BINSKI, SIGURD. PERFORMANCES BY A SINGLE SUBJECT IN EXPLORATORY PK EXPERIMENTS.

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fikr titudes of the adult population of Western Germany towards
astrology. Whilst about half of those interviewed deny any rela-
tion between human destiny and the stars, approximately 30%
believe it to be a fact and to the rest it seems not impossible.
More than half of the population sympathizes more or less with
astrology, but in most cases this attitude is derived exclusively
from acquaintance with popularized "horoscopes" of the
newspapers. Only 7% know their individual horoscopes, but
69% the sign of the Zodiac corresponding to the month of their
birth. The sympathizers are classified according to different
points of view: sex, schooling, belief in series of luck and ill
luck, sensitivity to meteorological influences etc. The investiga-
tion shows that the belief in astrology which is vespread in all
classes of the population presents an important p blem of men-
es a statistical
horoscopes of
terpreted by the
arrangement in-
of figures to which a
stimulating an ar-
in nature as their
coercion, mechanics,
110. Jung, Carl Gust
Zeitschrift fur Parapsy
from the second chapter of t
Acausal Connecting Principle,
and senselessness.- DA
111. Gauquelin, Michel. The
der Psychologie, 1957, 1 (2
astrology on a scientific level.
On the one hand, his experi
that astrology as such has n
namely the daily revolution
tier problem of the
and Grenzgebiete de
by Bergson) to
and results of
bearing of the
parapsychology to other branches of science and the elements
of current hypotheses are dealt with.-DA
113. Uslar, Detlev von. On the dreamlike structure of
telepathic assertions. Part I. Zeitschrift fiir Parapsychologie
and Grenzgebiete der Psychologie, 1957158, 1 (2/3), 166-188. 1
ref.-Images induced by telepathy for the most part do not
represent reality in a distinct and conscious way, but rather real
facts are elaborated in a dreamlike way. In verifying these im-
ages we have to use the experiences and methods of dream-
psychology.
r flu
f hol
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ence of
on the
author's book,
which he desc
significa
of a
e and Grenzgebiete
ality or illusion of
ents led hirr o the conclusion
the stars, whicriforced him to
eory of probability and the importance of spon-
kground for the interpretation of statistical
ranormal phenomena. Finally the relations of
W in periment with
structure and
the method of its interpretation. Psychometric object was a
marriage-ring.
It became evident that the material elaborated in the telepath-
ic assertions had its origin in the conscious and subconscious
memory of two persons: the owner of the ring and his wife.
In this case the telepathic communication appears as a texture
of relations, with a marked preference for affectively accentuat-
ed material.-DA
114. Neuhausler, Anton. Precognition, time and
freedom. Zeitschrift fur Parapsychologie and Grenzgebeite
der Psychologie, 1957/58, 1 (2/3), 189-201.- If we acknowledge
the existence of precognition, the idea of a fixed future is con-
nected to it. This would entail a denial of freedom as ability to
determine what is not yet determined. The elimination of time
from reality, however, is impossible. Whenever there are
material quanta (mass, energy) existing in different states ex-
cluding each other-e.g., a house that is both itn intact and in
a demolished state- then therfis time as mode succession. In
L e.g., the crash
cal crash of the
cision for or against
tance or refusal of
dulit
ken as a thr
Grenzgebiete der Psychologie, 1958, 2
author discusses a series of cases concer-
success was obtained, there are many where the statements of
the sensitives were of no practical value but proved to be of
parapsychological interest. The contribution deals mainly with
the depth analysis of such failures. The author follows up the
motivation of the paranormal impressions in connection with
the sensitives' history of life. Affective factors often seem to
divert the sensitives from the task in question. Laymen should
not consult sensitives for only experts can make allowance for
the many sources of errors (e.g. telepathic transference of ex-
pectations). - DA
117. Binski, Sigurd. Performances by a single subject in
exploratory PK experiments. Zeitschrift fur Parapsy-
chologie and Grenzgebiete der Psychologie, 1958, 2 (1), 30-40.
11 refs. - The author briefly reports two series of exploratory PK
experiments carried out at the Psychological Institute of Bonn
University. In the first series, 153,000 coins were thrown in
tosses of a hundred at a time. The subjects tried to determine in
advance the side onto which the coins fell through psychic in-
fluence (by willing it). In the second series, the subjects tried to
direct 26,200 balls to the targets "black" or "red" of a roulette
wheel. The total results were not beyond chance expectation
but one subject went considerably beyond the conventional
chance limits especially in the first series. This confirms some
human freedom lies beyond th
precognition.- DA
through their irrationality, throug
ordinary patterns, through their im
with difficulty, is defended to-
apparatus whenever stimulat
mostly archaic structure are
scientific objectivity is
116. Tenhaeff, W)
paranormal faculti
(1), 10-29.3 refs.-
ning the use of sen
mage of th
They ca
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d familiar experiences
it divergence from the
ho-dynamic concep-
the magic mentality
1-functioning mental
to the very basis of
s of denial have to
at an approach to
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conclusions of importance for psi investigations. - DA
1.18._ Strauch, Inge. A contribution to the problem of
"spiritual healing': Preliminary report on a medico-
psychological investigation. Part I. Zeitschrift fur Parapsy-
chologie und Grenzgebiete der Psychologie, 1958, 2 (1), 41-64.
20 refs.-Starting from the definition o ritual healing" given
rg U
ed and the results of the
us diseases'Three quarters of the
In contrast to these improvements
ods are proposed and the agencies of
by Thouless, the author report
and the results of an investiga
Medizinische Poliklinik of Fre
concerning the activity of a "spiri
patients were chronically i,
Finally, the psycholo
"spiritual healing" are discussed.-DA
119. Sexauer, Hans. A contribution to the
Zeitschrift fu"-r- Para psycho
Psychologie, 1958, 2 (2/3),
phenomena are of a very complex
cludes qualities in close relation to the
anxiety.
