The Nonsense Bazaar is a bravely paranoid, neon-colored voyage into irrationality and the imaginal by way of conspiracies, cults, UFOs, magic, mysticism, and the secret history of our silly world.
Ever wondered if your mind can do more than ruin your life? Did you know at one time you could get a degree in ESP and psychokinesis? This week we’re taking a broad overview of the real world of academic parapsychology. From the married-botanists-turned-married-parapsychologists J.B. and Louisa Rhine and the founding of the Duke University Parapsychology lab to the 21st-century psychic experiments at the Rhine Research Center, and testing our own psychic powers, we couldn’t really decide what this episode is really about. Call it Parapsychology 101. Can we really create photons with our brains? Do our unmet psychological needs make reality suck more? We address these questions and much more.
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