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chosen videotape selection that would be repeated over and over during the session. In some of these trials, the receiver's narration was so accurate that it sounded as if the receiver were psychically watching the target videotape just as it was being shown to the sender.
At the end of each trial, the computer controlling the experiment would show the receiver the chosen segment and three other video segments, in random order. The receiver's task was then to decide which of the four mini-movies the sender had been watching. By chance, one would expect a 25 percent success rate in this process. In the entire series of eleven experiments, which involved 240 people in 354 sessions, the hit rate was 32 percent, which departs from chance expectation by 500 to I.
The most successful of the auto-ganzfeld studies was conducted by Honorton in conjunction with Dr. Marilyn Schlitz, who went on to become the Research Director at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) in Sausalito, California.
In 1991, Schlitz was working on a creativity research project with students at the Julliard School in New York. As part of this work, she enlisted twenty classical music and modern dance students to take part in a ganzfeld study. 18 Each day they would take the train from their urban campus on Broadway out to the pastoral setting of the laboratory in Princeton. Climbing off the railroad car into the grassy surroundings would already initiate the New York City students' altered state. These talented and practiced artists, working in pairs with their friends, scored at a 50 percent rate in choosing the correct target from four possibilities. This is twice the rate that you would expect by chance, and was the highest result in all of the published ganzfeld research.
We often say that psi is like musical ability: It is widely distributed in the population, and everyone has some ability, and can participate to some extent  even as the most nonmusical person can learn to play a little Mozart on the piano. On the other hand, there is no substitute for innate talent or practice.
We believe the reason these young artists turned out to be the most successful participants in the entire ganzfeld series is that, although they left

 
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