or -3le ap- As be in os ch Of lot ib- )a- is @w by its )n. ed nt to @id h: @-d us ,r- ks as CC Of he he it of At- he a 's. ,I- ig n- )a n- AVpr4Vb*P6f0N&9sea20@1/03/07: CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0700710001-2 quisition and seemed determined to ban 11 claims of the paranormal." The author states that blind faith in one's own belief leads to underestimating the quality of the proponent and the complexity of the subject under discus sion. This explains the unfair treatment of the French psychologist/statistician, Michel Gauquelin. Hoebens and other skeptics who supported the investigation of Gau quelin feared that the Committee was a lost cause: All moderates would probably leave and turn their backs on the crusaders. Fortunately, this yeii (1984) a "Reappraisal" in took place through i ternal dxternal pressure. It seems to the author that th,;n F, learned their lesson from this affair. He praises the ]Fw evolution which aims at cooperation betw@en skepjlcs and critical para- fi psychologists as allies in the i rt against irrationalism. - D.D. 0244L DuTalpinVla! el: S1 go on . . . . 1984 The human a matic ret omat'c' of mentalistic tricks nd can I snd ca, sion of a paranorma eat. In aea this method was u by I iUtt@y psychics. In our hom town mow. still performing this act nder act ad.: article shows under wh forr r wh f( reflexes can be used to ive ed to i, one is gifted with psychic ili sychi, 02442. Martens, Ronny. Forum, 1.984, ](1), 30-35. 2 The history of parap fraud and poorly controlle views an experiment by R, rent parapsychological res4 Randi's experiment shows through the years. His availability of money does standards and (2) that sciec to uncover subject fraud, cludes (a) that Randrs investigator to reconsider both the researcher and tf meaningful dialogue and lp 02443. Zorab, Geor Forum, 1984, ](2), 66-& The author traces and the history of the 'tw well-known cases betw states that now, after or there is no d'ff renc ,nj c ha sonal (:poltergeist) ha phenomena can occur 'r is domi d natural !r1czen: '7he show must 1(l), 25-29. 1 rcf ces are used in a number e the layman the impres- few recent TV programs p1c who claimed to be bent, Belgium), a man is -. guise of telepathy. This and in what way human -ople the impression that s. - D.D. Vdis Project Alpha. Psi- r c 0 s yc ogy is heavily marked by y y r in nt I riments. This article re- r c t ri roject Alpha) to test cur- Je 0- h ta n d arc ah andards. Unfortunately, t 'rigs have not improved t tdg,h 0. 0 th '. 0 theses: (1) that the It ne rily improve research tne 'ily t ara ts are a very bad position )n I f* ed. The author con- re cofi ed eer i mo in t ges the paranormal im n F ti '1 0, d position d research, and (b) skeptic sho d strive towards a skeptic iih, ,@d ome, 4- Poltergelst-s drome. Psi. r 7refs oorigin of the to , "poltergeist*' to '-polter. nomena. This is il trated with 's il tated .1 c n the years 1450-1968. c author years, it has become ar that 0 ome between local (haunting) a per- in itings. In both cases the same He concludes that the paranormal @ng and there is no need for super- )i 02444. Gondry, D .250 years: Franz A. Mesmer. Psi-Forum, 1984, 1( 86-82. 13 refs The career of esmer is placed in its historical con. text. The author sh s that the ideas of Mesmer were not original, but can placed next to the works of other authors as early as 0 B.C. His idea of animal magnetism and his life seem to ave been influenced by several per- sons such as M. ell, Count de Gobelin, and Maria- Theresia Paradis. After his downfall his ideas were taken up by:several persons such as Dr. E. Perkins (US.) and do Puys;6gur (France). DA 02445. Martens, Ronny. Observational theories: Part 1. Psi-ForuM 1984, ](2), 108-117. 7 refs The author introduces the reader to the new observa- tional theories within the field of parapsychology. '1'hese theories are based on quantum physics, which shares some elements with paranormal phenomena. The reader is provided with an introduction to quantum physics upon which two of the three most developed theories are elaborated. - DA DiDSCHRIFT VC)OR PARAPSYCI-IOLOGIE 02446. Tenhaciff, C Spontaneous clairvoyance. Jor Pa:.f _C@ 0 ologie, 193211933, 5, 62-79. Tijdsc t2 a I notes since 1929 many people have, T f written o i about *,.tirvoyant experiences, which were mostly f a rccogni"ve naltureot A drawback was that none o the s told 0 her people so that they could corro rate He presents 10 of the cases. - GZ 02447. Koster, Aspects of the