Review of “Mysteries of Knowledge Beyond Our Senses: Dialogues with Courageous Scientists” by Bob Charman

Mysteries of Knowledge beyond our Senses: Dialogues with Courageous Scientists (2020) edited by Gayle Kimball. Review by Bob Charman, UK.       Together with The Mysteries of Healing: Dialogues with Doctors and Scientists (reviewed June 29, 2020) this is the second book in the Mystery Trilogy edited by Dr Gayle Kimball. The third book in this […]

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What factors encourage psi abilities?

The visionary scientists report that factors that may influence psi abilities (like ESP) include: previous experience and belief in psi phenomenon, experienced mediator, creative, fantasy proneness, artists, musicians, relaxed, extroverted, boundary thinness, positive schizotypy (sometimes called “magical thinking”), bioeccentricity, and being left-handed or ambidextrous. Psychiatrist Diane Hennacy Powell adds: genetics, history of severe trauma (especially […]

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Ed May’s research on anomalous cognition

Physicist Ed May, who worked on the StarGate program, described himself in an email as a total physicalist, and provided links to his psi research papers and suggested reading the Laboratories for Fundamental Research website, which he founded to study “anomalous cognition.” Anomalous Cognition: Remote Viewing Research and Theory, edited with Sonali Bhatt Marwaha, 2014. […]

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Evidence for Parapsychology

Cardeña, E. (2018). The experimental evidence for parapsychological phenomena: A review. American Psychologist, 73(5), 663-677. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/amp0000236 Abstract This article presents a comprehensive integration of current experimental evidence and theories about so-called parapsychological (psi) phenomena. Throughout history, people have reported events that seem to violate the common sense view of space and time. Some psychologists have […]

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