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 Perceptivity or apprehension. The alternative interpretation sub-
 mitted in this paper maintains that there is only the appearance of
 telepathy and that the "coincidental experience of 1hesamepattern
 of thought, "under the circumstances stated, is due to, andperhaps
 is nothing more than, the occasional, analogous perf6rmance of'
 closelY homologous thinking machines (cerebra and accessories)
 operating within comparable concomitants such as memories and
 features of the environment.
      Clairvoyance is a legendary concept that probably owes its
 origin and perpetuity mainly to various abilities such as those of
 water-witches, mineral-diviners, treasure-finders, and medicine
 men. Although they employ the hocus pocus of forked twigs and
 divining- or mineral-rods, manyof the diviners, by subconsciously
 exercising their sagacious comprehensive and experience of geologic
 and physiographic features, local lore, and keenness in the
 interpretation of human cues and clues, become proficient above
 the chance expectation in locating veins of underground water,
 minerals, and other objects. Thus, although perhaps somewhat
 farther-fetched than telepathy, clairvoyance also refers to possible
 bases-in-fact. -- DA
 00[6 'Lour P., and,,K~kq,
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 Ps~rcholog.r, 1984 (Mar), 116, 215-226. 30 refs' 2 tables
      Theextentof belief ina widevarietyof extraordinary phenomena
 was investigated among university students in a western developed
 country, Canada, and an eastern developing country, Singapore. A
 questionnaire that included 34 items on extraordinary beliefs
 (beliefs dealing with traditional religion, luck, fortune-telling,
 psychic phenomena, spirits, and strange sightings) was completed
 by 113 university students from Canada and 76 university students
 from Singapore. Canadian students were found to be significantly
 more skeptical than their Singapore peers and were particularly
 skeptical regarding religious beliefs and beliefs about spirits.
 However, both groups shared quite similar views concerning
 psychic and other extraordinary phenomena. Singapore students
 of Chinese, Indian, and Malay descent differed mainly with respect
 to their religious views. The results are discussed in terms of the
 presumed relationship between technological advancement and
 level of extraordinary belief. - DA
 01462. Persinger, M.A. Propensity to report paranormal exper-
 iences is correlated with temporal lobe signs. Perceptual and
 Motor Skills, 1984 (Oct), 59, 583-586. 5 refs
      Bivariate correlation analyses indicated that people who reported
 greater numbers of different types of paranormal experiences also
 reported greater numbers of temporal lobe signs. Whereas responses
 of one group (N = 108) of male and female university students gave
 a cot-relation of .60 between the two measures, for another group
 (N = 4 1) the correlation was.72. Partial correlation analyses, which
 involved holding the shared variance with affirmative responses to
 mundane psychological statements or odd sensation constant did
 not alter the strength of the relationship. These results support the
 hypothesis that spontaneous paranormal experiences and the
 psychological components of complex partial (psychomotor)
 epilepsy may exist along the same continuum of temporal lobe
 sensitivity. -- DA
 01463. Price, H.H. Psychical research and human personality.
 Hibbert Journal, 1949 (Jan), 47(2), 105-113.
           The existence of psychic phenomena contribute to our conception
      of human personality and its place in the universe. The traditional
      view of man is dualistic, though modern scientific thought calls
      into question the basic assumptions of dualism. It suggests
      epiphenomenalism. The existence of telepathy calls into question

      this sort of materialistic thinking because no physical basis for the
      nhenomenon seems tenable. Some sort of occultistic conceptiOn Of
      Llic human body - -- with "high bodies" and "higher faculties" 
      -OUld explain telepathy along scmimaterialistic lines. This could be
      i form of' occultistic epiphenomenalism. All in all, though,
      iclepathy seems to be a purely mental phenomenon inconsistent
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 with any sort of materialistic scheme. Nor does it fit in with
 traditional religious thinking, which teaches that each individual
 mind is a separate and complete substance whose only direct causal
 relationship with the rest of the universe (apart from God) are
 relations with its own brain. Understanding supernormal phe-
 nomena entails throwing over the Cartesian notion of the human
 mind as a physical substance. perhaps the key will come by going
 back to 'an earlier philosophical system that taught that man
 consists of body, mind (or soul), and spirit, of which the spirit is a
 substance but the soul is not. - D.S. R.
 01464. Rawson, Kenneth S., and Ilartline, Peter IL Telemetry of
 homing behavior by the deermouse, Peromyscus. Science, 1964
 (Dec 19), 46(365), 1596-1598. 1 fig-, I illus; 9 refs
      Miniature transmitters (weighing 2.5 to 2.7 grams, including
 encapsulation) implanted subcutancouslv in decrinice (PeromYscus)
 radiate a pulsed signal at 27 megacycles per second, which can be
 detected by a simple antenna at a distance of 45 meters. The radio
 signal indicates movements of the deermice, periods of activity,
 and the location of occupied nests. One mouse was traced as it
 returned to its nest 300 meters in one hour. This rate of homing is
 many times more rapid than the rate Usually determined by
 conventional methods for tracking small terrestrial mammals.
 DA
 01465. Schwarz, Bethold Eric. Telepathy and pseudotelekinesis in
 psychotherapy. Journalol'the A inerican Society ofPsYchosonlatic
 Dentistr "v and Medicine, 1968 (Oct), 15(4), 144-154~ i illus. 13 refs
      Data are presented about a patient in psychotherapy who had
 many telepathic experiences, including a telepathic death dream,
 possible precognition of death and telekinesis, the unexpected
 apparition of a recently deceased neighbor, and a possible New
 Jersey-Hawaii telepathic hallucination. Detail is given concerning
 the psychic-dynamic and associated factors underlying the patient's
 sudden recognition of four faces on tiles at the time that a specific
 experiment for thoughtography and telekinesis was contemplated
 by her physician. The possible significance of such findings is
 discussed. - DA
 01466. Shewmaker, Kenneth L., and Berenda, Carlton W. Science
 and the problem of psi. Philosopkv qf Science, 1962, 29(2), 195-
 203. 26 refs
      Some issues raised by parapsychological phenomena (psi) are
 examined in the light of their implications for a philosophy of
 science. It is shown that the k inds of problems psi poses for science
 vary with the way one conceives of science as well as one's
 conception of psi. It is suggested that psi may be it product ofthe
 fact that all of our scientific concepts are abstractions and therefore
 oversimplifications. This raises the possibility that our best
 conceptual techniques for dealing with psi is a nondiscursive
 symbolism, because this would not demand "classes" (oversimplifi-
 cation). Implications of this approach are considered. -- DA
 01467. Stevenson, ]an. American children who claim to remember
 previous lives. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1983,
 17](12), 742-748. 14 refs; .I table
      An unknown number of American children claim to remember
 previous lives. In this paper data of 79 such children are analyzed
 and compared with data from a larger number of cases in India.
      Few American children ofthese cases make verifiable statements,
 and those who do nearly always speak about the lives of deceased
 members of their own families. In this feature, American cases
 differ from Indian ones, in which the children usually speak of the

 lives of deceased persons in another family and often in another
 community. Indian children also frequently make verifiable state-
 ments about the lives of such persons.
      I n sonic Other rcspects, howc% cr,,~uch as the agc offirst speaking
 about the previous lives, the content of the statements they make,
 and related unusual behavior, American ,ubjects closely resemble
 ones in India. Although many of the American cases may derive
 from fantasies a wish-fu~filp*b6 1i_V;~d,1Q.1ii6&,aiD for he
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