occulL Tijdschrift voor Parapsyc e, 1934, 6, 24-26. Serious inves ators of the occult, ie., the paranor.. mal, have observe veral times that the manifesting en tities at sean S. a ot able to see what is happening in the seance r Z" m. is fact applies especially to those seances where t le-ti ing, planchette-writing, and other such phenomena ake p cc. The Dutch spiritualist, Mr. de Fremery, durin scanc asked the manifesting entity if it knew what th @ersons tending the seance were doing. Y" The answer w "You ar busy washing the dishes:' The answer was g on by the ble knocking with one of its logs on the fr. Mr. Kos r writes that he himself once put that sa . question to entity that was present at the seance was attending. The answer was, "You are .gan 'hing with a was gboard:' doing the w For aong time Mr. Kest thought about this queer kind of 1i t of the spirits but iled to find any explana- ti tion. SO years later, when st *ng in Java, he believed ho had texplanation. In Ja he had himself mag .a. netized. hen he fell into a kin of magnetic sleep, he suddenly ound that his sight has come quite different. It is hi opinion that a deceased son is in the same so situatio as a living person in a ma etized trance. Al- tered ceptions occur in both situatto - GZ 02448. etz, P.A. Experiments concerning the homing of d s. Tijdschrift voor Parapsychologie, 1934, 6, 86- 92. hose experiments took, place in the South of Ger- man in the neighborhood of Munich. Three dogs were teste . The transport of a dog was done in such a way that it could not see where it was going. They were taken to a place about 6 miles from their home, in the middle of woods and hills. According to the experimenters the dogs found their way home not by using their senses, but by a capacity of orientation which migrating birds also possess. - GZ 02449. Tenhaeff, W.H.C. Dr. G. van RIJnberg and arapsychology. Tijdschrift voor Parapsychologie, 1934, 123-129. Professor van Rijnberg, who for many years was the editor of a prominent Dutch medical journal, was inter- ested in spiritualism and all things mystical. He was one of the'very few Dutch people who attended seances with the famous medium Eusapia Palladino. He published what he observed at these seances in a Dutch periodical under 25 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0700710001-2 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0700710001-2 Vol. 5, No. 2 December 1987 the title 'The Third Arm of the Medium:' He wrote- "It was at Rome, 21 years ago, that I had a seance with that famous medium, Eusapia Palladino. At that sconce, a married couple was also present. Eusapia told us that she would try to levitate the table without using her muscles. All of us stood around the table, holding each othees hands which were placed on the table. Eusapia stood at one of the short ends of the table. I squatted on the floor on her right side. I put my left hand around her lcgs. I raised her skirt, so that I could see the two lcgs of the table nearest to me. This made it impossible for anyone to place his foot under the table-leg and lift the table. With my right hand I got hold of Eusapia's right hand. This hand was also held by Mrs. P. Mr. P was holding Eusapia's left hand. There was not much light in the room, but it was sufficient to distinguish the various ob jects in the room. After waiting some time the table sud- dcnly began to move. The table moved for a few mo- ments to the left and to the right, and then suddenly left the floor and floated about 15 cm above it, This lasted a few minutes and then it dropped to the floor with a loud bang. When the table started to move about I suddenly saw that Eusapia's right hand became indistinct- Then it seemed as if a whole series of arms, one arm above the other, were visible for a short time. The levitation of the table too was of short duration. Those present at the seance were very pleased with what they had seen. This made them urge the medium to repeat the phenomenon. The medium guessed correctly what he wanted to see again, for she said: 'You want to see my astral double, don't you?