Tag Archives: Paranormal psychology

remote viewing: flying standby

Out of body and out of sight. At one time Ingo Swann would paint canvases that showed purportedly first hand impressions of astral phenomena observed on out of body trips into space, called remote viewing. Swann worked under rigorous laboratory … Continue reading

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universe as mind stuff: mystifying the expectations

…The legitimacy of an idea is often a matter of culture. Thus, in the West, we greet the notion of cyclic time with deep unease- partly because it is unfamiliar and partly because the concept of linear time running away … Continue reading

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the paranormal: distance to psi and back

…Furthermore, most of us, even if not bored to death by statistics, are apt to look at parapsychology with the prejudices of nineteenth-century mechanistic science. Experimentation in thought transference or precognition is, we assume, a pastime for Victorian parlors, a … Continue reading

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paranormal: moving with matter

…The territory was so new that J.B. Rhine and Louisa Rhines’ first experiment got the very categories of telepathy and clairvoyance scrambled. Both experimental situations involved the Rhine cards, printed with the now familiar suits of star, rectangle, circle, cross, … Continue reading

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the paranormal: does what matter

…Now there is a vast amount of testimony to psi phenomena. Freud and Jung took their existence for granted; they fascinated William James; and as Arthur Koestler pointed out in his The Roots of Coincidence, the British Society for Psychical … Continue reading

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cosmic thinking: playing havoc with known principles

Shattering the mechanistic universe and making room among the black holes for ESP, PK, mindons, psitrons, and ghosts… …Parapsychological research can be divided- though arbitrarily and not at all neatly- into four basic areas. For convenience they are lumped together … Continue reading

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simple twists of coincidence

Simple twists of fate? Interpreting coincidence has always been a messy, unscientific affair. And parapsychology is a graveyard, excuse the pun, of charlatans and snake oil salespeople. But, there is always doubt that a world of the paranormal may actually … Continue reading

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beam them somewhere

Teleportation. Does it exist? Generally, science and mysticism and the paranormal do not mix. Likewise, atheism and psychic phenomena make strange bedfellows. Superstition and science. But, there is a lot of junk science and pseudo science as there are a … Continue reading

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BEHIND THE SMOKE AND MIRRORS

Mina Crandon, best known as “Margery”, was a Boston medium who found herself embroiled in one of the most bitter controversies in American psychic research in the 1920’s.Regardless though, she was perhaps the greatest rival of magician Harry Houdini as … Continue reading

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