Reference code: | PT/FB/BL-2004-042.05 |
Location: | Arquivo PCA - Pasta 3/2004
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Title:
| Exploring psychomanteum as a psi-conducive state of consciousness (Phase 2): Adding new perceptual, personality, abnormal thinking, and phenomenological variables of anomalous cognition using two favourable conditions: (1) visual/musical targets and (2) psychomanteum/non-psychomanteum sessions
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Publication year: | 2008
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URL:
| http://www.bial.com/imagem/Actas_7Simp.pdf
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Abstract/Results: | ABSTRACT:
OBJECTIVES:
The aim is of this researcg project was to explore whether the psychomanteum technique encourages a
psi-conducive state of consciousness, which would result in scoring that is significantly above MCE.
METHOD:
Although the psychomanteum technique was designed to facilitate reunion experiences with deceased
individuals, is not normally employed to seek ESP information. Seventy eight percent claimed to have had a variety of ESP experiences. A number of variables, such as vividness of imagery and hallucinatory experience, were examined. Two conditions, psychomanteum and non-psychomanteum condition, were compared. A CD-pool containing 200 high-quality color pictures, were designed using a RNG for randomization. One hundred and thirty participants (92 females and 38 males; Mean age= 47.44) were recruited by announcements in newspapers and our web site.
RESULTS:
Using no-dynamic targets, that is, picture image as targets, the psychomanteum condition gave 30.6% of
hits above the 25% expected by chance; however, in the no-psychomanteum (“control”) condition we obtained 22.2%. Using dynamic targets (video-clips), the psychomanteum condition gave 27.0% (mean chance expected=25%); however, in the no-psychomanteum (“control”) condition we obtained 35.1%, notably above chance expected. The overall results (dynamic and non-dynamic targets joined together, N=75) gave 30.1%, also above chance expected in comparision with non-psychomanteum overall (28.8%).
CONCLUSIONS:
A number of positive correlations were also found, for instance, participants who attained higher scores on auditory and visual hallucinations tended to demonstrate psi-hitting. Some participants indicated psychophysical relaxation, which is consistent with the score for sensation of pleasure about the experience.
Although some of them indicated not to have experienced changes in their corporal perception, an some people said to be lighter, heavier, numb, and out-of-proportion. Some of them experiences lost the notion of elapsed time (temporal distortion) and less time than normal. This also might be in relation with the high score for sensation of pleasure and relaxation during the experience.
PUBLICATIONS:
(2006). Exploring psychomanteum as a psi-conducive state of consciousness. En C.Simmonds-Moore (Ed.), Proceedings of the 49th Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association (pp. 141-152). Hasselbacken
Hotel Stockholm, Suecia.
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Accessibility: | Document does not exist in file
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Language:
| eng
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Author:
| Parra, A.
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Secondary author(s):
| Villanueva, J.
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Document type:
| Conference abstract
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Number of reproductions:
| 2
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Reference:
| Parra, A., & Villanueva, J. (2008). Exploring psychomanteum as a psi-conducive state of consciousness (Phase 2): Adding new perceptual, personality, abnormal thinking, and phenomenological variables of anomalous cognition using two favourable conditions: (1) visual/musical targets and (2) psychomanteum/non-psychomanteum sessions. In Aquém e além do cérebro. Behind and beyond the brain. Proceedings of the 7th Symposium of Fundação Bial. Porto: Fundação Bial.
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Indexed document: | No
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Keywords: | Hallucinations / Extrasensory perception (ESP) information / Vividness of imagery / Dynamic targets
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Exploring psychomanteum as a psi-conducive state of consciousness (Phase 2): Adding new perceptual, personality, abnormal thinking, and phenomenological variables of anomalous cognition using two favourable conditions: (1) visual/musical targets and (2) psychomanteum/non-psychomanteum sessions |