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Bulletin of the
William C. Menninger
DREAM LABORATORY
Number 2
Maimonides medical CENTER
Summer, 1969
FIRST GARDNER MURPHY
FELLOWSHIPS AWARDED
Dr. Gardner Murphy, a former presi-
dent of the American Psychological Asso-
ciation and current president of the A-
merican Society for Psychical
Research,
has given the Dream Laboratory a special
fund to allow college students to engage
in research activities.
The first stu-
dents to be awarded the Murphy
Fellow-
ships are Donadrian Rice (Wofford
Coll-
ege, S. C. ) and Mildred Carbone
(Hofstra
University, N.Y.).
Other students
at
the laboratory this summer include Rich-
ie Davidson (New York University),
Gor-
don Goodman (Harpur College, N.Y. ), Bill
Hughes (Oregon State College), Gayle Mi-
ree (City College, N.Y.C.), and
Diane
Schneider (Hunter College, N.Y. C. ) . Part-
time workers have included Ralph Blick-
enstaff, Robert Harris,
Dale
Ironson,
Ron Victor, and Brian Washburn.
LAB STAFF TO PRESENT SIX PAPERS AT P.A.
Several research reports will
be
presented by Dream Laboratory staff mem-
bers at the annual meeting of the Para-
psychological Association in New
York
City, September 4-6, 1969. Dr. Montague
Ullman, Dr. Stanley Krippner, and Charles
Honorton will read a total of six
re-
search briefs and experimental reports.
Dr. Krippner's paper summarizes results
from 55 experimental nights and 79 pilot
nights in which a single subject and a
single agent (who attempted to
"send"
a picture)were used in telepathy stud-
ies. Outside judges (who did not know
which art print was used for any given
night) assigned "hits" and "misses" to
the sessions.
The most successful com-
binations involved a male subject
and
'a male agent -- or a male subject and a
female agent.
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BULLETIN;
Issue Number Two
Summer, 1969.
MALCOLM BESSENT ARRIVES FROM ENGLAND
A noted psychic sensitive from
London, England, Mr. Malcolm Bessent,
has been spending the summer serving
as a research subject at the labora-
tory. Several research projects are
underway, attempting to test
areas
of his psi capacities and
discover
information about his abilities.
A-
mong the studies attempted are tar-
get picture readings,
psychometric
readings, psychokinetic effects upon
plants, and an eight-night
dream
study involving precognition. During
the latter study, Mr. Bessent
would
attempt to dream about an experience
which he would have the
following
morning. This experience was
ran-
domly selected once the night's
in-
terviews and dream reports had
been
tape-recorded.
Mr. Bessent's travel
expenses were paid by Donald C. Web-
ster of Toronto, Canada; the research
projects were funded by
the Founda-
tion for the Study of Consciousness,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Individuals and institutions wishing
to receive future Bulletins are re-
quested to notify
Charles Honorton,
Dream Laboratory
Maimonides Medical
York 11219.
ALPHA-ESP STUDIES INAUGURATED AT LAB
Mr. Charles Honorton,
Dream Laboratory Research Associate,
has inaugurated a series of projects
investigating the relationship be-
tween ESP and the alpha state (i.e.,
when a subject's brain waves register
between 8 and 13 cycles per second
on the EEG) . In his first experiment,
he tested 10 subjects with randomized
decks
of cards containing geometric
forms.
Each
of these 10 subjects
attempted to guess
the order of the
cards in the deck.
In
the trials
with relatively
high
alpha
wave
activity there was an average of 6
correct guesses per each run of 25
attempts.
In the trials with rela-
tively low alpha wave activity there
was an average of 4 correct guesses.
The difference was
statistically
significant and Mr. Honorton' con-
cluded that successful ESP
perform-
ance
"may be related to
a relaxed,
passive state of mind,
devoid
.of
imagery, and in which there is a de-
crease of attentive activity."
An :
alpha training device has
now been
built for additional experimentation
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