A Princeton Lab on ESP Plans to Close Its Doors

[fr.novumorganum]

A Princeton Lab on ESP Plans to Close Its Doors

DISPLAYING ABSTRACT - Over almost three decades, a small laboratory at Princeton University managed to embarrass university administrators, outrage Nobel laureates, entice the support of philanthropists and make headlines around the world with its efforts to prove that thoughts can alter the course of events. But at the end of the month, ...

What I really found interesting about this article was that the leading scientist was an expert in jet propulsion and one if its biggest funding sources was Mcdonnell Douglass. Jack Parson's legacy??? What is it about thise space-flyboys (Parsons was one of the founders of JPL and a developed of solid fuel jet propulsion)


edit: removed the registration link

[Angelo Buonarotti]

The main reason for the closure of places like PEAR at Princeton and the lab at the National Institute for Discovery Science was the failure to expand their theoretic worldviews and adapt to the constantly changing funding picture. Bob Jahn started out trying to find standard model answers to engineering anomalies, then superposed consciousness unto a shaky theoretical house of cards. Along the way, he and Brenda Dunne managed to do some first rate research within a very Cartesian framework, but the approach overall was an engineering one, and standard quantum mechanics came into their explicatory picture almost as an afterthought, never mind quantum causality (which would have given them a better chance at getting some acceptance in some physics circles open to the ideas of David Bohm). Nevertheless, it is a real loss to one and all -- despite his early connections to McDonnell and the continuing Rockefeller support that only in the last couple of years began to seriously dwindle.

[m1thr0s]

note: this story link requires registration to view. while the registration is "free" it's a New York Times site and there is no way in hell that the New York Times is going to keep mailing list information confidential no matter what they say. Their mailing lists are the highest priced and most sought after in the industry. As a rule, I would prefer links of this nature not be posted as public links...

I understand there was no ill intent. Members should at least be aware...

m1thr0s

[Okazaki Castle]

Hmm, yes, though some refuse to believe it even when presented with articles and personal witnesses, many of the richest people in the world are into this ESP stuff and esoteric mumbo-jumbo. I'd say, in fact, that is the basis of thier power. Others disagree with this. JP Morgan is famously quoted as once saying: "Millionaires don't use astrology. Billionaires do."

Angelo, where is the Michael, do I know you and what is your agenda or interests? Perhaps, co-operation might come about, I ask?

Regards,
Oazaki.

[m1thr0s]

Millionaires don't have astrologers, billionaires do.
- J.P. Morgan (This is the correct quotation, according to Norman Winski, curator and owner of the Evangeline Adams Library, who was J.P. Morgan's Astrologer)just a little background on that astrology quote...

J.P.Morgan, of course, was the first corporate billionaire in the world in lieu of U.S. Steel...I find it curious, as an aside, that he was much better at micro-managing financially solvent corporations than he was at launching them from scratch. So his regular reliance upon astrological forecasts may have been very real indeed...

m1thr0s