 |
 |
| Dr. Fotini Pallikari was this summer’s Eileen J. Garrett Library Fellow. Dr. Pallikari, PF International Affiliate for Greece and University of Athens physicist,  has been working on the papers of Greek naval hero, physician and psychical researcher Admiral Angelos Tanagras. She used her week in Greenport to make copies of materials available by and about Tanagras in our archives.
The Foundation staff enjoyed Dr. Pallikari’s visit tremendously. Congratulations to Dr. Pallikari once again! (The photo to the left was taken in the Garrett Library before a Perspectives Lecture. At the podium are Lisette Coly, Executive Director of the Foundation, Dr. Pallikari, and Eileen Coly, the President of the Foundation.) For those interested in Tanagras’ work, the Foundation published his monograph entitled Psychophsycial Elements in Parapsychological Traditions in 1967. It is available for sale on Psi-Mart by clicking here. Chilean psychologist Sergio Schilling obtained his BA in Human Sciences in 2003 from the Universidad Diego Portales, a Licentiate in psychology in 2005 from the Universidad Internacional SEK,  and completed a post-graduate specialization in clinical psychology and hypnotherapy at the Instituto Milton H. Erickson de Santiago in March of 2006.
As an undergraduate student, Schilling founded the the psi research unit at Diego Portales, the only such research group in Chile. Under Schilling’s direction, the unit focuses on understanding the implications of experimental parapsychology through REG research, genetic research of psi experiencers, and the environmental factors that affect apparition experiences, among other approaches. The unit also engages in educational activities. A member of the Parapsychological Association, Schilling has received grants from that group as well as from the Parapsychology Foundation (he was the first winner of the Robert Coly Prize in 2004). He has also participated in a number of conferences and served as a consultant for local and international television shows. Currently he is working on the book series called Ciencia Limite (Boundaries of Science). The series offers a view of several scientific disciplines that investigate consciousness. Fifteen titles are planned, two have already been published: Lenguaje de La Noche edited by Stanley Krippner and Rosa Andwanter and El Poder Magico de Los Sueños written by Rosa Andwanter. Because his planned November visit has to be postponed, Schilling was in residence at the Eileen J. Garrett Library in Greenport, New York, in January of 2007. While at the Library, Schilling used the library’s collection to prepare a review article on possession. His interest in the topic stemmed from his investigation of possession and suicide among members of an aboriginal tribe he encountered in June of 2005 in Union Embrera Katio in northeast Columbia. In a previous study, Schilling compiled data on suicide attempts and completed suicides, especially among girls and young women between the ages of 9 and 20. The community explains the deaths as the result of possession experiences. Schilling began to suspect that psychological, psychiatric, and medical causes may underlie the suicide rate, which may also be exacerbated by social and political unrest in the area. Schilling was particularly interested in the Library’s book and periodical holdings on psychiatric anthropology, abnormal psychology, genetics, general parapsychology, apparitions, poltergeist phenomena, and possession. |
|
||||
 |
|
|
|
 www. parapsychology. org |