GNOSIS
ASSOCIATION FOR MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH 
ON THE HYPOTHESIS OF SURVIVAL

In July, 1981, the GNOSIS ASSOCIATION FOR MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH ON THE HYPOTHESIS OF SURVIVAL was founded in Naples - Italy by Professor Giorgio di Simone, well know in his country for his many years of work in the field of parapsychology.

The Association was created as a response - which can be put off no longer - to the problem facing man's conscience and reason with regard to the question of the possible existence of a self-aware, autonomous nucleus, indipendent of bio-physical laws and capable of operating on its own, that is to say, of continuing to function with intelligenge and power of decision even after the dissolution of the biological organism.

The GNOSIS Association was therefore set up as a corporation that plans to gather, analyze and critically evaluate - over as wide a multidisciplinary range as possible - all the speculative and research data, experimental or other wise, which may be considered as clues in favour of the basic hypothesis. The GNOSIS Association could thus become a centre of observation and development for a specific discipline devoted to the study of the basic hypothesis and leading to the formulation of an ethical (rational) theory on the possible existential continuity of that "self-aware autonomous nucleus", of which the human being as such may represent: a function of activity and experience limited within space/time.

Upon this premise, the GNOSIS Association is open to any qualified form of cooperation or contribution, both from individual scholars and from associations or corporations, and proposes itself, in the context of today's cultural setting, as first element of unification and discussion on the theme under research, while remaining in a position of total objectivity, and equally separate and removed both from the irrationally magical and from religious dogmatism. To this end it also furthers an exchange of information, particularly with Italian and foreign associations sharing its basic premises, in order to increase the chances of an approach to the target.

RESEARCH WORK BY GNOSIS ASSOCIATION IS DIVIDED INTO FOUR MAIN AREAS:

1) Observation and Theoretical Elaboration (particularly through studies on the comparative history of religions, on cultural anthropology and on the philosophies).

2) Analysis and Elaboration of the more strictly accurated date supplied by parapsychology (both on a scientific level, and in the humanistic area already being worked upon by G.di Simone and other scholars, and with especial reference to OBEs, altered states of consciouness (ASC), possible "mediumistic" states, near-death experiences and precognitive phenomena).

3) Analysis and Critical Elaboration of data obtained from other sciences ( in particular from: psychology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis and related studies; the neuro-sciences, biology, tanatology, quantum physics, etc.)

4) Experimental Work (especially in the field of OBEs, ASCs - trance, hypnosis, dreams, coma, etc.-, in intensive-care units, in anaesthesia before operations, in technical checks on certain people and surroundings and in the setting-up of new types of experimentation in accordance with the primary aims of the Association)

The Gnosis Association publishes QUADERNI GNOSIS (The Gnosis Journal) annual.

For the past several years it has been the promoter of the annual Convention in Arezzo on Scientific, Humanistic/Existencial and "border line" parapsychological research.

Born in Nice (France) on October 15th 1925
Professor of the University of Naples
Parapsychology researcher (since 1950)
Assistant Editor of the review "Uomini e Idee" ("Men and Ideas") - (1958/62)
President of the Italian Centre of parapsychology (1963/1989)
Editor of the review "Informazioni di Parapsicologia" (1964/1989) (In which he promoted the "Paranormal Phenomena Operation" - sept.65/feb.66 -; the "Inquiry about Paranormal Phenomena" first italian Inquiry with a contribution of foreign well know researchers - jan.67/mars 69 - among the contributors: E.Servadio, P.Cassoli, W.Tenaheff, E.Dingwall, S.G.Soal, G.Murphy, I.Stevenson, J.Eisenbud, H.Bender).
Editor of the series "La Ricerca Psichica" ("Psychic Research") Edizioni del Gattopardo, 1971
Price 1980 of Parapsychology for Swiss Foundation.

Works of Frontier Parapsychology:

• Vita di guaritore (Life of a healer) Sugar ed.Milan, 1968
• Rapporto dalla Dimensione X (A Report from X-Dimension) Mediterranee ed.Rome 1973/1995 13 editions
• Il Cristo Vero (The True Christ) Rome 1975, 1980
• Dialoghi con la Dimensione X (Dialogs for X-Dimension) Rome 1975
• OBE, Esperienze fuori dal corpo (OBE Experiences) Rome 1984
• L'Indomani della Morte (The Tomorrow of the Death) Rome 1987
• Lo Specchio Incantato (The Enchanted Mirror) Reverdito, Trento 1987/1995
• Parapsicologia di Frontiera (Frontier Parapsychology) Rome 1989
• I Segni dello Spirito (The Signs of the Spirit) Rome 1991
• Se esiste l'Aldilà...(If Afterlife exist...) Rome 1994
• L'Essere/Continuità esistenziale dell'Io e Significato della vita umana (Being/ Existencial continuity of Ego and human Life significance) Armando, Rome 1994

Contribution to reviews and various publications:

• ESP , Armenia Milan years 1970
• Giornale dei Misteri, Tedeschi Florence 1970/1996
• Luce ed Ombra, Bologna many years
• Metapsichica, Aism Milan
• Enciclopedia del Paranormale (Encyclopedy of the Paranormal) Armenia Milan 1978 (He contributed with 100 items)

Psychotemporal model by Dr. Carlo M.Trajna

Summary: This panpsychical theory generalizes a model which was published in the September 1990 issue of "Quaderni Gnosis". Its title was: <A THEORETICAL MODEL FOR THE PSYCHOPHYSICAL AUTOMATISMS INVOLVED IN PARANORMAL ELECTROMAGNETIC RECORDINGS AND IN THE PRODUCTION OF DIRECT RADIO VOICES. >.

The theory's two basic hypoteses are these:

• 1) it acknowledges the constant "c" (speed of light) in its dimensionless significance, as being
  • a) the limit of the speed of psychic time flow, and
  • b) the radio between the speed of physical and psychic information-signals and the corresponding physical and psychic speed of time flow;
    
• 2) it applies to the psychic world the ratios that exist in the physical world (such as intensity/speed of signals), as well as the principle of action and reaction; it also applies the latter to the perception/motory ratio and to the ESP/PK ratio.

As with any theory based on hypotesis and inference, the basic hypoteses and propositions give rise to a number of mathematical deductions.

These are:

1) Differential perception of the signals: As soon as the flow speed of psychic time becomes different from the flow speed of physical time, the differential perception of the speed of the psychic information-signals and the speed of the biological information-signals takes the form of "time sensation". The mathematical formulation of this shows that it is expressed whith the logarithm of the imaginary flow speed of psychic time.

2) Psychotemporal wave: Psychic time flows in "temporal quanta" whose duration is expressed with the same mathematical formulation of the "time sensation" . Due to the well-know properties of imaginary numbers and logarithms, at the unconscious level every four psychic temporal quanta the duration of psychic time is conceived as "real", that is an actual confirmation of physical time. This psychotemporal wave is involved in ESP and PK phenomena. This theory receives firmer support if amongst the above-mentioned inferences some are theoretical propositions that have already been made in the past, and in relation to which the theory itself can be generalized. This applies to the followings:

• the formulation of the relativity of time;
• the psychophysical law of Weber and Fechner;
• Piaget's concerning the structuring of the concept of time;
• Liberman's psycholinguistic theory.

For more information please E-Mail to gnosis@infinito.it
or write to: ISTITUTO GNOSIS, via Belvedere 87 - 80127 Napoli Italy

^{A suggested book: CONVERSATION WITH ETERNITY: THE FORGOTTEN MASTERPIECE OF VICTOR HUGO - New Paradigm Books}

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