251. Star Gazetesi Röportajı: Uzaktangörü ve durugörü

Siz bir nörologsunuz, hatta TÜBİTAK'tan ödül almış birisiniz. Nasıl ilgi duymaya başladınız bu konulara? Benin parasikolojik konulara ilgi duymam, çoğu kişi gibi çocukluğumdan başladı. Lise yıllarında bir çok parapsikolojik konuyla ve kuantum fiziği ile ilgilendim. O zamanlar merak duygusu ve bilinmeyene olan ilgiydi. Aynı ilgi yıllarca devam etti ve konuya en yakın olan sinir sistemi hastalıkları doktoru oldum. Beyin ve sinir sistemi, mistisizmle bir aradaydı çünkü. Daha sonraları işi daha da ileri görürerek 2003 yılında NeuroQuantology adlı, uluslararası bir bilimsel dergi yayınlamaya başladım. Derginin amacı, beynin ve bilincin sınırlarının nerelere ulaştığını kuantum fiziği açısından ele almaktı. Çok ilgi gördü ve dergi 2008 yılında uluslararası indekslere kabul edildi. Bu çok önemliydi, çünkü, Türkiye’de 950 akademik-bilimsel dergi var ve sadece 59 tanesi uluslararsı indekslere girebilmiştir.

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252. STARGATE Projesi Nedir

Bir çok psişik çalışması içine alan, soğuk savaş yılları nedeniyle, 1970-1995 yılları arasında sürdürülen ve özellikle uzaktangörü/durugörü üzerinde çalışmalar yapılan, Amerikan hükemeti ve Askeriyesinin kontrolü altında yapılan araştırmaların ortak adıdır. Daha sonra bu çalışma ardından, bu grupta çalışan bilim insanları değişik laboratuvarlarda araştırmalarına devam ettiler. Stargate projesi içinde, uzaktangörüyü araştıran 14 kadar ayrı laboratuvar vardı. Buralarda akseri veya sivillerden oluşan 22 kadar durugörü yeteneği olan süje ile çalışıyorlardı.

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253. Supernatural or Natural? Anthropology and the Paranormal

The term ‘paranormal' was first introduced in the early twentieth century to replace the more loaded term ‘supernatural,' originally used in its Latin form supernatural is by theologians in the thirteenth century to refer to the miraculous events documented in the Bible (Bartlett 2008). Miracles, such as Moses' vision of the burning bush, and Jesus' transformation of water into wine, curing of the sick and resurrection of the dead, for example, were interpreted as manifestations of the power of God, with the aim of producing faith in those who bore witness to them. This association with the direct action of God, and the idea that such phenomena were somehow separate from nature, did not appeal to those who sought to investigate similar claims (such as visions, apparitions, telepathy and psychokinesis), using scientific methods in the late nineteenth century. By implementing the term ‘supernormal,' and later ‘paranormal,' defined as referring to phenomena beyond the scope of current scientific understanding, as opposed to ‘supernatural,' which implies phenomena firmly beyond the laws of nature, researchers were attempting to demonstrate that paranormal occurrences, if real, were as much a part of the natural world as anything else, and as such were amenable to scientific investigation (Hansen 2001:21).

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254. Surprising Discovery: Skin Communicates With Liver

Researchers from the University of Southern Denmark have discovered that the skin is capable of communicating with the liver. The discovery has surprised the scientists, and they say that it may help our understanding of how skin diseases can affect the rest of the body.   Professor Susanne Mandrup and her research group in collaboration with Nils Færgeman's research group at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Southern Denmark was actually studying something completely different when they made the groundbreaking discovery: That the skin, which is the body's largest organ, can "talk" to the liver. "We have showed that the skin affects the metabolism in the liver, and that is quite a surprise," say Susanne Mandrup and Ditte Neess, a former student in the Mandrup research group and now laboratory manager in Professor Nils Færgeman's group. The phenomenon was observed in the researcher's laboratory mice. The Mandrup and Færgeman groups work with so-called knock-out mice, in which a specific fat binding protein called acyl CoA binding protein has been removed (knocked out). Some knock-out mice produced by the researchers had a strange greasy fur, and they had difficulties being weaned from their mother. In the weaning period they gained less weight and showed a failure to thrive. Analyses also showed that the mice accumulated fat in the liver at weaning. "At first we thought that the fat accumulation in the liver was linked with the fact that the gene was missing in the liver of the knock-out mice. But this was ruled out by a series of studies, and we had to find another explanation," says Ditte Neess. She and her colleagues took another look at the rumpled and weak knock-out mice. Their fur was greasy, and they had a leaky skin from which they lost more water than normal mice. "When they lose water, they also lose heat. We therefore asked ourselves whether this water and heat loss could be the reason why the mice accumulated fat in the liver and became weak when weaned from their mother," says Ditte Neess. To clarify this, the researchers made some mice that lacked the fat binding protein only in the skin. Similar to the full knockouts these mice had difficulties after weaning and accumulated fat in the liver. So this showed that the lack of the fat-binding protein in the skin was sufficient to induce accumulation of fat in the liver. To get to the bottom of how a defect in the skin "talks" to the liver, the researchers decided to cover the mice with Vaseline. This would prevent water evaporating from the skin and thus stopping the heat loss. As a result the fat accumulation in the liver disappeared. But as Vaseline contains fat, that could theoretically be absorbed by the skin or ingested by the mice, the researchers were a little unsure if there were side effects from the Vaseline. A student proposed to cover the mice with liquid latex, which she found in a local sex shop. Having covered the mice in blue latex the researchers saw that fat accumulation in the liver again disappeared. "We believe that the leaking of water from the skin makes the mice feel cold, and that this leads to breaking down of fat in their adipose (fat) tissue. The broken down fat is then moved to the liver. The mice move energy from the tissues to the liver," Susanne Mandrup and Ditte Neess explain.

