tsunami PSI(?) in animals

2005-01-07 Thread Darryl Mayeaux
Hello TIPSTERS, I've been asked by the local nature center to write something about how animals can sense impending natural disasters and are able to avoid them. The basis of the request was some (apparently completely unsupported) report that few animals died in the recent tsunami. I study

The truth is out

2005-01-07 Thread Dr . Bob Wildblood
I'm sure that most of you have already seen or heard the news about the Andrea Yates conviction reversal: --- New Trial for a Mother Who Drowned 5 Children  By ADAM LIPTAK Andrea Yates, the Texas woman convicted of drowning her children in a bathtub, was granted a new

RE: tsunami PSI(?) in animals

2005-01-07 Thread Rick Adams
Hi Darryl, I don't have any direct references for you, but you might want to contact the earthquake research center at UCLA and/or the volcanology center in Hilo Hawaii. Both have done some work in the area. To my understanding (and it isn't my field, obviously) the so-called precognition in

Re: Tsunami and Psi in Animals

2005-01-07 Thread Christopher D. Green
Jodi Gabert wrote: Check also with www.npr.org as well. they had a report yesterday morning on the Aboriginals living on Nicobar and Andaman Islands. The Indian army reported that most of them were not swept away as was earlier reported and that they cited the natives"attunement

Re: Tsunami and Psi in Animals

2005-01-07 Thread Jodi Gabert
Chris is right. I should have added the codicil:. Take the following with anywhere from a cup to a pound of salt. Sorry for the omission.The sincerity with which the Indian army spokesman said "They listened to the animals" was classic. I will now go and rent Rex Harrison's Dr. Doolittle

Re: tsunami superstition wave

2005-01-07 Thread Michael Lee
Here's an interesting article to start with: Conspiracy theorists see dark forces behind tsunami disaster HONG KONG (AFP) - Just 11 days after Asia's tsunami catastrophe, conspiracy theorists are out in force, accusing governments of a cover-up, blaming the military for testing top-secret

Re: dreams

2005-01-07 Thread Jim Guinee
REM sleep is neither necessary or sufficient condition for dreaming. So therefore unique physiological events cannot explain dreaming. Does this mean there are no unique physiological events that occur outside of REM sleep? I doubt that Hobson or anyone who has paid attention in a

The latest from Prevention magazine

2005-01-07 Thread Rick Froman
My mom subscribed me to Prevention magazine for the wellness approach they promote but I enjoy receiving it for the wealth of examples it provides of correlations interpreted causally. They seldom fail to provide at least one example an issue. From the latest issue (Feb '05) on p. 44:

Re: dreams

2005-01-07 Thread Stephen Black
On 6 Jan 2005, Jim Guinee wrote: With all due respect, this man [J. Allan Hobson] has ignored for years the data that demonstrates the clinical efficacy of dream interpretation. So I asked Jim to support his bold claim of clinical efficacy of dream interpretation, and he replied:

Re: A question for Ms. Conduct

2005-01-07 Thread Robin Abrahams
Ha! This is great, Stephen. (Incidentally, another TIPSter and I weresaying nice things behind your back yesterday.) Sorry not to have much of a witty riposte but it's been a mad day of correspondence and my wit is ebbing low. On a Freudian note, though--my husband is also a newspaper columnist

RE: A question for Ms. Conduct

2005-01-07 Thread Rick Froman
Couldnt Carol Gilligan actually sign on to a lot of the points in Siggie F.s first paragraph below (except that I doubt she would use the term super-ego)? Rick Dr. Rick Froman Professor of Psychology John Brown University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 (479) 524-7295 e-mail: [EMAIL