O.K. The most widely accepted conclusion of "the double-slit" experiment
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4237751840526284618&q=double+slit+experiment
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4237751840526284618&q=double+slit+experiment
is the "Copenhagen Interpretation" that states, ""What cannot be observed does not exist".
Forget all that. Point made.
What it does prove if nothing else is that we do not yet have a "Unification theory". Perhaps one day they will be able to measure and see something that causes this behaviour.
I apologize to Q and others, but I have not exactly had "open minded" responses on a forum designed for "Parapsychology"
I had stumbled upon a book in my youth entitled "E.S.P." by Harold Sherman, in which he documented many telepathy experiments with the "broadcaster" awake, and the "reciever" asleep.
NOTE: I googled Harold Sherman / esp and got over 6000 hits. His technique has some followers (me anyways)
I conducted the exact same experiments and on my very first try I got a long lost friend to write me a letter in which she stated, "last night I had a dream about you that prompted me to write."
I have done this time and again. I have also had others try this with similiar results.
So forgive me if I am past skeptisism on this subject. I am more interested in discovering what the science is behind how it works. I read everything from quantum chemistry/physics to religious banterrings that allow for whatever sub-space (below electron anyway) communication is taking place.
I found Stryders post informative and thought provoking. Thank-you Stryder. I am looking for answers a little below common frequencies though, as we can measure radio waves, etc. We obviously cannot measure thought waves beyond a few inches from the brain. Stryders post did make me think of fields and possibilities of shielding and amplifying with machines. OMG, I'm going to start wearing a tin-foil cap. lol. NOT!
In reference to Stryders post again, I know they perform surgery on Epileptics to separate the hemispheres. Psychic experimenters often use Theta inducing music, etc when attempting experiments, and I have heard of people using Stereograms, etc, that get the brain halves working together for similiar experiments. Also scientologists believe that every cell in your body holds memory engrams, with conditioned responses dating back from when we were non-brain entities. The first 100 pages of Dianetics is a hard read, but very compelling.
Even locked in labs doing the telepathy thing, there is no way of recording Empirical Data, and that brings us back to the question, "how many coincidences equals proof."
"Ganzfield Experiments"
Ganzfeld (“total field”) is the most popular extrasensory perception (ESP) experiment undertaken by parapsychologists. The experiment is carried out to study an individual’s ESP levels.
During the tests the subjects are deprived of their senses by lying on a couch or mattress, wearing halves of ping-pong balls over their eyes while white noise plays in earphones. During this state of deprivation, a sender attempts to psychically send a randomly select target image which is usually a video clip. Later the subject is asked to choose a clip from a selection. By chance the average subject should guess the right target 25% of the time but Edinburgh’s Koestler Parapsychological Unit often achieves at least 33%.
Ganzfeld could be the closest experiment to prove that ESP or PSI really exists. Because of this, Ganzfeld experiments are the most carefully conducted and scrutinized of all ESP experiments. Yet after decades of research, results have not been produced that will convince scientists that ESP does exist.
I am not claiming Telepathy is extra-ordinary or that I can perform Hocus Pocus. I am claiming that Telepathy is a real biological function, the scope of which can't be determined unless we solve the puzzle of the "double-slit experiment"
We live in a strange world. Mankind has been around for millions of years, yet we could not fly, watch television, listen to the radio, talk on the phone, cook in a microwave, or go online until this past century.
I believe science will eventually prove the existence of thought particles, but until then............. You will just have to believe or not.
I am sure the experiment I outlined at the beginning of this thread will make believers out of those few who try. Explaining how/why will have to wait.
Good luck to those who seek answers.
kwhilborn