Additional Measures - Chapter 21 (Clinical Parapsychology: Extrasensory Exceptional Experiences - Graduate-Level Textbook)

21 ADDITIONAL MEASURES Measures Exclusively for Extrasensory Research Differential Interviews for ESP The following differential interviews for telepathic, clairvoyant, and psychic empathic experiences were developed by the author, were utilized in private practice, an can be utilized as clinicianrated/assisted self-reports, informant-reports, or clinician-reports that can assesses veridical extrasensory phenomenology against wellknown symptoms of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders (i.e. phenomenology versus symptomology). These measures were designed to assist clinicians in identifying veridical extrasensory experiences versus purported extrasensory experiences with psychotic features. These measures are partly inspired by the Telepathy and Paranormal Interview (TPI) developed by Greyson (1977), an openended 25-item interview given to all patients admitted into psychiatric services at the University of Virginia Hospital during a 3-month period. The TPI is comprised of 8 questions to assess the extent of psychic experiences, 8 questions designed to elicit Schneider’s First Rank Symptoms of Schizophrenia related to paranormal experiences (i.e. auditory hallucinations somatic hallucination, passivity experiences, delusional perception, and thought withdrawal, insertion, and broadcasting), and 8 questions from the MMPI F Scale (Validity Scale), and 1 screening question for the study that inquiries into the patient’s claims of telepathic ability. The results of this study found that Schneider’s first rank symptoms discriminated schizophrenics more reliably than other paranormal experiences. In addition, schizophrenic

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patients subscribed to each of the MMPI F Scale items more frequently than non-schizophrenics.

Frequency of Use These measures were designed to be utilized during psychological or psychiatric intake to assist in determining the best course of patient treatment. These measures are not designed to track change in psychotic symptoms over time, but may be useful for this purpose.

Telepathic Experiences Differential Interview - (TEDI) The TEDI is a 16-item measure consisting of (9) questions to identify Schneider’s First Rank Symptoms of Schizophrenia (FRS) (e.g. thought insertion, though withdrawal, thought broadcasting, etc.), and (2) questions from the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory F Scale (MMPI). Both of these sets of questions are included because they can assist the clinician in identifying abnormal factors and these questions have been slightly altered in a manner that negates veridical telepathic phenomenology. In addition, the measure includes (5) questions that pertain to veridical telepathic phenomena that are labeled as signs of “Possible Telepathy” (PT). In private practice, the measure has yielded consistent results and validity. However, further testing of this measure’s reliability and validity are required.

Example: Self-Report

1.

Do you ever feel that strangers are inserting thoughts into your mind that you know are not your own? (FRS:TI)

2.

Do you ever feel that someone is forcing you do things by hypnotizing you? (MMPI)

3.

Do you ever vividly hear your thoughts spoken aloud, almost as if someone nearby could hear them? (FRS: AH)

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Do you ever feel your thoughts are being broadcasted or transmitted, so that even strangers know exactly what you are thinking? (FRS: TB)

5.

Do you ever feel that your thoughts are somewhat influencing people you know to do or think what you need them to do or think? (PT:TI)

6.

Do you ever feel that your thoughts or emotions are somewhat influencing people you know to think or feel like you? (PT:TS/ES)

7.

Do you ever feel as if your thoughts were being stolen, so that your mind is a complete blank? (FRS: TW)

8.

Are there people who are trying to steal your thoughts and ideas? (MMPI)

9.

