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| | Editorial |
| Bernhard HAISCH | Challenge Grant | i-ii |
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| Rhea A. WHITE | Review of Approaches to the Study of Spontaneous Psi Experiences | 93-126 |
| | Abstract: -Twelve approaches to the study of spontaneous psi experiences are
described: individual case study, case collection, survey, cross-cultural, longitudinal, clinical, psychological, phenomenological, archetypal, folklorist, active
imagination, and social constructionist. The review begins with the older and
more commonly used approaches. Although all 12 methods have been reported
in the literature, the primary ones used thus far in parapsychology are the individual case study, the case collection, the cross cultural, the survey, and to a
lesser extent, the clinical. The others have barely been tried, yet if given a fair
trial, they might prove to be more useful ways of learning to understand the
nature of spontaneous psi experiences than the first three, although the latter
will always be useful for different purposes. In general, the more commonly
used methods aim at establishing that the experiences occurred as reported and
at delimiting the characteristics of the cases and details of their incidence. The
lesser used methods are aimed at understanding the personal (and sometimes
general) meaning of experiential accounts of psi experiences. Throughout the
author has also interjected her own personal views of which approaches are to
be preferred at this time, and why. |
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| Stephen E. BRAUDE | Survival or Super-psi? | 127-144 |
| | Related:
Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 6 Number 3 Autumn/1992 - Comments on Survival or Super-psi?
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| | Abstract: Even the most sophisticated discussions of the evidence for survival
underestimate the conceptual difficulties facing the survival hypothesis. Perhaps the major challenge is posed by the rival "super-psi" hypothesis, which
most writers fail to confront in its most plausible and potent form. Once the
super-psi hypothesis is taken seriously, two major weaknesses in discussions of
survival stand out clearly. First, analyses of apparently anomalous knowledge
that tend to be fatally superficial in their treatment of subject psychodynamics.
And second, analyses of apparently anomalous abilities and skills trade on an
impoverished and naive conception of the nature of human abilities. |
| Ian STEVENSON | Survival or Super-psi: A Reply | 145-150 |
| Stephen E. BRAUDE | Reply to Stevenson | 151-155 |
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| Loftur Reimar GISSURARSON | The Psychokinesis Effect: Geomagnetic Influence, Age and Sex Differences | 157-165 |
| | Abstract: Data from 621 experimental sessions carried out in Scotland, United
States and Iceland were retrospectively analyzed for a possible connection
between psychokinesis (PK) performance and local geomagnetic activity (Kindex). Although the study did not find any significant correlation between geomagnetic activity and overall PK performance, the difference in geomagnetic
activity on the day prior to the experimental sessions (split via high and low PK
score) was marginally significant (p = .08, 2-T). The compound PK effect in the
data base yielded a nonsignificant z-score deviation from MCE of 1.27, with a
distribution significantly different from a normal distribution (p=.01, 2-T).
Furthermore, males did significantly better than females (p= .04, 2-T), and the
youngest subjects did marginally better than the oldest subjects (p = .098,2-T). |
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| Satwant PASRICHA | Are Reincarnation Type Cases Shaped by Parental Guidance? An Empirical Study Concerning the Limits of Parents' Influence on Children | 167-180 |
| | Abstract: The author conducted a systematic survey of cases of the reincarnation type in a region of northern India with an estimated population of 861 1
persons. The 91 respondents informed about 19 cases, suggesting a prevalence rate of 2.2 per thousand in this area. In addition to the characteristics of
the cases, the author learned about the range and extent of dissemination of
information about such cases. Information regarding the occurrence of particular cases traveled a maximum distance of 75 kilometers; in 94% of the cases
it never went beyond 25 kilometers. Information about the factual details of
cases traveled even shorter distances. Cases occurring within the same family
or the same village showed considerable variations in important features,
making it unlikely that cases developed later had been modeled on ones
occurring earlier. |
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| | Book Reviews |
| Henry H. BAUER | Darwin on Trial by Phillip E. Johnson | 181-186 |
| Henry H. BAUER | American Epigraphy at the Crossroads edited by James P. Whittall, Jr. | 186-190 |
| Henry H. BAUER | How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life by Thomas Gilovich | 190-194 |
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| | SSE News Items |
| | Highlights of the Princeton SSE Meeting | 195-199 |
| | Related:
Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 6 Number 3 Autumn/1992 - Erratum
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| | Dinsdale Prize Awarded to Dr. Helmut Schmidt | 199-200 |
| | New Book Review Editor | 201 |
| | Research Reports Available from Hungarian Academy of Sciences | 201 |
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| | Erratum | 202 |
| | Related:
Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 6 Number 1 /1992 - Response to Dobyns [Jefferys, William H.]
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