Fringe-ology (37 page)

Erik Davis, “Terence McKenna's Last Trip,”
Wired
(May 2000), accessed October 21, 2010, http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.05/mckenna.html

Author's note:
Susan Blackmore reveals herself rather fully in Barbara Bradley Hagerty's
Fingerprints of God,
saying “The idea of life after death is daft.” So I guess Blackmore thinks she knows (Riverhead Books, 2009): 308.

Willoughby Britton et al., “Near-Death Experiences and the Temporal Lobe,”
Psychological Science
15, no. 4 (2004): 254–58.

Mario Beauregard and Denyse O'Leary,
The Spiritual Brain
(HarperOne, 2007): 68–76.

Willoughby Britton, Interview, January 2009.

Anahad O'Connor, “Following a Bright Light to a Calmer Tomorrow,”
New York
Times
, April 13, 2004.

Steven Kottler, “Extreme States,”
Discover
(July 2005), accessed October 26, 2010, http://discovermagazine.com/2005/jul/extreme-states

David Paul Kuhn, “Both Parties Have Their Fanatics,”
Real Clear Politics,
August 3, 2009, accessed October 21, 2010, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/08/03/each_party_has_its_fanatics_97748.html

Jim Geraghty, “55 Percent of Likely Voters Find ‘Socialist' an Accurate Label of Obama,”
National Review,
July 9, 2010, accessed, October 21, 2010, http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/230874/55-percent-likely-voters-find-socialist-accurate-label-obama

Nick Wing, “Poll: 35% of Republicans Want to Impeach Obama,”
Huffington Post,
December 10, 2009, accessed October 21, 2010, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/10/poll–35-of-republicans-wa_n_387093.html

Z. Klemenc-Ketis, “The Effect of Carbon Dioxide on Near-Death Experiences in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Survivors,”
Critical Care
14, no. 2 (2010), accessed October 21, 2010, http://ccforum.com/content/14/2/R56

“Learn About Arterial Blood Gases,”
Education for Nurses
, accessed October 21, 2010, http://www.the-abg-site.com/about.htm

John Lippman, “How Deep is TOO Deep?”
Divers Alert Network
, accessed October 21, 2010, at http://www.diversalertnetwork.org/medical/articles/article.asp?articleid=29

Jeff Wise, “Go Toward the Light,”
Psychology Today
, April 16, 2010, Accessed on-line October 21, 2010, http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/extreme-fear/201004/go-toward-the-light-the-science-near-death-experiences

Alex Tsakiris, “Do Science Journalists Get It Wrong,” and Dr. Bruce Greyson, email to Alex Tsakaris, accessed October 21, 2010, http://www.skeptiko.com/near-death-experience-research-do-science-journalists-get-it-wrong/

Pim van Lommel,
Consciousness Beyond Life
(HarperOne, 2010): 116–17.

M. Morse, “Near Death Experiences: A Neurophysiological Explanatory Model,”
Journal of Near-Death Studies
8, (1989): 45–53.

Sam Parnia et al., “A Qualitative and Quantitative Study of the Incidence, Features and Aetiology of Near Death Experiences in Cardiac Arrest Survivors,”
Resuscitation
48, (2001): 149–56.

Michael Sabom,
Recollections of Death
(HarperCollins, 1982): 178.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, “Bio,” accessed October 21, 2010, http://www.ekrfoundation.org/honorary-degrees

Facing Death: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
, directed by Stefan Haupt, DVD (First Run Features, 2007).

“Behavior: The Conversion of K,”
Time
, November 12, 1979, accessed on October 21, 2010, at http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,946362–1,00.html

Karen G. Jackovich, “Sex, Visitors from the Grave, Psychic Healing: Kübler-Ross Is a Public Storm Center Again,”
People,
October 29, 1979, accessed on October 21, 2010, http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20074920,00.html

Ron Rosenbaum, “Turn On, Tune In, Drop Dead,”
Harpers
(September 1982). Also available in Rosenbaum's book,
The Secret Parts of Fortune
(Perennial, 2000): 253–67.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross,
AIDS: The Ultimate Challenge
(Scribner, 1997).

CHAPTER 2: DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE?

Brian Josephson, “Physics and the Nobel Prizes,” Royal Mail special stamps booklet, October 2, 2001, accessed October 22, 2010, http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bdj10/stamps/text.html

Robin McKie, “Royal Mail's Nobel Guru in Telepathy Row,”
Observer
, September 30, 2001, accessed October 22, 2010, http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2001/sep/30/robinmckie.theobserver

Herodotus,
The History
, trans. David Grene (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1987): 53–54.

