I'm a college student at Georgia Southern University. For the fall semester, we were to choose a pseudoscience, in my case ESP, and as our last project, publish our findings in real life. This is what I've found:
Robert Anderson
Georgia Southern University
Make Your Own Decision
Extrasensory Perception is a very touchy subject among intellectuals, mainly because there isn’t very much evidence for it. However, I believe the problem comes from reluctance in intellectuals to test it. Rupert Sheldrake has tested ESP with positive results, but is usually not accredited with it because his information is somewhat sketchy. However, I’m not writing to back or disprove Sheldrake. I am hoping to stir up interest in the topic,with hopes that others might become interested in finding information. In order to do this, I’m going to present a few experiments Sheldrake took part in. I will simply present his findings, and I challenge anyone interested in this topic to try to recreate his experiments, so that there might be some more sound evidence, whether pro or con ESP.
PHONE CALL ANTICIPATION
In a survey by David Jay Brown and Rupert Sheldrake, 200 randomlyselected peoplein Santa Cruz County, CA, investigated frequency and nature of anticipation ofphone calls.
À 78% responded to have phoned a person who said they were just thinking of them.
À 47%responded as knowing who was calling them without a cue.
À 68% said that when thinking of a personthey haven’t seen for a while, that person called them the same day.
For more information on this experiment go to:
Phone Call Anticipation
THE SENSE OF BEING STARED AT
In another of Sheldrake's articles, he researched experiments in the USA and Germany about the sense of being stared at:
“Lookers and subjects worked in pairs, with the lookers sitting behind the subjects. In a series of trials the lookers either looked or did not look at the subjects in a random sequence determined by tossing a coin. In each trial, the subjects guessed whether or not they were being looked at. The results show an overall positive effect…”
À 56.9% correct guesses as opposed to 50% expected by chance.
À 97 of the subjects were right more often than theywere wrong.
À 42 were wrong more often than they were right
For more information on this subject visit Being Stared At
For any other experiments from Sheldrake, visitRupert Sheldrake