04040. BASTERFIELD, KEITH, AND BOLTEN, STEVEN. POLTERGEIST: WARNBRO (W.A.)

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 Exceptional Human Experience
 Flow in Everyday Life" (8).  The last essay may be the most
 interesting--in it Csikszentmihalyi discusses "the future of
 flow." - R.A.W.
 04037. Privette, G. Dynamics of peak performance. Jour-
 nal of Humanistic Psychology, 1981 (Win), 21(1), 57-67.
 Are  there  common elements in experiences of high
 level performance in   different   activities?   This   ex-
 ploratory                    study initiates a research basis for understanding
 superior use of human  potential.    Peak   performance,
 defined operationally as behavior that exceeds one's predict-
 able level of functioning, represents superior  use  of poten-
 tial in any human endeavor. Examined were episodes                  of
 peak performance reported by adult subjects in four groups:
 psychology, creative arts, adult education, and graduate coun-
 seling.  Factor analyses and ANOVA of factor scores were
 used to   compare reported   experiences of     superior
 functioning with those  of  average  behavior. Results indi-
 cated that peak performance  is an independent entity with
 distinguishing phenomenological dimensions. These dimen-
 sions  of peak performance include: (a)  absorption                 and
 clarity which comprise clear focus upon both object  and
 self, (b) spontaneity and unrestrained behavior, and (c) ex-
 pression of self. - DA
 PLANETARY/COSMIC
 04038. Pollard, Frank. A theology for the new age. Jour-
 nal of Religion and Psychical Research, 1990 (Apr), 13(2),
 94-96. 8 refs
 The author proposes that "an integration of [several]
 concepts could constitute a new system of belief,  a new
 religion, a new myth, a new directing mechanism in the lives
 of the inhabitants of this planet" (p. 94).  He discusses five
 concepts. - DT
 04039. West, Ross Evan. Gala: The new Mother Earth.
 New Realities, 1989 (Sep/Oct), 10(1), 16-23. 3 photos
 Unlike Darwin, who believed in the survival of the fit-
 test as the biological basis of evolution,  British chemist
 James Lovelock sees cooperation, not competition, as the en-
 gine of biological progress.  A look at his Gaia Hypothesis
 and  its implications for the scientific,  ecological,  and
 spiritual realms. - DA
 POLTERGEISTS/HAUNTINGS
 Elffst: Warnbro (W.A.).    Australian Institute-of Psychic
 refs
 In the summer of 1974, 1975 or 1976, Kath and her
 daughter, 4, came to live in Barry and Sue's house.  Kath
 had an affair with Barry.  This was known to Sue.    Over
 three nights, loud knocks were heard on the windows of the
 house.  The neighbor's children and police could not locate
 anyone outside the house.  On night four, Barry pretended
 to go to work, but crept back to the house.  At midnight,
 loud knocks sounded on the windows.  As the knocks passed
 the front door, Barry fired a speargun through the door.  He
 found no-one outside.   The women became hysterical as
 more knocks sounded on the windows.  All three went to
 bed.  Later, Barry heard a loud scream.  He found Kath
 lying in the hallway with her feet off the ground and her
 Vol. 8, Nos. 1/2 December 1990
 hair back.  Kath stated she _had been dragged out of bed,
 after feeling cold hands on her ankles.  Kath left the house
 at once, and Barry and Sue within the week. - DT/M.J.H.
 04041. Frodsham John.  The  icture that would not
 urn: An unusual haunting.   Australian Institute of
 Tsyc is   esearc  (  P ) Bulletin, 1984 (Aug/Sep), No. 4,
 refs.
 `his article is an edited version of an article from
 Fate [March 1984, 85-901  Mrs. R believed her house in a
 Perth (W.A.) suburb was haunted. She had burnt a morbid
 photography of the gravestone of a child who had died in
 1856, only to later find the photo back in its album.   A
 photo of her father vanished from its shelf, only to later
 reappear.  She saw the apparition of the "gravestone" girl in
 a hallway.   A neighbor's child also reported a young ghost
 in the house.  A glass utensil "flew" and smashed onto the
 floor.  Mrs R suffered insomnia and felt oppressed by the
 house,  but this  was relieved  by  a  Christian  exorcism
 ceremony.   Mrs. R, who is psychic,  perhaps created the
 ghosts as "thought-forms" to resolve some inner conflict
 brought to the surface by the gravestone plot. - DT/MJ.H.
 04042.      Hough,  Michael.    Two haunted brothers.--
 A stralian Institute of Psychic Research (AIPR) Bulletin,
 .1986 (Feb), No. 9, 5-11. 6 illus; 22 refs.
 During the first three months in their house, brothers
 Patrick and Brian (pseudonyms) had  many  unusual  ex-
 periences,                                                                                     mostly upon waking up (hypnagogic imagery).
 Patrick reported apparitions of people standing near the bed;
 a wind that seemed to lift up the doona;  a non-existent
 clock ticking, and cupboard doors moving (they were actually
 shut). Brian, listening to a relaxation tape, saw a scarty devil
 figure. Patrick believed evil was at work; he became ob-
 sessed with witchcraft and numerology-a classic example of
 the "awareness trap."  He set out on a 3000-km car trip in
 search of answers.  The experiences changed Patrick from an
 atheist to a spiritual belief.  Patrick, believing the house to
 be haunted, researched its history.   However, it is more
 likely that, as a result of a traumatic relationship, Brian
 created the imagery himself.  Patrick became drawn in by
 mutual contagion.   Six months later, Patrick had lost his ob-
 session.  He know uses his imagery positively and creatively.
 [A reply by one of the brothers, Peter King, appears in
 AIPR Bulletin 10, 31-15.] - DA/MJ.H.
 04043. Playfair, Guy Lyon, and Grosse, Maurice.  En-
 field revisited: The evaporation of positive evidence.
 Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 1988 (Oct),
 55(813), 208-219.  12 refs
 From September 1977 to October 1978 the authors inves-
 tigated spontaneous events in a North London house, the
 scene of what has become known as the Enfield poltergeist.
 Their  findings    were  published  in  a  book  and  widely
 publicized.  They reflect here on some of the problems faced
 by those who claim to have obtained positive evidence. - DA
 04044.  Schwalm, Maurice.  Psychical and mystical ex-
 perience. H. The ghost with two guns and three graves.
 Journal of Religion and Psychical Research, 1989 (Jul),
 12(3), 155-158.
 Case of an apparition of a priest, Fr. Henry David Jar-
 dine, about whom Paul Wellman wrote The Chain (1949).
 The ghost of the priest is seen at Old St. Luke's Episcopal
 Church in Kansas City, MO. - R.A.W.
 04045.   Time-Life Books.  (Editors).  .   Hauntings.
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