Abstract

Reports on analyses conducted by the Koestler Chair of Parapsychology at the University of Edinburgh using their automated free-response testing system to examine whether variations in geomagnetic activity and ESP performance within an automated ganzfeld system are related. These analyses used the results from a 97 trial ganzfeld-psi experiment with artistically or musically creative participants, designed to examine the role of the sender. Results of this study were 32 hits in 97 trials, for a hit rate of 33%, which is just statistically significant. Ranks were divided into 2 groups of being either a Hit (rank of 1), or No Hit (rank of 2, 3, or 4), and compared using a Kolmogorov-Smirnov two-sample test of the 2 groups. Results replicate and extend the conclusions of other analyses in finding a significant relationship between the geomagnetic field and ESP success on days of low global geomagnetic activity.