Keith Hearne - Parapsychological Research

Parapsychological Research

Hearne has had 18 scientific papers published in the area of parapsychology (listed below), and a book (Visions of the Future). Initially he conducted laboratory experiments using visually evoked responses (which can detect minute consistent brain-reactions to stimuli) in that field, with positive and negative results. He was the first person to study lucid dreams and ESP in the laboratory. Later he switched to the area of precognition. Among his findings was that females tend to be more prone to experiencing premonitions. Correlational analyses showed that the earlier the females had their first premonition, the more offspring they had in life. Hearne proposed a ‘group replenishment theory’, in that in the early stages of human evolution, a young female child who was able to experience future information, would give advance warning, evade a negative event, and subsequently boost the population again for the tribe. From his data-base, Hearne identified a seemingly very accurate sub-group of precognition - ‘media-announcement premonitions’ - whereby, typically, a person sees or hears (say from a TV programme, radio news item, or newspaper placard) an item of news that is mystifyingly not repeated, but appears days later in the usual way. The event had not happened at the time of the newscast. Hearne studied seemingly gifted ‘seers’ and investigated their specific premonitions. He also conducted a survey of reported premonitions, and a personality assessment of those who have them. On the DVD ‘Premonition’, in the ‘Bonus items’, Hearne is interviewed about the topic.