The New Science of the Paranormal: From the Research Lab To Real Life

About the Authors

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Carl Llewellyn Weschcke was Chairman of Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd., one of the oldest and largest publishers of New Age, Metaphysical, Self-Help, and Spirituality books in the world. He held a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration (Babson), and studied Law (LaSalle Extension University) and completed advanced academic work toward a doctorate in Philosophy (University of Minnesota). He also held a certificate in clinical hypnosis and honorary recognitions in divinity and magical philosophy.

In addition to book publishing, he worked in the pharmaceutical industry, furniture manufacturing, and real estate management. With Llewellyn, he worked in all aspects of the business: advertising, editing, production, writing, astrological calculation, design and layout, typesetting, cover design, direct selling, bookstore management, trade sales, designing systems and procedures, printing and purchasing, warehouse and shipping, and mopping floors.

Carl was a life-long student of a broad range of Metaphysical, Spiritual, and Psychological subjects, and variously studied with the Rosicrucian Order, the Arcane School, and the Society of the Inner Light. After corresponding with Gerald Gardner and several of his associates in the late 1950s and early 1960s, he became known for holding the Weschcke Documents, including a carbon copy of Gardner’s own Book of Shadows.

He was a former Wiccan High Priest and played a leading role in the rise of Wicca and Neo-Paganism during the 1960s and 1970s. Authors Scott Cunningham and Donald Michael Kraig referred to him as the Father of the New Age because of his early and aggressive public sponsorship of new understanding of old occult subjects. In the fall of 1973, Weschcke helped organize the Council of American Witches and became its chairperson. Weschcke drafted The Thirteen Principles of Belief statement, a cornerstone of modern Wicca. This document was incorporated into the U.S. Army’s handbook for chaplains.

In addition to his evolving writing pursuits, he retained ties to the Wiccan and Neo-Pagan communities through many Llewellyn authors. He was 7th Past Grandmaster of Aurum Solis, an international magical order founded in Great Britain in 1897. While Chairman of Llewellyn, he actively wrote and engaged in studies and practical research in Analytical Psychology and Parapsychology; Tarot and Divination; Quantum Theory and Cosmology; Astrology, Magick, and Kabbalah; Meditation, Hypnosis and Alternative Health; Shamanism, Tantra, Taoism, and World Spirituality; Mythology, Wicca, and Neo-Paganism; History, Geo-Politics, and Philosophy. He also authored and co-authored nine books, several e-books and audio products, and a new edition with commentary of The Compete Magick Curriculum of the Secret Order G...B...G...

Carl passed away in the fall of 2015, but his indelible contributions to the study and practice of spirituality will be remembered and honored for generations to come.

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Joe H. Slate holds a Ph.D. from the University of Alabama, with post-doctoral studies at the University of California. Dr. Slate was appointed Professor Emeritus in 1992, after having served as Professor of Psychology, Head of the Division of Behavioral Sciences, and Director of Institutional Effectiveness at Athens State University in Alabama. He is an Honorary Professor at Montevallo University and former Adjunct Professor at Forest Institute of Professional Psychology. Dr. Slate is a licensed psychologist and member of the American Psychological Association. He is listed in the National Register of Health Service Psychologists and the Prescribing Psychologist’s Register.

As head of Athens State University Psychology Department and Director of Institutional Effectiveness, he established the University’s parapsychology research laboratory and introduced experimental parapsychology, biofeedback, hypnosis and self-hypnosis into the instructional and research programs in the curriculum. His research includes projects for the U.S. Army Missile Research and Development Command and the Parapsychology Foundation with funding from the U.S. Army, the Parapsychology Foundation of New York and numerous private sources. He is founder of the Parapsychology Research Institute and Foundation (PRIF) (over 500 members) that has endowed scholarship programs in perpetuity at both Athens State University and the University of Alabama as well as undertaking research projects in dream work and mind/body health.

His official research topics have included: Rejuvenation, Health and Fitness, the Human Aura, Psychotherapy, Reincarnation, Precognition, Retro-cognition, Telepathy, Clairvoyance, Psychokinesis, Objectology, Numerology, Astral Projection, Sand Reading, Crystal Gazing, Dowsing, Dreams, the Wrinkled Sheet, Table Tipping, Discarnate Interactions, Psychic Vampirism, Hypnosis and Self-hypnosis, Age and Past-life Regression, the Afterlife, Pre-existence, the Peak Experience, Natural Resources, Learning, Problem Solving, and the Subconscious, to list but a few.

