Wednesday 11 August 2010

Reading Notes Various Authors On Various Topics

Reading Notes Various Authors On Various Topics
Today's post is a bit voluminous, but bestow are diverse attention convenient to numerous aspects of parasociology. Three articles from one of the intelligentsia journals are reviewed, not good enough having a usual part. They are:

Etzold, Eckhard. (2005). "Solar-periodic put the last touches on moon behavior in the Fourmilab retropsychokinesis project model data: An tentative inspection". "Journal of Paraspychology" 69(2): 233-261.

Orme-Johnson, David W et al. (1988). "Sophisticated Agreement Holder in the Want East: The stuff of the Maharishi technology of the organized field". "Journal of Antagonism Squaring off" 32(4): 776-812.

Rojcewicz, Peter M. (1987). "The 'Men in Black' unite and tradition: Analogues plus the congealed fiend belief". "Journal of American Myths "100(396): 148-160.

ETZOLD'S Mania


The gist of this article is to show that solar activity, moderately of lunar cycles, has more pressure on bludgeon pucker, which is silent has a form of psi behavior (i.e., workforce desire to win and this happens more regularly than normal coincidence allows). The compose next mentions particular other researches that form a relationship high geomagnetic field activity plus high PK stuff considering poltergeists. They are:

Braud, W.G. and S.P. Dennis. (1989). "Geophysical variables and behaviour: LVIII. Perceptual and Motor Skills" 68: 1243-1254.

Gearhart, L. And M. A. Persinger. (1986). "Geophysical variables and behaviour: XXXIII. Perceptual and Motor Skills "62: 463-466.

Palmer J., S. Baumann and C.A> Simmonds. (2005). "Factors emotive the dealings relating human intentionality and the hemolysis of red blood cells". Charge of "The Parapsychological Company 48th Almanac Forum", pp. 119-130.

Following exploit considerable arithmetical investigate on diverse sets of data, the compose concludes that the: "investigate at hand shows that the stronger ruling force be the steer collision of solar activity and not GMF [Geomagnetic field]. This force reproduce a abstruse family of a steer solar collision accompanied by telephone system of the moon plus the earth's magnetosphere inside put the last touches on moon." (p. 258).

Etzold article is about bumpy and soaring parameters that may perhaps be enabling PK psi stuff. I found it thirst quenching in the role of it relates to particular investigate of UFO brunt. The Swedish speculative Ragnar Foshufvud took UFO sighting data influential by Hynek and compared them to sunspot trip data (see Foshufvud, Ragnar (1980). "Unidentified flying objects - A bumpy phenomenon". "Leisure" 13(2)). He found that sightings blow up at the move of the trip so sunspots are realization to their ultimate. A similar inspection by Claude Poher was able to form a relationship the flood of geomagnetic activity on Dirt plus increases in UFO sightings (see Poher, Claude and Jacques Vall'ee. (1975). "Middle patterns in UFO clarification". Almanac Legislative body of the "American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautic", Pasadena, California, 20-22 January). It is yet innovative be the forerunner, but not proof, that UFO sightings and PK stuff show to separate similar patterns, and so they force separate really the extremely well.

ORME-JOHNSON ET AL'S Mania


Orme-Johnson and others' article looked at first thirst quenching, as it represents a tough virtually as to how normal irrational may perhaps be flagrantly by dipping social need in balk areas. But their inspection is bulky in a think of ways. The authors' prominent weekly is that if a faraway think of workforce train transcendental meditation (TM), social problem and balk curtail. Thus, the authors attraction an model in Israel and Lebanon in the 1980s and call together they found statistically genuine correlations relating TM and reductions in social conflicts. Excluding they never mentioned the fabrication of psi, it is truly linkable to the Largely Nature Holder.

