Helmut Schmidt (parapsychologist)
Helmut Schmidt (February 21, 1928 - August 18, 2011) was a German-born parapsychologist.
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[edit] Biography
In the early 1970s he pioneered research into the effects of human consciousness on machines called random number generators or random event generators[1] at the Rhine Research Center Institute for Parapsychology. He was appointed Research Director of the Institute in 1969.[2]
Schmidt's early psychokinesis experiments involved machines with one red and one green light. Subjects would attempt to make one light illuminate more than another. Schmidt has reported success rates of 1–2% above what would be expected at random over a large number of trials. A metastudy that reviewed more than 800 such studies from 68 laboratories came to the conclusion that "under certain circumstances, consciousness can interact with random physical systems." [3]
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[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Daniel Druckman; National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Techniques for the Enhancement of Human Performance (6 April 1988). Enhancing human performance: issues, theories, and techniques. National Academies Press. pp. 175. ISBN 9780309037877. http://books.google.com/books?id=6s2qmLN9EDQC&pg=PA175. Retrieved 17 January 2011.
- ^ John Beloff (15 June 1997). Parapsychology: A Concise History. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 145. ISBN 9780312173760. http://books.google.com/books?id=jazrr0cd-VwC&pg=PA145. Retrieved 17 January 2011.
- ^ Tucker 2006, p. 191.
[edit] References
- The RetroPsychoKinesis Project
- James Randi (1982). Flim-Flam!. Prometheus Books, ISBN 0-87975-198-3
- Jim B. Tucker 2006. Life Before Life St. Martin's Press, ISBN 0-312-32137-6
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