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Regardless, there’s no denying the legacies both Rhine and Zener have left. Duke University, for example, did actually have a Parapsychology Lab for a number of decades — and although it was originally started in 1919, almost a decade before either Rhine or Zener arrived on campus, its most heavily documented years span from 1930 to 1965 — right when Rhine and Zener were beginning their work with the Zener cards. After Rhine left Duke in 1965, he founded the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man, which later became the still-operating Rhine Research Center; it’s considered to be the successor to the Duke Parapsychology Lab. Rhine’s book, Extra-Sensory Perception, remains highly cited by those who believe in ESP, and the peer-reviewed journal he established, the Journal of Parapsychology, is still published today. He’s considered to be the founder of parapsychology as we know it, and his influence has spread far and wide. Pegasus & Pixelated - Definitely helps when you can read from a distance, and mixing methods is always a wise move. In the tutorials that come with Eclipse, a few methods are used as well as the marks; some special envelopes, switches and stuff like that. There’s nothing technically difficult though, just simple and logical added methods to bury the marks a little deeper and allow for some really clean looking moments! Although equi-probable, the cards will generally differ in the overall frequency with which they are selected (in the same way that tossing a coin several times will not necessarily result in equal numbers of heads and tails). I do however think that the scientific aspect of ESP cards, do have merit and can portray a legitimacy and clinical aspect to an effect. Of course there are those who think that the use of any cards in mentalism, is a no no. To them I say limiting our tools, can't at all be a good thing. We have so few props at our disposal to begin with, why take cards away from our arsenal? Just so long as we don't treat cards as a magicians props or gambling tool, I think there use is fine. The first large-scale application of free response testing that followed Maimonides employed the ganzfeld ESP experimental design developed by Charles Honorton, a researcher at the Maimonides dream lab, and others.The key element was the creation of a mild state of sensory isolation in the subject through the use of uniform visual and auditory fields. ‘Ganzfeld’ is a German term meaning ‘whole field’; the concept was first used by psychologists in early Gestalt perception work. The subject relaxes in a reclining chair with translucent hemispheres (usually shaped ping-pong ball halves) placed over the eyes, headphones delivering white noise to the ears; red light is directed on the eye covers creating a uniform pink visual field. The experience is not unpleasant, often described as lying on the beach with eyes closed listening to the distant sea. The purpose is more or less to cut the subject off from sensory stimuli so as to encourage a focus on inner feelings, images and thoughts.

Hines, T. (2003). Pseudoscience and the Paranormal. Prometheus Books. pp.119–120. ISBN 978-1573929790 . Retrieved 18 May 2018. The Assistant: The spectator chooses an ESP card. Your card is a face made up of the ESP symbols. This is the face of your 'assistant'. The card is rubbed face down against the spectator's card, and when it's turned over the face has changed; the spectator's symbol has vanished! Cogan, Robert. (1998). Critical Thinking: Step by Step. University Press of America. p. 227. ISBN 978-0761810674 "When an experiment can't be repeated and get the same result, this tends to show that the result was due to some error in experimental procedure, rather than some real causal process. ESP experiments simply have not turned up any repeatable paranormal phenomena."

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But just because something is unlikely to happen doesn’t mean that it can’t happen — so assuming that, say, Pearce didn’t cheat or Remote viewing (RV) is the name given to a free-response method for testing ESP developed by scientists working in the US government-funded ‘psychic spying’ programme known as Star Gate. This started at Stanford Research Institute (later SRI International) in the mid-1970s and was later transferred to another contract research organization, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). Government funding ended in 1995, at which time the records were transferred to the Laboratories for Fundamental Research (LFR), a privately funded laboratory that continues remote viewing research to this day. For this reason, ESP Cards (often called 'Zener Cards') were designed in the 1930s by perceptual psychologist Karl Zener for his colleague J.B. Rhine. Rhine used these cards extensively for experiments in extrasensory perception (ESP), including telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition.

Schmidt, S., Schneider, R., Utts, J.M., & Walach, H. (2004). Distant intentionality and the feeling of being stared at: Two meta-analyses. British Journal of Psychology 95, 235-47. Smith, J. C. (2009). Pseudoscience and Extraordinary Claims of the Paranormal: A Critical Thinker's Toolkit. Wiley. ISBN 978-1444310139 . Retrieved 18 May 2018. Guessing all 25 correct has a chance of (.2) 25 = 3.355 × 10 −18, or about 1 in 300 quadrillion. [16]

