| Abstract/Results: | ABSTRACT:
OBJECTIVES:
(1) to examine whether the psychological variables thinness of boundaries, mystical experience, and transhumanation could be used to predict the performance of a Random Number Generator (RNG); and (2) to examine the relationships between the three psychological predictors.
METHOD:
92 participants filled in a questionnaire survey containing, in order, the Boundary Questionnaire, the Rasch-scaled Mystical Experience Scale, and the Transhumanation Scale. They then attempted to influence the output of the RNG: there were 100 binary trials in each run, and 50 runs per session, of which just one was given; the output psychopractic score was called “scoresum”.
RESULTS:
(1) there was no evidence that the three questionnaires (the Rasch-scaled Mystical Experience Scale, the Boundary Scale, and the Transhumanation Scale) could either singly or in combination predict scoresum, that is to say, performance on the RNG; (2) there was significant evidence that mystics tended to have “thin” (permeable) psychological boundaries, and to score higher on the Transhumanation Scale, which has four components: paranormal belief/experience, mystical experience, the Eastern concept of the body-energy Kundalini, and spirituality.
CONCLUSIONS:
On this occasion, transhumanation, boundary thinness, and mystical experience were not able to predict psychopractic performance; however, there were moderately strong positive, significant correlations between these three scales.
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