Brenda Dunne of PEAR Lab - PK and Remote Perception

[Ninshub]

Interesting interview with Brenda Dunne, who worked alongside Prof Robert Jahn at the PEAR Lab at Princeton from the beginning until the end, mostly on remote perception and mind-matter interactions. Focuses on how she got her start, the PEAR experiments and results, interesting facts coming out of that research, etc.

Thanks. I found that very interesting. Obviously Brenda Dunne was a key figure in the PEAR work, and it was interesting to hear her opinion of it. (Evidently the interview was recorded a couple of years before Robert Jahn died.)

A couple of particular points -

I don't remember reading before about the gender differences - men getting higher results when trying to be positive, and lower results when trying to be negative, and being abnormally close to chance expectation otherwise - and women getting higher results than expected whatever the intention. Also the joint effects between pairs (not sure what protocol is meant) being twice as strong when the pairs were a man and a woman, and seven times as strong when they were in love.

It was interesting to see a photo of what Brenda Dunne called the "pinball machine" - the apparatus designed to test for psychokinetic influence on the distribution of balls falling through a network of bars. The fact that they obtained significant results makes me wonder whether the explanation for these phenomena really lies in the field of quantum mechanics. (Perhaps the same question could be asked about Rhine's experiments with dice.)

[Ninshub]

Glad you liked it Chris. Yeah I found those revelations about gender differences novel and interesting too.