Do you ever feel that the thoughts or emotions of people you know are somewhat influencing you to think or feel like them? (PT:TS/ES)

10. Do you ever vividly hear someone talking to you in your own mind, as though they are standing right next to you, or are on the phone with you? (FRS: AH) 11. Do you ever seem to faintly hear the thoughts of people you know in your own mind? (PT: TC) 12. Do you ever vividly hear other people in your own mind that are talking to each other, as though they are standing right next to you, or are on the phone with you? (FRS: AH) 13. Do you ever vividly hear someone in your own mind that is continuously commenting negatively on everything that you do? (FRS: AH) 14. Does some external force make you do or say things that you do not intend, as though you were a robot without a will of your own? (FRS: MV) 15. Are some persons or group of people telepathically experimenting on you, or controlling your thoughts, feelings, impulses, or behavior without your permission? (FRS:MV/MF/MI) 16. Do you occasionally have dreams where you later find out someone you know well also had the same dream, at the same time? (PT:TS:D)

Special Note: Some of these items have been slightly altered to include inaccurate telepathic phenomenology and elaboration to assist in

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differentiation. FRS: Schneider’s First Rank Symptoms of Schizophrenia (AH: Auditory Hallucinations), (TI: Thought Insertion), (TB: Thought Broadcasting), (TW: Thought Withdrawal), (MV: Made Volition), (MF: Made Feeling), (MI: Made Impulse). MMPI: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory F Scale Items. PT: Possible Telepathy (TC: Telepathic Cognition, TI: Telepathic Interaction, TS: Telepathic Simulation [D: Telepathic Simulation Dream]).

Scoring and Interpretation Each item on the measure is answered by a “yes” or a “no” and can include a 5-point scale (0 = none or not at all; 1 = slight or rarely, less than a day or two; 2 = mild or several days; 3 = moderate or more than half the days; and 4 = severe or nearly every day). Any questions answered “yes” or that receives a rating of slight (i.e. 1) or greater from the FRS or MMPI serves as an indication of psychotic features or the presence of experience intensity exaggeration (i.e. vivid quality vs. faint or fragmented quality). Any PT questions answered “yes” should be viewed as a possible sign of veridical telepathic experiences and not as psychotic symptoms. However, any PT questions answered “yes” in conjunction with questions answered “yes” from the FRS or MMPI should be dismissed, at least until treatment has completely resolved psychotic symptoms, if applicable (i.e. acute psychosis).

Clairvoyant Experiences Differential Interview - (CEDI) The CEDI is a 44-item measure consisting of (8) questions to identify Schneider’s First Rank Symptoms of Schizophrenia (FRS) (e.g. thought insertion, though withdrawal, thought broadcasting, etc.), (11) questions from the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), (6) questions from the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES), and (2) questions from a mail survey utilized in Greyson, 1977 (MSQ) in combination with various aforementioned question types. In regard to the FRS and MMPI, both of these sets of questions are included because they can assist the clinician in identifying abnormal factors, and these

questions have been slightly altered in a manner that negates veridical clairvoyant phenomenology. In addition, the measure includes (17)

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questions that pertain to veridical clairvoyant phenomena that are labeled as signs of “Possible Clairvoyance” (PC). In private practice, the measure has yielded consistent results and validity. However, further testing of this measure’s reliability and validity are required. Example: Self-Report

1.

Do you ever feel your thoughts are being broadcasted or transmitted, so that even strangers know exactly what you are thinking? (FRS: TB)

2.

Do you ever feel other people’s thoughts and feelings are being broadcasted or transmitted, so that you vaguely know what people you know are thinking and feeling? (PC:CC:AD)

3.

Do you often vividly and clearly hear voices without knowing where they came from? (MMPI: AH)

4.

Do peculiar orders come to you at times that have no source or reason to be smelt? (MMPI: PDIS)

5.

Do you ever feel as though you know what is currently going on at a remote location, or what a person is doing at a remote location, and you later find out you were right? (PC:CC:RV)

6.

Do you ever feel like you were looking at the world through a fog so that people or objects appear far away or unclear? (DES)

7.

Do you ever vividly see, hear, or get touched by someone other people cannot see, that seem as real to you as the people others can see? (MSQ: A:/DES/FRS:SP)

8.

Do you feel that evil spirits or ghosts wish to kill you? (MMPI: PD/SO)

9.

