‘Paranormal’ Scientific Studies That Will Make You
Question the True Nature of Reality
by Arjun Walia
If
you google “parapsychology,” the first thing that will probably pop up is a Wikipedia
entry loosely (and, in my opinion, rather offensively) defining it as
a “pseudoscience.” This is unfortunate, because it distracts the reader
from realizing that psychical research, also known as ‘psi’ (or
parapsychology), is practiced by various scientists and reputable
institutions all over the world.
This
includes the study of paranormal activity and extended human human capacities
like precognition and telepathy, among other things. As the University of
Calgary points out, parapsychology is an interdisciplinary field which has
attracted physicists, engineers, biologists, psychologists, and researchers in
other sciences as well.
The
Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) project is a great example of
this comprehensive approach to the subject — a project that ran from 1979 until
2007, it aimed to examine if there was factual basis for theories in
mind/matter interaction, or extrasensory perception (ESP). Highly significant
statistical deviation, far beyond what one could expect from chance, was seen
there. Another example would be the University of Virginia’s Division of
Perceptual Studies, in which they explore such phenomena as reincarnation,
near death experiences (NDEs), and out of body experiences (OBEs).
“Studies of the so-called ‘psi phenomena’ indicate that
we can sometimes receive meaningful information without the use of ordinary
senses, and in ways that transcend the habitual space and time constraints.
Furthermore, psi research demonstrates that we can mentally influence—at a
distance—physical devices and living organisms (including other human beings).
Psi research also shows that distant minds may behave in ways that are
nonlocally correlated, i.e. the correlations between distant minds are
hypothesized to be unmediated (they are not linked to any known energetic
signal), unmitigated (they do not degrade with increasing distance), and
immediate (they appear to be simultaneous). These events are so common that
they cannot be viewed as anomalous nor as exceptions to natural laws, but as
indications of the need for a broader explanatory framework that cannot be
predicated exclusively on materialism.”
(source) – Manifesto for a Post-Materialist Science
Why
are we presenting this information? Because the examination of these types of
phenomena is vital to increasing our understanding about the nature of our
reality. A lot of new science is revealing how many, and how diverse, are the
factors are which influence the so-called ‘physical material world that we see
around us. So what can we learn from this information? To keep an open mind, to
know that not everything we believe to be true, is, and that maybe there are
components of our reality that we have yet to understand. We can learn
that it’s okay to take topics like this seriously, because there is a wealth of
very compelling statistical data and observation that has many scientists
interested in it… and perplexed.
1. Reincarnation
“There are claims in the parapsychology field which, in
my opinion, deserve serious study, [with one being] that young children sometimes report
details of a previous life, which upon checking turn out to be accurate and
which they could not have known about in any other way than
reincarnation.”
– Carl Sagan
This
topic has been studied by numerous scientists who belong to various academic
institutions from all over the world.
One
great example comes from University of Virginia psychiatrist Jim Tucker, who in
2008 published a review of cases suggestive of reincarnation in the journal Explore. (source)
In
the article, he describes a typical reincarnation case, where subjects
start reporting a past life experience. One common denominator of these
cases is that they all involve children, with the average age being 35
months when subjects begin to report their experiences. The experiences
described are often detailed and extensive, and Tucker points out that
many of these children show strong emotional involvement when speaking about
their claims; some cry and beg to be taken to what they say is their previous
family. Others show intense anger.
The subjects usually stop making their past-life
statements by the age of six to seven, and most seem to lose the purported
memories. That is the age when children start school and begin having more
experiences in the current life, as well as when they tend to lose their early
childhood memories. (source)
One
example Tucker describes, an American case, is of a child named Sam Taylor, who
was a year and a half old when he started revealing some
remarkable information:
He looked up as his father was changing his diaper and
said, “When I was your age, I used to change your diapers.” He began
talking more about having been his grandfather. He eventually told details of
his grandfather’s life that his parents felt certain he could not have learned
through normal means, such as the fact that his grandfather’s sister had been
murdered and that his grandmother had used a food processor to make milkshakes
for his grandfather every day at the end of his life. (source)
Again,
this is one of hundreds of cases. Children have also been taken to their
previous families, describing the qualities and characteristics of the families,
and their own past lives, about which there is no possible way the child could
know. Here is another specific case that was examined by Dr.
