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Romano, Jacques - 'Reading minds', mining perceptions
Identifier
016482
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
The Jacques Romano Story – Dr Berthold Eric Schwartz
One good friend of Romano, Leslie Kuhn, a newspaper man, remembered how Romano correctly spelled the name of a deceased, Reinhold, and then correctly described this man's death while skiing in the Swiss Alps thirty-five years earlier than the reading, which was given in 1942.
Mr. Kuhn also mentioned some skeletons in the closet which Romano privately recalled for some visiting reporters. One event concerned the "shotgun" marriage of a close relative of a reporter.
A scientist who had known him well remembers how Romano had correctly told him about a friend he was thinking of, who had a "house with strange stones inside and a pointed slate roof. He bought a church!" The scientist also recalled how Romano shocked an opera singer by correctly telling him he was really a butcher.
It is an interesting fact that when Romano spontaneously recalled the many past readings, they never varied in essential details from what was reported by the original subjects or witnesses at a later time.
Romano himself recalled the time when he spelled all the letters of a name that the subject had thought of; but he was unable to put them together. The deceased was the subject's grandmother and her name was Pocahontas.
Romano correctly told a famous explorer that he had a narrow escape in the Orient from someone with long hair who tried to kill him. He said that the explorer had taken a shot at the assailant and had torn his chest open with the bullet, which was not an ordinary type but a dum dum bullet. Romano correctly told someone about his father, who drowned when the subject was eight. On another occasion he told a physician subject he had been kidnapped when three years of age.
Although always a gentleman and discreet in what he said in public, Romano confided that on a few occasions, and then only in private, he had told people of events which were upsetting yet true. Such situations included illegitimate pregnancies, business reverses, and details of a woman's disappointing love affairs. Romano asserted that he frequently picked up information of this type, but carefully censored it.