Do you see living things, animals, or people clearly in front of you that other people do not see? (MMPI: VH)

10. Do you occasionally have communications with the dead, such as receiving bits and pieces of different types of information, such as fragmented images or sentences (example: images of objects or people, or names and dates.) that are trying to gain your assistance? (PC:CC:MM) 11. Do you occasionally touch objects and suddenly know certain aspects of the object’s history that you could not have known, and later find to be

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accurate? (PC: CC:RC/P) 12. Do you ever feel that entities or spirits are forceful inserting thoughts into your mind that you know are not your own? (FRS:TI) 13. Do you ever vividly hear someone talking to you in your own mind, as though they are standing right next to you, or are on the phone with you? (FRS: AH) 14. Do you occasionally and faintly hear someone friendly talking to you inside your own mind? (PC:CC:SG/MM) 15. Do you ever vividly and clearly hear someone in your own mind that is continuously commenting negatively on everything that you do in a harsh, threatening, or non-constructively critical manner? (FRS: AH) 16. Do you feel that your spirit guide often punishes or causes you unnecessary suffering without cause? (MMPI:PI) 17. Do you ever feel as though you have a guardian angel watching over and protecting you from harm? (PC:CC) 18. Do you ever feel like people, objects, and the world around you are not real? (DES) 19. Do you ever feel that an entity or spirit is forcing you do things by hypnotizing you? (MMPI:F) 20. Do you ever feel as if your thoughts were being stolen by an evil spirit or entity, so that your mind is a complete blank? (FRS: TW) 21. Evil spirits possess me at times without my permission. (MMPI:PD) 22. Have you had attacks where you could not control your movements or speech, but you knew what was going on around you? (MMPI:PDIS) 23. Do you have blank spells where your activities were interrupted and you did not know what was going on around you? (MMPI:D) 24. Do you occasionally induce trance states and are able to successfully and constructively communicate with the dead? (PC:TM) 25. Have you ever induced a trance state and allowed a spirit or ghost to speak through you, while still maintaining control over the situation, and felt that you could end the communication at any time? (PC:TM) 26. Do you often find writings, drawings, or notes among your belongings

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that you must have done but cannot remember doing? (DES) 27. Do you ever feel that an entity or spirit is in complete control of your thoughts, feeling, impulses, or behavior? (FRS:MV/MF/MI) 28. Do you occasionally gain new information about a person or event through the practice of automatic writing or the Ouija (spirit) Board that turn out to be true? (PC:CI:A) 29. Do you ever feel like your body does not belong to you? (DES) 30. Do you ever feel like your thoughts are being deleted and replaced by the thoughts of an evil spirit? (FRS: TW/TI) 31. Does some external force make you do or say things that you do not intend, as though you were a robot without a will of your own? (FRS: MV) 32. Have you ever allowed a spirit or ghost to speak through you and accurately spoke with another vocabulary or in another language not known to you at the time? (PC:CI:X) 33. Have you ever allowed a spirit or ghost to act through you and suddenly obtained a physical skill that the spirit claimed to possess when they were still alive, and in which you lost when the communication was ended (example: the ability to produce exquisite art)? (PC:CI:X) 34. Have you ever felt you were able to initiate communication with a spirit that resulted in the spirit intelligently replying to your questions by knocking, rapping, making other noises, voices, materialized objects or spirit bodies, or the occurrence of levitation, and of which other persons other than yourself have witnessed? (PC:CI:PM) 35. Do you frequently hear strange and vivid noises that others do not hear or that you only hear when you are alone? (MMPI:AH) 36. Do you feel that you somehow have the ability to assist the spirits of the deceased in crossing-over into the afterlife? (PC:CI:PA) 37. Do you feel like spirits or people have been forcibly trying to take control of your mind? (MMPI:SO/PD) 38. Do you occasionally have really great ideas or solve very difficult problems, but are unsure how you were able to come to these ideas or solutions? (PC:CS:I)

