PERSONAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE USE OF THE FOUR-STATE ELECTRONIC RANDOM STIMULUS GENERATOR

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PERSONAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE USE OF THE FOUR-STATE
ELECTRONIC RANDOM STIMULUS GENERATOR "
The following notes are based solely upon my experience and I there-
fore make no claim that they are generalizable to other persons. Since
I 'am still learning about ESP phenomena, I am confident that additional
work in this area will expand, modify, and refine the perceptual processes
discussed below. While I have tried to describe these experiential
processes with as much precision as possible, the use of seemingly precise
language should not leave the impression that the perceptions themselves
were equally precise. To the contrary, I found these perceptions to be
delicate, transient and ephemeral--and yet, at the same time--and somewhat
surprisingly--unmistakably real.
1. Perceptual Processes
Working with the ESP machine proved to be a venture into unfamiliar.
perceptual territory which functioned according to new and different
rules. It took some time (five hours or so with the ESP machine) to begin
to learn not only which perceptual processes would work but, equally
important which would not work. There was clearly a learning process
in finding those delicate and subtle internal cues that would allow me
to make perceptually based choices. After approximately 1000 trials
with the ESP machine, five dominant perceptual modes emerged. Subsequent
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