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Examples of the application of power metaphysics to specific domains can be found in Greco and Groff (2013) and Simpson et al. (2017).
Reexamining psychokinesis: Comment on Bösch, Steinkamp, and Boller (2006)
Psychological Bulletin, 2006
review of the evidence for psychokinesis confirms many of the authors' earlier findings. The authors agree with Bösch et al. that existing studies provide statistical evidence for psychokinesis, that the evidence is generally of high methodological quality, and that effect sizes are distributed heterogeneously. Bösch et al. postulated the heterogeneity is attributable to selective reporting and thus that psychokinesis is "not proven." However, Bösch et al. assumed that effect size is entirely independent of sample size. For these experiments, this assumption is incorrect; it also guarantees heterogeneity. The authors maintain that selective reporting is an implausible explanation for the observed data and hence that these studies provide evidence for a genuine psychokinetic effect.
Understanding the Nature of Psychokinesis
Journal of Anomalistics, 2023
This paper is the extended transcript of a lecture of November 2, 2021, presented online at the Colloquia of the Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene (IGPP). 2 It concerns a novel type of analysis of the micro-psychokinesis (MicroPK) meta-analysis data, BSB-MA, of carefully selected studies (Bösch et al., 2006a). The current paper introduced scientifically recognized data analyses other than the usual statistical approaches that yielded controversially debated conclusions. The method of Rescaled Range Analysis and the Markov model revealed correlations in the BSB-MA database introduced by three biases acknowledged in experimental science that altered some of the data: The Experimenter Expectancy Effect, the Conformity, and the Publication biases. They shaped the scatter of the random BSB-MA scores on the funnel plot. Most errors the biases have introduced were unintentional. Two interpretations of the evidence in the BSB-MA database based on the scientific method are likely: the paranormal, which explains some of the evidence, and the non-paranormal, which accounts for all evidence the present analyses realized. The principle of parsimony favors the latter interpretation.
Extraordinary Powers in Humans.pdf
2 Extraordinary Powers in Humans 3 Dedicated to all humanity in true search of ourselves: who are we, where have we come from, what are we doing here, and where are we going. Deepest respects to everyone, over there, who will continue this work and make this knowledge more complete, by adding new revelations and discovering new ways that will improve our understanding of our true nature, our place in the Universe and our obligations to it… Andov Pane 4
Journal of Scientific Exploration, 2020
The remote viewing research conducted at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) and later at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) was covered in The Star Gate Archives Volumes 1 and 2, both reviewed in this journal (see Mörck, 2018, 2019). Less well-known is the fact that much psychokinesis (PK) research was also carried out. This research “ . . . was never intended to be an academic exercise typical of most laboratories. Rather, the only interest was to determine the degree to which PK might be used as part of a defensive or even offensive weapon system” (p. 12). This sounds dramatic. To U.S. intelligence agencies, a proper threat assessment was deemed necessary due to research conducted in the Soviet Union. The research in America, at SRI, was initially directed by Harold Puthoff from 1972 on, and later, for about ten years, by one of the volume’s editors, Edwin May. In addition to research reports and reviews, Volume 3, like its predecessor volumes, includes nine appe...
A Brief Review of the Parapsychological Phenomenon of Psychokinesis
2021
This article was completed as part of the requirements for the Rhine Education Center’s Theories of Psi course. It provides a brief historical background for the parapsychological phenomenon of psychokinesis (PK), explores the current theoretical and mechanical components of PK, discusses measurement and observational techniques used by parapsychologists, and suggests areas in which further study is required.
Stimulus-governance and the hyperkinetic syndrome
Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 1978
The hypothesis that hyperkinetic children are stimulus-governed was tested. In a sample of 39 nonmedicated hyperkinetic boys 26 were found to be stimulusgoverned. In a control sample of 20 nonmedicated boys 6 were found to be stimulus-governed. A n association was found between the hyperkinetic syndrome and stimulus-governance. The hypothesis is raised that response to methylphenidate is related to stimulus-governance. Several issues raised by the research are discussed.
I—Fundamental Powers, Evolved Powers, and Mental Powers
Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, 2018
Powers have, in recent years, become a central component of many philosophers' ontology of properties. While I have argued that powers exist at the fundamental level of properties, many other theorists of powers hold that there are non-fundamental powers also. In this paper I articulate my reasons for being sceptical about the existing reasons for holding that there are non-fundamental powers. However, I also want to promote a different argument for the existence of a certain class of non-fundamental powers: properties whose existence and nature have natural selection to thank. Such properties will include functional properties of organisms and so may include their mental properties also.
Laboratory Research on a Presumably PK-Gifted Subject
Journal of Scientific Exploratión, 2017
Between June 2014 and December 2015, a PK laboratory was organized in Buenos Aires. Up to five video cameras were installed to record the events. Various devices were assembled to measure physical, physiological, and environmental variables. 23 meetings were held with a presumptive PK subject, identified in previous research. The subject was apparently able to move a table at will, through an alleged " PK force, " and the phenomena were documented and recorded on several occasions. Although contactless movement of the table or other objects could not be achieved, muscular effort was ruled out as the cause of the observed movements. One experiment developed by William Crawford was repeated, although Crawford's results were not replicated. EEG studies were performed with the subject at rest and also during the production of the phenomena. Unexplained anomalies were observed in the EEG data obtained during the production of the phenomena, and the normal curve of a random number generator also deviated significantly (p = 0.008) during the trials. No variations of electric and magnetic fields were found to be associated with the phenomena. Stephen Braude visited the laboratory and attended 3 meetings. He offers his observations and commentary in the Appendix.