Morgan Leigh doth schreibble :
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> Science tries to argue that every operation must work exactly the same
> way for totally different people, in totally different times and places
> in order to be valid. This was one of the reasons the work of people
> like Rhine was derided by the academy. He offered evidence that some
> people had a positive effect on ESP experiments and others a negative.
> He demonstrated that the beliefs one held when entering into an experiment
> effected the outcome. Sadly science resists this new data.
That just isn't so, Morgan, and here are a few
cites/links regarding the widely corroborated
and accepted "sheep-goat" effect :
Influence of Beliefs and Attitudes on ESP Scores
Gertrude Schmeidler, then a professor of psychology
at the City College of New York, asked her subjects
if they believed ESP to be possible under the conditions
of the experiment.
On the basis of their replies,she labeled them as
"sheep", those who believed in the possibility of
ESP, and "goats", those who rejected the possibility.
She found that sheep generally tended to obtain
more hits than goats did.
The sheep-goat effect, as it is now known, is one of
the more widely researched topics in parapsychology. "
~ from :
Basic Research in Parapsychology
by K. Ramakrishna Rao and K. Rama-Krishna Rao
pages 23-24
http://tinyurl.com/3jed5u
The Sheep - Goat Effect
Mario Varvoglis, Ph.D.
http://tinyurl.com/5x59bm
Gertrude Schmeidler: Fifty Years
in the Field of Parapsychology
Sally Ann Drucker
http://tinyurl.com/3jkpqn
Register of the Gertrude Raffel
Schmeidler Papers, 1943-1983
http://tinyurl.com/3z2npd
For those looking for an overview of psi studies,
I recommend Dean Radin's *The Conscious Universe:
The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena*, 1997.
And below is a link to some articles and essays
on psi by Brian Josephson :
http://tinyurl.com/69cngz
Cors in Manu Domine,
~ Khem Caigan
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" Psi in itself, is a talent, a force, a power
that can be used for good or evil, as it is so
well exemplified in our mythical and fairy tale
literature.
Taking this theoretical assumption as potential
fact, I would be downright scared if the present-day
materialist establishment scientist accepted ESP
and PK.
After all, look what they did with the discovery
of atomic physics; they, together with the politicians,
promptly turned it into the ever-present threat
of world destruction that has so profoundly affected
every aspect of our lives ever since.
I would not trust the present-day scientific and
political establishment to put psi to good use
because its major impetus is life destructive. "
~ Serena Roney-Dougal, "How the Scientific
Establishment's Acceptance of ESP and PK Would
Influence Contemporary Society", 1992.
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