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39. Do you feel that you have an abundance of good luck and strange, but positive, coincidences in your life? (PC:CS:I) 40. Do you ever feel that your thoughts or emotions are somewhat influencing events or people you know to accommodate you? (PC:CS:O) 41. Do you occasionally have dreams about a specific event, and only days after your dream, learn that what you dreamt really just happened? (PC:CC:PD) 42. Do you often find yourself unsure whether things you remember happening really did happen or whether you just dreamed them? (DES) 43. Do you occasionally feel as though you are standing next to yourself or watching yourself do something as though you were looking at another person? (DES) 44. Do you ever have the distinct feeling that your mind or soul is traveling outside of your physical body? (MSQ:OBE/MMPI/PC:OBE)

Special Note: Some of these items have been slightly altered to include inaccurate telepathic phenomenology and elaboration to assist in differentiation. In addition, some of these items have been slightly altered e.g. replacing “people” with “spirits” and some questions are combinations of similar questions from more than one measure. FRS: Schneider’s First Rank Symptoms of Schizophrenia (AH: Auditory Hallucinations), (TI: Thought Insertion), (TB: Thought Broadcasting), TW: Thought Withdrawal), MV: Made Volition), MF: Made Feeling), MI: Made Impulse), (SP: Somatic Passivity). PC: Possible Clairvoyance (CC: Clairvoyant Cognition [AD: with anxiety disorder}, {RV: Remote Viewing}, [MM: Mental Mediumship], [RC/P: Retro Cognition/Psychometry], (SG: Spirit Guide], [PD: Precognitive Dream]), (CI: Clairvoyant Interaction [TM: Trance Mediumship or Channeling], [A: Automatism], [X: Xenoglossy [PM: Physical Mediumship], [PA: Psychopompic Activity]), (CS: Clairvoyant Simulation [I: Input], [O: Output], [OBE: Out-ofBody Experience if no other dissociative scoring]). MMPI: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Items (AH: Auditory Hallucinations), (PDIS: Perceptual Disturbance), (PD: Paranormal Delusion), (SO: Suspicion of Others), (VH: Visual Hallucinations), (PI: Persecutory Ideas), (D: Dissociation), (F, F Scale). DES: Dissociative Experiences Scale Items. MSQ: Mail Survey Questions: (A: Apparition), (OBE: Out-of-Body Experience if no other dissociative scoring).

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Scoring and Interpretation Each item on the measure is answered by a “yes” or a “no” and can include a 5-point scale (0 = none or not at all; 1 = slight or rarely, less than a day or two; 2 = mild or several days; 3 = moderate or more than half the days; and 4 = severe or nearly every day). Any questions answered “yes” or that receives a rating of slight (i.e. 1) or greater from the FRS, MMPI, DES, or question number (7) serves as an indication of psychotic features or the presence of experience intensity exaggeration (i.e. vivid quality vs. faint or fragmented quality). Any PC questions answered “yes” should be viewed as the possible sign of veridical clairvoyant experiences and not as psychotic symptoms. However, any PC questions answered “yes” in conjunction with questions answered “yes” from the FRS, MMPI, DES, or question number (7) should be dismissed, at least until treatment has completely resolved psychotic symptoms, if applicable (i.e. acute psychosis). If only PC questions are answered “yes,” then question number (44) should be ignored.

Empathic Experiences Differential Interview - (EEDI) The EEDI is a 20-item measure consisting of (3) questions to identify Schneider’s First Rank Symptoms of Schizophrenia (FRS) (e.g. thought insertion, thought broadcasting, etc.), and (5) questions from the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality (MMPI). Both of these sets of questions are included because they can assist the clinician in identifying abnormal factors and these questions have been slightly altered in a manner that negates veridical empathic phenomenology. In addition, the measure includes (6.5) questions that pertain to veridical empathic phenomena that are labeled as signs of “Possible Psychic Empathy” (PPE), and (1) question that pertains to veridical telepathic phenomena labeled as signs of “Possible Telepathy” (PT). Lastly, there are (4.5) questions from the Emotional Contagion Scale (ECS) (Doherty, 1997), that can assist in differentiating non-psychic empathic experiences from psychic empathic experiences. In private practice, the measure has yielded consistent results and validity.

