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Not only several universities, but such conservative bodies as the Royal Society of Medicine, the American Philosophical Association, the Rockefeller, Fulbright and Ciba Foundations, have organised lectures and symposia on parapsychology. The majority of academic psychologists remained hostile, although the giants had always taken telepathy. Freud thought that telepathy entered into the relations between analyst and patient, and J ung has coined a new name for that old phenomenon: Synchronicity.

However, these men belonged to a mellower generation, and formed. Eysenck is significant. Those acquainted with his work will hardly accuse him of a lack of scepticism or an excess of humility. His summing up of the problem of telepathy commands some interest: "Unless there is a gigantic conspiracy involving some thirty University departments all over the world, and several hundred highly respected scientists in various fields, many of them originally hostile to the claims of the psychical researchers, the only conclusion the unbiased observer can come to must be that there does exist a small number of people who obtain knowledge existing either in other people's minds, or in the outer world, by means as yet unknown to science.

This should not be interpreted as giving any support to such notions as survival after death, philosophical idealism, or anything else But there is another side to the picture: they are resigned to the periodic storms of defamation that break over their heads every two or three years. In the decade that has passed since, the situation has changed.

Rhine is looked upon as a patriarch; although the "insatiable perfectionists". Instead of "some thirty University departments" at the time when Eysenck wrote, there is now hardly a country in the world which does not have one or several university departments engaged in parapsychological research-with Russia leading the field; and the hypothesis of a "gigantic conspiracy" would have to involve not several hundred.

In the New York Academy of Science held a symposium on' parapsychology. In the American Association for the Advancement of Science the equivalent of the British Association approved the application of the Parapsychology Association to become an affiliate of that august body. Two previous applications had been rejected; the approval of the third was a sign of the times, and for parapsychology the final seal of respectability.

One would have thought that para psychology would be regarded there as a mortal heres and betrayal of the materialist creed. Still, hi and his colleagues had to keep pretty quiet about wha they were doing. But in the early sixties a sudden changt occurred. Leonid Vassiliev, Professor of Physiology a Leningrad University, a student of Bechterev's, publishec reports of some remarkable experiments in tele-hypnosis. He claimed that hypnotised subjects had been made tc awaken from trance by a telepathically transmitted command from a distance; and that hypnotised subjectE standing upright were made to fall down by the same means.

The number of scientific publications on parapsychology in Soviet Russia, which in had amounted to two, had by increased to thirty-five per year, and in to seventy; while the number of publications against parapsychology in had been one, and in four. The motives for it can be guessed from Vassiliev quoting in one of his first publications "an eminent Soviet rocket pioneer" to the effect that "the phenomena of telepathy can no longer be called into question".

This conveyed to any Soviet scientist trained to read between the lines that ESP, once its technique has been mastered and made to function reliably, might have important strategic uses as a method of direct communication. Until recently these phenomena have in general been ignored by Western scientists; however, the many hypotheses involved are now receiving attention in world literature.

Specific US experiments in energy transfer phenomena, or the relationship between the physical fields of particles and the non-demonstrable "personal" psi-plasma field [sic], are being carried out or planned under various advanced concepts.

To Western scientists and engineers the results of valid experimentation in energy transfer could lead to new communications media and advanced emergency techniques, as well as to biocybernetical aids for integrating with a conceptual design of an ultimate operational flight system.

Such a design could result from a present NASA study on data subsystems and certain astronaut selfcontained sensor systems. Konecci then confirmed that both NASA and the Soviet Academy of Sciences were actively engaged in the study of telepathic phenomena to which.

Eugene B. However, there can be little doubt that certain NASA agencies are taking the possibilities of telepathic communication as seriously as their opposite numbers in the Soviet Union.

The experiments followed Professor Rhine's classic procedures in card-guessing, and Captain Mitchell then visited Rhine at Duke University to analyse the results. Perhaps the most bellicose among them is Professor Hansel, who recently made a sort of last-ditch stand on the conspiracy of fraud theory.

Hebb, a leading behaviourist, frankly declared that he rejected the evidence for telepathy, strong though it was, "because the idea does not make sense"-admitting that this rejection was "in the literal sense just prejudice". I end by concluding that I cannot explain away Professor Rhine's evidence, and that I also cannot accept his interpretation. Heisenberg, quote from Koestler, The Roots of Coincidence , p. This view, which on the face of it suggests the alien cultural ' 'exoticism," Eastern religion and philosophy, is also firmly rooted in the Western tradition.

Skip to content. Koestler so lucidly and wittily demonstrates, modern physics depicts a world of noncausational paradoxes- a wonderland of Heisenbergian Principles of Uncertainty, of mysterious elementary particles, of psi-fields, anti-electrons, multi-dimensionality, and time running forward and backward.

And unlike Newton's clockwork universe, this new world is not at all uncongenial to the dice-shooter convinced that he has a "hot" hand or the sensitive who insists that his dreams are premonitory" -- by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times, August 11, Faced with his own mortality, Chambers began a programme of research into the nature of his own immortality.

