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can similarly reach back in time far enough to affect her patient's or even her own physiology at a point early enough where it can still do some good, and achieve a healing outcome. We do not know what kind of physiology is most amenable to such treatment, or how long into the past the healer can reach. These are exciting questions that still remain to be answered. |
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For years, parapsychologists have been trying to find ways to encourage their subjects to demonstrate psychic glimpses of the future. Earlier in this chapter we mentioned a large retrospective analysis of 309 precognition experiments carried out over 50 years between 1935 and 1987. These were forced-choice experiments, in which subjects had to choose which of four colored buttons would be illuminated right after their choice, or which of five cards they would be shown at a later time. In all of these cases, a random number generator of some sort selected the targets, to which the researchers were blind. Participants had to try and guess what they would be shown in the future, from among known alternatives. In some cases they had to choose which target would be randomly chosen in the future, where they never received any feedback at all as to which target was actually selected.
12 There are two kinds of important information for us in this study. |
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We see that there is overwhelming evidence for the existence of precognition, but more importantly, we learn that there are more successful and less successful ways to do experiments. Four different factors were found to vary significantly with success or failure in these experiments. It is important to keep these ingredients in mind, if you want to experiment yourself, and want your experiments to succeed. |
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Experiments are much more successful when they are carried out with subjects who are experienced and interested in the outcome. For example, running ESP experiments in a whole classroom of moderately bored students will rarely show any kind of ESP success. Participants who are enthusiastic about the experiment are the most successful in these precognition |
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