Numerous mediumship studies (e.g., Beischel & Schwartz, 2007; Kelly & Arcangel, 2011; Rock, Beischel, Boccuzzi, & Bisuso, 2014) have reported statistically significant results and, thus, suggest that various contemporary mediums are able to demonstrate anomalous information reception (AIR) under laboratory conditions. Importantly, however, such studies are unable to address the source of mediums’ AIR. Indeed, the source-of-psi problem (survival-psi and living agent psi being the most likely contenders) cannot be resolved using current methodologies (Beischel, 2012). However, innovative mediumship-testing techniques may (...) produce results that indicate a convergence towards one alternative or another (Jamieson & Rock, 2014). We present the methodology of one such test focused on investigating whether mediums, who work with well-rehearsed but ‘blind’ proxy-sitters, create telepathic links that we refer to as dyad-telepathy, thereby producing response sets that indicate the psi source is unlikely to be a discarnate entity. (shrink)

It is generally supposed by psychical researchers that evidence suggestive of consciousness surviving bodily death would always be compatible with the so-called 'super-psi hypothesis', according to which living-agent psi is wholly responsible for the evidence. In this paper, I argue that, granted how super-psi is supposed to work, a case can be made for certain near-death experience cases to be incompatible with the super-psi hypothesis. From such a base, the explanatory impasse between the super-psi hypothesis and the survival hypothesis can (...) be broken. Keywords: near-death experiences, NDEs, super-psi, mind-body dualism, survival, consciousness. (shrink)