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JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION A Publication of the Society for Scientifi c Exploration Volume 33, Number 1 2019 EDITORIAL 5 Editorial STEPHEN E. BRAUDE RESEARCH ARTICLES 9 Coincidence or Psi? The Epistemic Import of Spontaneous Cases of Purported Psi Identifi ed Post-Verifi cation SHARON HEWITT RAWLETTE 43 Two Attempted Retro-Priming Replications JACOB JOLIJ Show Theory-Relevant Anomalous Connectivity DICK BIERMAN REVIEW 61 The Case for Advance Wave Causality CHARLES W. LEAR HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE 73 Musings on Materializations: Eric J. Dingwall on “The Plasma Theory” CARLOS S. ALVARADO LETTER TO THE EDITOR 114 Preparing for the Death of a Loved One ROBERT GINSBERG BOOK REVIEWS 116 ESSAY REVIEW. The Unending Human Trage- dy—and Scientific Scandal—of HIV/AIDS How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS by David France HENRY H. BAUER 121 Anticipation and Medicine edited by Mihai Nad ROBERT S. BOBROW 124 Ki or Psi, Anomalous Remote Effects of Mind–Body System: Biophysical Approach to Unknown Power by Hideyuki Kokubo ROBERT S. BOBROW 4 Table of Contents JSE 33:1 125 Psience Fiction: The Paranormal in Science Fiction Literature by Damien Broderick PAUL H. SMITH 128 JOTT: When Things Disappear . And Come Back or Relocate—And Why It Really Happens by Mary Rose Barrington STEPHEN E. BRAUDE 132 Otherworlds: Psychedelics and Exceptional Human Experience by David Luke NATALIE L. TRENT 136 The Premonition Code: The Science of Precognition by Theresa Cheung and Julia Mossbridge DEBRA LYNNE KATZ 146 Real Magic: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Science, and a Guide to the Secret Power of the Universe by Dean Radin BRYAN J. WILLIAMS SSE NEWS 153 38th SSE Annual Confernce, Broomfi eld, Colorado, June 5–8, 2019 155 Parapsychological Association 2019 meeting, Call for Papers 156 Recruitment for an Online PK Experiment 157 Bial Foundation 158 SSE Masthead 159 Index of Previous Articles in JSE 180 Gift Orders, Gift Memberships, Back Issues 181 Society Membership 182 Instructions for JSE Authors Journal of Scientifi c Exploration, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 5–8, 2019 0892-3310/19 EDITORIAL DOI: https://doi.org/10.31275/2019/1449 Copyright: Creative Commons CC-BY-NC ’ve often noted how discussions of the evidence suggesting postmortem Isurvival fail to consider adequately alternative interpretations in terms of dissociative processes, and in particular the apparent ease with which dissociation either facilitates the operation of living-agent psi or unleashes otherwise latent creative capacities that might suggest survival to the unwary (see, e.g., Braude 2003). I suppose it should come as no surprise that a related phenomenon sometimes occurs as well—namely, that evidence suggesting dissociative processes might in fact be evidence for the operation of psi. An interesting recent paper by Hong Wang Fung in the Journal of Trauma & Dissociation illustrates the point (Fung 2018). Fung’s paper is titled “The Phenomenon of Pathological Dissociation in the Ancient Chinese Medicine Literature.” And I commend Fung for unearthing some interesting material. He summarizes six obscure, old cases described originally in terms antedating the development of present- day psychological concepts. One case in particular stood out for me. Fung reports it as follows. Gui, aged twenty-something, was a farmer’s son from Dantu. He had gotten married and had a son. During one winter, he acquired an unusual illness, sighed all day long, and did not eat and drink. His wife felt dissatisfied; Gui sought for solutions but [they] did not work. One day after an afternoon nap, he suddenly looked around and spoke with a Lu accent, saying, “Strange! Where is this place? Why am I here?” After speaking, he ran quickly to the door and wanted to go away. His wife was shocked and stopped him by dragging on his clothes. Gui spoke angrily, and said, “What do you want? I am not a person belonging to here, it is not good to stay.” After speaking, he attempted to go again. His wife cried and said, “You are mad, how come you cannot even recognize the one who sleep[s] with you in the same bed (i.e., herself, his wife)?” Gui laughed and said, “Strange! How could I have such a yellow-face (i.e. ugly) wife?” 6 Editorial His wife became more scared, asked “So, who are you?” Gui said, “My family name was Lee, and I am a Shandongese” (a Lu accent is the accent from Shandong). “You do not know me, why do you see me as your husband?” His wife said, “You are named Gui, and I am your wife, everyone living here knows that.” She also pointed to the 3-year-old crying boy and said, “This boy who is learning to speak is our son and is yours and mine. Even if you do not care about the love between husband and wife, don’t you consider this boy (your son)?” At that time, other villagers came and said the same thing to Gui, consistent with what his wife said. His wife said, “If you don’t believe, why don’t you look in the mirror?” Gui said “good” and did so.