![]() Other experiments were carried out in a more or less controlled manner on the use of precognition to make money gambling or in the stock market. Unbeknownst to most people at the time, during the Cold War the United States government had, as had the Soviet government earlier, initiated experiments in the use of remote viewing. While attemptsĪt such uses of psi are still common in Spiritualist and New Age circles, their general application in society has been replaced by more successful scientific methods. Practitioners, who went under a variety of names from witch to shaman, were called upon to predict the future, control the weather, heal the sick, and locate lost objects. If psi could be made operative, one could imagine application in almost every field of endeavor.Īpplied psi was an integral part of pre-scientific cultures. Douglas Dean issued a book-length study of his observations of business executives who used their psychic talents in making crucial (and successful) business decisions. Mishlove called for parapsychology to re-focus its attention, then almost exclusively oriented (in the face of skeptical critics) to the accumulation of proof that psychic phenomena existed, to study ways to develop psi application to business and daily life. The idea was announced in a new periodical, Applied Psi, the first issue of which appeared in 1982. Assuming that psychic phenomena ( telepathy, clairvoyance, psychometry, etc.) exists, one should be able not only to describe it and predict its behavior, but to learn to control it to some extent and use it in practical situations. ![]() ![]() ![]() Applied Psi, a term coined in the early 1980s by parapsychologist Jeff Mishlove, refers to the technological aspect of psychic phenomena as opposed to the purely scientific study of it. ![]()
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