Libriufo

Journal of Scientific Exploration

Volume 12 Number 1 1998

Name: Haisch, Bernhard M. ; Houran, James; Jeffrey, Kent; Lange, Rense; Porter, Stephen; Swords, Michael D.; Wood, Robert M.

CONTENTS

Author	Title	Pag

	`Editorial`
Bernhard HAISCH	Reports on the Roswell Claim	1

	`Research Article`
James HOURAN, Stephen PORTER	Statement Validity Analysis of "The Jim Ragsdale Story": Implication for the Roswell Incident	57-71
	Abstract: "The Jim Ragsdale Story" purports to be the only known first- hand testimony to the alleged UFO crash near Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. This testimony, in the form of an affidavit and a less formal conversational account, was analyzed using Statement Validity Analysis (SVA) which is an established technique for evaluating the credibility of forensic witness ac- counts, and Fact Pattern Analysis which is a less formal procedure that com- plements SVA. SVA indicated that the testimony was not consistent with known features of memories for true events. Similarly, the fact pattern analy- sis identified major factual inconsistencies as well as potential implausible information. These findings suggest that "The Jim Ragsdale Story" is not credible. Accordingly, the possibilities that the Ragsdale story represents a deliberate fabrication or sincerely reported memories of imagined experience are discussed

	`Research Report`
Kent JEFFREY	Roswell - Anatomy of a Myth	79-101
	Abstract: -The alleged recovery of a crashed flying saucer and alien bodies by the U.S. military near Roswell, New Mexico, in July 1947, has become not only the most famous and publicized UFO case of all time, but also an American icon. Unfortunately, with regard to serious UFO research, it has be- come in effect a "red herring," diverting time and resources away from the study of the actual UFO phenomenon. Compelling new evidence is exam- ined, including recently released 1948 military documents, a hypnotic ses- sion with the most important living Roswell witness by a renowned expert in the use of regression hypnosis for forensic purposes, and statements by for- mer members of the 509th Bomb Group and former officers from the Foreign Technology Division at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. Although the re- sults of this research are a disappointment to many, it should now become patently obvious to anyone willing to look open-mindedly and objectively at the facts that the Roswell debris was not of extraterrestrial origin.
Michael D. SWORDS	A Different View of "Roswell - Anatomy of a Myth"	103-125
Robert M. WOOD	Critique of "Roswell - Anatomy of a Myth"	127-140

	`Letters to the Editor`
James HOURAN, Rense LANGE	Comments on Don and Moura's "Topographic Brain Mapping of UFO Experiencers"	152-154
	`Related:` Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 11 Number 4 /1997 - Topographic Brain Mapping of UFO Experiencers [Norman, Don S. & Moura, Gilda]

Journal of Scientific Exploration

Volume 11 Number 4 1997

Name: Moura, Gilda; Norman, Don S.

CONTENTS

Author	Title	Pag

	`Research Article`
Don S. NORMAN, Gilda MOURA	Topographic Brain Mapping of UFO Experiencers	435-453
	`Related:` Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 12 Number 1 /1998 - Comments on Don and Moura's "Topographic Brain Mapping of UFO Experiencers" [Houran, James & Lange, Rense]
	Abstract: A cohort of Brazilian subjects, claiming experiences with UFOs involving contact or abduction, were selected for topographic brain mapping. One of the most important selection criteria was the ability to enter into a self-reported, non-ordinary state of consciousness or trance that developed spontaneously after their abduction or contact experiences. Analysis of their EEGs revealed that all subjects entered voluntarily into an hyperaroused trance. In this state, they maintained a condition of muscular relaxation and immobility while their EEGs exhibited high frequency (beta) activity at all 19 electrode sites, but with maximum activity at the prefrontal and adjacent loci. Inspection of the EEGs from the prefrontallfrontal sites revealed intermittent trains of rhythmic, approximately 40 Hz activity, attaining very high amplitudes, at times exceeding 40 microvolts. This activity was distinct in morphology and frequency from faster, usually concurrent activity, probably attributable to scalp muscle discharge (EMG). Analysis of 40 Hz, midline scalp activity, statistically controlling for the effects of EMG, revealed significantly more 40 Hz activity in trance than in baseline (p < .006). Also, the dominant alpha frequency increased during trance (p < .01). Both EEG findings suggest the occurrence of a state of hyperarousal. There was no evidence of epileptiform discharges in our data or clinical indications of possible epilepsy. Also, there was no brain activity suggestive of psychopathology, particularly schizophrenia, nor were there clinical indications of psychopathology. The EEG results were related to the physiological effects of highly focused attention and recent findings in neuroscience. Also noted were similarities to advanced meditative states and differences from psychopathology

Journal of Scientific Exploration

Volume 11 Number 2 1997

Name: Carlotto, Mark J.; Friedman, Stanton T. (1934 - 2019); Haines, Richard F. (1937); Houran, James; Imich, Alexander; Randle, Kevin D.; Sturrock, Peter A. (1924 - 2024); Thompson, Richard L.; Vallée, Jacques (1939); Wood, Robert M.

CONTENTS

Author	Title	Pag

	`Research Articles`
Mark J. CARLOTTO	Evidence in Support of the Hypothesis that Certain Objects on Mars are Artificial in Origin	123-145
	Abstract: Findings from a series of independent investigations are summarized and presented as evidence in support of the hypothesis that certain features on the Martian surface are artificial in origin. The discussion focuses on the Cydonia region in Mars' northern hemisphere. The features under investigation include a formation approximately 2.5 by 2 km in size that resembles a humanoid face staring up into space from the surface and a number of nearby objects. One set of objects located 10-20 km southwest of the Face which has been termed the "City" contains several unusual structures comparable in size to the Face and a number of smaller structures which together with the larger objects in the City appear to be arranged in an organized pattern. Several other anomalous features in the area are also examined. Three types of evidence are presented which support the hypothesis that the objects in question are artificial. The first is based on a detailed examination of the objects themselves, the second concerns spatial and angular relationships, and the third involves a comparative analysis of the shape of certain objects. Using a Bayesian inference model and assuming the above sources of evidence are mutually independent we show that the existing evidence strongly supports the hypothesis that these objects may be artificial in origin
Richard THOMPSON	Planetary Diameters in the Surya-Siddhanta	193-200
	Abstract: This paper discusses a rule given in the Indian astronomical text Surya-siddhanta for computing the angular diameters of the planets. By combining these angular diameters with the circumferences of the planetary orbits listed in this text, it is possible to compute the diameters of the planets. When these computations are carried out, the results agree surprisingly well with modern astronomical data. Several possible explanations for this are discussed, and it is hypothesized that the angular diameter rule in the Surya-siddhanta may be based on advanced astronomical knowledge that was developed in ancient times but has now been largely forgotten.

	`Guest Column`
Peter A. STURROCK	Curious, Creative and Critical Thinking	225-230

	`Letter to the Editor`
	On the Wood Book Review of "Top Secret/Majic"	233-239
	`Related:` Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 11 Number 1 /1997 - Top Secret/Majic, by Stanton T. Friedman [Wood, Robert M.]
	Fortean Phenomena on Film? Evidence or Artifact	239-242
	`Related:` Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 11 Number 1 /1997 - Fortean Phenomena on Filmm: Evidence or Artifact? [Lange, Rense & Houran, James]

	`Book Review`
Richard F. HAINES	Expedientes Insolitos by Vincente J. Ballester Olmos	261-262
	Review: Vicente-Juan BALLESTER OLMOS,EXPEDIENTES INSÓLITOS - 1995
	Also printed International UFO Reporter Volume 21 number 1 Spring/1996 - [Haines, Richard F.], MUFON UFO JOURNAL 333 January/1996 - Expedientes Insolitos: El fenomeno OVNI y los Archives de Defensa [Haines, Richard F.],

Journal of Scientific Exploration

Volume 9 Number 1 1995

Name: Carlotto, Mark J.; Wieder, Irwin; Wilson, James

CONTENTS

Author	Title	Pag

Mark J. CARLOTTO	Digital Video Analysis Of Anomalous Space Objects	45-63
	Abstract: Video data showing multiple objects moving in unusual trajectories in space is examined. The video was captured by a camera aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (mission STS-48) between 20:30 and 20:45 GMT on 15 September 1991 near the west coast of Australia. Digital video analysis is performed to determine if the objects in question are ice particles disturbed by a thruster firing as contended by NASA or other objects moving independently of the shuttle. Results of our analysis show that it is unlikely that a thruster firing occurred since the attitude of the spacecraft does not change. Our analysis indicates that there are two groups of correlated object motions. One group changes direction at the time of a flash, claimed by NASA to be due to a thruster firing. The other group changes direction 1.5 seconds later. Assuming the objects are roughly the same size, brightness measurements of the objects as they pass over the airglow layer near the limb suggest that the objects in the first group are farther away yet they change direction first. This behavior is inconsistent with the thruster firing hypothesis. For one of the objects known as the "target", it is shown that the only hypothesis that is consistent with the data is that the object is at or near the physical horizon. We go on to show that several other objects in the video are clearly moving in circular arcs and are thus likely to be relatively far away from the shuttle. The estimated speed of one of these objects, about 35 kmlsec, is approximately the same as that of the target if we assume that it is at the physical horizon. At the end of the event, the shuttle's camera pans down to reveal a number of objects moving below the shuttle. One of the objects appears to have a definite structure consisting of three lobes arranged in a triangular pattern

Irwin WIEDER	Report of Referee On "Digital Analysis Of Anomalous Space Objects"	65-70

