First Sight Theory with Jim Carpenter

James C. Carpeter, PhD, is among the last living students of J. B. Rhine, the founder of American parapsychology. He is a former Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. He is author of First Sight: ESP and Parapsychology in Everyday Life.

This interview focuses primarily on how extrasensory perception and psychokinesis operate in all individuals all of the time.

00:00 Introduction
08:03 Psychological basis of psi
14:46 The role of psychokinesis
19:29 Alfred North Whitehead
22:32 Entanglement
26:34 Subliminal Perception
34:47 Psychological priming
46:23 Random and pseudorandom
48:09 The illusion of control
50:22 Conclusion

New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death.

(Recorded on December 10, 2022)

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