Parapsychology’s Secret, Best Kept a Secret? Responding to the Millar Challenge

Authors

  • Adrian Parker Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Abstract

A short overview is made of the attempts to relate the experimenter effect to the conventional theory of  social interactive influence. There is however much neglected evidence to suggest it is more than this.  The author’s own involvement in psi-conducive and psi-mediated experimenter effects is presented. Some of the most striking results in this respect came with the Ganzfeld series of experiments. Examples of psychic experiences in the lives of successful experimenters are given.



Author Biography

Adrian Parker, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

After qualifying in clinical psychology at the Tavistock Clinic, Adrian Parker was the recipient of the Perrott-Warrick Studentship in psychical research, Trinity College, Cambridge and became the first to gain a UK doctorate with a thesis on psi from the University of Edinburgh. He is author of the book States of Mind, and innovated with Honorton and Braud the psi-ganzfeld protocol.  He worked in child psychiatry and studied medical sciences before accepting a position at Gothenburg University, where a major award from the Swedish state bank enabled the development of the “Real Time Digital Ganzfeld” – now a benchmark procedure for capturing high quality psi events in the laboratory. He was Editor of the European Journal of Parapsychology 2000–2004 and helped establish the Thorsen professorship in parapsychology. He is professor at Gothenburg University, where he is currently carrying out research into lucid dream states and exceptional experiences amongst twins.

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2013-06-17