PARAPSYCHOLOGY ABSTRACTS INTERNATIONAL, 02447. KOSTER, H.E. ASPECTS OF THE OCCULT.

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 quisition and seemed determined to ban "claims of the
 paranormalThe author states that blind faith in one's
 own belief leads to underestimating the quality of the
 proponent and the complexity  of the subject under discus-
 sion.   This explains the unfair treatment of the French
 psychologist/statistician, Michel Gauquelin.   Hoebens and
 other skeptics who supported the investigation of Gau,
 quelin feared that the Committee was a lost cause:  All
 moderates would probably leave and turn their backs on
 the crusaders.  Fortunately, this year (1984) a "Reappraisal"
 took place through internal and external pressure.   It
 seems to the author that they have learned their lesson
 from this affair.  He praises the new evolution which aims
 at  cooperation    between  skeptics  and  critical para-
 psychologists as allies in the fight against irrationalism. -
 D.D.
 02441.  Dumalln, Daniel.    Spierlezen: "The show must
 go on ...." Psi-Forum, 1984, 1(1), 25-29. 1 ref
 The human automatic reflexes are used in a number
 of mentalistic tricks and can give the layman the impres-
 sion of a paranormal feat.                           In a few recent TV programs;
 this method was used by people who claimed to be
 psychics.  In our home town (Ghent, Belgium), a man is
 still performing this act under the guise of telepathy.  This
 article shows under what form and in what way human
 reflexes can be used to give people the impression that
 one is gifted with psychic abilities. - D.D.
 02442. Martens, Ronny.  Randi's Project Alpha.           Psi-
 Forum, 1984, 1(1), 30-35.  2 ref
 The history of parapsychology is heavily marked by
 fraud and poorly controlled experiments. This article re-
 views an experiment by Randi (Project Alpha) to test cur-
 rent parapsychological research standards.                              Unfortunately,
 Randi's experiment shows that things have not improved
 through the  years.  His two hypotheses: (1) that the
 availability of money does not necessarily improve research
 standards and (2) that scientists are in a very bad position
 to uncover subject fraud, were confirmed. The author con-
 cludes (a) that Randi's experiment urges the paranormal
 investigator to reconsider his position and research, and (b)
 both the researcher and the skeptic should strive towards a
 meaningful dialogue and cooperation. - DA
 02443.  Zorab, George.  Poltergeist-syndrome.  Psi-
 Forum, 1984, 1(2), 66-81.  7 refs
 The author traces the origin of the term "poltergeist"
 and the history of the phenomena.  This is illustrated with
 well-known cases between the years 1450-1968. The author
 states that now, after 50 years, it has become clear that
 there is no difference between local (haunting) and per-
 sonal (poltergeist) hauntings.   In both cases the same
 phenomena can occur.  He concludes that the paranormal
 is dominated by the living and there is no need for super-
 natural entities. - DA
 02444.  Gondry, Dirk. 250 years:  Franz A. Mesmer.
 Psi-Forum, 1984, 1(2), 86-82.  13 refs
 The career of Mesmer is placed in its historical con-
 text. The author shows that the ideas of Mesmer were not
 original, but can be placed next to the works of other
 authors as early as 450 B.C. His idea of animal magnetism
 and his life seem to have been influenced by several per-
 sons such as M.  Hell,  Count de Gebelin,  and Maria-
 Theresia Paradis.    After his downfall his ideas were taken
 up by several persons such as Dr. E. Perkins (U.S.) and de
 Puys6gur (France). - DA
 02445. Martens, Ronny. Observational theories: Part 1.
 Psi-Forum, 1984, 1(2), 108-117.  7 refs
 The author introduces the reader to the new observa-
 tional theories within the field of parapsychology.  These
 theories are based on quantum physics, which shares some
 elements with paranormal phenomena.    The reader is
 provided with an introduction to quantum physics upon
 which  two of the three  most developed theories are
 elaborated. - DA
 TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR PARAPSYCHOLOGIE
 02446.  Tenhaeff, W.M.C.  Spontaneous clairvoyance.
 Tijdschrift voor Parapsychologie, 1932/1933, 5, 62-79.
 Tenhaeff notes that since 1929 many people have
 written to him about clairvoyant experiences, which were
 mostly of a precognitive nature.   A drawback was that
 none of the cases was told to other people so that they
 could be corroborated.  He presents 10 of the cases. - G.Z.
 02447. Koster, II.E. Aspects of the occult. Tijdschrift
 voor Parapsychologie, 1934, 6, 24-26.
 Serious investigators of the occult, i.e., the paranor-
 mal, have observed several times that the manifesting en-
 tities at seances are not able to see what is happening in
 the seance room.   This fact applies especially to those
 seances where table-tilting,  planchette-writing, and other
 such phenomena take place.    The Dutch spiritualist, Mr. de
 Fremery, during a seance asked the manifesting entity if it
 knew what the persons attending the seance were doing.
 The answer was, "You are busy washing the dishes."  The
 answer was given by the table knocking with one of its
 legs on the floor.  Mr. Koster writes that he himself once
 put that same question to the entity that was present at
 the seance he was attending.  The answer was, "Y"ou are
 doing the washing with a washingboard:'
 For a long time Mr. Koster thought about this queer
 kind of sight of the spirits but failed to find any explana-
 tion.  Some years later, when staying in Java, he believed
 he had the explanation.   In Java he had himself mag-
 netized.  When he fell into a kind of magnetic sleep, he
 suddenly found that his sight has become quite different.
 It is his opinion that a deceased person is in the same
 situation as a living person in a magnetized trance.  Al-
 tered perceptions occur in both situations. - G.Z.
 02448. Dietz, P.A. Experiments concerning the homing
 of dogs.  Tijdschrift voor Parapsychologie, 1934, 6, 86-
 92.
 These experiments took, place in the South of Ger-
 many in the neighborhood of Munich.  Three dogs were
 tested.  The transport of a dog was done in such a way
 that it could not see where it was going.   They were
 taken to a place about 6 miles from their home, in the
 middle of woods and hills.  According to the experimenters
 the dogs found their way home not by using their senses,
 but by a capacity of orientation which migrating birds also
 possess. - G.Z.
 02449. Tenhaeff, W.H.C.  Dr. G. van Rijnberg and
 parapsychology. Tijdschrift voor Parapsychologie, 1934,
 6, 123-129.
 Professor van Rijnbcrg, who for many years was the
 editor of a prominent Dutch medical journal, was inter-
 ested in spiritualism and all things mystical.  He was one
 of the very few Dutch people who attended seances with
 the famous medium Eusapia Palladino.  He published what
 he observed at these seances in a Dutch periodical under
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