Scientific Study Demonstrates Psychic Phenomena
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Have Scientists Found Evidence of Psychic Phenomena Finally?
Not only does this study (which appears to be considered truly scientific by any standard) demonstrate psychic phenomena, it hints at exciting things regarding the nature of time and destiny. And I’m not blowing it out of proportion. Read on…
Melissa Burkley, PhD, does a fantastic job of explaining this study in plain english at Psychology Today:
In one of the studies, college students were given a list of words and after reading the list, were given a surprise recall test to see how many words they remembered. Next, a computer randomly selected some of the words on the list as practice words and the participants were asked to retype them several times. The results of the study showed that the students were better at recalling the words on the surprise recall test that they were later given, at random, to practice. According to Bem, practicing the words after the test somehow allowed the participants to “reach back in time to facilitate recall.”
In another study, Bem examined whether the well-known priming effect could also be reversed. In a typical priming study, people are shown a photo and they have to quickly indicate if the photo represents a negative or positive image. If the photo is of a cuddly kitten, you press the “positive” button and if the photo is of maggots on rotting meat, you press the “negative” button. A wealth of research has examined how subliminal priming can speed up your ability to categorize these photos. Subliminal priming occurs when a word is flashed on the computer screen so quickly that your conscious brain doesn’t recognize what you saw, but your nonconscious brain does. So you just see a flash, and if I asked you to tell me what you saw, you wouldn’t be able to. But deep down, your nonconscious brain saw the word and processed it. In priming studies, we consistently find that people who are primed with a word consistent with the valence of the photo will categorize it quicker. So if I quickly flash the word “happy” before the kitten picture, you will click the “positive” button even quicker, but if I instead flash the word “ugly” before it, you will take longer to respond. This is because priming you with the word “happy” gets your mind ready to see happy things.
In Bem’s retroactive priming study, he simply reversed the time sequence on this effect by flashing the primed word after the person categorized the photo. So I show you the kitten picture, you pick whether it is positive or negative, and then I randomly choose to prime you with a good or bad word. The results showed that people were quicker at categorizing photos when it was followed by a consistent prime. So not only will you categorize the kitten quicker when it is preceded by a good word, you will also categorize it quicker when it is followed by a good word. It was as if, while participants were categorizing the photo, their brain knew what word was coming next and this facilitated their decision.
These are just two examples of the studies that Bem conducted, but his other studies showed similar “retroactive” effects. The results clearly suggest that average “non-psychic” people seem to be able to anticipate future events.
There are a few things to get tingly about here. First, the fact that this study was conducted in such a way as to be considered valid and valid enough to be published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. So we shouldn’t expect any of the usual poo-pooing (well I suppose we should, because some people just can’t accept anything psi-related) of the methodologies that have dogged other serious researchers like Rupert Sheldrake or Dean Radin. Second, this kind of research can be replicate in so many ways, further honing in on the phenomena – much more will be learned after this. Third, the implications of the nature of time are profound. Fourth, this study just happens to be coming out around the same time as another study conducted by physicists on particles that essentially demonstrates the same thing! It’s being demonstrated that particles behave differently in the present depending upon what happens to them in the future. THAT is trippy.
Now the question is, how soon before someone creates an iPhone app based on this?
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This is not recent news. Hard core rigorous science books have been written for many years now that scholarly document the thousands of laboratory experiments that confirm the existence of psychic phenomena. It is a well established scientific fact.
A TRUE STORY
It’s hard to believe that it has been over fifty years since that night in Grosse Point, Michigan that so changed my life.
I was a young college student, just out of the army, studying psychology under the G.I. Bill at an adult college in Detroit, Michigan. I had mastered the art of hypnotism and in fact was considered one of the leading men in the field.
Working part-time in an Abbotts Magic store and putting on magic shows was a form of income that was not only fun but allowed me to meet a wide range of personalities.
One person, who at his request will remain nameless, was a magician of note and a close personal friend. We had fun trying out new magic tricks and routines on each other. We were very close. Because of our knowledge of the so called “Black Arts”, we were aware of all the tricks used by magicians and mediums to ply their art on the unknowing. Two-way transmitters to feed information, pat routines such as “The Devils Own Method” of mind reading, astral projection units and of course the table raising gimmicks etc. The two of us, noticing the rise of fake mediums in the area, decided that it would be fun if we did “Spook De-Bunking”. That is to say, we would attend a seance or mediums performance and expose their fakery to the members present. It was a riot. We slipped into homes at the request of a persons mate that felt their partner was being taken for a ride. For this we had the satisfaction of setting things right,…..but no money.
Then one day after a magic show at the old Schubert Theatre in downtown Detroit, I was approached by a very nice elderly lady who asked if we would put on a show for a few of her friends at her home in swank Grosse Point Farms, a wealthy suburb of Detroit. She said that we could use any gimmicks or tricks we wanted and she would pay us $100.00. (That was a lot of money to a college student in the 40′s).
I asked my partner and he said “sure, let’s go for it”. We rounded up as much paraphernalia as we could from the magic store and planned a really scary show for them.
Our plan included getting as much information as the host lady could gather about the persons who would be in attendance. (No self-respecting medium would go in without it). Finally the night arrived. We had agreed that my partner would handle the mechanical and voice parts and I would take the part of the medium at the table with the guests. My partner planned to wait in his car down the block until all of the guests were in the house and ready for the seance. He would then enter the kitchen by the back door and connect his microphone and recorders into the speaker system I had installed and concealed in the room and set up a projector.
I was introduced as “Sregna The Gifted” (my last name spelled backward), and we all took our places at the table. The table had been previously rigged to emit a hanging cloud of ‘magic’ smoke that would hover over the table for several minutes. This cloud was used as a sort of projection screen to receive images of light from a projector controlled by my partner, in short a sort of astral vision effect.
We all joined hands and I began my mumbo jumbo. I could feel a slight tremble in the hand I was holding. This was just what I needed. I became quite confident. I called upon the spirits to come forth and make themselves known. A few eerie sounds preceded a voice saying that he was the departed husband of one of the guests. A mist formed, as planned, over the table and a likeness of the person was seen. There were a few shudders and ooh’s and ah’s. She asked her husband questions and he answered. (Very well I thought considering the information we were given) This scene was repeated for several of the ladies. It was an eerie success.
When the seance came to a close. The ladies left, each with their memories. They had had quite a show. The lady that hired us wrote me a check and thanked me for a wonderful evening. I then went into the kitchen to help my partner disconnect his equipment and pack up. When I reached the kitchen I was unable to locate my partner or his equipment. Then I heard a pounding on the kitchen door. It was my partner. He said when he tried to get in someone had apparently locked the door. He said he was sorry and asked if he missed anything.
I may never know what really happened that night, but I can assure you, I have not played with the supernatural since!
Submitted From: Bradford J. Angers, Florida, USA
wow! MR J Angers, what a story. I bet your friend was amazed when you told him what happened?