Zeitschrift für Anomalistik 19 (2019), No. 3, pp. 284–299
DOI: 10.23793/zfa.2019.284
Editorial: To the Heart of the Matter – Carl Gustav Jung, Synchronicity, and the Struggle with Empirical Data
Gerhard Mayer
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Zeitschrift für Anomalistik 19 (2019), No. 3, pp. 300–325
DOI: 10.23793/zfa.2019.300
RSPK 4.0: When Ghosts Get out of Line
Sarah Pohl, Walter von Lucadou
Abstract – After a short description of the „Freiburg RSPK model“, different new types of RSPK and their “profiles” are formulated by various case studies and supplemented with the presentation of praxis-proven interventions. The RSPK model assumes that typical RSPK shows the following features: There is a focus person with characteristic personality traits; the phenomena follow a describable development; specific phenomena are occurring, comprising inexplicable noises, mimicry noises, movement of objects etc. But the case studies show that more or less clear deviations from the prototype can be found for almost every feature. A change regarding the age of the focus person can also be observed. The six newly described types are referred to as the “Elderly People RSPK”, the “Neurotic RSPK”, the “Healing RSPK”, the “Burn-Out RSPK”, the “Depressive RSPK”, and the “Mourning RSPK”
Keywords: RSPK – poltergeist – focus person – telekinesis
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Zeitschrift für Anomalistik 19 (2019), No. 3, pp. 326–346
DOI: 10.23793/zfa.2019.326
Predicting the Stock Market: An Associative Remote Viewing Study
Maximilian Müller, Laura Müller, Marc Wittmann
Abstract – Over the course of n = 48 valid trials we attempted to predict the binary (up vs. down) course of the German stock index DAX with the Associative Remote Viewing (ARV) method. 38 out of 48 predictions were correct which amounts to a highly significant hit rate of 79.16% (p = 2.3 x 10-5, binomial distribution, B48(1/2); z = 3.897; ES = 0.56). A post-hoc analysis indicated that the session quality depended on the volatility of the stock index: The viewer’s perceptions were clearer and less ambivalent when the stock index also had a larger point difference at the end of the prediction period. Additionally, we tested the hypothesis whether feedback is a necessary requirement for predictions with ARV. Both conditions (feedback vs. no feedback) were independently significant and did not differ significantly from each other (χ2 = 0.505, p = 0.477). Therefore, we discuss potential features which might be necessary or limiting for successful predictions with ARV.
Keywords: Warcollier prize – Associative Remote Viewing – anomalous cognition – psi – precognition – mere intention principle – retro-causality – probabilistic future
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Zeitschrift für Anomalistik 19 (2019), No. 3, pp. 347–363
DOI: 10.23793/zfa.2019.347
Anomalous Experiences Reported by Nurses: A Study Examining Personality, Perceptual and Cognitive Factors
Alejandro Parra
Abstract – The aim of this study was to determine the degree of occurrence of certain unusual perceptual experiences in hospital settings often related by nurses. Three hundred forty four nurses were recruited from 36 hospitals and health centers in Buenos Aires, who were grouped 235 experiencers and 109 nonexperiencers. The most common experiences are sense of presence and/or apparitions, hearing noises, voices or dialogues, crying or complaining, intuitions and extrasensory experiences and as listeners of the experiences of their patients, such as near death experiences, religious interventions, and many anomalous experiences in relation with children. The rationale of the present study is to confirm the early findings for work stress and absorption with a bigger sample of nurses (Parra & Giménez Amarilla, 2017) and additionally, schizotypy proneness and empathy skills. The hypothesis that nurses who report anomalous experiences tend to score higher on work stress was not confirmed, however depersonalization factor scored higher than with non-experiencers. Nurses reporting these experiences tended to report higher scores of absorption and higher scores of proneness to schizotypy, mainly “positive” schizotypy (Unusual experiences) and tended to report higher cognitive empathy and emotional comprehension than non-experiencers.
Keywords: nursing – perceptual / cognitive process – extraordinary experiences – hallucinations
Article retracted!
Zeitschrift für Anomalistik 19 (2019), No. 3, pp. 364–390
DOI: 10.23793/zfa.2019.364
Elements in Change. 200 Years of Transmutation Research: Louis Kervran and His Predecessors
Stephan Krall
Abstract – More than 200 years ago, scientists noticed in experiments that the amount of certain substances ingested by living organisms did not correspond to the amounts found in them in an analysis. Since then, scientific research has been carried out by a wide variety of scientists. In these more than 200 years experiments with plants, animals, microorganisms, algae and even humans were conducted. Obviously, something happened in the living beings that led to the discovery of substances that had not been added at all, or not in these quantities. When it was discovered that other substances had de-creased at the same time, the first assumptions were made that living beings might be able to convert atoms. This fundamentally violated the paradigm of physics, even though around the turn from the 19th to the 20th century the radioactive decay was discovered, in which atoms actually transform in a decay series, but at high energies. To this day, physics holds the view that this is not possible at low energies, as postulated in the above-mentioned research. Nevertheless, this research has continued to this day. Probably the most prominent transmutation researcher, as this type of research is called today, was C. Louis Kervran. He published nine books on his research between 1962 and 1982, among many other publications, and died in 1983. The article examines the history and topicality of this transmutation research.
