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      (2) of Jos6 P6dro de Freitas ("Ze Arigo), the famous
      Brazilian medium of but elementary school education,
      whose spirit personality, "Adolfo Fritz;' performed in-
      numerous invasive surgeries, and who engendered con-
      siderable controversy with Brazilian medical associations, -
      P.V.G.
      03141. Anievas, Joaquim. Notes and notices. Revista de
      Parapsicologia, 1974, 2(7), 16-17. 4 illus
           Five brief notes and critical comments on (1) the dis-
      cussion of divination and De Gaulle's use of it in the
      Brazilian Spiritist newspaper, 0 Clarim; (2) an encounter
      between the Maharishi Mahesh and Illinois Governor
      Walker; (3) the prohibition of a "parapsychology/occult"
      convention in Madrid, Spain; (4) the discussion of a solely
      materialistic parapsychology in the Spiritist newspaper,
      Reformador; and (5) Hiroshi Motoyama's International As-
      sociation of Religion and Parapsychology and his work
      with the Philippine "psychic surgeon," Tony Agpoa. P.V.G.
      @QA2 ErjdCridgi, E.A. Our _Qpinion. Revista de Para-
      4077MM-logia, 1974, .2(7), 18-23. 4 illus; I ref -
           Friderichs reports on his investigation of the 12-year-
      old Margarida Araujo of Paraquacu, Minas Gerais, -9-ra-ziT.7
      who claimed to gee and talk with an apparition
      Roman Catholic Virgin Mary. Friderichs concludes that it
      is a case of "an exteriorization of an intense subconscious
      desire" (p. 20). - P.V.G.
      03143. Dialogue with the reader. Revista de Para-
      psicologia, 1974, 2(7), 24-27, 4 illus; 2 refs
           Four questions raised by readers are answered and
      discussed by two Roman Catholic priests/parapsychologists
      and C.L.A.P. staff members. The questions were (1) Are
      the claims of Tibetan monks such as Lobsang Rampa a
      farce or reality? (2) Is it necessary to reincarnate several
      times for a personality to mature? (3) Can dreams reflect
      a reality not known by the dreamer? (4) Does precognition
      preclude free will? - P.V.G.
      03144. Anievas, Joaquim. Facts of real life. Revista de
      Parapsicologia, 1974, 2(7), 28-29. 2 illus
           Two spontaneous cases are described and evaluated:
      (1) a commentary on a case of "riptology" (table-tilting and
      raps) reported in Journal of the Society for Psychical
      Research (March, 1973). The author argues that the case
      did not merit the attention given by the journal because
      the conditions of observation were poor and there were
      outstanding indications of fraud; (2) a poltergeist case in
      "Brusque" (Sao Paulo?) in which strong, rapid bangs on
      windows were reported in an old house with a tradition of
      hauntings. The mse attracted a great deal of attention.
      Many held vigil around the house to "catch" the window
      knocker& Unfortunately, the author argues, it is difficult
      to demonstrate that the bangs, which occurred only when
      the focal person was alone, were not due to fraud. - P.V.G.
      03145. Quevedo, Oscar G. The problem of the healers:
      Part V1. Revista de Parapsicologia, 1974, 2(8), 4-13. 9
      illus; 21 refs
           In this sixth article in a series of 15 articles on heal-
      ing, several techniques and thcories of psychic diagnosis
      are discussed and critically evaluated. These are primarily
      radiesthesia, the perception of diverse cerebral radiations
      which arc believed to correspond to diverse states of
      health; diagnosis by dreams (oneiromancy); and diagnosis
      by hypnosis, where the hypnotisand perceives (both close
      by and at a distance) a client's health problems, sometimes
      by "acquiring" the client's problem and exaggerating the

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      symptoms. - P.V.G.
      03146. Lamparte, Victoria V. Biographies. Revista de
      Parapsicologia, 1974, 2(8), 14-15. 2 illus; 4 refs
           Two biographical sketches are given: of William P.
      Blatty, Jesuit-trained army intelligence officer turned part-
      time author, whose work The Exorcisi became a psychic
      thrillcr in the U.S. and which, Blatty claimed, was based
      on his own experiences of an extraordinary case of
      demonic possession in Washington, DC while he was still a
      student at Georgetown University; and of Carl Gustav
      Jung, Freud's protege, a professor of psychiatry and
      clinician, who advanced various theories of psychic
      phenomena and their role in therapy and psychological
      development. - P.V.G.
      03147. Our opinion. Revista de Parapsicologia, 1974,
      2(8), 16-23. 8 illus; 4 refs
           A hodgepodge of notes, announcements, and opinions
      on 5 subjects: (1) counterarguments to a Spiritist
      newspaper's position on abortion; (2) the fallacious reason-
      ing of adherents of reincarnation; (3) the inadequacy of
      certain representations of Brazilian parapsychology at inter-
      national conferences by the engineer Henrique Rodriques,
      whose Spiritist biases, the author argues, permeate his
      presentations; (4) a summary, critical evaluation, and rein-
      terpretation of the 1971 Angolese case of a 12-year-old
      girl's demonic possession and concomitant psychic
      phenomena, including unusual spontaneous scarification of
      her skin; (5) an argument by the Jesuit E.A. Friderichs
      that the existence of a "non-physicalist" psi-gamma faculty
      contradicts the Communists' purely physicalistic cosmology,
      thereby undermining the philosophical premises of its
      political system. - P.V.G.
      03148. Dialogue with the reader. Revista de Para-
      psicologia, 1974, 2(8), 24-29. 5 illus
           Four questions raised by readers are answered by the
      Roman Catholic priest/parapsychologist Oscar 0. Quevedo:
      (1) To what degree may the phenomena in William Blatty's
      book, The Exorcist, be held to be true? (2) Why may a
      Jesuit priest practice exorcism in one case and not in
      another? (3) How does parapsychology interpret the well-
      documented Argentine case (Mrs. A.RK of Rosario) of a
      detailed dream regarding an accident that occurred the fol-
      lowing day? (4) How does parapsychology interpret the
      case of the French 10 year old, Frances Burns@ whose ab-
      dominal cancer, spreading to the@ brain and elsewhere, was
      thoroughly documented by physiciins and given a prognosis
      of certain death, who was cured during a visit to Lourdes?
      - P.V.G.
      RUSSIAN LANGUAGE
      (Editor: Larissa Vilenskaya)
      PROCEEDINGS OF THE SIXTH INTERNATIONAL
      CONFERENCE ON PSYCHOTRONic RESEARCH
      03149. Iotov, Ivan N., and Godeanu, Mariorara. New
      discovery in the pyramid. Proceedings of the Sixth In-
      ternational Conjerence on Psychotronic Research
      (Zagreb), 1986, 92-94.
           The authors (a sensitive/healer from Bulgaria and a
      biologist/researcher from Romania) describe their observa-
      tions and studies of changes in the development of living
      systems placed inside a pyramid. The pyramid, constructed
      in Bulgaria, is made of glass and concrete, and it is a
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