The Paranormal (Where is it now?)

by David Turell , Wednesday, December 24, 2008, 18:56 (5811 days ago) @ BBella

With BBella demonstrating psychic activity in her family I though I should give some exerpts of scientific studies I reviewed in my book: - There have been many scientific approaches to studying why the brain can seem to have psychic activity. Newberg and D'Aquili have studied the religious during meditation and their findings that the brain is geared for religion is reported in "Why God Won't Go Away". Persinger at Laurentian University in Ontario has produced mystical experiences in 80% of subjects by fitting magnets around the skull. Dr, Bernard Haisch worked for the C.I.A. for 24 years studying psychic activity. His findings are partially declassified with the conclusion that psychic brain function 'has been well established'. His book "The God Theory" proposes that there is a universal consciousness, which is God. - Dr. Puthoff Director of the Institute For Advanced Studies in Austin , Texas studies quantum vacuum energy and predicts we will find that the universe is an 'energetic/information cosmologic unity', and that physical and metaphysical have no boundary between them. - Studies in species consciousness are quite impressive. In the 1920's McDougall of Harvard reported training rats in a water maze. By the 20th generation they did the maze ten times faster. This was not genetic adaptation; when he tried unrelated rats, they learned the maze well before the time the 20th generation took. Rupert Sheldrake of the U. of London has reviewed Blue Tits (birds) and monkey studies, and is convinced there is species consciousness; he then studied humans with crossword puzzles and Japanese nursery rhymes. After the first group does the puzzle (timed) or learns the rhyme, the second group does it quicker! - At Princeton two different studies using random pulse generators have shown that individuals can affect the generators, and generators scattered over the Earth can be changed during momentous events like 9/11. The Maimonides Dream Research Lab in the 1960's demonstrated that dreams can carry urgent real messages, and also can be influenced by people near the sleeper who as a group concentrated on a picture.