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| '''The Sense of Being Stared At'''<ref>{{cite book|title=The Sense of Being Stared At|first=Rupert|last=Sheldrake|date=2003|publisher=Crown|isbn=0-609-60807-X}}</ref> is 2003 book by ]. | |||
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| == Synopsis == | |||
| Sheldrake is a UK scientist whose theory of ]s is considered to be a ] by many recognized scientists in specific disciplines. The book is primarily an exposition of this theory with a presentation of the experimental examination of the specific titular phenomenon as support. | |||
| The neologism "seventh sense" is introduced to contrast to the normal connotation of "sixth sense" a "sixth sense" which is grounded is some speculative scientific semi-hypothesis, in this case, morphogenic fields. Chapters 8 and 11 summarize the phenonmenon in question and the experimental results found by the author respectively. | |||
| == The Phenomenon Itself (Ch. 8) == | |||
| Begins with stories of persons who claimed that the phenomenon saved their lives. Authors surveys and those of others give ranges of 70 to ninety percent of respondents claiming personal experience of it. Various literary examples are cited. | |||
| ''Sensing the Direction From Which the Gaze is Coming'' | |||
| Author cites 97% incidence of directionality in his case study database and recounts various anecdotal testimony for same. | |||
| ''Making People Turn Around'' | |||
| Similar to previous, 83% incidence of report of effectiveness in producing a reaction in the person stared at. | |||
| ''Sensitivity of Different Parts of the Body'' | |||
| Anecdotal reports of specificity of the phenomenon to a focus on a particular part of the body of the person stared at. | |||
| ''The Details of Peoples Experiences'' | |||
| A summary of various details of the phenomenon such as type of person stared at, nature of the interest on the part of the person who stares, etc. presented in Appendix B. | |||
| '' Objections '' | |||
| Three standard counter arguments: | |||
| # Dismissal of the phenomenon as superstition. | |||
| # Subtle but ordinary clues (not requiring operation of any more than 5 senses). | |||
| # Combination of blind chance and selectivity. | |||
| == The Experimental Results (Ch. 11 )== | |||
| ''Prior Studies'' | |||
| The first studies by E. B. Tichener and J. Edgar Coover<ref>{{cite journal|last=Coover|first=J.E.|issue=24|pages=570-5|journal=American Journal of Psychology|date=1913|title=The feeling of being stared at}}</ref> gave negative results, i.e. confirmed one or more of the counter arguments. | |||
| ''Authors Research'' | |||
| The essential design of the authors experiments contrast chance reporting in the case where no one is actually staring vs. the staring case, in a manner similar to other ] experiments as refined based on his own experimental designs and those of others. | |||
| ''Pattern of Results'' | |||
| The difference between the control case and the live one generally are a statistically significant 10% by the authors work, those of others, and even under a reanalysis of the Prior Studies to the design framework. | |||
| == Outline == | |||
| * Part I: Telepathy | |||
| * Part II: The Power of Attention | |||
| * Part III: Remote Viewing and Foreshadowings of the Future | |||
| * Part Iv: How Does the Seventh Sense Work? | |||
| == Notes == | |||
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