Hi Khem,
Thank you very much for separating me from my ignorance.
Regards,
Morgan Leigh
Khem Caigan wrote:
> Morgan Leigh doth schreibble :
>>
> <SNIPS>
>> 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
> <[log in to unmask]>
>
> " 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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