Psi journals

A new issue of the Parapsychological Association's bulletin, Mindfield, has appeared. Here is the blurb from the PA:

This issue of Mindfield 11.1 makes accessible the essential aspects of several contemporary models of psi. In line with Mindfield 10.3 titled Physical Theories of Psi, we now present models derived from human sciences. Using the same approach as the previous issue, we asked several theoreticians of parapsychology to briefly respond to a common structured interview explaining the foundations and applications of their models. With this approach, we aim to provide Mindfield readers with a glimpse of these complex ideas in a manner that facilitates comparison.

This issue focuses mainly on psychological theories of psi presented by Lance Storm & Michael Thalbourne, Jon Taylor, Lance Storm & Adam Rock, Rupert Sheldrake, and James C. Carpenter.  Also included is Part 2 of Carlos A. Alvarado's Articles about the History of Parapsychology and Related Matters and the 27th installment of Articles Relevant to Parapsychology in Journals of Various Fields.

https://mailchi.mp/parapsych/download-volume-11-issue-1-of-mindfield-the-bulletin-of-the-parapsychological-association-744453

Here is the current issue of the Journal of Scientific Exploration (volume 33, issue 2; 2019), which is freely downloadable:
https://www.scientificexploration.org/jo...sue-2-2019

The main contents are:

Research Articles

Imagination and Reactance in a Psi Task Using the Imagery Cultivation Model and a Fuzzy Set Encoded Target Pool
    LANCE STORM
Homeopathy and the Action of Meaning: A Theoretical Approach
    WALTER V. LUCADOU
A Camera-Based Tracking System for Ouija Research
    ECKARD KRUSE

Also book reviews and news.

I appreciated Braude's opening argument for why apparitions can't just be telepathic in nature.

Surely your joking...? Braude’s ideas in that article are frankly... a terrible muddle. He’s totally out of date. A much better analysis and argument about Apparitions is made in Celia Greens book of the same name “Apparitions”.

I thought his basic argument was sound? That telepathy alone cannot account for shared apparitions, and especially seems unlikely for OBE apparitions?

Curious what your issues are, and what is better in Celia Green's book?

Braude’s ideas are stuck in the past, it's like he has not heard of quantum mechanics, and phenomena like quantum entanglement. He appears to be a realist, and also appears stuck in the classical world, with naive ideas about perception. Honestly, I find it really hard to read such utter crap as I've quoted from him below...

Sorry, I don't understand why it's crap...though I do like your idea of dislocated information to explain time-slips.

Also, what do you mean by "realist" here?

Crap is my own personal opinion, because his ideas simply don't get anywhere near to fitting our observations. You could tell me what specific parts you particularly like, and then I can try and respond to those... because I can't deconstruct the whole article, the whole thing is rubbish (crap)...

By realist, I mean he seems to believe in some form of Realism...

The two quotes of his I copied tell us much... he thinks repetitive type apparitions/haunting's are easily explained in terms of the persisting presence at a location of some kind of entity. One has to think seriously about what the definition of a 'location' might be, and why *the* entity (which weirdly can apparently consist of cart, horses and soldiers etc ?  ) keeps repeating itself. He suggests collective apparitions are best explained by an objective-type object at the same point in space. Why on some occasions, some people can see these apparitions, and others standing right next to them can't, he suggests is because these objects might be more like colored wisps of gas, rainbows, mirages, or electromagnetic fields. How weak is that last bit...!

I ordered his book Limits of Influence, as I find this interesting enough to look deeper into it.

Also, it's funny but despite reading about various metaphysical "isms" I'm not too familiar with Realism.

I guess what I am unsure of is I thought you also believed telepathy to be a field effect? I assumed Braude's argument was about mental communication without any physical type medium, so was surprised to see you so vehemently disagreeing with him. Admittedly I may just not understand your or his arguments...