Parapsychology

: Art Funkhouser; 17 February 2018; 15 January 2022

Parapsychology

Abstracts concerning déjà experiences associated with parapsychology

The abstracts are listed in reverse chronological order: the more recent ones are listed first.

In the older literature, there were other terms used for déjà vu: paramnesia, fausse reconnaissance (French), Erinnerungsfälschung or -täuschung (German) and so on. You'll encounter these if you scroll down to the early abstracts (i.e., before 1910 or so).

For those that were published without an abstract (or for which we could not locate one) we have tried to provide some information from the paper or book. We are sure we have not done justice to many of them and would be grateful for suggestions for amendment or correction. There are still many that we have not been able to find abstracts for or make comments on.

To find an author, year, or a specific word, perform a search using CTRL-F.

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Most Experiences of Precognitive Dream Could be Regarded as a Subtype of Déjà-vu Experiences

Fukuda, K.

Sleep and Hypnosis 4(3):111-114, 2002.

A questionnaire concerning dreams and déjà vu experiences was administered to 122 university students. Of all the respondents, twenty-four were not sure whether they had those experiences. Out of the rest ninety-eight students, forty-one students (41.8%) reported at least one experience of precognitive dream. Although 20% of the respondents claimed that the experiences were "true" precognitive dreams, major part (about 80%) of the respondents regarded their experiences as "pseudo" precognitive dreams (they recalled the dreams when they had "predicted" events). The onset age of the precognitive dream is concentrated on the age between 6 to 10 years old. Déjà-vu experience showed very similar pattern of age distribution. The respondents who had no precognitive dreams experienced déjà vu significantly less frequently than the ones who had "pseudo" precognitive dreams did. This research showed that many people use the word "precognitive dream" in a wrong sense by definition and that those "precognitive" dreams could be considered a subtype of déjà-vu experiences.

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The nature, incidence, impact and integration of spontaneous parapsychological experiences: An exploratory mixed methods research study

Rosemary Breen
Doctoral thesis; Monash University. Faculty of Education, Clayton, Vic., 2008

Anecdotal reports of paranormal experiences abound. In addition to the numerous books, films and media articles, there is a growing body of personal narratives which is readily accessed through online websites, blogs and chatrooms. By comparison, there is a paucity of documented research on spontaneous parapsychological phenomena in the academic literature. The current exploratory study sought to redress this imbalance by addressing the research problem: what types of paranormal phenomena do people spontaneously encounter, and are there unifying themes in the reports of these experiences? This research followed the Mixed Methods Research model. Qualitative and quantitative data were gathered via an online survey instrument, which was written in English. Over three thousand (N=3194) self-selecting respondents completed the questionnaire and in total, 59 countries were represented. The majority of the paranormal experients were from the United States of America (N=1979), Australia (N=485), United Kingdom (N=252), and Canada (N=228). More women (62 per cent) than men participated in the survey, and while the dominant age group was the 18-35 year olds (45 per cent), this was closely followed by the 36-55 year olds (43 per cent). The survey gathered information on ten categories of paranormal experience, namely deja vu, apparitions, near-death episodes, out-of-body experiences, psychokinesis, premonitions, auras, mediumship, reincarnation, and telepathy. The survey gathered statistical data on the type, frequency, and age at onset of each type of experience. Respondents were also invited to reflect on the possible causes and the personal impact of their own parapsychological experiences. Several significant themes were identified in the data. These included: variations in the levels of incidence of the different types of phenomena; gender differences; national variations; and the trend for paranormal experiences to have a marked impact on the experients, their values, and the way they lived their lives. The research outcomes also supported the notions that spontaneous parapsychological experiences are universal, and not limited to adulthood. The majority of first encounters, of eight of the ten types of paranormal phenomenon, occurred in childhood (<18 years), including a small number of pre birth experiences. In addition, the narratives offered numerous references to the perceived significance that race, genetics, and the female bloodline play in the paranormal experience. The current findings both support the existing literature and suggest new research directions. At the personal level, for those charged with the mental, spiritual, and educational welfare of the individual, particularly the young, this exploratory study highlights the need to take spontaneous parapsychological experiences, and their experients, seriously. At the broader level, the findings confirm the ubiquitous nature of the paranormal and suggest both unifying and independent themes in the nature, incidence, impact and integration of parapsychological phenomena. Additional research is indicated and a catalogue of eleven recommendations for future study is proffered. [Author abstract]

http://worldcat.orgwww.worldcat.org/title/nature-incidence-impact-and-integration-of-spontaneous-parapsychological-experiences-an-exploratory-

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I knew you were gonna say that: Déjà vu and predictive dreams

