Objective: To explore how individual differences and physical and physiological factors correlate with exceptional experiences (ExE) in a psychomanteum. Methods: Thirty people who reported a prior experience with a “ghost” participated in a psychomanteum. Fifteen also experience synesthesia. The procedure consisted of a 15-minute intention session and 45-minute mirror gazing session...
It is with a sense of adventure, genuine curiosity, and true skepticism (in the spirit of William James) that the authors of the text ("the Ghost Gang") investigate the deeply human experience of ghosts.Throughout the text, the authors portray a refreshing approach of "adversarial collaboration" toward the study of ghosts.This particular collaboration dates back to 2017 and culminates in this...
The application of the Drake-S equation to the aggregated data suggestive of survival found 30.3% of unexplained variance in the data when other factors were applied to the dataset (including living agent psi, LAP). A number of points are raised in this commentary. These include 1. the aggregated estimate for LAP should factor in implicit psi studies (among others); 2. it is difficult to...
This paper presents two experiments in which an experimental paradigm developed to examine the efficacy of filtering mechanisms of attention, Latent Inhibition (LI), was adapted to include a psi component. LI assesses the processing of irrelevant stimuli, thus we tested whether a psi-stimulus might be processed akin to the irrelevant stimulus. Because the processing of the irrelevant stimulus...