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horse that is going to win the next race at Bay Meadows." But that definitely does not work. Instead, we can encode the numbers or information we would like to receive psychically, into associated target objects matched to each possible outcome. A viewer can then precognitively see the associated target objects on his or her mental screen, and describe or draw them. |
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In a horse race example, there might be six horses running in the race you have selected to forecast. For this task, we would assign an interesting household object to each of the six horses. We then ask the viewer, who has no knowledge about any of the objects, to describe the object that we will show her after the race the object that has been assigned to the winning horse. The viewer's task, therefore, has nothing to do with selecting the winning racehorse. Her only desire is to describe the object that will be placed in her hands later in the afternoon. |
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Elisabeth Targ was a viewer in such an experiment. She said that she saw some kind of glass sphere as the target. Since one of the targets was a spherical apple juice bottle, the experimenter decided that Elisabeth's description was a good correspondence. The bottle had been previously assigned as the target object associated with a horse named Shamgo. An hour later, we learned that Shamgo, against great odds, had won the race. Elisabeth was then shown the round apple juice bottle. |
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For another example, you might want to know in advance whether a particular silver contract will go up or down in a particular period of time. You would need three participants for this experiment: an experimenter, an interviewer, and a viewer. The experimenter makes his or her private assignment of objects for this test. He could decide, for example, to show the viewer a champagne bottle if the silver went up in four days, or a pancake if it went down. The interviewer, on the other hand, knows nothing about the target objects or their associations with market changes. His sole job is to interview the viewer. |
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A skillful viewer might say that he or she sees something flat and round, damp and floppy, with a funny smell. The interviewer would then call the experimenter and tell him what he had recorded. At that point, the experimenter would tell the interviewer what the targets were, and together they |
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