…table-turning and spirit rappings, sitting with notable séance mediums of the day, such as William Eglinton, DD Home and Mrs Guppy, and claiming to have repeatedly witnessed materializations, slate-writing, music from unknown sources, apports, and the like.6Fodor (1934), 403. This led him to a belief in the existence of ‘preterhuman…
René Warcollier (1881–1962) was a French chemical engineer, inventor and parapsychologist who devoted much of his career to the experimental study of telepathy by means of transmission of drawings. His writings are considered a major contribution towards understanding the complex psychological processes underlying telepathy. Warcollier led the journal of the…
The natural philosopher Francis Bacon (1561–1626), a key figure of the scientific revolution, is widely believed to have been sceptical of psychic phenomena. In fact, his writings show a strong belief in the occult and also in the possibility that its manifestations could be investigated empirically; his reluctance to do…
…colleagues to test whether predictions generated from perceptual patterns automatically influence the processing of a current stimulus. Ambiguous Necker lattices and unambiguous variants were used. Brain responses and reaction times were measured while manipulating what had been seen before in the immediate past by the participants. In Experiment 1, brain…
…showed a modest increase of scoring level, but going to a two million bit trial size gave confounding results with a highly significant backwards effect – the high and low outcomes were reversed relative to operator intention.12Dobyns et al. (2004). PEAR also assessed manual vs automatic trial sequencing in groups…
…how the details of a dream mentioned to him by his wife seemed accurately to match a rail accident in which he was involved a few days later. Anon. Automatic revivals of memory. Journal 12, 1905, 102-4. The whereabouts of mislaid film negatives are revealed in a dream. Anon. Cases….
…the development of the automatic ganzfeld, or autoganzfeld, by Honorton and colleagues at the Psychophysical Research Laboratory (PRL) in which sequences and outcomes were entirely controlled by a computer. Eleven studies carried out in these methodologically tight conditions produced a highly significant hit rate of 34% (p = 0.001). Other…
…the subjects and lookers in separate rooms. In these tests the subjects were not asked to guess whether they were being looked at or not. Instead, their galvanic skin response was recorded automatically, as in lie-detector tests. In a randomized series of trials the lookers either looked at the subject’s…
…me the importance of identifying and sharing the skills necessary to make dreams generally accessible.3Ullman (1988). This ‘accidental exposure’ was membership during the early 1930s in a group of teens who held attempted successfully to generate psychokinetic phenomena such as raps, table levitations and automatic writing (see Bindelof Phenomena). In…