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However, further testing of this measure’s reliability and validity are required. Example: Self-Report

1.

Do you ever feel your emotions or thoughts are being broadcasted or transmitted, so that even strangers know exactly what you are feeling or thinking? (FRS: TB)

2.

Do you ever feel that your emotions are somewhat influencing the people you know to feel what you need them to feel? (PPE:EI)

3.

Do you ever feel that other people’s emotions are somewhat influencing you to feel like them? (PPE:ES:I)

4.

If a close friend or family member is feeling very anxious (example: going to a job interview or auditioning for a play), do you feel restless, shaky, nauseous, or short of breath? (PPE:ES:I)

5.

Are some persons or group of people empathically experimenting on you, or controlling your feelings, impulses, or behavior without your permission? (FRS:MV/MF/MI)

6.

Do you ever feel that your emotions are somewhat influencing people you know to feel like you? (PPE:ES:O)

7.

Do you feel as if something dreadful is about to happen several times a week? (MMPI:F/W)

8.

Do you feel blue most of the time? (MMPI:S)

9.

Do you ever vividly feel the emotions of others? (ECS/PPE:ES:I)

10. Do you often, even though everything is going fine for you, feel that you don’t care about anything? (MMPI:S) 11. Do you often get teary eyed if someone you are talking with begins to cry? (ECS) 12. Do you occasionally have dreams where you later find out someone you know well also had the same dream, at the same time? (PT:TS:D) 13. Does being with a happy person pick you up when you are feeling down? (ECS)

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14. Do you ever feel as though you have a talent for getting those around you on the same “wavelength” or on the same “page” as you? (PPE:ES:O) 15. Do you sometimes get so angry and upset that you don’t know what comes over you? (MMPI:I) 16. Do you notice yourself getting tense when you are around people who are stressed? (ECS) 17. Have you ever felt a sudden sense of fear or sorrow associated with a certain place (example: neighborhood, city, etc.), and soon after found out about a disaster affecting that exact same population? (PPE:EC) 18. Does watching the fearful faces of victims in the news make you try to imagine how they might be feeling? (ECS) 19. Do you ever feel that strangers are inserting emotions or thoughts into your mind that you know are not your own? (FRS:TI) 20. Do you ever feel that someone is forcing you feel or do things by hypnotizing you? (MMPI)

Special Note: Some of these items have been slightly altered to include inaccurate empathic phenomenology and elaboration to assist in differentiation. FRS: Schneider’s First Rank Symptoms of Schizophrenia (TB: Thought Broadcasting), (TI: Thought Insertion), (MV: Made Volition), (MF: Made Feeling), (MI: Made Impulse). MMPI: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory: F Scale Items and Dysfunctional Negative Emotion (I: Irritability), (F/W: Fear and Worry), (S: Sadness). PPE: Possible Psychic Empathy: (EI: Empathic Interaction), (ES: Empathic Simulation [I: Input], [O: Output], (EC: Empathic Cognition) (EMS: Emotional Sensitivity [indicative of a need for co-diagnosis]). PT: Possible Telepathy (TS: Telepathic Simulation [D: Dream]). ECS: Emotional Contagion Scale more associated with emotional than cognitive modes of non-psychical empathy.

Scoring and Interpretation Each item on the measure is answered by a “yes” or a “no” and can include a 5-point scale (0 = none or not at all; 1 = slight or rarely, less than a day or two; 2 = mild or several days; 3 = moderate or more than

