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 (2)  of  Josh  Pedro  de  Freitas  ("Ze  Arigo),  the  famous
 Brazilian  medium  of  but  elementary  school  education,
 wltose  spirit  personality,     "Adolfo  Fritz;'  performed- in-
 numerous  invasive  surgeries,  and  who  engendered  con-
 siderable controversy with Brazilian medical associations. -
 P.V.G.
 03141. Anicvas, 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,  O 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.
 ~F~'' j~j,~r E.A.  -Our opinion. Revista de Para=
 of gra, 1974  2(7), 18-23.  4 illus; 1 ref
 Friderichs reports on his investigation of the 12- ea~r-
 old Margarida Araujo of Paraquacu, Minas Gerais, _  rB azilT+
 who claimed to see 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). -F.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.  Anicvas, Joaquim.  Facts of real life. Revista de
 Parapsicologia, 1974, 2(7), 28-29. Z illus
 Two  spontaneous  cases  are  described  and  evaluated:
 (1) a commentary on a case of 'Tiptology" (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  case  attracted  a great deal of attention.
 Many held         vigil around the house  to "catch" the window
 knockers.         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 VI.  Revista de Parapsicologia, 1974, 2(8), 4-13.  9
 illus; 21 refs
 In this sixth article in a ,series of IS articles on heal-
 ing,   several  techniques  and  theories  of  psychic  diagnosis
 are discussed and critically evaluated.  These are primarily
 radiesthesia,  the perception of diverse cerebral radiations
 which  are  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
 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 Exorcist  became a psychic
 thriller 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 Rodrigues,
 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 G.  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.R.K. 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 physicians and given a prognosis
 of certain death, who was cured during a visit to Lourdes?
 -P.V.G.
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 (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 Conference 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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