Keywords: Transmutation – C. L. Kervran – neutrinos – atom physics
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Zeitschrift für Anomalistik 19 (2019), No. 3, pp. 391–419
DOI: 10.23793/zfa.2019.391
Ethnology and Anomalistics: A Comparison of Science Culture(s)
Hannes Leuschner
Abstract – This article is about a comparison of anomalistic and ethnological science culture. Following Karl-Heinz Kohl’s (2012) definition of Ethnology as “the science of the cultural other”, I understand the Anomalistics as a “science of the scientifically other” i. e. as a kind of Ethnology within the framework of scientific culture. In this sense, it is a concept of the “other” that links the disciplines. An introduction to this concept takes its dual meaning of “alter” and “alius” into account. In the first part of this article, I describe a methodological complex of contemporary ethnology which deals equally with the familiarization of the ‘other’ and the othering of the “own”. In the second part, I examine the extent to which this methodology is applicable to anomalistic research and the positioning of Anomalistics in the field of scientific culture. In this context, I also discuss whether you may refer to scientific culture in the singular, or rather – at least from an ethnological perspective – to cultures of sciences in the plural only.
Keywords: ethnology – cultural anthropology – social anthropology – anomalistics – science culture – alter – alius
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Zeitschrift für Anomalistik 19 (2019), No. 3, pp. 420–467
DOI: 10.23793/zfa.2019.420
“It is all so strangely intertwined”: A Discussion Between Hans Bender and Carl Gustav Jung About Synchronicity in 1960
Uwe Schellinger, Marc Wittmann, Andreas Anton
Abstract – Hans Bender, German parapsychologist and professor at the Freiburg University, met with C.G. Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and analytic psychotherapist, on December 8, 1960. In connection with his mother’s sudden death a few months earlier, Hand Bender had had impressive synchronistic experiences which he wanted to discuss with the famous analyst and theorist of synchronistic phenomena. The discussion was recorded, and the transcribed version is available here for the first time. On the basis of archival sources, which have hitherto not been analyzed, we examine in this article, among other things, the historical context of the discussion with the help of decades of written communication between the two scientists concerning their common interest in parapsychology, astrology, and UFO research, as well as the conception and meaning of synchronistic events. The latter is the central element of the discussion. A key aspect of our article is, therefore, a description of the phenomenon of synchronicity based on Hans Bender’s concrete experiences during a drive through Switzerland to an Eranos Conference in Ascona and further on to the Côte d’ Azur for a workshop of the Parapsychology Foundation. At the same time, in August 1960, his mother suffered a stroke, which caused her death shortly afterward. Bender was returning to Freiburg at the time when she died. He was familiar with the stages of his trip from earlier trips. He had intensely emotional experiences at certain
Keywords: Hans Bender – C. G. Jung – synchronicity – psi experiences
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Zeitschrift für Anomalistik 19 (2019), No. 3, pp. 468–470
DOI: 10.23793/zfa.2019.468
Continued Discussions on Previous Papers
Re the paper by Michael Nahm, “I See Something you Don’t See” or How (not) to Know Higher Worlds? An Excursus on Rudolf Steiner’s “Spiritual Science”, Zeitschrift für Anomalistik, 19 (2019), pp. 189–212
- Ulrich Magin: Rudolf Steiner: What inspired him, whom he inspired
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Zeitschrift für Anomalistik 19 (2019), No. 3, pp. 471–486
DOI: 10.23793/zfa.2019.471
Essay Review
Conspiracy Theories Between Illusion and Reality
Andreas Anton, Alan Schink
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Zeitschrift für Anomalistik 19 (2019), No. 3, pp. 487–539
DOI: 10.23793/zfa.2019.487
Book Reviews
- Roger C. Nelson (2019). Connected: The Emergence of Global Consciousness
Reviewer: Nemo C. Mörck - Darryl Caterine & John W. Morehead (Hrsg.) (2019). The Paranormal and Popular Culture: A Postmodern Religious Landscape
Reviewer: Meret Fehlmann - Michael Schetsche, Andreas Anton (2019). Die Gesellschaft der Außerirdischen: Einführung in die Exosoziologie
Reviewer: Karim Akerma - Sebastian von Kleist (2019). Encuentros con extraterrestres en Chile 1927–2017
Reviewer: Ulrich Magin - Martin Shough mit Wim van Utrecht (2019). Redemption of the Damned: Vol. 1. Aerial Phenomena. A Centennial Re-evaluation of Charles Fort’s ‘Book of the Damned’
Reviewer: Ulrich Magin - Samantha Hurn (Hrsg.) (2017). Anthropology and Cryptozoology: Exploring encounters with mysterious creatures
Reviewer: Gerhard Mayer - Vera Maria (2017). Die unheimliche Magie der Psychose: Eine Erfahrung
Reviewer: Sarah Pohl - Gerd H. Hövelmann & Hans Michels (Hrsg.) (2017). Legitimacy of Unbelief. The Collected Papers of Piet Hein Hoebens
Reviewer: Eberhard Bauer - Andreas Anton (2018). Das Paranormale im Sozialismus: Zum Umgang mit heterodoxen Wissensbeständen, Erfahrungen und Praktiken in der DDR
Reviewer: Helmut Pfaff
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