He has founded several scholarships:

Dr. Joe H. Slate Scholarship for the Arts, Athens State University.

Dr. Joe H. and Rachel Slate Scholarship, University of Alabama.

International Parapsychology Research Foundation Scholarship, Athens State University.

Note: Each scholarship exists in perpetuity and is awarded annually to students who need financial assistance.

Dr. Slate has appeared on several radio and television shows, including Strange Universe, the History Channel, and Sightings.

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Names: Weschcke, Carl Llewellyn, 1930–2015, author.

Title: The new science of the paranormal : out of the research lab to the

real world extra-sensory perception, the out-of-body experience,

psychokinesis, clairvoyance, mental telepathy, precognition, dowsing,

objectology, the human aura, past-lives memories, and more! : ancient

wisdom to modern science / Carl Llewellyn Weschcke, Joe H. Slate, PHD.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

JUDITH HIPSKIND COLLINS

As a senior in college, Judy worked long distance with Dr. J. B. Rhine on the thesis ESP in the Noosphere of Teilhard de Chardin and established a correspondence with Dr. Rhine that lasted several years. Judy worked as a teaching assistant at Indiana University while getting Master’s degree, and continued with self-taught studies in paranormal fields. Taught Spanish at the University of Wisconsin at LaCrosse.

She explored ESP with experiments and learned handwriting analysis while in grade school. Judy has a life-long interest in ESP, graphology, palmistry, astrology, numerology, body language, parapsychology, meditation, mediumship, dream interpretation, symbolism and language arts. During her junior year in Madrid (Spain) she met a woman who read hands and her work inspired a study and career as a palmist.

Minneapolis Career

In 1970, she joined Llewellyn at the invitation of Carl Weschcke to help found and serve as Dean of the Gnostica School for Self-Development, which featured a curriculum of subjects ranging from astrology to yoga. The school was successful and activities included open houses, lectures, meet and greet with authors and experts from the U.S. and England. This format expanded into several annual festivals, including the First International Aquarian Festival, in September 1971. Subsequent Festivals were known as Gnosticons, and inspired similar Metaphysical and Pagan Conferences worldwide.

While at Llewellyn, she worked as a spokesperson for our programs and the metaphysical world, appearing on local television and radio shows, lecturing on college campuses, at theological seminaries, women’s clubs and more.

She also worked as a consultant for psychologist Dr. John Geier, University of Minnesota, using knowledge of graphology, body language and hands, to work with patients in his practice, and as a lecturer at Veterans’ Hospitals and for various businesses.

Judith volunteered at the Hennepin County Juvenile Detention Center, helping children to understand themselves using handwriting and palmistry. This work expanded to prisons and halfway houses in the Minneapolis area.

She began work on the first of three books published by Llewellyn Worldwide, Palmistry, The Whole View, 1977, followed by The New Palmistry, 1993, and The Hand from A to Z, 2005.

Judith also worked as an entertainer, reading hands at the Gnostica Retail Store, at parties and at a local Minneapolis restaurant, where a woman customer introduced her to the work of author Anaïs Nin. Established a correspondence with Anaïs Nin that led to moving to Dallas, Texas.

Dallas Career

At the invitation of Anaïs Nin, she researched and interpreted astrological charts of historical figures ranging from twelfth century monarchs, cardinals and popes to present day poets and scholars, with an emphasis on French writers. Her cousin Eduardo Sanchez spent 35 years in Europe gathering the data for these charts from a wide array of sources. This work, along with his original critical studies of Niccolo Machiavelli and the Medici family, is stored in private archives at Southern Methodist University.

While working with Eduardo Sanchez’s archives, she joined a parapsychology group at Southern Methodist University run by a local Jungian analyst, graduate of the Jungian Institute in Switzerland. Dr. J. B. Rhine came to address this group one weekend, and after 10 years of correspondence, we met in person in Dallas.

Other opportunities included annual trips to London to research Celtic history and the Druids at the British Museum in London, under the sponsorship of the man in charge of the Reading Room; travel to Australia and to New Zealand, giving talks to Embassy wives in Wellington, NZ, and appearing on local television and radio shows.

Her work in Dallas focused on palmistry and led to the development of a new approach to interpreting hands through the meaning of the knuckles (see The New Palmistry, Llewellyn 1993). She developed a full time private clientele with individual consultations as the main focus, and also worked as an entertainer for Dallas area hotels and corporate clients.