- "The phenomena were again observed and were a great deal better than those in the beginning. Out of Eus-apia's left thigh, just in front of his head, projected a straight black spoke which looked like a long thin arm. That arm ended in a broader piece that got hold of the right table-lcg. All the time that I saw this ghostly thing, the table remained levitated. The phenomenon was only visible during a short time, but long enough to give mei the ccrtainty that I was not having a hallucination." - O.Z. 02450. Walther, Gerda. Seances with the medium, Rudi Schneider. Tijdschrift voor Parapsychologie, 1934, 6,84-118. his r' Describes the cart his ry of the mediumship of Rudi and Willy Schneide s how Baron von Schrcnck T Notzing became involved dt up a laboratory to inves- dt tigate RudVs mediumship rticular. Some of his sit- I - @Gi phi tings arc described in whi 0. Jung and others were present The author descri he seance conditions which she observed as a sitter. - G A.W. -ences J F p iences concerning 024SI. Kooy, the J.M.j C0 @_ i \ hrh' Dunne effect. Tijdsc v arapsychologie, 1934, a 4 'ap rif sy 6, 144-169. The 'Dunne effccV is "m s t'h f Dutc erm for precognitive ( experiences ribed J.W. Dunne such as were in his d d d J. b W. book, An Experiment With 1 2 D, h i @ , ime (1929 Dunne described (9 9 a number of 'eams that c true. precognitive These e, ms that dreams were generally a a symbolic ure, and the la 'y@ bol@5 dreamed future pcned within a events short time p (rarely over a month). Before he read book, Kooy himself Dunn had had dreams of this kind. Fro h' he very beginning Kooy wrote his dreams as soon as he 'k oke. His dreams forced Kooy to accept the future as of he f he same nature as the present and the past, and that time was a human fiction. He describes some of his experiences in this article. GZJR-&W. 02452. Hamel, A.G. van. Paranormal phenomena In Iceland. Tijdschrift voor Parapsychologie, 1934, 6. 177- 199. Paranormal phenomena were already known in Iceland in 900 A.D, and many cases were described in the Island's Sagas and in the book, Landnamabok. Inthe lat- ter such cases are described in detail, and the place where they occur is also mentioned. This book was written in the 13th century. From the very beginning, parapsychologi- cal phenomena were cited in the Icelandic literature. These phenomena were mostly spread among the Icelandic population. Not everybody, however, possesses this paranor- mal gift. Why this is the case, is still unknown. The Icelanders themselves would lil c (&know why so many dc@ e people of other count 'esgr -'vid this gift The best book about the p .. ;,or, @l experic I#cs of the people in u Iceland is that writte by,Gu-undur Finnbogason b C y (Reykjavik, 1933). a 'x r The principal parano at ex rience described is the 0 I dream. The dream might pr gnitive, or one that in- r p .r forms the dreamer about mi ng object, or where to n m g find missing people, dead oat* c. Many dreams have a 0 a d symbolic meaning th9t have decoded' Dream appari- v c .pe tions are also often mention The man or woman who i on h T was drowned or murdered ap rs in the dream of one of d their beloved ones, and tel where she or he can be t'l wher found. The, article gives many amptes of clairvoyant men any ampt, and women whose second i t is not only active in nditis dreams, but also when fully w e. These clairvoyants of- 'llyw'. ten know special things, e.g w re to find runaway cattle ,.gwret or horses, the hour and an of the death of certain .. of hwc( people, the finding of th c w committed criminal ac- tions, etc. - GZ 02453. Van de K 0 Some paranormal phenomena the aut.Z0finA,2st' ated at first hand. at 3 Tijdschrift voor Paraps, ologie, 34, 6, 216-223. .some of f Describes own ps ic experiences. One s pk involved knowing a yoiffig patient would die where there were no overt gns th, h would do so. The second in y t c volved the dream of a#emale relative concerning theft in the largest church in da. All but one detail was later verified. - 02JR.A.W.10 02454. Tenhaeff, C. Pygmies of Central Africa and their paranor at capacities. Tijdschrift voor Parapsychologie, 19 6, 301-306. [Reprinted from R.P. Priller, Les Pymees de la Foret Equatoriate. Paris@ 1934.1 Ouotes some psi experiences of African pygmies described by R.P. Triller. Their sorcerers used a scrying method of polished copper or mirrors to obtain informa- tion. Several cases of ESP, some precognitive, are described. - G.ZJR.A.W. GERMAN LANGUAGE (Editor: Gerd H. Ef6velmann) ZEITSCHRIFT F&R PARAPSYCHOLOGIE UND GREIVZGEBIETE DER PSYCHOLOGIE 024SS. Kcil, 11.11. J@rgen. Pavel Stepanek and the focusing effect. Zeitschrift fir Parapsychologie und Grenzgebiete der Psychologie, 1977, 19(l), 1-22. 33 refs Stepanek emerged in the 1960s as one of the most successful and consistent ESP subjects. Over a period of 26 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0700710001-2