PARAPSYCHOLOGY ABSTRACTS INTERNATIONAL, 01655. RENAUDIN, DENYS. ANALYSIS OF A CASE OF HAUNTING

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stability of equilibrium between two
tendencies of the libido, the narcissis-
tic and the object-oriented. - D.H.
01654. Renaudin, Denys. Our temporal
body. Revue Metapsychigue, 1981, 15(3),
35-45.
The first stage in the evolution of
living beings is the acquisition of a
membrane that separates the internal
medium from the outside. The purpose of
this membrane is not to isolate, but to
control exchanges between these two
mediums. When a driving system is added
to the membrane and then a "psychism"
organizes control of the exchanges, the
internal medium becomes capable of a
partial control over the external
medium. This power depends on the ac-
quisition of a body, that is to say, a
personal space different from the exter-
nal world. In this paper, we propose
the assumption that observed stages of
evolution do not stop here, and that a
living being also acquires a personal
time distinct from the universal time.
A "psychism," controlling a body cover-
ing a personal space and also a personal
time is therefore capable of increasing
control over the external world and of
obtaining psychokinetic effects. The
personal time assumption enables a
psychophysical model to be built, which
maintains the general principle of
causality, and provides a logical inter-
pretation of the psychokinetic effects.
- DA
ofs_ Renaudin, Denys. Analysis of a
case of hauntin Revue Metapsychique,
1981, 15(3), 47-59. -6 figs
A haun ng case occurred in the
Greater s area in 1979. The oc-
cupants of the studio apartment where
the events occurred were a 70-year-old
grandmother and her 13-year-old grand-
son. Six diagrams of the apartment ac-
company the presentation of the case.
The anomalous phenomena were object
movements of the RSPK or poltergeist
type, and they occurred during a 3-hour
period on a Saturday night and a 2-hour
period on the following day. Objects
were household items that often crashed
or shattered against the walls. Charac-
ter testimonies gathered from neighbors
and relatives cast some suspicion on the
grandson. He could have caused the ob-
ject movements during the night, but he
probably would have been caught during
the day. Some psychological analyses
were made of the grandson's drawings. -
D.H.
01656. Deleage, Jean-Remi. From sub-
liminal interactions to the cul-tural
space. Revue Metapsychique, 1981 15(2),
7-28. 82 refs
Perception, which corresponds above
all to an interaction, may consist of
supraliminal (above the awakening
threshold of consciousness) or sub-
liminal (below the awakening threshold
of consciousness) information, action,
and communication (normal and para-
normal). Thus, the notions of-subcep-
tion, infraliminal interactions' in psy-
chosomatic, subliminal motoricity, up to
cryptomnesia, as defined by F. Myers,
introduce a hypothetical explanatory
pattern of several aspects of paranormal
communication. The latter should there-
fore be studied in a wider field of in-
terconnections, interrelations, and in-
teractions, which would be mediated and
represented at the sensorium level.
Lastly, by their teleological and
situational aspects, the "subliminal
self" interactions tend to show the
sociocultural and nonconscious subjuga-
tion of normal communication in general;
and paranormal communication especially,
which sets up a personal or collective
reaction to our principle of reality and
our structure of thinking. They should
be, from now on, located in their his-
torical context. - DA
`i er, Michel.
Part II The devils in the town.
s lff ue,98, 15(2), 29-57.
i us; 1 table
The author describes the hauntings
that troubled the house of a Protestant
pastor of Macon, Francois Perrault, in
the autumn of 1612. Ine in 1610,
an old monarch was stabbed to death,
leaving a young king 12 years old under
the guardianship of a Queen-Mother. By
the death of the king, the garden of
France was changed into an anxious
jungle, especially for the Protestants
whose fate had become extremely uncer-
tain. A sword of Damocles hung over
their heads in this time of anguish and
fear, and supernatural manifestations
appeared in many places. After several
poltergeist uproars, a voice was heard
revealing secrets concerning the master
of the house, his neighbors and fellow
townsmen, and even suspicious cir-
cumstances surrounding the assassination
of King Henry IV. The demons played on
all the fears of the Protestants -- of
losing their rights and even suffering a
massacre -- a repetition of the
"massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day"
when, in 1570, Huguenots were butchered
in a blood bath.
In his book Demonology, Perrault
describes how the demons swept through
the town of Macon, taunting, frighten-
ing, and bedevilling many people there.
The demons would put on different per-
sonalities to fit the fears of the
people they were haunting. He analyzes
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ing, and bedevilling many people there.
