{"id":1892,"date":"2010-03-28T09:45:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T13:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stacyhorn.com\/unbelievable\/?p=1892"},"modified":"2010-04-01T09:38:34","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T13:38:34","slug":"ibm-and-esp-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/?p=1892","title":{"rendered":"IBM and ESP Part Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>J. B. Rhine always dreamed of building an ESP machine.  In an earlier post I talked about how he first wrote IBM about it all the way back in 1938, and they were excited.  \u201cThere is no question in my mind,\u201d IBM staffer (and well-known inventor) Reynold Johnson wrote back enthusiastically, that \u201cit would be possible to develop a machine along the lines that you outline.\u201d  Nothing ever came of it that I could find.<\/p>\n<p>But in 1961, with Rhine&#8217;s help, IBM in Canada conducted an ESP test with Maclean&#8217;s, a weekly magazine, and a Canadian Broadcasting Company radio series called ESP. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/ibmesp3.jpg\" alt=\"ibmesp3\" title=\"ibmesp3\" width=\"516\" height=\"280\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1894\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A card was inserted in the July 29, 1961 issue of Maclean&#8217;s and readers were given instructions.  According to letters I found between Rhine and IBM in Canada, the results were inconclusive, and the experiment was not refined or repeated.  I tried to find records for the experiment.  I contacted Macleans and IBM archivists, and they did their best to locate them, but it looks like nothing from this test has survived.  <\/p>\n<p>(You can read IBM and ESP Part One <a href=\"http:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/?p=1680\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/ibmesp1a.jpg\" alt=\"ibmesp1a\" title=\"ibmesp1a\" width=\"516\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1893\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J. B. Rhine always dreamed of building an ESP machine. In an earlier post I talked about how he first wrote IBM about it all &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piV6u-uw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1892"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1902,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions\/1902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}