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JSE 332 Online.Indd JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION A Publication of the Society for Scientifi c Exploration (ISSN 0892-3310) published quarterly, and continuously since 1987 Editorial Offi ce: Journal of Scientifi c Exploration, Society for Scientifi c Exploration, Kathleen E. Erickson, JSE Managing Editor, 12 Candlewood Dr., Petaluma, CA 94954 [email protected] Manuscript Submission: Submit manuscripts online at http://journalofscientifi cexploration.org/index.php/jse/login Editor-in-Chief: Stephen E. Braude, University of Maryland Baltimore County Managing Editor: Kathleen E. Erickson, Petaluma, CA Assistant Managing Editor: Elissa Hoeger, Princeton, NJ Associate Editors Carlos S. Alvarado, Parapsychology Foundation, New York, NY Imants Barušs, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada Daryl Bem, Ph.D., Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Robert Bobrow, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY Jeremy Drake, Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA Roger D. Nelson, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Mark Rodeghier, Center for UFO Studies, Chicago, IL Daniel Sheehan, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA Publications Committee Chair: Garret Moddel, University of Colorado Boulder Editorial Board Chair, Prof. Richard C. Henry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD Dr. Mikel Aickin, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Dr. Steven J. Dick, U.S. Naval Observatory, Washington, DC Dr. Peter Fenwick, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK Dr. Alan Gauld, University of Nottingham, UK Prof. W. H. Jeff erys, University of Texas, Austin, TX Dr. Wayne B. 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JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION A Publication of the Society for Scientifi c Exploration AIMS AND SCOPE: The Journal of Scientifi c Exploration is an Open Access journal, which publishes material consistent with the Society’s mission: to provide a professional forum for critical discussion of topics that are for various reasons ignored or studied inadequately within mainstream science, and to promote improved understanding of social and intellectual factors that limit the scope of scientifi c inquiry. Topics of interest cover a wide spectrum, ranging from apparent anomalies in well-established disciplines to rogue phenomena that seem to belong to no established discipline, as well as philosophical issues about the connections among disciplines. The Journal publishes research articles, review articles, essays, commentaries, guest editorials, historical perspectives, obituaries, book reviews, and letters or commentaries pertaining to previously published material. The Journal of Scientifi c Exploration is a Platinum Open Access journal as of 2018 with a CC-BY-NC Creative Commons license, shared copyright journal: Platinum Open Access means there are no fees to readers and no fees to authors—neither page charges (APCs) nor open access fees. CC-BY-NC means Creative Commons open access license, with full attribution, no commercial use (except exerpts). Excerpts and reuse are allowed with no changes and with a full citation of the original work. An entire article cannot be resold. Shared copyright means the Society for Scientifi c Exploration shares copyright with its JSE authors. The Journal of Scientifi c Exploration is indexed in Scopus, Elsevier Abstracts, and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). https://doi.org/10.31275/2019.1553A for this whole issue, JSE 33:2, Summer 2019, and https://doi.org/10.31275/2019.1553B for the Whole Issue PDF fi le. JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION A Publication of the Society for Scientifi c Exploration Volume 33, Number 2 2019 EDITORIAL 189 Editorial STEPHEN E. BRAUDE RESEARCH ARTICLES 197 Imagination and Reactance in a Psi Task Using the Imagery Cultivation Model and a Fuzzy Set Encoded Target Pool LANCE STORM 213 Homeopathy and the Action of Meaning: A Theoretical Approach WALTER V. LUCADOU 255 A Camera-Based Tracking System for Ouija Research ECKARD KRUSE BOOK REVIEWS 277 ESSAY REVIEW Subtle Energies and Quantum Mechanics From Quantum Physics to Energy Healing: A Physicist’s Journey to Mind and Healing by Johanna Blomqvist, translated by Tuula Yrjö-Koskinen The Mind’s Interaction with the Laws of Physics and Cosmology by Jeffrey S. Keen GEORGE WILLIAMS 288 Time Loops: Precognition, Retrocausation, and the Unconscious by Eric Wargo JULIA MOSSBRIDGE 296 When They Appeared. Falcon Lake 1967: The Inside Story of a Close Encounter by Stan Michalak and Chris Rutkowski My Encounter with The UFO by Stephen Michalak JOHN B. ALEXANDER 299 The Star Gate Archives. Volume 2: Remote Viewing, 1985–1995 compiled and edited by Edwin C. May and Sonali Bhatt Marwaha NEMO MÖRCK 309 Poltergeist: La Conexión Entre Nuestra Mente y Otras Realidade [Poltergeist: The Connection Between our Mind and Other Realities] by David López Bueno CARLOS ALVARADO 188 Table of Contents JSE 33:2 314 Connected: The Emergence of Global Consciousness by Roger D. Nelson NEMO C. MÖRCK SSE NEWS 320 Recruitment for an Online PK Experiment 321 Bial Foundation 322 SSE Masthead 323 Index of Previous Articles in JSE 344 Gift Orders, Gift Memberships, Back Issues 345 Society Membership 346 Instructions for JSE Authors Journal of Scientifi c Exploration, Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 189–196, 2019 0892-3310/19 EDITORIAL DOI: https://doi.org/10.31275/2019/1539 Copyright: Creative Commons CC-BY-NC ’ve recently found myself discussing apparitions with some SSE members I and various other correspondents. And to my dismay I’ve discovered that many suppose, all too readily, that when apparitional cases require paranormal explanations, they should be viewed as instances of telepathic interaction. I addressed this topic quite some time ago (Braude 1997), arguing that the telepathic interpretation of apparitions is problematical— at least as an approach to apparitions generally. And back then I expected (admittedly, rather foolishly) that my trenchant and extended analysis would settle the matter decisively. So now that I’ve been humbled once again by this latest indication of my lack of influence, I’d like to revisit the topic briefly and review its essentials, in the hope that some might then adopt a more sophisticated and nuanced approach. Apparitional phenomena have intrigued me for a long time. One reason is that they reach into all corners of the human population. Even hard-nosed, otherwise outwardly skeptical academics have confided their apparitional experiences to me and acknowledged they were baffled and impressed by them. That august group even includes an ex father-in-law (an anatomist at Ohio State) and my dissertation advisor (a distinguished and suitably hard- nosed philosopher). From the earliest days of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR), the dominant view, at least within parapsychology, has been that if apparitions aren’t simply internally generated (e.g., exhaustion- or drug- or illness- induced) hallucinations, they can then be explained by appealing to various sorts of telepathic interaction. And I suspect that’s still the prevailing view. So for example, according to this view we’d understand apparitions of the dead to result from telepathic interactions between a postmortem and an ante-mortem individual, and we’d explain apparitions of the living entirely in terms of ante-mortem telepathic interactions. Thus, a so-called “crisis apparition” would be understood as a kind of moment-of-death (or peril) telepathic reaching out from the agent to the percipient. I understand why this view is seductive, but as a general approach to apparitions, it’s simplistic, both methodologically and empirically. As I will explain below in more detail, different sorts of cases pose different sorts of theoretical problems, and explanations that work neatly for one sort may 190 Editorial be cumbersome or implausible when extended to another. So even initially, it’s not very promising to proceed as though apparitional phenomena must be united by anything deeper than a name. The
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