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half the days; and 4 = severe or nearly every day). Any questions answered “yes” or that receives a rating of slight (i.e. 1) or greater from the FRS or question number (20) serves are an indication of psychotic features or the presence of experience intensity exaggeration (i.e. vivid quality vs. faint or fragmented quality). Any questions answered “yes” or that receives a rating of slight (i.e. 1) or greater from the MMPI: F/W/S/I serves as an indication of Dysfunctional Negative Emotion. Any PPE questions answered “yes” should be viewed as the possible sign of veridical empathic experiences and not as psychotic symptoms. If the PT question is answered “yes,” this should be viewed as the possible sign of veridical telepathic experiences and not as psychotic symptoms. However, any PPE or PT questions are answered “yes” in conjunction with questions answered “yes” from the FRS or question number (20) should be dismissed, at least until treatment has completely resolved psychotic symptoms, if applicable (i.e. acute psychosis). In addition, any ECS questions answered “yes” should be viewed as signs of emotional contagion rather than as psychic empathic experiences.

Final Note In regard to chronic psychosis, clinicians should weigh the pros and cons of acknowledging possible extrasensory perception and engaging patients in experimental studies. Cons include possible impediment in treatment goals and problems such as securing patient’s cooperation, the limiting effects of attentional problems, distractibility, autistic response, etc. along with the likelihood of negative scoring due to the high levels of anxiety associated with those suffering from various psychoses (Ullman, 1977). Clinical judgment should guide decision making in all cases.

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Psychical Profiling Assessment Basic – (PPA-B) The following 80-item assessment considers how one mentally, emotionally, and physically interacts with their environment and other individuals; whereby revealing how one psychically interacts with their environment and other individuals. This assessment identifies the most probable extrasensory phenomena the individual has recently experienced, and where their potential lies in regard to possible enhancement. This assessment was developed by the author, was utilized in private practice, and can be utilized as clinicianrated/assisted self-reports, informant-reports, or clinician-reports.

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Psychical Type #1 1.

How often are you devoted and dedicated?

2.

How often are you confident, easy going, and playful?

3.

How often do you try to learn new things and have a hard time sitting still why doing so?

4.

How often do you teach, counsel, and/or personally help others?

5.

How often do people turn to you for advice?

6.

How often do you enjoy philosophy and science equally?

7.

How often do you know exactly what to do in a situation?

8.

How often are you engaged in creative problem solving?

9.

How often are you humorous and fun loving?

10. How often are you warm and loving?

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EXTRASENSORY CLASS

PRIMARY

AXILLARY

1

Clairvoyant Cognition

Contemporaneous

N/A

1

Clairvoyant Cognition

Contemporaneous and Precognitive

N/A

ORIENTATION

#

MBTI

COLOR TYPE

1

People

ENTP

Yellow

1

Nature

ENTJ

Yellow

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Psychical Type #2 1.

How often do you keep your thoughts and opinions to yourself?

2.

How often do you put up emotional barriers even with those you know well?

3.

How often are you analytical and planning things out down to the last detail?

4.

How often do others mention that they find you intriguing, confusing, complex, captivating, and/or mysterious?

5.

How often do you need your "alone time."

6.

How often are you problem solving and being detail-oriented?

7.

How often are you emotionally reserved?

8.

Do you fear commitment or being stuck in one place or position in life?

9.

How often are you good at going unnoticed and undetected?

10. How often do you get your way by being deceptive or misleading?

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EXTRASENSORY CLASS

PRIMARY

AXILLARY

2

Clairvoyant Simulation

Input - Postcognitive

Output Contemporaneous, and Precognitive Probability Shifting (All)

2

Clairvoyant Simulation

Output - Probability Shifting

Input Postcognitive, Contemporaneous, and Precognitive

ORIENTATION

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MBTI

COLOR TYPE

2

Nature - Auxiliary in People

INTP

Gray

2

Nature

INTJ

Gray

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Psychical Type #3 1.

How often are you calm and peaceful?

2.

How often do you meet new people and go new places?

3.

How often do you personally help others and put their needs before your own?

4.

How often do you travel and spend time outdoors?

5.

How often are you selfish and/or stubborn?

6.

How often do you prefer a hands-on approach?

7.

How often do you feel a special bond with people, children, animals, and nature?

8.

