Citation

To explore the expression of ESP through motor automatisms (hand

movements), 40 adult volunteers were tested. The target pool consisted of 100 homographs divided into 20 sets of 5 each. Detectors were seated in front of an alphabet board modeled after the Ouija board. For up to 30 min, they randomly moved the pointer around the board in an effort to find letters that appeared in the target word, recording each letter. An RRC staff member, located in a nonadjacent room, served as sender while listening to a pink-noise tape or a pink-noise tape with superimposed “binaural beats” in the theta and delta frequency ranges. Detectors

then blind-rated a set of 5 possible targets for correspondence to the letters they got from the board and from other impressions. Detectors who said they felt an outside force moving their hand over the board (OF) from 1-40% of the time scored significantly above chance and significantly higher than other detectors. A trait measure of dissociation consisting of the Complex Partial Epileptic Signs scale with the Tellegen Absorption Scale partialled out correlated positively and significantly with the OF item. The findings suggest that moderate levels of dissociation are more psi-conducive than extreme levels.