Schafton A

Chapter 7 in "Dream Singers: The African-American Way with Dreams, NYC: John Wiley & Sons, 2002, pp. 83-90

("57% of the blacks in my sample asserted that déjà vu is due to a dream which predicted the event prompting the déjà vu experience. Only 15% of my white sample asserted this belief." p. 83)

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Most experiences of precognitive dreams could be regarded as a subtype of déjà-vu experiences

Fukuda K

Sleep and Hypnosis 4: 111-114, 2002

Abstract

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The popular uncanny

Arnzen MA

Doctoral thesis: University of Oregon, 1999

http://search.proquest.com/docview/304541308?accountid=14616

Abstract
"The Uncanny" generally refers to any experience of "strange familiarity," haunting, or déjà vu . It is also the name of a genre of literature (horror fiction) and a school of literary criticism (deconstruction), both of which are interested in the "living dead" and the way the past haunts the present. In The Popular Uncanny , I apply the lessons of these genres to American mass culture since World War II, claiming that the uncanny is not merely an unconscious "return of the repressed" (as Sigmund Freud says), but also signifies media culture's management of cultural alienation under late capitalism. Borrowing heavily from the schools of Marxism and feminist theory, I read the uncanny as an "ideologeme"--a sign of a "political unconscious"--which often functions to maintain the status quo in postwar culture, particularly in terms of gender and class relations. By closely examining representations of the uncanny in advertising history ("Doublemint Gum"), horror cinema (the "Alien Hand"), the bestseller (Stephen King's Misery ), and the Internet (the "Un-Home" page), I discover contemporary culture's uniquely ambivalent relationship to commodities and recording technology, particularly evident since World War II, when the mass media began to offer America a false sense of mastery over postwar malaise. Indeed, what is uncanny in commodity culture is often media technology's ability to "magically" reinvest the past with a sense of presentness, as if reanimating the dead, in the interest of profit. I argue that this nostalgic fantasy reflects patriarchy's mourning for lost social power under late capitalism. In the process, representations of the uncanny often function to renew cultural oppression on the basis of gender and class. Yet the ambivalence of the uncanny in postmodern culture, I conclude, suggests the capacity of the media to not only raise dated ideologies from the dead but also resurrect a culture's awareness of all that it oppresses.

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Moments of transcendence: A psychospiritual interpretation of psychic, conversion, and mystical experiences

Bousquet MH

Masters thesis: Acadia University (Canada), 1998

http://search.proquest.com/docview/304479879?accountid=14616

Abstract
This study examines various phenomenological events associated with a sense of knowing, the process that leads to them, and the interpretation given them by the informants. These events include but are not limited to psychic events (intuition, insight, experiences of fore knowledge or deja-vu), conversion experiences, and mystical experience including visions. Research on phenomenological experiences is limited and has been guided by a predominantly skeptic agenda. Psychic events, usually associated with paranormal manifestations and relegated to the field of parapsychology, continues to be associated with attributive models of psychopathology. While conversion and mystical experiences have a more positive connotation within the confines of faith community, the study of Hermeneutics and Depth Psychology, they have received little attention from a developmental perspective. This research examines these events in the context of both psychological and spiritual development on the premise that psychic, conversion and mystical experiences are the product of natural creative processes inherent to the human experience, an active component of psychological functioning and development, and an integral part of our growth toward our higher goal, our quest towards Transcendence. Structure for understanding the process involved in each experience is provided in the four stage model of spiritual growth (Peck, 1987, ch.5). Results are communicated both in terms of the informant's own understanding and in light of the existing theories. The research concludes with implications for counselling and recommendations for further research.

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A Critique of Arguments Offered Against Reincarnation

Almeder R
Department of Philosophy, University Plaza, Georgia State University. Atlanta, Georgia 30303-3083

Journal of Scientific Exploration 11(4): 499-526, 1997

Abstract

In his recently published book Reincarnation: A Critical Examination (Amherst, New York: Promethius Books, 1996). Paul Edwards has offered a number of arguments against the possibility of reincarnation. It is a sweeping effort to show that the very idea of reincarnation is illogical and indefensible. While not arguing directly for reincarnation, this essay criticizes the main arguments, methodology and polemics wielded in what is more an effort to debunk than to carry out the critical examination claimed in the title of the book. In criticizing Edward's arguments this essay is criticizing the major objections available against the reincarnation hypothesis.

