Even though on 26th May 2020 I had come across the name of the Italian psychic Gustavo Adolfo Rol whilst browsing through the catalogue of a French publishing house specialising in esoteric, paranormal and other fringe subjects, I had clean forgotten about his name, despite having bothered to look up the translation of Maria Luisa Giordano’s biography about Rol published by https://jmgeditions.fr (Rol et l’autre dimension) in a Swiss online catalogue and found that Ticino’s cantonal library in Locarno held a copy in the original language (Rol e l’altra dimensione).
Well, a couple of hours ago, after having stumbled across a clip claiming to list some of the dire predictions for 2023 attributed to a blind Bulgarian woman seer nicknamed Baba Vanga (1911-1996), through the sheer power of serendipity (I had jotted down a reference to an article about her written by a French researcher of paranormal topics), I was given the opportunity to read more about the life of a man who was bestowed with far greater extraordinary psychic powers, Gustavo Adolfo Rol (1903-1994).
Born into a banking family in Turin, northern Italy, Gustavo Adolfo Rolf started to develop his fabulous psychic abilities in his early twenties, after having tried for almost two years to guess the colour of a random playing card with its face down, an idea which had cropped up in his mind whilst passing by the window of a tobacco shop in Marseilles where a pack of playing cards was on display. On 28th July 1927, he wrote in his diary the following sentence: ‘I discovered a terrible law linking the colour green, the musical fifth and heat.’ This was the start of a series of amazing experiments in which he would showcase to friends or even strangers his set of remarkable psychic powers, which included but were not limited to his ability to read any page of a book picked at random but left unopened (biblioscopy), his ability to see inside the human body (endoscopy) and diagnose diseases, as well as heal people, his ability to levitate, to be present in two locations at the same time (bilocation), to speak foreign languages unbeknownst to him (xenoglossy), to communicate with people without speaking to them (telepathy), to see future (precognition) or past events (retro-cognition) and to travel through time, the ability to move objects through the power of his will (telekinesis) or to materialise/dematerialise them, etc.
Given that I know very little about this man (I am writing this blog entry only because I feel that I have to share the little I know about Gustavo Adolfo Rol in the hope that readers of my blog will obtain further proof of the complexity of the ‘reality’ we have to deal with in our daily lives – incidentally, this should come as a great source of spiritual ‘consolation’ in my opinion), I am going to finish the present introduction to this twentieth-century psychic from northern Italy with a quote by a relative of his who wrote a biography of this rather extraordinary member of his extended family.
Popularised by the theosophist and nineteenth-century Russian mystic Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891), the Akashic records are best understood as some kind of ethereal equivalent of a gigantic computer memory bank in which every deed, word, feeling or thought are consigned forever. In the introduction to the life and spiritual beliefs of his namesake, Franco Rol offers the following interesting passage:
8) What is the "intelligent spirit"?
Rol affirmed that every animate or inanimate thing possessed a “spirit”, and so human beings had “intelligent” spirits because of the special characteristics of human consciousness. These two types of “spirit”, different only by a degree, are present in the moment that the thing or human being exists, as well as after its destruction, or death. It is a kind of “film” of the thing or individual, its reproduction containing all the information and history about the thing or individual, from birth to death. For example, if Rol asked the “intelligent spirit” of Leonardo Da Vinci to “participate” in an experiment and to materialize a painting on a blank piece of paper, the “ethereal memory” of Leonardo conserved in the Archive of the Universe could realize it thanks to Rol’s mediation, a kind of catalyst and revitalizer of the same memory… Nevertheless, the painting that the intelligent spirit of Leonardo created would adhere to the artistic genre of his genius, and could not paint in a style different from his own, or represent subjects that he had not portrayed while alive, like the characters of a film cannot voluntarily change their roles or do anything different from those that they did in the film. It also follows that according to this same analogy, it is possible to identify the “soul” with the actor, who could also interpret other roles. In fact, according to Rol, “the soul returns to God”, an expression that can be interpreted in various ways. The metaphysical tradition sustains that an Illuminated Teacher can return to Earth voluntarily, to continue or complete a spiritual mission. The destiny of those who in life did not reach a sufficient spiritual level to permit post-mortem survival is different. In fact, those who remained on the level of matter will only return to matter…
http://gustavorol.org/index.php/en/
Sources:
https://web.archive.org/web/20220516173248/https://www.mondenouveau.fr/les-propheties-de-baba-vanga/
https://web.archive.org/web/20220519142223/https://www.mondenouveau.fr/le-medium-italien-gustavo-rol-1903-1994/
http://gustavorol.org/index.php/en/
http://gustavorol.org/index.php/en/49-possibilities-iv-simple-biblioscopy
Lausanne, the above was
published on the eighth day of the twelfth
month of the year two thousand and
twenty-two.