How often are you emotionally driven (e.g. you feel happiest when those around you are happy, so you seek out to make others happy)?

9.

How often do people turn to when they feel sick or are in pain?

10. How often are you practical, realistic, responsible, and dependable?

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EXTRASENSORY CLASS

PRIMARY

AXILLARY

3

Empathic Cognition

Contemporaneous

N/A

3

Empathic Cognition

Contemporaneous

N/A

ORIENTATION

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MBTI

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3

People

ESFP

Green

3

Nature

ESFJ

Green

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Psychical Type #4 1.

Did you experience severe emotional distress at a young age?

2.

How often are you meticulous and cynical?

3.

How often do you retreat to quite places for deep thinking?

4.

How often do you reserve your opinions and feelings for only those closest to you?

5.

How often do you let others direct your life and put other’s needs before your own?

6.

How often do you feel that you have a strong connection with children and animals?

7.

How often do other people comment on you being standoffish, distant, or possessing a superiority complex, but you are just quiet and shy?

8.

Someone very close to you passed away when you were young.

9.

How often do you feel underappreciated or think that people are taking advantage of you?

10. How often do you work long lonely hours and take life to seriously?

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EXTRASENSORY CLASS

PRIMARY

AXILLARY

4

Mediumship & Clairvoyant Simulation

Input Contemporaneous Psychopompic

Output - Probability Shifting (Contemporaneous Only)

4

Clairvoyant Simulation

Input Contemporaneous and Postcognitive

Output -Probability Shifting (Contemporaneous and Postcognitive Only)

ORIENTATION

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MBTI

COLOR TYPE

4

People

ISFP

Black

4

Nature

ISFJ

Black

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Psychical Type #5 1.

How often do people tend to lose track of time around you?

2.

How often do you feel it necessary to be assertive?

3.

How often are you hard for others to predict?

4.

How often are you fast-paced and fast-talking?

5.

How often do you bring excitement and craziness into situations?

6.

How often do you engage in conversations that are very stimulating?

7.

How often do you draw attention to yourself unintentionally?

8.

Do you consider yourself very passionate and/or romantic?

9.

How often are you noticed the second you enter a room?

10. How often are you energetic, spontaneous, and outgoing?

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EXTRASENSORY CLASS

5

PRIMARY

AXILLARY

Suggestive

Compulsive

Compulsive

Suggestive

Telepathic Interaction

5 Telepathic Interaction

ORIENTATION

#

MBTI

COLOR TYPE

5

People

ESTP

Red

5

People

ESTJ

Red

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Psychical Type #6 1.

How often do you have times of great sadness, but no real reason for being sad?

2.

How often are you personally sympathetic towards others?

3.

How often do you have mood swings?

4.

How often are you seeking out the truth regarding all things and looking at the facts?

5.

How often do you say something that makes people stop and think, pause and reflect?

6.

Do you consider yourself to be highly knowledgeable, logical, and mechanically inclined?

7.

How often do you use your listening skills?

8.

How often are you a deep, practical, and highly analytical thinker?

9.

How often are you taking care of, or protecting, others?

10. How often are you hardworking, responsible, and troubleshooting?

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EXTRASENSORY CLASS

PRIMARY

AXILLARY

6

Empathic Simulation & Interaction

Output - Compulsive and Suggestive

Input

6

Empathic Simulation

Input

Output

ORIENTATION

#

MBTI

COLOR TYPE

6

People

ISTP

Blue

6

People

ISTJ

Blue

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Psychical Type #7 1.

How often are you enthusiastic, imaginative, and find life full of possibilities?

2.

How often do you feel emotionally disconnected from others?

3.

How often are you attuned to the emotions, thoughts, needs, and motivations of others?

4.

Do you consider yourself to have a seemingly infinite number of acquaintances?

5.

How often do you find yourself daydreaming?

6.

How often do you bring a sense of fun, joy, and refreshment into situations?

7.

How often do you have periods of apathy (emotionlessness)?

8.

How often do you bring peace and comfort of mind to those around you?