Mark J. CARLOTTO	Carlotto's Response to Wieder	69-70

	`Book Review`
James WILSON	Abduction: Human Encounters With Aliens by John Mack	149-151
	Review: John E. MACK,ABDUCTION: Human Encounters with Aliens - 1994

	Erratum	156
	`Related:` Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 8 Number 4 /1994 - Further Comments on the Unreliability of Home Blood Glucose Monitors

Journal of Scientific Exploration

Volume 8 Number 4 1994

Name: Allen, Robin; Aspden, Harold; Bauer, Henry; Beloff, John; Benveniste, Jacques; Bradish, G. J.; Brenig, Léon; Clement, B. E. P.; Cook, Emily Williams; Dalton, Kathy; Delanoy, Deborah L.; Devereux, Paul (1945); Dienes, Zoltan; Dunne, Brenda J.; Edelstein, Stuart; Egely, George; Ertel, Suitbert; Guérin, Pierre (1926 - 2000); Haisch, Bernhard M. ; Howat, Susan J.; Ibison, Michael C.; Jahn, Robert G.; Jeffers, S.; Klivington, Kenneth A; Morris, Robert L.; Neale, Lori Anne; Nelson, Roger D.; Puthoff, Harold E.; Pyatnitsky, L.; Radin, Dean I.; Rockwell, Theodore; Roy, Archie E.; Sah, Sunita; Sloan, J.; Squires, Euan J.; Stevenson, Ian; Strand, Erling; Sturrock, Peter A. (1924 - 2024); Thompson, Angela; Utts, Jessica; van Wijk, Roeland; Vassy, Zoltan; Von Lucadou, Walter; Warwick, James W.; Wolkowski, Zbignew

CONTENTS

Author	Title	Pag

	`Research Articles`
Pierre GUÉRIN	A Scientific Analysis of Four Photographs of a Flying Disk Near Lac Chauvet (France)	447-469
	`Related:` Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 9 Number 2 /1995 - Comment on McMinnville UFO Photos
	Abstract: `A series of four photographs of a disk-shaped object apparently flying in the sky was physically analyzed. Certain details led us to develop a mathematical model of the supposed trajectory. The model was validated by measurements on the photographs, which demonstrated that the disk was distant from the camera, flying along a straight and horizontal trajectory, and was not a fabrication`
R. D. Nelson et al.	A Linear Pendulum Experiment: Effects of Operator Intention on Damping Rate	471-489
	Abstract: An attractive pendulum consisting of a two-inch crystal ball suspended on a fused silica rod is the focus of an experiment to measure possible effects of conscious intention on an analog physical system. The pendulum is enclosed in a clear acrylic box, and provided with a computer controlled mechanical system to release it from the same starting height in repeated runs. A high speed binary counter registers interruptions of photodiode beams, to measure velocities at the nadir of the pendulum arc with microsecond accuracy. In runs of 100 swings, taking about three minutes, operators attempt to keep swings high, i.e. to decrease the damping rate (HI); to reduce swing amplitude, i.e. to increase the damping rate (LO); or to take an undisturbed baseline (BL). Over a total of 1545 sets, generated by 42 operators, the HI - LO difference is significant in the direction of intention for five individuals, and the difference between intention and baseline runs is significant and positive for five other operators. The overall HI - LO difference is reduced to non-significance by strong negative performances from several operators, four of whom have comparably large scores in the direction opposite to intention. Analysis of variance reveals significant internal structure in the database (main effects F,, ,,= 2.845, p = .025). Subset comparisons indicate that male operators tend to score higher than females, and that randomly instructed trials tend toward higher scores than volitional trials, especially for male operators. Trials generated with the operator in a remote location have a larger effect size than the local trials. While direct comparisons are not straightforward, it appears that effects of operator intention on the pendulum damping rate may be similar in magnitude and style to those in other humanlmachine interaction experiments. Although this result fails to support an experimental hypothesis that the analog nature of the pendulum experiment would engender larger effect sizes, it does confirm a basic similarity of consciousness effects across experiments using fundamentally different physical systems.
P. A. STURROCK	Applied Scientific Inference	491-508
	Abstract: The purpose of this article is to use the principles of scientific inference to provide guidance in evaluating complicated issues such as those raised by the study of anomalous phenomena. Specifically, the article presents a formalism (a "protocol") for organizing and combining the many judgments that must be made in the scientific evaluation of the relevant hypotheses. All judgments are to be expressed as probabilities, and the rules for combining probabilities are derived from Bayes' theorem. Setting up a problem in a manner that permits such an analysis can be helpful in imposing a structure and discipline upon the analysis, and also in exposing relevant questions that might otherwise have remained hidden. Furthermore, the introduction of probabilities makes it possible to put on a sound numerical basis such assertions as "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." One finds that extraordinary evidence can be built up from many (but not very many) items of unspectacular evidence, provided the items are truly independent. The proposed procedure permits a clear separation between a statement of initial prejudice and an evaluation of the significance of considered evidence. However, it would be even better to set out explicitly the considerations on which the prejudice is based, and to view those considerations as part of the evidence to be evaluated. The procedure also draws a clear separation between the roles and judgments of data analysts (who assign probabilities to specified statements, based on the evidence), and those of theorists (who assign probabilities to the same statements, based in turn on the considered hypotheses). In order to reach a consensus on any topic, it is recommended that probability estimates be made by teams of experts, all team-members being presented with the same data but acting independently, and procedures are proposed by which individual estimates may be combined to yield a consensus estimate.

	`Essay`
John BELOFF	The Mind-Brain Problem	509-522
	Abstract: `The mind-brain problem, which is still with us, raises the question as to whether the mind is no more than the idle side-effect of our brain processes or whether the mind can, in some degree, influence behavior. Here we rehearse the arguments on both sides plus some desperate recent attempts to eliminate mind altogether.`

Dean I. RADIN	Guest Column: On Complexity and Pragmatism	523-533

	`Letters to the Editor`
	Comments on James Warwick's Book Review of Cross Currents	535-538
	`Related:` Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 7 Number 4 /1993 - Cross Currents by Robert 0. Becker [Warwick, James]
	Further Comments on the Unreliability of Home Blood Glucose Monitors	538-539
	`Related:` Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 8 Number 3 /1994 - Complementary Healing Therapy for Patients With Type I Diabetes Mellitus [Wirth, Daniel P. & Mitchell, Barbara J.] Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 9 Number 1 /1995 - Erratum

	`Book Reviews`
Michael C. IBISON	The Interrelationship Between Mind and Matter edited by B. Rubik	541-545
Theodore ROCKWELL	The Interrelationship Between Mind and Matter edited by B. Rubik	545-546
Emily Williams COOK	A History of Hypnotism by A. Gauld	546-553
Angela THOMPSON	The Allagash Abductions: Undeniable Evidence of Alien Intervention by R. E. Fowler	554
	Review: Raymond E. FOWLER,THE ALLAGASH ABDUCTIONS - 1993
Henry H. BAUER	Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science by P. R. Gross and N. Levitt	555-563
Stuart EDELSTEIN	Perilous Knowledge: The Human Genome Project and Its Implications by T. Wilkie	563-565
Lori Anne NEALE	The Body, Self-Cultivation, and Ki-Energy by Y. Yuasa	565-568

Roger NELSON	The Second Euro-SSE Conference	569

	`Abstracts of the Second Euro-SSE Conference`
Robert MORRIS	Investigating Anomalies in Human-Machine Interaction	570
Jessica UTTS	Decision Augmentation Theory: Can Precognition Explain PK Data	570-571
Walter VON LUCADOU	Psychological Correlates of Experimental Human-Machine Anomalies: Influence, Selection, or What?	571
Zoltan VASSY	Correlation without Causation: on the Nature of Parapsychological Phenomena	571-572
B. E. P. CLEMENT	Conceptual Modeling in the Temporal Domain	572
Harold ASPDEN	The Experimental Pathway to New Sources of Energy	572-573
Harold E. PUTHOFF	On the Feasibility of Converting Vacuum Electromagnetic Energy to a Useful Form	573-574
Bernhard HAISCH	Zero-Point Field, Inertia, and Mach's Principle	574
Roger NELSON	Anomalous Interactions: Intention, Information, and Consciousness	574-575
S. JEFFERS, J. SLOAN	The Double-Slit Experiment as a Potentially Sensitive Detector of Anomalous Effects	575
Euan J. SQUIRES	The Implication of Quantum Theory for an Understanding of Consciousness	575-576
Jacques BENVENISTE	The Transfer of Specific Molecular Signals by Electromagnetic Means, and Its Consequences in Biology and Medicine	576
L. PYATNITSKY	Consciousness Influence on Water Structure	576-577
Zbignew WOLKOWSKI	Recent Advances in the Phoron Concept: An Attempt to Decrease the Incompleteness of Scientific Exploration	576-577
Roeland VAN WIJK	Understanding the Benefits of Subharmful Doses of Toxicants	577-578
Zoltan DIENES	Tests of Sheldrake's Claim of Morphic Resonance	578
Suitbert ERTEL	The Maharishi Effect in Transcendental Meditation: Fancy or Fact?	578-579
Archie E. ROY	The Great Crop Circle Mystery	579
Robin ALLEN	Science, Pseudoscience, and the Crop Circle Phenomenon	579-580
Léon BRENIG	Remote Sensing: A Tool for UFOLOGY	580
Paul DEVEREUX	"Earth Lights": History and Latest Developments Concerning Research into Anomalous Light Phenomena	580-581
George EGELY	Ball Lightning: The Last Enigma of the Atmosphere?	581
Erling STRAND	Project Hessdalen-A Field Investigation of an Unknown Atmospheric Light Phenomenon	581-582
Susan J. HOWAT, Deborah L. DELANOY, Robert L. MORRIS	Remote Staring Detection and Personality Correlates	582
Deborah L. DELANOY, Sunita SAH	Cognitive and Physiological PSI Responses to Remote Positive and Neutral Emotional States	581-582
	Comparison of the SenderINo Sender Conditions Using an Automated Ganzfeld System	583-584
Ian STEVENSON	Six Modem Apparitional Experiences	584
Peter A. STURROCK	The Role of Heresies in Scientific Research	584-585

