The Journal of Parapsychology back issues from December 2001:
The continuing evolution of Parapsychology. (Guest Editorial).
Dec 01, 2001 ... Robert L. Morris John Palmer has kindly invited me to provide a guest editorial to this issue of the Journal of Parapsychology, reflecting on the changing scene in parapsychology. This past summer I spent 2 months at the Rhine Research Center (RRC), participating in the last ...
Boundless mind: Coming of age in Parapsychology.
Dec 01, 2001; ... We are alive at a remarkable time in human history. Never before have so many different worldviews, belief systems, and cultures come into contact, interfacing with each other. Just yesterday I was walking through the park a block away from this hotel in Freiburg, Germany. I observed a ...
Parapsychology in Brazil: A science entering young adulthood.
Dec 01, 2001; ... ABSTRACT: The origins and vicissitudes by which parapsychology or, as we say, psi research has gone through in Brazil have not always distinguished it from religion, alternative healing practices, superstition, and charlatanism, mainly because of the cultural complexity in which we live in ...
Concepts of force in early psychical research.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... ABSTRACT: One of the oldest explanatory concepts of psychic phenomena holds that biological forces are projected from the human body. The old literature refers to this force as animal magnetism, ectenic force, fluids, human radiations, magnetism, nervous force, od, psychic force, and vital ...
Exploring a tool for identifying intuitive talent for practical decision making.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... ABSTRACT: Many research and anecdotal reports point to the concept of intuition as a means by which psychic functioning merges with normal information processing to produce effective decision making and assessment under conditions of insufficient sensory information. In business, intuition ...
A psychological analysis of ganzfeld protocols.(Abstract)
Dec 01, 2001; ... ABSTRACT: To assess the psychological state of the percipient at the time of the ganzfeld session, the author constructed a rating system for analyzing the mentation reports of the participant in terms of a number of discrete indicators of emotional, physical, and cognitive functioning ....
Anticipatory awareness of emotionally charged targets by individuals who went through shocking experiences.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... ABSTRACT: In this study, an attempt was made to establish a connection between past psychotraumatic experiences and psi abilities, especially precognition. The theoretical concept underlying this hypothesis is the postulate of a personal sensitization factor (PSF). The PSF can be defined ...
Exploring participant psi sources in dmils studies.(direct mental interaction with living systems )(Abstract)
Dec 01, 2001; ... Deborah L. Delanoy (*) Alison Roe (**) Claire Brady (**) ABSTRACT: Electrodermal activity (EDA) direct mental interaction with living systems (DMILS) effects are most frequently portrayed as representing an agent-mediated psychokinesis (PK) effect on the ...
Investigation of psychic beliefs in Bali.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... ABSTRACT: To understand psi more fully, one needs to study it cross-culturally. This study examines the beliefs about paranormal occurrences among the Balinese, and the authors compare these results, where possible, with survey results in American and European cultures. Most of the data ...
Perceptual defensiveness and ESP performance: Reconstructed DMT ratings and psychological correlates in the first German DMT-ESP experiment.(Abstract)
Dec 01, 2001; ... ABSTRACT: As a continuation of the experiments on perceptual defensiveness (measured by the defense mechanism test [DMT]) and ESP performance carried out in Iceland in 1977-1991, an experiment was undertaken in Germany in 1995. The concept of perceptual defensiveness is related ...
MESA: Multi-energy sensor array in a baseline versus haunt site.(Abstract)
Dec 01, 2001; ... ABSTRACT: Haunt phenomena, including recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis (RSPK), continue to be linked to the electromagnetic spectrum. Multi-energy sensor array (MESA) is a computer system and sensor array that can measure these energies in an environment. This paper is an explanation of ...
Concept of "Qi" or "Ki" in Japanese qigong research.(Abstract)
Dec 01, 2001; ... ABSTRACT: Japanese qigong research became active during the 1990s. In ancient China, qigong was called dao-yin. In the beginning, the techniques of qigong were simpler, and trainees merely stopped their breath during exercise. Now qigong is viewed as a kind of exercise for the health of ...
Conjuring up images of India.(Abstract)
Dec 01, 2001; ... ABSTRACT: Historians have increasingly recognised the historical, political, and cultural importance of how the West constructed an image of the East. However, although they have considered the theme of "the mystic East" and, in particular, of India as a mystical land, they have paid ...
A methodological issue in the study of correlation between psychophysiological variables.(Abstract)
Dec 01, 2001; ... ABSTRACT: The authors used previously accumulated skin conductance (SC) and EEG data to examine the effects of their respective autocorrelations on hypothesis testing. It was found that SC data remain autocorrelated for many seconds and that EEG data remain autocorrelated for many ...
Mathematical models of the ritual healing theory: Shamanism, anomalous experience, and the origin of religion.(Abstract)
Dec 01, 2001; ... ABSTRACT: Much evidence indicates that the benefits derived from spiritual healing are correlated with hypnotizability. Anthropologists observe indigenous healers inducing trance and providing therapeutic suggestions. Folklore studies reveal that folk-healing methods often involve ...