9.

How often do you keep to your promises and responsibilities out of worry of disappointing others?

10. How often are you easily distracted?

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EXTRASENSORY CLASS

7 Telepathic Cognition

7 Telepathic Cognition

PRIMARY Intuitive/Abstract – 1on-1

N/A

Intuitive and Hallucinatory/Complex – 1-on-1 and Group

N/A

ORIENTATION

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AXILLARY

MBTI

COLOR TYPE

7

People

ENFP

White

7

People

ENFJ

White

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Psychical Type #8 1.

How often do you find people or things that inspire you?

2.

Do you consider yourself to be highly intuitive?

3.

How often are you noble and ethical and/or seeking out noble and ethical pursuits?

4.

How often are you driven towards goals involving improving the wellbeing of others?

5.

How often do you thrive on opportunities and challenges that allow you to make a positive difference in the world?

6.

How often do you become infatuated with the unobtainable or indescribable?

7.

How often are you loyal to the individuals and causes important to you?

8.

How often do you find yourself infatuated with things that you do not have and/or that you have been told that you cannot do?

9.

How often do you jump from one social group to another?

10. How often do you personally strive to console those in distress?

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EXTRASENSORY CLASS

8 Telepathic Simulation

8 Telepathic Simulation

PRIMARY Hallucinatory, Contextual, and Group

N/A

Intuitive, Conceptual, and 1-on-1

N/A

ORIENTATION

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AXILLARY

MBTI

COLOR TYPE

8

People

INFP

Purple/Violet

8

People

INFJ

Purple/Violet

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21 | ADDITIONAL MEASURES

Scoring and Interpretation The majority of the items on this measure are answered by a 5-point scale to determine how often an individual engages in certain attributes including behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental (0 = never/yearly; 1 = every six months; 2 = monthly; 3 = weekly; and 4 = daily/hourly). The minority of questions are answered “yes” or “no.” In this case, 4 = yes; 0 = no. These questions help identify unconscious and conscious processes in the individual’s day-to-day that appear to be psi-conducive to certain specific extrasensory types. In other words, the clinician should focus on what the individual does on a daily basis, as conscious and unconscious habit (i.e. personal, social, vocational, and avocational) will provide the most likely extrasensory type experienced recently, and the most advantageous extrasensory type to pursue for treatment, or enhancement, currently. This assessment can also be answered based on the individual’s perceptions of him or herself in a prior year to identify extrasensory types of experiences in the past.

Reliability Reliability compared to MBTI: MBTI is less reliable because it asks generalized questions that do not focus on frequency, that can shift day to day, week to week, and only provides two options and no alternatives between those two options. However, the PPA-B asks questions pertaining to recent time periods (i.e. how often do you…? Daily, weekly, monthly, etc.), and has few Y-N questions; both of which increase the reliability of the PPA-B. If an individual reports a MBTI result that is different than their PPA result, this could also be due to a minor percentage fluctuation (e.g. 5-10-points, which will be shown with the PPA-B (e.g. Type White “35” and Type Purple “30”), but the MBTI online (i.e. which is how many individuals take the MBTI these days) will only show the highest scoring (e.g. #1 ENFP-shown, #2 INFP-not shown). Due to minor deviations, the result will be different (e.g. Type Purple “35” and Type White “30”), and where the highest

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score is INFP and the second highest score is ENFP, which is not shown (e.g. #1 INFP, #2 ENFP). In addition, results may vary based on the date the MBTI was initially taken (e.g. last year) and whether it was conducted by a trained professional or if it was an automated online assessment. In these cases, minor or even major fluctuations may occur throughout the year since the initial MBTI assessment. Because of all of these factors, it is best if the clinician conducts a new MBTI assessment insession to compare the PPA-B and MBTI results appropriately, or simply refer to the PPA-B results exclusively to assist in identifying recently experienced phenomena and/or the most advantageous extrasensory type to pursue for treatment, or enhancement, currently.

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