OBE - research: Projective Field

[Daniel]

Greetings,

One of IAC´s research projects with it´s promising results was just published online in: http://www.soultravel.nu/2003/030428-IAC-OBE/index.asp

Below the abstract and two curious pre-cognition cases

Best regards,

Daniel

Ps. Don´t forget to send it to that sceptic friend of yours []
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ABSTRACT

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This work reports some of the significant results obtained from two OBE research experiments using opportunity sampling to generate data. These experiments took place during two workshops conducted in Évora – Alentejo, Portugal, and in Segovia, Spain, respectively. The core focus of this research project is to establish more consistent and systematic informa-tion related to the way in which the consciousness perceives, interprets and recalls the information learned through out-of-body experiences, including processes such as extraphysical percep-tion, cognition, and memory; transference of information to the physical brain; and the interference or influence of individual cultural and personal background in the interpreta-tion of per-ceptions. Suggestive findings and conclusions are discussed.

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UNEXPECTED RESULTS

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In both experiments unambiguous cases of precognition occurred. Two of these cases were registered by the research documentation, as they are related to precognitions of the target image of a future session. Other two cases occurred, in these instances related with future events that were subsequently confirmed during the workshop. These last two cases took place during the workshop in Portugal and were witnessed by all participants and by the auditor as well.

The two cases related to the experiment were:

1. During the third session in Portugal (Saturday) a participant described the image that was going to be selected [by the computer program] during the eighth session, more than 24 hours later. The description was: "It seems to me that I saw the computer screen with a grid of light blue squares" (Pareceu-me ter visualizado a tela do com-putador com uma grade com pontos azuis claros).

The image displayed during Session 8 of the experiment appears below:



This pattern on this board alternates blue and yellow squares.

2. In the first session in Spain (Friday) a participant described the image that would be selected and displayed during the third session, next morning. The description was: "It came to me the face of a dog in which we could see the red tongue and wavy, dark hair. It was small and very nice. It looked like a good and friendly dog" (me salió la cara de un perro que se le veía la lengua roja y melenas rizadas y completamente negro. Era pequeño, muy majo... Hasta el aspecto de un perro bueno y apacible).

Note: this person reported having seen, prior to the appearance of the image of the 'dog', an image that matched the shape of the image selected by the computer in that session (first session).
The image displayed during Session 3 of the experiment was:



The two cases related to future events were:

1. On the Saturday of the experiment in Portugal, a participant 'saw' an image of woods on fire, the woods appearing in a locale featuring large rocks on the ground and in proximity to a wall. The next day, in the vicinity of the hotel where the workshop and experiments were conducted, a fire began and burned for some hours in nearby woods. The fire brigade arrived to extinguish the fire, blocking the road to the hotel. The landscape and conditions of the fire matched her description very closely.

2. On Sunday afternoon, during the last session in the Portugal experiment, an individual had an experience in which she noticed someone locked inside one of the rooms close to the Experiment Room, shouting in an attempt to attract attention of passers-by and secure their release.

After collection of all questionnaires and without any examination of them, Trivellato proceeded to the Target Room (located almost directly in front of the Experiment Room) to perform the same routine as the previous sessions. Trivellato and the auditor entered the room and shut the door, without locking it. Mysteriously, they discovered that they were unable to open the door and the two of them were locked inside, shouting in vain to be heard having with them the only key of the room which was useless from the inside. Fortunately, a file containing the telephone number of the hotel was stored on the same computer used to select and display the target image allowing them to telephone the reception of the hotel and have the door opened using a master key.

It was only later during lunch, when Trivellato and the auditor were commenting on these events, that the individual who had the pre-cognitive episode in which she had perceived someone being locked in a room, told us of her experience. Her report of this experience is registered in her completed questionnaire of the last session, in the space reserved for participants to record events unrelated to attempts to view the remote target.