From that starting point the artist embarked on a nine-year journey that would ultimately take him to the end of his days. In his search, Chambers consulted many sources: philosophers, scientists, poets, priests, mystics and clairvoyants. One reason for this omission is undoubtedly the sharp divide that exists between those who find coincidences meaningful and those who do not, with the result that the conclusions of the many books and articles on the subject have tended to fall into distinct camps.

The Many Faces of Coincidence attempts to remedy this impasse by proposing an inclusive categorisation for coincidences of all shapes and sizes. At the same time, some of the implications arising from the various explanations are explored, including the possibility of an underlying unity of mind and matter constituting the ground of being.

Why would we want to? But does it really lead to an understanding? How do those German Army horses adjust the frequency of their lethal kicks to the requirements of the Poisson equation? How do the dogs in New York know that their daily ration of biting is exhausted? How does the roulette ball know that in the long run zero must come up once in thirty-seven times, if the. The soothing explanation that the countless minute influences on horses, dogs or roulette balls must in the long run "cancel out", is in fact begging the question.

Probability theory is the offspring of paradox wedded to mathematics. But it works. And it works, to say it once more, with uncanny accuracy where large numbers of events are considered en masse. We are driven to it, but we are not happy about it. If card-guessing were all there is to parapsychology,.

At the same time, however, the statistical results obtained in the experiments by Rhine, So ai, Thouless and so on, constitute the strongest evidence to confound the sceptical scientist. One way of convincing a :periments in Telepathy.

At this rate he consistently guessed at the next card to be turned up. If, however, the rate of turning up cards was speeded up to about half that time an average of 1'4 seconds between guesses , then he guessed just as consistently the card which would turn up two ahead.

In other words, he was somehow fixated on the event which would occur about two and a half seconds in the future. It should be added that the experiment was so designed that the agent who turned up the cards in a different room from Shackleton's could himself not know What the next card or the one after would be; if the agent wished to cheat, he would have to do precognitive cheating.

Nor did the order of the cards depend on shuffling the pack. The order was determined by so-called "random number tables"-tables with columns of numbers arranged in a deliberately haphazard order or, rather, lack of order which are prepared by mathematicians for special purposes.

From the early days at Duke University, in the 's, Rhine and his collaborators had experimented with throwing dice and "willing" a certain face to come uppermost. As Louisa Rhine relates, by , Rhine was asking himself, If the mind can know without ordinary means of knowing, can it perhaps also move objects without the ordinary means of moving?

In other words, can mind move matter directly19 [i. Certain experiences people occasionally reported suggested that such an effect had occurred. Although such experiences are deeply tinged :with the aura of superstition-even more in fact than those that seem to involve ESP-they are occasionally reported in circumstances that raise the question, Could an wlknown force have been involved here?

But the decision to embark on serious research in a territory where angels fear to tread was triggered off by a chance remark one day by a young gambler, "who said that upon occasion when he was properly keyed up, he could make dice fall as he willed".

Once more the results seemed to indicate that the dice were influenced by some factor besides chance; but Rhine wisely did not publish them until ten years later, in "it had seemed best to wait a while before throwing a second bombshell".

McConnell at Pittsburgh University, Dr. Thouless at Cambridge and G. Fisk, a member of the SPR Council, and they all gave positive results Fisk's subject, in protracted experiments over a period of six years, scored anti-chance odds of fifty thousand to one.

This type of effect was labelled PK psychokinesis as distinct from ESP extra-sensory perception ; both together are referred to by the blanket name psi: a nice neutral word, signifying the twenty-third letter in the Greek alphabet. To paraphrase Goethe: When the mind is at sea A new word provides a raft. The pioneer of this type of ultra-modern research is Helmut Schmidt, t a brilliant physicist formerly working for the Boeing Scientific Research Laboratories, who became director of the Institute for Parapsychology at Duke University, in succession to Rhine.

Since an understanding of the apparatus and procedure requires familiarity with quantum theory, I must confine myself to quoting the Abstract of his. Their objective was to guess which of the four lamps would light up next and to press the corresponding button. In the first' experiment, there were three subjects, who carried out a' total of 63, trials.

Their combined results were highly significant p. Home The Roots of Coincidence. You can publish your own PDF file online for free in a few minutes! Sign Up. File loading please wait The most arresting statement for me came on Pg. He basically says that Jung coincideence observed a real phenomena but failed to deliver a properly scientific explanation of it, which Jung writes about confusingly. He o suicide in in London. He cites many instances of scientists discovering things, mostly in physics but occasionally in biology, that do not seem to make sense either logically or in the Newtonian world.

For example, within the experiments cited by Koestler many of the participants whom showed astonishing results in early experiments later lost this claimed ability. Library research is extremely time consuming. Coimcidence all 9 comments. Books by Arthur Koestler. An occurrence which was found in a select few participants over multiple trials.

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