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Bozzano, Professor Ernesto
Category: Philosopher
Ernesto Bozzano (Genoa, January 9, 1862 - June 24, 1943) was a professor of philosophy of science at the University of Turin and an Italian spiritist researcher.
He was an active contributor to Italian and French literature on paranormal phenomena, from the turn of the nineteenth century until the early 1940s.
He was also one of the few Italian researchers named as an honorary member of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR), American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR) and Institut Métapsychique International (IMI).
He dedicated himself first to the philosophy of science, being interested in the ideas of the Englishman Herbert Spencer (1820-1903). In 1891 he began to deal with telepathy and especially of Spiritism, subjects that at that time interested both scholars of Europe and America. After this, however, Bozzano devoted himself entirely, in complete solitude and until his death, to the study of Metaphysics and Metapsychics.
More than just an experimenter, he was a researcher, organizer and commentator on "the phenomena related to the rich metapsychic literature of his time", where "visionaries, the gullible, the mythomaniacs and the charlatans" were joined by a few serious scholars.
Bozzano published fifty-two works dealing with a wide range metapsychical subjects: telepathy, psychokinesis, mediumship in general, and other subjects. He also exchanged a great deal of "dense correspondence" with other serious scientists involved in this area. People like the British physicists Sir William Crookes and Oliver Lodge and the French physiologist Charles Richet. At the V International Spiritist Congress, which took place in 1934 in Barcelona, he was the president of honor.
This solitary scholar, who had dedicated much of his life to the attempt to give 'spiritualism' a scientific underpinning, left a library of metapsychics that is regarded as one of the richest in Europe and the world; it is now preserved by the Fondazione Biblioteca Bozzano - De Boni ", Of Bologna.
A Casebook of Otherworldly Music – D Scott Rogo
Professor Ernesto Bozzano was a singularly prolific writer, investigator, and theorist on parapsychological phenomena. But now that parapsychology has adopted the exactitudes of modern science and emphasizes a statistical appraisal of psychical phenomena, Bozzano has been forgotten. Yet those all too few students of the evolution of psychic science will ever revere him as one of the most important scholars and theorists in the history of the subject.
In his A propos de l'lntroduction a la Metapsychique we find a synthesis of the various psychical phenomena which ( in the view of Bozzano-a firm believer that psychical phenomena demonstrate that man survives bodily death) were best explained on a "spiritistic” hypothesis, which theorizes such occurrences as being the activity of the "dead." Many of these points still are to be found in para-psychological literature: apparitions at the moment of death, "bi-location," and the speaking in languages not normally known to the medium allegedly communicating with the "dead."
However, certain of Bozzano's points are now forgotten altogether -one such being "transcendental music" heard at deathbeds.
This last point must remain an enigma, for of all Bozzano's "intimations of immortality" (of which several others are indexed) this one seems to be, as is with most of his writings, one of those many scholarly enunciations which history has not honoured. This, even though Bozzano gave such prominence to the phenomenon that no student of parapsychology could possibly overlook his preoccupation with it. Within recent years only continental authorities have felt the impact imparted by that Italian philosopher.
References
Obras principais
(alguns dos títulos listados são publicações póstumas)
- Hipótese espírita e teoria científica, 1903;
- Dos casos de identificação espírita, 1909;
- Metapsíquica Humana, 1927;
- A Crise da Morte, 1930-52;
- Investigação sobre as manifestações supranormais, 1931-40;
- Xenoglossia, 1933;
- Desdobramento - Fenômenos de Bilocação, 1934;
- Dos fenômenos de possessão, 1936;
- Animismo ou espiritismo?, 1938;
- Povos primitivos e manifestações paranormais, 1941-46;
- Dos fenômenos de telestesia, 1942;
- Música transcendental, 1943;
- De mente a mente, 1946;
- Os mortos voltam, 1947;
- Literatura de além-túmulo, 1947;
- As visões dos moribundos, 1947;
- Luzes no futuro, 1947;
- Guerra e profecias, 1948;
- A psique domina a matéria, 1948;
- Os animais têm alma?, 1950;
- Pensamento e vontade, 1967;
- Os fenômenos de transfiguração, 1967.
NOTE As the limits of the number of observations under the name Bozzano might have been reached, we have had to use his name but with a different order in order to separate out the various books. Some observations will thus be found under Ernesto Bozzano, Professor and yet others under Bozzano, Professor Ernesto. It is the same man.
