On Victor Zammit’s endlessly amusing website, he says that the JSPR have rejected Gary Schwartz’s report into the test done on “Dream Detective” Chris Robinson. Does anyone know any more about this? Zammit claims the JSPR rejected it because it was so “unbelievable”. “Unbelievably bad” may be the more likely explanation. And it was nice to see Victor try to blame the Queen! Very funny.
I’ve put the abstract of the test at the end of this post if anyone wants to read it, though your time would be better spent elsewhere. There’s a lot of huffing and puffing about how good the randomisation process was, but then they ruin it all by telling the ‘psychic’ the target before his notes are judged. The test, in short, was that Robinson dreamt about a randomly chosen location and made notes, and then was driven to the location, where his notes were compared to the location. Additionally, his notes were also compared to features of the journey to and from the location (not detailed here, but mentioned in other correspondence), increasing Robinson’s chances.
Abstract of Arizona study on Chris Robinson by G. Schwartz:
This paper provides a preliminary report of a ten day precognitive dream Intelligence experiment conducted with Mr. Christopher Robinson (CR), a British citizen, in August 2001 in the Human Energy Systems Laboratory at the University of Arizona. A few days before CR left England, the primary experimenter (PE) selected twenty possible locations in southern Arizona. PE placed each in an envelope, sealed and shuffled the envelopes, and mailed the envelops to a secondary experimenter (SE) in Rancho Sante Fe, California. SE, who was blind to the locations, selected a tertiary experimenter (TE) whose identity was kept secret from PE and CR for the duration of the experiment. TE shuffled the envelopes and numbered them from 1-20. Envelopes 11-20 were treated as control locations, 1-10 became the experimental locations. For ten consecutive nights, CR went to sleep, dreamt about the next day's location, and recorded his dreams. In the mornings, PE interviewed SE, recorded the primary theme information, and then called SE who instructed TE to open the respective envelope, revealing the location to be visited for a given day. SE called PE; the information was kept secret from CR until the location was reached. CR's overall accuracy was 10 out of 10. The findings provide seemingly incontrovertible evidence supporting CR's claim that he has the ability to obtain precognitive dream intelligence about specific locations investigated in a controlled experiment.
I’ve put the abstract of the test at the end of this post if anyone wants to read it, though your time would be better spent elsewhere. There’s a lot of huffing and puffing about how good the randomisation process was, but then they ruin it all by telling the ‘psychic’ the target before his notes are judged. The test, in short, was that Robinson dreamt about a randomly chosen location and made notes, and then was driven to the location, where his notes were compared to the location. Additionally, his notes were also compared to features of the journey to and from the location (not detailed here, but mentioned in other correspondence), increasing Robinson’s chances.
Abstract of Arizona study on Chris Robinson by G. Schwartz:
This paper provides a preliminary report of a ten day precognitive dream Intelligence experiment conducted with Mr. Christopher Robinson (CR), a British citizen, in August 2001 in the Human Energy Systems Laboratory at the University of Arizona. A few days before CR left England, the primary experimenter (PE) selected twenty possible locations in southern Arizona. PE placed each in an envelope, sealed and shuffled the envelopes, and mailed the envelops to a secondary experimenter (SE) in Rancho Sante Fe, California. SE, who was blind to the locations, selected a tertiary experimenter (TE) whose identity was kept secret from PE and CR for the duration of the experiment. TE shuffled the envelopes and numbered them from 1-20. Envelopes 11-20 were treated as control locations, 1-10 became the experimental locations. For ten consecutive nights, CR went to sleep, dreamt about the next day's location, and recorded his dreams. In the mornings, PE interviewed SE, recorded the primary theme information, and then called SE who instructed TE to open the respective envelope, revealing the location to be visited for a given day. SE called PE; the information was kept secret from CR until the location was reached. CR's overall accuracy was 10 out of 10. The findings provide seemingly incontrovertible evidence supporting CR's claim that he has the ability to obtain precognitive dream intelligence about specific locations investigated in a controlled experiment.
