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Volume 13: Number 2: Article 7
Real Communication? Report on a SORRAT Letter-Writing Experiment
I. Grattan-Guinness, Middlesex University at Enfield, Middlesex,
EN3 4Sf, United Kingdom
The general history and range of work conducted by a sitter group called
"SORRAT" (Society for Research in Rapport and Telekenesis), which is
based in Missouri with collaborators elsewhere in the world, is reviewed.
Then an experiment conducted by the author with the help of SORRAT members
is described. It involved writing questions on sheets of paper, sealing
them in an envelope, and later receiving back that same envelope, apparently
unopened. Upon opening the envelope, one or more different sheets were
found inside, containing answers written by undetermined communicators
to questions posed by some other SORRAT member. Sometimes objects were
also discovered in the envelope. The complicated protocol is described,
and possibilities of protection against fraud and contamination of information
are assessed. Some of the "answers" are quoted and their contents discussed.
Keywords: sitter groups, communication, protocols, fraud
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Real Communication? Report on a SORRAT Letter-Writing Experiment
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