[joki]

Alex discussed his experiences from the last months regarding the sceptical views in his last podcast. At the end he wants us to think about a mediumship study. I think the most problem is to rule out cold reading techniques, which is not so easy. I think that G.S. studies are not bad, but still do not completely rule out cold reading. I was really surprised after I have watched the videos from professional mentalists. They could fake a lot of PSI phenomena. Even a name could be enough to suggest some information by remote viewing. I have discussed this with George Hansen by some emails. I recommend to study the work of Derren Brown or Criss Angel, who dismiss PSI phenomena. I think most important is to invite good medium and some sceptical magicians (must be sceptical; ?Derren Brown?) and bring them together in order to test the abilities. But this design could also fail. Stephen Braude has shown in his recently published book that PSI does sometimes not work, when psychical stress is involved.