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How Far Can Ki‐Energy Reach?—A Hypothetical Mechanism for the Generation and Transmission of Ki‐Energy

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 6, Issue 3, Page 379-391, 2009., 2009
‘Ki‐energy’, which can be enhanced through the practice of Nishino Breathing Method, was reported to have beneficial health effects. Although Ki‐energy can play an important role in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), as yet it is unknown how Ki‐energy is generated, transmitted through air and received by another individual.
S. Tsuyoshi Ohnishi, Tomoko Ohnishi
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Anomalous Cognition: An Umbrella Review of the Meta-Analytic Evidence

Journal of Anomalous Experience and Cognition, 2021
Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the results of all meta-analyses on anomalous cognition conducted between 1989 and 2021 in order to find moderators associated with greater effect sizes.
Patrizio Tressoldi, Lance Storm
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Journeys in the Country of the Blind: Entanglement Theory and the Effects of Blinding on Trials of Homeopathy and Homeopathic Provings

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 4, Issue 1, Page 7-16, 2007., 2007
The idea of quantum entanglement is borrowed from physics and developed into an algebraic argument to explain how double‐blinding randomized controlled trials could lead to failure to provide unequivocal evidence for the efficacy of homeopathy, and inability to distinguish proving and placebo groups in homeopathic pathogenic trials. By analogy with the
Lionel R. Milgrom
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A Parapsychologist, an Anthropologist, and a Vitalist Walk into a Laboratory: Ernesto de Martino, Mircea Eliade, and a Forgotten Chapter in the Disciplinary History of Religious Studies

Religions, 2019
While the work of the Italian historian of religion, Ernesto de Martino (1908−1965), has frequently been compared to that of Mircea Eliade, Claude Lévi-Strauss, or Clifford Geertz, he has hardly received any attention in anglophone scholarship
Flavio A. Geisshuesler
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Quality of Life Theory II. Quality of Life as the Realization of Life Potential: A Biological Theory of Human Being

The Scientific World Journal, Volume 3, Issue 1, Page 1041-1049, 2003., 2003
This review presents one of the eight theories of the quality of life (QOL) used for making the SEQOL (self‐evaluation of quality of life) questionnaire or the quality of life as realizing life potential. This theory is strongly inspired by Maslow and the review furthermore serves as an example on how to fulfill the demand for an overall theory of life
Soren Ventegodt, Joav Merrick, Niels Jorgen Andersen   +2 more
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Psychiatry, spirituality, and quantum science

Yoga-Mimamsa, 2019
It would be impossible to comprehend the complexity of a human brain by a single cell organism; similarly, it would be impossible to understand the complexity of “Reality ”or “Ultimate Truth ”by a human brain hampered by limitations.
Hitesh Chandrakant Sheth
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Are You “In the Zone” Or “Disconnected”?: An Investigation of Flow, Dissociative Absorption and Their Adaptive and Maladaptive Correlates

Journal of Anomalous Experience and Cognition, 2022
Objective: The terms dissociative absorption and flow describe tendencies to experience immersive consciousness states, yet dissociation is sometimes considered maladaptive whereas flow is typically considered to be adaptive.
Michal Zadik, Noa Bregman-Hai, Nirit Soffer-Dudek   +2 more
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Context-Dependence, Visibility, and Prediction Using State and Trait Individual Differences as Moderators of ESP in a Ganzfeld Environment

Europe's Journal of Psychology, 2012
In this paper we present a method for participant classification, based on trait and state, in the experimental evaluation of ESP (extrasensory perception). We conducted three Ganzfeld experiments with a sample of 237 participants.
José Miguel Pérez-Navarro, Katharine Cox   +1 more
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Understanding the Factors at Play in the Sender-Receiver Dynamic During the Telepathy Ganzfeld: A Meta-Analysis

Journal of Anomalous Experience and Cognition, 2023
Objective. To use meta-analysis to explore five previously uninvestigated factors related to the sender-receiver dynamic in the telepathy ganzfeld. The five factors of interest are: a) did the receiver see the sender’s room prior to the session?; b ...
Aja L. Murray, Caroline Watt
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Telepathy, Other Minds, and Category Errors

European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 1088-1099, September 2025.
Abstract In this paper, I explore several issues surrounding what is called “telepathy” in the context of the problem of other minds. I begin with a quick review of the conditions in which this notion arose and the difficulties to which it gave rise upon its introduction.
Sébastien Motta
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