B. Josephson, “The Discovery of Tunnelling Supercurrents,”
Review of Modern Physics
46, no. 2 (1974): 251–54.

Edward Edelson, “Mammoth Magnets to Microchips from Superconductors,”
Popular Science
152 (May 1981): 73–79.

Robert McDermott et al., “Microtesla MRI with a Superconducting Quantum Interference Device,”
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
101, no. 21 (May 25, 2004): 7857–61.

BBC Radio Interview, October 2, 2001, accessed on October 22, 2010, http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/BIG/bdj10/audio/stamps.mp3

Danny Penman, “Is this Proof We're all Psychic,”
Daily Mail
, January 28, 2008, accessed on October 22, 2010, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article–510762/Could-proof-theory-ALL-psychic.html

podblack,
PodBlack Cat,
blog, “Dr. Richard Wiseman on Remote Viewing in the
Daily Mail
—Clarification,” September 28, 2009, http://podblack.com/2009/09/dr-richard-wiseman-on-remote-viewing-in-the-daily-mail-clarification/

Christopher French, Interviews, January, February 2010.

Parapsychological Association Convention, Thursday August 6, 2009–Sunday August 9, 2009. Material gathered at the conference is identified as such within the text.

Paul H. Smith, Interview, August 2010.

Dean Radin,
The Conscious Universe
(HarperOne, 1997): 13–24.

psi
definition, in physics, taken from an online collection of academic dictionaries: http://en.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/238149

Paul D. Allison, “Experimental Parapsychology as a Rejected Science,”
On the Margins of Science: The Social Construction of Rejected Knowledge. The Sociological Review Monograph,
27 (1979): 271–91.

Author's note:
My own survey yielded a far lower response rate than Allison's. His was 90 percent, mine was around 25 percent. I'll make no scientific claims for the worthiness of my study, but my own experience at the parapsychology conference so closely mirrored Allison's original findings, and my survey results were so similar to his, I feel extremely confident in the accuracy of what I've reported here. That said, readers should feel free to accept or reject my analysis purely on the basis of their own preconceived biases. (That last line is a joke.)

James H. Lee, “Remote Viewing as Applied to Futures Studies,”
Technological Forecasting and Social Change
75, no. 1 (2008): 142.

Ken Kress, “Parapsychology in Intelligence,”
Journal of Scientific Explanation
13, no. 1, (1999): 68–85.

Author's note:
Kress, a CIA analyst, evaluates the evidence for psi and takes a mixed view of Price. Though most skeptics might like to focus on the negative, the most important line is buried toward the end of Kress's report: “There are observations, such as the original magnetic experiments at Stanford University, the OSI remote viewing, the OTS-coderoom experiments, and others done for the Department of Defense, that defy explanation. Coincidence is not likely, and fraud has not been discovered. The implication of these data cannot be determined until the assessment is done. If the above is true, how is it that the phenomenon remains controversial and receives so little official government support? . . . This state of affairs occurs because of the elementary understanding of parapsychology and because of the peculiarities of the intelligence and military organizations which have attempted the assessments. There is no fundamental understanding of the mechanisms of paranormal functioning, and the reproducibility remains poor.”

Paul H. Smith,
Reading the Enemy's Mind
(Forge, 2005): 128–29.

Ray Hyman, “Evaluation of a Program on Anomalous Mental Phenomena,”
Journal of Scientific Exploration
10, no. 1 (1996): 31–58.

Dean Radin,
Entangled Minds
(Pocket Books, 2006): 120–21.

What follows is a short selection of papers on psi research I found most compelling during my research:

Joel B. Greenhouse, “Comment: Parapsychology—On the Margins of Science,”
Statistical Science
6, no. 4 (1991), accessed October 26, 2010, http://www.stat.ucdavis.edu/~utts/91rmp-c4.html

Jessica Utts and Brian Josephson, “The Paranormal: The Evidence and Its Implications for Consciousness,” 1996, accessed October 26, 2010, http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bdj10/psi/tucson.html

George P. Hansen, “The Elusive Agenda: Dissuading as Debunking in Ray Hyman's
The Elusive Quarry
,”
Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research
85 (April 1991): 193–203, accessed October 26, 2010, http://www.tricksterbook.com/ArticlesOnline/HymanReview.htm

Jessica Utts, “Replication and Meta-Analysis in Parapsychology,”
Statistical Science
6, no. 4 (1991): 363–403.

