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AA-EVP ParaNews for January 2005

Psychic Ability:  In “An Assessment of the Evidence for Psychic Functioning,” Professor Jessica Utts studied psychic functioning research conducted over a two decade period to determine whether or not the phenomenon had been scientifically established. She writes, “Using the standards applied to any other area of science, it is concluded that psychic functioning has been well established. The statistical results of the studies examined are far beyond what is expected by chance. Arguments that these results could be due to methodological flaws in the experiments are soundly refuted. Effects of similar magnitude to those found in government-sponsored research at Stanford Research Institute and Science Applications International Corporation have been replicated at a number of laboratories across the world. Such consistency cannot be readily explained by claims of flaws or fraud. From: http://anson.ucdavis.edu/~utts/air2.html

Belief in Psychic Ability on the Increase. A recent Gallup poll found that one in two Americans believes in extrasensory perception. Fifty-four percent believe in psychic or spiritual healing.

From: eMediawire “Psychics can’t believe the growth in their popularity” www.emediawire.com/releases/2004/9/emw161192.htm

Skeptics test Girl with X-ray vision. You may remember our reporting on Natasha Demkina in June. She is a 17 year old Russian girl who claims to see inside people’s bodies and be able to watch their organs and see when something is going wrong. The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) an organization of professional skeptics designed the experiment. For the first part of the test, Natasha was asked to try and diagnose the conditions of people who had described specific ailments to members of CSICOP. At the end of the consultation period, most were impressed, feeling that Natasha had pinpointed their conditions. In the second part of the test, Natasha was given a list of medical conditions and positioned in front of seven people. The skeptics decided that if Natasha could correctly identify who had which operation five times out of seven, she would pass. Though she correctly identified four of the patients, she misdiagnosed three, including one who had a missing appendix. She had failed, the scientists declared. Natasha now says she was unhappy with how the test was carried out. “The atmosphere of the testing was unfriendly. The conditions I was looking for were in some cases dubious. Why is it that, if I get five out of seven, I pass, but if I get four, I'm a total failure?”

Natasha is now going to medical school in Russia and says, “The dream is, if I preserve my gift, to use it but on the basis of proper medical knowledge.”

From: Sci/Tech News,  “Why scientists find diagnoses of ‘x-ray’ girl hard to stomach” www.keralanext.com/news/?id=50775

Healing with Color:  In an article written for About.com by Janet Boyer, we are reminded that there are many ways to use color to heal. During his life, Ghadiali Dinshah extensively researched the effects of color on disease, developing the use of colored filters and lamps. His work is probably the most extensive and detailed of any this century.

But it is not necessary to have colored filters and lamps to work with color healing. You can drink color by filling a colored glass bottle that is three quarters full of water and keeping it in sunlight. Sunlight will charge the water in six to eight hours. Use a cork or cap to keep the dust out and clean the bottle once a day. Alternatively, wrap colored cellophane around a transparent bottle but don’t use the cellophane if it is faded.

You can also benefit by wearing the color that you need or by meditating with color cards found in art stores. It also works to visualize the color that you need surrounding you and filling every cell of your body. There are actually online color mediations (http://myth.com/color/med.htm) where you take in the color through your eyes. From: Can Color Heal by Janet Boyer http://bellaonline.com/articles/art9740.asp

Border Collie knows 200 words: The Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology’s Juliane Kaminski has reported on Rico, a nine-year-old border collie with a vocabulary of over two hundred words. In studies Rico was asked to retrieve one of ten hidden objects that were familiar to him. An example would be, “Rico, where is the ball?” In forty requests for forty different objects in a group of two hundred, Rico was successful 92.5 per cent of the time. All items were hidden and located out of sight of Rice’s owner and the experimenter, so that there was no possibility of the dog picking up subtle cues.

Rico was also adept at retrieving novel items; items with names that he did not know. When these novel items were hidden with items he was familiar with his success rate of retrieving the novel item was 70 per cent. Rico seemed to realize that the novel word must refer to the hidden object for which he didn’t have a name. From: Word learning in a domestic dog: evidence for “fast mapping.” By Kaminski, J., Call, J. & Fischer, J., Science, 11 June 2004, www.sciencemag.org.

Comment: Such articles about the intelligence of animals suggests that a fundamental aspect of life is intelligence. Apparently, there is no such thing as a “dumb animal,” only an animal that we do not understand.

The Symbol of the Three Hares: British scientists are trying to solve the mystery of a sacred symbol that has been found in sites around the world. The depiction of three hares chasing each other in a circle and joined at the ears has been found in sixth century Chinese temples, 13^th century Mongol metalwork and in British medieval churches. How did this symbol that is virtually identical become prominent in Christian, Islamic and Buddhist cultures separated by great time and distance? From: www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200407/s1146284.htm. Picture from www.chrischapmanphotography.com

Increased Awareness about Electronic Voice Phenomena: The ads for the horror movie White Noise began showing in September as we were doing this DPE report. The first add or trailer for the movie gave out the American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena’s website address as the place to get more information about EVP. In just two weeks the AA-EVP web site has received over 60,000 hits. Universal studios told us that they wanted EVP to be as well known as UFO’s and Crop Circles and they seem to be making early headway at doing just that.

The movie is scheduled to be released in theaters January 7, so by the time you read this, you will probably be talking to people who want to know about EVP as a way to talk to a discarnate loved one. There is information at http://aaevp.com and in the book, There is No Death and There are No Dead, that will help you know how to answer.

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