The book, incidentally, has seventeen sections, all of which confront, either directly or indirectly, arguments favoring either reincarnation, or some form of personal survival of death. These sections bear the titles: 1. Reincarnation, Karma, and Competing Doctrines of Survival; 2. The Moral Argument; 3. The Law of Karma; 4. Child Prodigies, Deja Vu Experiences, and Group Reincarnations; 5. The Rise and Fall of Bridey Murphy; 6. More Hypnotic Regressions and "Progressions"; 7. Spontaneous Memories of Earlier Lives; 8. The Conservation of Spiritual Energy; 9. The Astral Body; 10. Telephone Calls from the Dead, Birth-marks, and the Modus Operandi Problem; 11. Dr. Kubler Ross, Dr. Moody, and the New Immortality Movement; 12. The Fantasies of Dr. Kubler Ross; 13. Dr. Grof, LSD and the Amorous Snake Woman; 14. The Population Problem and Other Common Sense and Scientific Objections; 15. The "Interregnum": What Happens Between Lives?; 16. More about Dr. Ian Stevenson, the "Galileo of Reincarnation"; 17. The Dependence of Consciousness on the Brain; and Irreverent Postscript: God and the Modus Operandi Problem.

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Spontaneous Psi Phenomena

Stokes DM

In: Advances in Parapsychological Research 8. Stanley Krippner (ed.). Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1997

(Stokes gives a good summary of skeptical reasons for dismissing any of the cases, but argues that dismissing all of them would be unwise. He adds short sections on deja vu and animals' psi-trailing, then turns to poltergeists. Here he describes only a few reports, but they are representative and give an adequate introduction.)

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Precognitive dreams: a phenomenological study. part-II. Discussion

Stowell MS

Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research 91: 255-304, 1997

Abstract
This paper is the second of a two-part report of a phenomenological study of the reported experience of precognitive dreams by five participants. The first part, which was published in the previous issue of this Journal (Stowell, 1997), described the methodology of the study, including the scope, definitions of terms, the bias of the investigator, the objectives of the study, a description of the phenomenological method, a description of the participants, how the data were gathered, limitations, and the procedure for analyzing the data. Then the results were discussed in terms of each participant's description of the experiences, response to the experiences, and personal factors possibly affecting the response. The final section of the first paper described the phenomenology of the precognitive dreams narrated by the participants, including common qualities of precognitive dreams, the phenomenology of different types of precognitive dreams, and the phenomenology of other psi dreams. This second paper discusses the results of the study, comparing the results to the literature on precognitive and other psi dreams; examines the characteristics of precognitive dreams as seen in this study; and presents the phenomenological perspective on the structures of meaning and the worldview of the experiencer. It concludes with questions raised by the findings of the study and the implications for future research.

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Precognitive dreams: a phenomenological study. part I. methodology and sample cases

Stowell MS

Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research 91: 163-220, 1997

Abstract
This is the first of a two-part paper describing a phenomenological study of the reported experience of presumed precognitive dreams by five participants. The impetus for this study was to discover more about precognitive dreams and about the meaning of the experience of having a precognitive dream. The methodological basis of the study is described, including the scope of the study, definitions of terms, the bias of the investigator, the objectives of the study, a description of the phenomenological method, a description of the participants, how the data were gathered, limitations of the study, and the procedure for analyzing the data. Then the results are discussed in terms of each participant's description of the experiences, response to the experiences, and personal factors possibly affecting the response. The final section presents the phenomenology of the precognitive dreams described by the participants, including common qualities of precognitive dreams, the phenomenology of different types of precognitive dreams, and the phenomenology of other psi dreams.

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Feelings of past lives as expected perturbations within the neurocognitive processes that generate the sense of self: Contributions from limbic lability and vectorial hemisphericity

Persinger MA
Laurentian University

Perceptual and Motor Skills 83: 1107·1121, 1996

Summary
Normal, young men and women who believed they may have lived a previous life (n = 21) or who did not endorse (n = 52) this belief of "reincarnation" were exposed to partial sensory deprivation and received trans cerebral stimulation by burst-firing magnetic fields over either the left or right hemisphere. Individuals who reported belief in reincarnation could be discriminated from nonbelievers by their more frequent report of experiences of tingling sensations, spinning, detachment of consciousness from the body, and intrusions of thoughts that were not attributed to the sense of self. The results support the hypothesis that there may be neurocognitive processes which identify experiences as originating from the sense of self (episodic or autobiographical memory) or "not self." When anomalous experiences are beyond the boundary of the experiences contained with the generalization gradient of concurrent autobiographical memory, they are more likely to be attributed to culturally available default explanations such as living a previous life.

