Abstract

In a previous ESP experiment with a selected S, the significant scoring was focused upon particular targets. The test procedure involved repeated attempts to say whether the white or green sides of cards sealed in opaque envelopes and further enclosed in opaque outer covers were presented upwards. The results obtained in this further study led to the tentative conclusions: (1) the focusing upon a particular target is fairly constant; (2) when envelopes with their enclosed cards are shifted among the outer covers, focusing follows the envelopes; (3) results of interchanging "good" and "bad" cards among their envelopes suggest that both parts of the target are involved in focusing; (4) simply reversing the position of the card in its own envelope may affect the focusing phenomenon in some significant way. The fact that focusing to such a striking degree occurs at all indicates either that S is using ESP to identify "poor" cards in order to bypass them or that the favored target itself is effective in some way not yet identified.