BULLETIN OF THE WILLIAM C. MENNINGER DREAM LABORATORY

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• Publication Date: September 1, 1969
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Bulletin of the
William C. Henninger
DREAM LABORATORY
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Summer, 1969
FIRST GARDNER MURPHY FELLOWSHIPS AWARDED
Dr. Gardner Murphy, a former presi-
dent of the American Psychological Asso-
ciation and current president of the A-
merican Society for Psychical Research,
has given the Dream Laboratory a special
fund to allow college students to engage
in research activities. The first stu-
dents to be awarded the Murphy Fellow-
ships are Donadrian Rice (Wofford Coll-
ege, S.C.) and Mildred Carbone (Hofstra
University, N.Y.). Other students at
the laboratory this summer include Rich-
ie Davidson (New York University), Gor-
don Goodman (Harpur College, N.Y.), Bill
Hughes (Oregon State College), Gayle Mi-
ree (City College, N.Y.C.), and Diane
Schneider (Hunter College, N.Y.C.).Part-
time workers have included Ralph Blick-
enstaff, Robert Harris, Dale Ironson,
LAB STAFF TO PRESENT SIX PAPERS AT P.A.
Several research reports will be
presented by Dream Laboratory staff mem-
bers at the annual meeting of the Para-
psychological Association in New York
City, September 4-6, 1969. Dr. Montague
Ullman, Dr.Stanley Krippner,and Charles
Honorton will read a total of six re-
search briefs and experimental reports.
Dr. Krippner's paper summarizes results
from 55 experimental nights and 79 pilot
nights in which a single subject and a
single agent (who attempted to "send"
a picture)were used in telepathy stud-
ies. Outside judges (who did not know
which art print was used for any given
night) assigned "hits" and "misses" to
the sessions. The most successful corm=
binat3.ans involved a male subject and
'a male agent -- or a male subject and a
Ron Victor, and Brian Washburn. female agent.
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Issue Number Two Summer, 1969.
MALCOLM BESSENT ARRIVES FROM ENGLAND
A noted psychic sensitive from
London, England,Mr. Malcolm Bessent,
has been spending the summer serving
as a research subject at the labora-
tory. Several research projects are
underway, attempting to test areas
of his psi capacities and discover
information about his abilities. A-
mong the studies attempted are tar-
get picture readings, psychometric
readings, psychokinetic effects upon
plants, and an eight-night dream
study involving precognition. During
the latter study, Mr. Bessent would
attempt to dream about an experience
which he would have the following
morning. This experience was ran-
domly selected once the night's in-
terviews and dream reports had been
tape-recorded. Mr. Bessent's travel
expenses were paid by Donald C. Web-
ster of Toronto, Canada;the research
projects were funded by the Founda-
tion for the Study of Consciousness,
Philadelphia, Pa.
ALPHA-ESP STUDIES INAUGURATED AT LAB
Mr. Charles Honorton,
Dream Laboratory Research Associate,
has inaugurated a series of projects
investigating the relationship be-
tween ESP and the alpha state (i.e.,
when a subject's brain waves register
between 8 and 13 cycles per second
on the EEG).In his first experiment,
he tested 10 subjects with randomized
decks of cards containing geometric
forms. Each of these 10 subjects
attempted to guess the order of the
cards in the deck. In the trials
with relatively high alpha wave
activity there was an average of 6
correct guesses per each run of 25
attempts. In the trials with rela-
tively low alpha wave activity there
was an average of 4 correct guesses.
The difference was statistically
significant and Mr. Honorton con-
cluded that successful ESP pergorm-
ance "may be related to a relaxed,
passive state of mind, devoid of
imagery, and in which there is a de=
crease of attentive activity." .An
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to receive future Bulletins are re- alpha training device has now been
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