Dream laboratory

Raymond Ang tracks the imposing hard-to-find film career of Maggie Cheung. Says Irma Vep director Olivier Assayas:

"It's not just that Maggie felt like a movie star, it's more like she felt like the modern version of what a movie star could be—and no one had really tried that." 

The stars of a previous era were characterized by grandness and self-importance, the director suggests, propped up by studios and a network of connections. 

"Maggie was absolutely not like that," Assayas says. "She was the modern world. She was part of what was changing in filmmaking at that time."

The Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh has died so it's time to remember the band's participation in a 1970 psychic experiment in which audiences at a series of Dead concerts in New York were instructed to telepathically transmit visual images to psychic sensitives Malcolm Bessent and Felicia Parise 45 miles away.

For the six-night study, an attempt was made to use a large number of telepathic agents in a situation which would involve some of the emotional intensity which characterizes spontaneous instances of telepathic transmission. The entire audience attending concerts by The Grateful Dead, a rock-and-roll musical group, was instructed to telepathically transmit an art print which was randomly selected just before it was projected on a screen above the musical group while they were performing.

The results, because this was science:

Mr. Bessent's results were statistically significant and Miss Parise's were not... In any event, the fact remains that one of the two subjects in this experiment produced results which were statistically significant.

The PDF of the paper 'An Experiment in Dream Telepathy with "The Grateful Dead"' by Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., Charles Honorton and Montague Ullman Md is available at ResearchGate and of course you will need to rotate the pages.