	`SSE News`
	Odier Research Foundation Publishes Bulletin	587
	14th Annual Meeting: Announcement and Call for Papers	588

Journal of Scientific Exploration

Volume 8 Number 3 1994

Name: Bauer, Henry; Cooper, Topher; Deardorff, James W.; Epstein, Michael; Evans, Hilary (1929 - 2011); Haisch, Bernhard M. ; Haraldsson, Erlendur; Houtkooper, Joop M.; Jacobs, David Michael (1942); Maccabee, Bruce (1942 - 2024); Mitchell, Barbara J.; Palmer, John; Stevenson, Ian; Sturrock, Peter A. (1924 - 2024); Thompson, Angela; Vallée, Jacques (1939); Wirth, Daniel P.

CONTENTS

Author	Title	Pag

Bernhard HAISCH	Editorial	307-308

Peter A. STURROCK	Report on a Survey of the Membership of the American Astronomical Society Concerning the UFO Problem: Part 3	309-346
	Serie: Volume 8 Number 1 Spring/1994 Report on a Survey of the Membership of the American Astronomical Society Concerning the UFO Problem: Part 1 Volume 8 Number 2 /1994 Report on a Survey of the Membership of the American Astronomical Society Concerning the UFO Problem: Part 2 Volume 8 Number 3 /1994 Report on a Survey of the Membership of the American Astronomical Society Concerning the UFO Problem: Part 3
	Abstract: `Refereed journals, to which scientists turn for their reliable information, carry virtually no information on the UFO problem. Does this imply that scientists have no views and no thoughts on the subject, or that all scientists consider it insignificant? Does it imply that scientists have no reports to submit comparable with UFO reports published in newspapers and popular books? The purpose of this survey was to answer these questions.`

Bruce MACCABEE	Strong Magnetic Field Detected Following a Sighting of an Unidentified Flying Object	347-365
	`Related:` Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 9 Number 2 /1995 - Comments on Magnetic Field Detection Associated with a UFO
	Abstract: Following the brief sighting of an unidentified flying object in Gulf Breeze, Florida in September 1992, investigators made an area search using a fluxgate gradient magnetometer and found a strong magnetic field gradient, indicative of a strong source of magnetic field, which appeared to be at or above the tops of some trees near a small pond. Three circles of depressed grass were found in the bottom of the shallow pond. This paper discusses the sighting, the area search, the circles and the field gradient measurements. An estimate of the field strength is presented and compared with magnetic effects associated with other sightings.


Daniel P. WIRTH, Barbara J. MITCHELL	Complementary Healing Therapy for Patients With Type I Diabetes Mellitus	367-377
	`Related:` Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 8 Number 4 /1994 - Further Comments on the Unreliability of Home Blood Glucose Monitors
	Abstract: The effect of Noncontact Therapeutic Touch (NCTT) therapy and Intercessory Prayer (IP) on patient determined insulin dosage was examined in an exploratory pilot study which utilized a randomized, double-blind, within subject, crossover design. Sixteen type I diabetes mellitus patients were examined and treated daily by NCTT and IP healers for a duration of two weeks. Each patient underwent two separate sessions-one in the treatment condition and one in the control condition-with the patients crossing over to the opposite condition for the second session. The results indicated that while 11 of the 16 patients (69%) in the treatment group showed a reduction in insulin dose levels as compared to the control group, the difference in insulin dosage did not reach significance. It is suggested that various methodological considerations may have been important contributing factors in the nonsignificant results obtained including: (1) the utilization of insulin dose instead of objectively measured laboratory blood glucose values as the dependent variable, (2) the four foot distance and mirrored glass barrier between healer and patient, (3) the short duration for treatment and control sessions, (4) the experimental instructions advising patients to adjust their caloric intake and expenditure prior to adjusting their insulin dose, and (5) the use of healthy longterm IDDM patients with a stable insulin dose who did not exhibit any diabetic sequelae.
Ian STEVENSON	Response to Wirth et al.	379-380

Erlendur HARALDSSON, Joop M. HOUTKOOPER	Report on an Indian Swami Claiming to Materialize Objects: The Value and Limitations of Field Observations	381-397
	Abstract: In India there are frequent and widely accepted claims of materializations of objects or substances which are usually associated with the activities of religious persons, such as Hindu swamis, and are sometimes reported to occur during religious ceremonies. Such claims, if substantiated, could have a major influence on the development of the studies of anomalous phenomena. This report describes an attempt to investigate the claims concerning a little known swami, Gyatri Swami. The difficulties involved in working in a religious setting are described in order to demonstrate the limitations to which this sort of research is subject. Conclusions are left as much as possible to the reader, because these claims frequently warrant no clearcut verdict. However, in the case of Gyatri Swami we reached a negative conclusion regarding his claims.

	`Columns`
Topher COOPER	Anomalous Propagation	399-402
Michael EPSTEIN	The Skeptical Perspective	403-406

	`Letters to the Editor`
	Response to Ballester-Olmos	407
	`Related:` Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 8 Number 1 Spring/1994 - Alleged Experiences Inside UFOs: An Analysis of Abduction Reports [Ballester Olmos, Vicente-Juan]
	Response to Ballester-Olmos	407
	`Related:` Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 8 Number 1 Spring/1994 - Alleged Experiences Inside UFOs: An Analysis of Abduction Reports [Ballester Olmos, Vicente-Juan]

	`Book Reviews`
James W. DEARDORFF	Anomalous Experiences & Trauma: Current Theoretical, Research and Clinical Perspectives edited by Rima E. Laibow et al.	409-411
	Review: Rima E. LAIBOW, Robert N. SOLLOD, John P. WILSON,ANOMALOUS EXPERIENCES AND TRAUMA: Current Theoretical, Reserch and Clinical Perspectives - 1992
Hilary EVANS	The Case for Astrology by John Anthony West	411-415
John PALMER	Parapsychology: A Concise History by John Beloff	415-419
Henry H. BAUER	Science Frontiers: Some Anomalies and Curiosities of Nature by William R. Corliss	419-420
	Review: William R. CORLISS,SCIENCE FRONTIERS: Some Anomalies and Curioities of Nature - 1994
Ian STEVENSON	Immortality edited by Paul Edwards	420-422
Angela THOMPSON	The Blue Sense: Psychic Detectives and Crime by Arthur Lyons and Marcello Truzzi -	422-423
Angela THOMPSON	Many Lives, Many Masters & Through Time Into Healing by Brian L. Weiss	423-424

Journal of Scientific Exploration

Volume 8 Number 2 1994

Name: Augenstein, Bruno W.; Cooper, Topher; Dobyns, York H.; Dunne, Brenda J.; Epstein, Michael; Fagan, John ; Himes, Joe; Jahn, Robert G.; Jefferys, William H.; Keay, Colin S.; Laszlo, Ervin; Marlot, Harry; Nelson, Roger D.; Pollard, Frank G.; Schenkluhn, Hartmut; Streicher, Christoph; Sturrock, Peter A. (1924 - 2024); Volkameq, Klaus; Walton, Kenneth G.

CONTENTS

Author	Title	Pag

Peter A. STURROCK	Report on a Survey of the Membership of the American Astronomical Society Concerning the UFO Problem: Part 2	153-195
	Serie: Volume 8 Number 1 Spring/1994 Report on a Survey of the Membership of the American Astronomical Society Concerning the UFO Problem: Part 1 Volume 8 Number 2 /1994 Report on a Survey of the Membership of the American Astronomical Society Concerning the UFO Problem: Part 2 Volume 8 Number 3 /1994 Report on a Survey of the Membership of the American Astronomical Society Concerning the UFO Problem: Part 3
	Abstract: `Refereed journals, to which scientists turn for their reliable information, carry virtually no information on the UFO problem. Does this imply that scientists have no views and no thoughts on the subject, or that all scientists consider it insignificant? Does it imply that scientists have no reports to submit comparable with UFO reports published in newspapers and popular books? The purpose of this survey was to answer these questions.`

Brenda J. DUNNE, York H. DOBYNS, Robert G. JAHN, Roger D. NELSON	Series Position Effects In Random Event Generator Experiments with Appendix by Angela Thompson	197-215
	Abstract: Effect sizes achieved by human operators in random event generator anomalies experiments show correlations with the ordinal positions of the experimental series in both the collective and individual databases. Specifically, there are statistically significant tendencies for operators to produce better scores over their first series, then to fall off in performance in their second and third series, and then to recover to some intermediate levels during their fourth, fifth, and subsequent series. Such correlations appear in both local and remote experiments, and are also indicated over a sequence of different experimental protocols, but no similar effects are found in baseline or calibration data. These serial position patterns thus appear to be primarily psychological in origin, and may subsume the rudimentary "decline," "primacy," "recency," and "terminal" effects propounded in the parapsychological and psychological literature. The results also emphasize the importance of very large individual databases in determining the asymptotic effect sizes in any given experiment of this type