Terre Haute Career

In 2008, Judith moved to Terre Haute, Indiana, to work on two books, the first on the world of trees and their value as a source of collected wisdom and an aid to personal growth, and the second on numerology, on the power of number patterns on a grid, to determine individual purpose and fulfillment.

In 2015, she began researching and writing Signature Power for Llewellyn. This book provides the basis both for analysis of the personal Signature and self-therapy through deliberate alterations of various components of the Signature.

This Book is dedicated to the

Father of 20th Century Parapsychology

J. B. Rhine

Widely recognized as the Father of Parapsychology, J. B. Rhine established the study of parapsychology as an academic discipline and developed the foundational concepts and research methodology required for it to assume scientific recognition. The results include the professionalization of parapsychology not only in the U. S. but also on a transcultural scale.

In today’s diverse global community, the contemporary relevance of J. B. Rhine’s early groundbreaking research stands firmly on scientific grounds. Aside from the detailed procedures and controls characterizing his lab studies, he developed the advanced analytical and statistical methods required to determine the significance of the experimental data. Beyond the lab, he inspired the application and advancement of parapsychology to include its inclusion as an academic discipline in higher education along with the establishment of professional parapsychology organizations and academic journals.

J. B. Rhine’s analytical and statistical contributions to parapsychology as a science are among the seminal inspirations for not only the detailed lab studies presented in this book but for the numerous research-based applications beyond the lab.

CONTENTS

PREFACE

Contents include: The authors tell how the book came into being and what their objectives were in writing the book. The authors explain how modern research methods have brought us to the point where the paranormal is the new normal and the make for more research and development to fully integrate these extraordinary levels of consciousness into our everyday world.

INTRODUCTION: The Paranormal: Taking the Next Step. . . Above, Beside, and Beyond . . . Normal

Contents include: The Objective and Subjective Meaning of PARA; Beside Normal; Feelings prejudice Objectivity; Statistical Proof in the Lab; Normal and Paranormal, Side by Side; The Power of Belief Can Change Reality; Violation of Common Sense; Transitioning into the New Age, NOW!; Knowledge and Belief Both Determine How We See the World; Psychic Dimensions; The New Science of the Paranormal; Perception of non-physical realities; Personal Empowerment; The Mind of Man and the Mind of God are one and the same, for Consciousness is Universal and Infinite; Multiverse and Parallel Universes; Multi-Dimensional Physical and Non-Physical Realities; Planes and Bodies; Three Levels of Self-Consciousness; Understanding the Whole and its Parts; Mind over Matter

CHAPTER ONE: Taking the Paranormal Beyond the Lab

Contents include: Personal Empowerment is Essential in Today’s World; A New Age; Lab Research Opened Doors; Revolution and Evolution over a few short decades; A Sixth Sense, A Fourth Dimension; The Application and Development of Paranormal Power; Scientific Validation of Paranormal Experience; Discovering the Nature and Purpose of Human Existence; The Importance of Going Beyond the Lab; PES: THE PERSONAL EMPOWERMENT SPACE; The Totality of your being—Past, Present, and Future; Resources to turn your Potentials into Reality; Awakening to the Power to Shape the Future; Paranormal Facilitators; The Distribution of Paranormal Potential; The Generalization Effect; the Power of Research; THE NEW SCIENCE OF THE PARANORMAL

CHAPTER TWO: Extra-Sensory Perception: Expanding the Limits of Awareness

Contents include: EXTRA-SENSORY PERCEPTION DEFINED; The Three Major Mental Faculties of ESP; Functional Definitions of ESP and PK more easily recognized; The PRF Survey of College Students’ ESP Experiences; TELEPATHY, THE MOST COMMON ESP EXPERIENCE; Pre-cognition commonly experienced as a simple impression; Clairvoyance—A Daily Experience for some; ACTIVATING ESP; THE DYNAMIC EFFECT OF PRACTICE and EXPERIENCE; TELEPATHY; A Dynamic Force; An Empowering Option; A Critical Alternative; Animal Communication and Culture; The Power of Distributed Practice; Meditation Exercises for Development and Application; Clarifying Images and Powerful Symbols; Telepathy and Mood State; Therapeutic Benefits of Positive Telepathic Messaging; CLAIRVOYANCE; Experiencing the Unknown; Activating Clairvoyance; PRECOGNITION; Awareness of Future Events; Precognition: Fact or Fiction?; A Critical Source of Information; Precognitive Dreaming: A Motivational Force; Inducing Precognition; Conclusion

