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Psi-verts and Psychic Piracy: The Future of Parapsychology?

Luke D; Reality Sandwich, Internet Reference, 7-6-09.

What many people may not be aware of is that much of the recent research in parapsychology adumbrates psi as a genuine, albeit subtle and largely unconscious phenomenon capable of escaping our conscious detection, even though our nervous system seemingly picks up the psychic information and responds to it. To illustrate, using brain mapping technology such as EEG a person in one room has their brain monitored while a person in a distant room has their brain randomly stimulated, usually through visual stimulation, such as a flash of bright lights. These visual stimulations are known to reliably cause easily observable reactions in the brain of the person directly perceiving them. What is not generally known is that these stimulations can also be observed somewhat more subtly in the brains of a distant person sealed in another room, well out of sight of the flashes. Some successful experiments even found this effect to occur in the visual cortex, the brain region where the effect might be expected if their brains were being stimulated directly[1]. The same effect was also found using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology[2] - even localising the spot in the brain where the effect was detected - and so these findings, repeated with different technologies, cannot be easily explained away as an artefact of the brain imaging technique. However, the effect tends to be observable only with pairs of people who have some kind of emotional bond[1], such as with friends and lovers, with some indication that twins do particularly well[3]. Complete strangers, curiously enough, tend not to exhibit this distant brain synchronisation effect, which seems to imply that those people who are emotionally bonded are also somehow cerebrally bonded too.

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Notes and References

[1] Richards TL, Kozak L, Johnson C, Standish LJ, 'Replicable functional magnetic resonance imaging evidence of correlated brain signals between physically isolated subjects.'. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 11, 955-963.

[2] Kittenis M., Caryl PG, Stevens P, 'Distant psychophysiological interaction effects between related and unrelated participants'. Association 47th Annual Convention: Proceedings of Presented Papers, Vienna (67-76), 2004.

Keywords: psi, psychic bonding