God helmet

Michael Persinger, the Canadian psychology professor (Laurentian University, in Ontario) responsible for popularizing the 'God Helmet', died on August 14th of 2018. The nature of his work was well within the traditions of parapsychology, as the name of the device might immediately suggest to the reader. He was not too modest to publish work on quantum physics in vanity journals, for instance.

However, he should at least be credited for producing research that invited the test of replication, rather than evading it, even though attempts to replicate his findings have failed to date.

Doesn’t this fall under the same category as electro-allergy? Weak EM field causing sensory effects in people’s brains.

From what I undestand the keyword arguments against it are “non-ionizing radiation” and “nocebo effect”.

With a bluetooth connection and a nice soft diffuse texture, I could sell lots of these in Cali for 1k a piece. With some Chopra co-branding, 2k.

huh. hadn’t thought about this since 2007: https://slashdot.org/thread/20895057

i remember those comments as being relatively sane.

One wonders just how this will proceed once it gets out of the 'junk science' phase of cargo-cultism, and becomes some kind of valid means of investigating the spiritual realm posited by various and sundry new-age religions. The especially jarring statement that participants could perceive 'angels', or 'groups of beings in clusters' is highly alarming in the context of some of the more controversial religions which aim to enlighten their followers on the negative effects such things can have on ones life ..