Poltergeist phenomena may be divid
groups: those of a dynamic character as
and those apparently attached to certai
no parapsychological theory of polterg
hallucinations and to dream experien
chological point of view the decisive
which way do they.-DA
120. Ehrenwald, Jan. Do
psychotherapy and problems o
Psychologie, 1958, 2 (2/3), 127-
concerning the validity of his
favorite scientific hypotheses.
scious or unconscious, to "op
also be aided by telepathic le
with objects studied on th
of comparison between
various other causal and
both quantum mechani
to date by integrati
thought.-DA
121. Uslar, Detlev von. On the dreamlike structure of
telepathic assertions. Part II. Zeitschrift Air Parapsy-
chologie and Grenzgebiete der Psychologie, 1958/59, 2 (2/3),
145-172.-The sensitive's impressions induced by the telepathic
situation often present important deviations in relation to the
material which seems to provoke the parapsychic perception. In
analyzing these deviations it becomes obvious that they repre-
sent a meaningful and interpretable product of dream
mechanisms (e.g. concentration, displacement, etc.). The author
poses the question of their origin: are these deviations produced
by the mind of the sensitive or are they elaborated by the sub-
conscious of the subject (the presumable reagent"), or~~aarreV/ttheesKe
deviationsAhc, .s~t ttl~r$~e s; AW1 28 aeSoetL~UdB/1
same time they
pted data and a
nal resonance.
course make ob-
any forms of pol-
into two different
ated with persons,
ecific parallels to
he catatVmic pseudo-
and Grenzgeb$te der
ed as compliance bylhe pa-
wn theoretical concept and
and psychoanalytic theory brought up
the psi factor with its system of
ampler shows that the deviation had its origin in the mind of the
subject. However, these considerations do not seem to exhaust
the complexity of the telepathic phenomena, which possibly
might be understood as an intrinsic reciprocity between the
psyches involved. Further research should also stress the
analysis of the unverifiable "mediumistic material" which could
perhaps indicate how e telepathic ocess is imbedded in the
psychism of the sensi r e, and thus pen the path to under-
standing the relations between lepathy and individual
122. Bender, Hans. diumi c ,psychoses: A contribu-
tion to the pathology o it listic practices. Zeitschrift
fur Parapsychologie un Gr zgebiete der Psychologie,
1958/59, 2 (213), 173-201.2 of This paper on the pathology
of spiritualistic practices (t -tilting, ouija-board, automatic
writing, pendulum, etc.) des es by a series of characteristic
cases, typical mental distur ces arising in connection with
the alleged spirit-communi i . The emotional shock, caused
by the misinterpreted exp ien of the spiritual world by the
subject, is important for t at genesis of these disturbances
which in the German iterat a are termed "mediumistic
psychoses." This misint pretatio is induced by subconscious
manifestations which - ply cha cteristic features of an in-
telligent activity. This ubconsci s activity is a sort of "in-
dependent thinking," of controll by the conscious mind.
Such a mental auto ism may res in the frame of the normal
but there is the da er of patholo cal degenerations arising,
which are characte ed by auditor hallucinations, delusions,
compulsions, etc., hich are often misinterpreted as symptoms
of schizophrenia ut with the exception of transition-cases they
are rather attributable to hysterical manifestations (ego-
weakness, deintegration, autonomous complexes). - DA
Spearheaded by Paola Giovetti, Ph.D., a group of Italian para-
psychologists have promised to prepare English-language ab-
stracts of the Italian parapsychological literature. In the mean-
time, Michela. Alfieri f the Metapsichica Rivista Italiana di Para-
psicologia has genero ly supplied the Para svchology Sources
of Information Cente ith a run of back i sues. Since 1965 it
has published English- guage abstracts, four of which are
123. Inardi, Massimo piritism in razil. Metapsichica
Rivista Italiana di Parap ologia, I f65 (JuUDec), 20 (3/4),
Ft-Rd--Rased on the book, itism i Brazil, by a Capuchin
friar, Bonaventuie Kloppenbu f t Catholic University of
Rio de Janeiro, this paper describ a situation of spiritism in
e ect statistical data
Brazil. Shows by means of direct indirect
that such practices are widely s a roughout the country.
He describes the doctrinal pict , and t ches upon three prin-
cipal currents or movements to whic piritism has split in
Brazil and also the branches to which ea movement has fur-
ther divided over a period o ime. He als onsiders the general
and particular cases whit ave brought or may have brought
about such a wide and eply rooted diffusion of these prac-
tices. Briefly describes- in an ethnological point of view -the
spiritistic-fetishistic rit principally of African origin, with
American interaction and with Christian religious syncretism,
which are commonly known by the name of
"Umbanda."- DAIR.A.W.
124. Riccardi, Nicola. An orientation considering the re-
establishment of psychical research. Metapsichica Rivista
Italiana di Parapsicologia, 1965, (Jul/Dec), 22 (314),
102-111.-In an article recently published in Luce e Ombra, the
author proposes that the vitalistic concept of the "aura" is the
turning point of paranormal phenomenology. He urges large
scientific institutions to conduct controlled research into the
aura, enlisting many teams uncompromised with spiritualism or
parapsychology to engage in free interdisciplinary operational
research in this subject. Longitudinal repetitions of mediumistic
apports in the laboratory would be likely to make it possible to
identify the permanent presence of psychical transmutations in
the mechanism of sensory perception as well. We can see, then,
the gradual nullification of the artificial walls between the nor-
mal and the paranormal. The basic hypothesis is that the events
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