The Frontier of Consciousness

Stacy Horn explores the mysteries of parapsychology and its researchers.

By George Kenney

It's safe to assume that psychic phenomena have been with us since the dawn of humankind. Indeed, it's not unreasonable to speculate that certain forms of these phenomena--for example, a sense of the incorporeal presence of others--are somehow hardwired into our DNA. But the sixty-four-thousand-dollar [RETURN TO ARTICLE]

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    For years, James Randi has sponsored a prize of one million dollars for anyone who can prove that psychic phenomena are real. George Kenney might have asked Stacy Horn, “why don’t you go and get the $1M prize?” The only conditions that Randi places are reasonable ones: scientific controls to avoid cheating.

    Nobody has collected the $1M prize. Several alleged psychics have tried, and been embarrassed when they failed.

    It’s not that scientists are closed-minded. It’s that the advocates of parapsychology have no convincing proof that parapsychology is even a real fie.d, even after a century or two of claims and purported proofs.

    See the Skeptic’s Dictionary (skepdic.com) for a review of Rhine’s work and Jahn’s work. 
     
    Does In These Times believe in evolution? Just asking…

    United States Posted by Nevada_Ned on Oct 4, 2009 at 10:13 PM
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