You are my first “test case” to see if I can apply the principals of controlled remote viewing to mediumnistic experiences. Controlled remote viewing is a system of sorting thoughts into various catagories. It has been proven to be very successful at identifying what perceptions are coming from the Universe at large, and which are our own mental processes.

My speculation is that by applying the same sorting protocol to the medium, we can see what is true insight and vision and what is analytic overlay from the medium.

So, please don’t be mad at me if it turns out I find that your medium visions with regard to that one particular case are analytic overlay and not “real”. Please keep in mind I am testing a protocol, not trying to validate the “reality” of the experiences, which are ultimately a matter of faith.

Melvin

It was Vernon Neppe MD, former director of Neuropsychiatry at the University of Washington who first made this connection between right temporal lobe experiences and paranormal experiences. He noticed that people who reported what he termed “subjective paranormal experiences” (ESP scrambled, get it, Vernon is very funny), often reported unusual smells, prickly feelings along the back of the neck, cold chills, and other well known right temporal lobe based experiences. He and I did a study of people who reported paranormal experiences, and of those who could actually validate their experiences (for example, wrote something in a diary before it occured) they had clusters of these symptoms on standardized questionnaires of right temporal lobe experiences.

Vernon tells the following funny story illustrating his absolute confidence in this association. He was visiting a lighthouse on the coast of Washington State, and was chatting with the lighthouse keeper. The keeper told him, “I love working here, there are always wonderful fragrent smells of flowers, all the time!” Vernon looked around, and he saw no flowers.
He immediately said to the man “tell me about your dreams that come true”, and the man turned white, and said “how did you know about them! I have never told anyone about them!”

Indeed, fragrent smells have been assoicated with the paranormal throughout history, and an old English expression for those who are “psychic” is that they “smell lavender”.

Thanks. Yes you got it right, very good summary. I wish I could get to the point of the matter sometimes quickly. But as I stated to Dr. Morse, we seemed to be so programed to be doubters of these experiences that you should be proud he works so hard to be scientific about these matters. I see with both of you the future of joining science back up with the spiritual world we come from. I just got a email from Dr. Morse this evening and thought I would look up your Blog site and amazed you must have just written this. Thank you. Thank you both. Happy New Year Lance