Radin and Rebman (1998) claimed evidence of psychokinesis effects in casino payout rates depending on lunar phases. They found the peak effect in the full-moon interval. This paper reports on an experimental data evaluation of 199,632 retroPK experiment trials, covering eight years. The hypothesis of a full moon effect is ...

Parapsychology can build bridges to many different scientific disciplines. Demonstrating that it can make valuable contributions to mainstream science will help establish parapsychology's relevance and credibility. Taking psychology as an example, the article gives cases from parapsychology's past and present in which the study of apparent anomalous communication or influence ...

Recent laboratory studies have revealed that human exposure to low-frequency complex electromagnetic fields (EMFs) can induce anomalous hallucinatory and delusional experiences in normal observers. The implication from these laboratory studies is that such EMFs could underlie some spontaneous instances of anomalous cognition in the natural setting. Although the laboratory-based studies ...

This article concerns the variables antecedent to the beliefs surrounding, and experience of, shamanism. McClenon has devised a model--Ritual Healing Theory--in which a chain of variables leads to shamanic belief and experience and thence to healing of various sorts. The present study examined a number of variables in order to ...

This paper presents the results of a pilot study that investigated how directed mental healing by indigenous healers in South Africa impacted upon the functioning of a Random Event Generator. Participants were asked to focus their intention directly onto the device and administer healing as they would do with actual ...

In this study we were concerned to evaluate whether the sender plays any active role in successful ganzfeld GESP experiments by comparing sender and no-sender conditions. In a replication of Roe, Holt, & Simmonds' (2003) novel method, during the sending period receivers generated a mentation based on their experiences in ...

The First Sight model presented earlier (Carpenter, 2004) is developed further here. The essential elements of the model are summarized and the place of psi functioning within the context of other preconscions psychological processes is emphasized. In particular, the hypothesized posture of unconscious focus toward or away-from extrasensory content is ...

The present research had several objectives: (1) to adapt Tobacyk's (1988) Revised Paranormal Beliefs Scale (RPBS) into Spanish in order to make cross-cultural comparisons possible, (2) to test the reliability and dimensionality of the instrument and check if the previously found dimensions are replicated with Spanish-speaking participants, and (3) to ...

Permutation-based methods have received some attention in the parapsychological literature. However, their potential for analyzing confusion matrices associated with ESP experiments has been relatively untapped. This paper presents permutation tests applied to confusion data in parapsychology. Some tests examine agreement of two or more matrices with no regard to inherent ...

This study was designed to explore the role of the sender in a ganzfeld ESP task, conceptually replicating Raburn and Manning's (1977) manipulation of the presence of a sender and the receiver's expectation concerning the sender's presence. The authors conducted 40 trials with an opportunity sample of participant pairs. Ganzfeld ...

Physiological reactions to incoming stimuli can occur without perceptual and cognitive encoding. This paper reports the results of two experiments aimed at investigating heart rate differences in participants on viewing targets and nontargets in classical clairvoyance and precognition forced-choice tasks. We opted for very easy decision-making tasks instead of using ...

An experiment was conducted for detecting telepathy by classical conditioning. The unconditioned stimulus was a mild electric shock, the conditioned stimulus was a telepathic message, and the conditioned and unconditioned responses were the sudden rise of skin conductance. The first experiment consisted of 50 sessions of about 10 shocks each. ...

Two cognitive DMILS studies were carried out in Bali to pursue the question of whether a controlled experimental test could achieve positive results in a non-industrial culture. The task was to see if one person could help another person be more successful in focus meditation. In the first study, half ...

Growing evidence from field-based investigations of haunted locations suggests that, in some circumstances, such areas are magnetically remarkable in some way relative to baseline locations. However, few studies have reported experiments that employed magnetic measurements from observer and baseline areas simultaneously, and even fewer have investigated magnetic anomalies in depth. ...

A model of the mind by which psi functioning may be better understood is described. A phenomenological approach is taken, and the model that is developed is psychological, teleological, and not physically reductionistic. This model assumes that each organism, by its nature, extends beyond itself into the larger pre-sensory surround. ...

Pharmaceutical research provides a useful model for doing convincing research in situations with intense, critical scrutiny of studies. The protocol for a "pivotal" study that is used for decision-making is reviewed by the FDA before the study is begun. The protocol is expected to include a power analysis demonstrating that ...

One way by which psi might manifest itself is by influencing ongoing cognitive processes. Word association has previously been suggested as a possible vehicle for psi. Two experiments are described which look at the influence of psi on interpretation of homophones (words which are acoustically identical, but can have different ...

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 as an intrapsychic precipitate of shocking life events and/or childhood ...

A model for certain instances of dyadic extrasensory perception (ESP) is proposed wherein a "psi stimulus" is generated by a sender in response to real-time feedback of target-relevant receiver mentation. This stimulus need act only to reinforce current mentation by momentarily changing physiological arousal, reducing the need for complex information ...

A repeated finding in the parapsychology literature is that attitudes prior to testing can influence performance on tests of ESP. This is true of both the attitudes participants bring to the situation and attitudes experimentally induced both prior to and during testing. The aim of the current studies was to ...

Frederic W.H. Myers's book Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death was a hundred years old in 2003. While the purpose of the book was to argue for survival of bodily death, Myers also presented a unifying model of normal, abnormal, and parapsychological phenomena based on the workings of ...

Results of experiments obtained with the use of a new type of apparatus, the bioscope, are presented. The main components of the bioscope are a light source, a sensor, and a photodetector, disposed in a light-attenuated case. The apparatus principle of operation is based on the estimation of the level ...

This study was designed to explore the relationship between ESP and PK performance by testing for both using a common protocol to control for expectancy effects and experimental artifacts. Forty participants completed a computer-based greyhound racing game. Races occurred in 2 blocks of 12, with one block presented as an ...

Remote Viewing (RV) using a multiple-agent/multiple-percipient design was attempted by a team of professional and amateur paranormal investigators. The study was divided into 2 stages. Each stage consisted of 2 parts: (a) a single-agent mode and (b) a multiple-agent mode. It was hypothesized that a committee of 3 agents would ...

This paper introduces the substantive and methodological approach of conversation analysis (CA), a rigorous, qualitative method for the study of naturally occurring talk in interaction. It argues that CA can be used to analyze potentially significant linguistic practices during research in parapsychology laboratories. To establish the relevance of CA, three ...

A field trial with lettuce plants was previously conducted in 2000 on a commercial organic farm. In that experiment, a healer was asked to enhance a group of healthy organic lettuce seeds for greater germination, growth, and better health. Only the third aspect gave significant results, with the plants grown ...