K. Volkamer et al.	Experimental Re-Examination of the Law of Conservation of Mass in Chemical Reactions	217-250
	Abstract: At the beginning of the century the law of conservation of mass in chemical reactions was checked experimentally by Landolt and various other experimenters. Even though in 8 of the 10 chemical reactions studied by Landolt the validity of conservation of mass was confirmed within the margin of experimental errors, in 2 reactions the pre vs. post comparison of the determined weights indicated mass differences that exceeded the experimental error by up to a factor of 6, indicating apparent violations of the law of conservation of mass. However by averaging between such results and subjective assessments Landolt discarded these deviations. We report on careful and systematic repetitions of one of Landolt's chemical experiments. Using modern sensitive and, in one case, automatic weighing techniques, the results obtained reveal time-dependent and long-range gravitational irregularities which are many orders of magnitude larger than expected relativistic mass effects, indicating an apparent violation of the law of conservation of mass in this special chemical reaction. Similar effects could be found in biological and purely physical systems, as well as synergistic effects between these systems. The observed spontaneous mass fluctuations suggest the existence of a form of cold, dark matter which is detected in the described systems.
Michael EPSTEIN, Joe HIMES	Response to Volkamer et al.	251-253

William H. JEFFERYS	Erratum: Bayesian Analysis of Random Event Generator Data	255-256
	`Related:` Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 4 Number 2 /1990 - Bayesian Analysis of Random Event Generator Data [Jefferys, William H.]

	`Invited Essay`
Ervin LASZLO	The 'Genius Hypothesis': Exploratory Concepts for a Scientific Understanding of Unusual Creativity	257-267
	Abstract: Unusual acts of artistic and scientific creativity - associated in the popular mind with the concept of "genius" - do not have a satisfactory explanation in terms of the cerebral or mental processes of individuals. The 'genius hypothesis' suggests that such acts of creativity involve an interaction between the mind of the creative individual and other minds, bent on similar creative endeavors. The interaction envisaged in the hypothesis relies on the spontaneous transmission of the crucial Einfall that catalyzes the creative acts. Following the presentation of pertinent evidence culled from the fields of cultural development, scientific discovery and artistic production, the mechanism of transference is illustrated with the analogy of networked computers. It is also shown to shed light on what Jung called 'archetypal experience.' The phenomenon of instantaneous spatiotemporal connectivity is not limited to human brain-minds but has counterparts in quantum physics and evolutionary biology. Its explanation poses one of the greatest challenges to the contemporary natural sciences

Topher COOPER	Anomalous Propagation	269-273

Michael EPSTEIN	The Skeptical Perspective	275-277

Bruno W. AUGENSTEIN	Guest Column: Conceiving Nature-Discovering Reality	279-282

	`Letters to the Editor`
	Comments on "Alleged Experiences Inside UFOs"	283-284
	`Related:` Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 8 Number 1 Spring/1994 - Alleged Experiences Inside UFOs: An Analysis of Abduction Reports [Ballester Olmos, Vicente-Juan]
	Comments on "A Review of Near-Death Experience"	284

Journal of Scientific Exploration
A Publication of the Society for Scientific Exploration
Volume 8 Number 1 Spring 1994
Society for Scientific Exploration

Name: Ballester Olmos, Vicente-Juan (1948); Bauer, Henry; Cooper, Topher; Dossey, Larry; Eberlein, Gerard L.; Epstein, Michael; Jacobs, David Michael (1942); Stevenson, Ian; Sturrock, Peter A. (1924 - 2024); Targ, Russell; Vallée, Jacques (1939); Wilson, James

CONTENTS

Author	Title	Pag

Peter A. STURROCK	Report on a Survey of the Membership of the American Astronomical Society Concerning the UFO Problem: Part 1	1-45
	Serie: Volume 8 Number 1 Spring/1994 Report on a Survey of the Membership of the American Astronomical Society Concerning the UFO Problem: Part 1 Volume 8 Number 2 /1994 Report on a Survey of the Membership of the American Astronomical Society Concerning the UFO Problem: Part 2 Volume 8 Number 3 /1994 Report on a Survey of the Membership of the American Astronomical Society Concerning the UFO Problem: Part 3
	Abstract: `Refereed journals, to which scientists turn for their reliable information, carry virtually no information on the UFO problem. Does this imply that scientists have no views and no thoughts on the subject, or that all scientists consider it insignificant? Does it imply that scientists have no reports to submit comparable with UFO reports published in newspapers and popular books? The purpose of this 1977 survey of American astronomers was to answer these questions.`

Jacques F. VALLÉE	Anatomy of a Hoax: The Philadelphia Experiment Fifty Years Later	47-71
	Abstract: The "Philadelphia Experiment" concerns the allegedly paranormal disappearance of a Navy destroyer from the docks of the Philadelphia Navy Yard in the late Summer of 1943, followed by disclosures of official contact with extraterrestrial powers. Claims made by purported witnesses of this supposedly secret Navy test directed by Albert Einstein have been repeatedly found to be fraudulent. The author has now interviewed a man who served on a companion ship to the destroyer in question, and who was on the scene the night of its supposed disappearance, which he is able to explain in minute detail. Yet the features of the story are such that it survives in the UFO literature and that it is now being revived under a novel form for the benefit of a new generation of readers. Using this incident as a model of a successful hoax, the present article extracts thirteen parameters that have been instrumental in its remarkable survival over the last fifty years; it compares the features of this fabrication to other questionable episodes of UFO lore; finally, it attempts to draw up a list of suitable measures for their detection, challenge and ultimate exposure.

Larry DOSSEY	Healing and the Mind: Is There a Dark Side?	73-90
	Abstract: Although intra- and interpersonal intluences have long been acknowledged in medical science to affect an individual's health both positively and negatively, the impact of non-local, transpersonal influences are generally denied in contemporary medical science. The present paper examines anecdotal, ethnographic, anthropological, clinical, and experimental evidence suggesting that non-local, transpersonal influences may exist, and that these may exert a negative and even fatal impact on human health. The possible relationship of these negative influences to scientific findings in other anomalous areas, such as the studies in humanlmachine interaction at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) Laboratory, are discussed. The author concludes that the evidence favoring the existence of non-local, negative, transpersonal influences is considerable, and that the implications for medical research and clinical practice are profound.


Vicente-Juan BALLESTER OLMOS	Alleged Experiences Inside UFOs: An Analysis of Abduction Reports	91-105
	`Related:` Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 8 Number 2 /1994 - Comments on "Alleged Experiences Inside UFOs" Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 8 Number 3 /1994 - Response to Ballester-Olmos Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 8 Number 3 /1994 - Response to Ballester-Olmos
	Abstract: Six well-documented UFO abductions reported in Spain are reviewed. Investigation reveals them to be the result of hoax, delusion or psychosis. On a global scale, the annual distribution of abductions plotted according to year of report shows clusters associated with media-related triggers. Abduction narratives seem to proceed from internal sources, representing non-physical experiences of psychological origin inspired by publicized material, plus a significant number of hoaxes. A danger exists that the abduction syndrome may get out of hand.
David M. JACOBS	Response to Juan Ballester Olmos	107-109

Russell TARG	What I See When I Close My Eyes	111-118
	Abstract: After two decades of parapsychological research, my purpose in writing this essay is to encourage researchers who are interested in understanding psychic phenomena to look for ways to have ESP experiences themselves. In no other field do experienced and thoughtful researchers set up observational experiments, and then ask inexperienced or randomly chosen passersby to look through the microscope and report what they see. I will describe here some of the things that I have seen. I am a good visualizer. When I close my eyes I usually see reasonably sharp and clear pictures. The bad news is that the images that I see with my eyes open are not much sharper or clearer, although they are much more stable. I would like to share my thoughts about psi perceptions, from the point of view of a legally blind researcher. What that means in my case is that my corrected visual resolution is ten percent of that of a person with normal vision.

Topher COOPER	Anomalous Propagation	119-123

Michael EPSTEIN	The Skeptical Perspective	125-128

Peter A. STURROCK	Guest Column: Activity Since the American Astronomical Society UFO Survey	129-134

	`Letters to the Editor`
	Comments on "A Review of Near-Death Experiences"	135
	Comments on Ball Lightning	135-137
	`Related:` Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 6 Number 3 Autumn/1992 - Ball Lightning Penetration into Closed Rooms: 43 Eyewitness Accounts [Grigor'ev, A. I.; Grigor'eva, I. D.; Shiryaeva, S. O.]

	`Book Reviews`
Henry H. BAUER	Big Foot Prints: A Scientific Inquiry into the Reality of Sasquatch by Grover S. Krantz	139-141
	Review: Grover S. KRANTZ,BIG FOOT-PRINTS - 1992
Henry H. BAUER	Striking the Mother Lode in Science: The Importance of Age, Place, and Time by Paula E. Stephan and Sharon G. Levin	141-143
Ian STEVENSON	Cellular Aspects of Pattern Formation: The Problem of Assembly by G. W. Grimes and K. J. Aufderheide	144-145
James WILSON	The Mask of Nostradamus: The Prophecies of the World's Most Famous Seer by James Randi	145-146
	Review: James RANDI,THE MASK OF NOSTRADAMUS - 1993

	`SSE News Items`
	Major Physics Article Published By SSE Members	147
	SSE Member Alexander Receives National Recognition for New Technologies	147-148
	A New Director Position for SSE Councilor Radin	148
	Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Society for Scientific Exploration	149-150
	Second Euro-SSE Meeting of the Society for Scientific Exploration August 24 - 26,1994	151-152

Journal of Scientific Exploration

Volume 7 Number 4 1993

Name: Alper, Paul; Bounias, Michel (1943 - 2003); Cooper, Topher; Epstein, Michael; Keay, Colin S. L.; McConnell, Robert; Noel, F.; Radin, Dean I.; Schouten, Sybo A.; Stevenson, Ian; Warwick, James W.

