of subgroup B and to
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