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http://dbem.ws/FeelingFuture.pdf Author's other pubs: http://dbem.ws/pubs.html Quoting from the PDF: Read (first) and discuss. Perhaps he should be proactively contacted by JREF to discuss a prize challenge? It's published (peer-reviewed, even) and the effects they claim certainly seem...

Hi folks, I'm a skeptic, though I hang out on some proponent oriented sites (Skeptiko for example). The critique that I hear most often (after the compulsory vilification of James Randi :)) is that skeptics just aren't really familiar with the parapsychology literature, or are stuck on old...

I'm currently having a messenger and e-mail discussion with one paranormal fellow from Finland, he's been following this stuff for over 30 years now, written some articles, and he is a firm believer in PSI-phenomena. I asked him to tell me about the most scientifically convincing paranormal case...

I'm starting this thread as we're getting off topic and onto Radin in another thread. I find it difficult to have a problem with people like Dean Radin - his claims are that various forms of psi exist, but that they are so low-powered that scientific testing is virtually impossible. To me, he...

I see from the archives that (natch) Atlantis Rising magazine is pretty well known on the forums. I've had cause to pay a small fee for a recent issue containing an article I needed for my own research, and though that article was relatively sound in terms of scepticism, that seems largely...

Wow, now that is exciting. Reading one of Dean Radin´s books, The Conscious Universe, I´ve stumbled upon the following report in the introduction of the book (pages 2 and 3): In a 1995 book saturated with piercing skepticism ,the late Carl Sagan of Cornell University maintained his lifelong...

New semester, new psych classes - experimental and critical thinking. I give the Psi Q Test in the first class to stimulate discussion and break wooish gonads. T/F format. 1. Most people use less than 20 percent of their brain. 2. Our eyes respond to the primary colors red, blue and green. 3...

The Murder of Teresita Basa. On February 21, 1977, a woman by the name of Teresita Basa was found brutally murdered and partially burned in her Chicago high-rise apartment... There were no clues and no suspects. Dr. Jose Chua and his wife worked at the same hospital as Teresita, but they barely...

We have seen believers that found one or two studies that, apparently, show that PSI effects are real. We know that they will take any criticism with anger and will be reluctant to believe anything but that PSI is real. Well, instead of bringing results, which are always open to discussion (no...

Rupert Sheldrake has been conducting an online experiment in remote staring that is completely uncontrolled. Basically, two participants are given instructions to play the role of sender and receiver. The sender is given an instruction to either stare or not stare (chosen randomly) and is told...

A major US research institution has just released details of its lengthy investigation into psychic and telekinetic phenomena, and has concluded that psi probably doesn’t exist: Source Interesting study.

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I'm looking for evidence of a decline in psi effects as the study quality increases. Anyone have any peer reviewed papers published in reputable journals?

http://www.fourmilab.ch/rpkp/ Yes, here it is. Definitive proof that history can be changed by will power alone. This was actually cited by a bleever as definitive scientific evidence of psi. When will these fools grow up?

Check out this thread on Derren Brown's forum: www.derrenbrown.co.uk in General Chat Forum Tell me if I have mis-spoken or missed anything. Beyond that, since the fellow says he will no longer discuss it with me, perhaps someone else can chime in and get more info from him. Basically, he...

This is a hypothetical topic , since none of us can definitely prove none of the above exist, it is worthy of at least hypothetical consideration, surely? :) What do antigravity, zero point/alternative energy, PSI (or several other paranormal claims) all have in common? These all would...

Did I miss any important category? If so please name another category and preferably give example of PSI spokesperson or cause that doesn’t fit any of my above categories.

Oops failed poll, sorry :) Moderator please delete this topic

What is a PSI conspiracy? :) It seems an underlying theme in the minds of both sceptics and believers. Sceptics accuse believers of conspiracy theories yet sceptics regularly assume fraud (a conspiracy to deceive) to explain cases of PSI that cannot be explained by the psychology of self...

http://www.othersbeyond.com/pvampire.html I'm quite impressed. Poor photos, masses of unbacked testomy and chrakas all in one website.

Suppose psychic ability is a tenuous thing, tenuous in a way analogous to the way light-sensitive patches would have been as the evolutionary ancestors of eyes. Then, you would expect evidence for psychic ability to be pretty sketchy. (But consider: an almost statistically insignificant...

http://www.psiexplorer.com/online.htm

Now we are going to have the PSI forum, we should prepare / compile a list of all the evidence / replictions including references and sources. Given the evidence is now quite positive, and there now beign no mundane, rationale known scientific explanation for the effect.The starting point of...

Contained between the two sets of "---' ----------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------- There, you heard it in your head, right?

My parapsychologist friend from another forum submitted his paper for me to look at. I'm currently reviewing it, but the large amount of content (it's a term paper) is overwhelming me. Take a look for yourself: http://www.doomwave.com/psipaper.zip I'd have to go to the library to find reviews...

Recently I experienced an episode that seemed to me to be an uncanny example of some sort of "pre-cognition" to wit I was thinking of someone and two days later I learned that that person had just died. Prior to my becoming a regular reader of this web site I would have imagined that the...

I'm having a little bit of a war with a kid at "Sanctuary of Development" (I have way too much free time) about chi and psionics. He'd got the usual just enough information to be really, really stupid. He's trying to use the old QM justifies psi cop out. but he's never heard of the change at...

A quote from someone on another forum, discussing how one might detect a person with psi capabilities: Just thought you'd like to know. ~~ Paul