Tucker, which we wrote about a couple of months ago. And there are plenty
more to choose from.
These
are cases involving very young children and they offer little reason
to suspect a hoax. From a scientific standpoint, however, even
though these cases are intriguing, they still leave us with a problem
that plagues most parapsychological research today. As Tucker points
out, “the processes that would be involved in such a transfer of
consciousness are completely unknown, and they await further elucidation.” (source)
2. Precognition
For
a selected list of downloadable peer-reviewed journal articles reporting studies of
psychic phenomena, mostly published in the 21st century, you can
click HERE.
At this link, you will find a select group of articles under the “precognition
& presentiment” tab and more than enough scientific analyses to see why
this topic is taken very seriously by some scientists.
A
recently published study (meta analysis) in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience titled
“Predicting the unpredictable: critical analysis and practical
implications of predictive anticipatory activity” examined a number of
experiments, conducted by several different laboratories, regarding this
phenomenon.
These
experiments indicate that the human body can actually detect randomly delivered
stimuli that occur 1-10 seconds in advance. In other words, the human body
seems able to know of an event and react to it before it actually occurs.
This reaction takes the form of physiological changes in the skin and in
the cardiopulmonary and nervous systems. (source)
Quite
fascinating, isn’t it?
3. Telepathy
Again, HERE you will find some more research on telepathy. HERE is an article outlining 5 classic experiments that showed extremely significant results for human telepathy.
Some of the most interesting results come from something called “dream telepathy,” where human beings have the ability to communicate telepathically with another person while they are dreaming.
According to Stanley Krippner, Ph.D. and professor of psychology at Saybrook University in California:
A wealth of anecdotal and clinical material exist which
supports the possibility of telepathic effects occurring in dreams (Krippner,
1974). However, an experimental approach to the topic did not become possible
until psycho physiological laboratory technology became available. It was
discovered that sleeping research participants awakened from periods of rapid
eye movement (REM) activity were frequently able to recall dream episodes. As a
result, it was possible to request a “telepathic receiver” to attempt dreaming
about a target stimulus that was being focused on in a distant location from a
“telepathic sender.” (source)
You
can view a discussion and examination of these experiments in an article we
published earlier on this subject here.
4. The “Star Gate” Project
The
“Star Gate” project was a Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) program that examined
parapsychological phenomena for more than twenty years before it was
unexpectedly shut down.
One
of the most interesting revelations (imo) when it comes to science and the
paranormal comes from its remote viewing program.
Remote
viewing is the ability of a person to describe a remote geographical location
up to several hundred thousand kilometers from their actual physical location.
It’s not just one person who can do this — many people have been shown to
have this ability, and this is a verified fact. The CIA and NSA, in
conjunction with Stanford University, were involved in the scientific study of
parapsychological phenomena that lasted more than two decades; they delved
into remote viewing as part of this project.
In
these experiments, multiple individuals were able to describe distinct objects
that were located in a separate room and at other remote physical locations.(source)(source)(source)
As
reported by a publication in the journal Scientific Exploration, one of the
study’s participants, Ingo Swann, was able to successfully describe and view a
ring around Jupiter that scientists had no idea existed at the time. (source 1)
5. Quantum Double Slit Experiment
In
this experiment, a double-slit optical system was used to test the possible
role of consciousness in the collapse of the quantum wave-function. The ratio
of the interference pattern’s double slit spectral power to its single slit
spectral power was predicted to decrease when attention was focused toward the
double slit as compared to away from it. The study found that factors
associated with consciousness “significantly” correlated
in predicted ways with perturbations in the double slit interference pattern. (source)
“Observations not only disturb what has to be measured,
they produce it….We compel [the electron] to assume a definite position…. We
ourselves produce the results of measurement.” (source)
“It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum
mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to consciousness.” – Eugene Wigner, theoretical
physicist and mathematician who received a share of the Nobel Prize in Physics
in 1963
“A fundamental conclusion of the new physics also
acknowledges that the observer creates the reality. As observers, we are
personally involved with the creation of our own reality. Physicists are being
forced to admit that the universe is a ‘mental’ construction. Pioneering
physicist Sir James Jeans wrote: ‘The stream of knowledge is heading toward a
non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought
than like a great machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder
into the realm of matter, we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor
of the realm of matter. Get over it, and accept the inarguable conclusion. The
universe is immaterial-mental and spiritual.’ ” – R.C. Henry, Professor
of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University , “The Mental Universe”; Nature 436:29,2005) (source) This is a great
experiment to show the connection between consciousness and our physical
material world.