CONTENTS

Author	Title	Pag

	`Research and Review Articles`
Colin S. L. KEAY	Progress in Explaining the Mysterious Sounds Produced by Very Large Meteor Fireballs	337-354
	Abstract: Strange sounds, heard simultaneously with the sighting of brilliant meteor fireballs many tens of kilometers distant, have been an enigma for more than two centuries. The term "electrophonic sounds" is now widely used to describe them and distinguish them from the normal sonic effects heard after the fireball has passed by. A physically viable explanation for meteor fireball electrophonic sounds has been developed and verified by observation and experiment. The history of this neglected branch of meteor science is presented in some detail, drawing attention to the difficulties which stood in the way of a solution until fairly recently. Introducti
Dean I. RADIN	Neural Network Analyses of Consciousness-Related Patterns in Random Sequences	355-373
	Abstract: Researchers investigating the effects of mental intention on the output of random number generators have observed person-unique patterns or "signatures" impressed into the data. A previously reported study used an artificial neural network to analyze the data produced in these experiments and found evidence supporting the signatures hypothesis. The present study again used a neural network to search for patterns, this time using new data and new network configurations. Results of eight analyses confirmed the presence of person-specific signatures. Suggestions for creating practical applications from this phenomenon are outlined.
Sybo A. SCHOUTEN	Applied Parapsychology: Studies of Psychics l and Healers	375-401
	Abstract: Most research in parapsychology is aimed at understanding and controlling paranormal phenomena like telepathy, precognition and psychokinesis. However, in everyday life the practical applications of these phenomena, mainly by psychics and healers, play a more important role. People are generally more interested in the question of how effective these applications are than in scientific explanations of them. They want to know whether they should consult a psychic for a specific problem or what to expect from treatment by a paranormal healer. It is an important aspect of scientific activity to provide society with answers to such questions; answers not based on belief or disbelief in the paranormal but on factual research data. Research with psychics dates back to the last century. Considering the complexity of the problem it is not surprising that it took many years before proper statistical evaluation methods were developed. Based on studies in which the paranormal impressions of psychics were quantitatively evaluated an assessment is given of what happens when clients consult a psychic and of the merit of the impressions on which the psychics base their advice. Compared to psychics, there exists a much larger community of active paranormal healers. Despite this large number, the amount of research carried out on paranormal healing is less than the number of studies done with psychics. However, there are many studies available on complementary medicine in general which provide data relevant for the interpretation of the activities of psychic healers. All these data give an indication for the effectiveness of paranormal healing and of the main variables involved. Two overview studies have been carried out, one on quantitatively evaluated studies with psychics, the other on studies on psychic healing and on complementary medicine. The present paper is a summary and overview of the main results of both studies.
Ian STEVENSON	Birthmarks and Birth Defects Corresponding to Wounds on Deceased Persons	403-410
	Abstract: Almost nothing is known about why pigmented birthmarks (moles or nevi) occur in particular locations of the skin. The causes of most birth defects are also unknown. About 35% of children who claim to remember previous lives have birthmarks and/or birth defects that they (or adult informants) attribute to wounds on a person whose life the child remembers. The cases of 210 such children have been investigated. The birthmarks were usually areas of hairless, puckered skin; some were areas of little or no pigmentation (hypopigmented macules); others were areas of increased pigmentation (hyperpigmented nevi). The birth defects were nearly always of rare types. In cases in which a deceased person was identified the details of whose life unmistakably matched the child's statements, a close correspondence was nearly always found between the birthmarks and/or birth defects on the child and the wounds on the deceased person. In 43 of 49 cases in which a medical document (usually a postmortem report) was obtained, it confirmed the correspondence between wounds and birthmarks (or birth defects). There is little evidence that parents and other informants imposed a false identity on the child in order to explain the child's birthmark or birth defect. Some paranormal process seems required to account for at least some of the details of these cases, including the birthmarks and birth defects.

	`Invited Essay`
Robert McCONNELL	The "Enemies" of Parapsychology	417-427
	Abstract: The author regards as "enemies" of parapsychological research (1) those critics who confuse parapsychology with popular superstition, (2) those parapsychologists who know all the pieces of evidence for the reality of psi effects but who lack the capacity to integrate and to evaluate that evidence as a whole, and (3) those professional psychics whose faltering attempts to apply psi for profit give the field a bad name. The author believes that parapsychology's urgent task is to bring mutual understanding between scientists and the public by exploring the obscure but real psi phenomena that give rise to popular superstition. He sees extrasensory perception and psychokinesis as evocable, operationally-defined psi phenomena. However, he rejects as a religious endeavor the search for logical proof of their reality and advocates, instead, a Bayesian summation of countervailing intuitive probabilities. The author rejects blind empiricism as a practical path to the utilization of psi. He offers several speculations regarding future discoveries in parapsychology, three of which are: (1) Healing by self-hypnosis, as opposed to noncontact therapeutic touch, may be normal in an evolutionary sense. (2) Psychoneuroimmunology and psi may play complementary roles. (3) The principal future importance of parapsychology may be to allow scientific understanding of psi processes occurring within the human body.

	`Columns`
Topher COOPER	Anomalous Propagation	429-433
Michael EPSTEIN	The Skeptical Perspective	435-438
F. NOEL	Guest Column: Unidentified Atmospheric Phenomena Observed by an Astronomer	439-441

	`Letters to the Editor`
	On Biological Transmutation of Elements	443-447
	`Related:` Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 6 Number 4 /1992 - The Skeptical Perspective [Epstein, Michael]
	Comments on Suitbert Ertel's Puzzling Eminence Might Make Good Sense	447-448
	`Related:` Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 7 Number 2 Summer/1993 - Puzzling Eminence Effects Might Make Good Sense [Ertel, Suitbert]

	`Book Reviews`
Paul ALPER	The Burt Affair by R. B. Johnson and Science, Ideology and the Media: The Cyril Burt Scandal by R. Fletcher	449-451
Paul ALPER	The Left-Hander Syndrome; The Causes and Consequences of Left-Handedness by Stanley Coren	451-453
Albert E. MOYER	Luna: Myth & Mystery by Kathleen Cain	453-455
James WARWICK	Cross Currents by Robert 0. Becker	455-458
	`Related:` Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 8 Number 4 /1994 - Comments on James Warwick's Book Review of Cross Currents

Journal of Scientific Exploration

Volume 7 Number 3 1993

Name: Cooper, Topher; Dobyns, York H.; Dommanget, j.; Epstein, Michael; Ertel, Suitbert; Evans, Hilary (1929 - 2011); Maccabee, Bruce (1942 - 2024); Nienhuys, J. W.; Rubtsov, Vladimir V.; Schroter-Kunhardt, Michael; Stevenson, Ian; Sturrock, Peter A. (1924 - 2024); Thompson, Keith (1954); Tiller, William A.; Vallée, Jacques (1939)

CONTENTS

Author	Title	Pag

	`Research and Review Articles`
Michael SCHROTER-KUNHARDT	A Review of Near Death Experiences	219-239
	Abstract: Near death experiences (NDEs) have been reported throughout time in essentially all cultures. The contents of modem NDEs is independent of gender, age, and profession. The frequency of occurrence is estimated to lie between 10 and 50 percent of all near-death situations. This frequency could be higher still, perhaps even 100 percent, were it not for the dreamlike and dissociative character of the experience and the amnesia-prone participation of the temporal lobe causing a clear tendency to forget the NDE. A number of similar elements are common to NDEs, such as an out-of-body experience (OBE) in which the physical body and its surroundings are observed from various external vantage points, often from above. Numerous cases exist in which the reality of the OBE-observation can be independently 'verified, by external conditions, situations, people, objects, etc. Even previously non-religious ND experiencers subsequently show a markedly decreased fear of death and a corresponding increase in belief in life after death. Certain elements of NDE-like experiences can be induced by, for example, electrical stimulation of the right temporal lobe or the use of hallucinogenic substances. It is possible that hallucinogenic transmitters (and endorphins) of the brain itself play a role in the NDE. Nevertheless, there are NDE-elements, such as the frequently reported life-review and certainly the acquisition of external, verifiable information concerning the physical surroundings during the experience, that cannot be explained by physiological causes. Wish-fulfillment, death-denial or other defense mechanisms of the brain are also not adequate explanations. The large body of NDE data now accumulated point to genuine evidence for a non-physical reality and paranormal capacities of the human being.
Bruce MACCABEE	Analysis and Discussion of the May 18, 1992 UFO Sighting in Gulf Breeze, Florida	241-257
	Abstract: A professional TV crew traveled to Gulf Breeze, Florida on two occasions in the spring of 1992 at a time when sightings were occurring on a weekly basis. On each occasion anomalous lights were observed and videotaped passing through the Gulf Breeze skies. This paper reports briefly on the first sighting and concentrates on the analysis of the second sighting when the TV crew used a special "high power" camera. During the second sighting the lights were observed from two locations allowing for triangulation and a subsequent estimate of the spacing between them (about 10 ft). They were moving in an early rectilinear path at a speed exceeding 20 mph before they faded out. A discussion of the hoax hypothesis involving pyrotechnic devices and incandescent light sources is presented. It is shown that the sightings, if not of "real" UFOs, constitute a hoax of considerable ingenuity, expense and persistence. This sighting was just one of about 170 which have occurred in the Gulf Breeze area during 1990-1992.
York H. DOBYNS	Selection Versus Influence in Remote REG Anomalies	259-269
	Abstract: A large body of remote human-machine interaction data has been collected in a protocol structurally similar to that used for experiments in remote perception, with somewhat comparable anomalous results. This suggests that the effects seen in the former could be attributable to a selection or sorting process on a reservoir of unperturbed data, rather than to any remote influence on the machine behavior per se. Fortunately, the statistical consequences of these two modalities are clearly distinguishable within the available empirical data. When properly evaluated by Bayesian hypothesis-comparison methods, the experimental results overwhelmingly favor the direct influence hypothesis over any selection mechanism.
J. W. NIENHUYS	Dutch Investigations of the Gauquelin Mars Effect	271-281
	Abstract: A team of Dutch skeptics have investigated a new explanation for the Mars effect with sports champions of Michel Gauquelin. They conjectured that outstanding sports people might have diurnal and seasonal birth rhythms different from average people and that moreover the short time base of Gauquelin's observations might further enhance these effects. Essentially their findings were negative. Simulations were either not possible because of lack of data or they showed that along these lines an explanation is only possible if very implausible additional assumptions are made. However, it is argued that the Gauquelin data suffer from a bias, namely some artifact of the exploratory phase. The eminence effect of Ertel is shown to be too weak to draw firm conclusions about its existence. It seems plausible that the Gauquelins did not realize that said artifact had to be tightly controlled for

