Volume 2, Issue 1, 2010
Editors:  Jennifer Moore and Mark A. Schroll, Ph.D.
"Possibly the biggest obstacle to the progress of science at the present time is that our whole civilization is so neurotically suspicious of anything remotely suggestive of the supernatural. This actually affects believers in the supernatural by bogging them down in unproductive defensive arguments as much as it affects nonbelievers. The irony is that this suspiciousness is widely considered to be rational and 'scientific,' whereas it is actually the very opposite, that is, highly emotional and quite out of tune with the general spirit of modern science." John Wren-Lewis, 1974, "Resistance to the Study of the Paranormal." J. Humanistic Psychology, 14 (2), 41-48.

Several years later in a coffee house near the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on November 4, 2004, having a conversation with Stanley Krippner, he clarified the views expressed by John Wren-Lewis. Telling me, "My feelings about psi phenomena are that they're alleged interactions between organisms and other organisms, or organisms and their environment that appear to violate mainstream science concepts of space, time and energy. Furthermore psi phenomena apparently exist, but they are not supernatural, they are natural; they are not paranormal, they are normal. They're anomalies; we just haven't figured out how they fit into the scheme of things." Stanley Krippner, 2004.

This quote and other views by Krippner are forthcoming in "The Physics of Psi: An Interview with Stanley Krippner" by Mark A. Schroll, Transpersonal Psychology Review, 14 (1), 2010

Table of Contents

Waterfall1 Editorial Overview: New Beginnings and Reassessment
Mark A. Schroll, Ph.D.
 We begin this issue by calling attention to our new direction and name Rhine Online: Psi-News Magazine. We also want to announce in this issue our call for contributions and our corresponding Submission Guidelines.Contributors interested in publishing an article in Rhine Online can now contact our Editors by writing to us at Mark@Rhine.org, and Jennifer@Rhine.org. We look forward to hearing from you. Read more...

2 Recent Events at the Rhine Research Center
Jennifer Moore, Co-Editor Rhine Online
 Since our last issue things have been hopping at the Rhine, as usual. The late fall and early winter is naturally a time of introspection and stillness, and throughout this time Rhine presenters have inspired audience members to delve within and trust the body’s innate knowledge as well as tap into our individual ability to connect with the greater consciousness. Read more...

3 Call for Volunteers/Psi Experiment
Christine Simmonds-Moore, Ph.D.
 Subjective paranormal experiences often occur against a backdrop of “randomness” – e.g., telling the future by reading the tea leaves, crystal and mirror gazing and hearing electronic voice phenomena of apparently discarnate spirits amid static. An experiment is currently being run at the Rhine Research Center which explores personality differences in the tendencies to see patterns and pictures in noise and detect weak normal information (a real object that has been degraded in quality or a very quiet word that has been embedded in auditory noise) and extrasensory information (targets which have been selected by the computer but which are not actually presented). Read more...

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