ABSTRACT
This is the first of a series of reports by this author and by others, on researches into the question whether time is a limiting condition in the functioning of ESP. Certain ESP procedures were used to test whether a card order could be called in advance of shuffling and the calls then checked against the pack. After many preliminary tests (summarized herein), these “precognition” tests were administered to 49 subjects under especially guarded conditions in which subjects were not allowed to handle the cards or check results. In the course of the total 113,075 trials a deviation was given such as would) not be expected by chance more than once in about 400,000 such lengthy series. Some hypotheses alternative to that of precognition are considered and a position of suspended judgment reached in which the precognition hypothesis is favored but not regarded as proved.
