Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!wanginst!ulowell!mind!dean From: dean@mind.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.psi Subject: psi research vs witchcraft Message-ID: <429@mind.UUCP> Date: Sun, 28-Dec-86 22:11:58 EST Article-I.D.: mind.429 Posted: Sun Dec 28 22:11:58 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 29-Dec-86 03:40:01 EST Sender: rickheit@ulowell.UUCP Organization: Cognitive Science, Princeton University Lines: 8 Approved: rickheit@ulowell.UUCP I hope that readers of this newsgroup realize that there is a vast difference between academic parapsychology and the practice of witchcraft and other occult arts. The former is a scientific discipline, no different in principle than experimental psychology or physics; the latter is essentially a belief system. Whether there are any legitimate connections between occult beliefs and claims and the small magnitude, statistical psi effects as revealed in the laboratory, remains to be seen.