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  Anomalous Phenomena - Wikipedia
The study of anomalous phenomena investigates reports of items such as telepathy, telekinesis, and ghosts, other phenomena not widely accepted as real by mainstream scientists, some of whom go as far as calling the serious study of them pseudoscience.
Physical phenomena, unusual physical occurrences that seem to be controlled by a conciousness, such as psychokinesis or poltergeists.
Properly speaking, anomalous phenomena are phenomena which are observed and for which there are no suitable explanations (in the context of a specific body of knowledge, e.g.
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 Anomalous phenomenon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Anomalous phenomena are phenomena such as those described as telepathy, psychokinesis, ghosts, and other terms not widely accepted as real by mainstream scientists, some of whom go as far as calling the serious study of them pseudoscience.
Physical phenomena, unusual physical occurrences that may be controlled by a consciousness, such as psychokinesis, poltergeists, stigmata or materializations.
Other anomalous phenomena verge into the fringes of what is known as pathological science, such as cold fusion; while there are some serious competent scientists researching the phenomenon, there are also many less competent, biased cranks, and even cultists.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/anomalous_phenomenon   (748 words)

  
 glossary
Paranormal phenomena such as apparitions, unexplained sounds, smells or other sensations that are associated over a lengthy period of time with a specific location.
Paracode© is that phenomena where a succession of beeps or blinks of a pre-agreed upon number emitted by an ELF meter or other field sensitive instrument will directly correspond with an entity's answer to a particular question put to it during a sit down.
This phenomena has been proven highly (97%) successful in gaining and or confirming information gathered by the researchers and is now standard procedure for this group.
www.triprg.com /glossary.htm   (6103 words)

  
 Plasmoid Phenomena - Paper by Edward Lewis
Fundamental anomalous phenomena are the contradictions of the postulates of the premises of people's theories, and the environment.
The magnetism of atoms is an electrical phenomena similar to the magnetism of the earth.
For example, superconductivity seems to be similar to the phenomena of ball lightning traveling though materials such as ceramics and glass without leaving holes or visible effects, yet ball lightning may convert to an electrical surge after touching a wire or it may convert to a bolt of lightning.
www.padrak.com /ine/ELEWIS2.html   (1787 words)

  
 Recent Experiments That Produced Fundamental Anomalies... - Paper by Edward Lewis
Some major resolutions are that plasmoids and ball lightning are the same general phenomena; that is plasmoids may hop, and bore through materials converting the material to light and electricity and other types of plasmoids, and pass through materials without affecting the materials much, and exhibit other anomalous phenomena such as beams and jets.
From these hypotheses a wide variety of anomalous phenomena may be ramified and a novel theory that is the understanding of the new set of phenomena may be developed.
Examples of this type of anomalous phenomena is the boring phenomena where BL leave empty tunnels in various materials or the ground without residues or when BL phenomena carry heavy things.
www.padrak.com /ine/ELEWIS7.html   (2293 words)

  
 Anomalous phenomenon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
An anomalous phenomenon is an observed phenomenon for which there is no suitable explanation in the context of a specific body of scientific knowledge, e.g., astronomy or biology.
Often used as a synonym, but actually a subclass, are the paranormal phenomena studied by parapsychology.
Leonard George, a psychologist who specializes in anomalous phenomena, compiled an authoritative encyclopedia of unusual experiences, activities, and beliefs in his 1995 book Alternative Realities.
www.hartselle.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Anomalous_phenomena   (668 words)

  
 ASSAP - Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The main activities of the association are research into reports of anomalous phenomena and the analysis and publication of the results of such investigation.
Anomalous phenomena are those reported events for which there is no widely accepted scientific explanation.
If anomalous phenomena are real, not simply misobservation, then they must inevitably be 'natural' and fall within the remit of science.
www.assap.org /about.html   (1129 words)

  
 Anomalous Experience | Pacific Neuropsychiatric Institute
As phenomena become understood, even if it were in the most complex quantum way, it could be argued they are no longer anomalous.
Anomalous Perturbation (AP) -- A form of interaction with matter in which all known physical mechanisms are absent.
Anomalous Mental Phenomena (AMP) implies a mental component so it is not used here -- A general term that includes AC and AP.
www.pni.org /research/anomalous/anomalous_primer.html   (1173 words)

  
 Remote Viewing REF Dr. Hyman AIR: Remote Viewing Info STAR GATE Remote Viewer #001 Joseph 'Joe' McMoneagle stargate was ...
Essentially, anomalous cognition is claimed to be present whenever statistically significant departures from the null hypothesis are observed under conditions that preclude the operation of all mundane causes of these departures.
Because psi or anomalous cognition is currently detected only by departures from a null hypothesis all kinds of problems beset the quest for the claim and pursuit of psychic functioning.
The phenomena that can be observed with the standard exemplars do not require sensitive statistical rejections of the null hypothesis based on many trials to announce their presence.
www.mceagle.com /remote-viewing/refs/science/air/hyman.html   (12783 words)