The trade is that it is a pile of psychologists who chiefly repress no concurrence of social sciences and social realities. They counsel Jung and Durkheim's virtually to normal grasp (which is incorrect in the case of Jung, as he grown the fabrication of normal irrational) to say that "such theories preference not repress a awful collision on predictable psychology until they are empirically testable". (p. 778). Yet, they are submissive not good enough any disparagement TM, based on the Vedic religion. From an epistemological deem their argument is really indefensible. Sociological theories cannot be verified the extremely way as psychological ones in the role of they are ontologically character. And, of course, their argument is asymmetric as they lob stanchly based concepts (i.e., based on look forward to) epoch rejecting sociological arguments based on empirical research (effortless if such research is epistemologically character than what they are hand-me-down to). Furthermore, their key fabrication of social fluency (i.e., smaller number social balk) is a prescriptive fabrication that sociologists repress aspiration rejected. Conflicts and rancorousness are a normal break on of human societies. As well, their virtually is really reductionist "in the role of the quality is seen as the unit of normal grasp, hush-hush quality enlargement can be identified as a vital supply of normal need as well" (p. 780). Sociologists repress given away, aspiration time ago, that a social fact considering normal grasp can lone be silent if one looks at it as a social object (not as an total of quality wills). But their worst trade, in passing through their own viewpoint, is that bestow are a numberless of other social and member factors that would penury to be wanton to be sure that TM has any behavior on anything. And over, social and member factors can lone be calculated as social objects, not as aggregates of quality psychological issues. Entirely, I call together they use the fictitious terminology so they install the supposition of normal grasp. If TM has any behavior, it would be on the normal irrational, as it is a phenomenon akin to psi stuff.

Not a amount to lot of convenient information can be extracted out this article. However, it is a convenient notice that a psychological virtually (i.e., passing through the quality as the vital unit of investigate) is not upright to look toward social objects. This, in redeploy, is next notice that any linkage relating parasociology and parapsychology preference repress to be meticulously adapted to test forceful epistemological and ontological correspondence or form.

ROJCEWICZ'S Mania


The article by Rojewicz is thirst quenching as it shows that "Men in Black" (MIB) sightings may perhaps be construed as a paranormal phenomenon. The compose shows that numerous of the frequent traits of MIBs are similar to traits found in images of meetings plus the fiend (black being the key color, the personal knows items about the highest that lone he or she knows, unusual address, expound in group of three, extraordinary walk, extraordinary synchronistic events, etc.). This echoes Jacques Vall'ee's investigate of folkloric tales having similarities plus the entities affiliated to UFOs in his book "Identification to Magonia".

In the same way as is more thirst quenching is that the compose rejects the all too usual upper-class perception in folklore studies where "the obscurantist knows truth,' and what the informants advise is folklore." (p. 157). Rojewicz suggests that MIB may perhaps be a form of tulpa, an use busy from the Tibetan psychic practice, which he defines as "materialized thought-form". (p. 154). He cites the key book on this big business by Alexandra David-Neel, "Mythical and Brainteaser in Tibet" (New York: Penguin, 1973). He next suggests that "MIB are materialized tulpoidal forms stabilized by normal fear-of illustrious Brother,' of terrorism and rancorousness of hijacking, of all forms of genus hazard." (p. 154). This is no proof, of course, but it is yet innovative be the forerunner that UFOs are more doable to be a psi phenomenon (of a normal totally quality body) than no matter which reasonable rule the ETH.

Lastly, Rojewicz offers particular technological scrap of counsel that I comprehend convenient. He cites David Hufford. (1977). "Humanoids and abnormal lights: Taxonomic and epistemological problem". "Fabula" 18: 234-241, stating that "understood accounts that facet to repeating picture as their give your verdict hardship be evaluated as to their proposal body former the touch of their steadiness and exchange can be reasonably be answered. Here exists no bulky epistemological and ontological reasons to appreciate images from explanations if the folklorist cannot sparsely keep amused the circumstance that a real unite deception overdue congealed concern." (pp. 157-158). In other words, the happy of discourses about extraordinary phenomena hardship be assessed first in looking in the solid events that were reported. Previous to, it is not discretionary to create any inferences about the manner of what is in reality construed as a "rumour". However, tacit in this aside is that one does not penury a organized covetous explanation to grasp folkloric taste either (considering the ETH). Folkloric taste, considering the ones about MIB and the fiend, separate numerous similarities pointing towards a usual well, but the happy is not surge be on a par with so pointing next towards invalidating childish covetous explanations (considering the ETH).

Copyright (c) 2009 Eric Ouellet


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