The Trickster and the Paranormal

by George P. Hansen

  12 Ibid. p. 103.

  13

  Epstein, 1989, p. 45.

  14

  Perot-noia by Laurence I. Barrett and Richard Woodbury, Time, November 9, 1992, p. 28.

  15 Emery, 1994.

  16 Toch, 1965, p. 62.

  Ehrenwald is another immigrant (boundary crosser) who did innovative work in parapsychology. For some brief biographical material on him see Pilking-

  ton, 1987.

  18 Ehrenwald, 1948, p. 123.

  19

  9 Ibid. p. 147.

  20

  Palmer, 1992.

  21

  See Eisenbud, 1946/1953; Irwin, 1989; LeShan, 1966; Tart 1982, 1984,

  1986; Tart and Labore, 1986; Wren-Lewis, 1974.

  22

  Both social masking theory and primal conflict repression theory involve blocking awareness of deception, deception that is generally healthy and adaptive.

  Here again a linkage is seen between deception and psi.

  23

  For a more in-depth psychoanalytic discussion, see Mother-Child Symbiosis: Cradle of ESP by Jan Ehrenwald (1971).

  Chapter 26—Conclusions

  1 Telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and micro-PK do not seem to degrade as distance increases. Macro-PK does appear to be attenuated by distance. Very few macro-PK events occur more than a few meters from the PK agent.

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