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phenomenon that had occurred previously only in the drawing room and meditation center. These pioneering studies have stood the test of time, and have provided the inspiration that has drawn generations of researchers to devote their lives to the exploration of mind-to-mind connections. We have organized our discussion of psychic abilities into three general classes of investigations: "forced-choice" ESP experiments, in which subjects have a limited number of possibilities to choose from that they are aware of beforehand; "free-response" ESP experiments, in which subjects are free to describe anything that comes to mind; and "healing analog" studies, which we will explore in depth later. Most of these experiments were conducted by researchers known personally to us. The first category of mind-to-mind studies includes examples of "forced-choice'' ESP experiments, consisting of highly successful card-guessing in the 1930s with a divinity student at Duke University. Other series of this type were carried out with perfect accuracy: One used hypnosis during the sixties in Czechoslovakia, and the other, in 1975, used a "majority-vote protocol" with inexperienced psychology students as subjects. |
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We next describe what are called "free-response" experiments, where the psi target is a picture whose subject matter could be, literally, anything. The free-response studies include: dream telepathy experiments, in which subjects were asked to try and dream about the events that they would experience the next day after awaking; ganzfeld (meaning "total field") experiments, in which a person in a sensory isolation chamber was asked to describe the video segment that another person was observing in a distant room; and finally, remote-viewing experiments, in which a woman in Detroit was repeatedly able to describe the location and activities of a distant person in randomly chosen hiding places in Rome, Italy. The results of these studies document the increasing success of psi researchers in harnessing ESP abilities, and making them available for broader and broader applications. We will look at six experiments that comprise the mind-to-mind and mind-to-universe investigations. The final studies deal with the mind-to-body connection: They describe the healing of blood cells in a toxic environment, and the paranormal healing of injured animals. |
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