jonathan180iq
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Ok - So all I'm asking you to do is provide some level of evidence other than an apologetic book written by a known parapsychologist.Some of these spontaneous emanations have been under controlled watch and no fraud was ever detected.
If I told you I could throw a baseball all the way to the moon, would you not then ask me to prove it? Wouldn't you want more proof than a book written by someone who already believes people can throw baseballs to the moon?
The videos are lame if you are looking for them to provide strong evidence for the paranormal. What is not lame is the Haroldsson book and the personal experiences of hundreds of regular folk. The Haroldsson book does the only thorough investigation of the paranormal aspects of this figure. His musings (as you put it ) include serious investigations, interviews and follow-up interviews (looking for story changing, etc.). He is acknowledge as a top-notch veteran researcher (except on Wikipedia and skeptic sites).
I'm not discounting his book because of some Wikipedia comments. I'm discounting it because he's a known parapsychologist...
http://archived.parapsych.org/members/e_haraldsson.html
Spontaneous psychic phenomena and folk-beliefs: National surveys and national differences
- Erlendur Haraldsson (1985). Representative national surveys of psychic phenomena: Iceland, Great Britain, Sweden, USA and Gallups multinational survey. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 53, 145-158.
- Erlendur Haraldsson and Joop M. Houtkooper (1991). Psychic Experiences in the Multinational Human Values Study. Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research. 85(2), 145-165.
- Erlendur Haraldsson & Joop Houtkooper (1996). Traditional Christian beliefs, spiritualism and the paranormal: An Icelandic-American Comparison. International Journal for the Psychology of Religion., 6(1), 51-64.
- Karlis Osis & Erlendur Haraldsson (1997). At the Hour of Death. (Third Edition). Norwalk, CT: Hastings House
- Erlendur Haraldsson (1987). The Iyengar-Kirti case. An apparitional case of the by-stander type.Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 54, 64-67.
- Erlendur Haraldsson (1988-89). Survey of claimed encounters with the dead. Omega, the Journal of Death and Dying, 19(2), 103-11
- Erlendur Haraldsson (1991). Children claiming past-life memories: Four cases in SriLanka. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 5(2), 233-262.
- Erlendur Haraldsson. (1997). Psychological comparison between ordinary children and those who claim previous-life memories. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 11, 323-335.
- Erlendur Haraldsson and Godwin Samararatne (1999). Children who speak of memories of a previous life as a Buddhist monk: Three new cases. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research,63(857), 268-291.
- Erlendur Haraldsson (2000). Birthmarks and claims of previous life memories I. The case of Purnima Ekanayake. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 64(858), 16-25.
- Erlendur Haraldsson (2000). Birthmarks and claims of previous life memories II. The case of Chatura Karunaratne. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. 64 (859), 82-92.
- Erlendur Haraldsson, Patrick Fowler & Vimala Periyannanpillai (2000). Psychological Characteristics of Children Who Speak of a Previous Life: A Further Field Study in Sri LankaTranscultural Psychiatry, 37, 525-544.
- Erlendur Haraldsson and Majd Abu-Izzeddin (2002). Development of Certainty about the Correct Deceased Person in a Case of the Reincarnation Type: The Case of Nazih Al-Danaf. Journal of Scientific Exploration. 16(3), 363-380.
- Erlendur Haraldsson (in press). Children who speak of past-life experiences: Is there a psychological explanation? Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory Research and Practice.
- Erlendur Haraldsson and Orn Olafsson (1980). A survey of psychic healing in Iceland. The Christian Parapsychologist, 3, 276-79.
- Erlendur Haraldsson (1994). Research on alternative therapies in Iceland. In H. Johannessen, L. Launsö, S. G. Olesen & F. Staugård (Eds.), Studies in alternative therapy 1 (pp. 46-50) Gylling, Denmark: Odense University Press.
