…time Joshi touched her, Uttara felt inexplicably that his touch was familiar, and from then on she was drawn to him, in her own words, ‘like an iron particle to a magnet’.6Akolkar (1992), 217. Akolkar refers to Joshi as ‘Dr Z’. She shared her writings of the time with Akolkar,…
…unlocking of doors windows shattered furniture overturned spontaneous fires spontaneous writing on walls and paper Marianne Foyster thrown from her bed11For full details see Adams et al. (2009). Price was inclined to believe the Foysters, since some of the phenomena could not have been produced by them fraudulently and there…
…White’s obituary, writing, This brief characterization of White’s life barely scratches the surface … of her contributions to parapsychology. … She was full of encouragement to many of us, an epitome of what a mentor should be. …But her real gift to us is that decades from now many more…
…Research Gertrude Schmeidler In the early 1970s, Swann was tested for PK (psychokinetic) abilities by Gertrude Schmeidler at the American Society for Psychical Research. In this experiment, Swann repeatedly produced significant PK changes in continuous, automatic recordings of temperature variations of graphite samples. Extensive controls included insulating the thermistor in…
…a pre-registered confirmatory experiment, in which volunteers achieved winning outcomes 52.7% of the time when they used the CardioAlert. A conceptual replication experiment that allowed the CardioAlert to automatically avoid negative outcomes gave a yet higher winning outcome of 56.3% – an extremely significant finding (p = 10 x 10-6).3Tressoldi…
…Rabeyron. Research revealed strong evidence for PK effects in subjective trials (Bayes Factor: 17.14) where participants recalled their scores, while objective trials with automatic data storage showed no effects. This supports theoretical arguments about the relationship between measurement objectivity and psi manifestation, leading to concepts of hybrid ‘sobjective’ reality.6Maier et…
…argued that concepts like ‘fantasy proneness’94Wilson & Barber (1983). are based upon a normative model of a psychology that automatically assumes that anomalous experiences are entirely subjective; similar objections can be made concerning anomalistic psychology as a whole. This does not mean, however, that the psychological source hypothesis is not…
…objectivity on psi outcomes through research with Thomas Rabeyron from the University of Lorraine. In trials where data were recorded subjectively (participants recalled their scores) versus objectively (automatic data storage), strong evidence for PK effects emerged only in subjective trials (Bayes Factor: 17.14), while objective trials showed no effect. A…
…research led by Charles Honorton in the Psychophysical Research Laboratories (PRL) at Durham, North Carolina. The KPU program made improvements to security features, with distant separation of receiver-sender rooms, a sound and electromagnetically insulated receiver room, automated and randomized target selection, and presentation where receiver mentation is automatically recorded, as…
