The anomaly called psi: Recent research and criticism

Rao, K. Ramakrishna; Palmer, John

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“…Altered states, specifically hypnotic or dissociative states, have sometimes been argued to be facilitators of paranormal events [15][16][17]. Belief in paranormal phenomena might also simply be the result of mistaken beliefs in fantasy events [5], The uncritical acceptance of these paranormal events suggests heightened levels of waking (nonhypnotic) suggestibility which is consistent with Haraldson's finding that heightened suggestibility was associated with a greater number of paranormal beliefs [18].…”

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Hypnotizability, Dissociation, and Paranormal Beliefs

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Ollier

1998

Imagination, Cognition and Personality

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Previous theory and research has linked paranormal beliefs with hypnotizability and dissociative experiences. To investigate this hypothesis the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotizability and Dissociative Experiences Scale were administered to ninety undergraduate students along with the Para normal Scale. Results did not find any significant relationships between scores on the three measures. However, a small negative correlation was found between age and Hynotizability (-.23) and a much stronger negative correlation between age and Dissociation (-.49).

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Hypnotizability, Dissociation, and Paranormal Beliefs

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1998

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“…The spiritual way is vertical, elevating the person from the tangled ego to the sublime heights of the spirit, that is, states of pure conscious experience. The recent investigations in the area of epidemiology of religion, and clinical studies of the effect of religious and spiritual beliefs and practices on health and wellness, belong to the domain of spiritual psychology (Koenig, McCullough & Larson, 2001), as are the investigations into paranormal phenomena (Rao and Palmer, 1987).…”

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Mahatma Gandhi’s Pragmatic Spirituality: Its Relevance to Psychology East and West

Rao

2017

Psychol Stud

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M. K. Gandhi is no academic psychologist; but his philosophy and practice of pragmatic spirituality have important implications for psychology in general and Indian psychology in particular. Psychology as taught and practised in India is mostly Western and not Indian psychology. Indian psychology is an emerging system of psychology with its roots in classical Indian thought. According to Gandhi, the person is instinctively brute, but inherently spiritual. Consequently, he/she has on the one hand natural attraction to sensory gratification and indulgence, selfish desires and craving. On the other hand, he or she aspires for self-realization. Human development is a dialectical process where people seek to find a workable synthesis between sensory indulgence and spiritual aspirations, between egotistic selfishness and altruistic urges. Gandhi's life provides an excellent case study of the ways of spiritual development. The techniques he crafted like satyagraha and the strategies he followed in his public life give us insights into how spirituality can be applied to improve human condition. The applications are not India specific, but universal. Therefore, psychologists from the East as well as from the West can join in exploring Gandhian ideas and techniques of psycho-spiritual development and their relevance to today's troubled world.

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“…How do very deep hypnotic states (Tart, 1963) compare psychophenomenologically with the hypnotic experiences of the "hypnotic virtuoso" (Wilson & Barber, 1983), and to what extent if any do paranormal and parapsychological (Rao & Palmer, 1987;Zollschan et al, 1989) phe-nomena intercorrelate with alterations in psychophenomenologieal intensity and pattern parameters? Are subjects who score high on questionnaires assessing ESP experiences (Pekala et aZ., in press) more prone to altered state experiences and can a quantification of phenomenological experiences during episodes of purported psi ability with such subjects map the psi-conducive state?…”

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Quantifying Consciousness

Pekala

1991

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All rights reservedNo part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher To my parents, John and Susan Pekala PrefaceThis book presents an approach to quantifying consciousness and its various states. It represents over ten years of work in developing, testing, and researching the use of relatively simple self-report questionnaires in the retrospective assessment of subjective or phenomenological experience. While the simplicity of the method allows for subjective experience to be reliably and validly assessed across various short stimulus conditions, the flexibility of the approach allows the cognitive psychologist, consciousness researcher, and mental health professional to quantify and statistically assess the phenomenological variables associated with various stimulus conditions, altered-state induction techniques, and clinical procedures.The methodology allows the cognitive psychologist and mental health professional to comprehensively quantify the structures and patterns of subjective experience dealing with imagery, attention, affect, volitional control, internal dialogue, and so forth to determine how these phenomenological structures might covary during such stimulus conditions as free association, a sexual fantasy, creative problem solving, or a panic attack. It allows for various phenomenological processes to be reported, quantified, and statistically assessed in a rather comprehensive fashion that should help shed greater understanding on the nature of mind or consciousness.The methodology also allows for states of consciousness associated with hypnosis, progressive relaxation, biofeedback, drug-intoxicated states, shamanistic trances, psi-related experiences, and various other altered-state induction procedures to be not only accurately measured, vii viii Preface but also statistically assessed and visually displayed. Hence, it provides a heretofore unavailable phenomenological methodology for mapping and diagraming the structures and patterns of consciousness and identity, discrete, and altered states of consciousness (Tart, 1975).The approach espoused in this book can be useful not only to those individuals interested in quantifying and mapping the terrain of inner space, but to psychologists, psychiatrists, other mental health professionals, artificial intelligence researchers, computer scientists, anthropologists, and related individuals interested in how the mind processes, stores, and retrieves phenomenological data and organizes and structures those data into states and altered states of consciousness. Byasking subjects what they experience during varlous stimulus conditions, the researcher or clinician can determine how the mind processes phenomenological information and compare this information with neurological, psychological, electrophysiological, and/or c1inical data.The book is divided into four parts: Backg...

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The anomaly called psi: Recent research and criticism

Cited by 65 publications

References 133 publications

Hypnotizability, Dissociation, and Paranormal Beliefs

Hypnotizability, Dissociation, and Paranormal Beliefs

Mahatma Gandhi’s Pragmatic Spirituality: Its Relevance to Psychology East and West

Quantifying Consciousness

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