The demons would put on different per-
sonalities to fit the fears of the
people they were haunting. He analyzes
the impersonations and classifies them
as the Savoyard soldier, the valet, the
hunter, the apprentice, the domestic
servant, the nobleman, the advocate, the
doctor, the trickster, and the ghost.
He elaborates on this "epidemic" of
hauntings in Macon and nearby towns.
The demons were not restricted to one
place but seemed to travel wherever they
chose; and they could imitate dialects
and affect work and crops. The author
considers this widespread outpouring of
the paranormal to be a result of the
profound cultural and psychological con-
flicts during the minority of Louis III.
in the judgment of Perrault: "At the
time when this Demon was among us, the
Devil seemed to be unchained." - E.Y.
01658. Meurger, Michel. Sorcerers'
ointments and alpine plants: An eth-
nobotanical study. Revue Metapsychigue,
1981 15(2), 59-73. 32 -refs-, l table
A study of sixteenth century
European sorcerers' "ointments of
flight" should include on the one side
historical sources (e.g., sorcerers'
testimony) and on the other side the
medical environment that was also con-
cerned with such a product. The result
of this inquiry shows a cultural dif-
ference between two languages. First,
the testimony in court proceedings
chronicles how the plants were taken
from the sorcerers because of their
properties as defined by popular
medicine (e.g., alleviating menstrual
symptoms), properties that were always
embedded in a magico-mythical tradition.
Second, work of sixteenth-century doc-
tors and occultists of the time (i.e.,
"natural magic" practitioners) takes
into account only the naturalist proper-
ties of a restricted groups of hal-
lucinogenic plants, the Solanees, al-
though this group of plants is almost
nonexistent in the testimony of the sor-
cerers, who are themselves concerned
with their utilization as an ointment of
flight. In order to document the his-
torical bases of this veritable
rationalist myth, the author makes an
appeal to the enormous development of
botanical research in the sixteenth cen-
tury. Concretely, this development was
realized on the theoretical level by the
diffusion of numerous works about plants
and on the practical level by the col-
lection of plants from the mountains,
permitting researchers to obtain a rich
herbarium, principally of Solanees, and
to classify them, to cultivate them in
gardens, and to do experiments as have
been reported by Cardan and Porta. This
rationalist myth played the role of a
tool that reduced magic to an illusion
and reduced chemical properties to
"plants of illusion." The author refers
to one of his studies that situates the
passion of Michelet (author of Sor-
ceress, 1862) for Solanees, "the plant
of the sorcerers," less as a serious
study of the legal proceedings by this
great historian than as a medical
valorization for his contemporaries.
These two examples illustrate the
refusal of the dominant culture to re-
store the language of the popular cul-
ture, each time substituting its own
historical goals for those of the sor-
cerers. - DA/P.H.
01659. Duplessis, Yvonne. What is
parapsychology? Revue Meta s chi ue,
1981 (Mar), No. 2-1-19. Article
originally appeared in Gazette Medicale
de France, 1978 (Oct), No. 30. 12 refs
A brief resume of parapsychology,
including its definitions (clairvoyance,
telepathy, precognition, telekinesis)
and methods of research (Rhine and
Pratt's statistical studies of card-
calling, laboratory apparatus to measure
physical concomitants of psi, such as
the plethysmograph used by Figar and
later Dean, use of the EEG by Ullman,
Krippner, and Honorton in dream
telepathy, the random number generator
of Schmidt, Chauvin's work with mice,
metal-bending studies by Hasted in Lon-
don, by Stanford Research Institute, and
by Sergeiev in Leningrad). Reviewing
parapsychological hypotheses, the ques-
tion arises: Is psi an unknown energy
that may prove to be as important as
atomic energy? In the USSR, Vasiliev,
head physiologist of the University of
Leningrad, studied the paranormal as
"suggestion at a distance." The mathe-
matician Kogan in Moscow sees it as
bio-information."-The trend is to look
at the phenomena from a variety of dis-
ciplines, not just the psychological.
Some research involves physics and
cybernetics. Novomeysky in Sverdovsk in
the USSR studies the dermo-optical
perception of colors by the hand with a
team of doctors, physiologists, psycho-
logists, and even architects. Rejdak in
Czechoslovakia replaces the word "para-
psychology" with "psycho-tronique" to
underline the interdisciplinary aspect
of investigations not limited to the
psychological. - E.Y.
01660. Meurger, Michel. The demons of
Macon: An essay on ethnometapsychology.
Part I: The 'dark light of nature.`
21- 9. 2 illus
The author postulates
geist activity may appear
that polter-
in groupings
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