…with testing carried out over several years. Absolute effect sizes were very small, but they survived increasingly sophisticated control measures such as using automatic tumbling machines and photographic recording of faces. When JB Rhine retired from Duke in 1965, he moved the lab off campus where it became an independent…
…investigation towards explicit method and instrumentation. Its closing emphasis is cautionary, arguing that wider public enthusiasm has not automatically produced better evidence and can easily weaken standards of interpretation. Early Activity The earliest recorded reference to a ghost hunt is found in a letter by Pliny the Younger (61–113 CE),…
…automatically processed) psi or sensory information often might be the most efficient way to move the organism away from a threat or toward a gratifying situation. PMIR mechanisms support that possibility even when the respondent has no conscious awareness of it. Spontaneous-case examples of how PMIR might operate in life…
…known as the automatic ganzfeld, or autoganzfeld, that was subsequently developed by Honorton and colleagues at the Psychophysical Research Laboratory (PRL), a parapsychological research organisation founded in 1979 in Princeton, New Jersey, of which he was director.21Honorton, Berger, Varvoglis, Quant, Derr, Schechter, & Ferrari (1990). This technique used a computer…
…that Albert had spoken through the mediumship of a fourteen-year-old boy called ‘Jimmy’ Lees (Robert James Lees), she sent two trusted advisers to attend, anonymously, a séance, and following their report she sent for him. By this time she had also received from Lees an automatic script appearing to originate…
…4.9 x 10-8). The analysis excluded two unpublished experiments: one using directional arrows that showed equal effects across conditions (attributed to automatic motor responses), and another using multiple numbers that failed to produce any priming effects. Lucido argues the combined statistical power strongly supports CCC interpretation, suggesting conscious observation specifically…
…trial night. In the morning at the laboratory, the software automatically selected four targets at random and presented them on the screen. Targets were ranked by their correspondence with the dream mentation, individually and then as a group consensus. It was found that participants were more successful with highly emotional…
…affected by during its existence’. The ‘associated object’ acts like a ‘tuning fork’, automatically triggering in the psychometrist’s brain vibrations that correspond to some event associated with it in the past. When these vibrations align with the memory of the events stored in the ‘cosmic brain’, the effect is to…
…disease).9Mashour et al. (2019). However, because such episodes can also occur many weeks or months before death, paradoxical lucidity does not automatically and always imply proximity of death. Conversely, the decisive definition criterion of terminal lucidity is the proximity of death – but it is not limited to occurring in…
