ABSTRACT
Most people associate imagery with visualisation but it is important to note that imagery can occur in any sense modality, such as auditory, kinaesthetic or olfactory imagery. Psychic impressions appear as visions, in dreams, as an out-of-body experience, and as dismembered sounds and voices. The large number of reported psi experiences similar to the example above has prompted certain parapsychologists to comment that there appears to be a strong link between psi and imagery. The spontaneous case literature is quite striking in the abundance of imagery that occurs with the psi event. Also imagery-conducive situations such as hypnosis, dreaming and the ganzfeld experiments appear to facilitate psi functioning. Experimental parapsychologists have wondered whether people with higher imagery ability are more psychic. The two-stage model has been elaborated by Rhine and Irwin, and postulates that psychic information is picked up unconsciously and then mediated to the consciousness via various means, one of which may be through imagery.
