Paranormal healing methods in the Philippines

2 The tour group consisted of: 1. Professor Dr. W. Schiebeler (Director) University of Applied Science Ravensburg, FB physical technology. 2. Professor Certified Engineer B. Kirchgässner , University of Applied Science Ravensburg. 3. Dr. H. Naegeli, Physician, Swiss Parapsychological Society, Zurich. 4. Katharina Nager , Swiss Parapsychological Society, Zurich. 5. Certified Engineer Manfred Kraus , University of Applied Science Ravensburg. The films were published in 1974, respectively in 1981 by the Institute for Scientific Films , Göttingen (Director: Professor Dr. Engineer G. Wolf ). They are 16mm colour films with magnetic sound in German and optical sound in English, length about 500m, running time 46 minutes, respectively 48 minutes at a projection speed of 24 pictures per second. These films can also be rented from the Institute for Scientific Films, Nonnenstieg 72, D-37075 Göttingen and purchased for scientific research purposes. All commercial film rights are the property of Professor Dr. W. Schiebeler. The first film was awarded the Ernesto Bozzano Price on the 9 th of June 1974 for being the best parapsychological documentary film at the 6. International Congress for Parapsychology of the Associazione Italiana Scientifica di Metapsichica in Genua under the presidency of Ettore Mengoli . Professor Ernesto Bozzano (1862-1943) was the most eminent Italian researcher in the field of parapsychology. He wrote around 25 books and a number of hundreds of newspaper articles. Bad Salzuflen, February 2002 2. Introduction There have been healers amongst native tribes and civilised nations that treat people and animals in a manner that is far removed from our school taught medicine and also from our accepted forms of naturopathy. They utilise paranormal healing methods in the process. One also talks about so-called “ spiritual healing ”. Processes reveal themselves thereby that can also be observed with other paranormal events, partially experimentally triggered, partially appearing spontaneously. These processes are nowadays classified as part of the science of parapsychology or its sub-discipline para- psychophysics. Parapsychology is of special interest to scientists, because forms of transformation of energy and changes to the physical are observed within its range of occurrences that do not appear in common physics. The paranormal changeability of physical matter also makes a visual appearance in forms of extreme so-called “spiritual healing”, like for instance in the religious arena, something that can at times be observed in Lourdes 1 and other places. There are well researched cases wherein larger missing bone or tissue pieces were replaced within seconds and large open wounds closed. In order to fully comprehend the processes shown in this work and on film, comprehensive prior knowledge of the physical phenomena within parapsychology, of spiritual healing in its various forms and the so-called spiritistic hypothesis 2 as an explanation of certain parapsychological processes, are a prerequisite. Those that do not have this prior knowledge or think that the whole subject is a lot of nonsense anyway, will possibly find the content of this treatise and the films incomprehensible or simply regard the presented processes as fraud or trickery. These observers 1 See references 5; 19; 23 2 See references 16; 17