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On Being Stoned
Charles T. Tart, Ph. D.
Chapter 10. Ostensible Paranormal Phenomena (ESP)
PHENOMENA PURPORTING to be paranormal in nature—i.e., involving the transmission of information
(extrasensory perception, ESP) or power (psychokinesis, PK) across space or time when known physical
carriers would not be operative—were often reported in pilot interviews with marijuana users, so a number of
questions were devoted to this in the main study. A questionnaire study can only deal with ostensible
paranormal phenomena, i.e., with phenomena that the experiencers themselves judge to be paranormal.
Whether such phenomena would appear to be genuinely paranormal in terms of laboratory standards is
unknown; judging by previous studies of self-reported ESP instances (Anonymous, 1958; Green, 1960, 1966;
Gurney, Myers, & Podmore, 1886; Membership Committee, American Society for Psychical Research, 1967;
Prasad and Stevenson, 1968; Sidgwick et al., 1894), some of the ostensible ESP would be discounted by a
scientific investigator and some would turn out to be well evidenced and worthy of investigation. Thus the
figures given below for paranormal phenomena are probably too high in terms of actual paranormal
phenomena, 1] but do reflect the incidence of ostensible paranormal phenomena in our 150 marijuana users. It
is, of course, the experiencer's own judgment of the paranormality of an experience that may radically alter his
belief system, not the judgment of a hypothetically expert scientist. Thus ostensible paranormal phenomena are
an important aspect of marijuana intoxication.
First, it should be noted that most of the users (76 percent) believe in the reality of ESP; their responses to
the question, "I believe in the existence of extrasensory perception (ESP), i.e., that people can sometimes
acquire knowledge about things happening at a distance in space or time, or about other people's thoughts,
when there is no possibility of this knowledge having been acquired through the known senses (sight, hearing,
etc.)" are tabulated in Table 10-1.
TABLE 10-1
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BELIEF IN ESP
LEVEL OF BELIEF
PERCENTAGE
OF USERS
Believe strongly 46%
Believe somewhat 30%
Haven't made up my mind 15%
Disbelieve somewhat 6%
Disbelieve strongly 3%
No response 1%
MAJOR EFFECTS
Telepathy
A specific question dealing with marijuana experiences was "I feel so aware of what people are thinking that
it must be telepathy, mind reading, rather than just being more sensitive to the subtle cues in the behavior."
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