{"id":270,"date":"2009-04-01T08:56:31","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T12:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stacyhorn.com\/unbelievable\/?p=270"},"modified":"2009-04-01T16:33:53","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T20:33:53","slug":"letters-to-the-lab-table-rapping-and-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/?p=270","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the Lab &#8211; Table Rapping and Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to have an ongoing series called <strong>Letters to the Lab<\/strong>, I&#8217;ve decided. There are just so many filled with interesting stories, sad stories etc. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There was one from Barbara Brown, Rhine&#8217;s correspondent from Riker Laboratories. Barbara Brown would go on to become famous in the 1970&#8217;s for her research in biofeedback, but she was working for Riker Laboratories at the time. \u00a0Riker had a contract with the Army to look into hallucinogenic mushrooms and she was involved with that. \u00a0This was the sixties!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/seance.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-272\" title=\"seance\" src=\"http:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/seance.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"367\" height=\"221\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBrown had agreed to participate in a table rapping investigation. Table rapping was an old seance thing. \u00a0&#8220;Rap once for yes, twice for no,&#8221; mediums would instruct the spirits. At Aldous Huxley&#8217;s house,\u00a0Brown met Andrija Puharich, (a parapsychologist Rhine was always a little leery about) and before she had a chance to get to know him better, she agreed to let them use their lab&#8217;s electroencephalograph (EEG) in a table rapping experiment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She didn&#8217;t say much about the experiment alas, beyond the fact that it was intriguing while questionable, and \u201cunfortunately I haven&#8217;t the time to devote proper experimental situations and designs by myself.\u201d \u00a0She was skeptical and therefore not inclined to continue. \u00a0I couldn&#8217;t find anything else about it, but I&#8217;m guessing they didn&#8217;t have a lot of luck finding another lab with an EEG who was willing to experiment. \u00a0But maybe I&#8217;m wrong!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to have an ongoing series called Letters to the Lab, I&#8217;ve decided. There are just so many filled with interesting stories, sad stories &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":[9,5,10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piV6u-4m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270"}],"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=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}