CHAPTER THREE: The Out-of-Body Experience: Reaching Beyond the Physical

Contents include: PROJECTING AWARENESS OUT OF THE BODY; Other Dimensional Vehicles; Vehicles for Emotion, Mind, Will, and Spirit Consciousness; The Extra-Biological Body; Case Studies of out-of-body experiences (OBEs); Emotion and the Out-of-Body State; The Higher you go, the more you have; Astral Travel During Sleep; PRE-SLEEP OBES INDUCTION PROCEDURES; The Physiology of the Out-of-body State; Induced OBEs: Analysis of Case Studies; OBEs and the Near-Death Experience; Mastering Out-of-body Skills; Many Bodies, Many Planes.

CHAPTER FOUR: Objectology and Sand Reading: The Hand’s Message

Contents include: Objects as Information Mediums; Objects Used to Announce Poltergeist and Psychic Happenings; Objects Used in Spiritual Communication; Objects Used to Divine Information; Objects Used to Protect from Harm, or to Project Power; Objects Used as Magical Tools; Objects Used to Receive, Store, Transform, Transfer, and Communicate; Objectology: Using a Deep Tray of Sand to Source New Information; Objectology: Sand Reading Research in Paranormal Empowerment; Sand Reading: An Objective Resource in Paranormal Research; Sand Reading: An Objective Resource for Paranormal Information; Sand Reading: An Objective Resource into Past-Life Memories; Sand Reading: An Objective Resource for Paranormal Empowerment; Sand Reading: An Objective Resource into Stressful Conditions; Sand Reading: Hand Imprint Characteristics showing Violence; Sand Reading: Hand Imprint Characteristics in Employment Status and Gender; Sand Reading: Hand Imprint Characteristics and Career Pursuits; Sand Reading: Hand Imprint Patterns and Career Goals; Sand Reading: Potential Applications in Psychiatry; Sand Reading and Psychic Signals; Sand Reading and Numerology

CHAPTER FIVE: Objectology and Water Gazing: Feelings Count

Contents include: Water: A Primary Alchemical and Spiritual Element; Water: Emotional (and Astral) Empowerment; Water Gazing: Clearing the Mind for Psychic Receptivity; Water Gazing: Interaction and Enlightenment; Water Gazing and Telepathy #1; Water Gazing and the Telepathic Sending of Images; Water Gazing and Psychic Imagery; Water Gazing and Telepathy #2; Water Gazing: Telepathy, Phase I (Without Water); Water Gazing: Telepathy, Phase II; Water Gazing and Creative Writing; Water Gazing and Creative Expression in Art; Water Gazing: Effects on Memory; Water Gazing with The Triangle of Power; Water Gazing and Crystal Gazing; Psychic Reading with Earth, Water, Fire, or Air

CHAPTER SIX: Objectology and Psychokinesis (PK): Mind Over Matter

Contents include: PK: Moving Objects and Influencing Events by Mind Alone; PK Potentials to influence both External and Internal Realities; Inducing PK Movement in the Crystal Pendulum; PK, Crystal Gazing, and the Human Aura; SEEING YOUR AURA; The Effects of PK Experience on Crystal Pendulum Performance; The Crystal Pendulum: Detecting Gender Influences; The Crystal Pendulum: Detecting Gender of the Unborn

CHAPTER SEVEN: Objectology and Dowsing: The Earth Speaks

Contents include: THE DOWSING ROD; The Dowser’s State of Awareness; Dowsing as a Science; Dowsing’s Origins and History; How the Dowsing Rod Works; Interviews with Dowsers; The Effects of Practice in Dowsing; Detecting Contaminated Substances through Crystal Dowsing; Crystal Dowsing in the Industrial Setting

CHAPTER EIGHT: Objectology and the Crumpled Paper Technique: Air Talks

Contents include: Elemental Air is Wrapped in the Folds and Creases; The Crumpled Paper is like Cloud Technology; Like the Cloud, the Crumpled Paper has near Infinite Capacity; Recovery of the Past as a Psychic Resource; Facilitating Clairvoyance; Gender Differences and Pattern Stability; the Crumpled Paper Technique in the Industrial Setting

