Journal of Scientific Exploration Vol. 40 Issue 2 (Summer 2026)

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Journal of Scientific Exploration Vol. 40 Issue 2 (Summer 2026)

Published on 2026-07-07.

You can discuss this issue of the journal in this thread.

Editorial

James Houran, Darby Orcutt
167-173
Niche Journals as Pivotal Incubators of Maverick Ideas
https://doi.org/10.31275/20264047

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Research Articles

Malcolm Schofield, Chris Howard, Stu Rimmer
174-182
Conspirituality: Predicting COVID-19 Conspiracy Beliefs Using, Spirituality, Purity, and Political Orientation
https://doi.org/10.31275/20263757

Helané Wahbeh, Beth Glick, Erik Brinsmead, Sitara Taddeo, Ryan S. Wood
183-196
Semantic Correspondence Between Trance-Channeled ET Messages and Ufological Records
https://doi.org/10.31275/20263817

Scotch Wichmann
197-231
Psychic Hacking: Using Remote Viewing to Steal Computer Data
https://doi.org/10.31275/20263651

Patrizio Tressoldi, Lance Storm
232-240
The Myth of Publication Bias in Psi Research: A Comparison Between Parapsychology and Mainstream Psychology
https://doi.org/10.31275/20263793

Yakov Shapiro, Carlos E. Maldonado
241-255
An Information-Theoretical Perspective on Consciousness: Implications for the Treatment of Death Anxiety
https://doi.org/10.31275/20263747

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Essay

Federico E. Miraglia
256-267
The Yin–Yang Principle in Asian Philosophy and Medicine: An Essay with Experimental Insights from the Apparatus for Meridian Identification (AMI)
https://doi.org/10.31275/20263741

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Commentary

Dick J. Bierman, James Spottiswoode
268-273
The Decline of Effect Size in Psi Research: An Evidence-Based Commentary on Tressoldi and Storm (2024)
https://doi.org/10.31275/20264003

Patrizio Tressoldi, Lance Storm
274-277
Response to Bierman and Spottiswoode (2026)
https://doi.org/10.31275/20264041

Correspondence
Kostas Davanas
278-279
AI Chess Engines Beat Humans by Cheating, Not by Thinking
https://doi.org/10.31275/20263989

Chris Roe, Gavin Ritchie, Michael Daw
280-282
Testing Noetic Potential in Large Language Models
https://doi.org/10.31275/20264011

Benjamin J. Amorim Boyle
283-287
Response to Letters Regarding “Testing Noetic Potential in Large Language Models”
https://doi.org/10.31275/20264013

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Announcements

Editorial Office
288-290
Announcements
https://doi.org/10.31275/20264104

Journal of Scientific Exploration Vol. 40 Issue 2 (Summer 2026)

Published on 2026-07-07.

You can discuss this issue of the journal in this thread.

Interesting presentation.    https://doi.org/10.31275/20263747

 We then review reports of veridical information obtained during near-death experiences (NDEs), which support the view of
consciousness and self-identity as coherent informational patterns (CIPs) that may persist in the absence of a functioning brain.

I suggest that "coherent information patterns" may be another idiom for "information objects."  They can be defined as to structure and function.  Is this hard evidence, to me it might be.

 Thinking and feeling are organic informational processes that encompass the living experience as a whole (Castellanos, 2023; de Liuca et al., 2013). For instance, subjective awareness of novel informational content tends to elicit feelings of interest or curiosity unless the situation is judged to be unsafe, when the feeling of fear is activated (Panksepp, 1998). It is notable that most NDE accounts reference feelings of pervasive peace and surprise, and even patients riddled with terror of dying tend to settle into a peaceful state in the last several hours of life (Roberts & Owen, 1988). In addition, there are consistent observations that NDE experience has lasting transformative effects, which is not the case in cardiac arrest survivors without NDEs (Parnia, 2014; von Lommel, 2006).