Abstract

Discusses possible reasons for the nonsignificant findings of the authors' replication study (1999) of their earlier study (1998) concerning the paranormal effects of the process of the Chinese book of divination, the I Ching. In the 1999 study, significant hitting on the hexagram task and a significant correlation between changing lines and answers to a paranormal belief question were replicated, but no predicted parapsychological correlations with transliminality or personality were observed. The samples of the 1998 and 1999 studies were combined where feasible to explain the nonsignificant results. Results show in the combined sample that there was significant hitting, a return to a significant transliminality-hitting correlation, a return to 5 significant correlations between hitting and personality factors, and significant correlations between transliminality and 5 personality factors. It is concluded that the effects of hitting and its correlates are consistent with the notion that exosomatic psychopraxia was operating.