COLLL ME NAAOOOOOOWWWWWW
Posted on 09/05/2006 7:52:20 AM PDT by bwteim
NORWICH (Reuters) - Many people have experienced the phenomenon of receiving a telephone call from someone shortly after thinking about them -- now a scientist says he has proof of what he calls telephone telepathy.
Rupert Sheldrake, whose research is funded by the respected Trinity College, Cambridge, said on Tuesday he had conducted experiments that proved that such precognition existed for telephone calls and even e-mails.
Each person in the trials was asked to give researchers names and phone numbers of four relatives or friends. These were then called at random and told to ring the subject who had to identify the caller before answering the phone.
"The hit rate was 45 percent, well above the 25 percent you would have expected," he told the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. "The odds against this being a chance effect are 1,000 billion to one."
He said he found the same result with people being asked to name one of four people sending them an e-mail before it had landed.
However, his sample was small on both trials -- just 63 people for the controlled telephone experiment and 50 for the email -- and only four subjects were actually filmed in the phone study and five in the email, prompting some scepticism.
Undeterred, Sheldrake -- who believes in the interconnectedness of all minds within a social grouping -- said that he was extending his experiments to see if the phenomenon also worked for mobile phone text messages.
Also, it will get gradually darker tonight, followed by a period of bright light tomorrow morning.
It's like, why do we need to call the Psychic Hotline, shouldn't they be calling you?
Happens with me 10 times a year
LOL. As a matter of fact, I am mentally forwarding all my calls that I am already receiving to your unlisted number.
You should be getting them any minute;)
I tried to call you, but your line is busy.
I know you were and are, thinking of me....lol.
COLLL ME NAAOOOOOOWWWWWW
Hey! I was just thinking about starting a thread like this!
Don't you think that sometimes it is guilt? Perhaps they owed you a phone call first so they say, "hey, Dennis, I was just gonna call you."
BTW, great tagline.
I was on the line with jellybean, getting jellybean to post #7 on this thread. Did it work?
--bonyx
LOL -- yes! It worked. You're powerful.
jellybean, you qualify for the coveted Miss Cleo award!
It is frightening, isn't it?
By the way, the researcher, Rupert Sheldrake is the author of
"Dogs that Know When Their Owners are Coming Home"
PS My dog knows when I come home because I call him first and tell him to check the big wall clock. Since he can't read numbers, I have to tell him, wait for the big hand to get to the little hand...
I knew that...
Website of researcher
http://www.sheldrake.org/
Current project:
"Can you wake a sleeping animal by staring at it? Rupert is
researching the sensitivity of sleeping animals to being stared at. If you can help with information Click here."
Haha. I had to do a little searching to see who that was.
http://www.johnedward.net/about_John_Edward.htm
CSCICOP on John Edward's Fraud
http://www.skepticism.net/articles/2002/000029.html
http://www.physicsforums.com/archive/index.php/t-5213.html
http://www.skepticreport.com/psychics/jeblues.htm
Demystifying John Edward of Crossing Over
http://www.re-quest.net/entertainment/movies-and-tv/tv/john-edward/
The last link is interesting as it has some transcripts to show how 'psychics' make errors and recover.
Funny. The same faulty 'logic' appears when people claim their prayers have been answered.
WOW that's uncanny!!!
Should I send you all my money? ...ummmm ok.. got your physic response of YES DO IT NOW.. so all my money on it's way.
But you knew that already ;)
I had a psychic girlfried, but we broke up before we met. Sad.
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