LSD & ESP: Scientists Study Psychic Phenomena and Psychedelic Drugs

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Few people are aware that there have been numerous, carefully-controlled scientific experiments with telepathy, psychokinesis, remote viewing, and other types of psychic phenomena, which have consistently produced compelling, statistically-significant results that conventional science is at a loss to explain.

Even most scientists, are currently unaware of the vast abundance of compelling scientific evidence for psychic phenomena, which has resulted from over a century of parapsychological research.

Hundreds of carefully-controlled studies--in which psi researchers continuously redesigned experiments to address the comments from their critics--have produced results that demonstrate small, but statistically significant effects for psi phenomena, such as telepathy, precognition, and psychokinesis.

According to psychologist Dean Radin, a meta-analysis of this research demonstrates that the positive results from these studies are significant with odds in the order of many billions to one.

Princeton University, the Stanford Research Institute, Duke University, the Institute of Noetic Science, the U.S. and Russian governments, and many other respectable institutions, have spent years researching these mysterious phenomena, and conventional science is at a loss to explain the results.

This research--which was originally published in numerous peer-reviewed scientific journals over the past century--is summarized Radin’s remarkable book The Conscious Universe.

Just as fascinating as the research into psychic phenomena is the controversy that surrounds it.

In my own experience researching the possibility of telepathy in animals, and other unexplained phenomena with British biologist Rupert Sheldrake, I discovered that many people are eager to share personal anecdotes about psychic events in their life--such as remarkable coincidences, uncanny premonitions, precognitive dreams, and seemingly telepathic communications.

In these cases, the scientific studies simply confirm life experiences.

However, many scientists that I’ve spoken with haven’t reviewed the evidence, and remain doubtful that there is any reality to psychic phenomenon, because the mechanism isn’t understood yet.

Nonetheless, surveys conducted by British biologist Rupert Sheldrake and myself reveal that around 78% of the population has had unexplainable “psychic” experiences, and the scientific evidence supports the validity of these experiences.

It’s also interesting to note that many people have reported experiencing meaningful psychic experiences with psychedelic drugs--not to mention a wide range of paranormal events and synchronicities, which seem extremely difficult to explain by means of conventional reasoning.

A questionnaire study conducted by psychologist Charles Tart of 150 experienced marijuana users found that 76% believed in extrasensory perception (ESP), with frequent reports of experiences while intoxicated that were interpreted as psychic.

Psychiatrist Stanislav Grof, and psychologist Stanley Krippner, have collected numerous anecdotes about psychic phenomena that were reported by people under the influence of psychedelic drugs, and several small scientific studies have looked at how LSD, psilocybin, and mescaline might effect telepathy and remote viewing.

For example, according to psychologist Jean Millay, in 1997, students at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands did research to establish whether or not the use of psilocybin could influence remote viewing.

This was a small experiment, with only 12 test-subjects, but the results of the study indicated that those subjects who were under the influence of psilocybin achieved a success rate of 58.3 percent, which was statistically significant.

A new edition of the 1964 book ESP Experiments With LSD-25 and Psilocybin: A Methodological Approach, by Roberto Cavanna and Emilio Servadio was republished in 2010, with a new preface by Charles Tart.

Source:
http://santacruz.patch.com/articles/lsd-esp-scientists-study-psychic-phenomena-and-psychedelic-drugs
 
I notice that he doesn't provide links to any of these 'carefully controlled studies.'

Though there was a link at the bottom of the article to another piece by the same author:

Can Psychedelic Drugs Help us Speak to Aliens?
By David Jay Brown

So yeaahhh I'm gonna take this all with a grain of salt ;)
 
Nonetheless, surveys conducted by British biologist Rupert Sheldrake and myself reveal that around 78% of the population has had unexplainable “psychic” experiences, and the scientific evidence supports the validity of these experiences.

ahuh
right...
what evidence is that again? This guy is throwing around the word scientific as if the mere mention of it justifies what he is saying. As long as the evidence is scientific then it must be true...

So yeaahhh I'm gonna take this all with a grain of salt
this.
 
Heh I've had telepathy on both LSD and mushrooms, and sometimes while sober. On LSD I found it A LOT easier to read people's emotions/body language, and on mushrooms a friend and I were discussing where I had gotten a shirt I was wearing and I'd only told him I'd gotten it at a beach while on vacation; but I didn't say which state, town/city, or store I bought it at but I was thinking of the exact place and he instantly realized it and told me the exact place.

When it happened sober I just would know something was going to happen before it did. It wasn't anything life changing or scary though.

I have never used Ayahuasca but I've heard that it's very telepathic especially during religious ceremonies in the Amazon.
 
I have seen studies that showed that certain individuals can "see"/guess one of 5 cards at a rate that is statistically significantly above average. But it is still something on the order of 28%, instead of the expected 20% (rough numbers here). On the one hand, that is amazing, and should be explained. On the other hand, if someone has ESP, why can't they get 100% (or even close)?

On the other, other hand, I, like Priest, have telepathy/ESP all the time, both on drugs and when sober.
I regularly know what is going to happen before it does. I would say that it happens several times a week, at the least.
Mushrooms bring it out, as does LSD.
The two times I took Ayahuasca, I could read the mind of God. ;)
 
On the other, other hand, I, like Priest, have telepathy/ESP all the time, both on drugs and when sober.
I regularly know what is going to happen before it does. I would say that it happens several times a week, at the least.
Mushrooms bring it out, as does LSD.

I'm not saying that your experiences where not more than what we currently understand. However, the two responses that would usually be made to this would be a) could it be that you are using information (perhaps unconsciously) from the environment to make a prediction about what will happen next? Humans are designed to be able to predict the future, we know the final position of a moving ball well enough to catch it and can use facial cues to tell that someone is about to cry for example. I think on psychedelics we become more empathic and are open to more subtle social cues that can help us work these things out. b) Do you count all the times which you think something is going to happen and doesn't? When we predict an outcome and it comes true it seems worthy of note, but when we think something will happen and it doesn't we disregard it. Could your predictions not be a coincidence (ie. not statistically significant).

One big problem with these observations is that they don't usually offer theories. There is nothing wrong with that in itself, but it means that ESP is rather ill defined. It just comes out as perceptions that can't currently be explained. If there was a good theory which predicted ESP, the scientific community would probably be more receptive.
 
there is something here. but i think we can get carried away with the descriptions of these mental states. a lot of it is simply ourselves using cognitive tricks on ourselves... the production and sensation of consciousness is a fascinating and mysterious process... the way memory works, it's easy to feel magic when it's simply one's sense of agency gone awry, or enough dualities shattered that you're basically no longer a robot monkey but are now a super robot monkey powered by sunshine.

imhe the state of mind induced by entheogens is where our spiritual feelings and convictions come from (for those who haven't done entheogens but are spiritual, their spiritual experiences are neurologically very similar to a brain on an entheogen. this has been verified in research with bhuddist and christian monks).

but it's just one aspect of experience (or a meta aspect).
 
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