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Society Members receive online Journal subscriptions with their membership. Online Library subscriptions are $135. JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION A Publication of the Society for Scientifi c Exploration Volume 25, Number 1 2011 Editorial 1 Editorial STEPHEN E. BRAUDE Research Articles 7 Are There Stable Mean Values, and Relationships between Them, in Statistical Parapsychology? WOLFGANG HELFRICH 29 Exploring the Relationship between Tibetan SERENA M. RONEY-DOUGAL Meditation Attainment and Precognition JERRY SOLFVIN 47 A Faulty PK Meta-Analysis WILFRIED KUGEL 63 Karhunen-Loève Transform for Detecting Iono- spheric Total Electron Content (TEC) Anomalies Prior to the 1999 Chi-Chi Earthquake, Taiwan JYH-WOEI LIN Historical Perspective 77 Eusapia Palladino: An Autobiographical Essay CARLOS S. ALVARADO Essay 103 Mental Health of Mediums and Differential Diagnosis between Mediumship and ADAIR MENEZES, JR. Mental Disorders ALEXANDER MOREIRA-ALMEIDA Letters to the Editor 117 Thought Processes NORMAN ALLENTOFF 117 Thoughts on the “Survival/Super-Psi” Argument MASAYUKI OHKADO 119 Remarks on Eusapia Palladino CARLOS S. ALVARADO Book Reviews 121 Essay Review: Unorthodox Concepts of Force and Psychic Phenomena Les Radiations Humaines: Introduction à la Démonstration Expérimentale de l’Existence des Corps Subtils de l’Homme [Human Radiations: Introduction to the Experimental Demonstration of the Subtle Bodies of Man] by Raoul Mon- tandon; Laboratory Investigations into Psychic Phenomena by Hereward Car- rington; Le Magnétisme Animal: Étudié sous le Nom de Force Neurique Rayon- nante et Circulante dans ses Propriétés Physiques, Physiologiques, et Therapeu- tiques [Animal Magnetism: Studied under the Name of Radiant and Circulating Neuric Force in Its Physical, Physiological, and Therapeutic Properties] by Alexandre Baréty; L’Extériorisation de la Sensibilité: Étude Expérimentale and iv Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 24, No. 1 Historique [The Exteriorisation of Sensibility: Experimental and Historical Study] by Albert de Rochas; L’Ame Humaine: Ses Mouvements, ses Lumières et l’Iconographie de L’Invisible Fluidique [The Human Soul: Its Movements, Its Lights and the Iconography of the Fluidic Invisible] by Hippolyte Baraduc; L’Evolution Animique: Essais de Psychologie Suivant le Spiritisme [Animic Evolution: Essays on Psychology According to Spiritism] by Gabriel Delanne CARLOS S. ALVARADO 131 Essay Review: Extreme Phenomena and Human Capacity The Physical Phenomena of Mysticism by Herbert Thurston MICHAEL GROSSO 153 Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences by Jeffrey Long with Paul Perry JOHN L. TURNER 155 Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences by Jeffrey Long with Paul Perry RYAN D. FOSTER 157 The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov: The Story of Stalin’s Persecution of One of the Great Scientists of the Twentieth Century by Peter Pringle RANDY MOORE 159 The Discovery of the Sasquatch: Reconciling Culture, History, and Science in the Discovery Process by John A. Bindernagel ALTON HIGGINS 164 Teen 2.0: Saving Our Children and Families from the Torment of Adolescence by Robert Epstein HUGH CUNNINGHAM 166 Science as a Spiritual Practice by Imants Barušs F. DAVID PEAT 169 The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self by Thomas Metzinger GREG EALICK 172 Experimental Investigation of the Spirit Manifestations: Demonstrating the Existence of Spirits and Their Communion with Mortals by Robert Hare MICHAEL E. TYMN 177 The Night-Side of Nature. Or, Ghosts and Ghost-Seers by Catherine Crowe GUY LYON PLAYFAIR 181 Supernatural Hawaii by Judi Thompson MICHAEL SCHMICKER Further Books of Note 183 A Zeptospace Odyssey: A Journey into the Physics of the LHC by Gian Francesco Giudice HORACE CRATER 186 The Goddess and the Bull—Çatalhöyük: An Archaeological Journey to the Dawn of Civilization by Michael Balter STEPHEN C. JETT 189 Mind, Matter, and the Implicate Order by Paavo Pylkkänen DANIEL SHEEHAN 190 The Infamous Boundary: Seven Decades of Controversy in Quantum Physics by David Wick HENRY H. BAUER Article of Interest 191 New Evidence for a 67,000-Year-Old Human Presence at Callao Cave, Luzon, Philippines by A. S. Mijares et al. STEPHEN C. JETT SSE News 192 SSE Masthead 193 Meeting Announcements: 30th Annual SSE; 54th Annual Parapsychological Assn. 194 Index of Previous Articles in JSE 207 Order forms for JSE Issues, JSE Subscriptions, and Society Membership 210 Instructions for JSE Authors Journal of Scientifi c Exploration, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 1–6, 2011 0892-3310/11 EDITORIAL s many JSE readers know, there was a considerable hubbub recently Aover a research paper scheduled to appear in the Journal of Person- ality and Social Psychology, written by Cornell University psychologist (and JSE Associate Editor) Daryl Bem. In that paper, Bem describes a series of nine experiments, involving more than 1,000 participants, apparently showing that subjects react physiologically to stimulus events whose random selection has yet to occur. Thus, the experiments seem to show (as Bem puts it) “the anomalous retroactive infl uence of some future event on an individual’s current responses.” In my view, Bem’s experiments are methodologically elegant and excep- tionally clever. One reason this study is so notable is that Bem took several extensively analyzed psychological effects already vetted in the professional literature, and simply tested for them in a seemingly time-reversed direction, by collecting the subjects’ responses prior to randomly choosing the corresponding stimulus events. Furthermore, four of the nine experiments replicate the experi- ments immediately preceding them in Bem’s study. Bem’s report has attracted an extraordinary degree of national and inter- national attention. He’s been both excoriated and praised in prominent print media, blogged about endlessly, and interviewed on major television programs. Needless to say, this is an unusual degree of attention for academic parapsy- chological research, and presumably