  
 List of magazines of anomalous phenomena - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of magazines (some now exclusively web-based) on anomalous and Fortean phenomena.
Publishing reports of anomalous phenomena and investigative articles.
Daily Internet guide to exploring paranormal phenomena and the unexplained, including ghosts, psychic phenomena, UFOs, mysteries, and many more bizarre occurrences.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_magazines_of_anomalous_phenomena   (148 words)

  
 Who We Are
The Division's main purpose, and the raison d'être for its foundation, is the scientific empirical investigation of phenomena that suggest that currently accepted scientific assumptions and theories about the nature of mind or consciousness, and its relationship to matter, may be incomplete.
Examples of such phenomena, sometimes called paranormal, include various types of extrasensory perception (such as telepathy), apparitions and deathbed visions (sometimes referred to as after-death communications or ADCs), poltergeists, experiences of persons who come close to death and survive (usually called near-death experiences or NDEs), out-of-body experiences (OBEs), and claimed memories of previous lives.
DOPS has just begun a large-scale project to identify and investigate a wide variety of spontaneous paranormal experiences, with an emphasis on those relating to possible survival after death such as apparitional experiences, and deathbed visions (visions seen by a dying person, and sometimes a bystander, at or near the moment of death).
www.healthsystem.virginia.edu /internet/personalitystudies/we_are.cfm   (1517 words)

  
 The Sourcebook Project: Strange, bizarre & anomalous phenomena
So much additional information on luminous phenomena has been collected, that this new edition is almost twice the size of the 1982, that a new title seems appropriate.
Dozens of new phenomena are recognized, and we have added a great many eye-witness account (mostly from science journals) of low-level auroras, ball lightning, earthquake lights, marine wheels, luminous phenomena above thunderclouds, and, especially, lengthy coverages of low-level nocturnal lights (Marfa, Brown Moutnain, Min Min, Nekha, Hessdalen, etc).
Topographical phenomena are the subject of this Catalog.
www.science-frontiers.com /sourcebk.htm   (2838 words)

  
 Lee Moorhead' Psychic of the World Wide Web, New York
There is a mystical unity among the differing manifestations of particular phenomena.
This also is one of the family of psychic phenomena in the Bible.
Psychic phenomena are subjective, right-brain phenomena, of the spiritual realm.
www.stargaze.com /page4.html   (930 words)

  
 Anomalous phenomenon : Anomalous phenomena   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Anomalous phenomena are phenomena such as telepathy, telekinesis, ghosts, and other phenomena not widely accepted as real by mainstream scientists, some of whom go as far as calling the serious study of them pseudoscience.
Physical phenomena, unusual physical occurrences that seem to be controlled by a consciousness, such as psychokinesis, poltergeists or stigmata.
Other phenomena, such as unidentified flying objects, reverse speech and alien abductions.
www.termsdefined.net /an/anomalous-phenomena.html   (671 words)

  
 CFI - Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
The goal of this expedition was to test on-field team-work in difficult areas where anomalous light-phenomena are seen very often, and to acquire data using several instruments including magnetometers, VLF receivers, radioactivity detectors, a weather station and optical tools for photography, video and spectroscopy.
Observing that both models are biased by anthropomorphism, the authors attempt to clarify the issues surrounding “high strangeness” observations by distinguishing six layers of information that can be derived from anomalous events, namely (1) physical manifestations, (2) anti-physical effects, (3) psychological factors, (4) physiological factors, (5) psychic effects and (6) cultural effects.
This collection, which is preceded by a detailed introduction concerning the research by the author, is intended to encourage a more in-depth scientific study of anomalous aerial phenomena in general.
www.freedomofinfo.org /current_research/uap.html   (1085 words)

  
 PA Convention Abstracts 1994
Finally, psi phenomena are presented as consciousness- and context-dependent self-organizing meaningful nonlocal correlations.
The pattern of correlations among well-being measures, anomalous experiences, and other variables was consistent with previous studies with college students but was different than previous results with adults.
Very few respondents considered their anomalous experiences detrimental, and 91 percent of those reporting transcendent experiences and 46 percent of those reporting psychic experiences considered them valuable.
www.parapsych.org /pa_convention_abstracts_1994.html   (10409 words)

  
 Anomalous phenomenon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An anomalous phenomenon is an observed phenomenon for which there is no suitable explanation in the context of a specific body of scientific knowledge (e.g.
Other anomalous phenomena hang on the fringes of what is known as pathological science, such as cold fusion; while there are some serious, competent scientists researching the phenomenon, there are also many less competent, biased cranks, and even cultists.
Adventures Unlimited, edited by The World Explorer's Club, is another magazine dedicated to exotic travel, lost cities, ancient mysteries and other anomalous phenomena.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anomalous_phenomenon   (695 words)