Suitbert ERTEL	Comments on Dutch Investigations of the Gauquelin Mars Effect	283-292
	Abstract: -The first of two Dutch skeptics' attempts at disproving the Mars effect failed (Nienhuys 1993a). Contrary to the Nienhuys view, however, the second pass of the Dutch critics at the Gauquelin claim- an attempt at undermining the validity of his data base- is shown to fail as well. The critics drew apparent support from my previous unearthing of a Gauquelin biasGauquelin had exempted cases from publication (Ertel, 1988). Yet they neglected the fact that any such bias had been neutralized as a result of my pooling of published and unpublished data. Specifically, a significant eminence trend was demonstrated in the unmanufactured total sample in my 1988 report. In addition, Dutch endeavours at rendering the eminence relationship insignificant either failed (even a less sensitive scale with 12 instead of 36 sector division yielded significance) or were illegitimate (splitting up of the entire sample for that purpose violates methodological logic). Thus, the present (fourth) attempt in the history of resistance against the Gauquelin challenge by organized skeptics has added two misses to their record.

	`Invited Essay`
William A. TILLER	What Are Subtle Energies?	293-304
	Abstract: A brief discussion is given of a set of anomalous experimental phenomena that are inexplicable based only on the four accepted forces operating in the physical universe. Possible explanations require defining the existence of subtle energies. Using a quantum mechanical description, the seat of subtle energy functioning is traced to the vacuum state with magnetic vector potential assuming the role of bridge between the subtle energies and physical energies. A brief discussion is given of how we might reliably detect subtle energies and a zeroth order model of the subtle domains as substructure for the vacuum state is given.

	`Columns`
Topher COOPER	Anomalous Propagation	305-310
Michael EPSTEIN	The Skeptical Perspective	311-315
j. DOMMANGET	Guest Column: The Comite PARA-European Skeptics Committee	317-321

	`Letters to the Editor`
	Ukraine Research Institute on Anomalous Phenomena	323-325
	Comments on Guide to UFO Research	325-326
	`Related:` Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 7 Number 1 Spring/1993 - A Guide to UFO Research [Swords, Michael D.]

	`Book Reviews`
Ian STEVENSON	Beyond Natural Selection by Robert Wesson	327-328
Peter A. STURROCK	First Review of Forbidden Science	328-330
	Review: Jacques VALLÉE,FORBIDDEN SCIENCE - 1992
Keith THOMPSON	Second Review of Forbidden Science	330-333
	Review: Jacques VALLÉE,FORBIDDEN SCIENCE - 1992
Hilary EVANS	Roads to Center Place: A Cultural Atlas of Chaco Canyon and the Anasazi by Kathryn Gabriel	333-335

	`SSE News Items`
	Preliminary Announcement of 1994 SSE Meetings	336
	Abstracts of 1993 SSE Meeting	336

Journal of Scientific Exploration
A Publication of the Society for Scientific Exploration
Volume 7 Number 2 Summer 1993
Society for Scientific Exploration

Name: Bauer, Henry; Canon, Bradley C; Cooper, Topher; Dossey, Larry; Epstein, Michael; Ertel, Suitbert; Harman, Wiilis W.; Jacobs, David Michael (1942); Nienhuys, J. W.; Pasricha, Satwant; Schmidt, Helmut; Smith, Willy (1921 - 2006); Spruit, H. C.; Stacy, Dennis; Vallée, Jacques (1939); Westrum, Ronald M. (1945); Wieder, Irwin

CONTENTS

Author	Title	Pag

Topher COOPER	Anomalous Propagation	105-110

Michael EPSTEIN	The Skeptical Perspective	111-115

Larry DOSSEY	Guest Column: NIH Creates the Office of Alternative Medicine	117-122

Henry BAUER	Dinsdale Prize	123-124

Helmut SCHMIDT	Non-Causality as the Earmark of Psi	125-132

Wiilis W. HARMAN	Towards an Adequate Epistemology for the Scientific Exploration of Consciousness	133-143
	Abstract: The scientific exploration of phenomena and experience relating to consciousness (a category which includes many "anomalous" phenomena) has long been hampered by two obstacles. One is that subjective experience does not meet the commonly accepted criteria for data in a scientific analysis, in that it is not public, objective, and replicable. The other is that many consciousness-related phenomena do not appear to fit comfortably into the accepted scientific worldview. Scientists have improvised ways of dealing with these two obstacles, so that for much of practical science (e.g., research on pain) they don't get in the way. Nevertheless, the situation can hardly be considered satisfactory. Two concepts have recently come to light which may help liberate us from this predicament-one new, the other revived from the respected writings of American philosopher William James. The first, based on recent work by Max Velmans, involves a different model of perception; the second, referring back to James' concept of "radical empiricism," proposes a different criterion for admission of scientific data.


Suitbert ERTEL	Puzzling Eminence Effects Might Make Good Sense	145-154
	`Related:` Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 7 Number 4 /1993 - Comments on Suitbert Ertel's Puzzling Eminence Might Make Good Sense
	Abstract: -According to Gauquelin's eminence hypothesis, planetary effects increase with increasing professional renown. The author's former findings, however, did not always support this hypothesis. In some cases planetary ef- fects went down, or first up and then down, with increasing eminence. Miiller's recent unexpected results with very eminent professionals, which showed a considerable weakening of planetary effects instead of an amplifi- cation, gave rise to the hypothesis that the relationship of planetary effects to eminence might be curvilinear, instead of linear, across all planets and profes- sions. Thus previous results suggesting linear relationships might have been due to restricted eminence sampling. By extending the analyses to athletes (olympic medallists), scientists, and actors covering a wider range of emi- nence, marked curvilinear patterns did in fact emerge.
J. W. NIENHUYS	Comments on Puzzling Eminence Effects	155-159

Satwant PASRICHA	A Systematic Survey of Near-Death Experiences in South India	161-171
	Abstract: -In order to determine the prevalence rate of Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) in south India, the author systematically surveyed four villages with a total population of 6430 persons. Eighteen persons were reported to have died (or nearly died) and revived. Thirteen (72%) of them reported having had NDEs which is about 2 cases per thousand of the population surveyed. Eleven features of the south Indian cases are compared with the features of north Indian cases. Most of the principal features of the south Indian cases resemble those reported from north India. However, they also differed in the frequencies of four features; two of the features were reported chiefly by the north Indian subjects while another two only by the south Indian subjects. All these four features have been reported among American cases. The author suggests the possibility of a genuine phenomenon underlying the similarities of features among cases in two different cultures.

Irwin WIEDER	The Guillemette Pass Oregon UFO Photo Revisited: An Explanation	173-198
	Abstract: In November of 1966, a Ph.D. scientist, returning to his California home from a business trip in Washington, was driving through Oregon and paused at a lookout point to photograph Diamond Peak. Of the three photographs taken at this location the last one included a strange object. This photo ultimately became the focus of a controversy among UFO investigators and has been the subject of numerous articles as well as a book. In this paper we present a chronicle of the author's investigation of this intriguing photo as well as an explanation of the true nature of the object in the photo

	`Letters to the Editor`
	Vallee Comments on Book Review "Revelations: Alien Contact and Human Deception"	199
	`Related:` Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 7 Number 1 Spring/1993 - Revelations: Alien Contact and Human Deception? [Canon, Bradley C]
	Comments on James Wilson's Letter to the Editor	200-202
	`Related:` Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 6 Number 3 Autumn/1992 - Are Memories of Alien Abductions Recollections of Surgical Experiences?

