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Charting the Unknown: Ghosts, Memory & the Progress of Time
OK something mildly interesting tonight – very much a preliminary set of thoughts on something Becky and I are still working on. Before she started her PhD we undertook some simple research on reports of “paranormal experiences” together, using a novel new methodology which is actually quite close to that used by the SPR in the 1894 Census of Hallucinations. And something has already come up that I find fascinating! Continue reading
Posted in Debunking myths, Paranormal, Science, Uninteresting to others whitterings about my life
Tagged "paranormal" type experiences, apparitions, Axel Johnston, Becky Smith, Caroline Watt, Census of Hallucinations, Chris Jensen Romer, D.J.West, Dave Williams, Donald West, Emma Tudor, forgetting anomalous experiences, Hallucinations, Lynn Cinderey, memory and anomalous experiences, Miranda Cardew, Mrs Sidgwick, parasychology, Paul Tudor, Richard Wiseman, Rupert Scott-Ward, S.P.R, Science of Ghosts, Society for Psychical Research, spontaneous cases, SPR Report On the Census of Hallucinations, Thomas Nowell, Veridical Hallucinations, Yvette Nicole Hall, Zuul
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Do try this at Home – the Mustard Seed Experiment
Do try this at home… I created this a few years back now as a light hearted joke on another forum, and we tried it on RD.net. Why not try it here? Assuming that we wish to demonstrate a paranormal … Continue reading
Posted in Paranormal, Religion, Science
Tagged Christianforums.net, cress, crop blessing rites, distant healing, DMILS, do try this at home, ESP, experimental religion, experimental theology, faith, fun simple science experiments, GESP, mustard seed, parasychology, PK, prayer, prayer experiment, psychical research, Religion and Science, Templeton Foundation, Templeton Prize
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My Problem with the Paranormal!
OK, so tonight I’m going to talk about my problem with the paranormal. And here we have a problem straight away – what is the Paranormal? The term is used so loosely as to be almost meaningless. Continue reading
Posted in Debunking myths, Paranormal
Tagged Arthur C Clarke, Arthur C Clarkes Mysterious World, defining the paranormal, defining the perinormal, Fortean, Forteana, ghosthunter, Giant Squid, James Randi, JREF, Most Haunted, Paranormal, paranormal meaningless term?, Paranormal TV, parasychology, perinormal, psychical research, Richard Dawkins, woo
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