Institute for Precognitive Studies: Projects

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Much of our work must remain private until an internal IPS committee establishes appropriate scientific review criteria for precognitive research. However, we have in the meantime obtained permission from some of our researchers and sponsors to release descriptions of a few sample projects now underway at the Institute. As our site grows, we hope to provide further information about these and other projects, including pointers to the journals and conference proceedings where more detailed descriptions of the work will be available.

Precognition and artistic independence (Project KG-2774)

Artists and other creative people have long been assumed to have higher-than-normal precognitive abilities, although hard data on this observation is sketchy at best. One possible explanation for this is the potential ability of artists to look ahead in time and, in effect, "read the reviews" of the work they are currently creating. Is this an inevitable part of the creative process, in which the successful precognitive artist biases her work - consciously or otherwise - away from less satisfactory works and towards better ones? Does this defeat and nullify the essential spontaneity of the creative act? We are currently evaluating artists working in many different media for precognitive abilities, and are preparing a long-term study of the relationship between those abilities and the current and future critical acceptance of the artists' work.

Marking signs for precognition in postpartum females (Project DX-884)

Folk psychology over the ages has alluded to women acquiring precognitive abilities after giving birth. These skills are generally focused the behavior of the womens' offspring, specifically on behaviors that are judged inappropriate by the mother, but not the children. In this pilot study, we have created a taxonomy of these abilities, such as synergistic olfactory-auditory pre-detection (the "get out of the cookie jar!!" phenomenon) and cranial retrograde ocular formations ("eyes in the back of her head"). We have particular interest in identifying the genesis of these abilities, and suspect physiological causes related to the birth process, given the limited presence of these abilities in the father. We have identified several chemical compounds that play a significant role in umbilical oxygen transport and that also appear in high concentrations in the bloodstreams of high-precog (level 4 or higher) females, and are correlating these data with ethnographic observations of the families in question.

Symmetric fields in precognitive collections (Project EX-3882)

A comparison of the results of previously unrelated Institute experiments has suggested the existence of psychic space, a multidimensional version of string theory that may be able to explain the perception of events across space-time. Part of this theory suggests that this space can be highly distorted by the presence of multiple precognitives in the same physical space. In other words, it may be possible for precognitives to detect groups of other precognitives over considerable distance and in spite of what would ordinarily be thought of as physical barriers. Further, the "local" precognitives may be able to read the field generated by the remote group, and observe the precognitions of the remote group with surprisingly high fidelity. We are now cross-checking the results of other Institute studies against the theory's predictions, and will look for connections between different dimensional structures and the resulting accuracy of our precognitives' remote perceptions.