CHAPTER NINE: The Next Step: Activating Dormant Potentials

Contents include: From the Unknown to the Known, from the Lab to Real Life, and from the Other to YOUR OWN Personal Empowerment; Awakening Dormant Powers; Paranormal vs. Supernatural; Conscious and Unconscious, Two-Way Communication; Our environment is full of vibrations; Death and its Alternatives; New Age Challenges; Challenge and Response; Species and Individual Evolution and Personal Empowerment

CHAPTER TEN: Psychic Development: Challenge and Response

Contents include: Both History and Evolution are developmental responses to the Challenge set forth by Creation itself in the Beginning. The first Response was and is the self-regulating system of programs we call the Laws of Nature, and the first Law of Nature was and is the Word, that always will be the progressing program we call Evolution.

Ever Onward, Always Progressing; Personal Empowerment: Command and Control; Psychic Development and Empowerment: The Next Step in Human Evolution; Ye are Gods in the Making; The Challenge to old, Materialist Science; The Great Leap Forward; There’s more to Reality than the Physical Dimension; How we develop Clairvoyance; The New Science of the Paranormal; Quantum Theory, the Bridge between Physical and Esoteric Science; Vision to Solve Tomorrow’s Problems Now!; Becoming More than You Are; Learning to Think long; The Importance of Personal Vision; Our Potential is Infinite

CHAPTER ELEVEN: Psychic Empowerment: An Evolutionary Movement

Contents include: The Power of Combined Movements—the example of music; "Natural" and "Cultural" Movements; Revolutionary and Developmental Movements; Human Response to the Challenge of Cosmic Vibrations—planetary in dimension and causal in action; The Extension of Physical Power and Personal Empowerment; The Next Step: Reaching Beyond Physical Limitations; The Digital Revolution and its Evolution; The Extension of Psychological and Psychic Powers for Self-Empowerment; The Spiritual Movement and Religion in the New Age; The Difference from Religions of the Past; Western Religions Dominated by the Old Judaic Bible; What is Overlooked and Long Forgotten; A Viable Creation Myth; The Role of Religion; Exploring the Inner Nature of Physical Reality; Modern Religions and the Role of Churches and Ministers; Will, Mind, and Self-Discipline in the New Age Movement; Quiet the Mind, Ask the Big Questions, and Listen to the Answer; The Ultimate Secret

CHAPTER TWELVE: A Lifelong Plan for Success

Contents include: Overcome All Barriers; Varying levels of Personal Consciousness; Becoming Connected; The Self-Empowerment Potential; The Plan; Self-Dialogue: A Daily component of the Plan; Ascending the Pyramid; Global Advancement

GLOSSARY

REFERENCES

PREFACE

What we want to accomplish

in writing this book

This book came into being after several years of discussion between the authors and others about what historic and modern psychic research has accomplished.

No longer is the split between materialism and spiritualty as absolute as at the beginning of the 20th Century. The role of laboratory research in showing that quite normal people commonly show some degree of paranormal ability was a major factor as is the new knowledge and increasing understanding of the psyche as a whole. Equally important is the role of quantum physics bringing awareness of the multi-layered Cosmos in which we live and have our being.

JOE WRITES . . .

Controlled laboratory research is essential to our understanding of paranormal phenomena. Research not only validates the existence of the paranormal, it pushes back the borders of contemporary science and offers new ways of understanding ourselves and the universe. It reveals new possibilities for acquiring knowledge and developing our highest potentials. With the integration of paranormal insight, a new and surging force of growth energy is unleashed within. Beyond that, external dimensions of knowledge and power become readily accessible and previously unattainable goals become realistic possibilities. There exists, in fact, no end to the empowering possibilities of paranormal power beyond the lab.

The controlled studies presented in this book offer detailed research evidence of the existence of the paranormal. The laboratory studies, including those funded by the U. S. Army, the Parapsychology Foundation of New York, and the Parapsychology Research Institute and Foundation, were each conducted by the author, often with the assistance of co-investigators, in a highly controlled laboratory setting at Athens State University. The technical reports for additional studies and the developmental exercises based on them are likewise on file in the Athens State University Library Archives.

Although more research is needed to further explore the complex dynamics as well as the many practical applications of the paranormal, the evidence based on the existing body of research is clear: the paranormal potential, like intelligence, exists in everyone. It can be experienced in both direct and indirect forms. Its manifestations can range from general to highly