You
can read a more detailed description of this experiment and see a video
demonstration of it in these articles:
“How Is This Possible?” Scientists Observe One Particle Exist In Multiple States
6. Delayed Choice/Quantum Eraser
Like
the quantum double slit experiment, the delayed choice/quantum eraser has been
demonstrated and repeated time and time again. For example, physicists at The
Australian National University (ANU) have conducted John Wheeler’s
delayed-choice thought experiment. The findings were recently published in the
journal Nature Physics.
(source)
The
delayed choice experiment illustrates how what happens in the present
can change what happens(ed) in the past. It also shows how time can go
backwards, how cause and effect can be reversed, and how the future caused the
past.
“If we attempt to attribute an objective meaning to the
quantum state of a single system, curious paradoxes appear: quantum effects
mimic not only instantaneous action-at-a-distance, but also, as seen here,
influence of future actions on past events, even after these events have been
irrevocably recorded.” – Asher Peres, pioneer in quantum information
theory (source)(source)(source)
You
can read more about this experiment on this article:
7. Out Of Body Experiences & Near Death Experiences
Below
is a video of Dr. Bruce Greyson speaking at a conference that was held by the
United Nations. He is considered to be one of the fathers of near death
studies. He is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Science at
the University of Virginia.
In
the video he describes documented cases of individuals who were clinically dead
(showing no brain activity) but observing everything that was happening to them
on the medical table below at the same time. He describes how there have
been many
instances of this – where individuals are able to describe things that should
have been impossible for them to have knowledge of. Another significant
statement by Dr. Greyson posits that this type of study has been discouraged
due to our tendency to view science as completely materialistic. Seeing is
believing, so to speak, in the scientific community. It’s unfortunate that just
because we cannot explain something through materialistic means, it must
be instantly discredited. The simple fact that “consciousness” itself is a
non-physical “thing” is troubling for some scientists; as a result of it being
non material, they believe it cannot be studied by science.
In
2001, international medical journal The
Lancet published a 13 year study on Near Death Experiences
(NDEs).(source)(source) Their findings were remarkable, to say the least:
Our results show that medical factors cannot account for
the occurrence of NDE. All patients had a cardiac arrest, and were clinically
dead with unconsciousness resulting from insufficient blood supply to the
brain. In those circumstances, the EEG (a measure of brain electrical activity)
becomes flat, and if CPR is not started within 5-10 minutes, irreparable damage
is done to the brain and the patient will die. (source)
Another
study comes out of the University of Southampton, where scientists found
evidence that awareness can continue for at least several minutes after death.
In the scientific world this was thought to be impossible. The study, published
in the journal Resuscitation,
is the world’s largest of its kind. (source)
Out
of body experiences, a similar phenomenon, have also been examined in depth by
science.
8. Healing At a Distance
“Over the past thirty years, significant scientific
research has been conducted on the potential effectiveness and value of distant
healing practices. The practice of distant healing is drawing increased
attention as an important component of integral medicine models that blend a
range of approaches to health and healing. Many leading health professionals
and spiritual leaders believe distant healing practices may significantly
expand the capacity to facilitate healing.” (source)
Marilyn Schlitz, PhD, President of the Institute for Noetic
Sciences (IONS)
You
can view some of this research HERE.
Another
great example of this is the placebo effect, which you can read more about here.
Another
study (which I have written about previously), published in
the journal Explore
in 2008, examined the effects of human intention on the autonomic nervous
system of a human “sender” and the distant “receiver” of those intentions.
The
design of the study went as follows:
The
study concluded that a strong motivation to heal another, and for one to be
healed themselves, may enhance this phenomenon. It concluded that directing
intention toward a distant person is associated with the activation of that
person’s autonomic nervous system — in this case, using measurements of skin
conductance.
From Collective
Evolution @ http://www.collective-evolution.com/2015/10/22/the-top-8-paranormal-scientific-studies-what-we-can-learn-from-them/
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