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255. Tarihçe

PARASİKOLOJİ paranormal (normal ötesi) güçleri, olayları ve yetenekleri inceleyen bilim dalıdır, Bu kelime 1920'lerde Dr. J. B. Rhine tarafından, Fransız psikoloğu Emil Boirac'ın «psikoloji ötesi»anlamına kullanıldığı parapsychique» kelimesinden uyarlanmış ve 1953' de Hollanda, Utrecht'de toplanan uluslararaşı Psişik Araştırma Konferansı'nca da parapsişik araştıma yapanların kendi adlarında kullanmaları için onaylanmıştır.  

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256. Telepathy and clairvoyance in classical antiquity

J Parapsychol. 1946 Dec;10(4):290-309. Telepathy and clairvoyance in classical antiquity. DODDS ER. PMID: 20283225 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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257. Testimonies of precognition and encounters with psychiatry in letters to J. B. Priestley.

Stud Hist Philos Biol Biomed Sci. 2014 Aug 27. pii: S1369-8486(14)00086-7. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2014.07.006. [Epub ahead of print] Testimonies of precognition and encounters with psychiatry in letters to J. B. Priestley. Price K. Author information: Queen Mary University, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK. Electronic address: k.price@qmul.ac.uk. Abstract Using letters sent to British playwright J. B. Priestley in 1963, this paper explores the intersection between patient-focused history of psychiatry and the history of parapsychology in everyday life. Priestley's study of precognition lay outside the main currents of parapsychology, and his status as a storyteller encouraged confidences about anomalous temporal experience and mental illness. Drawing on virtue epistemology, I explore the regulation of subjectivity operated by Priestley in establishing the credibility of his correspondents in relation to their gender and mental health, and investigate the possibility of testimonial justice for these witnesses. Priestley's ambivalent approach to madness in relation to visions of the future is related to the longer history of prophecy and madness. Letters from the television audience reveal a variety of attitudes towards the compatibility of precognition with modern theories of the mind, show the flexibility of precognition in relation to mental distress, and record a range of responses from medical and therapeutic practitioners. Testimonial justice for those whose experience of precognition intersects with psychiatric care entails a full acknowledgement of the tensions and complicities between these two domains as they are experienced by the witness, and an explicit statement of the hearer's orientation to those domains. Copyright © 2014. Published by Elsevier Ltd.

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258. The Conscious Universe, Chapter 1: Introduction

In science, the acceptance of new ideas follows a predictable, four-stage sequence. In Stage 1, skeptics confidently proclaim that the idea is impossible because it violates the Laws of Science. This stage can last from years to centuries, depending on how much the idea challenges conventional wisdom. In Stage 2, skeptics reluctantly concede that the idea is possible, but it is not very interesting and the claimed effects are extremely weak. Stage 3 begins when the mainstream realizes that the idea is not only important, but its effects are much stronger and more pervasive than previously imagined. Stage 4 is achieved when the same critics who used to disavow any interest in the idea begin to proclaim that they thought of it first. Eventually, no one remembers that the idea was once considered a dangerous heresy.

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259. The Limits of Experimenter Influence on Psi Test Results: Can Any Be Set?

This is the second in a series of articles on the role of the experimenter and additional personnel (other than the subject) taking part in parapsychological experiments. It reviews the evidence for psi-mediated experimenter effects, or the communication of experimenter bias, when all normal (i.e., sense-based) channels of communication are eliminated. Experiments in two broad categories are reviewed: (a) nonintentional psi experiments in which the subjects are unaware of certain important aspects of the test situation, or may not even know that they are taking part in a psi test; and (b) experiments in which the experimenter deliberately tries to influence the results by means of his own PK or ESP. When significant results are obtained in the first category, they may be due either to telepathy from the experimenter and/or his associates (psi-mediated experimenter effects) or to clairvoyance of the testing situation on the part of the subject (psi-mediated experimental effects). Significant results in the second category suggest either a direct influence of the experimenter upon the subject's responses by means of PK or an indirect influence by means of ESP. It is concluded that in psi research it may not be possible to differentiate between the experimenter and his experiment, and, therefore, between psi-mediated experimenter and psi-mediated experimental effects.  

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260. THE PARANORMAL: THE EVIDENCE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR CONSCIOUSNESS

Those who recognise that significant discoveries in science are very often prompted by observations that do not fit expectations will find a stimulating challenge in accumulating evidence that it is possible to elicit psychic functioning in experiments with ordinary volunteers acting as subjects. Even more convincing results occur with specially selected subjects.

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