Abstract

Among the Duke collection of more than 10,000 spontaneous parapsychical cases, 178 were found that involved unexplained physical happenings that seemed to be related to a personal crisis occurring at a distance. The person undergoing the crisis is designated the "target person," while the one observing the unexplained physical disturbance is called the "experiencing person." Analysis of the cases suggests that the latter is the one actively responsible, presumably producing the physical effect parapsychically as a representation of the remote crisis.