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Journal of Scientific Exploration
Anomalistics and Frontier Science
Volume 37 Issue 4 Winter 2023
Society for Scientific Exploration, Versailles, KY

Editor: James HOURAN

Name: Ironside, Rachael; Smoot Tramont, Nancy; Storm, Lance

CONTENTS

Author	Title	Pag

	`Research Article`
Rachael IRONSIDE	Death, Ghosts, and Spiritual Tourism: Conceptualizing a Dark Spiritual Experience Spectrum for the Paranormal Market Paranormal tourism is a lucrative market offering visitors the opportunity to engage with enchanting experiences and stories in destinations around the world. Specifically, ghost tourism connects people to the dead (and death) through dark narratives, supernatural legends, and participatory experiences. Previous scholarship has suggested that ghost tourism exhibits characteristics of dark tourism (by visiting dark places) and spiritual tourism (by engaging in spiritual practices); however, this relationship has not been fully explored. The purpose of this conceptual paper is to consider where the experiential and motivational characteristics of dark, spiritual, and paranormal tourism converge, and to consider whether this convergence produces a dark spiritual experience for consumers. Three dimensions are identified as contributing towards the degree of dark experience offered by ghost tourism: place, promotion and production, and participation. To conclude, a Dark Spiritual Experience Spectrum is proposed, illustrating the characteristics of each dimension and their influence on the degree of dark spiritual experience offered to consumers. It is argued that these dimensions have the potential to impact the tourist experience, influence visitor motivations, and, consequently, drive an evolving paranormal market.	602-615

	`Essay`
Lance STORM	The Dark Spirit of the Trickster Archetype in Parapsychology In this paper, the phenomenology of the Trickster (its ‘darker’ side) is explored. The archetypal Trickster is shown to manifest as psychosociological aberrations and bizarre physical effects often associated with unique individuals during certain emotionally charged states. Though the Trickster and its many variants have mythological roots, the modern-day equivalent (free, for example, from anthropomorphization) can be seen as an activated psychological proneness to err in thinking when a liminal phase is entered into—that borderland between doubt and certainty. Mainstream academia considers the field of parapsychology to be controversial—it is marginalized because the phenomena it studies (the paranormal) is mostly illusive, usually weak even when proved to be statistically anomalous, and the psi process itself has not been theoretically explained. This state of affairs propagates uncertainty which can trigger ‘tricksterish’ (spurious) interpretations of parapsychological data and findings: Long-term experimenter psi and chronological decline effects are cases in point. Due caution and bias-free analysis of the data and findings may help ameliorate, perhaps even dissolve, the problem of the Trickster

	`SPECIAL SUBSECTION`
Nancy SMOOT TRAMONT	From ‘Baby Doctor’ to ‘Witch Doctor’: A Retrospective of Charles Tramont’s Work with Spirit Releasement Therapy
	Abstract: The work of Charles Tramont, M.D. showed that Comprehensive Hypnoregression Therapy can be a powerful healing tool when a hypnotized patient’s subconscious reveals to the conscious mind the cause of suffering. Often perceived to be from pastlife events or attached discarnate entities of which the subject was previously unaware, Tramont’s patients reported significant improvement after experiencing techniques related to apparent past-life regression and ‘entity removal.’ Eight such cases are summarized here, and these might suggest that various types of ‘dark forces’ do indeed exist and can disrupt people’s overall development and well-being

Journal of Scientific Exploration
Anomalistics and Frontier Science
Volume 36 Issue 4 Winter 2022
Society for Scientific Exploration, Versailles, KY

Editor: James HOURAN

Name: Cockrell, Chase; Murphy, Linda; Rodeghier, Mark (1953)