("The reconstruction of an experience that is familiar but yet is discriminably different from the cluster of experiences labelled as one's unique memory could involve a process similar to deja vu as normally applied to percepts. This experimenter has suggested [Persinger, 1993] that the latter occurs in situations where there is a mismatch between the arrival times of bilateral information within the two hemispheres. Consequently, people who are prone to frequent but intermittent delays in bilateral processing such as patients with complex partial epilepsy and a focus within the limbic system or highly creative individuals who display frequent complex partial epileptic-like signs and symptoms should and do have quantitatively more of these experiences than does the average person." p, 1119)

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Childhood antecedents of out-of-body and Déjà Vu experiences

Irwin HJ

Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research 90(3): 157-173, 1996

Abstract
Examined childhood traumas and parental encouragement of imagination as correlates of the occurrence of out-of-body experiences (OBE) and déjà-type experiences via a postal survey of 106 students (aged 19–55 yrs). Results show that, in comparison to nonexperients, Ss who experienced an OBE had higher prevalence during childhood of intrafamilial sexual abuse, death or serious illness of a close friend, extrafamilial sexual abuse, numerous and substantial periods of isolation from friends or playmates, and assault. Intrafamilial physical abuse during childhood was a predictor of déjà-type experiences. The findings are discussed with particular reference to studies of dissociative experiences.

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Researching precognitive dreams: a review of past methods, emerging scientific paradigms, and future approaches

Stowell MS

Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research 89: 117-151, 1995

Abstract
Reviews by method the types of research that have been previously published in the study of precognitive dreams; considers scientific paradigms and perspectives that influence the choice of research approach; and presents recommendations for 3 specific methods: phenomenology, hermeneutics, and case study. Advantages and limitations of these methods are considered. It is noted that some modifications of them may be required for researching precognitive dreams.

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Alternative Realities: The Paranormal, the Mystic and the Transcendent in Human Experience

George L
New York: Facts on File, 1995

In this book clinical psychologist Leonard George provides us with an encyclopedia of psychological, parapsychological, mystical, and religious experiences. The entries, listed in alphabetical order, are classified by George in his introduction as referring to correlates of experiences (e.g., absorption, creativity, hypnotizability, religiosity), mental disorders (e.g., delusion, fugue, hysteria, somatoform disorder), body and self phenomena (e.g., aura, autoscopy, bilocation, depersonalization), mystical and related experiences (e.g., ecstasy, mystical experience, peak experience, rapture), memory phenomena (e.g., agnosia, cryptomnesia, déjà vu, past-life recall), sensory and perceptual anomalies (e.g., eidetic imagery, entoptic phenomena, hallucination, synesthesia), psi experiences (e.g., clairvoyance, retrocognition, telekinesis, teleportation), encounters with otherwordly beings (e.g., apparitions, Bigfoot, ghosts, poltergeists), and a variety of other topics such as organic disorder and drug and religious experiences and practices.

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The anomalous experiences inventory: Reliability and validity

Gallagher C, Kumar VK, Pekala RJ

Journal of Parapsychology 58(4): 402-428, 1994

Abstract
Used a revised version of the Mental Experience Inventory (V. K. Kumar and R. J. Pekala, unpublished), termed the Paranormal Beliefs and Experiences Questionnaire (PBEQ), to develop the PBEQ's subscale structure and evaluate the subscales for their reliability and validity. The revised subscales included anomalous/paranormal (A/P) experiences, A/P beliefs, A/P abilities, fear of the A/P, and drug use, which were combined into the Anomalous Experiences Inventory (AEI). Results from 393 university students indicate that the AEI's 5 subscales fared well with both reliability and validity and showed moderate convergent validity with other measures of paranormal beliefs and experiences and with selected personality measures.

(Déjà vu correlations given on pages 419 and 422.)

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The SPR centenary census: II. The survey of beliefs and experiences

Thalbourne MA

Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 59(835): 420-31, 1994

ABSTRACT
As part of the activities to celebrate the Centenary of the founding of the SPR a questionnaire was mailed in 1982 to all those persons who were members at that time. Some 402 persons —about half the membership—returned usable data. The questionnaire contained an ESP test (the results of which were reported in Part I) and 51 questions pertaining to belief in and experience of phenomena ranging from the paranormal to religion to dream-life. This paper details the responses to those questions, and confirms previously discovered relationships both between belief in various aspects of the paranormal and between it and aspects of religion and dream-life.

Psi-Relevant Variables. Persons who scored high on the Sheep-Goat Scale claimed also to have detected being stared at (r - +0.32), to have experienced déjà vu (r = +0.18), sheep also tended to report other experiences which appear to have some relation to psi without themselves being necessarily paranormal, such as out-of-the-body experiences (cf. Blackmore, 1984), déjà vu, as well as lucid dreams and mystical experience (cf. Palmer, 1979; Kohr, 1980; Blackmore, 1984)

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Wondrous events: Foundations of religious belief

McClenon J

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.

