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Psychokinetic Weather Control

From: New Thinking Allowed

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Jeffrey Mishlove on Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Jeffrey Mishlove describes some informal tests he performed involving modification of cloud formations. He presents this in the context of his original research on "the PK man" Ted Owens. He also links to YouTube demonstrations of ostensible PK weather control by Michael Grubb. And, he shares information about a study proposed by a student of atmospheric ... Read More

Mindfield 10.2 is here!

From: Parapsychological Association's Blog

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Parapsychological Association on Sunday, July 22, 2018

Mindfield: The Bulletin of the Parapsychological Association: Mindfield 10.2 “The Language of Our Field” features articles by James Carpenter, Michael Tremmel, Renaud Evrard, and researchers from the Laboratory of Anomalistic Psychology and Psychosocial Processes at the University of São Paulo that explore the “bath of language” surrounding ... Read More

Convention Spotlight: "Rational Gravity" and RSPK

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Parapsychological Association on Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Next month in Petaluma, California, Gerhard Mayer, from the Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene Freiburg, Germany will deliver his paper entitled “The authority strikes back: considerations about the allegedly fraudulent ‘Chopper’ poltergeist case.” Mayer explores the cultural phenomenon of ‘rational ... Read More

Convention Spotlight: Replicating the Correlation Matrix Method

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Parapsychological Association on Sunday, July 15, 2018

There is an ongoing debate among scientists who are interested in mind–matter interaction—what is a sufficient conceptual definition of the process? Where are the limits drawn on the acceptance or rejection of the concept of mind matter interaction? Ana Flores, Ian Tierney, and Caroline Watt from the Koestler Parapsychology Unit, University of Edinburgh, ... Read More

Convention Spotlight: Exploring Apparitional Experiences

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Parapsychological Association on Sunday, July 15, 2018

At the fast approaching 61st PA convention, held at IONS, CA, Christine Simmonds-Moore from the University of West Georgia, Carrollton, USA and Chase O’Gwin of Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, USA will update us on their ongoing investigation to explore the psychology of subjective apparitional experiences. An online survey investigation, using ... Read More

Convention Spotlight: Cross-Cultural Research on Anomalous Experiences

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Parapsychological Association on Friday, July 13, 2018

The psychosocial and cultural aspects to anomalous experiences (AEs) add to the complexity of the phenomena. Everton Maraldi of the Institute of Psychology, University of São Paulo, Brazil and Stanley Krippner of Saybrook University, California set out to critically review the scientific literature on AEs in light of cross cultural research. They also sought to ... Read More

Convention Spotlight: John G. Kruth Examines of the Effects of Mood/Emotions on Technology

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Parapsychological Association on Wednesday, July 11, 2018

What if your mood and emotion affected the performance of your computer system and networking environment? Would this alter your behavior, choices and self-regulation whilst operating technology? J ohn G. Kruth of the Rhine Research Center, Durham, NC USA devised an experiment drawing from literature detailing the link between poltergeist investigations and indications ... Read More

Convention Spotlight: Exploring the Luminosity and Numinosity of Remote Viewing Targets

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Parapsychological Association on Monday, July 9, 2018

Stanley Krippner and Angel Morgan from Saybrook University, California, David Saunders from The Unviersity of Northampton, Northampton, UK, and Alan Quan from California State University in Long Beach, California explored the differential effect of darkness/light on purported remote viewing ability alongside the effect of time and their potential interaction. Seven remote ... Read More

Convention Spotlight: Saddam Hussein Remote Viewing Experiment

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Parapsychological Association on Sunday, July 8, 2018

On November 3, 2003, a precognitive, double-blind applied remote viewing experiment designed by Stephan A. Schwartz, a Fellow of the William James Center for Consciousness Studies at Sofia University and a Distinguished Consulting Faculty at Saybrook University, was conducted in which viewers were asked to describe the location, circumstances, and conditions of Saddam ... Read More

Convention Spotlight: Ability of Alleged Mediums to Assess Mortality from Facial Photographs

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Parapsychological Association on Thursday, July 5, 2018

Can a person discern if someone is dead or alive simply from looking at a photograph? A research team at the Institute of Noetic Sciences devised an experiment to test whether twelve subjects could intuitively gauge mortality based upon a quick glance at photographs. The participants were selected from the San Francisco Bay Area and were required to have been performing ... Read More

Convention Spotlight: Rebecca O’Connell on Scopaesthesia

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Parapsychological Association on Monday, June 18, 2018

At the PA conference, Rebecca O’Connell from Canterbury Christ Church University, Kent, UK will present her research entitled: “Are people conscious of scopaesthesia? Do the number of starers and the introduction of acoustathesia affect hit rates? A pilot investigation.” O’Connell explores scopaethesia: the sense that someone is staring at you; and ... Read More

Join the PA and Download the Latest Issue of the Journal of Parapsychology

From: Parapsychological Association's Blog

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Parapsychological Association on Saturday, June 9, 2018

Not yet a member of the PA? Join today and get immediate electronic access to the latest issue of the Journal of Parapsychology as well as other benefits including Mindfield: The Bulletin of the Parapsychological Association , discounts at annual PA conventions and online access to an electronic archive of selected convention papers and videos. Journal of Parapsychology ... Read More

Convention Spotlight: Dean Radin Tricks the Trickster

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Parapsychological Association on Tuesday, June 5, 2018

Are there reasons why psi experiments are difficult to reproduce? Or is a trickster at work, cleverly masking or obscuring the results? Dean Radin (Chief Scientist, Institute of Noetic Sciences) explored these questions in data collected in two psi tasks launched online in 2000. As of October 2017, those tests had accumulated over 100 million trials from an estimated ... Read More

Convention Spotlight: Caroline Watt on Precognition, ASCs, and the Ganzfeld

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Parapsychological Association on Friday, June 1, 2018

Experiences with psi are reported more often by people who are self-reported creative and artistic, who have a mental discipline practice, as well as those who have prior psi experience or belief. Additionally, mild isolation (ganzfeld) and induced relaxation techniques have been documented to help people access these experiences—but are these variables reliable in ... Read More

Reincarnation Cases and Karma with James G. Matlock

From: New Thinking Allowed

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Jeffrey Mishlove on Saturday, May 26, 2018

James G. Matlock, PhD, an anthropologist, is coauthor (with Erlendur Haraldsson) of I Saw a Light and Came Here: Children's Experiences of Reincarnation. He is a regular contributor to the online Psi Encyclopedia sponsored by the Society for Psychical Research in London. He has authored dozens of academic papers concerning reincarnation and related areas. Here he ... Read More

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