CONTENTS

Author	Title	Pag

	`Research Articles`
Chase COCKRELL, Linda MURPHY, Mark RODEGHIER	Social factors and UFO Reports: Was the SARSCoV-2 Pandemic Associated with an Increase in UFO Reporting?	641-656
	Abstract: The ongoing SARS-Cov-2 pandemic had many drastic effects upon society beyond the illness and death it caused. Pandemic mitigation measures disrupted and altered behaviors related to social mobility, significantly increasing the time spent at home compared to the pre-pandemic period. Further, it was well documented that social anxiety and stress increased at a population level. Early in the pandemic there was speculation in the popular media that reporting of paranormal phenomena (e.g., UFOs, ghosts, etc.) increased due to factors associated with the pandemic. Past research on UFO/UAP reporting has theorized that increases are triggered by social factors, and so the pandemic provided a natural experiment to test these claims. To measure UFO reports we utilized two public databases of UFO reports for sightings in the United States, provided by the National UFO Reporting Center and the Mutual UFO Network. To estimate the impact of the pandemic we utilized two measures, one for social mobility and one for pandemic/disease severity. Google Community Mobility Reports provided a metric of social mobility for people who use Google Maps on their cellular telephone (i.e., amount of time spent at work compared to home), which we aggregated to a state level to estimate time spent at home. Second, we used new weekly SARS-CoV-2 cases and deaths, both absolute counts and per capita, which can be considered to be an indirect measure of anxiety and stress. We find that UFO reports did increase in 2020 compared to 2019 (p < 0.001 for both databases); however, the level of UFO reporting had little to no association with the various pandemic-related measures, offering no support for hypothesized social factors that influence reporting. A complicating factor in UFO reporting is the start in 2019 of Starlink satellite launches. These launches include up to 60 small satellites at once, and so are very distinctive and often easily visible. As a result, many people report these as UFOs. We coded and removed these reports from the sighting databases, and the filtered data similarly have no association with the pandemic-related factors. Further, with Starlink reports removed, there was no increase in sightings in 2020 compared to 2019. Our results contribute to an understanding of large-scale factors that impact the reporting of paranormal events, especially timely given the renewed public and government focus on the UFO phenomenon today

Journal of Scientific Exploration

Volume 32 Issue 2 2018

Editor: Stephen E. BRAUDE

Name: Braude, Stephen E.; Davis, Robert; Dechamps, Mortiz C.; Hernandez, Reiniero; Maier, Markus A.; Scalpone, Russell; Schild, Rudolph; Sturrock, Peter A. (1924 - 2024); Weaver, Zofia