	`Book Reviews`
H. C. SPRUIT	Quasars, Redshifts and Controversies by Halton Arp	203-208
Bradley C CANON	Advanced Aerial Devices Reported During the Korean War	208
	Review: Richard F. HAINES,ADVANCED AERIAL DEVICES REPORTED DURING THE KOREAN WAR - 1990
Henry BAUER	Secret Life: Firsthand Accounts of UFO Abductions	208-209
	Review: David Michael JACOBS,SECRET LIFE - 1992
Ron WESTRUM	First Review of Secret Life	209-211
	Review: David Michael JACOBS,SECRET LIFE - 1992
Willy SMITH	Second Review of Secret Life	212-215
	Review: David Michael JACOBS,SECRET LIFE - 1992
David M. JACOBS	Response to Westrum and Smith	215-218
	Book:David Michael JACOBS,SECRET LIFE - 1992

Journal of Scientific Exploration
A Publication of the Society for Scientific Exploration
Volume 7 Number 1 Spring 1993
Society for Scientific Exploration

Editor: Bernhard M. HAISCH

Name: Canon, Bradley C; Cooper, Topher; Devereux, Paul (1945); Eberlein, Gerard L.; Epstein, Michael; Ertel, Suitbert; Garlaschelli, Luigi; Haisch, Bernhard M. ; lmich, Alexander; May, Edwin C.; Moriyama, Shigeru; Stevenson, Ian; Swords, Michael D.; Vallée, Jacques (1939); Van Flandem, Tom

CONTENTS

Author	Title	Pag

	`Editorial`
Bernhard HAISCH	More is More!	1

	`SSE News Items`
	1993 Annual SSE Meeting	3-4
	SSE President Sturrock Named Honorary Fellow	4
Edwin C. MAY	In Memory of Charles Honorton	4-5
Suitbert ERTEL	In Memory of Michel Gauquelin	5-7

Topher COOPER	Anomalous Propagation	9-13

Michael EPSTEIN	The Skeptical Perspective	15-18

Tom VAN FLANDEM	Guest Column: Major Meeting on New Cosmologies	19-22

Paul DEVEREUX	Acculturated Topographical Effects of Shamanic Trance Consciousness in Archaic and Medieval Sacred Landscapes	23-37
	Abstract: Various linear enigmas exist in ancient sacred landscapes worldwide. These include examples of Native American landscape lines, such as the Chacoan "roads", New Mexico, and the Nazca "lines", Peru; Neolithic linear earthworks, called "cursuses", in Britain; stone rows in Europe, Malaysia and elsewhere; temple alignments in Indonesia. There is also the archaeologically heretical idea of "leys" (alignments of ancient sites), put forward by Englishman Alfred Watkins in 1921. Although the ley theory has long been derided by mainstream scholarship, new German and Dutch findings show that there was a medieval tradition of straight "Doodwegen" (death roads) or "Geisterwege" (ghost paths). It seems Watkins may have unwittingly uncovered vestiges of these features. Certainly Watkins had no concept of current "New Age" notions of "energy leylines", which are modem fantasies. It is argued that such medieval features arise out of a deep-seated, universal conceptual complex associating "spirit ways" with straight lines: straight cords and threads in ancient traditional healing practices as well as straight tracks and other ceremonial landscape markings. It is suggested that these ideas have their roots in archaic shamanism, which, throughout Eurasia, influenced later, ceremonial aspects of monarchy. A proto-Indo-European language vestige is cited. Preliminary evidence is presented indicating that the spirit - line association derived from the ecstatic "journey" experienced during the shamanic trance. This gave rise to images of "flying shamans" in tribal societies throughout the world, and, ultimately, to the "magical flight of the sovereign" in proto-state and state societies. It is this "flight of the soul" that seems to have been translated onto ancient sacred landscapes as straight lines, which later became variously acculturated as sacred ways, spirit and fairy paths, roads of the dead or of ghosts, or Royal Routes. The neurological aspects of the so-called out-of-body state, and its possible association with modem psychological epidemics such as "UFO abductions", is alluded to

Gerard L. EBERLEIN	Mainstream Sciences vs. Parasciences: Toward an Old Dualism?	39-48
	Abstract: The Observatory for New Spiritual Movements has been operating at the Technical University of Munich since 1980. It is concerned with the study of cults, New Age ideologies and with the parasciences from anthroposophy to cryptozoology. The parasciences are being analyzed by the science of sciences, i.e., by the philosophy of science, psychology and sociology of science, as well as by the history of science. The following ten hypotheses, characteristics and questions are discussed: (1) Mainstream sciences may make neither monopolistic nor absolutistic claims. (2) The six main criteria of the academic sciences are compared to the six main criteria of the parasciences. (3) The two types of science also differ in their value orientations. (4) Social processes and structures are characteristics of both. (5) What are the characteristic motivations of parascientists? (6) What is the historical background of the mainstream sciences? (7) What are the difference between the metaparadigms of mainstream science and those of the parasciences? (8) What are the social functions of mainstream sciences and parasciences? (9) Do the functions of the parasciences transcend those of mainstream science? (10) What are the characteristic differences between practitioners of mainstream science and the parasciences?

Shigeru MORIYAMA	Existence of Life and Homeostasis in an Attnospheric Environment	49-63
	Abstract: -A geophysiological model is used to show how a regulation of the atmospheric C02 level could counteract the effect of a gradual increase in solar luminosity. In our model, the biosphere and the atmosphere-ocean system exchange carbon through a biological process which includes the internal and mutual antagonism. It is suggested that as soon as the biologically regulated system had appeared on the early earth, the regulatory aspect of the ecosystem would have been fully operational, and thus, that the earth's environment has been maintained in homeostasis for a long time. One model for the temporal variation of the carbon distribution on the earth, which is in agreement with observed carbon isotopic data, is also suggested. An important result is that our ecosystem left a completely biologically controllable state some six hundred million years ago, and that the current trend is toward destruction of the ecosystem on the earth

Michael D. SWORDS	A Guide to UFO Research	65-87
	`Related:` Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 7 Number 3 /1993 - Comments on Guide to UFO Research
	Abstract: `-The very natural query of the interested intellectual: what should 1 read to understand the status of the UFO Phenomenon?, has no simple answer. This review article briefly examines the characteristics of the "UFO Problem" and relates those characteristics to the problem of ignorance in the academic community. An "inside look" at the appropriate library for the "working UFOlogist" is then explored.`

	`Letters to the Editor`
	Comments on Better Blood Through Chemistry	89-94
	`Related:` Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 6 Number 3 Autumn/1992 - Better Blood Through Chemistry: A Laboratory Replication of a Miracle [Epstein, Michael & Garlaschelli, Luigi]
	Super-psi or Reincarnation?	94-95

	`Book Reviews`
Ian STEVENSON	The Meaning of Evolution: The Morphological Construction and Ideological Reconstruction of Darwin's Theory	97-99
Bradley C CANON	Revelations: Alien Contact and Human Deception?	99-104
	Review: Jacques VALLÉE,REVELATIONS - 1991
	`Related:` Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 7 Number 2 Summer/1993 - Vallee Comments on Book Review "Revelations: Alien Contact and Human Deception"

	SOCIETY FOR SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION POSITION PAPER

Journal of Scientific Exploration

Volume 6 Number 4 1992

Editor: Bernhard M. HAISCH

Name: Bauer, Henry; Cooper, Topher; Dunne, Brenda J.; Epstein, Michael; Horvath, Joseph S.; Jahn, Robert G.; Jeffers, S.; Johnson, Cathy A.; Johnson, Phillip E.; MacGregor, Jo Anne D. ; Sloan, J.; Stevenson, Ian; Wirth, Daniel P.

CONTENTS

Author	Title	Pag

	`SSE News Items`
	1993 Annual SSE Meeting	299
	Grant to Radin	299
	International Federation for Aerial Anomalies	299-300
	Angela Thompson to Coordinate Foundation Research	300

Topher COOPER	Anomalous Propagation	301-305

Michael EPSTEIN	The Skeptical Perspective	307-310
	`Related:` Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 7 Number 4 /1993 - On Biological Transmutation of Elements

Brenda J. DUNNE, Robert G. JAHN	Experiments in Remote Human/Machine Interaction	311-332
	Abstract: Several extensive experimental studies of humanlmachine interactions wherein the human operators and the target machines are separated by distances of up to several thousand miles yield anomalous results comparable in scale and character to those produced under conditions of physical proximity. The output distributions of random binary events produced by a variety of microelectronic random and pseudorandom generators, as well as by a macroscopic random mechanical cascade, display small but replicable and statistically significant mean shifts correlated with the remote operators' pre-stated intentions, and feature cumulative achievement patterns similar to those of the corresponding local experiments. Individual operator effect sizes distribute normally, with the majority of participants contributing to the overall effect. Patterns of specific count populations are also similar to those found in the corresponding local experiments. The insensitivity of the size and details of these results to intervening distance and time adds credence to a large database of precognitive remote perception experiments, and suggests that these two forms of anomaly may draw from similar mechanisms of information exchange between human consciousness and random physical processes.

