IONS-Windbridge Mediumship Study
The Institute of Noetic Sciences and the Windbridge Institute are conducting a study exploring the perceptual capacities of mediums, some of whom claim to be able to sense if a person in a photo is presently alive or dead. We are working with selected research mediums from the Windbridge Institute.
We understand that this is a sensitive subject, but it is nevertheless a claim that can be tested in scientific ways. To do this we are collecting photos of people's faces, some of whom are alive and others who are now dead. We will be studying the mediums' brain activity while they view these photos, presented in random order and with no indication of the person's present status, to see if their brains unconsciously respond differently to images of the living or the dead.
If you have photos of yourself that you would like to share for this experiment, please click here. Individuals in these photos will not be identified by name.
We understand that this is a sensitive subject, but it is nevertheless a claim that can be tested in scientific ways. To do this we are collecting photos of people's faces, some of whom are alive and others who are now dead. We will be studying the mediums' brain activity while they view these photos, presented in random order and with no indication of the person's present status, to see if their brains unconsciously respond differently to images of the living or the dead.
If you have photos of yourself that you would like to share for this experiment, please click here. Individuals in these photos will not be identified by name.
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There are lots of places around the web to find memorial pictures of the disceased, so that's not a problem. But we'd rather get photos from living relatives who agree to our using their images.
We're pretesting the possibility of alive/dead cues in the photos to develop a set of balanced images. Of course all of the photos are of people while they are/were alive, so we just have to ensure that there aren't obvious clues from historical periods, or differences in how healthy someone looks, etc.
On UFOs and ETs, I've heard lots of stories too, some more credible than others. But because I don't have an infinite amount of time to study everything, I tend to pay more attention to things that are clearly testable. As far as I can tell we can't test those ideas, so I don't spend much time thinking about them.
Excellent work at Winbridge - Thanks
Physics Today is a magazine, not an academic journal. Science and Nature are not likely to ever publish anything this controversial, at least not until major labs have successfully replicated the effect.
That study was part of a series of studies which are continuing, so perhaps for the follow-up papers I'll move up the journal hierarchy. Getting it into Physics Essays was already a bump up towards the mainstream.
What about Darryl Bem's research getting published in JPSP? His actual study design was largely original right, I think.
> That study was part of a series of studies which are continuing, so perhaps for the follow-up papers I'll move up the journal hierarchy. Getting it into Physics Essays was already a bump up towards the mainstream.
I look forward to that! If it receives attention anywhere near Bem's papers, the public will not easily forget it! Psi in the headlines twice in two years? There is potential here!
How do you anticipate correcting for this?
We won't be using photos that give such clues.
http://phys.org/news/2012-04-quantum-physics-mimics-spooky-action.html
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