(Chapter 2 gives figures and tables up to 1989, reporting, for example, that in that year, 64% of US Americans had deja vu experiences, 58% ESP experiences, and an amazing 36% had contact with the dead. The author's main cross-cultural comparisons use figures from Japan and China [Chapter 3]).

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[The psychoneurological status of psychics] [in Ukrainian]

Vynnyts'ka NV, Vynnyts'kyi OR

Lik Sprava (5-6): 87-92, 1993

Abstract
It was established that 2/3 of extrasenses sustained head injury, clinical death etc. The same ratio are left-handed. It is this group that show the déjà vu phenomenon and abnormal orientation in time and space. It is suggested that in several subjects organic lesions of the brain do not result in neurological deficit, but create preconditions for the appearance of extrasensory capabilities in the victims. The necessity is postulated for a detailed and mass screening of extrasenses by neurologists that may create a basis for scientific elaboration and understanding of this complex, interesting and unclear phenomenon.

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Belief in the paranormal: A review of the empirical literature

Irwin HJ

Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research 87(1): 1-39, 1993

Abstract
Both parapsychologists and skeptics have interests in investigating the nature of belief in the paranormal, albeit with somewhat different objectives in mind. Despite substantial variation across studies in the definition of the scope of paranormal belief, some degree of order can be imposed on the empirical literature by taking due account of the multidimensionality of paranormal belief. In this light, correlates of paranormal belief are surveyed in the domains of demographic variables, other beliefs and activities, cognitive variables, and personality. Particular emphasis is given to the need for a theory of the psychodynamic functions served by paranormal belief.

(Déjà vu mentioned on page 2.)

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Age differences in mystical experience (Erratum in Gerontologist 1993 33[5]).

Levin JS
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk 23501

Gerontologist 33(4): 507-13, 1993

Abstract
Age differences are examined in reports of deja vu, ESP, clairvoyance, spiritualism, and numinous experience. According to the 1988 General Social Survey (N = 1481), these mystical experiences are somewhat more common now than in 1973, and deja vu, clairvoyance, and a composite mysticism score have increased with successively younger age cohorts. Further, private and subjective religiosity are positively related to overall mystical experience, while organizational religiosity is inversely related.

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Dying to live: Science and the near-death experience

Blackmore S

Grafton, London, 1993

And sometimes she is tempted to digress down inviting sidepaths, on themes such as humankind's response to the constraints of time, or the déjà vu phenomenon; she tells us much more about the OBE than we need to know in the NDE context.

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Belief in paranormal phenomena among adult Americans

Gallup GH Jr, Newport F

The Skeptical Inquirer 15: 137-146, 1991

A Gallup national survey shows that paranormal beliefs are widespread. Yet belief in astrology and the reality of UFOs has lessened, superstitions are widely disbelieved and the New Age movement is unadmired.

(A result of this survey is that 55% believe that they have had a déjà vu experience, 13% are not sure, and 32% believe that they have never had such an experience [from 1,236 telephone interviews]. In a 1978 survey, only 30% claimed they had had such experiences [or were willing to admit it].)

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Children Claiming Past-Life Memories: Four Cases in Sri Lanka

Haraldsson E
Department of Psychology, University of Iceland, 101 Reykjavik, Iceland

Journal of Scientific Exploration 5(2): 233-261, 1991

"Well known in psychology are deja vu experiences, those anomalies of recognition that have been denned as "illusions of falsely perceiving a new scene or experience as a familiar one" (Wilkening, 1973, p. 56). Representative national surveys show this experience to be widely reported in the general population, such as by 41% of the population in Iceland (Haraldsson, 1975) and 59% in the U.S. (Greeley, 1975)." Wilkening, H. E. (1973). The psychology almanac. Monterey, California: Brooks/Cole.

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The Structure of Paranormal Beliefs Among Australian Psychology Students

Grimmer MR, White KD

Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied 124: 357-370, 1990

ABSTRACT
A 46-item paranormal belief questionnaire was given to 836 Australian psychology students. Paranormal items, derived from the popular media, were rated on a 5-point strength of evidence scale. Responses to the questionnaire were correlated and subjected to a principle axis factor analysis, followed by orthogonal and oblique rotation. A seven-factor Obliquely rotated solution, accounting for 38.49% of the variance, was chosen as most interpretable. The seven factor were identified as popular science, obscure unbelief, traditional religion, alternative treatments, paratherapies, functional psi, and structural psi. Results thus provide support for the multidimensional structure of paranormal beliefs.

