Parapsychology - Best of Coast to Coast AM - 1/28/25

Published Jan 29, 2025, 10:45 AM

George Noory and author Craig Weiler explore research to prove the link between psychic abilities and physics, whether psychic abilities occur inside or outside of the mind, and why some people are more psychically inclined than others.

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Man, welcome back to George Nori with you, Craig Weiler with us. Craig, the science of parapsychology is it difficult to prove.

It's actually not, it's although the answer to that is a little bit complicated because of how science works. So parapsychology is typically a what they call it statistical science. In other words, you test something based upon whether it beats chance results. So for example, if you were picking one out of five cards and you did that better than one out of five, then something is going on, right, You're if you're doing better than one out of five, when you have five choices and you're doing better than that, then you're doing something what they call anomalous.

If you're doing three out of five, right, you're doing.

Three out of five, you're doing something. And that's something is what they call psychicability, and that's how they prove it by doing statistics. You know, if you're beating chance results, then something is happening. And since we're testing for psychic ability, that's what that is.

What experiments have been conducted to test.

You know, when you talk about experiments, it gets kind of complicated because the objective is to cut out all the things that might interfere. So, you know, let's just take something relatively simple like the gun stuff. This is a telepathy test that I mentioned earlier. So you have a sender and you have a receiver. They're in completely different rooms, far away from each other, so that they can't talk, they can't pass messages, they can't do anything to connect with each other. The sender gets four choices of pictures to send to the receiver, and the receiver just basically sits in this space where they can't really see anything, they can't really feel anything. It's just sort of this sensory deprivation kind of state, and they just sort of let their mind wander and they if they're getting images, then they talk it out so that somebody can record that, and then when they're all done, somebody else the judge will look at whether what they described was actually what the person was sending. Out of those four tries, which one was the closest. And so that's a typical experiment.

Right there that improves what.

If the person is better than one out of four and they're sending this message and this person's receiving it more often than one out of four times, then that demonstrates that telepathy is actually happening. They're actually sending the picture mentally because if.

You beat one out of four, beyond luck.

Right, and typically this experiment will be around thirty two to thirty three percent, sometimes up to thirty.

Four, and that it is parapsychology considered it controversial.

It is, and it's mostly it's not because of the science itself, because every time somebody criticizes it, they really can't say it, and that's kind of where they go with it. There are some criticisms of experiments, but once you look at the criticisms, they don't really hold up well. But it continues to be something that nobody wants to nobody wants to engage with or talk about, and it's just it's very, very slow getting it out into the mainstream. It's happening, but it's it is very snail's pace, and it's because people resist, uh the ideas of what happened. What is this universe like if psychic ability exists and it's much different from what they think it is.

How do you find the stories for your paranormal daily news.

Well, for me personally, I use the Parapsychological Association conferences to see what they've what they've done, because they'll have their conference and a lot of papers will be presented and that will and these papers will and also the their lectures will tell me what, you know, what's been discovered recently? Uh and in what are they up to? So some of this stuff is kind of dry, like, for example, the one when one researcher gathered absolutely every every paper and scientific information on that had been printed on physical mediumship. He just collected it all, got it all in one place and cataloged it and that was his project. Another person did much the same thing. I can't remember. I think it was with remote viewing where they were gathering all the different studies together because this dates back fifty sixty years of stuff that needed cataloging. And then you have other people that for example, there was one set of people that tested whether parapsychology researchers and skeptics think alike. So they did a study on that. There was something on remote viewing. And these are really you know, you know, when I write about stuff, I look at what can I what sort of this stuff can I give to the public where I can explain I need in a way that people will understand. And so from this lift, I pick and choose what I think I can what I can give to the public that's relatable.

You think if there were a poll taken in the belief of parapsychology, it would be higher, medium or low. Now this audience would be extremely high.

So Gallup did a poll I think in two thousand and four, two thousand and five, and every time somebody's done the poll, it's been pretty consistent. Is about seventy five percent of the population has some sort of a paranormal belief they believe in something, and then some around ten or fifteen percent or don't believe in anything at all. And that number doesn't really change over.

Time at all.

Uh, you know, a little bit here and there, but you know, it might go from it might drop from seventy five to seventy or it might go up to seventy seven or seventy eight or something, but it doesn't move much. That needle pretty much stays the same. And I think it's because people have experiences, and if they have an experience that they realize is psychic, then they tend to believe in that particular side of psychic ability, but not necessarily other ones.

Craig, what does it tell you about parapsychology and the human body, the fact that it happens.

