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Sending an Image Exercise |
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Here's another exercise designed to help you practice being the sender. Since effective sending can be more difficult to measure, we recommend checking your results for this exercise after each attempt you make at sending. |
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This exercise requires a little planning ahead. Select five or six pictures with specific images, which may come from magazines, books, or postcards. Don't let your partner see any of them. You may want to chose pictures that have an emotional content as these are easier to send and receive. |
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Plan for your partner and yourself to sit calmly in a quiet place at the same time, whether you're in the same house or in completely different towns. During this quiet time, you look at one image while your partner simply sits and waits. |
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While concentrating on this image, describe it with words in your mind and also look at every line, shape, and color. Then think about all the associations it brings up for you, whether good or bad. (Emotions are important for making an image have more impact on the receiver.) Continue thinking about the image for about 10 minutes. |
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Meanwhile, your friend should write down every impression he receives, visual, verbal, or emotional. |
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Try this exercise at various prearranged times for each of the five pictures. However, discuss your results after each one. Discussing the results shortly after the experience will help you understand what impressions you sent that did or didn't work, which will help you improve your skills. |
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The Ganzfeld Test: Ping-Pong Anyone? |
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While telepathy seems to work best between people who are emotionally close, psi researchers are afraid to completely rely on these relationships to prove that telepathy works. For one thing, skeptics could accuse the people who are communicating of somehow cheating. For another, researchers want to show that mind-to-mind contact exists on levels beyond the emotional. Whether they work with loved ones or strangers, researchers are finding that telepathy can be established, even in noncrisis, controlled situations. |
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A favorite method for investigating telepathy is the ganzfeld test, which we explained in Chapter 4. Remember the Ping Pong balls? In this exercise, the subject's eyes are covered and all external and body sounds are drowned out with white noise. In effect, the subject is deprived of any outside sensory distractions, which allows her to focus completely on an image sent telepathically from a sender in another room. Later, testers show the subject four images and ask her to choose the one that most closely resembles the image she received. If the subject picks the one relayed by the sender, her response is considered a hit. |
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