The parapsychology experiments at Duke evoked criticism from academics and others who challenged the concepts and evidence of ESP. A number of psychological departments attempted, unsuccessfully, to repeat Rhine's experiments. W. S. Cox (1936) from Princeton University with 132 subjects produced 25,064 trials in a playing card ESP experiment. Cox concluded "There is no evidence of extrasensory perception either in the 'average man' or of the group investigated or in any particular individual of that group. The discrepancy between these results and those obtained by Rhine is due either to uncontrollable factors in experimental procedure or to the difference in the subjects." [7] Four other psychological departments failed to replicate Rhine's results. [8] ESP cards have become synonymous with mentalism ever since they were first used in the 1930s to test for psychic phenomena. The undeniable allure of the five simple shapes have earned them a place in popular culture and now it's your turn to do the alluring. Cited in C. E. M. Hansel The Search for a Demonstration of ESP in Paul Kurtz. (1985). A Skeptic's Handbook of Parapsychology. Prometheus Books. pp. 105–127. ISBN 0-87975-300-5 Wynn, Charles M; Wiggins, Arthur W. (2001). Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction: Where Real Science Ends... and Pseudoscience Begins. Joseph Henry Press. p. 165. ISBN 978-0309073097 "Extrasensory perception and psychokinesis fail to fulfill the requirements of the scientific method. They therefore must remain pseudoscientific concepts until methodological flaws in their study are eliminated, and repeatable data supporting their existence are obtained."

May, E.C. (1996). The American Institutes for Research review of the Department of Defense’s Star Gate program: A commentary. Journal of Parapsychology 60, 3-23.Bold, yes. Obvious? HELL NO. The marks may be bold to you but remain INVISIBLE to the uninitiated. Spectators can freely handle the cards and even under close inspection will struggle to find the secret. The rationale derives from several sources. Dream researchers saw the dream state as one of complete isolation from sensory input that is conducive to ESP experiences: spontaneous instances are often reported on the verge of sleep, or in daydreams and reveries. Another influence is the literature on the meditational state, which eliminates sensory distractions from the environment while focusing attention inward: this too is associated with reports of ESP. Finally, gifted subjects with whom psi researchers had worked from the earliest years typically described their strategy for success as a process of ‘clearing the mind ‘or ‘creating a blank space’ on which impressions would appear. Honorton described this as the ‘noise reduction’ approach to ESP research, where ‘noise’ refers to the common mental activity and sensory input that might drown out ESP ‘signals’. The DMILS studies spawned a related research approach in which subjects attempted to detect when they were being stared at (thus emulating a commonly reported sensation). In a design similar to DMILS studies, the staring person is instructed to stare or not stare at the subject for randomly allocated or systematically counterbalanced periods. This is typically done via one-way glass mirror or video link, to ensure isolation. The subject’s response can be behavioural, such as simply reporting a feeling of being stared at, or it can be physiological (skin conductance). Sometimes both are used together. Although not as large as the micro-PK database, the DMILS and remote staring studies constitute a sizeable number of studies that have been subjected to careful meta-analysis, 22 with the conclusion that there is a small but significant effect that warrants further investigation and theoretical integration. (See Sense of Being Stared At: Experimental Evidenceand Sense of Being Started At: Theories of Vision. Contemporary Approaches Because dream-lab studies were inherently very expensive to conduct, they were not continued in parapsychology, and there has been only a single, small independent replication effort; this differed markedly from the original studies and failed to find evidence of ESP. The cards also feature a One-Way system (again, see image) that will allow you to add extra layers to your deceptions.

Want to give Zener cards a shot? It’s easy to do so now; you can find tons of digital versions of the original test online. Heinlein, C. P; Heinlein, J. H. (1938). Critique of the premises of statistical methodology of parapsychology. Journal of Parapsychology 5: 135–148. While studies of the types already discussed continue to this day, several new approaches have arisen in recent years. Presentiment But they are also easily wiped down with disinfectant wipes which makes them perfect for anyone who wants to keep their props clean in these uncertain times, which is also a great sales tool for future bookings.

Mossbridge, J.A., Tressoldi, P., Utts, J., Ives, J.A., Radin, D., & Jonas, W.B. (2015). We did see this coming: Response to ‘We should have seen this coming’ by D. Sam Schwarzkopf. arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.03179. During this period psychical researchers were blazing new ground with their methods and analyses, which had few precursors. It was inevitable that mistakes would be made; nevertheless, the self-critical attitude that characterizes the field today was evident from the earliest days. As an example, GNM Tyrrell, who earlier had success testing a gifted subject with playing cards, developed a technique to test the subject’s personal forte, finding objects. The subject pointed to one of five boxes that contained objects. When fellow psychical researcher GW Fisk pointed out that the targets (chosen by the experimenter) were not random, Tyrrell introduced a mechanical commutator to randomize the targets properly, and the subject continued to score significantly. The Rhine Era

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