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A 30-year ‘experiment with time’ evaluation of an individual case study of precognitive dreams

Schriever F

European Journal of Parapsychology 7: 49-72, 1987

Abstract

Analyzed 48 presumably precognitive dreams (PDs) reported 1954–1965 by a woman (aged 40 yrs when she began recording dreams) to identify precognitive elements. The PDs were analyzed with regard to content, vividness, dream recall frequency, the S's awareness of their significance, life situation of the S, quality of the dream images, and time interval between precognition and its supposed confirmation. The PDs were compared with 67 presumably nonprecognitive dreams (NPDs). Results show no significant difference between PDs and NPDs. Both types referred to the S's private spheres of life, which were only significant to herself.

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Children Who Remember Previous Lives: A Question of Reincarnation

Stevenson I

Charlottsville VA: University of Virginia Press, 1987

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'Psychic sensitivity', mystical experience, head injury and brain pathology

Fenwick P*, Galliano S*, Coate MA*, Rippere V*, Brown D
*Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF, UK

British Journal of Medical Psychology 58(1): 35-44, 1985

The ‘psychic’ experiences of 17 students (sensitives) from the College of Psychic Studies were compared with those of 17 church-going control subjects, who were matched for age, sex, and approximate intellectual level. At interview, 67 items of information relating to the medical history, family history, ‘psychic gifts’, head injuries, and mystical experiences were obtained. The shortened WAIS, the Benton Visual Retention Test, with tests of both dominant (Wechsler Logical Memory) and non-dominant temporal lobe function (the Rey-Osterreith Test) were given. The results showed that the sensitive population contained more single or divorced people, and people who had sometime consulted a psychiatrist. They had experienced more head injuries and serious illnesses than the controls. Sixty-six per cent showed evidence of right hemisphere and right temporal lobe dysfunction and, of these, 35 per cent had poor visual memories. There was evidence to suggest that some ‘sychic’ experiences were associated with brain dysfunction. Despite an increased occurrence of head injury, no clear correlation with the onset of ‘psychic’ sensitivity was found. Mystical experiences showed a trend towards being related to non-dominant hemisphere dysfunction. Vagueness about the position of the sensitive's ‘psychic helper’ in physical space was also associated with non-dominant hemisphere dysfunction.

(Déjà vu is included in the table on p. 38.)

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Sudden Light : the mystery of deja vu

Frank DS
Masters thesis Dissertation: Humanistic and Clinical Psychology, 1983

Abstract
This thesis explored the question "What is the experience of déǰà vu?" using the heuristic model of qualitative research. Deja vu was defined as "a feeling that some scene or experience in the present has been known to one in the past. "A comprehensive review of the literature on deja vu was part of the study. Data for the study were collected in the Detroit metropolitan area from 11 co-researchers (four female and seven male, ages 28 to 65), including the author. The main research method used to obtain data was the unstructured interview. Handling of the data was accomplished through the heuristic methods of immersion, in dwelling, intuition, tacit dimension, and internal frame of reference. Deja vu experience was shown to be of at least two qualitatively distinct types. Explicit Repetition Deja Vu was characterized by: the feeling of re-living a situation, tacit knowledge or foreknowledge, shift in sensory perception, paradoxical emotional reaction, search for meaning, and sense of wonder or mystery. Profound Impact Deja Vu was characterized by: an intense, extended aura of familiarity in an unfamiliar location, tacit knowledge or foreknowledge, shift in sensory perception, intense or remarkable affect, extended search for meaning, and profound impact. A third type of deja vu, Precognitive Dream Recollection Deja Vu, appeared to be related to Explicit Repetition Deja Vu, suggesting a relationship between dreaming and deja vu. The study indicated that Profound Impact Deja Vu affects the individual greatly, and that other forms of deja vu may emerge with additional research in this area.

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Paranormal Beliefs: Testing the Marginality Hypothesis

Emmons SF, Sobal J

Sociological Focus 14(1): 49-56, 1981.

DOI: 10.1080/00380237.1981.10570381

Abstract
Using a 1978 national Gallup poll, we test the hypothesis that social marginality is a predictor of belief in paranormal phenomena. Being female and not being married generally correlate as hypothesized with paranormal belief, but age, low education, being Black, and being unemployed generally do not. The marginality hypothesis has a questionable theoretical foundation and fails to predict a variety of beliefs consistently.

From the paper:
"Respondents were asked, "Which of the following do you believe in?", and presented with a card listing the following 12 phenomena: ghosts, the Loch Ness Monster, Sasquatch, ESP, witches, deja vu, precognition, astrology, angels, devils, life after death, and clairvoyance."

