11 PARAPSYCHOLOGY Answers


1 levitation, telekinesis, energy field treatment, biofeedback


2 Possible answers: meditation and Reiki have become popular through the alternative health movement, telekinesis has become well known through public demonstrations of spoon bending live and on television.


Exercise D


This is mainly revision. Set for individual work or pairwork discussion. Feed back with the whole class.


Answers Model answers:


I’d like to start by explaining … = beginning


To carry on from this first point, I want secondly to look at …


= maintaining/continuing a point


I don’t think that is the main reason. = disagreeing


That seems like a very good point X is making. = confirming


I’m going to expand the topic by mentioning … = adding a new point to someone else’s previous contribution


On the other hand, you might want to say that … = disagreeing


As well as this issue, we can also look at a very different issue.


= adding a new point to someone else’s previous contribution


So to sum up, we can say that … = summarizing/concluding


Does anybody have any opinions or anything they would like to add? = concluding


I think we need a different viewpoint. = disagreeing


OK, to continue then … = maintaining/continuing a point


Following on from what X has said … = adding a new point to someone else’s previous contribution


≤Exercise E


Before students listen, tell them to look at the exercise and questions. Check that students understand the topic for the seminar discussion. Ask them what they might expect to hear.


Transcript≤2.23


Extract 1 MAJED: The lecturer we listened to last week introduced a number of interesting issues. In my part of the seminar, I would like to build on what she said, and give an example of macro-PK. For my research, I looked at teletransportation … that is moving objects from one place to another without touching them. The evidence for most cases is anecdotal, as the lecturer said. But I found some experiments that were carried out by scientists under laboratory conditions. According to the Federation of American Scientists, a number of very convincing experiments were carried out in China in the early ’80s and ’90s. They involved using the mental powers of children and young adults to move an object from the inside of a container to a new location, without opening or damaging the containers, or the objects. The experimenters used different types of containers with radio micro-transmitters and high-speed


199 Extract 3 meditation and


Play each extract one at a time and ask students to identify the main topic and some further details. Feed back with the whole class.


Answers Model answers: Main topic Further details


Extract 1 teletransportation laboratory conditions, research in China, ’80s and ’90s, young people moved objects from inside containers, blind/double blind, documented


Extract 2 experimenter effect


DMILS, experimenter’s


belief in psi affects responses of participants, Wiseman, sceptic + Schlitz, believer in psi, joint experiments, Schlitz staring = higher scores than Wiseman


1970s, laboratory


control over body experiments, Swami Rama controlled temperature of hand and pulse through meditation, measured on instruments, positive results


Extract 4 Reiki and distant healing energy field treatment,


touch, distance, laboratory experiments with touch- Reiki = relaxation but no proof of effect on immune system, distant healing on AIDS patients, randomized double blind trial, results not significant


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