There are many theoretical explanations for these events, one of which is that extrasensory awareness is evolutionarily advantageous, and therefore may have developed during an era in which danger was everpresent with survival depending on such capabilities. Others have ‘inexplicably’ become aware of a conversation involving them, despite it being inaudible. Many people have turned to see someone behind them due to a ‘sense’ they were being watched. Paper submitted for presentation at the combined 58th Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association and 39th International Society for Psychical Research Annual Conference, University of Greenwich, 16-19th July. Individual differences in psychosocial and neurological predictors of surveillance detection via extrasensory means. The process of, and problems associated with conducting and developing experimental field research with participants utilizing plant psychedelics in a ritual context are discussed and proposals for future research are put forward.įriday, R., & Luke, D. Taking into consideration problems identified with the test protocol a new experimental design was developed and was planned for use with participants under the influence of San Pedro cactus in a ritual context, however the implementation of the second protocol was hampered by cultural rather than internal design factors and an alternative solution was sought by testing the protocol in principle using just one participant, with encouraging findings. The preliminary findings did not provide evidence for precognition under the influence of ayahuasca, nevertheless a number of methodological issues became apparent from conducting the study that may account for the findings. After reviewing the literature an initial experimental precognition protocol was developed for use in field research and piloted in Brazil and Ecuador with participants who were taking part in ayahuasca rituals. Video of panel here: Audio recording here: Field reports from explorers, anthropologists and ethnobotanists have long since attested to the apparent psi-inducing properties of shamanic plant psychedelics, such as the Amazonian decoction ayahuasca and the mescaline-containing cacti San Pedro and peyote. Panel discussion paper submitted for presentation at the combined 58th Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association and 39th International Society for Psychical Research Annual Conference, University of Greenwich, 16-19th July. Exploring the apparently psi-conducive but methodologically elusive nature of ritual psychedelic use. (Published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. It is shown here that rather than being based on any kind of substantial evidence, the criticisms that Reber and Alcock put forth in support of this counterargument are instead based on a combination of narrow personal opinion, unfounded assumption, and superficial rhetoric, leaving their claims unsound and ultimately unconvincing. At the heart of their rebuttal, Reber and Alcock seek to make the counter-argument that this evidence cannot be meaningful because psi phenomena are "impossible," appearing to violate four fundamental principles of physics. A critical commentary is offered on a skeptical rebuttal made by Arthur Reber and James Alcock in the July/August 2019 issue of Skeptical Inquirer (), which came in response to an article by Etzel Cardeña (published in the mainstream journal American Psychologist in 2018) that reviewed the extensive evidence from parapsychological experiments which seems to collectively offer support for the existence of psychic (or psi) phenomena.
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