CONTENTS

Author	Title	Pag

	Editorial
Stephen E. BRAUDE		255-264

	`Research Articles`
Markus A. MAIER, Mortiz C. DECHAMPS	Observer Effects on Quantum Randomness: Testing Micro-Psychokinetic Effects of Smokers on Addiction-Related Stimuli	265-297
	Abstract: A vivid discussion revolves around the role of the human mind in the quantum measurement process. While some authors argue that conscious observation is a necessary element to achieve the transition from quantum to classical states during measurement (Wigner 1963), some go even further and propose a more active influence of the human mind on the probabilities of quantum measurement outcomes (e.g., Atmanspacher, Römer, & Walach 2002, Penrose & Hameroff 2011). This proposition was tested in micro-psychokinesis (micro-Pk) research in which intentional observer effects on quantum random number generators (RNGs) were investigated. In the studies presented here, we extended this line of research and tested the impact of unconscious goals on micro-Pk. Our focus lies in cigarette addiction as an unconscious drive, and we hypothesized that regular cigarette smokers would influence the outcome of a quantum RNG that determined whether the participant was going to see a smoking-related or a neutral picture. Study 1 revealed strong evidence for micro-Pk (BF10 = 66.06), supporting H1 . As expected, no deviation from chance was found with non-smokers. Study 2, a pre-registered highly powered replication attempt, failed to reproduce this result and showed strong evidence for H0 (BF01 = 11.07). When the data from both studies are combined, a remarkable change in effect across time (resembling a combination of appearance followed by decline) can be seen only in the smokers’ subsample. Appearance and decline effects were absent in the non-smokers’ sample and in a simulation. Based on von Lucadou’s Model of Pragmatic Information, we suggest that (micro-)Pk effects follow a systematic pattern comparable to a dampened harmonic oscillation. This concept may shed new light on past and future Pk research.
Reiniero HERNANDEZ, Robert DAVIS, Russell SCALPONE, Rudolph SCHILD	A Study on Reported Contact with Non- Human Intelligence Associated with Unidentified Aerial Phenomena	298--348
	Abstract: This study, conducted by the Dr. Edgar Mitchell Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial and Extraordinary Experiences (FREE), represents the fi rst comprehensive investigation on individuals (N = 3,256) who have reported various forms of contact experience (CE) with a non-human intelligent being (NHI) associated with or without an unidentifi ed aerial phenomenon (UAP). Our research methodology utilized two comprehensive quantitative surveys totaling 554 questions administered to subjects with reported non-hypnotic memory recall of their CE. This survey addressed a diverse range of physical, psychological, perceptual, and paranormal aspects of reported non-hypnotic–based recall of both physical and/or non-physical interactions with an NHI. The results revealed complex reported CEs that involve both physical and non-physical events (psychological outcomes, nonordinary states of consciousness, and paranormal experiences). What may be the most signifi cant aspect of the interim results is that approximately 70% (N = 2,279) of the study population claimed that their CE changed their life in a “positive way.” In contrast, only 15–20% reported a “negative” impact from their CE. Further, the majority of subjects did not report events typically associated with the traditionally held beliefs regarding the “alien-abduction” phenomena. That is, the results suggest that the reported CE with an NHI is largely non-physical and can occur via telepathy, during an out-ofbody experience, being fl oated into a “matrix-like” reality, as well as through physical interaction on board a craft. Consequently, the results suggest that a non-physical (“contactee”) CE is distinctly diff erent from a physical (“abduction”) CE and should be studied as separate but interrelated anomalous events. In fact, the CE associated with a UAP is not the predominant form of CE, and sighting a UAP is not necessarily associated with a CE. Consequently, future studies should not focus exclusively on the analysis of UAP sightings and traces alone which, based on decades of research, have not advanced our understanding of the possible force that governs and regulates this complex phenomenon. This is an important consideration since the FREE study dispels the notion that contact with NHIs must always entail either a physical abduction or a landed craft with beings interacting with humans. This study may serve as a needed foundation for researchers to build upon for validation purposes to better understand a unique and diverse range of reported physical and non-physical type CEs with an NHI associated with or without a UAP.

	`Historical Perspective`
Zofia WEAVER	Mediumistic Phenomena Part II by Julian Ochorowicz	349-411
	(Translated by Zofia WEAVER)
	Serie: Volume 32 Issue 1 /2018 Mediumistic Phenomena by Julian Ochorowicz Volume 32 Issue 2 /2018 Mediumistic Phenomena Part II by Julian Ochorowicz

	`Essay`
Peter A. STURROCK	Bob Jahn: Co-Founder of SSE	412-413

Journal of Scientific Exploration

Volume 32 Issue 1 2018

Editor: Stephen E. BRAUDE

Name: Alvarado, Carlos S.; Braude, Stephen E.; Fendley, T. W.; Grgić, Igor; Katz, Debra Lynne; Nunn, Chris; Weaver, Zofia

