Rex Stanford (1938-2022): A Personal Tribute to an Intellectual Giant in the Science of Parapsychology
Looking to get back into parapsychology, in 1968 he was able to land a job as Research Associate in the Division of Parapsychology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, working with Ian Stevenson and Gaither Pratt, the latter who for many years had been the chief associate of Rhine at th...
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| Published in: | The Journal of parapsychology 2022-09, Vol.86 (2), p.195-204 |
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| Language: | eng |
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| Summary: | Looking to get back into parapsychology, in 1968 he was able to land a job as Research Associate in the Division of Parapsychology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, working with Ian Stevenson and Gaither Pratt, the latter who for many years had been the chief associate of Rhine at the Institute for Parapsychology. Rex was elected by the membership six times to serve on the Board of Trustees and was elected as President for 1993 and 2007. The theory was elaborately and skilfully constructed, presented in the form of testable propositions covering specific steps in the PMIR process and factors predicted to determine whether its application is a success (psi-hitting) or a failure (psi-missing). What is interesting here is that he redefines active-agent telepathy-in which the sender implants the message in the brain of the receiver (as opposed to active-percipient telepathy, in which the receiver grabs information from the brain of the sender)-as a form of PK rather than ESP, the category under which telepathy is traditionally subsumed in parapsychology. |
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| ISSN: | 0022-3387 |