  
 PARANORMAL PHENOMENA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Paranormal phenomena, the phenomena investigated in parapsychology, are often called ‘psi’ phenomena.
Although the boundaries of parapsychology are not rigidly defined, it is clear that the field is concerned with anomalous phenomena falling into three principal areas of investigation.
Psi phenomena would be inexplicable in physical terms, but not in virtue of any of their features that are distinctively paranormal.
members.aol.com /neonoetics/ParanormalPhenomena.html   (2475 words)

  
 Journal of Parapsychology, The: Decision augmentation theory: toward a model of anomalous mental phenomena   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
We do not have positive definitions of the effects that generally fall under the heading of anomalous mental phenomena.(1) In the crassest of terms, anomalous mental phenomena are what happens when nothing else should, at least as nature is currently understood.
Two fundamentally different types of models of anomalous mental phenomena have been developed: those that attempt to order and structure the raw observations in experiments (i.e., phenomenological models) and those that attempt to explain these phenomena in terms of modifications to existing physical theories (i.e., fundamental models).
This is not to say that a comprehensive model of anomalous mental phenomena may not eventually require quantum mechanics as part of its explanation, but it is currently premature to consider such models as more than interesting speculation.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2320/is_n3_v59/ai_18391456   (1222 words)

  
 NATIONAL AVIATION REPORTING CENTER ON ANOMALOUS PHENOMENA
The National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena was established late in 2000, and is dedicated to the advancement of aviation safety issues as they apply to Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP).
The term "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena" or UAP is an attempt to address the fact that not all UAP are described as UFO.
Given that pilots do report aerial phenomena that they describe as structured objects, NARCAP feels it is appropriate to give attention to the witness' description of what was seen or detected.
narcap.org   (697 words)

  
 On the Quantum Mechanics of Consciousness, with Application to Anomalous Phenomena   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Theoretical explication of a growing body of empirical data on consciousness-related anomalous phenomena is unlikely to be achieved in terms of known physical processes.
This paper takes the position that reality is constituted only in the interaction of consciousness with its environment, and therefore that any scheme of conceptual organization developed to represent that reality must reflect the processes of consciousness as well as those of its environment.
In this spirit, the concepts and formalisms of elementary quantum mechanics, as originally proposed to explain anomalous atomic-scale physical phenomena, are appropriated via metaphor to represent the general characteristics of consciousness interacting with any environment.
www.princeton.edu /~pear/Order_27.html   (315 words)

  
 Vladimir V. Rubtsov, Ph.D.
He is currently Director of the Research Institute on Anomalous Phenomena, a new scientific research body that has been established in Kharkov by the Ukrainian Aerospace Company "Vertical", as well as the Editor of its newsletter RIAP Bulletin.
Rubtsov is a full member of the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics, an associate member of the Society for Scientific Exploration, USA, a member of the Expert Group on Anomalous Atmospheric Phenomena of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the MUFON representative for Ukraine, as well as a co-director of the Joint USA-CIS Aerial Anomaly Federation.
Anomalous Phenomena and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Civilizations, Non-Periodical Transient Phenomena in the Environment.
www.rwgrayprojects.com /RIAP/vr.html   (628 words)

  
 ANOMALOUS METEOR PHENOMENA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
But every now and then a report comes to light of a meteor emitting sound which is variously described as "hissing", "crackling" and "humming".
Furthermore, audible meteors are only one of a whole range of anomalous meteor phenomena (AMP) recorded by observers throughout the world.
In these pages we take a look at some of the phenomena that have been reported - and at some of the possible explanations.
www.meteorobs.org /bagnall/amp.htm   (116 words)

  
 IJP Abstracts - Parapsychology Foundation -
The author, in the early 1990s, gave the concept the name “transliminality,” that is, the tendency for psychological material to cross thresholds into or out of consciousness from the subliminal, the supraliminal, and the outside world.
In Japan, scientific studies dealing with anomalous phenomena are being actively pursued following a rise, nation-wide, in interest in supernatural phenomena including qigong, the phenomena attributable to the Indian swami Sathya Sai Baba, and near-death experiences.
Because various phenomena of consciousness have powerful effects on science, personal life, values, and culture, they must be studied in their own right, especially the effects of altered states of consciousness (ASCs).
www.parapsychology.org /dynamic/050103.html   (3021 words)

  
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Most academic psychologists do not yet accept the existence of psi, anomalous processes of information or energy transfer (such as telepathy or other forms of extrasensory perception) that are currently unexplained in terms of known physical or biological mechanisms.
The term psi denotes anomalous processes of information or energy transfer, processes such as telepathy or other forms of extrasensory perception that are currently unexplained in terms of known physical or biological mechanisms.
The term is purely descriptive: It neither implies that such anomalous phenomena are paranormal nor connotes anything about their underlying mechanisms.
www.dina.kvl.dk /~abraham/psy1.html   (12014 words)

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