Long-distance ESP: A controlled study.

Abstract

Using a group of 22 transmitters (Ts) in Los Angeles, and three groups of receivers (Rs) in Los Angeles (28 Rs), New York (IS Rs), and Sussex, England (14 Rs), a long-distance extrasensory perception study was conducted in which a series of three emotional episodes and three control episodes were shown Ts in Los Angeles. After each episode, Ts wrote their reactions, while at the same (local) time, Rs wrote their free associations.'' After writing these impressions, Rs were shown a pair of slides and chose the one slide which best matched their impressions. Results showed that the 57 Rs scored significantly beyond chance expectations (/> < .003) for the experimental episodes but only at chance for the controls. Qualitative results were reviewed, and a few striking parallels between T and R protocols were noted. In the anecdotal history of spontaneous extrasensory perception (ESP), literally hundreds of cases have been documented in which an event experienced in one part of the world has been dreamed or ''seen as in a vision, with vivid and accurate detail, by someone in another part of the world, sometimes thousands