Episode 18: Psychics and the Paranormal!

Author: Astralogical
Published: Sat 10 Jul 2021
Episode Link: https://rss.com/podcasts/testtubesandcauldrons/234688

Science and mysticism have been intertwined for centuries, but in many ways, science has also been used to perpetuate bogus spiritual experiences by charlatans and grifters within the spiritual and spirit community. Ghost hunters use thermal energies and electro-magnetic devices to decipher spirit interactions and charlatans used a wide variety of tricks to prove their abilities including magnets to show telekinesis among others! In this episode we touch on psychics, the paranormal, and scientific validity of both and the potential issues these can pose for our community.

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Resources:

CIA Reports - please read these with a critical eye!

Certain Problems in Biological Electrodynamics and Psychoenergetics: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00787R000500090004-6.pdf

Psychic Warfare: Exploring the Mind Frontier: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00789R001001420001-3.pdf

Summary Analysis of Remote Viewing: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R000900870001-8.pdf

Scientific Articles

Neuroimaging during Trance State: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3500298/

Failure to Replicate Precognition: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0033423

Precognition and Alternate Mind States Ganzfeld Study: https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/testing-precognition-and-altered-state-of-consciousness-with-sele

Difficulties of studying psychic ability (Journal of Parapsychology): https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2001-18747-002

Accuracy and neural correlates of blinded mediumship compared to controls on an image classification task: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0278262620302414?via%3Dihub