- Erlendur Haraldsson. (1994). Spiritual healing in Iceland - results of a survey. In H. Johannessen, L. Launsö, S. G. Olesen & F. Staugård (Eds.), Studies in alternative therapy 1 (pp. 103-113) Gylling, Denmark: Odense University Press.
- Erlendur Haraldsson and Karlis Osis (1977). The appearance and disappearance of objects in the presence of Sri Sathya Sai Baba. Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 71, 33-43.
- Erlendur Haraldsson (1988). Modern Miracles. An investigative report on psychic phenomena associated with Sri Sathya Sai Baba. New York: Ballantine Books, 304 pp. (USA edition of "Miracles are my visiting cards".)
- Erlendur Haraldsson & Joop M. Houtkooper (1994). Report of an Indian swami claiming to materialize objects: The value and limitations of field observations. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 8(3), 381-397.
- Wiseman, R. & Haraldsson E. (1995) Investigating Macro-PK in India: Swami Premananda. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 60(839) 193-202.
- Erlendur Haraldsson & Richard Wiseman (1995). Reactions to and assessment of a videotape on Sathya Sai Baba. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 60(839) 203-213.
- Erlendur Haraldsson & Richard Wiseman (1996). Two investigations of ostensible macro-PK in India. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 61(843) 109-113.
- Erlendur Haraldsson (1978). ESP and the Defense Mechanism Test (DMT). A further validation.European Journal of Parapsychology, 2, 104-114.
- Martin Johnson and Erlendur Haraldsson (1984). The Defence Mechanism Test as a predictor of ESP scores. Journal of Parapsychology. 48, 185-200.
- Erlendur Haraldsson, Joop M. Houtkooper and Claudia Hoeltje (1987). The Defense Mechanism Test as a predictor of ESP performance. Icelandic study VII and meta-analysis of thirteen experiments. Journal of Parapsychology, 51, 75-90.
- Erlendur Haraldsson & Joop Houtkooper (1995). Meta-analysis of ten experiments on perceptual defensiverrness and ESP: ESP scoring patterns, experimenter and decline effects.. Journal of Parapsychology, 59(3) 251-271.
- Erlendur Haraldsson, Joop M. Houtkooper, Rainer Schneider and Martin Bäckström (2002). Perceptual Defensiveness and ESP Performance:Reconstructed DMT-Ratings and Psychological Correlates in the First German DMT-ESP Experiment. Journal of Parapsychology. 66(3), 249-270
- Michael A. Thalbourne and Erlendur Haraldsson (1980). Personality characteristics of sheep and goats. Personality and individual differences, 1, 180-185.
- Erlendur Haraldsson (1981). Some determinants of belief in psychical phenomena. Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 75, 297-309.
- Erlendur Haraldsson and Joop M. Houtkooper (1992). The effects of perceptual defensiveness, personality and belief on extrasensory perception tasks. Personality and individual differences, 13(10), 1085-1096.
- Erlendur Haraldsson (1993). Are religiosity and belief in an afterlife better predictors of ESP performance than belief in psychic phenomena? Journal of Parapsychology. 57, 259-273.
- Erlendur Haraldsson (1970). Subject selection in a machine precognition test. Journal of Parapsychology, 34, 182-191.
- Erlendur Haraldsson (1980). Confirmation of the percipient-order effect in a plethysmographic study of ESP. Journal of Parapsychology, 44, 105-124.
- Erlendur Haraldsson and Loftur Reimar Gissurarson (1985). Perceptual defensivenes, ganzfeld and the percipient-order effect. European Journal of Parapsychology, 6, 1-17.
You've spent 25 years studying this stuff and you don't have a single problem with his obvious conflict on interest? Everything posted above, which plainl shows his bias towards these types of studies and was not written by these guerrilla skeptics, was found on just the second link after Googling his name. And yet his book is the BEST evidence you have for the miraculous powers of this Sai Baba character? You don't any problem with that at all?