Conflictive psi experiences: A comparison between two samples.(Abstract)
Dec 01, 2001; ... ABSTRACT: The authors designed a self-administered questionnaire of extrasensory experiences that contains 46 questions to a population of people interested in paranormal topics (N = 432). The sample included both female (60%) and male (40%) participants whose ages ranged from 17 to 83 ...
Biology, vitalism, and the "golden era" of continental European parapsychology.(Abstract)
Dec 01, 2001; ... ABSTRACT: The "parapsychological paradigm" prevailing during the 1920s and early 1930s--the period the author calls the Golden Era of continental European parapsychology because of the degree of integration of the field into academic life--is explained (telekinesis as a precursor of ...
Motor automatisms as a vehicle of ESP expression.(Abstract)
Dec 01, 2001; ... ABSTRACT: This is the latest in a series of experiments exploring ESP as expressed through motor automatisms, which, if genuine, reflect a dissociative state of consciousness expected to be psi-conducive. In this experiment, the motor automatism consisted of hand movements. Forty adult ...
A controlled analysis of subjective paranormal experiences in temproal lobe dysfunction in a neuropsychiatric population.(Abstract)
Dec 01, 2001; ... John Palmer (*) Vernon Neppe (**) Heidi Nebel (**) Stacie Magill (**) ABSTRACT: Previous research by Vernon Neppe and Michael Persinger has provided evidence for an association between subjective paranormal experiences (SPEs) and the temporal ...
A dog that seems to know when his owner is coming home: Effect of environmental variables.(Abstract)
Dec 01, 2001; ... ABSTRACT: Informal observations by Sheldrake and Smart from 1994 to 1997 suggested that a male terrier dog named "Jaytee" was able to anticipate when his owner was returning home. In a formal series of 45 videotaped experiments, Jaytee's anticipatory behavior proved to be significantly ...
Evidence for a retrocausal effect in the human nervous system.(Abstract)
Dec 01, 2001; ... ABSTRACT: Four double-blind experiments tested the hypothesis that under certain conditions a future event may influence a past event. The past event was the time it took a person to identify a colored rectangle on a computer screen. The future event was a variant of the Stroop effect, ...
RSPK and consciousness.(recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis)(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... ABSTRACT: Recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis (RSPK), or poltergeist occurrences, investigated by William G. Roll and 2 recent physical theories with implications for RSPK are reviewed. Zero-point energy: A major problem for the RSPK researcher has been to identify the source of ...
Connectedness between participants in an experiment on distant intention.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... ABSTRACT: Connectedness between participants or between participants and experimenter might be an important moderator variable for psi effects. This can be concluded from theoretical considerations as well as from empirical results. Connectedness or bondedness could be defined by an outer ...
WWW survey of the content, sensory modalities, and interpretation of hypnagogic and hypnopompic experiences.(World Wide Web)(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... ABSTRACT: The terms hypnagogic imagery and hypnopompic imagery were introduced by Maury in 1848 and Myers in 1903, respectively, and refer to imagery of varying sensory modalities that is experienced in the borderline states just as one is falling asleep or awakening from sleep. Previous ...
The problem of replication and the "psi-conducive" experimenter.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... ABSTRACT: Experimenter effects continue to play an important role in parapsychological research, especially with regards to the issue of replication. In this paper, the concept of the "psi-conducive" experimenter is reconsidered, as are its implications for replicating psi effects ....
An ESP experiment with the sequential card search task.(extrasensory perception)(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... ABSTRACT: Sequential card search (SCS) is a variant of a forced-choice ESP task, in which participants search for 1 card symbol (target) from among a finite set in an array of concealed cards. The participants are asked to continue the search until the symbol is found or remains ...
Experimenter effects and the remote facilitation of attention focusing: Two studies and the discovery of an artefact.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... ABSTRACT: Two studies explored how participants' beliefs about the previous psi research track record of their experimenter might affect their responses on questionnaire measures of belief in psi, confidence of success at a psi task, perceived success at the psi task, actual success at the ...
The ghost in the mind: A brain-environment interaction model of the apparitional experience.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... ABSTRACT: Even though they have existed for centuries in cultural tales and reportedly been seen by countless individuals, the basic question concerning apparitions remains to be, "What are they?" Are they simply subjective products of the minds of the people who have encountered them, or ...
The mind machine.(Abstract)
Dec 01, 2001; ... ABSTRACT: Some researchers have argued that the results of forced-choice ESP experiments provide strong support for the existence of psychic ability However, others have criticised many of the experiments on both methodological and statistical grounds. The authors aimed to help resolve ...
An investigation into the alleged haunting of Hampton Court Palace: Psyschological variables and magnetic fields.(Abstract)
Dec 01, 2001; ... Richard Wiseman (*) Caroline Watt (**) Emma Greening (*) Paul Stevens (**) Ciaran O'Keeffe (*) ABSTRACT: Hampton Court Palace is reputed to be one of the most haunted places in England, with both staff and visitors reporting unusual ...
