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FRNM Looks Bookish but Speaks Volumes
For months we wondered why Dr. Sally Ann Drucker,
Bulletin editor, prowled around the FRNM library,
checked through back issues of journals, and muttered
to herself.
We now know the reason. In December, Scarecrow
Press published Parapsychological Research with Chil-
dren: An Annotated Bibliography, coauthored by Dr.
Drucker and Ms. Athena A. Drewes.
The team of Drewes and Drucker began when both
were affiliated with Maimonides Medical Center's Divi-
sion of Parapsychology and Psychophysics. In several
experiments, they tested children using m & m candies
for "immediate feedback." Through this work, published
in the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Re-
search, Research in Parapsychology, and elsewhere, they
realized the need for an annotated bibliography on
children's psi.
Their book contains sections on Clairvoyance, Telep-
athy, Precognition, Psychokinesis, Poltergeists/RSPK,
and Reincarnation, with a total of 463 entries. It also
includes the full versions of papers from the "Parapsy-
chology and Children" panel presented at the 1990 PA
Convention. Drs. Palmer and Kanthamani are other
FRNM contributors to the volume, which can be ordered
directly from FRNM.
Its arrival follows Ballantine's fall publication of Para-
psychology: The Controversial Science, by Dr. Richard
Dr. Drucker presents book to Dr. Rao for FRNM library.
Broughton (see Fall 1991 Bulletin). His book was recently
selected for the Quality Paperback Book Club and our
phones continue to ring with requests for Dr.
Broughton's media appearances. The first week of Feb-
ruary, he appeared daily on Greensboro's WFMY-TV
Good Morning Show. Mr. Lee Kinard, the producer/host,
had filmed TV documentaries of the Rhines in the 1960s.
Dr. Broughton's book can also be ordered directly from
FRNM.
International Visitors Put FRNM on Their Maps
by Kathy Dalton
FRNM's international appeal recently brought us vis-
itors from Japan, the Ukraine, and Iceland.
In November, the Japanese Broadcasting Company
informally interviewed Dr. Richard Broughton. One of
the producers, Ms. Hiroko Haruta, was researching pre-
liminary sites for a program dealing with paradigm shifts,
to be filmed later this year. Dr. Broughton, who recently
published Parapsychology: The Controversial Science,
provided Ms. Haruta with information on FRNM's current
research and background material on a wide range of
parapsychological topics. The producers felt that the
field of parapsychology could be viewed as an example
of a paradigm shift in science.
In early December, another Japanese film crew vis-
ited FRNM, this one eager to demonstrate to Japanese
audiences how American scientists conduct parapsy-
chological research, and in particular, how FRNM orients
its research program. Ms. Michiyo Yamamoto, a pro-
gram director with Japan Television Workshop, spent a
day at FRNM with her TV crew, filming for a program on
precognition to be aired in Japan in late December. Dr.
Broughton demonstrated the computerized methods for
testing psychokinesis as well as explained and demon-
strated the computerized game, "ESPerciser." Dr.
Kanthamani described FRNM's ganzfeld procedures and
conducted an informal ganzfeld trial that had excellent
results. Both Drs. Broughton and Kanthamani were in-
terviewed concerning methodology and research at
other labs in the U.S. and abroad.
Dr. Yuri Petushkov came to us for several days in
November from the Ukraine's Biosensory Nontraditional
Technologies research center. His staff includes experts
in physics, biophysics, neurophysiology, biology, and
psychology. They have been studying electromagnetic
properties of the brain, working from the assumption
that the subject's visualization of a result creates inter-
nal electromagnetic changes that can interact with the
external environment. He described successful results
in changing the molecular structures of copper and
blood samples.
In late December, FRNM received a visit from Dr.
Erlendur Haraldsson of the University of Iceland in
Reykjavik, Iceland, a FRNM researcher from 1969-1970.
At our weekly research meeting, Dr. Haraldsson pre-
sented an update on his experiments using the Defense
Mechanism Test. Dr. Haraldsson's visit gave FRNMites
the opportunity to catch up with an old friend and with
research taking place at other facilities. We look forward
to his next visit.
Membership in the FRNM Association provides dis-
counts on books, a free subscription to the Journal of
Parapsychology and the FRNM Bulletin, and more.
Membership dues are only $50.00 annually. For more
information write to FRNM.
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