ADVANCING FROM THE MODERN QUEST FOR MIRACLES TO A POST MODERN SCIENCE OF THE MIRACULOUS
Abstract
Analyses ofanecdotal reports of putative telepathic experiences have shown that these tend tobe reported on days ofrelatively lowgeomagnetic activity. Studies oflaboratory psi experiments have yielded weak confirmation of this effect. The existence of a negative correlation between scores in free response anomalous cognition experiments and geomagnetic fluctuations wasconfirmedinfour datasets (combined p=3x1(t6) which showed significant anomalous cognition. The negative correlation wasabsent from two other data sets showing no evidence of anomalous cognition. Additionally, analysis of an unusually large database ofanomalous cognition trials (n = 336), covering a range of approximately± 130hours between perceptionand target observation, suggests that the negative correlation between scores and geomagnetic fluctuations occurs only for trials inwhichthis interval is less than±2 hours, andis absent for precognitive orretrocognitive perception outside this time range. These results may facilitate the elucidation of the physical mechanism ofanomalous cognition.
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