Roundtable: Fifty years of supporting parapsychology; The parapsychology foundation; Eileen J. Garrett and Frances P. Bolton: A shared vision of the parapsychology foundation.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... ABSTRACT: The Parapsychology Foundation, Inc. (PF) is proud to this year celebrate the 50th anniversary of its founding in December 1951 by Eileen J. Garrett and the Honorable Frances P. Bolton. From a position of strength established by Eileen J. Garrett and Frances P. Bolton--great ...
The parapsychology foundation as a funding organisation.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... ABSTRACT: When the social history of parapsychology is written, it will be important to include a discussion about funding and its sources. At the risk of being called immodest because of my current affiliation, I would argue that a significant chapter of this history is comprised of the ...
The international conferences of the Parapsychology Foundation.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... ABSTRACT: Eileen J. Garrett and the Honorable Frances P. Bolton, the 2 founders of the Parapsychology Foundation in 1951, knew that supporting scientific investigation of psychic phenomena required more than funding and facilities. Bringing scholars together in a stress-free environment to ...
Parapsychology foundation: Present and future.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... ABSTRACT: The realization that the Parapsychology Foundation (PF) has been in existence for 50 years begged an examination of past accomplishment and contemplation of future direction. A period of intense consideration of how PF can best serve the field and the public at large while ...
Roundable: Parapsychology and children revisited; Children in the history of parapsychology.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2001; ... ABSTRACT: Children have played an important and interesting role in the development of parapsychology. Cases such as those of supposed clairvoyant Leonide Pigeaire and the Fox Sisters did much to construct and maintain ideas of psychic functioning and of the validity of certain explanatory ...
Developmental considerations in testing children for ESP.(Extrasensory perception)(Abstract)
Dec 01, 2001; ... ABSTRACT: Parapsychologists have often used adolescent and adult populations when testing for psi phenomena and in trying to determine its various characteristics. Children, however, often seem to be overlooked as a viable research population. There has been a large body of work ...
Children's psi and personality variables.(Abstract)
Dec 01, 2001; ... ABSTRACT: Classroom studies done with children were covered in a previous (1990) PA panel; however, many researchers familiar with these studies may be unaware of some of the research focused on personality and other variables. Several experiments have indicated that children's ...
Children in Lebanon and Sri Lanka who speak of a previous life: Similarities and differences.(Abstract)
Dec 01, 2001; ... ABSTRACT: In Lebanon, it is easy to find children among the Druzes who speak about a previous life or are believed by their parents to do so. None have been found or brought to the author's attention in other main Lebanese communities, the Christians and the Muslims. In Sri Lanka, cases ...
Psi or sigh? Evaluation of the spinelli and blackmore experiments of ESP in children.(Abstract)
Dec 01, 2001; ... ABSTRACT: In a series of experiments for his dissertation, Ernesto Spinelli tested children as young as 3 years old for telepathy using a forced-choice, sender/receiver design. His results showed that children up to age 8 showed remarkable ESP ability. Blackmore attempted to replicate ...
A computerized ESP test for children: Is age a factor for ESP?(Abstract)
Dec 01, 2001; ... ABSTRACT: As parapsychology developed into a formal scientific endeavor, one of the earliest questions involved the age of the participant. Do younger participants exhibit stronger psi than older participants? Over the years, researchers have noted that children experience the same types ...
Cerebral hemisphere dominance and ESP performance in the autoganzfeld.(Statistical Data Included)
Dec 01, 2001; ... ABSTRACT: The right cerebral hemisphere is often associated with psi abilities, yet there is no substantial evidence to support this claim. Therefore, this study (CLI-Ganzfeld) was designed to examine if a relationship between cerebral hemisphere dominance and ESP performance exists. 50 ...
Obituary: E. Douglas Dean 1916-2001.
Dec 01, 2001; ... E. (Eric) Douglas Dean, one of parapsychology's most brilliant innovators, died on August 15, 2001. Douglas was a gentle, charming man, so modest that few in parapsychology knew his varied accomplishments, or recognized the profound implications of his research. Consider, for ...
Lives Of The Psychics: The Shared Worlds of Science and Mysticism. (Book Review).
Dec 01, 2001; ... LIVES OF THE PSYCHICS: THE SHARED WORLDS OF SCIENCE AND MYSTICISM by Fred M. Frohock. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Pp. vx + 281 $27.50 (hardcover). ISBN 0-226-26586-2. Almost 40 years ago, parapsychology was admitted into the American Association for the ...
Correspondence.
Dec 01, 2001 ... To the Editor: In the familiar card-calling experiments, using a deck of 25 cards of 5 each of 5 symbols, and taking one run for simplicity, one can get from 0 to 25 right and from 0 to 25 wrong, theoretically. Suppose one gets 20 right. This would rightly be considered as an ...
Errata.(Correction Notice)
Dec 01, 2001 ... There were several errors in Table 1 of the paper by Bem, Palmer, and Broughton entided "Updating the ganzfeld database: A victim of its own success?" that appeared in our September 2001 issue (JP, 65, 210-211). A corrected table appears below. The errors involved: "Trials" for "Dalton ...