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Testing for telepathy in connection with e-mails.

Rupert Sheldrake1, Pamela Smart

  • 1ars@dircon.co.uk

Perceptual and Motor Skills
|February 24, 2006
PubMed
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This study explored telepathic communication via email, with participants guessing the sender. Results showed significantly higher-than-chance accuracy, suggesting potential psychic abilities in email communication.

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Area of Science:

  • Parapsychology
  • Anomalistic Psychology
  • Information Theory

Background:

  • The study addresses the intriguing possibility of telepathic communication.
  • Investigates whether psychic phenomena can manifest in digital communication, specifically email.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To determine if participants could accurately guess the sender of an email above chance levels.
  • To explore the potential for telepathic signaling in a controlled experimental setting.

Main Methods:

  • Participants guessed the sender of an email from four possibilities.
  • Data collected over 552 trials with 50 participants.
  • Further trials with 5 participants were videotaped for continuous observation.

Main Results:

  • Overall accuracy was 43% (235/552 hits), significantly exceeding the 25% chance expectation.
  • Videotaped trials showed 47% accuracy (64/137 hits), also significantly above chance.
  • Findings suggest a non-random element in sender identification.

Conclusions:

  • The results indicate a statistically significant ability to identify the sender of an email beyond random guessing.
  • This suggests that telepathic communication might play a role in email exchanges.
  • Further research is warranted to explore the mechanisms and reliability of this phenomenon.

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