When it comes to the human body. What parapsychology has shown me is that what you think, how your mind works, what stays in your mind all the time, has a massive effect on your body that really there's almost no difference between them. You can tell by how how you're feeling, whether it's a chronic illness or whether you're a healthy person or whatever. This is a mirror of what's going on in your mind, and there's really not a lot of difference between the two. That that line is very blurry. If that's that's a major thing that has shown me that you know, for example, for myself, when I'm having poor health, there's an emotional issue involved, and if you if you dive in and you can unlock that emotion from being shut down, then not it's not just healing in the mind that occurs, but also the body.

Do you think parapsychology works outside of the mind.

Yes, that's been shown in scientific testing, so psychic ability. They've demonstrated that telekinesis is the thing that they're actually you're actually.

Uh that's moving objects.

Yeah, moving objects. Uh, You're you're you're creating something outside of your mind. And while it's a very if you're doing it deliberately, it's generally when they tested, it's a very very small effect. But you know, we've all heard stories of people doing something far more incredible with their minds. There's there's all kinds of documentations of poltergeist. Stuff is literally flying around the room. Uh so yeah, I mean, the the mind is definitely operating outside of the physical body and stuff's going on. How much we really don't know.

It is tremendously enlightening when it works, isn't it.

Yeah, And you know it's it's it's kind of like if you're doing sports and you're in the zone, how you just kind of you in a flow and everything just seems easy and natural and effortless. And that's kind of how psychic ability works. You have to kind of be in that flow for everything to move properly. And if you have a whole bunch of doubts and fears and whatnot, those will interfere with it.

There are so many things outside of humankind knowledge that just is just mind boggling, isn't it, Craig, I think so.

When you look at the when you look at the science the psychic ability, one of the things that struck me was how much we don't know and how much we can't know.

That.

You know, when you're dealing with the mind, you know, science can only deal with what it can measure. If you can't measure it, science has nothing to say about it. And that's an important thing that you have to understand, or that people need to understand about science, is that it has that limitation that we're only doing things that we can measure. So therefore, if something is unmeasurable, whether and that includes what you're feeling and what you're experiencing, you really can't address that scientifically. We don't know what's going on in people's minds. We can't measure that scientifically, So we don't and because reality is coming out of our minds, we don't really know that much.

Why are some people more psychically inclined than others?

That's an excellent question, and I think part of it is that psychic people people can are more psychic. For example, when they're closer to their emotions, they might have less fear of things being out of the ordinary, that is to say, more open personality, less less rigid U. Certainly people with very rigid personalities have difficulty with psychic ability. Empathetic, open, you know, caring about other people is typically something that will will do this because when you're when you're empathetic, you're you're thinking about other people. You're you're trying to make connections, and that is definitely something that increases psychic ability. For example, one of the one group that is one of the highest for experiencing U psychic ability is elderly people who have lost their spouse, who have you know who, who shared their lives with this person for a very long time then lost them. They maintain that connection after death.

Sometimes they die right after that. Yeah, but broken heart.

Yeah, And it's usually the men for some women seem to be more resilient that way. But the thing is that they maintained this connection. And you'll have the surviving spouse say, oh, yeah, he or she is with me, and they've they've been for a very long time. They feel that connection there and that sometimes they have communication with them.

When you wrote your book cy Wars back in twenty twenty, what was your rationale for that?

Well, I have this, I had this scientific controversy that had occurred in twenty thirteen. I did an unpublished version of the book back then, and the controversy pretty much summed up everything that was going on in the field at the time. Because when Ted shut down the Talk of parapsychologist Rupert Shewed and took it offline, it created a firestorm of controversy, and this controversy mirrored what was happening in the scientific world. And because this thing, the whole thing dragged on for about a month and a half and it really illuminated all the different areas where this conflict was taking place. And it was just a perfect opportunity to have a story to share about what was going on. It's a focal point and also be able to provide all the background data that showed why we're at this one why we're at this one point, how we got here, and that controversy with Ted and Rupert Childrake was just a perfect way to do that.

What do you think peeris psychology will one day prove beyond the shadow of a doubt.

Well, if the rest of the sciences are willing to look at the data, it will prove that psychic humility exists. And then once that's proven, it's a very short hop to demonstrate that consciousness is fundamental to reality. That it's that our minds are literally a fundamental part of the universe. It's it's not this, it's not this thing that's only stuck inside of our brain, our heads and then dies when we die. It's the living thing. And I think that'll when we make that leap, it'll completely change things.

Is it tied into the universe or even beyond that.

The way to describe it is the mind isn't just tied into the universe. The mind is part of it. In the universe is part of it. It's a very difficult concept because you're talking about something that's beyond space and time, and we are so locked into the idea of space and time that holistic approach is very, very foreign to us. But the fact is that we are as much as the universe as the universe is us. In other words, we create, the universe creates, and we're all part of the same thing.

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