Bernard Carr, “Rational Perspective on the Paranormal,” Conference Report,
Journal of Scientific Exploration,
16, no. 4 (2002): 635–50.

Richard Wiseman and Marilyn Schlitz, “Experimenter Effects and the Remote Detection of Staring,”
Journal of Parapsychology
61, no. 3 (1998): 197–208.

Daryl Bem and Charles Honorton, “Does Psi Exist? Replicable Evidence for an Anomalous Process of Information Transfer,”
Psychological Bulletin
115, no. 1 (1994): 4–18.

J. Milton and R. Wiseman, “Does Psi Exist? Lack of Replication of an Anomalous Process of Information Transfer,”
Psychological Bulletin
125, no. 4 (1999): 387–91.

L. Storm and S. Ertel, “Does Psi Exist? Comments on Milton and Wiseman's Meta-Analysis of Ganzfeld Research,”
Psychological Bulletin
127, no. 3 (2001): 424–33.

Daryl Bem et al., “Updating the Ganzfeld Database: A Victim of Its Own Success?”
Journal of Parapsychology
65 (2001): 207–18.

L. Storm et al., “Meta-Analysis of Free-Response Studies, 1992–2008: Assessing the Noise Reduction Model in Parapsychology,”
Psychological Bulletin
136, no. 4 (July 2010): 471–85.

Guy Lyon Playfair, “Twin Telepathy,”
Fortean Times Paranormal Handbook
(2009): 70–75.

See Radin,
Entangled Minds,
136–41, and papers Radin collected and analyzed at http://deanradin.blogspot.com/ for brain correlation experiments, listed here.

C. Tart, ”Possible Physiological Correlates of psi Cognition,”
International Journal of Parapsychology
5 (1963): 375–86.

T. D. Duane et al., “Extrasensory Electroencephalographic Induction Between Identical Twins,”
Science
150 (1965): 367.

D. H. Lloyd et al., “Objective Events in the Brain Correlating with Psychic Phenomena,”
New Horizons
1 (1973): 69–75.

C. S. Rebert et al., “EEG Spectrum Analysis Techniques Applied to the Problem of psi Phenomena,”
Behavioral Neuropsychiatry
6 (1974): 18–24.

Russell Targ and Hal Puthoff, “Information Transmission Under Conditions of Sensory Shielding,”
Nature
252 (1974): 602–7.

B. Millar et al., “An Attempted Validation of the ‘Lloyd Effect,' ”
Multidimensional Mind: Remote Viewing in Hyperspace
(Scarecrow Press, 1999): 25–27.

E. F. Kelly, “EEG Changes Correlated with a Remote Stroboscopic Stimulus: A Preliminary Study,”
Research in Parapsychology
(Scarecrow Press, 1975): 58–63.

K. Hearne, “Visually Evoked Responses and ESP,”
Journal of the Society for Psychical Research
49 (1977): 648–57.

Z. Vassy, “Method for Measuring the Probability of 1 Bit Extrasensory Information Transfer Between Living Organisms,”
Journal of Parapsychology
42 (1978): 158–60.

K. Hearne, “Visually Evoked Responses and ESP: Failure to Replicate Previous Findings,”
Journal of the Society for Psychical Research
51 (1981): 145–47.

D. W. Orme-Johnson et al., “Intersubject EEG Coherence: Is Consciousness a Field?”
International Journal of Neuroscience
16 (1982): 203–9.

J. Grinberg-Zylberbaum et al., “Patterns of Interhemispheric Correlation During Human Communication,”
International Journal of Neuroscience
36 (1987): 41–53.

J. Grinberg-Zylberbaum et al., “The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox in the Brain: The Transferred Potential,”
Physics Essays
7 (1994): 422–28.

H. Sugano et al., “A New Approach to the Study of Subtle Energies,”
Subtle Energies
5, no. 2 (1994): 143–65.

C. N. Shealy et al., “EEG Alterations During Absent ‘Healing,' ”
Subtle Energies
11, no. 3 (2000): 241–48.

A. Sabell et al., “Inter-Subject EEG Correlations at a Distance—The Transferred Potential,”
Proceedings of the 44th Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association
(2001): 419–22.