Case file · Remote viewing & psi research

Persinger's 'God helmet', Sudbury

At Laurentian University, Michael Persinger stimulated volunteers' temporal lobes with weak magnetic fields and reported that many felt a 'sensed presence'; he also linked UFO waves to tectonic strain.

1987 CE · 46.47, -80.97 · status: disputed

The sceptical view

A 2005 Swedish double-blind replication found the effect depended on suggestibility, not the fields.

Sources

  1. Wikipedia: God helmet
  2. Wikipedia: Michael Persinger
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