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Telepathy in mental illness: deluge or delusion

Greyson B

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 165(3): 184-200, 1977

Abstract
The belief that one can read others' minds has long been considered a symptom of psychosis, despite reports in the parapsychological literature of veridical telepathy. All patients admitted to an inpatient psychiatric unit were screened for paranormal beliefs, and those claiming telepathic abilities were tested in a free-response ESP task. Eighteen per cent of the inpatient population claimed telepathic abilities; of the nine patients who completed the task, none performed above chance expectations. Higher frequencies of paranormal experiences than those reported previously in the psychiatric literature were attributed to the context of the study. Schneider's first rank symptoms and a belief in telepathy discriminated schizophrenics more reliably than other paranormal experiences. Possible psychodynamics of delusions of telepathy were discussed in view of the predominance of women and younger men reporting them, as were the possible effects of such research on patients' delusions.

(On p. 188, what is called déja vu would better be termed déjà visité. In a mail survey, 65% of 20 schizophrenic patients and 51% of 68 non-psychiatric patients claimed to have had déjà vu experiences.)

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Andrew Greeley, "The Sociology of the Paranormal: A Reconnaissance" (Book Review)

Valey, Thomas L. Van

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 16(4): 435, 1977

http://search.proquest.com/docview/1298583687?accountid=14616

Place of publication: Storrs, Conn.

ISSN: 0021-8294

ProQuest document ID: 1298583687

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Ultimate values and the paranormal

McCready WC, Greeley AM

Chapter 8 in: The Ultimate Values of the American Population, Beverly Hills, CA.: Sage Publications, 1976, pp. 129-136

(The first section of this short book chapter contains a wealth of information about déjà vu and what it is [and is not] correlated with.)

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From the central premonitions registry

Nelson R

Parapsychological Review 7: 22-24, 1976.

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Precognition, clairvoyance, and "time travel"

Grof S
In section IV of Psychiatry and Mysticism, Stanley R. Dean (ed.), Nelson Hall, Chicago, 1975

(Déjà vu is seen to be a pitfall in the research of precognition, clairvoyance and "time travel" in LSD research [p. 129].)

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Varieties of transpersonal experience: observations from LSD psychotherapy

Grof S

In: Psychiatry and Mysticism. S. R. Dean (ed.) Chicago: Nelson Hall, 1975.

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Precognition in rats

Eysenck HJ

Journal of Parapsychology 39: 222-227, 1975.

Abstract

Two exploratory experimental series were carried out to test the presence of precognitive ability in rats. The animals were tested individually in a cage having two compartments separated by a central barrier over which the animal could jump. At the beginning of each trial one side or the other was randomly chosen to receive an electrical stimulus if the animal was on that side. Animals of the Roman High Avoidance strain were used, with a current of O.1mA in the first series and one of O.2mA in the second. It was argued that the hypothesis linking arousal with psi would lead to differential predictions depending on the strength of the shock. The results showed that with the very weak, nonaversive stimulus in Series 1, the animals sought out the electrified area to a significant extent, while with the slightly stronger, weakly aversive shock in Series 2 no psi effects were noted. It is suggested that more sophisticated designs should be employed in this field, varying both strain of rat used and strength of stimulus.-Ed.

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Foreword by the publisher

(to "Traumjournal" by Christine Mylius -- cf. Books and Theses section)

Bender H

1974

"All along there have been those who have believed human beings are accompanied by intuitions, visions, precognitive dreams, and apparitions which provide a glimpse in that which is hidden, in that which is hidden now and in that which is hidden in the future, one that does not yet exist and will only later take place." page 8, translated from the German)

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Precognition and Time

Orme JE

Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 47: 351-365, 1974

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Precognition and Time

Orme JE

In: Parapsychology and the Sciences, A. Angoff and B. Shapin (eds.), NYC: Parapsychology Foundation, Inc., 1974, pp. 186-197.

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A precognition test with hamsters

Levy WJ, Terry JC, Davis JW

Journal of Parapsychology 37: 97-104, 1973

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An improved method in precognition tests with jirds

Levy WJ, Davis JW, Mayo LA

Journal of Parapsychology 37: 83-95, 1973

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Reported frequency of dream recall and ESP

Honorton C

Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research 66: 369-373, 1972

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Relationships between precognition scoring level and mood

Nielson W

Journal of Parapsychology 34: 93-116, 1970

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Precognition of disasters

Stevenson I

Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research 64: 187-210, 1970

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Computer-Scored Precognition Experiments

Mihalasky J

Proceedings of the Parapsychological Association 5: 69-70, 1968

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Suggestions for a controlled experiment to test precognition in dreams

Jackson MP

Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research 61: 346-353, 1967

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Spontaneous 'paranormal' experiences in relation to sex and academic background

Green CE

Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 43: 357-63, 1966

A survey of 115 students intended to measure the frequency of deja-vu experiences, lucid dreaming, out-of-body experiences, hallucinations, and ESP in relationship to the gender and academic backgrounds of the respondents. Tabulates the percentage of affirmative and negative responses obtained. Notes that the results seem to be independent of sex and academic orientation.

