Episode 6: Pink Buckets (Part 2)

One of the real challenges for parapsychology today—and addressing this is vital to the field’s next leap forward—is devising a theory of conveyance. 

The field needs a persuasive theoretical model that pulls together the effects and posits how data and information are transferred in a manner unbound by time, space, distance, linearity, and common sensory experience. Researchers have made preliminary steps in this direction. Advances are overdue.

Is the absence of theory blinding our intellectual culture to the evidence? And does this blinkered vision finally matter? The public tends toward sympathy of ESP — not itself a valid measure of truth, but worth noting. 

Nobel Prize winner in physics Max Planck: “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.” This may be the position in which orthodox materialists find themselves today.

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Written and Narrated by Mitch Horowitz

Produced by Jim Perry and Jon McEdward

Original Music & Sound Design by Dean Hurley

Cover Artwork by Jake in Colour

Selected References

I wish to make special note of the Psi Encyclopedia (https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/), an online resource maintained by The Society for Psychical Research in London. This ongoing effort began in 2014 to provide scholarly reference material on the history and findings of parapsychology. Given the problem of systemic misrepresentation of parapsychology on Wikipedia, which I note in several episodes, the Psi Encyclopedia presents an important counter-source. In my experience, its more than 550 (and growing) entries are both judicious toward skeptics and appropriately critical toward parapsychological claims.

Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness by Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner (Oxford University Press, second edition, 2011)

Stalking the Wild Pendulum: On the Mechanics of Consciousness by Itzhak Bentov (Destiny Books, 1988) 

Time, Myth, and Matter: Essays on the Natures and Narratives of Reality by L.D. Deutsch (Sacred Bones, 2025)

“Has Science Developed the Competence to Confront the Paranormal?” by Charles Honorton, Extrasensory Perception, Vol. 2, edited by Edwin C. May and Sonali Bhatt Marwaha (Praeger, 2015)

See “Telepathy: Origins of Randomization in Experimental Design” by Ian Hacking, Isis, Sept 1988, Vol. 79, №3; “J. B. Rhine’s Extra-Sensory Perception and Its Background in Psychical Research” by Michael McVaugh and Seymour H. Mauskopf, Isis, June 1976, Vol. 67, №2; and “Charles Richet” by Carlos S. Alvarado, Psi Encyclopedia, London: The Society for Psychical Research, 2015.

Archive Clips

Dr. Dean Radin: A Quantum View of The World

Dr. Michio Kaku: Interpretations of Shrodinger's Cat

Russel Targ: Case of ESP

JB Rhine: 70 years at The Rhine

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