Observations
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- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - The medium becomes possessed and his hands, lifted as though to seize something, moved like the claws of a wild beast
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Mamma, little brother keeps on calling Ray
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 01 Introduction and 1st case
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 02 Professor A. Pastore, of the Royal High School of Genoa has a NDE
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 03 Mr Hudson Tuttle of Hartford
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 04 The death of Alfred Smedley’s wife
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 05 The death of Mr. Rud. C. Gittermann’s mother
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 06 Mr. G. Hall Tench dying in 1902 of a carcinoma
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 07 The death of Dr. E. H. Pratt’s sister Hattie
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 08 The dying child who saw her mother
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 09 The death of Mrs. Le Normand des Varennes’ husband
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 10 The miraculous healing and prophesied death of Jean Vitalis
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 11 The death of little Tommy Brown
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- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 45 The death of Dr. Albert Braudâo
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 46 Father Fijio
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 47 The death of Bishop Gott
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 48 Telekinetic phenomenon on a big pendulum clock
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 49 The bed was lifted up by several centimetres from the earth, to fall again with a noise
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 50 ‘Stung’ by a broken ring
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 51 The death of Captain Dufauret
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 52 Suddenly, my mother heard a heavenly music
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 53 In the ruins of Jumieges Abbey, four people hear a chorus of many male voices singing Vespers
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 54 The painful wailings of the newborn, combined with the sad singing of a woman's voice, may have their origin in a blood drama
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 55 Joseph Clark’s sister hears celestial music as she is dying
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 56 The patient continued to listen to the transcendental music, and when he woke up, he was much better
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 57 A young woman belonging to the Salvation Army dies as mysterious and very soft music resounds in her room
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 58 ‘I saw an angel flying through the room’ and ‘I have heard an angel sing’
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 59 Mrs L C Gilmour, of Borckville Canada hears celestial music from a dying priest
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 60 The emotion evoked in the participants by this mysterious and divine song was such that their attention was diverted for a few moments from the solemn scene
- Bozzano, Professor Ernesto - Psychic phenomena at the moment of death – 61 Mr. F. H. Rooke De Guildford and his sister hear celestial music on their mother’s death
- Dr. Vincent Gubernari is told of his imminent death
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 01 The death of Mr Phibbs‘s dog Fox
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 02 The death of Mrs. R. Lacassagne’s dog Lione
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 03 She was overwhelmed by the idea that her pussy needed her
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 04 Fido
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 05 Dr. Emile Magnin’s dog Creole
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 06 Misses Lubow and Wera Krijanowski’s dog Bonika
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 07 The death of the dog Judy
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 08 Mr. G. Graeser, from Lausanne tells how his parents had his beloved dog shot
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 09 The Irish terrier called Paddy
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 10 Mrs Joy Snell’s dog Prince and the lost girl
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 11 The angora cat and its doppelganger
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 12 The loved hunting dog who sensed his master’s death
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 13 The dog Kacuy realises his master is a ghost
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 14 Dr Marie de Thyle, of Saint-Julien, Switzerland and her cat see a ghost
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 15 The horse that saw a ghost
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 16 The dog "Moustache and seven other people see a ghost
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 17 Mrs. H.-L. B and her dog see the ghost of the boy who had died from TB
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 18 Dr. Woetzel and his dog see his wife’s ghost
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 19 Two children and a dog see the ghost the others could not see
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 20 A ghost seen by a bull terrier and an 18 year old
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 21 Violet and Sidney Montgomery, Caffrey’s son and a horse see the apparition of a ghostly woman
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 22 The cat terrified by the ghost of a small, ugly, wrinkled, old shrew figure in her mother's chair
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 23 A ghostly dog signals the coming death of a family member
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 23 M.-G. Llewellyn and his terrified cat Fluff see a ghost
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 24 Mrs Cowpland-Trelaor, 'howling dogs' prophecy 4 deaths
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 25 A ghostly cat signals the coming death of a family member
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 26 Dr. Gustave Geley from De l'Inconscient au Conscient The death howl of a dog
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 27 Presentiment of death manifested by the dog
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 28 The dog died at 8:30 in the evening. Its old master followed it into the afterlife at 10:00 a. m
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 28 Three cases of the presentiment of death by dogs
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 29 The phantasmal case of the castle of T., in Normandy and the watchdogs who fled, their tails low
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 30 The haunted house , the ghost of a woman in black and the terror of her small terrier dog
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 31 Miss Denton and her dog see a ghost
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 32 The horse who saw Verplanck's ghost
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 33 Mr. G. de Steigner, a dog, a cat and a canary hear a ghost
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 34 A possible case of the the psychometric revival of a cat and a dog
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 35 The debauched appear in the ghostly form of the animal which they resembled by their way of life
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 36 Terrified by the ghost of a small white dog, of the Pomeranian breed, which appeared to her at the bedside
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 37 Fourteen reports of the ghost of a small white dog
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 38 Mrs Bosc sees the ghost of Serge Levoff’s dog
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 39 The psychic baby who saw dogs
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 40 Mrs. Janet Holt and the ghost of their bulldog Charles
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 41 The Count Tromelin described how Mrs Meille has an hallucination of his dog
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 42 Mr. Ernest W. Duxbury’s lady friend’s cat dies, but its ghost still deters mice
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 43 The death of a spider results in its spirit being seen, flying away, by a medium
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 44 The cat came back, it did not stay away
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 45 Smoky the deceased Persian cat appears as a ghost to four witnesses
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 46 The sad tale of Rover, the border collie
- The schoolboy Borti goes out of body whilst preparing his examination in French literature