After some thought, I am delaying further discussion as to the paranormal so to allow interested souls to read or skim some pertinent publications. Books are available at http://www.alibris.com and articles can be found upon the internet. The few below will suffice.
[1] John Palmer: AN EVALUATIVE REPORT ON THE CURRENT STATUS OF PARAPSYCHOLOGY; http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA169486
[2] Pratt, J. G.; Smith, Burke M.; Rhine, J. B.; Stuart, Charles E.; Greenwood, Joseph:
Extra-Sensory Perception After Sixty Years; a Critical Appraisal of the Research in ESP.
[3] Bem D. J., Feeling the future . . ., J Personality Soc Psychology 2011 Mar;100(3):407-25.
[4] Ritchie S J, Wiseman R, French C C, Failing the Future . . . PLOS One 2012;DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033423.
[5] Published: March 14, 2012DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033423, Bem’s response
to Ritchie et al.
[6] Galak L, LeBoeuf R A, Nelson L D, Simmons J P, Correcting the past . . ., J Personality Soc Psychology 2012; DOI: 10.1037/a0029709.
I have intentionally not listed any statistical arguments so to keep this assignment simple. We shall discuss later.
In case one or more of you are curious as to my personal opinion, as a physicist, psychiatrist, and metaphysician, I will share it with you.
First, remember my adage that its is best to function from a place of no fixed belief systems and open-mindfulness. I think parapsychologists have approached the ESP conundrum erroneously; the reason being that they have no workable physics to describe space and time. Without a pertinent and complete physics model, efforts are lost. My theoretical work at the Institute may provide such proper model.
My personal work suggests that the physical universe provides a mode for parasensory communication between people–though standard ESP experiments are improperly designed to prove this. Moreover, such communication will not violate: (1) Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity, (2) Quantum Mechanics, nor (3) require enrichment stemming from misplaced mentation of New Age ‘physics” gurus.
We will return to investigation of the paranormal in one or two weeks, so read fast.
Blessings and good reading, Baal Eyt