IIG Live Streaming preliminary $50,000 Paranormal Challenge of Clairaudient

[Susan Gerbic]

On Sunday, August 21, 2011 at 3:00pm PT the Independent Investigations Group will be streaming live the preliminary demonstration of a self described clairaudient. The claimant professes to be able to hear discussions about himself from up to 400 feet. The protocol that was mutually agreed to by both the claimant and the IIG is that a small group of IIG members will be reading from 25 index cards, randomly selected from a group of 50 cards. Each phrase on the card will be read twice by different people.

The claimant will be located in a soundproof room on a different floor in the CFI building. He will be notified by walkie-talkie when the phrases are being spoken and he will write down the phrase he heard. All 50 phrases were agreed to by both parties, but the choices made as to which ones will be in the 25 spoken are random. The claimant must write down exactly what he hears.

The protocol states that the claimant must get 13 of the 25 phrases correct in order to pass this demonstration and move to the final phase of the challenge for the $50,000 prize. If the claimant passes this demonstration the final challenge will be set for a future date with a new agreement on the protocol.

The claimant declined to bring a "speaker" stating that as long as he was able to meet the IIG speakers before hand (and listen to them speak) he did not need his own speaker.

Please join us in this exciting adventure into exploring the limits of knowledge.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/clairaudient-test


Susan Gerbic
Investigator IIGWest
www.iigwest.org

[email protected]

 

[rjh01]

What is the name of this self described clairaudient? Has he done anything like this before?

 

[Susan Gerbic]

I don't have permission to mention his name yet.

This person hasn't been tested before, I don't think he has approached anyone about his "skills" before.

 

[SezMe]

OT
Do you commute from Salinas to IIG meetings?
/OT

 

[Susan Gerbic]

SezMe ~ Actually I do.

I skype in a lot of meetings, and I'm forever on the Internet working on projects. We are in contact all the time.

I'm on a plane tomorrow afternoon to LAX.

 

[Alan]

Very interesting! Hopefully I'll be able to catch this.

 

[wardenclyffe]

While it does not sound like it will be particularly action-packed, I'll be watching.

Ward

 

[SezMe]

SezMe ~ Actually I do.

I skype in a lot of meetings, and I'm forever on the Internet working on projects. We are in contact all the time.

I'm on a plane tomorrow afternoon to LAX.

Wow. And I dropped out of the group because I couldn't stand driving down to LA as often as necessary. Of course, we didn't have all the tech tools now available to make other types of participation possible.

 

[Susan Gerbic]

SezMe

If it is important you make time. The IIG is doing more as a group than most added together.

A lot is handled on the Internet as I said.

 

[AdMan]

While it does not sound like it will be particularly action-packed, I'll be watching.

Ward

These things are never action-packed, but still interesting. I'm planning on watching too.

 

[Susan Gerbic]

Wardenclyff

You never know? We could be watching the beginning of the end of science as we know it. Pretty cool to be on the edge of all this.

 

[Almo]

We could be watching the beginning of the end of science as we know it.

Don't get me wrong; I believe we should do these tests. But...

 

[666]

I calculate that it's 30 minutes to go until the big event. Can ayone confirm that my conversion from UTC is correct?

 

[jsfisher]

you got it.

There's a stream up now, but no audio, horrible contrast, and not much going on.

 

[666]

Looks like a guy in a glowing shirt being strapped into an electric chair.

 

[SezMe]

There's folks at IIG that know the video/broadcast biz extremely well. Why was this stream so bad both visually and in audio?

 

[Denver]

Turns out the claimant has been treated the past couple years by a psychiatrist for schizophrenia and hearing voices. If the IIG knew this before the test, I think it was wrong to subject this person to a test for clairaudience. As much as possible, people obviously suffering with mental illnesses (for instance, those who admit to having such an illness and being treated) should be screened out of this kind of thing.

 

[Lucian]

Turns out the claimant has been treated the past couple years by a psychiatrist for schizophrenia and hearing voices. If the IIG knew this before the test, I think it was wrong to subject this person to a test for clairaudience. As much as possible, people obviously suffering with mental illnesses (for instance, those who admit to having such an illness and being treated) should be screened out of this kind of thing.

On the Ustream chat, they said they'd asked him before the test if he was on medication and he said he was not. That may be because he'd stopped taking it.

 

[Denver]

On the Ustream chat, they said they'd asked him before the test if he was on medication and he said he was not. That may be because he'd stopped taking it.

I had a lot of trouble with the uStream. But, I would hope that if a claimant comes to the IIG with claims of hearing voices, some of their first questions would be whether the person has a mental illness diagnosis, is he schizophrenic, has he taken medication for this. So, if the IIG knew this, they should not have tested him. And if they did not think to ask these questions when the claimant said he could hear voices and people talking about him, these IIG people really should not be testing anybody.

 

[hcmom]

I had a lot of trouble with the uStream. But, I would hope that if a claimant comes to the IIG with claims of hearing voices, some of their first questions would be whether the person has a mental illness diagnosis, is he schizophrenic, has he taken medication for this. So, if the IIG knew this, they should not have tested him. And if they did not think to ask these questions when the claimant said he could hear voices and people talking about him, these IIG people really should not be testing anybody.

Does being schizophrenic automatically disqualify you for having a paranormal ability?