GEOMAGNETIC FACTORS IN SPONTANEOUS SUBJECTIVE TELEPATHIC, PRECOGNITIVE AND POSTMORTEM EXPERIENCES (SCHAUT, PERSINGER)

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• Case Number: F-2015-01649

GEOMAGNETIC FACTORS IN SPONTANEOUS SUBJECTIVE TELEPATHIC,
PRECOGNITIVE AND POSTMORTEM EXPERIENCES
George B. Schaut and Michael A. Persinger
Department of Psychology
Laurentian University
ABSTRACT
This study was deigned to test the reliability of the
observation that (spontaneous) subjective telepathic
experiences concerning death and crises have occurred on
days when the geomagnetic activity was quieter than the
days before or afterwards. Geomagnetic activity ,(aa index)
at the time of three major classes of subjective psi
reports: telepathic-clairvoyant (n=133), precognitive
(n=105), and postmortem (n=140) experiences was compared.
Highly statistically significant (p.05) differences between study 1 and study 2
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percipient (reporter), crisis/death condition or mode; 81%
of the percipients were female. There was a significant
(p0.60) or dependent; beyond three days, there
is little correlation (days are independent). Secondly,
several previous studies (Persinger, 1985a; Schaut
Persinger, 1985a,b) have shown that more than +3 days from
the key day, geomagnetic values are usually not
significantly different from the mean values of the month.
Because assumptions of homogeneity of variance are
occasionally violated with geomagnetic indices (from
outlier values; i.e., geomagnetic storms), log transforma-
tions of the daily, monthly, and yearly aa values were
completed; MANOVA designs were applied to these values.
Repeated measures for specific classes of experiences were
completed separately to verify the results of the MANOVA
and to more clearly delineate the temporal pattern of aa
values; a posteriori correlated t-tests for within class
comparisons and independent t-tests for between group
comparisons were used. As an additional verification and
data check, non parametric: repeated measure (Friedman's)
and don-repeated measure (Kruskal-Wallis) were completed
for the different classes. This is a routine procedure in
our laboratory in order to control for possible non-
linearities within data. All analyses were completed with
SPSSX software on a DEC 2020 computer.
The means and standard errors of the mean of the daily
aa indices for the three days before, the three days after
and the days of the experiences as well as the averages for
the month and years in which the experiences occurred are
shown in Figure 1. Multivariate analyses of variance
(MANOVA) of the seven repeated measures (7 successive daily
aa values) and two factors: the -three classes of
experiences (telepathic, precognitive, and postmortem) and
the two replications (one vs two) demonstrated no signifi-
cant difference (F(1,372)=0.56, p>.01) between replications
but a highly significant (F(2,372)=11.20, p.05) difference (t=0.80) between the aa
values for the month and the years in which the T-C cases
occurred. Similarly, there were no significant differences
between the aa values for the days on which the
precognition or apparitional cases occurred and their
monthly aa (22.9+0.8, 21.9+0.6, respectively) or yearly aa
Values (22.6+0.5; 22.4+0.4, respectively). The aa values
for the months and years in which the T-C experiences
Occurred were not significantly different (p>.05) from the
AA values for the months and years in which the PC and PM
experiences occurred.
We reasoned that if the relative - decreases in,
geomagnetic activity on the days of T-C experiences were
4tt0ng, the effect should be evident if we simply compared
1114 differences in aa values between the days of the
plet1ences and the months in which they occurred.
,PMUlequently the absolute aa value of the day of each
-.4P6tience was subtracted from the mean monthly value. The
.ttans and standard errors for these differences for each
HFISIPs of experiences were: T-C (-6.8+0.9), PC_ (+3.4+2.0),
.,,;PM (5.6+1.8). One-way analyses of variance indicated a
1111, significant (F(2,377)=17.82, p