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The Future is Now

Osborn AW

NYC: University Books, 1962

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Paramnesia and reincarnation

Chari CTK

Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 53: 264-86, 1960-62

(The author argues that the phenomenon of déjà vu, frequently taken to indicate reincarnation, can equally be explained by paramnesia, the distortion of memory. Instances of veridicality can be held to demonstrate paranormal cognition, such as telepathic exchanges between parent and child, again not requiring the reincarnation hypothesis. The possibility of 'precognitive paramnesia' is also discussed [p. 273]).

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The evidence for survival from claimed memories of former incarnations. Part 1

Stevenson I

Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research 54: 51-71, 1960

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The Philosophy of C. D. Broad

Schilpp PA

NYC: Tudor Publishing Co., 1959

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On Synchronicity

Jung CG

In: The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, vol. 8, Bolligen Series XX, Princeton University Press, Princeton, N. J., 1958.

("The sentiment du déjà-vu is based, as I have found in a number of cases, on foreknowledge in dreams ..." par. 974)

[The German version was originally published in 1951.]

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Precognition: An Analysis

Cox WE

Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research 50(3): 99 - 109, 1956

(According to Nelson [cf.https://www.academia.edu/23186572/A_Modern_Critical_Review_of_W.E_Coxs_Subliminal_Precognition] "Cox compiles inclusive data surrounding the occupancy of trains on days where unforeseen and catastrophic events led to serious and often fatal endangerment of those aboard. Cox explores the hypothesis that on such fated journeys, significant numbers of individuals who would otherwise have been aboard these trains are directed to avoid the doomed vessel via the operation of a subtle psychic sense.")

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Ueber das Prospektive im Traum

[Concerning the prospective in dreams] [in German]

Kemper W

Psyche 9: 561-583, 1956

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Precognition and Intervention

Rhine LE

Journal of Parapsychology 19: 1-34, 1955

ABSTRACT

This paper deals with the question: Can a precognised event be avoided? Since it would appear logically impossible that a truly precognised future could be prevented, it is important to examine any suggestion of evidence that successful intervention actually does occur in spontaneously precognised happenings. In making the study reported here, Dr. L. E. Rhine began with 1,324 cases of spontaneous precognition drawn from her collection of case material, and, by a series of eliminations, ended with only a small number of reports that were such as to meet all of her requirements for successful intervention. She notes that successful intervention would rarely be recognisable. There may well have been intervention in some of the cases eliminated, but in those instances at least one reasonable alternative interpretation was possible. Even the best cases are not considered as beyond all question. They stand merely as meeting the criteria and are subject to the limitations inherent in the case study method. Their value is in the questions they raise. They justify, first, a further inquiry for more of the kind of spontaneous material needed for this problem; and, second, a vigorous effort to initiate an experimental investigation of the intervention problem. In challenging the hypothesis that precognised events are inescapable, even these few cases could be regarded as a starting point.

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Serialism and the unconscious

Dalton GF

Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 37: 225-235, 317-320, 1953-4

(A critique of Dunne's theory of infinite regress in his book An Experiment with Time.)

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Analyse zweier eindrucksvoller Wahrträume

[Analysis of two impressive precognitive dreams] [In German]

Kemper W

Psyche 8: 450-467, 1954-5

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Synchronicity: an acausal connecting principle

Jung CG

In: The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, vol. 8, Bolligen Series XX, Princeton University Press, Princeton, N. J., 1958.

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Forecasts and precognition

Thomas CD

Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 48: 306-329, 1946-9

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The investigation of spontaneous cases

West DJ

Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 48: 264-300, 1946-9

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Foreknowledge

Saltmarsh HF

London: G. Bell & Sons, 1938

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Some Cases of Prediction

Lyttleton E

London: G. Bell & Sons, Ltd., 1937

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The Problem of Rebirth

Shirley R

London: Rider & Co., 1936

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Report of an inquiry into precognitive dreams

Besterman T

Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 41: 196, 1932-3.

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A New Model of the Universe

Ouspensky PD

London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1931

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L'Avenir et la Prémonition

Richet C

Paris: Editions Montaigne, 1931.

(Available online at https://archive.org/details/LAvenirRichet)

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