Quotes about Esp

Some have proposed that the practice of selective reporting, or publishing only successful studies and filing away the unsuccessful ones, can explain the overall results of these tests.  But analyses show that of the 188 experiments described in Rhine’s 1940 book, Extrasensory Perception after Sixty Years, the combined results are so far from chance that it would take 428,000 unreported studies averaging a chance effect to eliminate the results of the known 188 experiments.  Given that it took 60 years to produce those 188 experiments, or about 3 studies per year, at that rate the missing studies would have taken 137,000 years to produce.

For those familiar with the officially acknowledged applications of Einstein’s theories of Relativity, it should be easy to see how the mere existence of particles that move faster than light and/or communicate telepathically through an aetheric medium begins to unravel an entire paradigm for understanding the physical universe.  On the subject of the “Crumbling of Certainty” in the wake of such logic-challenging discoveries in quantum physics, Charles Eisenstein writes, “The whole idea of certainty of knowledge, built through objective reasoning, is only as sound as the objectivity at its basis. Question that, and we question the soundness of the entire edifice of experimentally-derived knowledge” on which our current sciences, and the worldview connected to them, depend.