S. JEFFERS, J. SLOAN	A Low Light Level Diffraction Experiment for Anomalies Research	333-352
	Abstract: Some interpretations of quantum mechanics assert an active role for human consciousness in actualizing the results of measurements on quantum systems. At the same time, some empirical studies have claimed positive results in testing the abilities of human subjects to bias randomly generated events i.e. those governed by Gaussian statistics. Experiments have been conducted using a different probability distribution i.e. the digitally recorded diffracted light intensity from a single slit. This normalized distribution is conventionally interpreted as the probability of locating a photon in a specified location in the observation plane. Human subjects have been invited to attempt to bias this distribution in a prescribed way. The experiment is tightly controlled against any artifacts generating very high data rates with high statistical accuracy. Calibrations show that any displacement of the diffraction pattern relative to the detector of order 1.6 X 10.~ cms should be detectable. Of twenty subjects tested, none has produced a detectable displacement corresponding to this upper limit. Introducti

Ian STEVENSON	A New Look at Maternal Impressions: An Analysis of 50 Published Cases and Reports of Two Recent Examples	353-373
	Abstract: -The idea that a pregnant woman may be so frightened by the sight of some deformity on another person that her baby will be affected by a similar defect is widely believed in most parts of the world today; it was also generally believed in the West until the early years of this century. The skepticism that then developed may have derived from lack of an explanatory principle and not from lack of evidence for a significant correspondence between stimulus and birthmark or birth defect. The present paper summarizes the main features of 50 published cases in which an unusual stimulus to a pregnant woman was followed by the birth of a baby with unusual birthmarks or birth defects that nearly always corresponded closely to the stimulus the pregnant mother had received. Two recent cases that the author investigated are presented. The author concludes that in rare instances maternal impressions may indeed affect gestating babies and cause birth defects. Almost nothing is known about why such effects occur in some pregnancies, but only rarely, or about the implementing processes involved. These may be paranormal.

D. P. Wirth et al.	The Effect of Alternative Healing Therapy on the Regeneration Rate of Salamander Forelimbs	375-390
	Abstract: -The following experiment examined the effect of noncontact therapeutic touch (NCTT) on the regeneration rate of salamander forelimbs surgically amputated through the distal third of the stylopodium. A total of 154 newts, Notophthalmus viridescens, were used and limb regeneration was assessed using two criteria: (1) the time to first finger differentiation, and (2) the time to fourth finger differentiation. The experiment was divided into two sections. For section #I, four NCTT healers worked individually under three separate conditions in a specially designed laboratory. The conditions were: (1) treatment through an opening in the wall, (2) treatment through smoked opaque glass, and (3) treatment through smoked opaque glass and plastic. For section #2, the four individual healers were paired, with each pair working together on a tank of newts situated directly in front of them. The results for section #1 showed that: (I) Healer 1 obtained nonsignificance for all three conditions at both the first and fourth finger differentiation stages, (2) Healer 2 obtained significance for all three conditions at both differentiation stages, (3) Healer 3 obtained significance for condition 1 only at both differentiation stages, and (4) Healer 4 obtained significance for conditions 2 and 3 at both differentiation stages. For section #2, only the pair of Healer 1-Healer 3 obtained significant results (p < .002). The data, therefore, suggest that NCTT may have the potential to accelerate the rate of regeneration of newt forelimbs surgically amputated through the distal third of the humerus

	`Letters to the Editor`
	Darwin on Trial Review	391-395

	`Book Reviews`
Henry H. BAUER	Cold Fusion, The Scientific Fiasco of the Century	395-400

Michael EPSTEIN	Beyond the Body: An Investigation of Out-of-the-Body-Experiences	401

Journal of Scientific Exploration
A Publication of the Society for Scientific Exploration
Volume 6 Number 3 Autumn 1992
Society for Scientific Exploration

Name: Auerbach, T.; Deardorff, James W.; Epstein, Michael; Ertel, Suitbert; Garlaschelli, Luigi; Grigor'ev, A. I.; Grigor'eva, I. D.; Müller, Arno; Shiryaeva, S. O.; Stevenson, Ian; von Ludwiger, Illobrand; Wilson, James

CONTENTS

Author	Title	Pag

	`SSE News Items`
	Highlights of the 1992 European SSE Meeting	205-211
	Next SSE Meeting	211
	SSE Council Member Radin Work Cited	211

Michael EPSTEIN	The Skeptical Perspective	213-216

Illobrand VON LUDWIGER, T. AUERBACH	Heim's Theory of Elementary Particle Structures	217-231
	Abstract: Heim's theory is defined in a 6-dimensional world, in 2 dimensions of which events take place that organize processes in the 3 dimensions of our experience. A very small natural constant, called a "metron", is derived, representing the smallest area that can exist in nature. This leads to the conclusion that space must be composed of a 6-dimensional geometric lattice of very small cells bounded on all sides by metrons. The existence of metrons requires our usual infinitesimal calculus to be replaced by one of finite areas. The unperturbed lattice represents empty vacuum. Local deformations of the lattice indicate the presence of something other than empty space. If the deformation is of the right form and complexity it acquires the property of mass and inertia. Elementary particles are complex dynamical systems of locally confined interacting lattice distortions. Thus, the theory geometricizes the world by viewing it as a huge assemblage of very small geometric deformations of a 6- dimensional lattice in vacuum. The theory also has significant consequences for cosmology

Michael EPSTEIN, Luigi GARLASCHELLI	Better Blood Through Chemistry: A Laboratory Replication of a Miracle	233-246
	`Related:` Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 7 Number 1 Spring/1993 - Comments on Better Blood Through Chemistry
	Abstract: -The recent simulation of the miracle liquefying blood of Saint Januarius is shown to be viable from both historical and scientific standpoints. The history of the holy blood is traced and means and motivation for the simulation are provided. Spectral analysis of the simulated blood, a thixotropic gel of iron hydroxide (FeO(OH)), shows the absorption spectrum to be similar to old blood. Many reported characteristics of the holy blood can be explained by the behavior of a thixotropic gel. Modifications of the preparation procedure are attempted to bring the simulation into agreement with fourteenth century alchemical knowledge. A critical evaluation of previous spectroscopic studies of the miracle blood is presented.


Suitbert ERTEL	The Gauquelin Effect Explained? Comments on Arno Miiller's Hypothesis of Planetary Correlations	247-254
	`Related:` Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 4 Number 1 /1990 - Planetary Influences on Human Behavior ("Gauquelin Effect"): Too Absurd for a Scientific Explanation? [Müller, Arno]
	Abstract: Arno Müller's "hypothesis of the planetary klite" (Müller,1990) amended Gauquelin's "midwife hypothesis", which suffered from weaknesses. The approach is a welcome contribution to the persistent problem of how to explain planetary correlations with human births (the Gauquelin effect). However, it is inconsistent with empirical observations: (1)Gauquelin effects are unrelated to character traits. Miiller's hypothesis explains a correlation that does not exist. (2) Sometimes planetary effects decrease with eminence. This is inconsistent with Muller's idea that more eminent as compared to less eminent people should have cultural and biological advantages. (3)Birth frequencies can be infrequent instead of abundant when the planet is rising or culminating. This is inconsistent with Muller's assumption that in prehistorical times the births of children were desired, not avoided, when the divine planet was so placed. (4) The doctrine of planetary heredity-the basic precondition of Muller's hypothesis-is probably invalid. (5) The Gauquelin effect is weakest for Venus. Muller's claim of an impact of planetary appearances on the evolution of the Gauquelin effect would predict the opposite. (6) Muller's model covers only the evolution of conditioning between planetary sensitivity and character traits. It does not explain the evolution of planetary sensitivity prior to such conditioning. Gauquelin's original midwife hypothesis as well as Muller's new version of it could be refuted straightforwardly if further tests showed that the Gauquelin effect occurred undiminished in eminent births induced by obstetric drugs.
Arno MÜLLER	The Gauquelin Effect Explained? A Rejoinder to Ertel's Critique	255-259

A. I. GRIGOR'EV, I. D. GRIGOR'EVA, S. O. SHIRYAEVA	Ball Lightning Penetration into Closed Rooms: 43 Eyewitness Accounts	261-279
	`Related:` Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 8 Number 1 Spring/1994 - Comments on Ball Lightning
	Abstract: `43 Eyewitness Reports on the ability of ball lightning to penetrate into rooms through window glass (very often leaving no holes) and to enter houses through radio and electric sockets are presented.`

Ian STEVENSON	A Series of Possibly Paranormal Recurrent Dreams	281-290
	Abstract: In 1986 Dr. Walter D'Souza, an Indian physician living in the United States, had a series of realistic dreams in which his deceased father, who had been buried in India three years earlier, appeared to be leaving his coffin and trying to communicate something to him. After Dr. D'Souza had had three of these dreams, a letter from India informed his mother that his father's bones had not been adequately disposed of. Dr. D'Souza then believed that his dreams had some connection with the matter of his father's bones. He urged his mother to go to India and attend to the burial, but she and his sister minimized the difficulty, and did not wish to spend money on a journey to India. Dr. D'Souza then had a fourth dream similar to the previous three. He told his family about his dreams and insisted that his mother go to India and attend to the disposition of the bones. She agreed to go and the dreams ceased. It seems unlikely that Dr. D'Souza before he had his dreams had any normal awareness that anything further needed to be done for the proper disposition of his father's bones. Paranormal interpretations of the dreams have plausibility. Attention is drawn to the quality of vividness in dreams as a possible marker of paranormality.

	`Letters to the Editor`
	Comments on Survival or Super-psi?	291
	`Related:` Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 6 Number 2 /1992 - Survival or Super-psi? [Braude, Stephen E.]
	Are Memories of Alien Abductions Recollections of Surgical Experiences?	291-294
	`Related:` Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 7 Number 2 Summer/1993 - Comments on James Wilson's Letter to the Editor

	`Book Review`
Ian STEVENSON	Scientific Literacy and the Myth of the Scientific Method by Henry H. Bauer	295-297

	Erratum	297
	`Related:` Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 6 Number 2 /1992 - Highlights of the Princeton SSE Meeting

Nation:	`United States of America`
Language	`English`
ISSN:	`0892-3310`
Acronym:	`SSE`
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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