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337-343.
The author, thanks to the long-time mediumistic ex-
periences he has had with "Entity A," trics, once again, to
clarify what is meant by an "incarnative programme of real
ego" (spirit), especially as the necessary component of the
whole evolutionary process and, consequently, of the real
ego itself of whom the individual is simply a temporary
instrument. - DA
03062. De Boni, Lina. Four sittings with Demofilo
Fidani. Luce e Ombra, 1987 (Oct/Dec), 87(4), 344-361. 4
figs
Some sittings obtained through the mediumship of
Demofilo Fidani are described. During these séances, im-
portant phenomena were produced such as direct voice,
direct writing, partial materializations, apports, lights,
automatic raps, and so on. The author describes their
manners of expression and, in particular, underlines the
way her father's spirit, known in this life as Dr. Gastone
De Boni, contacted her. In fact, the identification of the
deceased man's voice is given for sure. She identified his
way of talking by the personal inflection of the voice.
Furthermore, from the same entity came communications
by means of direct writing, which reproduced in a remark-
able way the same handwriting Dr. De Boni had when he
was alive. On the whole, very important mediumistic
physical and paraphysical phenomena were seen by the sit-
ters, so that it is necessary to consider each type of
phenomenon specifically, but first of all with the one
about survival. - DA
03063. Giovetti, Paola. Therese Neumann of Kon-
hersreuth, Luce e Ombra, 1987 (Oct/Dec), 87(4), 362-369.7
Twenty five years ago on September 18, 1962, Therese
Neumann died in Konnersreuth (West Germany), the place
where she was born in 1898 and where she spent her life.
Her family was very poor so she could only attend
primary school. At the age of 20, because of an accident,
she became paralyzed and blind. But 4 years later she
was able to recover her sight on the same day as Thérese
of Liseux's beatification. Furthermore, 2 years later, when
Thérese of Lisieux became Saint, she could walk again. In
the same year she started having visions of the Via Crucis
and received the stigmata. These visions were with her all
her life. Every Friday she saw the suffering in Jesus' pas-
sion while her stigmata were bleeding.
After having
received the stigmata, she refused drinks and foods, feed-
ing herself for 36 years exclusively through the daily Holy
Communion. Her total fast was controlled by the Church
and by medical doctors. In Therese Neumann's life,
paranormal phenomena appeared frequently. During her
visions she spoke languages she never learned (Latin, Por-
tuguese, Aramaic), she could bilocate, and had an extraor-
dinary capacity of clairvoyance and telepathy. Therese
Neumann's process of canonization is underway. - DA
03064. Liverziani, Filippo. Mediumistic communica-
tions among living people: A recent case. Luce e
Ombra, 1987 (Oct/Dec), 87(4), 370-378.
Describes a mediumistic telewriting communication
that the author and his wife, Bettina, recently had with a
living man absolutely unknown to them. Later, the author
met this person and had a long conversation with him. He
is a hairdresser named Michele Calabro who lives in
Rome. In their first interview, the "astral" one, Calabro
gave several facts about his own person, work, and shop.
Many data are literally exact whereas others need a little
explanation, but nevertheless they appear to be substan-
tially correct. The language, too, turned out to be like the
one used by the "projector" man, who is an up-to-date,
very young hairdresser. The way he is used to talking is
completely unknown to the author's wife too. Liverziani
analyzes the entire phenomenon and compares it to similar
experiences, particularly to those the same experimenters
have had already, in order to make a thorough study of
the mechanism involved and to draw wider conclusions. -
DA
METAPSICHICA RIVISTA ITALIANA
DI PARAPSICOLOGIA
03065.
Comin, J.
Problems which must be re-
examined:
"Child mediums." Metapsichica Rivista
Italiana di Parapsicologia, 1972 (Jan/Jun), 27(1/2), 1-9.
The author, referring to the well-known book by
A.R.G. Owen on the poltergeist, reexamines some cases of
mediumship in early childhood, and suggests that these
cases be submitted to the attention of parapsychologists,
psychoanalysts, and even to psychologists with a view to
creating new tests for child mediums. - DA/R.A.W.
03066. Granone, F. The Philippine surgeon-healers.
Metapsichica Rivista Italiana di Parapsicologia, 1972
(Jan/Jun), 27(1/2), 10-17.
For a fortnight the author attended various diagnostic
and therapeutic interventions effected by Philippine psychic
surgeons, and he describes some of them for which he pos-
sesses cinematographic and photographic documentation.
He also possesses tests of blood and parts of tissues carried
out by specialized universities, the reports of which are
published in a more extensive text. The author ascer-
tained several tricks employed by the psychic surgeons:
They pretend to remove tissues that by the istologic test
are found to have been preserved outside the organism
and therefore are putrefied; they effect surgical operations
during which blood is seen flowing, but afterwards by test
the blood is found to be dyed water; they pretend to ex-
tract some calculus from the human body, which are small
stones or pieces of salt, prepared in advance and hidden
under the surgeon's table. The author must acknowledge,
however, that the psychic surgeons know very well the art
of massage and the chiropractic, that sometimes they issue
some very clever diagnoses (in trance condition), that they
are able to create a state of lucid hypnosis, of analgesia,
and often of swift haemostasis-all this by methods called
paranormal. The author explains these phenomena on a
historical basis: He thinks it might be connected with the
local spiritistic Christian Philippine sects, and with the
more considerable "transcultural" medicine, which shows
many similarities with that of Brazil and Africa.
The
physicians explain the phenomena of healing as follows:
The surgeon healer creates in the mind of the patient a
particular monoideism, more or less suggestive, and emo-
tionally capable of modifying the somatic and visceral con-
ditions (by means of the cortical visceral centers, the
diencephalic-mesencephalic zone and the autonomic nervous
system), according to neurophysiological and psychological
dynamics previously described by the author in his treatise
on medical hypnosis. - DA
03067. Borello, L. Chronovision. Metapsichica Rivista
Italiana di Parapsicologia, 1972 (Jan/Jun), 27(1/2), 18-21.
"Chronovision" is a new term defined as the pos-
sibility of seeing again the images and of hearing again
the sounds of the past. The clamor aroused by the publi-
cations on this subject indicates only that these problems
exist. Their concrete reality is very different. The physi-
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