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In article <249.3473.uupcb@synapse.org> steve.crabtree@synapse.org
(Steve Crabtree) writes:

   I accept your broadening of the definition, but I'm not sure how it
   helps unless you're suggesting that (for these informally induced
   trances) there are detectable EEG changes accompanied by the same
   suggestibility characteristic of a more formally induced trance.

Much simpler than that; if hypnosis is a normal phenomenon, then we
would expect NO EEG changes (which is what we observe), beyond the
activity that is suggested to the client (alpha waves in response to
suggested relaxation, which is observed normally).  No indication of a
separate "soul", no indication of something that we are not measuring;
rather, a reflection of the fact that trance is something that happens
all the time.

   The presentation was an informal (i.e. not sponsored) presentation at
   the annual conference for the Society for Psychical Research in
   September 1991. I will have to dig out the other details for you.

If you have the time, I would appreciate it.

   I think these problems have been successfully addressed in the blind
   judging procedures used for Ganzfeld experiments etc. Tends to
   understate the closeness of good matches, but is still sufficient to
   show effects.

Hmmm.  Do you know if these are the same procedures used by the PEAR
group in their investigation of remote viewing?

					Dave Barton
					dlb@hudson.wash.inmet.com