CONTENTS

Author	Title	Pag

Stephen E. BRAUDE	Editorial	5-6

	`Research Articles`
Chris NUNN	On Carving Reality at Its Joints: Black Holes and Process, People, and an Experimental Challenge	7-20
	Abstract: Black hole event horizons provide us with an image of what the world looks like when it has been reduced to its smallest spatial components and all process has been squeezed out of it. It appears as a vast sheet of tiny, random dots. Since time is at the basis of ‘process’, the image highlights questions about temporality that also exercised philosophers, notably Henri Bergson and Alfred North Whitehead. Following a strategy suggested by Whitehead’s approach to the questions leads to a possibility, which is also at the basis of a particular panprotopsychist theory (‘SoS theory’), that the ‘time’ to which we ordinarily refer in everyday language may have two ontologically distinct but equally ‘real’ components—(a) the ‘objective’ metric spacetime of general relativity which refers to the organization of classical, causal relationships and (b) a ‘subjective’ sequence of ‘nows’ providing a basis for conscious experience—albeit ‘nows’ to which (usually very brief) objective durations can be attributed. If true, it is to be expected that macroscopic, conscious mind-related violations of energy conservation should occasionally manifest. There is a wide range of anecdotal evidence from ‘psychic’ phenomena suggestive of such violations. The main aim of this paper is to point to the potential value of investigating the energy budgets of candidate phenomena
Debra Lynne KATZ, Igor GRGIĆ, T. W. FENDLEY	An Ethnographic Assessment of Project Fire y: A Yearlong Endeavor to Create Wealth by Predicting FOREX Currency Moves with Associative Remote Viewing	21-54
	Abstract: —More than 60 remote viewers contributed 177 intuitive-based associative remote viewing (ARV) predictions over a 14-month period. These viewers comprised pre-established, self-organized groups cooperating under the rubric of “Project Firefly” (PFF), and were supervised by experienced ARV group managers operating under the umbrella of the Applied Precognition Project (APP), a for-profit organization exploring precognition and leveraging ARV methodology as an investment enhancement tool. Based on predictions from the ARV sessions, PFF used the Kelly wagering strategy to guide trading on the Foreign Exchange (FOREX) currency market. Viewers performed under typical scientific protocols, including double-blind conditions, appropriate randomization, etc., using a variety of ARV application methodologies. Investors, many of whom were also participants (viewers and judges), pooled investment funds totaling $56,300 with the stated goal of “creating wealth aggressively.” Rather than meeting that goal, however, most of the funds were lost over the course of the project. Beyond merely reporting on an extensive remote viewing experiment, the present study is an examination of what went wrong, providing lessons learned for further ARV research whether involving for-profit activities or basic research, as the principles are relevant to both. Associative remote viewing is a research paradigm that harkens back to early days in science where competent non-academic researchers can provide datapoints and breakthroughs in a field typically peopled solely by professional researchers. Adapting a form of ethnographic study, we refer not only to the statistical results produced by the PFF effort, but also employ a mixed-methods qualitative approach to exploit the information and insights contributed by numerous participants about what happened, what worked, and what didn’t. This creates a reference we believe will be useful for those conducting future applied precognition projects involving multiple participants or groups. We feel that the insights gleaned from this study will improve both ARV experimental design and execution of research protocol, benefitting professional and amateur researchers alike in their future ARV experimentation

	`Historical Perspective`
Carlos S. ALVARADO	Fragments of a Life in Psychical Research: The Case of Charles Richet	55-78
	Abstract: In this paper I present a translation of an autobiographical essay French physiologist Charles Richet wrote about his involvement in psychical research in his Souvenirs d’un Physiologiste (1933). In the essay Richet presented an outline of aspects of his psychic career, including: Early interest in hypnosis and hypnotic lucidity, encounters with gifted individuals such as Eusapia Palladino and Stephan Ossowiecki, contact with the Society for Psychical Research, his Traité de Métapsychique (1922) and his lack of belief in survival of death. Richet’s account will be of particular interest for those who are not acquainted with his career. However, the essay is succinct and lacks important events that need to be supplemented with other sources of information. An examination of this autobiographical essay illustrates the limitations of autobiographies to reconstruct the past, but also provides an opportunity to discuss aspects of Richet’s psychical research.
Zofia WEAVER	Mediumistic Phenomena by Julian Ochorowicz	79-154
	(Translated by Casimir BERNARD)
	Serie: Volume 32 Issue 1 /2018 Mediumistic Phenomena by Julian Ochorowicz Volume 32 Issue 2 /2018 Mediumistic Phenomena Part II by Julian Ochorowicz

Nation:	`United States of America`
Language	`English`
ISSN:	`0892-3310`
Acronym:	`JSE`
Subject:	`Fortean`
Collezione completa:	`Si`
First Publication Year:	`1987`
Website:	`https://www.scientificexploration.org/`
Editor:	`Howard, Ronald A. (1987)`
	`Haisch, Bernhard M. (1988 - 1993)`
	`Bauer, Henry (2001 - 2002)`
	`Braude, Stephen E. (2013 - 2021)`
	`Houran, James (2022 - 2024)`

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