May 2009
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Interview with Roger Nelson, Founder and Director...
You began your career as an Experimental Psychologist examining Cognition. What career path took you to becoming Director of the GCP?
After 8 interesting years as a Professor at a College in Vt, teaching research methods in psychology, among other things, to undergrads who often wanted to study parapsychology, I decided to take a job at Princeton in what became the PEAR laboratory. I coordinated...
April 2009
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“Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.”
– George Edward Pelham Box, Statistician.
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What is The Global Consciousness Project?
Following on from my post about micro-PK research, this seems like a good opportunity to discuss the Global Consciousness Project, which originated at Princeton University in 1998.
In a nutshell, the GCP is an international collaborative effort that uses a network of RNGs dotted around the world to purportedly measure Global Consciousness effects.
Each RNG is referred to as an Egg, and there...
March 2009
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Basic micro-Psychokinesis research in 5 easy steps
Okay, here goes.
1. Connect Random Number Generator to computer. (The RNG is going to be sampled to create a datastream of ones and zeros)
2. Ask participant to ‘mentally influence’ RNG for some length of time. e.g. a trial length of 5 mins. “Generate more ones than zeros, please.” Or vice versa.
3. Using the RNG and Computer system, sample 200 binary events over a...
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“Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.”
– Richard Feynman
February 2009
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Pseudo Psychics and the Art of Cold Reading.
I sense anxiety and uncertainty. You have a tendency to be self critical and you often worry how other people view you. Your negativity can hold you back at times. But these moments of adversity are just tests of resolve. There is triumph and accomplishment ahead… should you choose to embrace it.
Extra Sensory Perception research (which examines clairvoyance, telepathy and precognition) has been...
January 2009
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Interview on mind-energy.net →
Here’s an interview I gave back in October 08, about parapsychology and The Hidden Whisper
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“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making...”
– Max Planck 