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Vol. 7, No. 2 December 1989
"signals," i.e., those of what the author calls the "real ego."
It is, therefore, possible to affirm that in facing the
regressive movement necessitated by conditioning and exter-
nal reality, the "interior area" has various reactions; one of
these can appear as a paranormal emergency.
Therefore, in spite of all, the inner part of human
personality aims to accomplish its own subjective ex-
perience compared with the outside world. At the same
time it does have an objective base, common to all human
beings.
This can be experience according to universal
knowledge forms (H. Margenau, A. Huxley) or archetypes.
This means that there is a priori an interior quality that is
objective; and as a consequence, it has a metaphysical na-
ture. All these considerations -- and more -- are supporting the
return of a "culture of interiority." As concerns parap-
sychology, all of the above lead us to take into considera-
tion a triple root in the existence of psi phenomena: (1)
the living being's virtuality; (2) the existence of a terminal
in paranormal phenomena; and (3) the possible existence of
an extra-physical starting source (a metaphysical one)
having parameters in common with all human beings, conse-
quently, it is necessary to investigate this possible "starting
source" and, above all, the most interesting and odd con-
tents of mediumistic psi phenomena. - DA/R.A.W.
03594. Ravaldini, Silvio. The De Boni case. Luce e
Ombra, 1988 (Apr/Jun), 88(2), 97-106.
During a séance held by the medium D. Fidani in
Rome, a message has been received, signed by the previous
Director of this Journal, who died two years ago in Sep-
tember, Dr. Gastone De Boni. In order to obtain further
proof of identification, we sent the above message to the
Italian Graphological Institute together with one we
removed from the notebook he was using when alive. Of
course, in the letter enclosing the two writing samples, we
did not mention that perhaps they belonged to the same
person.
After having fully examined the two letters, the
Institute confirmed they were written by the same person.
No mistake was possible because, as they added, the writer
was affected by Parkinson's disease. In the very last years
of his earthly life, Dr. De Boni was affected by the above
discase, but we can assure all those who are reading this
that nobody informed the researchers working in the In-
stitute that the messages were coming to somebody we
perhaps knew. We can add that Dr. De Boni's daughter
who was present at the seance was impressed by this fact.
- DA/R.A.W.
03595. Masi, Felice. Magical events are paranormal
events. Luce e Ombra, 1988 (Apr/Jun), 88(2), 107-115.
9
refs
The author, as a scholar of psychology, parapsychol-
ogy, and anthropology, explains why, in his point of view,
magic events observed among primitive populations are
nothing else but paranormal events, similar to those
studied by parapsychology. As a matter of fact we see
that: (1) the nature of the phenomena occurring in the two
fields is the same; (2) in both cases the result is between
mind and outside action; (3) both belong to the uncon-
scious; (4) they both spring out of it when the unconscious
is enabled, through proper rituals, to emerge and operate;
(5) in both cases the phenomena obey not physical, but
psychological laws, and firstly the principle of synchronism.
Parapsychological events therefore are different from magi-
cal ones because the latter, in their external appearance,
show the traditional and cultural image of the people with
whom they occur. - DA/R.A.W.
03596. Trajna, Carlo M. Life, death and activities of
the "Father of Voices." Luce e Ombra, 1988 (Apr/Jun),
88(2), 120-127.
The author provides a short history of F. Jürgenson's
life which was full of different, and sometimes traumatic,
experiences in Russia, Italy, Israel, and Estonia. A sup-
posed paranormal phenomenon that happened during
Jurgenson's funeral service is described. His face appeared
on a TV screen and was photographed with a Polaroid
camera. - DT/R.A.W.
03597. Simone, Giorgio di. Converging mediumistic
messages. Luce e Ombra, 1988 (Apr/Jun), 88(2), 128-152.
18 refs
The author analyses the most important convergences
between recent French mediumistic messages and those
received from the "A" Entity during Italian séances by
means of a medium in talking-trance. It is a graded and
necessarily brief approach to basic opinions concerning
earth experiences -- matter experiences -- the fusion in God of
the spirit -- the rationality of the other world -- the mystery
of God -- the non-existence of evil as principle -- all this
through the enunciation of constants, that is to say, of
concepts concerning the other dimension that are similar
among themselves within the best mediumistic communica-
tions both in the past and today. For example, how the
disembodied see our world, how it is possible for them to
give help to humans, the nature of postmortem lethargy,
the self-judgment, the ideoplastic suspected to create sen-
sory or psychic illusions, the risks involved in mediumistic
communication, and so on.
For the above considerations,
the author consulted the books written by the French Jean
Prieur, who was the interpreter of the presumed com-
munications beyond the border and mostly of those regard-
ing the presumed mediumistic intercourse between Marcelle
de Jouvenal and her dead son "Roland," and those where
Mrs. Jeanne Morrannier wrote the messages of her dead
son "George." - DT/R.A.W.
03598. Giovetti, Paola.
Jung and paranormal
phenomena. Luce e Ombra, 1988 (Apr/Jun), 88(2), 153-161.
This article presents the Italian translation of an im-
portant biography of C.G. Jung, edited by Rizzoli Editore,
and written by the German scholar Gerhard Wehr, with
the title: Jung. It is the first complete historical biog-
raphy of the great Swiss psychologist. The book points out
very well the constant interest Jung had in paranormal
phenomena, his personal experiences in this field, and his
philosophy of life, in which these phenomena figure
largely. - DA/R.A.W.
03599, Ferraro, Alfredo. "Drop-in" and living com-
municators. Luce e Ombra, 1988 (Apr/Jun), 88(2), 162-
165. 2 refs
The author, after having said, as an introduction, that
spiritistic phenomena have no scientific credibility (even if
he does rationally accept them), describes a "drop-in" case
with a living man as the main actor where a realistic ob-
jective confirmation is followed. Such a case taken as an
isolated , example would only have been very interesting
but nothing else. But, after a brief span of time, a similar
event having analogies with the previous one occurred with
the same medium. The main difference was that whereas
in the first case the subject was sleeping, in the second
one, while the phenomenon was taking place, the subject
presented a perfect alibi as confirmation of his mental
watchfulness. After having been made aware of the fact,
the subject in question was not at all astonished because
he told the author it was very similar to the one he had
had years before when he was in a coma and awoke with
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