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The search for psychic power, ESP and parapsychology revisited, C.E.M. Hansel

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-304) and index

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The search for psychic power

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C.E.M. Hansel

ESP and parapsychology revisited

For centuries both primitive and sophisticated societies have been spellbound by persons who claim to have "psychic" power. Those who present a case for the existence of extrasensory perception (ESP) - mediums, spiritualists, telepaths, clairvoyants, psychokinetics, and others - insist that their unique abilities stand outside the realm of conventional scientific evaluation; that parapsychology offers new hope for understanding the richness and diversity of the human mind and its relationship to the world. In fact, much has been done in recent years in an attempt to convince the scientific community that such phenomena are legitimate and credible

Part One. Early forms of investigation -- The origins of psychical research -- Early investigations -- Part Two. Card-guessing experiments -- Experiments at Duke University -- The years of controversy, 1934-1940 -- The Pearce-Pratt experiment -- The Pratt-Woodruff experiment -- Group experiments -- The Soal-Goldney experiment -- Factors relating to card guessing -- Part III. Contemporary research -- Testing ESP with a machine -- Telepathy in dreams -- The Ganzfeld experiments -- Remote viewing -- Part Four. Psychokinesis -- Early research on psychokinesis -- The new approach to psychokinesis -- Independent repetitions of Schmidt's PK experiment -- The Schmidt-Morris-Rudolph experiment -- Psychokinesis: Summary and conclusions -- Part Five. Nonexperimental investigations -- Anecdotal evidence -- Spiritualism -- Parapsychology and magic -- Part Six. Conclusions